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"Ground floor" is an extremely common term in America, and it means exactly the same thing as it does in England. In fact, we have an expression, "getting in on the ground floor," which means to join something at the very beginning. But in America, "ground floor" and "first floor" are synonymous. The floor above the ground floor, however, is the second floor. Which makes a lot of sense if you think about it. It's weird and confusing for "ground floor" and "first floor" to mean different things, since the floor at ground level really is the first one you'd encounter.
One of our city government office buildings has an entrance on the first floor on one street and an entry on the second floor on another street. It depends on where you park and how far you are willing to walk as to which floor you enter on.
You guys should do a short film as English spies who pretend to be Americans. But you guys are bad spies because you use American slang incorrectly. Put it on RUclips. I'd watch
⚫Cell is short for cellular, but everyone just says phone now anyway. ⚫Playing hookie is an old saying that isn't very common anymore; most people would just say ditching ("I'm ditching school today"). ⚫We have a vacuum brand in the US called Hoover. Not sure if it's related to your Hoover brand or not, but we still just say vacuum regardless. ⚫Scotch is a brand of tape, but we would most often just say tape without specifying; we generally only specify if it's some other type of tape that isn't Scotch tape (speaking of which, yes, we DO call it masking tape, though it may occasionally be referred to as painter's tape as well). ⚫The word "semi" is actually from the word semi-truck. When referring to a truck, we pronounce it like "SIM eye" rather than "SIM ee." We also just call it a truck, which in my experience is more common than semi.
"Playing hooky" (the spelling I'm more familiar with) is kind of archaic. Even in my school days (some 45-50 years in the rearview mirror) we either used "ditching" (as above) or "cutting class".
It seems like the vast majority of the differences are either 1) Things that were invented after 1776. or 2) Things we got from the UK that the UK itself changed later. Soccer and the Metric system are both examples of 2)
@@mermaid1717 - Painters tape is only a little different - and that difference is fairly recent. Same kind of backing material, same adhesive on the sticky side, and universally referred to by professional painters as masking tape. Painters tape was invented by DIY'ers to make wall edges look clean and uniform. So, there's a small difference NOW but it didn't used to be.
If you Google "Antique Car Trunks" you'll see pictures of old cars from the 20s and 30s that had detachable trunks fastened to the back of the car. As cars progressed and this storage space became an integral part of the car, it's easy to see why the name trunk stuck, even though there was no longer an actual trunk involved. Love you guys!
-Trunk - Early cars did not have any storage space, unless it was modified with a rear flatbed. People would strap an actual storage trunk or chest on the back of the car. While early on many did, calling it the "car chest" became awkward and confusing for the front of the vehicle. There were already several words for the front (bonnet, hood, motor panel, etc.) -Cell / Cellular - Used because "mobile" was commonly used with CB (Citizen Band[width]) radio, and similar. Police and military would use similar equipment, but in different frequencies, and would not use the "Citizen Bandwidth". "Getting someone on the mobile", was for dispatchers to run a call on these radios. Since "Radio" was already used, they needed to use a word that people would distinctly understand as being different from your normal car radio. Today, many people call a car radio "stereo", but in those days the radio was monaural, or mono. Stereo audio did not come until much later. -Hood / Bonnet - Used because of how early cars motor panels lifted up. There is actually a difference in a hood or bonnet. A hood was lifted over the top, like a hood on a cape, or coat. Bonnets are tied down at the sides, so panels lifted from the side, instead of from the front, are called bonnets. Many early European car companies made the bonnet style motor panels to give easy access to the side of the motor, as going over the top of the radiator was often very hot from water steam because antifreeze was not very common in early days. -Semi - More related to the Trailer, than the Tractor, of the total truck. A "Semi-trailer is half supported and half, unsupported by their wheels. The Tractor is the forward support for the trailer. The term is often used because it is shorter to saying 'tractor-trailer'. The term lorry is used in the states frequently on farms. It's a flatbed trailer, that originally was pulled by horses. Many early car modifications removed the back passenger portion, and replaced it with a flatbed. This flatbed resembled the lorry, and was often called a motor-lorry, as opposed to horse drawn. This is the same reason the sates call an "estate car" a Wagon. The term "Station" wagon is used is because these longer style wagon cars were often used to taxi people and luggage to/from 'train stations'.
Trunk vs Boot: When cars first came out there was no storage space built into the car itself but there had to be somewhere to put the clothing trunk that people arrived with when they came over on a ship. They would strap the clothing container (trunk) to the back of the car to transport it. People began strapping an empty trunk to their cars to carry whatever they needed on a journey. Later, car manufacturers created a built-in area to store items during car trips. This built-in area was where the trunks used to be stapped in, therefore, the name trunk was used to describe this storage space. Since a boot is what you wear on your foot, why would you call a storage area a boot?? LOL! Thanks for a wonderful channel. Keep it up!
Boot comes from a term for a built-in storage compartment in a horse-drawn carriage, haa nothing to do wirh footwear. Both boot and trunk come from times before mitor cars, but given a trunk is a detatchable case, and a boot was built-in, boot probably better describes the arse-end of a car.
I have to stop responding while watching (as this is the second), but the term for a big truck is pronounced "Sem-eye", not "Sem-eee". Also known as an 18-wheeler, a big rig, etc. I always thought that most of the vehicles you call lorries were what we call vans? Thumbs up in any event.
Scotch tape is also called invisible tape or transparent tape. Brits call the trunk the boot because they can't tell their feet from their butts--don't be triggered, it's just a joke ; )
Sellotape (/ˈsɛləˌteɪp/) is a British brand of transparent, polypropylene-based, pressure-sensitive tape, and is the leading brand in the United Kingdom. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending. --- Literally just takes 1sec to google something so yea they missed this one, badly.
Swimmin Wit Da Fishies Do you remember the move anger management ? When ex con Robert DiNero had to get a job and he became a used car salesman lol and he's trying to make a sale so he pops the hood and say look at all that space you could fit five bodies in there ! Funniest shit ever lol..... Hey I just noticed you're profile name where I come from if you cross the mob you go swimming with the fish eh.... What's up wit that ?lol..
Ken Bray Yes!! That was a great movie! And maybe I come from the same place as you (NJ)? I'm in the custom shoe business ... the CEMENT shoe business!! We have a Christmas sale right now!
1. Some ppl say CV, especially if they are in the academic field, but resume is more common. 2. True we say cell, but more common now isjust phone. Hardly anyone has a landline here either. 3. Playing hookey is kind of an archaic saying. Or it is used tongue-in-cheek. 4. True we call the ground floor the first floor. Ground does make sense but it's too late for us, I"m afraid! 5. C'mon now boot makes less sense than trunk! At least trunk is something you put things IN. Boots you put on your feet! 6. Bonnet seems kind of precious for a car part! 7. Hoover is a brand of vacuum here too but maybe not as popular as in the UK. 8. Tape-true, we use the brand name. The wide grey tape we call "Duck" which is also a brand and that name is derived, I think, from "duct" where that tape might be used, on heating/AC ducts. We call it either masking or "painters" tape. 9. We do call the big trucks "semis", pronounced sem-eye. But also just trucks or tractor-trailer for the 2 parts of it. Love these videos! Not triggered!
The former principal at the school I teach at here in Florida is British and lived in London so I've learned a lot of British words over the last 3 years. You both are hilarious. Anyone who gets triggered needs to get a life.🤣🤣
The reason for using the word trunk was because the first cars had travel trunks strapped to the car on the back. If the trunk is in the front as on a Porsche we call it a frunk as in front trunk.
Old style suitcases were giant trunks too so it comes from that. We're also more correct since it was an American who invented the first automobile. I'd say calling a it a boot is pulling it out of their arse
Logic. Lol I'm sure they've got some historical reason for calling it a boot too. Lol But I think THEY'RE the ones saying things wrong. Haha That's because over here, they are.
Boot comes from when there were horse drawn carriages with a leather ledge around the side and back of the carriage which people stepped on to get into it ,(hence you put your boot on it to get into the carriage). The ledge at the back was used for servants to sit on. Carriages then turned into cars but the name boot stuck, although of course it became a storage area. Like a lot of things in Britain they have very historic roots.
To me masking tape and painters tape mean different things. Masking tape is white/light tan tape with general purpose. But I wouldn't use it for painting walls. Painters tape is blue usually and I wouldn't use it for general purpose.
Stephanie Darrow - and 30+ years ago, blue tape and green tape used in masking areas to paint did not exist. The beige masking tape was the only tape around to mask off areas that would be painted. Because it was too sticky, the other tapes we invented.
You can also look at the trunk/boot thing like this: when cars where invented they didn’t have a trunk/boot. You would have too tie your TRUNKS to the back of them when you traveled. When trunks were less fashionable to put your belongings in to travel and the suitcase were becoming for fashionable car manufacturers added the trunk to the back of the cars to protect your belongings. So I’m going to stick with trunk is the correct term and boots will stay on my feet.
WE HAVE TO SAY TRUNK FOR THE BACK OF THE CAR BECAUSE A BOOT ON A CAR IN AMERICA IS WHAT THE CITY POLICE PUT ON YOUR TIRE TO KEEP YOU FROM DRIVING WHEN YOU OWE TOO MANY PARKING TICKETS. LOL!!!!!! :)
A.V.O Vlogs We Brits just differently pronounce words to you Americans. We say semi (sem-ee) you say semi (sem-eye) We say tomato (to-mat-toe) you say tomato (to-may-doe).
Trunk = the cars of the 1920s had an actual wooden trunk on the back used for storage. Then the "trunk" was incorporated into the body of the vehicle. At least that's what I have always thought. lol any ways great video as always.
A trunk is the base of something. Its the same reason Brits call it a boot. Or hood and bonnet, which are basically the same thing, a covering worn on your head, or the top.
@DirtRoadTraveler They were the same luggage used for traveling, like steamer trunks that were used on steam ships. The trunk would be carried out from whatever mode of long range transport, i.e. trains, ships or buses, and loaded onto a platform at the rear of the automobile and strapped down. Oh, btw, their estate car name for a station wagon makes sense if used for an estate but the original use was for hotels to collect hotel guests from train STATIONS back in the horse era, therefore WAGONS. Our names seem to have more plain descriptive characters where as the British equivalents seem to be the same but more colloquial (slangy) descriptive.
Americans also use CV, but it's more of an in-depth resume for those who work in academia and includes published work and conference presentations and things like that.
"Playing hookie" is an old American term. My grandma would've said that. Now days, the kids "ditch" school. Only very old people would say it the first way. But, the kids would say they ditched or they cut class.
I think a lot of times they think we use terms that they hear in old TV shows. My husband and I will use the term "playing hookie". but we will usually roll our eyes and giggle while using it.
You call Duct tape Gaffer's tape?! As a techincal director I can assure you that those are totally different things and a production crew better not use Duct tape on my stage!
I remember years and years ago when I was a stage manager a dumbass newbie used duct tape instead of gaffers tape on a gel frame. Gaffer's tape is meant to handle heat. The adhesive on duct tape isn't. Thank God it was on a Fresnel, not something hotter. It could have burned the building down. I actually fired the guy by suggesting he get the hell out before the producer figured out who did it and shot him for obviously having lied on his resume [see what I did there?]. It's funny now, but it wasn't at the time. It was over the audience and we had to make people get up at the first intermission to get it out of there.
Most buildings in U.S. (NY/NJ) have ground floors or marked as G, but the floor above the ground floor is the 2nd floor. That's it. That is how it should be. Makes perfect sense.
Then why are you skipping the first floor? Ground floor = storey levelled with the ground First floor = the very first floor directly above the ground (floor) See? ;)
Scotch is a brand. Masking tape is either masking tape or painters tape. Gafters tape is similar to electrical tape. Duct tape is duct tape. We call them semi-trucks if it is just the cab, and a tractor trailer is a semi with the box on the back, also known as an 18wheeler. They are not to be confused with box trucks which are always connected, and usually 26ft.
I think “trunk” comes from early cars such as the Model T where there was no built in storage compartment. People would strap a storage trunk or foot locker to the back.
Absolutely right. Yes, "bonnet" sounds funny to Americans, imagining a lacy little hat on the front of your car. Wind screen and windshield! so many fun word contrasts!
I get the feeling that they have a different word for a trunk (as in foot locker, storage tote, or lock box). These boxes were strapped to the back of carriages or buggies and then later to the back of automobiles.
Look up old thirties cars in America. They literally had these beautiful wooden trunks on the back to haul things in because they didn’t have that in the original cars. We just kept the same name as the vehicle changed. Also, why the heck would a cop ask you to pop your hood?? Lol. To check my oil level?? Uh, thanks! I always say vacuum. My mother in law always says “sweep”. It confused me because I looked around like, “where’s your broom?” Scotch tape is because of the brand! Hello. Yet you call vacuuming HOOVERING!
To really confuse them....... what about the German VW ‘beetle’ which has the (elephant) trunk in the front with a ‘handle’? A ‘trunk” is a travel chest of the tree trunk wood variety. An Asian dickie is a luggage compartment (rumble seats). A built in ‘luggage’ trunk in addition to a rumble seat, I believe was made on the Ford Model A Tudor Sedan. They can have their horse drawn carriage boot lockers. We will keep our trunk (the elephants and trees don’t mind). A ‘hood’ is a water proof covering. The engine needs a water proof covering. You can call shit anything you like. If I were an inventor and called my product a screw. You better call it a screw or at the very least, your language equivalent (without which... it’s a ‘screw’ to you).
CV is a complete account of experience. Resume is a one-page, two at the most summary. It also depends on industry. I have a CV and resume. The ground floor is not always the first floor. Often, we do say "go to the ground floor" if the ground floor is not the first floor. I can understand how "trunk" might be confusing, but don't pretend "boot" makes any sense either; boots go on your feet. "Semi" means it's a semi axle truck; the cab of the truck is positioned on a half (semi) axle. A "semi" pulls a trailer (also called a semi-tractor-trailer). I love your channel.
This might blow your mind more... But we consider the ground floor to BE the first floor. You can call it either...it means the same. In the elevator though..."G" might mean GARAGE (under the building) and then 1 or "L" (lobby) is your ground floor.
In America we have both CV and Resumes. An resume is an abbreviated version (1-2 pages max) of your CV. Which is a detailed document of education, work experience, publications, certifications, liscense, etc.
North Americans use the term “trunk” because up until the 1930's most drivers used to strap travel chests, called trunks, to the backs of their cars. Of course, once automakers started designing cars with built-in rear compartments, there were no longer any reasons to travel with trunks. The name, however, stuck.
I can't imagine if we try to explain to them that the trunk could be in the front of the vehicle, like how an elephant trunk is in the front, on like expensive sports cars with rear mounted engines
We say both resume and CV; either is fine. We call them cell phones or mobile phones. Why 'cell'? Mobile phones communicate with cell towers that are placed to give coverage across a telephone service area which is divided up into 'cells'. Each cell uses a different set of frequencies from neighboring cells, and will typically be covered by 3 towers placed at different locations. The cell towers are usually interconnected to each other and the phone network and the internet by wired connections. Re: the floors in buildings, some US buildings have a ground floor, first floor, etc, and some ground floors = first floors. It totally depends on the building, but if someone says 'ground floor', they mean street level. There's usually no confusion when you're in an *elevator* (we invented it, so we get to name it ;) though, because the button with the big *star* next to it will always take you to ground/exit level :) Elephants have trunks in the front, but 'junk in the trunk' is definitely in the back ;) I think it comes from storage trunks being secured in the back of horse-drawn carriages. Hoover is a vacuum company that was founded in Ohio in the US in 1908. Glad you like 'em :) Scotch Tape is a trademark for cellulose tape, first introduced in 1930 by 3M (Minnesota). Sellotape later introduced trademark of cellulose tape in 1937 in West Acton, London. So we win by 7 years. XD We call masking tape... 'masking tape'. :) A lorry in the UK is generally translated as a 'truck' in the US. A semi-truck, or 'semi' (usually pronounced 'sem-eye') is a kind of truck--an articulated lorry with a huge capacity (semi-)trailer. An '18-wheeler' refers to the semi-truck + semi-trailer combo.
In America, cars literally had storage trunks strapped on the back shortly after they were introduced here. The trunks later became built on or integrated. That's where the term came from.
Would love to see a video where brits use brand names over the technical terms. Example in America we say band-aid for an adhesive bandage or Kleenex for a tissue
Love from California! Skiving Snack Boxes from Harry Potter FINALLY make sense to me! I legit thought it was a Wizarding word, not a British one. Lol BRILLIANT. I'm gonna tell my boss I'm skiving all week so I can stay home and watch your videos. She'll be none the wiser. Cell is short for Cellular. Cell phones companies distribute an area into several grids called cells. Whenever you are at a certain spot, your phone will be receiving or transmitting through the towers located in that local grid. As you keep moving from "cell" to "cell" the respective towers pick up signals from your phone. This is also the reason that you can locate a person using a cell phone quite easily using this grid triangulation system (or something of that sort) like they show in movies. They also happen to be mobile because we can take them around with us, but the real essence of the technology is the Cellular aspect. I've actually heard the first floor casually referred to as the "ground floor" or the "lobby" - that must add an extra level of confusion to travellers. I could be wrong but I think in places where houses have basements (cellars?) then the second, ground-level floor would be called the first floor. Not so much in earthquake country where I live - no cellars for us, sadly. Early car models had a rack on the back to strap on luggage (i.e. trunks... although they may be been trunks full of boots, who knows!) Fun fact - Tesla calls their Trunk a "frunk" ;D You're spot on with Scotch Tape - the brand of tape here is so ubiquitious that we do the same. Is it Sellotape a brand of celophane tape? Masking tape is the same. Question: Do y'all have Duct Tape? Is it called the same thing. EDIT: Just understood "Spellotape" from Harry Potter as well LOL HAHAHA "Semi"..... Technically that's just shorthand for "semi-truck" because it's not a full-sized truck? Honestly I have no idea. I think I've been confusing this with the UK use of the word "Trolly" which is more like a cart, right? Phew, that was an unintentedly long comment Haha. Thanks for sharing! Love from San Diego, Ca
Ground floor: really? I'm sorry, but calling the 2nd floor the 1st floor is just ridiculous. You guys are the ones confusing this issue. We also use "ground floor", but to us it means the same thing as "1st floor". Let me ask you this: is there a floor on the ground floor? Or is it just dirt in England. Because, if there is a floor on the ground floor, I say it is the 1st floor. The 2nd floor is the one above it. Case closed. Trunk: In old cars way back, if you wanted to carry luggage, you strapped a portable trunk (a large suitcase) to the back of your car. That's how the storage compartment at the back of a car became known as the "trunk". Do you guys really think that the main reason cars have trunks is so that people will have a place to put their boots? Come on man! It's for luggage. Vacuum: We also have Hoover vacuums over here, so we know what you mean when you say it. Incidentally, we've done that with Jello. The brand name to us is what you call "jelly". Many people over here also still call a copier a "Xerox" or "Xerox machine". Scotch Tape: You got it. It's a brand name that has come into use to describe the item regardless of who makes it. We also call it simply "clear tape" or for wider, stronger strips "packing tape". We call masking tape the same thing you do: "masking tape". At least I think we do. It's the light tan paper tape that tears easily and doesn't stick very hard, right? Semi: Most of us, at least around here on the central East coast, call a semi a "tractor trailer", but we know what semi means. I just had to look up why it's called a semi, though. "Semi" is short for "semi-trailer truck". The truck exists to pull a "semi-trailer", which is a trailer without a front axle.
Nicholas Hackett the ground floor is still a floor. A house has one floor (or "story" as we say here). You can have a one story or 2 story (floor) house. So it makes no sense.
Really. That's what we call them. Here's a local news story in our newspaper entitled "A Tractor-Trailer Driver was Following GPS Directions and Got Stuck in the Sand in Outer Banks": pilotonline.com/news/local/article_f2be7432-7ecb-11e8-86c0-838d71f9f7e4.html So, it's not just me. It's what we call them over here.
Lorena Cajes 😂😂😂 I know!!! I only lived there for a summer several years ago but I can recall thinking that having a car was practically pointless lol. My iPhone navigation was my best friend! ❤️
We use CV in the US too...it’s just that Resumes and CVs are two different things. Usually CVs are more for people in technical or academic fields, and focus more on education and accolades than Resumes do. I have a CV for when I’m applying to research lab internships, but if I was applying to like Target or something I’d submit a Resume.
Trunk was literally named after a storage case, it was on tray that was at the back of the car for storage. 'You' call the storage area area of a car the boot because on a carriage it's where the boot man stood, a person not an area for storage. Also the non branded sellotape is spelled cellotape (cellulose + tape)
I once couldn't be bothered to attend a certain class at school, so on the teacher's blackboard I wrote in big letters 'Dear Mr Duncombe, I'm bunking off today.. Lorraine.. ".... I never got told off for it, hahahaha
I'm American (Texas) and I try to use generic names as much as possible: tape instead of Scotch tape; vacuum instead of Hoover; tissue paper instead of Kleenex; lip balm instead of Chapstick.
Trunks were tied on the back of vehicles way back when they were first invented. So when they started to design cars for comfort and convenience they built in a 'trunk '
Yes, growing up my family had a big really well built trunk that we would store Christmas decorations and other rarely used stuff. I eventually found out it was a removable trunk from a Packard car (was it's own company before Ford Motor Company purchased the brand). It had loops on it that were used to strap it to the back of the car. I would think early car manufacturers in Britain might have done this before they designed in the attached boot.
They answer that not being a couple question in a recent Q&A vid. But they both like men, so as friends they probably sleep and can sleep together without any 'tension' ruining their vlogs and friendship.
@@ratatataraxia - What they said was that if they should become a couple, any potential breakup would almost certainly end the channel. Since the channel is most important to them they've avoided becoming a couple. That's what they said. So, can't say that about Joel. No evidence. I have to say, though, they ACT like a couple when I've observed their interactions.
Old cars used to have trunks strapped to the back. Thename just stuck. Also the phrase cell phone is slowly fading out many younger Americans say smart phone now.
I think the younger generations are just calling them phones. We don't have landlines anymore. The cell is our only phone, no need to specify which phone anymore. And almost all phones are technically "smart phones" So no need to specify that either.
Look at all this education left in the comments! 😂 So I’ll just leave a generic comment to say I was here, I laughed harder than I probably should have considering I’m American, and I’m going to need one of y’all’s dictionaries.
What you call a Lorrie, we call a Truck -- a cargo vehicle where the cab (driver and engine compartments) and the box (the cargo area) are both on one frame -- one piece. A Semi is a term for a two-part vehicle, where there is the "Tractor" or "Semi-Ttractor," which is where the driver and the engine are located, attaches to the "Trailer" or "Semi-Trailer" which is the area that holds the cargo. "Semi" in this use mean more like "Part" or "Half."
We never ever call a Lorry a Lorrie here in the UK, that sounds like a girl's name the way you've spelt it! LOL 😂 Lorries mean more than one Lorry eg: "But the roads were very bad and there were not enough lorries, not enough fuel, and no spare parts"
No probs dude, it just fascinates me how we speak the same language yet some words have different meanings even though spelt the same way! I pronounce semi with a soft 'i' for instance instead of sem-eye! Bonkers! LOL 😛
It fascinates me also. I would love to sit down with a patient Brit and spend an afternoon talking about words. Actually, "Semi" is a prefix like in "semisweet," and is pronounced with the soft "i" and it means "half as sweet." The only place I can think of where the word stands alone is referring to the cargo vehicle "Semi," semi tractor or semitrailer, and is pronounced Sem-Eye.
Actually trunk makes more sense for the car's storage compartment. Before the 1930s, cars had no trunk per se as they do now. Instead they had a holder on which you attached an actual, moveable, storage trunk. Hence trunk. True.
But a boot is a shoe...and a shoe is on the bottom, not the back. Honestly, the are a whole lot of words (in both countries) where you wonder if those who decided upon them were either drunk or won their version in a poker game.
*Sellotape* and *Scotch Tape* are both brand names and trademarks. *Sellotape* was only ever sold in the UK, it seems. *Scotch Tape* was sold in the US and Canada but not the UK, it seems. Neither term is generic and the "Sello" prefix is spelled with an S, not a C, in reply to another comment. The consensus name for this type of tape is "clear tape", although it is also called "sticky tape" (but most tape is sticky) or "magic tape" (but no tape is magical). Scotch Tape brand clear tape says "Magic Tape" on the box. Sellotape brand clear tape says "Sticky Tape" on the box. If you buy similar tape from a random manufacturer, it will likely say "Clear Tape" on the box. The "Scotch" in Scotch Tape is a reference to Scotland, and the boxes feature a Scottish tartan plaid pattern (printed with ink, not fabric).
Xylem Fielding Good job, but one clarification. “Magic” tape refers to the type that is matte finished on it’s non-sticky side as opposed to the kind that is shiny on the non-sticky side. The reason? Because the matte finished tape is almost invisible when stuck to something, so it disappears “like magic.”
"Scotch" is actually a reference to the stereotype that Scots are skinflints. When 3M was experimenting with tape, someone who was testing an early version said, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it."
back when cars where first built - in the usa they came with a luggage rack in back and when people went on a cruse at sea they had these big steamer trunks that fit on these luggage racks they were sturdy and weather {proof} thus the trunk is in back
"Cell" in Cell phone stands for Cellular Phone. Cellular vs Landline, cellular meaning it operates by cellular frequencies instead of through an actual wire!
It's LANDline. Your "LAN" is a group of computers connected to each other, usually in an office type setting. They're called landlines because before mobile/cell phones, your house phone was connected at one end to your phone and at the other end to a phone jack in the wall. That, in turn, was/is connected to underground phone cables which carried the signal. The cables can be copper or fiber optics. Hence, the phone is literally connected to the land. I still have my landline. If you have an "old fashioned" landline and the power goes out, your phone still works because it's powered by the tiny amount of electricity coming through the jack. Which *can't* be said for either cordless house phones or VOIP phones (phone service you get from your internet provider).
Hi, Joel. Hi, Lia. This was so funny! I couldn't stop laughing all the way through it. If you made a video about naughty things you would do as schoolchildren, I would watch it. I would *love* to have a Joel & Lia dictionary! - Cell phone is short for cellular phone so it does make sense, but I like the word mobile better. - In the UK, the 1st floor is the 1st floor _above_ the ground floor. In the US, the 1st floor _is_ the ground floor. - I'm quite sure masking tape is the same in both countries. - Semi is short for semi-trailer truck. It's what you would call an artic (articulated lorry).
A resume is a short CV. We have both. A CV is more academic and thorough. A resume is a quick snapshot of selected information pertaining to the job you're applying for
Another great video! --We use CVs AND resumes, depending on the purpose and content. We use CV in academia to showcase your publications, presentations, and other academic experience in addition to employment experience. You would use it to apply for not only jobs in academia, but also for graduate school. Resumes are the catch-all for everything else. --Some people still use cell phone, but I hear smartphone or just phone more often these days. --Yes, we use hooky or ditch. "She ditched class yesterday". I have never heard skive before but I like it! --Depends on the building/area: some use ground floor or garden level, but then the next floor would be the 2nd floor and not the 1st floor. --We call it masking tape, too :) Or painter's tape depending on the type. --We use semi or semitruck, but we pronounce it Sem-Eye Thanks for making another great video! Love watching them all!
Cell phone comes from the technology used: small areas of signal coverage (a cell) all linked together pretty seamlessly. Far as I know, modern smart phones still use this cellular system. But they certainly are mobile!
All wireless phones (commonly known as cell phones) cannot operate without the cellular network. I copied an article that explains why we call them cell phones: "The word cellular, as it describes phone technology, was used by engineers Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young at Bell Labs. They diagrammed a network of wireless towers into what they called a cellular layout. Cellular was the chosen term because each tower and its coverage map looked like a biological cell. Eventually, phones that operated on this type of wireless network were called cellular phones. The term mobile phone predates its cellular counterpart. The first mobile phone call was placed in 1946 over Bell System's Mobile telephone service, a closed radiotelephone system. And the first commercial mobile phones were installed in cars in the 1970s."
Masking tape is one of those words that Americans and Brits apparently say the same. In regards to calling the thing in the back of a car the trunk, I went to the Automotive Museum in Balboa Park, and I saw some very old models of cars, some from as far back as the 1910s. Anyway, the trunks on the oldest cars looked like actual trunks that people would've carried.
Yes, it used to be that cars had a sort of flatbed area on the back in which to load a trunk, later cars included a built in trunk, this that back storage area being called a trunk.
What you call the 1st floor, we call many things, including "Ground Floor," "Lobby," etc. However, even if we are leaving from the ground floor or the lobby, the next door up is still the 2nd floor. Sorry. :)
Emile Clede depends where. In NYC you’ll find both systems in use. Especially in some hotels and certain residential buildings you’ll see Lobby, 1st, 2nd, ect
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Being British: Joel & Lia I love you way you go "don't get triggered by it" love these videos so much. They always put a smile on my face 😚😚💜💜
Aw thanks Heather - so many easily offended folk about! haha
Make the dictionary ❤️
Semi is definitely wrong haha. I’ve never heard anyone say Semi. We just say Truck or 18 Wheeler.
It’s called a SEM-EYE or a big truck. Why would you call it a woman’s name? A Lori really.
I'm an American truck driver. It's pronounced (sem-eye). Other names are 18-wheeler, big rig, tractor trailer, and fifth wheeler
What exactly is a fifth wheeler? I picture a vehicle with five wheels on the ground.
Or Mac-Truck
GreatLakesSurfer it refers to the wheel that locks the trailer in place on the actual truck.
I’ve always considered “fifth wheels” as camping trailers that hook into the bed of your pickup truck
Fifth wheeler sounds like 3rd wheeler bu larger
We also use the word ditch for skipping school. Playing hookie is almost never said nowadays. At least here in Northern California.
Same. We would say we ditched.
"Playing hookie" is really old. People today say "skip" or "ditch"
Same. We say skipping or ditched
Exactly lol not even my mother says playing hookie (she’s in her 60’s).
Same. I live in Southern California and we never say playing hookie. We always say ditching.
THEY LITERALLY SAID IT! TRUNK AS IN STORAGE TRUNK, AND THE TRUNK OF A CAR IS WHERE YOU STORE YOUR THINGS. YOU DONT STORE THINGS IN BOOTS ON FEET 🇺🇸
Riley Joslin trunks also open like the old suitcase trunks
Riley Joslin OOOOOOOOOH! But I completely agree
In the 1920s the cars trunks were boxes that could be removed from the vehicle.
Ahem: Steamer Trunks were strapped to the back of old model T's for storage.
Well it's always raining in England so they always need their boots with them!
older people say “playing hookie” but a lot of the time we say skipping school or ditching class
Exactly what I was going to inform them of haha
"Ground floor" is an extremely common term in America, and it means exactly the same thing as it does in England. In fact, we have an expression, "getting in on the ground floor," which means to join something at the very beginning. But in America, "ground floor" and "first floor" are synonymous. The floor above the ground floor, however, is the second floor. Which makes a lot of sense if you think about it. It's weird and confusing for "ground floor" and "first floor" to mean different things, since the floor at ground level really is the first one you'd encounter.
In my co-op, our 'first floor' is physically the second floor-The actual first floor is the lobby with our mail area and laundry room
One of our city government office buildings has an entrance on the first floor on one street and an entry on the second floor on another street. It depends on where you park and how far you are willing to walk as to which floor you enter on.
You guys should do a short film as English spies who pretend to be Americans. But you guys are bad spies because you use American slang incorrectly. Put it on RUclips. I'd watch
hahaha sounds great!
Yeah, me too.
Hell yeah; would be hilarious!
Alex Rud OMG YESSSSSS!!!
I would definitely watch. Lol
⚫Cell is short for cellular, but everyone just says phone now anyway.
⚫Playing hookie is an old saying that isn't very common anymore; most people would just say ditching ("I'm ditching school today").
⚫We have a vacuum brand in the US called Hoover. Not sure if it's related to your Hoover brand or not, but we still just say vacuum regardless.
⚫Scotch is a brand of tape, but we would most often just say tape without specifying; we generally only specify if it's some other type of tape that isn't Scotch tape (speaking of which, yes, we DO call it masking tape, though it may occasionally be referred to as painter's tape as well).
⚫The word "semi" is actually from the word semi-truck. When referring to a truck, we pronounce it like "SIM eye" rather than "SIM ee." We also just call it a truck, which in my experience is more common than semi.
"Playing hooky" (the spelling I'm more familiar with) is kind of archaic. Even in my school days (some 45-50 years in the rearview mirror) we either used "ditching" (as above) or "cutting class".
When I was a kid (1980s) people said they were "sluffing" school. Now I mostly hear people here (California) say they're "cutting" school.
ThatOneDude822 You just said exactly what I’d have said😂
I rarely call it a semi. I call it simply a truck or 18 wheeler if there needs to be a distinction between that and a pick-up truck.
Love the way you described everything , you did a great job of it . Hope they read it 😊
I'm from Southern California and we just say "ditch class" if someone skips school. :I
Yea
Thank you! Yes!! Playing hookie, is this list from the 50’s?
Or "cut class".
Thanks, I knew this, but for the life of me, I couldn’t remember. Haha!
That what Iowans use
masking tape is masking tape in America
Jen's Large Family Parody Or painter's tape
Or painters tape
It seems like the vast majority of the differences are either 1) Things that were invented after 1776. or 2) Things we got from the UK that the UK itself changed later. Soccer and the Metric system are both examples of 2)
Painters tape is different.
@@mermaid1717 - Painters tape is only a little different - and that difference is fairly recent. Same kind of backing material, same adhesive on the sticky side, and universally referred to by professional painters as masking tape.
Painters tape was invented by DIY'ers to make wall edges look clean and uniform.
So, there's a small difference NOW but it didn't used to be.
Can you imagine us Americans owning a Shark vacuum and saying, “I’m going to shark my floors today. I’m sharking!” LOL
Treasa Evans growing up in California I did hear Hoover for vacuum once in a while.
I shark my floors all the time....
Imma Dirt Devil my floors today!! 😂
Treasa Evans Haha!! I sharked today!!
What a coincidence! I Kirby-ed my floors today!
Americans call masking tape -- wait for it --- masking tape. :)
lolllllllllllll
Exactly, masking tape. Lately, I've seen it advertised as "painter's tape" .
Duct or duck tape.
Or painter’s tape
Frog tape :)
We call it "ditching" when you're skipping school
If you Google "Antique Car Trunks" you'll see pictures of old cars from the 20s and 30s that had detachable trunks fastened to the back of the car. As cars progressed and this storage space became an integral part of the car, it's easy to see why the name trunk stuck, even though there was no longer an actual trunk involved. Love you guys!
Best explanation yet. 👍
Yes the first cars made had detachable storage trunks and that is why we say that. The word just stuck. Thanks for the great videos.
I came in the comments just for this explanation.
-Trunk - Early cars did not have any storage space, unless it was modified with a rear flatbed. People would strap an actual storage trunk or chest on the back of the car. While early on many did,
calling it the "car chest" became awkward and confusing for the front of the vehicle. There were already several words for the front (bonnet, hood, motor panel, etc.)
-Cell / Cellular - Used because "mobile" was commonly used with CB (Citizen Band[width]) radio, and similar. Police and military would use similar equipment, but in different frequencies, and would not use the "Citizen Bandwidth". "Getting someone on the mobile", was for dispatchers to run a call on these radios. Since "Radio" was already used, they needed to use a word that people would distinctly understand as being different from your normal car radio. Today, many people call a car radio "stereo", but in those days the radio was monaural, or mono. Stereo audio did not come until much later.
-Hood / Bonnet - Used because of how early cars motor panels lifted up. There is actually a difference in a hood or bonnet. A hood was lifted over the top, like a hood on a cape, or coat. Bonnets are tied down at the sides, so panels lifted from the side, instead of from the front, are called bonnets. Many early European car companies made the bonnet style motor panels to give easy access to the side of the motor, as going over the top of the radiator was often very hot from water steam because antifreeze was not very common in early days.
-Semi - More related to the Trailer, than the Tractor, of the total truck. A "Semi-trailer is half supported and half, unsupported by their wheels. The Tractor is the forward support for the trailer. The term is often used because it is shorter to saying 'tractor-trailer'. The term lorry is used in the states frequently on farms. It's a flatbed trailer, that originally was pulled by horses. Many early car modifications removed the back passenger portion, and replaced it with a flatbed. This flatbed resembled the lorry, and was often called a motor-lorry, as opposed to horse drawn. This is the same reason the sates call an "estate car" a Wagon. The term "Station" wagon is used is because these longer style wagon cars were often used to taxi people and luggage to/from 'train stations'.
Wow awesome info!
Trunk is a reference to when the first cars actually had a trunk strapped on back for storage.
Trunk vs Boot: When cars first came out there was no storage space built into the car itself but there had to be somewhere to put the clothing trunk that people arrived with when they came over on a ship. They would strap the clothing container (trunk) to the back of the car to transport it. People began strapping an empty trunk to their cars to carry whatever they needed on a journey. Later, car manufacturers created a built-in area to store items during car trips. This built-in area was where the trunks used to be stapped in, therefore, the name trunk was used to describe this storage space. Since a boot is what you wear on your foot, why would you call a storage area a boot?? LOL! Thanks for a wonderful channel. Keep it up!
Boot comes from a term for a built-in storage compartment in a horse-drawn carriage, haa nothing to do wirh footwear. Both boot and trunk come from times before mitor cars, but given a trunk is a detatchable case, and a boot was built-in, boot probably better describes the arse-end of a car.
"Cell phone" is because it a Cellular network phone, may be...
Whether you call it cell phone or mobile phone, it relies on cell towers to get a signal.
That's correct.
Regarding a car, A boot in america is like a device they put on the tire so whoever owns it cant drive it until they pay their tickets
Gina Marie Lopez really? We call it a clamp. That will confuse me 😂😂😂
I have to stop responding while watching (as this is the second), but the term for a big truck is pronounced "Sem-eye", not "Sem-eee". Also known as an 18-wheeler, a big rig, etc. I always thought that most of the vehicles you call lorries were what we call vans? Thumbs up in any event.
Ken Davis Yeah, I feel like I’d categorize a lorry as a truck or a van.
I believe the UK calls any general vehicle used for delivery of large things a lorry.
In some regions a "semi" is called a "tractor trailer", but seldom is it called a truck.
People who drive semis are truckers so they are driving a type of truck,
Ken Davis Most people in the Southern US say Tractor Trailer.
Scotch tape is also called invisible tape or transparent tape. Brits call the trunk the boot because they can't tell their feet from their butts--don't be triggered, it's just a joke ; )
Scotch is a brand
Sellotape (/ˈsɛləˌteɪp/) is a British brand of transparent, polypropylene-based, pressure-sensitive tape, and is the leading brand in the United Kingdom. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending. --- Literally just takes 1sec to google something so yea they missed this one, badly.
@@dashtesla yes but Americans created the original tape??
@@dashtesla I have seen Cellotape in the US.
7:05 American police officers NEVER ask drivers to "pop the hood"!! For what reason? To check the engine for dead bodies or drugs?? 🤣
"I MUST KNOW IF YOUR WIPER FLUID IS OUT!" hahaha
The Vegan Elephant 🤣🤣🤣
Swimmin Wit Da Fishies Do you remember the move anger management ? When ex con Robert DiNero had to get a job and he became a used car salesman lol and he's trying to make a sale so he pops the hood and say look at all that space you could fit five bodies in there ! Funniest shit ever lol..... Hey I just noticed you're profile name where I come from if you cross the mob you go swimming with the fish eh.... What's up wit that ?lol..
Ken Bray Yes!! That was a great movie! And maybe I come from the same place as you (NJ)? I'm in the custom shoe business ... the CEMENT shoe business!! We have a Christmas sale right now!
Swimmin Wit Da Fishies Yeah I'm from Philadelphia ! If I cross one bridge and I'm in Camden.....
1. Some ppl say CV, especially if they are in the academic field, but resume is more common. 2. True we say cell, but more common now isjust phone. Hardly anyone has a landline here either. 3. Playing hookey is kind of an archaic saying. Or it is used tongue-in-cheek. 4. True we call the ground floor the first floor. Ground does make sense but it's too late for us, I"m afraid! 5. C'mon now boot makes less sense than trunk! At least trunk is something you put things IN. Boots you put on your feet! 6. Bonnet seems kind of precious for a car part! 7. Hoover is a brand of vacuum here too but maybe not as popular as in the UK. 8. Tape-true, we use the brand name. The wide grey tape we call "Duck" which is also a brand and that name is derived, I think, from "duct" where that tape might be used, on heating/AC ducts. We call it either masking or "painters" tape. 9. We do call the big trucks "semis", pronounced sem-eye. But also just trucks or tractor-trailer for the 2 parts of it. Love these videos! Not triggered!
Thanks for this Cathy!
We also say lobby
The former principal at the school I teach at here in Florida is British and lived in London so I've learned a lot of British words over the last 3 years. You both are hilarious. Anyone who gets triggered needs to get a life.🤣🤣
I always took "Playing hookie" as pretending to be sick to get out of school. We also just say "ditch", as in "They ditched class today".
Yeah a cv has always been something I associate with a fancier job than a resume?
The reason for using the word trunk was because the first cars had travel trunks strapped to the car on the back. If the trunk is in the front as on a Porsche we call it a frunk as in front trunk.
Old style suitcases were giant trunks too so it comes from that. We're also more correct since it was an American who invented the first automobile. I'd say calling a it a boot is pulling it out of their arse
No one calls it a frunk lol
Logic. Lol I'm sure they've got some historical reason for calling it a boot too. Lol But I think THEY'RE the ones saying things wrong. Haha That's because over here, they are.
Bruce Solomon
I was about to explain this when I saw your post. 👍✌
Boot comes from when there were horse drawn carriages with a leather ledge around the side and back of the carriage which people stepped on to get into it ,(hence you put your boot on it to get into the carriage). The ledge at the back was used for servants to sit on. Carriages then turned into cars but the name boot stuck, although of course it became a storage area. Like a lot of things in Britain they have very historic roots.
It’s funny bc masking tape is like the one tape that we have the same name for 😂😂
Savannah a lot of people call it painters tape where I live in the US
But tape for painting is called painters tape rather than masking tape. Masking Tape is stronger than Painters Tape. :)
We call it blue tape :)
To me masking tape and painters tape mean different things. Masking tape is white/light tan tape with general purpose. But I wouldn't use it for painting walls. Painters tape is blue usually and I wouldn't use it for general purpose.
Stephanie Darrow - and 30+ years ago, blue tape and green tape used in masking areas to paint did not exist. The beige masking tape was the only tape around to mask off areas that would be painted. Because it was too sticky, the other tapes we invented.
Cars when first invented had an actual trunk strapped onto the back
Lia: This video isn’t intended to offend anyone
Also Lia: They just plucked it out of the arses and thought great 😂😂😂
trunk comes from the old travel trunks that went on the back wagons or carriages before autos, so the trunk basically means rear storage
Lol how is boot any better?
Trunks are for storing
Boots are for wearing
That's what *I* said. LOL
Exactly if America didn't exist Brits would have nothing to talk about. I watch them bc they're so petty 😂😂😂
You can also look at the trunk/boot thing like this: when cars where invented they didn’t have a trunk/boot. You would have too tie your TRUNKS to the back of them when you traveled. When trunks were less fashionable to put your belongings in to travel and the suitcase were becoming for fashionable car manufacturers added the trunk to the back of the cars to protect your belongings.
So I’m going to stick with trunk is the correct term and boots will stay on my feet.
ashlyn uskoski exactly!!
Laurie Kingsbury America also invent the car so they should have more precedence
Britain made those as slang
we call masking tape either “masking tape” or “painting tape”
But there's that blue tape for painting as well like when you're painting walls
WE HAVE TO SAY TRUNK FOR THE BACK OF THE CAR BECAUSE A BOOT ON A CAR IN AMERICA IS WHAT THE CITY POLICE PUT ON YOUR TIRE TO KEEP YOU FROM DRIVING WHEN YOU OWE TOO MANY PARKING TICKETS. LOL!!!!!! :)
PAT WILLIAMS stop shouting
Ahhh, LOLOLOL🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We just say they clamped your car / tire
PAT WILLIAMS A car’s convertible cover is a boot as well.
You pronounce it like “Sem eye truck”
A.V.O Vlogs We Brits just differently pronounce words to you Americans. We say semi (sem-ee) you say semi (sem-eye) We say tomato (to-mat-toe) you say tomato (to-may-doe).
A.V.O Vlogs British people say sem-ee ( and mult-ee! ) just different pronunciations. 🙂
Interesting, would you then pronounce semi-circle as sem-eye circle?
Sem-ee circle, sem-eye for the truck. But what's a "semi" in UK? Sounds like maybe a vulgar term in UK...
ROFL semi (sem-ee) they can't say it right you say (sem-eye) Best laugh I had all day
Trunk = the cars of the 1920s had an actual wooden trunk on the back used for storage. Then the "trunk" was incorporated into the body of the vehicle. At least that's what I have always thought. lol any ways great video as always.
This is correct
Goes even further back to stage coaches.
Matt Lopez Thank you! I felt like this was true.
How did the term "boot" come about? makes no sense.
I think that "trunk" on a car comes from when they used to tie or latch a free standing wooden trunk to the back of the cars.
A trunk is the base of something. Its the same reason Brits call it a boot. Or hood and bonnet, which are basically the same thing, a covering worn on your head, or the top.
Trunk makes more sense than boot. You can’t win that one. Boot=shoe
idall10 I like to think of it as if our cars were transformers, that would be where their feet would be.
Trunk = Elephant do you keep elephants in your boot?
@DirtRoadTraveler They were the same luggage used for traveling, like steamer trunks that were used on steam ships. The trunk would be carried out from whatever mode of long range transport, i.e. trains, ships or buses, and loaded onto a platform at the rear of the automobile and strapped down. Oh, btw, their estate car name for a station wagon makes sense if used for an estate but the original use was for hotels to collect hotel guests from train STATIONS back in the horse era, therefore WAGONS. Our names seem to have more plain descriptive characters where as the British equivalents seem to be the same but more colloquial (slangy) descriptive.
Yanks do not use proper words and they cannot even spell correctly.
Sophie H thank you exactly
Americans also use CV, but it's more of an in-depth resume for those who work in academia and includes published work and conference presentations and things like that.
Brits hates the french and just cannot stand we adopted french words
A semi is not a sim•ee but a sim•eye
The way its pronounced is key to its meaning. Sem ee is what they think it is. Sem eye is a truck.
My favorite part of all Joel and Lia videos is when Lia does her "we are so bad" face, with the V shaped mouth while semi-laughing. So cute!
"Playing hookie" is an old American term. My grandma would've said that. Now days, the kids "ditch" school. Only very old people would say it the first way. But, the kids would say they ditched or they cut class.
They really need to stop googling these terms. They always come up w the most dated terms for what they think Americans say lol
I think a lot of times they think we use terms that they hear in old TV shows. My husband and I will use the term "playing hookie". but we will usually roll our eyes and giggle while using it.
R Pigeon EternalMelancholy1 it comes from the book from Tom Sawyer...he would go off fishing...hence the hook on the pole...hookie...
lmao I'm 15 and I say playing hooky
I still say play hookie.
You call Duct tape Gaffer's tape?! As a techincal director I can assure you that those are totally different things and a production crew better not use Duct tape on my stage!
Radiant Rosie that’s what o thought. Gaffer’s tape is completely different!
Radiant Rosie agreed!
JD you would use duct tape over gaffer (spike) tape????
I remember years and years ago when I was a stage manager a dumbass newbie used duct tape instead of gaffers tape on a gel frame. Gaffer's tape is meant to handle heat. The adhesive on duct tape isn't. Thank God it was on a Fresnel, not something hotter. It could have burned the building down. I actually fired the guy by suggesting he get the hell out before the producer figured out who did it and shot him for obviously having lied on his resume [see what I did there?]. It's funny now, but it wasn't at the time. It was over the audience and we had to make people get up at the first intermission to get it out of there.
I thought the same thing. I cringed when they said that.. lol
Most buildings in U.S. (NY/NJ) have ground floors or marked as G, but the floor above the ground floor is the 2nd floor. That's it. That is how it should be. Makes perfect sense.
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Then why are you skipping the first floor?
Ground floor = storey levelled with the ground
First floor = the very first floor directly above the ground (floor)
See? ;)
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American people also call semis 18-wheeler or big rigs
Yup big rig
"Big"? Oh yeah, not by Aussie standards!
We pronounce semi...sem-eye
ahhh okay! 😂
Yes, but we also call them 18-wheelers sometimes.
Tanya Martin-McClellan that is what I was about to say.
It’s a semi-truck because it’s a tractor-trailer. Half and half. Semi truck. See?
Or just a diesel or a big truck
Scotch is a brand. Masking tape is either masking tape or painters tape. Gafters tape is similar to electrical tape. Duct tape is duct tape.
We call them semi-trucks if it is just the cab, and a tractor trailer is a semi with the box on the back, also known as an 18wheeler. They are not to be confused with box trucks which are always connected, and usually 26ft.
I think “trunk” comes from early cars such as the Model T where there was no built in storage compartment. People would strap a storage trunk or foot locker to the back.
You are correct Joel on the Scotch tab. Masking tape is masking tape here. LOL. You guys are so funny. I love y'all.
Older cars had a trunk on the back. From the early 1900’s
Absolutely right. Yes, "bonnet" sounds funny to Americans, imagining a lacy little hat on the front of your car. Wind screen and windshield! so many fun word contrasts!
^ This.
I get the feeling that they have a different word for a trunk (as in foot locker, storage tote, or lock box). These boxes were strapped to the back of carriages or buggies and then later to the back of automobiles.
I'm American and I loved this video! Not offended at all. Very funny. I would love a Joel and Lia dictionary!
Thanks so much Dorothy!
Look up old thirties cars in America. They literally had these beautiful wooden trunks on the back to haul things in because they didn’t have that in the original cars. We just kept the same name as the vehicle changed.
Also, why the heck would a cop ask you to pop your hood?? Lol. To check my oil level?? Uh, thanks!
I always say vacuum. My mother in law always says “sweep”. It confused me because I looked around like, “where’s your broom?”
Scotch tape is because of the brand! Hello. Yet you call vacuuming HOOVERING!
Kelly Moore they Said that.
AND Ironically HOOVER is an American brand!
To really confuse them....... what about the German VW ‘beetle’ which has the (elephant) trunk in the front with a ‘handle’? A ‘trunk” is a travel chest of the tree trunk wood variety. An Asian dickie is a luggage compartment (rumble seats). A built in ‘luggage’ trunk in addition to a rumble seat, I believe was made on the Ford Model A Tudor Sedan. They can have their horse drawn carriage boot lockers. We will keep our trunk (the elephants and trees don’t mind). A ‘hood’ is a water proof covering. The engine needs a water proof covering. You can call shit anything you like. If I were an inventor and called my product a screw. You better call it a screw or at the very least, your language equivalent (without which... it’s a ‘screw’ to you).
Kelly Moore / I think trunks were earlier than the 1930's
CV is a complete account of experience. Resume is a one-page, two at the most summary. It also depends on industry. I have a CV and resume. The ground floor is not always the first floor. Often, we do say "go to the ground floor" if the ground floor is not the first floor. I can understand how "trunk" might be confusing, but don't pretend "boot" makes any sense either; boots go on your feet. "Semi" means it's a semi axle truck; the cab of the truck is positioned on a half (semi) axle. A "semi" pulls a trailer (also called a semi-tractor-trailer). I love your channel.
Now "spellotape" from Harry Potter makes so much more sense!
And "Skiving Snack Boxes" taught American kids another word for hookie.
This might blow your mind more... But we consider the ground floor to BE the first floor. You can call it either...it means the same. In the elevator though..."G" might mean GARAGE (under the building) and then 1 or "L" (lobby) is your ground floor.
Mc Kenna True
We Americans, also drive in a parkway and park in a driveway. Lol
Mc Kenna
also some malls are on sloping ground (off grade) and the ground floor could be the first and second floor. Better to call it by number
My parents played hookie. I ditched and my teenage daughter goes to school or I take her cell phone.
Haha same! The evolution of American culture...
In America we have both CV and Resumes. An resume is an abbreviated version (1-2 pages max) of your CV. Which is a detailed document of education, work experience, publications, certifications, liscense, etc.
North Americans use the term “trunk” because up until the 1930's most drivers used to strap travel chests, called trunks, to the backs of their cars. Of course, once automakers started designing cars with built-in rear compartments, there were no longer any reasons to travel with trunks. The name, however, stuck.
I can't imagine if we try to explain to them that the trunk could be in the front of the vehicle, like how an elephant trunk is in the front, on like expensive sports cars with rear mounted engines
We say both resume and CV; either is fine.
We call them cell phones or mobile phones. Why 'cell'? Mobile phones communicate with cell towers that are placed to give coverage across a telephone service area which is divided up into 'cells'. Each cell uses a different set of frequencies from neighboring cells, and will typically be covered by 3 towers placed at different locations. The cell towers are usually interconnected to each other and the phone network and the internet by wired connections.
Re: the floors in buildings, some US buildings have a ground floor, first floor, etc, and some ground floors = first floors. It totally depends on the building, but if someone says 'ground floor', they mean street level. There's usually no confusion when you're in an *elevator* (we invented it, so we get to name it ;) though, because the button with the big *star* next to it will always take you to ground/exit level :)
Elephants have trunks in the front, but 'junk in the trunk' is definitely in the back ;) I think it comes from storage trunks being secured in the back of horse-drawn carriages.
Hoover is a vacuum company that was founded in Ohio in the US in 1908. Glad you like 'em :)
Scotch Tape is a trademark for cellulose tape, first introduced in 1930 by 3M (Minnesota). Sellotape later introduced trademark of cellulose tape in 1937 in West Acton, London.
So we win by 7 years. XD
We call masking tape... 'masking tape'. :)
A lorry in the UK is generally translated as a 'truck' in the US. A semi-truck, or 'semi' (usually pronounced 'sem-eye') is a kind of truck--an articulated lorry with a huge capacity (semi-)trailer. An '18-wheeler' refers to the semi-truck + semi-trailer combo.
lcozzarelli the cell in cell phone refers to the lithium cell battery not the cell tower.
Some people used to say cellular phone
I think cell phone is used because you use cell towers when placing the call.
Excellent explanations!
I’ve honestly never heard CV before
It’s not pronounced “semi”. It’s pronounced “sem-eye”. FYI.
I believe that the ground floor usually refers to a basement if the building has one
With the skipping school one in the US it is called ditching school. Only older people say playing hooky
hey, I'm ancient (an older person) and I would say "skipping school"; not modern enough to say "ditching" but too cool to say "playing hooky", lol
In America, cars literally had storage trunks strapped on the back shortly after they were introduced here. The trunks later became built on or integrated. That's where the term came from.
Would love to see a video where brits use brand names over the technical terms. Example in America we say band-aid for an adhesive bandage or Kleenex for a tissue
Mathew Prang ...and Brits call them "plasters"! Lol
thanks so much for helping us know how other people would say these words
Love from California!
Skiving Snack Boxes from Harry Potter FINALLY make sense to me! I legit thought it was a Wizarding word, not a British one. Lol BRILLIANT.
I'm gonna tell my boss I'm skiving all week so I can stay home and watch your videos. She'll be none the wiser.
Cell is short for Cellular. Cell phones companies distribute an area into several grids called cells. Whenever you are at a certain spot, your phone will be receiving or transmitting through the towers located in that local grid. As you keep moving from "cell" to "cell" the respective towers pick up signals from your phone. This is also the reason that you can locate a person using a cell phone quite easily using this grid triangulation system (or something of that sort) like they show in movies. They also happen to be mobile because we can take them around with us, but the real essence of the technology is the Cellular aspect.
I've actually heard the first floor casually referred to as the "ground floor" or the "lobby" - that must add an extra level of confusion to travellers. I could be wrong but I think in places where houses have basements (cellars?) then the second, ground-level floor would be called the first floor. Not so much in earthquake country where I live - no cellars for us, sadly.
Early car models had a rack on the back to strap on luggage (i.e. trunks... although they may be been trunks full of boots, who knows!)
Fun fact - Tesla calls their Trunk a "frunk" ;D
You're spot on with Scotch Tape - the brand of tape here is so ubiquitious that we do the same. Is it Sellotape a brand of celophane tape? Masking tape is the same.
Question: Do y'all have Duct Tape? Is it called the same thing.
EDIT: Just understood "Spellotape" from Harry Potter as well LOL
HAHAHA "Semi"..... Technically that's just shorthand for "semi-truck" because it's not a full-sized truck? Honestly I have no idea. I think I've been confusing this with the UK use of the word "Trolly" which is more like a cart, right? Phew, that was an unintentedly long comment Haha.
Thanks for sharing! Love from San Diego, Ca
Ground floor: really? I'm sorry, but calling the 2nd floor the 1st floor is just ridiculous. You guys are the ones confusing this issue. We also use "ground floor", but to us it means the same thing as "1st floor". Let me ask you this: is there a floor on the ground floor? Or is it just dirt in England. Because, if there is a floor on the ground floor, I say it is the 1st floor. The 2nd floor is the one above it. Case closed.
Trunk: In old cars way back, if you wanted to carry luggage, you strapped a portable trunk (a large suitcase) to the back of your car. That's how the storage compartment at the back of a car became known as the "trunk". Do you guys really think that the main reason cars have trunks is so that people will have a place to put their boots? Come on man! It's for luggage.
Vacuum: We also have Hoover vacuums over here, so we know what you mean when you say it. Incidentally, we've done that with Jello. The brand name to us is what you call "jelly". Many people over here also still call a copier a "Xerox" or "Xerox machine".
Scotch Tape: You got it. It's a brand name that has come into use to describe the item regardless of who makes it. We also call it simply "clear tape" or for wider, stronger strips "packing tape". We call masking tape the same thing you do: "masking tape". At least I think we do. It's the light tan paper tape that tears easily and doesn't stick very hard, right?
Semi: Most of us, at least around here on the central East coast, call a semi a "tractor trailer", but we know what semi means. I just had to look up why it's called a semi, though. "Semi" is short for "semi-trailer truck". The truck exists to pull a "semi-trailer", which is a trailer without a front axle.
Tony Whitaker sorry but you’re wrong the ground floor is is floor 0 as it’s ground level the floor above the ground is 1st floor
Nicholas Hackett Nope, if u had 5 cookies, do u start with 0 on the first one then on the second u move on to number 3?
Tony Whitaker a TRACTOR TRAILER? REALLY? I agreed with all of it up to there. But I live in ag country
Nicholas Hackett the ground floor is still a floor. A house has one floor (or "story" as we say here). You can have a one story or 2 story (floor) house. So it makes no sense.
Really. That's what we call them. Here's a local news story in our newspaper entitled "A Tractor-Trailer Driver was Following GPS Directions and Got Stuck in the Sand in Outer Banks":
pilotonline.com/news/local/article_f2be7432-7ecb-11e8-86c0-838d71f9f7e4.html
So, it's not just me. It's what we call them over here.
Calling the “Ground floor” “first floor” makes sense because it’s the first floor you see or you stand on
Kids would say they are skipping school I think. Playing hooky is something grannies would call it.
Wow I'm 38 and as kids in NYC we knew it as playing hookie. I guess I'm a granny or grandad then?🤷🏿♂️
In america we call Masking Tape, MASKING TAPE! YAY We get another one right! :)
We call it Scotch tape because it's a brand.
We have masking tape.
We pronounce it "semi" SEM-EYE.
Joel: “well americans don’t walk so that’s probably why”
Me: #truth 😂😂😂💀💀💀
hahahah ;)
NYC Americans do 💗🚶🏻♀️lol
Lorena Cajes this is true. We should do more like New Yorkers do ❤️
Jennifer Larrasquitu haha we have no choice! Driving here is madness 😅
Lorena Cajes 😂😂😂 I know!!! I only lived there for a summer several years ago but I can recall thinking that having a car was practically pointless lol. My iPhone navigation was my best friend! ❤️
Love you two! I get such a kick out of your videos!
We use CV in the US too...it’s just that Resumes and CVs are two different things. Usually CVs are more for people in technical or academic fields, and focus more on education and accolades than Resumes do. I have a CV for when I’m applying to research lab internships, but if I was applying to like Target or something I’d submit a Resume.
Exactly, a CV is a long document used by academics, and the like, whereas a resume is a 1-2 pager for all other jobs.
THANK YOU!
Trunk was literally named after a storage case, it was on tray that was at the back of the car for storage. 'You' call the storage area area of a car the boot because on a carriage it's where the boot man stood, a person not an area for storage. Also the non branded sellotape is spelled cellotape (cellulose + tape)
We just say phone. But cell phone comes from cellular phone I think.
For my family here in Philippines, cell phone is the old phones (with keypads) and the touchscreen phones now we called it a smartphone or just phone.
I believe cellular phone systems were invented in America. We'll call them what we want.
Yes because of cellular data and the cellular network
PokeGeo1668 it does
I once couldn't be bothered to attend a certain class at school, so on the teacher's blackboard I wrote in big letters 'Dear Mr Duncombe, I'm bunking off today.. Lorraine.. ".... I never got told off for it, hahahaha
Sem-eye. Not Sem-ee. Sem-eye. Semi meaning 'half or part" Semi-Truck. Part of a truck.
Kieran Shae British people say sem-ee ( and mult-ee! ) just different pronunciations. 🙂
"Scotch" is a brand of tape so kinda like "Hoover" in the U.K....also it's like how Americans call tissues Kleenexes and lip balm Chapstick lol
I'm American (Texas) and I try to use generic names as much as possible: tape instead of Scotch tape; vacuum instead of Hoover; tissue paper instead of Kleenex; lip balm instead of Chapstick.
Kevin Burciaga except tissue paper is also the thin often colored paper you use in wrapping gifts and in gift bags.
Trunks were tied on the back of vehicles way back when they were first invented. So when they started to design cars for comfort and convenience they built in a 'trunk '
Yes, growing up my family had a big really well built trunk that we would store Christmas decorations and other rarely used stuff. I eventually found out it was a removable trunk from a Packard car (was it's own company before Ford Motor Company purchased the brand). It had loops on it that were used to strap it to the back of the car. I would think early car manufacturers in Britain might have done this before they designed in the attached boot.
*I CaN't EvEn iMaGinE wHAt tHEy CalL mAsKiNG TaPE*
... We call it masking tape🤣
🤦🏼♀️
Playing Hookie is an old way of saying it. I say skipping class or skipping school.
I always said "ditching."
Yes, "hookie" is old fashioned, usually say skipping school.
EternalMelancholy1 it comes from the book from Tom Sawyer...he would go off fishing...hence the hook on the pole...hookie...
In some states they call it "sluffing"
Or truant
If they aren’t a couple, why is there always a bed behind them?
They answer that not being a couple question in a recent Q&A vid. But they both like men, so as friends they probably sleep and can sleep together without any 'tension' ruining their vlogs and friendship.
Miguel Kalshoven how do you know Joel likes men?? I need specific video cited with time stamp!
@@ratatataraxia - What they said was that if they should become a couple, any potential breakup would almost certainly end the channel. Since the channel is most important to them they've avoided becoming a couple. That's what they said.
So, can't say that about Joel. No evidence.
I have to say, though, they ACT like a couple when I've observed their interactions.
They don't have a huge budget and so they film in Lia's apartment (although she just moved to a new place, so not sure what the new studio looks like)
@@mickkalshoven5 i dont think your correct
Old cars used to have trunks strapped to the back. Thename just stuck.
Also the phrase cell phone is slowly fading out many younger Americans say smart phone now.
I should have scrolled the comments before I posted the same thing! Good to know other people are aware of this little factoid!
I think the younger generations are just calling them phones. We don't have landlines anymore. The cell is our only phone, no need to specify which phone anymore. And almost all phones are technically "smart phones"
So no need to specify that either.
Smart phone is used just for phones that you can use the internet on. I'm not sure about other people, but I call non-smart phones "dumb phones".
Hailey Zettler I call them dumb phones too.
I was just about to say the same thing. Not too many people remember old Model T's having trunks trapped in the back.
Sometimes we use ground floor, sometimes not. It depends.
Look at all this education left in the comments! 😂 So I’ll just leave a generic comment to say I was here, I laughed harder than I probably should have considering I’m American, and I’m going to need one of y’all’s dictionaries.
hahaha you're hilarious Jessa! ❤️
What you call a Lorrie, we call a Truck -- a cargo vehicle where the cab (driver and engine compartments) and the box (the cargo area) are both on one frame -- one piece. A Semi is a term for a two-part vehicle, where there is the "Tractor" or "Semi-Ttractor," which is where the driver and the engine are located, attaches to the "Trailer" or "Semi-Trailer" which is the area that holds the cargo. "Semi" in this use mean more like "Part" or "Half."
We never ever call a Lorry a Lorrie here in the UK, that sounds like a girl's name the way you've spelt it! LOL 😂 Lorries mean more than one Lorry eg: "But the roads were very bad and there were not enough lorries, not enough fuel, and no spare parts"
or an 18-Wheeler.. or rig
I apologize for spelling your word incorrectly. However, as far as they way the words "sound," here they are both pronounced the same.
No probs dude, it just fascinates me how we speak the same language yet some words have different meanings even though spelt the same way! I pronounce semi with a soft 'i' for instance instead of sem-eye! Bonkers! LOL 😛
It fascinates me also. I would love to sit down with a patient Brit and spend an afternoon talking about words. Actually, "Semi" is a prefix like in "semisweet," and is pronounced with the soft "i" and it means "half as sweet." The only place I can think of where the word stands alone is referring to the cargo vehicle "Semi," semi tractor or semitrailer, and is pronounced Sem-Eye.
Actually trunk makes more sense for the car's storage compartment. Before the 1930s, cars had no trunk per se as they do now. Instead they had a holder on which you attached an actual, moveable, storage trunk. Hence trunk. True.
It’s called a ‘trunk’ because when cars were first made, they didn’t have a storage area, so trunks were strapped to the back.
Generally obsessed with these US/Uk videos ngl
hahaha thanks so much Emily!
Why would you not be proud of being British? It is who you are.
But a boot is a shoe...and a shoe is on the bottom, not the back.
Honestly, the are a whole lot of words (in both countries) where you wonder if those who decided upon them were either drunk or won their version in a poker game.
Mc Kenna No, a shoe goes on a foot.
*Sellotape* and *Scotch Tape* are both brand names and trademarks. *Sellotape* was only ever sold in the UK, it seems. *Scotch Tape* was sold in the US and Canada but not the UK, it seems. Neither term is generic and the "Sello" prefix is spelled with an S, not a C, in reply to another comment.
The consensus name for this type of tape is "clear tape", although it is also called "sticky tape" (but most tape is sticky) or "magic tape" (but no tape is magical). Scotch Tape brand clear tape says "Magic Tape" on the box. Sellotape brand clear tape says "Sticky Tape" on the box. If you buy similar tape from a random manufacturer, it will likely say "Clear Tape" on the box.
The "Scotch" in Scotch Tape is a reference to Scotland, and the boxes feature a Scottish tartan plaid pattern (printed with ink, not fabric).
Xylem Fielding Good job, but one clarification. “Magic” tape refers to the type that is matte finished on it’s non-sticky side as opposed to the kind that is shiny on the non-sticky side. The reason? Because the matte finished tape is almost invisible when stuck to something, so it disappears “like magic.”
"Scotch" is actually a reference to the stereotype that Scots are skinflints. When 3M was experimenting with tape, someone who was testing an early version said, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it."
“Trunk” is like a suitcase. And that’s what a trunk is, it’s a big suitcase built in to your car. And we call it masking tape, too.
back when cars where first built - in the usa they came with a luggage rack in back and when people went on a cruse at sea they had these big steamer trunks that fit on these luggage racks they were sturdy and weather {proof} thus the trunk is in back
First floor is ground floor.
Ground floor is also designated "LOBBY", particularly in office buildings.
Main floor is another common name for ground floor and basements are sometimes called lower level.
Lobby
"Cell" in Cell phone stands for Cellular Phone. Cellular vs Landline, cellular meaning it operates by cellular frequencies instead of through an actual wire!
Is it "Landline" or "LAN line". I thought it referred to Local Area Network.
It's LANDline. Your "LAN" is a group of computers connected to each other, usually in an office type setting.
They're called landlines because before mobile/cell phones, your house phone was connected at one end to your phone and at the other end to a phone jack in the wall. That, in turn, was/is connected to underground phone cables which carried the signal. The cables can be copper or fiber optics. Hence, the phone is literally connected to the land.
I still have my landline.
If you have an "old fashioned" landline and the power goes out, your phone still works because it's powered by the tiny amount of electricity coming through the jack. Which *can't* be said for either cordless house phones or VOIP phones (phone service you get from your internet provider).
Thanks for clearing that up!
Hi, Joel. Hi, Lia. This was so funny! I couldn't stop laughing all the way through it.
If you made a video about naughty things you would do as schoolchildren, I would watch it.
I would *love* to have a Joel & Lia dictionary!
- Cell phone is short for cellular phone so it does make sense, but I like the word mobile better.
- In the UK, the 1st floor is the 1st floor _above_ the ground floor. In the US, the 1st floor _is_ the ground floor.
- I'm quite sure masking tape is the same in both countries.
- Semi is short for semi-trailer truck. It's what you would call an artic (articulated lorry).
Hey Mark! Thanks so much, maybe one day the J&L dictionary will exist!! ❤️ ❤️
A resume is a short CV. We have both. A CV is more academic and thorough. A resume is a quick snapshot of selected information pertaining to the job you're applying for
“Open the bonnet” ? That sounds so cheesy 😂
No one says cellphone anymore 😂😂 everyone says phone
Or just "cell".
Laura Isaza no not true...alot of people do and it is also used even on employment and medical applications...if you're noticing
Another great video!
--We use CVs AND resumes, depending on the purpose and content. We use CV in academia to showcase your publications, presentations, and other academic experience in addition to employment experience. You would use it to apply for not only jobs in academia, but also for graduate school. Resumes are the catch-all for everything else.
--Some people still use cell phone, but I hear smartphone or just phone more often these days.
--Yes, we use hooky or ditch. "She ditched class yesterday". I have never heard skive before but I like it!
--Depends on the building/area: some use ground floor or garden level, but then the next floor would be the 2nd floor and not the 1st floor.
--We call it masking tape, too :) Or painter's tape depending on the type.
--We use semi or semitruck, but we pronounce it Sem-Eye
Thanks for making another great video! Love watching them all!
Thanks so much Frances! Really helpful!
them:don’t be offended
me:*is offended*
Cell phone comes from the technology used: small areas of signal coverage (a cell) all linked together pretty seamlessly. Far as I know, modern smart phones still use this cellular system. But they certainly are mobile!
hahah both words make sense then I guess! haha!
Being British: Joel & Lia Very true!
All wireless phones (commonly known as cell phones) cannot operate without the cellular network. I copied an article that explains why we call them cell phones: "The word cellular, as it describes phone technology, was used by engineers Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young at Bell Labs. They diagrammed a network of wireless towers into what they called a cellular layout. Cellular was the chosen term because each tower and its coverage map looked like a biological cell. Eventually, phones that operated on this type of wireless network were called cellular phones.
The term mobile phone predates its cellular counterpart. The first mobile phone call was placed in 1946 over Bell System's Mobile telephone service, a closed radiotelephone system. And the first commercial mobile phones were installed in cars in the 1970s."
aphx artist Nice job, and thanks for the info!
We use mobile and cel phone interchangeably.
Masking tape is one of those words that Americans and Brits apparently say the same. In regards to calling the thing in the back of a car the trunk, I went to the Automotive Museum in Balboa Park, and I saw some very old models of cars, some from as far back as the 1910s. Anyway, the trunks on the oldest cars looked like actual trunks that people would've carried.
Yes, it used to be that cars had a sort of flatbed area on the back in which to load a trunk, later cars included a built in trunk, this that back storage area being called a trunk.
What you call the 1st floor, we call many things, including "Ground Floor," "Lobby," etc. However, even if we are leaving from the ground floor or the lobby, the next door up is still the 2nd floor. Sorry. :)
Emile Clede depends where. In NYC you’ll find both systems in use. Especially in some hotels and certain residential buildings you’ll see Lobby, 1st, 2nd, ect
Thanks, José. If that is so, then I am sure Joel will feel right at home when he visits NYC ... except for the accents. :)