@Dubs to Step If you're just joking, fine, I'll take the *sshole card. But this kinda really annoys me. Yes, English originated from the land that you live on, but you are the ones who brought it to America. America is a former colony (partially), so no one really "spoke it first," and there are even isolated areas in the US that are closer to the English that the colonizers brought over than modern-day British English (I believe). Language is a living thing, and it evolves. This means that each verision of English, is the right English. Be it Canadian, Australian, British, or American, they are all branches of the same tree. And the trunk of that tree is historical English, which is very different and just as varied. Sorry for this if you didn't want it, it's not just you. Have a lovely day
@@hufflute0 but we speak the original version so to say the original is wrong is just kinda ridiculous, yes there are new variations but at the end of the day variations are the changed version based off the original so the original is always correct and it’s just when people criticise the original and say the original is wrong it’s just bizarre. It’d be like someone re releasing the Harry Potter books under a different name and someone saying its incorrect to say JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter bc of this new released version when actually its not, JK Rowling wrote it originally so JK Rowling would be the correct answer as to who wrote and the correct words, there’s a new version that people read yeah but at the end of the day it’s still JK Rowling who wrote it.
@@bizarrebunny5579 I never said that the "original" is wrong, I just was saying that the language has had so many changes since that time, that you really can't say that one or the other is completely right. One example is the letter "r". Back at the time of the colonies, the colonists pronounced the r's in words, because non-rhoticity hadn't spread to where the colonists came from, so in that sense, American English is closer to the "original" than British English is (this came from a BBC article, by the way). And for your book example, it's less like someone new came in and rewrote Harry Potter and claimed theirs was right, and it's more like JK split in two and both of her rewrote it, the new books came from the same source, but neither are the original. The fact is that prescriptivism (saying what is "right" or "wrong", aka you) just doesn't work in linguistics, the right way to speak a language is determined by the people who speak it, trying to prevent that is like trying to stop the Earth from spinning. We can both be right, language isn't set in stone, if it was, we would ALL still be saying thou and thee, but we don't. Language changes. All language. Get off your high horse.
This is true. In fact almost everywhere else in the world, what you call "soccer" is "football". Whereas what you call "football" where the hands are much more often used (I wonder why you never called it something along the lines of "handball"?) is referred to globally as "American Football" in similar to "Aussie rules football" for the Australian version.
There was association football and rugby football, they got shortened in the late 19th century to soccer and rugger to define the difference in the UK, then it just became football and rugby again, but soccer the name started in the UK as shortened version of associated football from the word association
Patrick Watkiss because American football developed out of the schism between association football and rugby football in the late 19th century. The US adopted the rugby style rules but referred to it as football as compromise
- Mathematics = Maths, not Math. It's already plural because "mathematics" covers a variety of things such as trigonometry, algebra, quadratic equations etc. - It's washing-up liquid because you use it to do the washing-up, you don't use it just to clean dishes! - "But we throw the football with our hands", and that's why it shouldn't be called Football, both the sport and the ball! - The "Herbs" thing utterly boggles my brain as to why you say 'erbs instead?! - I'd say it's very rarely that they're call "Dust-men", they're called "Bin-men" because they pick up and empty the bins. (bin = garbage can) - The road and the pavement (although generally it's called a "path" and not "pavement") are made of different materials so they're not the same because they're not both made of "pavement". - It's called a film instead of a movie because they were actually printed on film before they became digital in recent years.
Common misconception - football isn't cos you use your feet to control the ball, it's because the game is played on foot rather than horseback. Holdover from the days of polo and similar.
And with the Herbs vs 'Erbs, I believe the word is from a Romance language, so the H was originally not pronounced. Then, at some point after America became it's own country, the English saw dropping your H's as being low-class, so they added the H on to herbs (but why not honor/honour?), while America didn't get the memo and kept the original.
American football is Hand Egg... every play is literally stopped as if the "egg" will break. Maybe the game should be renamed to Stop Start Go Stop! Since pretty much after every play, gameplay has stopped to start again!!
@@danielleeskelton I think dustman is an older term that started losing currency sometime in the late 70s. I'd guess it's originally derived from C19th when street sweepers in urban areas would literally be sweeping up dust caused by industrial pollution.
Ian Cossey Dustbin/man comes from a time when there was very little packaging and waste, lots of stuff was reused or repurposed and what couldn’t was put on the fire. So the only real waste was ash or dust from the fire and the dustman would collect the dust and put it in his dust cart.
@@Favourreacts I honestly love this series though, it's really cool to see Americans actually trying to learn about Britain rather than just shitting on it and making fun of it
@@LeeEthan1002 I didn't see too much learning, tbh. A lot of dismissiveness. Surface level stuff. No real attempt to understand context or where certain word coinages might have originated, just knee-jerk incredulity mostly.
It’s called washing up liquid because when we do the dishes we say we are ‘washing up’ so I think it’s named after that. The majority of people in the uk say washing up instead of doing dishes. Also the reason it’s a bum bag is because erm well just look up what the word ‘fanny’ means 😂
years ago thats what they were known as. We never used to produce waste like today, so all the bin men would collect is "dust" waste from open fires. Hence the name "Dust-men". Its nice to hold on to history
Are prams still used by anyone? It's all buggies and pushchairs now isn't it? I guess people do still say pram but they're not talking about what I'd call a pram.
@@martincompson8592 If you'd been born in US you'd speak American English too. Except perhaps with your high standards, you'd be making it better not worse 😅
@@nicolab2075 being as most Americans are our direct descendants and there is no true American's only the Indians the only language you speak is english made worse with how you've changed it over the years
@@martincompson8592 No language stands still, they all change and borrow. I think what's interesting is how they change, and how people use language in a creative way. There's no point in trying to keep it static or standard, you'll just upset yourself!
i watched a film that starred harrison ford, where his character lost his memory and he went missing, and his wife phoned the police and described him as having "kaki pants", i literally LOL, because in the UK this means that he had shit himself in his underwear, where in the american film it meant that he was wearing khaki coloured trousers. in the UK we pronounce the colour khaki different than americans.
A road is made of tarmac. Pavement is usually made of concrete paving stones. To save money, some councils have replaced pavements made form paving stones with poured tar (cheaper and easier probably). When you are standing in the road, you are not on the pavement.
Quite a few American terms were the ones used in Great Britain in the 1700's. The paths by the sides of roads were at one point called "sidewalks". However when paving slabs became commonly used as opposed to a well-worn strip of hard earth in a lot of places, they became known as "pavements" to signify that they were paved, so less dirty and easier to walk upon. Gradually almost every single pathway at the side of a road became paved, so the word pavement was used conclusively as there weren't any real sidewalks left. The word "sidewalk" therefore faded from existence, the same way such older English words as "forsooth" and cursing someone with a "pox" did? This of course mainly took place after America became independent, so the transition didn't happen Stateside.
Walk-in wardrobe or closet, I've heard both. I personally call a 'walk-in wardrobe' a 'closet'. I also call a 'cupboard' that is from floor to celeing height a 'closet'. But, that's just me.
This is surprisingly interesting. Here in New Zealand our English has been Americanized more than I thought, but I still believe we're more on the British side of things (in addition to our own New Zealand English "dialect" of course!). And yes, it's pram, maths and washing up liquid (some people here say "dishwashing liquid")! 😉 Oh! And rugby is a different game to "American football" we say football and/or soccer though.
I think it’s an age thing, growing up in the ‘70’s they were Dustmen (and the rubbish from the dustbins was put into the dustcart), now I call them bin men ( and the bins are emptied into a bin lorry).
I'm British I say maths ,math doesn't sound right to me at all , but maths is not plural , is and are , are the takes used for singular and plural ... maths are fun , doesn't work as the plural , but the singular , maths is fun and math is fun works for both.
i mentally cant comprehend the fact sis is out here saying people from the uk and the republic of ireland are speakin english wrong like im not being funny 1. america started speaking english because of england 2. shes out here saying to any slight criticism about the word like “youre just over complicating things” or “youre out here doing too much”
I once told an American guest that he could buy bottled water in "the shop over the road" - he was so confused by that "Over the road? Like on a bridge, or something?" Haha! I translated it for him "No, I mean across the street". 😂
Most of the world call it football ⚽, (what you call soccer) , and nobody outside of the usa and Canada plays American football 🏈, and rugby 🏉 is a different sport all together
Does Canada have their own rules in American football? Cuz Ireland have their own type of football called Celtic football which is completely different from the general football played globally.
No one “owns” the language. Many countries use English as an official language, not exclusively England and the United States. However, there is simply no denying that the term “English” is derived from its country of origin “England”. The name of the language is self explanatory. Nothing much to debate.
@@harrymarshall Except that English isn't derived from Latin, it's a West Germanic language. "Fancy" language is more Latin-based, but common language is very Germanic.
Oh and regarding the common washing up liquid/dish soap thing... I get that you use dish soap for washing dishes, but do you also buy cup soap for washing cups? How about cutlery soap for washing knives, forks and spoons? Or pots and pans soap? We just group all those things together as doing the "washing up." Therefore we use "washing up liquid" which is more logical really. Also soap is in the form of a firm tablet or bar really. Anything in liquid form is referred to as liquid or gel to account for it's state of matter. So "washing up liquid" is the most logical name to describe accurately it's purpose and state of matter. Whereas "dish soap" would imply a solid bar of soap that you rub dishes with in water to clean them and one that would somehow not be suitable for cutlery, pans, cups, etc.
@@patrickwatkiss7872 America: Where being specific and/or accurate is 'over complicating' xD Can't use too many details with the yanks, it confuses em, gets their wires all mixed xD.
We’d always say ”we were going shopping” or “to the shops” when we were going to buy groceries . I don’t recall anyone saying they were “going on a food shop”. I was brought up in southern England
There’s only like 5000 roundabouts in the US which is actually really low for the size of the country. Also this women is definitely American, and we call what you would call football American football and you are pretty much the only country that plays that, we play rugby along with lots of countries and the game is similar but Americans got football from rugby which is why in American football a touchdown is called a touchdown because in rugby you have to put the ball down when u cross the line
lmaooo i find it so funny bc im british and i find it weird like what Americans say alsoooo yeah this morning my brother said to my mum ‘are u going food shopping today’ hahahahha 😂😭
It's English as spoken by the English why do you look at it as we are wrong or weird lol its like a french Canadian tell someone from Paris how to speak French lol
We also call washing up liquid.. Fairy. It's a big name brand but most people use it regardless of which type you buy. A bit like Hoover for vacuum cleaner. ✌️♥️
The English settled in the US without any really educated people with the pilgrim father's so certain things got renamed as they saw them, like the aborigine for instance as it looked like an egg when growing , so words got changed a lot due to the first settlers that were not that bright , us Americans speak phonetically and have little understanding of English as yours is American English...
Hello and welcome back to another episode of an American telling English people we don’t speak English correctly 😂 😂 (lowkey love the videos though - all love!)
It's maths shortened from mathematics, math would be one problem more than one requires an s. You wouldn't say can I have a bag of cookie, you would say cookies. It has a s at the end.
In New Zealand we use a mixture of both. Mostly influenced by our British heritage but pick up a lot from US movies. For example- we call hot chips (fries) chips and also crisps chips. I’d say I’m going to do the “groceries” and is use a “trolley”. It’s interesting
I think that English is a living and growing language, every country speaks their own version adapted to suit their circumstances, can't see anything wrong with that as no-one can own a language? It has to develop and grow and as long as we can all communicate and discuss the differences, it just makes it more interesting? After all there is British English, Irish English, Indian English, Australian English, South African English, Jamaican English, Canadian English and of course American English amongst so many other localised English dialects if that is the right word? Thanks for the vids! 👍🏼♥️😃
Green tea is FOUL; you need to go to Walmart to the British section and get PG Tips or similar TEA BAGS and because it’s Black tea you need to add milk and sugar; delicious!! You like British culture and you’ve been here at least once but you still have very little idea of the differences and English originated in the UK so after the Pilgrims landed in the US in the 1600’s some of the words have changed over time. Lots of the other comments have rightly stated how Math is short for Mathematics, plural, so Maths is actually the correct word and lots of American words are actually wrong in that sense. If you google most of the English words, you will find out what the meanings are and why we use them in certain ways.
But we throw the ball with our hands so that’s football too, add that to my 2020 regret phrased said by people.If u throw it with ur hands then it should be Handball,which is also a sport
Favour: *says the Americans in these videos don't know what they're talking about. Also Favour: Don't people call American football rugby outside the States? Me: *calmly suppresses my frustration*
@@kayleesmale6571 I never use the word 'Movie'. It was originally an abbreviation for 'moving picture' which hasn't been used since the 30s/40s. "Hooray for Harold Lloyd .."
On the football issue, the game of football was being played in the UK in the 16th century, around 200 years before the USA existed. So, it's football. It is crazy that NFL is called football when you mostly use your hands, and why do you call it a touchdown when you don't touch the ball down.
Sidewalk gets to me the most of the words you use. Why do you have to be literal, is it Sidewalk because you are walking on the side of the road? The pavement is made from paving stones and roads are made from Tarmac (you would call this asphalt). Horse back riding is another one, why do you have to specify, where you are riding on the horse, you wouldn’t ride on it’s head. Eye glasses is another one, they’re just glasses, you’re not going to where them on your arse are you.
It's so funny watching you say how British English is so weird when you Americans don't even know why we find the name 'Donald trump' so funny Also some of us British feel offended too. Some of these things we hardly say. For example we just simply say 'shopping' most of the time
The girl is definitely American. She has no British sounds in her accent at all. Yes, you are the only country that plays what we call American football. Rugby is completely different. For one thing, rugby players do not wear body armour to play. Our chocolate is sweet. Which always seems to surprise Americans, who seem to like it bitter. In the UK, the bottom is referred to as the bum. Americans use fanny in the same way, but in the UK, fanny is a mildly offensive term for a lady's private parts and that's why we laugh when Americans talk about fanny packs.
Americans have over complicated a simple language, example food shop - grocery shop. Food shop states exactly what it is. And Cinema is short for Cinematic which is the original description for going there it was a Cinematic experience.
Perambulator. 500 likes!!! ✨👍🏾
We just call it a buggy 😂
Billie’s Eyelash but a shopping cart is a buggy 🥴
iwtmltyb a trolly is one of those trains you take through the city 🚋
James G 😁😁😁
@@Favourreacts You mean a tram?
"We play football with our hands so it's also football" How is that not the opposite of logic?
I swear I was soo baffed wen she said that
@@trips8527 lowkey same
I literally gave the fuck up after that 😂😂😂
Calm down it’s not dee
@@ellacherie9171 I’m probably the only one that got that
You're getting offended?!? I'm listening to an American speaking English, say that England is speaking English wrong?
That's Americans for you.
She’s really insulting and condescending
She said she’s getting offended by the American saying “closet” instead of wardrobe, not by the British guy..
It’s not deep omg
@@Rosiecrossley1 no she isn’t it isn’t deep Tf
'British English' Also known to everyone outside the U.S as 'English'
I'm french and even I say British English because I learned American English and it's the "normal" way for me
English English
Im american but even I know that England own english so whatever they say is right in a way
@@eviltwin2322 this paragraph sounds pretty arrogant "ours was first not you personally obviously" does it really matter who spoke it first.
@Dubs to Step If you're just joking, fine, I'll take the *sshole card. But this kinda really annoys me. Yes, English originated from the land that you live on, but you are the ones who brought it to America. America is a former colony (partially), so no one really "spoke it first," and there are even isolated areas in the US that are closer to the English that the colonizers brought over than modern-day British English (I believe). Language is a living thing, and it evolves. This means that each verision of English, is the right English. Be it Canadian, Australian, British, or American, they are all branches of the same tree. And the trunk of that tree is historical English, which is very different and just as varied. Sorry for this if you didn't want it, it's not just you. Have a lovely day
@@hufflute0 but we speak the original version so to say the original is wrong is just kinda ridiculous, yes there are new variations but at the end of the day variations are the changed version based off the original so the original is always correct and it’s just when people criticise the original and say the original is wrong it’s just bizarre. It’d be like someone re releasing the Harry Potter books under a different name and someone saying its incorrect to say JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter bc of this new released version when actually its not, JK Rowling wrote it originally so JK Rowling would be the correct answer as to who wrote and the correct words, there’s a new version that people read yeah but at the end of the day it’s still JK Rowling who wrote it.
@@bizarrebunny5579 I never said that the "original" is wrong, I just was saying that the language has had so many changes since that time, that you really can't say that one or the other is completely right. One example is the letter "r". Back at the time of the colonies, the colonists pronounced the r's in words, because non-rhoticity hadn't spread to where the colonists came from, so in that sense, American English is closer to the "original" than British English is (this came from a BBC article, by the way). And for your book example, it's less like someone new came in and rewrote Harry Potter and claimed theirs was right, and it's more like JK split in two and both of her rewrote it, the new books came from the same source, but neither are the original. The fact is that prescriptivism (saying what is "right" or "wrong", aka you) just doesn't work in linguistics, the right way to speak a language is determined by the people who speak it, trying to prevent that is like trying to stop the Earth from spinning. We can both be right, language isn't set in stone, if it was, we would ALL still be saying thou and thee, but we don't. Language changes. All language. Get off your high horse.
@@z_rxo yes it literally does
What you call football we just call American football, rugby is a different sport
to everyone in Europe it is football, not just in the UK
This is true. In fact almost everywhere else in the world, what you call "soccer" is "football".
Whereas what you call "football" where the hands are much more often used (I wonder why you never called it something along the lines of "handball"?) is referred to globally as "American Football" in similar to "Aussie rules football" for the Australian version.
There was association football and rugby football, they got shortened in the late 19th century to soccer and rugger to define the difference in the UK, then it just became football and rugby again, but soccer the name started in the UK as shortened version of associated football from the word association
@@patrickwatkiss7872 yeh not just europe, in africa, etc, it is known as football, not soccer.
Patrick Watkiss because American football developed out of the schism between association football and rugby football in the late 19th century. The US adopted the rugby style rules but referred to it as football as compromise
- Mathematics = Maths, not Math. It's already plural because "mathematics" covers a variety of things such as trigonometry, algebra, quadratic equations etc.
- It's washing-up liquid because you use it to do the washing-up, you don't use it just to clean dishes!
- "But we throw the football with our hands", and that's why it shouldn't be called Football, both the sport and the ball!
- The "Herbs" thing utterly boggles my brain as to why you say 'erbs instead?!
- I'd say it's very rarely that they're call "Dust-men", they're called "Bin-men" because they pick up and empty the bins. (bin = garbage can)
- The road and the pavement (although generally it's called a "path" and not "pavement") are made of different materials so they're not the same because they're not both made of "pavement".
- It's called a film instead of a movie because they were actually printed on film before they became digital in recent years.
Common misconception - football isn't cos you use your feet to control the ball, it's because the game is played on foot rather than horseback. Holdover from the days of polo and similar.
@@EjvindGEMDark Well I've leaned something new today, thank you. I will still refer to the American game as handegg though
And with the Herbs vs 'Erbs, I believe the word is from a Romance language, so the H was originally not pronounced. Then, at some point after America became it's own country, the English saw dropping your H's as being low-class, so they added the H on to herbs (but why not honor/honour?), while America didn't get the memo and kept the original.
American football is Hand Egg... every play is literally stopped as if the "egg" will break. Maybe the game should be renamed to Stop Start Go Stop! Since pretty much after every play, gameplay has stopped to start again!!
Some people call the black bin the ‘dustbin’ tho so...
I say binmen instead of dustman!😅
@@danielleeskelton I think dustman is an older term that started losing currency sometime in the late 70s. I'd guess it's originally derived from C19th when street sweepers in urban areas would literally be sweeping up dust caused by industrial pollution.
Ian Cossey Dustbin/man comes from a time when there was very little packaging and waste, lots of stuff was reused or repurposed and what couldn’t was put on the fire. So the only real waste was ash or dust from the fire and the dustman would collect the dust and put it in his dust cart.
@@TheMathyoo Ok, thanks! Makes sense :-)
I agree.
I say dustbin men
Think that's why dustman, because it's a dustbin
" bum bag sounds like something you'd carry your dog's poop in"...... Hate to tell you what fanny pack sounds like over here in Britain!.
In NZ we just call them 'Perpetual virginity devices'
A sex toy!
@@sketch3744 xD
Fanny 🤣
Even my mom from Guyana was like “wtf is a Fanny pack” since “Fanny” is what the call vagina lol
She doesn’t know what “ fanny” means here in the U.K. 🤣 I feel weird saying it
"we throw the ball with our HANDS so thats FOOTball too" ... I'm sorry, that makes sense how?!
I cant tell if I love this or if it infuriates me as a Brit
😁😁😁
@@Favourreacts I honestly love this series though, it's really cool to see Americans actually trying to learn about Britain rather than just shitting on it and making fun of it
infuriates
lowqualityvhs but she was shitting on it in some parts...
@@LeeEthan1002 I didn't see too much learning, tbh. A lot of dismissiveness. Surface level stuff. No real attempt to understand context or where certain word coinages might have originated, just knee-jerk incredulity mostly.
It’s called washing up liquid because when we do the dishes we say we are ‘washing up’ so I think it’s named after that. The majority of people in the uk say washing up instead of doing dishes. Also the reason it’s a bum bag is because erm well just look up what the word ‘fanny’ means 😂
Bloody dustman? He’s a binman 😂
years ago thats what they were known as. We never used to produce waste like today, so all the bin men would collect is "dust" waste from open fires. Hence the name "Dust-men".
Its nice to hold on to history
@@richiep1713 Thanks for the history! I had no idea!
Same with “dustbin” I just say “bin” 😂🤷🏼♀️
But it’s dustbin day!
This is the most British sentence I think I’ve read (yes I’m a Brit)
'maths' is a short version of 'mathematics' so plural
The thing is it’s the English language which comes from England so don’t correct it 😂
English is an offshoot of Anglo Saxon which is from Germany
Don't forget the slew of AMERICAN products and inventions that English people call something completely different for whatever reason.
lol we just say a pram or buggy (i personally) say a pram is like for newborn baby and a buggy for when they r like a bit bigger but can’t walk
Are prams still used by anyone? It's all buggies and pushchairs now isn't it? I guess people do still say pram but they're not talking about what I'd call a pram.
Corleth never hear anyone say pram,
@@KK-ev2xh Pram is all we say in NZ.
Irish person here, here a pram like a bed on 4 wheels, while a buggy is a seat on 3 or 4 wheels
@@corleth2868 Yes people still use prams, a lot of them can double up as car seats as well. My sister had one for my niece.
Did you really call us illiterate when it's our language that you've made worse
You own it???
@@nicolab2075 it's called english for a reason
@@martincompson8592 If you'd been born in US you'd speak American English too. Except perhaps with your high standards, you'd be making it better not worse 😅
@@nicolab2075 being as most Americans are our direct descendants and there is no true American's only the Indians the only language you speak is english made worse with how you've changed it over the years
@@martincompson8592 No language stands still, they all change and borrow. I think what's interesting is how they change, and how people use language in a creative way. There's no point in trying to keep it static or standard, you'll just upset yourself!
i watched a film that starred harrison ford, where his character lost his memory and he went missing, and his wife phoned the police and described him as having "kaki pants", i literally LOL, because in the UK this means that he had shit himself in his underwear, where in the american film it meant that he was wearing khaki coloured trousers. in the UK we pronounce the colour khaki different than americans.
Omg what slept on comment 😂 brilliant !! Lol
Yeah, we say "carkey"
A pavement is called a pavement because it’s made from pavement stones but the road is made from tarmac so it’s two different types of materials
And cement
And we also say footpath
“We throw the football with our hands.. so that’s football too”
😂
Why not call it hand ball ?
@@stevenwood2436 Isn't handball already a sport? They'd have to call it American Handball X'D
@@ForTheLoveOfNuggsi don't know I'm not American but yeah they probably do
A road is made of tarmac. Pavement is usually made of concrete paving stones. To save money, some councils have replaced pavements made form paving stones with poured tar (cheaper and easier probably). When you are standing in the road, you are not on the pavement.
We never say food shop in Scotland it's we are going for the messages!
Quite a few American terms were the ones used in Great Britain in the 1700's. The paths by the sides of roads were at one point called "sidewalks".
However when paving slabs became commonly used as opposed to a well-worn strip of hard earth in a lot of places, they became known as "pavements" to signify that they were paved, so less dirty and easier to walk upon.
Gradually almost every single pathway at the side of a road became paved, so the word pavement was used conclusively as there weren't any real sidewalks left. The word "sidewalk" therefore faded from existence, the same way such older English words as "forsooth" and cursing someone with a "pox" did?
This of course mainly took place after America became independent, so the transition didn't happen Stateside.
Intersting to read Patrick. I know that diaper was used in Henry 8th days. But in a slightly different context from US. But it died out here in UK.
Even what you're describing as a closet we would call a walk-in wardrobe.
Walk-in wardrobe or closet, I've heard both. I personally call a 'walk-in wardrobe' a 'closet'. I also call a 'cupboard' that is from floor to celeing height a 'closet'. But, that's just me.
This is surprisingly interesting. Here in New Zealand our English has been Americanized more than I thought, but I still believe we're more on the British side of things (in addition to our own New Zealand English "dialect" of course!). And yes, it's pram, maths and washing up liquid (some people here say "dishwashing liquid")! 😉
Oh! And rugby is a different game to "American football" we say football and/or soccer though.
Dumb means unable to speak, as in 'deaf and dumb', thus 'dummy' because it keeps the baby quiet. It became an insult later.
DUSTMAN? AHAHAHAHAHAH NO ONE HAS EVER SAID THAT. It's a binman??????????
Yeah and In other ones he says things for the British words that I’ve never heard before 😂
I’ve heard of dustbinman, but not dustman. Probably just a different dialect to us.
It was dustman when I was growing up - and the bins were dustbins.
I think it’s an age thing, growing up in the ‘70’s they were Dustmen (and the rubbish from the dustbins was put into the dustcart), now I call them bin men ( and the bins are emptied into a bin lorry).
gelli rhondda never heard of it once in my life.
Ah Hell Naah...Math's is short for Mathematics (plural), you dont say Mathematic so u cant shorten it to Math!
I'm British I say maths ,math doesn't sound right to me at all , but maths is not plural , is and are , are the takes used for singular and plural ... maths are fun , doesn't work as the plural , but the singular , maths is fun and math is fun works for both.
There’s a debate who owns the language 😂🤣🤣🤣 obvs England own it we made it
UK*
rhys _1478 no England Scottish people language is Scottish and Welsh people speak Welsh we speak English
Welsh speak Welsh, Scottish would speak scot celtic, Irish would speak galish
@@keithweelands5822 Welsh speak Cwmraeg, Scots speak Gaidhlig or Scots, Irish speak Gaeilge and all also speak English.
@@scientiautverum sorry I'm a geordie so barely speak English
A pram (perambulator). To Perambulate is to walk or to stroll.
Always remember, we invented the Language and Unfortunately you guys have ruined some of it :-) 🇬🇧
Here in England we don't say closet we say wardrobe for both, we say walking wardrobe where you walk into one
i mentally cant comprehend the fact sis is out here saying people from the uk and the republic of ireland are speakin english wrong like im not being funny 1. america started speaking english because of england 2. shes out here saying to any slight criticism about the word like “youre just over complicating things” or “youre out here doing too much”
“We throw the ball so it’s football” one of the most fucked up sentences I e ever heard
I once told an American guest that he could buy bottled water in "the shop over the road" - he was so confused by that "Over the road? Like on a bridge, or something?" Haha! I translated it for him "No, I mean across the street". 😂
Most of the world call it football ⚽, (what you call soccer) , and nobody outside of the usa and Canada plays American football 🏈, and rugby 🏉 is a different sport all together
Canadians play American football
@@oshaynacampbell9133 usa Canada same thing
niall ceee not the same thing at all lol Canadian culture/ governement/ jurisdictions are so different than US
@@nil0603 where are you from cuz if you say Britain I'm gonna be disappointed
Does Canada have their own rules in American football? Cuz Ireland have their own type of football called Celtic football which is completely different from the general football played globally.
No one “owns” the language. Many countries use English as an official language, not exclusively England and the United States.
However, there is simply no denying that the term “English” is derived from its country of origin “England”. The name of the language is self explanatory.
Nothing much to debate.
@@harrymarshall Except that English isn't derived from Latin, it's a West Germanic language. "Fancy" language is more Latin-based, but common language is very Germanic.
Dustman, I say bin man in England we'll up north England
I'm from south England and we also say binman. Never heard anyone say dustman before
@@ChemikalBubblegum I'm from the South too, I can confirm that I also say bin man.
I also say bin man
The term Dustman was a thing because other waste collectors such as the Rag & Bone Man would pay you; you were not paid for [ash] dust.
Garbo in Australia
The word is MathermaticS, therfore MathS, you cannot say "I'm doing mathematic!" So math is wrong!!
Least British thing to do, Drink Green Tea!! What the hell 🙈🙈 that stuff is foul
My mum drinks it and she has ot regularly
rugby is a different sport.
Wow, you can be so offensive.
"Are we the only country that plays hand football?" - I'm dead
Oh and regarding the common washing up liquid/dish soap thing...
I get that you use dish soap for washing dishes, but do you also buy cup soap for washing cups? How about cutlery soap for washing knives, forks and spoons? Or pots and pans soap?
We just group all those things together as doing the "washing up." Therefore we use "washing up liquid" which is more logical really.
Also soap is in the form of a firm tablet or bar really. Anything in liquid form is referred to as liquid or gel to account for it's state of matter. So "washing up liquid" is the most logical name to describe accurately it's purpose and state of matter.
Whereas "dish soap" would imply a solid bar of soap that you rub dishes with in water to clean them and one that would somehow not be suitable for cutlery, pans, cups, etc.
You definitely over complicated dish soap lol
@@Favourreacts Just being accurate dear lady. I do tend to do that a trifle too much at times...🤭
Calling it dish soap is wrong. It DOES NOT have soap in it.
@@patrickwatkiss7872 America: Where being specific and/or accurate is 'over complicating' xD Can't use too many details with the yanks, it confuses em, gets their wires all mixed xD.
Well a food shop is exactly what it is, so I mean- 😂
NO
Favour IT IS THO 😂
Billie’s Eyelash I guess we say "grocery shopping" bc when you go to the store you don't typically just get food/ the stores don't only sell food haha
If we’re not only buying food, we just call it a “big shop”
We’d always say ”we were going shopping” or “to the shops” when we were going to buy groceries . I don’t recall anyone saying they were “going on a food shop”. I was brought up in southern England
Film - from the film roll of the camera.
Movie - because images are moving.
Nothing to do with budgets.
Alternatively, in Scotland we might say we’re “Away to pick up the messages.” When were away grocery shopping. 😂
Your NFL and Rugby are NOT the same sports at all! My god I'm insulted with that, I never wore padding or a helmet playing rugby
"Food shop, does that sound right to you guys?"
Me, an English woman: Yes. X'D
Yes it means. You are buying food only, I would say a food shop, in England
... no, it doesn't sound normal, 'going on a food shop'. You'd just say 'shopping'.
Quite a posh English guy, mosy of us wouldnt say dustbin or dustman just bin and binman.
I personally never say pavement i just say path
Sometimes I say footpath
This is the English language not the American language. Therefore by any form of deduction we are correct!
No says we are going on a food shop, it’s literally just shopping. “I’m going shops/t shops/to shopping “ depending on the accent.
The British rarely drink green tea 😉😬
A lot of these are nonsense and actually just the "American" one...or both...or neither.
...But it IS mathS. Not math.
There’s only like 5000 roundabouts in the US which is actually really low for the size of the country. Also this women is definitely American, and we call what you would call football American football and you are pretty much the only country that plays that, we play rugby along with lots of countries and the game is similar but Americans got football from rugby which is why in American football a touchdown is called a touchdown because in rugby you have to put the ball down when u cross the line
Americans just change all the words to be different, America always gotta try and stand out lol.
They always have to be right at everything
“bUt We ThRoW tHe FoOtBaLl WiTh OuR hAnDs So ThAtS fOoTbAlL aSwElL” 🤔
lmaooo i find it so funny bc im british and i find it weird like what Americans say alsoooo yeah this morning my brother said to my mum ‘are u going food shopping today’ hahahahha 😂😭
I guess we say "grocery shopping" bc when you go to the store you don't typically just get food/ the stores don't only sell food haha
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"Plaid is something stereotypical lesbians wear as coats"...Wow.just. wow. X'D
It’s called a dummy short for “dummy tit” ... sometimes actually just called the full phrase 😂😂
A fanny in the UK is a lady's front part.
Hence why we don't call it a Fanny Pack.
but when you say "fanny pack" fanny is a word you should never say here...
It's English as spoken by the English why do you look at it as we are wrong or weird lol its like a french Canadian tell someone from Paris how to speak French lol
Ok one we dont actually say food shop we say shopping and we dont say dustbin or dustbin man we just say bin or bin man
Let's just get this straight it's called English, which means the Brits have the correct words and spellings, the Americans have chosen to mangle it.
We also call washing up liquid.. Fairy. It's a big name brand but most people use it regardless of which type you buy. A bit like Hoover for vacuum cleaner. ✌️♥️
I sometimes say Fairy up liquid 😂
This British guy isn't right either... I definitely wouldn't say "going on a food shop" I would just say "I'm going shopping" simple! 🤷♀😏
The English settled in the US without any really educated people with the pilgrim father's so certain things got renamed as they saw them, like the aborigine for instance as it looked like an egg when growing , so words got changed a lot due to the first settlers that were not that bright , us Americans speak phonetically and have little understanding of English as yours is American English...
not trying to be rude my friend it's just that it's Aubergine 👍🏾
@@mrortega468 cheers ...yes I got that , but it's text , far better with a pen 👍🤣🤣
I'm English and food shop is incorrect we are just going shopping
Hello and welcome back to another episode of an American telling English people we don’t speak English correctly 😂 😂 (lowkey love the videos though - all love!)
not when you go to the store for washing up liquid. you go to the shops for washing up liquid!
I mean where I live it’s not called food shop we usually say “I’m gonna go shopping”
Dustman is a bit archaic, most Brits and anyone under 70 would say "binman"
It's maths shortened from mathematics, math would be one problem more than one requires an s. You wouldn't say can I have a bag of cookie, you would say cookies. It has a s at the end.
In New Zealand we use a mixture of both. Mostly influenced by our British heritage but pick up a lot from US movies. For example- we call hot chips (fries) chips and also crisps chips. I’d say I’m going to do the “groceries” and is use a “trolley”. It’s interesting
I think that English is a living and growing language, every country speaks their own version adapted to suit their circumstances, can't see anything wrong with that as no-one can own a language? It has to develop and grow and as long as we can all communicate and discuss the differences, it just makes it more interesting? After all there is British English, Irish English, Indian English, Australian English, South African English, Jamaican English, Canadian English and of course American English amongst so many other localised English dialects if that is the right word? Thanks for the vids! 👍🏼♥️😃
Green tea is FOUL; you need to go to Walmart to the British section and get PG Tips or similar TEA BAGS and because it’s Black tea you need to add milk and sugar; delicious!!
You like British culture and you’ve been here at least once but you still have very little idea of the differences and English originated in the UK so after the Pilgrims landed in the US in the 1600’s some of the words have changed over time. Lots of the other comments have rightly stated how Math is short for Mathematics, plural, so Maths is actually the correct word and lots of American words are actually wrong in that sense. If you google most of the English words, you will find out what the meanings are and why we use them in certain ways.
But we throw the ball with our hands so that’s football too, add that to my 2020 regret phrased said by people.If u throw it with ur hands then it should be Handball,which is also a sport
Favour: *says the Americans in these videos don't know what they're talking about.
Also Favour: Don't people call American football rugby outside the States?
Me: *calmly suppresses my frustration*
In the UK, a fanny is a girls part... so fanny pack sounds weird to us.
We don’t use the word fanny, like you do,, means very different over here,,
“Why do you say it plural if it’s one subject?” Idk, ask physics
How can you have a debate over who 'owns' the English language? 😆
It's kind of in the name...
Fanny pack is so funny to me because in Scotland a fanny is lady genitalia and a widely used insult to someone 🤦♀️
'Why so you call it this' we had the language first 🤣🤣
Don't forget the slew of AMERICAN products and inventions that English people call something completely different for whatever reason.
Also their is no such thing as a "brittish accent" becouse brittian is Scotland, England and Wales
film and movie are used in the exact same context in the uk, you say them both its not one or the other.
But if you say movie i will correct you
Uk say film for when we are at home and we say movie when we go to the cinema
@@kayleesmale6571 I never use the word 'Movie'. It was originally an abbreviation for 'moving picture' which hasn't been used since the 30s/40s. "Hooray for Harold Lloyd .."
On the football issue, the game of football was being played in the UK in the 16th century, around 200 years before the USA existed. So, it's football. It is crazy that NFL is called football when you mostly use your hands, and why do you call it a touchdown when you don't touch the ball down.
how to annoy badly an European :
Americans : *sOcCeR*
Plaid comes from Scottish Gaelic plaide which means a rectangular cloth or blanket
Or that's the etymology of plaid at least
as an Australian i feel like that the people on the video were on something.
😂
Sidewalk gets to me the most of the words you use. Why do you have to be literal, is it Sidewalk because you are walking on the side of the road?
The pavement is made from paving stones and roads are made from Tarmac (you would call this asphalt).
Horse back riding is another one, why do you have to specify, where you are riding on the horse, you wouldn’t ride on it’s head.
Eye glasses is another one, they’re just glasses, you’re not going to where them on your arse are you.
It's so funny watching you say how British English is so weird when you Americans don't even know why we find the name 'Donald trump' so funny
Also some of us British feel offended too. Some of these things we hardly say. For example we just simply say 'shopping' most of the time
The girl is definitely American. She has no British sounds in her accent at all.
Yes, you are the only country that plays what we call American football. Rugby is completely different. For one thing, rugby players do not wear body armour to play.
Our chocolate is sweet. Which always seems to surprise Americans, who seem to like it bitter.
In the UK, the bottom is referred to as the bum. Americans use fanny in the same way, but in the UK, fanny is a mildly offensive term for a lady's private parts and that's why we laugh when Americans talk about fanny packs.
i think she is american but she might’ve lived in the uk for some time and picked up on the accent it’s quite normal for people to do that
“Hand football” 🤣🤣
maths is just an abbreviation of 'mathematics' so why wouldn't you say maths?
Americans have over complicated a simple language, example food shop - grocery shop. Food shop states exactly what it is. And Cinema is short for Cinematic which is the original description for going there it was a Cinematic experience.
Its called pavement because its made out of paving stones/slabs