Yeah, the article is stating that Ireland and Isle of Wight were using a butcher’s to mean a criminal, and that that secondary meaning is from 1980s, however butcher’s hook - look is the OG. I mean rhyming slang is mostly a cockney thing anyway
"By hook or by crook" is an English phrase meaning "by any means necessary", suggesting that any means possible should be taken to accomplish a goal. The phrase was first recorded in the Middle English Controversial Tracts of John Wyclif in 1380.
Freeze the balls off a brass monkey is NOT nautical. That's a myth. Cannon balls weren't kept on deck. They're round, they'd roll away as the ship rolled on the ocean wave. The cannon balls were brought up from the powder magazine by the powder monkeys as and when needed during battle.
In my part of the UK at least, we say "brass monkeys" not just "monkeys". Also "Brassic" (which also means skint). The idea it is nautical in origin is discredited. Cannonballs were never stored in that way but in planks below decks to protect them from weathering and rust. It's much more likely the phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" means just what it says. No euphemisms here. Well, you know, except for balls...
I used brasic to mean cold in a text to family (brother, niece and nephew). Got a bollocking for it. They insisted it meant skint. Thanks for telling me I was right. My response was that brasic was a lack, be it of brass or of heat. My father used to insist that starving meant very cold, not very hungry.
Never heard of brassic being used to mean cold. It's a shortening of the cockney rhyming slang of boracic lint = skint. I do often hear Baltic to mean cold, which sounds fairly similar.
"what stories are there with children being kidnapped by faeries?" Peter pan for a start. The original story is pretty dark and implies that not only peter but most of his "friends" were stolen at birth. If I am not mistaken, in the book, his original intent was to kidnap Wendy. Something that the movie played down. (Please correct me if I am wrong on this point) In European folk lore, changelings (fey replacements for children that have been stolen) are frequently a thing. :-)
away with the fairies i thought had to do with the fact the person believes in fairies. the old tale from the fairy pictures at the bottom of the garden. happy to be educated though
Peter Pan was 'the boy who wouldn't grow up'. In 1929 J M Barrie left the copywrite royalties of the Peter Pan story to Great Ormond Street Hospital GOSH, the famous London Children's Hospital.
You're wrong. In the original book Peter Pan runs away in giant thrush's nest that he uses as a boat. He discovers the faeries and they teach him how to fly so he get home.
@@Shoomer1988 In the original book Peter runs away to Kensington Gardens and yes, this is where the birds and the fairies teach him to fly. But, his flying is also explained as 'thinking lovely, wonderful thoughts' and 'fairy dust'. The book describes him as boastful, cocky, careless, a liar, forgetful - even of his own adventures, self-centred, he is completely oblivious to other people's feelings, and he is quick-tempered and violent. He is the leader of The Lost Boys, - children who "fell out of their perambulators" - like people who 'acquire' TVs that have 'fallen off the back of a truck'. When they 'come' to live in Neverland and start to grow up, Peter "thins them out". This is never fully explained, but it is implied that he either kills them or banishes them. He is not a nice, kind, or good person. He kidnaps babies and then when they are old enough to challenge him, gets rid of them.
I was told the saying "its dark (or bad) over Bill's mothers" comes from WWI. On the east side of England, if the wind blows from the east in winter it generally means the weather is going to be bad. Durring WWI anything Germany was bad. Germany is to the east. Kieser Wihelm the ruler of Germany was known as Kieser Bill. The bad weather was coming from the direction where his mother lived. Hence as we say in Derbyshire "is raite bad ov'her Bill's mov'ers"
@@lesleycarney8868 I was raised down the road from you in Cov. Another saying was 'all around the Wreakin' (the long way round). I didn't know where it came from but always used it to mean the long way round. I used it in the messroom at work a few years back as a train driver. I said that we were going to go all round the Wreakin, thinking that everyone would understand. Another driver who moved down South from Brum New St depot who was born in Shropshire said, 'how do you know that saying?' I explained that I grew up with it. He then told me what 'the Wreakin' was, a hill in Shropshire.
One of my favourites is a Very old saying used to advise someone to be careful of people trying to ruin their plans... *_"Don't let them Spike your Cannons..."_* It comes from soldiers who would sneak behind enemy lines and drive a Spike or nail in the touch hole of the enemies cannons so they wouldn't work...
A jamaican said donkeys years to me not long ago, and i said ive not heard that in yonks 😂 which is a shortened version of donkeys years. Then i was amazed that they used the phrase over there too. I rarely here itanymore. Im not even old im 35 but i really havent heard it in yonks.
I always thought swings and roundabouts referred to the idea that if you miss out on something you'll still get time with something else so don't worry so much.
I'm 61, but when I was a kid, my Dad used to tell us to go "up the wooden hill, down blanket lane, and into the land of nod." A very comforting place to be.😴😴
I 've used away with the fairies and had that said about me many a time. With phrases about uncles. I love and use the phrase "if my Auntie had balls, she'd be my Uncle" which means if something could have happened but didn't. Wishing you well 😀
My father uses "donkey's years". I thought it was because people (at least where I live) often say "ears" in a way sounds like "years" and donkeys have particularly long ears
Pedantic point: the birds start shouting in the dawn chorus before sunrise, at first light, which is quite a long time before the sun actually rises, in the summer (morning twilight). Birds can see into the ultraviolet wavelengths of the spectrum, so 'first light' to them is well before 'first light' to humans.
Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs. Good reaction as always. "Hit the nail on the head", you might say. Eddie Izzard described the US and UK as "Two nations separated by ... a F%£^#* big ocean." In your face, Oscar. 😂
Fanny like a ripped out fireplace has to be the most shocking I've heard... n I'm English, from a town full of roofers/scaffolders/builders.... and Farmers!
Something you have to keep in mind is that this is like 2% of the sayings and phrases we have. In belfast alone we have hundreds of unique slang words and our own types of rhyming slang. Its why no offense we tend to find americans lacking in vocabularly and sounding a bit childish or simplistic by using the same words and phrases over and over and not speaking musically so 'slowly' to us, where are in ireland/uk theres an insane insane amount of ways to say basically the same things and alternating between them and coming up with celver wordplay and jokes is a major part of our culture, its all about the bant/ craic and theres definitely an art/skill to it, some people really are just blessed with the gift of gab and can use language in amazing ways that unforunately may be lost in translation to americans in a similar way as another countries unique excentricities.
I've never heard of a language called 'British'. I've heard of English which is the native language of most of the British Isles and was I believe transported to our former colonies around the world, no someone is barking up the wrong tree 🇬🇧
Personally I would Never call myself 'British'. I was born in England; It says 'C of E' on my birth certificate; 'Bank of England' on the money I spend and to top it off I speak 'English'... Well, the '"Chisits"' version. 😊
Nah. The Native language of Ireland and Scotland is Gaelic and the native language of Wales is Welsh. It is even debatable as to the native language of England itself being English as English is a Hybrid language that was formed from fragments of numerous European languages being jumbled together and came into being later than most people think. The reason Wales is an English speaking country is because when Edward the 1st finally conquered Wales, he outlawed speaking welsh on punishment of death. This was enforced for almost 200 years and very nearly killed the welsh language completely. By the way, the expression is "barking up the wrong tree" :-)
@@stopthink7202 Nah ; steering around unnecessary factuality, that sound like criticism for the sake of criticism. English, is a Global Language for sound reasons and thanks to Geoffrey and William (especially William), probably the most refined language, largely due to the fact that it 'IS' a Hybrid language. That is the beauty of the English language. It quite literally 'Takes'', 'Adapts' and 'Improves'. As Expressions seem to be the _"Order of the day",_ it's a case of _"Each to their own." "There is nothing either good or bad thinking makes it so."_
@@lilbullet158The original Esperanto. It does get annoying though when Americans call an English accent a 'Briddish' accent. They wouldn't call a Scottish or Welsh accent a 'Briddish' accent if they heard it.
@@kristinajendesen7111The one that puzzles me is why American use that Totally unnecessary Upwards inflection in the middle of the word 'Vehicle' ? and pronounce it *"VeHicle"* like someone is pushing something up their bottom half way though saying the word...? 😮
I didn't realise "having a butchers" was CRS!! When I was in a casino in Las Vegas some Texans heard me say to my friend I was "away with the fairies". They were laughing then when my friend left they asked me what that meant. They thought I was saying I was on vacation with a group of gay men which they thought a very odd thing to announce lol. They were also curious about my accent and asked me what country I was from, my accent is a mix of West london/Portsmouth and the west country but I thought I sounded very obviously English lol. Mind you I also had people in Belfast ask me where I was from after hearing me talk, I honestly thought English accents are an easy one to recognise but obviously not lol. JJ, please react to carrot in a box and carrot in a box the rematch (all of that sentence came out in predictive text, that's how much I've been asking lol)
Ive tonnes. Being from up north, i doubt they would make it on to this girls video. My winter one that im using a lot right now is: put wood in'th hole. Meaning shut the door, it's cold.
😊 we don't speak British here... We may with speak varieties of Gaelic depending on where people live in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Northern Ireland... Or the various dialects within England, including Scouse, Geordie, Cornish etc. Oh and JJLA - 'Yeats' (the Poet) is pronounced '_Yates_' ... _not_ 'Yeets'!! 😮
@@zuppymac-xi8rk I am in no way confusing the RoI with NI (especially since my own late Grandad was from the Republic of Ireland) but I don't have a representation for a flag for NI, so unless one is shown to me - and I can find it on my Tablet - I tend to resort to using the green, white, & gold (the Irish Tricolour) to represent Ireland, albeit the Northern "stolen counties", so, my apologies to whomsoever maybe offended by my lack of an NI flag. No slight is intended to either side of that border. 🏴🖖
I've heard an American use the phrase "Coon's age" (as in Racoon) to mean the same as "Donkey's Age", but it was in an older film, probably 60s or 70s.
Curious as to when North Americans use the terms 'caravan' and 'fortnight' (examples please)? In the UK it would be common place. The US seems to use completely different words for these two concepts and the 6 or 7 times I've been to the US no one seemed to understand what I was saying when I used either term.
I don't think 'butcher's hook' is from the isle of Wight. I live there but I knew it before from London as a child. But we are called Caulkheads from ship building and some people still use the word 'Nammets', meaning noon meats... Lunch
Although your attempt at an English accent owes more to Dick Van Dyke than reality, the face you pull while doing it is hilarious. Jj you seem a nice guy, your normal talking voice is more English than your attempts at it. Reminds me a bit of Fagin 😂👵🏴🌹🌹
I still believe 'donkey's years' is a missed hearing initially, and it is 'donkey's ears' because a donkey's ears are LONG and not cockney rhyming slang for years. Another missed hearing is 'cheap at half the price' when it should be 'cheap at TWICE the price'.
There is no provenance at all for the naval explanation for 'brass monkeys' that I am aware of. Roundshot were stored in wooden shelves shaped to retain the roundshot securely below deck to protect them from the corrosive effect of salt water. These receptacles were called 'shot garlands'.
‘Yeats’… pronounced Yates, like gates, meat. 😬 BTW, I love the way she states a phrase, concisely explains it, and then you go and Google it… pourquoi?
i thought tjat was hilarious, i come from the isle of wight and butchers hook does definitely NOT come from here, but my mum did use it because she was a Cockney.
theres a bit extra at end of bobs your uncle, the next part is and fannys your aunt, fanny is an old old female name, may only be in Scotland but not sure, swings and roundabouts is also used for what goes around comes around
Haha this reminds me of...you know when changing the language on a website/selecting a language etc, you get "Chinese: Traditional" and "Chinese: SImplified" as options? I legit saw once: "English, British (traditional) English, American (simplified)" and was like "...yup"
Dawn chororus is SOOO loud when u want a lay in ans sleep, birds are so loud from about 4 am... shut up love birds but let me sleep little birdies damn 111
Did you know that Bristol has its own dialect? It’s called Bristolian! A dialect of English is spoken by some Bristol inhabitants, known colloquially as Bristolian, “Bristolese” or even, following the publication of Derek Robson’s “Krek Waiters peak Bristle”, as “Bristle” or “Brizzle”. Bristol natives speak with a rhotic accent, in which the post-vocalic r in words like car and card is still pronounced, having been lost from many other dialects of English. The unusual feature of this accent, unique to Bristol, is the so-called Bristol L (or terminal L), in which an L sound appears to be appended to words that end in an ‘a’ or ‘o’. The “-ol” ending of the city’s name is a significant example of the occurrence of the so-called “Bristol L”. A similar form of this pronunciation quirk has been in existence for centuries, even as far back as the Norman Conquest in 1066 and the Domesday Book, compiled by the Norman-French. In those days before the printing press, the city’s name - “Bruggestowe” at the time - was rarely written. Consequently the Domesday Book information gatherers had to rely on oral answers to their questions and the city name was recorded as
I’m a 60 yr. old cockney and take a butchers (hook = look) was around in my Great grandfathers time. The Isle of Wight. What is that author on? Lol Cockneys are from East end London not the bleeden IoW.
Donkeys years is donkeys EARS Butchers is a very old cockney saying, and my nan used to say "as black as Newgits knocker" as black as the knocker on the entrance to Newgate..... a very old horrible prison in London, now gone
An old term for being pregnant is in "The Pudding Club" because puddings make you fatter. Another term for pudding is "Duff" as she said Plum Duff etc, this is where it came from. Also see "In The Club" same origin.
"Yeats" is pronounced "Yates" :) With "swings and roundabouts" another explanation is that at a fairground you can either spend time on the swings or on the roundabouts. You'll have the same fun, but you can't do both. Where you can hear the dawn chorus, you can also hear the evening chorus at dusk. Butcher's for a crook may be 1980s, but meaning a look it's at least a century earlier. There are hundreds of terms like this in the UK. A lot come from "secret" languages like Cockney rhyming slang and Polari (a coded gay language used before homosexuality was legal). So if you want to rabbit on without sounding naff, you need to lear a few more of them!
@@neilpowis7488 Actually, some people have.😅 The thing is that he hasn't yet understood that different accents have their own 'rules' e.g. a Bristol accent has different pitch and tempo to say, a Brummy accent. Vowel-sounds differ a lot from place to place, as do fricatives, Ends of words get dropped in some accents, some accents go up at the end of a sentence, some go down. I don't think his ear is yet attuned to British-talk. He'll use a Bristol-sounding word followed by a London-sounding one, or go up in pitch when he should be going down. But the worst thing to me is the faces he always makes when he thinks he's speaking UK English! Hell's teeth - Is that how we appear to US English-speakers? Twisting our faces around, or sneering, and opening our mouths up like a train tunnel ? I sorta get the feeling that we do, which gives me the willies!🤭🤭
Surely it’s “Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt”.
Most forget the last bit.. either coz they don’t like saying the name fanny anymore due to it’s other meaning now or they just never even knew it!!
I think the fanny's your aunt was a later addition.
As a joke we used to say 'Fanny's your uncle and Bob's your aunt'.
However, today it would be appropriate.
@@mavericmorph5358 Yer, I suppose we’d better ask what pronouns they would like to be called first… you know, just in case
It's now " Bob's your Aunt and Famny Identifies as a He/Him "
Butcher's hook is much older than the 80s and means look.
Butchers Hook dates back at least to the 19th century 🇬🇧
Yeah, the article is stating that Ireland and Isle of Wight were using a butcher’s to mean a criminal, and that that secondary meaning is from 1980s, however butcher’s hook - look is the OG. I mean rhyming slang is mostly a cockney thing anyway
My mum would say "Let's have a butchers" meaning let's see when I was a kid in the 60s.
At school, in the '80's, we'd say 'gis a butchers'. 🤣
Yes look not crook!
Americans use 'caravan', but not usually to denote a towed road-vehicle for living in.
And Yeats is pronounced 'Yates'.
Butchers (hook) is definitely look. I've never heard it used for crook.
I heard Shepherds Crook for crook
I think he was looking at the wrong explanation, it was something about the Isle of Wight.
bang on. always been have a look.
@@raybenstead2548 tea leaf for a petty crim, never heard of shepherds but i'll take your word for it
"By hook or by crook" is an English phrase meaning "by any means necessary", suggesting that any means possible should be taken to accomplish a goal. The phrase was first recorded in the Middle English Controversial Tracts of John Wyclif in 1380.
The actual saying is "What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts"
Having a butchers is way older than 1980’s IoW. It’s old Cockney rhyming slang.
I believe caravan has a different meaning in the US. In proper English a caravan is a towed mobile home, in the US it's a a group of vehicles.
As in a desert caravan where traders cross the desert with camels.
We don't speak British, we speak English!!!!
Vera Lynn sang "Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire" in the 1930s - a song to encourage children to go to bed.
Where I'm from in N.London we usually say "Ain't seen you in donkeys".
I'm from Essex. I say "not seen you in f*cking ages"😂
Freeze the balls off a brass monkey is NOT nautical. That's a myth. Cannon balls weren't kept on deck. They're round, they'd roll away as the ship rolled on the ocean wave. The cannon balls were brought up from the powder magazine by the powder monkeys as and when needed during battle.
In my part of the UK at least, we say "brass monkeys" not just "monkeys". Also "Brassic" (which also means skint). The idea it is nautical in origin is discredited. Cannonballs were never stored in that way but in planks below decks to protect them from weathering and rust. It's much more likely the phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" means just what it says. No euphemisms here. Well, you know, except for balls...
Do rusty cannon balls leave an orange trail when fired?
I used brasic to mean cold in a text to family (brother, niece and nephew). Got a bollocking for it. They insisted it meant skint. Thanks for telling me I was right. My response was that brasic was a lack, be it of brass or of heat. My father used to insist that starving meant very cold, not very hungry.
Never heard of brassic being used to mean cold. It's a shortening of the cockney rhyming slang of boracic lint = skint. I do often hear Baltic to mean cold, which sounds fairly similar.
@michaeledmondson5100 What?? Brassic (originally from 'boracic lint') does mean broke, or more specifically, skint (which rhymes with 'lint').
"what stories are there with children being kidnapped by faeries?" Peter pan for a start. The original story is pretty dark and implies that not only peter but most of his "friends" were stolen at birth. If I am not mistaken, in the book, his original intent was to kidnap Wendy. Something that the movie played down. (Please correct me if I am wrong on this point)
In European folk lore, changelings (fey replacements for children that have been stolen) are frequently a thing. :-)
The original Peter Pan was dark. Peter himself is an unpleasant character who stole young children.
away with the fairies i thought had to do with the fact the person believes in fairies. the old tale from the fairy pictures at the bottom of the garden. happy to be educated though
Peter Pan was 'the boy who wouldn't grow up'.
In 1929 J M Barrie left the copywrite royalties of the Peter Pan story to Great Ormond Street Hospital GOSH, the famous London Children's Hospital.
You're wrong. In the original book Peter Pan runs away in giant thrush's nest that he uses as a boat.
He discovers the faeries and they teach him how to fly so he get home.
@@Shoomer1988 In the original book Peter runs away to Kensington Gardens and yes, this is where the birds and the fairies teach him to fly. But, his flying is also explained as 'thinking lovely, wonderful thoughts' and 'fairy dust'. The book describes him as boastful, cocky, careless, a liar, forgetful - even of his own adventures, self-centred, he is completely oblivious to other people's feelings, and he is quick-tempered and violent. He is the leader of The Lost Boys, - children who "fell out of their perambulators" - like people who 'acquire' TVs that have 'fallen off the back of a truck'. When they 'come' to live in Neverland and start to grow up, Peter "thins them out". This is never fully explained, but it is implied that he either kills them or banishes them. He is not a nice, kind, or good person. He kidnaps babies and then when they are old enough to challenge him, gets rid of them.
Mad as a box of frogs with party hats, means exactly what it says, they're loony
Can't really blame a frog for going a bit nuts if you try to put a party hat on it :-)
my mother still still says mad as a box of frogs🤣
I say that about my Dog Bullet :)
Waking up early in the morning is also called getting up at sparrow fart btw
Just a bit earlier than pigeon's cough, maybe.
@@stephenlee5929 totally works
Up with the craws (crows)
Yeats Pronounced Yates.
" It's dark over Bill's Mother's " ( it's looks like rain ).
'Black over old Bill's' my dad used to say. He was from Suffolk.
@@kristinajendesen7111 I was raised in Birmingham so it travelled a bit lollll
@@kristinajendesen7111 Bill obvs got around a bit lolll
I was told the saying "its dark (or bad) over Bill's mothers" comes from WWI.
On the east side of England, if the wind blows from the east in winter it generally means the weather is going to be bad. Durring WWI anything Germany was bad. Germany is to the east. Kieser Wihelm the ruler of Germany was known as Kieser Bill. The bad weather was coming from the direction where his mother lived. Hence as we say in Derbyshire "is raite bad ov'her Bill's mov'ers"
@@lesleycarney8868 I was raised down the road from you in Cov. Another saying was 'all around the Wreakin' (the long way round). I didn't know where it came from but always used it to mean the long way round.
I used it in the messroom at work a few years back as a train driver. I said that we were going to go all round the Wreakin, thinking that everyone would understand. Another driver who moved down South from Brum New St depot who was born in Shropshire said, 'how do you know that saying?'
I explained that I grew up with it. He then told me what 'the Wreakin' was, a hill in Shropshire.
I thought the dawn chorus was a universal saying.
"A Gnat's Knacker" means a very short distance.
How about "I'm dying uphill' meaning I need a drink desperately...usually tea!
One of my favourites is a Very old saying used to advise someone to be careful of people trying to ruin their plans...
*_"Don't let them Spike your Cannons..."_*
It comes from soldiers who would sneak behind enemy lines and drive a Spike or nail in the touch hole of the enemies cannons so they wouldn't work...
A jamaican said donkeys years to me not long ago, and i said ive not heard that in yonks 😂 which is a shortened version of donkeys years. Then i was amazed that they used the phrase over there too. I rarely here itanymore. Im not even old im 35 but i really havent heard it in yonks.
It has nothing to do with the lifespan of a Donkey either it's from Donkeys ears, meaning years.
“Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, job's a good'un”
"Donkeys" just means a long time. You don't even need to specify, months or years, it's contextual
Donkey's years normally and often shortened to yonks 😁
Forces slang was Yonks or mega yonks.
British fairy lore is vast and wonderful (and fairies definitely exist).
Awe, you're lovely. Potty, but lovely 😂
I always thought swings and roundabouts referred to the idea that if you miss out on something you'll still get time with something else so don't worry so much.
Yes, that's how I understand it. Or if you get paid less on this, you'll get paid more on that so it's all equal in the end.
I'm 61, but when I was a kid, my Dad used to tell us to go "up the wooden hill, down blanket lane, and into the land of nod."
A very comforting place to be.😴😴
I 've used away with the fairies and had that said about me many a time. With phrases about uncles. I love and use the phrase "if my Auntie had balls, she'd be my Uncle" which means if something could have happened but didn't.
Wishing you well 😀
My father uses "donkey's years". I thought it was because people (at least where I live) often say "ears" in a way sounds like "years" and donkeys have particularly long ears
Pedantic point: the birds start shouting in the dawn chorus before sunrise, at first light, which is quite a long time before the sun actually rises, in the summer (morning twilight). Birds can see into the ultraviolet wavelengths of the spectrum, so 'first light' to them is well before 'first light' to humans.
Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs.
Good reaction as always. "Hit the nail on the head", you might say.
Eddie Izzard described the US and UK as "Two nations separated by ...
a F%£^#* big ocean."
In your face, Oscar. 😂
Fanny like a ripped out fireplace has to be the most shocking I've heard... n I'm English, from a town full of roofers/scaffolders/builders.... and Farmers!
Something you have to keep in mind is that this is like 2% of the sayings and phrases we have. In belfast alone we have hundreds of unique slang words and our own types of rhyming slang. Its why no offense we tend to find americans lacking in vocabularly and sounding a bit childish or simplistic by using the same words and phrases over and over and not speaking musically so 'slowly' to us, where are in ireland/uk theres an insane insane amount of ways to say basically the same things and alternating between them and coming up with celver wordplay and jokes is a major part of our culture, its all about the bant/ craic and theres definitely an art/skill to it, some people really are just blessed with the gift of gab and can use language in amazing ways that unforunately may be lost in translation to americans in a similar way as another countries unique excentricities.
He won’t have a scooby what you mean by ‘gift of the gab’
Lol 2%, try 0.0002%
I've never heard of a language called 'British'. I've heard of English which is the native language of most of the British Isles and was I believe transported to our former colonies around the world, no someone is barking up the wrong tree 🇬🇧
Personally I would Never call myself 'British'. I was born in England; It says 'C of E' on my birth certificate; 'Bank of England' on the money I spend and to
top it off I speak 'English'... Well, the '"Chisits"' version. 😊
Nah.
The Native language of Ireland and Scotland is Gaelic and the native language of Wales is Welsh.
It is even debatable as to the native language of England itself being English as English is a Hybrid language that was formed from fragments of numerous European languages being jumbled together and came into being later than most people think.
The reason Wales is an English speaking country is because when Edward the 1st finally conquered Wales, he outlawed speaking welsh on punishment of death.
This was enforced for almost 200 years and very nearly killed the welsh language completely.
By the way, the expression is "barking up the wrong tree" :-)
@@stopthink7202 Nah ; steering around unnecessary factuality, that sound like criticism for the sake of criticism. English, is a Global Language for sound reasons and thanks to Geoffrey and William (especially William), probably the most refined language, largely due to the fact that it 'IS' a Hybrid language. That is the beauty of the English language. It quite literally 'Takes'', 'Adapts' and 'Improves'.
As Expressions seem to be the _"Order of the day",_ it's a case of _"Each to their own." "There is nothing either good or bad thinking makes it so."_
@@lilbullet158The original Esperanto. It does get annoying though when Americans call an English accent a 'Briddish' accent. They wouldn't call a Scottish or Welsh accent a 'Briddish' accent if they heard it.
@@kristinajendesen7111The one that puzzles me is why American use that Totally unnecessary Upwards inflection in the middle of the word 'Vehicle' ? and pronounce it *"VeHicle"* like someone is pushing something up their bottom half way though saying the word...? 😮
"Butcher's Hook" from The Isle Of Wight in The 1980's ?????????
More like Inner London in the 1930s..lol
I think the article he was reading referred specifically to the "criminal" definition, he got confused.
@@timidwolfThat makes sense,my friend:)
I didn't realise "having a butchers" was CRS!!
When I was in a casino in Las Vegas some Texans heard me say to my friend I was "away with the fairies". They were laughing then when my friend left they asked me what that meant. They thought I was saying I was on vacation with a group of gay men which they thought a very odd thing to announce lol. They were also curious about my accent and asked me what country I was from, my accent is a mix of West london/Portsmouth and the west country but I thought I sounded very obviously English lol. Mind you I also had people in Belfast ask me where I was from after hearing me talk, I honestly thought English accents are an easy one to recognise but obviously not lol.
JJ, please react to carrot in a box and carrot in a box the rematch (all of that sentence came out in predictive text, that's how much I've been asking lol)
She didn't say all Americans don't say them, so generally speaking based on percentage of population that don't vs do she's likely right
Ive tonnes. Being from up north, i doubt they would make it on to this girls video.
My winter one that im using a lot right now is: put wood in'th hole.
Meaning shut the door, it's cold.
Wo tha born in a field ? Lol
@ezza9578 LOL that's tha one!
Ey lad, shuv t'wood int'oil. West Yorkshire Bradford area.
@missharry5727 😅 my son is embarrassed at my accent because I brought my kids up down south. They laugh at me all the time 😅
The Waterboys have a beautiful musical version of “The Stolen Child” by Yeats. On their Fishermans Blues album. Worth a listen
Growing up my parents at bed time "come on up the apple and pairs "meaning stairs as a child it's officially bed time as a child 😂
Next time I'm away with the fairies, I'm taking you with me.
Not neccessy, he’s already gone.
A lot of Americans are baffled by fortnight and caravan. They prefer two weeks and RV.
aye, a caravan usually called a trailer in America and our motor home is probably an RV
A lot of Americans are baffled just by being ALIVE
@@philiphebden7920 In the UK Caravan is towed, camper van is driven and mobile home is static.
Legend has it, the 'Donkey of Wall Street' lived to the ripe old age of 93.
😊 we don't speak British here... We may with speak varieties of Gaelic depending on where people live in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Northern Ireland... Or the various dialects within England, including Scouse, Geordie, Cornish etc.
Oh and JJLA - 'Yeats' (the Poet) is pronounced '_Yates_' ...
_not_ 'Yeets'!! 😮
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I am in no way confusing the RoI with NI (especially since my own late Grandad was from the Republic of Ireland) but I don't have a representation for a flag for NI, so unless one is shown to me - and I can find it on my Tablet - I tend to resort to using the green, white, & gold (the Irish Tricolour) to represent Ireland, albeit the Northern "stolen counties", so, my apologies to whomsoever maybe offended by my lack of an NI flag.
No slight is intended to either side of that border. 🏴🖖
Re Butchers. I’m from the Isle of Wight and that was just tosh
He’ll need ‘tosh’ explained to him too.
I've heard an American use the phrase "Coon's age" (as in Racoon) to mean the same as "Donkey's Age", but it was in an older film, probably 60s or 70s.
My dad’s variation on the monkey quote was, “if I were a monkey I’d be looking for a welder “
Curious as to when North Americans use the terms 'caravan' and 'fortnight' (examples please)? In the UK it would be common place. The US seems to use completely different words for these two concepts and the 6 or 7 times I've been to the US no one seemed to understand what I was saying when I used either term.
The way you said ‘away with the fairies’, with your faux British accent, makes it sound as if they’ve gone off to use a boat to cross a river.
I'm in stitches at the image of a white collar donkey😂😂😂😂
Judging by her accent she's never used rhyming slang a day in her life.
Let's face it, unless you're prancing round in a pearly king suit to entertain tourists, nobody does.
I don't think 'butcher's hook' is from the isle of Wight. I live there but I knew it before from London as a child. But we are called Caulkheads from ship building and some people still use the word 'Nammets', meaning noon meats... Lunch
Although your attempt at an English accent owes more to Dick Van Dyke than reality, the face you pull while doing it is hilarious. Jj you seem a nice guy, your normal talking voice is more English than your attempts at it. Reminds me a bit of Fagin 😂👵🏴🌹🌹
Every night I say "up the apples and pears to Bedfordshire". Have done all my life 😊
I don't know anyone here in the UK that pulls a lairy face when they speak. Too many "cockney geezer" type films? 😂
JJLA certainly pulls some faces trying to do a "British" accent!
I still believe 'donkey's years' is a missed hearing initially, and it is 'donkey's ears' because a donkey's ears are LONG and not cockney rhyming slang for years.
Another missed hearing is 'cheap at half the price' when it should be 'cheap at TWICE the price'.
Donkeys ears is cockney rhyming slang for years but it's really only.used in the form of Donkeys now.
There is no provenance at all for the naval explanation for 'brass monkeys' that I am aware of. Roundshot were stored in wooden shelves shaped to retain the roundshot securely below deck to protect them from the corrosive effect of salt water. These receptacles were called 'shot garlands'.
Sandwich short of a picnic, up the apples and pears (stairs), thick as a divers clock, cant knock a nail in a knot. The list is endless!
Not heard the diver's clock one before...love it! Here we tend to say "thick as two short planks".
@@nolajoy7759 yes that as well. It's one of my husband's many phrases!
Yeats - pronounced 'Yates'. Irish poet died 1939. Great video by the way, thanks for posting, love your comments.
You provided your own example when saying “she said do do “ I had to look up why,personally I’ve never heard sh*t referred to as do do!
I call it the MORNING chorus but I'm usually referring, in jest, to when 2 or more people fart in close succession at breakfast time.
‘Yeats’… pronounced Yates, like gates, meat. 😬
BTW, I love the way she states a phrase, concisely explains it, and then you go and Google it… pourquoi?
I have never heard of a British language, I speak southern English, but there is also Scottish, Welsh, Irish tongues.
i say away with the mixer ( a cooking utensil)
never heard anyone say monkeys, its usually brass monkeys.
I get the feeling that you'd had a lot of coffee for this episode!! 😂
That web page bout "Butchers" is completely wrong, i was using it in the 1960s in Brummagem.
Mind you Siobhan is i bit o a yampy bint anyway.
I've never heard of 'butcher's' referring to criminal activity either, so who knows where that information came from!
i thought tjat was hilarious, i come from the isle of wight and butchers hook does definitely NOT come from here, but my mum did use it because she was a Cockney.
Seems weird to call her a 'yampy bint' when urban dictionary was incorrect, not her lol
@@unpreparedwithacapitalf well do ya know what a yampy bint is? An I only sed a bit o one.
Ha me too. Ah the 60s. Happy days 😊
I always thougt my dad was saying when it was bedtime "up the wooden nails". I liked it, but never understood.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts or vise versa.
theres a bit extra at end of bobs your uncle, the next part is and fannys your aunt, fanny is an old old female name, may only be in Scotland but not sure, swings and roundabouts is also used for what goes around comes around
Haha this reminds me of...you know when changing the language on a website/selecting a language etc, you get "Chinese: Traditional" and "Chinese: SImplified" as options?
I legit saw once:
"English, British (traditional)
English, American (simplified)"
and was like "...yup"
American English is often refered to as 'simplified' - because that's what Noah Webster intended, when he changed the language for Americans.
I think she is referring to the US use of " trailer " as caravan , as in " Trailer Park Trash " we would say " Caravan Site Sumbags ".....
What is a sum bag?
@@TheCornishCockney they meant scumbags.
Or pik...
Are you allowed to say pi- - y or sc - - b - g ?
British accents? Surely it should be English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh accents!
Dawn chororus is SOOO loud when u want a lay in ans sleep, birds are so loud from about 4 am... shut up love birds but let me sleep little birdies damn
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And a @#++ OFF great ocean thank god 😂😂😂😂😂😂
And that's just a drop in the ocean 😂
Did you know that Bristol has its own dialect? It’s called Bristolian!
A dialect of English is spoken by some Bristol inhabitants, known colloquially as Bristolian, “Bristolese” or even, following the publication of Derek Robson’s “Krek Waiters peak Bristle”, as “Bristle” or “Brizzle”. Bristol natives speak with a rhotic accent, in which the post-vocalic r in words like car and card is still pronounced, having been lost from many other dialects of English. The unusual feature of this accent, unique to Bristol, is the so-called Bristol L (or terminal L), in which an L sound appears to be appended to words that end in an ‘a’ or ‘o’. The “-ol” ending of the city’s name is a significant example of the occurrence of the so-called “Bristol L”. A similar form of this pronunciation quirk has been in existence for centuries, even as far back as the Norman Conquest in 1066 and the Domesday Book, compiled by the Norman-French. In those days before the printing press, the city’s name - “Bruggestowe” at the time - was rarely written. Consequently the Domesday Book information gatherers had to rely on oral answers to their questions and the city name was recorded as
Love it when you break into your 'english' accent... Top bloke 👍
Reminds me of dick van dykes pitiful efforts at a London accent.
(one for the teenagers there)
posh girl trying to explain slang. lord have mercy on my soul.
I’m a 60 yr. old cockney and take a butchers (hook = look) was around in my Great grandfathers time. The Isle of Wight. What is that author on? Lol Cockneys are from East end London not the bleeden IoW.
Also if it's heavy rain and you get soaked its "I'm soaked to the (c word)" I'll say the rude word but won't type it lol
Are you sure you know what fortnight means in Commonwealth countries?
A fortnight is fourteen nights, or two weeks.
Donkeys years is donkeys EARS Butchers is a very old cockney saying, and my nan used to say "as black as Newgits knocker" as black as the knocker on the entrance to Newgate..... a very old horrible prison in London, now gone
What you gain on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts.
Dont forget ireland a different country. Butchers in england at least i knew if as a look from 60s
Yeah, I'd say "I haven't seen him for ages", but I'm neither American nor British so what do I know
Terry Pratchett uses fairies in that context
You don't use caravan or fortnight nearly to the same extent we do, it's more likely to be trailer and two weeks
An old term for being pregnant is in "The Pudding Club" because puddings make you fatter. Another term for pudding is "Duff" as she said Plum Duff etc, this is where it came from. Also see "In The Club" same origin.
Bun in the oven.
What you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabout!
Alot of these are London/Cockney sayings.
There are alot more that are not from London originally.
Donkeys years aka Yonks. And not forgetting Bob's yer auntie's live in lover.
I think you need to point out that there are more languages than English in Britain. I’m sure that’s already been pointed out.
"Yeats" is pronounced "Yates" :) With "swings and roundabouts" another explanation is that at a fairground you can either spend time on the swings or on the roundabouts. You'll have the same fun, but you can't do both. Where you can hear the dawn chorus, you can also hear the evening chorus at dusk. Butcher's for a crook may be 1980s, but meaning a look it's at least a century earlier. There are hundreds of terms like this in the UK. A lot come from "secret" languages like Cockney rhyming slang and Polari (a coded gay language used before homosexuality was legal). So if you want to rabbit on without sounding naff, you need to lear a few more of them!
I like surprised and ignorant JJ, very entertaining 😁
That ‘ English accent’ of his has got to be the worst on youtube . Does ‘ Lairy’ sum it up.I think theres a clip of a dog sounding better.
Bless him though, no-ones telling him
It actually offends me, and i cant describe why
@@neilpowis7488 Actually, some people have.😅 The thing is that he hasn't yet understood that different accents have their own 'rules' e.g. a Bristol accent has different pitch and tempo to say, a Brummy accent. Vowel-sounds differ a lot from place to place, as do fricatives, Ends of words get dropped in some accents, some accents go up at the end of a sentence, some go down. I don't think his ear is yet attuned to British-talk. He'll use a Bristol-sounding word followed by a London-sounding one, or go up in pitch when he should be going down. But the worst thing to me is the faces he always makes when he thinks he's speaking UK English!
Hell's teeth - Is that how we appear to US English-speakers? Twisting our faces around, or sneering, and opening our mouths up like a train tunnel ? I sorta get the feeling that we do, which gives me the willies!🤭🤭
Yes, thats why, the faces
Dick Van Dyke would be turning in his grave, if it weren't for the fact that he's still alive.
How the hell can it be 'cockney, ie East End of London, AND Isle of Wight, at the same time? Ridic.
Yeats doesn't rhyme with Beats, it rhymes with Gates.
Monkeys is often 'brass monkey weather' or 'Brassic'
'Brassic' is skint - 'Brassic lint'.
@@kristinajendesen7111 we use it as cold too. might be a local thing
Especially if your cold and poor..@@misha-jz4yx
"you're"
I get blackbirds at 3am in summer
If I'm up early I'll say " I was up with the craws this morning"
Do you use fortnite to describe a computer game or fortnight to describe a two week period?