American Reacts Top 20 Americanisms That Really Annoy British People
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I don’t mind us using different words, but Winningest sounds like something a child would say.
I think Americans using super for very makes them sound like 10 year olds. " super stoked" "super glad " etc
@@auldfouter8661 The terrifying thing is that young kids in the UK are starting to talk like Americans, what with them all being glued to tablets and watching youtube and tiktok.
@@PJtheincel I know but Glaswegians of Kevin Bridges age use th fronting which they picked up from watching Eastenders. No one in Glasgow used to say fink for think back in the day. They'd have been more likely to say hink for think , as in " Ah hink sae " for I think so.
Wow!! I have never heard winningest. Obviously I'm British but It just sounds so wrong 😮
Crisps are slices of potato. Chips are chips of potato
They should have mentioned that 'Fanny' means vagina over here, because most US viewers wouldn't get why Brits find 'Fannypack' so amusing and/or cringey...
Vulva, not vagina.
Those were some confused Pilgrims 😆
Especially when we all know it's called a bum bag.
Don’t forget the word spunk, americans love saying it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@harrynelson9203 ah, l love the variety of English, particularly when used as slang by old Ollie Cromwell's imbecilic mob,.........& they banned Christmas.......yet still fight the just fight.........'cept now they are evangelists,,.giving all their trash TV, money to starving kids.......yeh, pig's fly.......!!!!!!.....
I have many American friends and visit often. One thing that I find very strange is when I hear them say. “I just love your accent” they simply don’t understand that I don’t have an accent, it is they who have the accent.Poor things.
You do have an accent to them just as they have an accent to you.
Wooooosh!@@angelavara4097
@@angelavara4097that’s what he means
everyone has an accent
No, I don't have an accent, you do.@@stuartcollins82
I think a big part of why British people find certain "Americanisms" irritating is that there's often no obvious etymological origin or meaning to the words... Fringe vs bangs is a good example, as fringe has an obvious, descriptive meaning whereas "bangs" just seems completely made up.
The other annoying thing is when perfectly good words are sanitised, either by replacing them with cutesy, childish sounding words, or do the opposite and use unnecessarily complicated words to skirt around things people find embarrassing or uncomfortable.
Take a baby's dummy for example... It makes sense, it's a dummy teat or nipple to comfort the baby between feeding times. But in America it's called a "pacifier", which sounds more like some kind of psychoactive drug. Just to get away from the association with nipples and breasts. 😂
😮it’s based on the word dumb. A dummy makes Bub quiet.
An American friend and I had a moment of confusion over bang/fringe. He, however, was able to explain the origin of the word. It comes from bangtail which is a way that horses tails are cropped, in a similar way to a fringe.
I completely agree! I would stay & discuss this infantilisation, but doggo needs walkies.
@@michaelgoetze2103it's called a pony tail in Oz
@@leandabee No, it's not... but a ponytail can, and sometimes does, become a bangtail. Ever see a horse with a tail that has a flat end, rather than a taper? That's a bangtail. Some people do it with manes, as well, cutting them in a perfectly straight line so it's shorter towards the shoulders and longer towards the head.
Never heard of winningest before today, and I don’t want to hear it again after today.
Winningest doesn’t sound like a real word 😂
Sounds like something Trump would come out with.
They mean "successful".
"Winningest" is most definitely not a word. Makes no sense. It's like something a mentally challenged 4 year old would say...
I’d never actually heard the term. I now wish that was still the case 😳🤦🏻♀️ what the fuck sort of wording is that?!?! Who ok’ed that?!
its not a real word, if it aint in oxford dictornary it aint a word in english
Same with burglarized 😮
I was appalled to learn, a few years ago, that a JUDGE in a Court of Law ruled that it was legally permissible to paraphrase what someone had written or said, and then put the paraphrase in quotation marks, attributing it to the person. This is an atrocity which beggars description.
Lmao. I was once texting my US friend who lives in Portland Oregon and in the text I typed something like, "I do that job once a fortnight".
He text me back. "What the heck is a fortnight?" He had no clue what it was.
stuartfitch. The word "fortnight" it seems, has fallen out of use in the USA. I have certainly heard the term used in an old western movie.
There is a difference between using different words (bangs - fringe), which I don't mind either, and being grammatically incorrect, as in 'Could care less', which is irritating!
If you pull the end of a piece of material..you get a fringe along the edge…not bangs…makes no sense whatever !!!!!
When you say “ I could care less,” it implies you care to some degree. it’s so dumb. It’s “couldn’t care less.” it’s just the correct way of saying it.
The "Could care less" when they mean "Couldn't care less" is irritating as it does not make sense
It is infuriating @@stellayates4227
If you were to chip bits off a huge boulder, what kind of shape chips of stone would you get? They wouldn't be slices, would they? They would be more chunk shaped, which is the reason we in the UK call chips (fries) chips. And crisps are named crisps because the name perfectly describes their texture in your gob 😅
Like poker chips
Agreed! like hmm, there nice & crispy :)
@@MrJohntheHarp poker crisps🤣
I ought to mention that he named Dorittos as "chips " when there is no potato in them at all
I really hope accents don't disappear they are individual to us and make us who we are. I'm proud of being from Yorkshire and therefore love my accent x
Accents don’t disappear they still there even if you can’t hear person accent anymore if you spend most of your time with those people. I can’t hear my Swansea accent but i can hear other people accents on tv if they from Swansea like one of girls I was in school with year below. She an actor now & I can hear her Swansea accent but that because I haven’t spoken to her in person in since 2012. If you move out of area you originally from & stay in that area then the accent for that area and there originally originally accent get interwind with other local area they moved to. Yes you can pick up accents from tv,radio & e books as well if you do it enough times. I know two welsh people one has an American accent due tv shows she watches & is only one in her family to have that accent, rest of them have Swansea accent. The other person has an American accent due to issue with his vocal cords or voice box as he called it when he was younger. Nether of those even went to USA
Swansea.....,interesting locals,.....NOT........
I love an accent..,...,.NOT........
Accents, unless English..........boring!....….…..
tha's reight there, lass!
Still not as bad a "Normalcy". NORMALITY!!!
Wasn’t it Warren G Harding who perpetrated that atrocity?
Yes indeed! How did that one creep into common parlance!
I raise you “normality” with the word “conversate
Oh ye gods!@@buntyjoy1800
Legos. 😂 It's Lego bricks or pieces. Lego is derived from danish for "let's play"...."let's plays" makes no sense. There, I got it off my chest.
Aaaaaargh! Legos sends me batty! It's Lego FFS! As in, shall I get the Lego out. The pieces are bricks!
Yup, Leg got is play well.
So funny hearing you say, 'I don't get annoyed'. Then 'I'm really pissed off'. hahaha loved it.
Says chips are short for potato chips
Immediately says Doritos are the best chip
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Yep they are a maize snack...Hence us saying 'crisps' as it encompasses all of the 'crispy snacks'
He's American......
Soccer was a perfectly respectable word for Association Football, until the US started to use it as the alternative to their Rugby-like game. Football means to kick the ball, not carry it. Call the US game American football, & British football just Football. Bangs was originally a hairpiece of curls pinned to the front of the hair & hanging over the forehead. These were plural, hence bangs. Chips are not the same as fries. Fries are very thin, chips are solid pieces of potato.
In fairness to the septics, & their use of football for their "rugby-like game", the full name of rugby is rugby football. This is why teams like Saracens have the suffix RFC for rugby football club & the administrative body for rugby in England is the RFU, the rugby football union.
You're bang-on about fringes & chips though.
Being against 'Soccer' is a modern anti-American conceit.
The first time my wife and I visited family in the US, my wife bought pencil and crayon sets for the children. As they were busy drawing, one of the children said she had made a mistake. My wife, being English advised the girl that is was OK as there was a 'rubber' on the end of her pencil. This caused a mixture of shock, embarrassment and hilarity. In the UK a 'rubber' is what we call an eraser, she was completely unaware that it had a different meaning in the US!
What does it mean in the US?
Are just being sarcastic? In the US a 'Rubber' is a condom!@@stellayates4227
@@stellayates4227condom.
french letter
Trust me, "I could care less" annoys most of the world. With "I was shook" being up there. Also/to and it's variations is a vorthy mention (I was also there too)
But "should of"... Og dear Dawg. Tonight we dine in hell! :)
I'd introduce on-the-spot fines for anyone who uses "should of/would of/could of", and the correct forms should be drummed into kids at an early age. It's not even difficult: nobody in their right mind would say "we OF had our tea", as it's perfectly clear that the correct form is "we HAVE had our tea"... so there's no excuse for saying "we should OF had our tea".
Soccer is an English acronym of 'Association Football' which was used to differentiate it from Rugger 'Rugby football'. American football is Rugger with Lots and lots and lots of Protection!
Not really, in American Football (Gridiron) the Quarterback throws the ball forward, which is a penalty in both Rugby Union and Rugby league. I once asked a rugby league fan, how can you call it football, when you rarely kick the ball? He said, well they carry it by foot. European Football is called "Soccer" in Countries that already have a game that they call Football.
Like here in Australia, we have four codes of Football, Australian Rules Football and Rugby League are the two most popular, followed by Soccer and Rugby Union. The followers of each code call their own codes Football or Footy. But if you aren't a European Football fan (which I'm not) you will call it Soccer. Even our national team is called "The Socceroos"
Yeah and the usa changed the name of Rounders to baseball😂 a girls game in Britain 😂😂😂
@@johnharrison1966... and the yanks play it in their jimmy-jams! 😆
95% of the world call football football, only USA-ian's call it soccer to differentiate it from USA-ian handball.
Handegg?
The Ozzies call it soccer as well because there's Australian rules football too. But nobody cares about them!
A lot of people think of soccer as a public school term, but my Grandad always called it soccer and he most certainly wasn't public school.
"Soccer" derives from Association Football, it's a nickname that the UK came up with. There have been long running Football shows in the UK that are/were very popular, like Soccer AM and Soccer Saturday. People need to relax 😂
Totally correct. Soccer is to asSOCiation football as rugger is to RUGby football. Both nicknames arose in 19th century English public (i.e. fee-paying) school system, I believe.
@@ftumschkit came from students at Oxford University. It went through several iterations before settling on soccer.
@@peterwilkins7013 Thanks for the extra info!
The original owner of Sky UK & Ireland Rupert Murdock is Australian & they use word soccer as well as USA,Canada & New Zealand. That’s why it’s called that. Americans didn’t change it that now own Sky UK & Ireland
Britain and America two countries separated by a common language, my most reviled phrase mostly used by Americans but I have heard it here too is :- "Very unique", unique is the only one of a kind you can't have degrees of unique.
If the basement floor, just below ground is floor '-1' in a lift, the ground floor cannot be anything other than floor zero as it is mathematically one floor above; and the floor above the ground floor is floor '1'. So if floor '1' in the USA is called the second floor, that is a recipe for confusion.
Of course, I am assuming that floors below ground are given negative numbers in lifts (elevators) in the USA. Are they?
I've never heard that word winningest, it's not exactly easy to say
As an OLD Brit. I have to smile at a lot of the things we get annoyed at, given how many dialects we have, and how much we butcher our own language. Having said that, there are many words and phrases that have been corrupted on both sides of the Atlantic, in just my lifetime. There was a period in the late 90s when young people referred to 'bad' things as 'pants'. That one used to work me up a LOT. "that song was 'pants' ", would have me slapping my forehead.
So, now I would 'axe' you to remain calm, till we all learn to speak Chinese.
I used to sort things out! sorting something was/is putting a list of things in some kind of order.! When I hear "Can I get a pint please?" I cringe, what a mess!
Sorry mate... As the OED [Oxford English Dictionary] explains, the verb form spelled "ax", and meaning "To call upon any one for information, or an answer", originated more than a thousand years ago in OE. ("Old English")
I recently found your channel. I appreciate your intelligence and your tastes. Now I appreciate you even more for the "I could care less" rant. Yes!! If you haven't watched David Mitchell' Soap box on the subject - for your own sake, please do 😊
Yes, this!!! David Mitchell, Dear Americans...
Don't know if it's only americans that do this, but saying "could of, should of, and would of," instead of "could've, should've and would've," is definitely on my list.
That's just poor grammar.
It's nice seeing Americans on youtube actually curious about the UK, and not just doing Mary Poppins accents at us :)
Why don't Americans start using debus, decar, detrain, deboat, if they find deplane acceptable?
I thought "deplane!" was what Tattoo (Hervé Villechaise) used shout when new guests arrived on Fantasy Island ;)
It's deplorable 😊
As a confirmed and card-carrying British people, I can attest that EVERYTHING annoys British people. We don’t need a reason, we just need to be mildly bothered and moderately inconvenienced by trivial matters.
It’s in our DNA 😂
At least British people do not go on mass shootings when they are angry..
It’s definitely Football. Yours is eggball. 😉
Handegg maybe?
People being annoyed by how things are pronounced, makes as much sense as you being annoyed by them. 😜🤣
In the British Isles we get annoyed by everything!!
Correct English grammar is missing in lots of words Americans say..would get a D mark from a teacher
@@patricialewis1464 as do the rest of the world ……
The best way of saying "least worst option" is "least bad option".
If you only have bad options available, then you need to choose the least bad option.
Or Not the worst option
Along the same line as "irregardless" meaning "regardless" I feel the word "over-exaggerate" (used on both sides of the pond) is also superfluous when "exaggerate" will do on it's own.
My favourite superfluous terms are "pre-planning", "pre-preparation" and "work colleague". "Hence why" isn't too far behind :)
@@ftumschk Good ones :-) (when I as a Norwegian balk at expressions like these- it goes to show I don't really have a life ;-) ).
9:00 The worst I've ever heard is: "I'am litterally dead". Where "litterally" means the opposite of what it normally means.
As has been mentioned in comments in many similar videos, "pants" does not mean underwear in some parts of England, at the very least (e.g. places mainly in the northern counties of England), and has for decades, since the invention of pantaloons (from which the word derives as an abbreviation), been used in line with its derivation as a slang/dialect word for a waist-height outer garment with long legs: in other words "trousers" just as in the USA (with the undergarment worn beneath them being termed "underpants").
I say pants for trousers (Lancashire) 👍
@@easterdeer you are far out and gravy.......Aaaaahhhh,.Bistro!!
Pantaloonybintime..........chilly up north......! Chillier in Chile.........in winter, anyway...........
Disembark means getting off a vehicle. Embark means to get on one. Or to start a journey.
Brits get a lot of criticism for saying "Innit", and I personally don't like it, but I would argue that Americans say "Like" twice as much, without noticing it. It's like, quite annoying.
A thin slice of potatoe cannot be a chip as it is a thin slice not a chip, if u used a hammer to break a piece of a stone you will get a chip not a thin slice. You cant have it both ways. Also chips are not french fries, quite different.
exactly , what kind of chips are 2 inches wide and long but a 16th of an inch thick? Flakes might be a better descriptor.
Surely a potatoe is a part of the body whereas a potato is a vegetable - hilarious commenting on grammar but can't spell, idiot!
The one that annoys me is envision. We say visualise. I want to scream at the tv whenI hear it. I blame George W Bush for making up his own words.
He's famous for it, he's made quite a few new 'words'
Not just "visualise" but also "imagine" are perfectly good words to use instead of "envision".
I’ve never heard “winningest” before, but I’m immediately repulsed by it
Winingest is not an word, the 'most successfull' is a correct statment. Shaken and shook are both legitemit when used correctly. Deplane is a none word it is evacuating. Has the USA forgotten the song that includes the word 'a surrey with a fringe on top'! Crisps and chips, we inventer them, why do Americans need to rename them? Acents: Southern American acents are originated from old west country acents of England and include archaic words and frases from the 1700's. 'Waiting on' is what a watier does , 'waiting for' is what the rest of us do. Gotten is a past participent and quite correct. The short for mathematis, a plural is maths not the singular math. There are no 'alternative' facts, there are only 'actual' facts. Most annoying, try 'named for' no they are 'named after'. Redoubling our efforts, you can double your efforts you cannot then redouble them again! Why are we bothered? Because it is our English Language you are basterdising! And don't even get me started with spelling espcially the use of zed (not zee) irather than the 's' it should be. England and US of A are two countries seperated by a common language, thank god for the Atlantic!
It's not evacuating. Evacuating implies an emergency and a need to get away from danger.
The absolute biggest is '...like...' every other word. Another is 'off of', e.g. 'He fell off of the roof'. Yet another, which has come into far too frequent use in the UK recently, is the use of 'So,...' as a discourse marker to start sentences. Prevalent amongst younger people when placing an order: 'Can I get...?', instead of 'May/Could I have...?'. Pehaps I'm simply being too picky/pedantic/old-fashioned, etc. I'm sure there are things Brits say that Americans find irritating, irksome, or downright annoying; there's no reason why it shouldn't work both ways.
My dislike also.
How can 'disembark' mean taking off? If you 'embark' on something that means about to start something (embark on a journey), so disembark means the opposite. 'Deplane' sounds 🤮 you don't decar, or deboat, or debus, or detrain. You don't 'plane' when getting on a plane.
My American gf said "On accident" once. It stopped me in my tracks, but I've since noticed that most Americans say that (rather than "By accident"). I've made peace with it though, because we do say "On purpose", and I think the criticism would have to apply to both.
I moved to Canada and started 5th Grade in Jan '82 where the classroom had cursive letter guides stuck on each desk. It was like going back to Victorian times! Capital E looks like a backward 3, then capital F, I J and T look near identical as do capital K and R, then capital G looks like nothing even recognisable and the capital Q looks like a 2.
My mum learnt cursive writing as she went to school in Scotland the '50s, only there are some significant differences between the cursive writing she learnt and the cursive writing taught in US and Canadian schools.
If your mum went to primary school in the 1950’s and she was educated at the same time as me then she’s absolutely correct. We were taught cursive writing. Even then, it was more than fifty years since the last true Victorian was born.
It may be annoying to have to listen to another nation mangling one’s own national language and then call it “English” when so often it isn’t . And it may be just as annoying for the ones mangling the other nation’s language to hear that they are the ones doing it.
Ironically 'Soccer' was a British term which was invented to match the 'Rugger' term for Rugby.
It came from Association Football.
It never caught on in Britain.
Why was it called association football? Was there also ever a non-association football?
@@MsPataca The Football Association (FA), is the ruling body for English football (soccer), founded in 1863. The FA controls every aspect of the organized game, both amateur and professional, and is responsible for national competitions, including the Challenge Cup series that culminates in the traditional Cup Final at Wembley.
In the UK we make a "queue" when we wait for something in the US they make a "line".
Im just disappointed that aluminum/aluminium wasnt there. Being a minute since i saw you meltdown over that!
Think I'm alone in not giving one single hoot what another country calls a sport. I understand why they came to the name and find the rage about it cringeworthy in the extreme.
Aluminum is actually an American word and a brit added the extra letters.
@@angelavara4097 The name "aluminum" was actually first suggested by British chemist Sir Humphry Davy, but it never caught on in his native country.
Yeah, just adding to what's already said here.
Aluminum is the original word, but it got officially changed to match the 'ium" naming scheme of other elemental metals
...even though there are exceptions to that naming scheme scheme
My pet peeve on the 'have a nice day' front is when recipes for _anything_ end with "enjoy!"
No, fuggit. I'll decide if I enjoy it or not.
Fanny in America is a person's buttocks but in the UK it's women's genitals
You too young to remember Fanny Craddock ?
I'm old enough to remember Fanny Hill.@@0utcastAussie
I'm afraid "mad", "mean" and "dumb" are my bugbear because of ambiguity and impoverishment of the language.
"Mad" means insane, not angry
"Mean" means "miserly" or "impoverished", not "unpleasant in manner".
"Dumb" means "lacking the power of speech", not "stupid" .
Words change meanings over time, get over it. It's normal. I mean, do I pester people for using the word "awesome" when meaning they like something instead of having the fear of god put into them for being in such awe of something. We could play that game all the way, back to the first written record of the language.
@@MellonVegan Words change meaning, something to be regretted since meaning then becomes less clear as a result. We surely want the opposite as the raison d'etre of language is to convey meaning as clearly as possible. In the days before mass communication, variation was understandable because of long-term fragmentation through geography and, besides the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer and Dr Johnson's dictionary, a lack of tools to keep everyone on the straight and narrow. Now we have universal education, online dictionaries, thesauruses, grammar-checkers and spell-checkers which you would have thought would have helped with standardisation.
I don't like changes in meaning that stem from poor education e.g. "chronic" to mean "severe" and "literally" to mean "figuratively" - those are debasements of the language which I will never get over and I do not believe anyone else should either.
When you say “ I could care less,” it implies you care to some degree. it’s so dumb. It’s “couldn’t care less.” it’s just the correct way of saying it.
I have no problem, when in the USA, to talk about soccer when I mean association football. But I get annoyed when US Americans insist to call our football soccer. We do NOT play soccer over here. Almost all languages in Europe derive the name of the sport from foot and ball. There are a few exceptions, but my knowledge of Italian or Slovene, for example, does not suffice to dive deeper into that matter. So, no matter how you call it at home, here it is football.
Personally, "write/wrote me" instead of " write/wrote to me", and "on accident" instead of "by accident"
Similar to "write me", with its missing "to", one of my pet peeves is the missing "and" in expressions like "come see", "go tell" (instead of "come AND see", "go AND tell"). I can understand songwriters or poets dropping short words like "to/and" if they need to lose a syllable to fit the rhythm, but there's no excuse for it in ordinary speech.
2:00 Did he just say fanny means backside? Wrong hole, my man.
13:20 Interesting, didn't expect that. I hear the term bi-weekly all the time, always meaning every other week. Funny that, as I'm no native.
Also funny that I never heard of the term fortnightly but just went "hm, what would I call that to make it make sense?" and came up with fortnightly ^^
Bangs sounds utterly ridiculous 😂
I'm Irish (close enough to British): Things that annoy me.....
St Patty's Day.....Who is Patty and why is she a saint? Patty and Paddy sound exactly the same in an American accent but a lot of make sure to pronounce the T's in Patty. It's Paddy's Day not Patty.
On Accident - When did By Accident become On Accident? I thought it was a young person thing but i've heard people in their mid-late 40's saying it.
I don't get annoyed at Americans and Aussies saying Soccer, you have your own "football" so it would get confusing.
7:40 "Oh football, you don't even use your feet, so what, why does that bother you?" Think Basketball without baskets or Baseball without bases (or rarely used in some way)
Re "bang" - comes from "bang-tail", a method of cutting the hair on a horse's tail "bang across" or "exactly across". The common expression "bang-on", to mean "exactly correct", uses the same meaning of "bang". (Source: Oxford English Dictionary)
That's why every time someone says "I could care less" my response is "how much less could you care?" They always respond with classic "Are you stupid? That's not what it means."
*Facepalm*
We spent nearly 2000 years developing the English language, only for Americans to screw it up in less than 200 . My gripe is the phrase British English . English is ENGLISH .
In the UK we had a TV show in the 1960s called " Star Soccer " that presented weekly recorded football matches . This is the likely origin of the American use of the term from the decade that perked American interest to the eventual rise of professional teams in the 1970s . Soccer is an English term for football , so we can lay off on that one .
"I could care less" is certainly both wrong and annoying. Sorry, I can't accept that a chip IS a 'chip' from a potato....each one is surely a thin SLICE of a potato, so I think a 'crisp' is more descriptive. Also, I can see why 'bangs' - the word in itself - has a nice ring to it but, to me, never has a word seemed LESS like its meaning. Apart from the fact that the word is a PLURAL anyway, there is nothing in that word that would describe how a FRINGE of hair might look..! (sorry for the caps...I am not annoyed, I just find it difficult to write without the emphasis of italics... 🙄)
I think the least worst is a good phrase. It makes clear that while it's the best option available, it's not a good one.
So what's wrong with least bad?
One embarks when taking off,you disembark if you are leaving an aeroplane, train bus or boat!
So, by your rationale, crisps should be chips because they are chipped off a potato (even though chips ARE chipped while crisps are sliced, but whatever), and therefore a dorito is a chip because it has been chipped off a corn kernel?
Anyway, chips and fries are different. Even French fries are different to Belgian fries. It's all about the size.
For those who think crisps are "chips", all I can say is "good luck using a chipping action if you want wafer-thin slices of spud!"
American football is basically Rugby, which is called rugby football in the UK.
Well, it started off based more on association football, but Harvard University pushed for more rugby-like rules and that caught on.
It's called rugby
Football played by real men…nor armed up for a war as the yanks play..they look like they are going into battle !!!!!!
If i asked you to Slice a Rock or Chip a Rock, Which one looks more like what you pull out of a Bag?
The vast majority of what you called "Chips" are "Slices"
Literally is the word that we should be getting our knickers in a twist about. I know it's not relevant to this video, but it's been turned on its head because of popular usage. My head Literally exploded when i found out about this deeply disturbing new trend.
Your head literally exploded? Wow, that must've hurt!
Plaster is short for Elastoplast which is a brand of originally UK owned 'band aids'. And though the word plaster is often used as a verb in the UK when referring to the act of plastering a wall, it's never ever used as a verb when applying a plaster to a wound. You would never plaster your finger, but you would put a plaster on it. Of course one can also get plastered as well after drinking too much alcohol!
Friends was a TV “Series” which ran over several “seasons”
This is the first time I've ever heard the 'word' winningest 😂 wtf is that? 'I'm the winningest' sounds like something my 3 year old niece would say when she beats her brother in a game. I'm so surprised adults say that as a serious word. Learn something new everyday.
Something cut off thinly such as potato's, meat ect are slices not chips, word crisp refers to texture. A chip is long square potato fried or small piece broken off mug or plate, pottery ect.
The only one that genuinely irks me is the 'I could care less', because it's not about different cultures or phrases, its just incorrect lol
"Unironically" pisses me off... what they mean to say is "genuinely"...
I’m Australian and have had an online wonderful American friend for, um, over 20 years. We still translate for each other, but laugh about it. I’ve made friends with her friends and family and she’s made friends with my friends and family. We’ve never been annoyed at different words, we just have so much fun translating. And talking time differences I tell them I’m in your tomorrow, anything you want to know? . They usually ask for lottery numbers as a joke 😂
I am fully with you on the chips. Perfectly describes the shape of the snack. It is the word we use for it in swedish too.
"I've gotten new clothes."
"Did you lose them already? Or do you got new clothes"
Always great to see your reactions McJibbin! As a brit, I feel like WatchMojo was reeaally reaching with some of these examples, but I will forever be with you when it comes to "I could care less" :D
I’m British and find it frustrating when my countrymen don’t understand that in many areas of American English their language stopped developing along the same lines of British English in 1776. So many words and phrases were the same on that date, it diverged after their Independence. You can see it in words such as “pants”, from Pantaloons, what men wore in the 1700’s. As British English went with the development of Trousers in the early 1800’s, the US adopted Trousers many years later keeping the “Pants” name.
I used to work for the British branch of an American Bank. We confused the Americans even more on the floor numbering thing. You see we had what in the UK is called a Mezzanine (a floor that only covers a proportion of the space available). So what the Americans would refer to as the third floor was actually the first floor!
Any Brit protesting at the use of the word "soccer" really should do some research before moaning about it. The term "soccer" is a British invention, and was widely used throughout the UK until fairly recently. It still is used in my (British) neck of the woods.
Absolutely correct, Brits should stop whining about this one. 'Soccer' from 'AsSOCiation football' like 'Rugger' from 'Rugby football'.
The latest one I have noticed is Americans suddenly saying "based off" in place of "based on". Both irritating and distracting.
Soccer is an originally British term for association football so I don't get why Brits have a problem with it. We've got football magazines about football with the word soccer. Even boardgames like Table Soccer.
I'm a Brit and I've been saying 'season' for decades, even since the 1990s. It makes sense, in my opinion because if you have two or more series within a franchise (for example, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager) it makes sense to call them different series, and the years within those series are seasons. A bit like how you'd put seconds into minutes. For example: Star Trek: Enterprise is a series, and has 4 seasons. I could say to one of my Trek buddies "Hey, they're bringing out a new series", there'd be no confusion over what I'd just said.
Yes, could have used different franchises but I thought keeping it to just ST would be less messy to simply explain a point.
I also say soccer, mainly to annoy fans of soccer 😂😂
Your entire comment sounds as if you are American, I imagine you have embraced the culture. I don't know anyone who says buddies.
You wonder why people get in a state over calling Football 'Soccer', well think how you would feel if YOU had to use 'soccer' as the word to call NFL Football. You wouldn't like it either!
Before I even watch what the top ten list is: I hate pissed instead of pissed off [pissed is drunk in the UK]; Math instead of Maths; Happy New Year[']s instead of Happy New Year; restroom [where DID that come from? And who's resting in there?] instead of loo, toilet or bathroom; probably more...
I don't quite agree on the "quite" discussion. It can, at least in Britain, mean "totally", depending on your tone.
You're quite correct... by which I mean "exactly correct", of course :)
"Bi-weekly." OK, if it means "two times per week". then "TWICE weekly" is the unambiguous way of saying so. Whereas if it means "once every two weeks" then the term "FORTNIGHTLY" is what all Brits of my age would say.
Er???? ... Yet DO Americans know what a "fortnight" is?
Oops! A bit embarrassing if not, as I've used the term often enough to S.Ts without it ever occurring to me that it may be a bit opaque to them... and I don't recall any asking for elucidation. 🤣🤣🤣
Fortnight may not be in normal use in the US but quite a few of them will understand what it means.
Ah yes that famous song from Oklohoma, "the Surrey with the bangs on top".
A crisp is a slice of a potato, a chip is a chip of a potato.
Who the hell is annoyed that they call it soccer? Its engrained in my memory and it doesn't matter, i have grown up in England and just telly alone has taught me the differences and it just doesn't matter.
The word winningest is bloody annoying to hear though haha.
*edit and deplane lol.
AND lol, i meet a lot of European's and they all use American English, including chips.
I work in a supermarket and the amount of times European's ask where the chips are and I automatically point them to the freezers. They use all the American words, bangs, sidewalks, chips, band aid, sneakers and more. All of them lol, because of TV and YT.
I’m glad you asked.
First let me give an example I can empirically demonstrate to be incorrect and then explain why soccer is similar. It doesn’t in and of itself bother me, but it means football gets used for (again demonstrably) the wrong sport:
Aluminum is used in the US. This is simply incorrect because the Latin suffix “ium” goes onto the end of any element that is a metal precisely to denote it as a metal. Not all metals use this convention but Aluminium does!
Likewise, Soccer is an abbreviation from the games full name “Association Football” (‘SOC’er) probably at first as a quick way to distinguish it from other sports that also descended from Football. For example, thanks to William Web Eliss we have Rugby and the full sport name is Rugby Football Union or Rugby Football League (two different versions) and we know American football came out of Rugby Football Union - that’s why the word football is even associated with it after all you wouldn’t pick it at random to describe the sport would you - especially in a world where a game already existed that specifically involved only using your feet to kick a ball!
My argument is that because America is the only one to play a sport directly descended from Football through Rugby and call it Football despite the fact the rest of the world already has a game more appropriately called football but you insist we change and call it Soccer is patently ridiculous.
Call it football, that’s fine because of its roots but only amongst yourselves. Call it American football or something else when referring to it globally. Don’t try and change the name of the original sport that is its ancestor and is the most popular game in the world.
Baseball is actually also a descendant of an English game called rounders (and possibly some cricket influence). In that case I have no complaints. The name is fine and I think you improved on the original. It’s a shame you don’t also play Cricket too though (the world’s second most popular sport) as once you get past the terms it’s an excellent game - probably the best attempt to make a ball game heavily strategic.
Anyway…
6:43 It already *is* “World War Z” and “ZZ Top”. The mad people who incorrectly say “World War Zee” or “Zee Zee Top” are the insane ones.
I'm not sure why 90% of British people would be annoyed by someone calling the game soccer. Everyone knows what you're talking about and there are a great deal of Brits who sometimes call the game soccer, too (which is where the word came from in the first place).
well its like a reglion and no need to be replaced by a new word for zero reason at all. americans get annoyed when i refer to american football as handegg it works both ways
I think "I could care less" grates on me the most.
When I worked in a public facing role in retail, I always just preferred to simply say 'thank you' at the end of an interaction or even just 'enjoy your meal' when it was food oriented of course! Far more reasonable to thank a person for their patronage than to (quite possibly) pretend to care at all about the rest of someone's day. 🤷
Can I get ? No ! I will serve you. Can I get = I'll help myself.
Have one major peeve " let's see if we can't " what? Lol like " let's see if we can't solve this for you " irritates me beyond belief
Please, someone end the insufferable "excited FOR."
You're starting college - I'm excited for you (excited on your behalf)" ✅
I'm excited for the concert ❌ .. no, I'm excited about the concert.
7:54 (for future reference) The downfall of your entire argument.
Disembark sounds like the plane is taking off to you?
A "Score" is 20
I tried multiple times to find out why you say Bangs and i think i finally got the answer. Cutting a horses tail straight across is called a Bang Tail