@@islandgypsy1096 There are a lot of people who use the terms interchangeably. yeah - chest of drawers are tall and narrow, dresser is short. (usually longer, but older ones are the same width.) Chest of drawers vs dresser: I don't think it has anything to do with regional. regional is "a chifforobe" (south).
@@islandgypsy1096 I'm from the midwest. Chicago originally. And I've ALWAYS heard of any chest of drawers being referred to as a dresser. It's simply a synonym we use in the midwest. Funny, seeing as we're all about courtesy and slow and steady, we always want to make everything shorter and faster.
We say "silverware" in the South, even if it is made of steel, wood, or plastic, which makes no sense. :) I thought cutlery was exclusive to different types of knives, not including the spoons and forks., :)
Those things on the stove top that sprout flame are also called burners. My mom would say "Have you checked the stove to see if all the burners have been turned off?"
The individual sections on a "hob" in the UK are called burners too. My general understanding, as an American in the UK Cooker=entire unit. Oven=the part you bake or roast things in (just like the US), Hob=stove top, range, and the hob is comprised of usually 4-6 burners, but just like in the US, if you tell someone to turn on the stove, or in the UK turn on the hob, you don't mean turn all of the burners on, just the ones you are using to cook.
It was a life changing moment when your child finally had the wrist and grip strength to be able to turn the channel knob. "Remotely" being able to turn the TV on and the volume up or down was nice but the real game changer came when your child could change the channel. Lol
In my house w/5 kids someone was always lying on the rug w/a pillow in front of the set. That was the designated controller. I once heard my brother say, louder up the TV! 😂
One that used to throw me is the cupboard. I'd watch a video where they'd say a person was locked in a cupboard and I'd picture them being squeezed in the plate space over the dishwasher.
@@parnelpospahala7920 These days the closet shelves are much less likely to be solid pine and so much more likely to be wire slats so I have tried to remember to line up the flashlight accordingly and avoid it rolling off onto my head.
@@cindyknudson2715 I use a face cloth to clean with and a dish rag to dry dishes with. Unless I am in the kitchen and need a face cloth quick and suddenly it is a dish "towel".
Growing up in TX, my family called it something like, "chester drawers," lol. I didn't understand it when I was young, I would ask, "who's chester and why do we have his drawers?" My dad finally explained it to me as, "chest of drawers." I'd completely forgotten about that. I was probably 3 or 4 in the early 80s. A dresser was different because it was shorter and had a mirror on top.
Same here. Grew up to parents from Georgia and Arkansas. A chest of drawers (also confused it with Chester drawers when I was little) was a piece of furniture with usually three or four drawers in it, nothing else. A dresser was a lower wide piece of furniture with a mirror mounted to the back, sometimes with a cutout so a chair could fit under it, for women to sit down to fix their hair, etc.
How is it that you were probably three or four in the early eighties? You either were, or you weren't. It's a binary proposition. Very interesting, this "chest of drawers" situation. I love that there are so many names for this!
@@samanthab1923 My mom, who is in her 70s and from the South, says “cupboard”, but yeah, no one in my generation and beyond ever used it. We say “cabinet”.
Make it weirder. There's also another kid named "Oblivious" doing Lawrence reactions, yet another one called "Beesley". Lawrence has become popular with a bunch of British twenty somethings with reaction channels.
For those of us old enough to remember them, TV remote controls used to actually make a clicking sound when the buttons were pressed (hence the name). Many stopped calling them that when silent buttons were introduced.
I'm old enough to remember when they were first made but don't remember the sound; I remember the long wire that we were told not to run under the carpet.
@@hopefletcher7420 The wired ones weren't clickers. Clicker remotes were wireless, didn't even have batteries. The buttons were in one or two rows connected to spring-loaded hammers that hit different length bars clicking at different frequencies. The TV had a microphone tuned to those frequencies. The guts of the clinker/remote look like a mix of a compact xylophone and 5 to 7 cap guns squeezed into a box not to dissimilar to an old hand radio.
Ah, I knew there was an age component to that! It sounds like slang to me. I don’t think we ever had one that clicked. We had a TV in a fancy wood cabinet forever, and we had to get up and turn it. When my folks finally replaced it, I think the clicker phase was over. 😂
I'm from Chicago and we totally used Chest of Drawers but it refers to drawers that are single-wide and stack vertically and are usually tallish. A dresser is approx hip high and side by side stacked drawers. And we don't use them interchangeably. At least in my family we don't mix them.
Yeah, thy have a little brush roller inside them and work very quietly, so they're good for cleaning up little messes during business hours unobtrusively.
@@charlesmassie6775 Not everyone uses Carpet Sweepers because they have vacuums, which work so much better. They're used for light cleaning of carpets when getting out a big vacuum would be inconvenient or loud. We had one when I was a kid, and it was a good way for us to learn to help around the house in a way we could manage. (A vacuum would have been too heavy).
I’m in the south and we (or my family at least) call stick vacs sweepers as well, usually because we use them on linoleum or hardwood. “Vacuum” is used if it’s a bigger type exclusively for carpet.
That poor kid is going to faint when he sees this. He probably has to recover first. Lawrence may not even know this, but there are now two or three other British people reacting to him besides that kid.
@@TexasRiverGirl There's another besides Beesly called Oblivious. Of the three, he's the one I like least. He moans and groans a lot if he thinks something Lawrence says is inaccurate. His reactions are often very opposite to Lav Luka, so I suspect they live in different regions or are different social classes, so they see British society, language and living circumstances very differently.
@@MacGuffinExMachina he's a nice kid, and Lawrence realized that, which is why rather than get butthurt over the possibility of losing views (if someone decided to ONLY watch the reaction video), Lawrence was flattered instead and did this to acknowledge the kid. It makes me respect Lawrence more. He may be sarcastic, but he's a stand up guy.
Usually if the piece of furniture is taller than it is wide, I call it a chest of drawers. If it’s wider than it is tall, I usually call it a dresser. Just the way I was raised. Dressers many times had a mirror.
Totally agree with you on the shorter ones being dresser, but in the military, the taller ones are a secretary, and I haven't beat that out of my brain, yet.
What is called a “jug” in Britain, is usually called a “pitcher” in the US. I’ve noticed this several times through the years. A “jug” in the US is usually a fat bottle with small mouth.
Depends. Where I come from, pitcher is primarily described as jug-like device used to pour beer. The word jug itself is usually used for non-alcoholic drinks. The popular use for jug here referring to a drink such as Kool-Aid it juice.
My grandparents' generation (American adults during the Great Depression) typically called all electric refrigerators "frigidaires" bc, like Hoover, that was the name of an early brand that was often their first-ever electric fridge. But if they didn't call it a frigidaire, they likely called it an "icebox." since that was the appliance that refrigerators replaced. Best wishes.
The Frigidaire company still makes electric refrigerators, now with latest technology and design, often with stainless exteriors. And they make freestanding and hanging thermometers to measure fridge and freezer temperatures. The "icebox" was not so much an "appliance," as a large metal box in kitchen to hold in one compartment food, and in the other a large block of ice after a delivery "iceman" cameth.
Yes, I remember my father and his mother telling us about deliveries of ice blocks that would go in a small compartment in the icebox above the food storage. The ice was cut from the great lakes or Canada and would be shipped all over the country.
I think a lot of people call the refrigerator a fridge, which is short for a Frigidaire. I know I do. But then I grew up calling it a ice box, because my greatest generation parents called it that. I switched to using either fridge or refrigerator in my teens when I got weird looks from my friends.
"Clicker" comes from the early days of remotes, where they only had 3 or 4 buttons that made a loud *CLICK* when you pressed them, that could wake the dead.
Those old 'clickers' actually used the sound to activate the action. That's why they were so loud. The TV literally heard the 'click' and could tell the different clicks sounds and either raise of lower the volume or change the channel.
Also, the earliest remotes merely actuated a servo motor to physically rotate the channel selector knob. My grandparents had one of these and I thought it was absolutely magical
Hoover/vacuum is like Kleenex for facial tissues or tissues. In America, the word Clicker refers to the first remote having 3 large buttons to change the channel & powering the tv on/off. When pressed the button would make a CLICK sound. Of course, back then there were only 5 channels.
I remember as a child I liked playing with my grandmother’s carpet sweeper. It was non electric and you pushed it over the carpet which turned the bristle brush underneath.
My grandmother had an electric broom in the 1990s! It plugged into the wall but you also pushed it and the bristle brush was on the underside. It was much lighter than the vacuum cleaner, so I think it was easier for her to use.
I have one. It took a while to figure out the fancy design thingy on the push rod actually detached and was a scraper comb thingy to clean the bristles.
The early television remotes made a loud clicking noise when you pushed the up or down button, this audio signal is actually what told the TV to change channels….one at a time…and there was no punching in numbers, you simply went up or down…one at a time.
In southern Oklahoma, I grew up calling a washcloth a "washrag." If I ever heard someone calling it a washcloth, I immediately thought they were "actin high & mighty." I think that would translate as "posh" to the chav set. Oh... and "washrag" was pronounced "woorsh-raig". Just so we're clear.
In the US, at least in the midwest, “silverware” doesn’t necessarily imply that it contains any silver. It could easily be stainless steel. I might hesitate to use the term for throwaway plastic utensils, but might do so anyway, after failing to come up with a better word.
@@chitlitlah I'm from the Midwest but my grandma move back and forth from South to Midwest a lot so sometimes my words don't match others lol. Like my friends call my ice box a deep chest. It's interesting you call the fridge an ice box!
SC here and I agree on all three terms, Pam. The dresser doesn't have to have a mirror, but it usually does. The chest of drawers (which I thought people were saying Chester drawers until I was almost grown) like you said, is the taller piece and never has a mirror.
My grandfather was a Yorkshireman. He lived in Louisiana and he always called the tv remote the “clicker”. However, he would have recalled the early tv remotes from the the 1960’s which made a loud clicking sound when a button was pressed. He came to US during WWII, and returned to marry my grandmother after the war.
@@cixelsyd40 Thanks, I visited this forum to ask that very question, because I don't remember ever changing a battery on a clicker. BTW, a friend's TV and their garage door were on the same frequency on a button, and it would annoy their parent's whenever we fought over the remote.
In my family here in the midwest, cupboards are the things that are above the countertop, while cabinets are below the countertop. They also all just get called kitchen cabinets sometimes, no matter where they are in the kitchen. The tall closet with shelves that you put food and cooking equipment on gets called a pantry in my house.
That's weird. In Virginia, a cupboard can be either below or above the stove, or maybe nowhere near the stove. However, cabinets are always above the stove itself or above stove level.
In NYC, they're all cabinets. We don't use the word cupboard, but I assume it's where dishes are kept. We do use the word pantry, and I really wish I had one!
In Texas they're all cabinets too. I've never used the word cupboard. And I don't keep cleaning products in my closet either. They're in the cabinets under the sinks (both kitchen and bathroom sinks). And sometimes in the pantry. Especially when the pantry is also the laundry room.
In my family it's always been kitchen cupboards. Cabinets are the free standing shelving units with doors w/or without glass panels. Usually used for curios, dishes, electronics or even books that you don't want exposed to dust or light.
Stove top is also “range.” Also the more I watch this the more I realize how extremely British my grandparents were. They still kept a lot of the words and habits from Britain. I guess their last name was Smith. We said tea towel exclusively and cutlery interchangeably with silverware.
@@Bobrogers99 In Wisconsin it was definitely only the top part. Most specifically when the range existed by itself apart from a separate oven in a kitchen or if there was no oven at all.
Growing up in Massachusetts, we called the remote a "clickah", and had three names for the furniture you use for clothes: the tall ones without doors were chests of drawers, with doors were armoires, and the long, waist-high ones were bureaus.
I refer to a carpet sweeper as the non-motorized tool used by restaurant help to clean up after the family with 6 children under the age12 leave the table.
The term "clicker" is a holdover from the first remotes which emitted hideously loud clicking noises to transmit simple auditory commands. I seem to recall playing with one as a child and upsetting it's proud owner. It had three buttons. I believe they represented Power, Channel Up, and Channel Down. (I think the branding was Zenith*.) It seems to me you really had to be lazy to put up with that noise to avoid moving a few steps across a room, but some people are on their feet all day, so I get that. *Google image (or video) search for Zenith Clicker reference!
Growing up we always called the tall one a chest of drawers and the waist high one a dresser because that is the one the usually has a mirror and you get dressed in front of it .
Indeed! Even though I know cutlery and flatware and silverware, I sometimes also call them utensils. Which is confusing, because the large cooking utensils (like spatulas and ladles) are utensils.
Lived in the US midwest, and I feel like the last time I heard the term "clicker" was in reference to old style remotes, the ones with a cord connected to the tv. Might be a holdover with older folks, but I don't hear that anymore.
The term “clicker” is typically a dated term used by older generations. I’ve mostly heard the terms “remote” or “remote control” used in America otherwise. That said, it may also be a regional thing as well.
The reason they are called clickers by older people, as the remotes from the sixties and maybe later actually worked by sound, not infrared or radio like modern ones. They actually clicked. ruclips.net/video/4_ZDDz2umIw/видео.html&ab_channel=Mechasquirrel
I’ve never ever heard of a vacuum called a “sweeper” before. There is such a thing as a “carpet sweeper” but it has no suction and no motor. It’s a manual thing with a long handle and just has a roller with bristles and kicks the crumbs up inside of it. They’re not very efficient.
I think sweeper is a Midwestern/Indiana term. I’ve lived in a lot of other states (and a few other countries) and never heard of sweeping the carpet until I moved to Indiana. I’ve assured heard Hoosiers saying hoovering the rugs.
I live on the East Coast, and, while I personally always called it the "remote", my dad always called it the "clicker". Both of us are native New Jerseyans. I think it's more to do with age, than geography.
For many years, I worked with an extremely highly educated man from South Asia. One day, we were sitting at our desks doing paperwork. And he asked for, "the eradicator". I was looking all over my desk - at every item on my desk! And I couldn't figure out what the hell this man wanted! It was the white out. 🤦🏼♀️🤣
“Eradicator” sounds like some sort of sci fi ray gun. Or maybe “eradicate” just makes me think of Daleks shouting “exterminate” while firing their own ray guns.
@@nariu7times328 I’ve always used “vanity” to refer to a small dressing table with a mirror, but I’ve never heard a mirrored dresser referred to as a vanity before.
Clicker came from from when remotes first came out. They were mechanical back then and emitted a loud click when you pushed the button. IIRC, the actually emitted an ultrasonic sound the TV picked up. The click was the mechanical mechanism that struck device that made the sound the TV listened for like a tuning fork.
I vividly remember the first time I encountered “torch” as used in England. Characters in an Agatha Christie novel were lighting their way with one. I pictured a much more exciting event than what the author intended.
@@haroldwilkes6608 I still have the washstand that my Great Great Grandfather built out of old oak crates. Not too fancy but it's sturdy and it's about 100 years old.
Those are getting so hard to find and I would really like even to buy a newer version of the same thing but when you DO find them...they're ridiculous $$$$.
@@ruthsaunders9507 Hold on to that, oak and age have value, regardless of who built it. But unless it's specialty auction, it won't sell well...reason, heavy and bulky, I had my grandfather's oak washstand, about the same age, was offered $5 for it, sold it later for $750! You just have to find the right buyer. Good luck.
@@lucylulusuperguru3487 From experience - look at farm or estate auctions - they're bulky and heavy, most people won't buy items like that, if you find one you like, it could sell for almost nothing. I told Ruth Saunders (below) not to sell at a small auction for that very reason. And bring extra muscle.
My American parents lived in England for my first 15 years. Then we moved back to the States. I get all these common objects all muddled up and confuse not only myself but everyone around me.
Well this is now the awesomest video on RUclips I’ve seen! So very meta. Lost In The Pond watching Lav Luka reacting to Lost In The Pond. It’s all come full circle from me finding Lost In The Pond, subscribing, and then finding Lav Luka, subscribing, being one of many making a recommendation in the comments regarding Lost In The Pond to Lav Luka, Lav Luka doing reaction videos to Lost In The Pond, and now Lost In The Pond watching Lav Luka react to Lost In The Pond. Wow!!! 🤯 LOL Awesome!
@@Rocketsong Cooktops have their controls on the surface while rangetops have their controls out front. · A rangetop requires a section of the countertop to be taken out ... I had to Google this to find out the difference. I have always seen "drop in" cooktops and never encountered (to my knowledge) a rangetop.
A British person having a crispy fudge confection in the morning while viewing a morning broadcast would be eating a chocky bicky for brekky while watching telly.
That hasn't been my experience. I've really only heard cutlery to mean flatware used for fancy occasions (which makes the placement of the term on plastic ware seem hilarious).
@@cindyknudson2715 In Britain we would say tallboy. Anything lower is just a chest of drawers although some ignorant people think it's Chester drawers...Chester is a city in northwest England!
I heard them both called dressers, but the low long one was a dresser with a vanity. If they matched the bed, the whole lot of them were a bedroom set. Next to the bed, if you needed a place for your glasses, was a nightstand. End tables were between chairs in the living room, which was the room most of the living took place in. I never heard TV room, den, family room, etc, until my 20s, although my friend grew up with a living room and a formal living room that no one could enter or touch for any reason.
The earliest TV remote controllers actually worked with an audible "click". You could cause random events "Channel Change, Volume Change" by shaking a handful of coins nearby. I heard "clicker" quite a bit when I was younger, but now hear "remote" most of the time or "TV remote" to disambiguate from the streaming device remote that is usually nearby.
Davenport was the one that confused me as a kid. The only person I ever heard refer to the couch as a davenport was my grandmother whom I think gave that up after awhile because in America we say couch or sofa. As a kid I tried to formulate what the word meant and came up with that it was a "port for your daven".
My family is from WV. I thought a chest of drawers was a chester drawers. I was an adult the first time I noticed an ad for a piece of furniture called a chest of drawers. It was a light bulb moment for me.
"Hoover" replacing vacuum cleaner may sound odd to those of us on this side of the Pond, but we also have brand names applied to numerous common objects. Apart from the obvious 'Kleenex', 'Aspirin', and 'Band-Aid', common phrases such as 'Crock-Pot', 'Dry Ice', 'Ping Pong' and even 'Seeing Eye Dog' all began as trademarks.
Clicker is from the early days of remote control TVs; they worked by using specific tone frequencies and you could also change channels by shaking your keys in front of the TV.
I'm suddenly reminded of the scene in O Brother, Where Art Thou where George Clooney asks a guy if he had any hairnets, and the guy says, "top drawer of yon bureau." They had been his wife's hairnets, but she done r-u-n-n-o-f-t. I love that movie.
Thank you! I am pleased to have added "porcelain firing range" to my repertoire of things to call my toilet. My wife will be pleased. I'm feeling quite cultured.
Growing up in West Virginia, we (my family and I) referred to the larger, taller drawers as a chest of drawers and the usually smaller, shorter drawers with a mirror attached as a dresser.
@Julie Miller My mother had something very similar to what you describe. She used it to put on makeup, brush her hair and things like that. But she called it a vanity or a makeup table. Funny how you can hear different terms for the same thing, even across just a short distance!
In the UK, the dresser with a mirror or even 3 mirrors, is called a dressing table. It has a space in the centre below the tabletop for your legs , as mentioned. Small drawers each side. Ladies use the top for their beauty accessories etc.
Yep! For some odd reason, my Chicago relatives also referred to the TV as the "tea-VEE" as in putting the accent on the "V" instead of the "T" like most normal people. Also - calling pickle relish "pick-a-lily" which I still don't get.
What the!!! It’s amazing how different even the suburbs can be from Chicago. We always had the Living Room and Family Room designations growing up, but somehow my husband which is also from the same area missed out on this and still refers to our Family Room as our Living Room. The Living Room is the more formal room in the front of the house that would be more showy. The Family Room is usually at the back of the house where the family hangs out and watches TV.
I've never heard "chest of drawers" in the Western US, but I have heard "bureau" -- usually reserved for a very expensive and fancy dresser, typically most I've seen have some sort of French doors on the front that hide the drawers within.
Probably depends on where. I hear chest of drawers all the time. But here it's different than a dresser. You rarely hear furniture called bureaus here.
Kind of like how some very strange people refer to all tissues as Kleenex, even though Kleenex is a specific brand of tissue... I used to get in a fights with this one kid in school all the time in like third grade because she would say "someone hand me a Kleenex" and I would say "you mean a tissue?" And she would get all mad at me and I'd be like "Well technically they're not Kleenex because Kleenex is a brand and these are not Kleenex brand tissues..." I was a very argumentative child
Yeah, my stepdad is in his 70s and calls it that. He calls everything something”er” though. The remote is the clicker, the gear shift is the shifter, etc.
I was born, raised, still live in Minnesota and i have never call the remote control a clicker nor did not family or my husband's family. I have always called the place I keep my socks and underwear (pants as they say in the UK) my dresser draws. It's been fun watching your channel as a person that studied abroad in York, England and remembering all the different I got to find out living in the UK. Some fun, some embarrassing, and some just confusing.
I was born and raised in Utah, and I have lived in Idaho for 21 years and people around here usually say Tap more then faucet, but faucet is used. I personally love to use torch instead of flashlight, I love to say telly, and my son adopted the British thing of adding a Y to the end of a lot of words, we say drinky in our house instead of drink because of him. 😂 I love your videos. I have been obsessed with England since I was 6 years old and over the years I have learned a lot of British English words because of it. There are a lot of words that I have learned from you that I didn't know before. I really love that you have created this channel. Thank k you so much.
Best video yet! Due to my obsession with British TV, I guessed most of the British words, which was really fun. You didn't mention it, but I grew up calling a chest of drawers a "dresser." I have never heard the word "clicker" for the TV remote; I have lived in Oregon, California, Arizona, and Utah. These videos always make my day; thanks!
Before miniaturized radio (RF) and long before infra-red, the remote controls literally were 'clickers' that effectively struck ultra-sonic tuning forks to send the signal.
Wow! I didn't have my first clicker until the late 80s. And yes, the little pad made a muffled sort of clicking sound. On/off; volume up/down; channel up/down.
Back in the mid 1970's, my grandparents bought a new color TV, their first color TV, it came with what they called a clicker (remote) it was twice the size of a pack of cigarettes and had only 5 buttons, one for on/off, one for raising the volume, one for lowering the volume, one channel up and one for channel down. The buttons would make a very loud click when pushed all the way in, therefore the term clicker.
@@larrywilliams8010 Are you sure it was a tone? My understanding was that the buttons shot a slug through a coil, generating an electronic noise pulse. I think there were about 3 slug/coil combos, letting you control power, channel (all 12 of them), and volume.⬅ It doesn't really relate to the "clicker" term, but there were also wired TV remotes. No clicking, but you had an annoying, sometimes problematic, wire between the couch and the TV.
Same here, we are showing our age. 😅 The first remotes were just like that, I still remember how annoying the sound was, especially when Dad couldn't decide between all 4 networks. 😂
@@r0kus yes, the tones generated were actually higher than a human ear can detect. The "click" you heard was just the spring mechanism that produced the tone.
Thought I'd add what I know as the Australian terms (in my state anyhow). It's interesting to see we have a variety of both British and American influence along with a few weirdy ones. Hope I got them all. 1. Broom cupboard 2. Torch 3. Vacuum 4. Powerpoint 5. Extension cord 6. Lounge room (but this is slowly getting replaced by living room as real estate is now described by 'living areas'. 7. TV or telly 8. Remote (sometimes buzzer) 9. Oven/stove (cook top) 10. Cutlery 11. Dish washing liquid or dish liquid for short 12. Tap 13. Tea towel 14. Face washer 15. Toilet (dunny, loo etc.) 16. Drawers (chest of drawers or dresser)
@@JEdwardBanasikJr Except the difference is that Laurence actually creates content, while Luka and Beesley just react to what other people create. I am not sure how that would work out. What I really appreciate about Lost in the Pond is that Laurence spends time cleverly writing and telling stories with his creations.
@J LA You know that we have overreached reaction videos as a genre when channels start reacting to their earliest reaction videos. In those we have a reaction to one's own reaction to someone else's content.
I live in PA now. Also have lived in VA, Florida, TX, & Arkansas. Never ever heard anyone say clicker. Everyone always called it a remote. I’m 68 now. Spent a lot of time in each state because of husbands job.
When I think of a dresser, it is a lower chest with a mirror above it (and sometimes a seat). The taller chest in the room I’d call a chest of drawers.
In America a low dresser with a mirror (at times rim lit), a boudoir chair and a kneehole for the sitter is/was a "dressing table," often skirted, as in yore Hollywood films.
@@Lyrabela I’m certainly no expert, but I’d typically think of a vanity table in a master bath dressing room. More functional probably and not as large as a dresser with a large decorative mirror but not lighted for women to put on make-up.
@@pacmanc8103 I was just curious! I've always heard anything with a seat and mirror called a vanity :) ...but you know regional differences and all that lol
Laurence I learned the true history of a "chest of drawers" from Britain. It was on a house tour. They said that all clothes were kept in a chest. Everything was kept there. People got tired of digging to the bottom for wanted items. Some genius decided to put a drawer on the bottom of the chest for special items. It went over so well they kept adding more drawers. This is how the term CHEST OF DRAWERS came about. It really makes sense. If I come across that video again, I'll let you know.
Not quite the same thing, but does explain word usage. I was at a Christmas tree display with a "garden" under a tree. A woman said to another visitor that the garden was called a "puts" but she didn't know why. I had heard the term & that it simply meant the stuff you PUTS under the tree.
I generally use living room for the area in a house where people can sit and interact and watch TV and such. I think of a lounge as a specialized luxurious area for rest during travel, such as at an airport or train station.
And silverware has transitioned into a term for heirloom silver flatware. It emerges on special occasions with the china. And at the reading of a will.
Here's what you get if you Google cutlery: cut·ler·y noun knives, forks, and spoons used for eating or serving food. NORTH AMERICAN cutting utensils, especially knives for cutting food. After the definition, all the hits you get are for cutting utensils, especially knives for cutting food, mostly chef's knives and kitchen knives, brands like Chicago Cutlery, etc.
MN/SD here: Chest of drawers: tall and skinny, usually 5-7 drawers, rarely has a mirror Dresser or bureau: short and wide, can have multiple columns of drawers, often has a mirror Armoire: freestanding closet DRAWERS: those things you pull out of dressers, chests of drawers, that plastic storage container in the video, cabinets, etc., that you store stuff in
Remember those bits with Judy Carne on Laugh-In? "It may be an outlet to you, but it's a socket to me!" I thought you Brits called the living room the "sitting room."
It depends where you're from. It's a regional thing. If you're from more working class areas, it's mostly living room. If middle class, more likely sitting room.
"Temporary placeholder drawers that we've had for four years." Most relatable thing you've ever said.
I have those "temporary" drawers! Longer than 4 years
Are they supposed to be temporary? I thought they were permanent.
@@suellenw561 There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
I've had mine for 6 years.
In America a chest of drawers is also called a dresser.
Is that regional? In AZ chest of drawers is the taller more narrow in length. The dresser is used for the longer waist high one.
In NY we call a piece of furniture that we store our clothes in a dresser, whether its tall or wide.
@@islandgypsy1096 There are a lot of people who use the terms interchangeably. yeah - chest of drawers are tall and narrow, dresser is short. (usually longer, but older ones are the same width.)
Chest of drawers vs dresser: I don't think it has anything to do with regional. regional is "a chifforobe" (south).
@@islandgypsy1096 I'm from the midwest. Chicago originally. And I've ALWAYS heard of any chest of drawers being referred to as a dresser. It's simply a synonym we use in the midwest.
Funny, seeing as we're all about courtesy and slow and steady, we always want to make everything shorter and faster.
California. It's dresser unless it's really big, then it's drawers.
We also call flatware “utensils”. Or at least we do here in Missouri.
New Hampshire-ite here and we call them utensils
We say "silverware" in the South, even if it is made of steel, wood, or plastic, which makes no sense. :) I thought cutlery was exclusive to different types of knives, not including the spoons and forks., :)
We used utensils quite often in California, although silverware was also common.
In England utensils are spatulae, whisks, knives etc (except table knives which are cutlery).
Same in mn and wi
Those things on the stove top that sprout flame are also called burners. My mom would say "Have you checked the stove to see if all the burners have been turned off?"
The individual sections on a "hob" in the UK are called burners too. My general understanding, as an American in the UK Cooker=entire unit. Oven=the part you bake or roast things in (just like the US), Hob=stove top, range, and the hob is comprised of usually 4-6 burners, but just like in the US, if you tell someone to turn on the stove, or in the UK turn on the hob, you don't mean turn all of the burners on, just the ones you are using to cook.
Or eyes in the south.
@@charlesmassie6775 Really? I've never heard that one, in MD.
I'm from New Hampshire and we call them burners!!
@@stephaniewoods2374 Same...
When I was growing up, the word my dad used for remote was the name of any kid next to the TV.
SAME!
It was a life changing moment when your child finally had the wrist and grip strength to be able to turn the channel knob. "Remotely" being able to turn the TV on and the volume up or down was nice but the real game changer came when your child could change the channel. Lol
I was the family remote control.
In my house w/5 kids someone was always lying on the rug w/a pillow in front of the set. That was the designated controller. I once heard my brother say, louder up the TV! 😂
And you had to move the antenna around to make the channel come in better
One that used to throw me is the cupboard. I'd watch a video where they'd say a person was locked in a cupboard and I'd picture them being squeezed in the plate space over the dishwasher.
A torch-wielding mob is a lot less intimidating if it just consists of a bunch of people waving flashlights around.
Have you ever been smacked upside the head with a large maglight flashlight? Rolled off closet shelf. That smarts!
@@parnelpospahala7920 you survived that? Good grief. You need a medal.
@@parnelpospahala7920 These days the closet shelves are much less likely to be solid pine and so much more likely to be wire slats so I have tried to remember to line up the flashlight accordingly and avoid it rolling off onto my head.
@@charlesmassie6775 Or a metal plate?
Flash lights don't flash
Wash cloth... In the American south I grew up saying wash rag.
Wash rag, yep.
Midwest here 🙋♀️
Wash rags are for doing dishes.
Wash cloths for faces, and such 🙂
@@cindyknudson2715 for clothes and dishes is called a rag.
My family is from the South, so I said “wash rag” as a kid, but I started saying “wash cloth” as I got older, so sound more classy!
@@cindyknudson2715 I use a face cloth to clean with and a dish rag to dry dishes with. Unless I am in the kitchen and need a face cloth quick and suddenly it is a dish "towel".
Growing up in TX, my family called it something like, "chester drawers," lol. I didn't understand it when I was young, I would ask, "who's chester and why do we have his drawers?" My dad finally explained it to me as, "chest of drawers." I'd completely forgotten about that. I was probably 3 or 4 in the early 80s. A dresser was different because it was shorter and had a mirror on top.
My friend grew up thinking God's name was Harold. As in "Harold be thy name"
Ah the sweet fun of a fine Texas drawl.
Same here. Grew up to parents from Georgia and Arkansas. A chest of drawers (also confused it with Chester drawers when I was little) was a piece of furniture with usually three or four drawers in it, nothing else. A dresser was a lower wide piece of furniture with a mirror mounted to the back, sometimes with a cutout so a chair could fit under it, for women to sit down to fix their hair, etc.
How is it that you were probably three or four in the early eighties? You either were, or you weren't. It's a binary proposition.
Very interesting, this "chest of drawers" situation. I love that there are so many names for this!
@@womble321 Honestly, it's not too far off from "hosanna in the highest."
It’s funny how in America we call it a “faucet”, but we call the water that comes out of it “tap water”😂
In the US a "tap" is more used for stuff that comes out of a barrel.
@@Unpainted_Huffhines tap beer, from a keg. Back in the day it was a barrel of beer for sure.
In America, we mostly use the word tap to either refer to an outdoor faucet, like the ones on the side of a house, or on a barrel of something.
@@robertgronewold3326 i call the outside faucet a spigot. Texas.
@@Birdbike719 Same here in northern Hoosierland.
In the U.S., a cupboard usually refers to a kitchen cabinet, but we never use that word for what we call a “closet”.
In early~settler centuries eponymously it was literally a "board" affixed horizontally to a kitchen or dining room wall to hold "cups."
@@JudgeJulieLit Wow! I didn’t know that! I love the etymology of words like this that no one ever mentions!
Cupboard is very old fashioned, always cabinets.
@@samanthab1923 My mom, who is in her 70s and from the South, says “cupboard”, but yeah, no one in my generation and beyond ever used it. We say “cabinet”.
@@Maki-00 My wife is in her 70's and from California. She uses cupboard also.
as a child in the rural US South, I remember hearing people say "chest of drawers" but because of the accent, it sounded like "Chester Drawers"
I can attest to this…
So can I
Yes. And occasionally someone from my grandparents generation would even call a wardrobe a chiffarobe.
In the UK when I was a kid I thought my parents were saying chessa-draws
@@98SE in some parts of the US, they probably do say that…
Seeing Lost in The Pond showing a Lav Luka video reacting to Lost in The Pond is like watching Inception lol. My mind is blown but my heart is happy!💖
Make it weirder. There's also another kid named "Oblivious" doing Lawrence reactions, yet another one called "Beesley". Lawrence has become popular with a bunch of British twenty somethings with reaction channels.
@@Wiley_Coyote Yeah, Luka was watching videos on American culture and geography and the comments recommended Lost in the Pond.
He did a reaction to this video as well and was looking for the word 'Inception' for the segment
For those of us old enough to remember them, TV remote controls used to actually make a clicking sound when the buttons were pressed (hence the name). Many stopped calling them that when silent buttons were introduced.
I'm old enough to remember when they were first made but don't remember the sound; I remember the long wire that we were told not to run under the carpet.
This is what I was thinking. Up or down, loud click of the changing channel or when the tv is turned off. Haven't heard "clicker" in many years.
@@hopefletcher7420 The wired ones weren't clickers. Clicker remotes were wireless, didn't even have batteries. The buttons were in one or two rows connected to spring-loaded hammers that hit different length bars clicking at different frequencies. The TV had a microphone tuned to those frequencies. The guts of the clinker/remote look like a mix of a compact xylophone and 5 to 7 cap guns squeezed into a box not to dissimilar to an old hand radio.
Ah, I knew there was an age component to that! It sounds like slang to me. I don’t think we ever had one that clicked. We had a TV in a fancy wood cabinet forever, and we had to get up and turn it. When my folks finally replaced it, I think the clicker phase was over. 😂
I'm from Chicago and we totally used Chest of Drawers but it refers to drawers that are single-wide and stack vertically and are usually tallish. A dresser is approx hip high and side by side stacked drawers. And we don't use them interchangeably. At least in my family we don't mix them.
That's interesting because a few hours south of you the terms are totally interchangeable. Language is weird sometimes.
In the US, a sweeper is a nonelectric machine used to quickly clean carpet between vacuuming, in such places as a restaurant or office.
Yeah, thy have a little brush roller inside them and work very quietly, so they're good for cleaning up little messes during business hours unobtrusively.
Surely you mean broom. I've literally never heard the term sweeper, unless someone was talking about a street sweeper.
@@charlesmassie6775 LOL-Google it😄
@@charlesmassie6775 Not everyone uses Carpet Sweepers because they have vacuums, which work so much better. They're used for light cleaning of carpets when getting out a big vacuum would be inconvenient or loud. We had one when I was a kid, and it was a good way for us to learn to help around the house in a way we could manage. (A vacuum would have been too heavy).
I’m in the south and we (or my family at least) call stick vacs sweepers as well, usually because we use them on linoleum or hardwood. “Vacuum” is used if it’s a bigger type exclusively for carpet.
Nice of him to point at Lav Luka, now you need to collaborate with him
That poor kid is going to faint when he sees this. He probably has to recover first.
Lawrence may not even know this, but there are now two or three other British people reacting to him besides that kid.
@wileycoyote69...Beesley is one, i love that guy.
He's a likable guy. Reaction videos might not be super creative, but if I like the people doing it, there's a certain appeal.
@@TexasRiverGirl There's another besides Beesly called Oblivious. Of the three, he's the one I like least. He moans and groans a lot if he thinks something Lawrence says is inaccurate. His reactions are often very opposite to Lav Luka, so I suspect they live in different regions or are different social classes, so they see British society, language and living circumstances very differently.
@@MacGuffinExMachina he's a nice kid, and Lawrence realized that, which is why rather than get butthurt over the possibility of losing views (if someone decided to ONLY watch the reaction video), Lawrence was flattered instead and did this to acknowledge the kid. It makes me respect Lawrence more. He may be sarcastic, but he's a stand up guy.
Usually if the piece of furniture is taller than it is wide, I call it a chest of drawers. If it’s wider than it is tall, I usually call it a dresser. Just the way I was raised. Dressers many times had a mirror.
One raises chickens, but rears children.
Really? I consider it the opposite, tho in reality, I say both interchangeably, and use my hands to illustrate what I mean.
This is accurate.
Same here!
Totally agree with you on the shorter ones being dresser, but in the military, the taller ones are a secretary, and I haven't beat that out of my brain, yet.
What is called a “jug” in Britain, is usually called a “pitcher” in the US. I’ve noticed this several times through the years. A “jug” in the US is usually a fat bottle with small mouth.
Depends. Where I come from, pitcher is primarily described as jug-like device used to pour beer. The word jug itself is usually used for non-alcoholic drinks. The popular use for jug here referring to a drink such as Kool-Aid it juice.
. . . that, when blown across, can be used in a bluegrass band.
And in New Zealand, apparently "jug" refers to a tea kettle.
@@lonewolf4612 with teens, 'jug',usually in the plural, 'jugs' meant the two fatty tissues attached to the chest wall of women and girls.
To me, a jug and a pitcher are two different things.
My grandparents' generation (American adults during the Great Depression) typically called all electric refrigerators "frigidaires" bc, like Hoover, that was the name of an early brand that was often their first-ever electric fridge. But if they didn't call it a frigidaire, they likely called it an "icebox." since that was the appliance that refrigerators replaced. Best wishes.
The Frigidaire company still makes electric refrigerators, now with latest technology and design, often with stainless exteriors. And they make freestanding and hanging thermometers to measure fridge and freezer temperatures. The "icebox" was not so much an "appliance," as a large metal box in kitchen to hold in one compartment food, and in the other a large block of ice after a delivery "iceman" cameth.
Yes, I remember my father and his mother telling us about deliveries of ice blocks that would go in a small compartment in the icebox above the food storage. The ice was cut from the great lakes or Canada and would be shipped all over the country.
Still call it "ice box." That's what I heard as a kid.
Yes! That was my Nan. Always the Frigidaire!
I think a lot of people call the refrigerator a fridge, which is short for a Frigidaire. I know I do. But then I grew up calling it a ice box, because my greatest generation parents called it that. I switched to using either fridge or refrigerator in my teens when I got weird looks from my friends.
"Clicker" comes from the early days of remotes, where they only had 3 or 4 buttons that made a loud *CLICK* when you pressed them, that could wake the dead.
Those old 'clickers' actually used the sound to activate the action. That's why they were so loud. The TV literally heard the 'click' and could tell the different clicks sounds and either raise of lower the volume or change the channel.
@@vr4042 or just the sound of dad pointing at which kid it was to go change the channel when there was only the dial for a TV.😂
Also, the earliest remotes merely actuated a servo motor to physically rotate the channel selector knob. My grandparents had one of these and I thought it was absolutely magical
I guess once other people start making reaction videos to you, then you are indeed an official RUclips Sensation.
Hoover/vacuum is like Kleenex for facial tissues or tissues.
In America, the word Clicker refers to the first remote having 3 large buttons to change the channel & powering the tv on/off. When pressed the button would make a CLICK sound. Of course, back then there were only 5 channels.
Only 3 where I grew up in the 60's.
3? Luxury. We used to dream of television before it was invented.
darn-it..... you beat me to it.....
@@bruknorx "BEFORE it was invented"??!! TV was invented in the 1920'S, how old are you?
I had 4 growing up...in the 1980s. Cable didn't come out to the sticks until I was a teenager.
It isn’t that strange to call a vacuum a Hoover considering we call tissues, “Kleenex,” and bandages, “Band-aids.”
We call them plasters. (Band-aid is a brand name not well known here in England. Our equivalent is Elastoplast).
Or using Xerox to mean photocopy.
And sanitary napkins are kotex
Don’t forget Biro for a ball point pen, or just pen.
@@ButacuPpucatuB or just a bic as it is called in parts of America.
As an American, I've always called the devise that allows you to remain in your seat and change the channel as a remote control or simply a remote.
Often now, more indolently a "''mote."
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It's always been a clicker. Same with the garage door opener thingy.
"remote control" is common in the UK too
I'm waiting to hear some pretentious techie call it a "wireless television channel and volume adjuster." 😁😆🤔
I remember as a child I liked playing with my grandmother’s carpet sweeper. It was non electric and you pushed it over the carpet which turned the bristle brush underneath.
I remember those
I have one of those, bought it just last winter to pick up tracked-in stuff between vacuumings.
We called it a Bissell which is the brand name like Hoover.
My grandmother had an electric broom in the 1990s! It plugged into the wall but you also pushed it and the bristle brush was on the underside. It was much lighter than the vacuum cleaner, so I think it was easier for her to use.
I have one. It took a while to figure out the fancy design thingy on the push rod actually detached and was a scraper comb thingy to clean the bristles.
The early television remotes made a loud clicking noise when you pushed the up or down button, this audio signal is actually what told the TV to change channels….one at a time…and there was no punching in numbers, you simply went up or down…one at a time.
In southern Oklahoma, I grew up calling a washcloth a "washrag." If I ever heard someone calling it a washcloth, I immediately thought they were "actin high & mighty." I think that would translate as "posh" to the chav set. Oh... and "washrag" was pronounced "woorsh-raig". Just so we're clear.
I’m so glad somebody else here knows the correct pronunciation.
Yes and doing the laundry is called doing the warsh
Same in Ohio.
@@kiki070799 why warsh instead of wosh
5:50 Silverware is made from silver and is used for fine dinning. Holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving....or Easter. Flatware is for everyday use.
In the US, at least in the midwest, “silverware” doesn’t necessarily imply that it contains any silver. It could easily be stainless steel. I might hesitate to use the term for throwaway plastic utensils, but might do so anyway, after failing to come up with a better word.
@@kc9scott I usually just say utensils.
@@kc9scott "plastic silverware" is also a term you'll hear
@@kc9scott I live in Illinois. This is what my family differentiates between the two.
Clicker is from the 70s device as it made an actual sound, a click, that made the TV change channels.
It’s a clicker in the south too. A wooden collection of drawers with a mirror on top is a dresser. A chest of drawers is taller, no mirror.
Interesting! I'm not sure if its just a local thing, but both are called dressers near me. With a mirror it's just a dresser with a vanity mirror.
The south likes to use a lot of old-fashioned words for things, like ice box instead of refrigerator.
I’m in Missouri and I don’t know anyone who calls it a clicker. In the olden days it was just “hey, while you’re up, change the channel!”
@@chitlitlah I'm from the Midwest but my grandma move back and forth from South to Midwest a lot so sometimes my words don't match others lol. Like my friends call my ice box a deep chest. It's interesting you call the fridge an ice box!
SC here and I agree on all three terms, Pam. The dresser doesn't have to have a mirror, but it usually does. The chest of drawers (which I thought people were saying Chester drawers until I was almost grown) like you said, is the taller piece and never has a mirror.
My grandfather was a Yorkshireman. He lived in Louisiana and he always called the tv remote the “clicker”. However, he would have recalled the early tv remotes from the the 1960’s which made a loud clicking sound when a button was pressed.
He came to US during WWII, and returned to marry my grandmother after the war.
Essentially a mechanical broom with a built-in dust pan.
Right--"clicker" is left over from the 60's TV remotes--that's what we called it in our house, too. In Chicago.
also early remote controls worked by ultrasound and the click was made by the button hitting a bar that created the tone
@@cixelsyd40 Thanks, I visited this forum to ask that very question, because I don't remember ever changing a battery on a clicker. BTW, a friend's TV and their garage door were on the same frequency on a button, and it would annoy their parent's whenever we fought over the remote.
I remember my grandfather shaking his keys to change channels if he couldn't find the clicker.
Cutlery is also called utensils in the US
In my family here in the midwest, cupboards are the things that are above the countertop, while cabinets are below the countertop. They also all just get called kitchen cabinets sometimes, no matter where they are in the kitchen. The tall closet with shelves that you put food and cooking equipment on gets called a pantry in my house.
Here is West Virginia, cupboard wasn't a word that was used. Both are called cabinets.
That's weird. In Virginia, a cupboard can be either below or above the stove, or maybe nowhere near the stove. However, cabinets are always above the stove itself or above stove level.
In NYC, they're all cabinets. We don't use the word cupboard, but I assume it's where dishes are kept. We do use the word pantry, and I really wish I had one!
In Texas they're all cabinets too. I've never used the word cupboard.
And I don't keep cleaning products in my closet either. They're in the cabinets under the sinks (both kitchen and bathroom sinks). And sometimes in the pantry. Especially when the pantry is also the laundry room.
In my family it's always been kitchen cupboards. Cabinets are the free standing shelving units with doors w/or without glass panels. Usually used for curios, dishes, electronics or even books that you don't want exposed to dust or light.
Stove top is also “range.”
Also the more I watch this the more I realize how extremely British my grandparents were. They still kept a lot of the words and habits from Britain. I guess their last name was Smith. We said tea towel exclusively and cutlery interchangeably with silverware.
And the hot places on the stove (or Range) are called burners, even if they are electrical or magnetic
A stove or range is usually the entire unit with both a cooktop and an oven, at least in New England.
@@Bobrogers99 In Wisconsin it was definitely only the top part. Most specifically when the range existed by itself apart from a separate oven in a kitchen or if there was no oven at all.
Where I live stove top is more popular than range. But those things that cook the food are always called eyes down here.
My grandmother had an early model microwave oven that she called the "radar range"
Growing up in Massachusetts, we called the remote a "clickah", and had three names for the furniture you use for clothes: the tall ones without doors were chests of drawers, with doors were armoires, and the long, waist-high ones were bureaus.
I refer to a carpet sweeper as the non-motorized tool used by restaurant help to clean up after the family with 6 children under the age12 leave the table.
Non-motorized as in "Last hired".
I've always called those a Bissel or a sweeper.
@@Birdbike719 My folks had a Bissel sweeper. Wished I kept it. I never referred to a vacuum cleaner as a sweeper.
Agreed
"We've got the Crown. You've got the Throne."
-Laurence's missed pun opportunity during the toilet segment.
Damn, you beat me to it.
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The term "clicker" is a holdover from the first remotes which emitted hideously loud clicking noises to transmit simple auditory commands. I seem to recall playing with one as a child and upsetting it's proud owner. It had three buttons. I believe they represented Power, Channel Up, and Channel Down. (I think the branding was Zenith*.)
It seems to me you really had to be lazy to put up with that noise to avoid moving a few steps across a room, but some people are on their feet all day, so I get that.
*Google image (or video) search for Zenith Clicker reference!
Luka, you've done it, you've achieved greatness.
Love your vids. I'm Canadian and we tend to mix it up and use British and USA terms. Sometimes in the same sentence.
Growing up we always called the tall one a chest of drawers and the waist high one a dresser because that is the one the usually has a mirror and you get dressed in front of it .
Now I understand that 90s song where the guy sang "a flannel for my face"
Squeeze! I adore that song "Tempted".
Haha I always imagined he couldn't find a towel so he had to dry his face with his flannel shirt!
@@andreapence954 That's what my boys dry off with bc they don't remember to pull a towel out of the closet, lol!
a collective term for cutlery is also known as utensils.
Indeed! Even though I know cutlery and flatware and silverware, I sometimes also call them utensils. Which is confusing, because the large cooking utensils (like spatulas and ladles) are utensils.
Lived in the US midwest, and I feel like the last time I heard the term "clicker" was in reference to old style remotes, the ones with a cord connected to the tv. Might be a holdover with older folks, but I don't hear that anymore.
The term “clicker” is typically a dated term used by older generations. I’ve mostly heard the terms “remote” or “remote control” used in America otherwise. That said, it may also be a regional thing as well.
The reason they are called clickers by older people, as the remotes from the sixties and maybe later actually worked by sound, not infrared or radio like modern ones. They actually clicked. ruclips.net/video/4_ZDDz2umIw/видео.html&ab_channel=Mechasquirrel
@@drh3b you might remember the term ultrasonic remote or just ultrasonics
Not just older generations. It really is a relatively common term in the Midwest. Clicker is a fun word to say!
I’ve never ever heard of a vacuum called a “sweeper” before. There is such a thing as a “carpet sweeper” but it has no suction and no motor. It’s a manual thing with a long handle and just has a roller with bristles and kicks the crumbs up inside of it. They’re not very efficient.
I think sweeper is a Midwestern/Indiana term. I’ve lived in a lot of other states (and a few other countries) and never heard of sweeping the carpet until I moved to Indiana. I’ve assured heard Hoosiers saying hoovering the rugs.
@@Scrapfuzz Bex Bissel was a brand name for carpet sweepers
I live on the East Coast, and, while I personally always called it the "remote", my dad always called it the "clicker". Both of us are native New Jerseyans. I think it's more to do with age, than geography.
I think you’re onto something. I’m from Utah. I call it remote and my sad says clicker. (Although my dad is from Minnesota.)
For many years, I worked with an extremely highly educated man from South Asia. One day, we were sitting at our desks doing paperwork. And he asked for, "the eradicator". I was looking all over my desk - at every item on my desk! And I couldn't figure out what the hell this man wanted!
It was the white out.
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“Eradicator” sounds intense! 🤣🤣🤣
Which we would usually refer to as tippex in the U.K. ( another use of a brand name as a generic term).
“Eradicator” sounds like some sort of sci fi ray gun. Or maybe “eradicate” just makes me think of Daleks shouting “exterminate” while firing their own ray guns.
Like you’re thinking, ‘Do I have a laser?’ as you search your desk.
The taller of the two common pieces of bedroom furniture is a chest of drawers and the lower, usually with a mirror is the dresser.
Yes
I live in Utah, US and we always called the lower type with a mirror a "vanity."
And yes, the thing in the bathroom with a sink, cupboard, drawers and plumbing underneath, mirror above is also called a vanity.
@@nariu7times328 I’ve always used “vanity” to refer to a small dressing table with a mirror, but I’ve never heard a mirrored dresser referred to as a vanity before.
nariu 7times A lady's vanity is something separate from her dresser. Low & had a mirror w/a chair.
Clicker came from from when remotes first came out. They were mechanical back then and emitted a loud click when you pushed the button. IIRC, the actually emitted an ultrasonic sound the TV picked up. The click was the mechanical mechanism that struck device that made the sound the TV listened for like a tuning fork.
The bathroom section reminded me of how we used to call throwing up talking to Ralph on the big white telephone. We thought that was hilarious.
The best words for throwing up come from Australia. The Aussies are very creative with language. Admiring Brit here!
Yes, talking to Ralph regarding his Buick or, alternatively, worshiping the Porcelain God
@@torfrida6663 Sharing is caring. What are some of them?
That's pretty awesome. We always said we were gonna spew chunks or Ralph.
Chest of drawers is what I call a dresser.
same
In the south it is a Chester drawers
@@freedomcat Chest of drawers in Virginia.
A chest of drawers is the tall one and dresser is the long one.
In California they are both dressers
I vividly remember the first time I encountered “torch” as used in England. Characters in an Agatha Christie novel were lighting their way with one. I pictured a much more exciting event than what the author intended.
To me, "flashlight" doesn't make sense because of the fact that torches don't flash
Let's really get lost in the pond with "chifferobe," which is an armoire and a set of drawers all in one piece of furniture!
And heavy as all get out. Add "washstand" with drawers and a movable mirror and a washbowl with basin.
@@haroldwilkes6608 I still have the washstand that my Great Great Grandfather built out of old oak crates. Not too fancy but it's sturdy and it's about 100 years old.
Those are getting so hard to find and I would really like even to buy a newer version of the same thing but when you DO find them...they're ridiculous $$$$.
@@ruthsaunders9507 Hold on to that, oak and age have value, regardless of who built it. But unless it's specialty auction, it won't sell well...reason, heavy and bulky, I had my grandfather's oak washstand, about the same age, was offered $5 for it, sold it later for $750! You just have to find the right buyer. Good luck.
@@lucylulusuperguru3487 From experience - look at farm or estate auctions - they're bulky and heavy, most people won't buy items like that, if you find one you like, it could sell for almost nothing. I told Ruth Saunders (below) not to sell at a small auction for that very reason. And bring extra muscle.
My American parents lived in England for my first 15 years. Then we moved back to the States. I get all these common objects all muddled up and confuse not only myself but everyone around me.
Also, akin to hoovers for you, my grandparents called the couch "the davenport" which was a brand of couch generecized to all couches.
Yeah that's big in Iowa. I've heard it often.
Well this is now the awesomest video on RUclips I’ve seen! So very meta. Lost In The Pond watching Lav Luka reacting to Lost In The Pond. It’s all come full circle from me finding Lost In The Pond, subscribing, and then finding Lav Luka, subscribing, being one of many making a recommendation in the comments regarding Lost In The Pond to Lav Luka, Lav Luka doing reaction videos to Lost In The Pond, and now Lost In The Pond watching Lav Luka react to Lost In The Pond. Wow!!! 🤯 LOL Awesome!
Imagine when Luka reacts to this video...
Same
Throne. Some folks in the US call the toilet "the throne." As in, "If you need me, I'll be sitting on my throne."
Puts a whole different spin on GOT.
Porcelain throne here in VA.
I say my husband is in the library if someone calls.
If one has had too much to drink it's "The White Wishing Well".
Same here in México. "Voy al trono", "Está en el trono". 😄
“Range” is another common American term for the Oven/Stove.
If you separate the range components you end up with a wall oven and a cooktop.
@@machintelligence Never heard the term "Cooktop". it's a "rangetop" or range top. My ideal setup would be an electric wall oven and gas range top.
@@Rocketsong Cooktops have their controls on the surface while rangetops have their controls out front. · A rangetop requires a section of the countertop to be taken out ...
I had to Google this to find out the difference.
I have always seen "drop in" cooktops and never encountered (to my knowledge) a rangetop.
In my household the TV remote is called “the scepter of power”
I like that! I think it should catch on.
Alternate name: "gimme that thing" said while snatching it away from a manic clicker (the person, not the thing.)
The "scepter of power" ... wielded by "she who must be obeyed" ... according to Rumpole.
That's pretty awesome.
This one girl I grew up with always called it the remolte, so sometimes I'll call it that.
A British person having a crispy fudge confection in the morning while viewing a morning broadcast would be eating a chocky bicky for brekky while watching telly.
“A spoon doesn’t look particularly flat, but from space neither does the earth.” best quote of 2021
In the US, "cutlery" refers 99% of the time to knives.
Even in the UK, it *should*only refer to knives - forks, spoons etc are flatware.
I always see cutlery on plastic disposable spoons, knives, and forks. At least here in the Pacific Northwest.
should be cutlery, scooplery, and stablery
@@telegramsam Perfect. lol
That hasn't been my experience. I've really only heard cutlery to mean flatware used for fancy occasions (which makes the placement of the term on plastic ware seem hilarious).
I was taught that a chest of drawers is tall with a single row of drawers. A dresser is usually two drawers wide and shorter.
Yes, a chest of drawers is one tall column, whereas a dresser is lower and wider, has two to three columns of drawers.
And are sometimes referred to a highboy and a lowboy.
Yes!
@@cindyknudson2715 In Britain we would say tallboy. Anything lower is just a chest of drawers although some ignorant people think it's Chester drawers...Chester is a city in northwest England!
I heard them both called dressers, but the low long one was a dresser with a vanity. If they matched the bed, the whole lot of them were a bedroom set. Next to the bed, if you needed a place for your glasses, was a nightstand. End tables were between chairs in the living room, which was the room most of the living took place in. I never heard TV room, den, family room, etc, until my 20s, although my friend grew up with a living room and a formal living room that no one could enter or touch for any reason.
The earliest TV remote controllers actually worked with an audible "click". You could cause random events "Channel Change, Volume Change" by shaking a handful of coins nearby. I heard "clicker" quite a bit when I was younger, but now hear "remote" most of the time or "TV remote" to disambiguate from the streaming device remote that is usually nearby.
That's a gorgeous couch/sofa/divan/chesterfield/loveseat/davenport/settee.
are you trying to start a war here?
Davenport was the one that confused me as a kid. The only person I ever heard refer to the couch as a davenport was my grandmother whom I think gave that up after awhile because in America we say couch or sofa. As a kid I tried to formulate what the word meant and came up with that it was a "port for your daven".
My family is from KY and we grew up using the term "chest of drawers" but as kids we would playfully call them "Mr Chester Drawers."
My family is from WV. I thought a chest of drawers was a chester drawers. I was an adult the first time I noticed an ad for a piece of furniture called a chest of drawers. It was a light bulb moment for me.
"Hoover" replacing vacuum cleaner may sound odd to those of us on this side of the Pond, but we also have brand names applied to numerous common objects. Apart from the obvious 'Kleenex', 'Aspirin', and 'Band-Aid', common phrases such as 'Crock-Pot', 'Dry Ice', 'Ping Pong' and even 'Seeing Eye Dog' all began as trademarks.
Get the Kodak and take a picture.
Clicker is from the early days of remote control TVs; they worked by using specific tone frequencies and you could also change channels by shaking your keys in front of the TV.
Could be done by making a loud almost explosive "ch" sound as well.
Wow! I had no idea that would/could work. Now I wish I could go back in time and check that out! So sad I didn't know.
I'm suddenly reminded of the scene in O Brother, Where Art Thou where George Clooney asks a guy if he had any hairnets, and the guy says, "top drawer of yon bureau." They had been his wife's hairnets, but she done r-u-n-n-o-f-t.
I love that movie.
Thank you! I am pleased to have added "porcelain firing range" to my repertoire of things to call my toilet. My wife will be pleased. I'm feeling quite cultured.
Growing up in West Virginia, we (my family and I) referred to the larger, taller drawers as a chest of drawers and the usually smaller, shorter drawers with a mirror attached as a dresser.
In Western Pennsylvania, too.
@Julie Miller My mother had something very similar to what you describe. She used it to put on makeup, brush her hair and things like that. But she called it a vanity or a makeup table. Funny how you can hear different terms for the same thing, even across just a short distance!
In the UK, the dresser with a mirror or even 3 mirrors, is called a dressing table. It has a space in the centre below the tabletop for your legs , as mentioned. Small drawers each side. Ladies use the top for their beauty accessories etc.
In Chicago many of us refer to the living room as the front room (pronounced frunch room).
So true! I bet I was 10 before I figured out the word was front, not frunch!
I forgot that Chicagoism, being the term for the living room on the front (street) end of the house.
Yep! For some odd reason, my Chicago relatives also referred to the TV as the "tea-VEE" as in putting the accent on the "V" instead of the "T" like most normal people.
Also - calling pickle relish "pick-a-lily" which I still don't get.
From Chgo also and always said “front room” especially when younger but never pronounced it “frunch” This is the first time I’ve ever heard that 😂
What the!!! It’s amazing how different even the suburbs can be from Chicago. We always had the Living Room and Family Room designations growing up, but somehow my husband which is also from the same area missed out on this and still refers to our Family Room as our Living Room. The Living Room is the more formal room in the front of the house that would be more showy. The Family Room is usually at the back of the house where the family hangs out and watches TV.
I would think that dresser is more common in the US than chest of drawers or bureau.
I've never heard "chest of drawers" in the Western US, but I have heard "bureau" -- usually reserved for a very expensive and fancy dresser, typically most I've seen have some sort of French doors on the front that hide the drawers within.
Probably depends on where. I hear chest of drawers all the time. But here it's different than a dresser. You rarely hear furniture called bureaus here.
In the olden days, calling vacuums “hoovers” was a thing in the US. My grandma did.
Hoovering the carpet.
My mom and grandma (and a couple of my sisters) call it the sweeper. I call it the vacuum, or the vacuum cleaner.
It's kinda like how most people refer to a reciprocating saw as a "sawz all" even though "sawz all" is a specific brand of reciprocating saws.
@@Maxinidas Also Frisbee and roller blades probably more to.
Kind of like how some very strange people refer to all tissues as Kleenex, even though Kleenex is a specific brand of tissue... I used to get in a fights with this one kid in school all the time in like third grade because she would say "someone hand me a Kleenex" and I would say "you mean a tissue?" And she would get all mad at me and I'd be like "Well technically they're not Kleenex because Kleenex is a brand and these are not Kleenex brand tissues..."
I was a very argumentative child
Facecloth is also an acceptable term in Scotland. Also, the TV remote is often referred to as the buttons.
I'm gonna start reffering to the toilet as the Porcelain Firing Range from now on lmao
😂
I love dropping depth charges at the porcelain firing range.
Lawrence the term clicker is more of an age group than an actual geographical area. 🐢🦅🤠
It dates back to when such control units were analogue, and made an audible clicking noise when switching channels.
I'm 51, clicker is a term I recognize for sure, and grew up in Los Angeles.
I agree.
I've also heard it called the Changer, usually from people of a similar age range to those using the word "clicker".
Yeah, my stepdad is in his 70s and calls it that. He calls everything something”er” though. The remote is the clicker, the gear shift is the shifter, etc.
I was born, raised, still live in Minnesota and i have never call the remote control a clicker nor did not family or my husband's family.
I have always called the place I keep my socks and underwear (pants as they say in the UK) my dresser draws.
It's been fun watching your channel as a person that studied abroad in York, England and remembering all the different I got to find out living in the UK. Some fun, some embarrassing, and some just confusing.
Draws? Not drawers?
I was born and raised in Utah, and I have lived in Idaho for 21 years and people around here usually say Tap more then faucet, but faucet is used. I personally love to use torch instead of flashlight, I love to say telly, and my son adopted the British thing of adding a Y to the end of a lot of words, we say drinky in our house instead of drink because of him. 😂 I love your videos. I have been obsessed with England since I was 6 years old and over the years I have learned a lot of British English words because of it. There are a lot of words that I have learned from you that I didn't know before. I really love that you have created this channel. Thank k you so much.
Not sure if they call the toilet this in the UK but I know in America we sometimes call the toilet “the porcelain throne” or “throne” for short
I've heard it called the "porcelain god". Usually when you are hung over and you are "praying" to it. lol.
Some
People do, but it's not common.
Lav and Kafka in supporting roles. 🤩
Best video yet! Due to my obsession with British TV, I guessed most of the British words, which was really fun. You didn't mention it, but I grew up calling a chest of drawers a "dresser." I have never heard the word "clicker" for the TV remote; I have lived in Oregon, California, Arizona, and Utah. These videos always make my day; thanks!
When I was a kid in the 60s, the TV remote actually made a clicking sound, which is why we called it a clicker
Before miniaturized radio (RF) and long before infra-red, the remote controls literally were 'clickers' that effectively struck ultra-sonic tuning forks to send the signal.
AAYYYYYY bringing some facts to the comment are we? Didn't know this but now that I think of it, totally makes sense.
Did you also know those clickers in the 60’s contained high pitched tuning forks to process the commands given to them ?
In the 70s our remote was us getting up and turning the dial 😁
Wow! I didn't have my first clicker until the late 80s. And yes, the little pad made a muffled sort of clicking sound. On/off; volume up/down; channel up/down.
Back in the mid 1970's, my grandparents bought a new color TV, their first color TV, it came with what they called a clicker (remote) it was twice the size of a pack of cigarettes and had only 5 buttons, one for on/off, one for raising the volume, one for lowering the volume, one channel up and one for channel down. The buttons would make a very loud click when pushed all the way in, therefore the term clicker.
The button would pluck a spring, which made a tone, and the TV listened for those tones. I was so fascinated watching the tuner knob rotate each time.
@@larrywilliams8010 Interesting! I didn't know they had remotes before infra-red.
@@larrywilliams8010 Are you sure it was a tone? My understanding was that the buttons shot a slug through a coil, generating an electronic noise pulse. I think there were about 3 slug/coil combos, letting you control power, channel (all 12 of them), and volume.⬅
It doesn't really relate to the "clicker" term, but there were also wired TV remotes. No clicking, but you had an annoying, sometimes problematic, wire between the couch and the TV.
Same here, we are showing our age. 😅 The first remotes were just like that, I still remember how annoying the sound was, especially when Dad couldn't decide between all 4 networks. 😂
@@r0kus yes, the tones generated were actually higher than a human ear can detect. The "click" you heard was just the spring mechanism that produced the tone.
Thought I'd add what I know as the Australian terms (in my state anyhow). It's interesting to see we have a variety of both British and American influence along with a few weirdy ones. Hope I got them all.
1. Broom cupboard
2. Torch
3. Vacuum
4. Powerpoint
5. Extension cord
6. Lounge room (but this is slowly getting replaced by living room as real estate is now described by 'living areas'.
7. TV or telly
8. Remote (sometimes buzzer)
9. Oven/stove (cook top)
10. Cutlery
11. Dish washing liquid or dish liquid for short
12. Tap
13. Tea towel
14. Face washer
15. Toilet (dunny, loo etc.)
16. Drawers (chest of drawers or dresser)
Luka bout to be mind blown after watching this one 😭
I see Laurence as more in the Beesley lane, though I watch all 3 of these Brits.
Time to do some crossover videos or collabs.
@@JEdwardBanasikJr Except the difference is that Laurence actually creates content, while Luka and Beesley just react to what other people create. I am not sure how that would work out. What I really appreciate about Lost in the Pond is that Laurence spends time cleverly writing and telling stories with his creations.
@J LA You know that we have overreached reaction videos as a genre when channels start reacting to their earliest reaction videos. In those we have a reaction to one's own reaction to someone else's content.
@J LA I like Luka's reaction videos because it's about genuinely learning something new more than just "try not to laugh" types
My father (and grandfather) were tv repair men and I remember the sound clickers used to make.
I live in PA now. Also have lived in VA, Florida, TX, & Arkansas. Never ever heard anyone say clicker. Everyone always called it a remote. I’m 68 now. Spent a lot of time in each state because of husbands job.
When I think of a dresser, it is a lower chest with a mirror above it (and sometimes a seat). The taller chest in the room I’d call a chest of drawers.
I'm curious then what is the difference between that and a vanity table? Or do you not have a word for that?
In America a low dresser with a mirror (at times rim lit), a boudoir chair and a kneehole for the sitter is/was a "dressing table," often skirted, as in yore Hollywood films.
@@Lyrabela I’m certainly no expert, but I’d typically think of a vanity table in a master bath dressing room. More functional probably and not as large as a dresser with a large decorative mirror but not lighted for women to put on make-up.
@@pacmanc8103 I was just curious! I've always heard anything with a seat and mirror called a vanity :) ...but you know regional differences and all that lol
My mother had a chest with a mirror and seat that she called a powder table.
In the southeastern US we see your "chest of drawers" and call it "chesterdrawers" 😂
Who's Chester and why do you has his drawers? Lol.
Yeah, I always thought my mother called it "Chester drawers". It wasn't until adulthood that I realized it's called "chest of drawers".
In Austrlia, we also call an outlet a powerpoint, not the software. It's a power point which got the space removed.
Laurence I learned the true history of a "chest of drawers" from Britain. It was on a house tour. They said that all clothes were kept in a chest. Everything was kept there. People got tired of digging to the bottom for wanted items. Some genius decided to put a drawer on the bottom of the chest for special items. It went over so well they kept adding more drawers. This is how the term CHEST OF DRAWERS came about. It really makes sense. If I come across that video again, I'll let you know.
Not quite the same thing, but does explain word usage. I was at a Christmas tree display with a "garden" under a tree. A woman said to another visitor that the garden was called a "puts" but she didn't know why. I had heard the term & that it simply meant the stuff you PUTS under the tree.
The term clicker came from early remotes that used sound or a series of tonal clicks to tell the tv to change the channel.
I generally use living room for the area in a house where people can sit and interact and watch TV and such. I think of a lounge as a specialized luxurious area for rest during travel, such as at an airport or train station.
The equivalent to a walk-in closet would be a dressing room, or just a walk-in wardrobe
In America, "cutlery" refers to your set of fancy knives.
Or on the other end, plastic cutlery.
And silverware has transitioned into a term for heirloom silver flatware. It emerges on special occasions with the china. And at the reading of a will.
really? Around here, cutlery is a generic term for silverware. Sometimes, friends refer to plasticware (as a back-formation).
Here's what you get if you Google cutlery:
cut·ler·y
noun
knives, forks, and spoons used for eating or serving food.
NORTH AMERICAN
cutting utensils, especially knives for cutting food.
After the definition, all the hits you get are for cutting utensils, especially knives for cutting food, mostly chef's knives and kitchen knives, brands like Chicago Cutlery, etc.
No. That's what silverware is, because it's made of silver. Cutlery is any regular old fork, knife, or spoon
MN/SD here:
Chest of drawers: tall and skinny, usually 5-7 drawers, rarely has a mirror
Dresser or bureau: short and wide, can have multiple columns of drawers, often has a mirror
Armoire: freestanding closet
DRAWERS: those things you pull out of dressers, chests of drawers, that plastic storage container in the video, cabinets, etc., that you store stuff in
Remember those bits with Judy Carne on Laugh-In? "It may be an outlet to you, but it's a socket to me!"
I thought you Brits called the living room the "sitting room."
LOL! I missed that one!
It depends where you're from. It's a regional thing. If you're from more working class areas, it's mostly living room. If middle class, more likely sitting room.
In electrician speak it is a duplex receptacle (three prong.)