Scientist here, speaking US English. You described not a beaker but a flask. A beaker is a cylindrical container. It has straight sides that are essentially at a right angle to the flat bottom.
Fizzy drinks are also called soft drinks, and at 11:48, the husband described a conical flask, beakers are the cylindrical cups you use in chemistry, and also plastic bottles for drinking out of.
As an Irishwoman married to an American over 12 years, this takes me back to our first couple of marriage when this stuff was a constant source of confusion and conversation. We mostly understand each other by now! ;)
On my one trip to England I ordered a Sprite in a restaurant. The waitress said “lemonade?”. I was like, um, ok, sure... Was pleasantly surprised when I received a Sprite.
@@StressedSugarcane In the US, Sprite is not considered lemonade. Lemonade is a completely different drink, made with lemon juice and sugar (no carbonation).
I'm an American married to an Afrikaans speaking South African. In Afrikaans candyfloss/cotton candy is "spookasem" directly translated means ghost breath. Love yoυr videos, can so relate to them. I also enjoy listening to yoυr music videos too, Amy.
What I love about these kinds of comparisons is finding out the history of how these phrases or terms came to be. Like, the difference between the word “pants” over there in the UK and Ireland, versus “pants” here in the US. And, ironically, the act of “pantsing” someone is actually the same thing in both cultures, even though the root word means different things. Or “tabling” an argument.
You guys are great! ❤ I think I have the answer to the question of why tomato is pronounced different in Irish/British English compared to American. The Br./Ir. Eng. pronunciation of tomato is closer to the original word, which was 'tomatl' in the Aztec language Nahuatl. 'Tomatl' became 'tomate' in Spanish, which then became 'tomato' in Br./Ir. English, and the American pronunciation developed from that. Hope that helped!
So, when it comes to “indicators”, in the 50s and 60s, the vehicles in the UK actually had a little flag or pointer that would flip out to the side to indicate which direction you wanted to turn. This was the first mechanical replacement I know of for just sticking your arm out of the car and using hand signals. So, it makes total sense that they would call them “indicators”. Here in the US, I think we switched more quickly to using lights that would blink, thus the term “blinker” instead.
You forgot the windshield vs wind screen and I was surprised there was no mention of what is viewed at the cinema...the pronunciation of film was always a laugh for my Irish ex and I. Finally, the important difference between what it's called when you offer to drive someone somewhere (since you were on the subject of cars). My ex brother-in-law would always give me a hard time when I'd say "thanks for the ride" when he'd driven me somewhere... I'd quickly correct and thank him for the lift!! This video was so much fun to watch and brought back some good memories!
I love your videos! I’m from Northern Ireland ( pronounced:- Norn Ireland )and I can see that your Husband needs some serious re-education. The craic must be mighty in your house!
Your Deadly Amy , teach yer man the Irish way but he seems a great bit of craic . I'll have a gander at your other videos when I'm back at the Gaff. That US version of the biscuit sounds Manky . Stay safe youse two .
We grew up calling them "cokes." It didn't matter if it was a Sprite, Mr Pibb, Mt Dew, etc. It was coke.... until you wanted a specific kind of coke in the store or restaurant. Then, you'd specify. Pepsi wasn't allowed, so we won't go there..... (Grew up in West Ga, too close to Atlanta's World of Coca-Cola)
OMG from the cute tickling each other in the beginning to the indicators instead of turn signals/blinkers, I LOVED the entire video! You guys are too cute! The most down to earth, loving, charismatic couple on RUclips! I love you guys so much! 😄💖💜 also my fave one I have to agree with Ash, it turned my head (9:20) lol cotton candy as candy floss? Whhhaaattt 😳😂😂😝
Love it, love it, love it always funny and informative to what people from Ireland call things different then what Canadians and Americans call them words.
The name Beaker for a drinking vessel, comes from the Beaker culture found in Ireland, Britain, and other part of Europe from 2800BC to 1800BC. They used to drink out of inverted-Bell beakers hense their name.
I haven't been in Ireland in a long time, but back in the day in Cork (and even in Dublin, I think), there did not seem to be such a term as "fizzy drink." Non-alcoholic carbonated beverages were ONLY called "minerals." I wonder how the term "fizzy drink" started and how long it has been around.
@ 10.09 you call a fizzy drink a soda but where I live a soda is a type of bread we normally use in a fry or a full soda (soda bread cut like a sandwich toasted or fried with sausage, bacon and egg in the middle) yummy.. lol
We do pronounce both words the same as Americans however we dont really use the word Tangerine here in Ireland. We generally call all such small orange fruit a Mandarin or Clementine. There all called the same to us, even though we know they are different.
I've heard folks from New Jersey call a "blinker" an "indicator". Seemed like a lot of syllables for such a simple thing. I like "fizzy drink" and "foot path." I may start using them myself.
I loved it when Ashton said he didn't like salt and vinegar and you said, "More for me!" It reminds me of what I grew up saying, since my family is Portuguese. When in the same situation, we say, "Mas fica!" which means the same thing. Check with Ana. I'm sure she has heard that before! I enjoy these "tutorials" a lot. They are really helpful when traveling (which I hope we are all able to do again soon!) so that I am able to use the proper word to get what I want. Very helpful in a pub especially!
@@duhusker4383 Depends on where you are from. My family says "mas" but I have friends who learned "mais". The important part is the "fica" which means what you have stays with you! ;-)
@@pattierotondo1108 I know I'm Portuguese :) But you're righ now that I think of it a lot Portuguese people say 'mas fica' insteado of the correct 'mais fica'.
So the reason some places call cotton candy "floss" is because making it consists of spinning molten sugar in a container with little holes in it which causes thin threads of sugar string to be pushed out from the little holes. I lost it on beaker 🤣👨🔬🧪 Also, I don't care what "Nabisco" means, Ashton wins biscuit because biscuits are a completely different thing from rolls and buns. They're flaky and some of them are more like pastries than like rolls. She totally needs to try some real American biscuits. Also Zebra Walks are a term in America because not all cross walks have stripes. The stripes usually mean you have to stop for pedestrians if they enter it, whereas cross walks without stripes mean the pedestrian should wait to cross. "You could put a boot in the boot" 😂😭💀
My favorite moment was the "Beaker" vs. "Sippy Cup" conversation! It made me think of The Muppets Character "Beaker". These chats are so fun and informative. It would be so cool to see you do a duet of the Song called "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" as performed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers. Love to you both--MM
In Canada , this is so much fun..Soda is pop.. Tomato is tomato, bazil, sidewalk, crosswalk, garage for your car, the hud of the car, plinkers right or left. Love ya both.
With the beaker comment he is describing a conical flask. Maybe didn't listen carefully in chemistry class? Although the wikipedia page does mention a sloped edge "Philips beaker" the sides are only a little off vertical; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_(laboratory_equipment)
13:07 🎼🎶🎵 You say tomato, I say tomahto...Let's call the whole thing off! Basil, oregano, thyme, mint are what? "It's a silent h word." "No, it isn't. Honest is."
There used to be a show on PBS where people in the UK would have auctioneers come to their homes and help them find things for auction. For about three years of steady watching, I thought everyone there still had carriages. One day, I just suddenly realized they were saying garage. In the part of the US where I am from we literally pronounce it graj. One syllable. LOL
Amy, a lot of the words you were saying are more similar to those used in Canada. American English not only had different pronunciation than Canadian English of some words but also differs in the spelling of some of the words your mentioned. In Canada it is colour, honour, neighbour to name a few. I also called Candy Floss just that. I never heard of Cotton Candy until many years later. The majority of people in Canada drink Pop, not soda. I think that the US is pretty much the only country that doesn't use Metric measurements and we used to call the place where you got fuel for your car a garage until they started not having mechanic service at those places. You were "bang on" with a lot of what you said and, by the way, that was an expression my father used when he was building things that required precision in measuring. I am really enjoying your channel. 👍😊💕
People here in Canada have started to adopt some American spellings. For example, I often get told I am wrong when I spell practise and some other words that the US spell with a Z. We often use American English for spell check instead of the UK version. I will forever spell it harbour and colour, unless it is a US location like Pearl Harbor.
What you described as a 'beaker' is actually called an Erlenmeyer flask. Beakers are just straight cylindrical. Also what do the Irish call what Americans call biscuits?
Yeahhh sorry Ashton I'm with Amy on pretty much ALL of these hahah XD but I am kinda biased being from England. We have pretty similar words for things. so... for the soda one sometimes we say 'fizzy pop' in south east England, either that or the brand, like coke etc. Oregano the way you say it in the US is WEIRD and sounds like something you smoke :P and sidewalk/footpath for me is 'pavement'. and I'm afraid it is not a trunk , it is indeed a BOOT haha! Please do more of these, I love it ^_^
My relatives are mostly rural from Wyoming but I grew up in California. And I've watch a lot of British TV. So I got really confused about what to call things. To this day I don't have a specifically regional vocabulary. I'm a chameleon - I use whatever fits the situation. But I still alternate between 2-syllable and 3-syllable pronunciation of coyote. My observation: Biscuits are any baked (non-scone) goodie you can have with tea. In the US you drink sweet tea (mostly in the South) with your hot biscuits; while in Ireland or England you have sweet biscuits with hot tea. Simple! 🤷♀️
You guys are such fun! Good craic!! However, Amy should be a little closer to the camera or husband should be farther back (he looks out of proportion big). Thanks for keeping me giggling. We spent 2 weeks in Ireland in 2010… we long to go back.
The American "biscuit' is just wrongly named. Someone obviously got confused over there back in the day. The word comes to English from Latin (bis coctus) via Old French (bescuit) and it literally means "twice cooked". Dough balls would be rolled flat, *baked* , cooled, then *baked* *again* to remove all of the moisture, so that they could be stored for a long time. What they most definitely are not is some warm, moist, bread for mopping up gravy.
I live in East Tennessee , we never say soda . We say dope . All soft drinks we call dopes but 30 miles out from where I live they say soda .But someone outside our region here’s you say cold dope they know where you’re from .
Amy could have used the nuclear option on the pronunciation of zebra. The Irish and Brits say zebra with a short e sound because usually in English a vowel in a word followed by two consenants has a short sound. Apple/shape, kitten/kite, fond/note, zebra?impede. English doesn't spell those African black and white striped ponies zeebras, which is why the word zebra rhymes with the name Debra. And I was bemused by Ashton's avoidance of the way American biscuits are eaten. Yes they are usually buttered, and THEN people will usually spread jam or honey or some other sweet stuff on them, unless they cover them with gravy instead, because unlike Irish and British scones they can be eaten as both a savoury item or sweet.
🤣🤣 reminded me of the first time I heard an American say oregano...when I said "what....?" They said helpfully "....you know, the 'erb.."! - because Americans don't pronounce the "h" in herb either. - it caused a rather large bout of hilarity and pronunciation discussion and "Oreg- ano" is still a "mental stumble" for me rather than Ore-gano. It's amazing how an altered stress point can really change the word.
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Actually, American biscuits are more like small scones than bread rolls. They are made with baking powder and not yeast like bread rolls.
Scientist here, speaking US English. You described not a beaker but a flask. A beaker is a cylindrical container. It has straight sides that are essentially at a right angle to the flat bottom.
Clearly lots of science/lab people here setting the record straight on flasks and beakers💗
When I was a kid we called the cinema 'the pictures'
Are you Australian? 👍🏿
What
ikr the ghost we still do
Still common
Yep. Pictures. Picture house.
And we go there to watch a film.
Fizzy drinks are also called soft drinks, and at 11:48, the husband described a conical flask, beakers are the cylindrical cups you use in chemistry, and also plastic bottles for drinking out of.
It sounded like an Erlenmeyer flask he was describing. Beakers are more straight edged.
Beaker in UK and Ireland is a plastic drinking vessel the same shape as a tumbler
these are great, this is our daily lives. I grew up in Belfast Northern Ireland with an American dad so I used to tell people i was bilingual
As an Irishwoman married to an American over 12 years, this takes me back to our first couple of marriage when this stuff was a constant source of confusion and conversation. We mostly understand each other by now! ;)
You are describing a erlenmeyer flask not a beaker. A beaker is a flat bottom, straight sided glass container with measurements marked up the side.
In Australia, we call cotton candy “fairy floss” 😊
Hoooooooooooooo what?
That may be the cutest thing ever😊
Candy floss
My thoughts exactly!
And no one questions why. Fairy floss just is. 🧚
Fizzy drinks also get called "Mineral"
"The mineral man comes on Wednesday"
On my one trip to England I ordered a Sprite in a restaurant. The waitress said “lemonade?”. I was like, um, ok, sure... Was pleasantly surprised when I received a Sprite.
I mean sprite is lemonade just the brand is sprite
@@StressedSugarcane In the US, Sprite is not considered lemonade. Lemonade is a completely different drink, made with lemon juice and sugar (no carbonation).
@@jenniferh3332 ye, I think we have that as lemonade to but we also consider sprite lemonade soft drink so
I'm an American married to an Afrikaans speaking South African. In Afrikaans candyfloss/cotton candy is "spookasem" directly translated means ghost breath. Love yoυr videos, can so relate to them. I also enjoy listening to yoυr music videos too, Amy.
What I love about these kinds of comparisons is finding out the history of how these phrases or terms came to be.
Like, the difference between the word “pants” over there in the UK and Ireland, versus “pants” here in the US. And, ironically, the act of “pantsing” someone is actually the same thing in both cultures, even though the root word means different things.
Or “tabling” an argument.
The “beaker” he’s talking about is a conical flask
It's an Erlenmeyer flask to be specific.
Just a clarifying point: a beaker is cylindrical with straight sides. What he described was a flask. ☺️
You guys are great! ❤
I think I have the answer to the question of why tomato is pronounced different in Irish/British English compared to American. The Br./Ir. Eng. pronunciation of tomato is closer to the original word, which was 'tomatl' in the Aztec language Nahuatl. 'Tomatl' became 'tomate' in Spanish, which then became 'tomato' in Br./Ir. English, and the American pronunciation developed from that. Hope that helped!
So, when it comes to “indicators”, in the 50s and 60s, the vehicles in the UK actually had a little flag or pointer that would flip out to the side to indicate which direction you wanted to turn. This was the first mechanical replacement I know of for just sticking your arm out of the car and using hand signals.
So, it makes total sense that they would call them “indicators”.
Here in the US, I think we switched more quickly to using lights that would blink, thus the term “blinker” instead.
You forgot the windshield vs wind screen and I was surprised there was no mention of what is viewed at the cinema...the pronunciation of film was always a laugh for my Irish ex and I. Finally, the important difference between what it's called when you offer to drive someone somewhere (since you were on the subject of cars). My ex brother-in-law would always give me a hard time when I'd say "thanks for the ride" when he'd driven me somewhere... I'd quickly correct and thank him for the lift!! This video was so much fun to watch and brought back some good memories!
Discovered ye only yesterday! Greetings from Cork! Brilliant!!!!
I have a lot of fun with you guys. I am from Brazil and I live in Ireland and is so interesting to see these expressions and learn everyday.
This is very similar to my situation. Though I'm English, and my fiancee is Kentuckian! I still struggle with Candy instead of sweets!
I love your videos! I’m from Northern Ireland ( pronounced:- Norn Ireland )and I can see that your Husband needs some serious re-education. The craic must be mighty in your house!
Norn Iron
Your Deadly Amy , teach yer man the Irish way but he seems a great bit of craic . I'll have a gander at your other videos when I'm back at the Gaff.
That US version of the biscuit sounds Manky .
Stay safe youse two .
Ashton! I thought that was you! Can hardly wait to see you in another context. If this is you trying to speak Gaelic, I wanna dare Art to try. LOL
Lots of places in Canada we call soft drinks Pop.
17:55 "a boot in a boot" you almost made it sound like some Canadian country song... 😂
You two are soooo sweet. I really enjoyed watching this. 😊❤
“Pop” is short for soda pop. Some areas of the country took the “soda” part of the term.....others took the “pop” part.
In Canada is it pop.
We'd call soda drinks minerals in this part of IRL.
We grew up calling them "cokes." It didn't matter if it was a Sprite, Mr Pibb, Mt Dew, etc. It was coke.... until you wanted a specific kind of coke in the store or restaurant. Then, you'd specify. Pepsi wasn't allowed, so we won't go there..... (Grew up in West Ga, too close to Atlanta's World of Coca-Cola)
When I went away to university in New England, I discovered what I called "soda" in California was sometimes referred to by the locals as "tonic".
@@susanhemeren4346 grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. All soda is Tonic. 😆 and the specific “Tonic Water” is gross and called soda water. LOL 😂
OMG from the cute tickling each other in the beginning to the indicators instead of turn signals/blinkers, I LOVED the entire video! You guys are too cute! The most down to earth, loving, charismatic couple on RUclips! I love you guys so much! 😄💖💜 also my fave one I have to agree with Ash, it turned my head (9:20) lol cotton candy as candy floss? Whhhaaattt 😳😂😂😝
I'd love to see one of these videos done with the full American Irish English and Australian versions of English words
I LOVE THIS VIDEO I LOVE ASHTON’S REACTION AND ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I'm irish, but in fairness on old cars, there was literally a trunk on the back of the car.
You should have told him how we pronounce Vehicle :)
How... How else would you pronounce vee-hick-le? 😳
If you are a Garda, it's a veh-hick-el
@@RosheenQuynh vee-uh-kl
@@jessesmotherman8211 Oh. OH WOW 🤦♀️
We don't pronounce the h in vehicle.
Love it, love it, love it always funny and informative to what people from Ireland call things different then what Canadians and Americans call them words.
In our house sweets are thing like baked cookie, cakes and squares. Candy is typically hard candy like Werthers, but also Skittles etc🇨🇦
So fun! The Basil & Oregano part made me wonder about the pronounciation and spelling of Aluminum :)
Stay tuned for part 2! 😉
@@AmyMcDonaghGuitar Clearly I watch far too many British cooking shows. Do the Irish call Zucchini Corgettes? and Eggplant Aubergine? :)
@@ANTieT Courgette and Aubergine, just like in Britain.
So fun to listen to you two!
Exactly what I was looking for. Fiance and I bounce between Athlone and Florida. We have had fun with it for a couple years now.
The name Beaker for a drinking vessel, comes from the Beaker culture found in Ireland, Britain, and other part of Europe from 2800BC to 1800BC. They used to drink out of inverted-Bell beakers hense their name.
I haven't been in Ireland in a long time, but back in the day in Cork (and even in Dublin, I think), there did not seem to be such a term as "fizzy drink." Non-alcoholic carbonated beverages were ONLY called "minerals." I wonder how the term "fizzy drink" started and how long it has been around.
@ 10.09 you call a fizzy drink a soda but where I live a soda is a type of bread we normally use in a fry or a full soda (soda bread cut like a sandwich toasted or fried with sausage, bacon and egg in the middle) yummy.. lol
This was more educational than my years of high school. LOL! ♡♡♡
LOL thanks Chandler! ❤️
Always look forward to your videos! Such an amazing person and talent ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you Dani! Thanks for watching with us 😊
Candy Floss - The dictionary describes floss as the rough silk enveloping a silkworm's cocoon.
So this is my second or third video of watchin y'all! I love the banter between the two of ya!!
And in England footpath or sidewalk is called... pavement.
In Texas we’re asked what kind of coke we want and then we give the specific kind of drink we want...coke, dr pepper , root beer, sprite...etc.
You two are hilarious together!
Would love to hear the differences when you say the words tangerine and margarine
We do pronounce both words the same as Americans however we dont really use the word Tangerine here in Ireland. We generally call all such small orange fruit a Mandarin or Clementine. There all called the same to us, even though we know they are different.
I've heard folks from New Jersey call a "blinker" an "indicator". Seemed like a lot of syllables for such a simple thing. I like "fizzy drink" and "foot path." I may start using them myself.
I grew up in NJ and I remember just calling them turn signals.
I loved it when Ashton said he didn't like salt and vinegar and you said, "More for me!" It reminds me of what I grew up saying, since my family is Portuguese. When in the same situation, we say, "Mas fica!" which means the same thing. Check with Ana. I'm sure she has heard that before!
I enjoy these "tutorials" a lot. They are really helpful when traveling (which I hope we are all able to do again soon!) so that I am able to use the proper word to get what I want. Very helpful in a pub especially!
Actually is 'mais fica', not 'mas fica'.
@@duhusker4383 Depends on where you are from. My family says "mas" but I have friends who learned "mais". The important part is the "fica" which means what you have stays with you! ;-)
@@pattierotondo1108 I know I'm Portuguese :) But you're righ now that I think of it a lot Portuguese people say 'mas fica' insteado of the correct 'mais fica'.
So the reason some places call cotton candy "floss" is because making it consists of spinning molten sugar in a container with little holes in it which causes thin threads of sugar string to be pushed out from the little holes.
I lost it on beaker 🤣👨🔬🧪
Also, I don't care what "Nabisco" means, Ashton wins biscuit because biscuits are a completely different thing from rolls and buns. They're flaky and some of them are more like pastries than like rolls. She totally needs to try some real American biscuits.
Also Zebra Walks are a term in America because not all cross walks have stripes. The stripes usually mean you have to stop for pedestrians if they enter it, whereas cross walks without stripes mean the pedestrian should wait to cross.
"You could put a boot in the boot" 😂😭💀
My favorite moment was the "Beaker" vs. "Sippy Cup" conversation! It made me think of The Muppets Character "Beaker". These chats are so fun and informative. It would be so cool to see you do a duet of the Song called "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" as performed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers. Love to you both--MM
Gingernuts and gravy 😂 😂 😂.custardreams and gravy.. Hobnobs and Gravy 😂 😂
Peace be with both of you! 🌿🕊🌿🕊🌿
In Canada , this is so much fun..Soda is pop.. Tomato is tomato, bazil, sidewalk, crosswalk, garage for your car, the hud of the car, plinkers right or left. Love ya both.
I am a pastry chef and I have come across these and others my whole life lol it never fails to fascinate me
Cotton candy used to be calked fairy floss in the US. Look it up
On a car the foldable soft top is referred to as the hood (i.e. put the hood down)
Love these videos, so true. Loads of words said different but fun to watch
Biscuit means twice cooked. It suggests the 'snap' of a classic uk/Irish biscuit. 'Cookies' are much softer things.
I live in Australia. The off license here is called the bottle shop or more.commonly the bottle-o.
Haha, the way you say garage in Ireland makes me laugh. Here we say it like he does but then lots of people pronounce it gradge
Cotton Candy - we call it Fairy Floss in Australia 👍🏿😍 I love all our differences in terms 👏 I think Aussie terms are more like Irish 🇦🇺
It’s amazing how much Aussie slang is influenced by Irish slang
Pretty Average Yoga - a lot of Aussies have Irish heritage- I have Irish, Scottish and German in mine.
Yeah I noticed how the aussies say me before things.. Like... Me hat... Same as we do in Ireland
With the beaker comment he is describing a conical flask. Maybe didn't listen carefully in chemistry class? Although the wikipedia page does mention a sloped edge "Philips beaker" the sides are only a little off vertical; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_(laboratory_equipment)
13:07 🎼🎶🎵 You say tomato, I say tomahto...Let's call the whole thing off! Basil, oregano, thyme, mint are what? "It's a silent h word." "No, it isn't. Honest is."
Tell him about a Pelican Crossing (Zebra Crossing with flashing lights)
I have an inquiry, if, in Ireland they use the word "sweets" as opposed to "candy" than why is it called Candy Floss!? Shouldn’t it be Sweet Floss😂😂😅
There used to be a show on PBS where people in the UK would have auctioneers come to their homes and help them find things for auction. For about three years of steady watching, I thought everyone there still had carriages. One day, I just suddenly realized they were saying garage. In the part of the US where I am from we literally pronounce it graj. One syllable. LOL
You should make another one there are so many more
For driving: In Ireland there's "Give Way." In America we use "Yield"--which some find absurdly dramatic: "Yield!" :D
Best way to eat Pringles is mixing flavors together
Each explanation has merit here. With the exception of a ‘Gas Station’ 😂😂
I'm half Irish I have Irish ancestors on my father's side I'm really proud to have Irish in my blood
No.a beaker in cylindfical and have a spout. What you are referring to is an Erlenmayer…
Beaker is both. But he was talking about a conical flask. I'm from Dublin
Amy, a lot of the words you were saying are more similar to those used in Canada. American English not only had different pronunciation than Canadian English of some words but also differs in the spelling of some of the words your mentioned. In Canada it is colour, honour, neighbour to name a few. I also called Candy Floss just that. I never heard of Cotton Candy until many years later. The majority of people in Canada drink Pop, not soda. I think that the US is pretty much the only country that doesn't use Metric measurements and we used to call the place where you got fuel for your car a garage until they started not having mechanic service at those places.
You were "bang on" with a lot of what you said and, by the way, that was an expression my father used when he was building things that required precision in measuring. I am really enjoying your channel. 👍😊💕
People here in Canada have started to adopt some American spellings. For example, I often get told I am wrong when I spell practise and some other words that the US spell with a Z. We often use American English for spell check instead of the UK version. I will forever spell it harbour and colour, unless it is a US location like Pearl Harbor.
What you described as a 'beaker' is actually called an Erlenmeyer flask. Beakers are just straight cylindrical. Also what do the Irish call what Americans call biscuits?
Fun conversation!
Uz are both so funny loved this made me laugh 😆😆 love from dublin. X
"Soda", like "Water", like "A Mineral", is always a "Mixer". You don't drink them alone. You add them to whisky.
Ashton is so cute in Amy's videos
It’s called Fairy Floss in Australia
Yeahhh sorry Ashton I'm with Amy on pretty much ALL of these hahah XD but I am kinda biased being from England. We have pretty similar words for things. so... for the soda one sometimes we say 'fizzy pop' in south east England, either that or the brand, like coke etc. Oregano the way you say it in the US is WEIRD and sounds like something you smoke :P and sidewalk/footpath for me is 'pavement'. and I'm afraid it is not a trunk , it is indeed a BOOT haha! Please do more of these, I love it ^_^
A beaker is both a kids cup and something used in science.
Where people fix cars is called a garage too
My relatives are mostly rural from Wyoming but I grew up in California. And I've watch a lot of British TV. So I got really confused about what to call things. To this day I don't have a specifically regional vocabulary. I'm a chameleon - I use whatever fits the situation. But I still alternate between 2-syllable and 3-syllable pronunciation of coyote.
My observation: Biscuits are any baked (non-scone) goodie you can have with tea. In the US you drink sweet tea (mostly in the South) with your hot biscuits; while in Ireland or England you have sweet biscuits with hot tea. Simple! 🤷♀️
You guys are such fun! Good craic!! However, Amy should be a little closer to the camera or husband should be farther back (he looks out of proportion big). Thanks for keeping me giggling. We spent 2 weeks in Ireland in 2010… we long to go back.
The American "biscuit' is just wrongly named. Someone obviously got confused over there back in the day.
The word comes to English from Latin (bis coctus) via Old French (bescuit) and it literally means "twice cooked".
Dough balls would be rolled flat, *baked* , cooled, then *baked* *again* to remove all of the moisture, so that they could be stored for a long time.
What they most definitely are not is some warm, moist, bread for mopping up gravy.
A died when he asked if it came in a beaker! HAHAHAHAHA
In Northern England we call soda, pop or fizzy pop.
I get where bonnet and boot come from, but it's like the car is wearing clothes?? 😅 I guess hood can be a piece of clothing as well, but not trunk.
You guys are so cute! 😖😁❤️
Biscuits is a breadroll? Lol
Im Aussie and thats just weird.
Biscuits is an equivalents to cookies here.
A beaker has straight sides, the more triangular one is a flask.
I live in East Tennessee , we never say soda . We say dope . All soft drinks we call dopes but 30 miles out from where I live they say soda .But someone outside our region here’s you say cold dope they know where you’re from .
Southern Alabama refers to nearly all soda as Coke.
As in, Coca-Cola, even if it isn't.
Amy could have used the nuclear option on the pronunciation of zebra. The Irish and Brits say zebra with a short e sound because usually in English a vowel in a word followed by two consenants has a short sound. Apple/shape, kitten/kite, fond/note, zebra?impede. English doesn't spell those African black and white striped ponies zeebras, which is why the word zebra rhymes with the name Debra.
And I was bemused by Ashton's avoidance of the way American biscuits are eaten. Yes they are usually buttered, and THEN people will usually spread jam or honey or some other sweet stuff on them, unless they cover them with gravy instead, because unlike Irish and British scones they can be eaten as both a savoury item or sweet.
Biscuits are crispy. Cookies have softer texture.
I was told this. They call it a chemist because the person we call a Pharmacist use to mix the medicines themselves so they were actually chemist.
🤣🤣 reminded me of the first time I heard an American say oregano...when I said "what....?" They said helpfully "....you know, the 'erb.."! - because Americans don't pronounce the "h" in herb either. - it caused a rather large bout of hilarity and pronunciation discussion and "Oreg- ano" is still a "mental stumble" for me rather than Ore-gano. It's amazing how an altered stress point can really change the word.
Beaker is cup. Compare German 'Becher' meaning 'Cup'.