They mention the different American accents, but they continue to discuss the "UK accent" when there are several different versions of those as well. Some of which are quite popular and well known, like the Northern, Cockney and Recieved Pronunciation

@eeriecraft1797

Жыл бұрын

I thought they said they had a hard time hearing the differences in American accents. and the American girl probably didn't know the names of the different UK accents, and the UK girl didn't bring it up.

@demolition3612

Жыл бұрын

American accents have more variation than UK accents, only because the us covers more area

@insertname3977

Жыл бұрын

@@demolition3612 Really depends, a Woolie back sounds a lot different than a Scouser and there's only 14 miles between the town and city.

@reniefuwa

Жыл бұрын

After Mary Poppins, *everyone* knows the Cockney accent (if I'm not mistaken)

@Aldowyn

Жыл бұрын

@@demolition3612 I'm pretty sure the UK has more variation, possibly a lot more. It's more about how long the population has had to diverge than the area or even the total population

Both , Autumn and Fall , are right , however "Autumn" in spanish is "otoño" , in portuguese "outono" and french "l'automne" and the sound is almost the same , so say "Autumn" seems closer to these other words

@christophermichaelclarence6003

Жыл бұрын

We French say "Automne" for Autumn

@deutschmitpurple2918

Жыл бұрын

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 it is very similiar

@christophermichaelclarence6003

Жыл бұрын

@@deutschmitpurple2918 It is. Did you know most English words come from French roots ?

@marcos8266

Жыл бұрын

Nah it‘s northern germanic

@alistairt7544

Жыл бұрын

Well the English word "autumn" was borrowed from Old French _autompne_ , which then came from Latin _autumnus_ .

in Germany the ground floor is never labled as 1 also i rarely hear someone say apartment. we usually call it " Wohnung"

@k-town873

Жыл бұрын

Only "Ferien-Apartement"

@Riondrial

Жыл бұрын

@@k-town873 There i only know "Ferienwohnung".

@erichamilton3373

Жыл бұрын

Yes...only Wohnung...Appartment is only for some very specific contexts.

@Farmer_El

Жыл бұрын

And you've identified a problem with asking very young people who may confuse what they hear locally with what their whole country would say. Or even sometimes they think they are using the proper word but are using today's popular slang word.

@beageler

Жыл бұрын

That's just not true. English floor labeling is uncommon but not nonexistent.

All this time I thought many of the English terms were 'old person' terms because my grandmother used those words, but I'm just realizing that she uses those words because she's English. It all make sense now

@cmac1600

Жыл бұрын

As a child I would often hear that terminology as the Queen's English from most my grandparents and even my mother when she wanted me to speak "properly". I'm American just for clarification.

@antmess9789

Жыл бұрын

@@cmac1600 If she wants you to speak properly, then you should use the American words since you're and American. Using the UK words would be improper. 😉

@ShizuruNakatsu

Жыл бұрын

I'm from the Republic of Ireland and my father is from Northern Ireland. As a child, I never understood why he had his own words for things. He called a "jumper" a "pullover", and he called the "sofa" the "settee", and I used to think it was weird and exclusive to him.

@wolfyd2053

Жыл бұрын

@@ShizuruNakatsu Well that just makes things more complicated as he’s from the uk but using American terms other than settee a settee is a type of sofa

@anonymuswere

Жыл бұрын

even more fun is that technically the *american* words and accent are the old ones. I think they're revealed that we're still using a tweaked version of the 16th century speechways from where people emigrated. glad I grew up on britcoms.

"We don't usually use mate, we use roommate" 😂

@imajhawk6146

Жыл бұрын

Classmate is fairly common as well.

@glenncordova4027

Жыл бұрын

Mating is different America

@ashleydanielson3222

Жыл бұрын

We do use the word housemate too

@anonacc4830

Жыл бұрын

lol i mean in america its definitely weird to just say "mate" like if you called someone your "best mate" you'd probably get jabbed for it

@spiritsama51

Жыл бұрын

@@anonacc4830 it's obvious to see that she meant "mate" by itself.

Shannon was with Christina before and now with Lauren, from the US but with a different accent than Christina, I think that's why Lauren thought she was from Australia , nice see her again

@khalilahd.

Жыл бұрын

I love her 😊 she’s always so sweet and funny

@heyythere

Жыл бұрын

No, she already said in her previous videos that she can imitate an Australian accent well enough than any other. That is why she might be showcasing her talent to fake her accent in that vid.

@Fatherland927

Жыл бұрын

It's getting boring now, they don't have any Italian woman on here😔

@christophermichaelclarence6003

Жыл бұрын

@@Fatherland927This is getting boring. Worlds Friends did host someone from Italy 🇮🇹 Why can't they bring her along with us Europeans 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇦

@deutschmitpurple2918

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you

Shannon's "Boston" accent is actually the New York accent

@MrTumbark

Жыл бұрын

my fav american accent is from texas because i love cowboy movie 😂

@anndeecosita3586

Жыл бұрын

True 😂

@alistairt7544

Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say lmao When she started saying the words I was like "that's New Yorker/Brooklyn" accent. Boston has more of a wider "ah" sound, not diphthongs like New Yorker accent.

@marydavis5234

Жыл бұрын

Christina is from Boston, not Shannon.

@anndeecosita3586

Жыл бұрын

@@alistairt7544 I love a Brooklyn accent. Like Marissa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny 😂

To me, an American, a jumper refers to a type of dress that is sleeveless and is worn over a blouse or shirt.

@Mick_Ts_Chick

Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@benwagner5089

Жыл бұрын

Better than my definition of a jumper, which is a person that wants to end their life by jumping off a building.

@antmess9789

Жыл бұрын

@@benwagner5089 No that's definitely what a jumper is in America.

@benwagner5089

Жыл бұрын

@@antmess9789 you haven't seen Crocodile Dundee 2 in a while, haven't you?

@corriehingston6744

Жыл бұрын

As a brit, I'll never understand why you call a jumper a "sweater". Or call our scones "biscuits"

"Fall" is a perfectly good Old English word, taken to the U.S. by the early English settlers. "Autumn" seems to be an early 19th century usage adopted into British English from French.

@joeb7640

Жыл бұрын

Well no the Old English word for Autumn is hærfest which is the root word for harvest in modern English, the word 'fall' is more recent and seems to be exclusive to America as England has been calling the season Autumn since the 1300s.

@vbrown6445

Жыл бұрын

@@joeb7640 Autumn and Fall had surpassed the former "harvest" and were both being used in England in the 1600s when the settlers came over to the U.S. Over time the UK started preferring to use autumn and the U.S. continued to use both.

@chrisrudolf9839

Жыл бұрын

@@joeb7640 Interesting. I was wondering why none of those two season words was a cognate to German, when all other season and month names are at least somewhat related. There it is (German: Herbst).

@LEFT4BASS

Жыл бұрын

This is actually the story behind a lot of linguistic differences. The UK used to use it when they colonized. They stopped using it after we broke away. They think we’re weird for using it.

@IONATVS

Жыл бұрын

@@joeb7640 fall was a fairly common poetic way to refer to the season in late middle english and early modern english, or rather the full phrase it is short for: “þe fall of þe leaf,” counterpart to “þe spring of þe leaf,” or Spring. Autumn is the more recent of the terms, being a direct borrowing from Latin.

Dungarees is an Indian word. Lots of Indian words in English because of the historic-link. Others are Bungalow and Pyjamas (PJs)

@Hardwarestoresenpai

11 ай бұрын

Dungarees was a BRAND of overalls in America.

@grben9959

10 ай бұрын

Dungarees (Dongari Kapar) is like jeans (from the French name for Genoa) and denim (from Nimes). It's referring to the various fabrics the overalls are made of. The term "overalls" refers to them being originally an outer loose trouser for working in. There were waist-overalls and bib-overalls. You'll hear them referred to as bibs too in the USA.

What a beautiful group of ladies! This was so enjoyable !! ❤👏🏻

As an Australian this made me realise how much I’ve adopted words from too much exposure or US language and to British clothing stores. I grew up saying trousers but now I say pants a lot. I grew up saying “windcheater” for a fleece sweater but now I say jumper or sweater. Chips are cold, chips are hot, chips are chunky and long, chips are round and crispy... not sure why we have to call everything chips 😅 the best we do to differentiate is say “hot chips”

@syberyah

Жыл бұрын

That fourth line ("Chips are cold, chips are hot, chips are chunky and long, chips are round and crispy") almost sounded like Dr. Seuss, haha

@worldrenownedchickenchef

Жыл бұрын

windcheater? That’s my first time hearing that

@hpmoody

Жыл бұрын

YES. I used to say windcheater but stopped. Amazing how American television shows is a massive influence.

@Easedan900

Жыл бұрын

Never heard about trousers before,

@zackdelarosa14

Жыл бұрын

Like India the British spent a long time in Australia so that makes sense

I’d definitely love to see their reactions to my dialect. DEEP SOUTH. Our sayings and words confuse many people!

@michaelpalmer8915

Жыл бұрын

At first they'd be nervous as a cat in a room full a rockin' chairs. Then they'd be as confused as a fart in a fan factory. Followed by feeling like they're elevator don't go all the way up or they ain't the brightest bulb in the box. But once they get it, they'd start grinnin like a possum eatin a sweet tater cause if was a snake it woulda bit 'em. And if you liked these sayings, then call me butter, cause I'm on a roll.

@Somebody35145

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmer8915 The fact that I understood all that 😂

@ImMrFlannel

Жыл бұрын

I have a deep southern dialect, but with the personality of an 80's metal head. And it confuses the heck outta people, cause when they see me, they don't expect to hear a deep southern accent come from a dude with long hair blasting metal music, then I say "Sup, Y'all"

@ZachWilsonsMomsFriend

Жыл бұрын

@Phillip Banes the deep southerners deserve it😂

@ZachWilsonsMomsFriend

Жыл бұрын

@Phillip Banes I was just joking lol I love the south! And while I’m sure that it happens, I doubt it’s anything more than harmless banter most of the time.

Not sure why she said we don't use "mate" that much in response to a question about what we call housemates or flatmates; we call them roommates! Or housemates sometimes. One of the few occasions we actually do use the term mate!

@Nilguiri

Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate.

@planetarysolidarity

Жыл бұрын

Right. Americans do use 'mate' in compound words: housemate, roommate,, classmate, etc.

@sebfox2194

Жыл бұрын

In the UK, a roommate is someone who you share a room with, and a housemate is someone who you share a house with. It's kind of logical.

In Australia, I say Ground floor then first floor, but its weird because if you have a two story house you don't say ground floor, you say first and second floor

@ShizuruNakatsu

Жыл бұрын

Same in Ireland actually. In an apartment building it would be ground, first, second, third, etc. But if I'm at home, it's the first floor of my house or the second floor of my house (but usually we never have to say it in that context so we just say upstairs and downstairs).

@alanlight7740

Жыл бұрын

The people who designate floor names in public buildings are inclined towards finding names that everyone will understand, and the ground floor is very understandable as the ground floor wherever you might be. Whether the floor above it is the first floor or the second floor is not as important, as long as everyone can see the number on the elevator button.

Housemate is totally used frequently in the US.

"If I'm from Boston..." proceeds to use a Long Island accent

@allendracabal0819

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that, too. She did it well, though.

@davidshipp623

Жыл бұрын

Similarly, the water without the t thing is very much Estuary English and not hugely present elsewhere in the UK. But it seems to have a life of its own now.

As a Massachusetts representative, she used the NY accent for a Boston one. People always do this lol NY and Boston have different accents we don't say cooffee we say "pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd" obvi.

I really enjoyed this!

You are both great at drawing. What a fun video.

Jamaica: sweater jumpers (overalls are a different thing) flat/ studio flat-mate (as room-mates to me would mean we share the bedroom) bonnet autumn (not that we have any experience) rubber underwear, trousers french-fries, chips first-floor would be what the British girl had, and what the American circled would be the ground-floor elevator We are taught British English as well, but given the proximity of Jamaica to America, media and the diaspora, since independence there has been a lot of American influence on vocabulary

The European’s comments remind me of learning Spanish in school here on the US. What they teach is Spain Spanish, but what we see and here is every variety of Spanish BUT Spain! Lol mostly Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban! The teacher would get mad because if we used Latin American words or phrases lol

@TheMastermind729

4 ай бұрын

What state? I’m from NJ and the Spanish we learned in school was that of Latin America, we never learned the vosotros form (except for if we ever did a Spain themed “unit”)

@gregorywilson9577

4 ай бұрын

@@TheMastermind729 first Ohio and then Georgia. Both taught Castilian Spanish

I'm not used to people expressing differences with out fighting. Lol this was amazing

I didn't know what was Dungarees , for me it was just like "That's Lauren's outfit" 😂 , i like this outfit though , fits perfectly on you Lauren 😁🇬🇧

@christophermichaelclarence6003

Жыл бұрын

We French 🇫🇷 say "Salopette" for "Dungaree"🇬🇧 or Overall 🇺🇸 I'd prefer saying Salopette English is so confusing 😆 A "Jumpsuit" is cover your whole body

@Noah_ol11

Жыл бұрын

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 what about Jersey or Jumper ? Or just Sweater for everything ?

@christophermichaelclarence6003

Жыл бұрын

@@Noah_ol11You Can say Jumper as well Sweater is just the Upper body

@khalilahd.

Жыл бұрын

Omg 😂

@gregmuon

Жыл бұрын

Dungarees in the USA is an archaic word for blue jeans. It was used in the US Navy until very recently.

In the U.S., "autumn" is more formal and "fall" is more like common slang.

@amunra4256

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think I actually hear Autumn used more, but couldn't say either way for sure

@DefenestrateYourself

10 ай бұрын

“Fall” is more casual, not slang

In German the floor on the ground level is not the first floor as she mentioned here. It's the Erdgeschoss (ground floor) or Ebene 0 (level 0). We then count the next floors 1. Obergeschoss, 2. Obergeschoss and so on... But there are also the words "Stock(werk)" and "Etage", which still count like in the UK. I have to say, I always feel kinda embarrassed, when someone uses the term "pants" for jeans etc. because for me it's underwear. So I'm team UK 😉 Maybe because in school we learn British English as standard, while American and Australian English is more like "slang" versions of it.

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Plus, Australian English is often somewhere inbetween. Both are chips down there. And then obviously things, which you put on your feet.

@PixelProfessor

Жыл бұрын

As a Brit, and everyone I've known in the northwest, have always used the word pants like the Americans do. We use the word, Underpants/Undies/Underwear for items you wear underneath your pants/joggers/bottoms/trousers.

@Irapa7

Жыл бұрын

As a german i was super confused when she said in Germany the Ground floor is 1. LMAO Ive never seen a building where the ground floor was 1 instead of EG lol

@nodezsh

Жыл бұрын

I guess they're either counting from the ground or the ceiling? If they're counting from the ground, the bottom floor would be in height zero. If you count the whole floor, some would say you'd end the floor on the ceiling, so that's one whole floor. There's also the idea that you should start counting from one, because zero means there's nothing there. Basically, buildings don't make sense.

@Irapa7

Жыл бұрын

@@nodezsh I agree, even though its not like that in germany, the first floor being 0 is stupid lol because its the first floor. When you enter the building its the FIRST floor that you step on. so yeah 0 sense

Very interesting!!! Thank you!

I have notice that the european use alot of American English. I was Leaving in the Uk for over 20 years and i learnď British english.

They may assume only other countries use certain words, when it's their own parents or people outside of their own town that may also use them. Regions of a country vary a lot. There will also be english words from their own country that are just not in their vocabulary.

"Dungaree" sounds weird because it is a mispronunciation of the name "Dongri", which is an area in the city of Mumbai, India. They had a lot of textile mills around that area, and were popular for producing this garment during the British rule. The British equated the place with the thing it's famous for. We see the same phenomenon for the word "Juggernaut".

@drewnash8113

Жыл бұрын

In what way for Juggernaut?

@PristinePerceptions

Жыл бұрын

@@drewnash8113 It comes from the word Jagannath (literally, "Lord of the world"), which is actually the name of a Hindu diety. Hindus in parts of India traditionally hold a chariot festival with large, ornate festive chariots in honor of the deity. The British initially borrowed the word to mean a large heavy truck or lorry. Over time it started being used to describe everything from steamrollers, battering rams, ships, to more generally, large heavy objects.

8:38 In my experience of growing up in Germany and whenever I go back the Ground Floor is invariably labelled 'EG' for 'Erdgeschoss' (lit. Ground Floor) followed by 1.OG (Obergeschoss), 2.OG etc. (1st Floor, 2nd Floor etc).

In the US I've seen where a building has entrances on two different floors, the bottom will be labeled G, and the next one up will be labeled 1. We have quite a few like that in Milwaukee

3:39 Flats vs Apartments - I'm an American. I use the word apartment about 98% of the time, but I may sometimes use the word flat to mean a specific type of apartment. To me, all flats are apartments but not all apartments are flats. I identify a flat as a type of apartment that takes up the entire level of a multi-unit building. In my region of the US, there are lots of apartment buildings that are 2 or 3 levels with only one apartment per level, and these buildings are commonly referred to as 2-flats or 3-flats. I will add the caveat that since there aren't many of these types of apartment buildings with more than 4 levels, I have never heard anyone refer to a building as a 5-flat or 6-flat.

@CortexNewsService

Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say this. I used to live in Chicago and two-flats and three- flats are very common. I lived one for a while, but we never referred to the apartment itself as a flat.

@highrhino

Жыл бұрын

In the UK flats are usually a bit small and cramped, while apartment is sometimes used to describe somewhere that is more spacious and open planned, so almost the opposite.

In Germany there is a groundfloor or "Erdgeschoss". The first floor comes above that. Like in the UK.

She put on the Southern accent and everyone melts.😄

Wow. Shannon is absolutely stunning

I´m from Germany as well but from north Germany and i learned American English in School of course we learned both but in like Conversation exercises we were only allowed to use American English because my teacher wanted it like that. and in Germany the different states are very different school wise so you can´t really say in germany we learn it like that bc it depends on the region and the School/Teacher

@chrisrudolf9839

Жыл бұрын

When I was in school in the 90ties, We started learning British English. Then in the third year, we had a half year course on the differences and the specifics of American English (Spelling differences and vocabulary). In the subsequent years, teachers told us that we were free to use either British English or American English, but we had to stick to one in any one graded assignment or exam. If we mixed both, the less used version would count as "wrong". So since we had much more experience with British English than with American English at that point, almost all of us stuck to British English.

@olgahein4384

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisrudolf9839 Same here. That is, until the internet conquered the world, then everyone quickly switched to american english. By the time i finished school and went to college, nobody cared anymore. Also i had english teachers in college (for business english and literature english) who originated from Scotland, the US, Ireland, UK and even one from South Africa. That, and the fact that I grew up trilingual from the crip, resulted in me having a pretty much indefinable accent. In all the languages I know. In german ppl think i'm bavarian or from the Allgäu, in french and spanish i seem to sound like a basque and in english like a whatever but native, or so i was told by many native english speaking students at my local university.

It’s pretty funny that so many Brits feel the need to make fun of Americans for saying words like “soccer” and “fall” when they are the ones that coined them. “Fall” is actually extremely English, so much so that’s it’s from the Old English word “feallan” which meant, “to drop from a height, fail, decay, die”.

@IONATVS

Жыл бұрын

yup, short for a poetic middle english description for the season “the Fall of the Leaf.” Counterpart to “the Spring of the Leaf”-Spring-for its opposite season. Tho the original english name for the season is the old english cognate of “harvest”.

@nickburns8096

Жыл бұрын

People blame americans for some really strange things that were started by the english

@ramonsuter7435

Жыл бұрын

Yes they make fun because american english is oldfashioned

@enzog1078

Жыл бұрын

Obviously fall is an English word Lmao Americans speak English. The difference is using it to describe the season of autumn.

@Souledex

Жыл бұрын

Especially when the rest of the commonwealth says soccer too.

It's hilarious that it seems like none of the ladies would be friends, or even do any segments with each other, if they weren't on this.

In Malaysia, flat and apartment are similar but different 😂 we use both

When they discuss Autum and fall made me think of this. In the US there are people who only know Autumn as a name not a season.

@hannahforeman

Жыл бұрын

I heard both. I know the season Autumn a long time ago before I knew an Autumn a couple of years ago. I usually call it fall though.

I like the way that she TOTALLY sidestepped "rubber" when, you could tell by her reaction exactly what she was thinking. . . . .

@Daktangle

Жыл бұрын

What's funny is they start of with "mate" which is a similar sidestepping situation in the UK. >.>

When I hang out with my friends from the UK I tend to switch over to their lingo so it’s easier to converse. I do the same thing with my friends from Australia.

In Germany the first floor is regularly the second or third tier of a building. So in a lift you have buttons for (U or K), E, 1, 2, 3.... U/K stands for "Untergeschoss" or "Kellergeschoss" = engl. "Basement", E stands for "Erdgeschoss" = engl. "groundfloor"... Sometimes you have more than one tier underground, then it will be U1, U2, U3 ... and so on. Sometimes you will see the letter "G" on lift-buttons, this will be the (underground) garage. Rooms on the groundfloor will normally be numbered with a leading zero.

Its interesting that the Europeans probably use the American terms more often because of learning it through media

Oh Shannon is so good at imitating accents! Claudia and Lauren, my two favorite girls, always happy to see them. Alice is so pretty. Dia is really cute. But yeah, I have to agree with them, between the UK and US standard accents, I prefer the UK accent for sure, lol. And among the UK accents, I love the RP accent best; it just sounds more melodic and sophisticated compared to the rest.

@flowersthewizard9336

Жыл бұрын

you should listen to the welsh accent we're known for singing :)

@TheLegoMaster261

Жыл бұрын

Jeez, sorry that my American accent that I was born with and can't control is such a problem for you to hear. Maybe think about how you would like it if someone disrespected you purely because of your accent.

@rikk319

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLegoMaster261 Just to let everyone know, not all people from the United States are as touchy and sensitive over their personality traits.

Finally Lauren is here

the floor number counting thing is in germany the same as in UK btw

love how the American’s Boston accent was actually a New York accent

9:15 Yes, my husband (German) used to use British terms and spellings before he met me (American). ;) I haven't heard him call anyone mate in years, but he still gets confused sometimes when I say pants and thinks I mean underwear.

If you haven't already heard it, I seriously recommend that you give a listen to the classic song "London Homesick Blues", written by Texan Gary P. Nunn. Your discussion of buildings reminded me of the second verse which starts "Well, it's cold up here, and I swear I wish they'd turn the heat on/And where in the world is that English girl I promised that I'd meet on the third floor..."

"Like if I am from Boston..." proceeds to do a New York accent... MA'AM!

"Two countries separated by a common language"- George Bernard Shaw

It's strange because the French girl speaks from her own experience and her own use of English, but I who am an older Frenchman learned English with basically the words of British English . And it would never occur to me to call a woolen "pull-over" a Sweatshirt (which is reserved for rather sporty clothes).

@scrambler69-xk3kv

11 ай бұрын

A woolen pullover is a sweater in the USA. A sweatshirt is made from cotton. Two entirely different articles of clothing.

Dungarees.... (UK for overalls) is actually a name for a specific jean company like Levi and Wrangler

Should have added a Canadian in there to be the mediator. I'll volunteer if you need one! Haha

Can we please just appreciate for a minute just how good Shannon is at accents? She nails the different American accents and the Australian accent as well which I can tell you as an Aussie, not many people get right...

@JosephOccenoBFH

Жыл бұрын

Damn right ..

@jayteegamble

Жыл бұрын

Her Boston accent was a Long Island accent tho

@amunra4256

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, her "Boston" accent was closer to Long Island, but she did do it very well though, so I do agree. I was impressed by that as well

More easy ❌ more easier ❌ easier ✅ I'm not a English native speaker but it's a pet peeve of mine when people don't use the comparatives in the right way.

Overalls never heard of that. In the Philippines, we call it Jumper /Jumper Suit

As a person with a southern accent ty for the comment in the beginning that made my day

I find it amazing that many non American English speaking countries are not aware of England's language history. Many words Americans use originated in use by the English untill they decided to change them . For instance ,SKIM milk was first used by Shakespeare. It was called soccer in England at least untill the 1960s before they changed it to football. Several other nations call it soccer as well. The English discoverer of aluminum called it aluminium,then aluminum untill a language snob told him aluminium sounded more cultured. People just be careful about judging another nation's language . Just because they may not use the same word terminology doesn't mean it's incorrect. It's just different

@cultoftyler9045

Жыл бұрын

england didnt change from soccer to football, it was always football. soccer was a nickname that stopped being used.

@mroldnewbie

Жыл бұрын

Aluminium was not discovered by a Brit, only the name.

@londongael414

Жыл бұрын

@@cultoftyler9045 Yes, and it couldn't be more British. Soccer was a public school slang term (oh, here we go - UK "public school", i.e. very expensive private one) for Association Football, the game regulated by the FA, originally a public school influenced organisation which modernised and codified a very ancient traditional game with many local variants. It is formed in the same way as "rugger" for Rugby football, which still has a very public school culture. (Then there's Rugby League - stop me, someone!) Naturally, Americans need to distinguish FA football from the game they know as football. Australians also say "soccer", as they play yet another different game they call Australian (or less formally Aussie) Rules football. Edit PS Sorry, CultOfTyler, I'm sure you know all this, I just thought it might be useful for some, to have it in the comments.

@artemislogic5252

Жыл бұрын

@@londongael414 aussies usually just call both games footie, it depends on region who call it soccer

@londongael414

Жыл бұрын

@@artemislogic5252 Ah, thank you! I love the way Australians shorten every word! 😄

I'm from New Zealand and have many Australian friends. One I've come a cross is "thongs". In NZ these are underwear with the very narrow stripe at the back (mostly worn by women). But in Australia thongs are what we would call jandals. The foot wear with a piece that goes between your big toe and the next toe and no strap at the heel. So imagine my shock when my male Australian friend told me he had lost his thongs at the beach....lol.

@aaaaaaaard9586

Жыл бұрын

As far as I know americans distinguish them by using singular on the underwear and plural on the footwear. There’s a Friends episode that uses the very “thongs at the beach” joke and that’s where I got it. Isn’t that the case down there?

@vbrown6445

Жыл бұрын

Thong for the underwear. Thongs for the sandals or flip-flops.

@tartanfruitcake1534

Жыл бұрын

Thong/s for the pants and flip flops for the footwear (because that’s the sound they make)

@glenncordova4027

Жыл бұрын

As an American, when I was a kid we called flipflops, "thongs".

@Simonsvids

Жыл бұрын

Australians are descended from the dregs of British criminality, so nothing would amaze me😂

You had me at Southern Accent...I'm from the South! We are warm welcoming people. Come visit! You ladies would have a blast! Dungarees for me are a US Navy uniform. Bibs/Bib Overalls/Overalls (all the same thing). I use Fall and Autumn interchangeably. Trousers are pants here. Underwear go underneath. French fries and fries are same, but Steak Fries are the rectangular ones (thick and wide).

lol, i love these videos. they really need to get an Okie (person from Oklahoma to those who may not know) to speak to them as well as an English person

Someone said Malaysians say "bonnet" for the "Trunk" or "Boot." As a Malaysian, we use "Boot" and "Bonnet" for the "Hood." One reason for the spread of American English and its spelling is the Internet. It started in the USA, and so has become the version of English that is more commonly found there.

@alanlight7740

Жыл бұрын

Also there are almost five times as many people living in the U.S. as live in the U.K.

@rokuth

11 ай бұрын

@@alanlight7740 You are quite correct. However, did you include the potential speakers of the King's English from British Commonwealth countries (like Canada), and former British colonies? If you did, then you'd find that the number of people speaking the King's English are at least twice that of American English speakers.

@alanlight7740

11 ай бұрын

@@rokuth - I considered that, but it doesn't really change anything. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are the only other nations of any size where most of the people speak a fairly standard English - and if you add them all to the UK you still get about twice as many native English speakers in the U.S. There are also small populations of native English speakers who speak a standard English in places like South Africa and some Caribbean nations, but these populations are not large enough to have a whole lot of influence. Then you can find native English speakers in places like Nigeria, India, and Singapore - but at this point the language has become mixed enough with other languages that it is questionable whether they are standard, lah. And of course all these places had already adopted a fair amount of American usage before the rise of the internet, so it's a mixed bag whether adding them to the equation would strengthen or weaken claims about "the king's English".

I’m an American who grew up internationally. I find my self flipping between certain versions of a word. But it isn’t just English speaking countries English, but you have what such and such countries think is English. I still get that teaching English in Japan, I tell my students no Japanese and no Japanese English.

British bird was like. Don’t question me on my peas. Yes they are significant to me. 😂

So to me (and a lot of other Dutch people) the whole building is called a flat (literally like the English word in pronunciation) while one of these "houses" is what you call an apartment, which is apartement in Dutch

Hi! I'm from Latvia. For some words I use British ones, because they got fixed in my brain from the time of primary school. But when I started to watch KZread and American movies and TV shows, as the girls were explaining, I picked up a lot of American words. And now it's all mixed up. But for autumn/fall - I use autumn. Fall just seems weird for me. 😅

@OneGeekStudios

Жыл бұрын

fun fact, British people used to use Fall when the US was colonized by England. Then England changed to autumn and the US kept fall. It is actually short for "fall of the leaves" which is what leaves do when the weather changes after summer

@no_rubbernecking

Жыл бұрын

Here in America, the use of "autumn" is correct American English and is very common. The word is not seen as "British English", it's seen as the scientifically correct term, while fall is seen as a shorthand for autumn.

I have a similar experience in Texas with Spanish where my teacher told me not to use/learn European Spanish, and mainly taught Latin American Spanish since she said I’ll be using it more. My very first Spanish speaking friend was from Madrid, so I ended up being more hearing castellano.

@josuealopez3167

Жыл бұрын

Really I'm from NY and I am Latino but failed Spanish class bcuz thy were teaching Spain Spanish and it very dif than LatAm Spanish but thxfully I had Latino teachers later on so thy taught more Latino Spanish mainly Mexican since its slower and neutral

@cjkim2147

Жыл бұрын

@@josuealopez3167 I guess you never know who you meet as a teacher.

@4enriquedelpi116

Жыл бұрын

@@josuealopez3167 The is no “LATAM” spanish. You cannot learn Mexican spanish and go to Colombia and Puerto Rico and understand it perfectly. All countries have their differences smh

@josuealopez3167

Жыл бұрын

@@4enriquedelpi116 Ik tht but in LatAm u can understand eachother better than Ppl from Spain and I said tht bcuz my teachers were from dif LatAm countries 🇩🇴🇵🇦🇸🇻

@axwleurope9519

Жыл бұрын

@@josuealopez3167 jajajaj pero en lo esencial y la gramática somos iguales

Americans say housemate all the time, also suite mate or dorm mate. Dungarees are just denim jeans. Overalls used to be called "bib overalls," perhaps to distinguish them from coveralls.

“When we eat… kids” fucking cracked me up lmao 😊

In Brazil we use to learn more the US english, and it make sense since we are a american (continet) country, I think it would be kinda weird to hear us talking like europeans. But I love the UK accents, and in schools sometimes they show us some basic differences to us an UK, so I can use both depending of who I'm talking to.

@mrp4242

Жыл бұрын

E eu, como um Americano, gosto mais do soltaque do Brasil do que Portugál. Morei em Minas Gerais.

@benjaminmorris4962

Жыл бұрын

It's the same with any language. When you learn it, you are taught the version of it in the country(or countries) nearest to you because that's the version you're most likely to encounter. For example, European students of Spanish often learn either Castille or Catalan Spanish primarily but Americans primarily learn Mexican Spanish...

@ashleydanielson3222

Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminmorris4962 it also depended on where the Spanish teacher was from or was taught. I’m

As a German I would actually say that the first floor is the one above the one on the ground level and I have always seen it labeled that way where I live. The one on the ground would be called "Erdgeschoss" which means something like 'ground floor'. Fun fact: If you translate the two components of the word directly it would mean something like: Erd = ground geschoss = shooting I don't know why it is like that but it is pretty funny.

@aeksora

Жыл бұрын

"Geschoss" still means "level" or "floor" though

@kinderoffender

Жыл бұрын

@@aeksora Yes, you are right, the word has more than one possible meaning. "Shooting" is only one of them.

@tresenie

Жыл бұрын

@@kinderoffender Translating like that can be fun. We once got a folder for pizzas and one had gabled (puntgevel) in it, turns out that gabled, cog and pinetree seed can be the same word in French and they used the wrong one.

@fawkesmorque

Жыл бұрын

@@kinderoffender Geschoss never gets translated with shooting. Maybe "bullet" or "projectile", but shooting would be "schießen".

@PtylerBeats

Жыл бұрын

My wife is 9 months pregnant, so we’ve been to our local hospital in the US quite a bit recently. Something I noticed about floors is that IF we have a ground floor, it’s because we have 2 floors that could both be considered the ground floor. So the first floor is always the floor you walk into for us. But at this hospital, you could technically walk into either floor from the street because of how the elevation is around the building. So if you enter one side of the building, you reach the 1st floor. But if you enter the other side of the building, you’ll be one floor lower. So it’s not a basement, but it’s technically lower than the 1st floor, so we have a Ground Floor as well as a 1st floor there. I’ve never seen a building in the US that has a ground floor and then skips the first floor and goes to 2. Usually, if we have a ground floor, it’s because there is some overlap between a couple floors, and to clarify, they label the floor underneath the 1st floor the ground floor. But most buildings don’t have a ground floor. It’s usually Basement, First Floor, Second Floor. If you have multiple basements, I usually see B2F, B1F, 1F, 2F. So it just counts down as the basements go down, adding a “B” at the beginning for “basement.”

The definition of sweater has changed in the USA over the past couple decades. A sweater used to only refer to the knitted type garment shown in the picture. They could either be pull over or have buttons or zippers to close the front. The cloth pull overs that younger generations now refer to as sweaters used to be referred to as a sweat shirts. Sweat shirts were generally a heavy cotton cloth garment with long sleeves. Hoodies are just a sweat shirt with a hood. I think knitted sweaters fell out of fashion so the term sweater started being applied to sweat shirts.

@ColonelSandersLite

10 ай бұрын

I have never heard a sweat shirt be called a sweater. Possibly regional though.

@grben9959

10 ай бұрын

@@ColonelSandersLite Me neither (Upper Midwest/Great Lakes region)

I find that whiting Uk shows there are so many accent’s where people don’t pronunciate their words. They don’t finish a word if I has ing at the end or say a t if it is at the end..

The British woman’s reaction to her doing the southern accent… hahaha 😆

This reminds me, I once saw a story meme about a guy who walked down the stairs of his home and saw his dad drinking tea and thought to himself 'What the heck are you, a brit?' then he promptly remembered that his father is, as he is as well. They live in the UK. Turns out he watches too much American media, lol.

I am not sure if I caught it correctly. The last comparison regarding the floor... The German girl approved the American version? In Germany, you have the "Erdgeschoss" for the ground level and then you start counting starting with "1". So, for Germans the UK version applies.

I grew up thinking “jumper” was specifically a skirt with a bib and suspenders, similar to the overalls mentioned in the video. And my grandmother often referred to jeans in general as “dungarees.” Also, I wonder if the ground floor vs 1st floor issue has anything to do with major American cities having huge fires in their history? I know Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco all had that problem… In the case of Seattle, a decision was made to raise the street levels after the fire, in part to help resolve some plumbing issues (businesses and homes in what is now Pioneer Square kept flooding every time the tide came in). However, businesses were impatient to reopen before the sidewalks were raised to match, so even though the street level was now an entire level above the ground, the business entrances were still on the “ground floor.” This meant when the sidewalks were eventually raised as well, that “ground floor” got boarded up and buried, and all the entrances were moved to what was previously the “1st floor.” And maybe that just became the nationwide norm as a result? Worth noting that American cities have historically relied on wood, even after the Industrial Revolution made mass-produced steel widely available, while European cities tended to rely more heavily on stone which has the advantage of not burning down because some idiot accidentally kicked a lantern over or whatever…

(Canada) and UK; Zed, Leftenant, US; Zee, Lewtenant, as a teacher I was always informing my students, smetmes, my co-workers. And I didn't even teach English. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

She was using the New York accent when she said it was the Boston accent. as a native NYer i disapprove of this gaff... lol

8:48 its different for me in the us, we have stars next to the floor number indicating the "ground" level floor, or the floor you're probably trying to go to, cause there's sometimes floors that are underground but wouldn't be considered like basement or garage, take for my school, our 1 and 2 floors are below the "ground" floor, and 3rd floor is what u walk in to, and my particular class would be on the 4th floor, but from outside its the 2nd floor, or for the uk, 1st floor. also its not just numbers being used, letters like G M or L are used (but I still don't know what M is for even)

@alanlight7740

Жыл бұрын

Typically M is for Mezzanine, but it might mean something else. It also becomes fun when a building takes up a whole block and is built on a hill, so that the entrance on one side of the building may be a floor (or even two floors) higher than on the other side of the building. The star is usually located next to whatever is considered the main floor, or the floor which has the main entrances/exits to the building.

@michellaneous3364

Жыл бұрын

@@alanlight7740 u just described my school

The ground floor is usually for admin and conveniences. The real living (or staying) starts on the first floor, one level up.

Australians use a mix of these British and American words, as well as some of our own. We say rubber instead of eraser, underpants or undies, autumn, ground floor, flat or apartment, hot chips or fries, jumper if it's woollen or tracksuit/trackie daks if it's cotton or stretchy fabric.

@JT-zy2ft

Жыл бұрын

Just a heads up if you ask for a rubber in America your not going to get an eraser.

In Canada, we use both! But, there are no rules as to which... except for spelling. We spell the British way, except when we don't. We tend to pronounce things a bit like Americans (again, except when we don't!), but we use British words more often than American ones. Except when we use Canadian ones! E.g., "khaki," is pronounced differently in all three places: kah-kee, kar-kee, or kaw-kee.

@daniellat5763

Жыл бұрын

Canadians use American words much much more than British words.

@klondikechris

Жыл бұрын

@@daniellat5763 That depends on the Canadian!

In Los Angeles almost all the elevators have a ground floor followed by a first floor. Only 2 or 3 floor elevators ever have ground and first as the same and if there are sub levels they never are.

The fat thick fries we call steak fries in the USA. Go really good with steak cause the potatoes absorb the juices from the plate.

In older American usage, which I know from being an older American, a jumper was a sleeveless coat and dungarees did not necessarily have the bib, which made them bib overalls, but were like blue jeans but definitely for work, especially dirty work or work that abused the cloth that was for rough service rather than for style.

@anndeecosita3586

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I’m American and have always used jumper to mean a dress version of overalls. Maybe this is regional?

@tomlawhon6515

Жыл бұрын

@@anndeecosita3586 I don't know. I never heard of that. It is quite possible that there are any number of uses for the word jumper. The memory is very fuzzy, but I think there might be or have been some specifically military uses of the word jumper, but I was not in the military so someone who was might be able to answer that definitively.

@anndeecosita3586

Жыл бұрын

@@tomlawhon6515 I think you are thinking jumpsuit or flight suit for the military which is a one piece pants and top together. Below is the Wikipedia description of how I have always used jumper as far as clothing. A jumper or jumper dress (in American English), pinafore dress or informally pinafore or pinny (British English) is a sleeveless, collarless dress intended to be worn over a blouse, shirt, T-shirt or sweater. Hemlines can be of different lengths and the type of collar and whether or not there is pleating are also variables in the design.

@erinh7450

Жыл бұрын

In American English a jumper is a kind of sleeveless loose dress that's worn over a shirt. Dungarees is kind of an old fashioned word for jeans (denim pants).

I live in the southern part of the United States, and typically the "ground floor" is the 1st. floor where the entrance is located. There could be a basement floor or parking deck under that. We may also refer to it as the "lobby", since most buildings have that where the entrance is. Also, we usually never have a "13th" floor because it is considered bad luck.

@rekkariley652

10 ай бұрын

I wonder if that’s because of differing geography or history. A lot of the USA is built on less stable ground, and there’s been a lot of cases of major cities burning down at least once in their history. In Seattle at least, they decided to raise the street levels after the fire (in part to resolve some plumbing issues), but businesses got impatient and tried reopen before the sidewalks had been raised to match. The result was that eventually what had been the “ground floor” ended up walled off and the entrances were all moved up one floor to the 1st floor.

The reason we can them flats is because it was adopted from the Scottish word flat meaning floor or story of a house cause flats in the uk never have 2 floors only 1 floor(ground floor) the Scottish actually adapted it from the Old English word felt meaning leveled ground or just ground. in the uk flats are seen as places that are cheaper to live in then owning a house cause your basically paying for half a house but dont truly get ur own space, but now days in london flats are becoming very expensive almost the same price of a average house and are starting to become the new thing that's in, in the future we could end up adopting the word apartments as apartments are seen as nicer places to live

Bib Pants might be my new favorite description of any article of clothing

Ground floor is definitely not always labelled with a "1" in Germany. I've actually never ever seen that in my life. We call it "Erdgeschoss" (= ground floor") and it's usually labelled "EG", sometimes with a 0.

@Ace-mw9pm

9 ай бұрын

It was more so that the British labeled the second floor as the 1st floor. And the American labeled the ground/1st floor as the 1st floor.

I think American English may be more similar to Spanish, German and French because when the country was being formed it had already been settled by colonies from non English speaking countries. Also, the influence of Hollywood around the world has spread Americanized English

@Maximer77

Жыл бұрын

This exactly why American English is the way it is. Every wave of immigration added their little spin… some of which became integrated into the greater American English lexicon.

@PossibleBat

Жыл бұрын

As a Spaniard, yes it works the same way British accent is to other English speaking countries, it sounds more complex, so for English speakers it’s better to learn Latin-American Spanish (most neutral is either Venezuelan or Mexican) they will find it easier to learn, and Spanish speakers do the same with American English, it sounds easier to understand than British which sounds more complex. Once you get the gist of the language tho you can try with British accent which it’s pretty tame compared to Scottish or Irish English which I as a Spaniard barely come to understand 😭 they have such a thick accent for me to understand hahaha

@azulaquaza4916

Жыл бұрын

It is because of Spanish, our proximity to Mexico. The French influence predates modern English itself when Normans invaded and conquered England, they killed old English and made it more like French.

4:40 the issue between which floor is the first floor is important as well

That white block thing to erase is a vinyl eraser (leaves less mess) not rubber (pink ones).

My father, born in Nebraska in 1931, and still living, would specifically say "bib overalls" for what was shown, and he would sometimes say "overalls" to mean jeans. "Dungarees" is also an antiquated word for jeans in the US. I haven't heard this for a long time, or maybe even seen them worn, but when I was a kid, girls would sometimes wear what was known as a jumper, which has a top part similar to bib overalls, but the bottom is a skirt instead of pant legs. Similar to a South German or Austrian Dirndl. And it was mostly worn by girls, not adult women.

@iainansell5930

Жыл бұрын

yah overalls in the uk would be like a romper suit type thing, arms and legs...

@Zzyzzyx

Жыл бұрын

Jumpers - the dresses you describe - were very popular for women in the late 80's and 90's in the US.

@garycamara9955

Жыл бұрын

Jeans are usually LEVIs, in the Navy we had a work uniform based on denim, it was called dungarees.

@beageler

Жыл бұрын

The bib thing is a misunderstanding. Latz was a cloth flap in general, like the backside of old timey rompers. Since bibs are basically that but smaller, they're called Lätzchen, the diminutive of Latz. Latz would be the front of these bib overalls, or the backside of old rompers, it's not specific in what is covered by it like in english.

@Mick_Ts_Chick

Жыл бұрын

@Not Bono I'll agree. The ones that have long sleeves like mechanics wear in cold weather, we would call coveralls. Bibs are more like what lots of farmers wear.

Hahaha I am from Mexico and I learnt a mix of UK and US English at college, I just noticed it even more when I met my wife; she is American and sometimes I just say or write words that are more used in the UK than in the US like rubber (eraser), candy floss (cotton candy), learnt (learned) , lift (elevator), I refer to the "2nd" floor as the 1st one, Cinema (movie theater), it's just interesting 😄.

Whaaaat? I'm the US and I've never heard pullover or jersey (outside of sports gear). For me, it's sweater, jacket, and sweatshirt/hoodie.

For me in the US west coast in would say that the item pictured is a sweater, if the fabric is tightly woven and more like a cohesive piece is a sweatshirt. A sweatshirt with a hood is a hoodie. Jackets have hoods and zippers and coats are the extra warm fluffy version of a jacket. What's interesting for me is that on the internet no one seems to call it a jacket even though where I am from if you called it any thing else ( sometimes depending on fabric you could still call it a sweater) it would be obvious you weren't from here. Jeesh English is confusing.