AMERICAN COUPLE REACT "US vs Australia vs Singapore vs South Africa ENGLISH Differences"

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[@fisokuhleqwabe814]

In South Africa, the petrol station, where you store your car in your house and even where you buy cars as well, we refer to all of them as the garage and context let’s you know which one we’re talking about😂😂

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

It's funny how we can say the same word or phrase with different meanings and understand each other.😂

[@ianbeddowes5362]

Sometimes Filling Station

[@caroltsoloane9944]

But to be honest when we say garage we mean where your park or store you car and when we say gas or patrol station we usually have a name in front of the word garage like (Shell garage or Total garage ect...).#SouthAfrica

[@melodybipolar]

Your explanation is spot on

[@ohteeseven7571]

aweh true

[@levislefa4950]

Petrol station in SA is a Garage 😅 And a Car Garage is a Garage 😂 I love my country 🇿🇦😅

[@Crazy_B345]

danko

[@literallylebekere1986]

In SA we call it a petrol station y'all were talking when he said that. But we also call it a garage. We also call the car dealership the garage. Where you park your car at home is also a garage

[@zeenkosis]

😂😂

[@Jocstar_]

South africa here, Hi🙋🏾‍♂, yes We Call The Gas Station A Garage or Petrol station , we don't really call it "gas" these sides,you park your car in the garage,and you get fuel from a garage😂

[@AaAa-on4mx]

Actually, in South Africa we're quite diverse, and have some different ways to call some things. 1. Pants - SA pants, trousers, jeans, Chinos, (for women) slacks 2. Cookies - (older gen) biscuits, (younger gen) cookies or biscuits 3. Change room - fitting room, dressing room. I never heard change room used in SA, although I've heard in US media like soapies and sitcoms 4. Tic-Tac-Toe - SA naughts and crosses 5. Gas Station - Petrol station or garage. In the past, most petrol stations also had car repair shops (garages) attached to the station. so you could get petrol, motor oil, water, and get your car repaired.

[@oarabiletshwagong1736]

7:51 A garage is called a garage for both fuels stations and car garages in South Africa. We also call a traffic light 🚦 a robot. Don't know why? 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@daveamies5031]

Back in the 80's and earlier in Australia a "Servo" (self service station) only sold fuel (pertol/diesel/lpg gas), a garage also had a mechanic's workshop as well as selling fuel, so you would take your car to a garage to get your car serviced and to get fuel, but these garages have all disappears and we only have servo's so the young Aussie girl in the video probably doesn't remember garages or the full service stations (where people would pump the fuel for you)

[@bradleyholdom9677]

Here in Australia, my grandma back in her younger days used too and still sometimes call the Service Station a Garage (not just her lol). I assume they called the Garage a Shed or Car Port.

[@Macca-zx7gz]

In the UK for 'gas station' we'd say petrol station or garage. We also call the garage, garage & the mechanic/ auto shop the garage 🤣 Need gas: going to the garage Car not working: taking the car to the garage What's that on the side of your house: garage. We like to keep it simple 🤣 and everyone knows which one you're talking about.

[@misspzar]

In SA too 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AGirlNamedVan]

lol this guy is representing himself . everyone I know call those cookies biscuits although maybe its where I'm from

[@leratomolefe_]

Hey from South Africa. I don't agree with some of what he said but most of it was accurate . 1. Boot 2. Flat(s) 3. Chips but if it's from McDonald's it's Fries 4. Phone (a house phone is a Landline) 5. Bin 6. Pants (Chinos) 7. Biscuits 8. Fitting Room 9. Noughts and crosses or x's and o's 10. Garage (and where you store car at your house is still a garage) 11. Vest (tank top for women) 12. Peppers (Red pepper)

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Thank you! Much love!

[@HeyItsWez]

Also from SA, I call a gas station a petrol station, so do most of my friends but I know a lot of people that say garage. But at current fuel prices maybe we should just call it a money pit cry 😅

[@hloc]

Singapore's Housing Development Board (HDB) Flats... Are what would commonly be called Public Housing... Over 80% of the population live in such flats... They range from small units with just 1 bedroom + livingroom + kitchen + 1 toilet... to 3/4 bedroom + livingroom + kitchen + 2 toilet.... These flats are only available for Citizens and Permanent Residents... They are highly subsidies by the Government... which make housing affordable in a densely populated country... I live in what is known as a 4 Room HDB... Basically 3 bedroom + 2 toilet + kitchen + storage room + living and dining room... One of the most common type of units...

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Thanks for sharing this! This brings up an interesting point about housing we made in another video.

[@daveamies5031]

As a foreigner when I lived in Singapore I rented an old HDB unit (They have to be over a certain age before they can be rented to foreigners) far out in the suburbs of Singapore. I was very happy with the high quality of the unit aa it was significantly better than what I had rented in other countries for the same monthly rent. So just because it's government housing doesn't mean it's bad, it's actually excellent housing, even the old ones.

[@syasya117]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT the project but very expensive the project depending on which location some unit can cost you US$ 1 million dollars

[@mariechenhabeck9098]

South Africa is different because of Afrikaans/Dutch influence. Also the many African languages

[@ries9422]

I'd say the "hand phone" thing comes from the Mandarin "手機" ( meaning phone ) which literally means "hand device".

[@macman1469]

As an older Aussie we called men's trousers and women's pants .

[@35478]

the countries that were colonized by the British have same names for the items.. idk i might be wrong but.. that's the easiest way to see the diff between each other..

[@wdazza]

Words have changed over the years. As all these words having an English origin not only does it depend on which country you are from but also what age you are. US - Tanktop UK - Vest US - Vest UK - Waistcoat US - cell phone Aus.- Mobile phone Aus. - a fixed phone at home is called a landline US - gas station UK - garage UK - where you park your at home is also a garage. You know what is meant by the context. US - EV front trunk is a frunk Aus. - EV front boot is a froot

[@HankD13]

I remember watching an old western movie - John Wayne, on a stagecoach - and he called the box he was standing on at the back of the coach, the boot. Believe it was called a "boot box" on old stages (and did look like a travel trunk). Americans tend to like things very visible and obvious - see Michael Mcintyre on American English! Pity there is not English English speaker. Cell phone, my crowd would call it a "mobile" or just "phone". A cookie is what was on screen but is not a "biscuit" which are harder, baked, sweet heaven. Trousers for me, since my "pants" are my underwear. Fitting Room for me, Changing room is for getting naked in - swimming pool. Noughts and Crosses, Petrol Station which we also call it a Garage (context is everything). Vest (common) or singlet (posh). Pepper - Capsicum is the plant that has fruit called peppers on it.

[@cortlez]

From SA, you park your car in a garage and you go to the garage for petrol. Context is everything.

[@vinacdc]

Singaporean here. The reason most of our vocabulary/spelling is similar to British English is because-surprise, surprise-they used to colonise us back in the day.

[@fisokuhleqwabe814]

The house phone is called the Landline in South Africa

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Same here.

[@dominique8233]

Botanical word you were looking for, for plant

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Thanks!

[@simbob26]

Botanically almost all types of "pepper" belong to the genus "Capsicum", but the species that Australian call "Capsicum" is "Capsicum Annum" which is called "Bell Peppers" in America.

[@jocelynhunter2359]

In Australia we call public housing "commission housing" or "commission flats".

[@joandsarah77]

We also call it a mobile phone or mobile here in Australia. Round biscuits with chocolate chips we do tend to say choc chip cookie or cookie. Most other biscuits we say biscuit. So a Tim Tam would always be a biscuit. I call that undershirt a vest or a singlet. I think wife beater fell out of favour some years back.

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

We can definitely see why that term is no longer in use. We forgot about it until this video. What do you call what we call biscuits?

[@joandsarah77]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT We don't have what you guys call biscuits. I think (I'm unsure as I have never tried American style biscuits and gravy) they are close to scones, but scones are slightly sweet, eaten with whipped cream and jam. :D

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

The scones I've eaten here are a bit firmer . Our biscuits are flaky pieces of baked dough. Similar to a crossaint.

[@joandsarah77]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT Okay, that is quite different to what I was imagining. :D We don't have anything like that down here.

[@sounds_4177]

Garage for petrol station its context I'm going to the garage Park the in your garage

[@AkinyiUniversalLife]

In regards to the cookie picture in the uk we’d refer to that as cookies also. Biscuits are a little different i.e do not have chocolate chips for one.

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

The Aussie girl in this video must be from Melbourne or Sydney because there is heaps of things we say she doesn’t know.

[@simroysten7963]

In earlier years, a car repair shop normally set up shop at the premises of a filling station.for ease of operations and customers are easily available. Later, due to fire hazard regulations, repair shops are not allowed. The word garage comes into being when cars are parked longer term to wait for repair or spare parts or second hand car dealers move in.

[@snubblebunny]

This South African guy is making half of this up. He is Afrikaans so his use of English words is more limited. We say rubbish, we say garage that’s true, we say vest, we specify green or red pepper etc, we say Cellphone. I’d love you to explore more of us, as the leading (not only) English speaking African country it would be an honour to watch.

[@jduchiha4656]

He didn't make anything up🙄

[@naandilentombini5549]

South Africa here , the gas station is a garage and where you store your car is a garage too

[@JSimHZ]

Responding to your question at 3:55, Singaporeans also call the house phone 'the telephone'. So if your friend wants to ask for your house phone number, he may ask : 'Can give me your telephone number?' As for the cell phone, Singaporeans tend to say 'handphone' more often, and less commonly, 'mobile phone'. So if I am socialising and I would like to get people's phone number, I would ask: 'Can give me your handphone number' or I will say: 'Come, let's exchange handphone numbers'. Please pardon me for the Singlish that I put in quotation marks as the response. It is just a common language that many Singaporeans are used to

[@cani-stay-withyou3406]

Bell pepper?? Pepper????? Bruh that's a paprika 😂 Love seeing the differences in words around the world, dialects reallybare something else lol

[@musicinme_sa5854]

Here in southafrica we call it a garage same as the place we keep cars at home

[@sivuyilemagutywa5286]

Gas/Petrol Station is a Garage, a Garage is Garage, as South Africans we just consciously know the deference.

[@charliew4823]

In Australia in older times there were always mechanics at petrol station and they were called garages because of the mechanic side of the business

[@tlo3571]

It was the same in the US. Gas pumps were almost always part of a garbage (auto repair shop). This has changed over time.( for reference, I am 64 years old.) Both are stand alone entities now. Some parts of the country use the term filling station.

[@tlo3571]

Garage not garbage 😂

[@charliew4823]

@@tlo3571 Mate you made me reread my reply I thought it was me who wrote "garbage" LOL as with most things Aus tends to follow the US lead you can't find mechanical workshop on any major road here they are almost always tucked away in an industrial estate off the beaten track.

[@c.j.2696]

Same here in the netherlands. Without the garages we call them gas stations

[@SiyaMiti_the1st]

A garage is a garage. But also means a petrol station

[@mondek5482]

The South African in the video is definitely from Capetown ,people in Joburg would say some things differently.

[@hloc]

Handphone, aka mobile phone aka cell phone... are just that... you hold it in your hands... In Singapore, the most common team is Handphone and/or Mobile phone... Home phone... Are just called... Phones... And currently... Not many people still have 'house phone' because nearly EVERYONE... Has a mobile phone... We also do payment, banking and Government service with our phone

[@top-gnews8333]

In South Africa government house are called RDP not flats its similar to projects

[@aussiebob5437]

In Australia our projects are called houso

[@strange........]

I'm from Australia. I just call it a phone, but my art teacher calls it a google box or a Wi-Fi brick. 🤣

[@whymeeveryone]

i think the old phone was dial phone or push, button phone

[@tessvillineVanWyk7436]

hey guys please check out geography now south africa

[@top40researcher31]

in Australia its a flat or unit

[@gregmayo]

In Australia we call a garage a carport or shed

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Hmmm now we're even more confused because we have a carport, a garage, and a shed.😅

[@Bellas1717]

Sydney we call it a garage.

[@syasya117]

In Singapore we call home phone..home phone cause you say phone they will give their handphone

[@Supragt]

Hi from #singapore 👋🇸🇬❤️

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Hi Aaron!

[@kurntechdouglas233]

in trinidad its vest

[@terryjackson8773]

Sorry, the Aussie girl has been watching too many American TV shows or eating too much Subway... cookies are BISCUITS here. Only bogans call a tank-top/singlet a 'wife beater'

[@lesterdampie6134]

Vesy? Hell naaw😂😂😂

[@mogp427]

Yes in South Africa ,we call it a garage🤣

[@36814]

If I saw a sign for a fitting room I would expect to see an epileptic in each cubicle fitting on the floor !! And I would only need a dressing room if I was already naked while going round the store.

[@lesegogaebeeyn4005]

Capetownians are different South Africans though

[@TYGER0902]

I’ve been calling the undershirts, wife beater since 1986 but only if the man or woman only wears the shirt. If they wear it under a dress shirt it’s undershirt. I’m in NC.

[@iluvmywifesomuch]

Why do u call it gas station when u going there to fill your car up with a liquid.

[@lesegogaebeeyn4005]

They're both garage

[@top-gnews8333]

This guy is not telling the truth about south Africa

[@PrincessVelaryon]

@@ekg891 I agree. I went to an English influenced school in KZN Midlands so the English we were taught was very much the Queen's English. It will be different for people from rural kzn, townships, rich, poor Joburg, Cape Town etc. There is no right or wrong English kokqala this isn't even our first language 🤷🏽‍♀️ Just like Zulu it's different in every region.