American Reacts to Top 10 British Words That Sound Offensive (But Really Aren't)!

[@NemesisMarple]

I am surprised by ‘tatties’ as that’s still a commonly used word! And Ive never even thought of it meaning anything other than potatoes. Doesn’t sound rude to me!

[@Jinty92]

I'm Scottish, tatties are a staple for us. Mince & tatties, Haggis, neeps & tatties. I love your handle. My favourite Miss Marple is Nemesis & it's got to be Joan Hickson.

[@dannyking4138]

I’m from Edinburgh and I say tatties

All my family referred to potatoes as tatties, absolutely no vulgarity, my grandmother would have had a heart attack.

[@markopolo1271]

Ornithologists really be wild with their naming of birds I swear half of them are just taking the piss when giving out names

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

In Swedish, the Fore Mast on a sailing ship is known as förmast or fockmast and all sails on the mast have their names starting with "fock", eg fockundersegel, fockmärssegel etc

[@seanoreilly7293]

The Butt comes from a place for practise training in archery. So practise arrows. It was compulsory for all males to practise archery at the local butts o Sundays .

[@carolineskipper6976]

It's why lots of villages and towns have a lane or area with the word 'Butt' in its name. There is a 'Butthole Lane' not far from me.

[@ericevans4040]

I have put many a shaft in a butt. Infact my pic shows me doing just that.

[@TerryD15]

Lakeland was part of ancient Cumbria, which included the Lake District in the NW of England up to what is now the Scottish Clyde. They spoke a form of Celtic language based on Welsh in the form of a dialect known as Cambric, so don't be surprised by odd words. Other modern bird names includes Great Tit, Blue Tit and Coal Tit, and of course the name of a character in the Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan was Tit Willow.

[@daffyduk77]

Most outrageous vulgarity of Olden Day England - Wikipedia reports that "Gropec*nt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution" - asterisk substituted by me out of politeness 🙂

[@FilterHQ]

In Scotland, we still use the word 'panned' to mean wasted or wrecked on a night out. I was totally panned last night.

[@scouseofhorror104]

I honestly wanted to check if WatchMojo did this as an April fool because I've never heard of most of them! 😅

[@aaroncunningham3000]

There are no British words and no British accent. Britain is different countries with their own languages and accents.

[@julianfarrall8963]

Apart from the the bird names, and pump (pronounced pimp) in Welsh, and slut which means untidy, nobody uses any of these words.

[@bobsteele9581]

I don't even see how "tatties" sounds offensive in the slightest. Where I live people who talk about potatoes rather than tatties are seen as a bit posh or stuck-up 🤣🤣🤣

[@GnrMilligan]

What's your stand on Spuds?

[@bobsteele9581]

@@GnrMilligan - No problem whatsoever with Spuds 🤣

[@cherryblossom3046]

Butshaft sounds very painful! Run!!😂😂😂

[@HollyLyne]

Not sure how localised this is, but in place of pan-shit, I grew up with the phrase bat-shit to mean the same thing.

In Northumberland some one with their knickers in a twist was sometimes referred to as being in a real panshite

[@angharaddenby3389]

"Pimp" (or, properly "Pump" [prounced the same] and "bumthig" (or, properly "pymtheg" are the numbers 5 and 15 respectively in Welsh.

[@daveholly9005]

Interesting that isn't it I noticed that too. Must be a connection to Sheep farming that has crossed dialects. Welsh and Cornish also count in base 20 . I believe there is a way of counting 20 on 1 hand (using knuckles and the spaces between them). When counting sheep each 20 was "scored" on the shepherds crook that was held by that hand, hence the term score for 20 in English. Could be poppycock though.

[@missharry5727]

Tethera is obviously related to the Greek tettera meaning 4.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Not surprising given that the counting system is in the Lake District. Old Cumbrian was closely related to Welsh (as the similarity of the words Cumbria and Cymru suggests)

[@JackNap1er14]

I was asked once if I liked breasts or thighs, my reply was that I preferred a Brazilian but it wasn't the answer they wanted in KFC

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Most of those words are very obscure these days! An archaic name for the kestrel, a small hawk, is "windfucker". It comes from the same old meaning of the word "fuk" as the sail, meaning to be pushed by the wind.

[@mattbentley9270]

Never heard of most of these !! love it

[@vtbn53]

None of these were slang, except, perhaps, tatties which doesn't belong on this list because there is nothing even remotely offensive sounding about it.

[@DelDredd]

Butts are still used today on long ranges, it is where the targets are put up and down for the Shooters.

[@klaxoncow]

WatchMojo has now exhausted the entire world's stock footage library of "woman acting shocked". There are no more. That's all of them.

[@nicw5574]

This was really funny, though I may be very immature 😂 I still can't hear or read the word Uranus without laughing. Yes I did giggle writing it 😂

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

I with you there. I can’t resist asking “Where’s Uranus”? Everytime there is a tv on about space.

[@nicw5574]

😂

[@VonPunk]

You gotta love rude sounding non-rude words, as a kid I was endlessly amused that Germany had planes made by 'Fokker'. "That Fokker is strafing us!" etc etc

[@PeteDabbs]

When they're raising the sails do they Fuksheet up?

[@feewatt]

I live in the English lake district. Some of the old farmers still use the old way of counting sheep. Yan. Tan, tethera. mether and pip. I also have a lot of tits hanging round my bird feeder.

[@tonybmw5785]

Same here. I was about to say the same :)

[@alisonrandall3039]

🤣🤣🤣

[@irreverend_]

And a nice meat and tattie pie

[@jodders619]

How do Marra!

[@feewatt]

@@jodders619 Areet. whut yer djarn?

[@carolineskipper6976]

It never occurred to me that 'Tatties' was potentially rude........I mean, any word said in a certain context can be used as a crude euphamism, but 'Tatties' has always meant potatoes to me...

[@missharry5727]

Tit is the normal English name for members of the family of birds Americans call chickadees. A male of the domestic bird known when young as chicken is a cockerel and any male bird is a cock. There is a sentimental ( and ornithological dubious) Victorian poem that starts, "The Robin redbreast and the wren Are God Almighty's cock and hen." For information: we have only on species of wren and our robin is totally unrelated to the American robin which is a thrush. Ours is about the size and shape of a bluebird, but not related, and very common.

[@cherryblossom3046]

Check this out and get to know your country a bit more: "the origin of every USA state name" or something similar! Very interesting.

[@MrTrilbe]

Well it didn't include Lincoln's Glory Hole, though it did partially collapse in 2023, but it has recently being fixed and made safe and is open for public use again

[@kimbirch1202]

Sails on boats are still called sheets, hence the saying " three sheets to the wind " to describe a state of wild drunkeness.

[@nigellusby8256]

a "sheet" on a boat is NOT the sail! the sail is controlled by 2 main ropes - the Halyard, attached to the top of the sail, & used to haul the sail up the mast, & the Sheet, attached to the bottom & used to control the shape & tension of the sail. non-sailors misunderstood what the term "pull in that sheet" meant, (tighten that rope), & assumed it referred to the cloth. in the middle ages nobody put "sheets" on the bed, only blankets, but once they started to do it, people thought it was a bit like a sail cloth, so the (incorrect) term stuck.

[@kimbirch1202]

@nigellusby8256 So the 3 sheets to the wind saying refers to the ropes flapping about, I presume?

[@nigellusby8256]

@@kimbirch1202 err - No. it would imply the ship has 3 sails set, which in a strong wind will make the ship "heal over" (lean). so a drunk staggering down the road, struggling to stay upright, would look a bit like a ship leaning over. (you really don't want ropes flapping about on deck, someone will get hurt or die).

[@kimbirch1202]

@nigellusby8256 But you contradict what you said earlier that sheets are not sails. So what are the three SHEETS to the wind, that the saying refers to ??

[@el_es]

@@kimbirch1202 that be because they are tightened (to the wind) and boat with no speed will then just lean...

[@ljdellar]

Poppycock comes from the Dutch "Pappekak" which means "Soft Sh*t". So a LITTLE bit offensive...

[@torros1839]

There is a new Map Men video out

[@jorgehurford1742]

none of these words is in current use,apart from cockchafer and tatties (where i live in Devon, they are called teddies)

[@vallejomach6721]

I hear Tyana Bumfit's new album comes out soon...

[@fionaparkinson3821]

Yeah, British bird names are on another level. Try telling people that you have a pair of bearded t*ts nesting in your garden and just watch their faces as they progress through what, seriously, is this a joke and finally oooh, you mean the birds.

[@Iskandar64]

As a British person I think I have only heard of two of these and they are not in current or common use. The originator of that woeful video was really scraping the barrel, so to speak.

[@cr10001]

Thoroughly agreed.

[@chrisshelley3027]

I knew a girl called Poppy and yes she liked a cocktail or two.

[@ann-marieburrows2253]

O:15 Bless you.

[@chocolate-teapot]

I'm gonna start bird watching, sounds like a laugh.

[@alisonrandall3039]

I’m going to start bird watching 😂

[@harry9392]

Ref But Shaft in archery the target Is at a place called the butt's and arrow was a shaft

[@weedle30]

Tatties?? Rude??? Noooooooo 🤯🤯 tatties are common or garden taters! And when my children were little, if she been to my house for a visit their Nanny (my mum) when it was time for her to say goodbye, she always gave them a special Nanny “tatty bye kiss n a cuddle” And as for cockchafers - last year, it was a very warm evening and as the back door was open, one of them flew into my kitchen - give us a fright as they are soooo huge! Watch Mojo has obvs never heard of the village Piddletrenthide in Dorchester, which sits on the River Piddle…I have and I’ve been there - stayed at a the lovely Piddle Inn in the heart of the village 😄 It’s mostly the ‘Muricans who use the word butt, not rude to me at all

[@CrazyInWeston]

In 2620 Scientists changed the name of the planet Uranus to end that stupid joke once and all. The replacement name was Urectum.

[@Sestra_Prior]

And you thought ornithologists were dull!

[@valeriehadfield7083]

Please watch Only Fools and Horses The Chandelleir, so funny

[@elemar5]

I didn't know farms had floors. I believe farmhouses do though.

[@EdDueim]

Old English flōr (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”). We still refer to forest and ocean floor. It's regional but can be used to refer to a flat surface indoor or out.

[@elemar5]

@@EdDueim Sounds stupid, in modern English. Who would call a field a floor?

[@EdDueim]

@@elemar5 It's 2024 so any spoken English is modern. It varies by region. A forest or a field is not a floor but, in some usages, it has a floor. It may be unusual in your region but that doesn't make it stupid.

[@Shoomer1988]

A farmhouse can be part of a farm, and modern dairy farms have floors in the milking room as a legal requirement.

[@dancinglucifer1526]

should use a comedy name for email and login when searching you blurred one maybe missed the 2nd username / email

[@williamwhitty7243]

think you yanks need to remamber we speak english not americanish

[@ianbriers5019]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpecgmlueb-fpc0feature=shared This is how Roman words became into English which is used in USA and rest of the English speaking world

[@peterclifford8711]

Tatties is still very much in current usage.

[@davidthom7127]

I have NO IDEA how tatties can sound rude, at all. Anti climax (if you'll pardon the expression)

[@vallejomach6721]

Presumably titties...Carry On Film style innuendo OR maybe they mean love spuds...i,e, you definitely don't want a hefty kick in the tatties.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

As an almost fifty year old Scottish person…who has lived in many parts of England. I’ve never heard of most of these words either.

[@Tony-c7z9t]

Try and get yer hed round the wurd 'MISKIN' then JJ.

[@jamesrashbrook9485]

In other words bill shiitt

[@robertlonsdale5326]

Forced Unconcentual Carnel Knowledge. F..k.

[@williamwhitty7243]

british is not a language

[@daveholly9005]

Is not on Wikipedia its made up

[@rosaliegolding5549]

🤣I like your wording as much as the original ones , so funny your reaction to them as that’s what it’s all about , but the Cockney accent is terrible 🥴🤷‍♀️

[@anbmoodee]

bless you

[@tonyjohnson1405]

More bird word s...! 😂

[@magdos7160]

2.4kth

[@scotexscarrier8461]

tatties offensive !!! nah

[@jillosler9353]

A bit like the American words 'fanny' or 'Randy'???

[@ShanghaiRooster]

Perhaps for a Brit the daftest named singer - Randy VanWarmer.

[@sarahbingham1921]

Cack from one of the Indian languages, same as khaki... the sh*t coloured fabric

[@Tom-uv7ry]

What a load of twaddle the worst video you have watched 😂

[@auldfouter8661]

I'd say I knew a few of them. The words for counting are relatively well known.

[@magdos7160]

3492nd

[@petersmithm9]

Those birds mentioned are from the troics. Somewhere that Britain certainly isn't. Our birds would likely be called The anorak wearing duck!

[@speleokeir]

We have Shags and Great Tits. And we also had Great Bustards before they became extinct, although there are uncorroborated sightings around the Houses of Parliament.😀