Americans Guess The Meaning Of British Phrases Ft. Freddie, Jazzmyne & Kelsey

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Join Americans Kelsey, Freddie, Jazzmyne, Jeff, and Isabel as they try to guess the meaning of common British phrases and sayings
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@bekiefarrar
@bekiefarrar 4 жыл бұрын
When Americans think the only British accent is a London accent
@bekiefarrar
@bekiefarrar 4 жыл бұрын
@Ginger have a London accent lmao was just sayin💅
@bella2389
@bella2389 4 жыл бұрын
Ginger shut up ✨🧚🏻‍♀️
@xDan445
@xDan445 4 жыл бұрын
Ginger atleast people who don’t live in London don’t get acid thrown in their face smh🤦🏼‍♂️
@sabrina-xm8mz
@sabrina-xm8mz 4 жыл бұрын
Ginger you’re definitely a Londoner defending London in every comment even though nothing bad is being said about it, there are batter places in England (since that’s where London is) than London lol.
@orangejuice385
@orangejuice385 4 жыл бұрын
@Ginger wtf is that supposed to mean
@VloggerChick
@VloggerChick 4 жыл бұрын
If Jazzmyn has an Uncle Robert.... technically ‘Bob’ IS her Uncle? 😂
@bazli83
@bazli83 4 жыл бұрын
Lmao I thought of that too
@stevenjohnson4190
@stevenjohnson4190 4 жыл бұрын
But it doesn't mean that
@kithand1106
@kithand1106 4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenjohnson4190 Bob is short for Robert.
@stevenjohnson4190
@stevenjohnson4190 4 жыл бұрын
@@kithand1106 lol yes I know. And now that I read it again I have no idea why I commented that in the first place.. I'm a muppet
@ThisIsMissCheeky
@ThisIsMissCheeky 4 жыл бұрын
How does Robert turn into Bob? Wouldn't it be Rob?
@mizzkelcat3279
@mizzkelcat3279 4 жыл бұрын
They’re all having a field day, aren’t they? Bob’s Ya Uncle and Fanny’s ya aunt. And they’ll all happy as Larry.
@defencebangladesh4068
@defencebangladesh4068 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@alexstorr3357
@alexstorr3357 3 жыл бұрын
And Fred's your cousin, as my Grandad used to add on the end.
@SantomPh
@SantomPh 3 жыл бұрын
livin' the life of Riley
@georgelister4866
@georgelister4866 3 жыл бұрын
Bobs ya uncle, fannys ya aunt, ya nans a Tory and yer granddads dead
@happyguy2k
@happyguy2k 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@HB-fs6dw
@HB-fs6dw 4 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see them try and guess roadmen slang 😂
@sneakerhead6625
@sneakerhead6625 4 жыл бұрын
they already did that (but with q and destiny i think)
@vitaliseme
@vitaliseme 4 жыл бұрын
Nobody wants to hear that anyways. You poor chavs can keep it for yourselves
@janerichardson3066
@janerichardson3066 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@oasis4life014
@oasis4life014 4 жыл бұрын
Alright shag
@XeiAudiMusic
@XeiAudiMusic 4 жыл бұрын
Chavs and roadman are complete opposites
@sophiepaul6303
@sophiepaul6303 4 жыл бұрын
After “bobs your uncle” you can say “fanny’s your aunt” as well 😂
@samanthajohnson6557
@samanthajohnson6557 3 жыл бұрын
Came to the comments just to see if someone finished the saying 😂
@IrishGuysScarf
@IrishGuysScarf 3 жыл бұрын
"Robert's your father's brother."
@RandomPersonette
@RandomPersonette 4 жыл бұрын
In my 35 year old british existence I've never heard anyone say ' your bum's out the window".
@rosieo5875
@rosieo5875 4 жыл бұрын
@Ginger Of course it is. Bampot.
@xPidgexSmithx
@xPidgexSmithx 4 жыл бұрын
Nah I haven’t either, at first I thought it was another one for you’re hanging out your arse.
@clairemanning5334
@clairemanning5334 4 жыл бұрын
Ginger you’re really living up to your stereotype in these comments sections. What are you so mad about?
@samm5465
@samm5465 4 жыл бұрын
I think its actually 'yer bums oot the windae' 😂
@emcoates9290
@emcoates9290 4 жыл бұрын
@Ginger thank u, that makes a lot more sense. looking at. I thought it was extremely ridiculous but now it's in a scottish accent i can see it
@333kitkat3
@333kitkat3 4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see Americans try a week of British GCSEs 😆
@SanskarWagley
@SanskarWagley 4 жыл бұрын
Go watch Evan Edinger, he’s an American who lives in the UK, and did GCSE videos
@asia9954
@asia9954 4 жыл бұрын
@Ginger love to see u try an a level
@sneakerhead6625
@sneakerhead6625 4 жыл бұрын
Sanskar Wagley yeah he’s rlly smart
@sneakerhead6625
@sneakerhead6625 4 жыл бұрын
Ginger they might be “easy” but preparing for them certainly isn’t
@333kitkat3
@333kitkat3 4 жыл бұрын
@@SanskarWagley I have, it doesn't count because he's experienced British education 😂 I'm thinking they do a full week of the ones like history, English, higher maths and geography
@izzyo2594
@izzyo2594 4 жыл бұрын
So triggering them saying ey up in a posh southern accent and not northern 😂
@ellenlouise5551
@ellenlouise5551 4 жыл бұрын
Or Midlands. Whenever I slip up and say 'ey up, duck' to anyone in London, I get the weirdest looks.
@paigemcdonald4847
@paigemcdonald4847 4 жыл бұрын
It'd be like saying y'alright lar in a posh accent 😂
@racheloconnell5190
@racheloconnell5190 4 жыл бұрын
I’m from London but I’d put on a northerner accent for that one.
@noahhhhhh8392
@noahhhhhh8392 4 жыл бұрын
Tbf for them today probably easier to do a posh accent based on their vowel sounds
@avalonsignoraalmas6150
@avalonsignoraalmas6150 3 жыл бұрын
Now y’all all know how we feel when y’all try southern accents, valley accents, and when you talk about Starbucks. Lol. It just goes wrong, so I sympathize with you.
@randomafricana
@randomafricana 4 жыл бұрын
Who else came knowing that they will get triggered?
@Amy-sq4du
@Amy-sq4du 4 жыл бұрын
me
@hattybee9136
@hattybee9136 4 жыл бұрын
yup
@sonja7404
@sonja7404 4 жыл бұрын
Right here 😂😂
@leelaowen2175
@leelaowen2175 4 жыл бұрын
Me
@beapinol9157
@beapinol9157 4 жыл бұрын
always
@nothanks150
@nothanks150 4 жыл бұрын
Saddened no “it’s Blackpool illuminations in here”
@sophielambie3036
@sophielambie3036 4 жыл бұрын
This is my childhood right here 😂
@tabibutler4444
@tabibutler4444 4 жыл бұрын
“Put big light on”
@jessc1960
@jessc1960 3 жыл бұрын
YESSS
@katsayle8520
@katsayle8520 3 жыл бұрын
Ooo that's a good one!!!
@emmagilmartin4127
@emmagilmartin4127 3 жыл бұрын
wayyyyyyy!!!! love to see it!
@lynn69jackson
@lynn69jackson 4 жыл бұрын
My favourite British sayings are "You've made a dog's arse of that" and " you couldn't hit a bulls arse with a shovel"(of someone with bad aim).
@klymers
@klymers 4 жыл бұрын
I always heard "you couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo"
@mentaldavethefirst
@mentaldavethefirst 4 жыл бұрын
@@klymers which is the correct phrase. And should be one for a video 2.
@leoelsdon5831
@leoelsdon5831 4 жыл бұрын
You’ve made a pigs ear that
@xoALSox
@xoALSox 4 жыл бұрын
Dogs arse? Never heard that. Just pigs ear
@alexwilkinson4896
@alexwilkinson4896 4 жыл бұрын
couldn't hit water from a boat
@paigemcdonald4847
@paigemcdonald4847 4 жыл бұрын
"You make a better door than a window" Means Get out the way of the telly
@beepboop9464
@beepboop9464 4 жыл бұрын
We use that in the u.s. haha
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2 4 жыл бұрын
My mum says you're not made of glass so shift your arse
@winnielewis1749
@winnielewis1749 4 жыл бұрын
Yep!
@witchbitch1238
@witchbitch1238 3 жыл бұрын
This really tickled me thank you. It's just so britsh and tru as hell
@paigemcdonald4847
@paigemcdonald4847 3 жыл бұрын
@@witchbitch1238 😂 it really is
@maddiearnoldwood5718
@maddiearnoldwood5718 4 жыл бұрын
I never realised how much our sayings don't make sense I just kinda went along with it and everyone just knows what they mean
@vodafonemagpie
@vodafonemagpie 3 жыл бұрын
cockney rhyming slang butchers hook have a look
@vodafonemagpie
@vodafonemagpie 3 жыл бұрын
knees up refers to song knees up mother brown
@justsomeguy1014
@justsomeguy1014 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t even remember learning these i just know it
@yggdrasil7942
@yggdrasil7942 3 жыл бұрын
Yet the American's have our phrase of "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." If anything, that makes zero sense.
@yahushahamashiachiswarlike
@yahushahamashiachiswarlike 3 жыл бұрын
@@yggdrasil7942 I've never heard anyone in the US say that.
@amys8082
@amys8082 4 жыл бұрын
As a British person this makes me feel a bit ill
@voodoochile333
@voodoochile333 4 жыл бұрын
It's the SJW Corona you've caught watching this vid
@ceciliacalhoun1607
@ceciliacalhoun1607 3 жыл бұрын
As an American this makes me feel I'll as well
@slapmyfunkybass
@slapmyfunkybass 3 жыл бұрын
Why should they get it, how many Americanisms do you know.
@justsomeguy1014
@justsomeguy1014 3 жыл бұрын
It’s their accents butchering our beautiful slang that has killed me
@jasminedarcy-cox5504
@jasminedarcy-cox5504 3 жыл бұрын
Who knows this one Joe blake
@erin1811
@erin1811 4 жыл бұрын
"I have been to the UK before!...I've travelled." No, you went to London. There's a difference.
@jedislap8726
@jedislap8726 4 жыл бұрын
Is London no longer in the UK? When did it get it's Independence?
@erin1811
@erin1811 4 жыл бұрын
@@jedislap8726 are you American?
@jedislap8726
@jedislap8726 4 жыл бұрын
@@erin1811 No. Not that that would change matters. If that person had been to London then they have been to the UK.
@georgie1785
@georgie1785 4 жыл бұрын
Ikr I swear Americans think the whole of the UK is just a bigger version of london
@winnielewis1749
@winnielewis1749 4 жыл бұрын
@@jedislap8726 no they haven't they have been to England there is a difference
@Pillgu
@Pillgu 4 жыл бұрын
This is definitely London-centric, but even in London a lot of these are uncommon for anyone under about 60yo
@hollymackintosh2270
@hollymackintosh2270 4 жыл бұрын
lived in london my whole life and not heard most of these. agree most are old people only lol
@lolajenkins2674
@lolajenkins2674 4 жыл бұрын
@@hollymackintosh2270 these are all very northern. im 22 and hear all of these on a daily basis
@hollymackintosh2270
@hollymackintosh2270 4 жыл бұрын
@@lolajenkins2674 ah i see
@FionaNici-jq7mz
@FionaNici-jq7mz 3 жыл бұрын
I use alot of these, I'm from London. Even if youngsters don't really use them they do understand them cos they are brought up with em. 'bog standard' isnt London though. Have a Butchers is from rhyming slang to have a look and alot of people use it in London, even if it's only at home. I'd not understand alot of teenagers slang though. Lol.
@bobdabuilda1488
@bobdabuilda1488 4 жыл бұрын
Who’s going to tell her that bob is short for Robert? So Bob IS her uncle 😂
@paigemcdonald4847
@paigemcdonald4847 4 жыл бұрын
They should've done "Were you born in a barn?"
@strawbmoxx
@strawbmoxx 3 жыл бұрын
yess
@yoshidadaimyo3507
@yoshidadaimyo3507 3 жыл бұрын
They use that in America.
@Gg31p42
@Gg31p42 4 жыл бұрын
Please do scouse (Liverpool) slang and phrases 😂 it’s so funny watching Americans try and guess what they mean, most English people don’t understand us 🤣
@Gg31p42
@Gg31p42 4 жыл бұрын
Ginger I mean not wrong 🤷‍♂️
@daisyslovebot
@daisyslovebot 4 жыл бұрын
Ginger true
@olamidejay3918
@olamidejay3918 3 жыл бұрын
Nah bruh everyone don't understand uses
@greenrice5099
@greenrice5099 3 жыл бұрын
Dirty scouser
@millieisnotanidiot3102
@millieisnotanidiot3102 3 жыл бұрын
i hate when you tell someone you're from liverpool and they want you to say chicken and chips
@austinfernando8406
@austinfernando8406 4 жыл бұрын
the 'bob's your uncle' thing is from a prime minister Robert Cecil who appointed a bunch of his family to important government just because they were family
@davidabercrombie5427
@davidabercrombie5427 4 жыл бұрын
Arthur Balfour (a distant relative of mine) was the Prime Minister and his Uncle was Robert Cecil. I think Cecil got him into the House of Lords after his political career was over. He basically got a sweet deal cos of who he was related to....none of it managed to find its way to my family though lol
@JeMappellePercy
@JeMappellePercy 4 жыл бұрын
And now they're tearing down his statue cos he's a racist dick (y)
@davidabercrombie5427
@davidabercrombie5427 4 жыл бұрын
@@JeMappellePercy Karma.
@edgarjones7228
@edgarjones7228 3 жыл бұрын
Now known as 'Boris is your brother...'
@banesbrittana8198
@banesbrittana8198 4 жыл бұрын
Whenever they said “Bob’s your uncle” I instinctively said “Fanny’s your aunt”
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2 4 жыл бұрын
Haha same 😂
@CabbageDynamite_Lucy
@CabbageDynamite_Lucy 4 жыл бұрын
You should play them accents and ask them if it's from Northern England, Southern England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland or Ireland. Would be fun. :D
@carbon5362
@carbon5362 3 жыл бұрын
Is there a difference between N. Ireland and Ireland?
@CabbageDynamite_Lucy
@CabbageDynamite_Lucy 3 жыл бұрын
@@carbon5362 yeah big difference. even town to town in the uk it is different.
@carbon5362
@carbon5362 3 жыл бұрын
@@CabbageDynamite_Lucy I knew about the ton to town thing but I thought the only difference between them was that one was part of the UK. Do the have different cultures and stuff like that?
@CabbageDynamite_Lucy
@CabbageDynamite_Lucy 3 жыл бұрын
@@carbon5362 I am not Irish, but in school we had to learn about the Irish wars and how different the parts of the country were and people would get attacked for entering the wrong part of the country. It was 8 years ago at this point that I was taught it, so I may be hazy on it, but I remember it being a big thing, to the point that people that were for Ireland hated if you said they were British. I am welsh, N. english and S. english, and there are so many different things about the three parts, to the point I used to get bullied for saying words different just 'cause I learnt them the Northern way. I recommend looking it up, as there are people way more in the know.
@carbon5362
@carbon5362 3 жыл бұрын
@@CabbageDynamite_Lucy Oh wow I had no idea there were Irish wars. Also on the accent thing I notice that people in the UK put way more emphasis on accents than people in the US. It is like the last thing you recognize when speaking to someone.
@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380
@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 4 жыл бұрын
I'm from the South in the UK and cant understand people saying they've never heard half of them, there was only one I hadn't heard, and despite what some people are saying in the comments, most of them are not Northern.
@BenJones-zo5ln
@BenJones-zo5ln 4 жыл бұрын
Nah haven’t heard most of them and from Cardiff reckon a lot are just southern things
@tashajane1360
@tashajane1360 4 жыл бұрын
The bum out the window one? 😂
@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380
@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 4 жыл бұрын
@@tashajane1360 Yes.
@Sam_678
@Sam_678 4 жыл бұрын
A lot of them are north, as in north of England, not the UK
@jadehoopz
@jadehoopz 4 жыл бұрын
Right! Lol I’m from Birmingham and know all of them a part from one
@sophiemurray7034
@sophiemurray7034 4 жыл бұрын
It’s “yer bum’s oot the windae”, definitely not “your bum is out the window”
@nathanbloke
@nathanbloke 4 жыл бұрын
Only one I'd never heard before. Is it a london saying?
@sophiemurray7034
@sophiemurray7034 4 жыл бұрын
nathanbloke don’t think it’s used outside of Scotland but it’s a pretty common saying up here!
@zoeworrell4159
@zoeworrell4159 4 жыл бұрын
As a glaswegian living in london...I'm looked at weirdly when I say it 😂 Definitely a Scottish saying
@ChrisBetton
@ChrisBetton 4 жыл бұрын
Please stop using the words "British" and "English" as synonyms.
@yourmother8062
@yourmother8062 3 жыл бұрын
👏THANK👏YOU👏
@markkinz7913
@markkinz7913 3 жыл бұрын
Well then don't get conquered by the English next time.
@ChrisBetton
@ChrisBetton 3 жыл бұрын
@@markkinz7913 I am English. I don't understand your comment :S
@comedygirl_04
@comedygirl_04 3 жыл бұрын
@@markkinz7913 you're saying Britain was conquered by England? Are you good?
@greenrice5099
@greenrice5099 3 жыл бұрын
Chris Betton if he’s saying that wales and the Scottish and Irish were conquered by England, he needs to learn some history about the British isles pre-roman empire, when the Saxons and Picts lived at peace
@mirandajrp
@mirandajrp 4 жыл бұрын
I’m from the uk and have never heard the bum out of the window one at all!
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2 4 жыл бұрын
Thats because its scottish and said in a scottish accent
@collectorwells2405
@collectorwells2405 4 жыл бұрын
" No my uncles David "
@oasis4life014
@oasis4life014 4 жыл бұрын
In the midlands we all say “Eyup mah duck”
@rustyshackleford4918
@rustyshackleford4918 3 жыл бұрын
'ow am ya?
@rdhuskylover
@rdhuskylover 3 жыл бұрын
I'm somewhat in the Midlands and I love that phrase so much XD It's sad that I haven't heard it in a while, honestly the last time I probably heard it was at a blummin' pantomime and the audience shouts back "Ey up Dick!" Cuz it was dick whittington (I can't spell so sorry if that's wrong). I also love the phrase even more since I, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, got the nickname "Rubber Duck" and I love it and sometimes it's shortened to Ducky which ppl literally do call some ppl here in Britain XD
@oasis4life014
@oasis4life014 Жыл бұрын
“Black ova bills mothers”
@hedgehog_1086
@hedgehog_1086 4 жыл бұрын
Instead of dogs dinner, I'm more familiar with 'pig's ear', which of course, you might give to a dog for dinner, so maybe that's the link.
@SantomPh
@SantomPh 3 жыл бұрын
a pig's ear is more of a severe fuckup when you were not expected to fail, often because of a willfully stupid decision you made. A dog's dinner is when you don't even get the execution right, like not holding onto the bike handles or falling off the treadmill before you even start it up.
@hedgehog_1086
@hedgehog_1086 3 жыл бұрын
@@SantomPh 😂😂😂
@simonpowell2559
@simonpowell2559 3 жыл бұрын
I always took "dogs dinner" as making a big deal/fuss. Taking a small job making it last last for ages.
@paulaustin2886
@paulaustin2886 4 жыл бұрын
Everyone's saying they haven't heard of these but they're pretty common?
@shaniabolton675
@shaniabolton675 4 жыл бұрын
It definitely depends on where you're from in the UK. I knew like 80% of these.
@Lapinporokoira
@Lapinporokoira 4 жыл бұрын
I think age also has something to do with it.
@alistairt7544
@alistairt7544 4 жыл бұрын
Age plays a role too, or generational. I dont know half of these lol
@paulaustin2886
@paulaustin2886 4 жыл бұрын
It can't be age, I'm 16 and I know these.
@miickiie97
@miickiie97 4 жыл бұрын
Deffo depends on where you’re from and how old you are, I literally thought everyone knew these
@ellie7327
@ellie7327 4 жыл бұрын
Please can you North slang like geordie and Yorkshire slang it would hilarious to watch them try and say and guess what they mean 😂
@twicesliceee6464
@twicesliceee6464 4 жыл бұрын
They'd have a right time tryna guess Geordie 😂
@ellie7327
@ellie7327 4 жыл бұрын
It would be hilarious to watch 😂
@twicesliceee6464
@twicesliceee6464 4 жыл бұрын
@@ellie7327 yeah
@greenrice5099
@greenrice5099 3 жыл бұрын
Cries in Lancashire
@millieisnotanidiot3102
@millieisnotanidiot3102 3 жыл бұрын
or scousers
@bewareoftheginge
@bewareoftheginge 3 жыл бұрын
"Bob's your uncle" comes from a story of nepotism. Robert Cecil was a former prime minister who gave his nephew a job. So we say it when something happens easily or is given to you easily.
@juanmakbfxf6433
@juanmakbfxf6433 4 жыл бұрын
Her uncle is robert.Then bob is actually her uncle
@lynn69jackson
@lynn69jackson 4 жыл бұрын
Butchers have meat hanging on butchers hooks.
@stevenjohnson4190
@stevenjohnson4190 4 жыл бұрын
Not that. Butchers hook - look
@Assassin123999
@Assassin123999 4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenjohnson4190 you both right.... the butchers hook is an actually thing in the butchers shop used to hang meat as well as rhyming slang... it wouldn't be rhyming slang if it didn't come from proper words
@stevenjohnson4190
@stevenjohnson4190 4 жыл бұрын
@@Assassin123999 indeed.
@ceciliacalhoun1607
@ceciliacalhoun1607 3 жыл бұрын
When I saw it I knew immediately that it was cockney slang but I thought it was butchers shop- pop as in a coke or something 🤷🏽‍♀️
@SantomPh
@SantomPh 3 жыл бұрын
@@ceciliacalhoun1607 in London at least, a "coke" is any kind of soft drink except Fanta, which is called Fanta.
@zkw100
@zkw100 4 жыл бұрын
The guy who lives in Britain. I love how he got most of them wrong but went super enthusiastic over a cheeky Nando’s. 🍔🌯🥤
@alisidegei9902
@alisidegei9902 4 жыл бұрын
“Get a butchers knife- life” 🤣 making up cockney rhyming on the spot!
@RK-ep8qy
@RK-ep8qy 4 жыл бұрын
Alisi Degei sounds like a threat ngl
@SantomPh
@SantomPh 3 жыл бұрын
doesn't work.
@mindofafangirl2224
@mindofafangirl2224 4 жыл бұрын
7:29 - oh gosh 7:31 - please stop 7:32 - SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP 7:34 - AAAAAAAARRGHHHHH
@winnielewis1749
@winnielewis1749 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂 every chav in my area ever
@jackbayer6716
@jackbayer6716 4 жыл бұрын
Wish they'd done more Midland and Northern phrases like 'duck'
@Assassin123999
@Assassin123999 4 жыл бұрын
"you right duck", and "now then" typical midlands greetings. "stop been a mardy bum", and "he's throwing a paddy" for those miserable insufferable bastards, having a gander, taking a look, having a chin wag, having a chat etc etc etc and so many more
@ellierecine2021
@ellierecine2021 4 жыл бұрын
Yeh no one in America knows midland slangs 😂
@andrewwigglesworth3030
@andrewwigglesworth3030 10 ай бұрын
ey up me duck.
@millieh8094
@millieh8094 7 ай бұрын
Haha I would love them to do Midlands because we just speak a different type of 'british English'
@Squishitv
@Squishitv 4 жыл бұрын
It doesn’t sound right when Americans say British phrases it makes me question the phrases😂
@maxs557
@maxs557 4 жыл бұрын
these phrases are so old lol
@aleinav
@aleinav 4 жыл бұрын
Can I say as a British person some of these phrases I’ve never heard of.
@sonja7404
@sonja7404 4 жыл бұрын
Same here 😂
@rosieo5875
@rosieo5875 4 жыл бұрын
@@So1asola It's obviously not middle class, though, is it.
@owenstubbs6219
@owenstubbs6219 4 жыл бұрын
@@So1asola people definitely still say have a butchers though
@madabbafan
@madabbafan 3 жыл бұрын
Some of them are very northen
@likrenow9431
@likrenow9431 4 жыл бұрын
K but why does jeff always do so badly he literally lives in England, flexes at the beginning of every video and then doesn’t perform 😂😂 I just find it kinda funny 😂😂
@lily.e7244
@lily.e7244 4 жыл бұрын
"EY Up!" Is said in a terribly pronounced northern accent and said as one word, pronounced "Eyop"
@oasis4life014
@oasis4life014 4 жыл бұрын
Eyup mah duck
@sharonlock6452
@sharonlock6452 4 жыл бұрын
And it's very widely used in the Midlands too . Especially ey up me duck
@grace13527
@grace13527 4 жыл бұрын
"English is not english everywhere, theres just a completely different language here" I hope he has realised that he does live in England were the english language originated from
@chiprbob
@chiprbob 4 жыл бұрын
However, none of the people living in England speak the original language and more than likely he's descended from some of the people who helped invent it.
@AlexOjideagu2
@AlexOjideagu2 3 жыл бұрын
@@chiprbob That's completely false, a myth spread by Americans. Many parts of the UK have retained accents and words more than Americans.
@chiprbob
@chiprbob 3 жыл бұрын
@@AlexOjideagu2 English people do not speak like they did 200, 300, 400 years ago. Even with nearly 50 dialects in England, the English language has evolved in all of England over the past several hundreds of years. Every language evolves.
@mrgroot8701
@mrgroot8701 3 жыл бұрын
It's all gone pete tong..... 🤣
@miashakeshaft7272
@miashakeshaft7272 4 жыл бұрын
I've heard 50%-70% of these and I'm from manny
@TheAmymc23
@TheAmymc23 4 жыл бұрын
Im British Yorkshire woman I've heard most uk small but so many city's here we all have our own slang
@luvmusicutb
@luvmusicutb 4 жыл бұрын
I’d never heard ‘you make a better door than a window’ I thought by the sound of it, it was ‘your arse looks better than your face’. Didn’t have a clue what ‘your bum is out the window’ meant so I think a few must just be a southern only thing.
@miashakeshaft7272
@miashakeshaft7272 4 жыл бұрын
@@luvmusicutb I havnt heard that either but some of my friends and people ik live in like london and that so I only heard some of them cause of them
@miashakeshaft7272
@miashakeshaft7272 4 жыл бұрын
@@luvmusicutb and other parts of the country
@temikathomas4599
@temikathomas4599 3 жыл бұрын
Same and I’m from Salford
@JSandwich13
@JSandwich13 4 жыл бұрын
This just in. British does not mean English. This is basically English and mostly London slang. I'd actual die if they attempted to understand Scottish phrases 😂 Props to them though. I can imagine it must be hard to try and understand phrases you've never heard before with no context.
@chiprbob
@chiprbob 4 жыл бұрын
I'd guess that the person at Buzzfeed UK who chose and sent the phrases must be a Londoner then.
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2 4 жыл бұрын
Ha my family is 50% scottish and i need a translator lol
@JSandwich13
@JSandwich13 4 жыл бұрын
@@chiprbob I wouldn't be surprised. Probably
@ForestIRevolver
@ForestIRevolver 4 жыл бұрын
They should have asked them the full ‘ey up mi duck’ that would have got a funnier response I think
@oasis4life014
@oasis4life014 4 жыл бұрын
I must say mah duck 50 times a day
@Soapbox81
@Soapbox81 Жыл бұрын
Bit dark over Bill's mother's...
@CharlotteHoogenboom
@CharlotteHoogenboom 4 жыл бұрын
I didn't know "Bob's your uncle" was British. I've heard it a lot in the US
@apotato5137
@apotato5137 4 жыл бұрын
The entire language was from Britain so...
@angelapotter8084
@angelapotter8084 4 жыл бұрын
They should have used some good old Scottish phrases like "ah dinnae kin" or "fit like" or gone northern Irish with "so it is".
@zkw100
@zkw100 4 жыл бұрын
Angela Potter And then trying to do those phrase in a posh English or cockney accent 😂
@angelapotter8084
@angelapotter8084 4 жыл бұрын
@@zkw100 For real. 😂 It would have both angered me and entertained me at the same time. 😅
@kayxo-yo9jg
@kayxo-yo9jg 4 жыл бұрын
I'm British and I've never in my life heard that😂
@sneakerhead6625
@sneakerhead6625 4 жыл бұрын
i think it’s like older cockney slang lol
@krisinsaigon
@krisinsaigon 3 жыл бұрын
“You make a better door than a window”, my mum used to say that all the time to me, it means “stop standing in front of the TV” I’m from the north of England, and I say Ey Up all the time, it’s my normal greeting, along with “ya reet?”
@moesha3783
@moesha3783 4 жыл бұрын
you should do phrases that most of the UK actually use, like the slang that everybody uses currently
@ellenfale7345
@ellenfale7345 4 жыл бұрын
please Jeff, turn your sockets off when your not using them🙏
@izzy.cronin
@izzy.cronin 4 жыл бұрын
so ive learned a lot about my own country/language today (what are these phrases)
@alisarunbry5961
@alisarunbry5961 4 жыл бұрын
i’m ded 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@sonja7404
@sonja7404 4 жыл бұрын
Same 😂😂
@alistairt7544
@alistairt7544 4 жыл бұрын
Seems quite old-fashioned. I've heard Bob's your uncle though
@alisarunbry5961
@alisarunbry5961 4 жыл бұрын
Ali C yh dame that’s the only one
@CharlotteWoodhead
@CharlotteWoodhead 4 жыл бұрын
Ahhahaha love these sorts of videos! So funny when people say ‘bobs your uncle’ because yes I have an uncle called bob 😂
@tashaandrew2132
@tashaandrew2132 4 жыл бұрын
A similar way of saying bog standard is saying it was just your 'run of the mill... '
@jamgart6880
@jamgart6880 4 жыл бұрын
Erm.. ‘English is a completely different language over here’ ......in England? Is he saying the English language is spoken incorrectly.. in England?? England. English in England? Wth 😳😂
@shaungordon9737
@shaungordon9737 3 жыл бұрын
No, he just said it's different
@shaungordon9737
@shaungordon9737 3 жыл бұрын
@Gaytony Different from American English
@badkitty4922
@badkitty4922 3 жыл бұрын
Lol. I'm American and I've gotten to the point where I refer to what I speak as American, based on English but, now has evolved into it's own language.
@kernowforester811
@kernowforester811 3 жыл бұрын
They speak English in London LOL? Sounds like caw bloimey, innit, row at da barra. From Cornwall.
@sbolger
@sbolger 4 жыл бұрын
anybody else get triggered when americans assume all british people talk with a posh accents
@rosieo5875
@rosieo5875 4 жыл бұрын
@Ginger So I can add basic internet skills and intellectual curiosity to the list of things you lack, along with knowledge of geography and sociology. Good to know.
@winnielewis1749
@winnielewis1749 4 жыл бұрын
The only posh ones are rich or from Surrey
@rosieo5875
@rosieo5875 4 жыл бұрын
Rieka I mean that’s not true, but sure, go off, I guess.
@21samclarke
@21samclarke 4 жыл бұрын
My parents used to say 'Was you born in a barn? Because your names certainly not Jesus' when I used to leave doors open lol
@HarryPotterMad2012
@HarryPotterMad2012 4 жыл бұрын
We had were you raised in a barn when you left a door open.
@rossgeller_23
@rossgeller_23 3 жыл бұрын
was you born in a barn?
@Indeed999
@Indeed999 4 жыл бұрын
"Ey up" tends to be said in certain regions of the UK. I'm from Nottingham and we say it all the time, but I have never heard it in London, for example.
@de4830
@de4830 4 жыл бұрын
I’m British and haven’t heard of most of these (or I only know variations of them!)
@sonja7404
@sonja7404 4 жыл бұрын
Same here 😂😂
@tobyemmett8382
@tobyemmett8382 4 жыл бұрын
I’ll guess your 15 or younger then
@de4830
@de4830 4 жыл бұрын
Toby Emmett nope!
@oasis4life014
@oasis4life014 4 жыл бұрын
I’ve heard all of em duck
@KS-zf5bg
@KS-zf5bg 4 жыл бұрын
Lol people who havent heard these are defo very young. I've heard a few of these but I'm probably too young to know them all
@rosieo5875
@rosieo5875 4 жыл бұрын
I mean I'm not that old (early twenties) and I've heard all of them? But I spent a lot of time with very cockney grandparents growing up, which probably impacted things
@zkw100
@zkw100 4 жыл бұрын
Khadija Syeda I had heard of most, except the two ones about windows. Definitely not young. Have to google the origin of those.
@TheIamtheoneandonly1
@TheIamtheoneandonly1 4 жыл бұрын
“I’ll have a butcher’s, I’ll have what She’s having.” 🤣🤣🤣 Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt.
@XeiAudiMusic
@XeiAudiMusic 4 жыл бұрын
Did kelsey just high 5 herself! OMG i love her even more now! 😂😂😂
@junkh3add
@junkh3add 4 жыл бұрын
i can’t be the only brit who doesn’t know half these except like bog standard
@CharlotteWoodhead
@CharlotteWoodhead 4 жыл бұрын
I want them to do northern slag. That’ll be a right laugh🤣
@laraz-F
@laraz-F 3 жыл бұрын
that would be funny im form stoke and have Yorkshire friends and the one thing they say that kills me every time is "who pissed on your chips"lol
@kopynd1
@kopynd1 3 жыл бұрын
its like pissing in the wind, thats a belta, its like hiding a leaf in a forest, etc etc
@laurenr7545
@laurenr7545 3 жыл бұрын
These are great actually :D
@Francesca441
@Francesca441 4 жыл бұрын
Just get people with a really strong and broad old geordie accent. Or even scouse and make Americans guess what they're saying.
@bencameron539
@bencameron539 4 жыл бұрын
Aye or Glasgow Edinburgh and Aberdeen
@geordiepunchingahorse423
@geordiepunchingahorse423 4 жыл бұрын
You’ll only understand scouse if you are from Liverpool or you watch MNF
@seany8787
@seany8787 3 жыл бұрын
Scouser here. They guess im Australian most of the time
@Francesca441
@Francesca441 3 жыл бұрын
@@bencameron539 I mean any strong accent from the north of England or Scotland is nearly impossible for non locals to understand
@orla592
@orla592 4 жыл бұрын
They are over complicating 'Bob's your uncle' and 'Bog- standered'
@-callmecrazy-5859
@-callmecrazy-5859 4 жыл бұрын
Them trying to say cheeky nandos in a nice RP or cockney London accent is hilarious to me
@MikeHthemonkey
@MikeHthemonkey 3 жыл бұрын
"Do butchers even have hooks, don't they just have knives" - I've never facepalmed harder lmao
@shaun2463
@shaun2463 3 жыл бұрын
They hang their meat on coat hangers 😂
@VampyRagDoll
@VampyRagDoll 4 жыл бұрын
'ey up duck.
@RK-ep8qy
@RK-ep8qy 4 жыл бұрын
VampyRagDoll ey up chuck (my science teacher's greeting)
@mindofafangirl2224
@mindofafangirl2224 4 жыл бұрын
when a phrase comes up and we brits read it in a northen accent but they pronounce it in rp.... 😭😭
@xshannonBAKER
@xshannonBAKER 4 жыл бұрын
Most of these phrases are Cockney/East London (rhyming slang) but there are phrases from all over the country including Geordie, Scotland and Wales.
@maisieflorence478
@maisieflorence478 4 жыл бұрын
I love Freddie omg! and that is actually a sick name
@zahrasarwar9119
@zahrasarwar9119 4 жыл бұрын
I haven’t heard any of these phrases and I’m from London make them do what you saying and you a leng ting styl
@miickiie97
@miickiie97 4 жыл бұрын
Probably because you’re too young 🤷🏼‍♀️
@lolajenkins2674
@lolajenkins2674 4 жыл бұрын
Because these are all very Northern phrases, come to Yorkshire and you will hear them on a daily basis
@miickiie97
@miickiie97 4 жыл бұрын
Denise Allcock not really, they’re heard down south as well
@lolajenkins2674
@lolajenkins2674 4 жыл бұрын
@@miickiie97 yes they are very Northern phrases. And lol i didn't say they aren't heard down south too, just that if she hasnt ever heard them in london then try going to yorkshire
@miickiie97
@miickiie97 4 жыл бұрын
Denise Allcock one of them was even cockney rhyming....not northern 😂
@ambercrosbie7748
@ambercrosbie7748 4 жыл бұрын
"english is not english everywhere, its not over here" mate its called ENGLISH coz its from ENGLAND so actually its different in america and ENGLISH in ENGLAND
@maryavatar
@maryavatar 4 жыл бұрын
Ey up is regional - you don’t really find it much outside the North of England. There used to be a really funny TV show called Last of the Summer Wine set in Yorkshire, and the characters used ‘ey up’ as a greeting, but I grew up in Scotland, so I only heard it on TV until I moved to Yorkshire in my 20s. The first time I heard someone say it in real life, I burst out giggling, because I associated the phrase with comedy so strongly.
@rachelgrace3963
@rachelgrace3963 3 жыл бұрын
Jeff doing all the stupid talks instead of actually guessing ❤️😂 is so damnn funny & cute
@mizzkelcat3279
@mizzkelcat3279 4 жыл бұрын
Butcher’s Hook ffs Hook...Look!
@lanamasterson19
@lanamasterson19 4 жыл бұрын
I want to see more cities shown than London and its outskirts!! Big up Brum
@yourmother8062
@yourmother8062 3 жыл бұрын
Oooo, yall should do norn iron slang (northern Irish for people who don’t know). Eg “*pointing to your the inside of your eye* jump in”, “I’ll run you over”, what’s the craic?, bin hoker, buck eejit, wee, boggin, bout ye?, banjaxed and foundered to name a few. Bare in mind some other places also use these
@DizzyMay123
@DizzyMay123 4 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see them try Scottish and Welsh phrases/places.
@charlottevickers2592
@charlottevickers2592 4 жыл бұрын
not even people in the UK can understand geordie slang, god what i would do to see americans try to interpret geordie
@emmataylor160
@emmataylor160 4 жыл бұрын
A lot of these phrases are old... SO I know them! but the bum window one??? nope. A northern thing maybe? Ey up, more of a northern thing. Rhyming slang is a London thing and is defo an older generation thing, people under 40 might have trouble.
@becky3678
@becky3678 4 жыл бұрын
I also knew them all except that one. I'm from the Midlands so let's blame the North 😆
@rosieo5875
@rosieo5875 4 жыл бұрын
Nah, they just need to talk to a wider variety of people. I'm in my early twenties and I got all of them - but I spent a lot of time with two sets of grandparents growing up, which meant I was basically marinated in all of these sayings. And then I say them around posh acquaintances and they look at me like "..."
@closetrocker81
@closetrocker81 4 жыл бұрын
I'm Scottish and we say "yir bums hinging oot the windae" try getting Americans to read that. Lol
@emmataylor160
@emmataylor160 4 жыл бұрын
@@closetrocker81 lol
@freyjarichardson1519
@freyjarichardson1519 4 жыл бұрын
The amount of times my dad says that I make a better door than a window 🙄🙄 instead of appreciating the fact I'm socialising with others for once he just wants to see the telly.
@mollieslinn5822
@mollieslinn5822 4 жыл бұрын
Please do some video explaining or showing the difference between accents across England or even Britain if you can be arsed, seems like everyone’s noticed that they’ve only really experienced London :)
@rossgeller_23
@rossgeller_23 3 жыл бұрын
ye where are the leeds accents lmaooo it will be hilarious for them to try it
@mollieslinn5822
@mollieslinn5822 3 жыл бұрын
social climbers love _ I’m from Leeds n all
@rossgeller_23
@rossgeller_23 3 жыл бұрын
Mollie Slinn weyyyyyyyy 💛💙💛
@mollieslinn5822
@mollieslinn5822 3 жыл бұрын
social climbers love _ ALAW💙💛
@dobarion1732
@dobarion1732 4 жыл бұрын
Outdated terns tbh, unless I am super uncultured
@paris1064
@paris1064 4 жыл бұрын
I havent heard 80% of these...and I'm from the south
@livcarpenter3717
@livcarpenter3717 4 жыл бұрын
@Lola Sandall-Henry I'm from the south and I know all of them :)
@livcarpenter3717
@livcarpenter3717 4 жыл бұрын
@Lola Sandall-Henry Yeah, good point!😂
@chloe7219
@chloe7219 3 жыл бұрын
You make a better door than a window. 😂my mum and dad always say that 😂😂😂👏
@katreeves3533
@katreeves3533 4 жыл бұрын
When Ey Up came up I was soooo excited! Bit more northern than the typical ones. Should've gone with Ey up me duck to really confuse!
@annamayslowie9316
@annamayslowie9316 4 жыл бұрын
ey up is a Yorkshire phrase
@joshglynn7811
@joshglynn7811 4 жыл бұрын
Please research more regional phrases and stuff, Wales, Scotland, Irish, even Northen England. Not just London please
@xPidgexSmithx
@xPidgexSmithx 4 жыл бұрын
These aren’t “London” phrases, aside from Butchers. They are standard british phrases from decades ago.
@joshglynn7811
@joshglynn7811 4 жыл бұрын
@@xPidgexSmithx sure
@npiontek
@npiontek 4 жыл бұрын
Tits up and nando's is used where I am- in Edinburgh.
@shawniechew
@shawniechew 3 жыл бұрын
There literally all used in Yorkshire
@joclark4619
@joclark4619 4 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it's because I'm a scot but there are quite a few I don't know. Goes to show how many dialects there are within the uk itself.
@blueeyes4621
@blueeyes4621 3 жыл бұрын
I would love to see them try the welsh language. And Freddie I love your smile.
@sypho854
@sypho854 3 жыл бұрын
“Ye all ‘igh” I say this so many times a day that my friends actually started to count how much I would say it! 😂🤣
@emcoates9290
@emcoates9290 4 жыл бұрын
put big light on. a classic
@Tyler_Mills26
@Tyler_Mills26 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh I'm seeing all of these and going "well how are you supposed to explain what it means? It's just "Bob's your uncle"" lol I even asked my dad to explain what it meant and he's like "idek" haha xxx
@treetrunx9434
@treetrunx9434 4 жыл бұрын
The cheeky nandos is the only relatively new one in there xo Should've included newer slang like bants or such haha.
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