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Reacting To My Roots

Reacting To My Roots

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@peterholmes3011
@peterholmes3011 3 ай бұрын
Biro is pronounced bye-ro not bee-ro. Shambolic isn't just a football term it can apply to almost anything that's disorganised.
@Sarahj-ho1jx
@Sarahj-ho1jx 3 ай бұрын
Would have said the same, but saw your comment
@ianrose56
@ianrose56 3 ай бұрын
Like our current Labour government. A right shambles.!!!
@sallyannwheeler6327
@sallyannwheeler6327 3 ай бұрын
Yes!Am surprised at that
@auldfouter8661
@auldfouter8661 3 ай бұрын
A shambles was the name for a slaughterhouse.
@peterholmes3011
@peterholmes3011 3 ай бұрын
@@auldfouter8661 As in the street in York.
@janicejohnson6372
@janicejohnson6372 3 ай бұрын
The best thing you can do is read to your child, opening up a world to them of stories, facts, vocabulary and intelligence. Well done to both of you for giving her a love of books that will stay with her forever. best wishes from UK
@Kericka69
@Kericka69 3 ай бұрын
"I'm chuffed to bits you did so well! I need to get my biro to note this down and then got to go and hoover, I get treated as such a dogsbody, cleaning up after the rest! Makes me really knackered afterwards. Did you see the match? What a shambolic display! The manager is so gormless! Obviously wasn't much of a boffin at school." Well done, you did very well!
@baronmeduse
@baronmeduse 3 ай бұрын
Don't get a chuff on!
@nigeldewallens1115
@nigeldewallens1115 3 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😉👏👏👏👏👏👏👌
@JamesPaterson316
@JamesPaterson316 3 ай бұрын
A Boffin has come to be used synonymously with "an expert" in a particular field
@baronmeduse
@baronmeduse 3 ай бұрын
@@scott4600 A knacker only bought old horses for slaughter. An abattoir is for all animals.
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
haha, thanks! Very clever :)
@colinbirks5403
@colinbirks5403 3 ай бұрын
Two different items. You say Stroller. Brits have prams which are for young lying down babies, BUT, for older children that can sit up, and are active, we call, that a pushchair.
@drziggyabdelmalak1439
@drziggyabdelmalak1439 3 ай бұрын
Or buggy!
@stephenlee5929
@stephenlee5929 3 ай бұрын
Pram is also used for pushing the Guy round in November. 😊
@ElizabethDebbie24
@ElizabethDebbie24 3 ай бұрын
Yes pram is short for PERAMBOLATOR
@martinwebb1681
@martinwebb1681 3 ай бұрын
@@ElizabethDebbie24 ... *PERAMBULATOR .... is the correct spelling. 🙂
@daisygirlmochi768
@daisygirlmochi768 3 ай бұрын
I'm British and they can both be called a pram! I've actually never heard anyone call it a push chair before lmao 🙈
@andybigwood5260
@andybigwood5260 3 ай бұрын
Shambolic isn't restricted to football...its anything done in a disorganised fashion that looks only minimally functional
@jamiewilson9280
@jamiewilson9280 3 ай бұрын
Should be organised but it’s a shambles!
@wessexdruid7598
@wessexdruid7598 3 ай бұрын
Government is frequently shambolic.
@sddsddean
@sddsddean 3 ай бұрын
10 I would argue that US for pram is baby carriage. We would call a stroller a pushchair. 13 Laszlo Biro invented the ballpoint pen.
@andyjdhurley
@andyjdhurley 3 ай бұрын
@@scott4600 perambulating/perambulation is the activity, perambulator is the equipment that enables it (when you have a baby). I believe the word 'amble' (for a gentle stroll) comes from the same root.
@tonys1636
@tonys1636 3 ай бұрын
The company still exists and making quality retractable ballpoint pens on a par with Parker. They also produce advertising pens that organisations hand out.
@JoeThornhill
@JoeThornhill 3 ай бұрын
The site said about Laszlo.
@RubyMadigan
@RubyMadigan 3 ай бұрын
I was called a boffin all through school, it essentially means nerd. When they said that chuffed mean inflated with fat as a good thing it's because it came from a time where being fat was a sign of wealth and prosperity. Therefore fat was considered positive and aspirational. I use chuffed quite a lot, typically in the sense of being proud of myself or someone else (eg I am chuffed at my exam results)
@Burglar-King
@Burglar-King 3 ай бұрын
You should be proud to be called a boffin. IT DOES NOT MEAN NERD. It means you are clever and have the ability to work stuff out. Call me a Boffin anytime.
@Great_Cthulhu
@Great_Cthulhu 3 ай бұрын
@@Burglar-King There's an overlap between Boffin and Nerd, but Boffin denotes more of a scientific, academic interest than a personal one. It probably has more in common with Egghead in that respect.
@andyjdhurley
@andyjdhurley 3 ай бұрын
@@Burglar-King Nerd is often used in a positive sense these days but normally relates to a narrow area of expertise while boffins can apply themselves to new things too.
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
That explanation makes sense! :)
@stephenlee5929
@stephenlee5929 3 ай бұрын
@@Great_Cthulhu I think the difference between a boffin and a nerd is the point of view of the person calling you it.
@Rentaghost1
@Rentaghost1 3 ай бұрын
A note that in Northern Ireland we call the police Peelers for the same reason 😂
@billyhills9933
@billyhills9933 3 ай бұрын
Doesn't the term Rozzer also come from Robert Peel?
@StormhavenGaming
@StormhavenGaming 3 ай бұрын
They were originally called Peelers in England as well, before Bobbies and other (less pleasant) nicknames took over.
@george-ev1dq
@george-ev1dq 3 ай бұрын
@@billyhills9933 Yes, because the first British police force were located at Rossendale.
@katechiconi
@katechiconi 2 ай бұрын
You two crack me up, talking yourselves out of the right answer...
@sallytaitchison-gould740
@sallytaitchison-gould740 3 ай бұрын
So glad to hear that Sophia loves books, it will give her enormous advantage later in her education and general knowledge.
@sparkyprojects
@sparkyprojects 3 ай бұрын
we generally use the term 'Pram' for the cot shaped device on wheels, where the baby is laying down, the one that the child is sitting up we call a pushchair
@michaelgoodwin6565
@michaelgoodwin6565 3 ай бұрын
Pushchair is often called a buggy.
@Jeni10
@Jeni10 3 ай бұрын
Haha! Chuffed got you! Lindsay, you’ll be chuffed if Sophia comes top of her class! 😃 It means delighted, thrilled, puffed up with pride!
@ethelmini
@ethelmini 3 ай бұрын
They'll be chuffed off they got that one wrong!
@Jeni10
@Jeni10 3 ай бұрын
@@ethelmini No no, they’re chuffed that they got most of them right! 😃 They only missed four.
@jacquieclapperton9758
@jacquieclapperton9758 3 ай бұрын
​@@ethelminimore like dischuffed!
@Jeni10
@Jeni10 3 ай бұрын
@@jacquieclapperton9758 Now you’re just making stuff up. LOL!
@WhiteHawk77
@WhiteHawk77 3 ай бұрын
⁠​⁠@@Jeni10and thats English for you. 😁
@shkeen57
@shkeen57 3 ай бұрын
'I Don't want a bunch of hair on my head, it's too hot' says the man who always wears a hat.
@101steel4
@101steel4 3 ай бұрын
Indoors too 😬
@juliedowning7782
@juliedowning7782 3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@Jimmy_Jones
@Jimmy_Jones 3 ай бұрын
I think he does it for the video look
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
😂
@fionakierton1231
@fionakierton1231 3 ай бұрын
I was thinking that too
@skipper409
@skipper409 3 ай бұрын
We never call banknotes “bills” in the UK. A bill is ‘the check’ at a checkout
@paulknox999
@paulknox999 3 ай бұрын
not long after Hoover started in the US the UK branch of hoover opened in the UK so they manufactured them over here as well. I used to work just behind a massive Hoover Offices/Factory in Middlesex in UK, its now a Grade II listed building and was built in an Art Deco style. It was later converted in to a Tesco supermarket but I believe it is now luxury apartments.
@Loki1815
@Loki1815 3 ай бұрын
@ Paul Knox A40, Westway?
@davidswan4083
@davidswan4083 3 ай бұрын
Yes, it was a well known landmark. I too used (along time ago) to work in a chemical factory just behind it. It marked the turning off the A40 I used for work.@@Loki1815
@Phiyedough
@Phiyedough 3 ай бұрын
The important reason Hoover got such a big market share when houses first got electricity was the door to door marketing they practiced.
@ClassicRiki
@ClassicRiki 3 ай бұрын
23:21 I’m actually very glad to hear she’s using English terms. What a legend!
@TheWebcrafter
@TheWebcrafter 3 ай бұрын
7:11 - OFF TO THE KNACKER'S YARD - This was a phrase used to describe taking a horse to be killed once it became too old.
@blakemonkey769
@blakemonkey769 3 ай бұрын
As a kid, if I ever did a chore unasked and unannounced, and then went fishing for praise, my mum used to say, "Who do you think you are? General Dogsbody?!". Thanks for stoking that memory today! 😂
@ElizabethMackenzie69
@ElizabethMackenzie69 3 ай бұрын
My mum used to say "Do you want a medal?!" 😆
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
😂
@stumccabe
@stumccabe 3 ай бұрын
"Shambolic" is just the adjective derived from "shambles", and "shambles" means "a place or situation in a state of confusion or disorder". The etymology of the word is interesting: "shambles" originally meant "a place where meat is sold" changing its meaning to "slaughterhouse" (1540s), then figuratively "place of butchery" (1590s), and, generally, "confusion, mess" .
@jamesdignanmusic2765
@jamesdignanmusic2765 3 ай бұрын
Probably the most famous landmark in York is a row of old, picturesque buildings called "The Shambles". I'm guessing there used to be butchers' shops there...
@tonys1636
@tonys1636 3 ай бұрын
Old livestock markets that slaughtered and butchered the carcases on the premises were also called a Shambles, the one in my town is now luxury housing. It's on a hill by the river and adjacent to where a town wall gate was.
@stop-the-greed
@stop-the-greed 2 ай бұрын
Sham 69 🤘
@acid3137
@acid3137 3 ай бұрын
Lyndsey was crushing this, but then the word "chuffed" came up. I've spent a lot of time in the States and it's always amazed me that "chuffed" has never translated. It's so weird, I use it pretty much everyday.
@johnadey9464
@johnadey9464 3 ай бұрын
Hoover was the only brand of vacuum cleaner we could get. From a verb meaning to walk with a shuffling or unsteady gait Shamble came to mean anything awkward or chaotic. A bird watcher is a "Twitcher"
@grahvis
@grahvis 3 ай бұрын
Being pedantic, a 'twitcher' is a rare bird spotter more than a watcher. They will go anywhere just to see a rare bird, the name coming from their nervous excitement.
@tonys1636
@tonys1636 3 ай бұрын
Not the only one in the 1920's but the best. The old factory Art Deco offices on the Great West Road, West London, a grade 2 listed building, are now luxury apartments.
@tommcewan7936
@tommcewan7936 3 ай бұрын
Well, there were other British brands of vacuum cleaner, but Hoover was the one that became synonymous with them. Pity, there used to be a successful manufacturer in the UK called "Goblin," so if history were just a bit different we might all be going around Goblining the carpet instead of Hoovering it.
@SolarVibeEnergy
@SolarVibeEnergy 3 ай бұрын
​@@tommcewan7936 😂 love that
@adeptusmagi
@adeptusmagi 3 ай бұрын
Most knackers yards were in the city's buying old horses no longer capable of pulling the wagons and cabs required to keep things running farms often just let the old animals graze in a fallow field for the rest of their days hence "being put out to pasture" the horse was still working converting grass to manure to replenish the soil and provided companionship for the newer horse that replaced it
@billyhills9933
@billyhills9933 3 ай бұрын
One American term that I always wondered about was Box Cutter. I thought it was some kind of exotic device for cutting out a box with some sort of angle guide and straight edges. It turns out that in Britain we would call it a Stanley knife.
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
😂
@WreckItRolfe
@WreckItRolfe 2 ай бұрын
Which are for cutting things much tougher than cardboard. There are safety stanley-like knifes , which would make more sense
@jeffDAVIES-m1t
@jeffDAVIES-m1t 3 ай бұрын
In 1914, the American composer, John Aldan Carpenter, wrote an orchestral work called 'Adventures in a Perambulator'; so, presumably, the term was better-known in the US back then
@aodhanmonaghan4664
@aodhanmonaghan4664 3 ай бұрын
Perambulutor is literally "that which is used to walk through" Compare ambulance (literally "walking", it was the hospital that walked to you, as opposed to you going to them) Somnabulist (somnus sleep + ambulo to walk) sleepwalker Funambulist (funis rope) tight rope walker
@suzannebrookes5950
@suzannebrookes5950 3 ай бұрын
I am right chuffed that Sophia uses a lot of British terms, she is our Honorary Brit for sure and it's so nice to see your relaxed personalities coming out even more with each new video.
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
Thanks Suzanne! :)
@CarolWoosey-ck2rg
@CarolWoosey-ck2rg 3 ай бұрын
Being gormless,definitely not a boffin, I let the house get into a shambolic state- will have to get hoovering as I'm really just a dogs body😂
@HAYDNBBH
@HAYDNBBH 3 ай бұрын
"I don't want hair on my head it's to hot"..... Wears a hat indoors 😂
@mwinn23
@mwinn23 Ай бұрын
Love your channel guys, It facinates me the way Americans see us Brits and you do it in a very funny respectful way. Keep it up.
@roseoconnor5938
@roseoconnor5938 3 ай бұрын
Chuffed....to be delighted, happy or content or very pleased 😊
@russetmantle1
@russetmantle1 3 ай бұрын
I'd suggest an interesting thing about the word "chuffed" culturally is that it's the always-acceptable word for being proud of an achievement you've done. Bragging about achievements is generally frowned upon in the UK, but you can say "I was really chuffed" and everybody is on your side.
@grendel1960a
@grendel1960a 3 ай бұрын
the bird watcher would be called a twitcher
@arthurvasey
@arthurvasey 3 ай бұрын
Butty is a sandwich with butter on it - some places use margarine, but it’s not a butty unless you use butter - a place I went to didn’t put butter on a chip butty I bought - I called her out on it - she told me that they don’t put butter on them - so, using my credentials as a trading standards officer (amazing what you can do with a disabled person’s bus pass and a library ticket) - I said to either put butter on it or stop calling it a chip butty - she put Lurpak on it!
@russetmantle1
@russetmantle1 3 ай бұрын
OMG as a Brit, this was so fun to watch - and also educational for me! I had no idea "shambolic" was a Britishism, for instance. Great stuff. Thanks. :)
@alexmctear5420
@alexmctear5420 3 ай бұрын
William Hoover didn't invent the vacuum cleaner, but he did buy the patent to the first practical domestic vacuum cleaner in 1908 he built several vast factories in the UK because of Britain's commonwealth market would spread the cleaner and washing machine through the world.
@claregale9011
@claregale9011 3 ай бұрын
Well done guys . Books are so important for children's imagination and extending there vocabulary you've stood her in good stead for her future 😊.
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
Thank you, Clare ❤️
@marciarichards9446
@marciarichards9446 3 ай бұрын
Well done on the knowledge you have about our amazing country, i will say you know alot more than some of our own. Love you show ❤
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
Thanks Marcia! ❤️
@yorkshireoutdoorsmen2746
@yorkshireoutdoorsmen2746 3 ай бұрын
The term Shambolic can be applied to any disorganised/unco-ordinated situation. Its not specifically a football term. The first part of the word being "Sham" a descriptive word in of itself i.e " The whole thing was a complete sham"
@Phiyedough
@Phiyedough 3 ай бұрын
Yes, an untidy room can be described as being a shambles.
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
Definitely kicked ourselves for not getting that one.
@BeckyPoleninja
@BeckyPoleninja 3 ай бұрын
Biro is rhe surname of the Hungarian that invented the ballpoint pen.We never say quids just quid
@JulianEcho
@JulianEcho 3 ай бұрын
We're quids in is a term, meaning we're better off than we expected.
@BeckyPoleninja
@BeckyPoleninja 3 ай бұрын
@JulianEcho yes true, I was thinking re money talk
@UKCougar
@UKCougar 3 ай бұрын
Jiggery-pokery is shenanigans, mischief, deceit.
@barbara184
@barbara184 2 ай бұрын
Yes, if someone is "up to some jiggery-pokery" they are trying to hide something naughty/dishonest/suspicious that they have done.
@teddybearhead87
@teddybearhead87 3 ай бұрын
Sophia calling them nappys is the cutest 😂❤
@TheWebcrafter
@TheWebcrafter 3 ай бұрын
10:57 - BIRO. The inventor of the ballpoint pen was Lazlo Biro.
@Jeni10
@Jeni10 3 ай бұрын
László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, invented the ballpoint pen. The name Biro stuck and became the generic term for a ballpoint. However along came Michel Bich, he had seen what Biro had done and improved on it. Bich named his company Bic, and in short, bought the Biro company and the rest is history!
@Jeni10
@Jeni10 3 ай бұрын
I haven’t seen any prams in modern USA but a pram and a stroller are different. The stroller is open with the baby sitting upright and modern ones can have a cradle for the baby to lie down. Prams are always horizontal with a half dome cover to protect baby from the weather. Pram is short for perambulator, "one who walks or perambulates," which gained the meaning "baby carriage" in the 1850s. Edit: Lindsay is very well read! Nicely done, girl!
@Steve-ys1ig
@Steve-ys1ig 3 ай бұрын
The word Knacker comes from the term for those who took old Horses (mostly) to be killed so their different parts could be used for various things. So you had the term they are only fit for the knackers or knackers yard when horses etc reached the end of their working life this obviously then spread to mean anything that was tired or worn out
@geordiegirl164
@geordiegirl164 3 ай бұрын
In the north east it can also mean stupid/daft “why did you do that you knacker!” 😂
@neilreilly3966
@neilreilly3966 3 ай бұрын
it is also used as a derogatory term for the travelling community
@andybaker2456
@andybaker2456 3 ай бұрын
When used as a noun, knacker is also slang for testicle, as in "He got hit in the knackers by a football"!
@StormhavenGaming
@StormhavenGaming 3 ай бұрын
@@geordiegirl164 Also testicles. As in "kicked him right in the knackers!"
@sallyannwheeler6327
@sallyannwheeler6327 3 ай бұрын
YES!👍
@85stace85
@85stace85 3 ай бұрын
"Well chuffed" or "chuffed to bits means" to say you are very happy about some thing, but here where I live in the east midlands we would call someone - especially a cheeky or naughty little kid a "little chuff". Also heard "chuff off" as a less sweary version of F*** off 😂😂
@alexshapley8331
@alexshapley8331 3 ай бұрын
👍 that was fun! and seemed to be fun for you two too!!
@TheWebcrafter
@TheWebcrafter 3 ай бұрын
2:32 - BOBBIES WERE ALSO CALLED... PEELERS.
@fionakierton1231
@fionakierton1231 3 ай бұрын
That was a hoot! (Really fun) I laughed out loud multiple times. Well done on getting so many correct
@drcl7429
@drcl7429 3 ай бұрын
Didn't realise the US doesn't use the word Biro for pen and shambolic isn't a used word.
@101steel4
@101steel4 3 ай бұрын
There's plenty they don't have, ot know. But then again they've made up plenty we don't understand too 😂
@Phiyedough
@Phiyedough 3 ай бұрын
I'm sure we learned at school that the ballpoint pen was invented by a man called Biro.
@enemde3025
@enemde3025 3 ай бұрын
SPONDOOLICKS, READIES, MULLA(moola), DOSH, DOUGH =money as well. Hoover is an American company founded in 1908. It became a registered company in the UK in 1919. Old and sick horses would be sent to the KNACKER'S YARD to be slaughtered. BIRO is pronounced BYE RO.
@LaraGemini
@LaraGemini 3 ай бұрын
I am chuffed to bits about how well you did!
@sarahclapp505
@sarahclapp505 3 ай бұрын
Thank was fun to watch 😂😂😂😂Thank you.
@Caambrinus
@Caambrinus 3 ай бұрын
A very common mistake made by people in the US: we *never* stress the title _Sir_ . It sort of becomes part of the following first name. So, _Sir Robert_ would be pronounced _s'ROB-ert_ .
@lornaphillips5682
@lornaphillips5682 3 ай бұрын
Enjoyed this quiz. You seem to have a lovely relationship. Love your sense of humour. Hope Sophia is settling in to school.
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
Thank you, Lorna! ❤️ Each day is getting a little better for her.
@timglennon6814
@timglennon6814 3 ай бұрын
A Bird watcher is called a Twitcher here in the U.K.
@martinwebb1681
@martinwebb1681 3 ай бұрын
That's not what I've heard 😂... the term Anorak is what I hear. Same as train spotters etc.
@estherreeves6445
@estherreeves6445 3 ай бұрын
@@martinwebb1681 🐦🦢🦩🦤🦜Twitcher is the specific name for birdwatcher. Anorak is the generic name for someone with a nerdy hobby which means you stand around outside trying to add a spotting of a new version of whatever you collect to your collection list... be that birds 🦃, trains 🚆,🛩 planes etc.. because lets face it in Britain you will need an anorak for that all year round.
@eddiehawkins7049
@eddiehawkins7049 2 ай бұрын
Twitchers are (were) a specific subset of birders who are always waiting for an alert on their phones (previously, pagers) relating to rarities, which they will then attempt to view. They got the name "Twitchers" because of the way they reacted to their pager alerts.
@sharonmartin4036
@sharonmartin4036 3 ай бұрын
Chuffed, lol. Traditionally, fat people are supposed to be rich and jolly (happy), so puffed up with fat means you're large and therefore wealthy and happy. If something is disorganised you could say it's in a shambles, hence shambolic.
@cheryltotheg2880
@cheryltotheg2880 3 ай бұрын
Yay I’m first! Love you two! Have another black jack they will grow on you 🤪😜plus Steve on a sugar rush is hugely amusing 😂. Quid is slang for a pound not money in general but I’m not going to be one of those picky people hehe
@brigidsingleton1596
@brigidsingleton1596 3 ай бұрын
Don't Panic... I'm here to be picky on your behalf lol!!
@billyhills9933
@billyhills9933 3 ай бұрын
Quid is also both singular and plural.
@brigidsingleton1596
@brigidsingleton1596 3 ай бұрын
@@billyhills9933 True...but there's also the phrase "quids in" for having more money than one has previously had (?). "Quidding" is also an (old) equestrian term for a horse (or any equine) who may have a sore mouth due to a rough tooth/ teeth, or ill-fitting bit, for example, so that when the animal chews it's food, the tenderness / sore mouth makes them drool their feed out of the side of their mouth, due to the feed making their gums sore. It needs checking by a vet (or similarly qualified / educated horse owner / groom) and usually the problem can be solved fairly quickly - if rough teeth / tooth is the problem - by having offending teeth / tooth filed down til smooth. (Equine teeth grow all of the time so need checking regularly, and filed as necessary). Alternatively, any badly-fitting bit must be changed to prevent further damage to the horse's mouth and possibly a course of antibiotics given if there's sign of the mouth having become infected. This treatment should stop the "quidding", ease the animal's pain / discomfort, be less wasteful of feed and allow correct bitting to help correctly control any horse when being led, ridden or driven in a bridle.
@cheryltotheg2880
@cheryltotheg2880 3 ай бұрын
@@billyhills9933 yes for a pound or pounds then sorry
@gennytun
@gennytun 3 ай бұрын
Shambolic is a fairly new word, very informal (meaning chaotic or similar) derived from the term shambles which originally meant a slaughterhouse - so, a bloody mess!
@michaelstirling3029
@michaelstirling3029 3 ай бұрын
I've enjoyed listening to you talk yourselves out of the correct answer.
@johnshea5967
@johnshea5967 3 ай бұрын
Hi guys!, have I got this correct, Steve said "that hiding illicit substances under a child or doll in the U.S.A is called"A Stroller ", in the UK we call the same act a "Concealment "❤God Bless you both and Sophia of course ❤❤
@Sal-iw8zg
@Sal-iw8zg 3 ай бұрын
I think 'stroller' is just their word for a pram/pushchair/buggy (not sure exactly how broad it is). The illicit substances reference is because that was given as one of the incorrect multiple-choice answers, not because they have a special word for it.
@johnshea5967
@johnshea5967 3 ай бұрын
@@Sal-iw8zg Thanks for that sal.much appreciatef!👍❤️
@Diseased_Mr_T
@Diseased_Mr_T 3 ай бұрын
Chuffed just means very pleased/happy. For example. "We took her to the zoo for her birthday. She was chuffed.". Also we sometimes say chuffed to bits, which means extra chuffed 😊
@angeladormer6659
@angeladormer6659 3 ай бұрын
Well done you two. Think how much you will enjoy using your knowledge when you come visit.❤❤👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌹🌹
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
❤️
@crocsmart5115
@crocsmart5115 3 ай бұрын
A loo is a toilet,not a bathroom and definitely not a rest room whatever that is?😂😂
@101steel4
@101steel4 3 ай бұрын
A bedroom?
@sallyannwheeler6327
@sallyannwheeler6327 3 ай бұрын
When I went to New York. I asked where the toilets were in a restaurant,even though I knew that they use bathroom. Just wanted to see their reaction. The look on the face was priceless.🤣🤣
@tacfoley4443
@tacfoley4443 3 ай бұрын
'Loo' comes from the olden days warning- shouted by the servant or chamber-maid when emptying the 'gazunda'* out of the bedroom window - 'Gardez-l'eau!' - 'watchout! Water!' *gazunda - slang for chamber-pot/p*ss-pot - it 'goes under' the bed. See?
@Phiyedough
@Phiyedough 3 ай бұрын
I've always wanted to have a room that only contained a bathtub just so I could send American guests there when they asked to use the bathroom!
@rwlynch3468
@rwlynch3468 3 ай бұрын
Lift (elevator) shares its etymological routes with lifting up, aloft, loft (attic), and Germanic lufthansa, Luftwaffe
@janinshirley
@janinshirley 3 ай бұрын
Well done. So many of our words here in the UK come from centuries ago .
@betagombar9022
@betagombar9022 3 ай бұрын
Sophia will grow up to be like her mum, beautiful and intelligent ❤
@petersheppard6085
@petersheppard6085 3 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed watching you talk yourself out of the right answer !...LOL
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
Yes I'm sure that was quite entertaining 😅
@ronspalding6946
@ronspalding6946 3 ай бұрын
Lots of laughs, well done.
@BritishAdam
@BritishAdam 3 ай бұрын
As a Yorkshireman, 'chuffed' is a very common word to hear around here. Your videos for example make me right chuffed! Shambolic can mean anything ill organised, but we also often use phrases like "they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" and similar for teams or people who are disorganised.
@charlestaylor3027
@charlestaylor3027 3 ай бұрын
You should look at Britain's most difficult TV quiz "Only Connect"
@ElizabethDebbie24
@ElizabethDebbie24 3 ай бұрын
HI STEVE AND LINDSAY DEBRA HERE FROM MAESTEG SOUTH WALES UK PERAMBOLATOR First recorded in 1605-15, but in 1850-55 for the highlighted sense. From Latin perambulāre, “to ramble, stroll.” Primarily used in dialects of British English. 12 Feb 2024 PERAMBULATOR noun 1. Dated•British a pram. 2.Formal•humorous, a person who walks, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way.
@ElizabethDebbie24
@ElizabethDebbie24 3 ай бұрын
HI STEVE AND LINDSAY DEBRA HERE FROM MAESTEG SOUTH WALES UK. CHUFFED Adjective informal British: Very pleased. So you could say it thus: "I'm dead chuffed to have won".
@john43397
@john43397 3 ай бұрын
On a construction site tradesman and workman in the UK will often refer to one level up on a scaffold, or building platform as a "lift". "we are going up a lift today, as soon as the scaffolders have finished".
@andybigwood5260
@andybigwood5260 3 ай бұрын
Of course The Shambles is also a place
@eyenot9327
@eyenot9327 3 ай бұрын
The look on your faces when you got chuffed wrong 😂😂😂
@Phiyedough
@Phiyedough 3 ай бұрын
Yes, I was made up!
@101steel4
@101steel4 3 ай бұрын
Chuffed to bits 😁
@DMCDObidon
@DMCDObidon 3 ай бұрын
The Duke of Wellington is also famous for wearing a Traffic Cone in to battle.
@catherinewhite8819
@catherinewhite8819 3 ай бұрын
Biro is another brand that has become a noun.
@jerry2357
@jerry2357 3 ай бұрын
Named after its Hungarian inventor, László Bíró.
@101steel4
@101steel4 3 ай бұрын
English and American English. Two very different things.
@paulmilner8452
@paulmilner8452 3 ай бұрын
Yep one is correct one is changed 😂😊
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
They definitely are!
@botticellirejectbotticelli2668
@botticellirejectbotticelli2668 3 ай бұрын
@@paulmilner8452Well, one is Elizabethan and one has organically changed. Americans use the English that we in the UK used to use in Elizabethan times. ‘Faucet’ for example.
@eddiehawkins7049
@eddiehawkins7049 2 ай бұрын
@@paulmilner8452 To be fair, they evolved individually after being separated.
@generichuman2044
@generichuman2044 3 ай бұрын
The police also used to be called peelers but not peelheads
@brigidsingleton1596
@brigidsingleton1596 3 ай бұрын
Some Londoners call the Police "the rozzers" ...but I don't why!!
@IIChristisKingII
@IIChristisKingII 3 ай бұрын
@@brigidsingleton1596 Rozzers was originally used for the police in the town of Rossendale, hence rozzers.
@brigidsingleton1596
@brigidsingleton1596 3 ай бұрын
@@IIChristisKingII Thank-you... I always wondered at that !!
@58jennypenny
@58jennypenny 3 ай бұрын
'Except cause it to live', you two crack me up 😆😆😆
@reactingtomyroots
@reactingtomyroots 3 ай бұрын
😂
@TheWebcrafter
@TheWebcrafter 3 ай бұрын
3:36 - A QUID IS SPECIFICALLY A BRITISH POUND. However, to be 'QUiDS IN' is to have gained a lot of money.
@jackieoconnor4926
@jackieoconnor4926 3 ай бұрын
I think you did really well!! It’s a complicated language really 😊
@cazzyuk8939
@cazzyuk8939 3 ай бұрын
I thought you both did really well! I didn't know a few of the background or meaning of some of the words. Little Sophia, what a great vocabulary she has. Reading is so great for that as well as being educational and enriching.
@deanknows2024
@deanknows2024 3 ай бұрын
Love you guys, you are so bright, bubbly and funny. 😊
@Turquoise-Pink
@Turquoise-Pink 3 ай бұрын
You two are so entertaining to watch, love this
@martinwebb1681
@martinwebb1681 3 ай бұрын
Has your paint dried then? 😂
@lukee.h1471
@lukee.h1471 3 ай бұрын
Love this content 💜
@nigeldewallens1115
@nigeldewallens1115 3 ай бұрын
Oh that was great fun to watch you two having fun thank you both of you! 😉😊
@jamesswindley9599
@jamesswindley9599 3 ай бұрын
Love you guys sooooo much ❤❤❤ always lighten my life up! 😊 Please never change being so positive and just so nice!! ❤ 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 ❤
@jaydee5022
@jaydee5022 3 ай бұрын
Shambolic is not a word I associate with football - it's meaning is correct but I think you are more likely to hear it used about a business or a person who 'couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery' as we say.
@smythharris2635
@smythharris2635 3 ай бұрын
If a gentleman is going to the loo he is going "to wring the goose's neck" a wonderful expression in my view, so accurate.😅
@petergardner5002
@petergardner5002 3 ай бұрын
See a man about a dog or point percy at the porcelain
@101steel4
@101steel4 3 ай бұрын
Quid is a pound.
@neilreilly3966
@neilreilly3966 3 ай бұрын
seemingly it comes from Quid Pro Quo which makes sense
@smythharris2635
@smythharris2635 3 ай бұрын
​@@CovBloke1310In West Africa the colonial troops were known as twobobs, as that was their pay.
@kristymac3236
@kristymac3236 3 ай бұрын
I think it shows how much you have remembered from watching all the videos. You did make me laugh
@crocsmart5115
@crocsmart5115 3 ай бұрын
Also in reference to brand names,what you call a ‘backhoe’ is called a JCB here as Joseph Cyril Bamford invented them.
@wobaguk
@wobaguk 3 ай бұрын
I think its more generically called 'a digger'
@brigidsingleton1596
@brigidsingleton1596 3 ай бұрын
@@crocsmart5115 I am glad you wrote that - I have wondered what a "backhoe" is!! Thank-you.
@michaelstamper5604
@michaelstamper5604 3 ай бұрын
A labourer turns up at a building site to ask for work. The foreman says "I need you to dig a trench 85 feet long by 25 feet deep by tonight " "I'll never dig that much by tonight" " We'll give you a JCB" "I don't care what medals you give me, I still can't dig that much in one day". 😄😄
@heraklesnothercules.
@heraklesnothercules. 3 ай бұрын
@@brigidsingleton1596 I've never wondered that... for the simple reason that I've never heard of it! 😆
@brigidsingleton1596
@brigidsingleton1596 3 ай бұрын
@@heraklesnothercules. I have heard of it somewhere, on some YT video, but I don't recall when, or even why!!
@jenniedarling3710
@jenniedarling3710 3 ай бұрын
Allen Sugar always used to say the contests on the apprentice were "a bloody shambles" and normally it be "you're fired". these days he says "it is with regret that you're fired".
@simonbatchelor9653
@simonbatchelor9653 3 ай бұрын
Wow you both had such fun today. Cheered me up lol
@angelabushby1891
@angelabushby1891 3 ай бұрын
This had me in stitches, especially shambollic, I could have watched this all day,thank you ❤
@seanmc1351
@seanmc1351 2 ай бұрын
the hoover is a must in most british houses, as we have carpets through mainly, modern houses are going to the wood floor, its to do with warmeth trough the winter, keeps cold drafts down, as we seal our houses shut through the long winters, to keep our homes warm
@marycarver-t6v
@marycarver-t6v 6 күн бұрын
Chuffed' means PLEASED or Happy in the UK! i.e. So and so paid me a compliment today! I was really chuffed!
@haytond
@haytond 3 ай бұрын
Chuffed is happy. Someone who is dischuffed is upset. In the extreme they can be megadischuffed. Good to see how well our terminology was understood by you both. When I worked in the US in the 1980s - long before the internet - my colleagues were regularly flummoxed by what they described as "BritSpeak".
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