🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To REASONS WHY AMERICAN ENGLISH ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE!

🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To REASONS WHY AMERICAN ENGLISH ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m Going to React To REASONS WHY AMERICAN ENGLISH ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE!
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[@nazcahari]

I believe a lot (not all) of our spelling rules and pronunciation come from Noah Webster. (American dictionary creator and spelling reformer ) he was very pro American, and believed that American English should differentiate from British English. He learned nearly 30 different languages (since America had people represented from all over and wanted a reflection of that) and believed that spelling should match how words are pronounced. His research found that old English spellings used color, honor, center, draft, theater,…. These spellings fell out of use in British English by then. So he used them. Spelling every word how it’s pronounced (like he wanted) met with some pushback, People didn’t want to spell ake, for ache, and soop for soup, (even if it’s how it’s said) So to fix that, he borrowed certain styles from other languages, Greek (where ize comes in) being a big one, French, and Spanish. His book is eventually how Americans learned spelling and it stuck. However, as America expanded and became more of a melting pot of people, we adapted a lot of their words and spellings, mainly Native American and Spanish. One of the reasons we say Jaguar the way we do (jagwar) is because it’s a South American animal. And how do the locals pronounce it? The same way. Sure their J is a little light, but it’s Jagwar/Yagwar.

[@choomxi]

Didnt know that about Jaguar...always wondered really. Thanks!

[@brittanypotter9596]

One fact you left out, or maybe weren't aware of: Webster officially standardized American English - which happened before British English was standardized, and can account for some of the differences.

[@vbachman6742]

Deep South pronunciation is closer to Jagwire.

[@jonok42]

In the West/Southwest with more Spanish influence It's a jag wahr, not jag war. It's also not a solely S American animal. It is also native to Mexico, and comes up into the Southwest states of the US.

[@CFWhitman]

@@jonok42 I just wanted to mention that your phonetic spelling (wahr) seems to fit more the way it's pronounced by people here in upstate New York than the 'war' spelling, so I'm not entirely clear on the difference between different areas of the country.

[@rich_t]

One more word that came up inadvertently was when you said "disorientated" in American English it's simply "disoriented." 😉👍

[@touchstoneaf]

I remember my group in Scotland having a big fight with each other one night coming from the University to go to a pub. We were a bit drunk already to be fair, but our argument was whether you were to say aluminum or aluminium... So then one of our American lot pulled out a container of underarm deodorant and showed it around to all the kids from the UK, and everybody marveled that it was actually spelled differently. Funny how these things happen. I think they truly believed we were just slurring the word. And we probably truly believed that they were adding a syllable for no reason.

[@mikerogers6076]

Something that was not addressed here is the fact that we Americans do not pronounce the letter Z as "zed". To us it is simply "zee" 😎.

[@ashgat05]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@ladyp3531]

This video is the first time I heard “zed” in spelling. To me it seemed awkward and long. To the English I’m sure zee is weird and short. LoL

[@toastnjam7384]

How to they pronounce Zeba. It can't be Zedbra.

[@knowhere60]

@@toastnjam7384 Well we don't say General Double-Uashington, either...

[@jonok42]

​@@toastnjam7384 it's not a Zeebra. They pronounce it like Debra with a Z.

[@jackies5481]

Highfaluting generally refers to a snob, someone who thinks he's better than anyone else. Oh ... and what can you do with a linguistics degree? You can teach linguistics! :) Keep up the good work, Kabir!

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks Jackie :)

[@tammybrennan2040]

@@kabirconsiders I love your videos I’m a new subscriber 👍💕❤️🇺🇸 From Detroit 🇺🇸❤️👍💕

[@pinkyjones7398]

@@tammybrennan2040 Hey girl Dtown fan here too! Love these different perspectives

[@someonerandom256]

I feel like it's mainly used when people are "putting on airs."

[@stefanhoimes]

It's largely used in a very racist connotation, unfortunately.

[@elkins4406]

Kabir, that Cockney accent is *precisely* why you folks started voicing the 'h' in 'herb' in the 19th century! People became paranoid that perhaps the way they were saying the word was incorrect and might mark them as lower class. So they started taking part in what linguists call "hypercorrection," which is when people start saying things a new weird way out of fear that they're not 'speaking proper,' usually due to a false belief about how the word or phrase actually works. So, for example, people sometimes get it into their head that the "proper" or more posh or more prestigious way to speak involves substituting the pronoun 'I' for 'me,' and so they start using it in places where it doesn't belong, like "just between you and I." Similarly, once working-class Londoners started dropping their aitches in the 19th century, people became paranoid that maybe the 'h' in herb was one of those aitches that proper and posh people aren't supposed to drop...and so they started voicing it, rather than treating it like 'hour,' 'heir,' 'honour,' and all of the other French silent-h words. Since we don't have a Cockney accent in the US, 'herb' never fell prey to hypercorrection over here. You will hear plenty of people saying 'just between you and I' here in the States, though. Sigh. Oh, and "highfalutin'" means posh or intellectual and a snob about it. Pretentious, I suppose, might be a synonym. A word not unrelated to the phenomenon of hypercorrection, come to think of it!

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

Hifalutin is a pretentiously unpretentious way of calling someone or something pretentious (or, possibly overly, fancy).

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

I should clarify: Not calling you pretentious, just pointing out layers of the word’s meaning.

[@elkins4406]

@@JustMe-dc6ks Hee! No worries, I got you.

[@catgirl6803]

This is why the accent came to be too, correct? Because I read that British accents did sound more American until it became posh to speak non-rhotic. And I also read that the reason why the American southern accent and New England accents are non-rhotic is because they also were still tied to British upper class and got the memo, whereas the rest of America didn’t care so much. I read that the American south wanted an aristocratic society similar to England.

[@alyssaramirez7014]

@@catgirl6803 I saw that Accent Tour video it became popular among the English high class in the late 18th century to drop the rhotic r.

[@prita2586]

Love this vid! I’ve had Brits try to correct my English. I’ve simply responded, “I don’t speak English. I speak American”. It brings a good laugh and people say “that makes sense”! Keep the great vids coming. Love your channel!

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks Prita :)

[@Wiley_Coyote]

Kabir, the majority of the differences come down to things the English USED to do and changed in the past few hundred years. Often the American way is the original English way. Not always, but a lot. But also Americans overall take more authentic reference from other languages, whereas the English tend to change foreign terms to suit themselves. Again, not always, but as a rule.

[@bracejuice7955]

Soccer is an abbreviation for association. Back in the day they had “association rules football” and “Rugby rules football”. In newspapers they’d abbreviate it to “assoc. match”, and it was common in the day to add -er on the end of slang words, and “soccer” was thus born. Rugby football played in the colonies eventually became American, Canadian, and Aussie rules football.

[@josefstalin9678]

I may be wrong here but i believe the american one wasn't rugby football but a very similar sport called gridiron football

[@Channel-23s]

@@josefstalin9678 yup more skill positions and equipment

[@cirrustate8674]

@@josefstalin9678 Gridiron football, which is now known as American football, grew out of Rugby football.

[@Oturan20]

Lucky they didn't use the first three letters instead, otherwise Americans like me would be calling it "Asser".

[@BewareTheJabberwock]

Americans drop the “h” in “herb” but will always pronounce it for the name “Herb” (Short for Herbert.) For example, my American brain automatically reads the following sentence with the first H, then immediately drops it for the second. 🤔 “My boss, Herb, grows herbs in his garden.” 😎

[@invisigoth510]

Highfalutin means pompous or pretentious. It’s what I call grandpa slang because you usually hear old people say it but I do occasionally hear younger people say it & have said it myself on a very rare occasion Copacetic is another one I’ve started to hear making a comeback. It means fine, running smoothly.

[@laffingist218]

or maybe too, unnecessarily esoteric. like when something is given complicated words or function simply to sort of gatekeep people from understanding or doing it. like 'saute' could be considered a highfalutin word because you could simply say 'cook' and uninitiated people would still gather your meaning based on context.

[@douglasostrander5072]

There are words we have to borrow from Germany they just makes more sense. Express your self.

[@xo2quilt]

@@laffingist218 Sauté is a specific way of cooking something - "to fry lightly in fat in an open pan". The work "cook" encompasses a great deal more than just sauté.

[@laffingist218]

@@xo2quilt yep but i just meant in most cases when laypersons talk about sauteing they don't use it and it doesn't affect anything, it's common knowledge/instinct for certain things. just the first thing i thought of

[@laffingist218]

@@xo2quilt like to be clear i meant it depends on context, of course if you're in a restaurant kitchen you might need specifics but like 80% of a lot of home cooking is sauteing

[@enawhitaker7311]

My kids still don't believe that the word cattywampus is a real word. They swear I made it up!

[@andromedaspark2241]

A lot of regional words may go as social media homogenizes language. I don't think my kid has ever heard it in conversation. I wonder how many old words can start fitting into conversation, you know, for educational purposes 😏

[@michaelschemlab]

A few general word endings in British English vs American English: Words ending in -our in British English change to -or in American English (ex. Colour vs Color) Verbs ending in -ise in British English change to -ize in American English (ex. Apologise vs Apologize) Words ending in -ence in British English change to -ense in American English (Defence vs Defense) Words ending in -re in British English become -er in American English (Fibre vs Fiber) Verbs ending in -yse in British English change to -yze in American English (Analyse vs Analyze) In words ending in vowel + “l” and if the suffix starts with a vowel, in British English the “l” doubles to “ll”. In American English, the single “l” remains (Jeweller vs Jeweler) Also there’s “grey” in British English vs “gray” in American English. This derives from the Old English word grǣg. You can see why there is two different spellings based off of that one weird letter.

[@TXKafir]

On the words that end in L, I swear my 1960s American public school education taught me to do that so I try to type cancellation or cancelled and often get spellcheck griping at me.

[@richdiddens4059]

@@TXKafir Same time period I was taught that gray was the preferred spelling but that grey was an acceptable alternative. No longer accepted by modern American teachers.

[@ginzingtonschnizer2330]

catty wampus is one of my favorite words. it's when something isn't lined up right. so like not directly ahead or adjecant to a point.. It's mostly used in directions for places in cities. "The best star bucks is the one catty wampus from the library."

[@joeday4293]

You're thinking of "catty-corner" or "kitty-corner." "Cattywampus" means crooked, off center, out of square, etc.

[@johnbernstein7887]

@@joeday4293 Shhhh! Don't tell him! Let him be Catawampus!

[@ginzingtonschnizer2330]

@@joeday4293 thanks for the correction, I always thought kitty-corner and cattywampus meant the same thing.

[@ginzingtonschnizer2330]

@@johnbernstein7887 lmao

[@Lovesthetruth]

Lol I've never used that word before. It sounds funny. It must be a Caucasian word. I've never heard a black person use it. But of course there are alot of words that different ethnic groups use that others don't say. Interesting.

[@glennallen239]

Highfalutin means pompous or pretentious. It is used to describe speech, writing, or ideas It can also be used to describe a person.

[@JPMadden]

1) I can recall only one instance when I saw a British spelling and had to use a dictionary--"gaol" for "jail." There have been a few words that briefly confused me, such as the BBC's pronunciations of "glacier" and "Islamists," and the spellings of "manoeuvre" for "maneuver" and "tyre" for "tire." KZbin's spellchecker for American English is also confused. 2) I occasionally forget whether certain words have an "-ise" or "-ize" suffix, but spellcheckers remind me. 3) "Highfalutin" means "haughty, pompous, or pretentious" (I thought of the word "posh"). It's an archaic word I've heard in old Western movies and possibly nowhere else. 4) From the "Names for association football" Wikipedia page: "The nickname association football was coined in England to distinguish the game from the other versions of football played at the time, in particular rugby football. The word soccer is an abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in English private schools and universities in the 1880s (sometimes using the variant spelling 'socker'). The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford-Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as 'brekkers' for breakfast and 'rugger' for rugby football (see Oxford -er). However, the attribution to Wreford-Brown in particular is generally considered to be spurious. Clive Toye noted 'they took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer.' "For nearly a hundred years after it was coined, soccer was an accepted and uncontroversial alternative in Britain to football, often in colloquial and juvenile contexts, but was also widely used in formal speech and in writing about the game. 'Soccer' was a term used by the upper class whereas the working and middle classes preferred the word 'football'; as the upper class lost influence in British society from the 1960s on, 'football' supplanted 'soccer' as the most commonly used and accepted word." So basically, the word "soccer" is posh!

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

How do they pronounce Islamists? Lamb instead of lom?

[@JPMadden]

@@JustMe-dc6ks IZZ-lihm-ists (and GLAHSS-yehr for glacier)

[@michaelbrian6564]

I love your channel, man. Really. As an American, I still can’t figure out why you guys add ‘u’ to words that don’t need ‘u’s. Like “Favourite”. Just say, “Favorite”! Work smarter, not harder, Brits! Lol.

[@ginzingtonschnizer2330]

it actually came from them wanting to slam the colonies as being under educated when their letters would arrive and claim it was a reason they couldn't have representation.

[@michaelbrian6564]

@@ginzingtonschnizer2330 Makes sense. We don’t need unnecessary ‘u’s. Lol.

[@ginzingtonschnizer2330]

@@michaelbrian6564 heck no, why waste time with those things.

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks Michael :) And yeah I don't get it either, to be honest 😂

[@michaelbrian6564]

@@kabirconsiders 😂

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

With some notable exceptions (e.g., Webster's spelling reforms, which never caught on overseas, and the acquisition of new vocabulary, especially from Mexican Spanish), American English is on average more linguistically conservative than British English, i.e., it has accumulated fewer changes over time. Probably the single most successfully widespread American English word, is "OK", which has made its way not only into international English, but also into a wide variety of other languages: Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Turkish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, German, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and even Esperanto (among others), have all adopted it, making it one of the most widely understood words in the history of the world.

[@yugioht42]

Linguistics usually go towards translation jobs, computer programming, speaking for people, or government jobs for writing things out, possibly even court jobs. It’s a good living.

[@suzanyoung6372]

It would also be a natural to go into Speech Language Pathology.

[@davidthieman8020]

Thank you for your reaction to why American English actually makes sense, Kabir. Different words in the American language can take on different means and sometimes and either different ways to pronounce, a word will change the sound of it and its meaning too.

[@commissaryarrick9670]

One thing he didn't mention is american English has alot of Spanish influence since we have so many Spanish speakers. It has shaped some our English as well

[@joeday4293]

It sure has, amigo.

[@johnbernstein7887]

No comprende Senor

[@joeday4293]

@@johnbernstein7887 Well, you BETTER comprende, pronto. 😆

[@faithwhittington3540]

Another reason for Americans spelling some words differently (ex. color/colour) is because there was a letter tax in newspapers so it was cheaper to drop the extra letter while still making it legible.

[@8cladgamer210]

Color is spelled without the U because American newspaper companies removed letters they didn’t necessarily need to still show their meanings to save on printing costs. Colour became color for example. It was just to save money, and it became the popular spelling.

[@8cladgamer210]

My understanding is that it was in the 1800’s or so, but that could be wrong :P

[@franciebennett9734]

I love this guy. I started watching lost in the pond because I wanted to know more about England. You should have a Q & A and let us ask you questions. Like why do you call a bathroom the Loo? Do you guys have regular meals and then mid morning and mid afternoon snacks (I thought I heard that somewhere) What do you guys really think of the Queen, Prince Charles and Camile (sp), Prince William amd Prince Harry? Do you think Prince Harrys wife caused havoc in the family? Some of us think she did. Is a Prime Minister like our President and do you vote them in or are they chosen? Why do women wear those huge oddly shaped hats? Is that just for royals and weddings or do you have things like The Kentucky Derby (its in the state of Kentucky and its a horse race) where they dress up in fancy clothes and hats? Is everyone required to go into the military or is the royal family required or is it voluntary. Lastly do tourist ever get into accidents because they arent use to driving on the opposite side of the road?

[@katharrell3737]

This was interesting. So many things actually happened on your side of the pond. 😀 It's so cool to learn new things with you Kabir, I always enjoy you and the topics you react to.

[@kaneneeser3575]

When you asked "got any herbs?", in America when people ask that question its usually pertaining to weed xD

[@Lovesthetruth]

Exactly 😂

[@arasdeeps1852]

No, it most certainly does not!

[@violetgibson9]

Brits are pretty self absorbed. People came to North America from all sorts of places. English is the language spoken, but there were settlements of Dutch immigrants, and Swiss, and Polish, and German, and Chinese. Those people eventually learned English, but bits of all different languages got squashed together. Sometimes entire words were adapted and sometimes just altered pronunciations or spellings. This country saw people of all sorts of places come to make their dreams reality, and sometimes they didn’t get along real well, but mostly they worked together, influenced each other, learned from their neighbors. Also, some people sent their children here alone, on the hope that the new land would treat them better than their homeland had. Twelve year olds would get off a ship and get work wherever they could find it. That meant picking up bits of different languages before they were fluent in their own. Fun fact, there are words in American which name something we invented, so various other languages use our word, because they didn’t already have one for it. I became aware of this when I worked with some indigenous ladies. They were speaking their language, but occasionally I would hear cheeseburger, or other things they didn’t have words for. Every language goes through shifts. When was the last time you said, thee amuseth me? I love how Lawrence uses his circumstances to amuse, and inform.

[@louisejohnson6057]

Lawrence, and his channel, are so enjoyable. I love his dead-pan delivery, and his goofiness. Such a funny man! Of course in Canada we follow England's spellings and pronunciation.

[@steveyork8069]

We had a bad night of storms here in the Midwest and southeast,a single tornado touched down and traveled 227 miles 200+ miles through Kentucky alone so far the death toll is approaching 100 In Kentucky alone with expectations to reach over that number.Ive heard varying reports of as many as 27-41 tornadoes 🌪 touching down this happened in the late night to early morning with many people still in bed.

[@KAP814]

Arkansas had twins touch down. The December warmup is always scary

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

Good, its gods way of communication.

[@ithilnin123]

Devastating stuff for all. We were affected in TN, but nothing like poor KY. 😢🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@brendafrazier811]

@@Adrian-wd4rn Good?!?!?!?!

[@therealEmpyre]

Once upon a time in the UK, there were two different games called football: association football and rugby football. Some clever gents took the second syllable of association and morphed it into the nickname soccer, and the game came to the US with that name. Meanwhile, the English dropped the word football from rugby football, but the Americans dropped the word rugby, and the game evolved into what the Americans call football now.

[@starparodier91]

I have two degrees and one is in Linguistics! The other is Japanese- very useful as a game localizer/translator. 😊

[@ethanwhisman5459]

In the part of the country where I live in the US There was a lot of I don't know if it was one tornado or multiple but multiple states were hit so if we could all just pray for not more loss of life that's would be appreciated Indiana Arkansas Nebraska Tennessee Kentucky Missouri and I apologize if I forget anybody According to the reports either the tornado was an EF5 that went across 227 miles or multiple different tornadoes

[@robhugh535]

A lot of the native English speaking countries have sports that involve carrying the ball but still called football. Canada has their own version of gridiron football similar to American but still with some significant differences. And then there are Australian Rules Football and Gaelic football in Ireland.

[@brendafrazier811]

I read somewhere that games were called football because they were played “on foot” as opposed to on horseback. Not sure if that’s true but it makes sense.

[@xyzcomp08]

I was driving near Chester a few years ago and I saw a sign that said 'Soccer Pitch'. We don't use the word pitch this way. A couple of reasons for the divergence of English was the Websters American Dictionary which intentionally cemented changes in the American lexicon. At the same time, class distinctions in the UK were changing pronunciations and spelling of many words. Fact is, we are always adopting British terms and the UK American ones. A good one is 'Tarmac', popularized (with a z) by the news media and exclusively used relating to hard surfaces at an airport. We don't even have the Tarmac Company in the US. It does make some sense generically, since it is short for tarmacadam, which I don't think anyone this century uses. Give it another century, the language variations will possibly blend back together. That would be sad!

[@elkins4406]

We didn't use 'tarmacadam' where I grew up in New York, but we did use the abbreviation 'macadam' for paved surfaces. The paved part of a playground, for example, was always "the macadam." I think I was an adult by the time I finally learned why it was called that.

[@xyzcomp08]

@@elkins4406 in California, we just called it tar. Funny how regional things are, not just across the pond.

[@masudaharris6435]

I think we say "erb" because we don't want you to think we're talking about someone named Herb.

[@odemusvonkilhausen]

I would say "highfalutin" means fancy or posh, but kind of in a sarcastic way. Also, I noticed in your description of "discombobulated", you said "disorientated" where Americans would more likely say "disoriented".

[@donholsomback2256]

I have always seen highfalutin as looking down on someone or something that is trying to be fancy. Rich person would not call another rich person highfalutin but middle class person would. "He came walking in dressed all highfalutin".

[@spaceshiplewis]

Honestly, Laurence's English degree is probably being best used here on KZbin.

[@farhad_v25]

Anybody else cracking up because the thumbnail still says “Actually Maks Sense” haha!

[@signheart7520]

I have always called our language American English and Britain as the King's English. I grew up reading and studying British literature and loved British shows.

[@hg.3318]

wow you resemble Cole from an american sitcom entitled MARTIN. love your channel chap. keep it up

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks mate :)

[@sonoftherepublic7737]

Highfalutin is referring to being a person who acts like an elite individual in thought and deed

[@jenniferwarhawk7301]

I did not know the Greek versus French spelling thing. That was a new one on me and it makes me kind of proud of my American English.

[@connorcunningham1010]

I'm pretty sure Hello and Okay are like the most used words in the whole world too

[@loganevan1116]

You've made my day , thank you. Tis been nasty weather here & spending the day with you is the getaway I needed.

[@thomasfarr7934]

I really enjoyed that (being American...). My feeling on language and conversation is, as long as you are able to successfully convey a thought to another individual, it ain't wrong! (A little humor [humour] there.)🙂🙃😉

[@LAAvgRay]

The word "quiz" was a made-up word by a professor that he could create a word one day and have it in common usage the next day. He made up the word and told his students that they would be given a quiz the next day and did not explain what he meant. Later that day, everyone on campus was discussing what this quiz was and making assumptions as to what it could be. The next day, he handed out a short form test and told everyone that this was the quiz. So he made up the word to describe a short-form test.

[@sonyawasmer2344]

When British people answer a ringing telephone, what is the greeting? We say “Hello?” unless it’s a business phone line. Hello is credited to Thomas Edison.

[@N0TStacy]

My 80 year old American mother pronounces the H. It's driven me nuts my whole life because she's the only American I've ever heard say "haitch" and not "aitch"

[@RudyCantGame]

We say erb and herb here in NYC. Sometimes both are also slangs for other things.

[@joeday4293]

Between me and my best friend, Herb with a hard 'h' is the formal name for pot. "Let's go talk to Herb."

[@jermalcromartiepresents5728]

just say marijuana that is what Herb is slang for 90% percent of time. No need to beat around the bush.

[@RudyCantGame]

@@joeday4293 herb is also a diss about someone who is a bit weak. At least it used to be.

[@Hex_Altruism]

I know I've been asking for SmarterEveryDay's video about the sound of falcon heavy, however, SpaceflightTV just released another spaceflight recap video thats pretty awesome

[@shanestanton8]

If you want to learn more about how the word soccer came to be, Today I Found Out did a nice video on it. I think Lost in The Pond also made a video about it

[@Lyeit]

Soccer is shorthand for 'Association Rules', a variety of Football. Just like there is also Aussie Rules. Association Rules became 'so-SURE' and over decades, soccer.

[@dodgermartin4895]

Someone else mentioned Noah Webster as the American English pioneer. For British English it was Samuel Johnson.

[@andromedaspark2241]

Cattywampus means crooked, malarkey means bullshit, highfallutin' means fancy particularly in a social/intellectual sense. (Edit: highfallutin' is slightly derogatory) There's also sigogglin', varmint, ornery, zinger, whopper-jawed, bumfuzzle....🙃

[@trudyziegler4977]

In Canada we follow British spelling in words like colour etc. However, we use American spellings & pronunciations for others. Some of the interesting British expressions Lawrence mentioned Canadians use too.

[@amandaburkhalter36]

I love Lost in the Pond! Idk now how they spelled it, highfalutin, to me is( to call someone this ) is to call them uppity, or for people who act or think they're above you in a way! I hope that made sense, even given that the K fam has already filled you in! Yeah, I'd always see coloUr and favoUrite and think , "Um, that's.... not right, lol! When I was older of course, I realized that ya know, it's probably from a different time/place. It sounds so odd to me for someone to pronounce the 'H' in herb.... but then, being hypocritical lol, thought it was odd for a person that drops the H on every single word! Like human or humor, ahh! These different ways of this language is like an oxymoron ~ same but different, lol! Like he said, "As long as we understand each other, right?"... RIGHT! And that long list of words! Lol! Fuddy duddy! 😆 You wanna go out and have some fun do something? Nah, I'm tired! You're such a fuddy duddy!🤣🤣 I loved this vid Kabir! A week late but, yeah! I Love the Brit/American comparisons! And of course every vid! ☆☆☆☆☆

[@twylanaythias]

"Highfalutin" is analogous to "putting on airs" - when someone says or does something with the obvious intent of appearing to be of a higher class than they actually are. Like how someone who likes to drop needlessly elaborate terms into casual conversations is said to "use highfalutin words".

[@williampilling2168]

Soccer is derived from Association Football, were as our game in the US is derived from Rugby Football. As our game evolved and became unique, we dropped the Rugby and just called it football.

[@Blondie42]

To further your thought process at the beginning: I was asked (demanded) why we consider the letter Y to sometimes be a vowel. Because in US English all words MUST have a vowel. This is one of the uncompromising rules in our language, unlike that i before e except after c which has so many exceptions. Sky, fly, try, my, cry, sty, are examples of words with no vowel by UK standards. But in the US the Y is the vowel.

[@lindabirkes-lance8915]

The last letter of our alphabet is zee not zed.

[@PixelatedH2O]

Regarding the word exercise, yes, that's how the US spells it.

[@Gitaelia]

I think you have to consider also, that American colonists came over from England mainly in the 1600s and 1700s initially. They brought that language with them. And from that point, language diverged. So it makes sense that changes made by Brits after that time would not have necessarily been adopted, especially during those periods just after the war of independence with all of the anti-British sentiment. Most of our adaptations would have been state-to-state not country-to-country.

[@lauraevans2104]

Some of our letter drops are also related to the world wars. Newspaper charged by the letter for posts, so silent letters were dropped as you could still understand the words.

[@you_can_call_me_T]

It's almost comical how some people get so randy over any excuse to look down on Americans. "OMG, the biggest, most diverse English speaking country on earth uses the language a little differently 😱" Lol so tf what? Of course we do. I believe it comes down to arrogance and cultural snobbery. Some of them feel their culture is older and better and it irritates the snot out of em that America is young, privileged, loud, and uncouth lol--and to make it worse, wholly unconcerned with what they think of us. So they soothe themselves via circle jerk, telling themselves and each other how much better they are than us. The truth is we've all added value to the world. The old civilizations have given us rich history and have spent millennia laying the foundation of the world as we know it (for better or worse). And this young nation has arguably done more to shape modern history, technology, and popular culture that any other. But we don't put a U in color. How ridiculous we must be.

[@random40s]

Lol we make sense 😂 🤣 Also, highfalutin meens sort of snobby, and fancy.

[@peppermoon7485]

Highfalutin actually came back in the days of the river paddle boats .. the rich could afford to ride up top with the flutes :)

[@hectordeleon4124]

Thanks for posting this. I get a little tired of being heckled by speakers of the Queen's English for dropping the "h" in "herb"(but only if I am speaking of seasonings, not a person's name). I was actually once told, "What do you think the "h" is there for?" To which I shot back, "And you say "hower" for "hour", do you?" I normally don't mind our differences. (I could listen to most British accents forever- like many Americans, I love how they sound.) I just hate it when I get snobby people looking down on the way I speak. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's wrong, people!

[@louisejohnson6057]

If a language ceases to grow and change, it will die. Some examples of dead languages are hieroglyphics, and Latin. Language is a prime example of Use It Or Lose It.

[@OMGitsaClaire]

Another thing about American English that must be noted is that contrary to what I suppose British people think, the vast majority of our ancestors didn’t originally come from England. In fact, among Americans who identify as having European heritage, about half have some form of German ancestry and historically the largest percentage of European immigrant to the US came from Germany. Add into that large numbers of people from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Italy (especially Sicily) and many parts of the US didn’t have a whole lot of native English speakers by the mid to late 19th century. My father, growing up in the middle of Minnesota, was surrounded primarily by descendants of German, Polish, and Norwegian immigrants and those languages were still spoken at home by many families (for perspective, my dad graduated high school in 1971, so this isn’t like the turn of the century or anything). So being that nobody really knew how to speak English like English people, they just did it the best they could. So that’s one of the ways we end up with regional accents. The upper Midwest like Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas have some Scandinavian and German features. New York and New Jersey have some kind of Italian and Eastern European bits. And the South sounds a little like Ireland and Yorkshire had some kind of weird love child. And then add in the words and phrases that we just kind of borrowed from other languages and you get American English. (Even the word “okay” comes from people of English descent making fun of people of Dutch descent in New York and the way they spoke back in the 1820’s. I’m not kidding.)

[@anessalyn1035]

half those words he gave for fanciful words I've never heard of or said, but oh my I was laughing until my ribs hurt. Great episode

[@victorbellutta2059]

when the United States won the revolutionary war, the man who basically wrote what preceded the Webster dictionary wanted to make the English language different from what was in Britain. he felt the upper class of Britain hi jacked language at that time and he believed language was for everyone to communicate. many subtle changes in the way we spell words were changed specifically by Noah Webster

[@kelsqi-books4835]

Lol I was almost a linguistics major. It can be good for writing, or translation if you take a foreign language too. Really though a linguist is a language scientist. They study the connection and development of languages and work with anthropologists. 😘

[@LambentLark]

5:45 It looks like poor ol" uncle Larry got paused in mid sneeze.

[@Thetequilashooter1]

Love the variety of videos that you comment about. We have very similar tastes. I’ve now hooked my girlfriend into watching them, which says something because she’s picky as hell.

[@louisebaker6991]

We pronounce zed as zee! Boogie, which means one who thinks their better than another person!

[@pattycoe7435]

English is not a dead language it is constantly changing.

[@waithuhShae]

I use discombobulate alot 😂 as in someone/something don't look/feel the same 💀 Ex. I eat ice cream but I'm lactose intolerant, so I'll say “my insides feel discombobulated” 😭😭

[@deanronson6331]

One gets the impression from Kabir's questions that he hasn't discovered Google yet. If he googled "Why is American English different from British English" or "Why does the pronunciation changes when a certain language becomes the dialect of another country?", he'd get much better and more comprehensive answers than from this short video, not directly geared to his inquiries anyway. We, Americans, are always justifiably complaining about the low educational levels of our students and adults in general. Kabir's naive questions and surprises at certain basic info provided by Lawrence shows that Brits don't have much to be proud of in that area either.

[@jairosoto3445]

During the revolution. Britain was taxing the American colonies for every letter put in the newspaper. I’m not sure if it’s the stamp tax. But Americans started taking letters out so they won’t pay so much Example: colour and color

[@msdarby515]

How about fact that the last letter of the alphabet is "Zee" in the US, but called "Zed" in GB? Also, we end a sentence with a "period". In Great Britain it's a "full stop".

[@reginadavis7499]

I love his channel too. Hello from America

[@philosophynerdlady]

Love this channel!

[@jadwisiastrickland3781]

My aunt became an English professor with a linguistics degree

[@dodgermartin4895]

I don't know any other American who will say "zed" for the for the last letter of the alphabet. In the US, Z = "zee." 99.99% of Americans won't even know what a "zed" is. And no American says "full stop" for the "." at the end of a sentence. Americans will call it a "period."

[@Lovesthetruth]

Totally agree! I commented on that very same thing.

[@dodgermartin4895]

@@Lovesthetruth I am very sorry that I commented after you already did :-(

[@Lovesthetruth]

@@dodgermartin4895 No you didn't I did after you. I was glad that you said something also. Why are you sorry? We all can comment. I told you because we were on the same page and I was happy about it.

[@dodgermartin4895]

@@Lovesthetruth I was apologizing. But I guess great minds think alike :-)

[@BrockMak]

4:38 It gets even more confusing talking about medical terms. I think I'm "Anaemic", my "Oesophagus" hurts. I sometimes just spell the American way because I can't remember the extra letter that is silent.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

You’ve got to appreciate Noah Webster‘s efforts to simplify and regularize spelling.

[@michaelschemlab]

According to Google, highfalutin is an informal way of describing something as pompous or pretentious

[@Kenyon712]

Huge tornado outbreak in the US last night. Many dead.

[@samiantha636]

Some words in American English like color dropping the u became wide spread because in the early days of the printing press and such you had to pay per letter and we’ll if color could still be said and understood without the u then goodbye u ..

[@willardwooten9582]

Linguistics could leed to working in different Embassies as translator , language teacher foreign country , Ambassador and Professor in languages.

[@greggwilliamson]

Disorientate is another word we pronounce differently, here it's spelled and pronounced disorient(ed). We just don't have time to say or write that last "ate".

[@americansmark]

Common Brits actually spoke more akin to Americans during the Revolution. Both have changed a lot, but the British had a vowel shift in the 19th century that didn't affect American English as much. Like we are seeing now with Northern Vowel Shift in the US, language changes every few generations as new words and new pronunciations enter the vernacular.

[@janetmoreno8909]

you can get a jobs as: Copy editor, Translator, Technical writer, Copywriter, Language specialist, Professor, Speech language pathologist

[@Lill2895]

I was always told by teachers and professors that the spelling of words like color/colour, favorite/favourite, realize/realise is correct either way because both are proper English. One is just American and the other is British. It helped whenever the words were spelled differently in required reading books 🤗 There are a lot of British authors lol.

[@Utoober729]

Back in the day, 1700s, we didnt want to clone the British. And later so many people came from other European countries. Maybe spies would like linguists so they could tell where other people (spies) are really from lol. Several towns in my area are spelled the same as the original name, but the accent is on another syllable. My family moved from NY State to Cincinnati for one year. The other kids in school were enthralled by me just coming from NYS. they thought I attended parties every week. I think I crushed them when I said my town was just like theirs. And I lived close to Niagara Falls...it took 6 to 7 hours to drive to NY City. Highfaluting = Bold, audacious or showy in behavior or manner . Putting on airs. (I use the Word Hippo app on android.)

[@bluedancelilly]

Wait, can we talk about the fact that Lawrence and Kabir both pronounce the letter Z like "zed"? I've never heard that. Americans pronounce it like "zee".

[@covewatcher]

Hi Kabir... "highfalutin" is a slang expression for a person who thinks they are "better" than you or something that is "high class" or "overly proper". You might use it in a sentence like "Charlie looks like a complete jerk with his fancy words and his highfalutin attitude. What happened to the regular guy we used to know"? Something like that. Maybe not the best example, but I think it conveys the meaning.

[@EricaGamet]

I'm an American that grew up watching British TV and movies, so most of the words just flip in my head and the pronunciations don't bother me. Except when Brits say "haitch." I love Line of Duty, but every time they talked about "Haitch" it was like fingernails on a chalkboard. Also when actors talk about their new show on "Haitch Bee Oh." Haha... dunno why that one gets to me. I do feel like that one has grown in popularity... like it used to be a posh thing... now everyone says it. Maybe I'm imagining that, though.

[@TheCosmicGenius]

There are a lot of jobs for interpreters, which probably pay very well. I speak enough Spanish, & Chinese, too, to order food for a friend from Mexico in a Chinese restaurant, but can't really carry on much of a conversation in either tongue.

[@moxgrovno636]

Highfalutin can be considered an American way of saying the derogatory version of 'Ppsh'.

[@bcaye]

I can understand you, you can understand me, not a problem!

[@Pappy_1775]

Most linguistics students usually become teacher but another job I see a lot of them have is translators.