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@hughegentry82559 ай бұрын
Wow, you used to look so much like Winona Ryder!!
@seanscanlon90679 ай бұрын
Ironically, the North American equivalent of tat is probably garbage too. Or possibly in some cases perhaps junk, although that words seems to have an alternative meaning now to describe a certain part or parts of the male anatomy. As in, he split his pants and his junk was showing.......and we will not even get on to the subject of pants either! That said, both garbage and trash can be used in multiple ways too, in the way that rubbish is used over here. On a side note Alanna, I have had a small, hopefully humorous gift for you for ages now and have asked for your P.O. Box once or twice but not sure that you have seen it. I appreciate that you do not know me from Adam, but I promise I am not some weirdo (well, not that weird anyway) although I appreciate that you have to be careful online for your own safety and wellbeing. Is there somewhere else I can send it though that is obviously not your home or a work address, maybe to your aftershave and fragrance business address?
@samk97299 ай бұрын
You want to assimilate? ........ Resistance is futile 🤖🤖 lol
@Martyntd59 ай бұрын
trivia: Ibuprofen (brufen, nurofen, advil) was invented in England in the 1950's by Boots chemists.
@alexbernard89079 ай бұрын
As a lot of the postal workers are women, I tend to say postman or postwoman or just simply postie, and when I go in an Aldi or Lidl I do see a lot of tat for sale, and the majority of what the television and radio stations broadcast is a load of tat,
@alansmith21979 ай бұрын
You're British when you can naturally say "bollocks" without feeling embarrassed 😁🇬🇧
@frankf54869 ай бұрын
And just know the difference between Bollocks and The Bollocks.
@frankf54869 ай бұрын
@@fizzog12 Yep
@byeckfella8 ай бұрын
Cos bollocks has about 30 different uses…
@david_harvey8 ай бұрын
@frankf5486 don't you mean the dogs
@tonyrobson46818 ай бұрын
I like that.
@dprid9 ай бұрын
When my wife goes back to the USA her family accuse her of having an English accent, yet to the ears of any Brit she absolutely sounds American. What they're actually hearing is the fact that she uses British phraseology, structuring & slang, not that her accent has changed.
@MagentaOtterTravels9 ай бұрын
YES! Same here! It's because of the way I say Amazon after being in England for too long ;-)
@seanscanlon90679 ай бұрын
@@MagentaOtterTravels I am from London and have always pronounced the word dance as if it has an R in it, as in darn-ce. Yet if I moved to America and changed it to dan-ce and then came back to London on a visit and was saying dan-ce, I would probably be told that I have changed my accent because merely by saying it that way makes it sound American, even though other areas in the UK say dan-ce too.
@bobblebardsley9 ай бұрын
When I visited Chicago (I'm British) the first thing I needed to do was catch a cab to West Devon Street. Devon is a county in England and is pronounced (there's no good way to write this but I'll try) Devvun. It took a very long time and pointing at a map before the driver understood I needed to go to West d'Vorn Street. Some words I can look at and immediately understand that they'll sound different in a US accent but that one really came outta nowhere.
@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.9 ай бұрын
@@seanscanlon9067As an actor, we say that's the difference between American speech and English speech, here we tend to use the long 'a' in words which creates a 'r' sound, in America the use the short 'a', this is especially noticeable when using 'RP' (Received Pronunciation) as an actor where everything is said with the long 'a' sound.
@revbenf68709 ай бұрын
Hey Allanah, I don't think you're that unusual. I'm from a NI background, but my first school was an American-run school (abroad) and of course I grew up with an American accent. We then moved back to Belfast for a while and (as this was during the "troubles" when they struggled with anything more complicated than Protestant/Catholic), I very quickly adopted a NI accent. A year later I was in an English boarding school! So I now find I have a broadly English accent with Irish undertones and occasional US words. It's just about where life takes you really....
@stuartselkirk75819 ай бұрын
Yes Alanna, rubbish is a versatile word. When you dont feel well you can also say "I feel rubbish"
@chrissmith87739 ай бұрын
USP(ostal)S delivers the mail, the Royal Mail delivers the post. I love how bonkers we are.
@ColinCarFan9 ай бұрын
The Post Office used to deliver our post and run the UK phone system before it split up in the '80s.
@tiggerwood88999 ай бұрын
@@ColinCarFan it was the GPO in those days, general post office. My mum was a telephonist for the GPO
@stevemawer8485 ай бұрын
@@tiggerwood8899 Or Gods' Poor Orphans as we used to call 'em. BTW, "posties" is a good non-gender specific word for post persons.
@kendee44218 ай бұрын
Tatting was a way of making cheap lace, which was nowhere near as good as proper lace but was used as trim on lower quality clothing. Tatted lace would 'undo' and fall apart after being worn and washed for a while.. Hence 'old tat' meaning low quality or 'tatty' meaning worn out or damaged.
@RalphBellairs9 ай бұрын
Alanna - 6:25 you said "Innit" without reacting! I reckon you're a proper South East Brit now!😄
@suzannemortimer97526 ай бұрын
My daughter tells me off for saying Innit!
@blahmcblahface39655 ай бұрын
Just posted the same...it sounds very odd but it's so natural to her I think she gets brit points for it 👍
@Technoir4449 ай бұрын
Carrier bags have handles, so that they are easier to carry around. You can also get bin bags, paper bags etc which don’t have handles and are therefore not ‘carrier bags’. I expect there are exceptions but this is a general rule.
@TheJulianFletcher8 ай бұрын
And there are baby carriers, bike carriers…
@EASYTIGER109 ай бұрын
In the US, the mail is delivered by the US Postal Service. In the UK the post is delivered by the Royal Mail.
@JulianJLW4 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@charlestaylor94249 ай бұрын
Angry would be "pissed off".
@johnleake56578 ай бұрын
…while a drunk person is "pissed" but can also be "pissed up".
@newviking95 ай бұрын
Pissed is drunk and "pissed off" is angry. Pissing about is messing about. You tell someone to piss off if you want them to go away.
@shaunw92709 ай бұрын
My English teacher at school was an American lady from Asbury Park NJ, not only was she on board with our Brit words but also Bristolian slang which I probably didn't appreciate at the time..Years later I worked with a lady in her early 30's from the state of Georgia who had lived in England from the age of 18 and spoke British English without thinking about it ..I have to admit, I found it adorable! 😊
@alexandermuir81609 ай бұрын
"Where's you bin?. I've bin to the toilet, Where's you bin? An oldie but a goodie 😂😂
@cornholiyo7 ай бұрын
No, where’s your wheels bin? I’ve really been to the toilet
@iancrosby34759 ай бұрын
The bin mon came and said 'wheres you bin?' I said "I've not been nowhere" 'no' he said 'wheres your wheelie bin?' I said, "ok, I've been in the pub, but don't tell my mum, she worries"
@garyfaulkner14805 ай бұрын
Yo from dudley ah wench
@rikmoran39639 ай бұрын
"faffing around...". Excellent! The conversion process is almost complete!!! 😂
@Judgles9 ай бұрын
In the north-west of England, a clothes horse is called a "maiden". My flatmates used to take the piss out of me a lot for that! Great video, Alanna - hope you feel better soon.
@AdventuresAndNaps9 ай бұрын
😂 that's so interesting!
@wuxing1009 ай бұрын
Same in the midlands, its a maiden.
@elizamarz76079 ай бұрын
I got very strange looks when I went in to a london hardware shop and asked for a maiden. I had no other words to describe it who knew it was a clothes horse to the shop assistant.
@Judgles9 ай бұрын
@@elizamarz7607 that's so true - my London flatmates thought I was totally mad when I first said it!
@elizamarz76079 ай бұрын
@@Judgles i has to question my sanity at the time because no one had ever heard about a maiden. I thought I must have made it up til I called my nana to verify I wasn’t loosing my mind lol
@TheJosephKnight9 ай бұрын
In Shaun of the Dead, the changed the word pissed to drunk in the back garden scene. "She's so drunk" kind of sounds weird compared to "She's so pissed" from Nick Frost. But to Americans the joke wouldn't work since pissed means angry. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
@stevemawer8485 ай бұрын
In the UK an angry or annoyed person would be "pissed off", so the Yanks are probably just being lazy and truncating stuff like they do. Of course, "pissed off" also means "gone away", maybe in a huff, or a minute and a huff. 🙂
@Poweroftouch9 ай бұрын
When we described someone that annoys us ,we say pissed off .same as u with off at the end .
@Clayton-S.9 ай бұрын
You are one of us Alanna. I hope you feel better soon because having a cold is rubbish...😉👍
@cruachan11919 ай бұрын
Genericised trademarks are always a funny one. Hoover (instead of vacuum/vacuum cleaner) is one of the best known, and is very weird for me because all my kitchen appliances (oven, hob, microwave, fridge freezer) are in fact made by Hoover whereas my actual "Hoover" is a Dyson. 🤣 Perhaps it was just because you were pointing out your own speech and language usage, but your pronunciation of adult in the North American way was very noticeable in this video too!
@douglascharnley82499 ай бұрын
I noticed a couple of months ago when you were talking about the "flat" you were living in. No more apartment got her.
@BobHUK8 ай бұрын
I remember hearing about Trash and Garbage from American films and TV programmes when I was a kid, and wondering why the Yanks had two different words for rubbish. Then I discovered that they meant two different things. Apparently Garbage was mainly food leftovers and scraps, or other organic waste, whereas Trash was all the dry rubbish like cans, plastic bags, cardboard boxes, etc. Nowadays people seem to use the two words interchangeably on American shows/films, but perhaps they should adopt our British English word Rubbish instead. Saves having to remember which is which after all. 😊
@ColinCarFan9 ай бұрын
Pissed is one of our classically adaptable words and you've missed quite a few uses - all negative. The word itself being slang for urine and urinating lends itself to 'going for a piss' , but you can say 'piss off' (can be very aggressive command or be a statement of disbelief), or 'take the piss' when making fun of someone, or be 'piss poor' when bad quality. Pissed is only interpreted as being inebriated here and the American context is an import as we would be 'pissed off'. Loved the video!
@racheltaylor65788 ай бұрын
It’s such a versatile word.
@LeedsInAHat6 ай бұрын
Most people would rather be pissed off than pissed on.
@dapablo29 ай бұрын
"Innit" I heard that.
@ProgressiveRoxx9 ай бұрын
We've seen drunk Alanna on alcohol taste tests, I think we just met cold medicine loopy Alanna, and I'm here for it! BTW I always thought "plaster" was named after "Elastoplast" a brand that has been around since 1896, but turns out it is based on an Old English word for a "bandage with curative properties". The sticky part I guess can be attributed to Elastoplast, at least in terms of the naming them plasters.
@DidrickNamtvedt9 ай бұрын
We say "plaster" here in Norway too, so I wonder if that's more of a European word rather than a specific British brand word.
@wessexdruid75989 ай бұрын
It's what gave Elastoplast its name.... PS - she might have been a little pissed?
@davidjones3329 ай бұрын
"Court plaster" appears in Jane Austen's "Emma", so sticky-backed dressings for minor wounds go back to Napoleonic times. Apparently the product originated as artificial "beauty spots" used by ladies at court, hence the name. Elastoplast seems to be disappearing from common usage, probably because supermarket own brand plasters have taken most of the market.
@Gerishnakov7 ай бұрын
It's from plaster of Paris.
@wessexdruid75987 ай бұрын
@@Gerishnakov They're all from medieval Latin - _plastrum_ - via Old English & Old French. A bandage spread with a curative substance.
@MagentaOtterTravels9 ай бұрын
I agree that saying rubbish is much more satisfying than garbage or trash! (I'm an American who after living in England for 5 months each year comes back and has trouble stopping saying "rubbish" and "cheers" LOL!)
@xzdeltaxz9 ай бұрын
fun fact, trash and garbage are old british words. but the posh/rich people didn't like the words so they was changed to rubbish. so thats what we use today.
@MrRawMonkey9 ай бұрын
I watch your channel.
@robertwatford74259 ай бұрын
Dara, when you did your grocery comparison you were using the Brit pronounciation in Tesco and the Yank in Kroger :-)
@MagentaOtterTravels9 ай бұрын
@@robertwatford7425 yes, wasn't that funny? Lol
@MagentaOtterTravels9 ай бұрын
@@xzdeltaxz I always assumed garbage was a French word...
@stevetheduck14258 ай бұрын
As a Brit, I can say; 'this happens'. My local accent changed several times while a member of the RAF, Kent to Norfolk, to North London, to a bit of Lancashire, and finally to something like modern BBC 'neutral'. I guess I just stopped adapting at the end...
@mauricecasey8669 ай бұрын
HMRC wants you to get yourself a letter opener and stop procrastinating! "Pissed off" for angry. 👍
@stephenrowley8809 ай бұрын
Oh Alanna, I was having such a bad day and oddly my dramas were connected with your favorite film but after watching this video it will take the rest of the day for me to get back to normality and stop laughing. Thank you.
@Rjhs0019 ай бұрын
Hi Alanna. I LOVE the fact that our British words now infuse your lovely Canadian accent. This vid made me very happy. Cheers.
@alanmills94929 ай бұрын
Hi Alanna, Happy New Year ! A British phrase you probably thought was bizarre is, in the pub when they take your empty glass - "Is that dead ?" I once was persuaded to buy a "bag for life" which collapsed before I got home. Alanna, I dare you ring HMRC and tell them they're rubbish. Anyway, I have to pop to the toilet.
@The45thClown9 ай бұрын
When your bag for life breaks, most supermarkets will allow you to exchange it for a new one, regardless of how old it is. These are being phased out, I recommend a good tote bag.
@frankbrodie51689 ай бұрын
I've got about a dozen of those green Tesco bags for life still going strong after almost 10 years. Ended up with that many by keep forgetting to take them when we went shopping back when I was still married. So we would just buy more of them. Now I'm single and happy at last, they are my comfort blanket when shopping. It makes my little heart sing if I'm walking to or from the village shop, and I happen to pass someone using the same style of bag.
@markelliott97379 ай бұрын
I had a bag for life that didn't make it out of the store. The handle came off when I picked it up from the self checkout. They are rubbish now.
@nickgooch8 ай бұрын
they do have a cheek calling them bags for life when they are less durable than the old type, i once had one break before i made it to the car. i stormed back into the shop with my receipt in hand ready to make a stink but a nice lady quickly diffused the situation by replacing it no questions asked. as someone else said they are bags for life because the supermarket will replace them but seriously does anyone do that?
@Gerishnakov7 ай бұрын
I haven't had to take a bag from the supermarket for what must be almost 10 years now.
@lizrichardson33099 ай бұрын
Poor Alanna, I hope you feel better soon. I heard that postmen wear shorts in all weathers is because if it's raining, wearing long wet trousers is worse than the cold legs you get wearing the shorts.....(but I'm happy to be corrected! 😉)
@Forest_Fifer9 ай бұрын
Can confirm as a delivery man that wet trousers suck.
@wilmaknickersfit9 ай бұрын
That's an interesting fun fact - thank you! ❤
@JulianJLW4 ай бұрын
@@Forest_Fifer , surely you mean that wet trousers are rubbish?
@jillianb89929 ай бұрын
I did notice you said "vitamins" the British way during your last patreon video. Words are cool!!
@williambailey3449 ай бұрын
Your a cool person and really have adjusted well to our culture and language and slang terms. Which really qualify you as near on fully Brit but you will always be proud of your Canadian roots and so you should 😊. Thanks again for a great video.
@ShalomPalabradeFeyGracia8 ай бұрын
My mum's husband who was British, but living in USA many decades, used to say goofing around, as you say faffing around 😂
@ge484219 ай бұрын
I was taught British English in school, but 20+ years in the US has changed my pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and use of idioms quite a bit. BTW: we have trash cans here in Nevada. It's amazing how versatile the word "piss" and it variants are: He's pissed [off]: annoyed/angry He's pissed: drunk it's pissing down: raining hard He's pissing in the wind: He's doing something pointless/futile He's taking the piss out of someone: He's mocking someone piss: low quality booze He pissed away his inheritance and now he's piss poor. He wanted to borrow more money but I told him to piss off. A saying I heard in the US south: "He does not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of." He's very poor. And there's the literal meaning: urine/urinating I'm sure I'm missing some meanings.
@botticellirejectbotticelli26683 ай бұрын
I actually asked a postie, when it was snowing why he was wearing shorts. It’s because getting in and out of a van your legs dry but your trousers stay wet and cold.
@SteveMikre449 ай бұрын
Alanna is not Canadian nor British, but an International KZbin Superstar...😊🇨🇦🇬🇧
@AdventuresAndNaps9 ай бұрын
😂 you're too kind!
@colingregory74649 ай бұрын
mid-Atlantic ??
@jamesbeeching61389 ай бұрын
Britadian or Canadish??
@martinjackman29439 ай бұрын
The girl who puts the 'lady' in 'Angladian'
@inspired007075 ай бұрын
Interesting you mentioned the shouting, as a brit living in Greece, when I first moved here I thought everyone was angry, however, I realised that people just talk very loud, even when completely unnecessary!
@lulib63729 ай бұрын
I love the word faff too, and it can be used more broadly. So you might have a job to do and it seems that there are lots of little things to do to get it done, or you are doing a task that is a bit fiddly, and it could take you a while to do something that you wish was a lot simpler. in these circumstances you might say "wow that sounds like a lot of faff", or "I have to do this, and it is going to be a faff", or "I was going to put those Ikea drawers together, but it looks like a right faff, so I am going to do it tomorrow"
@joannecunliffe80679 ай бұрын
Aww Alanna - you don't look well. I hope you're feeling better soon ❤ Belated Happy New Year and lots of hugs 🥰 You're such a wonderful person and one of the most British people I've ever met!
@jahnome9 ай бұрын
Dang - haven’t been here in a while (KZbin algorithm)! So proud to see how big your channel has grown over the years!!🎉🎉🎉
@charlestaylor94249 ай бұрын
My post woman this morning was wearing a fetching outfit of long trousers, a post office windcheater, an anorak and a woolly hat.
@jananders13513 ай бұрын
That's the difference between "pissed" = drunk and "pissed off" = annoyed.
@fatbelly279 ай бұрын
If you ask a Yoyrkshireman 'Where's tha bin? you might be surprised by the answer.
@johnpickles9748 ай бұрын
Am British 😂and you are hilarious. Have lived in US for 22 years, still have my British accent using American vocabulary. Loved this ❤
@alangknowles9 ай бұрын
They wear shorts instead of long pants that can get thoroughly soaked in rain. And it's always raining.
@stevemawer8485 ай бұрын
They do wear long trousers when it's really cold.
@jarekweckwerth13909 ай бұрын
There were a number of real gems in this one, but Bag For Life, hell yeah! You nailed it!
@charles.field.uk_official9 ай бұрын
4:17 Hadn't really analysed it before, Alana. But the rubbish goes in the bin and is taken away by the dustmen. When I was younger I had a couple of mates who were 'on the dust', which was enviable due to the fact that they could be in the pub by midday !
@Ninja_Penguin9 ай бұрын
I haven't heard the phase "dustmen" for years, it tends to be binmen these days. I think the change occurred when we switched from dustbins, to wheelie bins. Could vary by region though
@juliebrooke60998 ай бұрын
Where I live(Yorkshire) we’d say your mates worked ‘on the bins’.
@charles.field.uk_official8 ай бұрын
@@juliebrooke6099 Might be a north/south divide situation, I lived in Sheffield for a couple of years and don't think I ever heard the term 'dustmen'.
@---df5sr6 ай бұрын
We do use “pissed” for anger. But we would say “i’m pissed off” or we can say “taking the piss” for having a laugh. But my favourite is “pissed as a fart” for really drunk
@stevemawer8485 ай бұрын
My GP's receptionist took the piss when I handed her my urine sample. Literally.
@harrisonandrew9 ай бұрын
Yes I have been sick Alanna, thank you for asking. I had Covid for about 7 days. Just come out of it and no longer test positive. Lots of people had it over Christmas. Talking of Bins, have you heard the word “Binfluencer”? Apparently every road has one. It’s the person who puts their bins out first so everyone else knows it’s bin day and which bin to put out I.e. is it dirty rubbish or recycle rubbish. Who is the Binfluencer in your road? Is it you Alanna?
@PeleRana-pp6zc9 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂. I like that
@zmartieq9 ай бұрын
Hahahahaaa I love that 😂
@SallyLovejoy8 ай бұрын
Wow! Just realised, I'm the "Binfluencer" in my Avenue!
@suzannemortimer97526 ай бұрын
Yes rely on one of those!
@byeckfella8 ай бұрын
Hey, Alanna, do you have a muddledy draw in your kitchen? The muddledy draw has a mixture of things in it such as batteries, birthday cake candles, tubes of glue, keys you no longer have locks for, puncture repair kit (even if you don’t own a bike), plasters, those tiny screwdrivers that come in Christmas crackers, a key for bleeding radiators, Allen keys left over from self assembly furniture, a random button that fell off a shirt, a watch that no longer works, a pair of glasses that are broken and a small ball of string.
@SallyLovejoy8 ай бұрын
You forgot about the key from an old shed, a sachet of flower food and a small plastic robin from an old Yule Log cake. Or is that just me?
@davidioanhedges9 ай бұрын
Tat is from a Hindi word for thick canvas... originally referring to Gunny cloth (a very cheap course fabric) There are lot of British words imported from the Indian subcontinent, that don't really exist in the USA If you're pissed then you're drunk, If you're pissed off you're angry ... Gas (Gasoline) is a brand name .... Petrol is a generic name ... But see also Sellotape and Hoover
@AdventuresAndNaps9 ай бұрын
Interesting!
@Phiyedough9 ай бұрын
The word shoddy is also related to the fabric industry. It was an early form of fibre recycling whereby old clothes were shredded and the fibres woven to make new fabric which was of low quality.
@martinjackman29439 ай бұрын
'Tatty' 'tat' and tatters / tattered are all recorded in middle English.. It's a VERY old word with the Hindi connection due to the Indo European common etymological root.
@jschreiber64619 ай бұрын
Like Starbucks Chai Tea Latte… a combo of Russian English & Italian?
@davidpaterson23098 ай бұрын
@@AdventuresAndNapsOddly enough, “gasoline” originated in the U.K. A guy called Cassell patented a lamp oil in the 19thc which he called “Cazelline” but changed it to “Gazelline” because it was ripped off in patent disputes. That word found its way to the USA (allegedly with Irish immigrants) and became a generic.
@frankhooper78718 ай бұрын
It's been 50+ years now since I ceased being an American, so my memory might be off, but I think when I was in California I'd say "trash" rather than "rubbish". "Trash" went in the trash-can, "garbage" went in the garbage-disposal.
@San-zq3br6 ай бұрын
Yea, those Canadians are silly with their goofy words too. lol😊half my family is Canadian, so I tease them any chance I get and I like to pretend their words are silly.
@bobblebardsley9 ай бұрын
Oh and if we're using the British words for things, a Q-tip would be a cotton bud (although I'm sure cotton swab is used too). As for the clothes horse... I'd call it a clothes horse, most of the people I knew at university called it a 'maiden' which still sounds really weird to me, and nowadays in shops they seem to be called 'airer' more than anything else.
@wilmaknickersfit9 ай бұрын
Growing up in Scotland we'd call it the pulley because it was a long wooden thing that hung from the ceiling and pulled up and down with a pulley mechanism. Now in England in my 60s I'd say drier and I have the same one as Alanna!
@rh25779 ай бұрын
My wife from Motherwell in Scotland called it a "winterdyke" ! 🤷🏻♂️
@spuddles985 ай бұрын
Heard you use the slang “innit” from time to time. Always leaves a smile on face when I hear it.
@shanemjn9 ай бұрын
I've been to see Old Dominion every time they've been over to the UK. The first time they were over, quite a few people had signs that just said "plaster" as one of the lines in one of their songs is "rip it off just like a band-aid" the next two times they sung "rip it off just like a plaster" 😂
@graeradt9 ай бұрын
you're British when your friends and family no longer understand what you're saying and you have to respeak sentences using words and phrases that they understand.
@Lanser19649 ай бұрын
As always adorably delightfully random, I've been subscribed since your early days and until you pointed it out I hadn't noticed how your voice and online personality has changed, so much more relaxed and self assured.
@nolslifegren9 ай бұрын
When you start to say film instead of movie we'll know your ours forever 🤓
@mothmagic18 ай бұрын
It happens, I would have been more surprised if you hadn't at least adopted a few British words and phraseology. Almost 50 years ago I was stationed in Dorset when I was in the army. Because the Dorset dialect is very similar to Oxfordshire except much broader. Within 6 months I had adopted the local dialect and still haven't totally lost it to the extent that people still comment "That accent isn't from around. You are definitely slowly becoming Anglicised. Say whichever you want to use. Whatever feels natural to you is the way to go. Taking too long over something is also known as farting about among other terms. A belated happy new year to you by the way.
@LukebridgesCoUk9 ай бұрын
Absolutely enjoying the lemsip fuelled rambelling e
@AdventuresAndNaps9 ай бұрын
🙏
@ajorngjdonaydbr9 ай бұрын
@@AdventuresAndNaps add some honey to a lemsip, you're welcome
@Sandysand7017 ай бұрын
I'm English, but I always thought your garbage went into a trash can/basket. Now, I tend to identify a plastic carrier bag as a shopping bag. Taking or getting the/a lift, can also mean having a ride in a car, you might say to a car driver, can you give me a lift. A Hoover is a brand name, slowly being taken over in the UK by a Henry, suppose easier to say than a vacuum cleaner.
@thetragicyouth9 ай бұрын
Alanna, it's the choice of swear words and obscenities that makes you truly British... 😉 Would make a fun video, but would be instantly demonetised, I guess! 🤣🤣
@Elwaves29259 ай бұрын
Bollocks. . . . . I mean that as a great example of a versatile swear word, not that you're talking bol.... 😁
@AliceLucindaBronte9 ай бұрын
Yeah, you're one of us now. Also, loving the chaotic energy of you when you're ill.
@mikepxg64069 ай бұрын
Hope you get well soon. I don’t like the membership idea this is meant to be open to everyone. Times are hard some people can’t afford much and just like to have a laugh with you. Paying makes it a bit tacky. Mike
@blahmcblahface39655 ай бұрын
Hearing you say "a load of tat innit..." is hilarious and adorable
@blahmcblahface39655 ай бұрын
...but its fine. It sounds very natural so we'll allow it
@stepheng96079 ай бұрын
I shouldn't worry about the change as I don't think you have completely lost your North American language. You said "we got pizza" rather than "we got a pizza". Hope you feel better soon
@BigScubes9 ай бұрын
They might have got more than one
@stepheng96079 ай бұрын
True - although in that case we would normally use the plural, i.e. pizzas, a couple of pizzas, etc@@BigScubes
@JulianJLW4 ай бұрын
I once talked to an American about how I put off doing the washing up, and she wasn't quite sure what I was talking about! Why do we wash clothes, but wash up dishes? Well, I've got a feeling that it's to do with sorting everything out after a meal so everything's tidy again: so we clear up (not just any 'clearing', but specifically 'clearing up': putting away the stuff we've got out, etc.) and wash up the crockery we've 'dirtied' by eating off it, and then everything is back to how it was to start with. Anyway, fun video, Alanna. Enjoyed the various little tangents!
@anyone4acupoftea9 ай бұрын
Well, you're definitely Brit-ish! 😜
@rideitalia5 ай бұрын
Awesome :) Carrier bags also = placcy bag. Pissed when it''s about angry is 'pissed off'.
@chrisabbott68649 ай бұрын
And I quote... "that's a load of tat in'it". Definitely a sign you have been here way too long! You are no longer Canadian Alanna, you are an honorary Brit. With respect to brand name usage, us brits have always called the vacuum cleaner a Hoover, so its not just America that uses brand names as common terms. I feel for you with the sinus issue. Currently suffering with it myself so I know all too well what a crap experience it is. Its that time of year when we all seem to get colds and are generally miserable - just glad you are here with your usual bonkers outlook on life to cheer us all up! The thing you dry your clothes on... clothes dryer, clothes airer, washing stand. Just some of the names you could use. I just remember it as being that annoying thing you always seem to trip over as you walk past it. You are absolutely hilarious Alanna, and, dare I say it, have a truly British sense of ironic humour. Keep up the good work, the UK is all the better for you being here.
@johnrhodez68299 ай бұрын
Came home pissed fell over the clothes horse, hit my head on the toilet door and needed a plaster, threw the tear off bits of tat in the bin took a Nero.... Nero.... Pain killer, switched on the telly and caught Donny Trump waiving a star spangled spanner, it wasn't a wrench to switch him off.... ,
@ourhudlathome88859 ай бұрын
Congratulations! With this video you just passed the Life in the UK oral test! Home Office: issue her with ILTR today😊. Liking the Lemsip vibe too.
@patu38519 ай бұрын
Call It Brufen, much shorter and pissed is also use in an angry manner when we're pissed off, such a funny start to the video, pissed myself laughing 😂
@RGC1988 ай бұрын
Hi Alanna, thanks for sharing another interesting video. i think as people change locations it is also very easy for them to start imitating the new surroundings and especially the local language. I remember after having holidays in New Zealand, I found myself speaking slower and more deliberate after staying with relatives there. I think my speaking may have also slightly changed since living here in Melbourne, as compared to my prior way of speaking when living up in Sydney. Sorry to hear about your cold and I hope you feel better soon. Here in Australia, we do the washing or washing up, like in the UK. Our washing machine is in the laundry here. The item we hang clothes on is called a clothes hoist or clothes rack here. Then again, if we are hanging clothes to dry outside in the yard, we use a clothes line. Carrier bags are mostly called shopping bags here. Elevators are known here as lifts, like in the UK. Drunks here may be referred as completely stonkered or stoned out of their brain. That is the polite term!!! LOL. Band aids are called band aids here as well. Anyway, take care. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
@gevzart9 ай бұрын
i just moved here in bromley. i’m slowly able to relate to your videos which is fun! 😊
@eugeneshadwell65969 ай бұрын
A wonderful and funny video, I laughed a lot, hope you're feeling better since this was recorded. And what a delightful flashback to 'Slightly Squeaky Voiced Nose-Studded Baby Alanna' (as I'm sure you were often referred to back then), I do remember those videos from the first time I discovered A&N but haven't seen them in a long while, wow, you really HAVE changed over the years! 😃
@Phiyedough9 ай бұрын
A carrier bag is a specific type of bag used for carrying assorted items. A bag could just be a bag of peas, pasta or whatever.
@shanekemp20022 ай бұрын
The reason Royal Mail Posties wear shorts pretty much all year round, is that when the weather is wet and cold (most of the time) you find that your skin dries quicker than fabric like trousers, if you were to wear trousers and get wet you’d be much colder and wetter for longer. I’m a Royal Mail postie but I work in a Mail Centre (non delivery role) in Medway, Kent, and i wear shorts all year as the building is always too hot or too cold It definitely looks odd when the delivery posties walk along the road with shorts and a great big coat on
@markstuart47197 ай бұрын
Hi, great vids, lass. There's another term or two for bathroom, one is.. The " Loo". Two is.. " the Bog". But sometimes, it's can be the word of " crap house". Different parts of the UK were dialects, accents and slangs are different and mostly funny.
@jra554175 ай бұрын
Cludgy
@justincoleman41338 ай бұрын
If you watch the UK Apprentice, you may hear Lord Sugar say “tut” instead of “tat”, a nice regional pronunciation.
@daveduffy17558 ай бұрын
In Australia garbage goes in the garage bin pick up by the garage man (the garbo) put in the garbage truck😊
@laratheplanespotter8 ай бұрын
Also, I’ve been slightly Americanised. I call the bin the trash and I call a charity shop a thrift store 😂.
@lewisbarnett6407 ай бұрын
You should try only saying these archetypal British words with a British accent. Just the word, even plonked in the middle of your Canadian accent sentence. Then do a video of it 😂
@davidpierce32179 ай бұрын
Thanks for the vid, very entertaining :) Where I grew up, the equivalent for 'faffing around' was "dicking around" or "screwing around"
@nickgrazier33739 ай бұрын
Carrier bag is very specific for shopping using a plastic bag! A shopping bag used to be what your mom would take down the grocers for some potatoes and other veg. It’s now the plastic shopping bag / carrier bag for shopping.! It’s a cloths horse, now a days it’s very thin and you can buy it from a shop, my dad made the cloths horse for my mom . Basically it was three rectangles held together with some old belt strapping so it could open out in front of the fire in the living room this was back in the 50s in our 2 bed council house.
@davidboydarnott4178 ай бұрын
Hey Alana, that was the first of me watching any of your videos and found it engaging coz i have an interest in the origins of words ,anyway I've tried to help you out in the comments. Best wishes you and your Partner! This is a crazy world and Fact is stranger than Fiction. ✌️👊👍
@kateparkinson50689 ай бұрын
I went to stand on the picket line when the postmen were on strike to show my support for them. I hardly recognised my postie Paul because he was bundled up with a massive coat, woolie hat, scarf and gloves. When I commented on this, he said it was so cold just standing about, but he wore shorts on his round because all the walking kept him warm. I hope this goes towards explaining why postmen wear shorts most of the year round in the UK x
@raymondporter20949 ай бұрын
Your videos are the antidote to feeling down or bored. Absolutely guaranteed to raise a smile - even if you spent 18 minutes reading the train timetable or what people in North America may call the TV Listings for the day. Keep it up!
@suewooooo9 ай бұрын
I heard a ‘D’you know what I mean’ in there too!
@marktaylor98868 ай бұрын
FYI at home we call the bathroom the bathroom, and would say "clean the bathroom," because it's the room where the bath usually is. We just use "toilet(s)" for public toilets where there is no bath/shower.
@stevemawer8485 ай бұрын
And we can clean the toilet in the bathroom, if it's in there.
@willtandy32358 ай бұрын
We went to friends in US and my wife asked “where’s your bin?” Our American friend said “I ain’t been anywhere!” 😂
@hairyairey8 ай бұрын
Missed opportunity for "Where hast thou bin since I saw thee?" "On Ilkley Moor bar t'at" 😂
@johnatkins-qn2lk9 ай бұрын
Keep on taking the Lemsip (aka tablets) Alana ! Cooky seems like the right word for it ! 🤣😂
@Branwhin9 ай бұрын
LOL - Canuck here, I've not even been to the UK yet and I've watched so many KZbinrs from there that I've picked up a few things that I say without thinking. Rubbish is definitely one of them, it's just such a satisfying word to say. Cheers from Winterpeg, I hope you feel better soon!
@St0rmfalc0n9 ай бұрын
I taught a Danish woman the word "Faff" and "Faffing" she loved it and used it at work to her colleagues who had no idea what she was talking about!
@tonyrobson46818 ай бұрын
I met a woman in Plymouth, England at the end of last year, she comes from New York and she does not speak with a 'half and half' accent. She is English.
@StevenHughes-hr5hp3 ай бұрын
A bin is a bin. The only difference is in the USA it is called a trash bin. Not a rubbish bin. The big ones you set on the side of the road are more usually labeled garbage cans.
@louburnett67829 ай бұрын
I love looking around gift shops when visiting a place and we always say - let’s go look at the tat shops 😂
@artyonehundred9 ай бұрын
A really enjoyable video. (Not that you should do too many more while under the influence!) BTW you still have some North Anerican-isms e.g. "different than" versus "different from"! Keep up the good work!🙃😀 PS I wish the washing machine was in the kitchen instead of in my office!