How Are British English and American English Different?

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[@souhartoto8318]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@clarkbenitez1280]

So because of those differences there are so called regular and irregular verbs in English.

[@LauraArraisANIME]

pasa algo parecido con el idioma español en diferentes países xD // something similar happens with the spanish language in different countries xD

[@traderglen621]

Could you do a video on the New England "Downeast accent? A person with a Downeast accent will say "Ca" for "Car" and "arnt" for "aunt".

[@manuelcondor2469]

Paul! When will you make a video about Canadian English?

[@abylay9288]

"I'm not your friend, mate."

[@Сашаромисмерть]

Im not your mate, lad.

[@abylay9288]

@@Сашаромисмерть I'm not your lad, buddy.

[@juancarbd92]

I’m not your buddy, pal.

[@abylay9288]

I'm not your pal, chap

[@95kpeople2]

:)

[@bikutoso]

As a non native English speaker, there seems to be lot of mixing of UK English and US English in the English used by me.

[@soundingsea3419]

yeah me too.. and also, as non native english speaker, sometimes i think twice before write/ typing some word in english ( Color/Colour, Organise/Organize, Favor/Favour etc)

[@IGLArocknroll]

Sometimes I use US English and UK English in the same sentence. I wondered for a while: why do I get weird looks from Britons or Americans? Then a British lad pointed it out: it is bloody confusing for them.

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

@@soundingsea3419 I prefer -ize

[@MithrilChu]

@@IGLArocknroll i have been in same situation many times.

[@MrRhombus]

Probably Canadian English we used a lot of both

[@titleloanman]

As a person from the south, hearing that Americans don’t use the word “reckon” made me spit out my sweet tea and knock over my banjo.

[@gredangeo]

Well.. it's a regional dialect.

[@iamanastronaut8561]

Lol!

[@raney150]

Yeah, most of us don't.

[@somedumbasswithlonghair4965]

As someone born and raised in Alabama, it triggers me when people say you all instead of yall

[@beastmr919]

reckon is actually american origin

[@adityatyagi4009]

One time I was editing a document with a British friend. He simply didn't understand me when I kept saying to put the "period" after a certain word. After awhile, I realized he didn't know what a "period" was and he referred to it as a "full stop."

[@brucewilson4350]

😂 and then there’s an exclamation mark v exclamation point!

[@fionagregory9147]

Full stop is better.

[@gibboap]

He realised * 😂

[@LyrLyrPantsOnFyr]

See, somehow I always knew what a period was, on the first time I encountered it. But full stop sounds better, it feels like there’s something wrong with periods.

[@projectpat2262]

Full stop sounds weird

[@terrylambert8149]

The American postal service delivers the mail. The British mail service delivers the post.

[@Tobberz]

Hehe never thought of that before. You post your post at the Post Office, from which Royal Mail deliver it.

[@what-uc]

'Mail' is an old word meaning the bag items are carried in. 'Post' refers to the staging posts in the system going back to when horses were used.

[@strategossable1366]

wohhhh

[@ronaldoseven4865]

In Canada, we used postal code as our term of address. In USA, they used zip code.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Clarke: ZIP is an acronym, US-Americans love acronyms for some odd reason.

[@jeffreywang3979]

British : Where is the toilet? American : In the bathroom.

[@obasiswift]

Well where's the restroom?

[@kavajo2055]

In the bedroom

[@nathyatta]

I actually don’t like how we say ‘toilet’. I think ‘bathroom’ is nicer

[@ilayendras5048]

Jajajajaja

[@Danledz]

just say "where can i take a dump" and they´ll know

[@nerysghemor5781]

In the US, “reckon” sounds very rural, and possibly Southern.

[@Kacaaaw]

Exactly what I thought, i grew up in the south where it's fairly common, but that's why he disclaims and says he talking of general American where we hear it super rarely

[@jascaesar]

But it sounds elegant.

[@cheep5645]

@@jascaesar when you say it British it sounds more ‘elegant’ but not really for southern- I think the accent really gives it a connotation you don’t get through straight text. Like southern is more ‘reckin’ than ‘reckon’

[@jascaesar]

@@cheep5645 it sounds elegant, perhaps with the Brit accent 😊 reckin sounds more like ‘you came in like a wreckin ball’ hahaha. Thanks for differentiating 😉

[@dand.jensen]

@@jascaesar Nice to know as it´s a norse/danish word meaning "compute" P.S. yes I´m danish :-)

[@jrc58526]

Really interesting. It reminded me when I was teaching student nurses from the Philippines here in the UK. They grew up learning American English so all their assignments contained really unfamiliar spelling and expressions.

[@agnesmarywalowemshimba1956]

True,l have my friend in Doha she is a Philippine when she speaks English speaks different and I speak different..now I know she speaks American English and I speak Britain English...all the l am not good in English but learn British English

[@AS-wj1du]

But English speakers correcting and essay wouldn't mark something as wrong whether it was British or American English as long as it's consistent

[@SBHighlander_74]

British English Australian English American English Canadian English Original English from England

[@fionagregory9147]

@@AS-wj1du correcting an essay*

[@DísirKyrkje]

I’m American and I remember walking into an elevator in Hawaii, and this guy looked at me and said ‘Kwite niat eh?’ I just stared at him then said excuse me?? He repeated it again ‘Kwite Niat eh?’ And I just stared at him again, then said I’m so sorry I don’t understand. He looked at me and slowly said ‘Q u i e t. N i g h t. E h?’ He was Australian 😂

[@vargasmartin7143]

At first i thought it was hawaiian

[@akam9919]

@@vargasmartin7143 me too.

[@bernardedwards8461]

You mean Orstrylyan cobber!

[@Luiz17071990]

I'm learning English and trying to focus on British accent that to me, at least, is the nicest together with African accent, American is ok, but I must say that Australian accent is quite annoying.

[@bernardedwards8461]

@@Luiz17071990 There are many kinds of British accents, some more pleasant than others. The best one to learn is standard English as heard on the BBC and spoken by Prince Harry. Apart from anything else, it's the most easily understood.

[@dmtaylo1]

American: bathroom, restroom Canadian: washroom Englishman: loo, toilet Scot: privy

[@hakim93abuhassan]

Malay is tandas

[@yuxingwan2663]

In China: WC

[@nakitojimo2001]

@@yuxingwan2663 : Same like Indonesian

[@cazique]

Australian: Dunny Hindi: Street

[@BareSphereMass]

Navy: head

[@needbettername8583]

I've watched a German English speaker have a break down trying to understand an American, British, Australian and Canadian have an argument.

[@shannonmikko9865]

What is the channel/video?

[@needbettername8583]

@@shannonmikko9865 I meant in real life,when I was travelling Australia. It was kind of beautiful.

[@lomfmur]

That’d kill me to watch 😂 I had a friend who went to Italy with me and the poor Italian behind the counter had quite a time trying to figure out the different phrases and terms each of us used. (Me being Canadian and him being English)

[@Georgin]

And New Zealand.

[@bishplis7226]

a german or an english speaker, which one?!

[@BabsW]

Having grown-up and lived in both countries as a child and adult, some of these differences can cause embarrassing moments- rubber 🇬🇧 vs eraser 🇺🇸, pants 🇺🇸 vs trousers 🇬🇧, etc.

[@johnathanhughes9881]

Interesting anomaly: In Australian English, which contains elements of US and UK English, we use both "Licence" and "License" - but whilst either spelling is acceptable, TECHNICALLY you're supposed to use -se for a verb and -ce for a noun. So the government will license me to drive, but they do so by giving me a licence. . .

[@tallicaaa]

I think this is correct in British English too.

[@stevebrian2145]

Australians have the absolute best swear words!!

[@b4byj3susm4n]

If they are pronounced the same, and essentially mean the same except for the part of speech, then why retain the spelling difference?

[@FroZenMemes]

@@tallicaaa Yeah I think so. "licensing" looks more correct than "licencing"

[@suravinayan2753]

@@stevebrian2145 "F***"

[@nucelom]

today i learned that when i'm talking in english i'm basically jumping from british to american all the time

[@nanvas7374]

This is normal :) Why should You preference one of them particulary if You are speaking with other not native person.

[@sonospiacente3334]

yeah me too, and It cleared up my mind about some differences on gramatics that often confused me

[@nanvas7374]

@@joshuamatthews8326 Yes. If both of them called english language, The native speakers should be educated enough to be able to understand . For not native in most case does not matter. The communiction is much more important. :)

[@fredriksasaa6969]

@@nanvas7374 alot of americans say film/films (british word) and my friends from the UK say borth- trash(american word) and rubbish. im like......

[@alphaq1617]

fredrik sasaa The British way of saying it is correct as English originates from England(obviously) there’s no debate

[@antoniolorenzana8839]

Does anyone else associate the word "reckon" with a rural southern accent?

[@superfluidity]

See the comment on this video by R Lee.

[@Mathematrix7]

Yes, sounds like a pirate or cowboy to me

[@charlesstuart7290]

Definitely taught as wrong usage when I was at school in the US.

[@christopherfairs9095]

Reckon sounds more American English than British English.

[@charlesstuart7290]

Its used regularly in the UK and "I reckon" is usually considered sub standard in the US.

[@DrScrubbington]

When you mentioned how past tense forms have different tendencies, I think burned/burnt is an odd one in America, because here we usually say "burned" as a verb (I *burned* the candle), while "burnt" is exclusively used as the adjective (the candle is *burnt* or burnt out.) Although there are plenty of Americans who may say "burnt" as the verb as well.

[@dotsya]

"Can you give me a lift?" "Sure, it's right by the stairs." "No, I mean in your car." "My car doesn't have a lift, m8." "..."

[@ghizlane5695]

Lol 😂

[@mykhayloklen5194]

And my dotsya's name is Sofiya.

[@svijayiitk]

LOL. nice joke😂😂 I Liked your comment

[@leo_funny587]

Dude... How can you say "Give me a lift" in British English?

[@ashleysmith1276]

@@leo_funny587 We say it the same way. Context generally avoids confusion - when would you give an elevator to someone??

[@mariem24601]

British: She's in hospital. American: She's in the hospital.

[@Pantano63]

is that really the British way?

[@mariem24601]

@@Pantano63 Yes that is the standard use in the UK. And American English uses the same kind of grammar for other situations, like when we say "she's in college" or "she's in prison", but we don't say "she's in hospital". Maybe that sounds too permanent a state and we would rather be optimistic, so we just say "she's in the hospital", like she's in that scary building, but it isn't a state of being, we're sure she'll be released any minute! :)

[@pager58]

Subtle different meanings or emphasis? as I would interpret the first statement as 'She is getting treatment in hospital'. The second one is more open as she could also be just visiting or attending for treatment.

[@gpwnedable]

British: She's in hospital. American: She's in the hospital and is working on a GoFundMe campaign to pay her medical bills.

[@lql1094]

Good one.

[@jaamees]

Australian English: ɥsılƃuǝ uɐılɐɹʇsnɐ ɟo ǝldɯɐxǝ uɐ sı sıɥʇ

[@Steve-zc9ht]

Surprised i can read this

[@transient7685]

😂😂😂

[@Luiz17071990]

This is an example of Australian English

[@HeidenLam]

Oof yes

[@grs6262]

Not quite that bad, really. Is it?😁

[@satchin5724]

Mr. Paul appreciate your pronounces in english and it's really nice that every one can understand easily.

[@IndependentThinker74]

Imagine the confusion of a disabled American tourist visiting Great Britain who rented a hotel room on the first floor.

[@clydelowe3463]

jps101574 The ground floor you mean?

[@TheLucidDreamer12]

@@clydelowe3463 that's the joke

[@clydelowe3463]

The joke missed my joke what a joke!!!!!!!

[@ggbel3320]

That’s some fawlty tower shit right there.

[@dariusanderton3760]

that ground floor / first floor stuff has caused confusion for travellers for generations, maybe even a century or two. I remember it in the 1980s when I was a teen.

[@winchesterchua3311]

In the Philippines, if you live on street level, you live on the ground floor and the person living above you is on the second floor.

[@aminebrahimi3948]

WTF! you mixed both cases :)

[@大塒昭]

Filipinos: We’re going to break the rules of English

[@attentionforkannada7581]

Then where the fuckin first floor is?...

[@shaungordon9737]

So, no first floor??

[@rosie-uu1ek]

yes, here in the philippines in our everyday lives we speak using a mix of tagalog and spanish

[@YangSing1]

Can you make a part 2? I found this interesting

[@martymitch8375]

I just love your profile pic!

[@YangSing1]

marty mitch Really? Thanks

[@phinaibe8434]

Despacito

[@YangSing1]

Phina Ibe ?

[@NicolasCollart]

I agree I think this topic needs additional video, particularly if we go into regional differences. But great video nonetheless as usual!

[@solosunbeam]

Interesting as a Scotsman how many similarities there are between Scottish standard English and General American English.

[@EagleFang74]

Agreed. I always hear the similarities.

[@samdaniels2]

That's not something to be proud of, mate...

[@dinohunter902]

I what to visit Scotland I'm 29 % Scottish I did a ancestry but then I have 16 more regions

[@jockkardashian.9407]

As a Scot I'm always reading English people talking about "Americanisms" online that have "never" been used in the UK, that have always been used in Scotland...

[@louissanderson719]

@@jockkardashian.9407like what?

[@chrisischeese]

I always find these comparison videos between the two fascinating, mostly because, as a Canadian, we use a weird sort of mix of the two.

[@cathyschaffter5843]

English-speaking Canadians mostly got their accents from the Americans loyal to Britain who got "cleansed" from the U.S. during their war of Independence. Yet the accents of Canadians living in Windsor, Ontario, is very different from the "Great Lakes" American accent found across the river in Detroit! Another factoid,

[@gusloader123]

chris, Hello. It is because (as a different Y.T. video channel points out:) Most Canadians live within a hundred miles of the U.S. Canada Border. TV signals and especially radio signals do not know about "Borders" drawn on a map. We watch several TV shows filmed in Canada, and lots of folks north of the Border listen to U.S.A. based radio stations. Canada is vast, but very few humans live in the far north areas. When I drove the Alcan highway back in 2012, I was tired of sleeping in my pick-up truck (Started my journey at Valdez, Alaska) so I got a motel room in Dawson Creek, B.C., Can. (where the Alcan Hwy started in WW2). Except for "liters" being on the gasoline pumps, I did not notice any real differences between the Canadian-speak at the Border check-in stop place near the Alaska border, to the U.S.A. Border Agent at the Montana border check-in. {[ Oops, just remembered one difference: Stopped at a grocery store in one of the oil towns along the Alcan Hwy. to get "road food" ( always cheaper than eating at a restaurant / Diner/ Fast foods place ). Soda pop with caps, bottled water, crackers, cheese-in-a can with nozzle, cupcakes and maybe some jerky and potato chips. { One hand on the steering wheel at all times 😉}. ,,,, there be four-legged critters in the area! } I walked over to the Bakery section, then the cookies and crackers section but NO "Nabisco" brand "Saltines" crackers. So, I asked to teenagers who were stocking the shelves that day where the "Saltines" where at. They did not know what I was talking about. { They did have Coca-cola on the shelves so I knew I was still on earth.} So, I walked around the store again, and Viola!, on the canned soup aisle they had soda crackers. They were not labeled "Nabisco" and "Saltines": but the box was the same color and size with a picture of the crackers. Most groceries in the States ( that I have shopped at) usually put the cracker, cookies and "snacks" on the same aisle, not on the Soup aisle. ]} Turned on the TV expecting to catch some Canadian News broadcasted from Ottawa or Toronto. Nope. The TV news shown in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Can. was from a TV station in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.. 🤔 Very odd. Would have thought a station from Edmonton, Alberta, or Calgary would be on the air in Dawson.

[@stormninjabros025]

yup, we use "colour" and "favour" but also "realize" and "apologize"

[@AspireGMD]

Eh Canadian English is basically just American English in phonology, I don't notice any differences and I constantly have to see Canadians saying they're Canadian and not American as everyone assumes they are lmao. The only time it's noticeable is the minority of rural Canadians that have the "thick" accent.

[@imac1957]

@@AspireGMD It is easy to pick a Canadian. Get them to say "boat" or "out" or "about" or anything with the same vowel pair. The "oot" gives it away.

[@Rafadoodle9912]

As a British person, that section about the 'intrusive r' was fascinating. It had never even occurred to me before that we put an 'r' sound in some sentences that isn't actually there, and that Americans don't do this. If I remove the 'r' it sounds really robotic and unnatural. In an American accent it sounds perfectly ordinary however.

[@Trex100]

Yes, this is one of the most interesting differences in our speech.

[@jayteegamble]

Listening to those intrusive Rs as a non-Brit can be borderline infuriating. Lindybeige did a video on it years ago (The trouble with America-r-is) and now that i understand why you do it I am bothered less.

[@rebeccalyons1327]

I grew up in New England and we have the intrusive r as well. We also drop the r in father, car etc.

[@SC2player1]

My grandpa does this, and my dad to a lesser extent, funny enough my dad seems to do this more as he ages. FYI my grandpa was raised in NY but doesn’t have a NY accent at all

[@Rafadoodle9912]

@Yongo Bazuk While some British accents may sound annoying and some may not, the intrusive 'r' has nothing to do with this. Intrusive doesn't even make sense as a word to describe it over here. It's just a natural part of the way we all speak which I suppose we use so that our speech is more fluid. Even posh English accents use it.

[@adam13weishaupt]

As a Brit now living in the US, there was only one point I disagree with. Toward the end you say that British 'mate' corresponds to American 'friend.' Actually 'friend' is widely used in the UK too, but 'mate' is more colloquial, corresponding to the American 'buddy.' Another couple of examples of differences in vocabulary that have a potential for misunderstanding! (1) 'Rubber' in the US means condom, in the UK it corresponds to the American 'eraser.' (2) In Britain to 'knock someone up' is just another way of saying 'go to visit'; in the US it means to make someone pregnant.

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

“Well you’re not matin’ with me, sunshine!” To this American, “mate” always has the sexual connotation that Donna ascribed to it in that scene, after the Doctor expressed that he just wanted “a mate.”

[@tannyshim3074]

Duster & eraser as well. I got very confused on American English as my american friends confused on me too . 😂😂😂 exa : dustbin. I got the glare …..

[@кучешкилайна]

Is it true that English Language comes from UK? And thanks to the English, the whole world writes in English Am I right or not? Correct me if I'm wrong

[@lewishamel8105]

In liverpool, to knock someone up definitely means to get them pregnant haha

[@haltdieklappe7972]

@@кучешкилайна English comes from England. The reason they speak it in America is because most of the settlers during the 17th century were English and so naturally they spoke English there too. English is older than the unite states dating back at least 600 years. It’s a mix of Anglo Saxon (german), French and old Norse (Viking language)

[@xandermarjoram8622]

Some more differences: UK: "a couple of things", US: "a couple things" Also in the UK we use the word fortnight a lot meaning two weeks (fourteen nights).

[@PatrickOfTav]

I am reminded of a conversation between two friends, one English and the other American: Am: Where've you bin? En: It's pronounced "been". Am: In America we say "bin". En: Then how do you say "dust bin"? Am: Trash can.

[@OwenKelly]

That's a load of rubbish! 😂🗑

[@PatrickOfTav]

I should have said this is a true story, not a joke.

[@TripNBallsGaming]

I've always pronounced it as "ben".

[@presidentoftherepublicofca4080]

@GABRIEL GREGORY Nah ! He meant garbage

[@zebjwest6709]

we say bin here as well

[@lukedeaville1306]

"z" pronunciation American: zee English: zed

[@Gamer-uf1kl]

True

[@theeviloverlord7168]

@@lol-ih1tl The thing that's funny is that Canadian english says "Zed" but we still read "EZ" as "Eee-Zee"

[@Betelgeuse732]

Jee Hinglish

[@Marco-bf4uu]

It's not ,,zee" its ,,see"

[@ScottishPEACEguy]

Americans need to start using English subtitles, or learn how to pronounce vowels.

[@wundermax1993]

Thank you for shedding light upon intrusive 'r'. It has been bugging me for years, now i can look it up! Your videos are very good :)

[@bn56would]

I was surprised American English didn't have it. Saying e.g. "I saw a car" without the intrusive "r" is painful.

[@sk8_bort]

Do Aussies go crazy on that intrusive R or is it just my imagination? I'd say they use it more often than the Brits.

[@bn56would]

@@sk8_bort It's not a "use" thing, it occurs naturally to a native speaker especially in an informal environment.

[@sk8_bort]

@@bn56would Sorry, I'm not an English native speaker so maybe that's why I didn't get my point across. What I meant is that the intrusive "r" seems to be more present in the Australian English variety.

[@bn56would]

@@sk8_bort No, you did get your point across. But I'm saying it's common in both British and Australian dialects. It's not like a British person does it less than an Australian person given the right conditions. Perhaps the reason why you've heard it from Australians more often is that a lot of the British media/speeches are formal and/or the films (which often include actors with posh language). If you went to the UK and were in an informal environment like a pub it'd pretty much be the same.

[@LyrLyrPantsOnFyr]

3:39 Something interesting about my accent, is that, I actually struggle with r sounds, because we barely use them in English (it’s not even used in the letter itself), and all the languages I’m learning have different r sounds. This is why when I’m speaking, it always takes me a few tries to get the word “rare” right.

[@kingben1216]

I once saw a Brit call another Brit a “silly sausage” in an online forum and nearly died laughing. I cannot for the life of me imagine an American calling someone that.

[@JohnsysChannel]

It's usually used for insulting children in a nice way. If they fall over you'd call them a silly sausage for example. In Scotland they have a similar phrase that they use to insult the children, they'd say, "Ye Cannae stand ye fuckin baw bag".

[@dotdashdotdash]

A Briton.

[@Dai_VR]

@@JohnsysChannel LOL THAT'S TOO FUNNY! I thought living in Wales was hilarious sometimes but damn, that's another level of brilliance with some interesting form of English. Well, I know what to expect if I ever visit Scotland now.

[@shaungordon9737]

It sounds weird to me in Australia too, but it's very British. A lot of their insults are kinda 'cute' to us.

[@moodini99]

It's not really a British thing to say either

[@lordoftheflings]

In the US "burnt" is usually used when talking about food. i.e. "I burnt the chicken" but in other cases you would use "burned". i.e. "My house burned down"

[@electroskates2434]

My Phone burnt out

[@TheBeatle49]

That's because"burnt" tastes better than "burned."

[@Welokedogs]

Im not from the US but "My house burnt down" just doesnt feel right to me

[@robthetraveler1099]

I (American) disagree; I don't think Americans would commonly use "burnt" as a past tense of "to burn"; I think they would only ever use it as an adjective ("burnt toast," "burnt ends," "burnt orange").

[@aidenbagshaw5573]

@@Welokedogs As a Canadian, that's probably how I would say it. I'd probably only use "burned" to emphasise the verb.

[@HONEmusicINT]

American : "Color!! License!! Organize!!" British: "Colour!!"Licence!! Organise!!" Canadian: "yes"

[@alanc1491]

Canadian dialogue: "Sorry" "Sorry"

[@Marco-bf4uu]

Do you even realise how fucking annoying and hard it is for us Europeans getting forced to learn both accents in school. In the graduation test we need to correct texts into specific accents. Fucking weird

[@birdyashiro1226]

DeutscherSoldat1871 Same here in China...When I want to say a word I need to think about which is the correct pronunciation, and then turns out they are all right...Or, sometimes: I am going for a vacation in holidays…

[@Marco-bf4uu]

@@birdyashiro1226 Yea

[@shezanahmmed5582]

@@Marco-bf4uu really bro. That is so panic.

[@saidfarid6382]

Hi professor Thank you so much for your priceless advice and interesting guidance. I love your way of teaching and excellent explication. I really appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity.

[@afinoxi]

Canada : *exists* USA : _It's free real estate._

[@Unberable]

I love me some North Montana

[@sturmdegs]

Maine was robbed in 1842 by Webster Ashburton!! We own lots of New Brunswick and the Gaspé!!

[@zeryphex]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3_bgYmgZc2YoMk On a serious note ... I'm not sure Washington D.C. would annex Canada as a whole ... due to Quebec. The Quebecois are fierce resistance fighters, and have conducted acts of violence similar to domestic terrorists (throughout history). Washington D.C. would have a headache. ... and it's difficult to maintain a democracy while expanding territory due to bureaucracy which increases almost exponentially. Before The U.S.A. would annex Canada and/or Mexico, it would have to move from a de-centralized form of government to a more centralized form of government ... which would remove some of the bureaucracy.

[@cmanlovespancakes]

Blame Canada.

[@jakepirate2521]

Then where we gonna shoot our movies?

[@akiraiwasaki6695]

MOBILE British : MOH-bye-ul American: MOH-buhl Japanese: Mobairu

[@irenakolbuszewska9556]

mobile phone vs. cellphone

[@sportlovers1508]

British : English Japan : Ingrisu

[@ScienceLover234]

Mobil Turkish:Mobayl

[@Jesusisyhwh]

Mobile (Moh-beel) Alabama.

[@mairasann]

Portuguese: mo-bee-lee

[@FriedAudio]

My favorite British word that you never, ever hear here in the US is "whilst". Whenever I hear it, I feel that I've just crossed over into Sherwood Forest.

[@ccchemicaaa]

I know right!!!

[@anthonyehrenzweig1635]

You only get it in Britain from someone who is trying to be pompous

[@BiglerSakura]

Also "till" (instead of "until") and "fortnight".

[@Trex100]

I worked with a lot of international English speakers who used this word -particularly in their writing. I have personally never applied the word. It just felt awkward.

[@BiglerSakura]

@@Trex100 If you mean English speakers from non-English-speaking countries, then it's explainable. For English as a foreign language in schools they often use some old-fashioned British standard.

[@77Catguy]

Whether standard or not as an American I am likely to mix "~ed" and ~est" suffixes depending on context or grammatical form--for example, "I burned my toast" but "My toast is burnt." The same might apply to some other such examples. However, one "~st" suffix that to my knowledge only occurs in British English (and a sure giveaway that the author is non-American) is the word "whilst" for what we would say "while."

[@stevenwanderscheid713]

American: You like it. British: You fancy it.

[@nuureTUBE]

Steven Wanderscheid haha

[@shockwave5484]

sounds fancy

[@kevinpenlington5020]

If a Brit says 'You fancy it?' they usually mean a fight.

[@lokeytombs1591]

@@kevinpenlington5020 yeah like when americans say " you want it " usually means a fight

[@lorelorena5428]

Tf

[@adk_88]

British play football with their feet. Americans play football with their hands. Good luck explaining that.

[@abhalimmohamed4313]

American football should be called American Rugby. The word soccer should not be used for football. Wonder who introduced the word soccer

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

@@abhalimmohamed4313 I just call American football hand egg.

[@Outlaw_j84]

Ab Halim Mohamed the British

[@kentix417]

Football is played on foot. It contrasts with polo, which is not.

[@shrabonahammed6202]

Шогк наяdег Комгдdе I think the coconut suits it more...

[@durstein]

Grammar regarding group nouns. In American English you say ‘the army has’. I have heard brits say ‘the army have’ because it is a single group

[@SM_zzz]

James Stoddard I've also noticed Brits using was/were in a different way. E.g. "You wasn't at school today, was you?"

[@slycordinator]

@@SM_zzz That sounds like slang or at least from one of the many dialects they have.

[@slycordinator]

And yes, my Brit friend will use the plural form on most any group. Even if it's a band of a few people.

[@SM_zzz]

slycordinator Maybe it's slang, I'm not sure which is technically correct. To my Irish ears it sounds weird. We would say "were you...".

[@Lebst]

Steve Daniel both the UK and America have dialects that say "you was". Nothing spectacular there.

[@dizzydaisy909]

I speak a dialect of American English called Appalachian English. A lot of the grammar is similar to Irish, since a lot of Irish workers were hired to here for the Transcontinental Railroad, while the word choice is a lot like AAVE with a bit of British. Alot of the different accents we have now in America and Britain are gonna meld together over time thanks to the internet I reckon, my only proof of that being that I don't have as strong an accent as my older kinfolk.

[@schooooooorsch]

my best one is still rubber/eraser. when i asked my us teacher for a rubber she looked a little "surprised".

[@jonnyboybrum]

Now that made me laugh out loud!

[@lql1094]

Um yeah.

[@jtom2958]

Really both terms for an eraser make sense. Cause it’s made of rubber and it erases. One name describes what it’s made of one describes what it does

[@Gwynbuck]

@@jtom2958 That's because, until it was vulcanised, the only thing the Victorians could do with rubber was to use it to erase pencil marks. 'Rubber' literally comes from the action of rubbing.

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@jtom2958 in the US, “a rubber” usually refers to a prophylactic.

[@rkmugen]

UK: The train will arrive in precisely fifteen minutes' time. US: The train will arrive in approximately fifteen minutes. Japan: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Slow trains!

[@thomHD]

Because the US and UK were putting 4-5% of their GDP into military, whereas Japan wasn't allowed one so spent the money elsewhere

[@Maheshrpsharma]

i just say LOL

[@tonyburzio4107]

In the US, we don't like each other enough to ride a train. :-)

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

china: i mean you have slower trains than us so

[@Maheshrpsharma]

@@red2theelectricboogaloo961 i already get that joke. ME SMART na?

[@tishaw.8254]

One of my most favorite channels. Always a treat.

[@6illyloomer955]

"R sounds are always clearly pronounced " Me a *bostonian*

[@geekinutopia5899]

And me a non-rhotic southerner.

[@SuperTonyony]

I'm from Kentucky, and we not only pronounce our "R" sounds, we stress the heck out them, like pirates!

[@christopherlatham91]

Na an r is replaced

[@miakid4159]

My littlest cousin is growing up in Boston, and he called his finger.... fingggggaaaaaa, his mom scolded him and forbade all her children from dropping the R. We laughed so hard.

[@6illyloomer955]

@@miakid4159 yeah the accent has died down a little, but there are still many people both young and old who have it to some degree

[@AdanCafe]

I don’t remember if you touched on this on your Spanish video, but could you do a comparison video between European Spanish and Latin-American Spanish?

[@patricklo1514]

What about American Spainsh to Latino's?

[@jjeherrera]

Which Latin American Spanish? There are many differences between Latin American countries... :-D

[@mcgoldenblade4765]

There are a huge variety of spanish accents in North America, but same thing applies to British English as well. So maybe it's doable.

[@ericgonzalez3641]

You mean Spanish Neutral Latin and Spanish from Spain

[@patricklo1514]

@amelali If Spanish spoken in US same as Latin America's,why KZbin language still distinguish Spainish into Espanol(latinoamerica)and Espanol(US) in this two regions?

[@rewjik7998]

That feeling when you are a non-native speaker and you've learned british englisch in school, while at the same time practicing american english passively via youtube videos, and as a result you now speak some twisted abomination of both.

[@curties]

i feel you.

[@foooddriven]

I feel you bro :”)

[@dhanushnayak]

Relatable

[@narrelleweir6383]

I am an Australian & feel the same. I was raised with British-English & Aussie slang, however, we have so many American-English things (movies, tv series & now spelling in newspapers) that I am frequently being corrected for using the wrong spelling ize/ise, re/er. I have noticed that many NSW people still use the harsher slang, that has been raised before. We do not all swear like troopers. Those from NZ do have an accent so fish & chips sound like fush & chups, but their English is British/English.

[@israellai]

i think that's most of us non-native speakers

[@mindyschaper]

Your point about the "intensive r" was very enlightening, since it held me understand the "intrusive n" in Yiddish pronunciation of Hebrew words. The Hebrew name Yaakov (Jacob) is pronounced Yankov in Yiddish, resulting in the common nickname Yanky. I've often wondered why the "n" was inserted for no reason, and seeing it happen in other languages makes it make a little more sense. I'll have to think if it occurs in other words as well.

[@Karen-ul9hd]

In French it happens all the time, it's called 'liason'.E.g. un enfant (a child); les enfants (the children). The latter is pronounced le-z-enfants.

[@aqualone1465]

LOL he uses the "invaded" american flag throughout the video

[@tjohnson2139]

Omg he does 😂

[@amaansiddiqui2030]

Lol I just noticed

[@hikatilahun3499]

hay

[@peterhans3600]

Damn I just realised

[@hikatilahun3499]

Hay

[@paleogreg7427]

As an American, I usually thing of "burned" as a past tense of "burn", and as "burnt" as an adjective. "I burned the toast, now I have burnt toast."

[@bigyin2586]

“Burned” is the past participle, while “burnt” is the past perfect.

[@marconemeth9683]

One is past participle and the other is past perfect. The question is which form would you use in present perfect tense. Would you say "I have just burnt the toast" or "I have just burned the toast?"

[@j.s.c.4355]

Yet “drempt” is the more common past tense of dream in the US.

[@MaoRatto]

In the south, we use it as a verb. >:( As a past tense of you burning something, while "burned" is used in the present. Though we also do use it as an adjective as well. Though the bible belt is much closer to middle English than UK's or the rest of the states. Though the way people near the great lakes SOUND HILARIOUSLY FLAT if you're a southerner.

[@MaoRatto]

@@j.s.c.4355 ... He he he , no. Though I guess some of us in the bible belt speak differently where that word is " dreamed ", but it is always followed by " of ". Never dream'pt.

[@shreenathranganathan9297]

"Disclaimer: I'm not American, I'm actually Canadian. But I'm confident that someday we will be American... After the invasion" I choked on my food! XD

[@EarlJohn61]

I assumed he meant the *Canadian* invasion of the *USA*

[@scottfgray]

No need for the invasion, just join the family!

[@surlygirly1926]

@@EarlJohn61 Well, they showed a 51st star popping onto the US flag (funny) ... so I do think he meant US invasion of Canada. However - probably in the sense of: the mass exodus of Americans fleeing the insanity of our nation during the Trump administration. 😉

[@snouh5543]

But, idiots like you could hardly understand anything.

[@DSAhmed]

@@snouh5543 be nice.

[@jhonnyrock]

6:00 As someone from the US, marry and merry are pronounced differently where I'm from at least. Marry sounds like m-airy, while merry sounds like m-erry, like the err in error.

[@CSJohns]

Present tense: "I high five my friends." Past tense: "I high fove my friends."

[@hahmad6985]

Foved

[@Glashome]

it is strange that you don't really get "new" irregular verbs, isn't it? i like the sound of fove better than fived but obviously when "high five" was becoming a verb people decided that it would be fived and that's it. I say step up the fove campaign.

[@crossleydd42]

Past tense (UK) dived: Past Tense (US) dove.

[@Rosie6857]

(Nick Tolmie) You certainly do in informal UK speech. "Shat" is the past tense of shit and "wunk" is the past tense for a solitary activity. These are really what the dictionary pompously classes as "jocular". I'd put "fove" in with them. Rather nice.

[@Maheshrpsharma]

C. S. Johns, and the updated version SHOWS....

[@aldenosaur4456]

I like how the us flag has an extra star for the rest of the video

[@frankwilliamk3769]

why though

[@myusername3689]

Pluto?

[@HicSuntL3ones]

Israel?

[@foreignhill886]

It's for Canada

[@gljames24]

Puerto Rico?

[@bhgtree]

"Reckon...Americans rarely use it." Clint Eastwood: "I reckon not."

[@damion0068]

I reckon Clint Eastwood is also over 90 years old. But reckon is also used in some of the southern dialects.

[@thomassenbart]

Yup, reckon is antiquated and considered rustic in the US, save in the South, where it is still common.

[@markthomas2651]

Reckon is still said in the American south. Hello from Arkansas.

[@Revolución_Socialista]

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

[@jnet2010]

Excellent video! Another difference that comes to mind is that British English speakers don't place an article in front of certain nouns, e.g. "she was taken to hospital" or "he attends university." In American English, a speaker would say "she was taken to the hospital" and "he attends a university."

[@ravenchain85]

I wonder what British lawyers think when they visit America and see all the "No Solicitors" signs hanging on front windows.

[@danieldaniels7571]

I thought it was funny when he made the lawyer / solicitor comparison that he didn’t mention that solicitor has a completely different meaning in the US. Perhaps it doesn’t have that meaning in Canada.

[@ijmad]

You actually see those signs here in the UK (mostly London) but they say "No Soliciting" - since a solicitor doesn't solicit, they practice law. Soliciting is still what prostitutes do. It's not very logical.

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@ijmad does that mean the UK has door to door prostitutes?!?

[@deutschekanadische]

@@danieldaniels7571 It has the same meaning as the US

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@deutschekanadische In the video he said the term “solicitor” in the UK was used to mean lawyer. I’ve never heard it used to mean that in the US. A “solicitor” in the US usually means salesman, generally one who makes unexpected sales calls in person, whereas the only other word used to mean lawyer is “attorney.”

[@BlueShadow777]

Although “mate” is synonymous with “friend”, it is a colloquialism and thus equates more with the American colloquial “pal”, “bud” and “buddy” rather than the more formal “friend”.

[@walidsadaoui8238]

duuudde

[@BlueShadow777]

ಠ_ಠ I’m European too. Italian and British. “Cheers, mate”, “Thanks, pal”, “Okay, buddy”, “Excuse me, bud”... It’s all the same, and (anything) can be applied sincerely or sarcastically... depends on context and delivery.

[@alantodd5823]

@@BlueShadow777 In the North east of England 'Marra' is commonly used for friend

[@BlueShadow777]

Alan Todd Yes, I know. I’ve watched the entire series of “When The Boat Comes In”. 😀

[@Bpinator]

We use the world slime now

[@11dallis]

British : " Dont dirty the car seats with that rubbish! Chuck it in the boot! " American : "What...?"

[@ijheller]

You need crampons on your trainers whilst strimming slops

[@seancassidy674]

In New England, rubbish and garbage were pretty interchangeable when I was growing up and most of the vocab differences are fairly widely known. Plus, the eastern Mass and RI accent is also famously non-rhotic - originally from East Anglia (also with added Rs sometimes where they don't belong - my fartha or my aurnt).

[@navnarva1948]

i think british english has a bigger range of commonly used vocabulary.

[@tyrannosauruscock]

I don’t understand...

[@raiscooper9661]

@@tyrannosauruscock How?

[@ChipsAplentyBand]

umbrella/brolly, bumbershoot bathroom, restroom/loo mate/spouse taxi, cab/Hackney carriage redhead/ginger on Maple Street/in Maple Street while/whilst My thanks to video presenter Paul, whose explanation of British pronunciation finally let me understand why Paul McCartney on The Beatles' recording of TILL THERE WAS YOU sang what sounded like: "But I never SORE it winging No, I never SORE it a-tall…" I've thought about the HARRY POTTER books being issued in separate British English and American English editions, and that has in turn provoked this speculative question: Will British and American English one day diverge so much that they become two separate and distinct languages?

[@oddviews]

And my favourite: as a British English speaker, seeing a sign outside an American's house, "No Solicitors"

[@Despondencymusic]

HUH HA!

[@christoohunders5316]

I Have a red, huge No solicitors sign on my gate, but unfortunately illiteracy is so widespread in France in 2019, that my sign is useless, I have therefore printed the address of free reading lessons courses that exist close to my house (requires a family member that can read tho), at least I'm doing something beyond being harassed !

[@oddviews]

So to get my revenge I will have a sign made for the gate of my house, "No Lawyers"

[@christoohunders5316]

@@oddviews You can still be served !

[@tomf3150]

@@christoohunders5316 Obviously a "No solicitor" sign in France means nothing. You should write that in french. :D

[@infamous5731]

lorry - truck holiday - vacation jumper - sweater crisps - chips chips - French fries trainers - sneakers fizzy drink - soda postbox - mailbox biscuit - cookie chemist - drugstore shop - store football - soccer

[@flavoursofsound]

jelly - jello jam - jelly car park - parking lot boot - trunk railway - railroad petrol - gas motorway - freeway nursery - kindergarden primary school - elementary school secondary school - high school city centre - downtown shopping centre - mall mobile - cellphone washing machine - washer

[@PG13hockeyman]

The high school that I go to is called a secondary. I say pop instead of soda. In the south they’ll say coke.

[@karenbartlett1307]

@@flavoursofsound only one mistake. Jam and jelly are not synonymous in the US.

[@karenbartlett1307]

@@PG13hockeyman Only in some parts of the South. In some parts they say "soda" and in some they say "cocola" and in some they say "cold drink" and in some they say "sasparilly", and in some they say "sody-pop". You can't generalize.

[@PG13hockeyman]

Karen Bartlett I just picked the most common name.

[@FishAndBits1]

*Sneakers (US English) , Trainers (UK English) , RUBBER SHOES (Filipino English) 😁😊*

[@flre-furiouslegionsquad]

good one

[@bhappigusain5982]

😄😄

[@TheHeroMvp18]

Pisonet warriors hahahaha

[@alvexok5523]

The English say plimsolls for shoes too.

[@VexilloGuy]

I speak Filifino English

[@TheDumbOne1887]

8:18 Personally, I use "burned" as the past tense, and "burnt" as an adjective. Like "He burned his toast" vs "a burnt piece of toast".

[@aguamenti20]

I had the most embarrassing encounter when I asked my classmate in university for a "rubber" which means an eraser in UK but not in the US *yikes*

[@badass2962]

Rubber mean condom my brother

[@audriusmartinenas2365]

Its impossible to put on eraser on a penis

[@chesterpanda]

They’re kind of the same, one prevents mistakes while the other cleans them up.

[@gulsaanga4533]

Hahaha. Thats cute.

[@jonsnor4313]

And pretty understandable, i mean it rubbs, the writing tool.

[@michaelcapone175]

Should have had an entire section dedicated to food. Seriously, I was trying to follow a British recipe and had no idea what the ingredient list was. American: zucchini British: courgette American: eggplant British: aubergine American: snow pea British: mange tout American: arugula British: rocket American: rutabaga British: swede American: scallion or green onion British: spring onion American: beets British: beetroot American: cookie British: biscuit American: biscuit British: scone American: french fries British: chips American: potato chips or just 'chips' British: crisps American: cotton candy British: candy floss American: grilled cheese British: toastie or toasted cheese American: french toast British: eggy bread American: cup cake British: fairy cake American: ham British: gammon American: juice concentrate British: squash American squash British: marrow American: granola British: muesli American: a slice of bacon British: rasher American: green beans British: runner beans American: sausage British: banger

[@Fennec1919]

Most of the british words r french 🤣🤣🤣 that's why u need 2 learn a lotta languages ... British eat French ... Le Porc in French British is Pork and Le Boeuf in French British is beef 🤣🤣🤣

[@tictacmaniac7415]

We definitely wouldn't say all of those words (as a Brit), but some of them for sure! Such as aubergine, spring onion, beetroot, biscuit, scone, chips, crisps, candy floss, toastie, squash, muesli and soooomtimes bangers. I'd never really say eggy bread or fairy cake though

[@crappyaccount]

who the fuck came up with eggy bread and why did they think that was a good name for anything

[@mrpetit2]

American: ham British: gammon: Isn't gammon a specific type of ham (rear porkleg) that is cured but still has to be cooked or baked to be able to eat? And ham the same type of meat, also cured (salted, dried, smoked whatever) but ready to eat?

[@brianlav1]

Mange tout is french for snow peas. Aubergine and courgette are also french words (same meaning as in British).

[@DanH34]

Oi, M8, 'ave you got a loicence for that video!?

[@mountainhobo]

Severely underrated comment on so many levels.

[@zigv8325]

tha' instead of that :p

[@mc_sea]

I'm surprised I managed to get the joke considering I don't live in the UK.

[@coyotelong4349]

U wot m8

[@zed8762]

Video'r*

[@keiths-teeth]

greeting from the UK, I've noticed within the last couple of years people using the phrase "can I get" I'm pretty sure it's always been "can I have" particularly when ordering food. Don't know why there's been a shift, perhaps from the media.

[@MegaMinerd]

I have always lived in the middle of the US east coast. I don't know how common it is, but I think I tend to use "burned" as a verb and "burnt" as an adjective. "I burned the paper. It is now burnt."

[@amandag417]

British women "Knock me up in the morning." American man: What?!?! (mouth gaping open)

[@julianus3433]

I had to look this up. I hate the English now

[@jcoker423]

It's a bit of an old joke, like rubber.... probably not said much now. Although 25 years ago my US gf fell about laughing when my Mum told her to 'lay the table'

[@creamytrumpet7435]

I can well believe the surprise American men are only used to knocking each other up, I saw a documentary about it called broke back mountain.

[@rtpwyk]

Another one they say is 'Come in to me'

[@voornaam3191]

@@creamytrumpet7435 Knock knock knocking on heavens door... Knocking up angels?!

[@Anderixx]

British: Cousin American: Cousin Australian: Cousin Alabaman: Wife

[@alexmckenzie8491]

Wicked!

[@skopjanec8392]

Well is south of the Mason-Dixon line so it's legal! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Nike_IV]

British- pavement American- sidewalk Aussie- footpath Me- walkway

[@farjanaislam5593]

@SteveEarl may be you are. Cause there is no likes in your comment.

[@lestath2345]

@SteveEarl Your comments haven't likes, definitely you are

[@aerobeats9462]

Paul is finally realizing that a Canadians destiny is as ours 😈, great video Paul (as always) keep up the great work

[@timothyswag3594]

In the Southern US, "reckon" is used a lot more. "Do you reckon we could..."

[@nathyatta]

Yeah... I was surprised when he meantioned 'reckon'. I though that was common in at least some parts of the US.

[@wholesome122]

@@nathyatta it’s common in the south, less commonly used in the north but not unheard of.

[@nathyatta]

@@wholesome122 We say it in Australia. Obviously it is very informal.

[@JerusnamWien85]

If you say it in the North, people will assume you're from the South.

[@EmpressLilith222]

I’m in the south and never say it but I live in the Acadiana area and we have our own distinct phrases apart from the rest of the south

[@lepton_01]

We the non natives: ENGLISH IS ENGLISH

[@narrelleweir6383]

And as a Australian trying to learn Italian on Duolingo to help my grandson, I find it very difficult with things being male or female & the spelling of a colour changing depending on this.

[@suzie_lovescats]

DjTruchas There are many different dialects of English; British English, American English, Canadian English, Australian English, etc. So English isn’t just English at all 🤔

[@thethinker2654]

As a English speaker as my first languages when I saw this I thought the same thing English is English doesn't matter it's just wording and accents is different

[@mose20]

@@narrelleweir6383 what do you mean with the spelling of a colour?

[@narrelleweir6383]

@@mose20 In Italian black is nero, however, it also can be neri, depending if the thing you are writing about is male or female.

[@djecvalizer61]

English man: Good morning! American man: Wassup! Australian man: I'm Australian

[@peterquintiliani3954]

You can 'lift' something down, but you cannot 'elevate ' it down!

[@LunizIsGlacey]

DJ ECVALIZER *I'm Strayan mate But g'day to you too.

[@hunterwilder9665]

DJ ECVALIZER I have never, ever said "Wassup!" in my life

[@serrincroft7771]

I NEVER say wassup, I say good morning like 99% people in the US. I’d feel like a total douche if I said wassup.

[@cmdrfrosty3985]

Australian man: help I lost my snake

[@arfareandaneswara3286]

This is a story about the daily life of Nate, who lives in New York City, United States and Laura, who lives in London, England. As you can see, they have very similar lives, but the vocabulary words, that they use, are very different! British English vocabulary words: flat, trousers, nappy, underground/tube, pavement, ground floor, lift, post, biscuits, chips, crisps, chemist's shop, car park, boot, petrol, lorry, rubbish, torch, mad, holiday American English vocabulary words: apartment, pants, diaper, subway/metro, sidewalk, first floor, elevator/lift, mail, cookies, french fries, potato chips, drugstore/pharmacy, parking lot, trunk, gas, truck, garbage/trash, flashlight, crazy, vacation

[@BrandonjSlippingAway]

America: sidewalk Britain: pavement Australia: footpath America: Chips, fries Britain: Crisps, chips Australia: Chips, chips. Isn't language fun?

[@Kenny-Alpha]

They actually dont say chips in America for French fries...at all! They only call them fries. I live in the Caribbean. We say chips here for fries

[@Icewind007]

@@Kenny-Alpha He meant chips for something like potato chips, which they call crisps. In America, we do still have "fish and chips" where we call fries "chips", but this is basically the only occasion that an American refers to it that way.

[@Kenny-Alpha]

@@Icewind007 I've lived American my entire life and never heard anyone say fish and chips...definitely not on the east coast

[@disoriented1]

@@Kenny-Alpha I am in my 50s, and in my childhood there was a fast food chain 'Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips'..like Captain D's and Long John Silvers..so that's where I learned the Brits called fries 'chips'...

[@BrandonjSlippingAway]

-oki0ki perfectly acceptable to just call them all chips though. Usually context is enough otherwise; potato chips, hot chips, and fries is the way to differentiate.

[@11dallis]

True story: British girl standing next to me in a club: "Do you fancy a bop?" Me (american) "Huh...?" Her "Would you like to dance ?" We got on just fine after that...

[@SarbjeetKaur-uo8ds]

So you are the lucky one😝

[@charlesstuart7290]

Be Bop A Looba and I don't mean maybe!

[@jpsned]

Haha! : )

[@MartianMothman]

Your British too though because you said, “We got on just fine after that...” but an American would say, “We got along just fine after that...”

[@themangounoduo8429]

I have never heard bop and im british

[@Langfocus]

For people in the UK, do any of you say "go to the pictures" meaning "go to the movies"? I remember hearing that once a long time ago. It might have been Scottish English or a dialect in northern England.

[@rekoonbolt4158]

Langfocus I have a friend which is british,he doesnt say that tho

[@Ogrecrusher]

I have heard that said, but usually we would just talk about going to the cinema. Pictures is a bit old fashioned to my ears.

[@TheLewisLegend]

my grandmother says it alot, its more of a generation thing

[@kovo42]

"go to the pictures" is pretty standard in Scotland.

[@Blood_Monkey]

I say "go to the pictures"; I'm in the north of England, Yorkshire specifically. Actually, I more often than not say "off to ' pictures" where the 'the' isn't even said.

[@CarstenMoreno]

Good video! I'm American and I've always used the word vacation when taking a fun, getaway trip, never holiday. To me, a holiday is a particular day of the year that one or many people celebrate a tradition, whether culturally or religiously, like Easter, Cinco De Mayo, Memorial Day, Independence Day/Fourth of July, Christmas, etc.... I've never referred to a fun getaway trip as a Holiday in my life. I call it a vacation. But whatever. UK vocab is interesting, indeed!

[@Igorex888]

in Europe,. we say Holiday, there's a holiday song

[@dantefloressq]

And i mix both of them because i'm not a native english speaker

[@francescosorce5189]

Me too, closer to american, but I love saying stuff so over the top british like reckon XD

[@dantefloressq]

same my pronunciation is definitely more american but with a weird accent because of the combination of me being Argentinian and also having an awful idiolect in general. I used to have a more british accent when i was very into british bands lol.

[@michagrill9432]

@Animal Liberation same 😂

[@riosricardo7400]

Bueno la Realidad es que el Original inglés proviene de Inglaterra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿..... Pero para los que vivimos en Estados Unidos desgraciadamente tenemos que aprender el acento de los imperialistas, entrometidos e idiotas Norteamericanos...... We have no choice.......✌️

[@dantefloressq]

Jajaj, honestamente prefiero el acento americano, pero si, fuck the USA.

[@PockASqueeno]

“Reckon” is sometimes used in the US in parts of the Deep South.

[@ajs11201]

It's also used (albeit not too frequently) throughout the US as a calculated thought or accounting. So a reckoning is a reasoning--not just a thought. And when time is counted or measured, it can be said that it was reckoned (as in "figured" or "computed").

[@charlesstuart7290]

While commonly used in the UK it was taught as substandard in the US.

[@ajs11201]

@@charlesstuart7290 I'd say it's substandard in American usage if you use it in this sentence: "I reckon it's about time for dinner" or something like that. I'd argue that it's more properly used in this context: "The earth's time zones are reckoned according to their longitudinal lines."

[@charlesstuart7290]

@@ajs11201 I guess - but in an American classroom you would almost always use a word like determined. No American teacher would use reckoned as a first choice to make that point. It might also get marked as incorrect usage even though its really not.

[@ajs11201]

@@charlesstuart7290 You're probably right about the classroom teacher marking it wrong, but I'd be buying her a dictionary if she did! 😉

[@timlu9685]

I am a Chinese college student. The English we learn doesn't make a clear distinction between British and American, so I am still confused about my IELTS writing. Thanks for your video. I've learnt a lot from it.

[@LeonidasArg2021]

Same problem here in Argentina. We are taught whatever teachers are thinking of 😂😂😂 I ended up speaking American with a lot of British words.

[@AntASledd]

Well, American and British English are, for the most part, nearly the same...so you are OK. There are a few differences in spelling on a few words, but it is OK, because most of us know BOTH spellings, and BOTH are OK, for the most part. And, so you are OK. Don't worry too much about it. There are some major differences in the accents (or sounds of words), but it is not a HUGE difference like in some languages. So, whichever form you learn--or even if you mix them--it will be OK. And, you will have a Chinese/English accent. So, that is OK, too! Thank you for spending so much time to learn English! Sincerely, a friend in the USA.

[@陈一搏-v3q]

Just try to ensure that the spelling and expression in your article is consistent, but in most case it is not a serious problem unless you want to get 8.5

IELTS is a British language exam and in your writing portion of the exam you should always use British English preferably. American English is accepted if you keep it consistent, i.e., you don’t go mixing British and American in the same writing piece. The IELTS exams are assessed in the University of Cambridge, England.

[@bishplis7226]

then use english because its an official language and american is not, are you daft son?

[@b4byj3susm4n]

A section that would’ve been useful here is for words used in both varieties but with different meanings. Examples: “Quite” In British, I’m sure the typical use of this word is as a modest modifier, like “somewhat”, whereas in North America it is an intensifier to indicate greater extent or seriousness. “to table [a proposal or topic]” In the US, it means to remove or postpone it from consideration, whereas in England it usually means to introduce it for discussion or consideration.

[@garthly]

Yes, I always found it deflating when I told an American colleague something and he said: “That’s quite interesting.” And I used to find it very confusing when something was “slated” ie “tabled” and not “criticized.”

[@stellalpina]

Hi! Could you talk about Canadian, Australian and South African English as well? I'd be curious to know if there is any major difference both in grammar and pronounciation. :)

[@Gruntled2001]

Yes, please! I love how Aussies pronounce an "a" after many consonants, e.g. "me and my mites", meaning "me and my mAtes". Or "good dye", as in good dAy, lol. Or what New Zealanders with those a's. "Flig" actually means "flag" in Kiwi ))

[@greengoop9733]

Pronounciation in South-African english is rather achin to a mixture of Australian and British English, but it really depends where you are from.

[@canman5060]

Canadian : Earh ?!

[@Aurelien_]

I love the kiwi vocabulary :) "Sweet as, mate"

[@e4iojk]

+ЭлектромонтажUSA I am an actual Aussie, and this is so inaccurate. We really don't say "day" or "mates" with a long I sound, we say them with a long A sound like everyone else

[@pronounjow]

That "Intrusive R" gets me every time.

[@ExziTeUrT]

Irritates me more than I can describe.

[@athb4hu]

I am a Brit who speaks a rhotic dialect (Lancashire) and it irritates me too. Particularly drawing pronounced as draw-ring.

[@YangSing1]

Adrian Bury The Lancashire accent isn’t Rhotic

[@YangSing1]

Jo Reven The intrusive R helps the sentence flow, otherwise it feels like there’s too much of a pause. But if you mention this to most British people they’ll likely have no idea what you’re talking about. They don’t even know they add an R between words until it’s pointed out cause it just happens naturally

[@AuthenticDarren]

I thought Paul might have used the word "drawing" as an example here but he found some other good ones that I wouldn't immediately have thought of.

[@bartholomeustein8884]

The biggest one: football vs soccer.

[@maggi_knorr]

Football, of course. :3

[@tigerbaby8621]

Football 🏈 Soccer ⚽️ End of story.. American here...

[@maltager5106]

Handegg 🏈 Football ⚽️

[@lareinadiondra6027]

"In the rest of the world they call it "football". Here in the US we call it a fucking waste of time." Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog

[@lareinadiondra6027]

Maltager nobody has ever called it handegg.

[@silverhaneul]

Thanks for making this video.That was interesting for me and helped me for more knowledge ❤

[@vchaks]

In India we tend to follow British English but honestly it's a mix of the two. We say flats and not apartments but we don't say mate, we say friends. We say vacation and not holiday. We don't say pavement or sidewalk but rather footpath ! We don't say subway or underground, we say metro. And our pronunciation is infused with Indian sounds. At school level spellings are mostly British English.

[@DelfinaKS]

I agree with your observations. We also say petrol bunk rather than gas station (British usage) but we always buy kerosene not paraffin (American usage). Also, schools continue to teach British English, but at least initially when computers were introduced, almost everyone used the default spellcheck which was US. But then, we have our own words: while the rest of the world only knows postpone, we can equally easily prepone something - I am really surprised why this word is not standard English!

[@tytube3001]

why do Indians say P R O U D Y

[@dlevi67]

My biggest source of confusion with Indian English are numbers, and specifically powers of 10: I can never remember how much is a lakh or a crore.

[@DelfinaKS]

Yes, in India we have our own special numbers, but there are differences in what a billion is for the Americans and British as well!

[@FaaduProductions]

sHuT uP yAaAaA

[@slicer2938]

i live in a Australia and im finding that we take parts from both accents and grammar and words we use for us it seems we take the shortest way to say something or the easiest to pronounce

[@bn56would]

I don't think Australian accent came about as a result of a mixture of American and British, but rather English and Irish because both countries' arrests were deported there and basically made up the population.

[@johannadavis7594]

Americans sometimes find it hard to tell if someone is British or Australian. An Australian show Women in cell block H was big in the US in the eighties. Most Americans thought it was a show from England for the longest time.

[@kelly3014]

They should call it Australian English.

[@TDavid-ry7tu]

Lol is KZbin for you upside down aswell?

[@thisisAB]

Canada is similar in that way as well. Although we are definitely more similar to American while Australian still sounds more similar to British, despite it being very distinct.

[@sarah-cv2kx]

As a British person, I feel like you taught me differences that I didn't even realise we had.

[@alvallac2171]

A zee!

[@wiiztec]

Zed's dead baby zed's dead

[@theneshome8567]

People in the south eastern regions of the United States use the word “reckon” more than “think” or “suppose”. Also, we use the word “yonder” for “there”. For example, in the South we say, “The house is over yonder by the tree line.” I tried to remove these words from my own vernacular because the usage is often perceived as ignorance by others. However, recently I started using them again. Very interesting video! I’ve always enjoyed learning more about our neighbors across the pond.

[@danadnauseam]

Actually, in US English, Attorney and lawyer are generally interchangeable.

[@kentix417]

In and out of court, you're a lawyer (or attorney) either way.

[@chrisyorke3013]

Don't know about Canada, but in the UK, Australia, NZ , at least, 'a solicitor' almost always refers to a legal consultant who does not stand at the bar for you.

[@hiccacarryer3624]

Lawyer is the collective term for barristers and solicitors

[@dinkster1729]

@@chrisyorke3013 Sollicitor is a snobby way in Canada of saying "lawyer". "My sollicitor will be getting in touch with yours." means I'm going to lawyer up.

[@jesusisthetruth4497]

Daniel Reitman oo

[@sophieo_o7379]

Conclusion: I mix it so nobody understands me.🙌🏻

[@oldskoolraver2067]

Naw ye don't ya cow😄😄😄

[@piperstune]

LOL so do I, I hate Webster, he should have left well alone!!!!!

[@davidkonen7159]

I can SOMETIMES be VERY hard to understand, because of the WAY I TALK!

[@keyaka9490]

Can relate 😅

[@renatamihalache2600]

Me too... I've just begin to ask myself what native or good English speakers understand or think when I write... Not to mention the pronunciation... Jesus! Well, in fact I use American words with UK pronunciation... Cool. And I don't know why...

[@ravenlord4]

The strange thing is when the words mean the exact opposite. Like "Tabling" a topic, "Public" and "Private" schools, "Fanny", "Homely", etc.

[@alejandrodelabarra2838]

It happens all the time in in languages like Spanish and Italian, for example, they call it "falsi amici"...

[@StinkyCatFarts]

Reckon comes from Dutch Rekenen, which means to calculate, it’s not really to think, but it’s verb that relies on taking into account previous information.