Sarah Millican - English to American Translations REACTION

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Jodi and Nick react to Sarah Millican talking about the many different items that are called different things in the UK and America. This is a helpful video for anyone ever confused about this.
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[@avandy3]

Stones are still used all the time 😂😂

[@ladykaycey]

Except at the doctors or hospital. It's crazy

[@storageheater]

the bizarre thing is that stones and pounds (and ounces) are the same measuring system - it's so funny to me that some americans act like 14 pounds to a stone is so crazy but they're fully okay with 16 ounces to a pound. the whole thing's a mess and you use it way more than we do, lol

[@BlameThande]

When an American says they weigh 200 pounds it sounds like they're saying they're 65 inches tall rather than five foot five, it just sounds wrong.

[@Blue.723]

Your mom is mum for most of us.. Sarah and northerners say mam which is different to ma'am.

[@4Kandlez]

Not all northerners, it's very region dependant

[@Lloyd-Franklin]

I was born in the UK. I use stone and pounds for a persons weight, I can't do kilograms and I measure my height in feet and inches. I do miles per hours, i don't understand kilometre per hour.

[@matthewwalker5430]

Same. I think younger generations are starting to use metric more now but I very much still use Stones/lbs for weight & feet & inches for height, and we pretty much all use miles for distance. I don't know if it is a hang up from the classic, long, wooden metre rulers we had at school when I was a kid but I only really use metric when talking measurements 1 metre or less, lol. I just find it easier to visualise things like height in my head when talking 6ft 2 (or whatever) compared to 178cm or 1.78m tall ... they make no sense to me either. The weirdest one is going to the shop to buy some milk and seeing 1 pint and 1 litre next to each other in the fridge, lol

[@helenwood8482]

Mam is used for mum in the North and in Wales. Ma'am is completely different.

[@ianoo23]

I’ve heard Irish use that too

[@daneden2172]

In the UK, if a teacher told kids to sit on their "fanny" a police officer would want to have a conversation 😂

[@happilyeggs4627]

A stone and a half is 21lbs. Older people still use imperial weights. Young people use kilograms/grams. I’m old. I used to weigh 12 and a half stone. I now weigh 102 kilos. Yeah, I got old and fat.

[@damianleah6744]

I use stones and pounds in reference to my weight. Congratulations on your 100k subscribers 🎉

[@lynnelang3184]

Sarah has either recently or in the near future toured/touring in the US. I've seen her 3 times and she is hilarious!😂

[@user-iy3ry2hi6t]

Most people in uk refer to their mother as Mum. Sarah Millican says Mam because she comes from the north of England ie ‘Mammy’ instead of Mummy’. It’s an area accent thing. I am 80 yrs old have never really converted to metric. I always give my weight in stones and pounds. A stone being 14 lbs. Our weighing machines give the reading in both Imperial and Metric. We still refer to miles per gallon when driving. Not miles per litre and distances in miles. We were fine until we entered the European Union.

[@donkfail1]

Using different names for the toilet facility would be a great way of showing levels of urgency without actually mentioning it. Anything from "Excuse me madam, could you direct me to your restroom?" to "Where's the crapper, woman?!"

[@55tranquility]

yes, stone is very common - particularly in reference to body weight. Mum is the equivalent of Mom, but in the north of England and many parts of Wales you will hear 'Mam' used instead. 'Ma' is common in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Confusingly the term ma'am which is an abbreviation of madam may be heard in reference senior female officers in the police and armed forces, it is pronounced like 'farm'. The queen would be referred to with ma'am. ie 'yes ma'am' if your officer was female, if your officer was male it would be 'yes sir'.

[@watchreadplayretro]

have a seat on your f.... wowsers! lol This was still fun to watch because you guys seemed to know all of these (thanks to us lot! yay!) well done guys, both get and A+ and a Distinction gold star sticker too!

[@mral8145]

Stone is used almost exclusively in the uk for your own personal weight “I lost two stone on a diet” etc. you’d maybe use lbs in “I went to the shop and bought a lb of sugar” When I was in the states, I enjoyed your biscuits. Your biscuits look like scones but taste differently.

[@trevorhope8447]

Weight is almost always said as stones and pounds. ie 160 pounds is 11 stones 6 pounds.

[@paulbromley6687]

When I need to rest I usually do it in the living room or on the bed, we rarely talk pounds in the tens or hundreds I now talk Kilos for my weight, we say bum for backside, arse is more harsh.

[@TheWarpseed]

The way we mix metric and imperial is dependant on the subject. There's a meme somewhere of it, as it's all over the place. But yeah we use stones when weighing people.

[@R3ED3R]

As below I am from the UK 16st, I am 5ft 11', if I drive on the motorway I drive at 70mph, if need to cut a bit of wood I measure in mm and it's currently 11c temp... our measurement units are all over the place.

[@BrianMac2601]

If i bump into Jodi when she comes to Glasgow I'd maybe say m'lady, just because nobody else does and it's different, i use it all the time with the women i know. It might sound cheesy but it always put a little smile on their face.

[@Paul_Allaker8450]

I was taught imperial & metric and can seamlessly switch between the 2, I know right off the bat that I'm 6ft4in & 17stone or 195cm & 108kg, or 6ft4in & 238lb. It just feels normal to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Great reaction Guys. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

KFC don't do biscuits in the UK, but where I'm at we recently got a popeyes and they do. I was actually thinking about getting lunch from there today

[@annedunne4526]

We always use stones for people's weight in the UK and Ireland. We also use kilograms.

[@patriciaburke6639]

I know that Sarah had extended a recent tour to also include performances in America. No doubt her KZbin Site would indicate US Tour dates and venue information. Of course, it’s possible they may have already taken place.

[@ramonalavigne8953]

I feel like we mix metric and imperial measurements needlessly and randomly. I was in the hospital recently and had this conversation: Me: "You know when you just measured me, could you tell me my height? I've always wanted to know." Nurse: "Oh, sure thing! You are... 174 centermeters" :D Me: "Great! Thanks! What's that in feet?" Nurse: "I've no idea hun, you'll have to google it."

[@Ken-pi7qk]

I was surprised that you got confused by the use of “stones”. They are part of the same Imperial measuring system for weight, ie ounces, pounds, stones etc.

[@ln8173]

Fanny is actually a common girls name in Sweden 😅

[@AbdullahHashmi-ez3ch]

Coke Studio Season 15 is here. You guys might want to check it out.

[@stephenhodgson3506]

I always find it amusing when Americans laugh that the UK still uses stones when it is quite common in American farming areas to use bushels and pecks which are now virtually unheard of in the UK

[@ianoo23]

We use stone and pounds for someone’s weight, grams and kilograms or ounces for baking/cooking, Mph for speed or knots on water 🤣 I don’t recognise kilometres for distance or kmph for speed and always have to google it to convert 😂

[@ethelmini]

Mam & mum are just alternatives to mom: regional variations. Ma'am - the female equivalent of sir if pronounced mam - rhymes with jam, as was famously advised to those about to meet wor queen.

[@jehanariyaratnam2874]

I think Ma'am is short for madame

[@tommym5023]

Americans saying fanny is always the " butt" pun intended 😉of British jokes

[@FayeSless-di3jg]

When I got a speeding ticket in the US the cop asked my weight and when I answered in stones and pounds he hadn't a clue what I was talking about!

[@shithappens1975]

Why the hell did he need to know your weight?

[@4Kandlez]

@@shithappens1975 He probably thought she was anorexic compared to what he usually sees

[@Bobmudu35UK]

I only use Stone's and pounds. Even my kids who grew up on kgs use Stones. It's a bit mixed up over here. We buy fuel in litres,but our speed limits are in miles,and cars have mph speed clocks. Keeps people on their toes!

[@karlnaylor3800]

I think we use ma'am the same in UK as in US. But if you hear someone from certain places in the North saying 'mam', it's just mum with a thicker accent. My mum is from Stockton and I sometimes adapt her accent depending on who I'm talking to. "My mum" or "Me Mam" mean the same thing.

[@dav147]

We have a new Popeye's now, I'm eager to try the biscuits and gravy.

[@Georgeolddrones]

For God sake nick listen to the lovely Jodie 👍😂🇬🇧

[@dale897]

Stone is used both singular and plural we dont say 2 stones but we say "2 stone" a stone is 14lb so 2 stone is 28lb, so its not used for specifically 28lb but every 14lb, and stone is only used for body weight.

[@4Kandlez]

Ma'am is a polite term to address a woman like you were saying. Mam and Mum are terms commonly used in England for mother depending on what region you're from. Yes we would say 9 stone 7 pounds because it's the correct way :) and is much easier to visualise than 133 pounds, but just to make it more difficult we also use kilogrammes ☹ damn Europe!

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Many will say their weight is 12 stone 7 instead of 79Kg often ignoring the 0.4Kg, anything less than a bag of sugar (1Kg aka 2.2lbs) is rounded. For a woman losing up to a kilogramme of weight is highly preferable. Biscuits and gravy is probably seen the same as you see haggis. It's the most revolting combination I can think of...

[@borehovel]

Mam is the same as Mum but more commonly used in the north of England, Wales & Ireland. (Having ho Scottish heritage I don’t know what’s more prevalent there).

[@Kenobi5001]

We have a phrase "Seven stone weakling" for a not very beefy guy.

[@philipcochran1972]

16 ounces = 1 pound 14 pounds = 1 stone 8 stone = 1 hundred-weight 20 hw = 1 ton

[@hafsaahmad2771]

Jodi your hair looks great on you ❤

[@greypilgrim228]

It's stone, singular, no matter how much, so say 'I weigh 9 stone 4,' meaning 9.4 stone. Although most people will usually just round down or up in conversation rather than being specific like Americans, so it'll just usually be 9 stone cos nobody really cares about the pounds unless they're dieting. Also Mam is more of a Northern thing, like Newcastle, Sunderland, Manchester etc. and probably derived from Mammy rather than Mummy. Mum is usually the norm in the rest of the UK, with a sprinkling of Mom here and there depending on preference.

[@easterdeer]

We're veeeerrry slowly converting to metric. I know my height and weight in both systems and always state both but most people just go with imperial. I wonder where along the way the US lost 'stone' but kept pounds and ounces - funny old world 😄Thanks for video guys ❤

[@kevinpugh3291]

16 ounces is one pound. 14 pounds one stone. 10 stone one hundred weight and 20 hundred weight one ton. The metric system is much easier to use and the only reason that road signs are in miles in the UK is because the cost to change all the signs would be huge . . .

[@ChrisStacey]

I'm from UK, weights for me is imperial, road is imperial, tape measuring things generally metric. I'm 43 and it's been this way for me since I can remember.

[@blue_tree_meadow]

It's a British peculiarity to use the, "Stone," weight system, like many things here it's probably so old most of us never bother to ask where it came from or why we still use it, although it's less popular with the younger generation I believe. Basically a Stone is 14 pounds 🤔😁

[@zaphodbeeblebrox6627]

Lots of old people still use Stones as a body weight measurement 1 stone is 14 lbs So it's multiples of 14 lbs & pounds ( eg if someone weighs 150lbs, that's 10 stone 10 lbs), Don't ask me why stone became a weight measurement it just is.🤷🏽 Most people under 50 probably use kilos as metric weight started being used more when we decimalised our money in 1971 and we were heading towards joining The European Economic Community or EEC( the EU as it was called back then).

[@aunali1406]

Hey coke studio 15 is started waiting for your reaction like you did last season.

[@skipper409]

What confuses Brits is the US habit of weighing very large objects in pounds….like a truck weighing 20,000 pounds. We use bigger denominations for that scale - tons, (or metric tonnes), hundredweight, etc etc.

[@frankripley6401]

“Stones” as units of weight came into use in the UK during the 19th Century so never became a thing in the USA. So actually your use of pounds is the older usage. And while today it is mainly used for body weight, not too long ago( before metrication) it was very commonly used for bulk commodities, potatoes for example. Old taters used to be sold & priced by the stone - there’s a phrase I haven’t heard for years, old potatoes. Just meant last years crop stored in clamps out in the field & then brought in, cleaned a bit & sold. At school we had to learn “ 16 ounces 1 pound(lb), 14 lbs 1 stone, 8 stones 1 hundredweight (cwt., 112 lbs),20 cwt one ton (2240lb)”. Together with the pre decimal currency ( 12 pence(d) one shilling(s), 20 s one pound(£) ) meant we were quite good at mental arithmetic, no calculators. Happy days!

[@lynnelang3184]

Stones have been used since the 14th century, introduced by Edward III in 1350. Stones were used as counter weights and were used for all commercial transactions.

[@D3ViLTh3OrY]

I use stones, kg or lbs. - 1 stone = 14lbs, 14lbs is 6.3kg, it's pretty easy. I've gotten used to using Fahrenheit too as well as Celcius because it makes it A LOT easier when visiting the US 😄

[@PaladinesAngel]

Oh yes. Stone and pounds are all over the UK. I have no idea in kgs what i weigh.

[@Ingleborough111]

Weight of a person is either stones and pounds, or kilograms, although newborns seem to be described mainly in pounds.

[@MartinMcMartin]

The Bee Gees had a hit called "fanny be tender" I wonder how that went down in the U.S.

[@galaxycoder]

Stones are the weight we Brits still use to measure our body weight. 1 Stone = 14 pound. I weigh 12 stone.

[@enemde3025]

In the UK, depending on how old you are, you will still weigh yourself in STONES and POUNDS. We don't say STONES ....just STONE. The same goes for your height. I still say 5 foot 8 inches rather than 1 metre 73 centimetres. GRAVY is BROWN. Made from the meat juices of the meat you are eating ,with added onions and gravy granules/stock cube. No " biscuits" in UK KFC.....thank God ! MAM is a very Northern word for MUM in the UK.

[@irreverend_]

Yep people are the only thing we weigh in stones, but everyone still does.

[@Rocky19577]

lb14 is 1 stone. So someone weighing lb140 is 10 stone.

[@david-flint]

Being born in the late sixties I can confirm that us boomers are happy to use both metric and imperial to measure stuff. But someone's weight and height only make sense in stones and feet. As well distance in miles.

[@greygreen5610]

biscuit comes from french, it means baked twice. the words probably most used here for what you call fanny would be bottom or bum ( least offensive) you say ass, we say arse. she is saying mam not maam, it's a regional variation of mum, she is from the north east of england

[@liamireland9028]

Yes your wife is right we do use stone and pounds. ..I think fanny's are over used too 😂😂😂😂😂

[@PeleRana-pp6zc]

People almost always talk in stones and pounds when they weigh themselves and when they refer to their weight. Yes we still talk in stones and pounds in UK😊 Also what we call coriander is cilantro is US. What you call ‘Erbs we call Herbs 😉

[@RF_Burns]

It's complicated! lol. I can visualise 2 stone and the metric equivalent 13 Kg, but I cannot visualise 28lbs !! If someone tells me their weight in stones I get it without even needing to think about it. If they tell me in Kg It takes me a second or two to convert it to stones in my head. If they tell me in lbs I'm stumped unless it's something really easy like 140lbs because I know that it's 10 stone. So yeah, stones are widely used in Britain. I'm in my late 50s which means I spent my early childhood outside of the European Ecconomic Community and the Metric system.

[@Colin-mc4ml]

Mam is more Northern England, which Sarah is. Generally, Mummy gets shortened to Mum as you get older. Older generations tend to say Mother. The term "Mam" is used when addressing the late Queen Elizabeth II or the current Queen Camilla on introduction. You say Your Majesty afterwards you say "Mam".All Female royalty, whether Princess or Duchess, it's Your Royal Highness, and then Mam. Weight, a person's weight is referred to in stones 14lb is 1 stone, this reference is dying out as the National Health Service has been weighing patients in Kilograms for nearly 30 years.

[@brianfallon2607]

Stones as weight might say more about a person's age. My children use kilos and centimeters or meters for distance...and so do I.

[@hanwalker7408]

We say I weigh 10 stone not stones and when americans talk about pounds we have to get our calculator out

[@tommym5023]

Italian Americans always say gravy when they mean pasta sauce which is confusing 😀

[@helenwood8482]

Ma'am means a married woman. I much prefer Miss.

[@Jamienomore]

I weigh 6 bricks.🧸

[@pastramicheesemonster4873]

Calling your mother 'mam' vs 'mum' is a regional thing here in the UK - I believe there are some parts (possibly down South?) where people say 'mom'. I'm from the North East, like Sarah, and in my town 'mum' and 'mam' are probably equally popular terms. When you're talking about James Bond, you mean "ma'am" rather than "mam" - they're different terms. And stones are used for weight still, although kg are sort of gaining more popularity I think. I find stone easier to understand in terms of a weight reference, but that's just because I'm more used to it. I measure height in both feet and cm though - I prefer saying I'm 157cm as people judge you when you say you're 5"1 and a half 😂 (the half is important!!!)

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

I'm ancient enough to use imperial for some things , personal weight has always been Stones and pounds , although nowadays most younger people use Kg .and a Mile is 1,760 yards and it seems odd to hear it expressed in feet . I'd be guessing as it was in a studio that this might have been during covid . Incidentally it is spelt and pronounced mum in the South of the uk. Sarah is from the North East .

[@Mike-Clay-1489]

I weigh 13 stone, plus a few lbs. Some people (younger) use kilos.

[@martylawrance]

For all the fact we have been decimalised for decades old habits die hard. Most people still use stones and pounds for weight. The daftest thing is fuel in a car, we buy it in litres yet our usage is still miles per gallon!

[@shelleyjackson8793]

Everyone uses stones and pounds. If someone tells me how much they weigh in pounds I have no idea what it means and have to use the calculator on my phone to divide by 14.

[@drum253]

Yes, most people in uk will talk of there weight in terms of stones.

[@helenwood8482]

What you call biscuits do not exist in the UK, thank goodness.

[@alanmacification]

What I call a biscuit you call a scone. Or the same batter is used to make drop dumplings in stew.

[@juniusvindex769]

Scones are not made from batter 🙄🤦‍♂️ They are made from a dough ffs🖕🏻

[@alanmacification]

@juniusvindex769 I call it a batter because if you overwork it, it becomes tough. Basically, it's a lumpy dough. In Canada, a scone is a tea biscuit.

[@ba-gg6jo]

The worst thing I had in the US was "grits" it looked like cat vomit, what the hell is that stuff, is it popular throughout the US, or is it a very much a thing of the south.

[@Ingleborough111]

If you worked in engineering, you would be used to all the measurements. Sometimes combined in one 'specification', e.g. measure flow of litres in a 6 inch pipe.

[@jamiesmith5204]

UK here. I weigh in Stone. I have no idea what I weigh in KG.

[@fraserjackson]

When you hear James Bond talking to "M", he's actually saying Ma'am (elided from Madam) - depending on how quickly it's said it may come across as Mum.

[@IanDarley]

1 stone is 14lb. We would usually say "I weigh 15St 7lb" but when losing weight, *usually * just use pounds. "I've lost 18lbs" Northerners usually say mam, it's just an accent thing (they would write mum on a card, but call her mam).

[@aires69uk]

I weigh just over 13 stone. Fruit and veg is weighed in pounds and ounces.

[@aaronmicalowe]

First time I heard Americans talking about shaking their fanny, I was like, "whoa! These guys are very liberal."

[@donepearce]

Kilograms for everything except people, who are measured in Stones. I've managed to wean myself onto kg.

[@doegywhail728]

Mum is your Mother. Mam (Marm as we pronounce it.) is respectful towards higher rank or Royal females, usually. We also say for example 10 Stone. We don’t use the plural, normally.

[@john43397]

Mam is a northern accent or as an address to a female who is your superior in a job situation usually for the British police force. Ma'am is an address to her Majesty the queen. But not on a first meeting then it is your Majesty. Mum is the British way of saying mother except for some Northern dialects and accents like Sarah's

[@welshgit]

14 pounds in a stone. 12 inches in a foot. You don't call soemone 73 inches, you call them 6 foot 1, so it's you guys that aren't being consistent! 😊 (Mind you, if you ask why we still use imperial weights rather than metric, you will win!)

[@laypom65]

Yes i only understand stone and pounds😂

[@stevenredmond7455]

Yes & no to the weight thing, most of the 40+ use stones but also Kilos as GP’s & Hospitals use kilos. Sorry can’t & won’t speak for the under 40’s as I’ll probably offend most of the whiny little toerags. 🙃🇬🇧😎

[@xaj1543]

You assumed that 2 stone referred to money, what is wrong with you? As a teacher you never fail to reinforce the theory of why education in the U.S is so sadly lacking.

[@johnhewett9483]

Ha ha ha brutal bit true 😂

[@Badgersj]

Oh that's not nice.

[@jcs1025]

Stone is a very old English way of measuring weight. Why would you assume that they would teach this in the US? We can barely get the metric system right.

[@Badgersj]

@@jcs1025 Agree. If someone doesn't know something it doesn't mean they are inferior. It's up to you to inform them in the most courteous way you can.

[@user-ze5tu4ck1t]

Yes we use Stones. Not Pounds 14 Pounds = a Stone .obviously we thought its getting silly

[@andrewfitzgerald2327]

Good little video just to clear up the language differences between our countries. Although mam is more regional,l live in the north and we say mum or mother depending on the situation. The hedgehog died out in the seventies,bad British food she obviously eats in the wrong places. Just to clear up biscuits are cut out from a sheet , cookies are not, French fries are thin cut potatoes and chips are larger pieces of potatoes both fried. Conclusion: l think she did this for comedy effect and her videos are becoming popular in the US,no p.c.

[@asmitashakya3710]

Puspa 2 teaser reaction

[@Carwyn.Morris]

My mother insists on Mam because Mum is a brand of deodorant.

[@aaronmicalowe]

I think your biscuits are like our scones, not in their consistency, but in their cultural uniqueness. What other country has American biscuits and what other country has British scones? As for the gravy, we like ours beefy and full of flavour (probably to give some flavour to our bland food).

[@AutoAlligator]

most Brits know their weight in Stone and Pounds and Kilos...

[@barriehull7076]

fanny about (third-person singular simple present fannies about, present participle fannying about, simple past and past participle fannied about) (chiefly British, intransitive, slang) To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment. (chiefly British, transitive and intransitive, slang) To wander about or prowl around.