🇺🇸 vs 🇬🇧 American Couple Reacts "AMERICAN vs BRITISH English **55 DIFFERENCES**"

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[@daveofyorkshire301]

We've never said Happy Christmas, it set me off hearing that, because it's "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"

[@Westcountrynordic]

Its a garden when its just lawn and its still a garden when it has fruit, veggies and flowers growing in it. However if its a lot of fruit trees is called an orchard

[@FixieNix]

A yard, in South African context, is a place with no vegetation, mostly covered in ugly concrete.

[@chrispalmer2136]

3:17 Yeah the whole thing is the garden front side back gardens and just the grass area is thr lawn

[@extint3407]

As an English speaker, I find American English unbearable.

[@robertknight2556]

Well, heavens, aren't you snooty? And unbearable yourself. On yer bike. Robert, UK.

[@pinkhyena588]

@@robertknight2556 what

[@robertknight2556]

@@pinkhyena588 ....'On yer bike?' Idiom, UK slang. A rude way of telling someone to go away: "Can you lend me some money?" "On your bike, mate!" Essentially, f**k off.

[@gillievano1612]

Caravan is towed by a car. The camper van is an all in one. Hence, caravan park. A trailer is also towed but is for transporting things and not for sleeping in. That's why not a trailer park . 😂

[@MCouldhavebeen-lu4jx3bt4p]

Exactly, that's the distinction.

[@Seele2015au]

A bit of additional information from a UK perspective. A caravans has to be towed, but one built into a vehicle chassis has always been called a "motor caravan", as the term "camper van" is relatively modern. Likewise, the US term "RV" is also relatively recent as it was better known as "motorhome", sometimes "motor coach".

[@chrispalmer2136]

never heard it called a camper van always heard it called a motorhome

[@ewarwoowar9938]

It's also worth mentioning that an American trailer park and a UK caravan park are also two very very different things. A cravan park is where middle and upper-middle class people take their caravan on holiday, a trailer park is cheap housing for poorer people.

[@chantelvenessa]

Your reactions to hearing we call being laid off "made redundant" made me laugh so much 😂

[@cmlemmus494]

@7:00 - A Camper Van is when the driving vehicle is attached to the living area, a Caravan is when the camper is a separate vehicle that is towed by a car or truck. Caravans have been around longer, hence Caravan Park for locations where they park.

[@Positiveaffirmationsforyou]

As a South African, American English is so weird to me . This is always a discussion with my American friends 😂🤣

[@mondevuso]

South African 🇿🇦 english is more like Brits 🇬🇧 english with a mixture of the US 🇺🇸. The lay off or redundant part, we say retrenchment.

[@floydmabitsela2365]

Even Test and Exam we use both terms in a different manner

[@mystiaviolet6482]

A dressing gown is soft and used by everyone when they’re lounging about at bedtime but not in bed yet and they’re used in the morning when you’re not ready to get washed and dressed yet. A bathrobe is made from a towel or flannel like material designed to dry you when you’re wet after being in the shower or bath.

[@MCouldhavebeen-lu4jx3bt4p]

Typically, I've heard caregivers/carers/support workers used to describe the job that you would call a caretaker, usually working with kids, the elderly, those with mental disorders and/or learning disabilities, patients with chronic illnesses, and the disabled in general. An informal carer is someone without specific professional training, usually being family members and/or friends as members of their support system/social network. A formal carer/support worker would be someone with specific professional training. The key to effective care is of course keeping an open line of communication with the one being supported, as well as respecting their dignity and privacy.

[@devilkyn1]

As a Canadian about half of the examples I would use the British word, and almost half I would use the American version. However there are also some times when I would use neither, but instead use a Canadian word (?) For example I wouldn't say dressing gown or bathrobe, but instead I'd say housecoat.

[@gardnerlo1]

We in the South say the word housecoat also for dressing gown not bathrobe.

[@Philzoid]

When you invent your own language you get to make the rules. Until then speak English correctly.

[@Kestrel1971]

I'm a Brit living in Canada, so I've played this game with people in the past. The one where people were convinced I was taking the piss was when I said we had lollipop ladies (crossing guard) to help children at the zebra crossing (crosswalk).

[@diva777]

So in Zambia you will hear ALOT of British English terms used.

[@vickytaylor9155]

To be a rotisserie chicken, it has to be cooked on a rotisserie, or be cooked on rotating skewer.

[@FixieNix]

If you visit South Africa, you'd better be prepared to hear all the English terms!

[@neomontja71]

The guy is speaking my language. For us the person who takes care of someone is a nurse, it could be a male or female nurse. As long qs it has the lawn it's a garden. Yeah it's a Caravan for us 😊. Yes we gonna roast a chicken. Hmm I have actually thinking about Italki for sometime now 🤔. Ok year 13 caught me off guard, we say matriculants because they are in matric. We don't say dressing gown, we just say gown. Main street is high way. Yah ER and ICU. We would say you have been retrenched. Curriculym Vitae 👌. We also call it a torch. Oh kana in South Africa we speak British English. Great video Fam ❤

[@chrisjarvis2287]

Only difference between jelly & Jam in the U.S is jam is thicker and usually has real fruit, and a lot of people in the states will call a part of the yard a garden, garden doesn't always have flowers or fruits and vegetables in it,

[@nickgrazier3373]

Aah they’ve cocked up that’s a bath robe, a dressing gown is a totally different thing often made from silk!

[@ramlahibrahim4097]

As a Nigerian, We make use of almost all the British words.😆😆

[@mattymcnally]

A garden may contain a lawn (grassed area), a vegetable/veg patch, a flower bed, a pond/fishpond Mabe an apple tree or plumb tree etc, a strawberry or raspberry patch, maybe a blackberry bush

[@CyberStuff-go7kc]

The school years given as British are in fact English. In Scotland we have Primary school which has Primary 1 to Primary 7 , commonly shortened to P1, P2 ...P7. We then go to High School, ( or Secondary school) and have first year, second year etc or S1, S2 etc. With a minimum of 4 years upto a max of 6 years.

[@AmethystRock]

The whole area is a garden. The part with flowers is a flower bed. If you have vegetables growing then thats the vegetable patch. So in my garden i could have flower beds, vegetable patch, patio and a lawn. 😊 unfortunately i live in a flat so i have none of these 😅

[@emmahowells8334]

Britain evented the language, so we are saying thijgs correctly lol. The only time we use the word yard if its paved with concrete, if it has grass whether by itself or with fruit, veggies or flower it will be called a garden.

[@emmahowells8334]

@LowerEastSidePR No I don't associate the English language with the English upper class, never have, English & the name of the country of England are the reason why it's called English, sorry you're wrong not me, oh & btw I'm from the UK but I'm not English. There are 4 separate nationalities in the UK not just English in case you weren't aware. But in history English was invented in England.

[@ewarwoowar9938]

UK person here - most people I know call him "Santa".

[@vaudevillian7]

We have rotisserie chicken, but that’s specifically been cooked on a rotisserie

[@forksandspoons7272]

The chicken reminds me of a conversation with an ESL student. I wasn't quite sure how to answer him. He wanted to know the difference between a rotisserie and a skewer. I then mentioned a spit. He thought that was hilarious. He said something like "Seriously! You spit on your food, LoL"

[@nickgrazier3373]

Heh! Hang on being made redundant means you haven’t been fired for cocking up or something they just don’t require you anymore. It basically means you have a clean sheet and no fault! So just redundant!! And I’m impressed with your reaction / banter during the the vid! Great!!

[@andrewnewbury4689]

Its called ENGLISH...................So our language our rules.................(Joking Guys )

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

😂😂

[@gillievano1612]

Lol.. a garden has flower beds, orchards and veg patch and also the house 🤣🇿🇦

[@pvdogs2]

In Canada, anythng made with gelatin is a jelly (jar of jelly (not jam), jello etc. We use caretaker and janitor. Our grocery stores sell cooked chickens and they are often cooked on a rotisseire so those are the ones we call rotisserie chickens. We also say Z as ZED.

[@lizbignell7813]

When l first heard that Americans eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches l imagined our jelly and l was horrified!!

[@charitydube4050]

Oh wow Zimbabweans are English, pure British

[@nickgrazier3373]

Hah! Rounders was the basis of your baseball, I know who knows that now? The same as our Rugby league being the basis for your football (not ours which is the real Football which is world wide) (god I feel so arrogant right now, couldn’t help it sorry)

[@HJ_Systems]

In S.A it's father Christmas 😊, 90% of the time we speak British English.

[@Outnumberedbykidsandcats]

Caravans and camper vans are different though. Caravan are pulled behind our cars and camper vans are all contained with their engine etc in it.

[@jakubstupka2922]

Well, some people speak US English, some British English.. I, as a Czech person mix both ))

[@vuyorwexana8555]

As a South African American English doesn't make any sense to me. Everything about the British English is how I talk

[@joanneleasley316]

you 2 have me in stitches your soooo funny

[@kizzyycat6574]

I've never said "ball pool" in my life, it's definitely a ball pit and I'm uk born and bred 😅

[@CyberStuff-go7kc]

Yip, ball pit

[@mango4ttwo635]

Actually, we in the UK say yard if there is no lawn. Some older poorer properties had just a concreted outside area. That is a backyard. Janitor is also used in the UK, but it is more antiquated now when I was a kid, late 80s/early 90s, we had no Year 13. We were called Sixth Formers. We also say Haystack, though I think of it as larger than just a bale, more of a mound of several bales

[@heliotropezzz333]

Being made redundant is only one expression. They might also say 'sacked' or 'fired'. Being made redundant implies that you will receive a redundancy payment.

[@stockwellsantley6606]

Such a cute couple.

[@nickgrazier3373]

In the UK there is normally a front and a back to your house, the house may be a stand alone house (this is called a detached house) or may be joined to another house (making it a semi detached house) the fronts of these houses have a front garden and the back is the back garden, whatever the design. So having a big garden full of grass is still a garden but has a big lawn in it. Ok?

[@Outnumberedbykidsandcats]

I’m wouldn’t ever say year 12 or 13. I would say they are in their first or second year of college. The same once they go to uni - 1st, 2nd or 3rd year. College here is age 17 & 18 and are stand alone schools, 6th forms are on the same site as the high school.

[@melanie7101]

I'm Geman and mix the two together. some words I find easier in American English and sometimes the British one 😅

[@chrispalmer2136]

So do the British on some of these we understand and use the American because we probably hear it as much on TV. I would use both carry on and hand luggage

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

Flower bed and vegetable patch

[@davetdowell]

The best thing about "English" is it's free. It can be taken and adapted by everyone and anyone to suit themselves. There's no central authority on what words are "correct" unlike some languages. That's led to there being a vast number of variations of "English", and they all work for the people who use them, and can fairly easily be moved between with a little adaption by the listener/speaker.

[@lizbignell7813]

Unlike the French!!

[@erinrudge7094]

The uk does or did have names for the final years of school, year 12 and 13 are refered to as lower sixth-form (Yr 12) and upper sixth-form (yr13), they typically have a modified version of the school uniform and more leeway with school rules.

[@vjscott4240]

Language and the uses are so much fun! In Canada we use a comb8nation of American and English uses…..

[@murraytown4]

And Canadian English is a mix of both.

[@le6360]

I didn’t realise the difference between English English and American English until I dated an American guy. He misunderstood every text I sent him 😂 he constantly thought I was mad 😂😂😂

[@thapelomokgwabona8209]

We in Africa also do the Btiish curriculum in Schools. Then on the street and media we follow internal World English and spelling . We use the cool American words as slang or tell something different.We learned Britsh English at school 🏫 and get eposed to American on TV, Music and books 📚

[@louishart7316]

I always thought it was ball pit tbf

[@martinclayton7260]

How can us Brits say it wrong, it's our language?

[@ShaqleeToine10.02]

Motswana here we call the Bathrobe a Gown we dropped the Dressing part lol

[@snubblebunny]

Camper van = van you can drive and camp/sleep in. Caravan = towable mobile home

[@cleopatrankosi8190]

In South Africa we don't TURN IN or HAND IN anything. We submit🤣🤣😭😭😭

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Haha

[@SuperTyrannical1]

You let the kids in the garden and tell them to stay out of the flower-bed. The flowers are in the garden. They aren't the actual garden.

[@leratomabuela3661]

We learn every day 😅🇿🇦💕

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Made redundant is not right, "Sacked" or "Terminated", after the first three/six-months you can't just sack someone without verbal and written warnings, otherwise they go to a tribunal for unfair dismissal. Made Redundant means the job no longer exists and they CAN'T employ anyone to do it after you... There's a whole legislative framework for redundancy and redundancy pay that you're entitled too if you've been there over two years...

[@almostyummymummy]

Here in NZ, our College (your high school): 3rd Form, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. I want one of your RVs (GMC motorhome). Especially a 26 footer.

[@robertbannan6437]

How could she be charged with Trespass, when not given any verbal command to exit?

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

She/he can read.

[@christinepreston8642]

And you end saying peace, but your hands are saying f*** you in British English!!

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

🙃

[@robertknight2556]

Not both. She's got it right, in British terms, with the palm outward.

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

We’d correct ourselves when in Britain to respect to culture.

[@ShaqleeToine10.02]

Laid Off in Botswana/South Africa= Retrenched