American Reacts to Mistakes Foreigners Make in the UK (Part 1)

[@England-Bob]

In the UK a *HIGHWAY* is any path (path meaning route available for travel) open to the public. That includes paths,roads,canals and other areas used by the public to travel on.

[@neuralwarp]

You are correct. Thanks for getting there before me. Also seaways, airways, railways, tramways.

[@kittyjohnstone5915]

And our book of rules and laws pertinent to driving is called “The Highway Code”…

[@bethdoe4635]

Coming to the comment section just to say this - every road is a highway as it’s the highway agency that maintain public roads, that we learn to use via the Highway Code ect.

[@insoft_uk]

I’m British and always think of motorways as highways I never got used to motorways, highway is how I’ve grown up thinking of them for some reason As a kid we were taught the Highway Code the green cross code so perhaps the word highway associated with roads stuck

[@MarlynMeehan]

I watched another American reaction video about MOTs and the fact the US don't have such a thing. So everyone speeds, no speeding cameras, driving test almost non existent and clapped out vehicles on the road sounds like a recipe for disaster. If the guns don't get you then driving about will. The undertaking business must be the best business to be in in the US.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Add to that, the crappy diet and awful chemicals in their food.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Ironically 'increasing' the chances of having a heart attack, while driving over the actual speed limit AND in an unsafe vehicle... 😎😅 😂 🤣

[@Paul-hl8yg]

So yes Tyler, you are "barbaric" in the states lol.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

Also, the side benefit of negating any insurance company liability in the event of a claim.

[@artemisfowl66]

Driving accidents are the number 1 killer of deaths of the under 25s in the US. That's just plain tragic.

[@urseliusurgel4365]

In Britain a yard, including a 'backyard', would imply a relatively small outdoor space enclosed on at least three sides by buildings or walls and probably paved in some way. This would cover, not only backyards, but also farmyards and stableyards. Gardens would tend to be unpaved, with flowerbeds, lawns, hedges, trees etc. and surrounded by fences or hedges, though enclosed gardens attached to very large properties (stately homes and suchlike) would have high walls around them. A house could have both a backyard and a back garden. The backyard being a paved or gravelled space, framed by the back of the house and outbuildings projecting from it, with a garden beyond.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

I agree; if someone in the uk refers to a 'yard' or 'backyard' (in the context of an area of land adjacent to a building), I would immediately think of a 'usually' paved, concreted or tarmac area. So, with regards to a house, you would have the front garden, the back garden and the side yard (as part of the garage space!). Or if visiting i.e. Wickes or B&Q, they might say you will find the fencing and paving slabs in the outside yard area..? I have been to the US many times and I still find it 'grating' when they say "we're having a barbeque in the backyard...".

[@davesilkstone6912]

Good explanation

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

Backyard is used here in UK 🇬🇧 but it is not interchangeable with garden; a yard tends to be hard underfoot- concrete, cobbles, flag stones or other. Gardens usually have lawn, decking, flower beds or vegetable patches & trees. We also use the term Highways and Byways, here highway is a general term for roads. Byways are paths and lanes. Motorways are our biggest roads.

[@Parker_Douglas]

In Scotland we pronounce data the same as the Americans we’ll in North Lanarkshire we do

[@strats4life1]

Yes speed cameras are everywhere and while we hate them, we are very proud of having some of the safest roads in the world. Ironically though there was a guy living in a village somewhere who was annoyed that traffic always broke the speed limit driving through so he attached a fake yellow speed camera to his house to make them slow down but the council forced him to remove it, claiming it was a distraction to drivers. Very British lol

[@suzielees5227]

That’s hilarious. I didn’t hear about that.

[@britblue]

i think, only Norway & Switzerland have safer roads than the UK - Av. speed cameras are not everywhere - they only tend to be situated in accident blackspots & area of high congestion to better manage traffic flow - They can be an irritant, but the benefit of one of the worlds safest road networks is a trade off i think most people would accept

[@stephenlee5929]

I think in England average speed cameras are generally used at road works so are not normally permanent, or when there is a temporary speed restriction, such as on M25 when temporary speed limits are used to manage traffic flow. Fixed speed cameras can only be installed in accident black spots. Not sure what the rules are in rest of UK.

[@williambailey344]

I don't understand why some if not all motorists like speed cameras, because they are there for a great reason and certainly doing a great job.

[@sandrahughes8645]

On streets, yes. On Motorways I don’t believe that most people in the UK are happy to stick to 70mph!

[@skipper409]

A “back yard” in the UK is a walled, paved area. No plants. Paving stones. Anything with grass and/or plants is a garden

[@AndrewWhitham]

A back yard/ garden are the exact same thing, there is no difference. A yard literally is a grassy area right outside a house.

[@henryblunt8503]

​@@AndrewWhithamThat probably depends where you are in the country.

[@julessimone4959]

In the UK particularly in northern England many terraced houses have a small paved backyard with no plants (except in plant pots). For reference see TV programme Coronation Street. If it has soil, and plants in the soil it's agarden.

[@wesleyward5901]

Tbf I've always called it a back garden.

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Exactly. We would never call a garden area with grass or some plants a ‘yard’. It would feel somehow depressing.

[@markthomas2577]

We use Highways all the time .... the legislation around roads are usually called Highways Acts and local councils have Highways Departments responsible for upkeep of the roads. Motorways are a specific type of highway with different regulations, higher speed limits etc they're generally the big 6 lane 'highways' which connect the big cities and I believe are maintained by central Government rather than local councils.

[@andrewlaw]

The vehicles patrolling the network are also signwritten Highways Agency. Typically Volvo XC-90's with grey/yellow battenburg reflective markings.

[@watfordjc]

Calling an American highways department: "a truck has jack-knifed on the interstate". Calling a British highways department: "one of the streetlights in my cul-de-sac is flickering".

[@elizabethchew505]

Easy! . If it's GREEN it's a GARDEN, if it's CONCRETE it's a BACKYARD. . Backyards DO exist in Britain, but they're generally in cheaper and/or inner city properties.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

If you say French fries instead of chips. They might just serve you fries instead of chips. Fries are thin, and chips are thicker. Like asking for a cookie instead of a biscuit. Biscuit means twice baked and are crunchy, and cookies are soft and doughy. America just uses fries and cookies as a catch all name. Where in the UK they mean different things.

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

One mistake foreigners make is taking the Tube for a couple of stops in Central London. It is often both quicker and involves less walking to simply walk in the surface. This may mostly apply to Americans who do not appear to like walking anywhere😊

[@Cheezsoup]

The map not being to any type of scale doesn't help in these matters

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

@@Cheezsoup that is true.

[@paulcaswell2813]

@@Cheezsoup The map was just there as a guide to stations, not a scale map. If you've ever actually seen a true map of the underground, it really changes one's way of thinking!!!

[@Cheezsoup]

@@paulcaswell2813 Erm didn't I 'say' the map wasn't to any type of scale. The various lines etc are just an indication . The line out to Heathrow is probably the best example Heathrow is MILES (approx 18~20 [depending on route])from central London and yet on the tube 'map' it is nothing like that.

[@JoannDavi]

Most foreigners in the UK aren't Americans.

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

You've got something correct for once.

[@stephenlee5929]

True but many learn American English, so some of the issues are the same and Oz is a whole different set of strange word issues.

[@jezlanejl]

Here in the UK we know exactly what a Highway is, we did invent the term, Think of a Highwayman...

[@FixTheLanes]

Most comments in chat aren't relevant

[@sandrahughes8645]

Jingoism! 😂

[@CamcorderSteve]

I have learnt so much about driving in the States over the last couple of days. Not only do they not have an equivalent to an MOT test, which means that a lot of their cars will be potentially dangerous and un-roadworthy, they also do not have speed cameras, and most drivers go over the speed limit by around 10 to 15 mph routinely. When I think of a highway, I automatically think of Dick Turpin, a notorious highwayman from history.

[@CamcorderSteve]

It's odd, a motorway is called a highway in America, but in the UK a highway is any road that can be legally driven on, which includes little narrow country lanes etc...@@paulgambardella3705

[@chipsthedog1]

Stand and deliver!

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Relatively close to where my Mum used to live (and where I grew up) there's a Pub called "The Brockley Jack" which is, as far as I'm aware, named after a highwayman... (I've forgotten what his horse 🐴 was called though, sadly !!) 🤔❤️🖖

[@thefiestaguy8831]

As the saying goes... "At least Dick Turpin wore a mask"!

[@ukaly1]

Whenever we've been back in England on holiday my American husband not only successfully drives on the wrong side of the road (usually shifting gears and using the opposite feet for controls, since you have very few automatic vehicles) but he has to drive over the speed limit to avoid getting run over.

[@richardhunter7363]

I worked with a British lady who had spent an amount of time working in the US and had picked up some of the language. On returning to the UK, she went to a large, and rather posh, department store and asked where she might be able to buy some leather pants - only to be told by the snooty shop assistant that "I'm afraid it's not that kind of shop!"

[@Parker_Douglas]

I wouldn’t say that was a snooty reply the lady knows in the Uk pants are underwear I’d say she was put in her place lol

[@artemislogic5252]

​@@Parker_Douglas depends where you are in the country, pants dont mean underwear everywhere, im from liverpool and id never heard someone use pants to mean boxers or something until i started seeing these vids, a lot of north england say pants to mean trousers, and trousers would mean like dress pants, which we also say i know up in scotland you say pants too which is surprising to me because i thought it was only a southern england thing

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Was the snooty shop assistant working in Ann Summers as a second job?

[@MrSkiller703]

watching pants section just made me think of Americans talking to girls and saying "nice" pants and girls thinking they perving lol

[@MrBulky992]

I have never heard anyone in the UK call the area in front of their house the "front yard". If it has bare earth with things growing in it (even just weeds or grass), it is called the "front garden"; if not, it would most likely simply be called the "front". The space at the back of the house if covered in paving, gravel or concrete will sometimes be called the "back yard" and even more frequently if it enclosed by walls or high fences on most or all sides. Otherwise, if it is bare earth with things growing in it (even just weeds or grass), it is the "back garden". Typically the enclosed paved/concreted area at the back of a terraced house, separated from neighbouring properties by high brick walls is called the "back yard". If such an area is shared between dwellings or other buildings, it is called a "courtyard". "Courtyard" is also used in large mansions or public buildings for unroofed parts of the building surrounded on all or most sides by wings of the building. Again, these are mostly paved. When I was at school, the paved/concreted/tarmacced area adjacent to the school was sometimes called the "school yard", especially if it was an older type of building. Nowadays, this would tend to be called the school playground. A prison will have an "exercise yard": again, this will be largely paved, concreted or tarmac. These definitions are consistent with the use of "yard" in the UK for commercial premises: farmyard, builder's yard, boat yard, shipyard where one would expect the ground surface in the yard to be largely or wholly paved, concreted or covered in tarmac. On the other hand, the area used for burials around a church in the UK is called a "churchyard", even though there is very little paving, concrete or tarmac within this type of yard.

[@happydog3422]

We say 'day ta' in the UK and Americans used to say 'da ta' a lot more than they do now( maybe thanks to Patrick Stuart's accent in Star Trek). We have yards but we tend to use it when it's concrete or paved. We don't use trousers for all "pants" just for more formal wear, we tend to use what the item is called like he/she is wearing jeans, shorts etc.

[@kathrynhobbs8874]

The first A is changed by a vowel following the next consonant from the sound of the vowel to the name of the vowel.

[@IsaacSemple]

I would think people call a paved garden a "patio"

[@barriehull7076]

Patrick Stewart, spellcheck strikes again. On the subject of incorrect spelling, David Gilmour, not David Gilmore as fans who should know often spell it.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@barriehull7076 I've always thought that it was 'David Gilmour' ...it sounds French, (so somehow 'correct' to me) but "Gilmore" seems more "American" but not sure why !

[@artemislogic5252]

where are you from in the uk and what do pants mean to you if you heard it

[@sharonlock6452]

A yard is usually a paved area a garden is grass and flowers etc . Most houses in the uk have a front and back garden but some do have a back yard

[@katydaniels508]

Yes 😁 My back garden is concrete and I call it a yard

[@CamcorderSteve]

I liked it when the young lady said, is the garden always in the back, what do you call a front garden? Err...the back garden is called the back garden and the front garden is called...oh forget it.

[@bandycoot1896]

The word yard is associated with a more commercial environment, normally covered with a hard surface, like a builders' yard. We use the word garden for our areas front and rear of the house.

[@Tonyblack261]

A "highway" in the UK mean's any public road, or right of way. It was previously known as the "Queen's Highway" and is now (presumably) the King's Highway.

[@Phiyedough]

Yes, the motorway is a highway but not all highways are motorways.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Average speed cameras are the logical development from spot speed cameras. When drivers often will speed between fixed speed cameras, and then slam on their brakes at the next camera. In the UK we would usually say that a house with only a smaller paved behind it, had a backyard. Yards are more a working space, rather than a growing area. Like a farmyard, or a builder's yard.

[@tmac160]

A yard is usually hard standing or a paved or concreted area, as in courtyard, prison yard or stableyard. A garden is grass, vegetables or flowers and a garden is never a yard, no matter if front or back.

[@joshualiley]

Part of driving in the UK is knowing where the speed cameras are on your frequently travelled routes, knowing which cameras actually work and what type of camera they are (ie the instantaneous ones or the average speed ones). If you're driving somewhere you don't know, follow what everyone else is doing. If they're speeding, chances are there's no speed cameras along that route. If everyone is going 5 under the speed limit, chances are there's probably many speed cameras along the route

[@Cheezsoup]

I don't need to memorise them as my sat-nag and my car alert me to them . This along with them being painted VERY conspicously (if you do not see them you deserve a fine/points) allows me too basicaly not worry about them . That and not speeding (I have a speed limiter and adaptive cruise control fitted to my car (it is a poverty spec Yaris so no one has any excuse really).)

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Or alternatively you could just use your own eyes to spot them..... too many people nowadays can't drive to save their life and rely on sat navs to tell them where a speed camera is. I have NEVER set a speed camera off and I drive around 90,000 miles a year. I drive a 3 litre car that is quicker than most cars in the UK. I don't exactly dawdle either but i've never set one off.... why? Because i'm observant and I spot the cameras, even those average speed cameras or ANPR cameras they mount high up, whether there are signs or not I see them. I scan well into the distance and much of the way I drive is based on Roadcraft. Nowadays in my opinion any old Tom, Dick or Harry is allowed to drive a car provided they can pass the test (that is being made easier as people can now just blindly follow a sat nav). When I did my test in 2013 sat navs weren't anywhere near as common. I did "independent driving" and actually had to follow road signs, and drove on a dual carriageway.

[@johnkemp8904]

As a 75 year old Briton you may take it from me that I have always, when it comes to data, pronounced it ‘dayta’’ and never ‘data’. I had always assumed the latter to be solely American. As for yard or back yard I was brought up as a child in a terraced house (row house I believe in the USA) which had a back yard which was characterised by having no grass or flowers in it, otherwise it would have been a garden. I am not saying back a backyard cannot have any foliage in it but ours didn’t. It was of relatively small size. My attention was initially drawn to this many decades ago, when I read that Gene Kelly had broken his leg whilst playing ball in his yard. I speculated that he surely did not live in a house with a small British working class back to it! I believe I was right to do so.

[@debbee0867]

I've worked in IT all my 30+ year career, and everyone pronounces data as "dayta". Not sure where she is coming from. Same, I thought the other way round was American.

[@weegerri1sm]

I find this odd because when I was at school, studying computers in Scotland, it was always pronounced Dah-ta, locally and the first place I ever heard it pronounced "day-ta" was in Star Trek TNG so I always assumed that was the US pronunciation.

[@MrBulky992]

I worked for over 30 years in IT in the UK and the word "data" was *always* pronounced "day-ta". There are, however, a lot of Americanisms in IT. For example, the word "program" uses the American spelling and the word "disc/disk" was often spelt the American way too. I wonder whether the "dah-ta" is more common in academic circles and amongst statisticians. The other interesting thing about this latin word is that it is plural but most who use it treat it as singular. The English pronunciation of the latin word "data" from the Reformation until the early 20th century, the period when anglicised latin was taught in public schools and grammar schools would have been "day-ta" (cf "radius", "mater", "pater", "creator", "dictator"). The "new" pronunciation of classical latin and the ecclesiastical latin of the Roman Catholic Church are more recent: they only date from the early 20th century and "data" would have been pronounced "da-ta" using those. "Dah-ta" must stem from that source too.

[@niallrussell7184]

annoys me when US uses dar-ta, but differently for day-ta-base.

[@pem...]

Day-ta👍🏻

[@danielferguson3784]

Highway is an originally British word applied to any important road. It does not apply only to motorways, which are major three lane roads. It comes from the ancient Roman roads, which were raised above the surrounding land, so actually they were 'high ways' . Later the term applied to the main Royal roads, along which the mail coaches ran. We have back yards in the UK. These are smaller paved yards, usually behind Victorian style terraced street houses. Anything bigger, with grass & plants is a garden. A subway in the UK is a foot walk under a street or similar, Or a sandwich. The Circle line is one of the London tube lines. In the UK it is route (root) as you say (route in Australia is a bit s----xual,)

[@maggieellison1017]

Almost all UK houses have a garden front and back with flower borders and if it is a large garden, one or two trees. A yard conjures up a concrete or paved area, like a builders yard, scrap metal yard, farm yard. Some smaller back to back, terraced houses that used to be mill workers homes have a yard at the back with nothing at the front bur a pavement and road. These yards were tiny, sufficient for a washing line, rubbish bin and outside toilet.

[@hannalee5756]

Sorry to quibble, but back to back houses didn't even have a back yard - they were one room deep and shared the back wall with the house in the next street, literally back-to-back.

[@DebraElias-uc6yz]

No they don't. Lots of streets, front straight on to the pavenent

[@Yecats5053]

13:16 in UK we say it as day-ta. Just think about Data in Star Trek TNG, they pronounce it the British way as that was how Patrick Stewart pronounced it and they ran with it

[@Phiyedough]

The London Underground is extremely easy to use, there are maps on the platform and in the carriages, so you don't get on in the wrong direction or whatever. You do often have to do one or two changes to different lines but you just look at the full system map to plan your route.

[@grabtharshammer]

Someone needs to tell her that the Circle Line is exactly that. Trains run clockwise and anti-clockwise. If you want to go to the next station, but you find that you are on a train going the opposite way to your station, just stay on the Tube until it goes all the was round and ends up at the station you wanted to get to.

[@wrs10]

Garden - brown stuff in which one can grow plants. Yard - hardened surface for vehicles.

[@johnp8131]

Listening to your opinion on driving, its not surprising that the majority of Americans that have passed their "test" in the US and think they're good drivers, fail miserably when they first take their tests here?

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Most Americans are NOT good drivers. Their standards are appallingly low. I would not trust your average American driver as far as I could throw them. Personally I think the UK standards are on the floor nowadays, paid "professional" drivers, ubers, cab drivers... paid to drive people around, can't use a roundabout, driving the wrong way down a one-way road, after missing two "no right turn" signs and then missing two "NO ENTRY" signs and driving straight at me forcing me to take evasive action... but the US level is really a whole new level of "low standards". I laugh when I hear Uber drivers talking about "I'm a professional driver"... most of them are appaling and cannot drive, they straddle lanes, cut people up, dilly dally at junctions, stop in stupid places blocking the entire road.

[@ukaly1]

Where are you getting it from that Americans don't have good driving tests and can't drive well? I emigrated here over 50 years ago when I was right at the age for driver's ed class in high school. We had to do classroom work as well as behind the wheel and have MANY hours of extra driving practice with parents before going to the dmv to take additional tests before receiving our license. We had to have a passing grade from school before graduating too. Driver's Ed class is still in effect to this day. Do you have that in the UK?

[@thefiestaguy8831]

@@ukaly1 You wouldn't have "Driver's education" in school in the UK because you don't start driving until you are 17. Most people are in sixth form at that point, about to leave and go off to uni or get a job. Isn't like your country where some states allow 14/15 year olds to drive and others it's 16... We aren't talking about the education behind it, it's the test. If the test is laughably easy as it is it would seem in the USA, then you might as well not bother with the education because any idiot could pass the test. You can sit there and proclaim the US test is not as easy as is made out, but I have heard from SO many people who come to the UK from the USA and state that the UK driving test is SO much harder, to the point many people fail it and don't re-attempt it, or keep failing it and just rely on public transport instead. Likewise I know people who moved to the USA, with british driving licenses, and stated just how "easy" and "Short" the US driving test was. One person told me they literally drove around an empty car park for 10-15 minutes and did a few parking manoeuvres and passed. In the UK the test is more like an hour long and features at least 15 minutes of driving either following road signs or a sat nav, heading to a particular place without ANY direction from the examiner, you are expected to drive towards that place and look out for, read and interpret road signs, that's how it was when I passed in 2013, nowadays they use sat navs. If you make the test so easy in most states, it doesn't matter how good the education behind it is, because any clown that hasn't had the he education could still pass it. More Americans are killed per 100,000 people than in the UK on the roads - so clearly the driving standards ARE lower... you also have SLOWER speed limits than we do and yet MORE people die per 100,000 people than over here, many of your roads are 20-25mph whereas a lot of ours are 30-40mph, your highways are typically 55-65mph whereas we have a 70mph limit and on a single narrow country lane in theory you can legally do 60mph provided it is safe to do so under your own judgement. A lot of yanks don't even know roundabouts or "traffic circles" exist and would panic if they saw one.... wait until they see the magic roundabout in Swindon then. You can try and argue with facts but it won't change anything. The Finns drive much better than us brits, and they take their driving seriously, I won't argue with that because it's quite well known. Oh, and you don't have an annual inspection on your vehicle, so that 19 year old who works in the local convenience store 20 hours a week and drives a rusted old Chevy which is falling apart can drive his car in a terrible condition without it being inspected on an annual basis, thus endangering other road users because he can't afford to maintain it properly. Don't forget on a lot of UK Roads you could have a lorry come flying towards you at 50-60mph passing you with just inches to spare as you travel in the other direction at the same speed, our roads are far smaller so navigating them confidently and competently takes more ability and skill. Your roads are ridiculously wide by comparison. There's a road near my house that is only wide enough for 1.5 cars - yes, not even two cars side by side. If an American saw the road I guarantee you they'd say "But that's a one-way road right?"... it isn't.

[@hilaryjones3227]

I have lived in the UK 70 years and I have NEVER heard anyone pronounce it DAATA we always pronounce it DAYTA.

[@urbanshadow777]

Some speed cameras in the UK are also paired with an anpr (automatic numberplate recognition) camera. If a driver has not paid their road tax or are uninsured, the camera can take a photo of the driver to send it to the DVLA and prove the driver was driving without without being legally covered.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Not quite. Believe me, I work in UK law enforcement. The photos are NOT taken of the driver. ANPR cameras take photos of each vehicle that passes, as well as flagging an alert if a vehicle of interest passes. The photos are as follows: 1 wide angled image, from the camera's position with no magnification. 1 zoomed image or "close up" of the registration plate There is no "photo of the driver" or close up of the driver taken. Having seen many images from ANPR cameras, often you can't tell if the person driving is a male or a female, let alone "who was driving".. a lot of the time all you see is arms and hands on the wheel.

[@BillCameronWC]

Many main roads in the UK, not just motorways, have average speed cameras. We call main roads highways too, indeed the book of rules for driving or using roads is called “the Highway Code”. The main roads, non motorways, are usually “A” roads, with a number after, eg. A1 or A9 etc. and when you’re on an average speed there’ll be a camera over the road at the start of the average speed zone, and some distance later a 2nd camera, also reading your number plate, and it’s a simple calculation whether you have kept within the speed limit or not.

[@ThéroigneRussell-s6v]

Husband was driving on the M20 motorway. Ahead was a 50mph zone for roadworks. Husband was slowing, wasn't in the 50mph zone but was sent on a driver speed education course. There used to be a 10mph leeway to allow for discrepancies in police vehicle speedometers, now there isn't. Husband was fined for being 2 mph over the speed limit. In E Sussex police allow some community groups to film drivers and they keep that footage in case the drivey speeds in future. Footage doesn't include calibrated speeds.

[@jorgehurford1742]

In England a yard implies a paved area, either in front or behind your house. An area with soil and plants and flowers etc, is a garden. When selling a house, it is often described as a "courtyard garden", meaning you have some flower beds or planters in your paved back yard, to sound better than a yard.

[@clemstevenson]

In the UK, the term 'highway' describes a main thoroughfare that is used by general traffic. On the other hand, Motorway usage is restricted to motor vehicles of sufficient power and speed.

[@neuralwarp]

Not necessarily Main. Just public.

[@clemstevenson]

@@neuralwarp That's a fair comment.

[@TheCornishCockney]

The utter confusion on your face Tyler regularly gobsmacked (shocked) at our “oddities” is sometimes very funny. Keep up the confusion!!

[@Keith-b4r8o]

In the UK, all major trunk roads were once called "highways" (the Kings Highway) - hence "highway men" like Dick Turpin and William Neverson. It's only since the late 1950s and the Preston Bypass that we have called major roads "motorways". We even have an agency called National Highways, formally Highways England, who look after these motorways.

[@JBS_Photography]

In my house anyway we say front and back garden to refer to the grass area in the front of my house and the area at the back of my house.

[@JoannDavi]

Americans used to call flip flops "thongs" before the underwear style became popular.

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

Fascinating.

[@101steel4]

They used to use the "U" in words too, until Webster came along 😂

[@ltrtg13]

No a subway is a road crossing for major road, roundabouts and junctions where pedestrians can cross the road safely. Under the main carriageway.

[@philiptodd6255]

Houses in the U.K. have gardens but certain older houses called terraced houses have back yards

[@angelstars6755]

I live in a terraced house. Built in 1900, I have a back garden, but out the front we call it a bay.

[@jeanniewarken5822]

@@angelstars6755 i live in a double bay and forcourt, the front paved area is therefore.. the Forecourt

[@ruthfoley2580]

A yard is an enclosed paved area. So a backyard is an enclosed paved area at the back of a property. A back garden usually has plants & some kind of lawn. I have a tiny front "garden" & a backyard.

[@tomkirkemo5241]

We have these speed cameras in Norway too. The average also. And not hust on the highways...all over actually. But the cameras are moved around in the the different boxes, there aren't always a camera in them. But when there are you can see this tiny red flash going of. :)

[@dutchyjamholland9296]

Yard is a small concrete area on the back of old victorian houses. So we have gardens mostly

[@Someloke8895]

Here's food for thought. The UK has Royal Mail as it's main postal service, and we call it Post. You guys have the United States Postal Service, yet call it Mail. (My dealings with USPS in the US are interesting to say the least...outside the US when it's not me doing the posting, quite positive)

[@GayJayU26]

Don’t you say Root 66 not Rowt 66?

[@Someloke8895]

@@GayJayU26 No, I say Route.

[@TheMrsH]

Yes, average speed cameras are common. Not just on motorways either. Usually at least 5 cameras in a set over a certain distance to measure average over a longer distance.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

It would never be 5 alone, they are paired. So it will always be an even number. However it's impossible to know what camera is paired to which other camera. You could pass 4 ANPR cameras... and assume they are paired 1+2, 3+4, when in fact it might be 1+3, 2+4, or 1+4, 2+3.... Also a lot of ANPR cameras are JUST ANPR... they don't enforce speed. ANPR cameras enforcing speed are almost always a yellow colour. Otherwise they are usually just ANPR camera used by law enforcement. I work in UK law enforcement and have seen plenty of images from ANPR cameras, and have access to an ANPR database that flags vehicles of interest and records all vehicles that pass them.

[@vickymc9695]

Highways is the group name for all road infrastructure in the UK. So it would be confusing to call a motorway this. The laws we have to lern to drive are called the highway code.

[@hilaryjones3227]

Another incorrect comment is we always say back garden. If the back of the house is all concrete, we call it backyard, if it has grass no matter how much or little we say back garden. I am a UK citizen born and bred and I can assure you, that is the rule.

[@BigAlCapwn]

In the UK "a yard", other than being a measurement, would be used to describe a place where you would store things, generally in a work setting. So for example, if you went to a home improvement store to buy a door, and there were none in the shop, the store assistant might say "I will go out and look in the yard to see if we have any more"

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

Yes - in the UK, a 'yard' is paved in some way, whereas the part with a lawn and possible shrubs and flowerbeds is the 'garden'. That's the difference. The yard is PAVED or concreted-over. The grassy bit is the garden, both front and/or back.

[@WyndStryke]

7:40 the camera probably went off because her numberplate was being obscured by the vehicle tailgating her. I.e., someone will have to manually match the vehicles to check their speed if the ANCR can't do it automatically. 8:40 And yes, there is a big flash.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

ANPR... also sometimes called ALPR. No such thing as ANCR.

[@WyndStryke]

@@thefiestaguy8831Yep, *A* utomatic *N* umber *P* late *R* ecognition (I guess the L is for *L* icence)

[@thefiestaguy8831]

@@WyndStryke Yes.

[@PaulineGaulton]

In the Uk, there are a lot of terraced style houses, they are rows of house’s all attached to each other, usually they have no gardens, at the back of the house, but they do have a walled back yard! But in the front, sometimes there is a small walled area, often just paved, but occasionally a small garden! But in the Uk it is much more common for every house to have a front garden and a back garden!.

[@shirleycraig]

If a foreigner or local tries to cut the queue, we do let them know that the queue is at the back.

[@katpawz622]

My old house had a back yard but I’d crammed it full of plants & flower-tubs and made it pretty, so I referred to it as my yarden.

[@johnm8224]

I believe I read somewhere that the concept of the speed camera actually came from a Dutch racing driver, who wanted to see exactly how fast he was going on track. Odd that a speed merchant came up with an idea that infuriates everyone else by keeping them slower than they want to! LOL

[@doodoowhite8577]

Yes we have a front garden and a back garden. we use the yard for industrial units e.g. the fork lift truck is in the yard

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

Using "Highway" in the UK would probably be regarded as referring to Major Roads that weren't Motorways. That is in the UK "A" Roads. There are certain restrictions that apply to Motorways, like no pedestrians, no vehicles of 50cc or less, no horses etc. In the UK we tend to think Americans refer to their "Motorways" as "Freeways". Average speed cameras don't flash. The "Instant speed" cameras do. We say Data not Darter in the UK. Of course Data is on the Star Ship Enterprise. Back yard is usually a paved area (usually in Terraced houses). If you have an area where grass or flowers etc are placed front or back of the house is a Garden. Dead give away in the UK if you ask where the "Toobe" is it's Tube with the "U" as in "you". Just like in the UK it's Tune not Toon (which is a Cartoon character). Just having fun.

[@neuralwarp]

Highways includes all roadways, footways, cycleways, bridleways, railways, tramways, waterways, seaways, airways, etc. Nothing to do with Major.

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

@@neuralwarp I didn't say what the actual definition was, just what most people would think you were talking about. If someone said ""I'm going on to the highway" nobody would think they meant they were going on a Bridleway.

[@ericevans4040]

The rules of the road is called the highway code, and refers to all roads (highway) the motorway has its own set of rules and restrictions as well as the highway code.

[@kieronimo1]

In the UK, underwear is a collective noun for pants (men's briefs), knickers (womens panties), thongs (g-strings), boxer shorts, vests, socks, bras etc

[@humblegamertube]

So I had a long discussion about this with my wife. We are both British. I'm just gonna come out and say it - socks aren't underwear. They're just socks. Underwear is bra, pants, knickers, boxers etc. I will die on this hill.

[@kieronimo1]

@@humblegamertube Wrong. Socks are absolutely 'under'wear because you 'wear' them 'under' your shoes and keep them in your 'underwear' drawer. I'm from the West Country and where I am from, socks are absolutely underwear. Where is your wife from?

[@humblegamertube]

@@kieronimo1 We are both Midlanders. And socks have their own drawer.

[@kieronimo1]

@@humblegamertube Different strokes for different blokes. In Gloucestershire and Bristol, socks are underwear.

[@kieronimo1]

Interestingly, a quick google search will show you that many have had this debate.

[@phoenixstave]

In Britain people will regularly do 20-30mph above the 70mph speed limit on the motorway.

[@TheJaxxT]

We say data as DATE- A here in the Uk and not as DAT-A (aka not the “fancy way” as you put it)

[@seandonohue6793]

A yard is a small paved/ concrete area at the back of a house, with high walls all around. Yards are usually in older outer city terraced houses and don’t have grass. Gardens are an area at the back of a house with grass, plants etc.

[@neilgayleard3842]

The yard or garden in Britain is partly a regional thing. But it's also about city or country living. It has its roots in the industrial revolution. It's the same with what people call different meal times.

[@Corfield81]

yeah I have a front Garden and a back Garden. both have lawns and flowers in etc

[@chrissmith8773]

Speed cameras do exist in some states in America, but as you never go out, you don’t see them.

[@candice6472]

We still have highways - motorways are just a type of road: "A highway is a main road. The word goes back a long way - hence highwayman. A motorway is a UK term for a road on which only motor vehicles are permitted."

[@JoannDavi]

Mistakes Tyler makes: "America doesn't have mountains, forests, coastal cities...."

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

Where's your OTT positive (obnoxious) American energy? You're so negative. Has the dream died for you?

[@InkyDaCaT]

Its 'Day ta' because in english the A after the D is changed to AY by the vowel at the end of the word. So At and Dat vs Ate and Date.

[@evelynwilson1566]

Here in Scotland we' d say garden or ' gairden'😊. It usually is a green space with grass, flowers and maybe vegetables. People often decorate them with garden gnomes, benches, bird feeders etc. They are simply called the back garden and front garden. A yard is a working space like a farmyard. I' d say ' root' and ' day- ta' and ironically I got a data warning as I typed this😅😅

[@kittyjohnstone5915]

We also have drying greens (in Scotland anyway), or, more commonly “the back green”

[@42RiverDragon42]

Gardens have plants or at least a lawn, yards are paved/concreted or other hard barren ground. A lot of homes here are terraced and only have space behind the house so no need to differentiate. Its just "the garden". I was lucky enough to grow up with both front and back gardens but we just say "out the back" or "on the front"

[@mubbles1066]

We all say dayta in the Uk

[@lizardthetongue]

👍

[@ericevans4040]

A lot if not most yards are commercial, builders yard, scrap yard etc , most domestic homes have a garden with lawns hedges flowers etc, even patios will have pot plants.

[@DavidDoyleOutdoors]

Most speed cameras have a 10%+2mph over the speed limit margin to allow for any inaccuracies in speedometers The good thing about average speed camera is if you think you’ve been speeding then you just need to drive slower before the next camera to bring down your average. The cameras are usually bright yellow to make you aware of them

[@Madders23]

I heard that has now changed. With AI it will need to be spot on apparently!

[@mmcbey1401]

@@Madders23 A proposed change - it's not in force yet but it may happen.

[@sjbict]

. @mmcbey1401 and they work with infra red so work at night too

[@Shoomer1988]

How would AI know if your speedometer is out?@@Madders23

[@Shoomer1988]

It's just a small group of MP's. I can't see it happening, not even the police want it.@@mmcbey1401

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

What you consider a 'garden' we would probably call a flowerbed. We use 'backyard' for a specific type of area which would generally not include any flowerbeds and is usually paved.

[@sdm9099]

My wife is from the USA and I used to live and work there. We were just entertaining friends from Chicago over here in the UK and my family were constantly picking me up on using American words instead of British words. Being surrounded by people from the USA for a few days switched my language! They teaeed me a lot over it.

[@fxtgwal]

As a brit, who drives a reasonable amount, and has for some years now.... I've literally never heard of(until this vid) or witnessed random speed camera flashes... never.(only obviously genuine ones)

[@ritamoffat2732]

A back yard in UK is what a small space with an outside toilet attached to a very poor property many years ago was called. From about 1950s houses were built with gardens even for the poorer people. 😮

[@LoremIpsum1970]

Not true.

[@ponygirl]

So you think all people with back yards are poor, where do you live Buckingham Palace? 😂

[@LoremIpsum1970]

@@ponygirl It's a modern urban-centric view that ignores variations across the country and it's history. Even Buckingham Palace wasn't connected to a watercourse/sewer and had a cess pit for quite some time.

[@SThomas1972]

The average speed camera normally used in road works but they have been popping up in permanent locations in some area. speeding tickets have to be issued with in 14days but the one that flash are not average cameras but the fixed location one the measure your speed at the location and will go off twice not once.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

The UK has the 6th safest roads in the world. The US only ranks 26th. The UK has 3.21 road deaths per 100,000 people. While the US has 12.26 road deaths per 100,000 people.

[@rayjones2150]

AVG speed cams are not only on Motorways (M-class), but A-roads have them too - but not if there are many side roads. In that case flashing speed cams are used - often near schools. Often ANPR (automatic number plate recognition - realtime!) will combine with AVG Speed Cams - so if the police want you, beware. IT pro's use "dater" have heard an old accountant use "darta" but rare these days (retired database designer). Motorways (4+ lanes) have slip roads (off ramps), other highways have roundabouts or crossroads. They have different speed limits,70,60,50. A or B class roads are 50,40,30,20 depending on pedestrian density (20 near schools).

[@margueriteperry9302]

Tyler, having lived in Australia, it's rather obvious you didn't get the significance of her not wanting to pronounce "Route" as "Root." Knowing how shocked you were by the British meaning of the word, "fanny," I was waiting for your reaction, but it didn't happen. Google that before part 2.

[@elemar5]

He won't see your comment as he doesn't bother reading them which is why he is still daft.

[@CM-ey7nq]

Average speed cameras are extremely common in Norway as well. Take fx tunnels (we have lots and lots of those). Your speed might be measured by a camera when going in and when going out. Hence "average speed".

[@JoannDavi]

A "fancy" word like "garden" doesn't transform those tiny tracts of property into big ones.

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

At least British homes are built to last. American houses are cheap shoddy lean-to's.

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

Most British homes have a garden back and front. Yards are less common so garden is not just some fancy term, Thicko.

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

You need to get out of the USA and see something of the rest of the world.

[@jerry2357]

In Britain, a highway is any main road, not just dual carriageways intended for high speed driving like motorways. There are even highways in the north of Scotland that are single track roads with passing places to pass vehicles coming in the other direction. The set of rules you need to learn and inwardly digest before learning to drive is the "Highway Code".

[@kwlkid85]

It's not just main roads literally every road is part of the public highway (unless it's private).

[@Shoomer1988]

A legally speaking a 'highway' in England and Wales is any road open to the public, including bridleways. Scotland has a slightly different definition.

[@sugeypopplanet]

day-ta is the british pronunciation of data

[@weegerri1sm]

Not where I'm from. (Scotland) Even in the '70s-'80s I always remember it being pronounce dah-ta. When we got computer studies at school, during Thatcher's Computer Literacy course, the teachers pronounced it dah-ta. Even college tutors and university professors in computer science at the time pronounced it dah-ta. It makes sense because it comes from the Latin word Datum. It is, in fact, the plural form of the word Datum. There is no "ay" sound in Latin and it was, archaically, often spelled Daata. The double A emphasizes the "ah" sound. (Think about the "Quagaars" joke in Red Dwarf). The first place I ever heard it pronounced "day-ta" was in the US show, Star Trek TNG. In the UK many of these things are regional.

[@101steel4]

English

[@OEDODRAGON]

Yeah, it's back garden (or just 'garden') and front garden here (UK). Even if it's just concrete, or a badly kept lawn, or a mixture of both, it will still be called a garden no matter how awful it looks. Most gardens will have a mixture of lawn, trees, bushes, and plants, depending on size.

[@JoannDavi]

The other meaning of "root" went right over Tyler's little brain.

[@lizardthetongue]

Thick asf

[@PANTECHNICONRecordings]

There’s a confusion here between the words “root” and “route”. She’s referring to the latter, which Americans (I think) would pronounce “rowt”, whereas we Brits would pronounce both words the same way - “root”. Then again, we also have the word “rout”…

[@ukaly1]

​@@PANTECHNICONRecordingsAmericans pronounce some words differently depending on where they live. Some say root, some say rowt. Just as some say creek and some say crick. America is huge compared to Britain with a lot more people and different accents.

[@phoenixheart79]

When she's talking about the Tube, the different routes (lines) are named not numbered. So there's the Circle line, the Northern line, Bakerloo line etc and trains run both directions along them.

[@TaoistYang]

We do use the word 'Highway' but we use it in a wider context. Our rule booklet on driving is called 'The Highway Code.' :-) You might enjoy looking a vods about the origin of the English 'garden.'

[@ACDelboy]

Grass, flowers, shrubs and trees. A back garden. We also have front gardens too

[@mikebreslin9831]

Average speed cameras are more often used for sections of roads under repair. Yes they flash when taking a photo. Also the back yard in the UK it's a back garden, and front garden.

[@dougwhatup3811]

Reading some of these comments on the expanse around a house I believe depends on where your from, My area would call the whole grounds Our Yard including the backyard and not necessarily as to be paved, no matter the size and only the planted area the garden where ever its situated

[@gracesprocket7340]

British roads: the whole country is covered by a network of 'highways and byways' linking the towns and villages together. These are one or two lane bi-directional roads, which are paved for highways, and optionally paved for byways. A motorway is a much larger road with usually 3+ lanes in each direction of the divided highway - it has different speed limits and access rules to any other trunk road, which can be larger and dual carriageways (with 2+ lanes each way) in some places. A-roads - which can be trunk routes (pronounced 'root') more often have dual carriageway status, but can be quite narrow in the 'higher number' subroutes B routes are slightly subordinate linking between smaller towns or cross-linking the A routes, C or unclassified routes are often quite compact and winding, if the topography suited shallower slopes for horse drawn waggons when they were laid out... (A3 is likely to be a major artery (with some promoted in part to (M) or motorway equivalent status, A35 a significant route in the same 'quadrant' of the UK but is likely to be a trunk route joining major routes or settlements, A352 a more subordinate route... and by the time you are in B3533 territory you have typically a carriageway for bi-directional travel which is only just 'comfortably' wide enough for two lorries to meet and pass, and sometimes one may need to slow and pull to the side, or seek a passing-place for both to continue. Below this are myriad C-class roads, which can be similar too or smaller than B-roads, with occasional exceptions where an important access requires a wider carriageway on a route which is low on the hierarchy of routes. So a 'highway' is virtually any paved road linking places - and can vary from 2.5m to two 15m carriageways... and by-ways can be from around 1.5m to 4m depending on what they are used for. Within towns and large villages (there may be more than one inside the boundary of the modern town) the section of the ancient highway is often known as the 'high street' where the old market, a major church, the green and some larger and more prosperous buildings were situated... often these historical monuments survive in whole or in part into the modern fabric of towns spared from the worst deprivations of the 1940-1941 Baedeker tour, and the 1960s 'regeneration' programs. A motorway is *always*-ish 15+m per carriageway, but never as wasteful of space as US highways in the LA area appear to be.

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

Very few Brits now have "yards" which have no plants. We now have a lot of plants (often weeds) so call them gardens.

[@rochelleb5661]

Day ta in the uk. Yes we have back yards but they are usually low to no maintenance usually concrete or slabs and typically quite a small high walled space.

[@stevebeever2442]

Yeah we have backyards but they are just bare concrete or slabs that are void of life. Usually found in working class terrace houses. Most houses have front and rear gardens with grass lawn & flowers ect

[@stuartfaulds1580]

The average speed camera's are usually sections of road up to around 20 miles with a set of camera's every mile or two. I also once had a standard speed camera go off as I passed it doing just under the limit, the reason it was triggered was the numpty speeding past overtaking me. In the Uk we tend to use Yard in reference to a companies external storage area, for houses it's usually front and or back gardens.

[@jemsjemski533]

Born and bred Brit here! If you say I’m having a BBQ in the garden… it implies it’s in my garden out the back of my house… we don’t use yard… they aren’t yards big enough to be called a back/front yard! It’s definitely a front or back garden! Front gardens are normally pretty small in comparison to rear gardens…

[@ronbaird5515]

A yard is usually a place tradesmen use to store materials. Gardens front, back and sides surround houses.

[@tonyspencer692]

With motorway and major A roads, most counties allow 10% variance, so in a 50mph area you will get away with 55mph, and a few counties allow 10% + 2 = 57mph, but that is not standard. Random photos are taken for vehicles that are uninsured or stolen.

[@kareno6986]

Average speed cameras aren’t just on motorways, they can be on main roads too and they can flash when they go off.

[@carolineskipper6976]

Understanding what a 'Motorway' is can be important, as slightly different driving rules apply (for example 'Learner Drivers' are not allowed to use them, the speed limit is higher than on any other roads) so you do need to be able to discriminate between a normal dual carriageway and a mortorway, even though they initially may look very similar. In the UK we tnd to call any outdoor space at our homes a 'garden'. We do use 'backyard' but this means specifically a concreted area with no greenery. Most Brits have at least some plants in their garden, and it's common to have a lawn and flower beds.

[@c_n_b]

Dual carriageways can also be 70mph