Worst British slang | pls don't say these British words

Don't get me wrong: I love living in the UK. There's few things better than a pint at the local pub. But my god, there's a lot of British slang I hate! Here's the worst British slang that all foreigners should avoid (and locals, too, in my humble opinion). Let's all agree to never utter these British slang words and phrases for the rest of existence.
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I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a KZbin video every Tuesday and an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:30pm GMT on Twitch.
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[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I LOVE THE UK!!!!!! Thought I should shout that in the comments just in case…

[@skyebates246]

That's it I have spoken to the authorities and you are gonna be removed. disgraceful

[@lwaves]

You chose to be here, we were born here, you probably love it more than we do.

[@MrFurriephillips]

"The missus" has nothing on "'er indoors" *cringe* kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGPZf617eslob9k

[@MrFurriephillips]

"Fit" is a bit gross, as it's clear objectification.

[@StunnedByWrestling]

"if you've got a problem with our language then you can just turn round and..." J/k big fan of your work

[@hicharleswalker5408]

we will stop using Snog if you stop using "make out"

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Let's all agree to just say "kiss" instead

[@TheYorkRose]

Get off

[@ianwalker6546]

Kiss is what you share with your grandmother at a family wedding. Snog is what you share with your girlfriend at 3am outside a nightclub. They are not synonyms!

[@WhereWhatHuh]

Okay, so is "swap spit" okay?

[@jitenhkm]

Also a brand of frozen yoghurt in the uk.

[@jadagod]

I’m convinced nobody in the history of the world has combined “it’s a beautiful day” with “init bruv” until now 😂

[@Reubinv]

Sounds like a line from Marry Poppins

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@dilligaf73]

They do in my area...

[@system3008]

@MāTT omg. That killed me. 😂😂😂

[@StephenA92]

A polite chav

[@TomJohnson67]

I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE FOR THIS The missus got me a box of stale choccy biccies and a bog roll for Crimbo. Is she having a bubble? Later that day, we went down the pub and saw a bloke chatting up a bird at the bar. She was just trying to eat her nosh, when some plank next to them shook the bottle of tommy k too hard. It exploded and everyone was splattered with the stuff! "Bloody Norah!" I yelled. We were done with the pub, and covered in red sauce, so I decided to pop next-door for a cheeky Nando's.

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

Very Good!!!

[@richardschofield2201]

Good effort

[@stephenlee5929]

Ledge

[@PIANOPHUNGUY]

Now is this in a cockney accent? Or northern perhaps?

[@jazchaz1274]

Top !!!! Everything you have posted is perfectly normal in the UK.....I think Alanna needs to understand its all said in a jokey manner......

[@jamesmurison6881]

Idk about you, but I felt a swell of national pride when hearing these slang words

[@normansippel6553]

You've wiped out some peoples whole vocabulary.

[@ThisWontEndWell]

Do we put roadblocks around Essex and not let them leave the county until they speak proper Canadian?

[@dave_h_8742]

@@ThisWontEndWell certainly sounds like they are all Essex words and phrases

[@589steven]

@@ThisWontEndWell Yea, you would hear most of these words if you watch TOWIE. I gave up on that years ago.

[@patrickholt2270]

Innit.

[@jruz1738]

@@dave_h_8742 I was thinking the same thing, I think someone has been watching Towie on the sly.

[@petewilliamson4935]

I think you are hilarious But " Chat up"?Is better than" Hitting on someone " I like to chat to women not hit them.

[@WhereWhatHuh]

"Hitting on" is from the idea of responding to bait. One angler might say to another, "what are they biting?" and the second might respond, "They're hitting on worms and spoons" or whatever lure is working. The concept of hitting on a person is to take the bait (even if the "bait" is merely the fact that the lady is naturally attractive).

[@trevorpomroy550]

Chat up is more descriptive of the action taking place.

[@suecole6473]

'Hitting on' is predatory, 'chat up' is mutual.

[@britishgentlemanmatt7146]

I'm sorry Alana, but, as a proper true British Gentleman I'm going to use these words for the rest of my life.

[@sjnm4944]

I will confess I've never heard of "Tommy K" as a slang term for ketchup. It sounds more like a men's fashion brand quite frankly.

[@evertonshorts9376]

I think I went to school with Tommy K. I think his brother's ont telly.

[@AlisonBryen]

It sounds like a chav fashion brand!

[@danielmartin5632]

Bit late on this one but, it will probably not surprise you,, this is used frequently used here in Liverpool (I use it too!).

[@PIANOPHUNGUY]

Tommy Hilfiger?

[@PIANOPHUNGUY]

@@AlisonBryen chav?

[@MeStevely]

Snog isn’t just a kiss - it’s full-on going for it kissing, not a peck on the cheek.

[@bloodspatteredguitar]

Exactly- the word sounds a bit messy because the thing it names is a bit messy!

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

@@bloodspatteredguitar I agree. A kiss is... just a kiss. One, single kiss. Whereas, cuddling up on the sofa and getting really stuck-into a prolonged, drawn-out kissing session... that's snogging. There really isn't another, more suitable word for it I'm afraid.

[@playmyhero]

I live in the North and when I was young we used to call it cop off with 🤣

[@connorward2400]

The context of its uses, justifies its use

[@paulshepherd1348]

Ah you mean a bit of tonsil hockey! Lol I know for a fact Alanna would hate that! Lol

[@peterdodge7513]

What should you do if a bird sh*ts on your windscreen? Refuse to take her out again.

[@yoicksitsyorick317]

'Chat up' is nice and friendly; how can you prefer the violent-sounding 'hitting on'?

[@bobbierocksbuster5584]

I'm from northern England and have never ever heard of "having a bubble"

[@spyhunter66]

I still dont know what it means… having a drink maybe?

[@Bakers_Doesnt]

@@spyhunter66 "bubble bath" (baff) - laugh, in Mockney rhyming slang. Took me a long time to realise it wasn't a rhyme for 'bubble and squeak'.

[@stuartcarden1371]

"The misses gave me a cheeky nosh round the back of Nandos. She went at me like a fresh packet of choccy biccys." I'm guessing that kind of sentence will invoke pure Canadian rage (rightly so). It could have been worse but I couldn't bring myself to write more.

[@TheCornishCockney]

😄

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Crimbo nosh! Lol.

[@TheErador]

I'm surprised - 'er indoors - didn't make it to the list, but these appear to be mainly southern or ubiquitous slang

[@garlicbreath7259]

This is your worst video ever.

[@johnharrison1966]

I met the man once who invented window sills what a ledge 😂😂😂

[@dismafuggerhere2753]

he's here all week folks

[@xenu-dark-tony]

@@dismafuggerhere2753 Am shocked and saddened that he did that.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@brianparker663]

Thanks Tim...; )

[@keefsmiff]

Nice........ man who invented the fireplace? ... fkin grate

[@merrytrek]

I have never in my life heard 'You havin' a bubble?' in my times living in Wales, South West, North West, Midlands and Yorkshire. I wonder what other South East gems I have been deprived of 🤔

[@tanyahicks4368]

It is cockney rhyming slang. The whole phrase is 'you 'avin a bubble bath' meaning are you having a laugh. Mick Carter often says it in Eastenders

[@idlesurfer214]

@@tanyahicks4368 You havin' a giraffe? :)

[@EricIrl]

@@tanyahicks4368 I've lived in the South of England for 36 years and never heard "'Avin' a bubble" - but then, I haven't watched "Eastenders" since 1985.

[@AlisonBryen]

Everyday I wake up I thank the lord I'm a Midlander and not a Cockney!

[@Oxley016]

I'm from Newcastle and my grandad will say 'are you having a giraffe?' instead.

[@ZenEmu01]

Norah (as it was spelt in the 17th century), was a maid who worked for Duke Wodingtonshire. She killed one of his other servants with a stick of celery. After walking in on the bloody scene, of Norah clubbing a corpse with a vegetable, the Duke coined the phrase. Health and safety in the work place in the 17th century wasn’t all it is now, but I believe that celery related murders have since been on the decline.

[@Jamie_Smith.]

This is just a 23 ways to annoy Alanna video for anyone on here that crosses paths with you!

[@Stucow77]

@NE Guy innit!

[@charisse234]

Jamie Smith I know what you mean.sadly folks can be cruel even more so when they know what upsets /annoys you! Unfortunately you are right! peace and love 💖

[@bobl.1044]

Innit bruv!

[@frogandspanner]

It is not "Lurgy" - it is "The Dreaded Lurgi". People of my age will remember this fictitious disease from the radio series The Goon Show.

[@ziggarillo]

Yuckabooo, yuckaboo! I should have said "I - Eeeeeeeeh Yakka-Boo"

[@jerribee1]

Don't forget The Telegoons.

[@frogandspanner]

@@jerribee1 I remember them well - at around the same period that BBC was testing stereo broadcasting , one channel on TV one on radio.

[@greghilton7797]

I think 'dreaded lurgy' started with the Spanish flu post WWI and these days represents cold & flu symptoms.

[@brianparker663]

You can cure it by buying an E flat trombone.

[@michaelhather9753]

I do wish people from North America would stop saying 'hate' when they mean dislike. Hate is such a powerful and emotive word which shouldn't be used so casually.

[@ralphhathaway-coley5460]

........ but is typical 'american' exaggeration and hype.

[@steveeason2207]

Yep...being Northern...I almost fell off my chair when the word 'Nosh' came up..........it doesn't mean food here!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Same, and the "you avin a bubble?" isn't used here. And "Lurgy" where i am is used by children to be the equivalent to what Americans might call "cooties"

[@wolflair3329]

It's still taken orally though

[@lesmatthews6684]

It has a secondary meaning down south, London anyway as a Londoner retired to Sussex I've not heard it used down here,not the secondary one anyway.(rude)

[@tristandunn4628]

Depends on whether it's used as a noun or a verb!!

[@brxee]

Cor, someone's a fussy bugger today.

[@lawrencegt2229]

"Having a bubble" is Cockney rhyming slang for having a laugh, the full (never spoken) phrase would be "Bubble bath"

[@Swaino66]

Loved this one. Give it another 5 years and you’ll be yelling “bog roll” from the rooftops!

[@brianparker663]

At least "chat up" sounds friendly. The US term "hitting on" someone sounds a bit violent! : (

[@trickygoose2]

Also you can "chat up" someone in a platonic sense e.g. in business. I don't think you can "hit on" someone platonically.

[@paulshepherd1348]

I'm ashamed to say that now.... 11 years in Canada and that's what happens!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

To me, "chat up" sounds greasy, like someone on Love Island would say it 😂

[@brianparker663]

@@AdventuresAndNaps The people on Love Island speak??? I thought it would just be a series of incoherent grunts!

[@chrisduncan7257]

@@AdventuresAndNaps Whats Love Island?

[@LiamE69]

Words have a taste and snog tastes like Lambrini and Marlboro lights.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@2ridiculous41]

It's been a long time since I'd even consider snogging anyone who smoked.

[@caseyh8386]

We always said "get off with..." instead of "snog" round here. Now I'm an adult I think snog is at least nicer than that 😂

[@2ridiculous41]

@@caseyh8386 but snogging is kissing and getting of with is effectively picking up or perhaps now hooking up.

[@tonyves]

"Ball and chain"? Oh, you mean my "trouble and strife".

[@rklrkl64]

Never heard anyone say "Havin' a bubble" (it's highly region-specific Cockney rhyming slang: bubble bath = laugh) or "Tommy K" either to be honest. Nothing wrong with "chat up" in my books - fun and flirty slang unlike the terribly aggressive "hitting on" that you seemed to compare it to.

[@Poppygirl64]

They don't even say 'havin' a bubble' in London.

[@arrowsmithism]

A kiwi mate of mine has got me saying “shit tickets” (said in your best New Zealand accent) instead of toilet paper

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Oh my god that's hilarious 😂

[@playmyhero]

Omg that's funny 😆

[@nickreeve9644]

In New Zealand speak that would be 'Shet Teckits'?

[@davidbrowne3761]

LOL

[@timothydraper6626]

Excellent slang!

[@James-StJames]

My Uncle just set a new record for getting 27 Pigeons to land on him. What a ledge. - Stewart Francis

[@gareth8971]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@mylah4507]

Legend!!!!!!

[@TheDinger777]

Bloody Nora, what a Ledge, give him a choccy Biccy

[@sarahpriest100]

I can't hear 'choccy' without hearing 'chalky' - I was horrified when I first heard someone talk about what I thought was "chalky milk"!

[@PikaJess123]

Okay the way you say innit is killing me 😂😂😂 But these are so southern that ive never even heard of "you havin a bubble" in my life. Maybe you're just meant to be up north?

[@Jamie_Smith.]

What ever you do, don’t watch ‘The Inbetweeners’ it’ll be your worst nightmare!

[@fatbelly27]

She'd like it. It's very funny

[@chanchito4401]

Clunge

[@jimmybean6090]

Bus wankers ..... 😂

[@Rudromukherjeenerv]

Or phone shop! You get me fam?

[@ayeready6050]

Have a little nosh on this Doris

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

"Simples" needs to be eradicated. See also "Well jel" and "Amazeballs"

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

You're right!! 😂

[@normansippel6553]

Amazeballs is gone now. I use it ironically and everyone gets it.

[@geoffpoole483]

On pain of death.

[@dave_h_8742]

Agree 100% (not 150% 🤬)

[@brxee]

Totes!

[@flintymaguire1309]

Interesting to hear slang words grouped together, but telling people not to use their own cultural references and slang words is insufferably arrogant.

[@Americathebeautiful49]

She is just pulling the mickey. Don’t get all ahgie bahgie.

[@Jamie_Smith.]

People who call their partners “Babe” that’s one I can’t stand!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Ugh, you're totally right!

[@DontPanicDear]

Cringe inducing and common as muck, at the same time. These people also go on ‘Their Hollybobs’ Instead of going on Holiday’ 🙄

[@dallassukerkin6878]

Utterly concur ... sadly my missus sometimes calls me this ... but she is a Yank, so what can you expect? :D

[@DontPanicDear]

@@dallassukerkin6878 I know! You can only do so much. Well done for taking a colonial anyway 👍🏻 Good luck 👊🏻

[@dallassukerkin6878]

@@DontPanicDear :grins: I do have my revenge tho', when I wish her "Happy Treason Day!" when the 4th comes around :chuckles:.

[@sheiladunk7583]

I hate bro, more so when they are not brothers.

[@carlhartwell7978]

Perhaps you only hate it because it's something only guys can say and you have a problem with guys having something for themselves.

[@patrickholt2270]

I feel like its an American import, not proper to anyone's real neighbourhood here.

[@TheYorkRose]

U ok bro

[@homerlovedonuts]

you get me bruv

[@TheYorkRose]

nw bruh

[@maxplanck9055]

Alanna is confessing she is not young anymore,young people confuse her, bless her,she's joined the adult world who are permanently confused by young people and now she's one of us!🤗😘❤️🇧🇻

[@Rollwithit699]

Not old, just more intelligent.

[@bobl.1044]

Next time we see Alanna, she'll be sat in her rocking chair with her white hair in a bun with a big hairpin through it, wearing a cardie and shawl, knitting away... Looking all granny.

[@DontPanicDear]

Somebody far more talented than I, should create a mashup of Alanna using all of these terms, to a nice rhythm. Such a shame she didn’t say ‘Rumpy Pumpy’ though 😂

[@bobl.1044]

Maybe if we all crowd fund Politics Joe; they might do it 😉 Yeah Alanna - why you no say rumpy pumpy!?

[@Poppygirl64]

As a Londoner I've only ever heard 'you having a giraffe' I'm presuming bubble is a modern thing.

[@leematthews6812]

'You havin' a bubble?' Never heard that phrase in my 58 years of life in Britain. Maybe I've led a sheltered existence. So....will there be a follow-up with Canadian slang Alanna dislikes?

[@Chumber3403]

Same here - never heard of it. Maybe regional, but I’m not that far from Kent, so if it’s regional it’s a very small regional!

[@leematthews6812]

@@Chumber3403 Reading through the comments, it comes from 'bubble bath'. Sounds a bit contrived...but then so does 'You're havin' a giraffe', which I HAVE heard.

[@exeterman2]

It's cockney rhyming slang, "bubble bath" - "laugh". I'd agree you've lived a sheltered life to have not heard that in 58 years

[@redeye118]

Howwwww lol I use to hear 'you having a bubble bath giraffe laugh' 😂

[@SleepyCrumpet]

Some people say “havin a bubbly” like... a drink or something. Maybe she meant that? Idk

[@barrygower6733]

The misses are unmarried women; the missus is ‘er indoors.

[@patrickholt2270]

I feel like you would have hated Loadsa Money, the Harry Enfield character, who was so popular he had his own music single.

[@FAS1948]

I would not dream of going to another country and criticising their use of their own language, and I will continue to speak my native language until I die, regardless of what non-native English speakers think.

[@NiAr658]

Let's not talk about how British people behave as tourists, honey...

[@NiAr658]

Oh, and nobody owns any country. People happen to be born in countries. Got it?

[@flannelmeister]

Do people REALLY say tommy k??? Horsewhipping is too good for them, frankly.

[@Rosie6857]

No, it's about right.

[@xmassent]

"You're having a giraffe" meaning "You're having a laugh" is what you'd say instead of " you must be joking" is actually one of my favourite sayings I Dunno why that come to mind watching this video 🤣🤣

[@Silly_lesbian]

Imagine moving from where you live to somewhere else and saying that the slang they use is what they shouldn’t use :)

[@andersonsmith8625]

This was a bants video, you're an absolute ledge Alanna

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!!

[@markthomas2577]

'Red Sauce' is to distinguish it from 'Brown Sauce' which are the only two types of sauce that anyone ever ate until we became all continental and sophisticated

[@welshdragon99]

We had mustard, pickle, and picalilli too...

[@mlaithe3526]

In cafés you had ketchup in a red bottle and brown sauce in a brown bottle thats why its often called red sauce

[@derekmills5394]

Nope there was Hot Sauce too aka Worcestershire - nothing else was spicy! Chilies had yet to reach mainstream UK

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

@@mlaithe3526 Yeh - but - to me, calling ketchup 'red sauce' is like using baby-talk. When I was a kid, back in the '50s, even I used to call it 'tomato sauce' - saying 'red sauce' would've been beneath my dignity, even at that age! And I suppose 'Tommy K' is just a very very silly way of trying to abbreviate 'tomato ketchup' - trying to sound 'hip' but failing miserably!

[@mlaithe3526]

@@SteveParkes-Sparko dignity of language maybe but I've heard a few in my time asking a server if they had any more red.

[@10pmixupuk65]

A cautionary note: Slang can have vastly differing meanings depending on where you are in the UK. Call someone 'mush' in Hampshire he's a friend - in Lancashire it's insulting!

[@dave_h_8742]

Punch in the mush

[@caw25sha]

Trevor Francis track suits from a mush in Shepherd's Bush.

[@gmanfresh3129]

Havin a bubble is cockney rhyming slang for "having a laugh" meaning " are you taking the piss?" (Bubble bath = laugh) The manner in which it's said can be a prelude to violence, it's not necessary "silly". Also, a nosh is a blow job

[@julesjwg]

I've never met a rude Canadian before now...how very rude to come to our country and tell us not to use words cos you don't like it 🤣

[@reckley]

You can't blame us for "Nosh" that's Yiddish slang. US actor Tom Wilson (Biff from Back to the Future) uses it in his Question song.

[@Uniqorn]

I once caught the lergy from a choccy biccy at Crimbo and had to blow my nose in the bog roll all day.

[@grahamgleed9040]

What a ledge!

[@chrisryan3770]

😂 Irrational annoyance at inert words? This is the most British video on KZbin! 😂 You should probably post your Canadianess to Canada House. You’ve become one of us.🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@stewvaardt7376]

Yeah! You could start with "badonkadonk" !!!

[@CommunicationandConflict]

You got the English accent when you said 'You 'avin a bubble?'....perfect!

[@dunebasher1971]

"Tommy K" for tomato ketchup seems to be a relatively modern thing. I've never actually heard anybody using it in real life, I only know if it from various YT/social media posts.

[@saultrue]

Have heard tomatoes referred to as 'tommy toes'.

[@billyplayle4124]

Loo Rolls is a brilliant US singer ('You'll Never Find' is my favourite of his)

[@cheekychimp8045]

My favourite is "Puppy Loves" (reference the adverts)

[@KingBollock]

There was a cafe in Looe (in Cornwall), that sold crusty Looe rolls, and filled crusty Looe rolls... Wouldn’t work in the Midlands where they’re called batches, not rolls.

[@PrairiePolarBear]

Lou Rawls!! That’s awesome! 😂😂😂

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Yes, Lou actually knew the joke, and found it absolutely hilarious! (Edwin Starr told him about it!)

[@jonhigginson4096]

You’ll never find is a belter!

[@wallaceprice659]

I use these words a lot, but NEVER to foreigners , due to the fact they don’t know what I am on about,

[@tom6493]

“You havin a bubble?” Is shortened Cockney Rhyming Slang and the bubble refers to Bubble bath=laugh. Same with “havin a butchers”, butcher’s hook=look etc.

[@wyatt0003]

The worst slang word by a country mile is Bruv.....its so annoying and chavvi!

[@antman5474]

do you know what ameeeen

[@normansippel6553]

Being American I was once called a "septic". As in rhyming slang "septic tank" for Yank. Obviously that can go. But generally I love the fact that the Brits have so many slang words for so many things. It makes the North American vocabulary seem so boring.

[@Canalcoholic]

I thought “septic” or “seppo” was more Australian slang. As a Brit I would be more inclined to think of you as a Sherman. Now I’m perfectly happy if you now think I’m a “merchant” (banker).

[@Sophie.S..]

'Septic' is definitely British. Never heard of 'Sherman' before - but I like it and think I'll use it from now on.

[@white-dragon4424]

@@Canalcoholic It's originally Cockney rhyming slang that's caught on in the rest of the UK and with some Aussies.

[@Munklers]

@@Canalcoholic lol I thought Sherman was rhyming slang for something completely different...

[@kevoconnor145]

I must admit I use septic a lot when talking about Americans

[@gdj6298]

'Eh' is not exclusively Canadian - we've been using it for yonks, but usually in conjunction with certain phrases rather than as an all purpose suffix. Roses are red Violets are grey They ought to be blue But ne'mind, eh ?

[@tommybeck1811]

Ketchup used to come in different variants and colors. So maybe it came from that... "Pass me the ketchup please" "The white or red sauce?"

[@Septic-Savlon]

You literally just made a video on why northerners finds Southerners annoying..😂😂

[@dave_h_8742]

Yes i have commented on them being mostly southern

[@Willenium2k4]

I think she'd shit the bed if she started trying to digest how the vocab changes the further north you go. Even I can't make sense of some things I've seen and heard.

[@CosmicAeon]

I'm southern and I despise most of those words as well. More specifically, it feels like most of them are essex lad culture type words, which deserves all the ridicule it can get.

[@paulshepherd1348]

Yes.... most of those are annoying southern sayings! 🙄🙄

[@My_Work_Here_is_Done..]

Yeah because northern slang sounds good 🙄🙄

[@Bexyboo88]

My stepdad is in his 60's and uses words like: 'a Dolly' - referring to a girlfriend etc.. like bird. 'a Ruby' or 'Ruby Murray' - A curry 'Bless his/her cotton socks' He sometimes say 'something' like this - "Sah-ink" 'Choccy', 'Biccy', 'Choccy Biccy', 'Av we got any choccy biccys?' 'He says 'Across' like this - "Acrost" 'One in the eye' - a pie 'A cuppa charlie' - a cup of tea 'The ol' woman' or 'My ol' woman' - wife 'She who must be obeyed' - wife 'Sap' - someone who's a bit of a wimp 'Lully' - Describing someone or something that is cute and lovely And there are probs many more I can't think of right now.

[@patrickholt2270]

That's local and working class as well as age. Its part of accent and pride in your roots.

[@nickbrough8335]

I think the "correct" term was a Dolly Bird :)

[@Bexyboo88]

@@nickbrough8335 Yes you're right, I think he just shortens it to Dolly.

[@catholicbeth2371]

Try this bit of Yorkshire slang; if my Grandad was handed a weak cup of tea would describe it as "weaselpiss", if he was feeling refined he would describe it as "weaselwatter". Needs to be said with a strong Yorkshire accent.

[@SongBillong]

It's really interesting to look at these terms from your point of view. It's also worth noting that we often say terms such as "cheeky Nando's" and "bants" ironically to start with, but we end up saying them so often that they become part of our vocabulary. I wonder what you think of the word "grockle"? It's a derogatory term used in the West Country for tourists. I think it's a very useful word!

[@gregrsvr3947]

The worst thing is doing that finger quote thing, Billy Connolly does a good sketch about it, it involves the breaking of the doers fingers

[@DaveBartlett]

Peter Kay does an amusing routine demonstrating people's non-vocal slang; like looking at your watch when people ask when you're going on your holidays.

[@jerribee1]

You may not like the word nosh, but it has quite a pedigree: "To snack, to eat between meals," 1957, from Yiddish nashn "nibble," from Middle High German naschen, from Old High German hnascon, nascon "to nibble," from Proto-Germanic *(g)naskon. Related: Noshed; noshing. Earlier as a noun (1917) meaning "a restaurant," short for nosh-house.

[@hannalee5756]

I was going to say it's one of the very few examples of Yiddish usages in English compared with how many there are in American.

[@dominikr8165]

Thanks for the info! As a German living in England it's again and again fascinating to see how close we are not only languagewise but on a lot of levels! 💚☮️

[@nickrose83]

I never hear people say "innit" with a "d" sound like "Idnit". It's just "in-it". Maybe that's a London thing though.

[@fmcb269]

The Dreaded Lurgi was a fictitious disease created in an episode of The Goon Show (November 1954) and was taken into common usage, so not strictly slang.

[@NeroTheEmperor]

Gotta say, never heard of Tommy K. Blimey that actually rhymes!

[@afpwebworks]

“Words have a taste ... “. What a great concept. Yes!! I have never heard that idea expressed but it’s perfect to explain why one slang word is ok but another isn’t

[@danielwebb8402]

I've seen a kiss cover band called snog. Thought that was genius.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@phillipbateman2284]

When I was living in Oxford, a common saying was, you're avin a laugh aint ya, or you avin a laugh mate. Your phrase, you havin a bubble, is the same but originated with the cockney version , you havin a bubble bath, bath=laugh, shortened to bubble. I think it adds to the language in a good way, whether its understood or not. Takecare.

[@nickreeve9644]

I have never heard 'you havin' a bubble'. I'm English - perhaps it is a Kent thing?

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

You haven't??

[@10pmixupuk65]

Me neither!

[@annother3350]

It was around in London more in the 80s/90s. avin a bubble -- rhyming slang for Bubble Bath = Laugh. 'Are you having a laugh' (or are you joking?)

[@barrygower6733]

A bubble is a Greek.

[@annother3350]

@@barrygower6733 Originally. Having a bubble is nothing to do with greeks though!

[@TheSwiftAssassin7113]

Imagine being her neighbour and having to hear her talk to herself while doing a horrible impression of ur accent.

[@Americathebeautiful49]

What are you her neighbor with your ear to the adjoining wall?

[@luxurik]

"You havin'a bubble mate" You are so adorable!

[@rayjennings3637]

My wife, quite rightly, hates being refered to as 'The Missus' or 'The Other Half' and I agree with her. Those terms are so derogatory. I hate the word 'Bog' as in toilet and I don't think I've ever used it - the word that is, not the place or object!

[@caseyh8386]

How is it derogatory though, I call my husband my other half. And he is, we are two halves of one team. And I didn't realise me being a Mrs/missus was suddenly a negative thing. I'm married, I'm a Mrs, I'm his Mrs and he's my Mr.

[@xenu-dark-tony]

It would be great Alanna if you did an 'after the watershed' version of this as many of us love all the crude slang that the Aussies and ourselves use. Aussies are tremendously creative with coarse slang. I'll get the ball rolling if you like: Instead of the deeply unsettling 'Missus', what about 'Ceiling Inspector'?

[@xenu-dark-tony]

The old bag?

[@davidknowles3459]

99% of the slang words you have said are London/Kent words.With a couple from the North.I never hear or have said any of these in Hampshire!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

That's great!

[@honkchisel]

Maybe if you live in Medway

[@dcanmore]

@@AdventuresAndNaps from Scotland, never hear 99% of these.

[@imstuman]

I know you did a rhyming slang video. Locally we say someone is a bit "dolly" which is a shortened version of "dolly dimple" rhyming with simple. Usually applied to a dimwit.

[@bewster7]

I'm English and with you so much on these. Saying Red Sauce is council. I can't stand "chillax". Just pure evil.

[@stewvaardt7376]

Someone confused "veg out on the couch" with "store laxatives in the fridge"

[@PaulWinters328]

Maybe do a video on US/Canadian slang words you hate next and maybe even add British equivalents that you prefer?

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

That's a great idea!

[@user-jq7di9pz8m]

Yeah that one might come across less patronising! 😄 its all bants though

[@Dave.Thatcher1]

They're not creative enough!

[@TheEulerID]

bants is pants then... Also, how is "chat up" more objectionable than "hit on". They latter sounds like a physical assault.

[@eddiegaltek]

"Innit" short for "Isn't it" which is short for "Is it not" (although it would properly short for, "Is not it" which does not make sense in this context.)

[@keithg1xfl]

You wont Change Us, We've been using slang as far back as I remember

[@MeFreeBee]

The ball and chain was a fit bird when I first chatted her up.

[@kJ922-h3j]

It’s only sometimes called red sauce because we decided to call hp sauce brown sauce lol it comes directly from that

[@peterwilkins7013]

More accurate to say that HP Foods called their brown sauce HP Sauce. There are plenty of other varities of brown sauce that are just called brown sauce.

[@kJ922-h3j]

@@peterwilkins7013 I always assumed hp was the original and therefore when other brands started making the same we just called it brown sauce across the board?

[@peterwilkins7013]

@@kJ922-h3j Just done a bit of research. Apparently the idea of brown sauce goes back to around 1850 and was homemade. In 1896 Mr Garson who owned a factory in Nottingham started producing it commercially and sold it in bottles with his name on the side. A couple of years later he had to sell the company to pay debts. It's a bit unclear though when the HP name started or why it was decided to name it after the Houses of Parliament.

[@andrewdking]

Its called red sauce aka tomato sauce because my Dad (born in the early 1920s) said Ketchup was an American thing and not in the English vocabulary. Red sauce or Tomato sauce is a perfectly legitimate description. Originally I think only the American Heinz brand called their tomato sauce Ketchup. Ketchup is thicker than the British traditional red sauce, which has probably now been relegated to the cheaper supermarket own brand budget options. Or the runny red stuff you get at the Westlers Infamous Hotdog stall at the local traveling funfair

[@dannywestwood4113]

It's when people say something like "oh I agree 110%." I tend to reply by saying something like "So why not 120%?" However I digress...

[@adha2913]

As a British citizen, I agree with your selection. These are words to make your skin crawl and it's the kind of language you'd typically hear in a "Maccy D's" any Saturday lunchtime.

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

I love how it takes Alanna longer to say “bog” than to say toilet.

[@timwilkins7900]

"Lurgi" or more specifically "dreaded lurgi" is a cultural reference to the Goon Show. For younger readers this was a seminal British radio comedy from the 1950s.

[@tonys1636]

Glad I'm not the only person who remembers it, preferred "The Navy Lark" though.

[@richardfarrer5616]

"Bird" derives from the same root as "bride". It's a complimentary term - or at least neutral. originally. On the other hand, I've never heard "you're having a bubble (bath)" or "cheeky nandos" before.

[@parkerzilla6323]

"tommy k" , which I have never heard before, is on a level with calling McDonald's "Maccy D's"

[@JPW02]

I’m English but I’ve never heard “Tommy k” in my life 🤔

[@juneyoung6357]

Me too!

[@John900C]

She's making half of them up.

[@malcolmnicholls2893]

Should be Tommy sauce.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I've obviously made them all up

[@JPW02]

@@AdventuresAndNaps I’m not saying that, they certainly all exist. I’ve just never heard that particular one; personally 🙂

[@arthurgatward7369]

People who pronounce the letter H with an H.

[@grahvis]

Indeed, no aspirant in aitch.

[@jimbegin6554]

Probably the same people who say “ow” instead of “how”😉

[@MeStevely]

@@jimbegin6554 Or spell ‘lose’ as in not win or mislay ‘loose’. It has 4 letters FFS, how can you not know how to spell that?

[@DontPanicDear]

I think the ‘Haych’ thing started, due to those with indistinct pronunciation, attempting to be understood by one another 🙉 Poorly spoken folk, trying to spell words over the phone can be quite painful to listen to! God forbid, they learn the phonetic alphabet 🙈

[@ciderbandit2909]

My Canadian mother in law thought she was doing a nice thing by making me feel more at home with some colloquialisms she'd picked up from me and offered me "a nosh in the kitchen" as opposed to "some nosh". . . As I picked up my dropped my monocle I found it much funnier than she did.

[@yampymusic]

In all my 63 years born and living in the UK, I have never heard a single soul say 'tommy k'.