My favorites are "schedule" and "rather" and "herb". Here in America "Herb" is a man's name, so if we pronounced the "H" someone might think we were referring to a person, so we don't pronounce the "H" just as we don't pronounce the "H" in the word "hour". I could listen to you guys all day long! So much fun listening to your accents! Love it!!!
the r is definitely there. its just very long and extremely soft. compared to the "general" american r that i have and a lot of other people had, our version of R is a much harsher pronunciation than a lot of other accents.
@CelticShadow It's not really there. It colors the vowel in most British accents, which is why they still distinguish between heb and herb. But these accents are considered non-rhotic, because aside from the r's at the beginning of syllables, they drop their other r's. The word "are" is a good example where it's completely dropped... their "are" sounds essentially the same as their "ahh". Basically, "er" in most British accents ends up sounding not too dissimilar to "uh" in American accents, because the r "colors" the e and changes the vowel quality, but is otherwise absent.
Your verbal banter; and being so in sync you complete the others' sentences is supersized and brilliant! It's nice to see you and Millie so comfortable growing your shows together.
He left off the most obvious one - aluminum! I’ve had multiple British people tell me I pronounce it “wrong,” but you guys are the ones who had an extra ‘i’ to the end of the word to make it ‘ium’ instead of just ‘um.’ lol Seriously though, I love the differences we have for certain words/phrases even though it’s the same language (car park, lift, torch, etc.) I find it kind of fascinating.
My grandmother's best friend was British. I clearly remember arguing with her calling gasoline petrol. It drove me nuts. But growing up with hearing a British accent every single day I'm pretty accustomed to what y'all say.
The thing about "brilliant" is that Brits use the word so much more often and so much more enthusiastically, and in a wider variety of contexts. Apart from that the pronunciation is _basically_ the same, allowing for minor, accent-specific systematic differences in how the vowels are pronounced, which vary from region to region both within England and within America. But Americans mostly just use the word to mean either "very bright" (literally, in the sense of emitting light) or "very bright" (figuratively, in the sense of being intelligent). The slang usage (meaning wonderful) is not _entirely_ unattested in North America but is much, much less common here than in Britain. We usually just say "great" or "awesome" (or, if we want to be more emphatic, we might reach for "amazing" or "magnificent" or "spectacular" etc.), or Millennials say "sick" or "tight" or "pog". (The usual way to kill generational slang like that is for older people to start saying it, at which point either the younger people realize how dumb it sounds and stop, or else it passes into general usage and ceases to be generational; but this isn't happening with sick/tight/pog because old people may be geezers but we have *some* small measure of dignity left.)
It’s funny listening to Brits say “brilliant “ about everything. Had a high school friend who married a Brit. Well she’s over here speaking to us with a British accent and about ten minutes into the conversation in mid sentence her Texas accent comes out. There it is I said to myself. I don’t think she realized it at the time.
My friend's fiance is British, and he has trouble understanding her sometimes, so he'll talk southern American when he says something he doesn't want her to hear/understand. It's funny because I have no trouble understanding either accent, so I get the inside scoop on their bickering.
Kinda like me trying to understand Cajun folks lol. Usually they aren’t an issue, but man when they get rolling they get hard to follow. Think of that one dude in The Waterboy, and LSU’s defensive coordinator, same freaking accent and funny as heck to listen to.
I’ll admit something. On my first trip to the UK, I went to the information desk in Heathrow and asked a question I knew the answer to just because I wanted to have a conversation with a person with a British accent as soon as possible. 😏 We say “brill-yent”. Yeah. It’s the way you guys use it. A lot of us use the word “awesome” instead. I personally like “aluminum ” (â-loo-mini-yum) Spanish speakers say it the same way.
The difference with "aluminum" and "aluminium" came about because of a telegram message being incorrectly transcribed by some scientists and it just stuck without the "extra" I in the US.
Definitely hear the difference in 'bath'. Beesley is closer to how we say it in the US. It sounds natural the way Millie says it. Now if someone in the US said it like her, we would sound like upper-crust students as some snooty school. But hearing British say it 'Baahth' sounds normal somehow. I would hardly hold some UK citizen hostage to hear them say it over & over again. LOL!! There is a lyrical sound in some British accents to someone in the US. It isn't just how the words are said. Other regional accents in the UK sound rough & course.
Ohhh, “squirrel” is what we love asking GERMANS to say, but that was pretty good too The creation of these United States came from a little conflict with England I like to call The English-speaking World’s First Spellcheck. Cell phone has fewer syllables, Britons! But if you need the exercise on that small isle, go ahead and say “mobile” Mobile might be a city in Alabama as well as a phone, but Tyre is an ancient city in Lebanon and TIRE is what you put on a wheel Starting with those Guinness commercials, we’ve enjoyed your pronunciation of “brilliant,” but you have to shout it
One thing about these topics that always gives me a chuckle is that the Brits tend to assume that they are correct, even ones like Lawrence that live in the US. Different doesn't always mean wrong guys. Al-looh-min-ium spelled aluminum 😄
Herb is a man's name. Pronounced "erb" is the food. There used to be an old commercial ( I think it was for hair conditioner) that ended with the play on words by saying " it's 'erbal, Herb." Hearing other countries say " aluminium" instead of aluminum used to drive me crazy until I discovered that you actually spell it that way, and found out that we just kept the original spelling and pronunciation, and most other countries changed.
My mother's family is from the Darlington area so I've always had an inside scoop on words and even find myself using Brit word forms every now and then. But I also married a Scot. They use the word "c*nt" a lot which we tend to find apalling in the US.
When I was 8 Years Old, I pronounced Wash as 'Warsh'. I had a lifeguard at the local swimming pool asking about that. He would ask me who was the First President of the USA and I would reply with Washington (pronounced as 'Washington') he would then ask me about washing my hands, and I would always reply with 'Warsh'. It took me a few years before I understood why he laughed at me so much!!!
As an American, I never used herbs to cook, and wasn't used to hearing people saying "herb.' So when I finally got seasoning a few years ago that had herbs in it, I would say both, because I had no clue how to pronounce it. "Could you get me the Creole seasoning with the herbs..or erbs?" Lol
It's so funny in his American accent he says bonnet and wins green something we would never say!! a bonnet is what you wear on your head and we call it windshield!
First, I love to listen to Brits speak English!! I believe between British films and BBC America (love it), that many of us are slowly absorbing more British pronunciations in our vocabularies. If I like the sound of a word from across the pond I usually use it in my everyday speech, but sparingly. I was in a play years ago portraying a British butler, several times in the script the word "drawingroom" appeared - learning to say "draw-ring-rum" was very difficult. Americans in New England, especially the Boston area, tend to put an extra "r" in several words. The important thing is to continue communicating and listening to what people say - no matter HOW they say it and to celebrate the differences.
Right, Robert! We also (at least those of us who are older...) say "path" and "bath" with the "ah" sound. Younger people are losing this trait as movies and TV are flattening out regional differences in dialect.
A 'vitamin' is a 'vital' 'amine' ("amino acid"), so the 'i' should be long. We are not obsessed with long 'i', 'i', 'i', 'i', 'i', Laurence, that's you all with your moBILE, versaTILE, fragILE, etc. :)
Yep. That's the truth. Why did he say Americans are obsessed with the long "i" when it's our British friends who use it more then we do. It's actually funny 😄
@@Razorslash312 18 Likes, and 2 favorable comments, hmmm. "Defensive" ?, 'douchy" ?? what!? you must be imagining... maybe I posted it when I was working...I can sound a bit direct when I'm stressed
Brilliant falls into that category of words and phrases (like James using Fair Play) that are used to express ideas that are different in context between the two cultures. Also Millie has a very Americanized accent. She could easily, with very little effort, be a girl from New England with her posh accent. Her accent is very soothing....
The "wind screen" is called a "wind shield". The "bonnet" is called the "hood". Water (esp. in the south) sounds more like "wadder". "Lady bugs" are "lady birds" in the U.K. our name for it makes more sense, seeing as it is in fact a bug and not a bird. Brits also seem to get tiffed when we call football (⚽) "soccer" when America football (🏈) was named by Brits as such. When an American is talking about football, we mean American football, similar to the sport Rugby, but different. Our spelling for words is different as well "armour" in the rest of the English speaking world, we spell it "armor"; same pronunciation, we just drop the "u" cause it's not really necessary. I enjoyed y'alls reaction, it was quite entertaining. I think the British pronunciation for "tomato" is weird because y'all use a long "a" for potato but a short "a" for tomato. What we call a delivery truck, you call a "lorrie". What we call "french fries" y'all call "chips"; but you call our chips "crisps". Biscuits in America are your version of our "cookies". I could go on forever, it's amazing how we can speak the exact same language and yet it's so different, depending on where you are from.
@@f4ephantom I'm not really into aviation so I wouldn't have know that unless I was told. Now that I've been told, I can use the proper terminology should I be in a conversation discussing the front window on a plane with a pilot or whatever.
@@jamesdorpinghaus3294 Was just pointing out that both words are used in the US as well. A large number of aviation terms originate from the French and are used by both the UK and the US.
1) Americans do pronounce "mobile" as Laurence said we do when we use the word as an adjective, but some of us use the British pronunciation to refer to the noun "mobile," which is a contraption hung over a baby's crib designed to move and make noise in order to draw the baby's attention. 2) If Laurence is doing an American accent, I don't know from which part. 3) The part about how to pronounce "potato" is from a 1937 song called "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." Americans pronounce "potato" the same as you. 4) Regarding the word "brilliant," the difference is how it's used, not pronounced. 5) Americans tend to assume anyone speaking with an accent like Millie's is intelligent. It's somewhat irrational, and the American comedian Bill Maher has a funny bit called "Brit for Brains" about how Americans use the "Queen's English" accent to convey gravitas (there's a loud audio glitch in the first few seconds): ua-cam.com/video/fOWCnMwBJL0/v-deo.html
There are numerous words that we pronounce as the French pronounce those words. Perhaps it dates from Revolutionary times since they helped us in the fight. I’m not sure but our language comes from many countries.
For The word “mobile “ how I pronounce it depends on its usage. I use a shorter “I” sound in regards to a mobile phone. But a toddler learning to walk “ mobile” with a long “I” sound.
I worked with a Brit once who asked if I had a spare “ring spanner” he could use and I answered, “a what?” And he said it again. Wait a minute, a who? And he said it again and I said, “sure, but what TF is that?” By this time I knew he was getting fustrated and he said something like if he clubbed me in the head with it I would know. As he grabbed a “box-end wrench” and shook it. So I said “why don’t you learn English like the rest of us?” Then we both laughed.
The British accent is charming, an Americans love hearing the accent which is only an accent to us. Many Americans try to mimic it because of its charm.
I hear Brits saying "Brill-i-uhnt" with three syllables. I say "Brill-yunt" with two syllables, just lightly touching the L's in the word. (Almost "Brih-yunt.") Fun playing with sounds. Southerners often say the word "I" as "Ah," ("Ah am what Ah am") whereas it's often pronounced by others as "Ah-ee" with a diphthong sound.
This explains the American pronunciation: During the Revolutionary War the original 13 colonies had help from some Native tribes and the French. France and England weren't at good terms then and were fighting for land we now call Canada. After the Revolutionary War the French held territories in America for a while until U.S. eventually bought the 🇫🇷 territories, At this time Americans spoke Fren-glish. Later on Americans fought Mexico for more territory which led to today's U.S. border mapping, Americans now speak Fren-span-glish. America then created the Free Country Policy which drew attention from Europeans, America now speaks English (U.S.). Many years of adopting words and letters from foreign languages in order to communicate with each other made American English what it is today and we still think we're speaking "Normal English". As for the "American Accent" , there's no such thing. Like I said there's been a LOT of foreign traffic throughout the years so there will be a different accent and language per state.
1: Both exactly right. 2: Both right again (about how we say it). 3: Water sounds right (for NY)! 4: Millie nailed how WE say Garage! 5: You're both British with Tomato! 6: Both nailed Potato. 7: Both British in Vitamin! 8: Both nailed that we drop the H in Herb. 9: Both nailed how we say schedule. 10: We say Brilliant exactly the same as you, just not in the same context. *He's right, we use it for intelligence! PS: I posted this comment during the video like a game. Love both of you, your accents, and content! 🍻🍻 11:
I'm from Alabama and fun fact about Mobile, AL is that it's the origin point for Mardi Gras. Only reason New Orleans is famous for it is because they go buck wild with their partying while in Mobile it's more of a parade-like celebration with elaborate elegant dresses.
It seems that the more my wife and I interact with our international friends, we tend to not to even notice their accents after a while (strange it seems, but true) it just becomes how they speak and not an actual difference.
Heck yeah man! I'm from the Southern U.S. (as we call it, "th' South") ... and although I get the "people wanting to hear me say things" thing a lot; I truly do love to hear y'all British folks talk!
Haha dying at the “oh that sounds really American.” Y’all are entertaining. Don’t know your names yet but the lady Brit pretty much nailed how most of the south pronounces things. If you are ever curious watch some of Erik Singer’s stuff on Wired about the American accents. Also gladly going to subscribe.
Beezley: I do things different I'm from the North. His beautiful other half: You know nothing, John Snow! BTW Many Americans will use the word Briliant sarcastically " You locked your keys in the car again?? brilliant!
When I use the word brilliant. It's usually in a negative context. Like if something went wrong at work and people say oh great. I tend to say ah brilliant. So, if I heard someone like Lawrence say it with glee. I'd probably get a little excited too
My daughter had British speech therapist and every one thinks she's from Britain, and not from Wisconsin. I have so many stories of her speech differences.
Vitamin should be pronounced with the hard I. It's a word made from two different words: Vital Minerals = Vitamin(s). And even in the UK, 'vital' is pronounced with the hard I. :D
My two favorite British lovebirds on YT, hope you all had an excellent Christmas! I have never heard an American pronounce potato that weird way, but I suppose it's possible in some regions. Also, yes, can hear the different between bath and bath, by the way 😜
When Garmins first came out I got one that had two versions of English---American and British. They were both female voices. Both said recalculating when you made a wrong turn. I used the British Lady, she just seemed less harsh and more polite. She probably wasn't--- but it sounded that way.
One reason we say words different in America may be because rules for the pronunciation are taught in school such as the silent h in school. That rule would apply except when they are used in a person's name that originated in another country. One example is the name Julian. Since it is a Spanish name it is pronounced with the J sounding like an H.
I'm American born and raised, 62 years old and the word to ask Americans to say should be "wash" . I say "woish, wash, and worsh" depending on what I'm doing at the moment and it also depends on what part of the U.S. your from.
In the US, we do say mo-BYE-ul, but that's mostly when we're talking about the spinny thing that hangs above a baby's crib. Otherwise it's MO-bul, unless it's the city in Alabama (mo-BEEL), like he said. But I have heard people say mo-BYE-ul (like Brits do) on occasion, too, so it's not too uncommon, especially in the medical field: "Is the patient mo-BYE-ul," is very common. At least what I've seen.
Being from the south yankees constantly ask us to say words. I remember being in Connecticut and hearing “say britches” all the time. It’s annoying really. Possibly because it comes with them assuming we are all stupid down here.
im amazed at how well millie knows the american accent. she knew all the pronunciations exactly.
Millie watches a lot of American TV shows...
My favorites are "schedule" and "rather" and "herb". Here in America "Herb" is a man's name, so if we pronounced the "H" someone might think we were referring to a person, so we don't pronounce the "H" just as we don't pronounce the "H" in the word "hour". I could listen to you guys all day long! So much fun listening to your accents! Love it!!!
I love when British people say "me" instead of "my". As in "I took me dog for a walk". LOL it just sounds so funny to me.
You can definitely hear the difference in your dialects. It’s funny regardless 😂
It was pretty funny to hear Y’all insisting that you pronounce the “r” in “herb” as Millie repeatedly said “Hub”…😂 Great video guys!😁
the r is definitely there. its just very long and extremely soft. compared to the "general" american r that i have and a lot of other people had, our version of R is a much harsher pronunciation than a lot of other accents.
@CelticShadow It's not really there. It colors the vowel in most British accents, which is why they still distinguish between heb and herb. But these accents are considered non-rhotic, because aside from the r's at the beginning of syllables, they drop their other r's. The word "are" is a good example where it's completely dropped... their "are" sounds essentially the same as their "ahh". Basically, "er" in most British accents ends up sounding not too dissimilar to "uh" in American accents, because the r "colors" the e and changes the vowel quality, but is otherwise absent.
@@mallomon British R's exist... but like flavor exists in a La Croix. It's a whisper... a ghostly aberration... hardly exists.
@@Celticshade having a soft “r” is what they mean when they say you don’t pronounce it. You pronounce letters you emphasize typically.
Saying brits pronounce r's is like saying americans pronounce all their t's
Your verbal banter; and being so in sync you complete the others' sentences is supersized and brilliant! It's nice to see you and Millie so comfortable growing your shows together.
He left off the most obvious one - aluminum! I’ve had multiple British people tell me I pronounce it “wrong,” but you guys are the ones who had an extra ‘i’ to the end of the word to make it ‘ium’ instead of just ‘um.’ lol
Seriously though, I love the differences we have for certain words/phrases even though it’s the same language (car park, lift, torch, etc.) I find it kind of fascinating.
Millie had a perfect American accent on 'potato'!
I love the entire range of British accents.
My grandmother's best friend was British. I clearly remember arguing with her calling gasoline petrol. It drove me nuts. But growing up with hearing a British accent every single day I'm pretty accustomed to what y'all say.
" I Love You " sounds beautiful in every language or accent
The thing about "brilliant" is that Brits use the word so much more often and so much more enthusiastically, and in a wider variety of contexts. Apart from that the pronunciation is _basically_ the same, allowing for minor, accent-specific systematic differences in how the vowels are pronounced, which vary from region to region both within England and within America. But Americans mostly just use the word to mean either "very bright" (literally, in the sense of emitting light) or "very bright" (figuratively, in the sense of being intelligent). The slang usage (meaning wonderful) is not _entirely_ unattested in North America but is much, much less common here than in Britain. We usually just say "great" or "awesome" (or, if we want to be more emphatic, we might reach for "amazing" or "magnificent" or "spectacular" etc.), or Millennials say "sick" or "tight" or "pog". (The usual way to kill generational slang like that is for older people to start saying it, at which point either the younger people realize how dumb it sounds and stop, or else it passes into general usage and ceases to be generational; but this isn't happening with sick/tight/pog because old people may be geezers but we have *some* small measure of dignity left.)
M8 can you pass me a bao o woa. Oim thusty. Ah you shtewpid? Is chewsday innit?
Groovy.
Same with lovely, which no American man would be caught dead saying.
Yes because it also gives Harry Potter vibes. Brilliant. 😅
@@williamjordan5554 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s funny listening to Brits say “brilliant “ about everything. Had a high school friend who married a Brit. Well she’s over here speaking to us with a British accent and about ten minutes into the conversation in mid sentence her Texas accent comes out. There it is I said to myself. I don’t think she realized it at the time.
"Park the car in the garage." -- Me being from Maine, his attempt at the Boston accent was a good chuckle.
Aluminum is my favorite word to hear from the southern British accent, say it haha 😄
The "Brilliant" part is because of an old beer commercial. I forgot what the beer was but someone would always say "brilliant!" with a Scottish accent
We love hearing Brits exclaim "Brilliant!" because you do it often and we don't use that word that way
My friend's fiance is British, and he has trouble understanding her sometimes, so he'll talk southern American when he says something he doesn't want her to hear/understand. It's funny because I have no trouble understanding either accent, so I get the inside scoop on their bickering.
I would film that conversation 😂 I got southern friend who can do a perfect Forest Gump impression
Kinda like me trying to understand Cajun folks lol. Usually they aren’t an issue, but man when they get rolling they get hard to follow. Think of that one dude in The Waterboy, and LSU’s defensive coordinator, same freaking accent and funny as heck to listen to.
Meeting a lot of British exPats in Thailand when thry pronounce Schedule I almost break down laughing.
As an American, your squirrels sound so different from each other let alone how people here say it haha.
I’ll admit something. On my first trip to the UK, I went to the information desk in Heathrow and asked a question I knew the answer to just because I wanted to have a conversation with a person with a British accent as soon as possible. 😏
We say “brill-yent”. Yeah. It’s the way you guys use it. A lot of us use the word “awesome” instead.
I personally like “aluminum ” (â-loo-mini-yum) Spanish speakers say it the same way.
It's spelled differently in British English, though.
The difference with "aluminum" and "aluminium" came about because of a telegram message being incorrectly transcribed by some scientists and it just stuck without the "extra" I in the US.
Definitely hear the difference in 'bath'. Beesley is closer to how we say it in the US. It sounds natural the way Millie says it. Now if someone in the US said it like her, we would sound like upper-crust students as some snooty school. But hearing British say it 'Baahth' sounds normal somehow. I would hardly hold some UK citizen hostage to hear them say it over & over again. LOL!! There is a lyrical sound in some British accents to someone in the US. It isn't just how the words are said. Other regional accents in the UK sound rough & course.
Ohhh, “squirrel” is what we love asking GERMANS to say, but that was pretty good too
The creation of these United States came from a little conflict with England I like to call The English-speaking World’s First Spellcheck.
Cell phone has fewer syllables, Britons! But if you need the exercise on that small isle, go ahead and say “mobile”
Mobile might be a city in Alabama as well as a phone, but Tyre is an ancient city in Lebanon and TIRE is what you put on a wheel
Starting with those Guinness commercials, we’ve enjoyed your pronunciation of “brilliant,” but you have to shout it
Millie could pass as an American easy!
One thing about these topics that always gives me a chuckle is that the Brits tend to
assume that they are correct, even ones like Lawrence that live in the US.
Different doesn't always mean wrong guys. Al-looh-min-ium spelled aluminum 😄
Brits spell aluminum like they pronounce it, with a second i.
Herb is a man's name. Pronounced "erb" is the food. There used to be an old commercial ( I think it was for hair conditioner) that ended with the play on words by saying " it's 'erbal, Herb." Hearing other countries say " aluminium" instead of aluminum used to drive me crazy until I discovered that you actually spell it that way, and found out that we just kept the original spelling and pronunciation, and most other countries changed.
Her unforced American pronunciations are nearly perfect! It sounds like my neighbors here in upstate NY.
My mother's family is from the Darlington area so I've always had an inside scoop on words and even find myself using Brit word forms every now and then. But I also married a Scot. They use the word "c*nt" a lot which we tend to find apalling in the US.
Any time Laurence uses him American accent in a video, I am convinced he is actually an American pretending to be British.
I think the brilliant thing is related to the Guinness Beer commercials where the characters say "brilliant!!" numerous times.
I'm from the Philadelphia, PA metro & our (pronounced like the word ARE) pronunciation of WATER is legendary with "wooder".
Milly nailed it on the head saying "potato" in an english accent!!
I loved hearing Millie insist that she pronounces the /r/ in herb as she's not pronouncing the /r/ in herb.
Lol, we say "Herb" with an H when it's short for the name Herbert, and "Urb" when it's an actual herb (sage, basil, etc.).
The "shed-juul" one gets me every time cause you guys don't say "I went to shoool today".
We yanks pronounce the H in Herb only when referring to someone’s name. Herb is often used as short for “Herbert”. We get quite confused otherwise
Millie: "Funny .... not funny." And that was funny!!
Brilliant is a word that is classic British so when we can hear the word being used by an actual Brit it is a treat.
It's not because of the pronunciation, it's that you say Brilliant! when we would just say Great! So it's amusing to us.
When I was 8 Years Old, I pronounced Wash as 'Warsh'. I had a lifeguard at the local swimming pool asking about that. He would ask me who was the First President of the USA and I would reply with Washington (pronounced as 'Washington') he would then ask me about washing my hands, and I would always reply with 'Warsh'. It took me a few years before I understood why he laughed at me so much!!!
As an American, I never used herbs to cook, and wasn't used to hearing people saying "herb.'
So when I finally got seasoning a few years ago that had herbs in it, I would say both, because I had no clue how to pronounce it.
"Could you get me the Creole seasoning with the herbs..or erbs?" Lol
Joke: English person to American: "It's not skedule; it's shedule." American reply: "What shool did you learn that in?"
In America, if Herb is a persons name, we pronounce the H. But exactly it is pronounced erb as in cooking terms.
As Eddie Izzard once pointed out. "you say "erb"....we say "herb"..because their's a f**king h in it issn't there?" That line always got me!
Like there's an h in hour, and an h in honor and an h in honest
It's so funny in his American accent he says bonnet and wins green something we would never say!! a bonnet is what you wear on your head and we call it windshield!
First, I love to listen to Brits speak English!! I believe between British films and BBC America (love it), that many of us are slowly absorbing more British pronunciations in our vocabularies. If I like the sound of a word from across the pond I usually use it in my everyday speech, but sparingly. I was in a play years ago portraying a British butler, several times in the script the word "drawingroom" appeared - learning to say "draw-ring-rum" was very difficult. Americans in New England, especially the Boston area, tend to put an extra "r" in several words.
The important thing is to continue communicating and listening to what people say - no matter HOW they say it and to celebrate the differences.
Right, Robert! We also (at least those of us who are older...) say "path" and "bath" with the "ah" sound. Younger people are losing this trait as movies and TV are flattening out regional differences in dialect.
Here in the Baltimore area where I'm from a lot of people pronounce water like "wood-er". And they get their "wood-er" from the kitchen "zinc"!
A 'vitamin' is a 'vital' 'amine' ("amino acid"), so the 'i' should be long. We are not obsessed with long 'i', 'i', 'i', 'i', 'i', Laurence, that's you all with your moBILE, versaTILE, fragILE, etc. :)
yep it should should like vital not vitriol
Yep. That's the truth. Why did he say Americans are obsessed with the long "i" when it's our British friends who use it more then we do. It's actually funny 😄
Why you gotta sound so defensive and douchy about it though?
@@Razorslash312 18 Likes, and 2 favorable comments, hmmm. "Defensive" ?, 'douchy" ?? what!? you must be imagining...
maybe I posted it when I was working...I can sound a bit direct when I'm stressed
Fr my man like we ain’t obsessed with i’s
Brilliant falls into that category of words and phrases (like James using Fair Play) that are used to express ideas that are different in context between the two cultures. Also Millie has a very Americanized accent. She could easily, with very little effort, be a girl from New England with her posh accent. Her accent is very soothing....
The "wind screen" is called a "wind shield". The "bonnet" is called the "hood". Water (esp. in the south) sounds more like "wadder". "Lady bugs" are "lady birds" in the U.K. our name for it makes more sense, seeing as it is in fact a bug and not a bird. Brits also seem to get tiffed when we call football (⚽) "soccer" when America football (🏈) was named by Brits as such. When an American is talking about football, we mean American football, similar to the sport Rugby, but different. Our spelling for words is different as well "armour" in the rest of the English speaking world, we spell it "armor"; same pronunciation, we just drop the "u" cause it's not really necessary. I enjoyed y'alls reaction, it was quite entertaining. I think the British pronunciation for "tomato" is weird because y'all use a long "a" for potato but a short "a" for tomato. What we call a delivery truck, you call a "lorrie". What we call "french fries" y'all call "chips"; but you call our chips "crisps". Biscuits in America are your version of our "cookies". I could go on forever, it's amazing how we can speak the exact same language and yet it's so different, depending on where you are from.
In aviation the forward window is called a windscreen in the US btw.
@@f4ephantom I'm not really into aviation so I wouldn't have know that unless I was told. Now that I've been told, I can use the proper terminology should I be in a conversation discussing the front window on a plane with a pilot or whatever.
@@jamesdorpinghaus3294 Was just pointing
out that both words are used in the US as well. A large number of aviation terms
originate from the French and are used by
both the UK and the US.
@@f4ephantom makes sense in terms of aviation, when I say "wind shield", it's in reference to automotive rather than aviation
My good friend says "butt'ol" when pronounces 'bottle". Lol 😆 😂 🤣
Aluminum is my favorite. It's like, there aren't even enough letters in it to sound like that. (I know we spell it differently in the US)
I am from the United states and I love the British accent.
1) Americans do pronounce "mobile" as Laurence said we do when we use the word as an adjective, but some of us use the British pronunciation to refer to the noun "mobile," which is a contraption hung over a baby's crib designed to move and make noise in order to draw the baby's attention.
2) If Laurence is doing an American accent, I don't know from which part.
3) The part about how to pronounce "potato" is from a 1937 song called "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." Americans pronounce "potato" the same as you.
4) Regarding the word "brilliant," the difference is how it's used, not pronounced.
5) Americans tend to assume anyone speaking with an accent like Millie's is intelligent. It's somewhat irrational, and the American comedian Bill Maher has a funny bit called "Brit for Brains" about how Americans use the "Queen's English" accent to convey gravitas (there's a loud audio glitch in the first few seconds):
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The one that gets me is where the F is the Fing F in Lieutenant? Left Tennant? Is he living in a duplex (double)?
There are numerous words that we pronounce as the French pronounce those words. Perhaps it dates from Revolutionary times since they helped us in the fight. I’m not sure but our language comes from many countries.
Never really thought about this because I just assumed people say things in their own way. Lol,I actually like the differences.
I love how you guys speak so much I could listen all day😂
For The word “mobile “ how I pronounce it depends on its usage. I use a shorter “I” sound in regards to a mobile phone. But a toddler learning to walk “ mobile” with a long “I” sound.
Hey Beesley and Millie, are you guys getting better and feeling better? I am praying for both of u!!!
I worked with a Brit once who asked if I had a spare “ring spanner” he could use and I answered, “a what?” And he said it again. Wait a minute, a who? And he said it again and I said, “sure, but what TF is that?” By this time I knew he was getting fustrated and he said something like if he clubbed me in the head with it I would know. As he grabbed a “box-end wrench” and shook it. So I said “why don’t you learn English like the rest of us?” Then we both laughed.
Millie's American accent is amazing!
The British accent is charming, an Americans love hearing the accent which is only an accent to us. Many Americans try to mimic it because of its charm.
M8 can you pass me a bao o woa. Oim thusty. Ah you shtewpid? Is chewsday innit?
There’s many British accents. Which British accent do you find charming?
@@Sam-pv7bd Any number of them.
@@Sam-pv7bd we can’t even tell the difference between the uk and Australia
I hear Brits saying "Brill-i-uhnt" with three syllables. I say "Brill-yunt" with two syllables, just lightly touching the L's in the word. (Almost "Brih-yunt.") Fun playing with sounds.
Southerners often say the word "I" as "Ah," ("Ah am what Ah am") whereas it's often pronounced by others as "Ah-ee" with a diphthong sound.
Aluminum is my favorite word to hear brits say 😊
This explains the American pronunciation:
During the Revolutionary War the original 13 colonies had help from some Native tribes and the French. France and England weren't at good terms then and were fighting for land we now call Canada. After the Revolutionary War the French held territories in America for a while until U.S. eventually bought the 🇫🇷 territories, At this time Americans spoke Fren-glish. Later on Americans fought Mexico for more territory which led to today's U.S. border mapping, Americans now speak Fren-span-glish. America then created the Free Country Policy which drew attention from Europeans, America now speaks English (U.S.). Many years of adopting words and letters from foreign languages in order to communicate with each other made American English what it is today and we still think we're speaking "Normal English".
As for the "American Accent" , there's no such thing. Like I said there's been a LOT of foreign traffic throughout the years so there will be a different accent and language per state.
I could listen to Moegan Freeman read the phone book all day. I know off topic b. He's an American. I love to hear Brits day spot of tea
When "water" came up, I half expected him to talk about how Americans expect brits to say "wah uh"
1: Both exactly right.
2: Both right again (about how we say it).
3: Water sounds right (for NY)!
4: Millie nailed how WE say Garage!
5: You're both British with Tomato!
6: Both nailed Potato.
7: Both British in Vitamin!
8: Both nailed that we drop the H in Herb.
9: Both nailed how we say schedule.
10: We say Brilliant exactly the same as you, just not in the same context. *He's right, we use it for intelligence!
PS: I posted this comment during the video like a game. Love both of you, your accents, and content! 🍻🍻
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Was watching a British documentary on bread from 1949, noticed the narrator pronounces Vitamin the "American" way.
Yeah the Beesley and Millie videos are the best. Happy Holidays.
I'm from Alabama and fun fact about Mobile, AL is that it's the origin point for Mardi Gras. Only reason New Orleans is famous for it is because they go buck wild with their partying while in Mobile it's more of a parade-like celebration with elaborate elegant dresses.
It seems that the more my wife and I interact with our international friends, we tend to not to even notice their accents after a while (strange it seems, but true) it just becomes how they speak and not an actual difference.
Heck yeah man! I'm from the Southern U.S. (as we call it, "th' South") ... and although I get the "people wanting to hear me say things" thing a lot; I truly do love to hear y'all British folks talk!
We say brilliant the same but use it differently. Like the word gorgeous. You use it to describe food quite often, we don't.
Lol even us Americans love making eachother say stuff. I'm from Minnesota and am asked to say stuff like 'boat'.
Haha dying at the “oh that sounds really American.” Y’all are entertaining. Don’t know your names yet but the lady Brit pretty much nailed how most of the south pronounces things. If you are ever curious watch some of Erik Singer’s stuff on Wired about the American accents. Also gladly going to subscribe.
Beezley: I do things different I'm from the North.
His beautiful other half: You know nothing, John Snow!
BTW Many Americans will use the word Briliant sarcastically " You locked your keys in the car again?? brilliant!
When I use the word brilliant. It's usually in a negative context. Like if something went wrong at work and people say oh great. I tend to say ah brilliant. So, if I heard someone like Lawrence say it with glee. I'd probably get a little excited too
I grew up in Philadelphia, where "water" is pronounced "wooder." So there's that
Lmao I keep repeating words with you guys so much that they started to lost their meaning. Omg what are words?!?! 🤯🤣🤣
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Just talked to the wife at the "grocery store" the other day about the song. You say tomato, I say tomato." I was like "who says it the other way? LOL
My daughter had British speech therapist and every one thinks she's from Britain, and not from Wisconsin. I have so many stories of her speech differences.
I'm American and asked for a "tomayto" and cheddar sandwich at a cafe in the UK. The clerk seemed very amused, lol. I like to hear Brits say banana.
But why do they say tomahto and not potahto. To me the pronunciation isn't weird either way what is weird is that the words wouldn't rhyme.
Vitamin should be pronounced with the hard I.
It's a word made from two different words: Vital Minerals = Vitamin(s).
And even in the UK, 'vital' is pronounced with the hard I. :D
Im surprised he didn't say Aluminum! That's a big difference for us as well.
My two favorite British lovebirds on YT, hope you all had an excellent Christmas!
I have never heard an American pronounce potato that weird way, but I suppose it's possible in some regions.
Also, yes, can hear the different between bath and bath, by the way 😜
When Garmins first came out I got one that had two versions of English---American and British. They were both female voices. Both said recalculating when you made a wrong turn. I used the British Lady, she just seemed less harsh and more polite. She probably wasn't--- but it sounded that way.
The American R is very strong
When she said 'Herb' it sounded like "Hehb' to us.
Millie's accent sounds more posh :)
She needs a channel. I'd watch every episode.
Millie, I think your pronunciation is just beautiful. So smooth and proper. 😀 Jim
One reason we say words different in America may be because rules for the pronunciation are taught in school such as the silent h in school. That rule would apply except when they are used in a person's name that originated in another country. One example is the name Julian. Since it is a Spanish name it is pronounced with the J sounding like an H.
I'm American born and raised, 62 years old and the word to ask Americans to say should be "wash" .
I say "woish, wash, and worsh" depending on what I'm doing at the moment and it also depends on what part of the U.S. your from.
I totally understand and love you all
We'll say fantastic or other words in place of brilliant.. he's correct, we only use brilliant to mean that you are rather smart.
In the US, we do say mo-BYE-ul, but that's mostly when we're talking about the spinny thing that hangs above a baby's crib. Otherwise it's MO-bul, unless it's the city in Alabama (mo-BEEL), like he said. But I have heard people say mo-BYE-ul (like Brits do) on occasion, too, so it's not too uncommon, especially in the medical field: "Is the patient mo-BYE-ul," is very common. At least what I've seen.
Hope the both of you are feeling better. Happy Holidays.
Being from the south yankees constantly ask us to say words. I remember being in Connecticut and hearing “say britches” all the time. It’s annoying really. Possibly because it comes with them assuming we are all stupid down here.
What about the classic aluminum. Al-u-minium or alu-mi-num. I think we Americans are right on that one too.
Yes we say wadder for water and budder for butter 🤣