@@lucie4185 But weirdly Philadelphia Cheese was from New York. It was called Philadelphia because it made it sound like it was from that area, which was renowned for its Dairy products.
Re: not saying Philadelphia in regards to cream cheese because it’s a location. You do that with many other things: London Dry Gin, Münster cheese, Wiener Sausage/Schnitzel, NY cheesecake, most cheese names are just the location their production (Camembert, Stilton, Roquefort), wines (Champagne or Bordeaux)
I think its acceptable to say tripple nine, apart from when we are saying nine nine nine We would never say "Call Tripple nine!" When someone's leg is falling off
@@Liggliluff in France you say “cent douze” so one hundred and twelve. I’d guess people in the UK would say 1-1-2 just as they say 9-9-9, but I doubt the majority even know that the number exists
On the Doc Martens front: From personal experience, I can attest that women’s docs have really inconveniently placed stitching in the heel that causes blisters even through thick socks and preemptive measure bandaids, but men’s docs are super comfortable and I’ve never bled once from wearing them, even in thin socks. Also the leather on men’s docs are generally better quality. Do with that information what you will.
It's because of the country being colonised by people from different European countries. Both words/place names come from Native American tribes and possibly also rivers related to them, but the former leans more into the French transliteration rather than the English of the latter.
@@lemons2001 Houston, the city, was named for Sam Houston. Houston Street, located in New York, was named for William Houstoun. The city is pronounced "HYOO-stən" because that is how Sam Houston's last name is correctly pronounced. The street, fitting with William Houstoun's name, is correctly pronounced "HOW-stən".
For the longest time when I heard Americans say 'yard' I'd imagine an inner courtyard or something. Something that's enclosed by buildings and you enter from the street through some kind of gate or small alleyway. ...I think I always knew what they actually meant, but my brain just didn't register 'yard' as a grassy area.
As a German, who mainly communicates in English in her day to day life, I can confirm that the "half eight" thing has me do a double take every single time xD
US cereals (as already proven on Evan's channel) are basically sugar and chemicals. It's effectively dessert for breakfast Much like other US breakfast foods - waffles, pancakes etc.
I work in the rail industry and you’re not allowed to say “oh” over the radio when referring to train identification numbers. Only nought and zero to avoid confusion.
Controversial opinion, they're both equally correct. In general if you're in the US use Aluminum, and if you're in the UK use Aluminium. It doesn't really matter outside of a desire to be understood. If the person you were talking to understood what you meant, what you said was correct
Aluminium is officially the right use but we let this one go with you yanks. The rest of the world call it Aluminium so I guess Aluminium wins by the majority either way mate.
@@gustaf3811 Missing the point of how words work there. It's a dialectical difference in spelling, both are correct. Just as colour and color are both correct. I would also hazard a guess that more people speak US English or some variant than British English or some variant. So like majority argument probably isn't going to work for this one. Edit. I checked 70% of English speakers speak American English. Also I just realised you are under the misconception that I am American, I'm from Essex mate, I'm about as far from American as you can get.
@@oliviamillington8246 Does that figure include non-natives and their dialects? English as spoken in India for example is descended from British English. I would also guess that American English may appear more dominant because their Englishes are more standardised and cohesive than British ones. A Scottish person for example might not be said to speak ‘British English’ as this is just a standard that came from English universities and educated southerners.
Also I agree that both are correct, language and dialects are what they are and to impose standards usually necessitates enforcement of classist norms... With this in mind, the video title should be ‘why aluminum is not wrong’ rather than ‘why aluminum is more right’. Even as far as usage goes and being understood, IUPAC prefers ‘aluminium’ for its consistency and for being the most widespread term.
On the numbers: I'm from Germany and we pronounce this number 37 "siebenunddreißig", which literally translates to "seven-and-thirty". And there are many germans who will tell you a phone number like that. So 37 56 95 78 would turn to "seven-and-thirty, six-and-fifty, five-and-ninety, eight-and-seventy". Talk about confusing. And no, it does not get easier when you grow up hearing people talk like that.
I speak German but I live in America and the numbers always mess me up. the other day I was ringing a guy up and his total was like 27.45 or whatever and I said to him in English "seventy two fifty four." and half the time when I try to speak German I would say it the English way zweiundsibzich argh and its not right either way!
@@mackenziesapphire7554 🤣🤣🤣 Yep... Four-twentys-fourteen.. Completely crazy, Couldn't agree more with you 😂 Was just commenting on your thread, because many European countries/languages say numbers the same... English being completely different , of course,... Typical 🧐😳
@@catshez Isn't German the odd one out, technically? I don't know too many languages, but english has twenty one, french has vingt et un (twenty and one), spanish has veintiuno (twenty one), and so on but German does dreiundzwanzig (one and twenty). I mean, obviously then french comes along with the weird eighty thing and I'm sure english counting gets weird at some point, toot, but yeah
YES the half eight is so annoying as someone from a Germanic country where half eight is 7:30😭😂 I've arrived to several appointments an hour early because I forgot 🙈
So where you're from "half eight" is half an hour BEFORE eight? Yikes. I will definitely use the more specific "half PAST eight" from now on. This is right up there in the "blows my mind" stakes as when I learned that in some countries the head actions I know for yes and no are reversed.
Evan is literally one of a kind like I don’t subscribe to any other channel like his, like his content is just so refreshing a mixture of educational and fun at the same time, I love it
So you mentioned the "half eight" thing meaning "half past seven" in german, please note that the element with the atomic number 13 is called "Aluminium" in german xD
And in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, French. In Italian and Spanish it is Aluminio but the key thing is they retain the i before the suffix. Same in Russian and Japanese. And I'm sure there's others but I got bored.
I’m not sure that the example is a good one. ‘I’m going to bathe’ and ‘I’m going to Bath’ seems more likely sentences to me, but I may be missing something.
The reason calling Z as "zed" is beneficial for those without a S/Z distinction. So when the Americans say "zee", all I hear is "cee", but there's already a letter called "cee". So while Brits go A to Z, Americans go A to C.
But.... c is pronounced like sea/see not z they don’t typically sound alike nearly at all? I guess to someone with a English accent it could I just would never expect that
@@briarchoi31 They sound identical to someone without a S/Z distinction. Imagine all Z sounding like S. Now try to tell the letter C (see) and letter Z (see) apart; not that easy. But if you say Z (sed), it's now possible.
8:30 German speaking: In english classes, we only learned "oh" to mean 0. I was extremely confused when on a CD recording that wasn't from the learning material we had someone said "zero".
My experience from learning English in Poland was the opposite, we only ever learned "zero". I was initially so confused when I moved to the UK and people would say "oh" or "naught" 😵.
@@longnoseboiand, as a result, Americans have stopped saying ‘aluminum’ and no one understands it any longer if the word is used. Thank God that voluntary organization has more clout than the WHO and WTO! The world has been saved.
Well a Fin here: depending on the restaurant or how big the hamburger is I do use knife and fork (so not at fast food restaurants). Also on the pizza, I might not use the knife and fork if I'm home though.
Fun fact: the main ore or aluminium/aluminum is bauxite, so no problems with pronunciation there. I feel you with the Philadelphia thing, whenever someone says Iceland, I think of the country and not the frozen food store. Been to the country, but not to the shop.
A lot of beer is named after the towns where they were/are brewed examples are Leeds pale ale, Newcastle brown ale and Mansfield. Instead of saying the full name you'd just order it by its city name.
the frame rate is really high and its so delightful to watch, its cool as hell and the zoom effects are very smooth my video editor nerd is jumping out but its just very nice to watch
So everyone understands, Evan's mention of Arthur Dent in relation to sandwiches is based on the character's job in the fifth Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy book, Mostly Harmless. Personally I'm thrilled he's read that far into the series.
Nah there’s no way he has a point, the Latin -ium suffix matches the other elements on the periodic table such as potassium, sodium, etc. as this designates an abstract noun. Elements are abstract because you don’t really observe them in pure elemental form much I guess. The -um suffix has no such relevant meaning afaik. Evan has got the facts right as to how the two spellings came about but he’s then made the leap to justify the American spelling as more correct because ... aluminum came first and we all know that when something happens it can’t be changed to make more sense. Both are correct since the guy came up with both words, but that’s not to say ‘Aluminum’ is especially correct or even preferred. IUPAC says that ‘aluminium’ is the international standard word, so there you go.
If anyone uses a knife and fork to eat a burger (with maybe the exception of some of the gourmet monstrosities that are stacking TOO DAMN HIGH to fit in your mouth for a bite) they should be treated with the utmost contempt and suspicion. I say that as a Brit.
@@chrisytfc879 If we're talking proper restaurants, then yes. It's why I tend to avoid ordering them in restaurants. I'd rather have a steak or something if I'm going to be eating with a knife & fork anyway.
On the Philadelphia thing, I immediately thought about Worcestershire sauce and how I'm cool with calling it just that. I also like Red Leicester and Wensleydale cheese .
I just recently learned, that in the US, you don't butter cold toast or bread. We were on Twitch with a mixed viewership from the US, Germany and the UK, the streamer being Welsh and we talked about him streaming making a cheese bap. So he explained, cut open the bap (roll) butter one side, add cheese and all American viewer went nuts. They were shocked, he would butter cold bread. I'm German and told them, but that's normal! Everyone from the US disagreed and were totally confused about us buttering our bread. We later raided an American streamer and somehow ended on the butter debate and the same from her, she could not believe, we would butter our bread. (When asked, we heard in the US you use Mayo, Mustard or something similar to that. )
@@robertgronewold3326 that's the thing, we talk cold bread. In Germany and the UK you always butter bread. Then add cheese or meats or whatever. It's normal.
A lot of small (particularly terraced) houses in the UK do have yards - but they're not the same as gardens, they're small concrete or paved areas at the back of the house. Generally used for storing bins and the like, although some people do them up as best they can with potted plants and wall decorations.
Iowa lad speaking here. I eat my pizza with a fork, but that's only because it's 100% homemade and so hot out of the oven that if I was to pick it up by hand, my hands would no longer be a viable eating utensil. Rewarmed the next day though, it's a hand thing.
Yes when the toppings would melt off the pizza onto the floor - you use a knife and fork. Maybe the second piece has cooled enough to forget the utensils. Eat pizza that comes from a 700 degree oven and you must use utensils!
Interesting observation about ‘grill’ and ‘broil’. To ‘grill’ to me means to cook something on grates with a heat source from below the grates. To ‘broil’ is to cook something in an oven with the heat source from above, using the ‘boil’ setting on the oven controls.
Also yes my parents taught me how to eat pizza and French fries with a knife and fork so I could eat neatly in a restaurant. At home, no one does that, but in a restaurant, you have to follow etiquette 😅
I was the person who made the Philadelphia vs. Kleenex comment and I get where you were coming from! I do have to say I'm not British, I'm Finnish and we also call cream cheese Philadelphia here... Also, lovely video as always and loving the quality!!!!!!!!
Aluminium makes more sense. Let's run with the "Alumium" for a bit to show why, Alumium indicated a metal derived from "Alum", however the argument was if it wouldn't have been better to specifiy it as comming from "Alumina", so the original argument was regarding the "-m-/-min-" part and not the "-um/-ium" part. Personally I'm used to tossing the ium/um into the wind for all metal elements (and helium) simply by telling people that if I use "-ium" I refer to the element itself, and if I use "-um" I refer to working on the element (I know, a lot better to use "-iate" than -"um", but try to get people to not get silly when they hear "plumbiate")
I don't ever correct folks over Aluminum/Aluminium, since I know both are right. I only correct folks when they pronounce something wrong. Like Fudce. (Not Fudcey - it's pronounced like a multiple of Fud)
Standing on the right side of the escalator is actually a London thing. I'm northern and hadn't come across that rule until I didn't do it in London and there was lots of tutting.
Ahh yes Evan I agree completely about eating pizza with a knife and fork. I'm Italian and when someone offers me a knife and fork to eat my pizza they get a dirty look and I snarl and say "um no thanks dude I've got 2 hands and a face, I'm good" lol :D
We also have a cheese called Red Leicester... and I live in Leicester 🤣 that isnt weird to us. So even philadelphia wouldn't be weird for us if it was a town
No a better comparison would be if you called ALL cheese "Leicester". That's what it's like for us to hear all cream cheese referred to as "Philadelphia"
@@philomathstudies9226 no because you just said 2 different types of cheese there. So philadelphia obviously doesn't mean all cheese, just all cream cheese. And tbh, i have heard of other stuff having cream cheese in it, like chilli cheese poppers, you wouldnt say it has philadelphia, you would call it cream cheese, im sure
@@deadlymelody27 cream cheese is a lot more prevalent then near any other type so imagine you go to Germany and all cheddar is now referred to as London because you’ve never heard it referred to as such you’ll be confused, it’s not about correct or not(accents can’t be incorrect really) it’s just explaining why Americans find it odd, also she originally said all CREAM cheese not all cheese
I feel ya on the Philadelphia thing. That's why I cringe whenever Americans refer to a kiwifruit as a kiwi. In New Zealand, a kiwi is the national bird, and a Kiwi is a New Zealand national. Neither of these are things I associate with being eaten.
My parents are from a different country but I’m British so some of their vocab rubbed off onto me so I call kiwifruit a kibie, idk how to spell it so I just spelt it how I pronounce it
@@marydavis5234 I understand that, but it doesn't mean I won't instinctively cringe when it sounds to my ear as though Americans are talking about eating people or cute birbs.
Evan I really want to let you know how much I love your videos, they're so entertaining, I appreciate the huge effort you put into your videos, and I love to hear your insights. Both these fun community videos (so fun to watch) and the intense deeply researched topical videos (wow, amazing work!!) I think are awesome! But my favourite, as a German student, are your German videos!!! I would love you to do more, I know they're not for everybody, but I can tell it's such a big part of your life that you're passionate about and enjoy so I think you should definitely go ahead and do more of them!! I know I'd love that :)
1:10 Makes a point about consistency, then goes on to say "that's actually neither one, right, so kind of neither of us are correct" and manages to pronounce neither in two different ways. I love your community videos Evan, keep up the great lighting !
The problem is with a lot of burgers is that they you can't eat them clean like a sandwich. They're always overfiled and u sometimes get covered in sauce. I still only use my hands for a burger just clean ur hands afterwards. But I can see why people use a knife and fork
> They're always overfiled and u sometimes get covered in sauce. That's the point. To quote the Carl's Jr ads, "if it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face."
@@ellencameron3775 Well not my problem, idc. My OG point was that though I use my hands, I understand why people in the UK use a knife and fork. To stop it getting messy
The history behind aluminium is very similar to the story behind fall vs autumn. We originally said fall in the UK, and then obviously took the word with us to the US. We then changed to saying autumn (sorry, I don't know the details of when and why), whilst the US stuck with saying fall.
With pizza it depends. I know many italian pizzarias, where the owner would kick you out for eating with your hands. With american pizza it is a different story, also if you eat italian pizza outside out of a box.
As someone who just purchased doc martins recently my feet are not bleeding and I had quite an average breaking in shoes experience I might even class it as one of the better ones. But on the looks front I am not the biggest fan of some of the doc martens flip flops and stuff but I do love the classics especially because they are so comfortable after they are broken in
In Portuguese and Spanish we use Aluminio, Italian is similar but with a double "L". French and most of the germanic languages uses Aluminium. So I think the States are being the weirdo again.
All of Europe or say it the British way when they speak English, not part of Europe uses the U.K. vision of the word include India, Pakistan, Australia,New Zealand along with the majority of world excluding USA,Canada. Even just accept USA chose the wrong one.
@@NicholasJH96 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990. In 1993, they recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant; the most recent 2005 edition of the IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry acknowledges this spelling as well. IUPAC official publications use the -ium spelling as primary but list both where appropriate. It’s entirely correct to say either the only European countries to use aluminium are the Germanic/English(when I say this I’m speaking both culturally and genetically and not only about England and Germany) anyways so Americans are not the only ones to use a different spelling Some examples Korean allyuminyum Japanese allyuminiumu Chinese lû Spanish aluminio Albanian alumini Arabic al'aluminyum Greek aloumínio Hindi alyumeeniyam Gaelic alúmanam Italian alluminio Russian alyuminiy Thai Xlū mi neīym Welsh alwminiwm Zulu i-aluminium Vietnamese nhôm
Not sure how I feel about shooting in 50fps, on one hand it sure does make the video a lot more immersive and certainly buttery smooth. Just perhaps a little too much, making the video approach fatiguing and disorienting after a while. I believe there is a similar effect known as the "soap opera effect" in films and TV shot at 24 with interpolating etc. making it seem like 50/60fps content which is more fitting for gameplay and outdoor videography with a lot of motion and panning. At the end of the day it probably comes down to personal perception on a case by case basis but our brains can definitely get a little confused by the computer wizardry and certain types of content shot at higher framerates thrive while others suffer (at least how I perceive it). I'm still somewhat undecided on what I think of it for you content. Keep experimenting though, the rest of your videography and colour grading blows me away and a massive difference from just a couple of years ago.
Even Americans calling the game Soccer instead of football is an interesting story .The UK used to call it Soccer which came from association football .The UK changed it up by calling it football and the states stayed the same
True that 'soccer' originated in britain, but the UK didn't change to 'football', that was already in use, 'association football' was just what it was officially called when they standardised the rules. 'Soccer' was just another name for it that has since fallen out of common use in britain.
The first Mother's Day after my wife (American) moved here (UK) we went to buy her mom a Mother's Day card for US Mother's Day in May, and it never occurred to me that, obviously, shops in the UK don't sell Mother's Day stuff after March. Now we buy both our mothers cards at UK Mother's Day time, and just hold on to one until May.
Me at home: Eats pizza with hands Me in a restaurant: Eats pizza cut into little squares with knife and fork Why? Because everyone not eating pizza is using proper utensils!
Love the little history on the word 'aluminium'! Genuinely interesting even if it is the most useless thing I could've learnt today! Also the numbers thing.. I wonder what it's like in other languages. I'm learning French (encouraged by you - thanks!) and just learning the numbers is hard enough, let alone repeated numbers!
@@briarchoi31 ok, interesting. That’s still really weird to me, the a sound is never usually like that on its own in the UK, however some parts of the country do pronounce the a sound like that, but generally no
@@billyboybillyboybillyboy yea I’d also assume a lot of Americans say it odd depending on area I can only speak for Illinois and Texas really I’ve not been to other areas of the us
The local cinema where I live in the Uk, has fresh popcorn that you can literally see being made. I used to stand and watch it whilst my parents would by the tickets for whatever we were watching before everything was digital.
I say we go back to Kalium, Natrium, Plumbum, Aurum, Argentum, Wolfram, etc. It has always annoyed me that Potassium, Sodium, Lead, Gold, Silver, Tungsten have chemical symbols that don’t match up to the elements. 🤦🏽
Have you read The Liar's Dictionary? A (occasionally overly wordy but also wonderful) novel about a guy working on a British encyclopedic dictionary and making up words out of boredom in 1899, and then someone in present day having to figure out which words are "real" and which were made up. I bring this up mostly because I love the fact that we've made up wonderful words to facilitate communication, and then get overly precious about which word/version is "right". Also, the day after I watched your last video, I was at work at my American bookstore, and a guy called from the London to order something and when giving me a phone number he did the "2 threes" thing...
Americans also pronounce ‘zero’ differently, in a way that is consistent with saying the letter as ‘Zee’. It’s like ‘zee-ro’. Some say ‘zeh-ro’, with a short e like in ‘zed’.
German: Aluminium French: l’aluminium Polish: Aluminium yeah, I think it is really only the Americans who didn’t get the memo. Same with the memo about imperial being dead and metric being “the thing”.
Thing about Imperial and Metric is that Metric is used EVERYWHERE in America, but not by laymen. They use metric on planes, science, construction and food preparation in commercial settings. It's only among common people that metric is not used, and that is mostly because the cost of converting all of America's road signs is so high that governments actively work against it. But mostly everything converted here along with the rest of the world because American businesses do business with nearly everywhere, and they couldn't lose out because senators in Washington don't like spending money.
watch lost in the pond, he is british and did actually research, a British chemist living in the US named it Aluminum and when he went back to England , He was told to spell it, Aluminium , so the American spelling is the original spelling on the word
@@marydavis5234 not sure about this guys sources but it doesn’t stack up with the corresponding Wikipedia article according to which it was Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted who discovered it in 1825.
@@marydavis5234 another bold statement. :) To be honest though I don't care even remotely enough either way to do my own research on that, so you do you.
When I did a hospitality and catering qualification at GCSE level, cooking heat down onto food was called a salamander. Don’t know if that’s true across the board or just in professional kitchens.
Having place names for cheese is pretty standard In The UK: Wensleydale, Stilton, Cheshire, Red Leicester ... and the list goes on
Exactly it's normal to use specific city/region names because cheeses are all different!
Yeah we live not far from Cheddar 😅
@@lucie4185 But weirdly Philadelphia Cheese was from New York. It was called Philadelphia because it made it sound like it was from that area, which was renowned for its Dairy products.
Double Gloucester
@@flappetyflippers because one Gloucester is never enough.
Amused me no end "It would be like if there was a drink called a london" when Americans came up with a cocktail called the manhattan.
Yeah, but usually you would say "I'd like 'a' Manhattan"
this was amusing to me to although i dont think ive ever heard a Manhattan special called just a Manhattan. the distinction is important
@@bobbioleary1266 There's also a Long Island.
I mean there is a dry gin called London XD
I'd just assume I was being offered Gin (London Dry Gin specifically)
Hello everyone and welcome back to a man who loves plants and coloured lights
Re: not saying Philadelphia in regards to cream cheese because it’s a location. You do that with many other things:
London Dry Gin, Münster cheese, Wiener Sausage/Schnitzel, NY cheesecake, most cheese names are just the location their production (Camembert, Stilton, Roquefort), wines (Champagne or Bordeaux)
Hamburgers too
or Sandwich.
I think its acceptable to say tripple nine, apart from when we are saying nine nine nine
We would never say "Call Tripple nine!" When someone's leg is falling off
In line of duty (crime drama) they say triple nines lol
But would you say one-one-two or double-one-two?
@@Liggliluff in France you say “cent douze” so one hundred and twelve. I’d guess people in the UK would say 1-1-2 just as they say 9-9-9, but I doubt the majority even know that the number exists
In Australia our emergency number is 000 and we say "triple oh"
On the Doc Martens front:
From personal experience, I can attest that women’s docs have really inconveniently placed stitching in the heel that causes blisters even through thick socks and preemptive measure bandaids, but men’s docs are super comfortable and I’ve never bled once from wearing them, even in thin socks. Also the leather on men’s docs are generally better quality. Do with that information what you will.
And what you should do is get some Danners, which are better made and more comfortable. Or, if you feel like dropping a ton of cash, White's.
@@ellencameron3775 I’ll keep it in mind! Thanks for the advice :)
The lack of American consistency is how they pronounce Arkansas and Kansas
Let's be honest
The UK is far worse when it comes to place names lol
Houston and Houston street
It's because of the country being colonised by people from different European countries. Both words/place names come from Native American tribes and possibly also rivers related to them, but the former leans more into the French transliteration rather than the English of the latter.
@@lemons2001 Houston, the city, was named for Sam Houston. Houston Street, located in New York, was named for William Houstoun. The city is pronounced "HYOO-stən" because that is how Sam Houston's last name is correctly pronounced. The street, fitting with William Houstoun's name, is correctly pronounced "HOW-stən".
@@ShainThomas I know, I watched the Lost in the Pond video, but it’s still inconsistent despite the reason behind it.
"School yard" that sounds so old fashioned in the UK
I‘m curious, what do you call it ? As a non native speaker it confuses me to no end what words are more commonly American or British
@@I2345-t9e my school officially called it the school playground but generally we were just told to "go outside"
@@I2345-t9e yeah generally its called the playground
@@I2345-t9e in primary school, we usually call it the playground. In secondary school, we just call it outside.
For the longest time when I heard Americans say 'yard' I'd imagine an inner courtyard or something. Something that's enclosed by buildings and you enter from the street through some kind of gate or small alleyway. ...I think I always knew what they actually meant, but my brain just didn't register 'yard' as a grassy area.
As a German, who mainly communicates in English in her day to day life, I can confirm that the "half eight" thing has me do a double take every single time xD
“You can have my axe... body spray” I’ll have you know - it’s called lynx
jk jk love you
I literally did this xD
If someone offers me london I'd think it was dry gin
This was exactly what I thought when he said it :P
Or London Pride. A bottle of Newcastle is Newcastle Brown Ale
My mind jumped to London Pride
I immediately thought of gin too
@@xneurianx Er why I like Manhattan's
The UK and USA cereal tier list is basically going to be basically a USA tier list with a few UK brands. We have like 4 brands.
Yup
how'd you get to 4? that sounds like too many
US cereals (as already proven on Evan's channel) are basically sugar and chemicals. It's effectively dessert for breakfast
Much like other US breakfast foods - waffles, pancakes etc.
The US has too many unnecessary options lmao
Yet 99% of the US ones taste like over-sugared trash.
I work in the rail industry and you’re not allowed to say “oh” over the radio when referring to train identification numbers. Only nought and zero to avoid confusion.
5:17 his accent went so British on the word "city" then!
Controversial opinion, they're both equally correct. In general if you're in the US use Aluminum, and if you're in the UK use Aluminium. It doesn't really matter outside of a desire to be understood. If the person you were talking to understood what you meant, what you said was correct
Aluminium is officially the right use but we let this one go with you yanks.
The rest of the world call it Aluminium so I guess Aluminium wins by the majority either way mate.
@@gustaf3811 Missing the point of how words work there. It's a dialectical difference in spelling, both are correct. Just as colour and color are both correct. I would also hazard a guess that more people speak US English or some variant than British English or some variant. So like majority argument probably isn't going to work for this one.
Edit. I checked 70% of English speakers speak American English. Also I just realised you are under the misconception that I am American, I'm from Essex mate, I'm about as far from American as you can get.
@@gustaf3811 yanks refers to northern Americans btw southern Americans would throw a hissy fit if you call them yanks/yankie
@@oliviamillington8246
Does that figure include non-natives and their dialects? English as spoken in India for example is descended from British English. I would also guess that American English may appear more dominant because their Englishes are more standardised and cohesive than British ones. A Scottish person for example might not be said to speak ‘British English’ as this is just a standard that came from English universities and educated southerners.
Also I agree that both are correct, language and dialects are what they are and to impose standards usually necessitates enforcement of classist norms... With this in mind, the video title should be ‘why aluminum is not wrong’ rather than ‘why aluminum is more right’. Even as far as usage goes and being understood, IUPAC prefers ‘aluminium’ for its consistency and for being the most widespread term.
"Would you like some London?" No, thanks... I would rather have a Manhattan.
On the numbers: I'm from Germany and we pronounce this number 37 "siebenunddreißig", which literally translates to "seven-and-thirty". And there are many germans who will tell you a phone number like that. So 37 56 95 78 would turn to "seven-and-thirty, six-and-fifty, five-and-ninety, eight-and-seventy". Talk about confusing. And no, it does not get easier when you grow up hearing people talk like that.
I speak German but I live in America and the numbers always mess me up. the other day I was ringing a guy up and his total was like 27.45 or whatever and I said to him in English "seventy two fifty four." and half the time when I try to speak German I would say it the English way zweiundsibzich argh and its not right either way!
Yes same in French !
@@catshez Well, no offence, but French numbers are the weirdest thing. I mean, four-times-twenty-nineteen?
@@mackenziesapphire7554 🤣🤣🤣
Yep...
Four-twentys-fourteen..
Completely crazy,
Couldn't agree more with you 😂
Was just commenting on your thread, because many European countries/languages say numbers the same...
English being completely different , of course,...
Typical 🧐😳
@@catshez Isn't German the odd one out, technically? I don't know too many languages, but english has twenty one, french has vingt et un (twenty and one), spanish has veintiuno (twenty one), and so on but German does dreiundzwanzig (one and twenty). I mean, obviously then french comes along with the weird eighty thing and I'm sure english counting gets weird at some point, toot, but yeah
When you said Philadelphia I immediately thought “what’s wrong with the city” not thinking of the cheese at all
YES the half eight is so annoying as someone from a Germanic country where half eight is 7:30😭😂 I've arrived to several appointments an hour early because I forgot 🙈
So where you're from "half eight" is half an hour BEFORE eight? Yikes. I will definitely use the more specific "half PAST eight" from now on.
This is right up there in the "blows my mind" stakes as when I learned that in some countries the head actions I know for yes and no are reversed.
Using a knife and fork to eat pizza: as pioneered by THE ITALIANS. The ones who created pizza.
Evan is literally one of a kind like I don’t subscribe to any other channel like his, like his content is just so refreshing a mixture of educational and fun at the same time, I love it
So you mentioned the "half eight" thing meaning "half past seven" in german, please note that the element with the atomic number 13 is called "Aluminium" in german xD
This.
And in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, French. In Italian and Spanish it is Aluminio but the key thing is they retain the i before the suffix. Same in Russian and Japanese. And I'm sure there's others but I got bored.
@@ConsciousAtoms in Dutch it is also Aluminium, not aluminio.
@@sandyruitenberg2928 I know I am Dutch :)
Me: thinks I'm watching a fun community video
Evan: it's actually time for a lecture
Regarding cities shouldn’t be used for a product, object etc, try living near Bath. “I’m going to bath” what have a bath or go to bath? 😂
I’m not sure that the example is a good one. ‘I’m going to bathe’ and ‘I’m going to Bath’ seems more likely sentences to me, but I may be missing something.
I wouldn’t say I’m going to the bath, I’d say either “I’m going to Bath” or “I’m going have a bath”. Vs “I’m going to Bath” or “I’m going to bathe”.
The reason calling Z as "zed" is beneficial for those without a S/Z distinction. So when the Americans say "zee", all I hear is "cee", but there's already a letter called "cee". So while Brits go A to Z, Americans go A to C.
But.... c is pronounced like sea/see not z they don’t typically sound alike nearly at all? I guess to someone with a English accent it could I just would never expect that
@@briarchoi31 They sound identical to someone without a S/Z distinction. Imagine all Z sounding like S. Now try to tell the letter C (see) and letter Z (see) apart; not that easy. But if you say Z (sed), it's now possible.
8:30 German speaking: In english classes, we only learned "oh" to mean 0. I was extremely confused when on a CD recording that wasn't from the learning material we had someone said "zero".
My experience from learning English in Poland was the opposite, we only ever learned "zero". I was initially so confused when I moved to the UK and people would say "oh" or "naught" 😵.
On the periodic table supplied by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Aluminium is spelt as Aluminium. Take that as you will.
IUPAC has the final word, therefore it is ALUMINIUM
@@c0ronariu5 who says they have the last word?!
@@longnoseboiand, as a result, Americans have stopped saying ‘aluminum’ and no one understands it any longer if the word is used. Thank God that voluntary organization has more clout than the WHO and WTO! The world has been saved.
Well a Fin here: depending on the restaurant or how big the hamburger is I do use knife and fork (so not at fast food restaurants). Also on the pizza, I might not use the knife and fork if I'm home though.
As someone with a prominent moustache, burgers and pizzas with a knife and fork is a must unless I want to be picking hair from between my teeth.
Fun fact: the main ore or aluminium/aluminum is bauxite, so no problems with pronunciation there.
I feel you with the Philadelphia thing, whenever someone says Iceland, I think of the country and not the frozen food store. Been to the country, but not to the shop.
Whenever he refers to the uk or "uk culture" he just means london
Yes, London is not very much like the rest of the UK, certainly not Scotland
A lot of beer is named after the towns where they were/are brewed examples are Leeds pale ale, Newcastle brown ale and Mansfield. Instead of saying the full name you'd just order it by its city name.
fork and knife is a big no no and if you go to an italian restaurant EVERYONE and i mean EVERYONE eats pizza with knife and fork
the frame rate is really high and its so delightful to watch, its cool as hell
and the zoom effects are very smooth
my video editor nerd is jumping out but its just very nice to watch
So everyone understands, Evan's mention of Arthur Dent in relation to sandwiches is based on the character's job in the fifth Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy book, Mostly Harmless. Personally I'm thrilled he's read that far into the series.
I'm sad we didn't get more books from him
Just to clarify, by 'him' I mean Adams
@@sianchild apparently a book of his unpublished writing bits and pieces is coming out at some point
@@una_10bananas oooh!
Yeah that thing about the garden topic made me think "wonder if Evan knows what an allotment is?"
Same actually even though I'm Irish and I don't think they have allotments here (or not in most places anyway) I've heard of them
From the title alone, I'm seeing a man who is trying to get his citizenship application rejected. But I guess I'll see if you have a point.
Nah there’s no way he has a point, the Latin -ium suffix matches the other elements on the periodic table such as potassium, sodium, etc. as this designates an abstract noun. Elements are abstract because you don’t really observe them in pure elemental form much I guess. The -um suffix has no such relevant meaning afaik. Evan has got the facts right as to how the two spellings came about but he’s then made the leap to justify the American spelling as more correct because ... aluminum came first and we all know that when something happens it can’t be changed to make more sense.
Both are correct since the guy came up with both words, but that’s not to say ‘Aluminum’ is especially correct or even preferred. IUPAC says that ‘aluminium’ is the international standard word, so there you go.
As a British human I will cry if I see someone eat pizza/burgers et cetera with a knife and fork
If anyone uses a knife and fork to eat a burger (with maybe the exception of some of the gourmet monstrosities that are stacking TOO DAMN HIGH to fit in your mouth for a bite) they should be treated with the utmost contempt and suspicion. I say that as a Brit.
@@chrisytfc879 If we're talking proper restaurants, then yes. It's why I tend to avoid ordering them in restaurants. I'd rather have a steak or something if I'm going to be eating with a knife & fork anyway.
Yes, the aluminium here is made out of aluminium
On the Philadelphia thing, I immediately thought about Worcestershire sauce and how I'm cool with calling it just that. I also like Red Leicester and Wensleydale cheese
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Wensleydale - "ooooh cheeeeeese Gromit!" (sorry, had to)
Half eight is a quicker way of saying half pasted eight, it just caught on
Also cool top
or hear me out now... eight-thirty
boom
@@nasrumohamed4908 but half eight is still quicker as it only has 2 syllables 😂
I just recently learned, that in the US, you don't butter cold toast or bread. We were on Twitch with a mixed viewership from the US, Germany and the UK, the streamer being Welsh and we talked about him streaming making a cheese bap. So he explained, cut open the bap (roll) butter one side, add cheese and all American viewer went nuts. They were shocked, he would butter cold bread. I'm German and told them, but that's normal! Everyone from the US disagreed and were totally confused about us buttering our bread. We later raided an American streamer and somehow ended on the butter debate and the same from her, she could not believe, we would butter our bread.
(When asked, we heard in the US you use Mayo, Mustard or something similar to that. )
Usually we butter HOT breads. Very rarely is cold bread just eaten buttered.
@@robertgronewold3326 that's the thing, we talk cold bread. In Germany and the UK you always butter bread. Then add cheese or meats or whatever. It's normal.
@@librasgirl08 Most the time here if you're making a sandwich, you use mayonnaise instead of butter.
@@robertgronewold3326 yeah, that's what everyone said...
@@librasgirl08 correct. Americans typically use something other than cold butter on bread when making a sandwich.
A lot of small (particularly terraced) houses in the UK do have yards - but they're not the same as gardens, they're small concrete or paved areas at the back of the house. Generally used for storing bins and the like, although some people do them up as best they can with potted plants and wall decorations.
Iowa lad speaking here. I eat my pizza with a fork, but that's only because it's 100% homemade and so hot out of the oven that if I was to pick it up by hand, my hands would no longer be a viable eating utensil. Rewarmed the next day though, it's a hand thing.
Yes when the toppings would melt off the pizza onto the floor - you use a knife and fork. Maybe the second piece has cooled enough to forget the utensils.
Eat pizza that comes from a 700 degree oven and you must use utensils!
Interesting observation about ‘grill’ and ‘broil’. To ‘grill’ to me means to cook something on grates with a heat source from below the grates. To ‘broil’ is to cook something in an oven with the heat source from above, using the ‘boil’ setting on the oven controls.
Dude, what the hells bells is wrong with Doc Martins!?! They're awesome!
Right? If they make your feet bleed, you're wearing the wrong size. Or you have majorly weird shaped feet.
Also yes my parents taught me how to eat pizza and French fries with a knife and fork so I could eat neatly in a restaurant. At home, no one does that, but in a restaurant, you have to follow etiquette 😅
NO
NO
I was the person who made the Philadelphia vs. Kleenex comment and I get where you were coming from! I do have to say I'm not British, I'm Finnish and we also call cream cheese Philadelphia here... Also, lovely video as always and loving the quality!!!!!!!!
I’m glad the U.K. not alone
Motion to rename 'Colorado' and 'Washington' in Traditional English (as opposed to Simplified English) 'Colourado' and 'Washingtonne'.
Aluminium makes more sense. Let's run with the "Alumium" for a bit to show why, Alumium indicated a metal derived from "Alum", however the argument was if it wouldn't have been better to specifiy it as comming from "Alumina", so the original argument was regarding the "-m-/-min-" part and not the "-um/-ium" part.
Personally I'm used to tossing the ium/um into the wind for all metal elements (and helium) simply by telling people that if I use "-ium" I refer to the element itself, and if I use "-um" I refer to working on the element (I know, a lot better to use "-iate" than -"um", but try to get people to not get silly when they hear "plumbiate")
Italians eat pizza with a knife and fork. So theres no debate, just blasphemers and non-blasphemers.
I don't ever correct folks over Aluminum/Aluminium, since I know both are right. I only correct folks when they pronounce something wrong. Like Fudce. (Not Fudcey - it's pronounced like a multiple of Fud)
I feel like if we said Philadelphia to 100 British people. 99 of which would go straight to the cheese and not even register the city 😂
In the UK in the 1960s and 1970s the fast food chain Wimpys served burgers and fries on a plate with a knife and fork
Standing on the right side of the escalator is actually a London thing. I'm northern and hadn't come across that rule until I didn't do it in London and there was lots of tutting.
You say you are northern, yorkshire or other county?
@@hellothereh3539 not Yorkshire why?
Ahh yes Evan I agree completely about eating pizza with a knife and fork. I'm Italian and when someone offers me a knife and fork to eat my pizza they get a dirty look and I snarl and say "um no thanks dude I've got 2 hands and a face, I'm good" lol :D
We also have a cheese called Red Leicester... and I live in Leicester 🤣 that isnt weird to us. So even philadelphia wouldn't be weird for us if it was a town
No a better comparison would be if you called ALL cheese "Leicester". That's what it's like for us to hear all cream cheese referred to as "Philadelphia"
@@philomathstudies9226 no because you just said 2 different types of cheese there. So philadelphia obviously doesn't mean all cheese, just all cream cheese. And tbh, i have heard of other stuff having cream cheese in it, like chilli cheese poppers, you wouldnt say it has philadelphia, you would call it cream cheese, im sure
@@deadlymelody27 cream cheese is a lot more prevalent then near any other type so imagine you go to Germany and all cheddar is now referred to as London because you’ve never heard it referred to as such you’ll be confused, it’s not about correct or not(accents can’t be incorrect really) it’s just explaining why Americans find it odd, also she originally said all CREAM cheese not all cheese
@@briarchoi31 I see your point but cheddar is named after the place cheddar
Hello everyone and welcome back to a man who is having an existential crises.
I feel ya on the Philadelphia thing. That's why I cringe whenever Americans refer to a kiwifruit as a kiwi. In New Zealand, a kiwi is the national bird, and a Kiwi is a New Zealand national. Neither of these are things I associate with being eaten.
My parents are from a different country but I’m British so some of their vocab rubbed off onto me so I call kiwifruit a kibie, idk how to spell it so I just spelt it how I pronounce it
Kiwi is said in the US b/c we know its a fruit no need to say kiwifruit
@@marydavis5234 I understand that, but it doesn't mean I won't instinctively cringe when it sounds to my ear as though Americans are talking about eating people or cute birbs.
Evan I really want to let you know how much I love your videos, they're so entertaining, I appreciate the huge effort you put into your videos, and I love to hear your insights. Both these fun community videos (so fun to watch) and the intense deeply researched topical videos (wow, amazing work!!) I think are awesome! But my favourite, as a German student, are your German videos!!! I would love you to do more, I know they're not for everybody, but I can tell it's such a big part of your life that you're passionate about and enjoy so I think you should definitely go ahead and do more of them!! I know I'd love that :)
Ah yes, the "perfectly-normal beef" sandwich, made by the holy "sandwich maker" Arthur Dent
1:10 Makes a point about consistency, then goes on to say "that's actually neither one, right, so kind of neither of us are correct" and manages to pronounce neither in two different ways.
I love your community videos Evan, keep up the great lighting !
The problem is with a lot of burgers is that they you can't eat them clean like a sandwich. They're always overfiled and u sometimes get covered in sauce. I still only use my hands for a burger just clean ur hands afterwards. But I can see why people use a knife and fork
> They're always overfiled and u sometimes get covered in sauce.
That's the point. To quote the Carl's Jr ads, "if it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face."
@@ellencameron3775 Think there's a difference in culture here. It's not OK to be sat at the dinner table with food on your face in the UK.
@@orana03 That's your problem, not ours.
@@ellencameron3775 Well not my problem, idc. My OG point was that though I use my hands, I understand why people in the UK use a knife and fork. To stop it getting messy
i love how at 1:10 evan pronounces "neither" two different ways in the span of three seconds
Well that happened.
I do like Alumium.
I usually watch your videos on my tv so it’s as high quality as possible but even on my phone this video is stunning 👏🏽👏🏽
I saw this title and I had to click on it lol! I need to hear this argument!
And how it fails to persuade :D
@@JoshStobart I mean I think Aluminium is right. Aluminum just sounds weird lol
The history behind aluminium is very similar to the story behind fall vs autumn. We originally said fall in the UK, and then obviously took the word with us to the US. We then changed to saying autumn (sorry, I don't know the details of when and why), whilst the US stuck with saying fall.
HE SAID “Might” WE STILL HAVE HOPE
I love walking up in the mornings and watching Evan’s videos
I have a friend who eats pizza and burgers with a knife and fork, I cringe every time I see it 😅
And they’re still your friend?
With pizza it depends.
I know many italian pizzarias, where the owner would kick you out for eating with your hands.
With american pizza it is a different story, also if you eat italian pizza outside out of a box.
burgers, no pizza, only if you don't start on the middle
As someone who just purchased doc martins recently my feet are not bleeding and I had quite an average breaking in shoes experience I might even class it as one of the better ones. But on the looks front I am not the biggest fan of some of the doc martens flip flops and stuff but I do love the classics especially because they are so comfortable after they are broken in
In Portuguese and Spanish we use Aluminio, Italian is similar but with a double "L". French and most of the germanic languages uses Aluminium. So I think the States are being the weirdo again.
All of Europe or say it the British way when they speak English, not part of Europe uses the U.K. vision of the word include India, Pakistan, Australia,New Zealand along with the majority of world excluding USA,Canada. Even just accept USA chose the wrong one.
@@NicholasJH96 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990. In 1993, they recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant; the most recent 2005 edition of the IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry acknowledges this spelling as well. IUPAC official publications use the -ium spelling as primary but list both where appropriate.
It’s entirely correct to say either the only European countries to use aluminium are the Germanic/English(when I say this I’m speaking both culturally and genetically and not only about England and Germany) anyways so Americans are not the only ones to use a different spelling
Some examples
Korean allyuminyum
Japanese allyuminiumu
Chinese lû
Spanish aluminio
Albanian alumini
Arabic al'aluminyum
Greek aloumínio
Hindi alyumeeniyam
Gaelic alúmanam
Italian alluminio
Russian alyuminiy
Thai Xlū mi neīym
Welsh alwminiwm
Zulu i-aluminium
Vietnamese nhôm
Not sure how I feel about shooting in 50fps, on one hand it sure does make the video a lot more immersive and certainly buttery smooth. Just perhaps a little too much, making the video approach fatiguing and disorienting after a while. I believe there is a similar effect known as the "soap opera effect" in films and TV shot at 24 with interpolating etc. making it seem like 50/60fps content which is more fitting for gameplay and outdoor videography with a lot of motion and panning. At the end of the day it probably comes down to personal perception on a case by case basis but our brains can definitely get a little confused by the computer wizardry and certain types of content shot at higher framerates thrive while others suffer (at least how I perceive it). I'm still somewhat undecided on what I think of it for you content. Keep experimenting though, the rest of your videography and colour grading blows me away and a massive difference from just a couple of years ago.
Even Americans calling the game Soccer instead of football is an interesting story .The UK used to call it Soccer which came from association football .The UK changed it up by calling it football and the states stayed the same
True that 'soccer' originated in britain, but the UK didn't change to 'football', that was already in use, 'association football' was just what it was officially called when they standardised the rules. 'Soccer' was just another name for it that has since fallen out of common use in britain.
The first Mother's Day after my wife (American) moved here (UK) we went to buy her mom a Mother's Day card for US Mother's Day in May, and it never occurred to me that, obviously, shops in the UK don't sell Mother's Day stuff after March. Now we buy both our mothers cards at UK Mother's Day time, and just hold on to one until May.
"Aluminium is primarily used by british chemists" - and by every foreigner....
Me at home: Eats pizza with hands
Me in a restaurant: Eats pizza cut into little squares with knife and fork
Why? Because everyone not eating pizza is using proper utensils!
YOU. DON'T. USE. UTENSILS. WITH. PIZZA.
EVER.
EVEN THE US WEST COAST KNOWS THIS.
@@ellencameron3775
Well, a lot of Italians might disagree, and Italy is probably the bigger authority here
Love the little history on the word 'aluminium'! Genuinely interesting even if it is the most useless thing I could've learnt today! Also the numbers thing.. I wonder what it's like in other languages. I'm learning French (encouraged by you - thanks!) and just learning the numbers is hard enough, let alone repeated numbers!
Hello and welcome back to a man. A random man.
Its common to use a knife and fork with pizza in Italy.
Think im going to go with the italians here, even though i often dont use it myself
And in Chicago too.
@@Joe-yz7qx I’m confused of from Chicago and never ever seen someone use silverware for pizza 😂
Aluminum just sounds daft. Especially because it’s always pronounced with a thick American L. 🙄
I can't even read it.
My brain autocorrected it to aluminium instantly
@@Bumi-90 same, it took about 10 seconds to process it...
We usually drop L’s in those types of words so that’s actually wrong 😂 it’s more like AH-lu-mih-num the a is thick not L
@@briarchoi31 ok, interesting. That’s still really weird to me, the a sound is never usually like that on its own in the UK, however some parts of the country do pronounce the a sound like that, but generally no
@@billyboybillyboybillyboy yea I’d also assume a lot of Americans say it odd depending on area I can only speak for Illinois and Texas really I’ve not been to other areas of the us
The local cinema where I live in the Uk, has fresh popcorn that you can literally see being made. I used to stand and watch it whilst my parents would by the tickets for whatever we were watching before everything was digital.
Fuck, Evan’s humor is hilarious and wtf “hello everyone, welcome back to a man who needs a haircut my name’s Evan Endinger” 😂
I say we go back to Kalium, Natrium, Plumbum, Aurum, Argentum, Wolfram, etc. It has always annoyed me that Potassium, Sodium, Lead, Gold, Silver, Tungsten have chemical symbols that don’t match up to the elements. 🤦🏽
I'm going to call it alumium now then
Honestly a lot of Americans already say it like that on accident
I got an aluminum ad while watching this video
hello everybody and welcome back to a guy who puts frozen hash browns into a frying pan.
Have you read The Liar's Dictionary? A (occasionally overly wordy but also wonderful) novel about a guy working on a British encyclopedic dictionary and making up words out of boredom in 1899, and then someone in present day having to figure out which words are "real" and which were made up. I bring this up mostly because I love the fact that we've made up wonderful words to facilitate communication, and then get overly precious about which word/version is "right".
Also, the day after I watched your last video, I was at work at my American bookstore, and a guy called from the London to order something and when giving me a phone number he did the "2 threes" thing...
That's because there's an e after the z in zero...
Americans also pronounce ‘zero’ differently, in a way that is consistent with saying the letter as ‘Zee’. It’s like ‘zee-ro’. Some say ‘zeh-ro’, with a short e like in ‘zed’.
As a Swede, I was specifically taught to only use oh for 0 in phone numbers. If we said zero, we got corrected.
Can we revoke Evan’s citizenship before he gets it?
I second that 😂
@@abispanner3957 Third!
Fourth?
On the other hand, he said 'zed', not 'zee' - there's hope for him yet
a bit harsh mate. More like can Evan (after lockdown) visit other parts of the UK and see how the UK really is not just London
Love that the community videos are back. Especially today when Philip DeFranco couldn’t upload and my morning routine is off kilter 😂
That Webster's Aluminium description sounds on par with Johnson's Oats description in terms of smugness.
Yard = lawn typically in the U.S. if it’s the back and front yard of your house it’s typically a lawn.
German: Aluminium
French: l’aluminium
Polish: Aluminium
yeah, I think it is really only the Americans who didn’t get the memo. Same with the memo about imperial being dead and metric being “the thing”.
Thing about Imperial and Metric is that Metric is used EVERYWHERE in America, but not by laymen. They use metric on planes, science, construction and food preparation in commercial settings. It's only among common people that metric is not used, and that is mostly because the cost of converting all of America's road signs is so high that governments actively work against it. But mostly everything converted here along with the rest of the world because American businesses do business with nearly everywhere, and they couldn't lose out because senators in Washington don't like spending money.
watch lost in the pond, he is british and did actually research, a British chemist living in the US named it Aluminum and when he went back to England , He was told to spell it, Aluminium , so the American spelling is the original spelling on the word
@@marydavis5234 not sure about this guys sources but it doesn’t stack up with the corresponding Wikipedia article according to which it was Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted who discovered it in 1825.
@@marsdiep1976 lol Wikipedia has been known to write articles without doing any research to see if what they write is true
@@marydavis5234 another bold statement. :) To be honest though I don't care even remotely enough either way to do my own research on that, so you do you.
When I did a hospitality and catering qualification at GCSE level, cooking heat down onto food was called a salamander. Don’t know if that’s true across the board or just in professional kitchens.
“The US didn’t get the memo” that sounds familiar, when does America get the memo