AMERICAN vs BRITISH English **50 DIFFERENCES** - American Reacts
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- WHY DO Y'ALL SAY THIS!? American reacts to AMERICAN vs BRITISH English *50 DIFFERENCES*
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As a Brit I’ve never heard an index finger called a “first finger” 😛
Me neither. Though I've heard it be called a forefinger as well.
Yeah we use forefinger, when I was small, some adult was teasing me, so my mum told me to give him a forearm smash. I cried so hard , ( I thought she meant 4 arms) coz I only had 2 arms lol
Agreed. The 'Brit' in these videos does make a few general assumptions based on his own experience. He needs to do a little research for his videos.
@ Dan b
I've heard of first finger, second finger, third and fourth, but in my experience it is more common to say,; index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger and thumb.
Same, guy kept on saying "we" but half the stuff he said I've never heard anybody say in my city(Liverpool).
Mate, love how you actually have a proper conversation with your cam when doing these. Most people try to be like a presenter whereas you just kick back and have a normal everyday chinwag with your audience. Brilliant!
There is no such thing as British English, there is English and the there are mistakes 🤣🤣
Or as very old versions of computing programs called it 'English (UK) or Simplified English (USA). I still like that one.
British R’s go brrrrrr
*there are mistakes.
Nope British English does exist what you guys speak is broken English 😆
Are mistakes
12:04 the british guy has clearly confused red brick with the Russell group. The Russell group is the top universities whereas red brick means pretty much any university founded around the late 19th/ early 20th century
Being a Russell group university is not necessarily an indicator of being one of the top universities in the country. Durham only recently became a Russell group university and St Andrews is not on the list at all.
No you're wrong. I have heard of the top universities being called Red Brick.
@@eleanorlyndon865 @annie nonimus is not wrong, just have a quick search and you will see it.
@@eleanorlyndon865 red brick universities are definitely not the top universities. The British equivalent of Ivy League is Oxbridge. The Russell Group are self selected and claim to be the leading research universities.
Our tops are called Oxbridge lol
A shovel and spade are two completely different tools, one ( a spade ) is square with a sharp edge designed for digging into and the other ( a shovel ) is square which is rounded designed for SHOVELING from one place to another, why on earth do people not know this basic thing, it's like calling a tablespoon and a ladle the same thing !!!
I was confused why you would have only one word for two different things. Thanks for clarifying that.
@@christianschirge1332 from my experience unless you do a manual job or are a keen gardener people confuse a shovel and a spade 99% of the time it's laughable how many people are uneducated when it comes to tools especially ones that are probably in most households
Well, I'm the type of man who like to call a spade a shovel.
@@yardgrid 😂
We say seed when gardening. When eating fruit with small seeds, we say pip. Also, you say pit for a large hard seed such as in an apricot, but many in UK say stone.
There's a bit more to it than so .... I recall biology lessons ,back in my day .
Certain fruits have pips ,pits ,stone or seeds .... the orange has seeds .The pip or stone ,is what protects the seed.
A spade is for digging and a shovel is for moving stuff, we have both in the UK
That is what I, 🇸🇪, learned in America 40ys back.
We use the same words in Swedish 'spade', (pronounced "spaadE", the E is like in "error") and 'skyffel' ("shyffel").
I always thought that a spade has square blade and a shovel a rounded blade
@@georginadavies756 You can hear it in the names:
You shovel (verb) with a shovel (noun).
You spade (verb, synonym to dig) with a spade.
You shovel the snow on your driveway, you don't dig it ( 😜no pun intended, but there's some truth in it 😂).
😍😍😍
@@annabackman3028correct, the name and roots of the name do show the difference. I was referring to the shape of them not the names.
@@georginadavies756 I assume you never used either kind? The SHAPE is a clue in the puzzle! 😻
The "Pelican crossing" is actually from "PELICON crossing", which is from "PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled Crossing"
Similarly, a "Toucan crossing" is known as such, because it is for both pedestrians, and cyclists, and therefore, "two can" cross.
Well, these aren't actually officially confirmed, but it still sounds cool.
Paper money is called a 'note' because when it was first introduced it was exactly that. A promissory note or an IOU if you prefer, more like a cheque (check) today Even though these notes are now widely used, printed, issued by banks rather than the debtor to the payee, English bank notes to this day still bear the phrase 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of £x'
Tippex is yet another example of a brand name becoming a generic name, so really the British version of white out would be correction fluid.
Who uses paper money?? It’s plastic or polymer money
@@baybay4906 pedantic much? 😂 it's called paper money for the same reason it's called a note. Even though the old notes were made from cotton fibres. *Edit- and you will notice if you read my entire comment that I also referred to them as 'bank notes', paper - cotton - polymer coated cotton, they all are promissory not at the end of the day.
Although good luck getting your bank to exchange one for gold these days 😂
Nope. In Britain and everywhere Sunday is the first day of the calendar week, even though Monday is the first day of the working week.
Saturday is the seventh, the Sabbath
Click the bottom right of your monitor where the time, day and date is and see what order it says, if you're UK based it will go from Monday through to Sunday :)
As for jaguars etc, I used to work in a zoo. There’s technically no such thing as a panther. A panther is either a black leopard if it’s in Asia or a black jaguar if it’s in South America. The colouring is just the same as skin colour in humans. The black ones still have the same spotted pattern, it’s just a lot harder to see in them. Another fun fact about jaguars is they have the strongest bite of all the big cats. While lions, tigers etc go for the soft throat, a jag can crush skulls and turtle shells with their bite so generally attack from above
Yeah spot on. All big cats of that type are "panthers" as the genus is Panthera
Gosh you learn something every day👍🏻
Was literally about to say this, you can often see thr spots in the light
@@nancybudd494 Or if they’ve been in water
There is alsao a pink panther I used to watch his cartoon show as a kid.
As others have said I've never heard first finger, it is index finger or forefinger. Also everyone I know would pronounce jaguar as jag-yur, and I always thought that maize was what Americans called corn, I've never heard anyone where I live in the UK (Scotland) call it maize.
The British guy is showing his youth when saying Monday is the first day of the week. This is a cultural change since it was definitely Sunday when I was growing up a couple of generations before him.
I always found this weird.
I was taught Sunday to the point where, when I say "this Tuesday" or "next Tuesday" it depends on when Sunday is.
Confuses people so I usually say "this coming Tuesday" or whatever.
Anyway, I went to a Catholic school and... " on the 7th day he rested" (God, not Craig David).
That would make Saturday the sabbath so the Jews were right all along.
Yep 👍
It’s about how our calendars start on a Monday, is it not?
@@blackfairyxdusy Your calendar starting on a Monday is a recent thing. It was not always so.
"I thought jaguars are black... my life is a lie." Oh JT that had me crying 🤣
so did I lol
panthers are black .... but they also have the jaguar spots
The red brick universities (never colleges or schools) are those established later than the most ancient like Oxford and Cambridge and St Andrews. It's a reference to the building materials largely used by comparison with the lavish styles of the oldest academic architecture.
A carvery is a roast, but you serve your potatoes and veg yourself. Surprising the US didn't have this, considering how much they like food.
It’s called Jury duty in Scotland I’ve never heard it being called Jury Service ever
😕 oh , where I'm from we say both, but mainly jury service, and yes I'm from the south lol,
I’m 28 years old and have lived in the U.K. my entire life. I have only know of corn being called maize in American TV shows. I’m currently living in a village and walk my dog next to corn fields every day 🤷♀️
I always thought maize was American too...Everyone I know calls it corn.
I think in rural communities it's more common to call it maize. Grew up on a farm, most of the people I knew were part of the agricultural industry, and maize is the proper term for it. Outside of that every seems to have adopted the american Corn instead.
Being from the uk, some of these do have various different names that would be commonly used in uk based upon where you are geographically in the uk, also a lot of the USA versions of the words are also commonly used in the uk, I feel there is a lot of cross over these days, I think largely due to what you or anyone watches on tv,live stream,cinema. But it is interesting none the less.
JT, there is a reason for our "weird" words and phrases...we like to save time and keep it simple, lol! Love the socks btw!
Although Americans tend to oversimplify things, e.g. Sidewalk, horse back riding (I mean where else are you going to ride the horse?) and eye glasses
I’ve never met anyone in 42 years that calls their index finger their first finger, the guy explaining things doesn’t know anything, also tippex is a brand name (they make other things) it’s actually called correction fluid
Those raised my eyebrow too, lol
Yeah, I have seen these vids before. The guy will keep asking her for different answers for items that will often have the same name on both sides of the Atlantic, then corrects her when she finally guesses whatever he has written on his notes even though her first answer was whatever we may call it too.
@@MINKIN2 I do agree, however maybe it depends on where in the uk you live???
I'm English born and bred and I've always called it Tippex. I do agree about the finger though. I've never referred to it as my first finger.
I used to call it 'liquid paper', or was that a brand?
A spade is for digging, a shovel is for shovelling (moving) loose material like sand, coal, ash, snow etc. British Shovels basically look like our rectangular spades, but with edges allowing you to puile more material on top. The pointy / creased tools called shovels in the US appear to by a hybrid for digging and shoveling.
The loo is slang for toilet. The british equivilent for Restroom, would be Washroom, or if you are really posh WC (Water Closet).
TIL what WC actually stands for :)
Sorry but Sunday is the first day of the week everywhere. It’s called the weekend because Sunday is at one end and Saturday is at the other end. Weekends. Obvious really. I am British so don’t know where this guy is from but he has no idea. Monday is the first day of the working week. But that’s irrelevant as most people work any day now.
@@dmkgenuine Look at your British (and European) calendar pal, you will see it begins on a Monday. It's been done that way for centuries due to christianity believing that Sunday was the 'sabbath/day of rest' at the end of the week (you know the old, 'the world was created in 6 days and god rested on the 7th' thing). Hence Monday is the first day of the week. What surprises me more is the US (a supposedly much more christian country) has Sunday at the start of their weeks.
@@Thurgosh_OG I’ve just looked at my calendar and diary and it starts on Sunday. Calling me pal clearly means you’re from the USA and don’t know anything. The days of the week have nothing to do with some fictional character of Christianity but some fictional characters of Greek mythology.
@@dmkgenuine aye bcos he called you pal means he's american? give ye head a wobble mate
SHOVEL AND SPADE ARE TWO DIFFERENT TOOLS!!! Spades are for digging, shovels are for carrying
Tippex and strimmer are brand names which have been adopted. Spades are for digging, shovels are shaped more for moving things (e.g manure or woodchips) - so if you were putting manure on to a garden plot, it would be easier to use a shovel to move the manure from the wheelbarrow or manure pile. If you used a spade, the manure would fall off. We have snow shovels too. I'm Scottish and I use the words alimony, cloth/face cloth, and jury duty. Plus the headteacher at my school here in Scotland was the Rector (or the heidie😁).
It's called a Pelican crossing because it's derived from the term "Pedestrian Light Controlled" (PE-LI-CON)
And a Toucan or Pegasus crossing ?
Interesting! Learning so much in these comments lol
@@0utcastAussie A Toucan crossing is for pedestrians and cyclists (Bicycles) Two types of crossing in one or two can cross. A Pegasus crossing is for horses the clues in the name. You mist out Puffin. A Puffin crossing is a newer more intelligent crossing where it detects if there are still pedestrians crossing the road before changing the road side lights to green.
I feel like I dont know shit lol and I'm from the UK. These comments are just filling up the useless information storage in my brain. thank you
Like covid then, COrona VIrus Disease '19
A normal Brit wouldn't call it maize.
In Britain it is called maize, as in maize fields etc. Maize is the official terminology, the plant itself is called a maize, the yellow vegetable is called corn which grows on the cob, hence corn on the cob, sweetcorn is maize that has been harvested whilst the vegetation is young, sweet and soft, mature corn on the cob, or kernels, are dried and hard which make grain.
@@seeyouanon2931 fun facts, thanks, I am now more informed.
I think my point remains that most Brits would call it corn, myself included even with this new found knowledge.
Panthers are Jaguar/Leopards with excess melanin. They also retain their rosette pattern
From the wiki - Melanism is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard, and by a dominant allele in the jaguar
9:21 I'm a Brit, and I use both versions - Eight Thirty and Half Eight. Occasionally even Half Past Eight.
I'd say half past eight or eight thirty.
I have never said "first finger". It's always been "index finger".
I've also always said "shovel" not "spade", unless it's "bucket & spade". We get what "pail" means.., "Jack & Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water".
JT, I'd say "quarter past one" rather than "quater gone one".
Some people say "loo", some say "toilets", I say "lavatory" lol.
I also say both "counter clockwise" & "anti clockwise". I self study a lot on meteorology, so I come across a lot of the American terminology.
Edit: changed "quarter after one" to "quarter past one".
A quarter after one? Surely, if you're a Brit, like me then it's a quarter past one. I've never heard a quarter after one ever. Also, it was a spade that they showed in the picture. You use a spade for digging in a garden, a shovel has a short handle and is used for moving rubble etc.
@ Nancy
I think it also depends on where in the country you are as well, I personally would say quarter past, but my grandparents would say something like, 5 and 20 to 8, whereas I would say 25 minutes to 8.
@@seeyouanon2931 omg yes, my grandparents said 5 and 20 past/to , jeez 😳 😑, I'd forgotten til I saw that 🥰
@@nancytimmins2436 oh sh*t. Honestly, I was pausing the video, typing, copying, watching more, typing, copying & repeat. I was meant to put "quarter past one", not what I wrote above. I actually don't know how I did that considering I wrote "quarter after one" with what JT said, then re-checked & realised he said "quarter gone one". Also, my English isn't amazing.
I didn't realise the difference between spade & shovel. Thank you for the correction.
I used to volunteer at my daughter's primary school and was helping children write a letter to Spain about Christmas and we spoke about Boxing Day. One of the children asked why it was called Boxing Day. Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants, where they would receive a gift from their master...Often the servants would take their gift home to their family to share with them.
Note, the black bar on the lollipop lady's (or man) "lollipop" was originally so that they could make a note (in chalk) of the licence plate of any car that didn't stop.
In Scotland, a thing that even gets our English cousins confused is "the back of eight" or any number on the clock. It just means I'll see you after the particular hour.
Ohhh, ok, interesting to hear the differences between us all. Now if you hadn't said what it meant, I would probably start thinking down the road of, you will get the back of my hand 8 times or something lol, sometimes we say you will get or see the back of my hand if you don't stop. ( slap in the face)
It's sometimes said on Tyneside too, although not as common as it used to be.
I've lived in England and Scotland and to say "the back of eight" is not uncommon in either country. At least not from where i come from.
Boxing day used to be the day that the wealthy gave boxes of leftover food to the poor and also the day servants could take boxes of gifts home to their families.
"My life is a lie" JT, you got me with that 🤣🤣🤣
Same yup , but reading about panthers ... my lifes a lie too 🤭
Panthers aren't real. They're just dark leopards/jaguars.
I always though Boxing Day is when you go outside and find someone to box with
Hey from the UK, we do say both spade and also shovel. A shovel allows you to...shovel things. A spade is just for digging?
We also say seed. And we definitely plant seeds!
Yes we say “loo” but it’s more of a slang term than a general term, and it can refer to any toilet whether in your house or public.
It can be lots of names in England for bathroom.... loo, toilet, bog, crapper ( after the creator), shitter, shithouse, little boys room, wc, water closet, the office and lastly bathroom ( if there's a bath in there!)
Places I've lived it is usually girls who call the toilet a loo. On tv posh people say loo too.
Yea we say toilet to be posh and loo any other time 😂🇬🇧
It IS a slang term but a very polite one. You can use ´loo´in any situation and stay polite.
@@ragdolly22 "Toilet" is becoming more accepted in polite society now but it is not so long ago that it was a no-no: the genteel and formal word was "lavatory". Within the last couple of decades, the Duchess of Cambridge's mother, being entertained at one of the royal residences, was derided by the press because she asked the whereabouts of the "toilet" when it should have been "lavatory". "Loo" is politer than "toilet" but colloquial rather than formal.
In the fruit it is a pip but when out for planting it is a seed lol.
I am in the UK. Sunday is actually the beginning of the week but we tend to use Monday in calendars etc because it is convenient as many people work Monday to Friday
Yep, it also may depend on where you live possibly, I was always told sunday was the first day though.
It might be according to your age, I was brought up to think that the week started with Monday. In the school enviroment (at least as recently as the 70's and 80's when I was in school), this is how the week was taught. This makes sense to me when you think how the weekEND is both Saturday and Sunday indicating the weeks ends with Sunday. It has been contested which day is the start from around the 90's if memory serves before that I never heard personally any contention around it. It might be possible that it is directly related to the vast amounts of American tv and films that were present in our culture from the 80's onwards why a shift occurred.
Also a Brit, was taught Mon is start, Sun is end.
Weekend - Sun is the end
Monday is traditionally the first day of the week as the order comes from the bible and Sunday is the 7th day, the day of rest, as in “on the 7th day he rested”.
Apart from the people who are scumming the social for a fr££ ride,
Then every day's the beginning of the week to them🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍✌️
Hahahaha! JT gets his mail delivered by Newman.We used to call paramedics 'ambulance men' or 'ambulance women'.
I don't know anyone here in England that would call corn maize. If you saw it on sale you would say sweetcorn or a tin of corn, or corn on the cob. I don't really ever recall people saying fields of maize either, although I know it as an alternate name. Does anyone think the same? Is this one of those age dependent things? I had always thought maize was used in North America so I am now baffled
Yep we call a head of this crop corn-on-the cob or sweetcorn that we would buy in the shop or green grocers. In a field on-mass so to speak it is definitely maize and how farmers would refer to it.
Maize Mazes are a big thing out here in the sticks in the UK
I can understand farmers professionally say maize for their crops in the UK. I just don't believe people in general would say maize if you showed them a pic and said what is that. I actually don't think some townies would even know what maize is
It's definitely called corn in Scotland too.
@ areadhead
The correct terminology and what the farmer calls it, is maize fields and they may feed the chickens/ animals maize, but you are also right in that many of us would say corn- on- the- cob, or a tin of ,or frozen sweetcorn , and a corn field. But saying that, if you buy a chicken in the supermarket , it may say maize fed. Hence the skin is more yellow in colour. But I have never heard anyone say maize to refer to corn- on- the- cob etc.
BOGO (Buy One Get One) is also used a lot here in the states.
Sunday is the first day of the week, but Monday is considered the first day of the Work Week.
Consider this... most Americans seem to be kinda Bible-bashers, "On the 7th day the Lord rested". Sunday is the day of rest is it not? Thus Sunday is the 7th day not the first 🙃. Not that I care either way, I just like to make a point 😅
The clock tower that contains Big Ben was renamed the Elizabeth Tower in 2012.
Who in the UK calls corn 'maize' ? 🌽 I actually thought it was American people who called it maize. Goes to show what I know 🤷🏽♀️
I've always called it maize!
@@erinhannah4210 Really? I wonder then if it's a regional thing, I've never heard anyone say maize? Verrrrry interesting 🤔 😊👍🏼
Both maize and corn are different
@@erinhannah4210 Yeah it must be regional cos I've never heard anyone call it maize, I've only ever heard corn like "corn fields" or "corn maze" if you go to Farmer Copleys (local thing to me lol)
I always thought UK our top universities were called Russell Group rather than Red brick
I went to literal red brick university in England, Hull. One big educational difference is that many Americans use the word school for university. In the UK school age ends at what you would call high school graduation. And I have always only driven manual cars with a gear stick.
big ben is just the bell the tower it is in is elizabeth tower and that is attached the houses of parliment all together it is westminster palace.
jaguar are normally spotty, but sometimes there are melinistic ones which are black, but you can still see the spots through the black, they are exactly the same spices, just the black is a rarer genetic trait!
There are various explanations for the British word "loo" for a toilet (or restroom). In the days when there weren't toilets in houses and people emptied out their chamber pots from first floor bedroom windows in to the street the French used to call out "regardez l'eau" (watch out for the water). Hence loo from l'eau. Another option is it is a shortened version of "Waterloo". Not the battle between the French and the English, but rather the trade name for a cistern installed in outhouses (toilets) in the 19th century in England.
this made me cry with laughter, good few years back, I was out at a pub with my sister, we,d had a few, and me being quite drunk said " where,s the bog? lol" .common as muck .made them all laugh though
One explanation I heard is "gardy loo" is the Scottish derivation of "regardez l'eau", from the era when there were a lot of French people in Scotland due to the alliances among Catholic countries after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and established Protestantism in England.
My mates dad used to say Quarter post 1, if it's quarter to 1
A shovel has a wide blade with raised sides, and is used to scoop up loose matter, a spade has a straight, sharp blade, and is used for digging. Funnily enough, in Scotland, the entrance-hall of a house is often referred to as the, "Lobby."
The Jaguar is smaller than the other big cats, and has distinctive, "Rosettes," rather than spots.
I’m a Brit and I have always considered Sunday as the first day of the week, but then I’m in my seventies. However, the younger people do as they please and if they want to say Monday is the first day, that’s what they’ll say.
shovel is wide and flat and you use it to move loose soil and spade is narrower and stronger, its what you use to dig holes
Flannel used to be a very low quality, cheap cloth. It was used for cutting up to wash with (hence becoming synonymous with wash cloths in the UK) or for making cheap clothing (hence becoming synonymous with an item of clothing commonly made with it in the US). It was also used to refer to something of little to no value (for instance accusing someone of talking flannel).
I own flannel shirts and I’m English and I’d imagine that Americans would only talk about ‘flannel shirts’ if they were actually describing shirts made of flannel, so it’s hardly a synonym for clothing, though it may be a material that’s more popular over there. I definitely say ‘flannel’ not ‘washcloth’ to describe something I wash my face with though.
@overlord nat In the US flannel is generally used to refer to plaid/lumberjack shirts no matter what the fabric is. Flannel is not a pattern, are your shirts actually made of flannel?
I clarified my answer to make it clearer that when I say 'clothing' that I was referring to a specific item of clothing and not suggesting they use that word to refer to all clothing.
@@mortisrat I thought my shirts were made of an actual material called ‘flannel’ that wasn’t exactly the same stuff as is used to make the facecloths of the same name but upon further investigation I was referring to a Fynch Hatton white LINEN shirt but I’ve found something called a ‘Fynch Hatton Anthra Flannel Shirt’ online that is checked and 100% cotton. As this is a German company that sells in the U.K the term may not be exclusively used by Americans but it does look like ‘flannel shirt’ is indeed an Americanism that refers to something other than what I thought it did. ‘My bad’, to use a phrase popular with Yanks (and many people here now).
@@fuckdefed I make Victorian clothing, so am aware of many fabric terms which are obsolete or changed now - hence knowing the original meaning of flannel. Another fun one is 'stuff', which was once a type of low quality cloth, then low quality cloth in general, then just things in general.
@ Kara Wyatt. Now look here, you see. Welsh Flannel was & still is made from wool.
I've never heard of Monday being the first day of the week. Sunday to Saturday.
In the UK you dig into soil with a spade, but you would use a shovel to pick things up off the floor like gravel, or especially coal when I was a kid in the 70/80’s. The coal board would drop off coal outside your house and it was the owners responsibility to ‘shovel’ it into a wheel barrow and place it in the coal hole / coal house. 😊
A spade is for digging.
A shovel is for scooping (think of a builder shoveling sand into a mixer or a street cleaner shoveling debris off of a road).
I The Great British Bake Off’ being called ‘The Great British Baking Show’ in the US is due to one US company (I forget which one it is) owns a trademark over the phrase ‘Bake off’ in the US, thus the reason for the name change in the US version of the show. There’s a good UA-cam video that explains in more detail how the US version of the show has had to be edited to remove all references to ‘bake off’ in the older seasons and how newer seasons film segments twice, once for the UK, once for the US
Just to add to what you've already said, I believe it's the "Pillsbury Bake Off", a US cooking competition. :)
I don't know if it's me but I feel like the southern states of the US have kept some of their British roots more than the North has.
Something I found out fairly recently is that the black panther is a type of jaguar, don't know how I didn't know just by looking at them
You are right a spade is a particular type of shovel, The small type we used to get coal with or to brush dirt onto a brush is a shovel, not a spade.
a spade is used for digging and generally goes down to a point, a shovel is used for moving dirt/show etc and generally has a flat edge
Haha.... I’ve literally just come back from my first day in court as a juror. I’m in the UK and it’s called jury duty, even my letter from the court said jury duty. Excellent video 🙌🏻
Same when I did it 17 years ago.
A seed is an ovule containing an embryo while a pit is the part of the fruit that protects the seed until growth time. Seeds can be many or one in a fruit while pits are always one. Pits are contained in cherry fruit, plums, peaches and dates while mangoes, oranges and apples have seeds
You are right. A shovel is for shoveling things and a spade if for digging.
Tippex? always called it "Snowpake". Plant seeds but pips are in food.
Great video again JT ,we do say where’s the loo ,but also we call it a bog or a lavatory,my favourite is thunder box 🤣
The name comes from a time when the rich used to box up gifts to give to the poor. Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants - a day when they received a special Christmas box from their masters. The servants would also go home on Boxing Day to give Christmas boxes to their families.
Flannel in old English means “woollen article” or “wool”
A Spade has a rounded pointy end, whereas a Shovel has a flat end.
I just went and looked at my calendar and it actually starts on a Monday, first one I have ever seen ;)
Not necessarily, see the ‘Bucket and Spade’ clip.
Spades are almost flat and sharp; made for cutting into the ground (etc.). Shovels are wider with raised sides/back edge, to allow for moving said ground after the spade has broken it up.
The top English universities are Oxbridge (from Oxford and Cambridge), the Redbrick universities are the second tier, founded in the 19th century.
EDIT: Loo is slang (along with other words such as bog). Formally, most people would say toilet or lavatory (or even gents or ladies, depending on gender). For instance, if you're in a pub you don't know, you might ask the barmaid "where's the gents?"
There are also the other pre-Victorian universities, which are prestigious but not 'red brick': the medieval ones in Scotland and Ireland, and Durham Uni. And there are many newer universities which would probably fit into a second tier.
@@Emmet_Moore I said “English”. You open a can of worms when you introduce the five historic Scottish universities into the picture…
12:34 apparently she’s from wherever Megan and Kelly are from. Cum Laude literally means “with praise“ in Latin.
“With distinction” is also used isn’t it?
A shovel is for lifting a spade is for digging thus it narrows at the end whereas a shovel is square edged
Never understood people thinking Sunday is the first day of the week when it’s part of the weekend
To me, a shovel is a tool for moving stuff from here to there. A spade is a cutting instrument, a blade. Spada is the Spanish word for sword. Malt shovel, snow shovel, dock spade, trench spade.
Spade or shovel ... I have no clue. I'm so stupid I'd be the 1 person to take toes off trying to use them 🤭🤪, I'm just so ditzy . If an accident is gonna happen, u can guarantee I'll b on the centre of it 😰🤣🤣
Espada
A spade is for digging and a shovel is used for shoveling up debris etc..
8:19 “My life’s a lie!” 😂😂😂😂😂
Spades are generally narrower to make it easier to push into and turn the soil over.
Shovels are normally wider, therefore have more capacity when moving soil or snow etc.
So basically if you and your post/mailman were to move to the UK you'd NEVER get your mail! (it rains ALOT here!) 🤣😂
'cum laude' is latin. It more or less literally means 'with honour'. It's the same word root as when you say someone is lauded for some accomplishment.
I spade when talking about the one that has the point, and shovel when talking about the one thats flat on the bottom, and snow shovel when it is a wide and the curve is east to west rather than north to south on the other two. And I did not realize until now how much the five years I spent in England as a child has changed the things I say like, With honors, spade, thrift shop, and manual .
Never heard anyone say first finger, it's either index finger or forefinger.
as a scot i have so many different words yet again
Spades for digging and shovels for shoveling as in scooping up materials.
They are called lollipop ladies because a while back, every time you used to cross the road they would give you a lolly!
Harvard use references like Cum Laude, I remember from watching the film “With Honors” I loved that film. It may be restricted to the Ivy League Colleges rather than wide spread. I absolutely loved the section with the jaguar because you did something that is so rare in this day and age, you simply stated you were wrong. That my friend puts you head and shoulders above a big chunk of society in both our Countries.
"cum laude" is Latin for "with praise". Sometimes it's "Magna cum laude", which means "with a lot of praise"
We do say 'loo' too, it's the more informal word for toilet. We might also call it 'the crapper' or 'the shitter' but those are a bit rude.
And the bog. My dad used to say "I'm going for a widdle" 🤣
@@AmethystRock I was just thinking, you'd say 'the loo' or 'the ladies/gents' if you were with 'polite company' and the bog at home😁🤣. It's just the family, they're not polite company🤣
Crapper was a brand name for an early toilet. it was the inventers family name. Thomas Crapper.
A shovel and a spade are two different tools.
A spade is narrow and pointed and used for digging in earth.
A shovel is wide and flat and used for shifting earth, sand, gravel, snow.
Some of the UK responses in this could be regionally contested, as some terms differ by region.
Here's a bit of inane information. The black stripe on the lolly, the "lolly pop" lady is holding is for writing down the number plate of any vehicle that doesn't stop, in chalk. 🇱🇷🇬🇧💜
Most people graduate 'with honours'. It's just means you get 360 credits, rather than the 300 required for an 'ordinary' degree. The equivalent to graduating magna cum laude would be getting a first (a first-class degree).
We'd call a flannel shirt 'tartan' or checkered.
All the words this English guy is saying are particular to England. They are not used throughout the UK.
I say scallion OR spring onion depending on who I'm talking to. Bin bag.
Flannel comes from the material it was made from.
The term "flannel shirt" is often mistakenly used to refer to any shirt with a plaid or tartan pattern. However, 'flannel' refers simply to the fabric, and not all flannel shirts are plaid.
Noughts and crosses= exy ohsy.
If I remember correctly, a scallion is more bulbous than the slimmer ended spring onions
In My house we call it the Bathroom or the Loo. Out in public we call it Public toilets
Love watching these reaction videos. I think because of watching so many movies and loads of tv shows from America I’ve almost become used to and understand both ways of saying these things. Where as I imagine only posh stuck up brits are shown on US tv so is more a shock to the US to hear how non pretentious we actually speak? Correct me if I am wrong.
You are wrong. Americans are just ignorant.
I have met many,many Americans and the majority of the ones I meet are the open minded ones with passports.
I was sitting in an airport with an IT guy one day (not stupid, served overseas with the military) and he was asking me why we have a capital for Wales, Scotland and NI but London is still the capital of the Uk.
I said "well, it's just like you have Boston here as the capital of Massechusettes but Washington DC is the capital of the USA."
He said there was no capital of the USA.
I said "of course there is. Its been NY and Philly in the past but its DC now".
He googled it and said "how do you know all this?"
The question is, how does he NOT know all this.
1) Shovel here in the U.K. is used for moving substances. A spade (rectangular blade here, not rounded) is used for digging. He's wrong about the colleges/universities. "Red Brick" is the name for modern universities, i.e. made of brick rather than the stone-built ones of centuries ago. "Loo" is the common slang name here for toilet.
Although some of the old Cambridge colleges are built of brick, and Cambridge is not a Redbrick university! Brick started being used long ago in the Fens, when stone was still being used elsewhere. For instance, Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire, from the Tudor period, is built of brick.
Yes, Red Brick does not denote the best Universities, indeed it is generally used as the opposite for those looking down from Oxford and Cambridge.
Spades dig holes.
Shovels shovel dirt from the hole you dug.
If it has defined raised sides on it (and sometimes a back) it's a shovel; if it is flat bladed or even curved but without sides it's a spade.
JT - weird question time . the more you learn the English/ British words do you fond yourself actually using them in your everyday life?
my friend in America we chat a lot on XBOX and his son has picked up on some of the words i say and he uses them in his everyday life . so much so my friend now has to explain what he means
i was wondering if this is the same with you
I'm American and have been exploring my Scottish and British roots. I have come to prefer UK Television. I find myself using UK words and phrases pretty often. It gets very confusing. Especially when I'm talking about said television shows. We call our shows "series". What you call a series we call a season.
Loo is what one calls Queen's English. Toilet is a French word adopted by the English language. Depending what background you come from you could use either of these words. Toilet is common English and Loo is proper English.
I'm from the uk and loo isn't polite and more common. If I'm out and about I wouldn't ask someone where the loo is I would ask where the ladies is or wheres the nearest toilets. Loo would be used around close friends and family. So toilets is polite english and loo is common English.
@@poolelasssb I agree. Like asking "where's the bog"
@@poolelasssb for me loo has always been more polite, toilet always seemed more harsh and to the point where as loo was a less direct was of asking if that makes sense
I just straight up say "lavatory". Sometimes say "toilet". I never say "mens" or "loo" & I definitely don't say "bog". That word just sounds vile.
If I’m at a mates house I’ll usually say “just nipping yer bog”… but when I’m out and on my best behaviour it’s loo, toilet or ladies.
A spade is for digging, a shovel has sides and is for moving earth/gravel or whatever. Difficult to dig with a shovel, harder to move stuff with a spade.
I work on the railway, and for us the first day of the week is Sunday. It is SO difficult finding a diary or a calendar where the weeks don't start on Mondays!
Top universities in the UK are not known as redbrick. Redbrick refers to the universities created around about 100 years ago. Some of them are considered top universities but others aren’t. The top universities are known collectively as the Russell Group. They include universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Edinburgh et cetera, all at least 500 hundred years old.
Loads of the Russell group are a lot less than 500 years old. But apart from that I came here to say this.
I watch so many US tv shows that some US terms have slipped in to my daily language.
In 1994 our lecturer at university had just moved to Scotland from the US we had great fun learning vocabulary differences in American English, English English and Scottish English
Yes we also have regional vocabulary differences just like you probably have in the US
They must use the word postman in some parts of America cos it's in an Elvis song. "I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack"
For the time (of the day) We Brits would say "a quarter past" where you say "quarter after". A bit old fashioned now but we used to say " five and twenty to" or five and twenty past" for 25 or 35 minutes before/after the hour.
We also say half past eight not just half eight. 🇬🇧