They're an unofficial instrument by which the public can measure inflation. I thought I could remember 2p and 5 p Freddos, but the wiki says they were 10p.
Was littlerally about to comment the same thing & say google Freddo, lol. And the fact we can tell how much inflation has gone up by the price of a Freddo 😂😂😂 I miss them being 10p
Kings Cross station is real, and it looks pretty much like in the films, apart from people running into brick columns. The bridge that Harry and Hagrid walk across is real. I've been on it many, many times.
Yes, except that the films use the exterior of the next door St Pancras Station because it's more photogenic. They are so close together that they share a station on the London Underground network.
Rowling made a HUGE mistake in the first book. She admitted that platforms 9 and 10 are not next to one another, so 9 and 3/4 could not be where she wrote it was... She had to keep it constant in the whole series, so she didn't correct it in the books/movies.
The Victorian 'Handyside' bridge was installed in 1892 spanning platform 1 to platform 8. It was moved to Ropely, Hampshire in 2008 when the new Kings Cross extension was built. The lattice girders with diagonal straps were exposed especially for the film.
I know basically nothing about american schools, so while you were going “british schools have houses?”, I was going “american schools don’t have houses?”.
Harry potter and the philosophers stone was Harry potter and the sorcerer's stone in America because they didn't think Americans would understand what a philosopher was, in fact they asked them and they didn't 😂
No, it was the "Philosopher's Stone" that they thought Americans would not know about. That was one of the things that the mediaeval alchemists were trying to invent.
That was the American publishers, using their "expertise." Like Joanne Rowling's original publisher said boys would not buy a book written by a woman, so they made her switch to initials and surname: and then she had to invent a middle initial "K" because she had no middle name.
Each school has 4 or 5 houses (more if they're a big school with alot of students). You just get randomly assigned to a house when you start first year, and stay in that house every year afterward. The houses are usually named after something that's special or important to the local area. So my school in Devon had Raleigh, Fortiscue, Kingsley & Drake as our houses, after the well known historical sea captains that set sail from Devon. When you do well in class, or hand in your homework on time etc you got a stamp in the back of your book from your teachers, and each week your house tutor would add them up. At sports day, the houses compete against each other, and points are awared to your house for where you placed in your competition. At the end of each school year all the points get added up, and the winning house gets bragging rights. We wore a tie that had stripes on in our house colour. I was also a prefect in school.
If you had an older sibling in my primary and secondary schools the younger siblings were put into the same house also if you had kids later they went into the parent who attended the school's house
Yep my Gran always collected 10ps for the electric meter, the lights always went out during family do's and we would fumble around for change in the dark and the meter which was in the larder. Their was no central heating either (gas fires with ignition switch); this was one of the new modern houses built after the war. Happy seventies memories.
Australian here. We have people sell items of trolleys on some of our long distance trains. We use the term codswallop also. Our schools are divided up in school houses for sporting competitions and athletic carnivals. My Aussie high school nearly 50 years ago had Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. Prefects are also in Australia along with School Captains. Also, uniforms. We have most of these in Australia. The US is the odd one not Britain or Australia.
Don't know about the trains in NZ but other than that it's the same. We do have the trolley on the long distance [for us] trains here in Ireland though.
Our Grammar school had Alpha Beta Gamma for each year if you was in Alpha you was brainy Beta average Gamma a Dunce. Also, Alpha 1,2,3,4 was the level meaning Alpha one you was super brainy, same for Beta and Gamma
@@TheDizzydiana Our tutor groups tended to have the year number (1, etc then the initial of the teachers surname, but we also had houses, they varied, Mars Saturn Neptune Jupiter
@@highpath4776 Great names for houses. We had houses in Junior school 4 houses names after UK Abbey's Fountains Kirkstall and Rievaulx. Happy memories from school.
In my school our houses where McCartney (Red), Lennon (Green), Harrison (Blue) and Starr (Yellow) Guess what city I live in from that info. I was also a prefect in my school.
The name Hermione is actually Greek. Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen of Troy in Greek Mythology. In the UK it's considered a "posh" name reserved for the upper and upper-middle classes. The only other Hermiones I know of is British actresses Hermione Gingold and Hermione Bradley. In the Goblet of Fire book, Victor Krum calls her "her-mee-oh-nay", which is how most people thought it was pronounced.
I used to make 'Kinicker Bocker Glory' for my friends, its in a Tall glass and you use a long spoon, the desert is mainly layers of ice cream, fruit, jelly and whipped cream on top with sprinkles on and you can make the layers how ever you want but ice cream is important and usually mixed tinned fruits. I still have the long spoons but lost the glasses years ago. Btw I found you today and im loving all the Brit videos. 😉
@@shirleywilliams4901I agree very similar to aircraft cabin crew. Just sandwiches crisps tea coffee etc I don't think you'd expect a nice coffee though.
Chocolate frogs are a thing. They are called Freddo's and everyone of us loves to express our dismay at how much the prices have risen since we were children.
My school up to age 11 had houses, (Eagles, Ospreys, Falcons and Kestrels and homework and other tasks did earn house points towards the house total) as did sports comps etc. I ended up an Eagle as a legacy as my sister was already. It created an odd rivalry with my friends from class who were in other houses.
In my High school, we had 4 houses (Heidelberg, Versailles, Windsor and Alhambra). I'm the oldest so my younger sister joined the legacy of being in Heidelberg and my other sister would've too if we hadn't moved. My school used the rivalry between houses to have a yearly sports day at the end of the year, as well as designated bins for houses and tallying up which house had the most attendance rates to earn trips and such. Honestly, it was awesome and kept the school life more interesting whilst still keeping it all in order. I can't believe it's not used everywhere lol. Plus, even tho we were competing against each other a lot, it did bring about closer friendships since it meant we could stand being all bitchy during competitions yet forgive and accept defeat when need be. Oh yeah and for the yearly sports day, I also had friends in different houses and we'd be sat together in our house colours cheering then laughing in each others faces whenever our houses won. (It was mainly Windsor and Heidelberg against each other each year so it was quite intense rivalry every year to see who'd be winning. Ofc Heidelberg was usually always top tier 😭🤣)
I had houses at both my primary schools - where they chose 4 our of the original 7 migration canoes, oddly I was in the same one [Takatimu] for both schools - and at my intermediate/middle school where we had the 4 volcanos [Ruapehu/red, Ngauruhoe/blue, Taranaki/yellow and Tongariro/green. But I don't remember having them at secondary school, this was in New Zealand.
Our school houses were named after the ancient knights in the north of England: Busli, Warren, Rollo and Mortain. We each had a badge and colours that we wore on our uniform - coloured ties and embroidered house badges on our blazers. Busli won the house competition nearly every year, which consisted of events taking place throughout the year, including sports competitions (tennis, cross country running, rugby, etc.) and academic competitions like maths and engineering challenges. We also organised charity events and activities to improve the local environment within our houses. The end of year challenge was the house quiz, where we formed teams for each house and competed on academic questions using a buzzer - I was in Busli on the quiz team - we won the end of year cup, it was awesome 😅 This was a normal school, not a private or boarding school.
The houses of my secondary modern were based on your primary colours and were just for inter house sports but for 6th form I went to a school built in the 1600’s and their ones have names based on famous people who once went to the school
Ours were named after the continents with the school logo on the uniforms in different colours for each house, house points, house vs house competitions the lot 😂
When I was a kid we lived in Leiston, about 4 or 5 miles from Snape. Been there many times. BTW I'm in my 60's now so it was a very long time ago but I bet it hasn't changed!
Might come from the word 'snipe' - to stab/wound. And where the word 'sneep' (scandinavian -sneypan) comes from. When you deeply wound someone on an emotional level. I imagine anyone would regret crossing your Snape ancestors 😂
British here and when I was in Junior School from 2000 to 2004 we were assigned one of the 4 houses which were Red, Blue, Green and Yellow and were giving a house point depending on how good we did in a lesson.
Yeah my old primary school in Sheffield had the four houses Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter, which are four of the main rivers that run through Sheffield. It was honestly pretty cool.
Schools in Malaysia are modelled after the British school system. We have head boys/girls and school prefects, we wear school uniforms and we have school houses too. Usually house names correspond with colours. I went to a missionary school so our houses were named after saints, eg. Francis House/Green House
The area under the stairs is usually either a downstairs 'loo' (toilet) OR, as Tyler mentioned, a storage cupboard (for the vacuum cleaner, step ladder and coat hooks etc.).
Yeah whoever owned the house before my family turned ours in to a toilet. The sink has botched plumbing which is annoying too (it is the only bathroom with separate hot and cold taps because the rest all use mixer or thermostatic taps and the reason it is botched is because both taps are hooked up to cold water) although in the past 14 years we have never redone the plumbing for it because of how custom the owners made it because they hand did individual wooden panelling to cover all the pipes and the waste trap under the sink and even painted the thing (it is supposed to be white) brown to colour match the wood behind it and even the towel hanger and loo roll holder and wall mounted soap dispenser were colour matched. I assume they gave up on trying to fix the missing hot water because of this. The same people even had installed a special plastic cover over the original dual bath tub taps to convert them in to a mixer tap though we changed the bath tub and taps because of a leak
Treacle in treacle tart is actually made with Golden Syrup, which is nothing like pecan, but more similar to high fructose corn syrup. Proper treacle is thick, black & a bit like molasses
@Emily-wi8ec Nope. Entirely different thing. Golden Syrup is made from refining cane sugar, corn syrup is made from, er, corn. Americans are obsessed with the stuff.
School houses are often used for sports days to divide up kids into teams. My school had a merit system for good behaviour and such and every term they would announce which had the most points.
Pre-1971(?) - before decimalisation: the currency was on the duodecimal system, ie 12 pennies in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound. There was a threepenny-bit coin (a duodecagon brass colour), so 4 of these to the shiĺing. There was a one-penny coin, a halfpenny (ha'penny) coin (obviously 2 to the penny), and a farthing (4 to the penny). They were copper. The sixpence, shilling, two-shilling (florin), and half-crown (two dhillings and six pdnce) were 'silver'. There was a ten-shilling note (now abolished). Now, notes are £5, £10, £20, £50 (unusual). There are 100 pence to the pound.
I was in a public school whose house was 'Cheshire House'. Our houses would compete against one another in sports. But mainly it was designed to develop us as human beings. Cheshire House was named for Leonard Cheshire a former RAF pilot, who on 22 May 1948, took a dying man, who had nowhere else to go, into his stately home. By 1949 he had 29 patients living in his home, caring for them. His home was called Matfen Hall, a home for special needs adults for decades. It was my school house charity. We regularly visited the patients as part of our extra curricular activities and after leaving school I had to wait to join the Navy so I worked there for bed and board for 6 months. All chilren should be involved in such activities, it really opens your eyes to how lucky you are and develops a habit of putting back into society.
@@BillDavies-ej6ye Goes back to when they really were public schools but because free education wasn't much of a thing 800 odd years ago [I think I remember reading that the oldest one is in York] your parents paid for your to attend. Presumably better and cheaper than trying to find a tutor.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou In fact the original 'public schools' (as now named) were for boys in a locality from humble origin, i.e., the poor. The upper classes increasing took advantage of them. Many today continue to offer bursaries or scholarships, i.e., subsidised, means-tested or free education for gifted students. I believe that some have given up this practice, losing the continuity with their original purpose.
@@stephenleader-s9x Wallop is a slang term for beer so I always assumed that codswallop was beer for fish (ie total fantasy). I always found the image of a fish trying to drink beer from a glass, while underwater, quite amusing.
1:27 he says “fairly common thing”. As a Brit, I’d use the word “extremely common” for cupboards under the stairs. They are not in every house, but I’d definitely say most houses. This is to the point that I once moved house and there was not one, and I found it unusual.
Freddos (chocolate frogs) are very popular in Australia too..they are like a currency in the workplace. If you want someone to do you a favour, promise them a Freddo 😊
Something that disappointed me when I came to UK...they only have solid chocolate Freddos. I always look to see if there are any caramello ones, or peppermint ones...but no. I dream about them. 😶🌫
@Yesser-Thistle73 Oh, the cruelty of taunting me with this information!!😮💨 I shall spend the night tossing & turning and wishing I'd gone to live in Scotland instead of England.😄
Ours were Livingstone (explorer), Wilberforce (local man who first brought in a law to ban/end slavery) Curie (scientist discoverer) Shaftsbury (philosopher and writer)
Quite. Whilst living six yrs in the US, being a widower and thus a single parent, my employer covered the costs of both my children attending boarding schools. Michael Collins of Apollo 11, V-P Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, JW Marriott (of hotels fame), Gore Vidal, were each former pupils of my older son's school in DC. About 300,000 US schoolchildren attend boarding schools.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 You have to understand that 300,000 is a miniscule number out of the 49,800,000 students (0.6%). Hardly anyone in the USA who is not very wealthy has ever met anyone who has gone to boarding school in the USA. Private schools yes are common, boarding schools no. By the way I attended boarding school for one year in HS before being moved back to a private school for the remainder of my schooling.
Well I just had to stop at this comment. Behave! Really?! Were they the following colours Cov = Red, War = Green, Ken = Blue and Strat = Yellow? I was in (many, many years ago!) Kenilworth and used to love our house trips to Kenilworth Castle. Oh yes. Fierce Eisteddfod rivalry times! x
My Primary school which was 200 yards from the Dock Gates, so not at all posh, had houses: Normans, Saxons, Vikings, and Danes, I was in Danes (blue badges) My State Grammar School - equally not posh but slightly pretentious, choice of 3 languages including Latin, had: Lancaster, York, Gloucester, and Warwick, I was in Warwick (yellow and blue shield enamel lapel badges). House Points, could be won in inter-house sports competitions and personal academic achievements, and could be deducted for bad behaviour.
My primary school used birds. Kingfisher, Woodpecker, Greenfinch, etc. Can't remember the fourth, but it would have been something yellow because the colours kind of pick themselves.
School houses are for various competitions (often sport, but my school did chess and music competitions) that get you house points this included a whole school sports day full of competitions. Misbehaviour gets you docked house points, participation in large school projects (like school plays) can get you several house points and high quality homework can get you a house point. At the end of the year, All of them are added up and the house with the most wins the house cup. Houses also have individual student heads of house, and in some schools, student prefects. At our school we had a whole house assembly every two weeks where have talks abt about upcoming competitions, recent events (in house, school wide and political) and topics that fit the morals and ethics our house represents. Also like Hogwarts the houses are often named after famous historical people or along a certain theme. 7:54
My school had the “Houses” ours were named after our towns parks, Queens , Scott, Thompson and Towneley. We also had house cards on which the teacher would mark Credit and Debit marks for work , behaviour etc. At the end of the year each houses Credits and Debits were totalled up and the highest scoring House had their House and Year added to the House Shield Trophy.
The trolley of snacks on trains exists throughout Europe, not just Britain. I always look forward to my espresso, bottiglia d'acqua frizzante, e cornetto while aboard il treno in Italy.... particularly in first class, where the snacks are gratis and included in the cost of the ticket.
The concept of school houses emerges from schools where students lived at the school in different buildings or "houses." So a school house is literally just a house where a bunch of students live at the school. Practically the longshot of this is it promotes cooperation within your house and competition between houses to foster better performance from students, and there's some evidence it's effective in doing this.
I laughed out loud at the punting one. Even though I also use "punt" to mean a hefty kick, I understood the context in the book and never thought of the kick meaning until this video. The idea of all those American kids thinking Filch was kicking the kids over the pond had me cackling.
7:00 When you are at a Boarding School (private schools you live in, typically if you are rich or if your parents are in the armed forces and move every 2 years) there are various buildings that you would live in dotted about the school grounds. These are the School Houses (literal houses you would live in) and would be your main source of interaction and friend groups. In my boarding school the House you were assigned and living in would be identifiable by the tie you wore or the colour of your PE gear. During sports events (football, rugby, cricket, swimming, races, etc) the main competition would be against the other houses to promote friendly competition (Rugby inter-house competitions were much more brutal than any Quidditch match and on-par with many 'hardest hits' vids on YT). To say that each house garnered a specific 'Identity' is not too far form the truth, as you got to choose your house later down the line (there were separate houses for junior years) and each house would therefore gain a reputation for being either 'the house with the sporty people', 'the house the bullies go to', 'the laid back house', etc.
The boarding school I went to was a state school, (only around 60 boys + about 10 day boys). It was all one building, though the dorms were "Wings". We did have a separate sports hall though.
You have to understand that Hogwarts is based on the traditional British public school. "Public" in this case means "private". Parents pay big money to send their children to such places, famously Eton, Rugby, Harrow, Charterhouse etc. Many of these schools are hundreds of years old, have longstanding traditions and are usually boarding schools, so the children, (and teachers), will live there as well. "Houses" are basically groups which compete with one another, usually in sport, but also in other activities. You generally get chosen at random as to which house you are in by the staff, and you stay in that house for the duration of your schooling. Note the thing about "Ten points to Slytherin" or whatever is real, and can boost, (or drop, if you lose house points), your standing within your house and peers. If you lose house points, woe betide you as the older boys are liable to give you a thrashing. I went to a famous public school, and whilst it was a little like Hogwarts, (old building, prefects, strict rules, lots of discipline), there were also many differences, (it was all boys, computers, lots of out of lessons things to do). Oh, and the teachers are EXCELLENT. You WILL get amazing grades.
Ministries are managed by Ministers - people, usually MPs, assigned to the position by the Prime Minister. Thus the Minister for Agriculture is in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture. However the Ministry for Administrative Affairs is a Department not a Ministry, but the person in charge is still called a Minister.
Larger trains will have a whole food service carriage. Long journey trains without one may have the food trolley instead. Short journey trains usually have neither.
I was raised in pre-decimal UK. 12 pennies in a shilling, 20 shillings in a £pound and -wait for it - 21 shillings in a guinea (used for selling luxury goods and antiques).
The houses at my school were named after places in my county. For some reason known only to the current faculty, they are now named after theaters in London. This is not a stage school, nor is it in London, but there you are lol. We also had prefects, I was one, I was also the student Librarian, and we had a head boy and head girl (shout out to Kathryn Neusse and Ben Hardwick).
Ours were colours and then at my next school, the 4 European towns that our city was tinned with. I had some unpronounceable French place as my house. I wished I had the Danish one as it was easier lol.
same! My Primary school had houses named after tin mines & my secondary school had them named after a random mix of local things. I was also one of the student librarians for the last couple of years at primary school & a prefect in year 6.
My school had houses named Thatchers, Carters, Fletchers, Forresters. These were old trades ie thatch layers on roofs, carters made wheels, fletchers fixed feathers to arrows and foresters cared for forests.
My school has 4 houses named after historical people such as shakespear (my house) and we have forms where we're connected with another form, so Y and T are connected, ect. We have competitions for getting gifts for winning (I'm British not in London or near London) we have 4 people who are like student representatives two girls and two boys
My school had three houses: Armstrong, Collingwood, and Gray. I was in Collingwood. We had a board in reception where we could earn stars for our performance. The more stars you had, the better you did. At the end of the year, the house with the most stars got a reward. We won the highest number of stars and got to go to a theme park! The school paid for it.
My High School had a house system and the uniform on the collar had different colour stripes based on your house. The houses was named after trees. The houses were Ash (Black), Beech (Red), Cedar (Blue), and Sycamore (Green). I was apart of the Sycamore house. We also had house points aswell. I was always student of the year collecting the most house points. The truth is that people did not care and literally just throwing them in the bin or giving them away. I was just collecting them up.
We had this for a few years at my high school in Canada. There were four houses, also named after trees, but colour coded as well. You kept the same house for the whole time in school so there were a lot of different ages and not much bonding along house lines. I think it lasted two years and then fizzled out in the third. A failed experiment that I'm sure most have forgotten.
I have one! When I was little I used to watch a lot of Harry Potter movies, well, in the first one there's a character named Nicolas Flamel that was the one who invented the philosopher stone. I thought he was just a fictional character, what a surprise when a few months ago I discovered that he was actually real and he existed. Nicolas Flamel was a french guy from many years ago.
Love treacle tart...oh by the way ,spent 6 yrs going to and from school by train,and bus..,both, trains are comfy..we aleays had school uniformas, primary marroon and grey, next green and grey and lastly navy blue and grey..all with white shirts or blouses and blaziers withthe school emblem on the side top pocket,..they even took a ruler to our heels , they had to be less than 2 inches high.boys hair couldn,t touch their shirt collar..school food was great and tasty..not sure they are so much now though.
You guys do realise JK is British? I don't really think she was expecting Harry Potter to be such a world-wide phenomenon so just written for the UK market...
A very popular Spring/Summer activity in BOTH (especially) Oxford and Cambridge is to go 'PUNTING' on their rivers. Although the MAJOR difference between the two cities is that in Oxford YOU and your friends RENT the punt and do the punting yourselves. While in Cambridge, you and your friends usually HIRE the punt, ALONG with an actual PUNTER to do the punting for you.
@@dees3179 True... But I was generalising MORE particularly for those tourists that VISIT Oxford, thinking they will with get a 'student' to leisurely punt them around... As is most often portrayed on a YT video or film ABOUT Cambridge! Then they get sorely let down finding out that they must do all the physical 'punting' themselves - LOL! Also, many people don't realise the differences in punt sizes between the two cities; with Oxford renting out 6 person punts (5 seated / 1 punting). In Cambridge they have the same PLUS larger 12 person punts (11 seated / 1 Punting).
Surrey definitely exists ... it's the county to the south of London and is (generally) comfortably affluent and populated by a lot of people who have well paid jobs in London itself. We British tend to associate it with comfortable, drama-free (if a little dull) living. The fact that Harry Potter was brought up there tells me that he came from a very ordinary neighbourhood in a very ordinary region. I've always understood Hogwarts to be located somewhere in The Highlands of Scotland. J.K. Rowling, who wrote the books, is from Scotland and I believe she still lives in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. Trains from London to Edinbugh leave from Kings Cross Station so having The Hogwarts Express leave from there makes perfect sense to me, especially as some of the trains from Kings Cross go further up the Scottish east coast to Inverness (the notional "capital" of The Highlands).
57bananaman The impressive viaduct that appears several ties with the Hogwarts Express going over it is the Glenfinnan Viaduct west of Fort William in the Highlands and is on the way to Mallaig on the West Coast opposite the southern end of the Isle of Skye. However, Hogwarts School is in fact Alnwick Castle on the North East coast of England.
William Shakespeare created over 4000 words or phrases that are still in general use in England, codswallop being one of them. Hat no houses yes, we had sports competitions between houses.
@@BillDavies-ej6ye He was very lucky that he was the first person to ever write those 4000 popular words that just so happened to fit perfectly into his iambic pentameter...
@@jessicataylor7174 No, that was definitely Shakespeare's skill, but it doesn't mean that some phrases weren't in common use at the time. You and I will never know the truth.
8:17 as a British civilian I will say the house is in school I think are for way so that you can have into house competitions. That’s what we did in my school. No you just got an email at the start of year seven or whenever you start the school really telling you what house you are in and it goes from primary school to secondary school so you do it all through then
We had school houses but they were really only used to divide us up when the entire year was doing something at the same time. Only example I can actually thing of was double “Games” period in the lower years. We were named after local mountains.
What makes me laugh, is your reaction to what us Brit's accept as normal, and don't even think about it. You're getting double fun from Harry Potter learning Brit words and slang.
21:06 ngl i thought it was called ministry everywhere. I’m from spain and we call it “ministerio”, “ministro/a” being the people in charge of that “ministerio”, which means ministry
School houses are usually used in Britain for when schools do competitions such as sports day and you would be split up into ur houses and made to compete against the others and also the points u can get for ur house are also real and idk about other schools but mine would give u like a day of fun or something if ur house came out on top and usually different schools would have different names for their houses so mine were named after trees like willow,sycamore,birch and oak but they did have the same colours as the hp houses hope this helps
In the Netherlands we have storage under the stairs like Harry’s. We had trolley’s too in the trains (now only at long distance trains). And daycare-and kindergarten groups are mostly also devided in houses, with cute names though 😊 And in (junior)high most schools have gym-uniforms. We also have Ministeries and quite a lot to 😅. So HP was less magical for us than for Americans i guess. I’m surprised that you are surprised to be honoust 😂
My daughter’s school house is Torfrida. Not every school in the UK has a house system. They are more common in private education than state, although we do have them in state schools too. They are a way of managing the pastoral care of students efficiently and also make it easy to have intra school sporting competitions. Houses don’t generally have personality traits attached (because that was a horrible idea invented for the books), but they do encourage bonds between students in different years as they look after the younger students in their house. My kids’ junior school had a buddy system, where year 8s were assigned a year 3.
My school in Stratford upon Avon dates from at least 1295. We had some of the oldest school buildings in the world and William Shakespeare supposedly wemt there. We also had houses which in my day were Guild House and King House. If you sit in the chapel, you could easily think you were at Hogwarts.
That's a new school try Kings College Canterbury, continuous teaching since 625AD. Even state schools can be incredibly old, the next town to me has Queen Elizabeth High School, that's not the one who died a couple of years ago, it is Elizabeth I and its coming up on its 500th year anniversary.
My secondary school was a sports college and the houses were all famous British athletes,Moore, Redgrave and MacArthur then we had Pele which was a random one. The houses were there to separate students for sporting events, quizzes, tournaments and you would gain house points which tally at the end of the school year
If you're still confused, a "punt" is a type of shallow-bottomed boat. You propel it along with a long pole or stick that you poke into the river and shove along ('punting'). Ever heard the expression "wouldn't touch it with a barge pole"? Those are the poles they're talking about, because they have to be super long to reach the riverbed.
8:20 yeah. If I remember correctly. It’s kinda like frats/sororities, but like they have an actual purpose. The competitions can be athletic but it’s mostly academic I think 9:45 “Bee zor” some plant I think? A fruit? Idk it was used to cure Ron when he ate the Meath meant for Dumbledore. Something like that
Hermione Gingold Was a well known British actress 9 December 1897 - 24 May 1987 and possibly Americans might remember her in, “Bell Book and Candle”. There is a younger Hermione Norris, ( B12 February 1967) British actress works in tv series.
RE: school houses We only had them in my primary school, but you got points for a set list of good things and lost points for bad things. Unexplained absences, not turning in homework, etc were all negative points while perfect scores on tests, not missing a day of school for a term(or half term) gave positive points. At the end of the school year the house that won got a small prize(think $5 gift card) each and the combined ability to petition for a rule change to the headmaster(with the goal to come to an agreement). After pogs got banned we got them back for a while because the house that won petitioned for them to be allowed again with some rules(like trades would always be watched by a prefect to make sure it's fair, no discussion during class etc) as a compromise. It worked really well for a while but being kids it turned into anarchy after a few months and the compromise was forgotten. Was cool while it lasted though. But the whole thing is to collectively get people to work together, you want the prize at the end of the year so you'll help your house with their homework, etc. It also discouraged bad behaviour, especially near the end of the school year where someone misbehaving could cost you money the person who loses points when it's close gets very unpopular for a while.
We had Pounds, shillings and pence before decimalization. 12d = 1 shilling. 20 shillings = £1. 240d = 1£. A 'guinea' = 21 shillings. We had: ['when I was a lad' lol] 1/2d [pronounced ha'penny]; 1d [penny]; 2d [pronounced: tuppence]; 3d [a threepenny (pronounced thrupp'ny) bit]; 6p [half shilling]; 1/- [1 shilling also called a 'bob']; 2/- [2 shillings also called a florin]; 2/6 [2.5 shillings called a 'half crown']; 5/- [5 shillings also called a 'crown']; A gold bullion coin of 20/- = 1£ [called a sovereign] coins. There are commerative coins to including a £5 [decimal].
Galleons being the most valuable wizarding coin and made of gold was probably a joke. Before decimalisation the lowest value coin was the half penny, which had a galleon on its back.
I'm Canadian and we had house leagues at my elementary school (they were mostly for things like intramural sports teams, but things like academic performance, community volunteering, etc. did contribute points to your house). There was a big assembly on the last day of the school year where the students would sit with their house and they'd make a show of putting up the final scores and the winning house (including the list of previous winning houses, going back decades). They didn't come up in day-to-day contexts outside of sports and gym classes though (no teachers deducting points from your house for misbehavour - when I read Harry Potter as a child I assumed that was part of the whimsical wizard world stuff). This is not a common thing in Canada, to the point where my elementary school dominated the local leagues during inter-school sports competitions due to how much intramural sports we did (and we got a bunch of awards from the schoolboard for having an unusually active and athletically inclined student body).
Idk why people comment things they aren't sure about a sickle is a one handed tool a scythe is two handed they are both in theory used for cutting grass / harvesting but like they just aren't the same and they shouldn't be thought of as the same
I was a Tawny Owl at my school house. We were all Owls, every child was assigned to a School House, spread across all the Years (Grades), so a handful from each class each had their own House, and it would promote healthy competition, because you just HAD to beat the other Houses and be the best! And as for Prefects, its similar to how American Hall Monitors work, except it would be several senior children from the later Years that would act as teacher assistants who would put in extra effort to be more aware of school activity and issues, like a bridge between student and faculty, which promotes an early stage sense of responsibility and official duty for children chosen to be those prefects.
School Houses are a thing in most secondary schools and some primary schools. In primary school the names of the houses were local historical figures and we would learn about them in class. It's also for sports day, so while there are many individual winners of specific races at the end the House that had the most winners in is declared the overall winner. I think added an extra layer to sports day where you felt like you were competing for a greater whole rather than just for yourself to win. Houses are much more prevelant in secondary schools (ages 11-16) but serve a more practical purpose. In my secondary school the whole year group of some 200 students was divided into four groups (one for each house) and then each house group of 50 students was divided into an A and B class of 25 students each. These were our tutor groups, or Home room (I think you say in America) were fixed for the duration of our time at the school. Home/Tutor groups were roughly organised by whichever primary school you came from so it was likely that friend groups stayed together and any people who did not get on in primary school were split up into different home groups. There was no sorting hat :( Mostly I think it made making a rota for hundreds of kids for which classes they're doing and when much easier. It also baffled me when I realised that Hogwarts seems to have half the smount of students my secondary school did per year. I'd really imagined Hogwarts feeling much bigger, but when I thought about it, Harry shares his dormitory with 5 other boys meaning there are only 6 boys in Harry's year in Gryffindor, and probably 6 girls in Herminoe's dormitory. This means Harry's year group is likely under 100 students.
Harry Potter's school is based on the archetypal public (private) schools, especially boarding schools. They reminded me of the much older Jennings bbooks, with a bit of magic thrown in.
13:34 Hermione is a British name, but it’s extremely uncommon. Unfortunately I’ve never met a Hermione. If I did, I’d be overjoyed as a Harry Potter fan I am.
It's like how I thought Murphy Beds were something the people who made The Sims came up with. Found out as an adult that you guys in the US actually have these contraptions!
I’m not joking, I learnt a lot about my own culture through the films. A lot of stuff in happy potter I had heard of but didn’t really understand. Then I watched the films and fully understood it. Also yes school houses a real. There’s usually 4 and each are either red, blue, green, or yellow. Not every school is like that but most. They also have a theme like elements or seasons or something.
17:00 There are references to Scotland in Harry Potter, even in the movies. Example: Hermione mentions duff town being close to Hogwarts, a place in Scotland, I know some people think that was probably just a place the Simpsons made up, but it is a real Scottish place, considered to be the malt whisky capital of the world.
1:36 As most people in the UK, we had a cupboard under the stairs. For the most part and especially in my experience, it’s where you put things like the hoover, and maybe less common, hang coats. Mum would usually put the Christmas decorations in there around the beginning on November so we had them ready for the beginning of December (usually kept in the attic). At one point we had our family desktop computer in there (think early 2000s), you’d open the door a sit in the door way. I used to have a lot of fun making a comfy bed/seat at the lower end of the cupboard and turned the monitor around to watch films in the middle of the day because, without the light on, it was pitch black. This cupboard is also where you would probably had electric and gas meters. Our gas meter was in a smaller cupboard at the very back and you had to duck down to access and as a kid, I was convinced it was haunted for absolutely no reason 😅
School houses are for things like sport day and other competitions, usually the headmaster ( principal) chooses you house. Prefects are usually called just house captains which help organise house events.
Knickerbocker Glory is a dessert made with Ice Cream, cream and fruit and strawberry and chocolate sauce poured over it. It's usually served in a tall glass. I don't know how it got it's name, but knickerbockers is a very old, (Victorian?), name for ladies underwear, these days shortened, (both the garment and the name), to knickers. In America, you might call them panties or briefs. In the old days in the UK, they were often also called Bloomers.
Chocolate Frogs are real they are called Freddo's.
I was gonna say the same thing 😂 though in all fairness they look nothing like the chocolate frog in Harry Potter
They're an unofficial instrument by which the public can measure inflation. I thought I could remember 2p and 5 p Freddos, but the wiki says they were 10p.
Was littlerally about to comment the same thing & say google Freddo, lol. And the fact we can tell how much inflation has gone up by the price of a Freddo 😂😂😂 I miss them being 10p
And chocolate mice, yummy white chocolate.
@@kevintipcorn6787maybe when they first came out but my earliest memories they were 10p. (Born 96).
Bogie isn't the English for Booger. Booger is the American for bogie.
Well said 👏
Both are English, American English is basically just a dialect of English.
😂
Yeah yeah I know,
Shaaawts faahd!
Careful don't pull lining out thi cap son🙂
Wait till he finds out about the game bogies lol 😂xx
Chocolate frogs are not real? Are you sure about that? Freddo the Frog begs to differ
They are real 😂.
Freddos are real chocolate frogs obviously not real ones that can jump out the box like in the film but yes technically chocolate frogs exist
Lol Freddos are Australian, stolen by the poms
In denmark we have frogs made Out of chokolade
YES!!! the magic of a freedom ^_^ xx
Kings Cross station is real, and it looks pretty much like in the films, apart from people running into brick columns. The bridge that Harry and Hagrid walk across is real. I've been on it many, many times.
Yes, except that the films use the exterior of the next door St Pancras Station because it's more photogenic. They are so close together that they share a station on the London Underground network.
Were there troubled waters below it?
Rowling made a HUGE mistake in the first book. She admitted that platforms 9 and 10 are not next to one another, so 9 and 3/4 could not be where she wrote it was... She had to keep it constant in the whole series, so she didn't correct it in the books/movies.
Wait ‘till he hears about Paddington station 😂
The Victorian 'Handyside' bridge was installed in 1892 spanning platform 1 to platform 8. It was moved to Ropely, Hampshire in 2008 when the new Kings Cross extension was built. The lattice girders with diagonal straps were exposed especially for the film.
This is why JK wanted it to be film in Britain because if you American did it it would have lost a lot of quintessential things.
Yes 😭
I know basically nothing about american schools, so while you were going “british schools have houses?”, I was going “american schools don’t have houses?”.
I thought that American schools had fraternities, which seems to serve the same purpose.
I went to a high school with the house system. It’s a Catholic private school with houses named after saints and major Catholic figures.
I'm confused. Americans have staircases. What do they do with the dead space underneath them, then, if not use it for storage ?
Had that growing up in Canada. I'm sure Americans do too but if Tyler hasn't seen it, it doesn't exist in the country.
Nothing. They have so much space in their houses.
On a clear day you can see the piano.
It will be a door which leads to the stairs that go to the basement.
Yea they do. Tyler just doesn’t know much as usual. No I’m not sorry
My condo has a closet under the stairs we put coats in it.
Harry potter and the philosophers stone was Harry potter and the sorcerer's stone in America because they didn't think Americans would understand what a philosopher was, in fact they asked them and they didn't 😂
No, it was the "Philosopher's Stone" that they thought Americans would not know about. That was one of the things that the mediaeval alchemists were trying to invent.
@@faithlesshound5621 So why did they name the change the name?
@@faithlesshound5621That's what he said, they changed it to the sorcerer's stone for the American market
"Do you know what a Philosopher's Stone is?"
"No. What's a stone?"
That was the American publishers, using their "expertise." Like Joanne Rowling's original publisher said boys would not buy a book written by a woman, so they made her switch to initials and surname: and then she had to invent a middle initial "K" because she had no middle name.
Each school has 4 or 5 houses (more if they're a big school with alot of students). You just get randomly assigned to a house when you start first year, and stay in that house every year afterward. The houses are usually named after something that's special or important to the local area. So my school in Devon had Raleigh, Fortiscue, Kingsley & Drake as our houses, after the well known historical sea captains that set sail from Devon. When you do well in class, or hand in your homework on time etc you got a stamp in the back of your book from your teachers, and each week your house tutor would add them up. At sports day, the houses compete against each other, and points are awared to your house for where you placed in your competition. At the end of each school year all the points get added up, and the winning house gets bragging rights. We wore a tie that had stripes on in our house colour.
I was also a prefect in school.
Ya, we had rugby and cricket at ours instead of quiditch. :D
If you had an older sibling in my primary and secondary schools the younger siblings were put into the same house also if you had kids later they went into the parent who attended the school's house
This was certainly just the wealthy schools lol we had none of that in inner London. Sounds like a lovely experience.
I think they were a bit amiss including Kingsley.
@@davidcopson5800 In what regard?
If your lights are blinking you should put 2 bob in the meter.
Or half a crown.
You can add me in there and you are sorted for the month ...bruv
Yep my Gran always collected 10ps for the electric meter, the lights always went out during family do's and we would fumble around for change in the dark and the meter which was in the larder. Their was no central heating either (gas fires with ignition switch); this was one of the new modern houses built after the war. Happy seventies memories.
@HopeVReason by the time I was born it was a 50p meter.
The cheek! 😂
@@Madonnalitta1 yeah, the landlord fitted one in the rented room,
Australian here. We have people sell items of trolleys on some of our long distance trains. We use the term codswallop also. Our schools are divided up in school houses for sporting competitions and athletic carnivals. My Aussie high school nearly 50 years ago had Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. Prefects are also in Australia along with School Captains. Also, uniforms. We have most of these in Australia. The US is the odd one not Britain or Australia.
Don't know about the trains in NZ but other than that it's the same. We do have the trolley on the long distance [for us] trains here in Ireland though.
Our Grammar school had Alpha Beta Gamma for each year if you was in Alpha you was brainy Beta average Gamma a Dunce. Also, Alpha 1,2,3,4 was the level meaning Alpha one you was super brainy, same for Beta and Gamma
@@TheDizzydiana Our tutor groups tended to have the year number (1, etc then the initial of the teachers surname, but we also had houses, they varied, Mars Saturn Neptune Jupiter
@@highpath4776 Great names for houses. We had houses in Junior school 4 houses names after UK Abbey's Fountains Kirkstall and Rievaulx. Happy memories from school.
In my school our houses where
McCartney (Red), Lennon (Green), Harrison (Blue) and Starr (Yellow)
Guess what city I live in from that info.
I was also a prefect in my school.
was it Newcastle 😂😂😂
Liverpool ?
@@GB-nu6owYou are either joking, or know nothing about Liverpool.
My school houses were ; St. Cuthbert, St. Bede, St. Aiden, St. Chad.
Was it, let me guess, Liverpool? 😂
The name Hermione is actually Greek. Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen of Troy in Greek Mythology. In the UK it's considered a "posh" name reserved for the upper and upper-middle classes. The only other Hermiones I know of is British actresses Hermione Gingold and Hermione Bradley. In the Goblet of Fire book, Victor Krum calls her "her-mee-oh-nay", which is how most people thought it was pronounced.
Hermione Baddeley - sorry to correct you but it's better to get a name right!!!
@@eleanorkhachadourian2519 you're correct; thanks ;)
and hermione norris
Also the name of a character in Shakespeare's _The Winter's Tale_
A Letter To Hermione was a song from David Bowie's Space Oddity album which was about an ex-girlfriend.
I used to make 'Kinicker Bocker Glory' for my friends, its in a Tall glass and you use a long spoon, the desert is mainly layers of ice cream, fruit, jelly and whipped cream on top with sprinkles on and you can make the layers how ever you want but ice cream is important and usually mixed tinned fruits. I still have the long spoons but lost the glasses years ago. Btw I found you today and im loving all the Brit videos. 😉
"Knickerbocker". One word. It refers to Victorian ladies frilly underwear, which the whipped cream resembles.
@@TryptychUK It was named after an American hotel, thus making the above American look particularly ignorant.
Selling you stuff on trains from trolleys? It's usually refreshments and snacks. Saves attaching a restaurant carriage.
Only like selling on a plane
Still got the flipping cheese sandwich curling up at the edges though.
And if you travel first class you get all your refreshments for free
Except now you often have both the trolley coming round and a food counter in one of the carriages (usually between standard and first class)
@@shirleywilliams4901I agree very similar to aircraft cabin crew. Just sandwiches crisps tea coffee etc I don't think you'd expect a nice coffee though.
I'm a Brit who grew up overseas, attending international schools which mostly followed the British curriculum and they both had houses, too.
Chocolate frogs are a thing. They are called Freddo's and everyone of us loves to express our dismay at how much the prices have risen since we were children.
can measure inflation with them XD
Yeah 5p when I was a kid, swear they're like ten bob now 😮
@FormulaProg ah we are from the same time i saw a pack of five for £ 1 today absolutely outrages or 20 shilling
@@nataliamundell6266 5 for a quid isn't too bad I suppose, my local cafe does caramel cake with freddos on top absolutely unreal
My school up to age 11 had houses, (Eagles, Ospreys, Falcons and Kestrels and homework and other tasks did earn house points towards the house total) as did sports comps etc. I ended up an Eagle as a legacy as my sister was already. It created an odd rivalry with my friends from class who were in other houses.
In my High school, we had 4 houses (Heidelberg, Versailles, Windsor and Alhambra). I'm the oldest so my younger sister joined the legacy of being in Heidelberg and my other sister would've too if we hadn't moved. My school used the rivalry between houses to have a yearly sports day at the end of the year, as well as designated bins for houses and tallying up which house had the most attendance rates to earn trips and such.
Honestly, it was awesome and kept the school life more interesting whilst still keeping it all in order. I can't believe it's not used everywhere lol. Plus, even tho we were competing against each other a lot, it did bring about closer friendships since it meant we could stand being all bitchy during competitions yet forgive and accept defeat when need be.
Oh yeah and for the yearly sports day, I also had friends in different houses and we'd be sat together in our house colours cheering then laughing in each others faces whenever our houses won. (It was mainly Windsor and Heidelberg against each other each year so it was quite intense rivalry every year to see who'd be winning. Ofc Heidelberg was usually always top tier 😭🤣)
Did the birds at your school have to prey?
I had houses at both my primary schools - where they chose 4 our of the original 7 migration canoes, oddly I was in the same one [Takatimu] for both schools - and at my intermediate/middle school where we had the 4 volcanos [Ruapehu/red, Ngauruhoe/blue, Taranaki/yellow and Tongariro/green. But I don't remember having them at secondary school, this was in New Zealand.
Were you in herne bay?
I was a kestrel - green I think!
Our school houses were named after the ancient knights in the north of England: Busli, Warren, Rollo and Mortain. We each had a badge and colours that we wore on our uniform - coloured ties and embroidered house badges on our blazers. Busli won the house competition nearly every year, which consisted of events taking place throughout the year, including sports competitions (tennis, cross country running, rugby, etc.) and academic competitions like maths and engineering challenges. We also organised charity events and activities to improve the local environment within our houses. The end of year challenge was the house quiz, where we formed teams for each house and competed on academic questions using a buzzer - I was in Busli on the quiz team - we won the end of year cup, it was awesome 😅 This was a normal school, not a private or boarding school.
Also, we did win an actual cup, a trophy, engraved with the winning house each year and displayed in the main hall.
The houses of my secondary modern were based on your primary colours and were just for inter house sports but for 6th form I went to a school built in the 1600’s and their ones have names based on famous people who once went to the school
I went to a normal comprehensive in North London and we had houses too (Coventry, King Alfred's, St George's, Temple, Trinity & Waltham)
Wales High!😁😁 I was in Mortain 😊
Ours were named after the continents with the school logo on the uniforms in different colours for each house, house points, house vs house competitions the lot 😂
The surname "Snape" is also a real surname (in my family tree). They took their name from the village in Suffolk.
Famous for The Maltings opera theatre.
When I was a kid we lived in Leiston, about 4 or 5 miles from Snape. Been there many times. BTW I'm in my 60's now so it was a very long time ago but I bet it hasn't changed!
And it seems the village is named after the land there being awful in some capacity.
Might come from the word 'snipe' - to stab/wound. And where the word 'sneep' (scandinavian -sneypan) comes from. When you deeply wound someone on an emotional level.
I imagine anyone would regret crossing your Snape ancestors 😂
@@ellehan3003 Plot twist. The village was actually named after an ancient wizard.
British here and when I was in Junior School from 2000 to 2004 we were assigned one of the 4 houses which were Red, Blue, Green and Yellow and were giving a house point depending on how good we did in a lesson.
Yeah my old primary school in Sheffield had the four houses Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter, which are four of the main rivers that run through Sheffield. It was honestly pretty cool.
My secondary school had houses, but we only used them for sports days. The rest of the year we were known by either the teaching group or tutor group.
My school had the same system
House Blue for the win 😋
we had 3 , lancaster bombers , spitfires and hurricanes
We had three colours I was yellow I think there was red I forget the third
Schools in Malaysia are modelled after the British school system. We have head boys/girls and school prefects, we wear school uniforms and we have school houses too. Usually house names correspond with colours. I went to a missionary school so our houses were named after saints, eg. Francis House/Green House
The area under the stairs is usually either a downstairs 'loo' (toilet) OR, as Tyler mentioned, a storage cupboard (for the vacuum cleaner, step ladder and coat hooks etc.).
My grandma's was for the boiler BC it was so small you couldn't fit anything else in it lol
Yeah whoever owned the house before my family turned ours in to a toilet. The sink has botched plumbing which is annoying too (it is the only bathroom with separate hot and cold taps because the rest all use mixer or thermostatic taps and the reason it is botched is because both taps are hooked up to cold water) although in the past 14 years we have never redone the plumbing for it because of how custom the owners made it because they hand did individual wooden panelling to cover all the pipes and the waste trap under the sink and even painted the thing (it is supposed to be white) brown to colour match the wood behind it and even the towel hanger and loo roll holder and wall mounted soap dispenser were colour matched. I assume they gave up on trying to fix the missing hot water because of this. The same people even had installed a special plastic cover over the original dual bath tub taps to convert them in to a mixer tap though we changed the bath tub and taps because of a leak
Ours was a "Chuck it in there" and forget about it storage area. We found the remains of my great grandma once.
Dude! Don't remind that space exists, dreading the day I gotta dig that hole out 🤣😭
@@robcrossgrove7927😂
Treacle in treacle tart is actually made with Golden Syrup, which is nothing like pecan, but more similar to high fructose corn syrup. Proper treacle is thick, black & a bit like molasses
Golden syrup and breadcrumbs.
The pecan bit is because pecan pie filling is made with lots of corn syrup.
A brilliant description. Avoiding a sticky situation.
I don’t think Americans know what golden syrup is I think they call it corn starch or something
@Emily-wi8ec Nope. Entirely different thing. Golden Syrup is made from refining cane sugar, corn syrup is made from, er, corn.
Americans are obsessed with the stuff.
I just like the person who quoted the Monty Python sketch regarding the chocolate frog and it going completely over your head. That's well-played.
I'm pleased to know I'm not the only one laughing about that. (The Whizzo Chocolate Company - ua-cam.com/video/Dy6uLfermPU/v-deo.html)
Freddo's were one of the best and cheap/affordable chocolate you could buy as a kid. 10p/15p back in the day and we even had a caramel Freddo too.
59p for a freedo now 🥺
In my local co op they are 30p
@chrishobson3356 sounds like we got some shipping routes to set up then 🤣🤣🤣
You can still buy them in Ireland but I've never seen a caramel one.
@@hamoostaffat Seen them for 70p near me 😢
School houses are often used for sports days to divide up kids into teams. My school had a merit system for good behaviour and such and every term they would announce which had the most points.
Treacle tart and custard. Absolute heaven.
Nom nom nom 🙃 hungry thinking about it.
I preferred treacle pudding: nothing but flour and suet steamed in a bag.
Pre-1971(?) - before decimalisation: the currency was on the duodecimal system, ie 12 pennies in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound.
There was a threepenny-bit coin (a duodecagon brass colour), so 4 of these to the shiĺing. There was a one-penny coin, a halfpenny (ha'penny) coin (obviously 2 to the penny), and a farthing (4 to the penny). They were copper. The sixpence, shilling, two-shilling (florin), and half-crown (two dhillings and six pdnce) were 'silver'.
There was a ten-shilling note (now abolished).
Now, notes are £5, £10, £20, £50 (unusual).
There are 100 pence to the pound.
No such thing as a duodecagon.
I was in a public school whose house was 'Cheshire House'. Our houses would compete against one another in sports. But mainly it was designed to develop us as human beings. Cheshire House was named for
Leonard Cheshire a former RAF pilot, who on 22 May 1948, took a dying man, who had nowhere else to go, into his stately home. By 1949 he had 29 patients living in his home, caring for them. His home was called Matfen Hall, a home for special needs adults for decades. It was my school house charity. We regularly visited the patients as part of our extra curricular activities and after leaving school I had to wait to join the Navy so I worked there for bed and board for 6 months. All chilren should be involved in such activities, it really opens your eyes to how lucky you are and develops a habit of putting back into society.
And for the avoidance of doubt, a public school is a private school, not a state school. Don't ask, it's just the way it is. We have history.
@@BillDavies-ej6ye Goes back to when they really were public schools but because free education wasn't much of a thing 800 odd years ago [I think I remember reading that the oldest one is in York] your parents paid for your to attend. Presumably better and cheaper than trying to find a tutor.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou In fact the original 'public schools' (as now named) were for boys in a locality from humble origin, i.e., the poor. The upper classes increasing took advantage of them. Many today continue to offer bursaries or scholarships, i.e., subsidised, means-tested or free education for gifted students. I believe that some have given up this practice, losing the continuity with their original purpose.
Codswallop just means "rubbish".
We say that in Australia also. More polite than B.S. 😊
Nonsense😮. I mean that's the meaning too. 😊
Codswallop is an old word used at Billingsgate Market. It's the entrails (guts) of a cod after being filleted.
@@stephenleader-s9x Wallop is a slang term for beer so I always assumed that codswallop was beer for fish (ie total fantasy). I always found the image of a fish trying to drink beer from a glass, while underwater, quite amusing.
@@KenFullman It would save making a beer batter though.
1:27 he says “fairly common thing”. As a Brit, I’d use the word “extremely common” for cupboards under the stairs. They are not in every house, but I’d definitely say most houses. This is to the point that I once moved house and there was not one, and I found it unusual.
Freddos (chocolate frogs) are very popular in Australia too..they are like a currency in the workplace. If you want someone to do you a favour, promise them a Freddo 😊
Popular here as they are Australian poms stole it. Next they will claim the caramello koalas
Something that disappointed me when I came to UK...they only have solid chocolate Freddos. I always look to see if there are any caramello ones, or peppermint ones...but no. I dream about them. 😶🌫
@@cireenasimcox1081 I've just eaten a caramel Freddo - in Scotland.
@cireenasimcox1081 we do have caramel freddos in the Uk just not available in all shops.
@Yesser-Thistle73 Oh, the cruelty of taunting me with this information!!😮💨 I shall spend the night tossing & turning and wishing I'd gone to live in Scotland instead of England.😄
I went to a girls school in the 60s and our houses were named after famous women. Madam Curie, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Edith Cavell and Bronte'.
My Secondary School in Scotland had three houses St David, St Adrian, St Andrew .
Ours were Livingstone (explorer), Wilberforce (local man who first brought in a law to ban/end slavery) Curie (scientist discoverer) Shaftsbury (philosopher and writer)
Tyler "logic":
Tyler didn't go to a boarding school.
Therefore, boarding schools don't exist in America.
Quite. Whilst living six yrs in the US, being a widower and thus a single parent, my employer covered the costs of both my children attending boarding schools. Michael Collins of Apollo 11, V-P Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, JW Marriott (of hotels fame), Gore Vidal, were each former pupils of my older son's school in DC. About 300,000 US schoolchildren attend boarding schools.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 You have to understand that 300,000 is a miniscule number out of the 49,800,000 students (0.6%). Hardly anyone in the USA who is not very wealthy has ever met anyone who has gone to boarding school in the USA. Private schools yes are common, boarding schools no. By the way I attended boarding school for one year in HS before being moved back to a private school for the remainder of my schooling.
Before we started having external meter boxes for gas and electric they were often under the stairs
@alanstebbings2886 My electricity meter still is!
My school house were Coventry, Warwick, Kenilworth and Stratford and the competition between them was fierce.
Well I just had to stop at this comment. Behave! Really?! Were they the following colours Cov = Red, War = Green, Ken = Blue and Strat = Yellow?
I was in (many, many years ago!) Kenilworth and used to love our house trips to Kenilworth Castle. Oh yes. Fierce Eisteddfod rivalry times! x
Cumberland Durham Westmerland and Northumberland and yes, we were competitive.
Ours were Kenilworth, Rugby, Stratford and Warwick. Also represented by colour Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink.
My Primary school which was 200 yards from the Dock Gates, so not at all posh, had houses: Normans, Saxons, Vikings, and Danes, I was in Danes (blue badges)
My State Grammar School - equally not posh but slightly pretentious, choice of 3 languages including Latin, had: Lancaster, York, Gloucester, and Warwick, I was in Warwick (yellow and blue shield enamel lapel badges).
House Points, could be won in inter-house sports competitions and personal academic achievements, and could be deducted for bad behaviour.
My primary school used birds. Kingfisher, Woodpecker, Greenfinch, etc. Can't remember the fourth, but it would have been something yellow because the colours kind of pick themselves.
Trolleys on trains are not just a British thing. I think they are a train thing.
I have seen them on American trains
@@susansmiles2242don't you only have trains in cities though? Most nations have cross-country trains that's prob why
You're on the right track.
School houses are for various competitions (often sport, but my school did chess and music competitions) that get you house points this included a whole school sports day full of competitions. Misbehaviour gets you docked house points, participation in large school projects (like school plays) can get you several house points and high quality homework can get you a house point. At the end of the year, All of them are added up and the house with the most wins the house cup. Houses also have individual student heads of house, and in some schools, student prefects. At our school we had a whole house assembly every two weeks where have talks abt about upcoming competitions, recent events (in house, school wide and political) and topics that fit the morals and ethics our house represents. Also like Hogwarts the houses are often named after famous historical people or along a certain theme. 7:54
My school had the “Houses” ours were named after our towns parks, Queens , Scott, Thompson and Towneley. We also had house cards on which the teacher would mark Credit and Debit marks for work , behaviour etc. At the end of the year each houses Credits and Debits were totalled up and the highest scoring House had their House and Year added to the House Shield Trophy.
The trolley of snacks on trains exists throughout Europe, not just Britain. I always look forward to my espresso, bottiglia d'acqua frizzante, e cornetto while aboard il treno in Italy.... particularly in first class, where the snacks are gratis and included in the cost of the ticket.
They exist in multiple places on the planet.
The concept of school houses emerges from schools where students lived at the school in different buildings or "houses." So a school house is literally just a house where a bunch of students live at the school. Practically the longshot of this is it promotes cooperation within your house and competition between houses to foster better performance from students, and there's some evidence it's effective in doing this.
I laughed out loud at the punting one. Even though I also use "punt" to mean a hefty kick, I understood the context in the book and never thought of the kick meaning until this video. The idea of all those American kids thinking Filch was kicking the kids over the pond had me cackling.
I thought that was funny too , even though I follow the NFL , I still knew it was boating with a pole.
Uk never new punting confuse 🇺🇸 am just learning u say it for kick 😮
It also refers to a paid-for sexual encounter. Matt Gaetz should remember that, in case he ever visits the UK.
7:00 When you are at a Boarding School (private schools you live in, typically if you are rich or if your parents are in the armed forces and move every 2 years) there are various buildings that you would live in dotted about the school grounds. These are the School Houses (literal houses you would live in) and would be your main source of interaction and friend groups. In my boarding school the House you were assigned and living in would be identifiable by the tie you wore or the colour of your PE gear. During sports events (football, rugby, cricket, swimming, races, etc) the main competition would be against the other houses to promote friendly competition (Rugby inter-house competitions were much more brutal than any Quidditch match and on-par with many 'hardest hits' vids on YT).
To say that each house garnered a specific 'Identity' is not too far form the truth, as you got to choose your house later down the line (there were separate houses for junior years) and each house would therefore gain a reputation for being either 'the house with the sporty people', 'the house the bullies go to', 'the laid back house', etc.
Houses were in state schools when I was growing up in the 1960's as were prefects and head girl/boy.
The boarding school I went to was a state school, (only around 60 boys + about 10 day boys). It was all one building, though the dorms were "Wings". We did have a separate sports hall though.
state schools have them too and public not exclusive to boarding private schools
We have the Ministry of Sound and the Ministry of Silly Walks too. :)
You have to understand that Hogwarts is based on the traditional British public school.
"Public" in this case means "private". Parents pay big money to send their children to such places, famously Eton, Rugby, Harrow, Charterhouse etc.
Many of these schools are hundreds of years old, have longstanding traditions and are usually boarding schools, so the children, (and teachers), will live there as well.
"Houses" are basically groups which compete with one another, usually in sport, but also in other activities. You generally get chosen at random as to which house you are in by the staff, and you stay in that house for the duration of your schooling. Note the thing about "Ten points to Slytherin" or whatever is real, and can boost, (or drop, if you lose house points), your standing within your house and peers. If you lose house points, woe betide you as the older boys are liable to give you a thrashing.
I went to a famous public school, and whilst it was a little like Hogwarts, (old building, prefects, strict rules, lots of discipline), there were also many differences, (it was all boys, computers, lots of out of lessons things to do).
Oh, and the teachers are EXCELLENT. You WILL get amazing grades.
Don’t show off. No one cares
houses are not exclusive to public schools not at all
@@captvimes No, but that's where they originated. Other schools have adopted the idea since.
Ministries are managed by Ministers - people, usually MPs, assigned to the position by the Prime Minister. Thus the Minister for Agriculture is in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture.
However the Ministry for Administrative Affairs is a Department not a Ministry, but the person in charge is still called a Minister.
I read that as "Ministers, usually people..." with a wry smile - the current lot are lizard creatures.
I love the way you came to the defence of ministries.
nah our MOD Ministry of Defence is good enough to do that
Larger trains will have a whole food service carriage. Long journey trains without one may have the food trolley instead. Short journey trains usually have neither.
I was raised in pre-decimal UK. 12 pennies in a shilling, 20 shillings in a £pound and -wait for it - 21 shillings in a guinea (used for selling luxury goods and antiques).
And race horses were always priced in guineas
Men's suits were also priced in guineas.
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The houses at my school were named after places in my county. For some reason known only to the current faculty, they are now named after theaters in London. This is not a stage school, nor is it in London, but there you are lol. We also had prefects, I was one, I was also the student Librarian, and we had a head boy and head girl (shout out to Kathryn Neusse and Ben Hardwick).
Ours were colours and then at my next school, the 4 European towns that our city was tinned with. I had some unpronounceable French place as my house. I wished I had the Danish one as it was easier lol.
same! My Primary school had houses named after tin mines & my secondary school had them named after a random mix of local things. I was also one of the student librarians for the last couple of years at primary school & a prefect in year 6.
@@hypnoticuniverseofficial Each of our six houses had it's own colour, but that was mostly for sporting events.
My school had houses named Thatchers, Carters, Fletchers, Forresters. These were old trades ie thatch layers on roofs, carters made wheels, fletchers fixed feathers to arrows and foresters cared for forests.
@@christinewright110 Our houses were Caburn, Coombe, Firle, Friston, Warren and Wilmington; I was in Caburn.
My school has 4 houses named after historical people such as shakespear (my house) and we have forms where we're connected with another form, so Y and T are connected, ect. We have competitions for getting gifts for winning (I'm British not in London or near London) we have 4 people who are like student representatives two girls and two boys
^our forms at my school spell HUMANITY
My school had three houses: Armstrong, Collingwood, and Gray. I was in Collingwood. We had a board in reception where we could earn stars for our performance. The more stars you had, the better you did. At the end of the year, the house with the most stars got a reward. We won the highest number of stars and got to go to a theme park! The school paid for it.
My High School had a house system and the uniform on the collar had different colour stripes based on your house. The houses was named after trees. The houses were Ash (Black), Beech (Red), Cedar (Blue), and Sycamore (Green). I was apart of the Sycamore house.
We also had house points aswell. I was always student of the year collecting the most house points. The truth is that people did not care and literally just throwing them in the bin or giving them away. I was just collecting them up.
We had this for a few years at my high school in Canada. There were four houses, also named after trees, but colour coded as well. You kept the same house for the whole time in school so there were a lot of different ages and not much bonding along house lines. I think it lasted two years and then fizzled out in the third. A failed experiment that I'm sure most have forgotten.
School uniforms helps identifying people skipping ( dogging ) school as we called it or ( Playing truant ) for the USA
Plunkin' and doggi' in Scotland.
I have one!
When I was little I used to watch a lot of Harry Potter movies, well, in the first one there's a character named Nicolas Flamel that was the one who invented the philosopher stone. I thought he was just a fictional character, what a surprise when a few months ago I discovered that he was actually real and he existed. Nicolas Flamel was a french guy from many years ago.
Love treacle tart...oh by the way ,spent 6 yrs going to and from school by train,and bus..,both, trains are comfy..we aleays had school uniformas, primary marroon and grey, next green and grey and lastly navy blue and grey..all with white shirts or blouses and blaziers withthe school emblem on the side top pocket,..they even took a ruler to our heels , they had to be less than 2 inches high.boys hair couldn,t touch their shirt collar..school food was great and tasty..not sure they are so much now though.
You guys do realise JK is British? I don't really think she was expecting Harry Potter to be such a world-wide phenomenon so just written for the UK market...
A very popular Spring/Summer activity in BOTH (especially) Oxford and Cambridge is to go 'PUNTING' on their rivers. Although the MAJOR difference between the two cities is that in Oxford YOU and your friends RENT the punt and do the punting yourselves. While in Cambridge, you and your friends usually HIRE the punt, ALONG with an actual PUNTER to do the punting for you.
In Cambridge you can do either. Depends on the punt company and where you get on.
@@dees3179
True... But I was generalising MORE particularly for those tourists that VISIT Oxford, thinking they will with get a 'student' to leisurely punt them around... As is most often portrayed on a YT video or film ABOUT Cambridge! Then they get sorely let down finding out that they must do all the physical 'punting' themselves - LOL! Also, many people don't realise the differences in punt sizes between the two cities; with Oxford renting out 6 person punts (5 seated / 1 punting). In Cambridge they have the same PLUS larger 12 person punts (11 seated / 1 Punting).
And you pole the punt from different ends. In Cambridge you stand on the 'deck' but in Oxford you stand at the other end to pole the punt.
Surrey definitely exists ... it's the county to the south of London and is (generally) comfortably affluent and populated by a lot of people who have well paid jobs in London itself. We British tend to associate it with comfortable, drama-free (if a little dull) living. The fact that Harry Potter was brought up there tells me that he came from a very ordinary neighbourhood in a very ordinary region.
I've always understood Hogwarts to be located somewhere in The Highlands of Scotland. J.K. Rowling, who wrote the books, is from Scotland and I believe she still lives in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. Trains from London to Edinbugh leave from Kings Cross Station so having The Hogwarts Express leave from there makes perfect sense to me, especially as some of the trains from Kings Cross go further up the Scottish east coast to Inverness (the notional "capital" of The Highlands).
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The impressive viaduct that appears several ties with the Hogwarts Express going over it is the Glenfinnan Viaduct west of Fort William in the Highlands and is on the way to Mallaig on the West Coast opposite the southern end of the Isle of Skye. However, Hogwarts School is in fact Alnwick Castle on the North East coast of England.
I certainly hope it exists- i live there!
It does not fulfil the stereotype though.
William Shakespeare created over 4000 words or phrases that are still in general use in England, codswallop being one of them. Hat no houses yes, we had sports competitions between houses.
Or they were in use, and he was the first to write them down and publish them.
@@BillDavies-ej6ye He was very lucky that he was the first person to ever write those 4000 popular words that just so happened to fit perfectly into his iambic pentameter...
@@jessicataylor7174 No, that was definitely Shakespeare's skill, but it doesn't mean that some phrases weren't in common use at the time. You and I will never know the truth.
I had a tv, xbox and a bean bag in my cupboard under the stairs when i was younger
8:17 as a British civilian I will say the house is in school I think are for way so that you can have into house competitions. That’s what we did in my school. No you just got an email at the start of year seven or whenever you start the school really telling you what house you are in and it goes from primary school to secondary school so you do it all through then
We had school houses but they were really only used to divide us up when the entire year was doing something at the same time. Only example I can actually thing of was double “Games” period in the lower years. We were named after local mountains.
What makes me laugh, is your reaction to what us Brit's accept as normal, and don't even think about it. You're getting double fun from Harry Potter learning Brit words and slang.
It's so nice to see an american just accept British things for once, I am not even joking.
Good videos
21:06 ngl i thought it was called ministry everywhere. I’m from spain and we call it “ministerio”, “ministro/a” being the people in charge of that “ministerio”, which means ministry
Same here we call them "ministères" in France and the head of it is a "ministre"
School houses are usually used in Britain for when schools do competitions such as sports day and you would be split up into ur houses and made to compete against the others and also the points u can get for ur house are also real and idk about other schools but mine would give u like a day of fun or something if ur house came out on top and usually different schools would have different names for their houses so mine were named after trees like willow,sycamore,birch and oak but they did have the same colours as the hp houses hope this helps
In the Netherlands we have storage under the stairs like Harry’s. We had trolley’s too in the trains (now only at long distance trains). And daycare-and kindergarten groups are mostly also devided in houses, with cute names though 😊
And in (junior)high most schools have gym-uniforms. We also have Ministeries and quite a lot to 😅.
So HP was less magical for us than for Americans i guess. I’m surprised that you are surprised to be honoust 😂
My daughter’s school house is Torfrida. Not every school in the UK has a house system. They are more common in private education than state, although we do have them in state schools too. They are a way of managing the pastoral care of students efficiently and also make it easy to have intra school sporting competitions. Houses don’t generally have personality traits attached (because that was a horrible idea invented for the books), but they do encourage bonds between students in different years as they look after the younger students in their house. My kids’ junior school had a buddy system, where year 8s were assigned a year 3.
Oh, and the prefects also wear robes over their uniforms during important events.
My school in Stratford upon Avon dates from at least 1295. We had some of the oldest school buildings in the world and William Shakespeare supposedly wemt there. We also had houses which in my day were Guild House and King House. If you sit in the chapel, you could easily think you were at Hogwarts.
That's a new school try Kings College Canterbury, continuous teaching since 625AD. Even state schools can be incredibly old, the next town to me has Queen Elizabeth High School, that's not the one who died a couple of years ago, it is Elizabeth I and its coming up on its 500th year anniversary.
mine was made in the 80s 😭
My secondary school was a sports college and the houses were all famous British athletes,Moore, Redgrave and MacArthur then we had Pele which was a random one. The houses were there to separate students for sporting events, quizzes, tournaments and you would gain house points which tally at the end of the school year
Hermione is actually an ancient Greek name, like Persephone.
Yes, I would have known how to pronounce it from learning Greek mythology. I've never met anyone of that name.
@@Phiyedough I did once, she and her twin sister Imogen were a pair of nightmares lol
If you're still confused, a "punt" is a type of shallow-bottomed boat. You propel it along with a long pole or stick that you poke into the river and shove along ('punting').
Ever heard the expression "wouldn't touch it with a barge pole"? Those are the poles they're talking about, because they have to be super long to reach the riverbed.
8:20 yeah. If I remember correctly. It’s kinda like frats/sororities, but like they have an actual purpose. The competitions can be athletic but it’s mostly academic I think 9:45 “Bee zor” some plant I think? A fruit? Idk it was used to cure Ron when he ate the Meath meant for Dumbledore. Something like that
Omg I’m just now learning that Christmas crackers aren’t a thing elsewhere
It was a talking Robe at my school, not a hat, but its job was the same.
Must have been a nice school. We had a talking trakky.
Hermione Gingold Was a well known British actress 9 December 1897 - 24 May 1987 and possibly Americans might remember her in, “Bell Book and Candle”. There is a younger Hermione Norris, ( B12 February 1967) British actress works in tv series.
Plus Hermione Gingold's recording of "Miss Otis Regrets", a haunting song that made Hermione a favourite name of mine.
Cant beat a good treacle tart 🤤 surprised its not a thing over there tbh, its just a dark syrup
Yeah, Canada needs to catch up with that
RE: school houses
We only had them in my primary school, but you got points for a set list of good things and lost points for bad things.
Unexplained absences, not turning in homework, etc were all negative points while perfect scores on tests, not missing a day of school for a term(or half term) gave positive points.
At the end of the school year the house that won got a small prize(think $5 gift card) each and the combined ability to petition for a rule change to the headmaster(with the goal to come to an agreement).
After pogs got banned we got them back for a while because the house that won petitioned for them to be allowed again with some rules(like trades would always be watched by a prefect to make sure it's fair, no discussion during class etc) as a compromise. It worked really well for a while but being kids it turned into anarchy after a few months and the compromise was forgotten. Was cool while it lasted though.
But the whole thing is to collectively get people to work together, you want the prize at the end of the year so you'll help your house with their homework, etc. It also discouraged bad behaviour, especially near the end of the school year where someone misbehaving could cost you money the person who loses points when it's close gets very unpopular for a while.
We only had them in Secondary school.
I had both 4 in primary and 6 in secondary
We had Pounds, shillings and pence before decimalization.
12d = 1 shilling. 20 shillings = £1. 240d = 1£. A 'guinea' = 21 shillings.
We had: ['when I was a lad' lol] 1/2d [pronounced ha'penny]; 1d [penny]; 2d [pronounced: tuppence]; 3d [a threepenny (pronounced thrupp'ny) bit]; 6p [half shilling]; 1/- [1 shilling also called a 'bob'];
2/- [2 shillings also called a florin]; 2/6 [2.5 shillings called a 'half crown']; 5/- [5 shillings also called a 'crown']; A gold bullion coin of 20/- = 1£ [called a sovereign] coins. There are commerative coins to including a £5 [decimal].
Galleons being the most valuable wizarding coin and made of gold was probably a joke. Before decimalisation the lowest value coin was the half penny, which had a galleon on its back.
@@faithlesshound5621 It was actually a "carrick", which was a standard older sailing ship .
I'm Canadian and we had house leagues at my elementary school (they were mostly for things like intramural sports teams, but things like academic performance, community volunteering, etc. did contribute points to your house). There was a big assembly on the last day of the school year where the students would sit with their house and they'd make a show of putting up the final scores and the winning house (including the list of previous winning houses, going back decades). They didn't come up in day-to-day contexts outside of sports and gym classes though (no teachers deducting points from your house for misbehavour - when I read Harry Potter as a child I assumed that was part of the whimsical wizard world stuff). This is not a common thing in Canada, to the point where my elementary school dominated the local leagues during inter-school sports competitions due to how much intramural sports we did (and we got a bunch of awards from the schoolboard for having an unusually active and athletically inclined student body).
A galleon is an old sailing ship like the pirates used, and a sickle is an old farm tool for cutting hay or grass.
Also called a scythe.
A sickle and scythe are VERY different tools lmao
Idk why people comment things they aren't sure about a sickle is a one handed tool a scythe is two handed they are both in theory used for cutting grass / harvesting but like they just aren't the same and they shouldn't be thought of as the same
@@Cythan Ah, I stand corrected. Which one did they call a sling blade, or is that something else again?
@@CythanIn British magic tradition, a sickle is traditionally used to harvest mistletoe (with or without nargles!)
I was a Tawny Owl at my school house. We were all Owls, every child was assigned to a School House, spread across all the Years (Grades), so a handful from each class each had their own House, and it would promote healthy competition, because you just HAD to beat the other Houses and be the best! And as for Prefects, its similar to how American Hall Monitors work, except it would be several senior children from the later Years that would act as teacher assistants who would put in extra effort to be more aware of school activity and issues, like a bridge between student and faculty, which promotes an early stage sense of responsibility and official duty for children chosen to be those prefects.
There's a very popular British actress called Hermione Norris - so yes - it's a real, English name, though I do concede that it's relatively rare.
However Filch's cat 'Mrs Norris' is named after the truly unpleasant aunt in Jane Austen's book 'Mansfield Park'
Its actually ancient Greek. But upper class brits adopted it.
School Houses are a thing in most secondary schools and some primary schools. In primary school the names of the houses were local historical figures and we would learn about them in class. It's also for sports day, so while there are many individual winners of specific races at the end the House that had the most winners in is declared the overall winner. I think added an extra layer to sports day where you felt like you were competing for a greater whole rather than just for yourself to win.
Houses are much more prevelant in secondary schools (ages 11-16) but serve a more practical purpose. In my secondary school the whole year group of some 200 students was divided into four groups (one for each house) and then each house group of 50 students was divided into an A and B class of 25 students each. These were our tutor groups, or Home room (I think you say in America) were fixed for the duration of our time at the school. Home/Tutor groups were roughly organised by whichever primary school you came from so it was likely that friend groups stayed together and any people who did not get on in primary school were split up into different home groups. There was no sorting hat :(
Mostly I think it made making a rota for hundreds of kids for which classes they're doing and when much easier.
It also baffled me when I realised that Hogwarts seems to have half the smount of students my secondary school did per year. I'd really imagined Hogwarts feeling much bigger, but when I thought about it, Harry shares his dormitory with 5 other boys meaning there are only 6 boys in Harry's year in Gryffindor, and probably 6 girls in Herminoe's dormitory. This means Harry's year group is likely under 100 students.
Harry Potter's school is based on the archetypal public (private) schools, especially boarding schools.
They reminded me of the much older Jennings bbooks, with a bit of magic thrown in.
The Jennings books were great!
Enid Blyton Mallory Towers also springs to mind
@@danic9304 And original!
@@susansmiles2242 and the St Claire books!
Our school houses were, Harrington, Digby, Ferriers and Noel. We also had Prefects chosen from the oldest school year x.
13:34 Hermione is a British name, but it’s extremely uncommon. Unfortunately I’ve never met a Hermione. If I did, I’d be overjoyed as a Harry Potter fan I am.
It's greek originally (ancient greek)
@@jasongarfitt1147I clicked to say the same thing.
It's like how I thought Murphy Beds were something the people who made The Sims came up with. Found out as an adult that you guys in the US actually have these contraptions!
I’m not joking, I learnt a lot about my own culture through the films. A lot of stuff in happy potter I had heard of but didn’t really understand. Then I watched the films and fully understood it. Also yes school houses a real. There’s usually 4 and each are either red, blue, green, or yellow. Not every school is like that but most. They also have a theme like elements or seasons or something.
How on Earth is it possible to come to the conclusion that Harry Potter isn't set in the UK?!
🙄🙄🙄🤦♀️🤦♀️
To be fair, as a child I never realised that Edward Eager's magic stories were set in the US. Or that Little Women was historical.
School houses are indeed a real thing! My high school has four named after local rivers: Annan (blue), Dryfe (green), Kirtle (Red) and Milk (yellow).
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17:00 There are references to Scotland in Harry Potter, even in the movies.
Example: Hermione mentions duff town being close to Hogwarts, a place in Scotland, I know some people think that was probably just a place the Simpsons made up, but it is a real Scottish place, considered to be the malt whisky capital of the world.
We have a prime minister so government agencies being called ministries makes sense
1:36 As most people in the UK, we had a cupboard under the stairs. For the most part and especially in my experience, it’s where you put things like the hoover, and maybe less common, hang coats. Mum would usually put the Christmas decorations in there around the beginning on November so we had them ready for the beginning of December (usually kept in the attic). At one point we had our family desktop computer in there (think early 2000s), you’d open the door a sit in the door way. I used to have a lot of fun making a comfy bed/seat at the lower end of the cupboard and turned the monitor around to watch films in the middle of the day because, without the light on, it was pitch black.
This cupboard is also where you would probably had electric and gas meters. Our gas meter was in a smaller cupboard at the very back and you had to duck down to access and as a kid, I was convinced it was haunted for absolutely no reason 😅
Chocolate frogs A real They are called Freddos
School houses are for things like sport day and other competitions, usually the headmaster ( principal) chooses you house.
Prefects are usually called just house captains which help organise house events.
As a Brit, finding out what you thought punting was cracked me up 😂 It’s such a vivid image!
Knickerbocker Glory is a dessert made with Ice Cream, cream and fruit and strawberry and chocolate sauce poured over it. It's usually served in a tall glass. I don't know how it got it's name, but knickerbockers is a very old, (Victorian?), name for ladies underwear, these days shortened, (both the garment and the name), to knickers. In America, you might call them panties or briefs. In the old days in the UK, they were often also called Bloomers.
The New York Knicks basketball team is a shortened version of Knickerbockers, referring to the shorts they wore to play in.