- [Both] Hi!
We're Joel and Lia.
- And today's video is what it says on the tin.
Things Americans say
- [Both] wrong!
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That is the most American intro we have ever done.
- Wrong. - Lots of gestures.
- Yeah. - Okay.
As usual, one of our favorite things on this channel
is talking about articles we've found online, or blogs,
anything we've found that we thought,
that's interesting, let's discuss.
- Yeah, and this is a very personal blog
of someone called Dimitri,
who has made a list of things,
these are my personal pet peeves
regarding people's pronunciation
of certain phrases here in the States.
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- So, this blog, I mean,
some things in this are very, very nitpicky.
I get the impression that Dimitri
has been living in the U.S.,
but before that, was living in the U.K.
So, I mean--
- He's very triggered, guys.
- They're very specific, and this person,
I feel bad saying their name on the internet,
but they've got their blog on the internet,
so I'm pretty sure we're allowed to say this.
This person's very nitpicky.
- I don't agree with it.
I feel like Americans don't say these things.
I feel like he's got it wrong.
- I know.
There's a lot of them that we will come across
that Brits are guilty of as well,
so let's just go through some of the list
that we think is pretty shocking.
- Okay, this one is ridiculous.
- It's so shocking.
- It must be wrong.
- The word boisterous.
- How do you guys say boisterous?
- Say it out loud.
Three, two, one.
Here's a girl saying it.
Boisterous.
Here's a boy saying it.
- Boisterous.
- Apparently, Americans say--
- [Both] Voisterous.
- With a V, voisterous.
- I'm shook.
I don't even know if that one's true.
- I've never heard an American saying voisterous.
Why would they replace the B with a V?
- I don't know.
One thing that they do say wrong is could care less.
- Oh, yeah.
- The phrase could care less.
- That triggers me so much.
- So many Brits that have been to America
also agree on this.
It's so annoying,
because the phrase is I couldn't care less.
- That's the whole point.
I literally couldn't care any less
than I am caring right now.
If you could care less, that means you're quite interested.
- Yeah, yeah.
I do care.
- I do care.
Like, it's so annoying.
I don't know why Americans say it.
It's couldn't--
- [Both] Care less.
- If someone insults you,
and you're like, I could care less.
Oh, could you?
- So, you do care then? - You do care.
- I could care less.
I care quite a bit.
- Let's start trying to get the word out there.
To any Americans that are watching,
it's I couldn't care less.
Just start dropping it in there with your family,
and see if anyone picks up on it.
- Couldn't, and correct people.
I know you guys, some of you have messaged,
'cause you know this triggers us,
and we've said it in previous videos,
and you've been like, that's blown my mind.
I can't believe I've been saying could care less.
Now that you've explained it, it's so right.
So, please just spread the word.
We just want to make people speak correctly.
- Make America great again.
- Yeah.
This is--
- That can't be real.
- They're saying Americans say drownded,
instead of drowned.
So, the past tense of drowned,
we'd say "Oh, he drowned."
Hopefully you wouldn't.
Hopefully no one you know is drowning.
But apparently Americans say "He's drownded."
- Drownded.
- Drownded. Like an extra drowned, ded, drownded.
- I'm sorry, Americans don't say that.
- The thing is, is that when I found out that
Americans say burglarized,
anything is now possible.
- Lost all faith in humanity.
- (laughs) Lost all faith.
- And like when they say addicting.
Instead of addictive.
- Addicting. Addicting.
How is that game addicting? It's addictive!
- Aw, that one's weird.
- It's triggering, isn't it?
- It's triggering.
And I think there's a lot of Brits that
don't know this as well.
- What, that Americans do it?
- That these words, like addictive.
- Yeah.
- Addicting, sorry. Just said it correctly.
- Addicting, yeah.
Aw this other one, expresso instead of espresso.
- Aw, okay.
- But even Brits say expresso.
- Yeah. I gotta say I got friends that say
"Just gonna get an expresso."
When it is an espresso.
- Yeah.
- Italians, they'd be triggered as well.
- Yeah, they'll go crazy.
- Yeah.
- So it's not just Americans that get they wrong.
Brits say that. I used to say expresso, I think.
- Oh, well yeah.
- So I didn't know when I was a kid, I was just like,
"Oh, expresso"
- (laughs)
When you were drinking coffee when you were a kid.
- Yeah I know I started drinking cortados or macchiatos.
- Oh yeah. Who invented all those fancy fancy fancy ones?
- Italians.
- Italians? Macchiato.
- Oh sorry, this isn't, actually this is related.
- All right, what is?
- Something that Americans say wrong
that I really don't like.
- Go on.
- And not all Americans do it.
- Go on.
- But instead of saying Italian, they say I-talian.
- No way!
- Yeah, they call them I-talians.
- I-talians?
That sounds like the font, Italics.
- I know. It's Italian.
- That's shocking!
- And in the same way they might say,
I-raq or I-ran, Iran or Iraq.
- No. Something a Brit did, that bothered me
is so nitpicky.
I say Dubai, and they'd be like Doo-bai.
"I'm going to Doo-bai."
- Doo-bai.
- "I'm going to Doo-bai."
"I've got a flight to Doo-bai."
Loads of people in my life have been saying it
like that recently. Doo-bai. What do you say?
- I say Dubai.
- Same! What do you say?
- Emphasis on "bai"
- What do you say? Say it back to me.
I say Dubai, not Doo-bai.
Not I-talians, or I-raq.
- It's just so triggering.
- Shocking!
- So Meena, is half Iranian.
And she gets so annoyed when Americans like,
she always gets like,
I don't know if detained is the right word.
But she always gets taken aside at
American security because they don't trust
any Iranians, stupidly.
- Okay.
- And they always refer to her as I-ranian or something.
- (gasps)
- And you're like, I'm not from I-ran!
Firstly I'm from the U.K.
But secondly it's Iran. It's not I-ran.
- I-ran. (laughs) I ran.
- It's so annoying.
- It sounds like the word Irate.
- Yeah!
- Irate.
- And yes like I ran.
- I ran. (laughs) It's so weird.
- She's not from I ran, she's from Iran.
- Iran. (laughs)
- No!
- [Both] (laughs)
- No I can't believe that.
That is shocking.
- This is not true.
- But apparently the word "height"
is said, "heighth"
(laughs)
- He spelled height with an H on the end.
So heighth.
- Heighth.
- Sorry this person, Dimitri, like
he must have something against Americans
because this is not true.
We're sticking up for you guys.
- We need to get Dimitri on the channel.
Cause he's also said that they say
horse radishes, "horshraddish."
- "Horshraddish?"
- (laughs)
- "Horshraddish?"
- This is fantastic.
- I mean I know certain occasions where
Americans do insert a "sh" noise
but I can't think of an example.
But I've never heard them say "Horshraddish"
- "Horshraddish"
- No I've never, but I've never heard an American
order Horshraddish. (laughs)
I keep saying it!
- "Horshraddish"
- Okay, here's one for discussion.
Everyone's got a different way of saying Chipotle.
- Yeah.
- I say Chipotle. What do you say?
- "Chipottle."
- (laughs) that's cute.
- Well you guys know I like saying words wrong.
I love saying "jalapeeno" I love saying "chipottle"
- "Chipottle"
- So you say "Chipottle" like bottle.
- Yeah.
- "Chipottle"
- But I probably would say Chipotle.
- Okay.
- But then some people say "Chipotlay" don't they?
- Yeah, or "Chipoltay?"
- "Chipoltay?"
- "Chipoltay" or "Chipotay"
I don't know.
- No, he's just, there's so many ways
to pronounce Chipotle.
- Yeah.
- Just go for the, like, complete wrong
pronunciation of things, it's more fun.
It triggers people.
- Chai-potlay.
- I just love watching someone's face when
they're scooping "Jala-peenos"
when they're like "Do you want some of these?"
or "What do you want?"
and I'm like "Jala-peenos"
I just love seeing that flicker in their eyes
of like, why is he saying "jala-peenos?"
- He's saying it wrong. That's amazing.
- I just love it.
- You just love? Well what could I start saying?
Instead of bowl, I could say "boowl"
- "Boowl"
- One "boowl." Would you like a wrap or a "boowl?"
- Just anything.
- I say guacamole. And that triggers.
I've been told off on this channel for the word
guacamole. When it's "guah."
- Even American's get triggered when we say tacos.
Because American's will say "taw-cos"
- Yes.
- But we say,
- [Both] "tah-cos"
- See, no one in the U.K. has ever say "taw-co". No.
- It's normally Americans moaning at Brits for
inserting an "aw" into a word.
But they do that with "taw-co"
- Yeah when we say tacos
- We say "tah-co"
- Tacos.
- We're just two tacos. Just two tacos.
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So apparently, instead of supposedly,
Americans say "supposably", with a B
and I feel like I've heard it before.
- I feel like I have as well.
"supposably."
- Yeah, "supposably."
- So "supposably"
- Instead of supposedly.
- Yeah I've definitely heard that one before.
I have. Nice one Dimitri.
- Yeah you've got that right.
- Hats off to you. You did get that one right.
- [Both] Correct.
- But do you know what?
I can't talk really because I say "probly"
- What?
- Like "probly" instead of probably.
- "Probly."
- I drop the extra "ab" I'm like "probly"
- You'll "probly" get that.
- Yeah you'll "probably" get that.
- You'll "probly" get that.
- Yeah loads of us do that, don't we?
- Yeah, we just drop the extra prob-ab-ly.
- Yeah it's just the ease.
I was asking Joel earlier, why is it that
lots of Londoners say "aks"
- Yeah.
- Don't "aks" me that question, instead of ask.
And apparently it's linguistically easier
for your mouth.
- Yeah, it's easier.
To go from K to S, "ks"
then it is to go from S to K, "sk"
So yeah, some Londoners will say "aks" instead of ask.
- Yeah.
- Are you "aksing" me?
- Are you "aksing" me a question?
(laughs)
I just turned into Miranda Sings.
(laughs)
- Well there's a few more on this article
I mean it's fascinating honestly.
- Yeah. Like take got granite, instead of
take for granted.
- (laughs) Take for granite!
- Do you really say that?
- Take for granite.
- What about visa versa?
- Oh I don't like that. It's vice versa.
- Visa versa?
- Visa versa.
- Yeah.
- And there was one more, it was at the very top
I did hear Americans say it quite a bit.
It does trigger me.
Oh, this adaptation is based on a Shakespeare novel.
Not based off of.
- Yeah.
- I feel like you hear the "based off of a"
- Off of. Yeah.
I hear that a lot in American things. "Off of"
- Yeah that's true. I don't know which is correct.
I really don't know if it's grammatically incorrect
to say that. I'm trying to think of why it might
not be grammatically correct.
But I can't think of anything.
- Just sounds so good in an American accent.
Based off of.
It's based off of.
- Yeah. Based off of. Not based on.
- Based on. Based off of.
- If you base something on something,
- This is the base.
- You don't base something, off of something.
- You bounce off. We say that "Oh, it bounced off of"
"I bounced off of his idea"
- Yeah.
- We bounce off of each other.
- Yeah.
- We say we bounce off each other.
Maybe an American would say
"You bounce off of each other"
- Off of each other.
- I feel like there's an extra "of"
I've heard it so much.
- Yeah we bounce off each other, not we
bounce off of each other.
That's so true. Maybe it's the extra "of."
- Do you know what I mean?
I've heard it in loads of things.
- But it's like when Americans say that we get it
wrong because we say "Oh I'm going to hospital"
like why have you missed out "the?"
But it's like, just like the same way that you say
I'm going to school.
- Yeah. I'm going to school.
- I'm going to school.
Americans will say "I'm going to school."
You don't say, "I'm going to the school."
It's the same thing.
I'm going to hospital, I'm not going to the hospital.
I mean you can say that.
But Brits will most likely just say
"I'm going to hospital."
- I think we'd only ever use the article the "the"
if it was a specific, like I'm going to the school
like the hospital, which is this specific hospital.
Whereas we'd just say "I'm going hospital."
- Yeah. But it tricks them so much,
cause they're like "Why are you skipping letters?"
- Oh, that's interesting.
Well we're here to celebrate it all, aren't we?
We're not here to sort of nitpick,
this article is very nitpicky.
- No. So nitpicky.
- And we just found it very entertaining
that we wanted to talk about it.
- I mean we lets you guys,
we let you say whatever you want.
I don't care what anyone says,
as long as they don't say "I could care less."
- (laughs) Then you're fine.
- Then it's fine. Like honestly that's the
only thing I get triggered by.
- Yeah.
- Other than that, people should be able
to speak the way they want.
I know how awful it is having studied
linguistics, when people will be like
"You said this wrong,
this is grammatically incorrect,
and you studied linguistics."
I'm like, I don't care.
I don't care.
- You don't care.
- Like it doesn't,
just cause I studied linguistics, I don't
- Yeah, I know what you're saying,
basically it's like people that say on the internet
"Oh I'm really
and they get caught one time
using something that's like plastic
and the internet hounds them.
- I know.
- It's because you've put some information out
and people will try and attack and attack and attack.
- But any true linguist will let you speak the,
I won't go into it.
But we were taught at University that
people who have a rigid set of rules going
"This is the dictionary, this is correct."
are wrong.
So people who are taught linguistics
are taught to like, celebrate that everyone
sounds different. Everyone like,
when there's new words that enter the dictionary
instead of going, "Oh great, it's another
Americanism in the dictionary."
- It's exciting.
- It's exciting, a new word is
Lit. The word lit.
- Its lit!
- Lots of old people, especially old Brits
will be like "Oh great, another Americanism."
But we're like this is amazing, it's another word.
- Yeah. So true linguists are taught to celebrate
the differences. Which is what we feel we are doing
on this channel. And on this video.
- Yes. Except for cucelas.
- Except cucuelas, which is very triggering.
We don't get truly truly triggered by
cucelas. So we hope you can appreciate that
and not be triggered moving forward.
- Yeah.
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- My blog's better than yours.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- No offense Dimitri,
- Are you using Squarespace?
- But you could have used Squarespace
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- (laughs)
- Just an idea.
- Just saying.
- Poor Dimitri, if he ever finds this video.
- No, what if he's a viewer?
- Oh, so sorry.
- Sorry.
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- [Both] Bye!
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- [Joel] I mean Americans can speak any way
they want, they've invented some good words.
- [Lia] Oh yeah, they really have.
- [Joel] Yeah. Where you at? I love that.
We'd say "Where are you?"
But Americans are like "Where you at?"
- [Lia] Where you at?
- [Joel] Where you at? It sounds cool.
- [Lia] Yeah absolutely.
Can we start picking up the phone saying
where you at?
- [Joel] Yeah. Where you at.
- [Lia] I'd be like "That's rude."