Hello and welcome to British English with Joel and Lia today we're going to
be running through American words that British people have no idea what they mean
so my first word for you Joel is faucet faucet
it sounds really posh in English doesn't it? Faucet
that sounds like an item
of clothing! it sounds like a corset it's like a it's like
a type of corset?
no you will be surprised to know it's actually just the
tap just switching on the tap water to tap faucet it's like 'force it' like sounds
like forcing something open 'faucet'
Oh force it maybe that's what it is
maybe! it's weird!
I've never thought of a tap being anything
other than a tap! Yeah a taps a tap
So my one for you is cilantro
I think I actually know
this actually
reason being it's a food thing because I do quite a lot of
recipes online and I do think I've seen it. It's like parsley or something?
Or coriander? Coriander!
it's just weird though that you can have
such different words for things which I mean this is this whole idea of this
video
but also people are so split on coriander I love it
I like a little bit
but too much and it tastes like soap
yeah gross
I love it!
coriander in guacamole is nice!
oh yes guacamole
guacamole
so the next one is condo
you've probably
yeah like a flat or an apartment yeah condos an apartment I
ever called my apartment a condo I think someone would just slap me around the face
it's so funny my brother when he first bought his apartment um Facebook didn't
have a thing for saying apartment you know you get those life events like yeah
just bought an apartment so it didn't have the thing for a apartments so it said
just bought a condo everyone made fun of him so much for saying condo it was so funny he was like I
didn't have any choice that was the only word they had for apartment or flat so
the next one is quite a funny one I is doohickey is that when you get the
hickeys like when you get kissed on the neck ?
No! well a hickey is when you get a bruise or something
she's got a hickey!
No, whats a doohickey?
is it like with the same genders doing it, oh I don't know
no!
hickey from a girl?
no it's like their version of like a 'thingamajig' or like a 'whatsit' you
you know when you can't think of something like the remote
control for the TV like I'll pass me that thingamajig
they say pass me the doohickey
also loads of people have got like a million different
words for remote control
in England it's like zapper changer whatdyamacallit
yeah the whatchamacallit the remote the TV
the Box pass me the Box the box
passing box that means pass me the remote controller
the controller for the box it's
so mad there's so many different words for remote
it's probably a whole other
video on that like household items slang
I hate the word channel changer
- it's like too literal
it's like what does it do? It changes channels!
Pass me the channel changer immediately
so annoying!
so doohickey is thingamajig
for anyone who's not familiar with the English or American of those
it's like Joel said it's just the name of something you don't know what the name
is in that moment
the next one which I find completely bizarre is you'll know
it from the pre word that comes before it
okay
the cheese shredder
cheese shred
that's their version of grater?
yeah it makes sense
we call it a cheese grater
but shredding makes more sense you know just
when do you ever what grate mean?
yeah but shred if you've got shreddings of
something then it's yeah that's better
yeah you got that one yeah so the next
one again you'll probably get this one by its very literal term is powdered
sugar
I actually don't know what that is? Powdered sugar
just think of sugar thats in powder form what's that called?
oh ok I was about to say drugs
no that's not
that's not what they call drugs
is it like a
street slang?
powered sugar
have you got any?
no
Is it just like
on a cake
yeah
So my old flatmate that was American I
didn't realize that she didn't know what icing sugar was! She was like what
does that mean and she was like oh powdered sugar
yeah I suppose it does look like powder and it tastes like sugar
again that that to me is a bit like channel changer it's too literal it's too like powdered
sugar
okay so the next one Joel is it's really obvious we've heard it I just
want to address it because there's so many different names for this thing in
English and American and whilst I was abroad recently in Asia they were so
confused they didn't know what to call it
so in America's trash oh yeah anyway here's rubbish some people call it
garbage some people call it litter trash bin or trash can?
or rubbish bin?
there's so many words for it that it's like we all need to decide on one I feel
that's just too many
I mean if something's rubbish then it's like it's
like rubbish so I think rubbish is a good term for it yeah
but then I am English so ?
yeah
trash if I think of trash I think I'm someone trashing a house like you're
like wrecked
yeah okay this is weird as well again I feel like it's quite a
literal thing but also not
station wagon
is it like something from an like a film with tumbleweed in it (sound effect)
it's modern day
that's probably where it's come from because it's like the Cowboys
used to have them maybe
a station wagon is like instead of it being horses it's
like I don't know no it's like
it's an estate car!
So in the UK a station wagon
we would call it an estate car
yeah a car which is
you get a hatchback which is small
and an estate which is like bigger the back
pardon me oh my gosh see you're bored by the station wagon
thats so odd
station wagon
ok my last one for you the last one is a food
so is
mine for you
so mine is um zucchini
do you know what that is?
Is it aubergine?
no what is it?
it's a courgette!
we have courgetti here which is
like courgette spaghetti
what's they must call it zucchini etti?
it's not amazing it's just a good substitute for pasta
yeah so zucchini you
knew it was a courgette!
you'll probably know this one as well
I'd not heard this till recently capsicum
is it a flower?
oh no you told me so it's a food yeah is it veg
yeah is it a type of like I don't is it a type of like rare tomato
no well looks a bit like
a pepper?
yes! it's a pepper
apparently they they call it that in
Australia as well
Let us know if that is true in the comments
or if it's a vicious rumor that we plan to end right here
I don't know pepper
but pepper is confusing because pepper can be salt and pepper pepper or pepper
can be the vegetable pepper so maybe capsicum is better yeah we should we can
adopt that maybe yeah Cheers America thanks America that's it guys fun that
was quite fun I think we ought next time go on Urban
Dictionary find American phrases and compare those yes okay now if you'd like
to see that yeah let's do it because it's all fun learning American
words but there's tons of phrases that are so different to British phrases me I'd love
to get an american youtuber preferably one that does videos about like American
English and learning and stuff but let us know who we should do a video with because it'd
be great to get an American on our channel oh my god that'd be so fun if
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