Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and today we're going to be helping you with some British phrases
that you probably haven't been taught!
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So there are lots of slang videos out there, we've done some ourselves.
But we realised that often the slang that we're teaching you or other YouTubers are
teaching you is slang that's not really being used anymore.
It's like old-school, old people slang.
Like you'd find in a GCSE textbook or school textbook.
So these aren't slang terms, they're more phrases that we use every single day.
And like genuinely people say these things, not just textbook stuff that, you know, a
good old 'knees up', no one says that.
And we're really sorry if we've taught you that, we have definitely taught you that,
sorry.
But these things, I've even used most of them today, in every day speech.
We've been through our text messages with each other and with other people and gone
through and imagined that we're not British and thought what would stand out as not normal
speech.
Yeah sorry, I just pulled a really ugly face!
"Not British", "what does that mean?".
Right, let's start.
'Nipping' or 'popping', I'm just popping to the shops, when we said popping I imagine
that we meant like popping and locking.
Pop and Lock, like dancing.
But no, 'popping' in British slang, essentially means going somewhere.
Yeah, but if you're going somewhere really quick, so I'd say "Lia I'm just popping to
the shops".
Which means "I'll be back in a minute, I'm just popping there".
And the same with 'nipping' "I'm just nipping to the shops, I'll be back in a moment".
Or "I'm just going to nip to the loo" I say that a lot.
Or "Hey can you pop over for a second?", not that we ever would pop over because we live
quite far away from each other.
It'd be weird if Joel said "I'm just popping over to yours", I'd be like "that's going
to take you an hour and a half".
Yeah.
So only use the phrase 'nipping out' or 'popping' if you're going somewhere for a short amount
of time.
Yep.
So the next phrase is 'give it a bash'.
Now this is something that I was gunna type in a comment to one of you guys, I think you
were Italian or Spanish and I was gunna say "just give it a bash" and then I thought "hang
on, they're not gunna know what that means probably" so I said "just give it a go".
And that's what it means, it means "give it a go", give it a bash.
"what have you got to lose?"
just give it a bash.
Another thing people sometimes say is 'Knock yourself out' which is something that my mum
likes saying, "ah knock yourself out", "mum can I have a biscuit?"
"Oh, knock yourself out" meaning 'go for it', do it!
Knock yourself out, what's it gunna do to me?
You know, do it!
It means nothing to me, sort of thing.
That's a good one, well done.
Knock yourself out, which is a bit more of like a, sort of common....
it's quite funny, like I love it when my mum says it, "knock yourself out darling".
Next one, is something that I actually heard at work today, I texted Joel, I didn't text
you did I?
I told you when I saw you.
A lady in the kitchen, was showing us this little banana she found in a supermarket and
she was like "look at this little diddy banana" and one of her colleagues who isn't English
was like "what does diddy mean?".
Diddy just means small and it's just like a little word that you sometimes hear, like
"ooo, look at that diddy little thing, that diddy ...." yeah just a sweet little term
that you might hear and think 'what does that mean?'.
In a similar way that Scottish people say 'wee' to mean little.
"That wee banana" meaning like, that small banana.
So the next one is 'Ta'.
'Ta', not 'Tar' which means 'thank you'.
Yep, you'd finish sending a text and go 'Ta' to say thank you.
Or somebody gives you change in a transaction and you say 'ta'.
I've got no idea where that word has come from and I personally don't use that, people
use it all the time, I encounter it every day, but me personally I don't use the word
Ta, I find it really cringe, I don't like it.
I don't use it either.
Do you not?
No.
But people do.
So that's why we're telling you.
My boss did that the other day I sent her an email to check if it was working and she
just went "Ta.
xx" and I was just like.... cool.
I guess it's quicker than typing thank you.
Something you might hear as well is the phrase 'cracking on'.
It means getting on with something.
So if Joel was about to leave I'd say "oh I'm just going to be cracking on with my emails".
But that one has a double meaning as well because if I was cracking onto a girl that
would mean I'd be flirting with her.
Oh yeah, cracking on!
Isn't that weird?
So you can either crack on with something and get a job done, or you can crack onto
someone.
So yeah, it'd be cracking on TO someone, it wouldn't be "I crack on someone", that wouldn't
make sense.
Or I'd be like "Oh are you cracking on with Jess then?".
Cracking on WITH that person... is it more Northern, cracking on with a person rather
than cracking on with a task.
Or you might say "oh this guy cracked onto me the other night" which you've gotta be
careful as well because if you said 'crapped on me' that'd be something very different.
I'm sure you don't learn that in school do you?
it's probably like "I'm going to be getting on with this now" rather than what you hear
in real life, in working situations are "can you crack on with that job please?".
Yep.
That's the most common way it's used, "can you crack on with that please?"
yes.
The next one is 'gimme a shout'.
Which 'gimme' is short for 'give me' and 'a shout' just means like 'let me know'.
Yeah, gimme a shout.
Or "if you need a hand, gimme a shout" meaning if you need some help, let me know.
Or 'Gimme a shout if you're in the area'/'gimme a shout if you're passing through' just means
like 'Holla!'
holla at me.
Don't be a stranger.
No.
The next one is, (loads of friends do this), they call you 'man' and even if you're a woman
it's like "aw man, that sucks".
I usually associate 'ah man' with something like bad news.
Yeah, if someone had died you wouldn't say 'ah man', like I feel like you say 'ah man'
if something is a bit trivial, like "oh we just missed the bus, aw man".
Yeah, exactly that.
And women should not feel weird about being called a man, because everyone does it, for
some reason.
It's like when people go "ah you guys" even if it's a mixture of girls and guys, yeah
it's just guys plural.
So the last one is a phrase which goes like this "keep me in the loop".
I love the way you said it.
Which means, "keep me updated", "keep me in the know", no I think that's the same, keep
me in the loop about any other projects, or keep me in the loop about any of your shows.
Yeah, don't worry I'll keep you in the loop.
If something was about to happen just as I was leaving and I really wanted to stay to
find out but couldn't, I'd be like "Oh Lia, just keep me in the loop".
Yeah, if there's a party happening and the date has been postponed someone might say
"keep me in the loop about future plans".
Yeah!
So that's it guys!
These are all phrases that we actually use, so this is why we think they're gunna be useful
for you and I don't think there'll be other videos outlining these phrases.
No, I don't think so.
Do let us know if you've heard of any of them before though.
I'm pretty sure European countries wouldn't have heard of lots of those or countries that
don't speak English, maybe in America or Australia you've got similar ones, but I don't think
in non-English speaking countries you have them.
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That IS another one!
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