hi we're joel and leah and today we're going to be talking all about car and road vocabulary in the
uk versus the usa there are so many differences and we have i don't know if you've seen this video
yet don't know the order but we've just done a video about the different laws of driving in the
uk us so this one's all about the lingerie yeah and it's only come about because when we're over
there driving you hear all these other terminology you hear all these other things you're hiring a
car off someone and they're like in the trunk and you're like remind myself what a trunk is um so
we just thought we'd make a really quick fire video going through some of these differences
to prepare anyone who's american that might be driving over here in england and vice versa can
just be prepared ahead of time absolutely but before we get started if you haven't subscribed
consider subscribing yeah just click it we post videos thrice weekly it's free and you know what
i'm just gonna say it's a shameless blog joel if this video is super helpful for you you can also
do a super thanks on this video that's so true you can just be like here's a dollar tip super super
thank you yeah it's the little heart underneath the video youtuber just released it we actually
have never received one so we want to see what it looks like we're actually going to ask one of our
like loyal subscribers if they could test it but we've forgotten so we're asking you guys we want
to test the super thanks button see if it works yes we believe that means that your comment in the
comment section below will appear highlighted above everyone else's that's what we've been
told but we haven't seen it with our own eyes anyway on to the lingo and the terminology yes
okay the first one which i always find really funny is the word yield yield yes yes so in the
triangle sign i can see it already it'd be great if we could get a yield sign right here yes yield
so this is in england give way give way which i think is more i feel like a foreigner coming to
the uk you see give way and they sort of know immediately what that means whereas i wouldn't
know what yield means i actually wouldn't no but hopefully they do the line the dot dot dot dot
so it's just the same sort of like pain on the road that you go okay i have to give way here
and this is the uk signage for give way just says give way there you go the next one is to do with
what we call a flyover yeah a flyer i just i was thinking have we called it a flyover we absolutely
have it's just more rare yeah we don't really see them normally a flyover will be on another
word motorways but the american what the american words for those two overpass and then motorway is
freeway yeah or high yeah yeah i think three way freeway freeway i've got it on my list and you're
gonna get to it so just remember if you see an overpass fly over what's the difference between
a freeway and a highway i think i actually have it here so a motorway is a highway yeah and a freeway
oh no i don't yeah freeway let us know down in the comments the difference between a freeway and
a highway but yeah overpass is our version their version of a flyover yeah i quite like fly over
because it's just like you're flying over yeah overpass makes sense i think i could know what
that meant yeah you're like passing over yeah right next one is roundabout oh my gosh i love
that theirs is a traffic circle it's just so cute so cute it reminds me of like the playground like
i just got to the traffic circle yeah we call it a roundabout i mean maybe ours is just as childish
yeah like a round i think america's i've heard americans think it just sounds so funny like
roundabouts like roundabout in a roundabout way yeah yeah i just love it but you don't see
the road circles very often in the us they're all intersection intersection which is so delaying of
your time like in america it's the most annoying thing you just like stop stop stop stop whereas
you're just constantly moving yeah weaving your way through
it makes sense though with the layout of their country like so much of it is like
yeah well they love building in the grid system whereas in the uk we don't have grid systems
there's no grids there's no there's very few grids the downside of a roundabout though is when
there's quite a few in a row you can start to feel sick if you're a passenger because you're like
constantly yeah i've never felt that but now i probably will and the other thing to remember
this is more like not to do with vocab but just remember which way to go around the roundabout
yeah because i would approach a round circle what they call it a traffic circle and i would just go
the english way well that's the hard thing about them doing a traffic circle in america
is that you've then got to go the opposite way around i don't think i've ever encountered a
traffic circle in america myself okay brits go to a traffic circle for the first time um
so the next one is slightly different is sort of like a phrase that you might use that's to do with
driving just a bit of lingo yeah so put your foot down yeah basically means step on it yeah
or do they what's what's the other one where they're like foot on the gas foot on the gas
or like when the rubber meets the road oh my god i hate that one yeah or rubber hits the
road or whatever but yeah americans say step on it we'd say put your foot down put your foot down
yeah put your foot down actually put your foot down so they're quite i don't think you'd get
super confused like if someone was like step on it leah i'd be like yeah put my foot down yeah
be fine yeah so the next one which we mentioned earlier is that the trunk in the uk is the boot
yes which i think the trunk probably makes more sense like if you think of a trunk like a travel
trunk like a it's like a big box isn't it yeah and that is what a trunk is what is a boot yeah
what is a boot i suppose it's where you put your boots oh yeah i mean my welly boots
are in the boot my car oh they're in the boot the boots are in the boot yeah why didn't we
not say trunk then i don't know trunks a bit too like jack sparrow a treasure chest yeah
trunk i feel like what we can find in the trunk yeah and i don't feel like many many people
pronounce the t on boot because i put it in the boot yeah boom so we're like kind of australian
bonnet bonnet when we say that it's quite funny it is like again what is a bonnet like a bonnet
is like what you wear so why did you call that a bonnet so that's a hood a hood and interestingly
that when i think of hood of the car you just hear pop the hood but you would never say pop the
bonnet never pop the bonnet pop the bonnet will do you they like pop up the pop like pull up pull
yeah so that one's quite funny i would find it funny if i was an american hearing that the
hood is a bonnet yes the next one windscreen versus windshield yeah so their windshield ours is
a wind screen i think windscreen makes more sense because let's face it it's not really shielding
you that much if a big rock came flying at it is it much of a shield no it's only shielding
wind yeah wind and maybe flies in mosquitoes it's not really shielding wind if you then open
the windows no because then the winds no longer shield it's now attacking the ears so windscreen
yeah windscreen we win that one yeah we wish one point to england one's easy uh pavement over here
is a sidewalk yes sidewalk i think it's very literal isn't it you walk on the side of the road
sidewalk whereas pavement again it's sort of like a bit of a curveball yeah you're right as
as we say that word like that it's one point to america yeah america you get that one you get
that one on the sidewalk yeah okay so the next one is that petrol or something like diesel or
gas yeah i would never ever ever say i need to put gas in the car no although i started saying
it after spending three weeks of april in america i started saying gas but it makes no sense i know
gas is short for gasoline yeah but gas is also like a vapor isn't it like you've got liquid
or a gas petrol is a liquid so it just doesn't make sense in my heart it makes no sense i had
no idea what it meant growing up i was like why do these people put gas in their cars yeah like gas
do they fart into their car make it go wash my car running on farts i'd be minted because i'd saved
so much so much money yeah just bottle it yeah it's taking it while just putting the gas in yeah
petrol we sometimes say like putting fuel in yeah oh my fuel's learning to put fuel in next one is
what we call indicators indicators yeah and americans call them blinkers i don't like i'm
sorry it makes sense because they blink but i just for some reason i don't like blinker
i don't like it either it reminds me of like thomas the tank engine yeah again children's
tv yeah it's too baby-ish yeah blinkers yeah um we sometimes say that i'll put your signal on
mirror signal remover you know when they say yeah yeah it just sounds like yeah like oh put your
flashy beat beeps on or whatever but you've put your blinkers on do you blink false eyelashes yeah
like no i don't like that so i think we win that one eyelashes and also you're indicating you're
saying i'm i'm indicating this i'm going this way yeah indicators so we take indicators signal and
those two yeah yeah what do you call it anything else flashes no your flashes that's amazing
okay so the other lights so that like the light with the triangle on it yeah that
or emergency blinkers or just flashes okay so they call that a flasher yeah yeah we that's a hazard
light yeah so put your hazards on yeah if you want to say thank you to someone stick hazardous
interestingly they don't actually teach you in your driving lessons while i didn't ever
learn that that's a way of saying thank you yeah it's just like the black market of the
yeah you know the road the road where you just learn from doing you yeah at one stage we must
have asked someone why they i do why do they do that i don't remember having that conversation
yeah because i was following driving two cars and he was like i kept flashing and i was like i don't
know this i don't know that he's like i kept telling you using car signals to come into that
i was like no i didn't get that signal oh did not should have just picked up the phone yeah you got
blue too yeah you got bluetooth we've got walking juicers yeah yeah yeah okay one the next one is
manual so we call a stick shift manual yes so oh that's a manual car stick shift yeah do they have
any other word for it um the only other notes i've put down here is that it is more common
to see you know to drive stick shift over here yeah and if you hire a car the standard that you
will be given is a stick shift you've got to pay more to have uh auto yeah so make sure you specify
if you are hiring a car in the us in the uk if you're from the us that you want an automatic
because they'll just come as a stick shoe yes so be prepared for that um and on a
stick shift or a manual car you get the foot lever which we call a clutch um so they call it
lever yeah i think both both don't deserve a point the clutch makes you think of a woman's
clutch handbag does it and foot lever is just stupid yeah so it's like both are stupid
england and america don't deserve it yeah let's think of a new word for that okay extra pedal
um i will call it engager engager you engage in the controller controller controller because it
controls which gear yeah oh what do they call the bite you know where you're yeah see i actually
have not done the research into the biting point so the way of explaining that is when your foot is
on the clutch and you're trying to find the moment and you have that acceleration yeah
that bit do you know what my tangent my driving instructor over explained that so much like kept
story i just couldn't get it one of my friends was like all you need to do is your feet to do this
at the same time like literally foot on the clutch and then accelerate as you're bringing
your foot up and i was like well now i get it and then like i never stored again if you should just
teach me dance moves yeah just teach me but he was like find the binding point give a bit of guess
i'm like stop over complicating it that is so funny you're like none of the lingo teach me
the dancing i just needed a pharma girl that i worked on the farm with it was just like just
do that and i was like got it click yeah and that is that driving teacher they did not find
your way of learning no just one conversation with you to told me you're a dancer yeah i'm a dancer
can you not tell so yeah okay so next one joel crosswalk oh crosswalk we call that zebra crossing
which is funny because americans don't even say zebra they'd say zebra crossing if they were to
say it so do you know what ours is stupid crossing that's so plain isn't it cute that it just like
it's just like this the shade of an animal was just like a zebra crossing yeah like tiger bread
in in the soup yeah everyone calls it tiger bread yeah but yeah crosswalk makes more sense but
it's just i like animals so i quite like zebra crosstalk crossing the other thing to note is that
you absolutely have to stop if there's someone trying to cross the road at a zebra crossing here
yeah so if you are driving and there's someone trying to cross you just stop for them but also
that doesn't apply to mainland europe for example if you go to paris and you do that you'll get
hit by a car because they do not stop on as ever across the coast they do not stop they just keep
going yeah it's really brutal isn't it yeah okay so this is a word that we use for the concrete
edging on a sidewalk so the bit that goes up yeah it's a curb curb herb not sure maybe they
don't have a word for it i don't think they have it because i couldn't find it online unless it is
just curb and i'm being silly but like for example what would they say if they if they hit like we
could be like i just hit the curve like they would just say hit the sidewalk hit the sidewalk
but that sounds like you've mounted the sidewalk but we're just meaning like if you're if your
tyre hits the curve yeah like if you scratch your hubcaps what do they call hubcaps what is
the hobcat the like the wheel so you've got the weight if that's the wheel you've got the rubber
tyre on the outside yeah that's the hubcap the metal bit or plastic oh i call that um
steelies or alloys if you've got allies i'm not posh enough to have anyways okay so
there's steelies i call it steelies if it's normal hubcap okay or alloy if it's alloy
bougie yeah yeah i couldn't be trusted with alloys i've scratched my hubcaps so much from
hitting the curb yeah that i'm like there's no point me getting alloys because yeah
well know yourself okay next one is i always get these confused so trucks are lorries here yeah
semis yeah are also lorries we call everything lauren everything's a lorry lori lori laurie
but they say driver or semi semi is so weird i know especially said that way yeah so set
semi i'd say semi and then my first thought is a semi detached house which is a house
stuck onto another house and then the second thought is um it's a semi erection sent me a
wrecked penis sorry that was my first thought oh god it's so it just would not work in the uk
calling a truck oh look at that big semi he's got a semi he's got a semi yeah
and just to whip through the last few jokes a banger is an old battered car but the confusing
thing is a banger is also a sausage and a bango is also a really good song yeah so you could be
playing a banger in your banger whilst eating a banger bag yeah literally bangers all around
okay so that's really british if you want to know that yeah don't go to a heart
car hire place and be like i'm just looking for a banger like that would just not wouldn't they
wouldn't have a banger there yeah they would hire bangers so beeping the horn who like what
that i wish it was more aggressive because when i like beat someone it's like
and i'm like i wish it could be like i'm just really angry
you should just open your windows shut up stop streaming uh okay and the last one i actually
couldn't find the american word for this so yeah we call the black paving on the road that's tarmac
yes so do they not say tarmac though i don't think so because why would it have been mentioned online
but tarmac is different from cement so if any of you thinking oh it's just cement it's not cement
it's like the black tarmac when you use the same word to describe it it's like it's just tarmac
guys that's so funny that was a long video but we hope that you enjoyed it that was helpful
the dictionary of car and road terminology we really hope you liked it yeah stay tuned
for more go and watch our driving videos we've got some really funny driving videos in the us
if you want extra exclusive members only videos where we go into a lot more depth we're a lot
more free with our tongues then um not in that way um then memberships are available available
sorry 99 cents a month super cheap okay i'm going to be sending joel for a time out now
thank you we've done three videos so i need a break time out we'll see you in the next one
you