Aww yeah so we have a brand new type of lesson for you guys today andrea and I
are actually together here In person and It's the
first video that we're doing together physically so what um
so we thought this would actually be the perfect opportunity
to talk about some differences In our accents because
where are you from andrea so I'm from london I was born In the uk
and I'm from colorado In the united states as many of you may already know
and so we wanted to talk about some words that are different
in american and british english so this will help you a lot If you are
learning one accent and you want to transition to another
maybe you want to travel and you want to know what words
people from that other country might not understand yeah It's just really useful
because also If you watch lots of different tv
series and movies some of our words are different
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or american english so It's really useful to know exactly
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so our first word these are chips of course no ethan I'm really
sorry those are not chips so what are chips for you so chips are
something that's hot that you would have like with a burger
or something so these In british english
are crisps because they are crunchy and they come In a packet
but the hot things they're called french fries well
yeah I guess they are and I guess they are for us as well
like If you're going to certain fast food restaurants
they are french fries but we still call them chips
in the uk all right so you better not get confused If you want them cold
in the usa chips If you want them hot In the uk
say chips exactly uh chips please a few more
just a few more okay girls we are ready for scrabble
i'll grab some snacks oh potato chips please
oh so I can hear about how much you hate yourself all night
and how about what would you call these so these are biscuits but biscuits are
not sweet yes they are why what are you talking about those are
cookies of course see cookies for us we have cookies as
well but cookies are like a chocolate chip cookie or
something but there's lots of different types of biscuits
so generally In the uk you would say that these types of sweet hard what
you'd say cookies or biscuits as you said we would call
those cookies biscuits are actually something
different In the u.s and I think they probably
don't exist In the uk but It's actually something savory
we might have It at breakfast with gravy on top of It
which I think Is another thing that can be different It's like a white sauce
with bacon and It's a really delicious breakfast If
you're ever In the us and you want to try something really typical
you can get biscuits and gravy that sounds like a really heavy
breakfast It Is american breakfasts are very heavy but british breakfasts are
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so we have some different vegetables as well what would you call
that kind of like long green one that you
not a cucumber but It's one that you would cook up yeah we would call this a
courgette courgette It sounds very french we would
call It a zucchini yeah so yeah I guess we
some of these types of vegetables we kind of take the
french word for It because It does sound very french all right
and zucchini would you say that's more italian that sounds more Italian doesn't
it i wonder why we got the Italian and you
got the french yeah it's really Interesting we need to look
into that and find out why if we have any Italian or french fans
out there that want to offer some clarification here and
there's another one that I think the american name Is
actually really weird because who knows what It has to do with this
it's called an eggplant It looks nothing like an egg maybe someone thought It did
yeah and It doesn't really taste like an egg
what would you call that we call that aubergine
which again Is french Isn't It yeah so if you're In the u.s and maybe you know
the word aubergine sounds like a lot of latin languages uh
and you want that kind of vegetable and or
you see It on the menu an eggplant you can know that that's not actually
anything to do with eggs so If you actually If I went to america
and I asked for aubergine do you think people would
understand what I was saying no I don't think so I think I just learned that
from being around british people so definitely If you're In
the us and you're saying aubergine I don't think or a courgette I think
they're going to think that you're not a native english speaker yeah
they'll be really confused wouldn't they so we have one more thing having to do
with food kind of with food If you go to a
candy shop does this exist In the In the uk a candy
shop It does but we call It a sweet shop so what do
you buy at a sweet shop so at a sweet shop you buy all those
kind of sugary sweets the ones that can be
like fizzy cola bottles milk bottles uh you know gummies yeah you would call
them gummies we don't really say gummies oh really
yeah i said It earlier to you because when I
was thinking about It I wanted to make sure like we were clear on what
we were talking about but we call gummy bears gummy bears
um but yeah we just call them sweets it's like haribo and things of the story
right exactly so we call that candy
if you go to a candy shop that's also the kind of things that you would find
the gummy bears and anything that's kind of like uh hard or
chewy or different things like that usually with a lot of different colors
uh but for us sweets I would generally think of like
anything that's sweet so I could also think like cakes
pastries so If you say a sweet shop I might even think It's like a bakery
maybe ah no It wouldn't be but I kind of find
that a little bit confusing because what would you then call chocolate you
call chocolate candy as well don't you not really I think It could definitely
be associated like In a candy store you'll find chocolate
and the pronunciation there Is quite different as well because we say
chocolate and you say chocolate so It's like a bit
of a shorter eye sound there right yeah and
yeah so chocolate you might think about that though because we have
candy bars right that's what I'm thinking of yeah
because I would say I want some chocolate or a chocolate bar
but you would call It a candy cane candy bar but a candy bar because we have
chocolate bars as well but chocolate bars
would be like If It's just pure chocolate a candy bar
is when It has like different candy bits inside of It like
or maybe different things like pretzels toffee things like that that makes sense
you've kind of made It a bit clearer for me now because that's kind of one that
i've even found confusing as well sometimes so we are covering a
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now we'll continue with a few more words next we're going to move on from food
we'll talk about clothing I think we have a lot of different a lot of uh
differences with clothing as well there are loads so
for example If I go to the uk and I want to buy some green pants
where are they going to take me you want underwear no I want pants of
course long pants but those are called trousers
trousers that's that's like one of the words that definitely I think americans
didn't know but It just sounds like very it sounds very british or like very old
english or something like that to us yeah this Is actually quite funny
because I was speaking to my sister the other day and she was living
in colorado actually for like six years and my nephew because he was born there
and grew up there a lot of the words that he speaks are american english
words so he still says pants as In trousers that we would say
in britain and my sister was saying oh I'm going to
start teaching him some of the british words now so that he understands
when I'm saying certain words as well so yeah
for us we say trousers you don't say this at all do you no
we don't say that at all we just say pants and the other thing would be
underwear or underpants yeah we still say underwear but pants
generally means um your underwear and usually more men's underwear because
the female underwear are called knickers actually I don't
know If you knew that's a very british word as well
yeah I woke up wearing somebody else's trousers
no pants I've got normal memories i don't believe this son of a pitch well
i call 9-1-1 what oh no my phone Is In my other fence
okay so talking about pants so If you call
pants underwear then what would sweatpants be
so these In the uk we would call tracksuit bottoms
so It's quite long so not everyone says tracksuit bottoms
we would shorten It to say trackies trackies yeah
so you have uh sweatpants and then you might have like a sweatshirt In the u.s
yeah we call a sweatshirt a jumper a jumper
and why do you know what that comes from i
don't actually no I'm not sure but I know that
quite a european way of saying It would be pull over have you heard that as well
i have heard that yeah but I'm not sure a sweatshirt
so a sweatshirt Is a jumper right but then you also have
sweater yeah we have a sweater a sweatshirt Is more like the one that
doesn't have any hood or anything like around It
and then like a sweater Is more like what your grandmother might knit for you
for christmas yeah so that's a jumper that's a jumper
so sweatshirt would that be like a track shirt or something like that the
whole thing we call It a track suit okay but people don't tend to use this
word that much anymore this was more like the 90s kind of
shell tracksuits I don't know If you remember those but the ones with the
hood we just call them hoodies a hoodie yeah that's for us as well
but If It's without a hood that might be a sweatshirt
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uh chandler was just saying how beautiful your sweater Is oh thank you
chandler I just bought It oh yes well It's very beautiful and It's
cream-colored and tight and i don't mean ty I mean It's not too
tight not that I was looking at what's the matter with him so the next
one we have Is what would you call
shoes basically the time that you might wear because they're quite comfortable
every day or maybe for sports yeah we would call these trainers so we
actually have several names In the u.s but
sneakers or maybe tennis shoes so our tennis shoes those like white
kind of lace-up ones yeah I think we kind of like use them as
a general term for all of them but I think like the most traditional ones
and we even shorten It to like tennies oh okay
that's Interesting yeah we don't have these words In britain
i think people will understand you If you say them but we just say trainers
for all these kinds of shoes that you use for sports
okay like people might take tennis shoes too literally In the uk
right yeah like shoes for actual tennis they might send you to like a tennis
shop exactly that's a bit confusing yeah so
be sure maybe don't use that one maybe use
sneakers If you're in the uk and you forget the word for
the british word trainers yeah definitely If you say sneakers
people will understand what you mean of course I had no Idea
how he'd actually get Into a club but I wasn't taking any chances
and wore my smartest shoes something simon didn't do
why are you wearing trainers site because they look good I specifically
said no trainers not If you want to get into clubs
but I just don't want to run I didn't bring my sneakers or my clothes
you're going to have to run or you're going to be In a lot of trouble
all right so we talked about pants we talked about underwear women
sometimes wear something as well that's kind of like
would go under their dress or whatever what would you call that so
we call these tights so for me tights are kind of like In
shakespeare like what the men would wear okay I see what you mean yeah I guess
i don't know why they're called tights I guess because they are quite
tight-fitting when you're wearing them and they're
very stretchy I suppose they're kind of like the ones that
men would have worn during during shakespeare's time
they're probably a bit thicker right I imagine but women's tights obviously you
can get them quite sheer you can get really thick
ones like for winter and they keep you warm and everything as well
but you don't have this word for this particular
type of clothing do you no we would call this pantyhose
pantyhose yeah so the pronunciation there Is even different because
i would say that In t I would drop the t so I say pantyhose
but you say the t hose yeah or um would I say yeah just without
with the glottal t I'm thinking what It would sound like pantyhose you'd still
say that the h sound yeah we'd say pantyhose but
yeah I think people might understand what you're saying but It Is not a
british word at all it's a really silly sounding word In In
english In american english I mean pantyhose
i guess Is It because you wear It again like underneath some clothing
and you also call uh we'll call like women's underwears you said knickers
we'll call them panties and then hose Is It I'm not sure what
that comes from like I think of like a hose that you like garden with right
but maybe because that like tube shape right I guess
so do you call that a hose pipe no what's the hose pipe so a hose pipe
is this one that you have In the garden that you use to water your
garden and your grass and everything you just call that a hose oh okay
yeah we can call It a hose for short as well but the full word Is a hose pipe
hose pipe I've never heard that It's a new one for me
so the last one we had actually It's not so much clothes but It's kind of like
fashion right so If you you don't have them but
like If you maybe decide to change your look and you went to your
salon you might ask them to leave you some hair here what do you call that
just very quickly I would go to the salon not the salon
yeah so there's a difference there as well we call It also like a beauty
parlor yeah yeah we don't say beauty parlor so
much we'd say the beautician the beautiful thing but
that's like nails and such as well right yeah hairdresser to
go to get what we would call a fringe a
friend so when you have this nice cut I would say I think that's like
very strange because there's like It's like a block of hair I
guess but there's like all these individual hairs we call It bangs
because It's plural you know It's like all of the hairs that go In the front
yeah so If If I were to say fringe what do you think of a fringe that
i mean that Is a word but I think like you're on the fringe of something like
it's kind of like the edge of something okay because there Is also
like In in some clothing and with accessories
like with some bags for example handbags there's a type
of fringe as well like I guess It's a bit western you're
right yeah or like those dresses that have
like the little yeah like beads and things like that and It
looks like a fringe and It's the same word bangs where does that word come
from I don't know It sounds like a gun doesn't It like bang bang
yeah I have no Idea and you know like In my mind a fringe
because I've grown up with that word it's like one thing
because It's all In the same area of your
face but bangs like you said It's plural yeah we think of like all the hairs but
you can't just say like one well I guess you could say like one bang
it's not so common to hear that though you know like I had like a bang fall out
or something like that oh really okay It's Interesting
two completely different words that mean the same thing
all right so we're transitioning out of fashion and we're going to talk about
babies of all things so what do you put on the baby
you know like kind of when they haven't learned to use the the toilet or the
bathroom yet what Is the thing that you put on them
so In the uk we would call this a nappy a nappy It's
like a really cute word In the in the us we call It a diaper which I
think doesn't sound as much like a baby word
yeah It's so strange because again they're very different words aren't they
there's like nothing similar about them at all I
don't know where it comes from but to kind of make It a
bit cuter would you call It a diety we would yeah yeah If you're talking
with a kid maybe you might say daipy yeah obviously
because of media and probably friends again as well
we would know what you're talking about if you said diaper In the uk would you
know In america um If someone said I'm looking for some
nappies do you think people would understand I
don't think I might think of like a napkin or something because she's down
to her last nap welcome to my world so I'll take take
taking them look I have another kid on the way
do you know how much diapers cost yes so the next one Is I think It's another
one that It's much cuter In british english but we
would say a pacifier that you can give a baby to suck on when they're
maybe crying and this comes from the word there's actually a verb to
pacify which means to like make peaceful so I guess It's kind of It makes sense
it does so what would you say In the uk it does make sense It's just sounds a
bit technical it doesn't yeah yeah um so this word In
the uk Is a dummy a dummy now dummy we would think a dummy
is like someone who's not very smart you might use that as like an Insult
like you dummy yeah yeah I've heard that so that's where It
can be a bit dangerous yeah I guess but um I I don't know why It's called
a dummy I guess the Insult dummy comes from maybe
puppets as well because Is It kind of related to that
it's like a crash test dummy right like that they use In
those car commercials to show how safe the car Is yeah
we I actually thought more maybe that It comes from like
you know If you're dumb Is another word to say that you're mute that you you
can't speak so It kind of like makes the baby dumb
like In the the sense that they can't speak that makes
sense shuts them up so we could also call It like a passy If
you want to make It a little bit cuter yeah I remember hearing my sister or
did you hear the other word for It pinky no I haven't heard that one stinky so
yeah that's the other one you could use okay so
so the last one that we have for you here Is another thing for a baby a crib
that they would sleep In so we don't call this a crib but I think
maybe It has become more of a term In britain as well but we would call It a
cot a cot okay a card for me Is like a
it's a bed that you sleep In maybe when you're camping okay
that's Interesting yeah I I haven't heard It
in that term but It's definitely where a baby would sleep
if you go camping or something would you sleep In a sleeping bag
yeah that's the same word okay that's good tonight
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have heard in american english the term I have a
crush on someone well In british english we would say I
fancy someone we can also use It to describe a desire
for example I might say I fancy a cup of tea
or I fancy some chocolate