Hello and welcome to British English with Joel & Lia. Today we've got a
very very special guest it's Tom! Hello, hi guys you probably already know
him from Eat, Sleep, Dream English thanks for coming no worries thank you for
having me guys it's nice how does it feel to be in the Joel & Lia sandwich? oh
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So today our video is all about slang you might hear in London so
the words we are about to share with you are mostly all words that we've kind of
heard on the bus and on public transport. Yeah and this video isn't about teaching you how to say
these words because you probably won't need to use them yourself it's just
worth knowing in case you hear them when you're out and about in London yeah
that's right, I mean it's like youth culture yeah they're words phrases from
youth culture so you might hear them in songs British songs or TV
shows things like that so it's great to know those words so you can understand them
yeah yeah definitely so shall we kick off with the first one? Yeah let's do it!
yeah, let's kick it off! Okay so one of my favourites is allow that. I love that! which kind of means like stop it or it's
like a negative we say it's sort of like no or stop doing that thing yeah so an
example we were saying like do you wanna go outside, and you're like "nah, allow that", like no! I would probably say like "I'd
rather not" that's probably what I would say, which is quite different to allow that! I'd probably just say "naaah". I'd just make a sound! But also, shall we comment on the spelling
I think it's spelt "allow that" but you wouldn't say "allow" you'd just say "laow that"
so the next one is fam which is used to describe your actual family
members or just your close friends yeah so right now this is fam!
Yeah, I guess like a word I would use is like mate or buddy
Do you say buddy? I do say buddy. Who are you!? Am I not allowed to use buddy? No it's fine. I suppose I don't go "hey buddy!" yeah
No that's alright it's better than pal, nothing worse than pal is there? "hey pal!". But you can
combine the two phrases we said already so you'd be like "no allow that fam" ah
excellent! That's deep yeah I like that! Maybe not with this so the next one is one I actually
use quite a lot it's the word 'bangin' so banging can be used to
describe something that's really good so I love this song it's banging yeah
that's exactly the context I was thinking about with music this is a
banging tune like this one is... it's great yeah or food I sometimes do describe
food as bangin if it's like yeah you a party in some say's how's the food? Ah it was
bangin yeah yeah the music and mostly music yeah yeah anything else on
banging? No! Okay the next one is 'beef' now beef we know to mean meat right yeah it
also means a disagreement so you can have beef with someone yeah which means
you have a disagreement with them so for example like I'm in the middle here earlier
on these guys had a bit of beef we did, we actually did. I was joking, but... we had beef about marzipan beef about marzipan
is not slang by the way! the next one guys, is marzipan!
Marzipan is food! Why were you arguing about marzipan? He was like, "you love marzipan"
and I was like "nah I don't fam", "allow that, I hate it!" I was like "I've never liked marzipan, never", You have!
I swear you love marzipan you even buy marzipan and I've seen you eat marzipan. Allow that fam that's never happened.
literally, he just makes it up and like, we got into a ...
we had beef right yeah this is beef right here! I'm so glad we demonstrated beef
And beef can be about really important subjects or maybe trivial subjects like marzipan.
It's not trivial!
Sorry! You can have unresolved beef with
someone for years can't you? or is beef temporary? Wow! Deep!
so the next one is 'chirps' and that just means to like chat to someone or mainly
used in the context of like chatting up someone so flirting with someone oh yeah
there's an agenda here yeah it's romantic
aspects, undertones. How is it used in a sentence? he's chatting to her
... he likes her? yeah I'm gonna go chirps her like I'm gonna go and
chat her up yeah. I'm gunna chirps her at the buffet. No, I made that up. What?? Sorry, forget that!
That's not going in. That's definitely going in! So it's a verb.
"to chirps". Past tense, I was chirpsed! 'How was your night?' I was chirpsed quite a few times actually
Joel & Lia were caught chirpsing! So the next one is the word 'endz'. Which just means your neighbourhood. Where you're from.
There are loads of different words for this, right? I mean like we have in London, 'manor' as well that's another. i've not heard that!
Yeah, you're in my manor. Actually I'm in your manor right now! And I've heard in a song, I don't know if it's American
"I've got hoes in different area codes" So that's another one. One of my favourite songs! Is it? The way you sing it, yeah absolutely. So also, endz isn't so specific that it just means
exactly where you live it can mean the general area so if I'm from East
London and I'm also from East London. we're in the same endz but I'm from North
London so I'm from different endz. It could even be
like your borough, you know or your postcode yeah and like with most
groups you kind of identify with your endz and keep your endz people close. Just like that. I
think I would again I would say neighbourhood or area that's
kind of how I would describe it. I would always stay north of
the river, no I'm kidding. That's a London joke, for anyone who gets that!
okay so the next one is 'Bare' which people can use to describe sort of
a lot or very so if something is funny we might say "that's bare jokes" which means that's very funny, so that's kind of two for the price of one!
It's a bargain! Absolute bargain bucket! That's a KFC joke. I'm sorry! There's too much information. Too many in jokes in this video!
you guys are bare jokes. Thank you. We shouldn't call our channel British English with Joel & Lia, we should call it Bare Jokes with Joel & Lia.
That's so much better. You might be overselling it slightly.
There's beef! OH NO THERE'S BEEF!
Manz going to his mums house. What??? his mums yard, surely?
Where do these come from? Manz going to his mums house! What am I like?!
Alright, manz! Okay so the next one is manz and this a way to refer
to yourself so man's got to eat for example man's go to eat means I need to
eat yeah I would say one needs to eat that's how I would say it, no! You guys don't know, I might do! I'm red!
yeah, manz gotta eat manz tired yeah a posh person say one has to eat yeah the Queen would say
that. She wouldn't say manz.
Queenz, Queenz loves to eat, Queenz needs to eat.
this isn't supposed to be this funny!
next one is mandem which is man's friends if I'm man then this is my mandem right. Group of friends.
but if a guy was with his friends if anyone was with their friends and their
family then they'd quite quite clearly be fam over there and mandem would be
friends. So speaking about where you live you can also say yard
to mean your house so I think this comes from America and American
English they often refer to their garden has being their yard so I guess
we've kind of taken it to mean the same thing like your house. All of this slang I think
we can't take ownership over all of it. It all comes from everywhere. Classic Britain steal all the things that they want I
mean language is really multicultural isn't it? it's like every
single influence in Britain, whether it's from America or from patois or wherever it's
yeah so guys if you enjoyed this video please leave mandems a comment. Wow, it sounds so good coming out of your mouth! So natural! Honestly, fam I realy appreciate your support on youtube
like thank you so much for subscribing to this channel. We've just done a video over on
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vlogs around London stuff like that yeah fresh out the can. That's not a slang! She's making up her slang! thank you guys this
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