- Do plants lay eggs?
- No, but.
- No, case closed.
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- Today we are back for round two of proper English
to find out who speaks proper English:
Brits or Americans?
- Brits, obviously.
- Actually, we're here to prove that British English,
or just English, really, is the overall
correct language to use.
- So I moved here two years ago
and I think every single day I hear a new word
that I'm just like, this is the most ridiculous
thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
Like 'chuffed'.
I think 'chuffed' is a ridiculous word.
- You get chuffed to bits.
- Chuffed to bits.
- Higgledy-piggledy.
- Higgledy-piggledy is a classic.
I love it.
- You know, you're feeling a bit higgledy-piggledy
and you're chuffed to bits.
- (laughs) It's ridiculous!
That's a ridiculous sentence.
- All right, enough debating.
It's time for me to prove you wrong.
- We'll see.
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- This is an eggplant.
- That's not an eggplant, is it?
It's an aubergine.
- It's an eggplant!
It's an eggy-shaped plant.
- So this is an aubergine.
- That's French.
- Yeah.
- So why are you speaking French
just for this one vegetable?
Get your own word.
- If all of your vegetables were French terms,
but only, like, two or three are,
so who got lazy on the way and decided they just
weren't gonna translate something over?
- Well, I'm sure it has, like, a deep meaning in French.
And that's why we stuck to it.
- But you don't speak French.
- It's not even proper.
You're taking somebody else's word for eggplant.
- We've got a long and grand history of doing that
across the world. (laughs)
- Like, when I'm eating my aubergines,
I don't want to be thinking about eggs.
Two very different things.
- Well, we all know what this makes us think of anyway, so.
- [Hanifah] That's true.
- Yeah, thanks, emojis.
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- This is a classic debate.
These are:
- Trousers.
Wait.
- Ah!
- Trousers.
- Pants.
- Nope.
Trousers. - Slacks?
Slacks or pants, maybe.
- Just call them trousers.
- They're obviously trousers.
- I think this is the one word
probably more than any of the others
that we need to sort out between the U.S. and the U.K.
- I agree.
It's caused some very awkward situations
when I moved to this country.
- [Steph] Oh, yeah.
- One time I asked someone if they liked my pants.
And I feel like I might have given them the wrong idea.
(laughs)
- These though, are these chinos?
- I mean, they're just horrible.
(laughs)
I wouldn't wear them.
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- The arrows are pointing to her bangs.
- They're pointing to her fringe.
- [Jeff] Her fringe?
- Mm-hmm.
- I thought fringe was like when you go to Coachella
and you have, like, the dangly.
- [Hanifah] Like tassels.
- Tassels?
- You use the term 'fringe' as well, don't you?
- No, no.
We just call them bangs.
- That's ridiculous.
(laughs)
- So you go to the barber and you're like,
I want fringe.
- No, a fringe.
- A fringe, oh.
I want a fringe.
- [Hanifah] Yeah, you're like, I'm gonna cut a fringe.
- Oh, that's ridiculous.
- How does the word 'bangs' align with this in any way?
'Cause you're covering your eyes and you keep
banging into things? - Banging into stuff.
Maybe that's the origins of the word 'bang'.
(laughs)
- What's the French word?
Let's go with that.
- La frange!
La frange!
- La frange.
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- The dummy.
(laughs)
- Are you kidding?
- It, what?
That's the first time you've heard that?
That's a dummy.
- I've been here for two years.
I've literally never heard of dummy.
- No!
- Pacifier.
If a baby is shouting and screaming and crying,
you want to make it peaceful, so you give it a pacifier.
- This is to pacify the baby.
- Yeah, but it's a bit like,
okay, you're thinking of kids, right?
I'm gonna pacify you!
It just sounds aggressive.
- What does a dummy even have to do?
I mean, where do you get dummy?
- I don't know.
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- Oh.
- An eraser.
- A rubber.
- A rubber?
- A rubber.
- No, a rubber is something else.
- A rubber is a condom.
- You rub it out.
(laughs)
- Also could be done with a condom.
- You're rubbing it out.
- And, so? (laughs)
- That's it.
That's all you need to know.
- The main use of the product is not just to
rub it around your paper.
That's weird.
(laughs)
That's weird if you did that, okay?
What's normal is to use it as an eraser to erase something,
some mistake that you've made on the test.
- When you have to buy something,
go to the store and you say,
mm, I've made a mistake, what should I use?
An eraser.
- Okay, but, you wouldn't know how to use it.
You'd be like, I've got this eraser, but what do I do?
You gotta rub.
- Hold it. (laughs)
- You know?
- But also, what's it made out of?
'Cause I'm gonna say rubber.
- I'm gonna say eraser material.
(laughs)
Just a guess, I don't know.
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I would say that there were two key standouts
where I was right.
- Okay.
- Which was the eraser and the pacifier.
- Pacifier I'll give you.
- Yes.
- Eraser I won't give you.
- I just think that's ridiculous.
- And I think if you're gonna claim those two
and then claim you've won,
you're sort of completely forgetting about eggplant.
- Eggplant!
- I'm not a big fan of 'dummy'.
I think, why have a child say that?
It's rude, awful, not nice.
Don't teach.
I mean, you can call it a dummy
and then, you know, next thing,
a child plays with a stupid.
- Outrageous!
Can we say that on camera?
I mean, I feel like we may need to bleep that out.
- But it's a child.
- Can we just both be correct?
- That's why it should be English and American.
You can stick to eggplant and pants
and we'll stick to the original words.
Original and best.
- Fine.
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