hi we're joel lee here and today we're going to be going through some american versus british words
it's old school it's old school johnny i haven't got anything on my tea
no me okay no we have just had a snack yeah so that's fine
anyway let's get on with this different lingo leah's going to be our resident american
i'm going to be our resident brit and we're going to go through some words that we say differently
to americans the way it's going to work guys is that i'm going to shout out a word in american or
american english rather i shouldn't say it like it's a uh like it's a language is it a language
no it's a dialect is it not i think it's american english as opposed to english english it's basic
english and joel's simply gonna shout out the british equivalent and if there's any funny thing
to add then and will we show you the picture on screen we shall okay here comes my american okay
plastic wrap cling film correct diaper nappy telephone booth telephone booth
i said it badly so i said it again i'd just say telephone boo would you phone ball or phone box
of course it's a bone box take out takeaway yes drugstore pharmacy i don't know why i
said american pharmacy yeah pharmacy we also do sometimes say chemist chemist yeah like that's our
parents generation they're not popular chemists the chemist or we just say nowadays i just say
i'm going to boots because bruce is the biggest high street retailer of that sort of kind so i
call it by the shop name kind of like how is walgreens the equivalent of that yeah i'm going
to greens yeah i'm going to i'm going to green no that doesn't make sense so drugstore okay sled
sledge correct i didn't think i would have got that right the other way around because
i would just be like i don't know what they're called no i just say skidoo sled skadoo medium
medium median with an n medium i actually don't know a word in english it says british english as
a central reservation central reservations they call that media comedian that's odd median yeah
okay ladybug ladybird yes that's sweet i like that one okay tv tv yeah tv occasionally telly oh tell
me or tell a box jelly box box telly subway subway underpass oh no so like the subway the subway then
the tube and everyone in america makes fun out of how we say it pretty much like c-h-o-o-b-e
the true not the two the two but i would just say also the subway so i was thinking
subway can be an underground passage you know where you cross over from one side of
the road to the other and you go under we call that a subway yeah we do yeah
and i also use the word subway to describe the sandwich yeah it's just quite subways
there's so many subways eggplant aubergine cracks i prefer ass to that aubergine
i like saying it like this like this dish has got
why does it work so well kiddie pool kiddie pool paddling pool yeah say paddling pool as well see
cause i live here yeah they've got a picture of a dog in it sweet vacuum hoover correct we've spoken
about that before yeah in og videos we call it hoover because the main brand of hoover that
took off over here was henry hoover in a similar way that i say boots just to mean a pharmacy yeah
yeah hoover was a brand but now instead of vacuum cleaner we call it hoovering yeah now it's vacuum
it was a noun it's now a yes exactly yeah liquor store oh i don't even know oh yeah off license
yeah yeah i haven't said that in ages though yeah or the off fee the offi i feel like that's going
out yeah it's on its way out i think i've been to an off license like once in my adult life
really yeah when the supermarkets were shut and like the off license was open uh just
went there to get a bottle of prosecco but yeah i normally just buy alcohol from the supermarket
i do wonder why it's called off license because they must have a license to sell alcohol
officers off license it should be unlicensed yeah licensed you're licensed i'm going to the license
freeway oh this has just made it more clear oh freeway it's a dual carriageway
and a highway is a motorway we were wondering in another video what the
difference between freeway and highway was yeah the freeway is jewel country which is two lanes
understood now we know yeah so i'm on the freeway i'm on the highway yeah hi highway
makes me remember it because higher more car yeah i'm on the next level up
next one joel is a popsicle oh an ice lolly correct yeah i do like ice lolly though yes
popsicles popsicle i've never even heard this thumbtack thumbtack
um drawing pin correct drawing pin is so popular attack and it's just a drawing pin
pen drawing it belongs in the drawing room yeah washcloth flannel correct
washcloth because washcloth doesn't make me think how big it might be also i would
think a washcloth would be what you would use the washing up with like the cloth you use for
washing up yeah not for your face oh yeah that's a really good point flashlight torch correct
molasses i can't say it syrup or treacle yes black tree called black tree cool but i feel
like i have seen in british supermarkets it'll be like molasses yeah i've seen molasses yeah i
feel like people use it in their cooking and stuff don't i don't crosswalk oh zebra crossing correct
tic-tac-toe knots and crosses yep not some groceries tic tac toe i think ours makes more
sense because it's literally a cross and a naught yeah what is a tick what's attack what's a toe
i have no idea it's a nursery rhyme i think pacifier dummy correct apparently they also
call it a binky oh i hate that i know i feel like that's a dog's name yeah binky or like a
posh girl's name at private school binky darling yeah thank you binky said to tamara yeah okay
um chips fries no no crisps yes we always get this one mixed up sorry chips to us are what you call
fries yeah right yeah crisps bachelorette party oh uh hindu correct a hindu hen party or henri
usually hindu yeah faucet tap checkers checkers oh chess apparently here it's draft oh drafts
a game we've never played well i i to be honest i've played drafts because i can't play chess
drafts it's the easy one where you just have to leap over each other's things so you don't
have the queen you don't have the king it's just easier okay i've never got into that so checkers
okay gas a petrol correct sneakers trainers shopping cart oh trolley trolley trolley yeah
of course it's a trolling a cart it's always a trolley soccer football excellent work thank you
a star student uh this one came up in our roadside logo video blinker blinker indicator you bet it
string bean green bean yeah it's basically like a runner bean like you know those long green yeah
it's a string bean interesting uh this one i don't know why it's on the list atm atm it's an atm we
do sometimes say where's the nearest cash point yeah cash point i suppose i know what people mean
yeah but it'd be interesting to know if we said where's the cash point in america if they were
if they wouldn't know that that's the name we should try that excuse there's cash points yeah
for giving out cash right over there by all the sugar daddies parking lot car park uh jump rope
skipping rope well done sweater jumper scotch tape sellotape yeah i've never heard a scotch
tape i can't imagine wrapping up my christmas presents being like where's my scotch tape
where's my scarf it sounds like a drink it does squash college university correct pop over
pop over do you want to pop over for a cup of tea this one's interesting
oh my gosh yorkshire pudding yeah they call that a pop over is it because it like pops
wow i'm surprised they don't call it inflatable omelette or something
yeah pop over that's definitely my newest discovery today apartment flat yeah the ones
that always throw us off center of condos yeah i still don't really get what they are
doing i don't really like this one suspenders suspenders like the ones you wear here braces
men's braces which also like braces can be for teeth yeah braces when referred to in clothing are
interesting that's a bit sexual i always think a suspender is associated with the lady in lingerie
with the attachments that go yeah suspenders maybe it's anything stretchy that's on skin yeah pants
trousers easy easy-peasy sprinkles hundreds of thousands yeah i love that one uh eraser rubber
rubber yeah eraser is a rubber over here did you rub it out yeah exactly i know there's going to be
jarring for you guys stroller pram thermos thermos thermo uh thermos i call it a thermos flask yeah
they say here that us brits call it a vacuum flask but i haven't heard anyone say that for years
really i haven't heard it i think it's like grandma chad okay put it in the vacuum blast
but i would never say a thermos on its own no i thought it was flask garbage trash no that's
american as well rubbish yeah he forgot he was i did sorry elevator lift do they not say lift no no
they say elevator but what do americans say for escalator or is it yeah but or are they
like moving staircase moving yeah moving staircase harry potter harry potter okay closet wardrobe uh
zucchini oh zucchini courchette yeah cell phone mobile phone a piece of bacon a piece of bacon
rasher rasher of bacon i say say a piece of bacon american a strip of bacon but the title of the ask
the title is a piece of bacon in american is a strip of bacon we call it a russian russia how
many rashes do you want yeah and like in the supermarket it'll be like 10 rashers of bacon
rashes sounds like rations doesn't it yeah it does line q we love a cube we love a queue trunk
boots fish sticks oh i don't know oh fish sticks that was a trick by me actually um oh fish fingers
yeah i was imagining something not battered like a crab stick or something and i was like oh it's
good but isn't it a weird thing that over here fish finger sandwiches have taken off yeah we
love two bits of white bread with fish fingers or fish sticks in the middle maybe some tartar sauce
ketchup sauce yeah tartar sauce so nice with it do you guys have that over there
yeah tartare vacation holiday i really wish holiday would just pick up and be worldwide
yeah i'd vacation just it's not landing with me no i don't like it um bangs bangs fringe yeah
got bangs got new bangs french fries chips uh guard rail oh i don't know just
realized i've missed this out of the roadside terminology the guard rail is the crash barrier
okay yeah we asked that out the road lingo but oh well powdered sugar icing sugar
station station wagon just a car five-door car is it an estate and a steak oh okay station one
that's hilarious estate car brilliant uh male male male oh uh i was imagining like a male oh
okay um you got mail post yeah and then fanny pack bum bag glue stick print stick ah cookie cookie
picnic basket picnic basket yeah exactly the same picnic hamper apparently sometimes but trash can
rubbish bin yeah and we're pretty much there movie theater cinema cinema this biscuit oh it's gone
we nearly bought some reduced scones didn't we but we didn't have any jam oh yeah we've been
devastating now i really wish we got all the goods the jam the butter the scones we should just treat
ourselves i know yard garden as if they call it a yard what if it's a beautiful garden my milkshakes
bring all the boys to the garden my milkshakes bring the boys to the garden yeah my cups of tea
bring all the boys to the garden they're like pour some milk in my tea okay license license
oh no i didn't mean it like that um license plate number plate yeah i sometimes say registration
plate but no one really says that no yeah also so dumb that lots of american cars i think it
is state by state don't have the license plate on the front of the car it makes getting an uber
so hard because the car pulls up and you're like well i don't know if that's you have to like walk
all the way around the car and have a look and go no that's not ours and like it's just so hard it
makes no sense yeah why are they doing it i don't know privacy i don't get it i don't get it is it
so that when you reverse onto your driveway what's the word for driveway driveway yeah
right yard when you reverse onto your front yard you your outsiders don't see your license plate
maybe it just doesn't make any sense in the uk you have to have one on the front and back
yeah candy sweets bathroom restroom bathroom toilet blue lou got loads there's millions of
into the treasure yard sale yard sale jumper's car boot sale i'm going to one tomorrow yeah you
can't wait can you i can't wait for the car boot tomorrow what are we making up for it really early
like soon yeah yeah i'm going to get that yeah get some bargains although the hard thing is it's like
do you get that early so that you know you're the first to look at all the stuff so yeah good
stuff doesn't know or do you get there late where everyone's reducing their prices because they want
to get rid of it i know what you're going to find tomorrow are you vlogging the car booth i think
cotton candy candy floss yeah no one likes it they do that i hate candy and they're
in life the end of the the word we finish on the world's worst like sweet oh i know
i'm sorry we couldn't end on something it's not funny
though we don't call candy candy we call them sweets but we still say candy floss
also it's not floss so no americans win that one they do cotton candy because it's like cotton oh
i love that like cotton candy okay guys those were some of the words apologies in advance
for my resident american you're fantastic it sounded to me like someone that starts the
word american and finishes in english like trash can you sound like you're from utah or something
you sound brilliant thank you so much yeah yeah well done thank you thank you very much
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