welcome to HCT - today we're looking at
American slang versus British slang so
that you can tell the difference between
a quid and a buck and a manner and a
hood
I can't wait guys let's get going all
right let's get going straight away now
I'm gonna give you the standard word and
then I'm gonna give you the slang
alternatives all right so let's get
going with number one mouth is the
standard word in British slang we have a
lot of British slang words but one way
you can say mouth is cakehole cakehole
that's right the hole where you put the
cake now what is that in American
English
I said pie hole of course a pie hole I
love it a cake hole of British English
and a pie hole in American English why I
don't know why just that's what we say
right so you might say this shut your
piehole Tom real good to you well you
should go okay enough fighting over here
so cake old British English pie whole
American English
okay what about one single unit of money
well in British English a pound is a
quit I quit
qu ID quit but in American English one
single dollar is a buck bu SI k buck so
I might say could I borrow a quid in
British English and American English you
might ask for a buck so can I borrow a
buck do you guys have a slang term for
one single unit of currency in your
language let me know in the comments
below okay
house your house in British slang we
might say gaff your gaff in London
modern London saying they might say
man's yard man's yard now this is very
young I personally wouldn't say it but
you might hear it if you're in London in
American English eh
or a house would be a crib a crib like a
baby right a baby starts off if we put
them in a crib that's the same as your
house right so the slang term for a
house is crib in America MTV had a TV
program called MTV Cribs and they took
us around famous people's houses so if
it was in Britain a remake it would be
MTV gasps doesn't quite sound so cool in
British English EDTV gaps not quite as
cool but anyway okay an example sentence
there's a really nice part near my gaff
we can go there there's a really nice
Park near my gaff we can go there okay
let's take the word friend friend now
there are lots of alternatives for
friend has lots of slang terms in
British English we might say mate that's
the most common way to say it so mate
or bro is possible or fam from Modern
London English fam would be used in
American English
you've got homey and then you've got bro
which I think would be used in both
American and British slang personally I
would never say homey I've not really
heard it used much in British English
there are lots of other alternative
slang words for friend but these are the
main ones right so result with sentence
alright mate how's it going alright mate
how's it going okay your area your area
that's the standard word or neighborhood
in American English well in American
English maybre hood is shortened to hood
so your area the place that you live
could be your hood now I know there has
certain connotations in America so any
American view is watching what other
slang terms do you have for your your
neighborhood not just hood but anything
else in British English we would say
manner
that's quite an old-school word at your
Manor it's your area or in modern London
slang again your ends your ends now
these words have certain connotations
and there's just definitely a certain
tribal aspect to them like these oh this
is my manner so like you know this is
different from your manner like we're
too different for it we're from two
different places now if you don't want
to think like that in a kind of tribal
way then you could just say area just
used the normal word the standard word
for it which is would be area right so
if you don't want to use that kind of
tribal language then you could just use
the standard form of area so to be
honest I wouldn't say ends or manner I
don't see London like that I don't see
you know the city like that for some
people that is important okay so you
know it depends on who you are and what
kind of what kind of language you want
to use if I was asking where someone was
from I would say Oh what area are you
from or maybe what neighborhood are you
from I might borrow the american english
word but i wouldn't say what man are you
from or what NZ from but some people do
like to use those words okay let's take
the word tired tired now a British
English we would say nakid mate I am
knackered perfect word I love that word
you might also say shattered as well are
hum shattered in American slang you're
probably more likely to say beat I'm
beat you know what I'm beat man I'm beat
nakid or shattered in British English
beats in American English
okay what about excited let's say you're
going to a concert tonight and you're
excited in British slang we would say
buzzing I'm buzzing for the concert
tonight I'm excited you might say pumped
as well I'm pumped for the concert
tonight in American English I think they
would say hyped I'm hyped or I'm amped
and amped hyped or amped now of course
it is possible to use those in British
English I have heard them before but I
think generally speaking we would we
would use buzzing that's the word that I
hear most commonly so example sentence
I'm buzzing about the concert tonight
okay you standard word is to share the
bill in British English we would say to
split the bill alright so if the bill
comes is that should we split the bill
guys should we should we share it in
American English they would say to go
dutch
so when the bill arrives they would say
should we go dutch it means to share the
bill now again that's something that you
might use in British English but
probably you just say split the bill
police officer now in American English
it's a cop right it's a cop but in
British English we would probably say
copper or Bobby
as well that's another term that you
might hear but yeah copper there are of
course loads of slightly ruder terms we
won't go into those today but yeah cop
to copper
let's take the adjective angry angry now
in American English they would just say
I'm pissed I'm pissed
slightly rude okay in British English
pissed means drunk so we add a
preposition to make it Angry
so it's pissed off you're pissed off so
the man I am super pissed off with my
boss today
hmm you'll be angry at your bus okay
what about the adjective pleased pleased
if you're pleased you're happy with
something in American English they would
be stoked sounds kind of like a surf
term to me like yo I'm stoked like I
just gotta wave I'm stoked okay whereas
in British English you'd be chuffed or
chuffed to bits would be their full time
so I'm chuffed a bit so I caught a wave
I'm very tough to bits
so yeah the difference between an
American surfer and the British surfer
one will be stoked and the other want to
be chuffed to bits okay
and finally drunk the adjective drunk
now there are hundreds of terms on both
sides American English and British
English for this let's talk about a few
of them so in American English may be
wasted or trashed those are typically
American that I think that I think of
whereas in British English you might say
wasted a trashed probably though you
would say hammered battered yeah words
like that so yeah a few differences
there okay are you ready for a quiz now
I'm gonna give you a sentence and I want
you to decide is it British English or
American English good luck
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how did you do
was that okay alright I hope that went
well um if there are any more slang
terms that you know please put them into
the comments below the American English
or British English I'd love to hear them
and guys remember I've got my guide to
British English coming out really really
soon as soon as it's available I'm gonna
put a link in the description below it's
got an A to Z of British slang plus
loads of other interesting language and
cultural features you're gonna love it I
can't wait for you to see it alright
guys thank you so much this is Tom the
chief dreamer saying goodbye