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I'm an American truck driver. It's pronounced (sem-eye). Other names are 18-wheeler, big rig, tractor trailer, and fifth wheeler

We also use the word ditch for skipping school. Playing hookie is almost never said nowadays. At least here in Northern California.

I'm from Southern California and we just say "ditch class" if someone skips school. :I

older people say “playing hookie” but a lot of the time we say skipping school or ditching class

THEY LITERALLY SAID IT! TRUNK AS IN STORAGE TRUNK, AND THE TRUNK OF A CAR IS WHERE YOU STORE YOUR THINGS. YOU DONT STORE THINGS IN BOOTS ON FEET 🇺🇸

"Ground floor" is an extremely common term in America, and it means exactly the same thing as it does in England. In fact, we have an expression, "getting in on the ground floor," which means to join something at the very beginning. But in America, "ground floor" and "first floor" are synonymous. The floor above the ground floor, however, is the second floor. Which makes a lot of sense if you think about it. It's weird and confusing for "ground floor" and "first floor" to mean different things, since the floor at ground level really is the first one you'd encounter.

We call it "ditching" when you're skipping school

"Cell phone" is because it a Cellular network phone, may be...

⚫Cell is short for cellular, but everyone just says phone now anyway. ⚫Playing hookie is an old saying that isn't very common anymore; most people would just say ditching ("I'm ditching school today"). ⚫We have a vacuum brand in the US called Hoover. Not sure if it's related to your Hoover brand or not, but we still just say vacuum regardless. ⚫Scotch is a brand of tape, but we would most often just say tape without specifying; we generally only specify if it's some other type of tape that isn't Scotch tape (speaking of which, yes, we DO call it masking tape, though it may occasionally be referred to as painter's tape as well). ⚫The word "semi" is actually from the word semi-truck. When referring to a truck, we pronounce it like "SIM eye" rather than "SIM ee." We also just call it a truck, which in my experience is more common than semi.

masking tape is masking tape in America

7:05 American police officers NEVER ask drivers to "pop the hood"!! For what reason? To check the engine for dead bodies or drugs?? 🤣

Cars when first invented had an actual trunk strapped onto the back

If you Google "Antique Car Trunks" you'll see pictures of old cars from the 20s and 30s that had detachable trunks fastened to the back of the car. As cars progressed and this storage space became an integral part of the car, it's easy to see why the name trunk stuck, even though there was no longer an actual trunk involved. Love you guys!

Can you imagine us Americans owning a Shark vacuum and saying, “I’m going to shark my floors today. I’m sharking!” LOL

we call masking tape either “masking tape” or “painting tape”

I think that "trunk" on a car comes from when they used to tie or latch a free standing wooden trunk to the back of the cars.

-Trunk - Early cars did not have any storage space, unless it was modified with a rear flatbed. People would strap an actual storage trunk or chest on the back of the car. While early on many did, calling it the "car chest" became awkward and confusing for the front of the vehicle. There were already several words for the front (bonnet, hood, motor panel, etc.) -Cell / Cellular - Used because "mobile" was commonly used with CB (Citizen Band[width]) radio, and similar. Police and military would use similar equipment, but in different frequencies, and would not use the "Citizen Bandwidth". "Getting someone on the mobile", was for dispatchers to run a call on these radios. Since "Radio" was already used, they needed to use a word that people would distinctly understand as being different from your normal car radio. Today, many people call a car radio "stereo", but in those days the radio was monaural, or mono. Stereo audio did not come until much later. -Hood / Bonnet - Used because of how early cars motor panels lifted up. There is actually a difference in a hood or bonnet. A hood was lifted over the top, like a hood on a cape, or coat. Bonnets are tied down at the sides, so panels lifted from the side, instead of from the front, are called bonnets. Many early European car companies made the bonnet style motor panels to give easy access to the side of the motor, as going over the top of the radiator was often very hot from water steam because antifreeze was not very common in early days. -Semi - More related to the Trailer, than the Tractor, of the total truck. A "Semi-trailer is half supported and half, unsupported by their wheels. The Tractor is the forward support for the trailer. The term is often used because it is shorter to saying 'tractor-trailer'. The term lorry is used in the states frequently on farms. It's a flatbed trailer, that originally was pulled by horses. Many early car modifications removed the back passenger portion, and replaced it with a flatbed. This flatbed resembled the lorry, and was often called a motor-lorry, as opposed to horse drawn. This is the same reason the sates call an "estate car" a Wagon. The term "Station" wagon is used is because these longer style wagon cars were often used to taxi people and luggage to/from 'train stations'.

Americans call masking tape -- wait for it --- masking tape. :)

American people also call semis 18-wheeler or big rigs

In America we have both CV and Resumes. An resume is an abbreviated version (1-2 pages max) of your CV. Which is a detailed document of education, work experience, publications, certifications, liscense, etc.

Regarding a car, A boot in america is like a device they put on the tire so whoever owns it cant drive it until they pay their tickets

You guys should do a short film as English spies who pretend to be Americans. But you guys are bad spies because you use American slang incorrectly. Put it on KZfaq. I'd watch

CV is a complete account of experience. Resume is a one-page, two at the most summary. It also depends on industry. I have a CV and resume. The ground floor is not always the first floor. Often, we do say "go to the ground floor" if the ground floor is not the first floor. I can understand how "trunk" might be confusing, but don't pretend "boot" makes any sense either; boots go on your feet. "Semi" means it's a semi axle truck; the cab of the truck is positioned on a half (semi) axle. A "semi" pulls a trailer (also called a semi-tractor-trailer). I love your channel.

I believe that the ground floor usually refers to a basement if the building has one

Trunk vs Boot: When cars first came out there was no storage space built into the car itself but there had to be somewhere to put the clothing trunk that people arrived with when they came over on a ship. They would strap the clothing container (trunk) to the back of the car to transport it. People began strapping an empty trunk to their cars to carry whatever they needed on a journey. Later, car manufacturers created a built-in area to store items during car trips. This built-in area was where the trunks used to be stapped in, therefore, the name trunk was used to describe this storage space. Since a boot is what you wear on your foot, why would you call a storage area a boot?? LOL! Thanks for a wonderful channel. Keep it up!

The reason for using the word trunk was because the first cars had travel trunks strapped to the car on the back. If the trunk is in the front as on a Porsche we call it a frunk as in front trunk.

My favorite part of all Joel and Lia videos is when Lia does her "we are so bad" face, with the V shaped mouth while semi-laughing. So cute!

A resume is a short CV. We have both. A CV is more academic and thorough. A resume is a quick snapshot of selected information pertaining to the job you're applying for

Scotch tape is also called invisible tape or transparent tape. Brits call the trunk the boot because they can't tell their feet from their butts--don't be triggered, it's just a joke ; )

trunk comes from the old travel trunks that went on the back wagons or carriages before autos, so the trunk basically means rear storage

In some buildings in America, they actually use G 1 2 3 or L 1 2 3 or G L 2 3. We do not use -1 or 0, we use B as the name under the main floor. L means lobby and B means basement. S means street. C means concourse. B can also be used to represent ballroom. P means pool in a hotel. SB means subbasemt. P in a parking garage means parking if placed next to the floor number.

Cell phone vs mobile phone. I am a telecommunication engineer since the late 1980s, this is my field of expertise. “Cell phone” is short for “cellular telephone”. “Cellular” refers to the technology which made the “wireless mobile telephone” possible, that is, a telephone without a wire connected to the telephone company, and can be moved around. Cellular technology itself may need an entire book to describe. I am just providing a very short summary here. Before cell phone, there are various forms of wireless communication, such as walkie-talkie, CB radio, even radio broadcast (which is one way communication). All of these are based on the wireless connection between two radio antennas. Radio wave has limited strength, hence limited coverage area. Thus the wireless communication is limited by distance. If you want a walkie-talkie in London to connect with another walkie-talkie in New York, the strength of radio wave from the walkie-talkie will most likely fry your brain.With the cellular technology, on the other hand, your cell phone is connected by radio wave to multiple telephone company antennas, known as “cell tower”. Each cell tower only covers a limited area, called the “cell”. The trick is to be able to determine which cell is the best for the connection to your cell phone, and in case your cell phone is moving, how to handover the connection to the next cell in order to maintain a good connection. OK, enough geek talk. About “Cell Phone” vs “Mobile Phone”, my personal preference is “mobile phone”, which is currently been used more and more worldwide, including here in US. “Mobile phone” reflects the view point of the user, simply a telephone they can use while moving around. “Cell phone” is based on the underlying technology, which may require a college degree in electrical engineering or in telecommunication to understand it. Before the mobile phone age, we used to have a thing with handset on our office desk, in our kitchen or bedroom, which connects to the wall plug with wire. We called that thing “telephone”. We did not use geek names such as “rotary controlled crossbar switching telephone” (before 1970s) or “digital switching T1/E1 multiplexing telephone” (after 1970s) to call that thing, same reason.

I have to stop responding while watching (as this is the second), but the term for a big truck is pronounced "Sem-eye", not "Sem-eee". Also known as an 18-wheeler, a big rig, etc. I always thought that most of the vehicles you call lorries were what we call vans? Thumbs up in any event.

Americans also use CV, but it's more of an in-depth resume for those who work in academia and includes published work and conference presentations and things like that.

My understanding “semi” is that particular type of big truck which the driver cab (and the engine) can be separated from the cargo compartment. The smaller one, which the cab cannot be separated from the cargo compartment, the type we can rent from U-Haul, the 20 ft or 26 ft truck, with or without the cargo space enclosed, we just call them trunk. My understanding these smaller trucks are commonly referred to as “lorry” in UK.

Sometimes we use ground floor, sometimes not. It depends.

1. Some ppl say CV, especially if they are in the academic field, but resume is more common. 2. True we say cell, but more common now isjust phone. Hardly anyone has a landline here either. 3. Playing hookey is kind of an archaic saying. Or it is used tongue-in-cheek. 4. True we call the ground floor the first floor. Ground does make sense but it's too late for us, I"m afraid! 5. C'mon now boot makes less sense than trunk! At least trunk is something you put things IN. Boots you put on your feet! 6. Bonnet seems kind of precious for a car part! 7. Hoover is a brand of vacuum here too but maybe not as popular as in the UK. 8. Tape-true, we use the brand name. The wide grey tape we call "Duck" which is also a brand and that name is derived, I think, from "duct" where that tape might be used, on heating/AC ducts. We call it either masking or "painters" tape. 9. We do call the big trucks "semis", pronounced sem-eye. But also just trucks or tractor-trailer for the 2 parts of it. Love these videos! Not triggered!

WE HAVE TO SAY TRUNK FOR THE BACK OF THE CAR BECAUSE A BOOT ON A CAR IN AMERICA IS WHAT THE CITY POLICE PUT ON YOUR TIRE TO KEEP YOU FROM DRIVING WHEN YOU OWE TOO MANY PARKING TICKETS. LOL!!!!!! :)

We call trucks trucks, but a semi or semi-tractor trailer is a particular type of truck which comes in two parts, that being the tractor and the trailer (usually in 40, 48, or 56 foot sizes). These are sometimes called 18 wheelers. Another difference between American and English words - leutenant and leftenant.

The word 'boot' was previously used for the rear storage compartment of stagecoaches in the UK and USA. This use transferred directly to cars in the UK (earliest known use is around 1908), whereas early American cars tended not to have a compartment, leading to external trunks being attached, the name later being transferred to internal compartments.

Lia: This video isn’t intended to offend anyone Also Lia: They just plucked it out of the arses and thought great 😂😂😂

Lol how is boot any better? Trunks are for storing Boots are for wearing

A CV is an Academic resume. One submits a CV when they are applying for a teaching position, especially at a college or university.

them:don’t be offended me:*is offended*

"Playing hookie" is an old American term. My grandma would've said that. Now days, the kids "ditch" school. Only very old people would say it the first way. But, the kids would say they ditched or they cut class.

A semi is not a sim•ee but a sim•eye

A “lorry” is typically either a semi-truck, an eighteen wheeler, or a Mac truck

I'm an American, and I can tell you honestly, that in my 53 years of living in the U.S., I've never heard one single American person refer to a big truck as a (simmy), we call them either tractor trailers or sim-eye (spelled S-E-M-I). Canadians do call them simmies however.

It’s funny bc masking tape is like the one tape that we have the same name for 😂😂

Scotch is a brand. Masking tape is either masking tape or painters tape. Gafters tape is similar to electrical tape. Duct tape is duct tape. We call them semi-trucks if it is just the cab, and a tractor trailer is a semi with the box on the back, also known as an 18wheeler. They are not to be confused with box trucks which are always connected, and usually 26ft.

It’s called a ‘trunk’ because when cars were first made, they didn’t have a storage area, so trunks were strapped to the back.

This is an incredibly benign topic. Why would someone get triggered by being told that they say something differently than a British person?

You pronounce it like “Sem eye truck”

North Americans use the term “trunk” because up until the 1930's most drivers used to strap travel chests, called trunks, to the backs of their cars. Of course, once automakers started designing cars with built-in rear compartments, there were no longer any reasons to travel with trunks. The name, however, stuck.

They are called trunks because elephants store water in their trunks and a tree trunk also stores stuff in it, so the trunk of your car is used for storage

Hoover is a vacuum cleaner company founded in Ohio in the US. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom; and, mostly in the 20th century, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Hoover was part of the Whirlpool Corporation, but was sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries, a Chinese multinational, for $107 million. Hoover Europe/UK split from Hoover US in 1993, and was acquired by Techtronic Industries, a company based in Hong Kong.

You call Duct tape Gaffer's tape?! As a techincal director I can assure you that those are totally different things and a production crew better not use Duct tape on my stage!

Trunk = the cars of the 1920s had an actual wooden trunk on the back used for storage. Then the "trunk" was incorporated into the body of the vehicle. At least that's what I have always thought. lol any ways great video as always.

For Hooky - "A bride might play hooky from her wedding, or a pilot could play hooky from work, leaving her plane sitting on the runway. The phrase comes from nineteenth century New York City slang, and it's thought to have its roots in the Dutch word hoekje, or "hide-and-seek."

It's a cell phone in verbal use for a very simple reason. Long before cell technology, there were actual mobile phones that used high strength radio bands for connections. You went through the operator, gave the number, and specified "mobile". The operator then connected you just like a long distance call. The phones looked like normal desk phones, but were located in moving vehicles. Cell phones are nothing like that, so kept the "cell phone" name. Ground floors are called ground floors, but are counted as the first floor on the elevators. So, the next floor up is the second floor. We would NEVER say "minus 1". It's basement. And if there are more than one level below ground it's B2, B3, etc. To avoid a bit of confusion some elevator companies use "G" for the ground floor button, and the next button is labeled "2". As an interesting tidbit, many hotels here avoid the 13th floor. The names go from 12 to 14 without any mention of 13. Yes, it's superstition, but the hotels have long justified this practice by noting that very few customers would stay on a 13th floor. It's trunk because trunks were storage boxes with a hinged lid that were moved from place to place. Just because it's on your car doesn't change the definition. Yes, it's Scotch tape because they were the first company to make it. Masking tape is masking tape, but occasionally it's " painter's tape". Duct tape is named for it's first intended use - sealing the seams of ducts. But you will also hear it called "hundred mile an hour" tape, and some individuals say "duck tape" thinking that's what it's really called. Not "sem ee" . "Sem eye". Long vowel sound. They are properly referred to as a "tractor" by those in the know. As in "tractor trailer rig" which is sometimes shortened to just "rig". Not positive, but think the term semi got started when a tractor was running down the highway without a trailer. It was only half present. Again, by those in the know, driving your semi without an attached trailer is properly called "running bobtail". What you call lorries we just call trucks. To qualify as a semi, it has to have a removable wheeled trailer, that attaches to a single pivot point on the tractor frame. Other names exist as well, but are usually brand names - such as Mac, and Kenworth.

Trunk makes more sense than boot. You can’t win that one. Boot=shoe

This might blow your mind more... But we consider the ground floor to BE the first floor. You can call it either...it means the same. In the elevator though..."G" might mean GARAGE (under the building) and then 1 or "L" (lobby) is your ground floor.

Here in the US "Ground Floor" is pretty much synonymous with "First Floor" as the first floor is the first floor above the ground. A below ground floor is called a "Basement" and multiple below ground floors are usually refereed to as lower level(s) as in Lower Level 1 (LL1) and Lower Level 2 (LL2), Etc.

It is a cell phone in the US because there were earlier types of mobile phones that did not have automatic switching between antennas. Ground floor and the first floor are synonyms.

Look up old thirties cars in America. They literally had these beautiful wooden trunks on the back to haul things in because they didn’t have that in the original cars. We just kept the same name as the vehicle changed. Also, why the heck would a cop ask you to pop your hood?? Lol. To check my oil level?? Uh, thanks! I always say vacuum. My mother in law always says “sweep”. It confused me because I looked around like, “where’s your broom?” Scotch tape is because of the brand! Hello. Yet you call vacuuming HOOVERING!

I think “trunk” comes from early cars such as the Model T where there was no built in storage compartment. People would strap a storage trunk or foot locker to the back.

“Trunk” is like a suitcase. And that’s what a trunk is, it’s a big suitcase built in to your car. And we call it masking tape, too.

I’ve personally never heard of playing bookie, we just say skipping school or ditching

Older cars had a trunk on the back. From the early 1900’s

We say both resume and CV; either is fine. We call them cell phones or mobile phones. Why 'cell'? Mobile phones communicate with cell towers that are placed to give coverage across a telephone service area which is divided up into 'cells'. Each cell uses a different set of frequencies from neighboring cells, and will typically be covered by 3 towers placed at different locations. The cell towers are usually interconnected to each other and the phone network and the internet by wired connections. Re: the floors in buildings, some US buildings have a ground floor, first floor, etc, and some ground floors = first floors. It totally depends on the building, but if someone says 'ground floor', they mean street level. There's usually no confusion when you're in an *elevator* (we invented it, so we get to name it ;) though, because the button with the big *star* next to it will always take you to ground/exit level :) Elephants have trunks in the front, but 'junk in the trunk' is definitely in the back ;) I think it comes from storage trunks being secured in the back of horse-drawn carriages. Hoover is a vacuum company that was founded in Ohio in the US in 1908. Glad you like 'em :) Scotch Tape is a trademark for cellulose tape, first introduced in 1930 by 3M (Minnesota). Sellotape later introduced trademark of cellulose tape in 1937 in West Acton, London. So we win by 7 years. XD We call masking tape... 'masking tape'. :) A lorry in the UK is generally translated as a 'truck' in the US. A semi-truck, or 'semi' (usually pronounced 'sem-eye') is a kind of truck--an articulated lorry with a huge capacity (semi-)trailer. An '18-wheeler' refers to the semi-truck + semi-trailer combo.

I think the term 'trunk' goes back to the 1920s and 30s when cars didn't have a rear compartment for storing items when traveling and people would fasten their trunks to the back of the car with ropes or straps. This trend continued when cars hadn't rumble seats which people also put their travel trunks in. When the carmakers finally figured out that people needed a place to easily stow their belongings while traveling, this new design was called a trunk.

A cover letter is different from a resume. Some companies here in the US ask for a cover letter which would detail certifications, salary requirements or whatever the company hiring asks for. Sometimes one would submit a cover letter and a resume.

We pronounce semi...sem-eye

We call it Scotch tape because it's a brand. We have masking tape. We pronounce it "semi" SEM-EYE.

Here's a couple more for you guys: You - us Scone - Biscuit Biscuit - Cookie Also it's pronounced 'semm-eye' which is short for semi-truck which can also be confusing for you guys considering they are pretty much the largest cargo trucks on the road. They don't really resemble Lorry as a semi is articulated between the truck part and the trailer. What you call a Lorry we just call a truck or a cargo truck.

Forgive me if someone already said this, but I can't be arsed to read 5617 comments. I THINK the term "hookie" came from when kids would skip school to go fishing. That way, you could just pretend to your parents that you were at school all day. The hook used in fishing gives the term it's name. I'm not 100% positive, but I believe that I read it somewhere a long time ago.

Would love to see a video where brits use brand names over the technical terms. Example in America we say band-aid for an adhesive bandage or Kleenex for a tissue

Most buildings in U.S. (NY/NJ) have ground floors or marked as G, but the floor above the ground floor is the 2nd floor. That's it. That is how it should be. Makes perfect sense.

They used to actually strap storage trunks on the back of the car, before they became a part of the car itself.

In America, when people say ground floor they're referring to the basement or cellar Semi-trucks are also called tractor-trailers

It’s not pronounced “semi”. It’s pronounced “sem-eye”. FYI.

Now "spellotape" from Harry Potter makes so much more sense!

CELLULAR MOBILE PHONES were an American invention like the car phone. Americans, like Brits, like to shorten names of devices. Americans use “cell” short for cellular, while Brits chose to use “mobile”. Don’t lose sleep over it. Learn the difference and accept it. What counts is that we understand each other.

Also, in our elevators it is common to see “LL, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.” There is often a Lower Level, then the floor that you walk into when you come through the front entrance is the first floor (1 in the elevator). .... 🇺🇸

Trunk was literally named after a storage case, it was on tray that was at the back of the car for storage. 'You' call the storage area area of a car the boot because on a carriage it's where the boot man stood, a person not an area for storage. Also the non branded sellotape is spelled cellotape (cellulose + tape)

With the skipping school one in the US it is called ditching school. Only older people say playing hooky

Semi-Trucks are usually called 18 wheelers in the US. But, semi is to describe that literally half of the vehicle is self supported. Semi-Tractor, semi-trailer.

It’s called a trunk because in the earliest days of automobiles the rear of the car is where a person would store their trunk of belongings when traveling.

I'm American and I loved this video! Not offended at all. Very funny. I would love a Joel and Lia dictionary!

In America, cars literally had storage trunks strapped on the back shortly after they were introduced here. The trunks later became built on or integrated. That's where the term came from.

I once couldn't be bothered to attend a certain class at school, so on the teacher's blackboard I wrote in big letters 'Dear Mr Duncombe, I'm bunking off today.. Lorraine.. ".... I never got told off for it, hahahaha

The trunk of a car is where you put your storage trunk to transport it. Suitcases are relatively modern, but people used trunks to transport their clothes much earlier.

Calling the “Ground floor” “first floor” makes sense because it’s the first floor you see or you stand on

Sem-eye. Not Sem-ee. Sem-eye. Semi meaning 'half or part" Semi-Truck. Part of a truck.

Americans didn't pull trunk "out of their arses". Early car manufacturers designed cars with a place to strap a wooden trunk on the back of a car and you could purchase a wooden trunk designed for that purpose from the car dealer. Later, when cars were designed to have a built in compartment to replace the strapped on wooden trunk, the word "trunk" was used for the compartment. A selling point would be the convenience of a waterproof built in trunk over a wooden strap on trunk.

When cars first came about, they didn’t have trunks. They just had a rack on the back where people could store their steamer trunks (large storage boxes). Eventually it was replaced by a compartment that was part of the car. That’s why they’re called trunks.

We use CV in the US too...it’s just that Resumes and CVs are two different things. Usually CVs are more for people in technical or academic fields, and focus more on education and accolades than Resumes do. I have a CV for when I’m applying to research lab internships, but if I was applying to like Target or something I’d submit a Resume.

"Scotch" is a brand of tape so kinda like "Hoover" in the U.K....also it's like how Americans call tissues Kleenexes and lip balm Chapstick lol

Here in America, we use almost all of the terms mentioned in this video. For example, we say resume and CV, cell Phone and mobile, ground level and first floor, etc.