From 1066 to 1362 the predominant language of England was English - it was the ruling classes that spoke French - the common person spoke English

A copy of every book published in the UK has to be provided to the British Library ,so they just need keep count ,the last umbrella I purchase cost £5 ❤.

The treason stamp thing is a load of bo!!ocks. Also the first stamp was called the 'Penny Black' and not the Black Penny. The stamp had an engraving of Queen Victoria's head as the design, and a gum arabic coating on the reverse so no glue was required, you just needed to lick it. The Times published a risque poem for the time about the stamp which talked about 'licking little Vicky's behind'.

A unicorn is just a Rhinoceros that has learnt to moisturise.

The 'official' language of England in the 11th century was French, but the language spoken by the people was Late Old English.

The egg washing is an interesting one. In most of Europe actually, we don't wash the eggs because they have a natural biofilm left on them from laying, which helps to protect the egg. For this reason we do not need to keep eggs in the fridge and they can sit at room temperature without issue for a couple of weeks. In the US they wash off the biofilm which removes the protection and ends up needing them to be stored in the fridge. It's kind of a backwards but cleaning makes them go off quickly.

My sister and I contacted the Palace in September to get a card from the King for our Auntie and Uncle's 60th (diamond) wedding anniversary. Auntie and Uncle were ove the moon. Great reaction as always

Not strictly true that the Monarch sends a Birthday Card when you reach 100 years old. You (usually a relative) have to apply for a card to be sent.

It’s illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament. Also on a daily average, let’s see, morning tea, tea when I get to work, break tea, tea for after break, tea at lunch. Tea again before leaving work, tea when I get home with dinner, tea before bed. So like 7-10 tea’s a day.

Fun fact, sabotage comes from the French word sabot, which means clog (wooden shoe) As mechanisation meant less work for labourers, they would throw their sabots into the machine and break it, hence, sabotage

The point about Great Britain vs United Kingdom should not have the R.O.I on either map- that will lead to confusion.

The reason eggs are not refrigated in UK supermarkets etc is because their normal protective coating has not been removed !

My Grandad got his 100th birthday card from The Queen and it was a moment of pure joy for him. You do have to apply for it, though, and he sadly passed away just 2 weeks later. He wasn't going anywhere until he got that card ❤

One of the pilots on Westray to Papa Westray flights has said that if the wind is just right he can fly the whole flight backwards it has also been done in around 1 minute 40 seconds from wheels up to wheels down and it is done in what you called a puddle jumper.

When the Queens mother had her 100th birthday she received a card from her daughter.

The British Library is a Copyright library, every thing published in the UK, books, newspapers, periodicals, magazines etc have to send one to the British Library......

One time, the pubs closed all day on Sundays in Wales, so what did the Welsh do, they jumped over the border into England and headed to the nearest local🤣

In answer to your question- yes, Black Cab drivers still have to pass The Knowledge. They pass it in stages, rather than being examined on the whole of London in one go. Who knows whether this will be continued in teh future, as SATNAVs are now so common. In theory, you can jump into a cab anywhere in London and ask to be taken to any specific address, and they will know the best route there. Famously though, very few cab drivers are willing to 'go South of the River' particularly in the evenings - though during the day there shouldn't be a problem.

As someone from Northern Ireland, we can go to see a movie in the cinema on a Sunday, this has not been a law for a very long time lol

I’m English and I drink 3-4 cups of tea a day minimum. I’m drinking one right now. Also my grandma hit 100 years old and you don’t get a telegram unless you apply for it (which we did). You used to get one automatically but now you have to specifically request it.

I just checked the Odeon cinema site and looked at the film times for the Belfast branch. A full programme seems to be available this coming Sunday, including _The Exorcist: Believer_ so read into that what you will.

The one about sticking a stamp on upside down is an urban myth and not true, people put stamps on upside down all the time. The monarch doesn’t need a passport because British passports are issued in their name, so the queen would have been vouching for herself, the same goes for driving licences.

Brilliant! Thank you JJ!

One of the BIG reasons we drink a lot more tea is Americans don't use kettles as their electric system is 110 v and ours js 240v It takes forever for a kettle to boil ,so they tend to use coffee makers. It's so common to put the kettle on in the uk and in less than 5 mins you've got a cup of tea or coffee

Sundays are certainly open on Sundays.

I drink between 3-10 cups of tea a day from a pint mug that says "I love Tea" on it lol

I really enjoy your videos. You seem like a thoroughly decent person and your voice is very smooth and calming😊

You have such lovely mannerisms, it's a joy to see that as an American, you're not the stereotypical type that we get shown over here in Blighty. This is a compliment by the way, hopefully not lost in translation. Love your videos, because you have a lovely "chilled vibe" about you. Xx I drink about 6-10 cups of tea each day! 😬

First time watching, love this reaction, appreciate you researching further.

There was no Black Penny stamp, it was called the Penny Black. And both Türkey and Ireland drink more tea per capita than the UK.

I love these videos!

Tea ! Modern tea drinking is by mug, not cup. The first mug satisfies the need. the second one is enjoyed, whilst the third is one is savoured per session. Multiply that by breakfast, eleven's, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Occasionally one may have an evening brew. ....😘😘

I have worked extensively for Royal Mail, and if you put your stamp on upside down it can mean at least one of two things.. you are blind/partially sighted and didn't know, or you did it on purpose.. Either way unfortunately, since computer automation of reading the mail and stamps in recent decades, mean your mail will be delayed in delivery... We have very strict conduct as far as the "Crown's Mail" goes, but I have not heard of anyone taken down for Treason for anything in recent times!!

London cab drivers not only have to know all the streets, they also need to know all the landmarks and points of interest such as hotels, etc., and -- crucially -- the best routes to get from A to B. The most obvious routes that someone just looking at a map of London would pick out would typically lead to you being stuck in traffic for ages, while a detour around back streets can be super fast even at peak hours. On one season of Amazing Race they had a cab challenge in London where contestants were driven around a short route in a cab and had to recite the route afterwards -- street names, which direction to turn when, sites along the way... It was tough.

I remember when my mum put a stamp upside-down on a letter. She took the letter out of the envelope. Did a new one with the stamp right way up. I asked her why? She said she could be arrested for insulting the Queen. PS great video.

I like the fact that you make effort to look up online avout the triva you hear in general. On this video and others. You often find another bit if triva or a new rabbit hole to fall into 😅

Literally love watching this dude he's so chilled and funny 😊

The library wasn’t all added at once but over a very long time so they probably just counted the books as they added them and use an old filing system to keep track and of course computers now

this guy is the best

Another fun fact. It's illegal to be drunk in a pub in England and Wales. From a law that goes back to 1872, it is illegal to be drunk in a pub, or it's illegal to serve someone that is intoxicated in a pub. You could get fined £200

for the book one they will have multiple people scanning them into the system then they don't have to do it again

Videos technically wrong, we didn’t speak French. We spoke Old French and Old Norman. Normandy was a country located in the region of France, it was not like the French being a remain of the prior Scandinavian settlers. Norman (language) was part of the culture however the Normans adapted to French and mixed in Old French. So it wasn’t really “French” and it was Normandy that conquered England (+Wales).

Had to rewind there, I swear you said breast fed not grass fed 🤣🤣

It was called the Penny Black not the Black Penny. We got a taxi from Time Squair to JFK and the driver didn't know the way.😂

average umbrella is about £5.00, you must like your designer ones lol

I'm British. Never heard about the birds changing the time either mate. Good video. :)

I had a mug of tea about 8 years ago.

The more you come across Welsh words the more I want you to try a Welsh pronunciation video.

Correction, the predominant language of English NOBILITY was French, the commonfolk of England (peasantry, tradesmen, burghers ((meaning middleclass)), all spoke middle English. The Normans were of course French, and when William took the crown in 1066 he ousted the Saxon nobility with his own Norman Dukes and Counts. But the peasantry as a whole weren't affected linguistically as such, though French and English did begin to intermingle, the country as a whole didn't suddenly convert to French as a main language.

@JJLA Reacts When searching to see if something's true or not, always add 'myth' to the search.

The British Library has a copy of every book, journal and magazine published in it.

I'm from Wales born and raised and I can't pronounce the long Welsh place name lol. Plus in the English alphabet there are 26 letters, in the Welsh alphabet there are 29 letters. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

First I've heard our cinemas are closed on a Sunday 😮

I think the not entering parliament in armour would be relevant even today, considering one of the police guarding parliament was stabbed to death a few years ago. That armour could also be a kevlar body kit, and I think the possibilities that entails would be obvious. So I think that would be an 'armed police, stop, put your hands on your head' ... 'Jeff he said no'... 'ok, pwe pwe, this is delta Oscar can you be bring up a body bag please, cheers, over'. But that's just a guess.

No the cinemas are all open on Sundays 😂

Fun fact: the reason we have different words for, say, cows and beef, is that the people working with the livestock (ie lower classes) spoke German. The people who got to enjoy the fruit of their labours spoke French. So the living "cow" is closer to the German "Kuh", the meat "beef" comes straight from the French "bœuf". At least that's what I was told by a much older and wiser woman and it makes sense to me.

While watching this reaction, I have a cuppa tea in my hand.😅 it's about my 10th cup of the day 😂. Been drinking tea since I was really little. My mam told she make me some in my bottle haha. Great reaction! ❤

6:00 Umbrella market is huge in the UK anyway lol

I live in Cornwall and we have some strange names here 😊

There's a cheeky way of getting a free umbrella in pubs.

I have to admit we always say especially in the south east that we say you alright to say hello but we don’t care if you are ok or not

Yeah taxi drivers in the UK, especially in London, have been found to have a swollen hippocampus.

In the UK, we only want to buy free-range eggs too (unless you're a barbarian who doesn't care about chicken welfare).

I love hearing Welsh people say the name of that town

5 coffees in the morning and about 8 to 10 teas in the afternoon

Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Hayden Christensen? Greetings from the UK

2:30 Every British passport is in effect, a note from the Monarch saying "in my name, please let my subject pass"... seeing as she/he doesnt need a note when they are present themselves.... that's the reasoning behind not requiring a passport. First page of my passport states: “Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.”

I personally drink around 6 cups of tea a day maybe more if I'm in the office. That's probably why we drink more tea than coffee, we'd have daily rampages from the caffeine otherwise 😂

About 5 cups of tea a day mate.

If you wash them you must put them in the fridge to stay fresh. If you dont wash them you can keep them on the counter as the protective layer has not been washed away… but sometimes the dirt from the nest is still on the egg. So there are two philosophies about it and you cannot mix the two. Noeway also washes eggs and cannot export to the rest of Europe…and vice versa

You calculated how long it would take one person to count all the books in the British library and were surprised at how long it would take... well... there isn't just one person working there. Also, once a book is catalogued (has it's ID code, scanned and shelved) it has been accounted for and would not necessarily need to be recounted every year, only when an inventory audit is required. This means that only a few hundred/thousand books per year need to be handled, which would take significantly less time and by multiple skilled librarians. 😁

The Knowledge is every street in a 6 mile (I think) radius of Charing Cross railway station (or more specifically the statue of King Charles I on the traffic island by Trafalgar Square as that is where all distances to/from London are measured from - it used to be from London Bridge). The City of London is 1.12 square miles and the 32 London boroughs (including where Trafalgar Square and most of the tourist parts of central London are located) is approximately 606 square miles. That is actual London and does not include the surrounding metropolitan areas outside London, so it’s about twice the size of New York City’s five boroughs but with roughly the same population size (NYC slightly more).

I drink at least 12 cups of tea a day and they have to be made with Yorkshire teabags - these make the best 'builder's brew'. x

1895 - 1907 is 12 years not 22 as stated. It is also illegal to die whilst in the Houses of Parliament. Cinemas in Northern Ireland were not allowed to open on Sundays following The Sunday Observation Act (passed in 1695 - this Act deemed Sundays religiously important and any activity deemed unreligious was banned - clearly they did not have cinemas in 1695), this was addressed by the Cinemas Order 1991, meaning a fine could be levied but is likely not going to be.

In the uk eggs are taken straight from the 'ruddy chickens bum, sometimes they still have feathers on them when you crack um open

"That was in bad taste because she's dead now". I felt so guilty laughing but the way you delivered that line had me in stitches 😂

The Knowledge of black-cab drivers is NOT every street in London. It is every street within a six-mile radius of - I think - Cambridge Circus (at least, somewhere near there in central Londin). Greater London is 960 square miles in area.

I'm not convinced that an upside down stamp is treason. I'm certain this is an urban legend.

In the 17 years I lived in Central London, I would lose on average 3 umbrellas a year in the tube or buses. I started buying umbrellas from Poundland (dollar store) and alway have a stock of them. Now I have retired and moved to Hertfordshire, I still have the last two umbrellas I purchased in London and have never used them. I'm a country girl now and have proper outdoor clothing lol. The penny black was the first stamp, not black penny, it was issued on 1st May 1840 during the reign of Queen Victoria. Sophia is no longer the mist popular girls name in UK, it's now in 5th place, Olivia is no.1. Pretty sure the Turks drink more tea than us. Yes Black Cab drivers still do the knowledge and are still more reliable than Uber and Mini Cabs with sat nav. Luckily, these days nobody is imprisoned or hanged for stick a stamp on upside down.

The British Library is like the Library of Congress. They're the UK and US's deposit libraries and it's actually a legal requirement, when you publish a book, to send a copy to these libraries. So that they can be a catalogue for, basically, everything that's ever been published. (Mind you, how strictly this is enforced is another thing. I'm sure that there are books that have been missed. Though a legal requirement, I doubt there's any "book police" who hunt down authors who forgot or didn't know they were supposed to submit a copy to the British Library / Library of Congress. It's more a voluntary thing, to put your work on the official historical record.) This is why both of these libraries have such enormous catalogues. If everyone's obeying the law, they should have at least one copy of ever book ever published in their respective countries. (As to which one is biggest? Well, they're actually about equal - both quoting around 170 million titles - but the British Library might just sneak out ahead. But for the usual reason: the UK is a much older country, so it's been doing this for longer.)

Technically it's still illegal to go to the cinema on Sunday in Northern Ireland ,no longer enforced though,its from a time when people were expected to attend church on Sunday.Large shops weren't allowed to open on Sunday,even now they can only open for six hours, smaller shops can open when they want to .Up until the late 20 th century it was illegal to sell alcohol in some areas of Wales on a Sunday ,religious reasons again ,that no longer applies.

speaking about the english language and how it came from certain different languages. this can be seen in food items. for example, a "cow" is "Kuh" from early settlers. then the french invaded and called it "bœuf" and given many years of lack of correction and you get "beef", same with lamb/mutton & chicken/poultry.

A lot of the items in the british library are leaflets and booklets and stuff, the 170million isn't necessarily just books.

My Nan has a letter from the Queen when she turned 100. She is now 103.

the cards from Buckingham palace have to be applied for by someone that knows you, you also get them after 60 years of marriage i applied for my parents

Fun fact: The blurry eye thing is real .. I had to switch to decaf because too much caffeine was increasing the pressure in my eyeballs!

Fun fact, Northern Ireland is possibly the only country in the world where you can hold two different passports for the same country, Irish and British.

I’m fairly certain that only a third of our population actively drink tea.

Fight comes from the Old English "feohtan", surrender from the Old French "surrendre", Make of that what you will.

for the queen - she doesn't have a passport or drivers licence as she's "the one" who dispenses them, but each one of these items will have a code of which she will have one assigned to her. one of her entourage will be responsible for things like this, ceremionally shell just ocntinue walking on whilst some "joe bloggs" type worker will give all the necessary travelling documentation, like "shes bringing x,y,z to the country" "shell be eating this whilst shes here" theres an entire codex of codes the queen had of little things she did whilst she was in power, for example, if she drops her handbag it basically meant "get me the fuck away from this person pronto" and her entourage would wisk her away

In reference to the books,you never took into consideration the amount of people counting. If they're a 100 doing it ( for example)then it's going to be a lot quicker

I thought an umbrella cost like a fiver? Who’s paying £25 for an umbrella.

Anything lost on the London Underground (Tube) and other TFL (Transport For London) services is sent to the lost property sorting office and processed on to their system. If the item has some sort of contact details in it they will contact you, like an address, email or phone number. If you have lost an item(s) you need to go online into their system and open a ticket for the item, then when they match the item(s) with your ticket they will send you a message to collect it. This is not a free service there is a fee (sometimes more than the item is worth) for this as they have to collect, sort, store the item then contact you about it. having been there this is a big operation and there is was a 3 month back-log on items being sent to the lost property office to them being placed on their system and matched to lost items. After a certain amount of time if an item is not collected it is sent off to an online auction where it is sold and the lost property office gets paid with the auctioneers getting a %

you should watch "The history of English (Combined)" video by Open University

She didn't even get to send herself a telegram.

French may have been the OFFICAL language in England from 1066 to 1362, since the Normans spoke it, and they were the ones making all the rules at the time, but it certainly wasn't the PREDOMINANT language in England at that time since the saxon natives of England didn't miraculously start spouting French the moment the Normans were victorious, they carried on speaking the language they had been speaking their whole lives.

Llanfair was used in barbarella as a code word for the resistance.

Tea: I don't drink coffee and have between 1 and 5 cups of tea per day. I'd have more if I saw more people lol - I work from home. If I saw more people socially during the day, I'd drink more tea - it's our default setting. After 5.30pm though, it's more likely that we'd drink wine, gin or beer.

you should do a reaction to a vid about welsh history as it’s a wierd one

As a brit 1 cup of coffee and 7+ teas a day on weekends no coffee 10+ tea 😄