French was the official language of the ruling classes of England for about 300 years, from 1066 till 1362. English Kings also ruled over large parts of France for hundreds of years. As a result, there are many words adopted from the French. So the aristocrats ate French "beef" and "pork" cuts of meat, while the peasants ate Old English "ox" and "pig" offal. So today my butcher still sells pork chops and beef joints, but ox hearts and pigs trotters.

All these vegetables and herbs are pretty common in the UK, and are eaten on a daily, or at least weekly, basis by those who like them (which obviously isn't everyone). None of them are obscure or niche items.

Tyler: What I got from this reaction is that you need to add more vegetables to your diet 😅

My friend from the US didn't know until I told him a few days ago that the English language was actually created from a mixture of all the different languages of people who invaded England. French, Roman, Saxon and Vikings all had and brought their own languages to England when they invaded and that's how the modern English language developed. Just like separate ingredients put together to make a cake. If you want to hear an original English language then you should be listening to something like Cornish.

Tyler would learn more from reading the comments then he ever does from watching these videos...but he never reads the comments, that has been repeatedly proven....

What I learned from this video is that Tyler has a very limited diet

When Tyler first began reacting he started taking on board lots of stuff he had never heard of, so people, as they do to all reactors, began to comment with explanations, extra information, and anecdotes. But it became obvious after about 6 months that he wasn't reading the comments sections; which kinda defeats the object of having a comment section at all. Other reactors engage with their audiences which builds up a community; together with a shit-load of xtra info from audience members, an expanded vocabulary, and heaps & heaps of little gems of info that come from real life - not Americanised propaganda clips. None of us have total recall of everything we've ever heard or seen, but as a coupla more people are starting to comment on this, it's obvious that Tyler puts up his posts and never goes back to them. Which is a little bit disheartening to followers.. People take the time to respond, they make jokes, they engage, share their expertise on all kinds of different themes. So it's pretty hurtful to find that such engagement is not appreciated. BUT...how does one go about alerting someone to the fact that not reacting to their own followers might be a bit of a draw-back to their channel growth...when that person well...doesn't read comments?

If Courgette sounds like a French car, then Zucchini sounds like an Italian sportscar! 🤣

Being as, at it's nearest point, France is only 22 miles away, adopting French words is not all that surprising.

'Beet' in the UK is a large root veggie that is made into Sugar. Then there are 'Mangles'. Used for farm animal feed.

Very entertaining for me again today. Jump in your corgette for a drive later 😅😂

In the North of England and Scotland the vegetable shown as a swede would be called a turnip, while a similar white and purple and generally smaller veg would be a swede. Opposite way round in Southern England.

Apart from the fact that we were invaded by the Norman French in 1066 and the language of the Royal Court court was French for a couple of centuries after that, when it comes to food the rich in more recent centuries wanted fancy french chefs. They likely introduced produce not familiar to Britain and their words stuck and trickled down to us common folk. Menus at fancy Royal banquets are still in French.

Green onion: an onion taken from the ground before the bulb has formed, typically eaten raw in salad; a spring onion. a scallion

In Australia, we have hundreds of vegetables and we eat all of them! We love our fresh produce!

The English language is about 1/3 French, after the Normans invaded the nobility all spoke French which eventually filtered down to the populace and is still lurking there along with a good smattering of Anglo-saxon, Norse and Celtic languages. When China invades USA will they end up speaking Chinglish?

In Scotland we call Bananas 'wee freeky bendy yellow thing".

When you're following an American recipe from the internet this can be a pain. I went into waitrose once asking for cilantro and they just looked at me blankly I went home without it then found out at a later date its corriander. The woman in that video is from my city too.

Well we have the correct words it's Americans that changed it just because you wanted to be different from the British

Arugula always makes me think of the sound that really old fashioned car horns used to make.

Yeah in French we say those French inspired words for the same thing go to this day. Roquette existed several centuries before a rocket ships were invented

In Britain a lot of our food items have their origins in French, whereas many of the same items in the US take their names from Italian or Spanish, largely as a result of immigration into the US over the past 150 or so years, whereas the language of the British aristocracy often has French as its inspiration.

In Scotland a Swede is called a turnip and vice versa. Also potatos are tatties as in Scotland's national dish mince 'n tatties.

Oh! and one more thing .......although not a vegetable, Brits would describe the lovely lady presenter as "a cracker"!

It’s helpful to know this as I’m from the UK and love cruising on US cruises. So thanks for this ❤

In Manchester we called Spring Onions 'Scally Onions' which sounds like Scallions !

Old English 'seat' French English 'chair' from chaise, much more luxurious. Old English 'door' posh French English 'Portal'. Old English bench French English 'Table'. All the posh stuff we had was derived from the French word because they were in charge and had all the money. Its more complicated than that of course, but it gives you an idea.

Not only is France just over the Channel, French was the official language of the ruling class for a very long time

English is an eclectic language so you'll find words borrowed/ inluences from all over the planet.

Eggplant is a very common vegetable, Tyler.

It appears I've travelled more widely in the USA than your good self, if you think eggplant is not a very common vegetable. Eggplant Parmigiana is pretty ubiquitous I found.

Maybe Tyler finally will figure out that people from all over have been coming to America for centuries.

Tyler is such a brilliant host. Utterly adorable 😊

In Scotland, Swedes / Rutabagas are called Turnips, and the thing that the English call Turnips is called a White Turnip, or a Swede, and in Scotland, people make their Haloween lanterns out of turnips instead of pumpkins.

Zucca means pumpkin or gourd Zucchini means little pumpkin/gourd. Arugula (in Italian, Rucula) is everywhere. Canadians know both names for Aubergine/eggplant. Americans need to get out more and eat something other than fast food. :)

You say ‘Cantaloupe’ in Australia we say ‘Rockmelon’.

You have to remember that following the Norman conquest of 1066, French was the official language of England for a long time. Henry IV was the first English king after that to speak english as his first language, and he was born in the 1360s. So yes, there's a lot of French borrowing. Look into the cow vs beef thing... Their description of rutabaga being shortened from 'Swedish turnip' to 'Swede' is only accurate for some parts of the country. In many places, mainly northern and Scottish, it's a turnip.

5:40 zucchini is the diminutive of thee Italian zuccho which means squash I think Courgette is the same thing. The diminutive of the French courge. Or was it gourd?

Aubergine IS a staple of Mediterranean meals!!! Italian, greek, middle Eastern, Spanish cuisine!

Britain in less than 30 miles away from France and we used to own large parts of it. In parts of North-East England and Scotland they sometimes just call a swede (Swedish turnip remember) a turnip. This is, I assume, due to long association with Scandinavian vikingers. Hence the Burns Night Scottish tradition of "haggis, neeps and tatties" (haggis, turnip and potatoes) actually involves mashed swede, not what we southerners would call a turnip.

It feels strange Tyler sounding confused not on the names of vegetables, just vegetables in general, like not seeing them. I remembered watching before how vegetables are more expensive than junk food, for Americans.

i love the way you dramatise these thigns at the beginning of a video, its funny af and entertaining, well done mate and keep up the good content

Swede, at least traditionally, is called different things throughout the UK. In the North and South-West of England they were just called turnips, and the little turnips known as 'white turnips' to differentiate. In Scotland that's shortened to neeps. But I notice up north people using 'Swede' more and more. I think internet, TV and national supermarkets all using the same word 'Swede' is killing off this regionalism.

American Celery Root, French celeri rave (root) or celeri boule (ball) English celeriac, or turnip rooted celery. Swede in some parts of England and Scotland are called turnip, and turnip Swede.

From Roman, to Saxons, to vikings, to Normans, the English language is a big mixture of everything, which then got passed to America (being a younger country) so yes thats why we use many Latin, Scandinavian and French words whether Anglo-Saxon-used or not.

in iIalien zucca means squash, zuchini means little squash. Same with the French : courge means squash and courgette means little squash . All these vegetable are very common in Europe, not fancy at all. We eat them very often. In History, France was the country of stylish cooking and gastronomy, so French words were fancier for food in the UK.

Hi Tyler Just one I want to throw in here potatoes in the UK are known as "spuds" also. We used to laugh at my mother when I was a child she couldn't spell so on the shopping list "spuds" it was. Love all your videos btw 💜

Tyler, which languages did you study in school? When I was in Upper Primary school in Australia, we studied French, then in high school we studied another language plus Latin. This gave us a broad spectrum of etymology to assist with our spelling.

Spring onions are sybies in Scotland. The larger of the 'spring onion' we call scallions.

The common theme with the name of foods is whatever name they’re given in the country that they are brought from is usually the name that sticks.

England is only separated from France by 20 miles of water, hence the infiltration of French words into the language

Aubergine is the English version of the French version of the Catalan version of the Arabic version of the Persian version of the Sanskrit name of the vegetable.

back in 1066, a guy from Normandy, France, named William the Conqueror (also known as William the Bastard) conquered England and became the King of England...

There are 5000 words in the English language that have a French derivative. And in NE England my mum used the name scallions not spring onions. Swede was never called swede but simply turnip.

The French word for a vegetable marrow is "courge", and a zucchini looks like a small marrow, hence the French word "courgette", means a small marrow. British food, especially for the upper classes, was heavily influenced by French cooking in the 19th and 20th centuries, so it's not surprising that French words have been borrowed into English for culinary terminology.

There was a vegetarian cannibal who would only eat swedes

Many American words come for vegetables come from Spanish, or Italian, whereas often the British words for vegetables come from French,& occasionally Italian.

Swede is a root vegetable, not a squash.

Sometimes Tyler is just delightfully naive. Why we love him. "You mean the English word for X derives from..." Yes, languages exist :)

Here in South Africa we say for eggplant Brinjals and Zucchini Baby Marrows

Fun fact most of our vegetable words originate from France

Also brits call corn, sweet corn. There are other foods that are different to.

little red courgette.

English is based on Saxon language and Latin (romanic) language. French is a latin based language

Beets. Dr. Dre will be mad his headphones came from vegetables..🤣

In 1066, England was invaded by the Normans (sort of French settled Vikings) Hence for a long long time, the aristocracy of England spoke a version of French. So guess why a lot of English words are derived from French words

In Scotland we call Swede, turnip.

All those vegetables are common in the UK.

Not all fruits and vegetables grow in every country. There are many that won't grow in the UK.

wether it's urban legend or not if you eat a LOT of beets don't look down after a number two you might scare yourself 'apparently' the colour goes right through you

The Norman Conquest brought the French language to England. King Richard I (the Lionhearted) was the first monarch to decree that the language of the Court should be English.

Aubergine is essentail for Moussaka. Greeks need it to function ;-)

When the Normans invited themselves to England in 1066, they brought a lot of words with them amongst other stuff. Most famously beef and pork. I as a German think, those should be called cattlemeat and swinemeat, but well.... beef and pork it is.

Yeah in French we say those French inspired words for the same thing to this day. Roquette existed several centuries before a rocket ships were invented

Yeah, a lot of this is pretty much just the difference between French (in the UK) and Italian or Spanish (in the US).

03:21 I don't think it would've worked if Nina Wadia said "All I need is a small eggplant." 05:30 I thought you called it that because 'courgette' sounds like a swear word. 08:20 Having tasted rocket leaves I'm not surprised. 08:58 "Swedes from Sweden is all tasting swede 'n' sour." - David Jason

Wow even I learned a surprising amount here.

In Scotland we don't really use the word "swede" we always say "turnip".

French is traditionally the language of the kitchen

A lot of British English words came from French because at one point French was the official language of England

Aubergine is quite commonplace in the UK! It is the main ingredient for the traditional British dish of Moussaka (it's Greek, really)

Jibbles! westcountry for Spring Onions

Stop commenting your wasting your time,this man learns nothing!!!

All these veggies are super common, he must have a shocking diet. 😮

In South Africa we call eggplants, brinjals

As this man doesn't seem to eat anything but fast food, I doubt he has met a vegetable outside a Big Mac. He has been watching these videos for months, but as he never listens, he forgets he's commented on similar ones. He also doesn't read the comments, so learns nothing new!

Swede mash omg!

We say coriander or dhania

I wonder if this guy is related to Max Headroom?

There are over 30,00 French words in English.

I am 'genuinely suprised' you have never heard of or at least tried so many vegetables (NOT)

We say Gordon Bennett for bloody hell, +

Please to a video reacting to welsh folklore and legends like gelert the dog and the devil’s bridge! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏

Aust - Eggplant, Zucchini, Rocket, Swede, Spring Onion, Coriander, Beetroot

13:37 "or should I say abbergine?" - no

Message to Tyler ……. Are you a meat and two veg man? Pizza man? Burger man? You seemed surprised to hear about MEAT PIES too. I’m a little surprised that you’re not into things like curries and some of the common vegetables that we use in the UK.

Hi Tyler. I'd of thought you'd have realised why we have a awful lot of French words in our English language. If you'd understood more of our history, which you obviously haven't. English has lots of words from ancient languages too such as Pictish, Angles, Saxons, Anglo Saxon. French and German. There are a lot of contributors to our Modern English language. However looking at the comments below it doesn't look like you even look at your comments section.

I had the biggest crush on this gal who hosted the Anglophenia vids for awhile- Those eyes and that hair 😍

if you go far enough back many americans have roots in europe

The English language is pretty much a mixture of French, German and Latin words.