A rubber in uk is also called a rubber because you rub with it to erase the pencil.

If any Americans are in the UK and they encounter a courageous and brave girl, don’t tell her she’s spunky or she’s full of spunk. Just don’t do it. That girl may attack you. 🤣 That has a totally different meaning on this side of the pond.

I remember an American sportsman being interviewed on British TV and being asked ‘Did you have to beat off a lot of men to win?’ and he was in hysterics.

I remember an American in Poznan, in Poland, checking a bilingual dictionary and asking where the bathroom was (in Polish). The bartender replied that they did not have a bathroom and he should have had a bath before he went out.

The C word seems to be becoming more ‘acceptable’ especially with youngsters. It was thought of as the vilest word for a long time and even people who swore a lot wouldn’t use it.

Not only does fag mean cigarette in the UK, but people in the UK might ask to 'bum a fag'. I would not dare make that request in the US, and not just because I don't smoke. It basically means you are asking someone if they can offer you a cigarette. I suspect that in America, the meaning would be quite different :)

An American guy I know once got really annoyed when playing an online game when someone said "just popping out for a fag". He refused to accept that it's a normal word here.

Hi JT. Traditionally, British houses were built where the room for bathing was separate to where you went to the loo. This space was usually the size of a public restroom cubicle and was simply called the toilet. Some houses didn't even have a loo within the property, and had an outside toilet. Imagine having to go outside in the middle of the night if you were busting for a pee! Most people used a gazunder (it gazunder the bed lol) to pee into. Nowadays the loo and bathroom is generally combined, but the language hasn't kept pace with the change in building techniques. It was all to do with space. We are a little Island after all!! Cheers

I use the word bog for toilet. I'm in the south of England and in a poorer area and as a lot of toilets smell like a swamp, the term bog was used as a descriptive nickname

"We're divided by a common language and a great big fucking ocean...thank christ" 😂

I lived and worked in USA for a few years. We bought a house there and got in a guy to quote for some decorating. Our en-suite bathroom had a separate toilet and I still remember to this day he was struggling to describe the 'toilet' as a separate room when he was verbally giving us a quote. We just said "Oh, you mean the toilet?" and he looked shocked, I only found out a bit later it's considered rude to use the word.

I'm British and I have made the mistake of using the phrase 'High-street' on an American forum and they thought I was talking about drugs but I was just talking about a place where I go shopping. lol.

The interesting thing about Americans and British is there actually is no language barrier. We can completely understand each other. However it’s just Americans use our English language but they just get it all wrong 🤣

I work for an American company in Liverpool. It’s always fun teaching them new words, especially colloquial ones! One of the ones that our American bosses got really shocked over was when one of the male staff described Meghan Markel as being only useful for carrying spunk to the bathroom!

The rubber is credited to two british engineers and chemists Edward Nairne in 1770 and Charles Goodyear who perfected the pencil erasing rubber that didnt crumble in 1839. Hymen Lipman a British inventor born in Jamaica invented the pencil top rubber in 1858. The pencil erasing rubber is know as rubber in all english speaking countries other than the USA and Canada! The rubber condom was invented by Charles Dunlop in 1858!!

My friend from Wales came over to Canada for a visit. We went on a road trip. We stopped at a pub on Karaoke night. We sat on the same side of the table so we could see the acts. Nothing wrong with that! He was having trouble with the beer, so he ordered a fancy drink. It came in a tall glass with a pink umbrella in it! Everything was still ok, until he stood up and in his strong Welsh accent, said he was going out for a fag!

"In America we have freedom of speech"! No, you don't, at least not in practice. My kids were amazed when they joined schools in the US, at grades 5 and 6, that many words which, while not encouraged in their previous schools in E Africa, certainly weren't censored in their school work. I mean words such as: hell, damn, shitty, fart, whore, and so on. Censorship is rife in US schools.

I'm with Lia- I cannot say 'bathroom' when I'm talking about a room with no bath (or even shower).

The reason we say Loo here for the toilet is that it comes from the French saying "guadez l'eau," meaning "watch out for the water."' Which is what people would say, in the past, as they emptied their chamber pots, out into the street. But with most people not actually speaking French, the pronunciation became more like 'gardyloo,' hence the "Loo" name that stuck.

As far as pregnant slang, there's up the duff, preggers, bun in the oven, knocked up, In the family way, Delicate condition, In the puddle club, Eating for two, Expecting, With child. My fave is in the pudding club lol. 😂

Rubber johnny 😂 not heard that for years and years.

I still laugh about the reaction I got from some Americans in a PS chat years back when they asked what the background noise was and I told them I had to hang out of the window when I smoke fags 🙄🤣😂

Up the duff started in Victorian times from a pastry dessert called plum duff (duff is an old word for dough) it’s also where the modern bun in the oven comes from.

Another one in the UK was “I’m just off to the little boys room”. I don’t know what people would of that now. 😟

Other Loo slang words are where`s the Khasi or the Bog.

"BLOKE" is One word nobody ever talks about and I really don't know the origin of and it's a Strictly English word as far as I know (obviously Australia's adopted it as well) "BLOKE" is basically slang for man/guy/geezer

i remember this one time when i used to go to school, this new american lassie had just moved here (to scotland) and i was the one who had to show here about. when we got outside i started pointing to all the different places n things n thats when she asked “what’s that place with the big groups of people” n i just said “that’s smokers alley where u can buy green, that’s the gate where u can get vapes, and that over there is the wall where u get fags n smoke them” and when i tell you this lassie went mental at me, i mean absolutely skitz, she’s starting lecturing me about how i can use that word because it’s offensive and she was gay but i just stood in stitches because i took me a sec to understand the confusion. 😭

I think "up the duff" might also come from "being in the pudding club" and a type pudding is a Plum Duff

My wife was visiting some people in Fort Wayne, Indianna and after a meal she was helping to clear up when she asked where she should put the rubbish, the lady of the house was deeply offended. We never found out why.

In Newcastle a cigarette is more likely called a Tab.

I used to read a lot of boarding school stories when I was a child, and so to me (not to these young people) 'fag' has another meaning: it's a young pupil in a posh private school who has to do chores for older boys. Shine their shoes, clean their rooms, that kind of thing. "I say, Caruthers, my fag hasn't shined my shoes this morning." "Dash it all, Montmorency, this whole bally school is going to pot. Give the fellow a damn good beating, that's what I say." When I say 'pot' I don't mean, you know, pot. And of course, a posh private school is actually called a 'public school'. Bally weird, eh?

I nearly had a stroke the other month when someone told me that they thought rubbers are called rubbers because you use them to rub out pencil. It rubs. It's literally a rubber. Which totally makes sense. I always assumed it was because they're made from rubber, like these guys.

One thing we call a toilet is Yorkshire is the bog. "Off T' bog for a bit" is sometimes referred. Sometimes we don't use it and say "off for a piss" or "off for a dump" and generally state what were going to do. Saves time on waiting of you know its quick or for a bit.

Does no-one go off “to see a man about a dog” anymore? Or to “point Percy at the porcelain”? 😂

In the Ricky Gervais comedy drama "After Life" there is a scene where the main characters postman rings the door bell and asks if he can use the bathroom. The main character points out the bathroom and gets on with some work. After a while he realises that the postman has not come down, so he goes up to the bathroom where the postman is actually having a bath.

In some British houses, the toilet is in a separate room to the bath. We think of the bathroom as the place where the bath is. Most houses used to have an outside toilet, usually next to a coal house. Sometimes called "the outhouse". Not anymore. In both cases they're very small rooms, just big enough for a toilet and one person, hence the words "water closet" (or W.C.) which was another way of saying toilet. Homely means plain, unattractive, dowdy etc. It doesn't mean old.

Me and my friends mainly use the words toilet, loo, bog and khazi. If we want to be crude (usually after a few drinks) then we’ll say pisspot or shitter 😂

The big mistake I made in the states was asking for an alarm call in the morning so asked to “be knocked up” x

The beginning of the video reminds me of a quote, can't remember where I heard it: "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequence." You can say whatever you want, doesn't mean there won't be consequences for what you say.

I think the good thing about being from a northern English who grew up in the pub business an alternative to "use the toilet" or "I'm going to the bathroom" I still use today is "I'm popping/going to the back" This is because (usually) the ladies and gents toilets in old (or new I suppose) pubs were situated at the back of the property. So when finishing my pint I'd say to my friends before we leave "I'm gonna pop t' back" meaning without saying it "I need a wee" so wait up.

This was really interesting. In the part of Britain where I'm from (East Anglia) I've noticed that in the last two or three decades "up the duff" has replaced "up the gut" as a term of being pregnant. Sounds a little better I guess. I've never heard of preggo for pregnant but I have heard "preggers" but not for many years, but I'm pretty sure that anyone living in Britain or Ireland would agree that expressions can be very local and change from county to county. In Viz magazine which used a lot of Geordie expressions they often referred to cigarettes as tabs, but I've never heard that in Suffolk. I always found it odd that Americans refer to the toilet or lavatory as the bathroom, because the bath is often in a different room. Round here the toilet is at least fifty per cent of the time known as the bog, which probably sounds horrible but I'd never really thought about it before.

Regarding the toilet "wheres the bog?" Is another common phrase

@10:26 Here in Australia we don't care what it's called, we say where is the shit house, the long drop, the dunny, the thunder box, loo, toilet, bathroom or restroom.

Toilet or “can I borrow your bog”…”back in a bit just gotta go to the sh*tter”

there are lots of different terms for the toilet in the UK Bog, Loo, The Throne to name a few we also have lots of terms for doing a number 1 or 2 as in spend a penny, take a tinkle for number 1 and "going to drop the kids off at the pool" and "Releasing the hostages" for a number 2 it varies from town to town there must be thousands of different terms for it

We use 'where's the bathroom?' at a home, but when you're at a restaurant/supermarket/etc we'd say 'where's the toilets?', it's even labelled 'Toilets' sometimes too. On a side note, my nan says 'I just need to go for a wee' which I think is more specific than just asking where the toilet is.

What are they talking about saying working class people don't say loo?? When I was at school, we got told off for saying loo because it was slang and we should say toilet instead. I've never heard it as being the other way around before. I come from the West Midlands if that makes any difference, but I honestly never thought it did.

And then there is always the word “fanny”. In the US, it just seems quite a bit less offensive. Lastly, there is a word the UK that is regularly used to describe my ethnicity “oriental", and to clarify, this word is completely acceptable here in Britain and carries no negative connotation at all. Even today when I hear it, it still just sounds so wrong. :) T

Many Brits will call the toilet "the bog"

Another phrase i hear used up here in the North in reference to a woman that is pregnant is "She's up the stick".

The toilet one is pretty crude to some. As said in the video, loo is a posh way of saying it or gents/ladies. Then there's others for pubs and somewhere that's more familiar to you. Which are: pissers, shitter and bog. "Where's ya bog?" is more prevalent up in the north.

Pronunciation of words can also be a thing: we know someone who was surprised by something we said because we were trying to sell something second-hand (before the bay of E, etc ) and she thought we said p0rn and not Pawn. In the US the two words have a distinct difference, whereas in the UK in certain accents, they can be a lot closer... o.0 Re: f4ggot: it's also used in Lord of the Rings (the novel, I dunno if it's been edited out in later editions though) as a large chunk of wood, which Gandalf sets fire to when they are trying to cross the mountains (before it snows too much and they have to give up, then go in the Mines)

🚽 We must be a bit more to the point. Plus if we asked someone were the restroom was. We will probably end up in a waiting room 🤣

I have family in the USA, in my late teens we went over to visit. I asked one of my American cousins on arrival to their house, where is the toilet? His response was in the bathroom 😅

Round my part of England toilet is referred to as "the bog". As in " 'm off t" bog". Heard pregnancy refered to as "a belly full of arms n legs".

It's not called a rubber because it's made of rubber. It's because you rub stuff out with it. Rubber is actually named after rubbers. The more you know!

The term faggots most certainly came from a term given for a bundle of sticks - example - for fires (have also seen used for bundle of other items like bundles of metal rods etc.)

I think some of these things might be regional or generational. I’m a Brit and have heard rubber used for both meanings over the years but not so much in recent years but I’ve always known the rubber/condom reference. And also, I find it a little naive (might not be the right word) that they don’t know the F word is used as a derogatory term over here too. It’s a word that comes in and out of use as an insult but I’ve sadly heard it enough times to know both meanings for it. It’s in a very recent very popular British Netflix show as an insult about a gay character.

In Canada we call the toilet a wash room. We all know what you’re doing and there is no bath tub

Original toilet (from the French) was to wash and prepare yourself before dressing, for example, the mistress is at her toilet or toileting. Actual bodily functions were done in the water closest or WC.

Fanny pack😂 We have more names for toilets,than Eskimos have for snow

Rubber does have a dbl meaning here, one being eraser, the other being the exact same as it does in America. You kinda know which one someone is talking about due to the context.

How is it a restroom when there's no bed or chair and bathroom when there maybe no bath in there?

In our part of Wales, a girl who was pregnant was 'Up the Stump'! Don't know why, and that was a long time ago!

More names for the loo, W,C, water closet, thunder box ( one from my childhood 😂).

"Where's the urinal ?" Hahaha JT you do make me laugh😂 Yes definitely a thing from our past, the days when our toilet or "privvy" was outside, and we bathed in a tin bath in the kitchen, or at least near the fire.. most terraced houses still have the buildings outside, one for toilet and one for coal and wood storage.. some even still have the bog in there ! Yep, we call it a bog where I live.. just to throw another word in , hehe My friend has one with the cistern high up with the chain pull , full working order! And in Australia , called the Dunny 😄 My funny experience of Dunnies in Aus was my discovery of the Toilet Frog.. a very special breed.. going out, lifting the lid and finding a green tree frog in there looking up at me !! Every time this happened I had three choices as far as I was concerned.. 1. Reach in to grab it and take it out 2. Flush it and sit quickly and hope it doesn't creep back through the pipe before I finished 3. Do my business on it, maybe he likes it 🤷🏽‍♀️🤣 To anyone reading this, which option would you choose ? 🤓😆

homely to me doesn't sound like an insult at all, if I heard a woman described as 'homely' I'd imagine someone who dresses conservatively and is sweet or pretty but not someone who's 'hot' or dressed more extravagantly.

The word "faggot" in the UK can also mean the same as "fag" does in the US just that you won't hear it often, if at all, in the UK anymore

My mates little girl used to say she was "Going to bomb the German's" when she was going to the toilet 😂😂 Don't know where she got that phrase from, I've never heard of it haha.

There's no such thing as "American English", there is English, and then there are mistakes.

In the UK we don’t really use the term rest room. Bathroom is for someone’s house. When out I usually ask for the ladies, toilet would be a bit rude in a restaurant

I've personally never found toilet to be personal. After all, you could very easily distinguish what you're going there for: a number one or two, as we sometimes say euphemistically. After all, when you go into cafes and restaurants there's a sign pointing to the "Toilets" not the "Loos". Perhaps Ladies and Gents is used to distinguish the genders but that's about it over here.

I always say loo (eg "just got to pop to the loo") rather than toilet but I would never say I'm upper- middle class! 😂 Don't know where he got that from. No-one I've ever met has said don't say toilet, because it's uncouth. That's just odd. Bathrooms have a bath and/or shower in them. A toilet (or WC) doesn't 🤷🏻‍♀️

The majority of people in the u.k. would call a pencil eraser a rubber.

I think the fact that the two ladies dislike the ‘up the duff’ expression and the man is ok with it says it all

The fact we have all been brought up with some of these phrases and made to change them doesn’t go down well tbh we are all use to saying these words in Scotland .and I don’t watch what I say as we all know we not being bad to others it depends what part of uk u live in

That thumbnail made me laugh ☺️ The words ☺️ F*nny and C¥nt especially

Here’s another one… I got banned online for saying “snigger”… Americans say “snicker”.

In oz, you could add thunder box, dunny, throne room, reading room and my personal favourite the shitter.

It's called a rubber because you rub it on the page to rub things out :P

Hold on.. I'm British and have always said "rubber" when referring to condoms. Must be a regional thing. 🤷‍♀

You always have the funniest intros to your videos 😂

Americans think that 'toilet' refers to the actual item in the room and prefer to use a euphemism instead. They don't realise that 'toilet' IS a euphemism for that room. The actual 'thing' itself has no real name, only a series of euphemisms...

Haha you should try some of the Scottish words for the bathroom. Just a couple for your amusement bog,lavvy and of course who could forget the shithoose 😂

As a Brit living in the US for over a decade, a phrase like “can I use your toilet” now sounds a bit too specific to me too. It reminds me of when I used to teach Japanese students conversational English…… Instead of saying, “I took a shower” or “I had a bath” they would often say “I washed my body”! Like with the toilet vs restroom thing, it just sounds so much more private and personal……a lot more graphic…..like you’ve just been invited to imagine the person in that specific scene! So, the student might say something like, “I played tennis yesterday, then I drove home and washed my body”! An image is instantly created with each phrase that is spoken…. So, in the minds eye you can instantly see the person playing tennis….then you can instantly see them driving their car……and then…..”woah!!” So, I would imagine that when a US English speaker hears a Brit saying “can I use your toilet?”, an unwanted image of the Brit actually using the toilet might instantly be planted in their mind…!? For a Brit, though, the words ‘bathroom ’ and ‘restroom’ can sound pretty odd…. After all, we don’t want to have a bath or take a nap…. We want to use the toilet! There’s no winning, really!

The first time I heard an American rant about "fags" I thought it was because he was a non smoker and against smoking in general. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Faggot" is also a bundle of sticks for a fire; not a term uses anymore in Britain; AND BTW, 'Fasces' is also a bound bundle of wooden sticks too, which is a 'Fascist' and Roman symbol symbolising social cohesion or strength in numbers ie. Socialism.

As well as up the duff people uk uk sometimes say knocked up. Both I think are rather rude and I I wouldn’t say them. Ido t mind the bun in the oven one though. Iv also heard people say preggy for pregnant.

We call condoms rubbers too. Not as common but you say rubber in scotland you'll still get a giggle even tho we call erasers rubbers too

Most of those are used in Australia too. Rubber was always used as the word for eraser until the American word invasion started. Toilet is what it is - bathroom is just silly.

in yorkshire (uk) we also call the toilet the bog

In northern ireland we say bog as slang for the toilet or bog roll for toilet paper lol😅

Funny we say "Loo" in the north of England. I'm from York in Yorkshire and we say it all the up here. Along with dropping our "H's" in words and not saying or pronouncing "the" in sentence's. We are not upper class more working class. 😊

It's Toilet when in a house and Toilets when out and about 😅 I do say bog and bogs aswell to be fair ....I am 35 and I don't think I ve heard anyone in person say Restroom or Bathroom 😂 and most signs in public places label them as Toilets.... unfortunately we don't have beds, benches or baths in them either lol

the toilet thing is a beautiful example of how amercians think brits are prim and proper and prude but its actually often the other way round

Loo is a bastardisation of the French garde l’eau which was read as gardy loo and subsequently shortened to loo. Garde L’eau was shouted before the contents of the chamber pot were thrown out of the window into the street.

It was also called the powder room, i.e. where ladies went to powder their nose (freshen their make up)!

Interestingly in another video it transpires that in some parts of the US at least a rubber or rubbers mean rubber overshoes or boots, which I would call wellies or gummies/gumboots. This was one case where when the person spoke about ''putting a rubber on her left foot'' the imagination really did work overtime.

Instead of toilet. My late nan used to say I’m going to the Lav, meaning lavatory.

I mean “Homely” as a derogatory term is a bit tame to be fair. It’s like is the best someone can come up with? 🤣🤣