In my experience of working in the UK for an American company and dealing with Americans on a daily basis, "please" and "thank you" would be a good place to start.

Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt. This is the full version !

In my friend circle we "play" on Gormless. So it becomes "Oh he's totally bereft of Gorm." or "He's suffering a supply chain shortage in his Gorm account" and so on.

"Bits and bobs" was originally a handyman/carpenter term, drill bits(the attachments that actually makes the hole) and bobs(drill attachments used for turning screws). So the bits and bobs were the attachments for the drill. Then it became a sort of general term for the smaller accessories used to make something work(like fuses, spacing washers, spare bolts/screws, etc) before eventually just become any sort of collection of small items.

Tyler will lose his mind when he learns about " bob a job week ".

In Yorkshire, we use, "ta" instead of, thank you. Then there is "tat ta," or "ta rah" which is goodbye. Gormless is used "don't just stand there gormless" or "take that gormless look off your face". 😶

Tyler's guess about 'Doddle' pretty much sums up 'Dawdle' though.

Gormless comes from the Nordic word "gaumer" meaning to take care. Then it came into old English as Gorm meaning to be fully immersed in a task which eventually morphed into being intimately knowledgeable about how to do the task and/or how it works. So to be gormless is to be doing things you don't understand or with a serious lack of care. Gorm doesn't exist in English any more, but as an insult gormless is still a good one to use when someone really screws something up by not reading instructions or actively ignoring them.

In this video at 4:18 it says 10 Bob = 10 pounds. That is wrong. A Bob = 1 shilling. 1 shilling = 5 new pence or 1/20 of a pound. Only British people over a certain age will know what "£/s/d" is.

Here’s another one for you: Waffle. Not the kind you put sticky sweet gloop on.

I'm on "tenterhooks" to see whats on your next posting. Tenters are no longer everyday objects but a hundred years ago, in wool weaving areas like the North of England, they were a common sight on the land around the many woollen mills, called 'tenter-fields'. It is easy to see how the figurative expression 'on tenterhooks', with its meaning of painful tension, derived from the 'tenting' or stretching of fabric.

Gormless is an example of an "orphaned word". In that, Gorm is a word that has fallen from use whereas, its twin with a negative connotation has remained in use. Other orphaned words reck/reckless gruntle/disgruntle

gormless sums tyler up perfectly.

Bob's your Uncle. In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert (Bob) Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle!

Bobs in bits and bobs. Apparently refers to Bobbins from sewing, back when quilts and rugs were made from bits of leftover material

Can’t believe amongst is there. It’s just so normal

Gormless. Sums up Americans perfectly.

There are 4 of us sat here and when the word Gormless came up we all pointed at tv at the same time!

When I go to America and stay with my boyfriends family they always ask for British words they can use to confuse their friends it’s quite funny to see their faces when I tell them some of the words but love that they are learning and using them

Cheerio comes from the 18th and 19th centuries. If you are leaving an aristocratic friends house in town then once you'd slapped your thighs and said "Right!" then the footman of the house would be despatched onto the street to hail a cab or sedan chair. He would use the call "Chair Ho!". Therefore the phrase became synonymous with departure and was shortened over time to "Cheerio" for the great unwashed like myself.

As soon as I saw "gormless" (a word I grew up with) I thought norse. True enough, Gorm means "sense" or "heed" in the Nordic languages. I have never heard a southerner use it. I would say that it is a northern working class word: and a very good o by e, too.

Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt. "SHOE IN" !? Tyler IS gormless !

"I've never heard bob as a noun, i've heard it as a name." Eh Tyler, a name IS a noun.... I would also like to add that I actually think most Americans know very little about actual Mexican culture, most just assume they do because they are close geographically.

A lot of differences between Brit English and American English are down to how things have gone in our respective countries histories. American isolationism, nationalities who's language and grammar have influenced the US, misspellings either through laziness or literacy of people around at the time etc etc.

Lol you're getting doddle confused with dawdle 🎩☺️

"Odds and ends" is certainly commonly used in Britain but lots of people (including myself) say "odds and sods" as a variation.

Just to clarify, "Cheerio" means the same as "Toodle-pip, old bean".......

Sigh. Doddle (Very Easy) Dawdle (slow walking behind a group. Not keeping up) and dilly-dally (loiter, not putting in much effort to a task. procrastinate)

"Bits and Bobs? Am I saying this right?" How else can you say it? We also use 'Odds and sods' which means the same thing.

Amongst is one of those words today chiefly used by older people or those educated beyond GCSE-level English (or HS sophomore in US). Others in a similar class might be: whence, shall, might (verb), betwixt, whereas, notwithstanding, and plurals such as indices, matrices, and the difference between hung and hanged.

You weren’t wrong with doddle. In your accent doddle and dawdle sound the same, and dawdling means time wasting on (also known as faffing about)

I've heard more than one Californian say "Bob's your uncle", so perhaps the use of this phrase varies across the USA. Thinking about it a bit more, I seem to remember a guy from Kentucky also using it. So it seems it isn't exclusively a British phrase.

There are lots of English words that Americans misuse or mispronounce.

Thing is about Mexican Waves, they might look great, but most football fans in England don't really like them very much because if the crowd is partaking in a Mexican wave it almost always means that the football is either not very entertaining or the crowd would rather be distracted by choreography. Don't ever try and distract us from going absolutely ballistic over our footy

One of my fav's is you gormless git.

Gormless means gulibly stupid though not necessarily academically stupid.

Bits and Bobs not to be confused with Odds and Ends.

Bits and bobs comes from a carpentry saying. Bits being drill bits for drilling holes, whilst bobs relates to screwdriver attachments for the drill.

I generally use "Cheers!" when saying and waving good-bye.

We don’t use cheerio in the same way as the Brits. Here in Scotland. We say bye or see you later. But when we say cheerio to someone. It’s normally in a sarcastic way. Like. Aye okay then cheerio. When we mad at someone. Or we were just trying to be mean or sarcastic. Just thought I’d let everyone know that, so I’m out. Aye cheerio then…🤭🤣🤷🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The word gormless is usually followed by a mild expletive. So you may call someone who is a bit simple or one who does something stupid may be called a gormless bugger..

In Scotland, we also use "glaikit " in place of gormless...

I love how if Tyler himself has never heard of a word or phrase, then obviously no other American has ever heard of it either….. are you sure pal?

Ironic that one of the word is "Gormless" on THIS channel!

Bobs Your Uncle has a history. Its old political satire. How was it that Arthur Balfour became Prime Minister in 1902, could it be that he took over from Lord Salisbury, who happened to be his uncle. Salisbury was called Robert, hence the sarcastic remark.

My grandads favourite insult was to call someone a gormless twat, not particularly polite but always made me laugh when he used it as it does sound funny.

Re amongst and among, I think I tend to use the latter when talking about geographical proximity - there's a wolf among the sheep, but the former when talking more figuratively - amongst other things. Mustn't mix up dawdle and doddle, despite their similarity in pronunciation.

Bits and bobs can also be a way of describing the different things sold at a flea market or garage sale.

Among: in the midst of, in a physical sense. Amongst: in the intellectual/virtual company of.

Gormless is a similar word to Ruthless which means lacking in ruth, ruth is the same as compassion. You hear people called ruthless, but, you never here of someone being described as ruthful.

I was in the US when the World Cup was on and, being British, keen to keep up with what was going on. The only place I could get up to date info on the results was in small Mexican run shops in Los Angeles!

Hungarians use the English word "hello" but they use it when arriving or leaving.

All these words are often used throughout the uk and not just England tho Tyler. In my part of the uk Wales the word gormless is slang for ugly not what lawrence said it was for.

Sometimes people say cheerio rather than cheers when drinking alcohol.

Most Americans seem to think "Cheerio" means the same as "Cheers".

America uses a simplified version of English - where there are two words for similar things in the UK, America satisfies itself with just one. So Americans don't, in general, differentiate between alternate and alternative, turtle and tortoise, purple and violet, inquiry and enquiry... and just use the first of the pair each time.

There’s a phrase we use “rabbit” or “rabbiting” which means talking or talking too much. It’s rhyming slang: “rabbit and pork” = talk. So mate if I say you rabbit far too much you will get what I mean.

The Mexican Wave began at the World Cup in ‘86 by the Mexican fans but I’m sure it began long before at the World Cup in Mexico in 1970. We were all glued to that World Cup.

You were thinking about doddling as a verb in stead of a noun. Both exist in the English language.

My personal favourite. Wazzock Meaning fool or idiot. "You utter wazzock!"

In the UK we don't say that would be so fun, but so MUCH fun, Americans miss out the much bit. Robert ,Bob, Peel was the Prime Minister who founded the Police, he had an nephew who he gave advantages to help his career, so Bob's your uncle came to mean getting a leg up. It's a doddle, easily done. The Mexican wave began at the World cup 1986.

I find I use amongst when the next word begins with a vowel , e.g among many but amongst other things. No idea why!

Tyler

There is an old music hall song with "dilly dally" in it. Cheerio used to be a brand of brown sauce. Toodle Pip also, meant goodbye during the war. Bye Gum, is an expression of surprise. Thick as two short planks, means stupid. Bob's your Uncle and Fanny's your Aunt, is the full saying. To fall down the toilet and come up in a fur coat, means to be lucky. Widdyshins is anticlockwise.

Another version of Bits and Bobs and Odds and Ends is Odds and Sods. Also, Bobs just a fun word.

Years ago there was a funny voxpop comedy sketch where a foreign sounding bloke went around asking people where he could get form, because his girlfriend told him he was gormless.

Concerning the Bob's your Uncle phrase, if anyone watched the Disney's A Christmas Carol movie (Jim Carrey plays Scrooge), there is a scene where Scrooge runs out to a moving horse & cart & grabs on shouting "Bob's your Uncle & Fanny's your Aunt!" This is when he has ditched his miserly attitude for good. Would love an explanation for the full phrase please. All I know is that Bob & Fanny were common names used in those days. Yes, the latter name does sound rude but it was a real name.

The Mexican wave is called the Mexican wave all around the world.

Amongst and among is same as whilst and while. I found a coin whilst in the park.

Brilliant!! You looking kinda gormless, while you consider the word. Perfect timing :D (Telling your opponent it will be a doddle, is more for cricket. It's a bit too 'fluffy' for other sports) If we say lets start a wave, then you'll have a stadium waving hello to the players. I guess we should call it an Americas wave? Cheerio isn't a word you'll hear too much, unless we chuck it in for nearby Americans

Not only do we have "cornflour" we also have 'cornflowers' (Centaurea cyanus). They are pretty, blue, easily grown, annual flowers. I would be surprised if you don't have them in the States, but possibly with a different name.

9:30 you were thinking of *_dawdle_*

Loving your channel man!

10 bob = 50p, not £10.

"Cheerio!" is only used by elderly posh people. Or, as he said, in films pre-1950.

I love the word gormless. My brother gets called that on a regular basis.

What was said: "He's among... the greatest speakers of English in the world." What I heard: "He's a mong. The greatest English speakers of the world."

The word “gormless” appears then Tyler immediately acts in the same way. It’s mean I know, however he does look like this on many of his videos which purely is a facade.

The thing I love about a lot of British words and phrases is their origin. Bits and Bobs comes from carpentry tools, you drill holes with a bit and drive screws with a Bob. Under the thumb comes from holding the leash of an eagle with your thumb in falconry. There are heaps of really interesting origins for these things.

To doddle can mean to take one's time, you are right. "Don't doddle" "Stop doddling" means "hurry up" or "Quit slacking!"

Not sure how accurate of a comparison it is but I feel like 'derpy' is a very close equivalent to gormless

Gormless is like the word Eejit in Ireland. As in, “That fecking eejit messed it up again”. Gormless is more descriptive of a clueless person though.

"bobs your uncle" is another way of saying "that's how you do that" essentially

"And there you are." When Bob's your uncle. Or "Look there" when you're French. English isn't even my first language. Or French. I don't get lost in translation, unless it's really far fetched.

Don't think Tyler it may hurt, you are going to butcher the English language. American english is a different language dude . Gormless sumsup the average American who has never left their bubble and know zero about life outside of America.

A name is a noun. Dilly Dally is used in the UK and means the same. Actually, 'cheerio' is very rarely used these days, it's quite archaic.

They were probably called Cheerios as they're 'cheery O-shaped things' - added to the fact they're most likely full of toxic chemicals banned worldwide except the US that make kids hyperactive, as well as their counterparts Fruit Loops which are self-explanatory as they probably turn kids loopy with all the artificial additives and colourings. Both of those cereals got prominent product placement in Jaws 2.

That’s funny because we do also have a word “dawdle” which means exactly what he thought

Bits and bobs aren't as good as nik naks and thingummyjigs 😉

Cheerio, old chap 🤣 I believe it came from the era of the Sedan Chair, and started as "Chair Home".

Bits and bobs and thingy majigs😂😂 love these British sayings

Always annoyed me when it was referred to as the mexican wave. Any uk sports journalist worth their salt should have been aware it was popularised in US college sport. I was 14 in 86 and even I knew it was just 'the wave'.

These words are used everywhere in the English speaking world. Apart from one.

''odds and sods''

A friend of mine died eating a bowl of cheerios sadly I didn't get to say goodbye........ I'll see myself out

Let's face it all over England let alone the UK there are different expressions for everything, I think most Americans would look at someone from say the East end of London as if they we're talking a different language if they started on cockney rhyming slang, we're a creative bunch if nothing else!

My mum says cheerio. She's 80. It feels like an old fashioned word no kid would say

Bobs, your uncle. That's the answer.

Americans do not speak English. If they did there wouldn't be a need for such videos. American English (dialect) differs massively from English.

I can imagine someone saying Bob's Your uncle and he works at Nintendo.