Turn-up is not cuff, turn-ups are what you have at the bottom of your trousers, or chinos or slacks or pants... if you have a little bit turned up - a crumb catcher. A cuff is usually the end of your sleeve in the UK, either on a jumper or a jacket, never heard them referred to as turn ups in the UK. However you may turn up your cuff, it's still a cuff but it's turned up, or you may 'roll up your sleeves'. Which also means get stuck in and do some work.

Argument = row ( as in COW) Baby carriage = pram ( as in SAM ) From the word PARAMBULATOR ( original word for PRAM) Chequers = draughts ( as in DRAFTS) Kerosene = paraffin ( PARA as in PARAchute and FIN ). PERIOD in the UK means woman's " monthly cycle" !!

Bobby comes from Sir Robert Peel who was a the politician who was responsible for the formation of the first police force in the U.K., they were colloquially known as “Bobby’s boys” which eventually became bobbies. You might hear references to “a Bobby on the beat” which is a police officer on patrol (usually on foot).

To make things easier Americans tend to use Italian words for vegetables, here in the UK we tend to use the French words

Your pronunciations are hilarious JT, but that’s what make us here in the UK love you 😁. ❤️🇬🇧

If only it had an audible of each word too to prevent more butchery 😆

It is perfectly okay to ask your girlfriend for a snog but never your grandma. 🤣

Snog is a bit more than just a kiss, JT. We're talking tongues and mouths clamped together for periods of time. I daresay you'll have done it without knowing that's what it was called!

4:00 Soccer is actually a British word from the 19th century and comes from the word association as in association football.

row is pronounced with the same sound as how

Cadswallop is something my teacher used to say a lot 😂 means the person is talking a load of rubbish.

We have so much American TV in the UK I would be surprised if most UK viewers didn't get 100% on this

Of all of these, I was surprised you didn't get Hoover / vacuum. It's one of the more prevalent times that we actually use a brand name to refer to the whole class of things, in the same way that you guys do with Kleenex and Band-Aid.

A boffin isn't really the same as a nerd. A boffin is someone who is brainy and knows a lot, like a scientist.

Row is like Ra Owl

Hey JT, that was an ok score. Couple of the ones you missed have pronunciation booby traps too. Row, as in an argument, rhymes with cow so people know it’s nothing to do with propelling a boat with oars, and the game of draughts is pronounced exactly like drafts. Also cold air coming in around a badly fitted door or window is also a draught, beer served on tap is a draught beer, a massive horse bred for pulling wagons (often beer wagons) is a draught horse, and someone who creates detailed engineering drawings is a draughtsman. All these are pronounced exactly like ‘draft’, and I assume we spell them that way for the same reason that ‘ugh is pronounced as an ‘f’ sound in words like cough and rough. But if you’ve written an early version of a letter, speech or script then that is spelled draft. We haven’t had a military draft for a long time and don’t have any sports with drafts, but we know what those terms mean and would spell them with an f.

I loved the original room layout with that angle to the corner of the room to the closet/walk in wardrobe.

The way bro says courgette has me dead 💀💀

I love the way he said paraffin, pram, row... I known he's American but its hilarious

Flannel has three meanings in English. 1) as you said. The material used for shirts. 2) a face (wash) cloth 3) rubbish, baloney, nonsense, B.S I.e. "a load of old flannel".

Virtually none of the so called slang is such, virtually all are just ordinary every day terms, and there are others that don't match each other for instance chips are not and never have been fries, chips, fries and French fries are all different. Also sweets is a general term for sweet things including chocolate, chocolates, sugary sweets some of which are candies. Jumpers are very different from sweaters. Also a kiss is just a quick kiss like from a parent to a child or to another relative or friend whereas a snog is usually a prolonged passionate kissing of the type when people are being intimate. And many other complete differences.

Snog is more specific then just a kiss though it’s what I often hear Americans refer to as a French kiss also we call vacuums hovers because it was the most popular brand for a long time kinda like Americans calling plasters bandaids it’s not the actual name for the thing itself but it stuck

omg I am pure shouting out the answers at the screen and its throwing me back to my Ma shouting stuff out at quiz shows on the telly 🤣

I completely lost it when you confused turn-ups and turnips. 😆 Still the best channel on YT, JT - good to have you back

Contrary to what some are saying we do say turnups not cuffs for trousers, and we do say silencer not muffler. Maybe those saying otherwise are younger and influenced by self-styled fashionistas for cuffs, and American programmes for muffler. A muffler is a cloth tube worn around the neck by us motorcyclists.

I wouldn't necessarily equate nerd with boffin. Nerd is more akin to geek. A boffin may be a geek, but a geek isn't always a boffin.

In all fairness, this reads like it was written by an older gentleman, or some time ago - some of these words aren't really used much (with what I hear more often in brackets) i.e. codswallop (bollocks), boffin (swot, clever clogs, etc. - with it being derogatory, it's usually a constructed insult), silencer (which I don't think I've ever heard referring to a car's lower exhaust component), subway (underpass), turn-ups (cuffs), paraffin (which is used for lamps and such, but kerosene when it's used in aircraft, despite being the same thing). A banger is usually when paired with mash, and they're sausages when not (i.e. you wouldn't have a banger sandwich). A lorry is a cabin with a long trailer (18-wheelers), and a van is a smaller commercial vehicle. We don't really have pickup trucks, but that style of car is usually lumped in with all 4x4s and SUVs, and maybe called a flatbed 4x4 if it's relevant. Bobby (derived from Robert Peel, who "invented" policing) is uncommon, but there's so many names for rozzers! Watch "Is It The Police?" by The Horne Section on YT for some more British police nicknames. Otherwise it's pretty accurate! Flannel shirts in the UK are either "flannel" or "plaid" (pron: plad). Nowadays mobile sounds a bit odd cause landlines are now the rarer object, so they're just phones. Last thing that stuck out is "row" - pretty common word, but you say the "ow" like if you stub your toe (row, not roh). Also, considering how little British culture penetrates the American market, you did a stellar job! Us Brits see a lot of American cultural influence so the other way round is very easy.

One car part they didn't include in that quiz is fender, which is 'wing' here in the UK. It might crop up in a future quiz. Some people still call door mirrors 'wing mirrors' as a throwback as some older cars had the mirrors mounted on the front wings. While paraffin in the UK is the same thing as kerosene in the US (aviation fuel), the US meaning of paraffin is what we call 'paraffin wax' over here in the UK (the white wax tea lights and cheap candles are made of).

The poppy is worn as a symbol of remembrance for those who have served in the British and Commonwealth Armed Forces, as well as civilian casualties of conflict. It was chosen as the symbol of remembrance because of the poppy flowers which grew on the battlefields after the end of the First World War.

Oh there's a big difference between a kiss and a snog!

Loo comes from the French: l'eau (water), because the old word for it was a Water Closet (WC)

• The English call a sausage a 'banger', because when cooked they often explode their skins, usually with a bang or a pop. • The baby carriage is a 'pram', because it is an abbreviation of 'perambulator', a thing that we use to walk [ambulate] somebody around [per]. To perambulate itself means to walk about or meander. • The 'row' that is an argument rhymes with 'how' and 'now', not with 'throw'. • 'Draughts' is pronounced like a 'draught' when air comes in through an open door or window" like 'laugh' with a tee on the end, what Americans would spell as 'drafts'. • 'Paraffin' is pronounced as PA·ra·FIN, like 'parachute'. • And 'brolly' is simply a corruption of the B-R-L within 'umbrella': in the 1800s it even used to be called a 'brelly' first, before it became 'brolly'. Incidentally, an umbrella theoretically differs from a 'parasol', in that a parasol shades us from the sun [Latin sol = sun], but an umbrella shades us from anything [Latin umbra = shade], but more so from the rain. • Curiously, 'diaper' used to be used in English from the mid-1300s until fairly recently.

The Hoover was named after the person that invented it. William James Hoover, but someone may have mentioned this already.

A pram in uk is also called a pushchair or a buggy.

Then strange thing about 'Underground' in London is that more of it is above ground than below ground.

I feel so much pride when you confidently answer questions like "I KNOW THAT ONE!"

Car hood is called a bonnet because it’s like putting a hat on your head. The trunk is called a boot because the back is the booty.

row for argument is actually said different to row for a boat, it's more like r then the ou kinda from ouch if that makes sense 😅

"Slang" is a misnomer for some of these words. My definition of "slang" is words or phrases you would not use in formal speech or in formal writing. Most of these British words are the formal words used in British English for these objects or concepts e.g. knickers, jumper, torch, lorry, dummy, motorway etc. "Loo" and "snog", I would agree, are slang.

Pram is an abbreviation of perambulator, and to perambulate means to take a slow walk.

Well done! Your knowledge of British terminology is improving! 👍

You did well! Especially calling the Bobby a dummy 🤣

Your English is improving JT!! Welcome to your new home I hope it’s lots of fun for you both 🏡

I think it easier for us British as we have lots of American media in our lives. Got 100% :P

A snog is actually more than just a kiss. Snogging is more life French kissing as in on the lips sticking tongues in each others mouths.

Got them all, surprised myself lol.😂

A Period in England is a ladies wrong time of the month. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

It's a row as in ow when you get hurt. Draughts are drafts. Pram as in p-ram the animal.

I've always called a subway a subway where you'd get a train underground, like the metro subway up north, underground sounds like a london-only thing.

"Boffin" means "scientist" rather than nerd (unless nerd has a different meaning in the US than it does in the UK).

People in the UK don't use silencer, it's an exhaust.

Found your channel not long ago, (brit) and really enjoy your videos. Love you love Al Murray, love realising how different you see things over the pond. Seen you nutting your various subscriber goals and I have to know, did you get a British tattoo? If so, what is it? Keep posting 😊

Loving the new room

I enjoy your vids. With the new set up I would recommend some soft furnishings to help with the echo.

Couple of words that you said made me laugh. ROW and Paraffin. Easiest way to pronounce Paraffin is to say it like Para - fin. There's two ways to say ROW - the way you said it was related to row your boat. That's not what we use for an Argument. Easiest way to pronounce ROW (as in argument) is to say the word COW out loud then replace the C with the R. Hope that helps.

JT that was hilarious, you had me crying with laughter here in the UK. Well done mate.

This is so funny. I love how many you knew....I think its easier for us on the other side?

Happy new house JT :)

Well done JT 💗

Someone's probably already said it, but codswallop is used to call someone out who's lying to you. It's like when judge Judy shouts 'balony!'. 😂

Row rhymes with cow, lol!

A silencer for a pew pew is called a sound moderator over here. Even though it's tough to get a gun, once you have one you can put a sound mod on no problem. oh and it's row as in cow not roe

Birmingham England here love your videos .

Nice looking plaque there in the background 👍

Great video as always JT...any updates on the tattoo? Love to you and Anna x

Hoover is a United States vacuum cleaner company that is 114 years old, but he doesn't know it.

Row as in Cow Pram as in Ram Draughts as in Rafts

I was shouting lol I knew more then I thought thanks

Oo it's quite tricky actually. Baloney means as in 'ehat a bunch of Baloney' not the sausage meat. We don't put 'codswallop' in our sandwiches lmao but something that is ridiculous is 'a load of old codswallop'

This was so funny 😂

I was literally screaming at the screen why you said there’s people screaming at the screens right now! That made me 😂😂😂

Love a good snog! Some of your pronunciation was funny as

Codswallop is weird word to us too! That was fun!

Omg you made me laugh so much trying to guess what our slang words mean in the uk

Subway would be Underpass as in the great Ultravox song from 1978. I couldn't believe you didn't know Hoover when it is a legendary American invention and brand name.

Hi honey, check out Bridgwater Carnival 2022. I'm not sure if it's well known in America but its a big thing where I live, a village near Bridgwater in South West England. I was there the weekend gone. This was great to watch, the urge to reach thru the screen was real Xx

Loved this video, a little stressful 🤣🤣😂😂 also I don't know if anyone else caught it, I usually watch your videos and use headphones, but I think you was playing footsie with the table leg, but there were bass thuds as if the table was either banging the wall or a foot hitting the table leg, either way your microphone picked it up so much 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤣🤣😂😂✌✌☮☮❤❤

Argument/row - row is pronounced with an “aw” like in round rather than O like rowing a boat.

4:34 yes officer this one right here 👮🏿‍♀️

Now Jamaican slang hehe. Mighty bomboclat 😂

Jt I Fort you did really well well done man

row is pronounced like cow.

Jttttttt welcome back love from Devon 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Knickers are specifically ladies underwear

A banger is a good song like your in the club and the beat drops and all you can hear is this Is a banger

Ipswich England sending love too❤️ made me and my mum laugh

It's not "row" as in "row the boat" but rhymes with "how" in the argument context.

Also Lee Evans or Michael McIntyre comedians. Proper British laughs about British life. :)

You had me shouting at my iPad when you were getting some right but not clicking them 😂😂 You’d pronounce ‘Row’ with an ‘a’ in replacement for an ‘o’, but not saying the word ‘raw’ if you know what I mean?! So not row’, like ‘row your boat’.... bloody hell it’s hard trying to explain this without speaking 😂 Don’t you just love he English Language 😩😩😂😂

I've never heard codswallop in my life so I'm not surprised you missed that one haha

Love that the wall matches the Silver Button

Bobby and Dummy are about the same thing is an accurate, if damning, commentary on British policing.

It's funny cos I knew every American translation 🤣 row is said like vow

I saw torch on the thumbnail and had to laugh ngl cos torch isn't slang its just an actual word

Hilarious. ROW (like an argument) rhymes with HOW rather than TOW 😃

Congratulations on your new home.

Hoover isn’t slang…it’s technically an eponym, which is when a brand name (Hoover) for example is so ubiquitous that it’s used to describe any product of that type regardless of the brand. So people will refer to a Dyson vacuum cleaner and describe it as a Hoover. An iPod instead of an mp3 player would be another example.

JT "Silencer... for the pew pew?" Me *whispers in British* "We don't really carry guns in the UK... police included"

You did really well.

Fun fact: a roundabout is completely different to a traffic circle