As a Brit I’ve never heard an index finger called a “first finger” 😛

Mate, love how you actually have a proper conversation with your cam when doing these. Most people try to be like a presenter whereas you just kick back and have a normal everyday chinwag with your audience. Brilliant!

There is no such thing as British English, there is English and the there are mistakes 🤣🤣

12:04 the british guy has clearly confused red brick with the Russell group. The Russell group is the top universities whereas red brick means pretty much any university founded around the late 19th/ early 20th century

We say seed when gardening. When eating fruit with small seeds, we say pip. Also, you say pit for a large hard seed such as in an apricot, but many in UK say stone.

A spade is for digging and a shovel is for moving stuff, we have both in the UK

A shovel and spade are two completely different tools, one ( a spade ) is square with a sharp edge designed for digging into and the other ( a shovel ) is square which is rounded designed for SHOVELING from one place to another, why on earth do people not know this basic thing, it's like calling a tablespoon and a ladle the same thing !!!

Paper money is called a 'note' because when it was first introduced it was exactly that. A promissory note or an IOU if you prefer, more like a cheque (check) today Even though these notes are now widely used, printed, issued by banks rather than the debtor to the payee, English bank notes to this day still bear the phrase 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of £x' Tippex is yet another example of a brand name becoming a generic name, so really the British version of white out would be correction fluid.

Nope. In Britain and everywhere Sunday is the first day of the calendar week, even though Monday is the first day of the working week. Saturday is the seventh, the Sabbath

The British guy is showing his youth when saying Monday is the first day of the week. This is a cultural change since it was definitely Sunday when I was growing up a couple of generations before him.

The "Pelican crossing" is actually from "PELICON crossing", which is from "PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled Crossing" Similarly, a "Toucan crossing" is known as such, because it is for both pedestrians, and cyclists, and therefore, "two can" cross. Well, these aren't actually officially confirmed, but it still sounds cool.

JT, there is a reason for our "weird" words and phrases...we like to save time and keep it simple, lol! Love the socks btw!

"I thought jaguars are black... my life is a lie." Oh JT that had me crying 🤣

I’m 28 years old and have lived in the U.K. my entire life. I have only know of corn being called maize in American TV shows. I’m currently living in a village and walk my dog next to corn fields every day 🤷‍♀️

As for jaguars etc, I used to work in a zoo. There’s technically no such thing as a panther. A panther is either a black leopard if it’s in Asia or a black jaguar if it’s in South America. The colouring is just the same as skin colour in humans. The black ones still have the same spotted pattern, it’s just a lot harder to see in them. Another fun fact about jaguars is they have the strongest bite of all the big cats. While lions, tigers etc go for the soft throat, a jag can crush skulls and turtle shells with their bite so generally attack from above

Being from the uk, some of these do have various different names that would be commonly used in uk based upon where you are geographically in the uk, also a lot of the USA versions of the words are also commonly used in the uk, I feel there is a lot of cross over these days, I think largely due to what you or anyone watches on tv,live stream,cinema. But it is interesting none the less.

It’s called Jury duty in Scotland I’ve never heard it being called Jury Service ever

I’ve never met anyone in 42 years that calls their index finger their first finger, the guy explaining things doesn’t know anything, also tippex is a brand name (they make other things) it’s actually called correction fluid

The red brick universities (never colleges or schools) are those established later than the most ancient like Oxford and Cambridge and St Andrews. It's a reference to the building materials largely used by comparison with the lavish styles of the oldest academic architecture.

As others have said I've never heard first finger, it is index finger or forefinger. Also everyone I know would pronounce jaguar as jag-yur, and I always thought that maize was what Americans called corn, I've never heard anyone where I live in the UK (Scotland) call it maize.

A spade is for digging, a shovel is for shovelling (moving) loose material like sand, coal, ash, snow etc. British Shovels basically look like our rectangular spades, but with edges allowing you to puile more material on top. The pointy / creased tools called shovels in the US appear to by a hybrid for digging and shoveling. The loo is slang for toilet. The british equivilent for Restroom, would be Washroom, or if you are really posh WC (Water Closet).

Tippex and strimmer are brand names which have been adopted. Spades are for digging, shovels are shaped more for moving things (e.g manure or woodchips) - so if you were putting manure on to a garden plot, it would be easier to use a shovel to move the manure from the wheelbarrow or manure pile. If you used a spade, the manure would fall off. We have snow shovels too. I'm Scottish and I use the words alimony, cloth/face cloth, and jury duty. Plus the headteacher at my school here in Scotland was the Rector (or the heidie😁).

Panthers are Jaguar/Leopards with excess melanin. They also retain their rosette pattern From the wiki - Melanism is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard, and by a dominant allele in the jaguar

A carvery is a roast, but you serve your potatoes and veg yourself. Surprising the US didn't have this, considering how much they like food.

I have never said "first finger". It's always been "index finger". I've also always said "shovel" not "spade", unless it's "bucket & spade". We get what "pail" means.., "Jack & Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water". JT, I'd say "quarter past one" rather than "quater gone one". Some people say "loo", some say "toilets", I say "lavatory" lol. I also say both "counter clockwise" & "anti clockwise". I self study a lot on meteorology, so I come across a lot of the American terminology. Edit: changed "quarter after one" to "quarter past one".

A normal Brit wouldn't call it maize.

It's called a Pelican crossing because it's derived from the term "Pedestrian Light Controlled" (PE-LI-CON)

Hey from the UK, we do say both spade and also shovel. A shovel allows you to...shovel things. A spade is just for digging? We also say seed. And we definitely plant seeds!

I used to volunteer at my daughter's primary school and was helping children write a letter to Spain about Christmas and we spoke about Boxing Day. One of the children asked why it was called Boxing Day. Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants, where they would receive a gift from their master...Often the servants would take their gift home to their family to share with them.

Boxing day used to be the day that the wealthy gave boxes of leftover food to the poor and also the day servants could take boxes of gifts home to their families. "My life is a lie" JT, you got me with that 🤣🤣🤣

9:21 I'm a Brit, and I use both versions - Eight Thirty and Half Eight. Occasionally even Half Past Eight.

Hahahaha! JT gets his mail delivered by Newman.We used to call paramedics 'ambulance men' or 'ambulance women'.

In Scotland, a thing that even gets our English cousins confused is "the back of eight" or any number on the clock. It just means I'll see you after the particular hour.

Who in the UK calls corn 'maize' ? 🌽 I actually thought it was American people who called it maize. Goes to show what I know 🤷🏽‍♀️

SHOVEL AND SPADE ARE TWO DIFFERENT TOOLS!!! Spades are for digging, shovels are for carrying

BOGO (Buy One Get One) is also used a lot here in the states. Sunday is the first day of the week, but Monday is considered the first day of the Work Week.

I am in the UK. Sunday is actually the beginning of the week but we tend to use Monday in calendars etc because it is convenient as many people work Monday to Friday

Yes we say “loo” but it’s more of a slang term than a general term, and it can refer to any toilet whether in your house or public.

Note, the black bar on the lollipop lady's (or man) "lollipop" was originally so that they could make a note (in chalk) of the licence plate of any car that didn't stop.

wonderful video me and jam just enjoyed our tea and had a good giggle along with you. thankyou for keeping it fresh and spreading the kindness 💪

A shovel has a wide blade with raised sides, and is used to scoop up loose matter, a spade has a straight, sharp blade, and is used for digging. Funnily enough, in Scotland, the entrance-hall of a house is often referred to as the, "Lobby." The Jaguar is smaller than the other big cats, and has distinctive, "Rosettes," rather than spots.

In the fruit it is a pip but when out for planting it is a seed lol.

Great video again JT ,we do say where’s the loo ,but also we call it a bog or a lavatory,my favourite is thunder box 🤣

shovel is wide and flat and you use it to move loose soil and spade is narrower and stronger, its what you use to dig holes

The clock tower that contains Big Ben was renamed the Elizabeth Tower in 2012.

There are various explanations for the British word "loo" for a toilet (or restroom). In the days when there weren't toilets in houses and people emptied out their chamber pots from first floor bedroom windows in to the street the French used to call out "regardez l'eau" (watch out for the water). Hence loo from l'eau. Another option is it is a shortened version of "Waterloo". Not the battle between the French and the English, but rather the trade name for a cistern installed in outhouses (toilets) in the 19th century in England.

I always thought UK our top universities were called Russell Group rather than Red brick

I don't know anyone here in England that would call corn maize. If you saw it on sale you would say sweetcorn or a tin of corn, or corn on the cob. I don't really ever recall people saying fields of maize either, although I know it as an alternate name. Does anyone think the same? Is this one of those age dependent things? I had always thought maize was used in North America so I am now baffled

I've never heard of Monday being the first day of the week. Sunday to Saturday.

Flannel used to be a very low quality, cheap cloth. It was used for cutting up to wash with (hence becoming synonymous with wash cloths in the UK) or for making cheap clothing (hence becoming synonymous with an item of clothing commonly made with it in the US). It was also used to refer to something of little to no value (for instance accusing someone of talking flannel).

8:19 “My life’s a lie!” 😂😂😂😂😂

big ben is just the bell the tower it is in is elizabeth tower and that is attached the houses of parliment all together it is westminster palace. jaguar are normally spotty, but sometimes there are melinistic ones which are black, but you can still see the spots through the black, they are exactly the same spices, just the black is a rarer genetic trait!

I don't know if it's me but I feel like the southern states of the US have kept some of their British roots more than the North has.

Haha.... I’ve literally just come back from my first day in court as a juror. I’m in the UK and it’s called jury duty, even my letter from the court said jury duty. Excellent video 🙌🏻

This is the first JT video that has shown up on my feed. I’m so pleased it did.

In the UK you dig into soil with a spade, but you would use a shovel to pick things up off the floor like gravel, or especially coal when I was a kid in the 70/80’s. The coal board would drop off coal outside your house and it was the owners responsibility to ‘shovel’ it into a wheel barrow and place it in the coal hole / coal house. 😊

I The Great British Bake Off’ being called ‘The Great British Baking Show’ in the US is due to one US company (I forget which one it is) owns a trademark over the phrase ‘Bake off’ in the US, thus the reason for the name change in the US version of the show. There’s a good KZfaq video that explains in more detail how the US version of the show has had to be edited to remove all references to ‘bake off’ in the older seasons and how newer seasons film segments twice, once for the UK, once for the US

A Spade has a rounded pointy end, whereas a Shovel has a flat end. I just went and looked at my calendar and it actually starts on a Monday, first one I have ever seen ;)

I’m a Brit and I have always considered Sunday as the first day of the week, but then I’m in my seventies. However, the younger people do as they please and if they want to say Monday is the first day, that’s what they’ll say.

You are the sweetest boy - I love your accent and videos, keep it up! 😊

The top English universities are Oxbridge (from Oxford and Cambridge), the Redbrick universities are the second tier, founded in the 19th century. EDIT: Loo is slang (along with other words such as bog). Formally, most people would say toilet or lavatory (or even gents or ladies, depending on gender). For instance, if you're in a pub you don't know, you might ask the barmaid "where's the gents?"

Tippex? always called it "Snowpake". Plant seeds but pips are in food.

Something I found out fairly recently is that the black panther is a type of jaguar, don't know how I didn't know just by looking at them

12:25 man was discombobulated 🤣💀💀

So basically if you and your post/mailman were to move to the UK you'd NEVER get your mail! (it rains ALOT here!) 🤣😂

To me, a shovel is a tool for moving stuff from here to there. A spade is a cutting instrument, a blade. Spada is the Spanish word for sword. Malt shovel, snow shovel, dock spade, trench spade.

A seed is an ovule containing an embryo while a pit is the part of the fruit that protects the seed until growth time. Seeds can be many or one in a fruit while pits are always one. Pits are contained in cherry fruit, plums, peaches and dates while mangoes, oranges and apples have seeds

I work on the railway, and for us the first day of the week is Sunday. It is SO difficult finding a diary or a calendar where the weeks don't start on Mondays!

Never understood people thinking Sunday is the first day of the week when it’s part of the weekend

a spade is used for digging and generally goes down to a point, a shovel is used for moving dirt/show etc and generally has a flat edge

The name comes from a time when the rich used to box up gifts to give to the poor. Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants - a day when they received a special Christmas box from their masters. The servants would also go home on Boxing Day to give Christmas boxes to their families.

12:34 apparently she’s from wherever Megan and Kelly are from. Cum Laude literally means “with praise“ in Latin. “With distinction” is also used isn’t it?

Harvard use references like Cum Laude, I remember from watching the film “With Honors” I loved that film. It may be restricted to the Ivy League Colleges rather than wide spread. I absolutely loved the section with the jaguar because you did something that is so rare in this day and age, you simply stated you were wrong. That my friend puts you head and shoulders above a big chunk of society in both our Countries.

Spades are generally narrower to make it easier to push into and turn the soil over. Shovels are normally wider, therefore have more capacity when moving soil or snow etc.

I love when you googled Jaguar!! You are hilarious, can watch you all day 😂 love from 🇬🇧

loving your videos, its very interesting seeing how americans react to british comedy and such, very very interesting. you mentioned the whole washcloth and flannel thing and I dont know if anyone has answered it yet, but you mentioned about wearing the fabric and what that would be called. where I live in the uk flannel is the washcloth and the flannel you wear or fabric we commonly refer to as flannelette, atleast regionally to me XD the funniest thing about this video that your watching is it doesnt account for regional differences in the uk, the toilets have many many names, where I live its more common to call them loos, lavvies, bogs, shitters, WC's is the older term which is 'water closet', it gets pretty damn complicated with some things and regional differences XD the one that wasnt featured is what you term 'grid locked' but because our road systems in the uk are not layed out like a grid formation and are bendy and twisty and all that jazz we tend to say 'traffic jam' also that seed one you mentioned is quite interesting as pip seems to be a short abbreviated version of pippin which caught on... which seems to have come from the french pépin which litterally means seed in english

Never heard anyone say first finger, it's either index finger or forefinger.

as a scot i have so many different words yet again

You are right a spade is a particular type of shovel, The small type we used to get coal with or to brush dirt onto a brush is a shovel, not a spade.

'cum laude' is latin. It more or less literally means 'with honour'. It's the same word root as when you say someone is lauded for some accomplishment.

We do say 'loo' too, it's the more informal word for toilet. We might also call it 'the crapper' or 'the shitter' but those are a bit rude.

Most people graduate 'with honours'. It's just means you get 360 credits, rather than the 300 required for an 'ordinary' degree. The equivalent to graduating magna cum laude would be getting a first (a first-class degree). We'd call a flannel shirt 'tartan' or checkered.

All the words this English guy is saying are particular to England. They are not used throughout the UK. I say scallion OR spring onion depending on who I'm talking to. Bin bag. Flannel comes from the material it was made from. The term "flannel shirt" is often mistakenly used to refer to any shirt with a plaid or tartan pattern. However, 'flannel' refers simply to the fabric, and not all flannel shirts are plaid. Noughts and crosses= exy ohsy.

A shovel is for lifting a spade is for digging thus it narrows at the end whereas a shovel is square edged

Here's a bit of inane information. The black stripe on the lolly, the "lolly pop" lady is holding is for writing down the number plate of any vehicle that doesn't stop, in chalk. 🇱🇷🇬🇧💜

Love watching these reaction videos. I think because of watching so many movies and loads of tv shows from America I’ve almost become used to and understand both ways of saying these things. Where as I imagine only posh stuck up brits are shown on US tv so is more a shock to the US to hear how non pretentious we actually speak? Correct me if I am wrong.

7:40 nope lol my calendars definitely start on Monday

A spade is for digging. A shovel is for scooping (think of a builder shoveling sand into a mixer or a street cleaner shoveling debris off of a road).

1) Shovel here in the U.K. is used for moving substances. A spade (rectangular blade here, not rounded) is used for digging. He's wrong about the colleges/universities. "Red Brick" is the name for modern universities, i.e. made of brick rather than the stone-built ones of centuries ago. "Loo" is the common slang name here for toilet.

JT - weird question time . the more you learn the English/ British words do you fond yourself actually using them in your everyday life? my friend in America we chat a lot on XBOX and his son has picked up on some of the words i say and he uses them in his everyday life . so much so my friend now has to explain what he means i was wondering if this is the same with you

You are right. A shovel is for shoveling things and a spade if for digging.

Hey JT ! I Have Been Watching A Lot Of Reaction Videos Over The Last Six Months Or So And I Always Keep Coming Back To Yours , So I Have Just Subscribed . Better Late Than Never . Peace .

Loo is what one calls Queen's English. Toilet is a French word adopted by the English language. Depending what background you come from you could use either of these words. Toilet is common English and Loo is proper English.

Dude, a spade to dig, a shovel to shovel stuff up 😆 Driving an automatic or manual car A t-shirt is a t-shirt is a t-shirt 😆

A spade has a relatively flat blade and is used for breaking ground, a shovel has turned up edges, is bigger, and is used for moving around loose earth etc

Flannel in old English means “woollen article” or “wool”

Top universities in the UK are not known as redbrick. Redbrick refers to the universities created around about 100 years ago. Some of them are considered top universities but others aren’t. The top universities are known collectively as the Russell Group. They include universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Edinburgh et cetera, all at least 500 hundred years old.

I watch so many US tv shows that some US terms have slipped in to my daily language. In 1994 our lecturer at university had just moved to Scotland from the US we had great fun learning vocabulary differences in American English, English English and Scottish English Yes we also have regional vocabulary differences just like you probably have in the US

A shovel (UK) could NEVER be used to dig a hole (or at least not any time soon) - it is meant for moving loose soil, aggregates or whatever. It is "spoon-shaped" or hollow to some degree. A spade is used for digging, or if you are having problems with a spade, use a fork, then a spade, or even a shovel - the blade of a spade is close to flat (but not quite), and rectangular. We also have duffle bags - you can look that one up. Saran is just a trade name like biro, kevlar, mylar and many others. Ask a German the time - half eight (halb acht) is 7.30 We do not add pipe to hose - it is a hose in the UK. Pre-nup's have no legal standing in the UK - no-one can sign-away their legal rights. That said, a pre-nup' that is reasonable may be considered by any court as setting the basis for any agreement brought before them. The place that people urinate (etc.) in the UK changes name over time. Probably most commonly called the loo at the present time.

No no no, Sunday has always been the first day of the week 🤦🏼‍♂️😂