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Doppelganger is a very common word in the UK I'm not sure what the person you spoke to was on about, and in the UK pigs in blankets don't use hotdog sausages they use chipolatas or cocktail sausages, which makes them yummy for my tummy (I said what I said!)

We do not drive on the other side of the road in the UK. We drive in the middle because there are cars parked both sides.

Doppelganger is a well known word often used in uk just as you described, we often have many phrases and words that all mean essentially the same thing. 😊

got to be honest, I'm from UK and the thought of summer camp is terrible to me. I loved the summer holidays cos I could do what I wanted, to have to spend weeks at a camp having my freedom organized by adults is awful. I just had to spend months at school being told what to do, why would I want to spend more time being told what to do? Ugh.

The British person who didn't know what doppelganger was just has a poor vocabulary. It's definitely used in the UK.

I have been in the UK for more than fifty years and I have never come across a British person who didn't know the word doppelganger.

I thought everyone in the UK knew what a Doppleganger is, you must have found the one person who doesn't.

Based on the USA's attitude to giving their workers paid holidays, I would imagine that this is a major factor behind sending your children away to Summer Camps

Summer camp tends not to be a thing, because adults have so much holiday, the whole family would go on holiday together

When I and all of my peers were teenagers in the UK, nearly all of us couldn't understand the appeal of the American Summer Camp concept and were extremely glad the concept didn't exist in the UK. To us, American Summer Camps looked like a nightmarish extension of school during your summer holiday. The thought of having authority figures still controlling all our time and activities during our summer holiday was deeply unattractive. To us, our summer holiday represented 6 weeks where we now had dam near-complete independence and control over absolutely all of our time and activity. UK teenagers massively value that independence. We could stay up as late as we liked. We could sleep in as long as we liked. We could do whatever activity we liked when we liked. All without adults supervising and dictating our every move. We'd do many of the simple activities that take place in American summer camps. Playing sports, such as soccer, basketball, rugby, tennis, etc, going hiking, cycling, swimming, but we'd do them ourselves, on our own terms, without adult involvement or supervision. If we wanted to do more extreme activities such as water sports, climbing, paintballing, go-karting, etc. Then we'd simply get on the bus or train and independently go to those kinds of activity centres by ourselves, where the only adults present would be the staff who'd just lightly supervise from afar just to make sure we weren't breaking any rules or being dangerous. We'd also sometimes find somewhere away from adults where we could drink and do the kinds of juvenile drinking activities, the majority of Americas don't discover till they 18-21+ and attending college. Basically, it comes down to differences in child culture. In the majority of Europe including the UK, children and teenagers have massively more day to day independence and free will choice in their lives. If American parents and teachers gave their kids as much freedom and independence as European parents and teachers do, under American law they'd be charged with child neglect. But in Europe giving kids a good level of unsupervised freedom and independence is perfectly normal. Personally speaking from my time as a child and now as an adult. I feel the European way is much better. European kids have a freer and better life than American kids do. That's a good thing. It's why European kids, develop real-world life skills and reach maturity much quicker than American kids do. American kids are told what to do, when to do it and how to do it. European kids are mostly allowed to choose what to do, and when to do it, and are mostly expected to learn and figure out how to do it by themselves.

Not wishing to sound rude, you mention the UK weather quite a lot. As a Brit living in Pacific Northwest for ten years now, I appreciate the British weather. You get four seasons. Yes it can be stormy and your house could flood if you live in certain areas, but I watch the news here and wonder how or why people would live in large areas of the US. Hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding etc etc. I live in an area where earthquakes are predicted and Yellowstone is a super volcano! My point is that Britain is a pretty safe place to live, weather wise. Enjoy it. Not to mention the wildfires that frequently occur

The word doppelgänger is common enough in the U.K. (well I use it anyway). I didn’t know cornhole was a game, perhaps I won’t tell you what I thought it meant..! Yes summer camps are a very familiar concept to us here through US media and Camp America.

As a kid growing up in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s summer camps ce were not a thing. However, we used to have some amazing times over the summer holidays. I lived on the outskirts of town with mountains and forests close by.. our summers were spent hiking, exploring, swimming cycling and camping in the surrounding countryside. When the weather was good our parents wouldn’t see us from early morning until it was getting dark. Nowadays I don’t think kids are given this level of freedom which is really sad.

On the driving on the left in the U.K. it dates back to medieval times when knights would stay on the left hand side of lanes/paths etc so their sword hand (majority right handed) was clear and the scabbard was pointing away from everyone passing so not jabbing them.

Paracetamol isn’t super strong - but on the flip side we don’t have an opioid crises, from banging away oxycontin/vicdodin/fentanyl 😵‍💫🤪

Paracetamol is called a calmativo in Spain where I live. The calming effect is the dulling of pain. Pain produces stress hormones, less pain is relaxing. Hence the name.

The British movie 'Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun' was also released as 'Doppelganger'. A scene showing oral contraceptives was cut in the US version.

A sausage (sausage meat) in pastry is a sausage roll in England.

Dopleganger is pretty commonly used in the uk. More often you would hear someone say that person is your double. Rather than dopleganger

There is an active movement in the UK to shorten school holidays and instead make them more frequent. Apparently, children tend to forget a great deal of education if they are outside of a learning environment for very long periods (not to mention the culture shock of being forced back into a rigid environment after over a month of comparative freedom). It seems like a reasonable idea, particularly when you consider that we don't have traditions like the summer camp.

One difference you missed with Barbados is also the different ways we say Caribbean 😂

Yes we have the word Doppelganger in UK. One person having an odd mental blind spot is not indicative of the country as a whole.

It works both ways around; Americans find it strange that the British call all vacuum cleaners Hoovers when that's obviously a brand name. Americans call stretch wrap / cling film Saran Wrap which is also a brand name or as you say: Tylenol which is actually chemically just paracetamol. In my experience doppelganger is commonly used here. My nephew and his friend call each other 'Dopple' because they look strangely alike.

Loved this video! Lawn bowls is taken very seriously, it's a proper sport, although often played by middle aged or elderly people. They have leagues, and there's a lot of socialising as well, as they have licensed clubhouses😆. I've heard of doppleganger, and I use it (I'm forty-seven). The horseshoe game is very old, and is the kind of thing you might get if you bought a set of games for families to play outside. Our summer camp growing up in the seventies and eighties was 'get outside and play'😆- we just went down the nearby woods or played in our street or garden, unsupervised . Some kids got a huge amount of freedom and wandered far and wide.

Doppelganger is a common word, depends on how well read you are!. Paracetamol doesn't work as well as Ibuprofen, or aspirin for me. Summer camp? In the US paid vacation for workers is very limited, so kids on holiday would be left alone for many weeks, so Summer camp. In Europe we have statutory paid annual vacations, at least 28 days, or more, so summer holidays are normally spent with the kids either at home or away. - And workers are pressured to use them!

The big difference between the USA and UK regarding painkillers (aspirin and paracetamol/acetaminophen included) is their sale. At 2:28 you show a container of 'Acetaminophen' containing 200 tablets @ 500mg each. It's illegal in the UK to sell more than 100 painkiller tablets in one transaction. Painkillers are sold in packs of 16 (maximum 2 packs in one transaction as good practice). This policy greatly reduces impulsive accidental or deliberate (suicidal) overdosing and thus reduces hospital admissions.

One thing to remember regarding summer camp in the US, is that up to recently the middle-class families sent their kids away to school on a permanent basis maybe over 100 miles away from HOME, so the kids would be away from home for nine months and thiswould produce the same outcome of independence.

The best lawn game I have ever played was "Bowl Darts". These are darts made from a wooden ball with a long spike underneath and card flights on top. The score board is a straw archery target laid flat on the floor. The dart is tossed upwards over a rope line and drops down onto the target.

Doppelgänger is known but not really used. There is either the use of ‘that person is the spitting image of..’ or that they are a ‘(adjective) version’ of someone. Usually this used as an amusing observation.

Regarding folks with fond memories of Calpol, I've heard it often mentioned, but when I was a kid in the 50s/60s the goto infant's medicine/soother was a liquid call Dinnefords, the taste of which is also a pleasant memory, along with Lucozade which we always had when poorly. Often notice that some Americans pronounce foreign places - Eye-raq, Eye-ran, Mos-cow(emphasising the ruminant) - differently than we do over here.

The 'Barbadoss' v 'Barbadose' difference is on a par with the pronunciation of 'Costa' - Brits say 'Cossta', Americans say 'Coasta'. Also, Americans say 'Car-RIBB-ean' and Brits say 'CARR-ibbean'. 🤗

we play corn hole and horse shoe at parties all the time, lawn bowls and croquet are ''posh'' game that most people don't play. we have holiday clubs over summer camps for the most part. most of them are not residential, you just pick the days you want them to go and drop them off early morning and collect around tea time. i think the flavour of calpol is linked to sick days where your parent took a day off to care for you and went hand in hand with cartoons and treats. the flavour is fine but i think its the nostalgia that brings the memories.

If someone doesn't know doppelganger they must have led a sheltered life

We may use 'double' rather than 'doppelganger' but many do know the word. There is a song by Alan Sherman about a boy who is hating being at Camp Granada for the summer but at the end the sun comes out and all the kids start having fun. This is probably a lot of what Brits know about summer camps. If you don't like the British weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change!

Hi I recently discovered this channel and I enjoy the differences videos. I would say that calpol used to have way more sugar in it but it’s obviously not desirable to rot kids teeth so the taste is not what it was. Also while I had the idea of summer camps being for parents who couldn’t be bothered with their own children I was firmly educated by my friend Sophie who was a dance instructor at a performing art’s camp while at university. It’s often a way for kids to make lifelong friends and do things that they love and are really passionate about. Often kids will look forward for ages to going back to camp and when too old some move on to working in a camp similar to one they loved as a child. I have also learned that North American people get way less holidays from work too which I imagine plays a big role in having a young child to look after for months. Thank you for the video, I wish we had way more consistent sunlight too.

strange...I thought Cornhole was a dirty word, Gerry Anderson inventor of Thunderbirds made a live action Sci-Fi movie about a second Planet Earth on the other side of the Sun, it was first known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun later is was re-issued as Doppelganger

Hiya. And there you go, right at the end! We say Caribbean differently, too! You emphasise the 2nd syllable, we emphasise the 3rd. The speed of our pronunciations differs slightly, too, I would say. Going back to childhood medicines, my favourite taste was that of Galloway's Cough Mixture/Syrup. Quite strong and sharp. Stay safe. All the best to you.

With regard to Paracetamol it's often prescribed/recommended as an alternative to Aspirin, because some people are allergic to Aspirin. Also, Aspirin has blood thinning properties that may even lead to internal bleeding. I myself could easily tolerate Aspirin, but following a stroke that I suffered some years ago I was put on Warfarin to thin my blood - the dosage of which is constantly monitored. This meant that from that moment on I was instructed to no longer take Aspirin or Ibuprofen. I found that Paracetamol on it's own was often not strong enough, but I was able to get it combined with a small amount of Codeine or Caffeine, which was more effective. On pronunciation, British English and American English are frequently at odds with each other when it comes to pronouncing the vowel element of words. We Brits say a long vowel i.e. miss-EYE-le and hoss-TIE-le for missile and hostile. Whereas in the US they'd be pronounced miss-EL and hosst-EL. And there are many, many other examples. Then there are instances where Brits pronounce words with a short vowel, but the Americans a long one i.e. semi - sem-EE versus sem-EYE etc.

Doppelganger is a super common term in the UK, I'm surprise that person hadn't heard of it. I worked at an American summer camp, we died 2 one month sessions but some kids stayed for the whole 2 months. It was on a lake, with cabins, just like Friday 13th. Loved it

I recall doing a summer camp as a kid in the UK but it was for a 5-day week. It was fun: quad bikes, climbing, ziplines, archery, computer games. No cheers or lakes. Calpol is FULL of sugar, so it does taste nice. Calpol is paracetamol suspension. Paracetamol is just the weakest painkiller available, aspirin is also quite common for mild symptoms. A slightly stronger painkiller you might get with prescription is co-codamol. We do say doppelganger. Those of us in the UK who have watched "How I met your mother" also say doppelbanger

I was going to say that Doppelganger is a common word in the UK, but several people beat me to it. Interesting you talking about different pronunciation of Barbados, because there's also different pronunciations of Caribbean. Keep up the good work , I always enjoy your videos.

When I was at school (70's-80's) I had 12 weeks (late June-September) summer holiday. This was then shortened with extra holidays dotted throughout the rest of the year.

I would have thought doppelganger would be pretty widely known here in the UK, with the meaning being the same as in the US. I've never heard of cornhole though - it doesn't look like a very interesting game really, so I'm not surprised that it hasn't caught on over here! :)

The stuff about sledding/sledging/bobsleds etc could also be due to regional differences. You have to remember that different parts of the UK have VERY VERY different vocabularies. Someone from Newcastle will have a completely different vocabulary to someone from London, for example. Also, the person who didn't know what a doppelganger is may have just misheard you / not understood your accent. Isn't the word originally German or something? It's a very common word. The country Chile is also pronounced VERY differently in the UK to USA.

I am in Belgium and here it is quite common to get your kids for 1 week on a sleep-out-camp in a vast array of themes. These themes can be sportive, adventurous and /or cultural or focussed on learning some fun things. Some are also entertained in different countries. Parents will usually book a family vacation somewhere in Europe or even in an other continent :-) Of course influenced by the fact parents have 30+ days to take off from their job.

Enjoyed the show, ta!

Kaylyn (not sure if the spelling) this is the first time I've seen an episode since moving back to the UK and I'm still getting used to the serious changes of weather within 2 minutes... I'm sure the cloud that passed you was passing me as I watched it. It seems (like in every country) there are expressions that are commonly used in one part that aren't in another... I'm definitely familiar with doppelganger, but I'm not sure I'd use it - I'm more likely to say 'twin'. Also, Calpol is definitely a happy thing for parents more than kids - they'd make a joke about it and after the evil smelling stuff they had for cough mixture, it must have been a godsend. To be honest, I first heard of pigs in blankets when I went to Ireland too long ago. Thanks for your naturally lit studio!!

I don't know how many Brits call them, pigs in a blanket', my family call them 'pigs in blankets', dropping the middle 'a' which to my ear seems superfluous.

Just to add to the Doppelganger debate. 'Doppelganger' was a film made by Gerry Anderson of 'Thunderbirds' fame in 1969. In the USA it was called 'Journey to the Far Side of the Sun' with Roy Thinnis staring.

We don't use doppelganger very often, because there is a perfectly good English word which means the same thing : “double”, as in “I Was Monty's Double”. While talking about Barbados, you mentioned the Caribbean, putting the emphasis on the “i”. We pronounce it putting the emphasis on the double “b”, which changes the sound of the word completely.

Sledging is also something done in summer, mainly on a cricket ground and particularly between the Poms and the Aussies, but the Aussies tend to do it to every other country that walks out onto the field, but it gets serious with the to and froms . ( rhyming slang )

One reason that extended residental summer camps are far less common in the UK (as in Canada) is, of course, the length of the Long Vac or summer holiday. However, other reasons for this include less clement weather, and that boarding schools are more common than in the US.

I use the word doppelgänger. I think it’s fairly common. Otherwise we might talk about someone being our “double”.

🇨🇦 My friends just across the border in Washington state 🇺🇸 invited us often to play croquet in a park near them. We would play in Peace Arch Park along the border and often the ball would end up in Canada, and we’d have to go get it. However you can just walk in and out of the park between countries, but croquet was definitely a game they loved to play.

I'm behind on your videos, but I'm loving them. I first got into comparison videos watching Feli From Germany. It's always fun to learn about different cultures or just differences in what each country calls a certain item. That's also true just across the US. I'm looking forward to watching more.

I think Kalyn is great, she is the perfect American as she understands British humour, respects British culture, but understandably wants some home comforts (just saw her breakfast cereal video), I can totally understand, I would be the same if in the US. I miss the "for almost 10 years" part though, haha, as I am binge watching her videos. Yeah Calpol is always mentioned here in the UK, I don't remember how it tasted but I know my mum gave it to me as a baby.

doppleganger is known and used in uk , it even made it into dr who - the gangers - summer camp is for parents who don't want kids

Doppelganger: this is a fairly common German borrowed word, like Schadenfreude, Zeitgeist or Gemutlichkeit. 'Speak in French if you can't think of the English for a thing', said the Red Queen to Alice. She did not mention German.

when I was growing up in the UK we had pig in a blanket that was a pork sausage wrapped in a slice of bread, sometimes a slice of bread buttered and coated in English mustard, then much later it became cocktail sausage wrapped in bacon.

Another great video! The word Doppelganger, I have heard of it, but normally in the UK we would use "spitting image" I have never heard of Cornhole! As for the sun shining, that's better than "its dark of Bills mothers"

Yep - Doppelgänger is widely used in the UK

I'm sure there are many place names pronounced differently in UK/USA, two that come to mind are Ibiza and Iran.

Summer camps in the UK ARE generally for children in the scouts/guides,air cadets or army cadets,who go to a camp for a week,while in the air cadets,every summer I went to an RAF station for a week,

Thanks Kalyn. Really interesting (as always). Firstly, yes - as a Brit I know what doppelgänger means and it is a term widely used in the UK. You also inadvertently showed how you pronounce another place name that we say differently. And that’s the Caribbean. You pronounce it with the syllables split differently ‘ca - rib - ee-an’ - with the emphasis on the middle part (‘rib’). Whereas we pronounce it ‘cari - bee - an’ - with the emphasis on the first syllable (‘cari’). Another country you pronounce differently is Tunisia. We say ‘Too - nis - ee - aa’ and you pronounce it as ‘Too - nee - zsaa’. PS: to all the English language snobs, there’s no right or wrong way as to how a country pronounces something. It’s correct for each nation.

As a kid in England, I once went to camp for 3 weeks. That was 50 years ago, and I’ve never heard of one since!

An established over the counter painkiller is Aspirin, the soluble version dissolved in water and you would drink it, for various reasons it’s not used so much now.

I call my Shark vacuum cleaner 'the Hoover' the previous Dyson was also a Hoover, everything I've ever owned that sucked dust out of a carpet has been a Hoover but not a one of them was ever made by Hoover, it was the leading brand when I was a kid so vacuuming has always been hoovering.

Doppelgänger is a common word in British usage, it comes originally from German folklore. I think the reason that the US uses summer camps so much is that parents don’t get as much time off work as they do in the UK, so it’s a good way of giving your kids something to do for the long summer holidays.

Yup, I find paracetamol practically useless, especially compated to ibuprofen. Now, when cut with opiates, it's a different matter. Co-codamol (paracetamol + codiene) is good stuff.

On summer holidays in UK, Northern Ireland generally has 9 weeks off school, with Scotland having 8 weeks off.

Hi, I’m 68 an when I was a kid we used to make our own “sledges” normally made out of scrap wood, but I would always say bobsleigh (as in Santa clauses sleigh) and not bobsledge

I’m British and know and have used the term doppelgänger.

Girl Scouts - there's another difference right there. Boys go to scouts, girls go to guides. Boys start off in cubs, then go to scouts when they're older and then Venture Scouts at 17 or 18. Girls start off in Brownies, then go to Girl Guides when they're older and then join the boys in Venture Scouts at 17 or 18. And doppelgänger is a perfectly normal word, although technically it's an evil spirit that has replaced you.

Another couple of geographical pronunciation differences, one of which you said - Caribbean, we pronounce it more like carry be an. Another is Iraq and Iran, we pronounce it as one word whereas Americans pronounce it like eye rack or eye ran.

A stronger painkiller is paracetamol + codeine, sometimes sold as co-codamol,

When I heard “sledging” I immediately thought “Cricket” and throwing insults to put your opponents off their game. Didn’t know it had anything to do with snow. Aus pov

My daughter loved the taste of children's Motrin, which is ibuprofen, in the U.S. At 26, she still speaks fondly of it, as well as, 😉a flavoring they put in an antibiotic she occasionally needed as a child.

The word for a brand name that has been used so much that it has become the standard word to use to the point the brand loses their trademark is 'Genericized'. Such as 'fridge' or 'refrigerator' which used to be brand names. I seem to remember that 'Aspirin' is only a trademarked brand in the US now. Everywhere else it's just the word for that drug.

Doppelganger is certainly a word that is used in the UK, not something that crops up in everyday conversation but I would have expected most people to have heard of it and have some vague idea what it meant.

Omg I love your hat!!! 😍

You missed the obvious one the Caribbean :) Love the contant as a UK resident living in SEA. subscribed with your excellent explanation of why I should. Keep at it

Doppelgänger is one of those German words that is known and sometimes used in the UK, like Schadenfreude and Zeitgeist. Your last difference about the pronunciation of Barbados reminded me of another pronunciation difference between UK and US: Caribbean, pronounced carry-bee-ann in the UK.

Ahh Calpol.. that is true I do have fond childhood memories of the taste

in a program about ambulances in the UK, they tend to give liquid paracetamol which is fast acting as a painkiller before they use opiates

Doppelgänger is used in the UK just as you described the American usage, but given how infrequently you’re going to encounter someone so similar to someone else you know I can believe that someone could just have not heard the word before. So it’s not a commonly used word but only because it’s not a common situation.

As I understood it Doppelgänger has it's origins in the mountains.....at certain times of the year the mist/fog/cloud would be very thick and would be there even in sunshine, you could see the sun light and this would cause strange effects like you could see yourself coming towards yourself?? it's just an optical effect.....see things like 'The Electric Brae'.

I was born here in the UK and lived here 56 out of my 57 years and have never heard of Doppelganger! Also, you just said it...another name mentioned differently you didn't reference about....The Caribbean!!! There was some sort of a board game with dice in a plastic cup in the 1970s called TROUBLE in Canada as a kid growing up but it was called differently over here in the UK which was called FRUSTATION! Of course, when we emigrated over there then, we had to find out the hard way the differences in English phrases and words and alike.

In regards to Summer Camp - I am British but my cousins moved to Massachusetts when they were about 8 or 9 and I would often go and visit them on my summer holidays. On a couple of occasions we ended up at Summer Camp and, being very young and the only Brit kid there and a total fish out of water, I pretty much hated them. The only great memory I have was when they put on a footy (soccer) match in my honour and I ran rings around everyone and I felt like Ronaldo, lol. We do have something very similar here in the UK but they're not so much "summer camps" and more like week-long adventure holidays that (at least sun my day) we would go on with our school. The big one back when I was a kid was called PGL (I cannot remember what it stands for but we used to say it was short for "Parents Get Lost"!) and I am pretty sure they still exist. There was another one whose name I cannot quite remember also.

lol you just agreed with my last statement, and I agree with yours too!

For 2 different years I spent a couple of weeks on holiday to the lake District for an outward bounds camp.

It's much more common in the UK for kids to go on a week trip away with their school or scouts.

Paracetamol is also known as Panadol for a brand name. You can buy a stronger version of paracetamol, called co-codamol. You must ask to buy it over the pharmacist counter. It has a percentage of codeine, so the pharmacist has to check you know how to take it, you dont have an allergy to it, and you dont combine it or have other meds it may react with. It's not as strong as as the full prescription strength co-codamol, and the pack size and amounts you can buy is limited. As to summer holidays, UK schools now have rules about not allowing kids to go on annual family holidays in term time. Parents usually have to book them in the summer 6/7 week school holiday. Summer camps are usually for a week or so, and organised by the Scouts, Girl Guides, or as part of The Duke Of Edinburgh Award, via a school or club. Here in Yorkshire we pronounce it as Bar-bay-dos , we almost slightly pause between each syllable, and we don't make the last one longer, or sound like hoss.

Yes I’ve heard the term doppelgänger and understood it to mean the same as you said.

Doppelgänger is very commonly used in uk. I’m surprised that that are people who do not know what it means. Summer camp activities sound like what the Boy Scouts and girl guides do. Also we have the duke of Edinburgh awards which lot of young people are involved in and are completely free. Lot of great activities for children like mountain climbing, hiking,sailing cooking and many other life skills.

I think in the UK the term doppleganger tends to have ghostly or phantom like connotations so if you saw someone on the street who was almost identical in looks then a Brit would be more likely to use 'lookalike' or 'double' to describe them. Thanks for another interesting video.

Thanks for the video which, like your other videos, I found interesting and enjoyable. I have quite a number of comments. 1. I would like to endorse your comments about American summer camps. Both my daughters worked as counsellors (?) in those during university vacations about 20 years ago. They enjoyed the experience enormously and got a lot out of it. It was clear that the children did as well. 2. The pronunciation of Barbados. It is notable that Americans tend to pronounce foreign, especially Spanish, looking words with a long “a” or “o” sound where British speakers are more likely to use short vowels. Similarly US speakers tend to place the stress on the final syllable of foreign place names, (especially French) and other words where a British speaker would probably use the standard English word first syllable stress. I watched a video the other day where the American voiceover stressed the second syllable of “ Biscay” as in “Bay of Biscay” whereas I would stress the first syllable. These are just interesting (to me) differences: neither practice is more or less correct than the other of course. 3. A doppelgänger. I would have thought that this was a perfectly normal word in the UK, pinched from the German. An alternative (you might say “alternate”) phrase we use is simply “a double”. “Doppelgänger” can have a rather more ghostly connotation. 4. Pigs in blankets. As you say, in Britain these are small sausages (chipolatas usually) wrapped in bacon. We eat them with our turkey at Christmas. The American pigs in blankets you picture are like our sausage rolls, though we are more likely to fill the puff pastry with sausage meat than mini hot dog type sausages. It seems to me that the American pastry resembles a blanket more closely than the British bacon does. 5. I noticed that in your introduction you used the phrase “bored of”. A British person of my age (74) would probably say “bored with”, though “bored of” is quite common now among younger people. Thanks again and good luck with the videos. Nick

Doppelganger is a very common word in the UK - don't assume your friend is that bright, lol

Yeah, your friend just has a limited vocab - it's a well known word in the UK, AFAIK. Possibly influenced by US TV and films, but don't remember ever not knowning the word.

Sausage wrapped in pastry is a sausage roll, sausage wrapped in bacon is pigs in a blanket...