We made it better.

I speak Yooper, you would hate it.

Interesting what riles people up, isn't it? Although, I do find it interesting that "the family is" and "the family are" is used interchangeably in the UK. I've always been haughtily chastised that "the family are" is the correct method, despite nobody here saying it that way; I've always assumed "the family is" to be correct because family, despite describing a group, is a single unit. Also, in my region, the freestanding piece of furniture called a cupboard is almost unanimously called a cabinet. I must admit though, I'm curious what word 19th century English authors preferred in place of scientist.

Cupboard is used sometimes in American English when it comes to food storage. We do not use closet for food storage. We would use pantry or cabinet depending. Your example showed food storage.

Try listening to Geechee or Gullah and understand what they’re saying. I can confidently say that you are going to have a very difficult time understanding the speech of that area.

Ok fair point though in Britain nobody says "roach". Thanks for your comment

@@LetThemTalkTV I never knew that. I also never made the puritan connection. I grew up in New England where many of our attitudes are subtly or overtly shaded by that history. I think I had assumed that roach was a less formal variation, because it is shorter. But your explanation feels true now that I’ve heard it. I don’t think my my forebears would have wanted to say cock unless they absolutely had to.

Not for the last part of a joint we don't.

Cockroach is a bug. Roach is the last bit of a doobie (marijuana cigarette).

​@@Sk8Betty. a roach is a kind of a fish.

The etymology of OK is interesting. When Martin Van Buren was running for president in 1836 he would refer to his home town of Kinderhook NY as the best place in the country. He called his estate, Old Kinderhook and on the campaign trail shortened it to OK. Although Van Buren wasn't that great a president, OK stuck as meaning something positive.

@@edwardauerbach8036 The Van Buren story is widely circulated but wrong.The term O.K. showed up in print when Van Buren was a barely known N.Y. politician. If a word shows up in print like in a newspaper, you can be sure it was in spoken existence before that. The early 1800’s in America was a time many colleges were founded such as Colgate, Colby, Hamilton for examples. Most were established out in the boondocks in small , quiet, peaceful locations that were called college towns. In those days college education included Greek and Latin. Typically the well heeled and well bred students looked down on the poorly educated farmer bumpkins that populated the campus’ local area. It very quickly became the practice for the students to greet each other in Greek or Latin to show off their superior intelligence and emphasize to the locals how dumb they were considered. The Greek words for “ALL’S WELL” were pronounced “OLA KELA” by the American students. Perfect Classical Greek would be “EULA KELA” but the students weren’t perfect, the Greek alphabet wasn’t an exact matching sound to the Latin letters, and the Americanized “OLA” was easier. The O.K. that spread around the world is from Ola Kela meaning all’s well in Classical Greek. The locals didn’t know what Ola Kela was exactly but they picked up on the soon popular shortcut initials O K as meaning something like just fine, no problem.

Yes an that word came from British settlers.

Otay Panky!!

Sebutan "OK" merupakan serapan dari bahasa asli orang Indian.

That's what I thought it meant all these years! Thanks for the info!

Interesting. Thanks.

All those Z you use in that paragraph would be all S in British english

That's amazing haha!

Well it does seem in character for him lol

Along with amazing slang and shorthand which is uniquely Australian.

To me, as a German outsider, Australian sounds >90% British. Could you give some examples of American influence?

@@RayyMusik Some of the American words that he mentioned in the video are used just as much as the British versions. I think it's just the impact of American pop culture.

I hope to make a video on Australian English soon

@@RayyMusik I'm a German insider as I grew up in Australia and went to school there. People always tell me that I sound British, even native speakers do. That's mainly because Australian English is non-rhotic and the majority doesn't speak what is commonly known as an Aussie slang. Here are just a few examples of "American" influence that spontaneosly come to my mind: We used yard instead of garden, truck not lorry. Family, police, group, etc. used as a singular not plural. The word secretary was pronounced the American way, "sec-re-tary" not "sec-re-tree" (BE). The teachers at school always did point out the difference to BE though. There are probably many more examples I just can't think of at the moment.

Even if you studied English at school or university you will never speak or sound like a native English, I think a Paki accent is very strong just like the call centers when they call you over the phone claiming to be named Steve or Dave, their accent is a big give away. lol

There is also a difference in language between the north and south United States. I lived most most of my life in northern United States and I have lived in the south for seven years and I have picked up on their lingo

I live in the middle of the States and I refer to the parking space in front of our home as the Car Park. In the late 80's I was doing graduate study in Blacksburg University in Virginia. The locals spoke about four or five old English dialects. The locals were amazed by my spoken English. I was often asked how I learned to speak TV. Many were not aware that the spoken English on TV is very much based on the geographic center of the States.

Congrats mere dost! I'm working on my Hindi, daily. I don't really speak Bengali. Dated one, but that was long ago.

Stop trying to act white. You are not & will never be

In Australia shall and may is affected and formal too. Yes, can is more usual, although of course speaking to ability really. A bit of a compromise to be a bit more polite than can but not as pretentious as may, we'd say could i

Shall is for the Bible

The can/may distinction is bunk in its context anyways. The kid can't go to the washroom without permission because the teacher will stop him.

I’ve been listening to various versions of a 1930s song recently called “Yes, My Darling Daughter”. The lyrics are a conversation between a mother and daughter, and each of the latter’s lines begins with “Mother, may I…?” People in the ‘30s were probably more likely to used the word “may” in this way than today, although only if they’d been taught to do so because it was considered more polite or high-class.

I don't think Americans understand the word "shall" considering the massive debate we have over what the phrase "shall not be infringed" means

Family is a collective noun like class so it takes a singular verb in the US. I say my class is driving me nuts, not are.

@@tammywilliams-ankcorn9533that’s what I was taught as well.

Using plural verb forms for singular collective nouns just sounds so wrong to my ears that I can't help but notice it every time it comes up, even if the nouns in question are referring to a group of multiple people. I can understand the semantic reasoning, but still.

I noticed this use of plural verbs with singular collective nouns begin to creep into American English from British English in the early 1980's. You might be surprised as to the context. I first noticed it being used by American fans of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The American kids were simply imitating the way their favorite musicians spoke. I don't believe it was even an affectation. I think the kids didn't know any better and assumed the musicians were correct--and simply copied them blindly.

Yeah, I think he flipped that one

It must be different in different parts of the US. Here, in Texas, you hear skillet and frying pan used interchangeably.

@@santadavid3320 my family is from Texas, and I lived in Dallas, and I agree that in the south skillet was used more broadly. But this is changing as “northern” standards are getting disseminated.

I'm from New Mexico and have lived in various parts of the US, and have worked in kitchens with people from all over the US. You might be used to a calling only cast iron pans skillets, but in my experience, skillets refer to nearly any type of frying pan excluding sauté pans.

@@zenbear4149 My family is from AL and MS and they would never call a cast iron skillet a frying pan. Might be a subculture thing too.

@@santadavid3320 Southern dialects are the closest to British.

My circle in the US call it a cabinet wherever it was.

A cupboard can be a small room in British English as in "the cupboard under the stairs" so the "translation" was correct.

You covered the points I observed. Well done.

The guy is entertaining, but he doesn't know shit about the States. He's a provincial Rube.

There are no female *briefs* in American English. They are called panties.

Amen to that!

And Americans kind of fought an entire war against the king, so not sure why we would be expected to use the King's English.

It kinda buggs me that American English is officially not the official language of the United States of America, even if everything else would suggest so, including your comment on legitimizing American English. Your history included, Anglosizing names, how "Dutch" like Pensylvania Dutch dwindled in the culture, etc. I think that if it was the official language this would also legitimize it, what do you think? It is the defacto official language of the US, for now, since the majority of Americans still speak this language at home also. 78% or so. But I would also focus on the things mentioned in the video how other European linguistical words have shaped the American English. That's how the cookie crumbles. In a way I find it ironic, since I grew up with American military in the Netherlands being Dutch, depending on the teacher I did not speak, use English but American English which for one specific teacher was a very big thing, he taught BBC English in his class. On the other hand Americans saying I didn't speak English when I did. Example with the ABC and the Z [Zed/Zee] now I know my Alphabeth/now I know my ABC's and things like that, when I used BBC English and not American English. For me both are English, but I am more accustomed to American words, and the way of pronouncing things. Like; bath, path, dance, etc. British to me sounds posh and pretentious, like people with a stick up their behinds for their straight posture so the mask won't fall off. Being full aware there are many different types of British English that are totally different from that. Please Brits don't come after me.

@@schiffelers3944 the reason English isn’t the official language of the US is that the framers of the constitution were considering it, but then some of them took a field trip to New York City and walked end to end, and over the course of it, they heard about 19 distinct languages. At which point they realized it’d be a significant infringement on people’s rights to express themselves freely by requiring English to be the only language. And since English was the defacto language anyway, why bother? So they didn’t. Compare that to, say, Ireland, where Irish is the official language, but only like 3% of the people can speak it. English is by far the dominant language of trade and diplomacy and science in the world today, with about 400 million native speakers, and about a billion and a half who use it as a second language. And given the US is the largest population of English speakers in the world by far, and kind of dominates the international entertainment industry, American English is kind of the dominant version. If there is a “correct” version of English (which I don’t think there is) and if you believe in democracy, then the largest population of native speakers is the most correct one. But accents and local dialects are perfectly ok. I’m certainly not going to tell the entire population of Jamaica that they’re doing it wrong. OTOH, the UK still seems to kind of like to look down on people who don’t do it their way, but I think they’re a bit less strident on that nowadays.

@@schiffelers3944 As a brit, I think theres a misunderstanding due to how languagues are looked at, I acknowledge american and british english but I didn't used too and I am sure many brits still think the same, if we understand each other mostly, we think of it as the exact same languange, just like even in our other counties or cities that have different words for things but are still speaking "english" not Liverpool English, Cambridge english or London English, and we look at other countries that way too, we don't say Canadian English, Australian English, or New Zealand English, so it felt strange for me at first to even say or use the term American English, same in the UK even, we don't say, Scottish English or Welsh english either, despite them having many different words to us even in the same language. I only started to say american english because I realised how difficult it was to tell someone I was talking about british english or american english since they were so similar but because when I was comparing them, I needed to tell someone what english I was talking about, that lead me to acknowledging they had to be different.

I know Wikipedia is not the font of all knowledge but I just checked their article on aluminum/aluminium and according to that the original word given to it by its discoverer Humphry Davy was neither aluminum nor aluminium. It was 'alumium'. People objected because it didn't fit its Latin roots properly and started calling it 'aluminium'. Davy later published a paper calling it 'aluminum'. Since then both variants have existed. The 'aluminum' version gained popularity in the USA after it was given as the only possible version in the 'American Dictionary of the English Language' by Noah Webster in 1828. However, although both versions were common, 'aluminium' was more common in the USA until the the 1890s when the situation reversed. In 1925, the 'American Chemical Society' adopted the spelling 'aluminum' as so it has remained in the USA ever since.

@@barrysteven5964 Interesting! Pronunciations always fascinate me.

@@barrysteven5964 An American, such as myself, finds the name HUMPHREY DAVY hilarious, like RICKY BOBBY.

Like the word soccer. That word is British through and through.

@@catholicdad Worse than Ricky Bobby, RB has first names for both names and Humphrey Davy has a last name for a first name and a diminutive for a second name.

A fellow Ukrainian here. I co-sign that ❤ 🇺🇦

In the Netherlands we call the mix of American- and Brittish English:Atlantic English. My generations was educated in middle class British English as hè named it. I still use that version. Kids nowadays are taught that they have two options Atlantic and Brittish. Social media are the determining factor.

Well, he's wrong about just about everything

That makes the two of us.😊

Yep

Don’t know about that one maybe in the northeast but in the south they are called a fish plate and specially what fish is in the description i.e “Catfish (fillets) plate w/ fries,” or “ Catfish nuggets w/ fries .” When a restaurant refers to a fish plate in america as “ fish and chips,” it is usually referring it to the UK version and not american style . So it is more about the specifics in the definition that is the focal point imo . I’m from california by the way and it’s the same out here as well as many other parts of the country !

I think this is in honor of the English origin- just as we say Spaghetti Maranara instead of long Noodles with tomato sauce in honor of it’s Italian origin. “Long noodles” re- emerge with Asian Pho soup

Even in Britain most of what Americans would call fries are still usually called fries (especially from fast food). We just eat the bigger chips more often.

Australian English pronunciation is 95% Cockney English. They are so close that a Cockney friend of mine was asked by a person at the next cafe table, "Which part of Australia are you from?"

Australians have the same Dictionary as English people. There is the English language and there is the American language. You should never learn English from the Internet. All countries around the world, except America, teach correct English.

@@valeriedavidson2785 It wasn't my intention to learn English over the internet, it just happened that way over the years. However, Australians use different terms for certain items. e.g. Flip flops are called thongs in Australia. Australians also like to shorten their terms, e.g.breakfast - breakky, biscuit - bikkie, cup of tea - cuppa, cardigan - cardie, mosquito - mozzie. There are also many proper names in Australia and expressions primarily used in Australia. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLypqd2nv5rOd2w.html

While I'm American, I've spent a lot of time reading British authors like C. S. Lewis, and of course watching Monty Python, Top Gear, etc. As such many of the British words / phrasings seem almost normal to me.

@@valeriedavidson2785 Crikey! You're a bossy Sheila!* And if you think that "All countries around the world" teach "correct" English, you've obviously never spoken with an Indian whose English is further from British than American, although in some cases I think they may be (like us) using words / grammar that have been abandoned by both of us. * apologies to the Aussies for my pathetic attempt at their language.

That's very interesting. Do you have an example?

@@LetThemTalkTV Just find 2 modern children's books one published by an American publisher and another published by a British publisher. That should settle the matter, right?

I actually agree with this practice for young children. My grandchildren (aged 5 and 3) watch a lot of children's programmes on things like Netflix and many of them are American and they have picked up a lot of American vocabulary from them not even realising it's American. I am quite happy for kids to know that Americans say ladybugs rather than ladybirds but only once they know the non-USA version first*. We occasionally have to teach them the UK version after they have learned the American one. I have heard Peppa Pig is having a mirror effect on American children. I was really happy the other day to find that Paw Patrol, which is American actually has an alternative British English audio you can switch to.

@@blotski Why was Ladybird Johnson called "Ladybird" if Americans call the insect "Lady bugs"?

“Ladybird” was also used in the U.S. but was never as common as “ladybug”.

Huh. I would actually flip the implied tenses on those last two sentences. To me, "I've gotten a book for you" feels more recent, while "I've got a book for you" feels more distant.

@@TheBlegghyes exactly, I got a book for you means that I already had the book for sometime, while gotten means it was recently acquired.

I was just about to make a similar post.

A cupboard in British English can be also be a small room such as "the cupboard under the stairs". Which is a room.

@@LetThemTalkTV Yes, but I was replying to the image he used. A cupboard is a wall hanging cabinet while a cabinet sits on the floor.

Perhaps unlike Europeans many things like "closets"/armoires, cupboards/pantries, ... are built into the homes versus being furniture. So, maybe our different words describe something similar but built-in (so...actually different). Perhaps, we use the same words for the same types of furniture but not for the built-in equivalents. yes/no?

@@ronnieg1882 In the US we used dresser and wardrobe for furniture holding clothes. A pantry here is basically a closet for food. My original comment was about him being incorrect over the words the US uses and that's it.

I remember a Kiwi girl who wanted go see "Eeko Seeven" I was like what?

I don't know where you're from, but reckon is a very commonly used word in Texas.

@@VicSage1836 Hell some of us in Detroit still say it because our parents and grandparents came from the south.

I had a maritime career and we used the term, 'reckon,' quite a bit. Perhaps it's because one of the most basic forms of navigating is known as 'dead reckoning,' so it doesn't sound so weird to say, "By my reckoning we are 2 miles from the shore." Anyways, you're absolutely right that most people think of 1840s prospectors when they hear the word

​@VicSage1836 it's still used here in the north too. Usually from either an elderly person, or a backwoods country fella.

Venezuelan here. In Venezuelan Spanish we also say "um hum" (we spell it "umjú" the J sounds as an H) to mean yes, and "uh uh", to mean no. Never thought that was African in origin. I just searched and is also used in Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribean.

In the German language we use 'mmh ... mm' all the time. Either it came into the language by American influences or the German immigrants brought it with them to the US, too.

@@luigir9265 that’s strong evidence that it may have an African origin- caribeño Spanish and US English are both strongly influenced by West African languages

I’m not sure if everyone agrees that this is of African origin, but I do know that various non-word noises like this were already present in American English by the early 1800s. A visiting British writer commented on them as something he’d never heard before but which he thought were so useful that he found himself using them too - “mm-hmm”, “hunh”, etc.

umm hmm is used in Czech language very naturally and it is hard to imagine that it would have african origins

A very interesting insight. Thanks for your comments.

I never got that resentment. The only reason Americans were even there is because they asked. It's not like the US just decided to kick the door in and butt into everyone's bar brawl. No one wants to leave home and go off to war. No one sane anyway. So their umbrage was more than a little insulting.

@@Lukos0036 I have an idea, I would think for some brits (not all) that it would be humiliating to know that we even needed to ask for help, we didn't ask because we "wanted" too as you put it, in WW2 we were forced too, due to being bombed and having germany trying to cut of our supplies and starve us. We weren't in a good shape. I wasn't there, I'm in no way old enough to be there but this is just from what I learned in history classes and me thinking of what brits who were more political involved and very proud of their country, I'm sure for some brits who were a bit more patreotic, than we are now, too admit that we were no longer the super power and watch the US take centre stage would likely rub some of us the wrong way, WW2 was around the time the british empire started to fall, so I think there probably would have been some hurt egos on our side. I do of course think the resentment was wrong but I do think it was understandble for brits who were more proud because of britains standing in the world, then to be told, "that is no longer the case and, US has now taken that place and also because of the war we're now broke XD" I'm sure many others didn't care, were happy for the help and were just happy we survived and helped win the war though.

@@pipercharms7374 Something you need to understand about the US in that era is that most people were quite happy to be insular. They didn't want to be involved in what they saw as "Europe's problem". No one wanted to go fight and die for people they knew hated them.They could have easily focused on the Pacific alone since Japan was the nation that directly attacked them first and worst. But they did anyway. And when they did show up they were met with resentment hostility and egotism. And Americans still get that attitude abroad to this day. It's not as bad, but it's still there. And it feeds the American desire to stay at home and let the rest of the world do whatever. It's not a perfect country, no one is. We have made our share of colossal fuckups. But do at least try to fix them. It's just a damn shame everyone hates us for it when they're guilty of the same and worse. It wouldn't surprise me if Ukrainians start hating us again after their war is done.

@@Lukos0036 I think you misunderstood what I'm saying. I wasn't saying it was right to feel resentment, I even said it was wrong and many brits in WW2 were very greatful for the help Americans gave, when Europeans talk about positives of the US, MANY bring up the US's help in the World Wars, especially WW2. What I am saying some of it that it is understandable. I don't think it's right at all but I think I can understand where the resentment comes from if I put myself in brits shoes around WW2 times. Imagine you were fighting a war against, lets say Russia, then were told unless you accept help from China, you'll likely lose and be invaded and conqured by Russia but by accepting you are admitting to every other nationality, that the US is no longer the number one ecomony and China will be taking over the world stage and now, all the attention you are used to having, including majority of other countries focus is now on China, and influence will start to come from them now, not you, not on a big scale anyway. Today, some older brits, I think still hold that resesment but I think any dislike now comes from a different area. After, all the majority of brits weren't alive when this all went down, so theres this detachment to it all, like why should we care about our ex empire that did horrible things? Just from some media I've seen, sometimes I think americans think we dislike them for that still but the majority of us don't feel any attachment to our past empire, it's barely taught in schools and it's looked on more as something shamfull, rather than something to be prideful of and angry . You'll still see some brits trying to take pride in it, on the internet but definitelly not walking about, it's not a common opinion to have. Now a days I think the resesment comes from because of how much US media we consume, we often see Americans calling themselves the greatest country in the world, that isn't done over here, no one calls the UK the greatest, now one thing we dislike the most is when we think someone thinks their superior to us, not because we think we're superior though but the main thought being, no country is the best, each have good points about them. The US calling themselves the greatest or even saying they used to be the greatest really rubs us and I assume other europeans the wrong way. If you think someone think's they're the greatest, then I think it's a natural response to feel the need to drag them down a peg or two. So I feel like many brits and other eurpoeans feel the need to get defensive when we feel like by calling itself superier, that Americans are looking down on the rest of us. When talking about cons about Americans (generising of course) A common theme is us thinking that americans can think too highly of themselves. Another thing that could also put perspective onto this, is because our main language is english, then that's what your mainly hearing, countries that speak english talking about each other but I am very sure that countries that speak each others languages also talk about each other rudely sometimes too. Someone from Spain, could walk past us and be complaining in spanish about how they think Mexicans think's they're better than Spain but we wouldn't have a clue.

Very interesting to read

Lots of older homes in Kingston, Ontario would have a toilet off the kitchen. Perhaps because a pantry could be easily converted to a powder room. My in-laws had such an arrangement. The kids were instructed to only use that toilet if no visitors were in the house. They had another full bathroom down the hall which had a sink, a toilet and a bathtub. The house was modern, but I think my f-i-l just couldn't let the idea of a toilet and sink in a room off the kitchen drop. That room is very badly placed between the living room and the kitchen and opens into the kitchen. In the early morning rush to get out the door, a 2nd bathroom does make sense though.

@@dinkster1729 That is gross. I can just imagine the smell wafting into the kitchen after someone has eaten Mexican food the night before. LOL

By the way several of our water inlets have descriptive Spanish names. Boca Chica = girl's mouth; Boca Grande = big mouth; Boca Raton = rat's mouth, I like the last one because that is where a lot of rich snooty people live, in the rat's mouth. LOL

Same in VA/MD and most of the US. Chesapeake is generally believed to mean "at a big river" or "great water". Others say "great shellfish bay". There are hundreds/thousands of place names. For example, Potomac, Quantico, Allegheny. This is similar throughout the US.

Staten island too

Bronx is a Dutch formal name, von Bronck’s plantation, whereas Haarlem & Brookline are descriptions of an area. Even Coney Island, island of rabbits.

New york was originally called new Amsterdam

How about adopting the alphabet?

Agreed, I have never heard anyone say the government are here in the states.

I was about to comment the same thing, you beat me to it.

If I got that the wrong way round, my apologies. I hope you enjoyed the rest of the video

England are out of the world cup! Of course the US are out, too... 🙂

This is true. Used to work with Brits and this would throw me of often

I personally have never heard it used that way. I would just say a bit more time and drop the tid, though I don't know if that's just me being younger type thing. I've only heard it as the information example of "that's an interesting little tidbit you just told me" but even that is very very rare

In canada donut holes from tim hortons are called "timbits"

Actually, it's older than that. A "flash in the pan" was when a Flintlock firearm was ignited by the spark, but failed to fully go off, makes more sense, right? In Flintlocks you would use a piece of flint that fell down under spring pressure released by using the trigger, to strike a piece of iron to create a spark, which fell into a small pan containing black-powder, when that caught flame a small hole to the chamber of the firearm would allow that to ignite the main charge and fire the weapon. So it was a misfired weapon, only a "Flash in the pan".

@@Myrtlecrack o, very cool, thanks for correcting my error😊

Yes, I fear it was less about marketing (this was a book, not a movie) and more about American children's supposed ignorance of the alchemical term; although some kids in the 1960s knew about the Philosopher's Stone since it was discovered and wielded as a weapon by the D.C. Comics super-villain "Dr. Alchemy".

you sure you’re not nigerian?

🤪🤪🤪😁😄😂😂🤣🤣. Keep on going! To me, it sounds like reading the King James Version (KJV) Bible. 😁😄😂🙏🤝

@@michmbolingaba7310 I did finally finish it. All in all, it was a pretty good book. (No, I didn’t figure out who the murderer was. 🙂)

Your comment is great! Thanks

To “bury the hatchet” comes from Native Americans, but since cowboy / western fiction was hugely popular in Germany, that’s probably where it came from.

This one took a lot of work but I'm glad you liked the result. Etymology is a fountain that never runs dry. A lot more to come...

Good to know you are willing to stop "slagging off" (a new term to me) North American English after watching and listening to Gideon's video.

@@LetThemTalkTV huge fan Gideon. Keep it coming!

Learnt? Probably you meant learned. Also, I’m guessing you are a smelter. ❤

@@ronridenour243 just to correct you Ron, she meant "learnt". In the UK we say learnt. Maybe you mean cks when you say x. Sox? Oh my. Losing a few "u"s? Color. Honor. Really

Careful - they don't slice bread in England.

They call it a “flap t”

Correct!

Dutch Reformed Calvinists did the same thing in Southwestern Michigan

In Germany this is still the case on Sundays and I must say that I agree with it. Let all people have a free day at home with their families and avoid another rush day on Sunday. Enjoy the silence and the slow motion. Capitalism is killing all us.

@@StuffMadeOnDreams In 21s century America now, the big thing is separation of church and state. The fact that blue laws and being closed on Sundays would be a Christian based law, Americans want nothing to do with it. Those laws could be challenged in court.

Here in Texas, liquor stores are still closed on Sunday, and they're the only stores that can sell spirits. Also on Sunday, you can't buy beer or wine before 12 noon.

@@randalmayeux8880 Massachusetts sort of is like that as far as only packies selling spirits although they’re leaving the decision to allow other retail places to sell liquor up to the community. With the exception of a couple of supermarket chains its quite limited. If you go up to New Hampshire or Maine, you can buy your beer and wine just about anywhere. New Hampshire liquor stores sell them on medium strips on interstates.

SkelEEtal and inVENtree. There are a bunch of words like that. BATree = battery In hillbilly English (American) the alternator in your car is pronounced, "alt-nater". Drives me nuts. And black folks have a completely different language, which, to me, is more interesting than it is annoying.

Yes, indeed lots of those. Too much to cover in this video. Thanks for your insight.

​@@GizmoFromPizmo Trying to get clarity here. Are you saying that alternator is pronounced "alt-nater" in the US? I, as a North American, say all four syllables - AHL-ter-NA-ter. And, I believe that is fairly typical - at least on the west coast.

@@lauraleeogan7523 - No. Most people pronounce it like it's spelled, "ALT-er-na-tor" (4-syllables) but Ohio has a lot of West Virginia and Kentucky influence on the language. It's the hillbillification of English. I've worked around cars quite a but and there are a lot of good-old-boys in that industry. They will charge your BAT-ree and change your ALT-natr. 😆

@@GizmoFromPizmo And get the lug nuts off with a "tar arn".

Accepting every single word is not vibrant and growing. It's a language with 0 personality so to speak

Of course the reason the other languages try to keep their vocabularies “pure” is because our language, English, is so overwhelming and intrusive. Since English at the moment is the predominate worldwide language, we don’t worry if other words creep in.

I once watched a documentary about a very depressed neighborhood / district in a particular English city where many adults passed in their IV drug addictions to their children. Their accents were so thick and unintelligible that most of the dialogue had subtitles since even other British people wouldn’t understand them.

Everyone seems to be between the two these days. No doubt because "the kids" pick up lingo from US movies, but also mobile phones are set for US by default. Give it a few hundred years and proper English will become almost unheard, like current-day Cymraeg.

​@@davey1602 Correct English language will not disappear in favour of a bastardised version In good schools and universities if people correct their children. I am a pensioner but was always corrected by my parents if I said something that was wrong. There is no such thing as "British English".

@@valeriedavidson2785 Even teachers don't have a clue how many Ls are in parallelogram, the differences between meter and metre and don't even bother correcting "could of" any more. You don't need a different version of English when yours becomes the standard through mass media.

@@davey1602 Unfortunately the bastardization of American English has resulted in the abhorrent "me and my..." which has become so commonplace that it is used by news commentators on television (the tele).

Or Caledonian English for those of us who are truly confused.

True! People outside New England talk about a “Boston” accent, but I know of 7 accents (and many words unique to their regions) in the greater Boston area.

@@bethparker3146 That's an interesting perspective which explains why the mid-west and west (Large parts of Texas being the exception) have a common dialect which is considered standard American.

Many thanks, I'm glad you like the videos

CMT Wei The intent of "I am finished" depends on the context. Americans also call American English just plain American.

There's some contraversy over whether the word "whiskey" or "whisky" is of Irish ("uisce beatha") or Scots ("uisge beatha") origin.

Please, couldn't you dwell for a while how the Hollywood industry has filmed My Fair Lady with its must-to-be accents of upper classes or managed them: From a viewpoint of an American?!

yes,

It was a mistake on my part.

Thanks for your comments. I read that "cupboard" was changed to "closet" in the Harry Potter American edition. I'll double check this.

​​@@LetThemTalkTVI don't doubt that the American version of Harry Potter used "closet". That would have shown the translator's (probably one of my fellow Americans) ignorance or lack of awareness that older British homes only had freestanding cupboards or wardrobes in bedrooms. Since older British homes did not have built in closets, I think it likely to have been a translation error to have made any change at all.

I like pantry. It's clearly different than closet or cupboard which are (I think) more generally for clothing or dishware. A pantry, as I use it, is just for food items which don't have to be refrigerated. My own pantry is half & half, cooking items and spices & some foodstuff like nuts.

@@lauraleeogan7523 it’s been awhile, but my memory is that Harry Potter slept in the walled-off area under the stairs, not a piece of furniture, so it would correctly be translated as “closet” in the US.

Ah, as an American, I insist there are no sails in Versailles -- only a sigh.

Read Lord of the Rings or seen the movies? In The Two Towers when Fangorn encounters Pippin and Merry he takes them to an entmoot. That is, the Ents discussing a moot (in the British sense) matter, namely what to do about Saruman. This confused me until I learned that the British and American words have opposite meanings, which happened just now.

@@Fred_Lougee In the case of the entmoot, JRRT was going to an older usage of 'moot', for 'a meeting'-not quite the same as either modern usage.

that's funny you see youtube as a formal environment, cause i see it as the complete opposite

A cupboard in British English can also be a small room as in "the cupboard under the stairs" . The American "translation" was correct.

@@LetThemTalkTV no, the British may call a closet a cupboard, but Americans would not call a separate piece of furniture like you showed in the video a closet. We’d call it a cupboard or cabinet, or even a wardrobe or armoire if it stored clothes. But not a closet. Your American “translation” was INCORRECT.

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I heard that the term “teenager” was invented by Time Magazine, a popular weekly news publication, in the 1950’s to describe the generation growing then. Time Magazine invented many new words in that period.

In the old days, when one went into a baseball game, a ticket taker tore the ticket in half, the spectator kept half. If rain (or otherwise) stopped the game before halfway, the half ticket could be used for a future game. Thus a rain check.

A spigot is the piece that one turns to get the flow, while a tap or faucet is the part from which the water or other liquid comes out.

Being that American English is so young, that would be a great assessment.

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People who say "I was sat" and "I was stood " are frowned upon in England as it is incorrect. I am an elderly lady now but when I was growing up you never heard that. I am afraid standards have slipped. However I do dislike seeing American English because that is incorrect too.

@@valeriedavidson2785 please be clear I never said it was incorrect I said it was different. Trying to label another countries use of English as “incorrect“ it’s a slippery slope that I do not intend to try to navigate. Judging peoples use of English can be looked upon unfavorably as well.

@@pjschmid2251 UNFAVOURABLY.

@@valeriedavidson2785 you must be delightful at parties /s

@@pjschmid2251 I am.

Glad to hear it.

yeah, not a good example of a collective noun.