I thought they said they had a hard time hearing the differences in American accents. and the American girl probably didn't know the names of the different UK accents, and the UK girl didn't bring it up.

American accents have more variation than UK accents, only because the us covers more area

@@demolition3612 Really depends, a Woolie back sounds a lot different than a Scouser and there's only 14 miles between the town and city.

After Mary Poppins, *everyone* knows the Cockney accent (if I'm not mistaken)

@@demolition3612 I'm pretty sure the UK has more variation, possibly a lot more. It's more about how long the population has had to diverge than the area or even the total population

We French say "Automne" for Autumn

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 it is very similiar

@@deutschmitpurple2918 It is. Did you know most English words come from French roots ?

Nah it‘s northern germanic

Well the English word "autumn" was borrowed from Old French _autompne_ , which then came from Latin _autumnus_ .

Only "Ferien-Apartement"

@@k-town873 There i only know "Ferienwohnung".

Yes...only Wohnung...Appartment is only for some very specific contexts.

And you've identified a problem with asking very young people who may confuse what they hear locally with what their whole country would say. Or even sometimes they think they are using the proper word but are using today's popular slang word.

That's just not true. English floor labeling is uncommon but not nonexistent.

As a child I would often hear that terminology as the Queen's English from most my grandparents and even my mother when she wanted me to speak "properly". I'm American just for clarification.

@@cmac1600 If she wants you to speak properly, then you should use the American words since you're and American. Using the UK words would be improper. 😉

I'm from the Republic of Ireland and my father is from Northern Ireland. As a child, I never understood why he had his own words for things. He called a "jumper" a "pullover", and he called the "sofa" the "settee", and I used to think it was weird and exclusive to him.

@@ShizuruNakatsu Well that just makes things more complicated as he’s from the uk but using American terms other than settee a settee is a type of sofa

even more fun is that technically the *american* words and accent are the old ones. I think they're revealed that we're still using a tweaked version of the 16th century speechways from where people emigrated. glad I grew up on britcoms.

Same here.

Better than my definition of a jumper, which is a person that wants to end their life by jumping off a building.

@@benwagner5089 No that's definitely what a jumper is in America.

@@antmess9789 you haven't seen Crocodile Dundee 2 in a while, haven't you?

As a brit, I'll never understand why you call a jumper a "sweater". Or call our scones "biscuits"

Classmate is fairly common as well.

Mating is different America

We do use the word housemate too

lol i mean in america its definitely weird to just say "mate" like if you called someone your "best mate" you'd probably get jabbed for it

@@anonacc4830 it's obvious to see that she meant "mate" by itself.

my fav american accent is from texas because i love cowboy movie 😂

True 😂

I was gonna say lmao When she started saying the words I was like "that's New Yorker/Brooklyn" accent. Boston has more of a wider "ah" sound, not diphthongs like New Yorker accent.

Christina is from Boston, not Shannon.

@@alistairt7544 I love a Brooklyn accent. Like Marissa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny 😂

Dungarees was a BRAND of overalls in America.

Dungarees (Dongari Kapar) is like jeans (from the French name for Genoa) and denim (from Nimes). It's referring to the various fabrics the overalls are made of. The term "overalls" refers to them being originally an outer loose trouser for working in. There were waist-overalls and bib-overalls. You'll hear them referred to as bibs too in the USA.

I love her 😊 she’s always so sweet and funny

No, she already said in her previous videos that she can imitate an Australian accent well enough than any other. That is why she might be showcasing her talent to fake her accent in that vid.

It's getting boring now, they don't have any Italian woman on here😔

@@Fatherland927This is getting boring. Worlds Friends did host someone from Italy 🇮🇹 Why can't they bring her along with us Europeans 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇦

I totally agree with you

Same in Ireland actually. In an apartment building it would be ground, first, second, third, etc. But if I'm at home, it's the first floor of my house or the second floor of my house (but usually we never have to say it in that context so we just say upstairs and downstairs).

The people who designate floor names in public buildings are inclined towards finding names that everyone will understand, and the ground floor is very understandable as the ground floor wherever you might be. Whether the floor above it is the first floor or the second floor is not as important, as long as everyone can see the number on the elevator button.

Well no the Old English word for Autumn is hærfest which is the root word for harvest in modern English, the word 'fall' is more recent and seems to be exclusive to America as England has been calling the season Autumn since the 1300s.

@@joeb7640 Autumn and Fall had surpassed the former "harvest" and were both being used in England in the 1600s when the settlers came over to the U.S. Over time the UK started preferring to use autumn and the U.S. continued to use both.

@@joeb7640 Interesting. I was wondering why none of those two season words was a cognate to German, when all other season and month names are at least somewhat related. There it is (German: Herbst).

This is actually the story behind a lot of linguistic differences. The UK used to use it when they colonized. They stopped using it after we broke away. They think we’re weird for using it.

@@joeb7640 fall was a fairly common poetic way to refer to the season in late middle english and early modern english, or rather the full phrase it is short for: “þe fall of þe leaf,” counterpart to “þe spring of þe leaf,” or Spring. Autumn is the more recent of the terms, being a direct borrowing from Latin.

Cheers mate.

Right. Americans do use 'mate' in compound words: housemate, roommate,, classmate, etc.

In the UK, a roommate is someone who you share a room with, and a housemate is someone who you share a house with. It's kind of logical.

English term "rubber" for eraser comes from a "A Rubber out- of pencil" also the early erasers were made of actual rubber.

At first they'd be nervous as a cat in a room full a rockin' chairs. Then they'd be as confused as a fart in a fan factory. Followed by feeling like they're elevator don't go all the way up or they ain't the brightest bulb in the box. But once they get it, they'd start grinnin like a possum eatin a sweet tater cause if was a snake it woulda bit 'em. And if you liked these sayings, then call me butter, cause I'm on a roll.

@@michaelpalmer8915 The fact that I understood all that 😂

I have a deep southern dialect, but with the personality of an 80's metal head. And it confuses the heck outta people, cause when they see me, they don't expect to hear a deep southern accent come from a dude with long hair blasting metal music, then I say "Sup, Y'all"

@Phillip Banes the deep southerners deserve it😂

@Phillip Banes I was just joking lol I love the south! And while I’m sure that it happens, I doubt it’s anything more than harmless banter most of the time.

That fourth line ("Chips are cold, chips are hot, chips are chunky and long, chips are round and crispy") almost sounded like Dr. Seuss, haha

windcheater? That’s my first time hearing that

YES. I used to say windcheater but stopped. Amazing how American television shows is a massive influence.

Never heard about trousers before,

Like India the British spent a long time in Australia so that makes sense

Yeah, I think I actually hear Autumn used more, but couldn't say either way for sure

“Fall” is more casual, not slang

I noticed that, too. She did it well, though.

Similarly, the water without the t thing is very much Estuary English and not hugely present elsewhere in the UK. But it seems to have a life of its own now.

We French 🇫🇷 say "Salopette" for "Dungaree"🇬🇧 or Overall 🇺🇸 I'd prefer saying Salopette English is so confusing 😆 A "Jumpsuit" is cover your whole body

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 what about Jersey or Jumper ? Or just Sweater for everything ?

@@Noah_ol11You Can say Jumper as well Sweater is just the Upper body

Omg 😂

Dungarees in the USA is an archaic word for blue jeans. It was used in the US Navy until very recently.

What state? I’m from NJ and the Spanish we learned in school was that of Latin America, we never learned the vosotros form (except for if we ever did a Spain themed “unit”)

@@TheMastermind729 first Ohio and then Georgia. Both taught Castilian Spanish

Plus, Australian English is often somewhere inbetween. Both are chips down there. And then obviously things, which you put on your feet.

As a Brit, and everyone I've known in the northwest, have always used the word pants like the Americans do. We use the word, Underpants/Undies/Underwear for items you wear underneath your pants/joggers/bottoms/trousers.

As a german i was super confused when she said in Germany the Ground floor is 1. LMAO Ive never seen a building where the ground floor was 1 instead of EG lol

I guess they're either counting from the ground or the ceiling? If they're counting from the ground, the bottom floor would be in height zero. If you count the whole floor, some would say you'd end the floor on the ceiling, so that's one whole floor. There's also the idea that you should start counting from one, because zero means there's nothing there. Basically, buildings don't make sense.

@@nodezsh I agree, even though its not like that in germany, the first floor being 0 is stupid lol because its the first floor. When you enter the building its the FIRST floor that you step on. so yeah 0 sense

In what way for Juggernaut?

@@drewnash8113 It comes from the word Jagannath (literally, "Lord of the world"), which is actually the name of a Hindu diety. Hindus in parts of India traditionally hold a chariot festival with large, ornate festive chariots in honor of the deity. The British initially borrowed the word to mean a large heavy truck or lorry. Over time it started being used to describe everything from steamrollers, battering rams, ships, to more generally, large heavy objects.

What's funny is they start of with "mate" which is a similar sidestepping situation in the UK. >.>

I heard both. I know the season Autumn a long time ago before I knew an Autumn a couple of years ago. I usually call it fall though.

I was gonna say this. I used to live in Chicago and two-flats and three- flats are very common. I lived one for a while, but we never referred to the apartment itself as a flat.

In the UK flats are usually a bit small and cramped, while apartment is sometimes used to describe somewhere that is more spacious and open planned, so almost the opposite.

you should listen to the welsh accent we're known for singing :)

Jeez, sorry that my American accent that I was born with and can't control is such a problem for you to hear. Maybe think about how you would like it if someone disrespected you purely because of your accent.

@@TheLegoMaster261 Just to let everyone know, not all people from the United States are as touchy and sensitive over their personality traits.

When I was in school in the 90ties, We started learning British English. Then in the third year, we had a half year course on the differences and the specifics of American English (Spelling differences and vocabulary). In the subsequent years, teachers told us that we were free to use either British English or American English, but we had to stick to one in any one graded assignment or exam. If we mixed both, the less used version would count as "wrong". So since we had much more experience with British English than with American English at that point, almost all of us stuck to British English.

@@chrisrudolf9839 Same here. That is, until the internet conquered the world, then everyone quickly switched to american english. By the time i finished school and went to college, nobody cared anymore. Also i had english teachers in college (for business english and literature english) who originated from Scotland, the US, Ireland, UK and even one from South Africa. That, and the fact that I grew up trilingual from the crip, resulted in me having a pretty much indefinable accent. In all the languages I know. In german ppl think i'm bavarian or from the Allgäu, in french and spanish i seem to sound like a basque and in english like a whatever but native, or so i was told by many native english speaking students at my local university.

A woolen pullover is a sweater in the USA. A sweatshirt is made from cotton. Two entirely different articles of clothing.

england didnt change from soccer to football, it was always football. soccer was a nickname that stopped being used.

Aluminium was not discovered by a Brit, only the name.

@@cultoftyler9045 Yes, and it couldn't be more British. Soccer was a public school slang term (oh, here we go - UK "public school", i.e. very expensive private one) for Association Football, the game regulated by the FA, originally a public school influenced organisation which modernised and codified a very ancient traditional game with many local variants. It is formed in the same way as "rugger" for Rugby football, which still has a very public school culture. (Then there's Rugby League - stop me, someone!) Naturally, Americans need to distinguish FA football from the game they know as football. Australians also say "soccer", as they play yet another different game they call Australian (or less formally Aussie) Rules football. Edit PS Sorry, CultOfTyler, I'm sure you know all this, I just thought it might be useful for some, to have it in the comments.

@@londongael414 aussies usually just call both games footie, it depends on region who call it soccer

@@artemislogic5252 Ah, thank you! I love the way Australians shorten every word! 😄

Also there are almost five times as many people living in the U.S. as live in the U.K.

@@alanlight7740 You are quite correct. However, did you include the potential speakers of the King's English from British Commonwealth countries (like Canada), and former British colonies? If you did, then you'd find that the number of people speaking the King's English are at least twice that of American English speakers.

@@rokuth - I considered that, but it doesn't really change anything. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are the only other nations of any size where most of the people speak a fairly standard English - and if you add them all to the UK you still get about twice as many native English speakers in the U.S. There are also small populations of native English speakers who speak a standard English in places like South Africa and some Caribbean nations, but these populations are not large enough to have a whole lot of influence. Then you can find native English speakers in places like Nigeria, India, and Singapore - but at this point the language has become mixed enough with other languages that it is questionable whether they are standard, lah. And of course all these places had already adopted a fair amount of American usage before the rise of the internet, so it's a mixed bag whether adding them to the equation would strengthen or weaken claims about "the king's English".

yup, short for a poetic middle english description for the season “the Fall of the Leaf.” Counterpart to “the Spring of the Leaf”-Spring-for its opposite season. Tho the original english name for the season is the old english cognate of “harvest”.

People blame americans for some really strange things that were started by the english

Yes they make fun because american english is oldfashioned

Obviously fall is an English word Lmao Americans speak English. The difference is using it to describe the season of autumn.

Especially when the rest of the commonwealth says soccer too.

As far as I know americans distinguish them by using singular on the underwear and plural on the footwear. There’s a Friends episode that uses the very “thongs at the beach” joke and that’s where I got it. Isn’t that the case down there?

Thong for the underwear. Thongs for the sandals or flip-flops.

Thong/s for the pants and flip flops for the footwear (because that’s the sound they make)

As an American, when I was a kid we called flipflops, "thongs".

Australians are descended from the dregs of British criminality, so nothing would amaze me😂

Typically M is for Mezzanine, but it might mean something else. It also becomes fun when a building takes up a whole block and is built on a hill, so that the entrance on one side of the building may be a floor (or even two floors) higher than on the other side of the building. The star is usually located next to whatever is considered the main floor, or the floor which has the main entrances/exits to the building.

@@alanlight7740 u just described my school

"Geschoss" still means "level" or "floor" though

@@aeksora Yes, you are right, the word has more than one possible meaning. "Shooting" is only one of them.

@@kinderoffender Translating like that can be fun. We once got a folder for pizzas and one had gabled (puntgevel) in it, turns out that gabled, cog and pinetree seed can be the same word in French and they used the wrong one.

@@kinderoffender Geschoss never gets translated with shooting. Maybe "bullet" or "projectile", but shooting would be "schießen".

My wife is 9 months pregnant, so we’ve been to our local hospital in the US quite a bit recently. Something I noticed about floors is that IF we have a ground floor, it’s because we have 2 floors that could both be considered the ground floor. So the first floor is always the floor you walk into for us. But at this hospital, you could technically walk into either floor from the street because of how the elevation is around the building. So if you enter one side of the building, you reach the 1st floor. But if you enter the other side of the building, you’ll be one floor lower. So it’s not a basement, but it’s technically lower than the 1st floor, so we have a Ground Floor as well as a 1st floor there. I’ve never seen a building in the US that has a ground floor and then skips the first floor and goes to 2. Usually, if we have a ground floor, it’s because there is some overlap between a couple floors, and to clarify, they label the floor underneath the 1st floor the ground floor. But most buildings don’t have a ground floor. It’s usually Basement, First Floor, Second Floor. If you have multiple basements, I usually see B2F, B1F, 1F, 2F. So it just counts down as the basements go down, adding a “B” at the beginning for “basement.”

It was more so that the British labeled the second floor as the 1st floor. And the American labeled the ground/1st floor as the 1st floor.

Canadians use American words much much more than British words.

@@daniellat5763 That depends on the Canadian!

E eu, como um Americano, gosto mais do soltaque do Brasil do que Portugál. Morei em Minas Gerais.

It's the same with any language. When you learn it, you are taught the version of it in the country(or countries) nearest to you because that's the version you're most likely to encounter. For example, European students of Spanish often learn either Castille or Catalan Spanish primarily but Americans primarily learn Mexican Spanish...

@@benjaminmorris4962 it also depended on where the Spanish teacher was from or was taught. I’m

+ in elevators (at least in southern parts of Germany) it's E not 1 🙈

fun fact, British people used to use Fall when the US was colonized by England. Then England changed to autumn and the US kept fall. It is actually short for "fall of the leaves" which is what leaves do when the weather changes after summer

Here in America, the use of "autumn" is correct American English and is very common. The word is not seen as "British English", it's seen as the scientifically correct term, while fall is seen as a shorthand for autumn.

Just a heads up if you ask for a rubber in America your not going to get an eraser.

Really I'm from NY and I am Latino but failed Spanish class bcuz thy were teaching Spain Spanish and it very dif than LatAm Spanish but thxfully I had Latino teachers later on so thy taught more Latino Spanish mainly Mexican since its slower and neutral

@@josuealopez3167 I guess you never know who you meet as a teacher.

@@josuealopez3167 The is no “LATAM” spanish. You cannot learn Mexican spanish and go to Colombia and Puerto Rico and understand it perfectly. All countries have their differences smh

@@4enriquedelpi116 Ik tht but in LatAm u can understand eachother better than Ppl from Spain and I said tht bcuz my teachers were from dif LatAm countries 🇩🇴🇵🇦🇸🇻

@@josuealopez3167 jajajaj pero en lo esencial y la gramática somos iguales

This exactly why American English is the way it is. Every wave of immigration added their little spin… some of which became integrated into the greater American English lexicon.

As a Spaniard, yes it works the same way British accent is to other English speaking countries, it sounds more complex, so for English speakers it’s better to learn Latin-American Spanish (most neutral is either Venezuelan or Mexican) they will find it easier to learn, and Spanish speakers do the same with American English, it sounds easier to understand than British which sounds more complex. Once you get the gist of the language tho you can try with British accent which it’s pretty tame compared to Scottish or Irish English which I as a Spaniard barely come to understand 😭 they have such a thick accent for me to understand hahaha

It is because of Spanish, our proximity to Mexico. The French influence predates modern English itself when Normans invaded and conquered England, they killed old English and made it more like French.

I wonder if that’s because of differing geography or history. A lot of the USA is built on less stable ground, and there’s been a lot of cases of major cities burning down at least once in their history. In Seattle at least, they decided to raise the street levels after the fire (in part to resolve some plumbing issues), but businesses got impatient and tried reopen before the sidewalks had been raised to match. The result was that eventually what had been the “ground floor” ended up walled off and the entrances were all moved up one floor to the 1st floor.

yah overalls in the uk would be like a romper suit type thing, arms and legs...

Jumpers - the dresses you describe - were very popular for women in the late 80's and 90's in the US.

Jeans are usually LEVIs, in the Navy we had a work uniform based on denim, it was called dungarees.

The bib thing is a misunderstanding. Latz was a cloth flap in general, like the backside of old timey rompers. Since bibs are basically that but smaller, they're called Lätzchen, the diminutive of Latz. Latz would be the front of these bib overalls, or the backside of old rompers, it's not specific in what is covered by it like in english.

@Not Bono I'll agree. The ones that have long sleeves like mechanics wear in cold weather, we would call coveralls. Bibs are more like what lots of farmers wear.

Isn’t asking how common something is basically the same as asking for it’s frequency?

@@marcanthony8873 no, not really. Frequency refers to how often something occurs during a given period of time. If something is common, it just means that there are a lot of them. E.g. white cars must be common (there are a lot of them) because I see them frequently (maybe one every 10 seconds).

@@marcanthony8873 it’s definitely related.