In my experience of working in the UK for an American company and dealing with Americans on a daily basis, "please" and "thank you" would be a good place to start.
@nolajoy77595 ай бұрын
And "sorry"
@nicodemus825 ай бұрын
Expecting yanks to have manners is asking a lot.
@stewedfishproductions95545 ай бұрын
@@nolajoy7759 100% - In the 80's/90's my company took on the UK distribution of an American product... I visited the US over 7 times in those years specifically to train, learn and keep up-dated on product info or improvements etc. The one thing that myself (along with other European distributors) disagreed with them on - THEIR Company policy was "NEVER APOLOGISE and NEVER say SORRY!." The Americans just could not accept the word and even wrote to everyone about their stance on the matter - which we totally ignored... 😂😂😂
@stewedfishproductions95545 ай бұрын
@@nicodemus82 Or have the ability to use knives and forks correctly... 😂
@andybaker24565 ай бұрын
@@nicodemus82 The thing is, all of my colleagues are in the south, where politeness and manners are supposed to be important. In my experience, that's a massive myth!
@janewalker39215 ай бұрын
Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt. This is the full version !
@lizzieapples33395 ай бұрын
😂 came to find this comment
@shadowfoxxie5 ай бұрын
@lizzieapples3339 literally same 😂
@user-ne1kp8yo8n5 ай бұрын
...and dick's your best friend!
@paulmason64745 ай бұрын
And if your aunty had balls she’d be your uncle😅😅😅😅😅😅
@stewedfishproductions95545 ай бұрын
@@lizzieapples3339 Me too... 😂😂😂
@SteveWhipp5 ай бұрын
In my friend circle we "play" on Gormless. So it becomes "Oh he's totally bereft of Gorm." or "He's suffering a supply chain shortage in his Gorm account" and so on.
@andybaker24565 ай бұрын
Would you mind if I stole "totally bereft of gorm"? It's a thing of great joy and beauty! 😆
@SteveWhipp5 ай бұрын
@@andybaker2456 Of course not! I make no claims of coming up with it. I completely forget where I heard it first.
@Diablo_Himself5 ай бұрын
I sometimes say "He's a proper Gorm, he is".
@scragar5 ай бұрын
"Bits and bobs" was originally a handyman/carpenter term, drill bits(the attachments that actually makes the hole) and bobs(drill attachments used for turning screws). So the bits and bobs were the attachments for the drill. Then it became a sort of general term for the smaller accessories used to make something work(like fuses, spacing washers, spare bolts/screws, etc) before eventually just become any sort of collection of small items.
@auldfouter86615 ай бұрын
Tyler will lose his mind when he learns about " bob a job week ".
@kathryndunn91425 ай бұрын
😂 🤣 yes that's going to be fun
@junebillings94505 ай бұрын
I wonder what he'll think when he realises we see him as gormless lol
@stewedfishproductions95545 ай бұрын
@@junebillings9450 Many Americans can fit into the 'lack of gorm bretheran...' 😂😂😂 Just saying!
@keelbyman5 ай бұрын
😂
@angelahawman42635 ай бұрын
In Yorkshire, we use, "ta" instead of, thank you. Then there is "tat ta," or "ta rah" which is goodbye. Gormless is used "don't just stand there gormless" or "take that gormless look off your face". 😶
@lottie25255 ай бұрын
Or even tatty bye.
@grahamgresty83835 ай бұрын
Ta comes from 'tak' used by the vikings and Danes and since Yorkshire was part of Daneslaw......
@faithpearlgenied-a55175 ай бұрын
We say 'ta' in the West Midlands too. And 'ta-ra' meaning goodbye.
@Doctor_Who_Rocks5 ай бұрын
Isn't it "Don't just stand there looking gormless."? Or one could say "Don't just stand there being gormless," maybe. What you said sounds a bit wrong and grammatically wrong somehow too, without any verb (just my instinct). (Just saying, friendly feedback like. Otherwise your comment was fine.)
@Doctor_Who_Rocks5 ай бұрын
I'm from London but my Mum was from Yorkshire, Bradford. So long since passed away b.c. the Big C, I can't remember if she said "ta" ever or not 😢. I think my Grandma might've (born Sunderland, moved to Bradford) but I can't be sure either.
@GrumpyOldGit-zk1kw5 ай бұрын
Tyler's guess about 'Doddle' pretty much sums up 'Dawdle' though.
@rocketrabble67375 ай бұрын
I suspect from his reaction that is also not a commonly used word in the States.
@DanPyjamasАй бұрын
I was just about to post this.
@scragar5 ай бұрын
Gormless comes from the Nordic word "gaumer" meaning to take care. Then it came into old English as Gorm meaning to be fully immersed in a task which eventually morphed into being intimately knowledgeable about how to do the task and/or how it works. So to be gormless is to be doing things you don't understand or with a serious lack of care. Gorm doesn't exist in English any more, but as an insult gormless is still a good one to use when someone really screws something up by not reading instructions or actively ignoring them.
@tonycasey31835 ай бұрын
One of our many orphaned negatives.
@SuperDebyO5 ай бұрын
I love that you explained the etymology of that word. 😊
@MarkAJAgi5 ай бұрын
In this video at 4:18 it says 10 Bob = 10 pounds. That is wrong. A Bob = 1 shilling. 1 shilling = 5 new pence or 1/20 of a pound. Only British people over a certain age will know what "£/s/d" is.
@neuralwarp5 ай бұрын
Libri, solidi, denarii.
@neuralwarp5 ай бұрын
I know a couple called Penny and Bob.
@rocketrabble67375 ай бұрын
@@neuralwarpI wonder what they would name a child? 'Tanner' sounds very early 21st century for a boy, and of course 'Joey' was the slang name for a silver thruppeny bit. Can't think of a girl's name at the moment.
@TheCornishCockney5 ай бұрын
Here’s another one for you: Waffle. Not the kind you put sticky sweet gloop on.
@northnsouth68135 ай бұрын
I'm on "tenterhooks" to see whats on your next posting. Tenters are no longer everyday objects but a hundred years ago, in wool weaving areas like the North of England, they were a common sight on the land around the many woollen mills, called 'tenter-fields'. It is easy to see how the figurative expression 'on tenterhooks', with its meaning of painful tension, derived from the 'tenting' or stretching of fabric.
@FireMoon425 ай бұрын
Gormless is an example of an "orphaned word". In that, Gorm is a word that has fallen from use whereas, its twin with a negative connotation has remained in use. Other orphaned words reck/reckless gruntle/disgruntle
@neuralwarp5 ай бұрын
Like Ert and Ept.
@thedisabledwelshman92665 ай бұрын
gormless sums tyler up perfectly.
@Yandarval5 ай бұрын
Bob's your Uncle. In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert (Bob) Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle!
@pauldixon7465 ай бұрын
Ahh thank you for me not having to type this. Was just about to but scrolled down to see if someone had already done so and... Bob's your uncle there it is!
@SuperDebyO5 ай бұрын
Well I never knew that’s where it came from. Interesting.
@geekexmachina5 ай бұрын
Bobs in bits and bobs. Apparently refers to Bobbins from sewing, back when quilts and rugs were made from bits of leftover material
@phoenix-xu9xj5 ай бұрын
Can’t believe amongst is there. It’s just so normal
@TheRedPeril4 ай бұрын
This is a nation that thinks ‘addicting’ is acceptable.
@101steel45 ай бұрын
Gormless. Sums up Americans perfectly.
@davidstewart97015 ай бұрын
There are 4 of us sat here and when the word Gormless came up we all pointed at tv at the same time!
@susansmiles22425 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@sarahvernon16535 ай бұрын
When I go to America and stay with my boyfriends family they always ask for British words they can use to confuse their friends it’s quite funny to see their faces when I tell them some of the words but love that they are learning and using them
@gordonhayward44095 ай бұрын
Cheerio comes from the 18th and 19th centuries. If you are leaving an aristocratic friends house in town then once you'd slapped your thighs and said "Right!" then the footman of the house would be despatched onto the street to hail a cab or sedan chair. He would use the call "Chair Ho!". Therefore the phrase became synonymous with departure and was shortened over time to "Cheerio" for the great unwashed like myself.
@raymartin71725 ай бұрын
As soon as I saw "gormless" (a word I grew up with) I thought norse. True enough, Gorm means "sense" or "heed" in the Nordic languages. I have never heard a southerner use it. I would say that it is a northern working class word: and a very good o by e, too.
@user-ho8gn8cr5s4 ай бұрын
i'm from Kent and we always used the word gormless.
@enemde30255 ай бұрын
Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt. "SHOE IN" !? Tyler IS gormless !
@user-ne1kp8yo8n5 ай бұрын
big time!
@welshgruff5 ай бұрын
As a child in Birmingham I remember people saying Tar ah ta meaning Goodbye, thank you.
@user-ne1kp8yo8n5 ай бұрын
@@welshgruff you are totally making that up!
@cheman5795 ай бұрын
@@user-ne1kp8yo8n nah it makes sense. the spelling might have thrown you off. "tarrah" can be used as goodbye, and "ta" as thank you.
@user-ne1kp8yo8n5 ай бұрын
@@cheman579 no it doesn't
@RockinDave15 ай бұрын
"I've never heard bob as a noun, i've heard it as a name." Eh Tyler, a name IS a noun.... I would also like to add that I actually think most Americans know very little about actual Mexican culture, most just assume they do because they are close geographically.
@nolasyeila62615 ай бұрын
Yes - I think it starts and ends with tacos.
@jessgibson47905 ай бұрын
A lot of differences between Brit English and American English are down to how things have gone in our respective countries histories. American isolationism, nationalities who's language and grammar have influenced the US, misspellings either through laziness or literacy of people around at the time etc etc.
@neilmcdonald91645 ай бұрын
Lol you're getting doddle confused with dawdle 🎩☺️
@rocketrabble67375 ай бұрын
"Odds and ends" is certainly commonly used in Britain but lots of people (including myself) say "odds and sods" as a variation.
@user-zu6ir6kj5g5 ай бұрын
Just to clarify, "Cheerio" means the same as "Toodle-pip, old bean".......
@nolajoy77595 ай бұрын
Steady on, old chap. Musn't put the wind up the colonials. Mum's the word..Keep your powder dry.
@user-zu6ir6kj5g5 ай бұрын
Hehe! - Love it!@@nolajoy7759
@robertcreighton46355 ай бұрын
Loose lips sink ships, ducks
@jamesdignanmusic27655 ай бұрын
"Mustn't put the wind up the colonials"? But that would be such a spiffing wheeze!
@user-zc1pr9qd9e5 ай бұрын
Toodle-pip, old bean??????
@Yandarval5 ай бұрын
Sigh. Doddle (Very Easy) Dawdle (slow walking behind a group. Not keeping up) and dilly-dally (loiter, not putting in much effort to a task. procrastinate)
@chrisperyagh5 ай бұрын
"Bits and Bobs? Am I saying this right?" How else can you say it? We also use 'Odds and sods' which means the same thing.
@t.a.k.palfrey38825 ай бұрын
Amongst is one of those words today chiefly used by older people or those educated beyond GCSE-level English (or HS sophomore in US). Others in a similar class might be: whence, shall, might (verb), betwixt, whereas, notwithstanding, and plurals such as indices, matrices, and the difference between hung and hanged.
@andybaker24565 ай бұрын
There's a big difference between a man being hanged, and a man being hung!
@jamesdignanmusic27655 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the Would I Lie to You episode where Lee and David have an argument about "who" and "whom" :)
@mauricegold93775 ай бұрын
To whit on one episode of the comedy series Blackadder, (and this is all from distant memory) where Blackadder has become a highwayman. A wealthy gentleman and his daughter are travelling in a coach where the highwayman has just robbed them. The father turns to his daughter (unbeknownst to him she is Blackadder's partner in crime) and says to her: Father: That highwayman, he should be jolly well hung Daughter: Oh, but he is, father.
@Youssii5 ай бұрын
You weren’t wrong with doddle. In your accent doddle and dawdle sound the same, and dawdling means time wasting on (also known as faffing about)
@stumccabe5 ай бұрын
I've heard more than one Californian say "Bob's your uncle", so perhaps the use of this phrase varies across the USA. Thinking about it a bit more, I seem to remember a guy from Kentucky also using it. So it seems it isn't exclusively a British phrase.
@aaroncunningham30005 ай бұрын
There are lots of English words that Americans misuse or mispronounce.
@matthewwalker54305 ай бұрын
Thing is about Mexican Waves, they might look great, but most football fans in England don't really like them very much because if the crowd is partaking in a Mexican wave it almost always means that the football is either not very entertaining or the crowd would rather be distracted by choreography. Don't ever try and distract us from going absolutely ballistic over our footy
@sparkels10005 ай бұрын
One of my fav's is you gormless git.
@TerranSol5 ай бұрын
Gormless means gulibly stupid though not necessarily academically stupid.
@surfaceten510n5 ай бұрын
Bits and Bobs not to be confused with Odds and Ends.
@Cherismile5 ай бұрын
Or odds and sods
@user-um5cp2cs5j4 ай бұрын
Or nik naks
@vickytaylor91555 ай бұрын
Bits and bobs comes from a carpentry saying. Bits being drill bits for drilling holes, whilst bobs relates to screwdriver attachments for the drill.
@chrisperyagh5 ай бұрын
I generally use "Cheers!" when saying and waving good-bye.
@labelledamedumanor48765 ай бұрын
It's also something to say as a drinking toast. 🍻🥂
@chrisperyagh5 ай бұрын
@@labelledamedumanor4876 Yeah - it's a multipurpose expression. And it can be used as an insult too.
@steviesbadtv5 ай бұрын
We don’t use cheerio in the same way as the Brits. Here in Scotland. We say bye or see you later. But when we say cheerio to someone. It’s normally in a sarcastic way. Like. Aye okay then cheerio. When we mad at someone. Or we were just trying to be mean or sarcastic. Just thought I’d let everyone know that, so I’m out. Aye cheerio then…🤭🤣🤷🏻♂️🏴
@steviesbadtv5 ай бұрын
@@Pottszy You take that back. We are Scot’s. Never Brits. We don’t associate ourselves. With the lower class…🤭🤣🤷🏻♂️🏴
@robertlisternicholls5 ай бұрын
The word gormless is usually followed by a mild expletive. So you may call someone who is a bit simple or one who does something stupid may be called a gormless bugger..
@paulharvey91495 ай бұрын
In Scotland, we also use "glaikit " in place of gormless...
@jamesdignanmusic27655 ай бұрын
Scotland has the best insulting terms for idiots. I love "numpty".
@Diablo_Himself5 ай бұрын
You also dont say Bitter, I believe...? You call it Heavy...?
@TheJaxxT5 ай бұрын
I love how if Tyler himself has never heard of a word or phrase, then obviously no other American has ever heard of it either….. are you sure pal?
@nolajoy77595 ай бұрын
And if he knows it, then it's "many Americans " know it. 😅
@TheJaxxT5 ай бұрын
@@nolajoy7759 exactly hun.
@kitstratfull46065 ай бұрын
Ironic that one of the word is "Gormless" on THIS channel!
@leehallam93655 ай бұрын
Bobs Your Uncle has a history. Its old political satire. How was it that Arthur Balfour became Prime Minister in 1902, could it be that he took over from Lord Salisbury, who happened to be his uncle. Salisbury was called Robert, hence the sarcastic remark.
@sammic74925 ай бұрын
My grandads favourite insult was to call someone a gormless twat, not particularly polite but always made me laugh when he used it as it does sound funny.
@frankhooper78715 ай бұрын
Re amongst and among, I think I tend to use the latter when talking about geographical proximity - there's a wolf among the sheep, but the former when talking more figuratively - amongst other things. Mustn't mix up dawdle and doddle, despite their similarity in pronunciation.
@Diablo_Himself5 ай бұрын
Dawdle and doddle are NOT pronounced the same... Dawdle is pronounced doordle, and doddle is pronounced with a short O, like bob or job.
@tonycasey31835 ай бұрын
@@Diablo_Himself That depends entirely on where you live or what your accent is. There are some areas of the UK, for example, where dawdle and doddle are homophones. Some Scottish accents would have both words indistinguishable from each other, as would some Irish and US accents. Universal pronunciation doesn't exist, despite what RP-centric dictionaries would have us believe.
@Toni-islandlife4 ай бұрын
Bits and bobs can also be a way of describing the different things sold at a flea market or garage sale.
@Rearda5 ай бұрын
Among: in the midst of, in a physical sense. Amongst: in the intellectual/virtual company of.
@SuperDebyO5 ай бұрын
Yes important to make that distinction.
@martinsear54705 ай бұрын
Gormless is a similar word to Ruthless which means lacking in ruth, ruth is the same as compassion. You hear people called ruthless, but, you never here of someone being described as ruthful.
@janettesinclair62795 ай бұрын
I was in the US when the World Cup was on and, being British, keen to keep up with what was going on. The only place I could get up to date info on the results was in small Mexican run shops in Los Angeles!
@Phiyedough5 ай бұрын
Hungarians use the English word "hello" but they use it when arriving or leaving.
@creepingdread885 ай бұрын
The word 'Hello' was created to be used on the telephone, as the sound quality wasn't very good, and I suspect, because it was quicker than saying good morning, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight too.
@emmahowells83345 ай бұрын
All these words are often used throughout the uk and not just England tho Tyler. In my part of the uk Wales the word gormless is slang for ugly not what lawrence said it was for.
@wessexdruid75985 ай бұрын
Gormless has norse origins, so not surprising it's widely used in the East.
@emmahowells83345 ай бұрын
@@wessexdruid7598 it's used throughout Europe I would say, tho as I said where I come from it's used different to what Lawrence explained in the video that Tyler was reacting too.
@robertlisternicholls5 ай бұрын
Sometimes people say cheerio rather than cheers when drinking alcohol.
@neuralwarp5 ай бұрын
In 1950s American movies about Britain?
@neuralwarp5 ай бұрын
Most Americans seem to think "Cheerio" means the same as "Cheers".
@jamesdignanmusic27655 ай бұрын
America uses a simplified version of English - where there are two words for similar things in the UK, America satisfies itself with just one. So Americans don't, in general, differentiate between alternate and alternative, turtle and tortoise, purple and violet, inquiry and enquiry... and just use the first of the pair each time.
@Mike-mf3ed5 ай бұрын
Last time I checked synonyms for English words I saw at least 7 alternative words. I’m not sure if that’s true, but if it is then 🤯
@neuralwarp5 ай бұрын
It's not reallly simpler, is it. UK write Baptise/Baptism, which is logical. US write Baptize/Baptism, which makes no sense.
@davidsouth99795 ай бұрын
There’s a phrase we use “rabbit” or “rabbiting” which means talking or talking too much. It’s rhyming slang: “rabbit and pork” = talk. So mate if I say you rabbit far too much you will get what I mean.
@TheCornishCockney5 ай бұрын
The Mexican Wave began at the World Cup in ‘86 by the Mexican fans but I’m sure it began long before at the World Cup in Mexico in 1970. We were all glued to that World Cup.
@TheGwydion7776 күн бұрын
You were thinking about doddling as a verb in stead of a noun. Both exist in the English language.
@l3v1ckUK5 ай бұрын
My personal favourite. Wazzock Meaning fool or idiot. "You utter wazzock!"
@Jenny.C19785 ай бұрын
Not heard that one since the 80s 🤣🤣🤣
@danielferguson37845 ай бұрын
In the UK we don't say that would be so fun, but so MUCH fun, Americans miss out the much bit. Robert ,Bob, Peel was the Prime Minister who founded the Police, he had an nephew who he gave advantages to help his career, so Bob's your uncle came to mean getting a leg up. It's a doddle, easily done. The Mexican wave began at the World cup 1986.
@welshgruff5 ай бұрын
I find I use amongst when the next word begins with a vowel , e.g among many but amongst other things. No idea why!
@user-kq5ke5yb6k5 ай бұрын
Tyler
@kathryndunn91425 ай бұрын
Definitely 😂
@conallmclaughlin45455 ай бұрын
In Ireland we say, their is wiser eating grass
@stewedfishproductions95545 ай бұрын
That's one he will have to 'look up' - or he might 'throw his toys out of the pram, perhaps?' - Just saying! 😂
@dorothysimpson28045 ай бұрын
There is an old music hall song with "dilly dally" in it. Cheerio used to be a brand of brown sauce. Toodle Pip also, meant goodbye during the war. Bye Gum, is an expression of surprise. Thick as two short planks, means stupid. Bob's your Uncle and Fanny's your Aunt, is the full saying. To fall down the toilet and come up in a fur coat, means to be lucky. Widdyshins is anticlockwise.
@matthewlamont31125 ай бұрын
Another version of Bits and Bobs and Odds and Ends is Odds and Sods. Also, Bobs just a fun word.
@nolajoy77595 ай бұрын
I have a jar on top of my fridge labelled "odds and ends" ..holds everything from a paper clip to a small screwdriver to repair my glasses to a rubber stamp...not to mention homeless screws that I have yet to find what they belong to.
@jamesdignanmusic27655 ай бұрын
"Bob's just a fun word" I can remember on Blackadder Rowan Atkinson being hilarious just for the emphasis he put on the name in one episode.
@matthewlamont31125 ай бұрын
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 I love that episode "Well hello... Bob"
@Rearda5 ай бұрын
Years ago there was a funny voxpop comedy sketch where a foreign sounding bloke went around asking people where he could get form, because his girlfriend told him he was gormless.
@labelledamedumanor48765 ай бұрын
Concerning the Bob's your Uncle phrase, if anyone watched the Disney's A Christmas Carol movie (Jim Carrey plays Scrooge), there is a scene where Scrooge runs out to a moving horse & cart & grabs on shouting "Bob's your Uncle & Fanny's your Aunt!" This is when he has ditched his miserly attitude for good. Would love an explanation for the full phrase please. All I know is that Bob & Fanny were common names used in those days. Yes, the latter name does sound rude but it was a real name.
@cadifan5 ай бұрын
The Mexican wave is called the Mexican wave all around the world.
@user-xk3ej6jd5h5 ай бұрын
Amongst and among is same as whilst and while. I found a coin whilst in the park.
@TIDYJOKER5 ай бұрын
Brilliant!! You looking kinda gormless, while you consider the word. Perfect timing :D (Telling your opponent it will be a doddle, is more for cricket. It's a bit too 'fluffy' for other sports) If we say lets start a wave, then you'll have a stadium waving hello to the players. I guess we should call it an Americas wave? Cheerio isn't a word you'll hear too much, unless we chuck it in for nearby Americans
@rocketrabble67375 ай бұрын
Not only do we have "cornflour" we also have 'cornflowers' (Centaurea cyanus). They are pretty, blue, easily grown, annual flowers. I would be surprised if you don't have them in the States, but possibly with a different name.
@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas90725 ай бұрын
9:30 you were thinking of *_dawdle_*
@davidswift91205 ай бұрын
Loving your channel man!
@jeremywood21295 ай бұрын
10 bob = 50p, not £10.
@weejackrussell5 ай бұрын
10 bob is 10 shillings.
@jeremywood21295 ай бұрын
and 10 shillings is 50p@@weejackrussell
@jeremywood21295 ай бұрын
and 10 shillings is ?@@weejackrussell
@secretarchivesofthevatican5 ай бұрын
"Cheerio!" is only used by elderly posh people. Or, as he said, in films pre-1950.
@Ubique29275 ай бұрын
No, it is not. It is used by a vast amount of English people.
@faithpearlgenied-a55175 ай бұрын
I love the word gormless. My brother gets called that on a regular basis.
@user-ft7fq4ou4vАй бұрын
What was said: "He's among... the greatest speakers of English in the world." What I heard: "He's a mong. The greatest English speakers of the world."
@hydroanky5 ай бұрын
The word “gormless” appears then Tyler immediately acts in the same way. It’s mean I know, however he does look like this on many of his videos which purely is a facade.
@hikareti95035 ай бұрын
The thing I love about a lot of British words and phrases is their origin. Bits and Bobs comes from carpentry tools, you drill holes with a bit and drive screws with a Bob. Under the thumb comes from holding the leash of an eagle with your thumb in falconry. There are heaps of really interesting origins for these things.
@101steel45 ай бұрын
English
@5688gamble5 ай бұрын
To doddle can mean to take one's time, you are right. "Don't doddle" "Stop doddling" means "hurry up" or "Quit slacking!"
@5688gamble5 ай бұрын
Ok, realized that is, "dawdle" meh, homophone.
@linkash41675 ай бұрын
Not sure how accurate of a comparison it is but I feel like 'derpy' is a very close equivalent to gormless
@SuperDebyO5 ай бұрын
Gormless is like the word Eejit in Ireland. As in, “That fecking eejit messed it up again”. Gormless is more descriptive of a clueless person though.
@robertberry24775 ай бұрын
"bobs your uncle" is another way of saying "that's how you do that" essentially
@TheGwydion7776 күн бұрын
"And there you are." When Bob's your uncle. Or "Look there" when you're French. English isn't even my first language. Or French. I don't get lost in translation, unless it's really far fetched.
@davidmalarkey13025 ай бұрын
Don't think Tyler it may hurt, you are going to butcher the English language. American english is a different language dude . Gormless sumsup the average American who has never left their bubble and know zero about life outside of America.
@user-yk1cf8qb7q5 ай бұрын
A name is a noun. Dilly Dally is used in the UK and means the same. Actually, 'cheerio' is very rarely used these days, it's quite archaic.
@chrisperyagh5 ай бұрын
They were probably called Cheerios as they're 'cheery O-shaped things' - added to the fact they're most likely full of toxic chemicals banned worldwide except the US that make kids hyperactive, as well as their counterparts Fruit Loops which are self-explanatory as they probably turn kids loopy with all the artificial additives and colourings. Both of those cereals got prominent product placement in Jaws 2.
@ShrubScotland5 ай бұрын
That’s funny because we do also have a word “dawdle” which means exactly what he thought
@Rachel_M_5 ай бұрын
Bits and bobs aren't as good as nik naks and thingummyjigs 😉
@Lily_The_Pink9725 ай бұрын
They're all different things. Bits and bobs are like odds and sods, an odd assortment if stuff. Nik naks are small ornaments and a thingummyjig is something you can't think of the word for something like wotsit or dooberry. Very often it's something useful like a spanner or tv remote. Obviously there are loads of different examples!
@Rachel_M_5 ай бұрын
@@Lily_The_Pink972 you can't eat bits and bobs. I love spicy nik naks and my kids love thingummyjigs 😉
@Rachel_M_5 ай бұрын
@@Lily_The_Pink972 however I would contend that ornaments ar bric-a-brack, not nik naks 😉
@Lily_The_Pink9725 ай бұрын
@@Rachel_M_ Maybe, but I would use either term for ornaments.
@steddie45145 ай бұрын
Or even thingymebob! 🤪
@clemstevenson5 ай бұрын
Cheerio, old chap 🤣 I believe it came from the era of the Sedan Chair, and started as "Chair Home".
@Ubique29275 ай бұрын
No, it did not.
@clemstevenson5 ай бұрын
@@Ubique2927 Please tell my the origin
@stewedfishproductions95545 ай бұрын
It actually comes from a derivation of 'cheers' - as in; used as a toast to one's drinking companion... First used in the early 1900's (so long after sedan chairs were still in use...). So it went f from being a drinking toast to wishing someone good luck as a farewell greeting, meaning 'all the best' 👍😁
@clemstevenson5 ай бұрын
@@stewedfishproductions9554 That makes sense 👍
@Jkk555 ай бұрын
Bits and bobs and thingy majigs😂😂 love these British sayings
Always annoyed me when it was referred to as the mexican wave. Any uk sports journalist worth their salt should have been aware it was popularised in US college sport. I was 14 in 86 and even I knew it was just 'the wave'.
@trevorcook31292 ай бұрын
These words are used everywhere in the English speaking world. Apart from one.
@user-ne1kp8yo8n5 ай бұрын
''odds and sods''
@stevenallport26104 күн бұрын
A friend of mine died eating a bowl of cheerios sadly I didn't get to say goodbye........ I'll see myself out
@user-bb4of3jx3l3 ай бұрын
Let's face it all over England let alone the UK there are different expressions for everything, I think most Americans would look at someone from say the East end of London as if they we're talking a different language if they started on cockney rhyming slang, we're a creative bunch if nothing else!
@robertcreighton46355 ай бұрын
My mum says cheerio. She's 80. It feels like an old fashioned word no kid would say
@creepingdread885 ай бұрын
My Mum says toodlepip.
@danielfrake1145 ай бұрын
Bobs, your uncle. That's the answer.
@101steel45 ай бұрын
Americans do not speak English. If they did there wouldn't be a need for such videos. American English (dialect) differs massively from English.
@MartKart85 ай бұрын
I can imagine someone saying Bob's Your uncle and he works at Nintendo.