Fun fact: here in South Africa we call traffic lights, “robots” 😁

US & Singapore : Fries/ French Fries Australia & South Africa: Chips Japan: Potato 🥔 😁

I'm an older Aussie, and 'garage' is a term I'd have used for service station. I think these things move in waves back and forth across the English speaking world, We're so interconnected that when 'country A' influences 'country B', country B is also influencing country A.

One other thing, in SA we predominantly use the term "noughts and crosses" for the one. I have never heard it called o's and x'es before - must be a different colloquialism, but like I mentioned the local English (of which there are tons of us in CPT (everyone should know what this stands for :) ) ,one of SA's largest cities) use the same term as with AUS/NZ/UK English.

"I think some people call it trousers?" "I think some people call it biscuits?" This video proves why you need a British person in this!

Also, Australia, Singapore and South Africa are all members of the Commonwealth of Nations (aka former British colonies), it shouldn't be a surprise that we share the same vocabulary for many words unlike with the US.

The term Trunk in the US comes from the fact that early cars don't have an area dedicated for packages. The first autos would extend the bumper brackets and install either a wood, or metal steamer type Trunk atop secured by leather straps for handling cargo and keeping the interior of the vehicle uncluttered.

Thanks for representing South Africa. But here is something to add. Some call it in the western cape region greasy chips also called "slap chips".

I really love the Aussie girl. She's just so warm and amiable

"And I'm surprised how Singapore and Australia were similar" Its because Singapore was under British rule for a long time before, until 1963, independence in 1965

You represented South Africa Really well 😂😂❤️❤️

South Africa has a very diverse cultural complexity so there are many different colloquialisms and slangs used in different cultural cliques, it absolutely depends on where in South Africa you are from. Ive never heard of a vesy for example

Finally someone from South Africa! Representing us my man!

A lot of older people in the US would call the trash can, a garbage can. Also as far as the fitting room, an old school term is a dressing room. I'm probably not consistent on which terms I use.

Oooooh I really like this! No fighting! No harsh comparisons! If I could like this video again I would! Great job guys and gals! Kudos!

I love the concept and idea behind this video. Keep it up. I have to mention this also. In life the major goal is to be healthy, have a good shelter over your head, feed well and be FINANCIALLY STABLE in other words have money, once you have all this, life will be easy.

I had a lot of fun in this video! Was surprised at some of the different words, especially garage! Hope you all enjoyed the video ❤ - Christina 🇺🇸

As a british person: -boot -flat -chips/sometimes fries if they're skinny -phone/mobile phone -bin -trousers -cookies (because they have m&ms in them-biscuits are generally without something in them and also usually smaller) -changing room/fitting room -naughts and crosses -petrol station -tank top/vest -pepper/bell pepper/red pepper

This is a great video-- never heard anyone talk about Singaporean English before. Wonderful! Love to hear more.❤

In Australia, we also call the change room a “dressing room”, just a fun fact lol.

US: “Trunk” Australia: “Boot” Singapore: “Boot” S. Africa: “Boot” India: “Dickey”

I love Christina, but every time she says “I’m from USA” without the “the”, it makes me want to cry. 😭

British English: • Chips are thicker. We often call the thin ones fries as well, to tell them apart. • Cookies and biscuits are different. We also say chocolate chip cookies, but all the others (like Rich Tea, Digestives, Custard Creams, etc.) are biscuits, which comes from Italian and means 'twice baked', which US 'biscuits' are not! lol • Petrol station and garage (pronounced 'garridge', rhyming with 'marriage') are interchangeable. "I'm going up the garage. Do you want anything?"

The term Garage came from the old days where most servo’s (short for service station) had a workshop/garage attached to them for repairs. And they were called service stations because when you stopped for fuel they would provide “a service”. Much like the service at a dealership today might include a detail a coffee while you wait and an air freshener. In the early days when you got fuel as you didn’t drive your car nearly as often as we do now. It could have been days or weeks between drives so The attend would not only fill up your car, they would also check your tyre pressure, oil level, water level…etc and thus that was the mini service you got at the service station.

Im from South Africa and my dad owned a petrol station when I was growing up and I think it's called a Garage in SA because you were able to do almost everything car related there. You could change tires, change oil, fix windows, buy snacks and oil at the store next door and get a car wash etc. The area where you pour petrol into your car was called the petrol station. But the whole area is called a garage. We've down scaled a bit since then and it's just petrol/gas and a snacks or restaurant area now.

Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪: 1. Boot 2. Flats but high end ones are Apartments 3. Chips 4. Phone or kabambe or smart phone but older guys will say mobile phone 5. Dust bin or just bin 6. Trousers 7. Biscuits but high end ones are called cookies 8. Changing rooms 9. X and Os but you'll hear tic tac toes as well 10. Petrol Station or Petii 11. Vest 12. Hoho or Bell Pepper

I love this video and the south African guy is so humble🇿🇦

Lol the way I screamed when the Zina called the garage a petrol station!! I'm so happy he fixed it 😂

"Trash" is like dry paper and stuff that's not gross to smell, touch, or look at, and doesn't leak. Wet garbage is, well, "garbage". But mostly, they're interchangeable. It's a matter of personal preference.

I'm from Singapore and can verify that what she said is very accurate 😂

As a scouser: - boot - flats - chip (fries if skinny) - mobile phone - bin - pants (the word keks can be used.) - cookie (biscuits are different) - changing room - noughts and crosses - garage (petrol station too) - vest - red pepper

In Singapore, we learn British English which is also what is learnt in Australia. That’s why most of the words are common

It was such a fun video!!! Thank you for having me once again!!! Hope you guys had fun learning more about Singapore’s english! ❤️🇸🇬

The Australian is clearly to young to know that in Australia, we used to call petrol stations "garages" as well but it faded over the years when the petrol station mechanic became less abundant

Guys please do another episode, this was fun ,🤣🤣🤣

These videos are always so fun! I feel like the lines are being more blurred as globalisation increases - where there used to be often one word for something, now there a multiple options. I'm from New Zealand and have definitely noticed more American English in recent years. Most biscuits are still biscuits (especially ones you get from the supermarket) but often big baked ones (like chocolate chip) will be cookies. Pants is now used more than trousers I think too, which was not the case when I was a kid. And gas station and petrol station are both used, and garage and service station occasionally. I was interested to hear the South African guy say garage, when I was in South Africa all I ever heard people call them were filling stations. I guess like NZ there are a lot of words for everything!

I can listen to Christina's voice all day long

I’m an older generation Australian. We frequently have interchangeable US and UK words. Some of this much younger ladiy’s words made me raise my eyebrows a little but the one that made my heart hurt was calling a biscuit a cookie.

This was fun watching. I am from South Africa. I once did some reading on car maintenance and there was a part where they gave names of the different car parts but they had both the uk one and American one much of the car parts has a different name was a very interesting Had no idea the two English speaking countries had so many differences.

For the apartments, I'm from North Qld Australia. Buildings like that in the city are apartments. Smaller buildings (one or two stories) are units. Flats are like 1 or 2 "houses" that are attached together. They're only ever 1 level.

Petrol Station is called a Garage in SA because back in the 1900s Petrol Stations would have a car dealership on the side and a mechanic spot to get your car fixed on the other side. So it wasn’t just filling your petrol in your car. Everything you needed relating to vehicles you could find there.

The South African guy is someone I'd love to hang out with. He's very attractive and his voice is magical.

as an Aussie: -Boot -Flat, but ones in taller buildings are apartments -Chips, sometimes fries if skinny -Phone -Bin -Trousers if they are like cargo pants, but Trackie Daks or Tracksuit Pants if they are just plain fabric, more of a PJ feeling material -Biscuits -Changing room -Noughts and Crosses -Servo or Petrol station -Singlet -Capsicum

Awesome 💯

In Australia, we do use the word biscuit a lot. Depends on the type. We usually always say a chocolate chip cookie for instance. But then say ANZAC biscuit and shortbread biscuit. So it depends. We never say cell phone. Either phone, mobile, or mobile phone. You also do hear some people who say trousers instead of pants. It's just less common. And people say rubbish, garbage, or trash. Always a bin or rubbish bin though.

Australia does call them Petrol Stations, but Servo is more of a slang term. Also, I usually call change rooms: changing rooms and I'm Australian myself.

This was really interesting!

The US is extremely regional when it comes to our use of language. I feel like we need a rep from the east/west/south/Midwest lol

The term trunk versus boot is interesting. The term trunk comes from the fact that early automobiles literally had a leather or basketry trunk strapped on the back of the vehicle,before such storage became built-in.

This was fun as I am from South Africa but have lived mainly in the UK and Australia so I can so relate

Loved it! How interesting! A very neat idea to compare the English versions. You definitely need a British member, they have a very strange take on words!

I would also like to say as a South African, we call the game either tic tac toe, naughts and crosses or xs and os.

I like christiana most🥰 she is soo cute as well🥰

In SA we call plastic bags “checkers” and also any toothpaste is called “Colgate” I looooove it here ❤️

I love videos like these 😁

South African: we call it a garage Everyone: wow that's so interesting New Zealanders: 👁️👄👁️

In Brazil, Tic-Tac-Toe is called “Jogo da Velha” that means “Old Lady’s Game” haha

In Texas we call it changing rooms. I've heard flat used, too, but not very often at all.

Hi guys...from the Philippines here...i find this intersting so i would love to share how we call these things in our country...i may be wrong but this is how most of us call them: 1. Compartment or Car Compartment...but i also know that some would call it TRUNK 2. If it's in a building like you showed in the video, we call them Condominium or Condo Unit 3. Cellphone or Cell 4. Trash Can or Garbage Can 5. Long Pants / Pants 6. Cookies 7. Fitting Room 8. Tic Tac Toe 9. Gasoline/Gas Station 10. Sando 11. Bell Pepper *FYI: we were more influenced by the U.S.A. with how we speak the English Language

Not me thinking "oh interesting, we call it something else" when I'm literally not from an English speaking country ✋🏼😭

The US also says garbage and garbage can depending on where you are from. I've heard the above the most. Dressing room is also as common as fitting room. Location depends.

A car boot in America is the lock that is put on a car's tire so it cannot drive. I've heard many different versions of garbage can/trash can/garbage/trash. A gas station can also be called a service station if it offers more amenities like a car wash or oil change. M&M cookies Fitting room/ dressing room/ changing room are all normal in the US.

In the US from about 1910 to 1930, American luxury cars would sometimes have steamer trunks (think luggage) lashed to the back of the car. These trunks would be loaded with what a traveling family would need for a vacation, etc. Such things like spare clothes, shoes,, etc. would be packed in there. This is where the Americanized use of "trunk" to mean a luggage compartment comes from.

I love these cause I am South African, chinese and lived in Australia for most of my childhood... I love seeing which one I use

Singaporean: " I think some countries says 'trousers'? who say that?" Malaysian literally up north:

in singapore , we do use the word buscuits more when we say cookies its more like chocolate chips or some fancy wans or just the name of the packaging. we do use trousers , but newer gen do say pants due to social media and film infleunce . in shops , we use tgem interchangeably , i seen trousers , panta , chinos. since singpaore was also once a colony under british rule , tge plder gen tends to use more of UK words but can understand . SG we call in flats , usually togetjer as HDB flat . or just condo, condo flat. apartment we do hear vut not as often , to be saying apartment just makes if feels more high class

The thing about the us is… it’s the width of a continent with 50 states, so while there are several common things to say about it but since there are so many places it can’t really be one person say what America calls it but most of them were true

I love that this video has korean subtitles :D also in Australia "cookies" are actually called "biscuits"

I love how they all support eachother whatever way they say it. 💕 cant we all just be this nice to eachother?

I just love it.I have no clue why

Garage is where you park your car. A service station is a place where you buy petrol (gas) and also get your car serviced. Commonly shortened to "Servo" in the land of Oz.

I just love Grace and Christina in a video!!!! Oh I love Lauren and Marina as well!

My grandparents (in the US) would have said trousers. We know the word, it just fell out of fashion. 'Garbage' and 'trash' both used. Fun video! Thx for posting.

I grew up around Pittsburgh where we had our own language, too. We are known for "Yinz" which is like ya'll in the south. But we also have gum bands, pop, dawn-air (down there), worshing (like in worshing machine). My mom made me dippy eggs (over easy). Roof is ruff, creek is crik, remote is a clicker... It's like it's own country, full of fast talking, mumbling, nebby (noisy), but funny and usually very family oriented, country/city folk. And many of us end up in Florida. After a lifetime of gray, overcast sky's, and icy roads at 45 degree angles, we go to a hot, sunny, flat paradise.😎 Oh, but it's a "dressing room."

Another name for a trunk for a car is hatchback. A hatchback is a way to design a small car to get more cargo storage. Then you have a hood in the front of the car. UK English it's a bonnet. You can often use trousers, breeches, or, britches instead of pants in America. For women there are capris. These are pants that extend about 4 inches past the knee.

The US has a lot of regional dialects so I thought I'd play along! In my Appalachian English we call them 1. 0:26 A Trunk 2. 0:45 Apartments 3. 1:17 Fries or French Fries 4. 1:32 Cell Phone or just Phone (In the 90's/00's you'd hear people call it a cell but that's not really used anymore.) 5. 1:56 Garbage Can (We rarely ever say trash, just garbage) 6. 2:30 Pants (and like she said, khakis are the type of pants and that color is also called khaki) 7. 2:54 Cookies (Those would be called M&M cookies, though, not chocolate chip) 8. 3:09 Changing rooms 9. 3:49 Tic Tac Toe 10. 4:12 Gas Station/Convenience Store/Convenient (That last one we never use a definite article with. It's always just "I'm going to convenient" and it's just understood that you mean you're going to the nearest gas station/convenience store) 11. 4:39 Tank Top or Wife Beater (that last is really only used for white tank tops because of the many, MANY movie/tv shows that have shown an abusive husband wearing a beer stained white tank top) 12. 5:18 Bell pepper

I grew up calling the tank top a 'wife beater' until I understood the meaning of the name and switched to calling it an undershirt...Hehe

Zino is a vibe

With the petrol station, where I live we call it a garage mostly if it has a like little shop with it which nearly all of them do but only a little amount of people call it a petrol station.

In the UK, petrol/gas stations are called garages because they'd often have an actual garage (i.e. workshop) where you could get your car fixed, sort out the M.O.T. etc. These garages are largely gone from the stations, but the name has stuck.

I find these videos interesting and fun. I'll mention a few things: In my part of the US, about the only use of the word "bin" I'm familiar with is what some urban people tend to call silos. Corn or soy beans are stored in them for further drying and to be held until the contract date. Actual silos are still seen, but mostly in dairy farming areas so far as I know. And most of us use the term garbage can, though I think everyone would understand trash or garbage bin. Gas stations are also frequently called filling stations. The simple fact about the US, and I suspect the other nations represented in the video, is that words for familiar things may vary by neighborhoods and regions. It's fun to hear the differences, but I'd be surprised if very many are a revelation to anyone. One more thing just occurred to me: in my youth the word bin was commonly used as a place to store coal for home heat. The last I knew of anyone who still used coal was close to fifty years ago. It was a farmer who had shallow coal deposits in his pasture, and he continued to use it in a "pot bellied" stove.

In the tide water or eastern North Carolina , USA we call it the boot of the car! Called it that my whole life!

As an Australian - there is a lot of variations across Australia between location and generation - things that I say different are: - mobile/ mobile phone - pants or trousers - biscuit

I think some of those terms are generational. In Australia the choc chip cookies are also called biscuits. If you had shown Tim Tams - they are definitely biscuits. When I was younger we would also call petrol stations ‘garages’

For Singaporeans, the older generation tends to use more UK English due to our colonised history by the UK and the education system that we adopted from the UK. But for the younger generation, we tend to use UK and US English interchangeably, especially while speaking. This I likely due to the more westernised (i.e. US) influences from products and entertainment.

"Feel so left out😣" That got me🤣

Im from Canada but i also have British heritage and use British slang. Trunk or truck bed. Apartment complex, flat, or hotel. French fries. Cell or iPhone. Trash bin or can and garbage can. Khakis or formal pants. We also say jeans (Personally I say trousers for formal wear pants). Cookies and snaps. Changing rooms OR fitting rooms. X's and O's or tic-tac-toe, I have heard it called 3 in a row. Gas station or Convenient store or station. Tank top or muscle shirt, they are used interchangeably. Bell pepper or *color* pepper.

I would love to hear some english differences between Australia, New Zealand & UK.

Loved how everyone was just so respectful and nice (:

As an Aussie this was interesting to watch- learnt a lot

In South africa we have different groups of people using different words for some of the things... like both biscuits and cookies, both pants and trousers(with that particular pair of trousers being called chino), then we use both garage or filling station, and you're more likely to hear vest than vesy

It also depends on where in the U.S you live, some states have different names and pronounce words differently. Like, for example, here in northern Minnesota/Minnesota/midwest many of us say pop instead of soda or soda pop and hotdish instead of casserole. It is all pretty interesting!

I think older folks in SA would call tic-tac-toe naughts and crosses. Don't be so surprised at South Africans calling petrol stations "garages". For the longest time stemming from at least the 1960s, any filling station in South Africa had to have a repair station on the same property, able to do elementary repairs. You take your car to the garage to get it fixed. It's a British influence, cars were fixed or manufactured in a garage. As an example, the iconic British vehicle manufacturer MG stands for "Morris Garage".

Hi, I'm from Australia (raised in NSW & ACT, moved to SA) And i have some differences with vocab so... "Trunk" = Boot "Apartment" = Flat or Apartment (i only hear real estate agents say unit) "Fries" = Chips/Hot Chips "Mobile Phone" = Cellphone/Phone "Trash Can" = Bin / Garbage/Rubbish Bin "Trash" = Garbage or Rubbish "Pants" = Trousers or Pants "Cookie" = Biscuits "Fitting Room" = Change Room "Tic Tac Toe" = Knaughts and Crosses "Gas Station" = Petrol Staion (i only hear Servo in SA or QLD) "Wife Beater" = Singlet, but if its very 'femminised' then tank top "Pepper" = Capsicum

I love how true this is I’m aussie btw AUSTRALIA! also I love the Australian woman’s accent when she said boot. I loved it 🥰

I’ve lived in South Africa , Singapore and currentlylive in Australia so this video what very interesting

I believe Singapore calls it handphone to distinguish between 'landline' and 'cell phones' because one is more portable than the other. And also they don't have those traditional visible cell towers, so they are less likely to call it cell. (Although I believe 'cell phone' was pretty common during the 2G era / pre smartphone era but it was starting to phase out) Though as we get closer to 2021, the choice of word may be dependent on the situation. Like if you say 'pass me the phone', it could be a landline number. (it's not your phone, not mum's phone, not dad's phone, it's the phone) Or like an Emcee at an event might say 'Mobile Phone' or 'Hand Phone'. (Please switch your mobile phones to silent mode) Or "take out your phone and scan the QR code". In that context it won't be a landline. (Although "please scan the qr code with your mobile phone" is used in certain announcements) Can you guys just put away your handphones? I tried calling his phone / I tried calling his handphone. Do you play any mobile games? (Because phone games sounds like you are playing snake on Nokia 3310, and Telephone Game is a specific game that people play before the age of Gartic Phone) I play genshin on my phone. Get 70% off your pre-paid mobile phone plan.

Before servo became popular in Australia a lot of people used to call them garages as well

1:44 The reason Singapore calls a smartphone “Handphone" is due to the majority Chinese population. In Chinese, a smartphone or telephone is a “手机" which directly translates to “Hand" and “Phone". Because so many are of Chinese descendent, many have incorrectly used the word handphone until the entirety of Singapore uses it, even the non Chinese Singaporeans.

keep going love you guys ♥🌼