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My French teacher at school was originally from Latvia. When her family moved from Latvia to London, she barely spoke a word of English, but learned a lot from the friends she made at school. One day, she was telling us about some of the colloquialisms she had misheard in her attempt to master conversational English. The example that sticks in my mind is the expression "looking like death warmed up". For many years, she thought the expression was "looking like a death-worn duck"!

What about this mnemonic for the eight planets, excluding Pluto? My Very Evil Mother Just Swatted Uncle's Nose

You eggheads are pleasant together.

Spoiler alert: Don't eat when watch this

Great video! Etymology is endlessly fascinating. The choke bit in artichoke is the fluff in the center that is removed before eating the heart. If you try to eat it, you could choke on it.

The Bitter End is also the name of a yacht club on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. The BVIs are also home to Normand Island that is believed to be the inspiration for Treasure Island.

Hold on to the bitter end The devil to pay Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea Sailor went to the head by standing on the jib stays to take a dump above the figurehead. The knot, sheet bend, ties two lines together The knot bowline A compass on a ship has a “lubber line.” Mind your P & Qs pints and quarts Dead horse

"should of went" is unacceptable !

Bullfrog is an odd name. I'd have call them chazzwozzers

I read a great quote apropos this video and the channel in general…. A language is a dialect with an Army and a Navy.

There is no such thing as British English ?????? In Britain there are 4 languages spoken, Irish, Scottish Welsh and English ! So you should be discussing the differences between native English and American English, not British .

apartment compartment... related

In the UK do they clear their biscuits when they want to improve the privacy of their web browsing?

Cowardice when having a scholarly discussion about color... ironic or apropos? Can't we have an adult conversation? I don't think the various names we use for the "last people to leave Africa" should be the thing for which we should walk on egg shells. Black is a color black people most accept in a very neutral way. Having a sense of "guilt" over the words we use is truly unfortunate and actually CAUSES social problems. You brought up the term "swarthy" as if it were a bad term when at the time, it had no negative connotation to the best of my knowledge. We should simply call things by what they are and people by what they accept. The term "negro" still means black in spanish and latin languages and is still a use for a college fund program. The sooner we stop being AFRAID of words or afraid of making anyone upset, the sooner we all mature beyond childish and emotional things.

The Japanese didn't have a word for green until green was brought to their attention. Even now their street signal lights are referred to as blue rather than green. Blue and green were incredibly thought of as the same color. But when we get into the most pure way by which we detect a color, we have our cones which are red green and blue. If we use light filters we can see by our sensory cells they are distinct.

Lunacy? Don't be hysterical!

The movement of the stars? Are you referring to Amber Heard?

Actually, Penguins are extinct. The birds we call penguins are actually not penguins and are not genetically connected to penguins. They did take on the color scheme largely because of the ability of black and white to help regulate temperature just as we see with many rocket ships... the black and white patterns are for regulating temperature from the surface. Need to get cooler? Show more white to the sun, warmer with more black. Search "true penguins" to see what they once looked like. They factually went the way of the DoDo.

The most safe and proper way to say Uranus is the ORIGINAL way which was "Ooo rahn os" Ohh ran os. U and V and the same letter originally and a Double V is a double U and is always pronounced as if it were two Us together. When you realize that a W is actually two vowels, it makes a lot more sense as to why we pronounce the letter as we do because if it were two Us, we would say it exactly as we do though it would tend to confuse the devil out of most people. Greek reference though it had to travel through Latin to get into English so there was most likely an VRANVS at some point but I can't be sure. But if you said "oo-ra-noose" you would get no sniggers and would sound as if you were properly speaking another language.

Wait, so if 'cosmos' is related to fabrics and weaving, does that explain why Captain Kirk orders Scotty to go to "warp speed"?! #ObscureWeavingJokeOfTheDay

Rob and Jess saying "nauty words" together...

I've LONG loved your presentation on words and their origins and all of that. It's fantastic knowledge to take in because it gives much more broad meaning to anything anyone says.... potentially. Question for you. Why do so many UK English speakers pronounce the letter H as "Haytch"? It seems like a fairly RECENT trend as I have gone my whole 50+ years of living without hearing "Hatch" as in "HDMI" until about 10 to 15 years ago it seems. Could you speak on that?

A Fuckload of Bees A Pile of Eagles An Uneasy Partnership of Coyotes A 101.5 "The Hammer" FM of Moths A Wad of Raccoons A Business Lunch of Meerkats A Duffel Bag of Seals A Shitstorm of Sparrows

I was gruntled once, but it didn’t last long.

Irish for pink is bándearg - white/red literally. In Georgian literally Brown - colour of coffee Light blue - colour of the sky Pink - colour of rose

The most annoying trait when Americans attempt to speak English is the fact that they very rarely pronounce the letter T. Butter become budder, potat because potado, beautiful becomes bewdiful, even the Beatles becomes the Beedles!!😡😡 And why is a garden called a Yard? Who maintains the Yard?? a Yardner??? All very strange!!🙄🙄🇬🇧🇬🇧

4 humors Melancholy Phlagmatic Sanguine Choleric

Oak in Dutch is eik. Acorn is eikel, which is a word you do NOT want to look up. 🤣

You forgot the term, "Pipe down".

Thanks for the video, I thoroughly enjoyed it. For me the preeminent portmanteau word is 'Lord" which comes from the old English word 'hlafweard' - Loaf Ward' - keeper of the bread.

I once said “ciao” to someone in Nepal, kind of out of habit, and my friend said, “you know some Nepali?”, I said, “no, why”, he said “caio” means “go away”! I was embarrassed.

27:14 It could be that a drunkship of cobblers is from the cobblers inhaling so many fumes of the glues they use.

My favorite is "ignoranus" a person who is both an idiot and an ar$ehole

poor mans toes? what a strange subject for a video

As a Canadian I can say we use a lot of American English, and British English. We side with the Brits on spelling though... I mean we still have British Royalty on our currency. 😉

Dude.... being an etymologist how can you say "sam-wich" !!!

Talking of chips, a bit of a vocal fry going on there.

It's quite simple really, there is a clue in the name as to which one is correct.

Both lift and elevator describe an upwards motion. This contraption also takes you down!

I think this 'ere might be the first use of the acronym POSH which so many armchair folk etymologists glommed on to. th-cam.com/video/AzEWodlTFq0/w-d-xo.html

I came across asterrmancy vis a vis astromancy when studying historic lore

I was always taught that suspenders snap and braces button. Farmers wear suspenders; businessmen wear braces.

Do Americans know the difference between adjectives and adverbs? It seems not.

I like " shiggles" for shits and giggles. I say Ahoy a lot at work!

My mother ( northern England) called aubergine egg plant back in the 1970s.

Would be nice to know why we pronounce several things differently: Zed/Zee Jam/Jelly Math/Maths .. to name a few!

Loved this - congrats both! 😄😄

Helllo in various languages Irish ☘️ - Dia Duit (God be with you) Serbian/Bosnian - zdravo (health) Croatian - Bok (from “Bog” meaning God) Georgian - გამარჯობა gamarjoba (victory) Goodbye special mentions Irish - slán (health) Dutch - doei (informal) no idea a what it really means Dag (informal meaning “day” but can be used as a mild swear word, like “heb je 5 euro voor me?” “Ja, daggg!” Finally a sort of street language certainly in Rotterdam - Mazzel (good luck, a word which is derived from Mazzeltof) d

Rob: i think you might have tripped up here, you can tack to windward, if you "tack to windward" multiple times you are beating.

I think the vocabulary differences are particularly noticable in 19th century technology, when the two nations grew apart. I mean things like railways and cars. In the 20th century, with the invention of first the radio and then film and television they moved back closer together. And today with internet, while the US form is obviously dominant due to the greater nomber of US citizens and the far greater economic, political and social power of the USA, most British and US people are aware of the different forms and can understand each other.