The London Underground isn’t *one of* the oldest. It is *the* oldest system in the world (services started in 1863 on what is now the Metropolitan line).
And also, originally was a lot of "cut and cover" when it started.and was in the central area. As the suburbs expanded outwards there was cheaper to extend the system above ground.
Also, it wasn't originally named "London Underground"; it was the "London Metropolitan Rail (System)" Which everyone called the "tube", because the trains were rounded and go through tube-shaped tunnels. It's only called the "London Underground" because humans notice when they are travelling underground, as opposed to overground. I think officially, it is still the London Metropolitan Railway, though "Tube" and "Underground" are so culturally ingrained in the British mind that even the government needs to give their apps the popular name.
American Hot Dogs - Meat from an animal's head, feet, liver, fatty tissue, lower-grade muscle, blood, and more can be included in what is described as “meat trimmings,” or the primary source of meat for hot dogs. If the ingredient list contains “byproducts” or “variety meats,” the meat may come from the snout, lips, eyes, or brains.
I saw one of those ‘Inside the Factory ‘ tv programmes where quantities of “all American hotdogs” were being prepared and cooked on an unbelievable scale. All the ingredients, as previously mentioned, plopping into a large vat and churned into a goo which led to the next part of the manufacture. What looked like incredibly “pink” sausage shaped monstrosities, were being squished out of a large machine, dropping down on to metal rails and then wobbling about to the “oven” that was going to “heat cook” them. It was truly vile and 🤮 inducing…. If only the average USA American actually knew and witnessed for themselves what constitutes one of their “hotdogs” and saw how they are made… a proper Haggis would be seen in a more considered light!
'London Underground' isn't a nickname- it's what it literally is called. The name 'Tube' on the other hand is a nickname - one that's used very commonly by everyone. The highest temp recorded in the UK is now hotter than that. It's now 40.3 C in Lincolnshire in 2022, which is about 104.5 F
In Britain, if we think of the territory that we know as England, English was spoken before 1066. This English was a development of Germanic languages and it continued to develop in the subsequent centuries. The ordinary people continued to speak this gradually developing English language until the arrival of the Normans in 1066 who imposed Norman-French as the official language. This did not mean that ordinary people suddenly had to stop speaking old English. Norman-French was the language of the conquerors. In the later 14th century the king ruled that Middle-English (as English had now developed) would replace Norman-French as the official language of the state. Norman-French was still spoken and used. English continued to develop and be used. In the palaces of our late queen, Elizabeth II she still enforced the custom of using Norman-French at her Court (Household) for example, all meal menus were in Norman-French.
Love how Tyler's mind saw it as a simple switch between modern English to modern French and back again... the English that we and Americans speak would of been unrecognisable 1000 years ago! My favourite fact about this evolution of English with Germanic and Norman-French influence is how we developed separate words to distinguish between a lot of animals and their meat, with the ordinary people rearing the livestock and using their Germanic-based terms (e.g. Cow "Kau") and the Norman-French lords contributing their words for the meat (e.g. Beef "Boeuf").
Football back in Edward I’s day was 2 goals at either end of town, the whole town could take part. The only rule was to get the ball through one of the goals. No time limit so the game could go on for days. This lead to mass fighting, stabbing and loss of life as everyone in medieval times carried a knife. It also interfered with long bow practice which really bothered the kings at the time.
Football in medieval England was really REALLY rowdy. That's why it was banned so many times through the ages. Re: speaking French. Spoken only by the Norman upper classes (descended from a mix of local French people, and Vikings who settled in northern France) who invaded England, under Duke William of Normandy in 1066, after defeating the Saxon English and King Harald Godwinson at the battle of Hastings.
Yeah but the French language had a huge impact on the English language. In fact when you try to figure out why the English language can be so difficult to learn and why so many of our language rules and spelling rules only apply part of the time, the main reason is because we were conquered so many times by so many people. And most of those people apart from the Romans started off in Northern Europe. Even William the Conqueror was the 3x great grandson of a Viking ruler who became the ruler of Normandy.
Mother lost count of the number of umbrellas she lost on the Underground while she commuted in and out of Central London. In the end Dad made a kind of 'dog tag' for her with her name and phone number, and chained it to a replacement... and after she left it, someone from the lost property office rang and told her where she could collect it. Twice.
When you do the V sign for the number 2, you do it with the palm facing outwards in the UK (same as the peace sign) as doing it the way you did with your palm facing towards you is the same as giving people the middle finger.
Also a lot of Stockholm Underground is just "underground" in the city, and then goes "overground" in the suburbans. Especially the older parts from the 1950's. The new parts that is under construction just now will go underground all the way.
Most of the London Underground IS underground in central london. The parts that aren’t tend to be at either ends on the various underground lines ( in the suburbs) there are the odd few places where they are close to the surface in london ( where you can see daylight on the platforms), but I won’t go into which ones as it’ll take up too much time.
Only Fools and Horses was a great comedy series. Check out 2 particular excerpts - the chandelier episode and the one where Dellboy is in a pub with Trigger, trying to impress the ladies. OFAH at it's best
The statute of pleading was passed in parliment 1362 making english the official language. This was because most common English people did not understand Normandy French so did not understand what was being said in court
The official language being French didn't mean it was the majority language or that everyone then had to switch to English. People already spoke English, and had done for hundreds of years, but in 1066 William the Conqueror came from Normandy, in France, and took the English throne. He installed his supporters in positions of Nobility so the royalty and nobles spoke French as their main language, but everyone else spoke English. Over time the Nobility shifted to using more English and English adopted lots of words from French, which changed the language from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) to Middle English, which is more recognisable as English to today's speakers, but still a long way off the modern language.
The Channel Tunnel is great (but a bit pricey). I live near Birmingham in central England but the tunnel allowed me and my son to drive to Belgium and back in a day just to visit a zoo (Pairi Daiza) last year 😂
Oh my God, Tyler! William the Conqueror from Normandy, which is part of current day France spoke medieval French and French was the official language of the court of the government but the people pretty much stuck to medieval English. They couldn’t read or write anyway.
As I live in the uk I love to watch Americans react and learn facts about the uk. I don’t know why it just makes me feel that the world is different everywhere.
me too, but some the videos he watches give false information or they dont actually know properly the things we do , and leads him to think that's the right way , I love his videos though
I'm not sure about most teenagers obviously but my friend's 16 year old daughter is obsessed with The Beatles and her girlfriend (17) loves 1960s music in general and is a massive fan of especially rock groups from that era but 60s pop and motown etc too. Her 14 year old brother likes modern music but is also into 70s classic rock. I'm in my 30s, my sister's in her 20s (so not kids!) but we love Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, T Rex, Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, The Stones, The Kinks and loads more from the 60s and 70s and that's been since I was in my very early teens when I was fed up of hearing kids go on about Boyzone and Westlife etc. I knew there had to be actual good music I was missing out on and I delved deeper into bands I liked a bit already like Queen and The Beatles and went from there. The good thing is, I've grown to discover more and more great music over the last couple of decades and still love the groups I listened to back then whereas my friends outgrew their favourite pop groups as soon as they weren't 'cool' anymore. Some groups are just timeless and I'm sure (hope!) there are lots of kids and young adults still listening to the greatest 60s and 70s bands.
I think that is a big bonus with music streaming. The music from just about any time period can be listened to. In my day I'm nearly 70 it was just the latest music of the day stocked by the record shops. Same with the radio playing the latest music.
Outside of the City centre the rail system is older than most of the built up areas so there was no need to tunnel. Also, in the City Centre there are a lot of underground rivers connecting to the Thames (especially in the East of the city) and crossing the Thames itself that make it a lot simpler to just bring the line back above ground.
You asked about 'the size of London' ..... it's about 36 miles across from east to west and 25 miles north to south, the most recent population figure is just under 10 million with about another 5 million in what is called the wider metro area. Some tube lines do go outside the city boundary to more outlying areas.
Tyler, have you ever eaten a Hotdog and looked at the ingredients? They make Haggis seem like Prime Rib. And good haggis tastes fantastic. If you come to Scotland, let me know, we'll get you sorted.
Right. That's what I thought straight away. It's ironic that people in the US eat the muck that's in regular food over there yet draw the line at haggis 😂 I've never tried it because I'm not a huge fan of many meat products and have to fancy it but I will have to one day.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517The smell of haggis is more than enough for me, no offence intended my Scottish neighbours. But you are absolutely spot on about hotdogs. They are full of all sorts of nasties. 😊🏴
There are a few reasons for UK's weather with mainly being down to location & size with some being; Distance from the seas (Continentality). Ocean currents. The Gulf Stream. Direction of prevailing winds. The shape of the land ('relief').
9:11 Tyler thinks it would be scary knowing that there is "endless amounts of earth" above you when you are in the Channel Tunnel. That's kind of missing the point. What makes most people nervous is knowing about the vast quantities of WATER. Sea water leaks into the tunnel and has to be pumped out.
Most of the London Underground is the oldest underground rail system in the world as it was the first to be done but some parts of it got bombed during the war so they had to replace them with different routes.
@@michaelhammond5412 The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world. The Metropolitan Railway opened in January 1863 and was an immediate success, though its construction took nearly two years and caused huge disruption in the streets. A little Google search shows it actually is.
The oldest subway system in the world is in Boston and half of it used to be elevated and half of it was below ground although the original part was all below ground one change now is that it all has been pretty much removed the low ground and if it doesn’t, we call it street carslike our green line is above and below ground
Here in Hiroshima, we have an extensive rail system (streetcar and train), but we only have one subway/elevated line. The Astram line, operational since 1994, has four subway stations under downtown, but becomes an elevated line (with 20 stations) as soon as it reaches the edge of downtown.
We didn't change from French to a 'new' language of English, we changed back to our 'old' one. Definitely Kings/Queens changed to alter everything, sooooo much history!! 😊
The London Underground is not one of the oldest, it’s the oldest opened January 10th 1863 but some of its stations are older, like Harrow & Wealdstone on the north end of the Bakerloo line built 1837
Our rain and storms in the UK mainly gets to us either from ex hurricanes from the usa and the Caribbean areas which get caught up in the jet stream that travels from West to East across the Atlantic to here in the Uk..... Many thanks USA 🤔🤣
the reason London Underground , also rides Overground is , North of the river Thames , the ground is mainly clay and easy to build tunnels in , South of the Thames and the ground is more ' brittle ' , so the trains are on the surface =-)
The first underground railway in the world was the Metropolitan Railway of 1863, now the Metropolitan line of the London Underground. It was originally worked by condensing steam locomotives, and later converted to electricity. Pretty much all of the Underground in central London is underground, but once it gets outside the centre it tends to go above ground (except, for instance, to enter Heathrow Airport).
tyler, there are 3 tunnels, one going one way and anoter going another way, with a third tunnel as a service tunnel, but also escape route, there are also, from what i know 3 types of trains, the eurostar, the cars, and the freights, all diferent designs, and uses, it takes around 28 to 30 minutes to travel through
Only parts of the U.K. have heavy rainfall the east of the country tends to be very dry.I live in Hartlepool NE and we only average 2.2 nches of rain per annum
Howard Jones Led Zeppelin Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith) Sting (The Police) Whitesnake (i.e. David Coverdale) And so on...! 🥰 Yes - *Only Fools and Horses* ! I grew up with them; I literally know the first three episodes of the first season word-by-word!
The reason that medieval kings wanted to ban ball games was that they wanted people to only practice archery as a sport, as the English longbowmen were highly effective in war, and had been crucial for England to defeat much larger French armies (for example the battle of Agincourt).
French was the "official" language but spoken mostly by nobility who were themselves from Normandy (France). Most were still using Saxon words. This created a 2 tier language system that survived today. We use French based words for fancy things and the Saxon based ones for common things.
I’ve been to the USA a lot TV in the past. Don’t fancy haggis but have you seen the ingredients for McDonald’s fries over there. Around 20. We have 3. Potatoes. Oil. Salt. Please don’t knock haggises. Healthier than US fries.
French was only the language of the ruling class after the Norman conquest, but English (old English and then middle English) was always spoken by the peasant and working classes. Edward III was the first monarch to issue statutes in English and Henry IV was probably the first monarch to speak English as his first language in the 15th century
Regarding HAGGIS, you have the opportunity to learn more about it in the next few weeks. On 25th January, it is Burns Night when the Scotland celebrates arguably the greatest Scottish poet, Robert "Rabbie" Burns. Haggis is served at Burns Night dinners and the haggis is brought into the room in a procession and Burns' poem "Address to a Haggis" is read. Robert Burns also wrote "Auld Lang Syne"
Actually, haggis was common to France, the Low Countries, as well as in the various countries of the British Isles. It persisted in Scotland. I love it, either as a pudding, with potatoes and turnip, or as the best part of the Guid Scots Breakfast.
The reason why football was almost banned was that at the time, there was no offical regulation of ruels to the game and so teams (typically whole villages) would often get horribly injured or killed during the game or afterwards as a result of football. This was a huge problem considering we were at war with most of Europe at the time and armies need and relied on strong and healthy people. Therefore if people are getting injured/killed from football, the quality of the armys would be significantly weakend making you more suseptable to defeat and your land invaded.
Rain,rain and more rain😬We have a saying here in Cymru(Wales) “ How green are our valleys”. I wonder why😂Talk about hilarious random facts. Sex and largest book mark!Hilarious!🤣😂🤣The reason behind the longest Welsh name place, is that it was done to boost tourism in the later 1800’s.
The longest place name in Wales was named that just to attract tourists, it works lol. It was named that in the 1880s, it has 58 letters and has four letter Ls in a row within the name. It has the longest name even though it's a small Welsh town lol. In English it means Saint Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of saint tysillio near the red cave, basically it's just directions to get there lol. 🏴. By the way the names Jones and Williams are Welsh names. Also English alphabet has 26 letters, Welsh alphabet has 29 letters. 🏴
The reason for the rainfall is the country’s location: it is on the western edge of the North Atlantic, at the edge of one of the atmosphere’s circulation cells. This drives a huge amount of moisture against the coastline where it is forced to condense. That said, the rainfall is concentrated on the west of the country. The east is much drier (London gets less total rainfall than New York or Rome, although spread out over more days).
Over the ages all sports have been banned at some time except Archery which was compulsory for a very long time for boys and men from age 12. Cromwell even banned Christmas as too Catholic.
A lot of rain in the UK.This is because the mountains of the northern and western UK force the prevailing westerly winds to rise, which cools the air and consequently enhances the formation of cloud and rain in these locations (this is known as orographic enhancement).
It also means there is less rain to the eastern side of the Pennines, which places the East of England, and maybe Scotland too? (as Glasgow seems to be in receipt of "lots of rain", for example, apparently?!) ...and thus, the East of Britain is regarded as being within the "rain shadow". 🏴🤔🇬🇧🥺🖖
Tyler, man that names town my tongue couldnt say it. I was surprised how hot weather can be at UK 😮. Thanks for this videos and the best to you man from northern México 🎉😊
The London Underground started off all under the ground in central London because buildings and streets were already there and land was expensive, so building tunnels was easier and cheaper. When it started to grow out into the suburbs where, back at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, there was very little building at all, it was much easier and cheaper to just stay on the surface and buy cheap land rather than building expensive tunnels under nothing.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Here's one - the Underground comes up to the surface on most lines, when it arrives in the suburbs. In fact, some lines carry on to the countryside, so yould hardly expect to have tube trains running under a farmers field.!!!! French was the "official language of administration" during that era. But the 'common' people carried on speaking Anglo-saxon. However, during that 300 year period, a lot of the French words we speak today, started to find their way into our language. So, as an example, faucett is french, while tap has germanic origins (anglo-saxon).
Rain in the UK, is the result of warm Gulf Stream air rising over the UK land mass and cooling, especially over the Welsh and Scottish mountains (I believe!)
The London Underground IS the oldest underground railway (or parts of) in the world. the Metropolitan Line, is the reason Underground Railways are called Metro's.
The tube is THE oldest subway system in the entire world. Yes, Trafalgar Square is right near the centre of London. London itself is twice the size of New York City. As for that Welsh town with the mad name. If memory serves me right, it was deliberately made to be the longest place name in the UK.
Those big massive new citylink buses are the worst for losing phones, I was coming back from Glasgow sitting at the top front and my phone flew out my hand when the driver jolted, it went right down a gap between the window and the plastic front. Had to wait till we reached my destination and ask driver who couldn't get it. Thankfully one of the baggage guys at the station said he'd had to retrieve them a good few times but it would depend where it landed. Turns out of it had landed 3 " either way it was gone into the chassis of the bus only to be retrieved when it went to the breakers yard 😨, with millions of pounds of brand new bus that wouldn't be happening for many years 😂 (not that I would have even got it then.) I'll be choosing my seat more wisely in future! Every bus that went past I'd have been wondering "is my life in that bus" 😂
Just to let you know, when he said we spoke French for 300 years...that would be just in official law and very rich and royalty the rest of the country still spoke English but only by common and lower classes.
Regarding the language - before 1066 England spoke English, Wales spoke Welsh, Irish was spoken in Ireland and Scotland... was a bit more complicated but we'll leave that. All four were independent nations. Everything changed when the Normans invaded from France and conquered England, wiping out the English ruling class and making their own French language the official language as used in the legal system and Royal courts. The ordinary people still spoke local dialects of English though. By the 1300s, the English monarchs had lost their French territories and decided a more English identity was called for, and more importantly a lot of prominent courtiers knew English and saw themselves as such. So back into official use it came, evolved considerably since 1066, with a lot of French loan words.
Queen Victoria reintroduced French to the Royal Court, for the courtiers and staff that had no English, when she banned the speaking of German, including by Prince Albert, to this day all menus at State Banquets are printed in French.
Before 1066 didn’t the Inhabitants speak Anglo Saxon English, much influenced by the speech of Wessex, due to King Alfred and his successors’? I believe it was referred to a “late Old English”.
The change of official language from Norman French to Middle English happened because of the Black Death. French was the language of court (nobility), but the commoners spoke English. The Black Death caused so many to die that commoners ended up in court positions and English and French collapsed into a single language as a result and is why English has two parallel vocabularies to this day. This smushing of two languages into one also triggered the Great Vowel Shift, which is the reason English spelling is so unpredictable. The astonishing thing about all this is that it happened so fast: about one generation.
Hi Tyler, Happy New Year to you, my friend! The London Underground, Tube or whatever you might want to call it, is with the exception of just two lines, parts of the tangle of formerly independent railway companies' lines that were originally built to compete with one another, from about 1840 to 1900, give or take a few years. They're not - as the famous tube map suggests, wide apart or distant from one another and they'd don't comprehensively cover the whole of even inner London. With a few exceptions, they're also only under the ground across an area of perhaps 3 by 6 miles in the central area, and in the suburbs, their trains run alongside, or instead of, conventional surface railways that are part of the national railway system. Rather confusingly, some but not all of these within the London area are branded 'Overground' as these lines are funded by the same body and tend to serve areas that the underground does not, although there are many interchange points where transfer from one to the other is possible. In addition, a tramway system in the far southern and a light railway system also operate in Eastern London, where there are also relatively few undergound or overground lines. London's Buses are also mostly regulated by the same overall company, Transport for London or TfL, which is a government quango in effect.
The tube as said is the oldest in the world, and to be honest the tube is failry clean also, and when running with no problems, there is usually a tube every 3 minutes, also great bust service, that runs around every 6 mins, some routes bit longer,
@@jamesfahy2935 we all know the troubles, with tube strikes, tickets offices are now not needed, plenty machines around, does the job, can use oysters card which is becoming outdated, because of tap and go, it progress, everything is online, and to be honest half the guys in ticket booths do not have a clue of best deals, its better online
It’s very simple. The London Underground connects practically all of London AND the outskirts of London. The outer parts are normal overground railways, which then dip underground for travelling through London. The first underground railway in the world opened in London in January 1863. (More than 40 years before New York).
The British Isles (UK and Republic of Ireland) get their weather mainly on the winds from the West and the Atlantic. The moist air having crossed the ocean, hits land, rises over the hills and dumps the moisture as rain. The East of the UK is driER than the West, although still quite rainy.
The West is a lot drier, I live in NI and do not get the rain that Britain gets, on the same note we do not get the temperature peaks of GB nor do we get much snow, the last snow I saw worth a mention was back in 1998
It is an awful lot cheaper to build railway lines above ground than it is to drive tunnels under central London, and then lay tracks in them. So as soon as practicable, one’s the lines are out of central London, they emerge from the tunnels.
football used to have people die playing it, there were less rules and there were weapons involved and there was a fake person John-a-Stiles who was blamed in court when people died so that the whole team/village wouldn't be punished
French was the language used officially in court and amongst the aristocracy...The normal middle class and commoners spoke English!!! It was during the 100 Years War against France that Edward III changed the official language to English!!
The kind of football that was so disdained in the past was "mob football", involving basically a free for all with hundreds of participants, causing lots of injuries and disorder. The highest recorded UK Temperature has changed since this video. In 2022, a temperature of 40.3C / 104.6F was recorded in Lincolnshire. For reference, a temperature of 134F / 56.7C was reportedly recorded in the appropriately-named Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, in 1913. I believe that's the current world record, although some are now questioning the accuracy of the measurement. A completely reliable measurement of 130.1F / 54.4C was taken in almost the identical location in 2021, so the 134F reading is still very plausible.
The London Underground isn’t *one of* the oldest. It is *the* oldest system in the world (services started in 1863 on what is now the Metropolitan line).
And also, originally was a lot of "cut and cover" when it started.and was in the central area. As the suburbs expanded outwards there was cheaper to extend the system above ground.
Also, it wasn't originally named "London Underground"; it was the "London Metropolitan Rail (System)"
Which everyone called the "tube", because the trains were rounded and go through tube-shaped tunnels.
It's only called the "London Underground" because humans notice when they are travelling underground, as opposed to overground.
I think officially, it is still the London Metropolitan Railway, though "Tube" and "Underground" are so culturally ingrained in the British mind that even the government needs to give their apps the popular name.
the UK is an island with water all around , we have mountain ranges which create a lot of rain, it makes for a green and pleasant land .
Warm wet weather coming in from the Caribbean via weather patterns hitting Welsh and Scottish mountains.
Technically the UK isn't an island, Great Britain is. #pedant
@@hanifleylabi8071 yeah Great Britain , i didnt even realize , thanks
@@hanifleylabi8071Northern Ireland is still on an island albeit not connected to the main land being Britain
@@perry714. Yes, but 'e said "an" instead of "two".
American Hot Dogs - Meat from an animal's head, feet, liver, fatty tissue, lower-grade muscle, blood, and more can be included in what is described as “meat trimmings,” or the primary source of meat for hot dogs. If the ingredient list contains “byproducts” or “variety meats,” the meat may come from the snout, lips, eyes, or brains.
Don’t forget the hairs and bugs🤮
I saw one of those ‘Inside the Factory ‘ tv programmes where quantities of “all American hotdogs” were being prepared and cooked on an unbelievable scale.
All the ingredients, as previously mentioned, plopping into a large vat and churned into a goo which led to the next part of the manufacture. What looked like incredibly “pink” sausage shaped monstrosities, were being squished out of a large machine, dropping down on to metal rails and then wobbling about to the “oven” that was going to “heat cook” them. It was truly vile and 🤮 inducing….
If only the average USA American actually knew and witnessed for themselves what constitutes one of their “hotdogs” and saw how they are made… a proper Haggis would be seen in a more considered light!
basically MRM, American hotdogs contain meat from various animals and birds, not really fit for human consumption.
'London Underground' isn't a nickname- it's what it literally is called. The name 'Tube' on the other hand is a nickname - one that's used very commonly by everyone.
The highest temp recorded in the UK is now hotter than that. It's now 40.3 C in Lincolnshire in 2022, which is about 104.5 F
As in 'Tube strikes'.
In Britain, if we think of the territory that we know as England, English was spoken before 1066. This English was a development of Germanic languages and it continued to develop in the subsequent centuries. The ordinary people continued to speak this gradually developing English language until the arrival of the Normans in 1066 who imposed Norman-French as the official language. This did not mean that ordinary people suddenly had to stop speaking old English. Norman-French was the language of the conquerors. In the later 14th century the king ruled that Middle-English (as English had now developed) would replace Norman-French as the official language of the state. Norman-French was still spoken and used. English continued to develop and be used. In the palaces of our late queen, Elizabeth II she still enforced the custom of using Norman-French at her Court (Household) for example, all meal menus were in Norman-French.
Love how Tyler's mind saw it as a simple switch between modern English to modern French and back again... the English that we and Americans speak would of been unrecognisable 1000 years ago! My favourite fact about this evolution of English with Germanic and Norman-French influence is how we developed separate words to distinguish between a lot of animals and their meat, with the ordinary people rearing the livestock and using their Germanic-based terms (e.g. Cow "Kau") and the Norman-French lords contributing their words for the meat (e.g. Beef "Boeuf").
Haggis is really delicious. It's a shame you're unlikely to get the chance to try it, Tyler, as USA bans it's import
Football back in Edward I’s day was 2 goals at either end of town, the whole town could take part. The only rule was to get the ball through one of the goals. No time limit so the game could go on for days. This lead to mass fighting, stabbing and loss of life as everyone in medieval times carried a knife. It also interfered with long bow practice which really bothered the kings at the time.
6:00 And at some stations some of the Underground lines are above the Overground lines 😂
That long welsh place name was a deliberate marketing stunt - they renamed the town in the 1880s to encourage tourism, and it has worked ever since!
Football in medieval England was really REALLY rowdy. That's why it was banned so many times through the ages.
Re: speaking French. Spoken only by the Norman upper classes (descended from a mix of local French people, and Vikings who settled in northern France) who invaded England, under Duke William of Normandy in 1066, after defeating the Saxon English and King Harald Godwinson at the battle of Hastings.
Yeah but the French language had a huge impact on the English language. In fact when you try to figure out why the English language can be so difficult to learn and why so many of our language rules and spelling rules only apply part of the time, the main reason is because we were conquered so many times by so many people. And most of those people apart from the Romans started off in Northern Europe. Even William the Conqueror was the 3x great grandson of a Viking ruler who became the ruler of Normandy.
Another reason the Medieval Kings r=tried to ban football was it distracted the local peasants from practicing Archery.
Mother lost count of the number of umbrellas she lost on the Underground while she commuted in and out of Central London. In the end Dad made a kind of 'dog tag' for her with her name and phone number, and chained it to a replacement... and after she left it, someone from the lost property office rang and told her where she could collect it. Twice.
She and I both… your dad was a star..😊
When you do the V sign for the number 2, you do it with the palm facing outwards in the UK (same as the peace sign) as doing it the way you did with your palm facing towards you is the same as giving people the middle finger.
V for victory is palm outwards and yes palm inwards is f you
Also a lot of Stockholm Underground is just "underground" in the city, and then goes "overground" in the suburbans. Especially the older parts from the 1950's. The new parts that is under construction just now will go underground all the way.
Most of the London Underground IS underground in central london.
The parts that aren’t tend to be at either ends on the various underground lines ( in the suburbs) there are the odd few places where they are close to the surface in london ( where you can see daylight on the platforms), but I won’t go into which ones as it’ll take up too much time.
Actually there's more above ground (55%) than underground (45%)
South Ken for the museums, for one...
Although the London tube started in 1863, it wasn't electrified!! It first used steam trains!!
Only Fools and Horses was a great comedy series. Check out 2 particular excerpts - the chandelier episode and the one where Dellboy is in a pub with Trigger, trying to impress the ladies. OFAH at it's best
Delboy falls through bar is the search you NEED to do. Just trust me, it is the funniest thing ever and works in every culture.
Tyler is worried about the contents of a haggis but eats fast food burgers.
Worse than that... _American_ burgers!!
"Is Trafalgar Square in London?" THAT needs to go on a " Dumbest Thing an American has ever said to you" video. 😅
Oh c’mon Tyler, have you not been paying any attention whatsoever to any of these vids you make??
The statute of pleading was passed in parliment 1362 making english the official language. This was because most common English people did not understand Normandy French so did not understand what was being said in court
The official language being French didn't mean it was the majority language or that everyone then had to switch to English. People already spoke English, and had done for hundreds of years, but in 1066 William the Conqueror came from Normandy, in France, and took the English throne. He installed his supporters in positions of Nobility so the royalty and nobles spoke French as their main language, but everyone else spoke English. Over time the Nobility shifted to using more English and English adopted lots of words from French, which changed the language from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) to Middle English, which is more recognisable as English to today's speakers, but still a long way off the modern language.
The Channel Tunnel is great (but a bit pricey). I live near Birmingham in central England but the tunnel allowed me and my son to drive to Belgium and back in a day just to visit a zoo (Pairi Daiza) last year 😂
Oh my God, Tyler! William the Conqueror from Normandy, which is part of current day France spoke medieval French and French was the official language of the court of the government but the people pretty much stuck to medieval English. They couldn’t read or write anyway.
As I live in the uk I love to watch Americans react and learn facts about the uk. I don’t know why it just makes me feel that the world is different everywhere.
me too, but some the videos he watches give false information or they dont actually know properly the things we do , and leads him to think that's the right way , I love his videos though
Yeah, It's like we are another country !
because it is?
I'm not sure about most teenagers obviously but my friend's 16 year old daughter is obsessed with The Beatles and her girlfriend (17) loves 1960s music in general and is a massive fan of especially rock groups from that era but 60s pop and motown etc too.
Her 14 year old brother likes modern music but is also into 70s classic rock.
I'm in my 30s, my sister's in her 20s (so not kids!) but we love Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, T Rex, Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, The Stones, The Kinks and loads more from the 60s and 70s and that's been since I was in my very early teens when I was fed up of hearing kids go on about Boyzone and Westlife etc. I knew there had to be actual good music I was missing out on and I delved deeper into bands I liked a bit already like Queen and The Beatles and went from there.
The good thing is, I've grown to discover more and more great music over the last couple of decades and still love the groups I listened to back then whereas my friends outgrew their favourite pop groups as soon as they weren't 'cool' anymore. Some groups are just timeless and I'm sure (hope!) there are lots of kids and young adults still listening to the greatest 60s and 70s bands.
I think that is a big bonus with music streaming. The music from just about any time period can be listened to. In my day I'm nearly 70 it was just the latest music of the day stocked by the record shops. Same with the radio playing the latest music.
Only fools and horses is legendary
Most people outside Wales call that Welsh place "Llanfair PG" Lot easier to say.
Most people in Wales do too.
Hay on Wye has a huge international book festival every year. I don't know why there but it seems to have reached a critical mass over the years.
Outside of the City centre the rail system is older than most of the built up areas so there was no need to tunnel. Also, in the City Centre there are a lot of underground rivers connecting to the Thames (especially in the East of the city) and crossing the Thames itself that make it a lot simpler to just bring the line back above ground.
Hi! Just so you know.. its water above you , not only earth when you travel in the channel tunnel! It goes underneath the English channel.. 😊
So does the New York subway!
You asked about 'the size of London' ..... it's about 36 miles across from east to west and 25 miles north to south, the most recent population figure is just under 10 million with about another 5 million in what is called the wider metro area. Some tube lines do go outside the city boundary to more outlying areas.
Tyler, have you ever eaten a Hotdog and looked at the ingredients? They make Haggis seem like Prime Rib. And good haggis tastes fantastic. If you come to Scotland, let me know, we'll get you sorted.
Right. That's what I thought straight away. It's ironic that people in the US eat the muck that's in regular food over there yet draw the line at haggis 😂 I've never tried it because I'm not a huge fan of many meat products and have to fancy it but I will have to one day.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517The smell of haggis is more than enough for me, no offence intended my Scottish neighbours. But you are absolutely spot on about hotdogs. They are full of all sorts of nasties. 😊🏴
Sadly - Tyler never reads the comments. He asks for them, to up the return to him from the algorithm.
If he never reads the comments people should stop commenting. It is extremely rude to ask for comments to just ignore them.
@@Duchess_of_Cadishead You might think that...
There are a few reasons for UK's weather with mainly being down to location & size with some being;
Distance from the seas (Continentality).
Ocean currents.
The Gulf Stream.
Direction of prevailing winds.
The shape of the land ('relief').
9:11 Tyler thinks it would be scary knowing that there is "endless amounts of earth" above you when you are in the Channel Tunnel. That's kind of missing the point. What makes most people nervous is knowing about the vast quantities of WATER. Sea water leaks into the tunnel and has to be pumped out.
Most of the London Underground is the oldest underground rail system in the world as it was the first to be done but some parts of it got bombed during the war so they had to replace them with different routes.
Not true.
@@michaelhammond5412 The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world. The Metropolitan Railway opened in January 1863 and was an immediate success, though its construction took nearly two years and caused huge disruption in the streets. A little Google search shows it actually is.
The oldest subway system in the world is in Boston and half of it used to be elevated and half of it was below ground although the original part was all below ground one change now is that it all has been pretty much removed the low ground and if it doesn’t, we call it street carslike our green line is above and below ground
Here in Hiroshima, we have an extensive rail system (streetcar and train), but we only have one subway/elevated line. The Astram line, operational since 1994, has four subway stations under downtown, but becomes an elevated line (with 20 stations) as soon as it reaches the edge of downtown.
We didn't change from French to a 'new' language of English, we changed back to our 'old' one. Definitely Kings/Queens changed to alter everything, sooooo much history!! 😊
The London Underground is not one of the oldest, it’s the oldest opened January 10th 1863 but some of its stations are older, like Harrow & Wealdstone on the north end of the Bakerloo line built 1837
Our rain and storms in the UK mainly gets to us either from ex hurricanes from the usa and the Caribbean areas which get caught up in the jet stream that travels from West to East across the Atlantic to here in the Uk..... Many thanks USA 🤔🤣
the reason London Underground , also rides Overground is , North of the river Thames , the ground is mainly clay and easy to build tunnels in , South of the Thames and the ground is more ' brittle ' , so the trains are on the surface =-)
The first underground railway in the world was the Metropolitan Railway of 1863, now the Metropolitan line of the London Underground. It was originally worked by condensing steam locomotives, and later converted to electricity.
Pretty much all of the Underground in central London is underground, but once it gets outside the centre it tends to go above ground (except, for instance, to enter Heathrow Airport).
I'm still laughing over the chocolate 😂😂
tyler, there are 3 tunnels, one going one way and anoter going another way, with a third tunnel as a service tunnel, but also escape route, there are also, from what i know 3 types of trains, the eurostar, the cars, and the freights, all diferent designs, and uses, it takes around 28 to 30 minutes to travel through
Only fools and horses the funniest - yes! We still watch and laugh at it every Sunday.
That highest temperature was beaten in 2022 when we had a day over 40 degrees C ..... we even had wildfires in the London suburbs
19:00 The rain thing probably is because GB is just a big island.
On the other side, if you count the amount it rains... Italy usually gets more.
Only parts of the U.K. have heavy rainfall the east of the country tends to be very dry.I live in Hartlepool NE and we only average 2.2 nches of rain per annum
I am in the west (Strangford Lough) and the rainfall is very low compared to the East of the UK
In central London it’s all underground as far as I know, it’s just in the outer areas that it goes at ground level.
Haggis is actually quite nice - a bit like savoury minced beef
Howard Jones
Led Zeppelin
Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith)
Sting (The Police)
Whitesnake (i.e. David Coverdale)
And so on...! 🥰
Yes - *Only Fools and Horses* !
I grew up with them; I literally know the first three episodes of the first season word-by-word!
The reason that medieval kings wanted to ban ball games was that they wanted people to only practice archery as a sport, as the English longbowmen were highly effective in war, and had been crucial for England to defeat much larger French armies (for example the battle of Agincourt).
Plus ancient football was a no rules free for all where your only goal was to get the ball back to your town or village, no time limit and no rules
French was the "official" language but spoken mostly by nobility who were themselves from Normandy (France). Most were still using Saxon words. This created a 2 tier language system that survived today. We use French based words for fancy things and the Saxon based ones for common things.
The Overground goes underground in places too, shock horror! In fact the Overground uses the oldest (Brunel) Thames tunnel by Rotherhythe / Wapping...
Since the 101 uk facts video was made in 2016 the hottest temperature since was 40.3 °C (104.5 °F)19 July 2022Coningsby, Lincolnshire
I’ve been to the USA a lot TV in the past. Don’t fancy haggis but have you seen the ingredients for McDonald’s fries over there. Around 20. We have 3. Potatoes. Oil. Salt. Please don’t knock haggises. Healthier than US fries.
French was only the language of the ruling class after the Norman conquest, but English (old English and then middle English) was always spoken by the peasant and working classes. Edward III was the first monarch to issue statutes in English and Henry IV was probably the first monarch to speak English as his first language in the 15th century
Regarding HAGGIS, you have the opportunity to learn more about it in the next few weeks. On 25th January, it is Burns Night when the Scotland celebrates arguably the greatest Scottish poet, Robert "Rabbie" Burns. Haggis is served at Burns Night dinners and the haggis is brought into the room in a procession and Burns' poem "Address to a Haggis" is read. Robert Burns also wrote "Auld Lang Syne"
Yet Haggis originated in England but rarely gets a mention in England
Actually, haggis was common to France, the Low Countries, as well as in the various countries of the British Isles. It persisted in Scotland. I love it, either as a pudding, with potatoes and turnip, or as the best part of the Guid Scots Breakfast.
The reason why football was almost banned was that at the time, there was no offical regulation of ruels to the game and so teams (typically whole villages) would often get horribly injured or killed during the game or afterwards as a result of football. This was a huge problem considering we were at war with most of Europe at the time and armies need and relied on strong and healthy people. Therefore if people are getting injured/killed from football, the quality of the armys would be significantly weakend making you more suseptable to defeat and your land invaded.
Rain,rain and more rain😬We have a saying here in Cymru(Wales) “ How green are our valleys”. I wonder why😂Talk about hilarious random facts. Sex and largest book mark!Hilarious!🤣😂🤣The reason behind the longest Welsh name place, is that it was done to boost tourism in the later 1800’s.
i am 21, LOVE the Beatles
The longest place name in Wales was named that just to attract tourists, it works lol. It was named that in the 1880s, it has 58 letters and has four letter Ls in a row within the name. It has the longest name even though it's a small Welsh town lol. In English it means Saint Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of saint tysillio near the red cave, basically it's just directions to get there lol. 🏴. By the way the names Jones and Williams are Welsh names. Also English alphabet has 26 letters, Welsh alphabet has 29 letters. 🏴
The reason for the rainfall is the country’s location: it is on the western edge of the North Atlantic, at the edge of one of the atmosphere’s circulation cells. This drives a huge amount of moisture against the coastline where it is forced to condense. That said, the rainfall is concentrated on the west of the country. The east is much drier (London gets less total rainfall than New York or Rome, although spread out over more days).
mountains too
Over the ages all sports have been banned at some time except Archery which was compulsory for a very long time for boys and men from age 12. Cromwell even banned Christmas as too Catholic.
A lot of rain in the UK.This is because the mountains of the northern and western UK force the prevailing westerly winds to rise, which cools the air and consequently enhances the formation of cloud and rain in these locations (this is known as orographic enhancement).
It also means there is less rain to the eastern side of the Pennines, which places the East of England, and maybe Scotland too? (as Glasgow seems to be in receipt of "lots of rain", for example, apparently?!) ...and thus, the East of Britain is regarded as being within the "rain shadow". 🏴🤔🇬🇧🥺🖖
Tyler, man that names town my tongue couldnt say it. I was surprised how hot weather can be at UK 😮. Thanks for this videos and the best to you man from northern México 🎉😊
The London Underground started off all under the ground in central London because buildings and streets were already there and land was expensive, so building tunnels was easier and cheaper. When it started to grow out into the suburbs where, back at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, there was very little building at all, it was much easier and cheaper to just stay on the surface and buy cheap land rather than building expensive tunnels under nothing.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Here's one - the Underground comes up to the surface on most lines, when it arrives in the suburbs.
In fact, some lines carry on to the countryside, so yould hardly expect to have tube trains running under a farmers field.!!!!
French was the "official language of administration" during that era.
But the 'common' people carried on speaking Anglo-saxon.
However, during that 300 year period, a lot of the French words we speak today, started to find their way into our language.
So, as an example, faucett is french, while tap has germanic origins (anglo-saxon).
Rain in the UK, is the result of warm Gulf Stream air rising over the UK land mass and cooling, especially over the Welsh and Scottish mountains (I believe!)
And the lake District mountains and pennines
Very true, recently watched a video on it. Northern England as well, specifically the Lake District gets very similar amounts of rainfall per year.
The London Underground IS the oldest underground railway (or parts of) in the world. the Metropolitan Line, is the reason Underground Railways are called Metro's.
is there an older underground? i.e. before 1863? seems like it's the oldest
Underground services all over the world are known as Metros after the first one in London, the Metropolitan Railway.
The tube is THE oldest subway system in the entire world. Yes, Trafalgar Square is right near the centre of London. London itself is twice the size of New York City.
As for that Welsh town with the mad name. If memory serves me right, it was deliberately made to be the longest place name in the UK.
20,000 lost phones a year is not a lot when you consider 5,000,000 passenger journeys are made on average EVERY DAY!
Those big massive new citylink buses are the worst for losing phones, I was coming back from Glasgow sitting at the top front and my phone flew out my hand when the driver jolted, it went right down a gap between the window and the plastic front. Had to wait till we reached my destination and ask driver who couldn't get it. Thankfully one of the baggage guys at the station said he'd had to retrieve them a good few times but it would depend where it landed. Turns out of it had landed 3 " either way it was gone into the chassis of the bus only to be retrieved when it went to the breakers yard 😨, with millions of pounds of brand new bus that wouldn't be happening for many years 😂 (not that I would have even got it then.) I'll be choosing my seat more wisely in future! Every bus that went past I'd have been wondering "is my life in that bus" 😂
I'm Norwegian ❤ But this was some funny facts 😂❤ Happy newyear!
The UK receives warm air from the gulf stream that cools once it hits the UK & turns into rain.
Ancient (mob) football used to be quite violent. The temp record fell last year at 104°F.
London is not the only place in UK with an underground, there's one in Liverpool and another in Glasgow. Glasgow's has been there for over 130 years.
Happy New Year!!! I love your need to learn and your excitment in your videos!!!
If u wanted to go through the channel tunnel to get to France, it takes about 30 minutes on the train.
Just to let you know, when he said we spoke French for 300 years...that would be just in official law and very rich and royalty the rest of the country still spoke English but only by common and lower classes.
Regarding the language - before 1066 England spoke English, Wales spoke Welsh, Irish was spoken in Ireland and Scotland... was a bit more complicated but we'll leave that. All four were independent nations. Everything changed when the Normans invaded from France and conquered England, wiping out the English ruling class and making their own French language the official language as used in the legal system and Royal courts. The ordinary people still spoke local dialects of English though. By the 1300s, the English monarchs had lost their French territories and decided a more English identity was called for, and more importantly a lot of prominent courtiers knew English and saw themselves as such. So back into official use it came, evolved considerably since 1066, with a lot of French loan words.
And long before that most of us spoke Welsh
Queen Victoria reintroduced French to the Royal Court, for the courtiers and staff that had no English, when she banned the speaking of German, including by Prince Albert, to this day all menus at State Banquets are printed in French.
Before 1066 didn’t the Inhabitants speak Anglo Saxon English, much influenced by the speech of Wessex, due to King Alfred and his successors’? I believe it was referred to a “late Old English”.
If I remember correctly, between 30-40% of English vocabulary is French :)
The change of official language from Norman French to Middle English happened because of the Black Death. French was the language of court (nobility), but the commoners spoke English. The Black Death caused so many to die that commoners ended up in court positions and English and French collapsed into a single language as a result and is why English has two parallel vocabularies to this day.
This smushing of two languages into one also triggered the Great Vowel Shift, which is the reason English spelling is so unpredictable. The astonishing thing about all this is that it happened so fast: about one generation.
❤ I love our English language.❤
@@brigidsingleton1596Me too
It was also because the court French had stagnated and sounded very out of date compared to that spoken in France.
Hi Tyler, Happy New Year to you, my friend! The London Underground, Tube or whatever you might want to call it, is with the exception of just two lines, parts of the tangle of formerly independent railway companies' lines that were originally built to compete with one another, from about 1840 to 1900, give or take a few years. They're not - as the famous tube map suggests, wide apart or distant from one another and they'd don't comprehensively cover the whole of even inner London. With a few exceptions, they're also only under the ground across an area of perhaps 3 by 6 miles in the central area, and in the suburbs, their trains run alongside, or instead of, conventional surface railways that are part of the national railway system. Rather confusingly, some but not all of these within the London area are branded 'Overground' as these lines are funded by the same body and tend to serve areas that the underground does not, although there are many interchange points where transfer from one to the other is possible. In addition, a tramway system in the far southern and a light railway system also operate in Eastern London, where there are also relatively few undergound or overground lines. London's Buses are also mostly regulated by the same overall company, Transport for London or TfL, which is a government quango in effect.
The jet stream brings low pressure systems from the Atlantic right over the UK
The tube as said is the oldest in the world, and to be honest the tube is failry clean also, and when running with no problems, there is usually a tube every 3 minutes, also great bust service, that runs around every 6 mins, some routes bit longer,
Although next week it will be one every 4 days.
@@jamesfahy2935 we all know the troubles, with tube strikes, tickets offices are now not needed, plenty machines around, does the job, can use oysters card which is becoming outdated, because of tap and go, it progress, everything is online, and to be honest half the guys in ticket booths do not have a clue of best deals, its better online
Henry VIII (I think) hated the game of football because it stopped people practicing Archery, which for an island at constant war was a problem.
Archery is also more fun to watch
@@MrGBH😮 Only just !! (My ex is an archer...) I'd rather watch grass bowls (almost...!!)
It’s very simple. The London Underground connects practically all of London AND the outskirts of London. The outer parts are normal overground railways, which then dip underground for travelling through London. The first underground railway in the world opened in London in January 1863. (More than 40 years before New York).
While the American Civil War was still taking place.
Britain invented the train & railways.
@@Paul-hl8yg Britain created the modern world.
@@oldman1734 Sure did 👍🇬🇧
The underground is spreading further and further out from the city centre. So the newer bits are just between the buildings.
The UK record temperature was broken on 19th July 2022 when 40.3°C (104.5°F) was recorded.
The British Isles (UK and Republic of Ireland) get their weather mainly on the winds from the West and the Atlantic. The moist air having crossed the ocean, hits land, rises over the hills and dumps the moisture as rain. The East of the UK is driER than the West, although still quite rainy.
The West is a lot drier, I live in NI and do not get the rain that Britain gets, on the same note we do not get the temperature peaks of GB nor do we get much snow, the last snow I saw worth a mention was back in 1998
Hi Tyler don't forget that the UK is further north than all US states apart from Alaska!!
21 miles away from France. You have it the same in the US. Its the same sort of difference between America and Russia
It is an awful lot cheaper to build railway lines above ground than it is to drive tunnels under central London, and then lay tracks in them. So as soon as practicable, one’s the lines are out of central London, they emerge from the tunnels.
12:58 yes. I’m 15 and literally everyone just knows the lyrics to bohemian rhapsody and we have no idea why lmao 🤣
The Christmas tree in Edinburgh is a gift from the people of Vestland, Norway - though it is now sourced in Scotland.
football used to have people die playing it, there were less rules and there were weapons involved and there was a fake person John-a-Stiles who was blamed in court when people died so that the whole team/village wouldn't be punished
Àmerican football also used to be way more dangerous , it was the President Teddy Roosevelt that made them reform the rules.
French was the language used officially in court and amongst the aristocracy...The normal middle class and commoners spoke English!!! It was during the 100 Years War against France that Edward III changed the official language to English!!
The kind of football that was so disdained in the past was "mob football", involving basically a free for all with hundreds of participants, causing lots of injuries and disorder.
The highest recorded UK Temperature has changed since this video. In 2022, a temperature of 40.3C / 104.6F was recorded in Lincolnshire.
For reference, a temperature of 134F / 56.7C was reportedly recorded in the appropriately-named Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, in 1913. I believe that's the current world record, although some are now questioning the accuracy of the measurement. A completely reliable measurement of 130.1F / 54.4C was taken in almost the identical location in 2021, so the 134F reading is still very plausible.
I really enjoyed your video and comments about the world around us
“That is the kinda random fact I come here for”
“Your welcome” 😂 the timing was great on that one lol
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@@AHoundOnAHonda well done, I’m from the non touchscreen phones so I’ll forever type shorthand in texts or any other non formal setting
@@perry714. Right... 😆