Came here to say this. 'Grafting' for example, has been around for a very long time and refers to 'working 'hard'. Nothing to do with pursuing romantic interests. Of course there will be colloquial differences to slang all across the UK, but using Love Island to teach these American teens about British slang is both a disservice to these teens and us British.
yeah... I'm assuming the only "research" done here was the so called Brit's own knowledge, cos a lot of these are either wrong or just really bad examples. then again, if he's getting his examples from love island, that explains a lot
Some of these are new meanings brought about by shows like Love Island. For example, 'done bits' can also generally mean to do something well. 'Peng Sort' are actually two separate terms for attractive. Some people say 'peng', some say 'sort'. 'Grafting' just means working hard in general. But if you call something 'graft', it means an overly-difficult task - "building this shed is graft".
What?! Grafting means to work hard, and has nothing to do with love interests. In fact over half of these phrases and words are unknown by either me, or my sons currently at uni in the UK. 🙄
'Crack on (with)' means to begin or commit to doing something, there's no inherent romantic connotation. First example's already wrong. What are we doing? Shenanigans!
I'm British, lived here for plenty of years... I have not heard of some of these. Stuff like "Done bits" is London slang I feel... Like I've lived in Wales and England and I simply didn't know what it meant lol. It maybe British but it's certainly not quintessential by any stretching of that word you can do. Certainly not used at least in my generations youth or any of my current friends who maybe long since set to our slang and dialect, who knows. But some of these I have just never heard growing up or until I watched this. Worth mentioning I feel lol.
With these types of videos that do "British slang" is normally just very very localised slang by the person who compiled it. Very rare to see any that use national slang.
Don't recall ever hearing "crack on" or "grafting" used in any romantic context. Maybe don't use Love Island as your main source for understanding British slang.
The same could apply to "grafting". I've always known it to just mean "working hard on something" in general, not necessarily "to pursue romantic interest".
Bro this guy telling them what it means is either wrong on not explaining things properly lol i hate when they do this for example "done bits" can mean multiple things such as you beat up alot of people or uve made alot of money etc...
“Done bits” never heard of that in my life. I’m going to assume most of these are London slang because I’m from the north and haven’t heard of some of these. “Peng” is London.
11 is a trick question. Any noun repurposed as a verb, which doesn't already exist as a verb, can be used to refer to being drunk. "I was absolutely gazebo'd last night" still works and people know what you mean. So all 4 could theoretically be correct.
12:00 it can be pretty much anything with -ed at the end “man me and the lads got absolutely BUNGALOWED last night, Dave was so binned we had to carry him home” Edit: more I watch the more errors I see
As someone who loves British slang (since a lot of it is Caribbean tones) I find it hilarious when other people are trying to figure out things that were said
Chav was originally an acronym, it stood for Council Houses And Violence and was used to describe a teenager that grew up on a council estate, dressed a particular way and was percieved as basically a lout or troublemaker.
grafting doesn't have any any specific implication to romance. It is to work hard at something. You could be grafting to try and be romantic if you are putting in a lot of effort for a date.
I use knackered for when I'm tired (27%~35% energy left) but shattered when my energy reserves are flirting with 0% aka. exhausted; but yes, they're generally interchangeable.
The world "trollied" for being drunk actually annoyed me, who says that, yeah fair do's you can use alot of words to describe being drunk but most british people use the word "Smashed or "pissed".
Exacty, graft is work or a task, a grafter works hard, for example if Abdhi actually bothered to do the graft on this vid, half of it wouldn't be so stupidly wrong xD
As a Brit who lived in the east midlands/east Anglia, I have never heard of: Done bits(though I'd guess that), butters, Blanking(though I'd guess that), factor 50 It must be some Gen Z thing (I'm getting old as a millennial):
Also ‘pull’ in the context of ‘how did he pull her’ etc is old English slang but I hear Americans use it a lot these days. I’d say a melt is more of just a general idiot 😂
you can literally put "ed" at the end of a loooot of words and it mean drunk/people will know what you mean. most common will be pissed, but trollied is defo one. a lot of these answers were a bit off (eg saying a lot of it is love/sex focused when it can/is more generalised unless in certain context) & love island may have popularised them but didn't invent them as implied
I don't think the point went to the right person on the gobsmacked one with Claudia in it...I agree with 'In awe of something' (as a british person myself.) I hardly ever (tbh never) hear someone use it when they're pissed off or fed up. Even when you search it up it says 'astounded' another word for shocked/ speechless, not pissed or fed up.
As a Welshman, some of the questions have multiple correct answers, so please do make the teens aware of this, for example "chuffed" can mean both pleased and excited based on the context of the sentence, in wales atleast
Chav doesn’t mean someone who’s street. It’s code for council house and violent. Same as Ned. Non educated delinquent. Offensive words with big assumptions too based on the way some people used to or still do dress.
@@sarahkb7 Chavi "MAY" have been one of the origins but it has never been proven. The modern use of the term Chav does indeed come from "Council Housed and Violent" however
As someone from northern England, a lot of these are just in southern England I'm guessing. And grafting just means working hard around where I live, not in particular pursuing anything specific.
i'm northern and recognised most of these- though some of his explanations were a bit off. but you could literally go to the next town over and not understand the slang there tbh
Crack on - just means get on with it (it being whatever your doing could be work, could be any task not just to do with romance but I guess can be used for that also. Grafting - Is working hard not to do with romance, I'd say for americans its similar to when you say someone is on their Grind/Hustle. Done bits - is more like someone has been doing well, in a similar vein I guess to grafting. Melt - is not a simp, it is simply calling somone an idiot, moron etc.
Yeah, agree with grafting, it's someone who has worked hard. I've never heard of melt before And whilst you didn't say it, Factor 50 means nothing but sun cream to me!
Between growing up with older Britcoms (Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Chef!, Vicar of Dibley, Al Fresco, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, French and Saunders, ManStrokeWoman, etc.), dipping my toes in British music (specifically Lady Sovereign), and watching a lot of Outside XBox/Outside Xtra, this was kinda sad to watch...especially since Love Island was used as a source.
I knew gobsmacked, chuffed, dodgy, chinwag, skint. Guessed thd last 2. I thought pissed meant drunk. Watching HP, British reactors and the Great British Baking Show paid off some. 😂
Without the context it’s sometimes difficult to define slang. A good example is ‘minging’ originally it’s an old Scottish word meaning ‘to smell badly’ but evolved over time to generally mean ‘disgusting’ and it has spread to England over the past 20-30 years. Scousers use a lot of Scottish scran and I think that’s where England got it from just like how Scousers use ‘scran’
I'm not British, but I have to question the answer for "done bits" - there's a Welsh artist I listen to (shoutout Ren) - who has lines in some of his songs such as "And my music's been kinda doing bits too, like I actually might do something great" -- I don't think that's sex related o.O So could it also mean something else?
“Minging” doesn’t mean ugly as a primary definition. It’s a Scottish word that means ‘smells bad’ but it has evolved over time to more generally mean ‘disgusting’ and has only been used in England for the last 2-3 decades.
I can't comment on the slang itself but using "only" and then saying it's been decades is so funny lol Slang is considered normal when it's only a year or so old.
If it wasn’t for soaps.. I wouldn’t know my slang. I’m Scottish (yes that means British) but we don’t use a lot of the words mentioned although we understand them. We have our own accent, dialect etc. although I like the Dales/Leeds/Yorkshire slang the best.
I have never watched Love island but come from an English family and know most of these. I also watched a lot of English tv shows growing up. Some of the slang words mean different things in different areas and the meanings have changed slightly over the years
Grafting - Working hard ....was right, But it's not just for pursuing a romantic interest.! So, if i was hard grafting at work,does that mean i'm looking to chat up my boss or mates..? Nutter!
Imagine if they realised that accents can change every 10 miles and there are over 50 Accents in England alone which is the size of OHIO !!!!!!! These Guys or any American would have little chance with "Cockney(London) Rhyming Slang" like "Trouble" for Wife" or "Saucepans" for children or " You're Having a Giraffe" which means "You're Joking"..
Exactly! Many Brits have no concept of how absolutely HUGE America is in relation to their small island nation. We're literally, like, a whole dang continent across. But though we also have regional accents, those areas are also MUCH bigger, and *usually* more or less intelligible. Some hard-core slang might be very regional and weird, but most people speaking normally would be able to understand each other- from Boston to Chicago to New York to Charleston to LosAngeles, etc. But England is just one small island nation, and though "English" is the shared language, regional accents are of small very concentrated areas, and can be quite strong and distinct! There's a reason why "My Fair Lady" is so true: British accents are highly regional. And slang is even a more fluid, ephemeral version of accent, changing with each generation, or even micro-generation.
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Love Island is a disgrace to British Slang. All of the terms in this video were around long before Love Island was even a thing 😅
Came here to say this. 'Grafting' for example, has been around for a very long time and refers to 'working 'hard'. Nothing to do with pursuing romantic interests.
Of course there will be colloquial differences to slang all across the UK, but using Love Island to teach these American teens about British slang is both a disservice to these teens and us British.
Completely agree with this comment!
Right? Like do bits just means do well like to crush it where I’m from
@@kylet4140yeh it does just means do very good
dont deep it mate
A lot of these were wrong.
I always used grafting as a term for working hard.
Same here
as a british person wtaf are some of these words
To be fair, anything can be used to describe being drunk. Eg, Traffic coned, park benched, zebra crossinged, Tesco expressed...etc
Wankered
yeah... I'm assuming the only "research" done here was the so called Brit's own knowledge, cos a lot of these are either wrong or just really bad examples. then again, if he's getting his examples from love island, that explains a lot
Neither "Crack On" nor "Grafting" have specifically romantic connotations.
i thought grafting just meant to work hard(at a task or a job)
@@chibifirestorm It does. Yes you can graft at getting to someone's attention or getting to know them, But in general it just means working hard.
Most of these don’t mean what he thinks they mean
Yup.. the ‘romantic interest’ ones don’t have to at all mean that. Grafting just means working hard.
Thats just not what melt means, some answers were questionable but that one really got me
Some of these are new meanings brought about by shows like Love Island. For example, 'done bits' can also generally mean to do something well. 'Peng Sort' are actually two separate terms for attractive. Some people say 'peng', some say 'sort'. 'Grafting' just means working hard in general. But if you call something 'graft', it means an overly-difficult task - "building this shed is graft".
What?! Grafting means to work hard, and has nothing to do with love interests. In fact over half of these phrases and words are unknown by either me, or my sons currently at uni in the UK. 🙄
ik there were a few words in there were his definitions were way too specific and thus inaccurate. i swear he's not even British ha ha.
Grafting is both working hard and also for a love interest
Grafting is wrong, to graft is to work hard at something to achieve a goal not necessarily a romantic interest
the presenter doesnt even know the real meanings of these words. and that was not roadman slang
'Crack on (with)' means to begin or commit to doing something, there's no inherent romantic connotation. First example's already wrong. What are we doing? Shenanigans!
Exactly - crack on is just get on with it. The same as grafting. Why did he make both of those things about romantic things?
Both done bit's and grafting aren't exclusively about romance never even heard someone use grafting in a romantic context
Me neither
Trick question on the Trollied one, you can use ANY noun to describe drunk in Britain and it works 😂😂
I'm British, lived here for plenty of years... I have not heard of some of these. Stuff like "Done bits" is London slang I feel... Like I've lived in Wales and England and I simply didn't know what it meant lol. It maybe British but it's certainly not quintessential by any stretching of that word you can do. Certainly not used at least in my generations youth or any of my current friends who maybe long since set to our slang and dialect, who knows. But some of these I have just never heard growing up or until I watched this. Worth mentioning I feel lol.
Yeh alot of them weren't British, they were African immigrant slang.
I've never heard of a lot of these slang terms either.
With these types of videos that do "British slang" is normally just very very localised slang by the person who compiled it. Very rare to see any that use national slang.
I think it depends where you from I'm from Manchester and I've heard all of these
Same 😂
Does this bloke get paid just to make shit up ??
The vast majority of these appear to be London used slang, but I don't think any are cockney rhyming slang, which is still used for quite a few words.
Don't recall ever hearing "crack on" or "grafting" used in any romantic context. Maybe don't use Love Island as your main source for understanding British slang.
Yeah you’re more likely to crack on with the housework..
The same could apply to "grafting". I've always known it to just mean "working hard on something" in general, not necessarily "to pursue romantic interest".
@@scmtuk3662 If you were building a house you would think there would be some graft involved.
I've heard crack in a sexual way but not romantic
In the US graft means corruption. Like bribery.
Bro this guy telling them what it means is either wrong on not explaining things properly lol i hate when they do this for example "done bits" can mean multiple things such as you beat up alot of people or uve made alot of money etc...
Crack on is not romantic, it just means to get on with any task.
Exactly what I was thinking
Yeah, I was like what?!
I'm a Brit & in my late 30 & I've not heard of some of these
I'm a brit in my mid 30s and I've heard of all of these except the factor 50 one
I'm 32 n English n know none these either maybe they're a Southern thing cos I'm northern
@@charlienerd agree I'm northern too
“Done bits” never heard of that in my life. I’m going to assume most of these are London slang because I’m from the north and haven’t heard of some of these. “Peng” is London.
None of those 4 were what done bits means 😂
I was literally looking for this comment. Wtf are they on about ahaha
That is not what melt means
Teens react to incorrect British slang...
Yeah I was like guessing on some stuff and I'm pretty sure I'm english
A melt is someone really stupid?
Yes ya melt
TBF, anything can mean being drunk in English. I was absolutely ganached last night would still make sense
"I was so sober last night, fam."
"You didn't drink anything?"
"Bruv, I drank *everyting.* That's why I got sobered."
My favourite is that I was absolutely sloshed or plastered
Grafting just means working hard.
yup, some were just wrong
Grafting means working hard nowt to do with romantic thing
Means robbing too where I’m from. Like to go grafting
That's cos these media types don't know what a hard day's work is!! Lol
I love that they are watching clips of a SNL spoof of Love Island and they think its really people from Love Island. lol
I’m a Brit and never once heard Butters as a slang word🤣 Also grafting means just working hard
Butters is an older slang word so I don’t think it’s used as much now
I thought it was a character in South Park
Butters was more 80's/90's.
@@Isleofskye explains it, I was born in 93
@@MultiAsh93 I was born, next to Brixton and Peckham in South East London in 1954. lol
11 is a trick question. Any noun repurposed as a verb, which doesn't already exist as a verb, can be used to refer to being drunk. "I was absolutely gazebo'd last night" still works and people know what you mean. So all 4 could theoretically be correct.
Absolutely car parked!
This guy is making stuff up lmao
12:00 it can be pretty much anything with -ed at the end “man me and the lads got absolutely BUNGALOWED last night, Dave was so binned we had to carry him home”
Edit: more I watch the more errors I see
This doesn’t reflect modern British skang fully. This is more Essex/Cockney with a few exceptions and some that are just flat out wrong
I’d like to thank Monty Python, Harry Potter, the Inbetweeners, and TOWIE (The Only Way is Essex) for how well I did 😄
That love island preview was not an accurate representation of todays love island 😂
Round 11 is misleading; anything can be a euphemism for drunk if ended with -ed and said with enough conviction.
Mate I’m absolutely collywobbled
Apart from "Mugged" either way some chav is coming up tome with a knife...
My favourite thing to use is I was absolutely sloshed or plastered
Very true, although trollied is a more commonly said one, but pissed is the main one most use.
As someone who loves British slang (since a lot of it is Caribbean tones) I find it hilarious when other people are trying to figure out things that were said
I hate to think how much this guy gets paid to basically just make shit up and present it as British and have no one fact check him!
Chav was originally an acronym, it stood for Council Houses And Violence and was used to describe a teenager that grew up on a council estate, dressed a particular way and was percieved as basically a lout or troublemaker.
Passport revoked from whoever wrote these questions.
Go live with James Corden and dont come back
Lol, yall really hate Corden, 😂
James Corden and his family moved back to England last year.
@@marydavis5234 First the queen dies now this D:
@@marydavis5234 Put another way. The Americans, finally,gave him the boot..
@@Isleofskye no, he decided he needed to be closer to his parents as his mother is very sick.
Grafting doesn't mean chasing a girl or guy. Just working hard
As a British person, some seem wrong?
Done bits is more used for when you’ve done anything good
This aint UK slang. No idea. Is it more of a younger generation thing down south. London. Its not British.
I'm from Manchester and I'm in my 40s and I know all of these
@@sarahpagett9191 guess I've had a sheltered life. But I am in my sixtys.
grafting doesn't have any any specific implication to romance. It is to work hard at something. You could be grafting to try and be romantic if you are putting in a lot of effort for a date.
Yoooo “shattered” should be “knackered” for British slang
They’re interchangeable.
We use both.
I use knackered for when I'm tired (27%~35% energy left) but shattered when my energy reserves are flirting with 0% aka. exhausted; but yes, they're generally interchangeable.
To be fair, on question 11 the answer could have been all of them... considering the UK has so many words for being drunk. 😂
Yeah 11 is a trick question
Yeah I thought it was gonna be a trick question. We come up with new words by the day I swear
The world "trollied" for being drunk actually annoyed me, who says that, yeah fair do's you can use alot of words to describe being drunk but most british people use the word "Smashed or "pissed".
Everything is used as drunk. Like wankered
They were guessing British slang terms, not the most popular, common, or geographically widespread British slang.
As in to get off your trolley - one of the few I recognised
@ethelmini when I hear the "term of your trolly" where I'm from it means your out of your mind or your crazy. 🙂
Love Island is another planet. Very little of this is British slang.
I’ve watched a couple of episode and I swear they just make stuff up
Never heard of any of these slang words used by newer generations and barely anyone uses them.
“I watched enough mumbo for this” killed me lol
Absolutely THIS
"Chuffed to bits with this one"
Why is he crediting old slang to Love Island? 😂
He's a traitor to the Empire!
As a British person, there are some inaccuracies in this
Chuffed to bits about this video.
I'm british & didn't know grafting. Thought it meant working hard.
You're right.
To be fair, part of the answer was "working hard"...Abhi even said that it was the definition (he just threw on that "romantic interest" part).
It does
A grafter is someone that works hard not no simp! wtf is this video?
Exacty, graft is work or a task, a grafter works hard, for example if Abdhi actually bothered to do the graft on this vid, half of it wouldn't be so stupidly wrong xD
As a Brit who lived in the east midlands/east Anglia, I have never heard of:
Done bits(though I'd guess that), butters, Blanking(though I'd guess that), factor 50
It must be some Gen Z thing (I'm getting old as a millennial):
I hadn't heard of any of those ones either. But I'm 46, I must be old now 😂
Never heard of any of them apart from blanking and his description of blanking is terrible. Blanking is just not acknowledging someone.
I’m a London Millennial. I knew all except “done bits”, “pied off” and “factor 50”. This is definitely regional and generational.
Also ‘pull’ in the context of ‘how did he pull her’ etc is old English slang but I hear Americans use it a lot these days. I’d say a melt is more of just a general idiot 😂
Factor 50 is literally suncream
you can literally put "ed" at the end of a loooot of words and it mean drunk/people will know what you mean. most common will be pissed, but trollied is defo one.
a lot of these answers were a bit off (eg saying a lot of it is love/sex focused when it can/is more generalised unless in certain context) & love island may have popularised them but didn't invent them as implied
I don't think the point went to the right person on the gobsmacked one with Claudia in it...I agree with 'In awe of something' (as a british person myself.) I hardly ever (tbh never) hear someone use it when they're pissed off or fed up. Even when you search it up it says 'astounded' another word for shocked/ speechless, not pissed or fed up.
I;m English and i never even heard of some of these never mind used em. what a a load of old codswallop.
@Jamie_Pritchard to be honest, i don't think anybody much uses it anymore.
Lmao tbh as a British person it could be all 4 or just 1 sometimes 2. Depends on context
Done Bits in Scotland would be C - partly completed
"You built that PC yet?" "You done your homework?" "You clean your room?"
"Just done bits of it"
As a Welshman, some of the questions have multiple correct answers, so please do make the teens aware of this, for example "chuffed" can mean both pleased and excited based on the context of the sentence, in wales atleast
I'm Scottish but must be too old as many of them confused me and never heard them before.
Chav doesn’t mean someone who’s street. It’s code for council house and violent. Same as Ned. Non educated delinquent. Offensive words with big assumptions too based on the way some people used to or still do dress.
@@sarahkb7 Chavi "MAY" have been one of the origins but it has never been proven. The modern use of the term Chav does indeed come from "Council Housed and Violent" however
As someone from northern England, a lot of these are just in southern England I'm guessing. And grafting just means working hard around where I live, not in particular pursuing anything specific.
i'm northern and recognised most of these- though some of his explanations were a bit off. but you could literally go to the next town over and not understand the slang there tbh
A lot of these are wrong
anyone that hasn't heard "minging" before clearly doesn't indulge in meme culture.
Do not use “Love Island” as way to learn British slang… if you really want to learn it come to London!!!
I´ll get right on it chief, just need the 1k pounds the plane ticket cost.
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dont deep it
Crack on - just means get on with it (it being whatever your doing could be work, could be any task not just to do with romance but I guess can be used for that also.
Grafting - Is working hard not to do with romance, I'd say for americans its similar to when you say someone is on their Grind/Hustle.
Done bits - is more like someone has been doing well, in a similar vein I guess to grafting.
Melt - is not a simp, it is simply calling somone an idiot, moron etc.
Yeah, agree with grafting, it's someone who has worked hard.
I've never heard of melt before
And whilst you didn't say it, Factor 50 means nothing but sun cream to me!
You can't relate british slang to love island that's a disgrace 😂 all these terms of slang was out WELL before love island.
Some of these are not correct, why would you use love island as your example
That goochy-goo moment between Sofia and Angel.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Priceless!
I came here looking for this comment! Lol Angel is adorable I love watching her reactions 😊
Between growing up with older Britcoms (Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Chef!, Vicar of Dibley, Al Fresco, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, French and Saunders, ManStrokeWoman, etc.), dipping my toes in British music (specifically Lady Sovereign), and watching a lot of Outside XBox/Outside Xtra, this was kinda sad to watch...especially since Love Island was used as a source.
I knew gobsmacked, chuffed, dodgy, chinwag, skint. Guessed thd last 2.
I thought pissed meant drunk.
Watching HP, British reactors and the Great British Baking Show paid off some. 😂
pissed does mean drunk, you aren't wrong. It also means angry as well, just short for pissed off
6:44
I've watched enough Mumbo Jumbo for this
I had to stop. Jesus. I've either never heard of these or it's wrong.
Are there any other British people watching this and laughing their heads off😂
Yep me lmao 🤣
Tbf even I didn’t know some of these 😂
I thought done bits was like I did half of a task, I done bits of it
Half of these are wrong, and the other half are right vut nothing to do with 'romantic interest'
ikr
Without the context it’s sometimes difficult to define slang. A good example is ‘minging’ originally it’s an old Scottish word meaning ‘to smell badly’ but evolved over time to generally mean ‘disgusting’ and it has spread to England over the past 20-30 years. Scousers use a lot of Scottish scran and I think that’s where England got it from just like how Scousers use ‘scran’
it's cos he picked up all of this from watching love island, so it's all got a romantic interest angle to it.
I'm not British, but I have to question the answer for "done bits" - there's a Welsh artist I listen to (shoutout Ren) - who has lines in some of his songs such as "And my music's been kinda doing bits too, like I actually might do something great" -- I don't think that's sex related o.O So could it also mean something else?
in that context it means it’s doing good
“Minging” doesn’t mean ugly as a primary definition. It’s a Scottish word that means ‘smells bad’ but it has evolved over time to more generally mean ‘disgusting’ and has only been used in England for the last 2-3 decades.
I can't comment on the slang itself but using "only" and then saying it's been decades is so funny lol Slang is considered normal when it's only a year or so old.
If it wasn’t for soaps.. I wouldn’t know my slang. I’m Scottish (yes that means British) but we don’t use a lot of the words mentioned although we understand them. We have our own accent, dialect etc. although I like the Dales/Leeds/Yorkshire slang the best.
when he talked about mumbo, i was so chuffed.
I have never watched Love island but come from an English family and know most of these. I also watched a lot of English tv shows growing up. Some of the slang words mean different things in different areas and the meanings have changed slightly over the years
the most british slang for drunk is prob "pissed"
Lmao the Mumbo Jumbo reference
gobsmacked can be that you're in awe though
Part 2 of Teens React To British Slang please
Grafting - Working hard ....was right, But it's not just for pursuing a romantic interest.! So, if i was hard grafting at work,does that mean i'm looking to chat up my boss or mates..? Nutter!
I thought crack on was universal 😂
Imagine if they realised that accents can change every 10 miles and there are over 50 Accents in England alone which is the size of OHIO !!!!!!!
These Guys or any American would have little chance with "Cockney(London) Rhyming Slang" like "Trouble" for Wife" or "Saucepans" for children or " You're Having a Giraffe" which means
"You're Joking"..
Exactly! Many Brits have no concept of how absolutely HUGE America is in relation to their small island nation. We're literally, like, a whole dang continent across. But though we also have regional accents, those areas are also MUCH bigger, and *usually* more or less intelligible. Some hard-core slang might be very regional and weird, but most people speaking normally would be able to understand each other- from Boston to Chicago to New York to Charleston to LosAngeles, etc.
But England is just one small island nation, and though "English" is the shared language, regional accents are of small very concentrated areas, and can be quite strong and distinct! There's a reason why "My Fair Lady" is so true: British accents are highly regional. And slang is even a more fluid, ephemeral version of accent, changing with each generation, or even micro-generation.
Trouble and strife rhymes with wife.
Saucepan lids rhymes with kids.
Giraffe rhymes with laugh.
Did I get 'em right?
@@TSIRKLAND Excellent analysis and 100% correct, my friend. I have seen many changes in London as I enter my 8th decade later this month.:)
Anyway,I'm off to play The old joanna at the Rub-A-Dub and have a few Britneys and an Andy Cole with a China Plate and afterwards ,we will have a Ruby together.***
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Chuffed can actually mean both pleased and excited!
The explanation of Factor 50 is sooo British! It's like the weirdest, most random line of thoughts to get you there and you're just like... What?
Grafting is working, nothing to do with romance.
I play the love island games on my phone so I knew what grafting was and also snog which is now one of my favorites words