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I am British from an older generation and we used to say 'sorted out'. 'Sorted' is something the younger generation says. I think 'chuffed' is a word that originally spread from Liverpool, especially by Liverpool musicians who became famous such as The Beatles and Cilla Black.
Very interesting video!! I love to see that there is such diversity in the use of one language. Having learned "British English" at school I am always amazed when US citizens call things differently. I love that our world has such a cultural richness!!
That is the best saying! SOOOO confusing yet charming😂. We only got to spend a day in Wales last year, and I’m publishing my travel vlog about it in a couple weeks. Looking forward to going back to Wales later this year! ❤️🏴 Thanks for your comment!
My subscribers always make comments that give more information and details than I knew before. It is a curious phrase! BTW... I leave for England tomorrow ❤️🇬🇧
My gran would say " I'll do that dreckly" .. dreckly as in directly but her meaning wasn't this very instant, but more like when I feel like it ! 😂 (Devonian) xx
This brilliant double bill made me smile so much! I could hear myself saying many of these phrases - something I do without even thinking! It was well good, guv! Keep on saying them...and do add more British-isms to your vocabulary. 👍
The British word goosepimples appears to have been consigned to history. It's goosebumps now. I'm still trying to get used to saying season instead of series when talking about TV shows.
Are you a Britain who now lives in the states? Yes, an English friend was complaining that American say goosebumps, but I honestly think Goose pimples does not sound nice. In the US, pimples are a really undesirable thing! Lol What is your opinion on series versus season? I had a bitter debate with people about that a couple weeks ago ...
No, I've never set foot in the States before, but would like to go there some day. I do prefer the word series to season. To me season implies a TV show that runs the entire length of a season, such as spring or summer. In Britain TV shows tend to only run for six episodes in a series, one episode a week for six weeks, so this falls significantly short of a season.
The big cities New York, Boston, LA, San Francisco - although I've heard it's dangerous nowadays - New Orleans and Nashville, Roswell in New Mexico, I'd also do the whole Route 66 thing, buy a cheap car and stay overnight in motels along the way. I'd also like to see small town America too, the non-tourist places, fly-over America I think they call it. Places like Cape May, New Jersey. Peterborough, New Hampshire. I'm originally from Peterborough in England, so would love to see its namesake. My brother has just got back from San Diego where he celebrated his 60th birthday, so would like to go there too. @@MagentaOtterTravels
Love this. Thanks for posting. FYI I work a few months onboard Princess Cruises and many of the officers, etc are British. So I hear many of these phrases and use them often. After a summer onboard I come home saying 'straight away' a lot. Also something you might be interested in... On the Crew only main deck (no passengers allowed) it is called the "M-1' after the 'Main street in London' Thanks again.
That is very funny that the crew-only deck is called the M1! It is a very major motorway (freeway) that connects London to Leeds up North! Will you be cruising again soon?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Probably not for a while. The CDC is making it very difficult for cruising to resume in the states. The lines may have to go elsewhere for their homeports, which will be devastating for some cities. But waiting to see. Every time I talk about it in my videos it changes. hahaha that's why I'm doing the thrifting bit...and loving it.
Thanks so much! Julie and Lucy are wonderful!! I do think Americans say bear with me, but shortening to bear with is not some thing I’ve heard Americans saying as much. What do you think?
we love chuffed - especially “proper chuffed!” 🤣 we say it all the time, especially when talking about our dogs’ reactions to walks and treats. we’re also a fan of “bollocks.” 😆
Enjoyed this. I naturally use a lot of those phrases, especially chuffed to bits. Donkeys years is sometimes replaced with the word yonks. An example is I haven't done that in yonks. Originally coming from Devon, if something was done well we would say proper job. Hope you have a nice Easter
Okay, it took me a minute ... I was trying to remember the phrase I use that always makes people go “huh?” and it’s faff around. It’s just such a perfect way to describe how I waste a lot of time getting nothing done 🙃
In South Wales we mess up our slang worse than the English. We would say “Straight away in a minute” If Gavin & Stacey TV programme ever comes your way watch that. Gavin is an Essex boy and Stacey comes from Barry in S Wales. Larry Lamb and Alison Steadman play Gavin's parents Rob Brydon, a Welsh comedian, is Stacey's Uncle Bryn. Stacey (Joanne Page) has very broad South Walian accent.
Yes, I have heard about that phrase! So funny! I have heard about that show... much watch it. Maybe when we are in Britain this summer? Probably easier to get on Sky in the UK?
Peter, do y’all really ask “what’s occurring?” I absolutely love Gavin & Stacey and Nessa’s stories and turns of phrase just have me in stitches! Dara, maybe you could do some sort of watch party where you try out some of the shows people have suggested and show your reactions? I think you’ll love this one!
As a brit I've basically used every word or phrase in this video. "British" words/slang I like saying are gert/gurt (means very or big like you could say "gurt big" or just gurt on its own could have other meanings though idk) and lush or even them both together like "that's gert lush" and basically means it's really lovely or good. But I don't hear many people say it anymore which saddens me.
Well, I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about all the Brit words I have struggled with through my years of reading Brit books and watching Brit shows. Gradually, I figured them all out -- for the most part. I had major problems with "chuffed" until you started using it, Dara, because now I do understand that it is something "liked" not "disliked"; sometimes in a book, one can't really tell if it's good or bad! But here's one that maybe you can explain that I think gets used for a variety of reasons, and I'm never sure which one is applicable in which situations: Cheers. I already know it as a toast when clinking glasses, but I hear it used also to mean "thanks", "goodbye", and various other ways. Is it just sort of a catch-all expression? And here's another little expression: Who is [insert name here] when he (or she) is at home? I first heard that in a Beatle movie, when George was asking about someone he didn't know. And I still hear it on Brit TV shows. I wonder how it came into use??
Hi Bobby, Brit Girl Julie here! My American Book Club friends are often messaging me to ask the meaning of some British word or phrase! Yes, cheers is a catch-all expression and can mean a toast, thank you or goodbye. It's relaxed and friendly. Who is it/she/he/ when it/she/he's at home is a humerous, ironic expression to emphasize (in a kind of putting one's self down sort of way) that you have no idea what it/she/is. Who is that (name of a B-list "celebrity") when she's at home! (As if I care, lol!) Hope that helps! :)
I use rubbish a lot. My grandmother was born and raise in England until she moved to Canada when she was 18 years old. My dad says schedule exactly how the English say it and I love hearing it. I also use the expression "Don't have a cow" and people don't get what I mean when I say that since I am in a French province. I would say Canadians use more check box vs tick boxes.
THANK YOU for answering my question about ticking vs checking boxes! Do you use both? In the US we ONLY say "check" boxes, but you probably know both since Canadians seem to share both British and American terms? Thanks for watching!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Myself I use the term "check box" or as was mentioned "check , check , check" I'm familiar with both due to English in my blood but I use check more. I think it depends on the person's background. I'm in Quebec so I barely even hear English here half the time 🤣
I use all of those words as a Brit, and as I'm from the south I also sometimes find a bit of rhyming slang creeping into my vocabulary. One thing I occasionally catch myself doing is speaking in a fairly posh voice to strangers, but changing to a more "cor blimey guvnor" manner when chatting to friends :-)
Hmmmm - I have this memory of calling a water fountain a water bubbler or bubbler for short ...I have no idea where it came from and chalked it up as part of my New England roots. Have you heard of bubblers?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Ah...found this on the internet "Badger state residents also make a name for themselves for what they call the thing someone drinks water out of. Only people from eastern Wisconsin and Rhode Island call it a “bubbler" while those from the rest of the country drinks out of a “drinking fountain” or a “water fountain."" Still has me wonder about where the word bubbler was picked up
On my one and only trip to the Twin Cities in 2015, i was staying in one of those concrete high rise hotels on the 7th floor and when i got into the lift, i was stuck and confused as i didn`t see the button for the ground floor, all it said was L, I ended up chapping someones door to ask how do i get to the ground floor and was told to press L for Lobby.
The only thing that saves me is that which ever floor is the ground floor will have a star on that button. So I always just push the star no matter what nonsense letter is on it! Lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels I was completely lost in that lift all by myself not knowing which button to press...thankfully the star button wasn`t red in colour.
There are two Cornish girls who do the famous Carly Rae Jephson song " call me maybe " call me dreckly in very strong Cornish accents . Check it out" me beauties" .xx
@@MagentaOtterTravels I knew you wouldn't know, Jim Bowen was a commidien who had a game show set around the game of darts, this was one of his catch phrases, as well as "Look at what you could have won" (youtube search maybe), definitely part of English culture
@@MagentaOtterTravels you'd think that but knowledge and memory are two different things, (as you may have experienced), sometimes recalling the correct word can escape me let alone facts, and attention to detail often needs a second look. Doesn't look promising for the future 😬😱🤪😪
Good point! I forgot about that use of the term "straightaway"! It's funny that often we have the same words... we just use them differently! Remind me what part of the world you live in?
Slightly off topic, but l find it interesting that i Britain we say the River Thames, River Avon etc, and in the US it seems to be the Mississippi River, Colorado River, East River.
We say Lake whatever, and Loch whatever in Scotland but just so nobody gets too complacent, we do have Bala Lake in Wales... It is also technically incorrect to say Lake Windermere as mere means lake so you are saying Lake Winderlake but no one will hurl Kendal Mint Cake at you if you do.
Nope. I never use that one! But it does sound delicious! I actually just tried making clotted cream last night for the first time ever... it will be an upcoming video!
@@MagentaOtterTravels are you able to get fresh milk and cream where you are? as I know it is mainly long life milk in the U.S due to distance from the dairies.
@@MagentaOtterTravels It's nothing bad trust me. If you have something that's Buckshee, it means you have something that's spare. I think it originated from the British Army's time in India.
This video ticks all the boxes. Bear with me and you will be chuffed to bits. It's well worth queuing for. They have got it sorted. None of the usual rubbish here. Watch it straight away, it is the best thing you have seen in donkey's years. Bye for now.
You missed out some of our Aberdeen (Scottish) phrases like: "Fit like cheil?" ... Nae baad, ai peckin' "Foo's yer doos quine??" "Dinna ken fit yer on aboot" He's a recht fain loon !!!! Mechty me a cannae thole that mannie !!!
I've just read the comments from you and Peter Symonds and realised that 'Dusty bin' will mean nothing to you, but to every Brit of a certain age will remember a Saturday night game show called 3 2 1, where a ceramic model of Dusty bin was given away to the loosers, a rubbish consolation prize ( must Google Dusty bin to understand our love with Dust bins ) weird 😉🤪🤣👍
Hi Dara. RUBBISH! I'm joking. Our Local Authority used to use “Household Refuse” but we also use Garbage & Rubbish. The local term for the “Garbage Collector” is the “Dustman”. Many years ago we also called them the “Ash Men” because they collected the ashes from dustbins where ash from fires was deposited and collected twice a week. Nowadays we get a weekly collection of recycling stuff and a 2 weekly garbage collection. We also used to have dustbins but now we have Wheelie Bins that are loaded mechanically on to the dustcart. The old method was a more manual method of the dustman lifting the bin onto his shoulder and then tip it into the truck. On the outskirts of our village we had the village dump. We knew the path by the side of it as the “Ash Path”. It's now been turfed and 40 years ago became a big sports field. Pontyclun Rugby Club play there now.
Perfect example of another term that COMPLETELY confuses Americans: dustman! As well as dust bin. We have NO CLUE what that means over here!!! Very interesting about the "ash path"... never heard of that! I recently learned about "bin night"... another thing that doesn't translate and really isn't a thing in the US!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Another BIN thing. Bin-juice, that stinky water/liquid that gathers in the bottom of your garbage-can. Often used to a-describe any smelly liquids.
I never use stightaway always use rightaway. Rightsway is more common in more northen English. Never use chuffed or bare with they a very southern English. Only use chuffed when I am not pleased to be sacrcastic
It's very interesting to me that Londoners and northern English have such different vocabularies. And how often the northern version is closer to American. For example the word pants!
@MagentaOtterTravels every area has a different word for a bread roll. Bap barm, barn cake, tea cake, where I come from in the East Midlands, we call them cobs
Did you know that the word lorry dates back to the 16th century and originates from the verb 'lurry' meaning to lug or pull around. A whole 100 years before 1776 ( I know History isn't your strong point )
@@MagentaOtterTravels the only trouble with that is I'd think you were talking about Mobil Oil which is now ExxonMobil and the only cell we refer to are the ones people get locked up in, (prison or padded 🤪) and there leads in to another, Jail and Prison, mind you Elvis song would have been different 🤣
@@wencireone Don’t worry... when I’m in the UK I say mo-BILE. We use the words jail and prison. They are slightly different things. You are thrown in jail overnight in a holding cell but once you are sentenced to a long-term stay you are put in a prison. Well not you, but you know what I mean!
Ticks in the United States, especially in the south, mean an insect. Here in Idaho, home of the blue football turf, you must be careful of the ticks in the woods because they carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Interesting! I wonder how it all started? I just filmed a video yesterday about my 21 favourite British sayings. The word sorted factors into one of them😉. Cheers for your comment! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels It’s more of a London thing that has spread in recent years, used as one word meaning ‘job done’ or similar. As in when you’ve fixed something for someone : ‘there you go. Sorted’. Or more widely ‘I’ve got my beer and football’s on TV. That’s me sorted’.
One word which Americans use to much when they're in the UK is 'cheers'. Please only use it when you're in the pub or thanking someone if they've done a job or are giving you something.
I think your perspective is much more recent than mine. Your Bye for now is morphed from WWII ttfn or ta ta for now. Have you ever watched the TV show OTT (Shortend for Over the top)? Saying the US Servicemen were Overpaid, OverSexed, and Over here.
Being on a mission at the time, I didnt really see the TV show, and after doing a Google search, it doesnt match my memory!!! I thought it was more like Dunkirk or possibly Hogans Heroes in England, complete with buzz bombs.
Dara, here is another word, albeit northern, CHAMPION. Alternatives, jolly good, stupendous, blinking good, but "ee , that's champion!" says it all. Bye for now!
Hi Dara. I don't think "donkey's years" is cockney rhyming slang. You wouldn't rhyme a word with the same word, it's like saying "apples and stairs" for stairs. I've always thought it was "donkeys ears" cos donkey's ears are long and that's how I use it even now. "I haven't seen him in donkey's". Words change over donkey's ears and the true meaning is lost in the mist of time. :-)
I thought it was rhyming slang of "donkey's ears" for "years". But I truly have no idea! I didn't think about donkey's having long ears... you might be right! Thought I'd argue rabbits have longer ears... from now on, you should say "I haven't seen him in rabbits! Let me know how that goes... LOL
@@MagentaOtterTravels Well, rabbits may have long ears and hares are even longer, in proportion to their bodies but donkeys ears are still the longest in total length. :-) Anyway, rabbit has already got it's own slang. "rabbit and pork" talk. As in "she can't half rabbit". :-) :-)
@@Beejay950 I didn’t know about that rabbit slang! I think Americans use the word bunny more frequently than Brits. I have two young nieces who live in England and they always refer to their pet rabbits as rabbits, where as I want to call them bunnies 🐰
@@MagentaOtterTravels You're correct. the term 'donkey's ears' is rhyming slang for 'years'. (Shortened thus: 'I haven't seen them for donkey's.') The phrase has been erroneously morphed into 'donkey's years'.
A good word I use is basura ie Spanish for rubbish, I have even used it when someone has said some thing I disagree with, only once did a person realise what I had said, LOL !!
That is so interesting! Thanks for sharing. Here's another funny one... tiles on the wall above a kitchen counter are called "backsplash" in the US and "splashback" in the UK and Australia!
Couldn't help but notice at the end of your last video (Dunster Castle) you used the phrase "Cheers" a British expression, and wondered if you subconsciously used the phrase without realising or wether you used the word on purpose to suit your British viewers?
Yes, Cheers is definitely one of the dozens of British expressions I picked up. When I am catering to my British viewers (usually when I am IN Britain or talking about a British topic) I will do things like pronounce tomato like a Brit or use British vocab. I don't ALWAYS do that back in the States. But there are many words that creep in... I didn't put Cheers in my first 10 because I had already covered it in this video (not sure if you saw it?): th-cam.com/video/jNUiwkhdu_4/w-d-xo.html
You bring up a good point. Actually, cranky Brits (thankfully not many of those in the Magenta Otter Tribe) get their knickers in a twist if you say "British English" because they say it is just ENGLISH (full stop!). They really don't like the description of British English vs. American English. But I think it is more clear that way... so that's my approach. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Thanks for your comment!
What would really intimidate me is the driver's test! You have no idea how odd an American finds the terms "pelican crossing" and "central reservation!!!! LOL
@@MagentaOtterTravels . Of course you are! When I was in Army we would often say "Chuffed to NAAFI breaks". Say that to any British veteran of the 70s and 80s and he will respond.
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As a Brit you'll never hear me say 'I'll Pay' 😉🤣👍
@@wencireone I would make a Scottish joke right now, but I don’t wanna get any hate mail
@@MagentaOtterTravels well my great grandfather was born in Scotland !
you are picking up more and more British slang ,. you are a honorary Brit 🇬🇧👍
great video
@@da90sReAlvloc haha I’m learning!
We were "chuffed to bits" to be part of this collaboration, Dara!! Looking forward to the next one!!
I was proper chuffed that you agreed to collab with me!
Yeah....bring it on Brit girls....that’s so fabtastical....
@@david-lt9wj Yay!! Thank you!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels proper and chuffed in the same sentence that’s advanced street lexiconphoney...I’m well chuffed for you on that one..
@@MagentaOtterTravels Brit Girls don't seem to be British to me
It was so fun to collaborate with you Dara, and to see your video! You chose the best British words!
I'm just cross that cheeky wasn't in this first 10! I really need a sequel! I need to get that sorted!
I am British from an older generation and we used to say 'sorted out'. 'Sorted' is something the younger generation says. I think 'chuffed' is a word that originally spread from Liverpool, especially by Liverpool musicians who became famous such as The Beatles and Cilla Black.
Very interesting video!! I love to see that there is such diversity in the use of one language. Having learned "British English" at school I am always amazed when US citizens call things differently. I love that our world has such a cultural richness!!
I agree. Thanks so much, Patz!
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it but 'bit' can also be used in relation to time, for example, 'I'll see you in a bit (bit = shortly)'
In Wales we use now in a minute to mean some time later, as in I’ll do it now in a minute, confuses most people out side Wales.
That is the best saying! SOOOO confusing yet charming😂. We only got to spend a day in Wales last year, and I’m publishing my travel vlog about it in a couple weeks. Looking forward to going back to Wales later this year! ❤️🏴
Thanks for your comment!
i didn't know the origin of Donkeys so thanks
My subscribers always make comments that give more information and details than I knew before. It is a curious phrase!
BTW... I leave for England tomorrow ❤️🇬🇧
Excited to be on it straightaway!! First people to comment! Yay!!
Cheers!
My gran would say " I'll do that dreckly" .. dreckly as in directly but her meaning wasn't this very instant, but more like when I feel like it ! 😂 (Devonian) xx
Ha ha, I love that!
What an awesome collab! Can't wait to watch you all ladies 💗💗
I use "rubbish" all the time!
I didn't know donkey's years came from donkey's ears!
Love horrible histories!
Chuffed to bits! 💗
Bye for now! And also TTFN - ta ta for now
This brilliant double bill made me smile so much! I could hear myself saying many of these phrases - something I do without even thinking! It was well good, guv! Keep on saying them...and do add more British-isms to your vocabulary. 👍
Yes, I could easily do another 20 or 30 more words/phrases! Thanks for watching. It was a fun video to do with my friends ;-)
Learned so much! Great collab Dara! Love you! 💕
Thanks so much! It was fun to finally do a collab like this💖
The British word goosepimples appears to have been consigned to history. It's goosebumps now. I'm still trying to get used to saying season instead of series when talking about TV shows.
Are you a Britain who now lives in the states?
Yes, an English friend was complaining that American say goosebumps, but I honestly think Goose pimples does not sound nice. In the US, pimples are a really undesirable thing! Lol
What is your opinion on series versus season? I had a bitter debate with people about that a couple weeks ago ...
No, I've never set foot in the States before, but would like to go there some day. I do prefer the word series to season. To me season implies a TV show that runs the entire length of a season, such as spring or summer. In Britain TV shows tend to only run for six episodes in a series, one episode a week for six weeks, so this falls significantly short of a season.
@@JasonFelminghamLee I see both sides of the argument and series and season. Where would you like to visit in the US?
The big cities New York, Boston, LA, San Francisco - although I've heard it's dangerous nowadays - New Orleans and Nashville, Roswell in New Mexico, I'd also do the whole Route 66 thing, buy a cheap car and stay overnight in motels along the way. I'd also like to see small town America too, the non-tourist places, fly-over America I think they call it. Places like Cape May, New Jersey. Peterborough, New Hampshire. I'm originally from Peterborough in England, so would love to see its namesake. My brother has just got back from San Diego where he celebrated his 60th birthday, so would like to go there too. @@MagentaOtterTravels
Love this. Thanks for posting. FYI I work a few months onboard Princess Cruises and many of the officers, etc are British. So I hear many of these phrases and use them often. After a summer onboard I come home saying 'straight away' a lot. Also something you might be interested in... On the Crew only main deck (no passengers allowed) it is called the "M-1' after the 'Main street in London' Thanks again.
That is very funny that the crew-only deck is called the M1! It is a very major motorway (freeway) that connects London to Leeds up North! Will you be cruising again soon?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Probably not for a while. The CDC is making it very difficult for cruising to resume in the states. The lines may have to go elsewhere for their homeports, which will be devastating for some cities. But waiting to see. Every time I talk about it in my videos it changes. hahaha that's why I'm doing the thrifting bit...and loving it.
@@AdventureswithCheryl Yes, we are all finding ways to adapt, aren’t we?
I liked your channel and enjoyed watching. I wish you success and lasting friendship
Thanks for visiting
Fun video we subscribed to the girls! I find myself saying “Bear with me a minute” 😊~Cara
Thanks so much! Julie and Lucy are wonderful!!
I do think Americans say bear with me, but shortening to bear with is not some thing I’ve heard Americans saying as much. What do you think?
@@MagentaOtterTravels agree!
Thank you guys! We really appreciate it. We tend to say "bear with ..."
we love chuffed - especially “proper chuffed!” 🤣 we say it all the time, especially when talking about our dogs’ reactions to walks and treats. we’re also a fan of “bollocks.” 😆
It's the dogs bollocks!
@@MagentaOtterTravels it’s more polite to say couille.
Love all those British words! Cheers is another word I think a lot of Americans have adopted!
An american noted that I said cheers a lot in 2008.....maybe they say it themselves now...
Yes, absolutely! I had that in the original video, but it was 20 words and too long... so it ended up on the cutting room floor, haha!
I'm so glad that I could help you in your quest to become bilingual!
Cheers, luv!
@@MagentaOtterTravels What a well wise geezer is your ol' man.
@@RichardWells1 indeed! 🥸
Enjoyed this. I naturally use a lot of those phrases, especially chuffed to bits. Donkeys years is sometimes replaced with the word yonks. An example is I haven't done that in yonks.
Originally coming from Devon, if something was done well we would say proper job.
Hope you have a nice Easter
Thanks so much, Rachel! I wish you a Happy Easter! I hope you get to enjoy some hot cross buns 😀
Okay, it took me a minute ... I was trying to remember the phrase I use that always makes people go “huh?” and it’s faff around. It’s just such a perfect way to describe how I waste a lot of time getting nothing done 🙃
Yes, excellent phrase!! 👍
Like the song "I'm busy doing nothing" (... we do a lot of faffing around too 😁😂)
@@anotherswan exactly!! 😂
This was wonderful, my favourite TH-camrs in one place ❤
Thanks! It was a fun party!!
Interesting insights!
I want to know how much your English vocabulary is British vs. American... are there any terms where you use the American version?
In South Wales we mess up our slang worse than the English. We would say “Straight away in a minute” If Gavin & Stacey TV programme ever comes your way watch that. Gavin is an Essex boy and Stacey comes from Barry in S Wales. Larry Lamb and Alison Steadman play Gavin's parents Rob Brydon, a Welsh comedian, is Stacey's Uncle Bryn. Stacey (Joanne Page) has very broad South Walian accent.
Yes, I have heard about that phrase! So funny! I have heard about that show... much watch it. Maybe when we are in Britain this summer? Probably easier to get on Sky in the UK?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Gavin & Stacey is a BBC show, often repeated here.
@@petersymonds4975 I will definitely have to watch some episodes!
Peter, do y’all really ask “what’s occurring?”
I absolutely love Gavin & Stacey and Nessa’s stories and turns of phrase just have me in stitches!
Dara, maybe you could do some sort of watch party where you try out some of the shows people have suggested and show your reactions? I think you’ll love this one!
@@britainonabudget yes, one of these days I’m going to have to do reaction videos! It’s unavoidable...
As a brit I've basically used every word or phrase in this video. "British" words/slang I like saying are gert/gurt (means very or big like you could say "gurt big" or just gurt on its own could have other meanings though idk) and lush or even them both together like "that's gert lush" and basically means it's really lovely or good. But I don't hear many people say it anymore which saddens me.
I’ve never heard gurt before! That’s a good one! I do like lush... need to start saying that term.
@@MagentaOtterTravels gurt is mainly used in the west country like somerset and Bristol as far as I know!
And lush is really fun to say haha
@@chocominttea I just published two videos about our travels in Somerset! I really fell in love with the place!💖 What county do you live in?
@@chocominttea I agree! Delicious food can be called lush, yes?
Well, I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about all the Brit words I have struggled with through my years of reading Brit books and watching Brit shows. Gradually, I figured them all out -- for the most part. I had major problems with "chuffed" until you started using it, Dara, because now I do understand that it is something "liked" not "disliked"; sometimes in a book, one can't really tell if it's good or bad! But here's one that maybe you can explain that I think gets used for a variety of reasons, and I'm never sure which one is applicable in which situations: Cheers. I already know it as a toast when clinking glasses, but I hear it used also to mean "thanks", "goodbye", and various other ways. Is it just sort of a catch-all expression? And here's another little expression: Who is [insert name here] when he (or she) is at home? I first heard that in a Beatle movie, when George was asking about someone he didn't know. And I still hear it on Brit TV shows. I wonder how it came into use??
Excellent question, Bobby! I'll see if a REAL Brit can answer it...
Hi Bobby, Brit Girl Julie here! My American Book Club friends are often messaging me to ask the meaning of some British word or phrase!
Yes, cheers is a catch-all expression and can mean a toast, thank you or goodbye. It's relaxed and friendly. Who is it/she/he/ when it/she/he's at home is a humerous, ironic expression to emphasize (in a kind of putting one's self down sort of way) that you have no idea what it/she/is. Who is that (name of a B-list "celebrity") when she's at home! (As if I care, lol!) Hope that helps! :)
@@The_Brit_Girls thank you! That’s such a funny saying!
Thanks Julie -- yes, this was a very helpful answer!! :-)
I never heard of a couple of these words,but a few words like queue or Sorted or straight away I didn't know was british.
Thanks for watching! Sorted and straight away are also American, but the Brits use them differently... if that makes sense?
I use rubbish a lot. My grandmother was born and raise in England until she moved to Canada when she was 18 years old. My dad says schedule exactly how the English say it and I love hearing it. I also use the expression "Don't have a cow" and people don't get what I mean when I say that since I am in a French province. I would say Canadians use more check box vs tick boxes.
THANK YOU for answering my question about ticking vs checking boxes! Do you use both? In the US we ONLY say "check" boxes, but you probably know both since Canadians seem to share both British and American terms? Thanks for watching!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Myself I use the term "check box" or as was mentioned "check , check , check" I'm familiar with both due to English in my blood but I use check more. I think it depends on the person's background. I'm in Quebec so I barely even hear English here half the time 🤣
I use all of those words as a Brit, and as I'm from the south I also sometimes find a bit of rhyming slang creeping into my vocabulary. One thing I occasionally catch myself doing is speaking in a fairly posh voice to strangers, but changing to a more "cor blimey guvnor" manner when chatting to friends :-)
That is really funny! You go from the Queen's English to Eastenders, depending on to whom you are speaking! haha
Hmmmm - I have this memory of calling a water fountain a water bubbler or bubbler for short ...I have no idea where it came from and chalked it up as part of my New England roots. Have you heard of bubblers?
No I haven’t heard that! Silly question, is that the kind of water fountain you drink out of?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Yup the water fountain you drink out of
@@MagentaOtterTravels Ah...found this on the internet "Badger state residents also make a name for themselves for what they call the thing someone drinks water out of. Only people from eastern Wisconsin and Rhode Island call it a “bubbler" while those from the rest of the country drinks out of a “drinking fountain” or a “water fountain."" Still has me wonder about where the word bubbler was picked up
On my one and only trip to the Twin Cities in 2015, i was staying in one of those concrete high rise hotels on the 7th floor and when i got into the lift, i was stuck and confused as i didn`t see the button for the ground floor, all it said was L, I ended up chapping someones door to ask how do i get to the ground floor and was told to press L for Lobby.
The only thing that saves me is that which ever floor is the ground floor will have a star on that button. So I always just push the star no matter what nonsense letter is on it! Lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels I was completely lost in that lift all by myself not knowing which button to press...thankfully the star button wasn`t red in colour.
There are two Cornish girls who do the famous Carly Rae Jephson song " call me maybe " call me dreckly in very strong Cornish accents . Check it out" me beauties" .xx
That sounds hilarious!😂
I personally love using the word rubbish.
It’s such a great word!
Like this a lot. Your linguistic swingometer is heading for meltdown ! 😂
Thanks very much, kind Sir. Now you'll have to have a laugh at this coming Friday's edition... British words I AVOID! haha
I should have watched this all the way through but I can't be arsed 💂
Haha, I understand! I need to start saying that 😉
Chuffed = "Smashing Super Great" thanks Jim🎯👍
Occasionally I'm daft and you must explain. Who is Jim?
@@MagentaOtterTravels I knew you wouldn't know, Jim Bowen was a commidien who had a game show set around the game of darts, this was one of his catch phrases, as well as "Look at what you could have won" (youtube search maybe), definitely part of English culture
@@wencireone Now we know why you do so well at the pub quiz nights
@@MagentaOtterTravels you'd think that but knowledge and memory are two different things, (as you may have experienced), sometimes recalling the correct word can escape me let alone facts, and attention to detail often needs a second look. Doesn't look promising for the future 😬😱🤪😪
"Straightaway" is a term used in American motor racing for what we in Britain call a "straight".
Good point! I forgot about that use of the term "straightaway"! It's funny that often we have the same words... we just use them differently! Remind me what part of the world you live in?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Hi Dara, I live in North West London.
Slightly off topic, but l find it interesting that i Britain we say the River Thames, River Avon etc, and in the US it seems to be the Mississippi River, Colorado River, East River.
Good point! I would NEVER say "The Trent River"! But yes in the US we always say the name of the river or lake first.
We say Lake whatever, and Loch whatever in Scotland but just so nobody gets too complacent, we do have Bala Lake in Wales...
It is also technically incorrect to say Lake Windermere as mere means lake so you are saying Lake Winderlake but no one will hurl Kendal Mint Cake at you if you do.
@@lizbignell7813 LOL but I might hurl “gingerbread “ at them 😉
I think most people just say 'The Thames' or 'The Trent' and leave out the river bit altogether.
@@mikesaunders4775 good point, I think you’re right! Except for where a river has the same name as a city or town...
a word I find confuses Americans is "lashings", as in " I like lashings of cream on my scone", is it a word you or Ian use?
Nope. I never use that one! But it does sound delicious! I actually just tried making clotted cream last night for the first time ever... it will be an upcoming video!
@@MagentaOtterTravels are you able to get fresh milk and cream where you are? as I know it is mainly long life milk in the U.S due to distance from the dairies.
I say dollops of cream, especially clotted cream. I even used it when saying add a dollop of jam to that.
@@rachelpenny5165 I tend to say "dollop of Custard"
@@jeanlongsden1696 I was all excited because I discovered a local dairy that had Jersey cows! Unfortunately, they only sell raw milk, not raw cream!
In india, we usually say lift too
Hi friend! I think schoolchildren in Indian learn British English, don't they? I would expect many terms would be the same as the UK.
We only use different words to keep you on your toes
A way to confuse those folks who revolted.
@@MagentaOtterTravels And revolting folk🤣🤣🤣
@@wencireone guilty
@@MagentaOtterTravels Never not you 😇🙈🙉🙊👍
I'm not sure if you've ever heard of the word Buckshee. It's a strange one, and one everyone who serves in the military uses almost every day.
Hmmmmm, Never heard of it! Do I want to know what it means?
@@MagentaOtterTravels It's nothing bad trust me. If you have something that's Buckshee, it means you have something that's spare. I think it originated from the British Army's time in India.
Dara, fab videos
Thank you so much, kind sir!
This video ticks all the boxes. Bear with me and you will be chuffed to bits. It's well worth queuing for. They have got it sorted. None of the usual rubbish here. Watch it straight away, it is the best thing you have seen in donkey's years. Bye for now.
EXCELLENT!!! Best comment possible on this video! Cheers, luv!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Nay bother sweetie.
You missed out some of our Aberdeen (Scottish) phrases like:
"Fit like cheil?" ... Nae baad, ai peckin'
"Foo's yer doos quine??"
"Dinna ken fit yer on aboot"
He's a recht fain loon !!!!
Mechty me a cannae thole that mannie !!!
Thanks so much for adding some wonderful Scottish phrases into the discussion!
I've just read the comments from you and Peter Symonds and realised that 'Dusty bin' will mean nothing to you, but to every Brit of a certain age will remember a Saturday night game show called 3 2 1, where a ceramic model of Dusty bin was given away to the loosers, a rubbish consolation prize ( must Google Dusty bin to understand our love with Dust bins ) weird 😉🤪🤣👍
Very funny! I did Google Dusty Bin. Your commission check from Google is in the post.
@@MagentaOtterTravels as long as they don't make me pay for it or my IQ may plummet 🤪
@@wencireone That would be terrible!
Hi Dara. RUBBISH! I'm joking. Our Local Authority used to use “Household Refuse” but we also use Garbage & Rubbish. The local term for the “Garbage Collector” is the “Dustman”. Many years ago we also called them the “Ash Men” because they collected the ashes from dustbins where ash from fires was deposited and collected twice a week. Nowadays we get a weekly collection of recycling stuff and a 2 weekly garbage collection. We also used to have dustbins but now we have Wheelie Bins that are loaded mechanically on to the dustcart. The old method was a more manual method of the dustman lifting the bin onto his shoulder and then tip it into the truck. On the outskirts of our village we had the village dump. We knew the path by the side of it as the “Ash Path”. It's now been turfed and 40 years ago became a big sports field. Pontyclun Rugby Club play there now.
Perfect example of another term that COMPLETELY confuses Americans: dustman! As well as dust bin. We have NO CLUE what that means over here!!!
Very interesting about the "ash path"... never heard of that!
I recently learned about "bin night"... another thing that doesn't translate and really isn't a thing in the US!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Another BIN thing. Bin-juice, that stinky water/liquid that gathers in the bottom of your garbage-can. Often used to a-describe any smelly liquids.
@@petersymonds4975 I’ve decided that British people definitely discuss trash cans much more than Americans! LOL
one expression I have noticed creeping into US cop shows over the last 10 yrs or so is 'suss out' as in try and work out what's going on Bill
Oh yes, I definitely hear the phrase "suss out" here. The difference is that the cops here suss it out with a gun 😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels lol
I never use stightaway always use rightaway. Rightsway is more common in more northen English.
Never use chuffed or bare with they a very southern English.
Only use chuffed when I am not pleased to be sacrcastic
It's very interesting to me that Londoners and northern English have such different vocabularies. And how often the northern version is closer to American. For example the word pants!
@MagentaOtterTravels every area has a different word for a bread roll. Bap barm, barn cake, tea cake, where I come from in the East Midlands, we call them cobs
@@old.not.too.grumpy. yes, it's funny how many different words there are! And then I went to Newcastle and learned about stotties 😉
Did you know that the word lorry dates back to the 16th century and originates from the verb 'lurry' meaning to lug or pull around. A whole 100 years before 1776 ( I know History isn't your strong point )
It's not ... but I do know the significance of 1776! 🇺🇸😂
As an Englishman those two English women would get right up my nose.
I don’t even know what that means!🤨🤔
@@MagentaOtterTravels It means i find them extremely annoying.
Here's two more to consider a 'cab' vs a 'taxi' , and a 'cell' vs a ' mobile' , I expect that there are so many, you'd have enough for a year 😉👍
We use both cab and taxi... but we definitely say "cell" not "mobile"... and when we do say mobile, we pronounce it mo-bill not mo-BILE!
@@MagentaOtterTravels the only trouble with that is I'd think you were talking about Mobil Oil which is now ExxonMobil and the only cell we refer to are the ones people get locked up in, (prison or padded 🤪) and there leads in to another, Jail and Prison, mind you Elvis song would have been different 🤣
@@wencireone Don’t worry... when I’m in the UK I say mo-BILE. We use the words jail and prison. They are slightly different things. You are thrown in jail overnight in a holding cell but once you are sentenced to a long-term stay you are put in a prison. Well not you, but you know what I mean!
I'm getting a sherbet dab to the rub a dub.
(Getting a taxi to the pub) we use very often.
Hiya. I'll be well chuffed, Dara, if you straighten that picture on the wall. It's doing my eyes in! Lol. Stay safe. All the best to you.
LOL... sorry to drive you crazy! I think the picture may be straight but the camera angle is NOT!
@@MagentaOtterTravels - Aah, the wonders of optical illusion.
Dara, your getting well good at this brit stuff,innit. 🙂
Thanks! I'm trying
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@@MagentaOtterTravels haha ,try ttfn .same as bye for now.🌹
@@tonywilkinson6895 Now you sound like Winnie the Pooh! Ha ha
Ticks in the United States, especially in the south, mean an insect. Here in Idaho, home of the blue football turf, you must be careful of the ticks in the woods because they carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Ticks can be dangerous!
‘Sorted’ instead of ‘sorted out’ in the U.K was never heard before the 80s.
Interesting! I wonder how it all started? I just filmed a video yesterday about my 21 favourite British sayings. The word sorted factors into one of them😉.
Cheers for your comment! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels It’s more of a London thing that has spread in recent years, used as one word meaning ‘job done’ or similar. As in when you’ve fixed something for someone : ‘there you go. Sorted’. Or more widely ‘I’ve got my beer and football’s on TV. That’s me sorted’.
@@claymor8241 yes, exactly! I love those examples. Very very British!
I thought straightaway in America was the long straight on a race track
Yes! I forgot about that because I'm not much into racing. And example of a word we both have in our vocabs, we just use differently.
I'll start off by saying TTFN, I'll be back soon
Bye for now!
Chuffed to little mint balls. 😅 Oh, yes.
One word which Americans use to much when they're in the UK is 'cheers'. Please only use it when you're in the pub or thanking someone if they've done a job or are giving you something.
Good advice! Thanks for your comment 😊
I think your perspective is much more recent than mine. Your Bye for now is morphed from WWII ttfn or ta ta for now. Have you ever watched the TV show OTT (Shortend for Over the top)? Saying the US Servicemen were Overpaid, OverSexed, and Over here.
Being on a mission at the time, I didnt really see the TV show, and after doing a Google search, it doesnt match my memory!!! I thought it was more like Dunkirk or possibly Hogans Heroes in England, complete with buzz bombs.
I haven't watched OTT. There are many shows from that era I haven't seen yet. As for TTFN, I always think of Winnie the Pooh when I hear that! haha
Dara, here is another word, albeit northern, CHAMPION. Alternatives, jolly good, stupendous, blinking good, but "ee , that's champion!" says it all. Bye for now!
Brilliant!
Hi Dara. I don't think "donkey's years" is cockney rhyming slang. You wouldn't rhyme a word with the same word, it's like saying "apples and stairs" for stairs. I've always thought it was "donkeys ears" cos donkey's ears are long and that's how I use it even now. "I haven't seen him in donkey's". Words change over donkey's ears and the true meaning is lost in the mist of time. :-)
I thought it was rhyming slang of "donkey's ears" for "years". But I truly have no idea! I didn't think about donkey's having long ears... you might be right! Thought I'd argue rabbits have longer ears... from now on, you should say "I haven't seen him in rabbits!
Let me know how that goes... LOL
@@MagentaOtterTravels Well, rabbits may have long ears and hares are even longer, in proportion to their bodies but donkeys ears are still the longest in total length. :-)
Anyway, rabbit has already got it's own slang. "rabbit and pork" talk. As in "she can't half rabbit". :-) :-)
@@Beejay950 I didn’t know about that rabbit slang!
I think Americans use the word bunny more frequently than Brits. I have two young nieces who live in England and they always refer to their pet rabbits as rabbits, where as I want to call them bunnies 🐰
@@MagentaOtterTravels You're correct. the term 'donkey's ears' is rhyming slang for 'years'. (Shortened thus: 'I haven't seen them for donkey's.') The phrase has been erroneously morphed into 'donkey's years'.
@@RichardWells1 I love it... But it definitely confuses my American friends! Ha ha
In the UK we used to "fill in" forms now like Americans we "fill out" forms.
That is so funny! I often wonder how we diverged on so many of these phrases in the first place!
Curiously, you can also 'fill up' a form or something, but never 'fill down' a form
I've met some people in England that speak without Americanisms altogether ...its like listening to Lord Haw Haw..
LOL
@david Ahh... I'm one of them dear boy, but far more refined than Haw Haw ! 😉
Lord Haw Haw was an Irish American.
@@mikesaunders4775 Of course, I had never heard of him!
A good word I use is basura ie Spanish for rubbish, I have even used it when someone has said some thing I disagree with, only once did a person realise what I had said, LOL !!
Oh yes, here in Texas we know the word basura for sure!!
Please don't stop using any of your words ✔👍
Thank you! I have another 20 I could do easily... but I didn't want the video to be too long!
The most diverse word in all of England?
Bollocks.
It has endless meanings.
Good example! Though the dignified old ladies among us might not want to hear it ;-)
When we are watching motorcycle racing we say the back straight or just the straight. The American commentators say the straightaway, sounds funny.
That is so interesting! Thanks for sharing. Here's another funny one... tiles on the wall above a kitchen counter are called "backsplash" in the US and "splashback" in the UK and Australia!
Couldn't help but notice at the end of your last video (Dunster Castle) you used the phrase "Cheers" a British expression, and wondered if you subconsciously used the phrase without realising or wether you used the word on purpose to suit your British viewers?
Yes, Cheers is definitely one of the dozens of British expressions I picked up. When I am catering to my British viewers (usually when I am IN Britain or talking about a British topic) I will do things like pronounce tomato like a Brit or use British vocab. I don't ALWAYS do that back in the States. But there are many words that creep in... I didn't put Cheers in my first 10 because I had already covered it in this video (not sure if you saw it?): th-cam.com/video/jNUiwkhdu_4/w-d-xo.html
@@MagentaOtterTravels Yes I watched it, thanks for your reply.
@@nigem6611 my pleasure! 💖
# hash tag ? started to appear in speech
Just don't change your accent. You have a lovely American accent and so few of your. countrymen do, regrettably.
@@masudashizue777 thanks so much 🤗
Aren’t *all* the words British?
No, you get to keep Zucchini and we get Courgette thanks to the Italians and the French 🙂👍
You bring up a good point. Actually, cranky Brits (thankfully not many of those in the Magenta Otter Tribe) get their knickers in a twist if you say "British English" because they say it is just ENGLISH (full stop!). They really don't like the description of British English vs. American English. But I think it is more clear that way... so that's my approach. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Thanks for your comment!
Yes, Courgette and Aubergine are proof that sometimes even English people like to speak a bit of French ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels we 'the Brits' have been around so long, we managed to steal words from all over the world
@@MagentaOtterTravels C'est la vie 😉👍
What about fortnight? As I understand it, Americans know what fortnight means, but feel uncomfortable or self-conscious using it, so don't.
I think most Americans don’t know what it means… Not sure if that changed with the video game Fortnite.🤔
You'll need the British words for your passport application and citizenship test.
What would really intimidate me is the driver's test! You have no idea how odd an American finds the terms "pelican crossing" and "central reservation!!!! LOL
@@MagentaOtterTravels Its the same for us, when we go into mainland Europe - they are all on the wrong side of the road!!
@@jjsmallpiece9234 how can it be wrong when it’s so RIGHT?! 😂😂😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels Most of the rest of the world are wrong - simples.
@@jjsmallpiece9234 😂😂
Every word you use is British because it’s the English language
True... but I try to delineate US vs UK versions by saying "British" vs "American". Not perfect, but people know what I mean ;-)
Chuffed to f..k!
Well I am too ladylike to say that ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels . Of course you are! When I was in Army we would often say "Chuffed to NAAFI breaks". Say that to any British veteran of the 70s and 80s and he will respond.
@@nickmacdonald9535 I believe we have a lot of British military veterans here in the MOT!
@@MagentaOtterTravels .Ask some if they have heard the phrase
Sea otters were hunted to extinction in California...because of their fur....
It is so awful and sad! Thankfully the population is growing again. I’ve gone kayaking in Northern CA in Elkhorn Slough where the otters are 💖🦦
@@MagentaOtterTravels dodo populations aren't growing anywhere...
@@MagentaOtterTravels I've seen canoeing at whitesands st David's Pembrokeshire....and the surfing....its a cool spot..
Americans say.....come by.........uk people say they'll pop over...
I agree, Brits "pop out" and "nip out" and "pop over" more than we do ;-)
Your not rubbish at history, just not as interested ✔😉
That's why I have Ian and my sons around... they are much better than me at that!
@@MagentaOtterTravels History is such a wide subject, sometimes we all need backup, mines a search engine 😉👍
@@wencireone LOL, yes, I am aware!
It's so strange that Americans can't speak English.
But we are rather good at American!
Garbage is British, check out Shakespeare
So many “American” words (like Fall for Autumn) are actually British 😉. Thanks for your comment!