I always call pennies Coppers, they can also be Brass. as in The Pretenders song "Bass in Pocket. another term for having Brass in your pocket is "a pocket full of shrapnel" from the meaning loose metal. Brummie) Kipper Tie = Cuppa Tea. Jamaican) Beer Can = Bacon. misheard lyrics from Paul Young - Every time you go away, You take a piece of meat with you.
Years ago BBC Emily Maitliss interviewed Zuckerberg in California, it was criticised as a fawning interview, which implies exaggerated flattery, a fawn is a baby deer.
Yes - a good example of 'fawning'. It's definitely more exaggerated flattery and concentrated attendance on the fawnee rather than being nervous or anxious around them.
ABBA, Super Trouper: "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow" became "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Tesco." Listen and you'll also hear Tesco instead of Glasgow. :-)
How funny! You and Emma must have had a lot of laughs on that trip! I know my hearing has been dodgy for years, and often realise when half listening to my daughter's music that I absolutely must be mishearing some lyrics- but of course cannot think of any examples right now! A slightly different take on this was many years ago when we were holidaying in France. We were eating at a lovely restaurant, with a house band playing appropriate music in the background - a lot of which were covers of well known popular music with lyrics in English. After a while, we realised that the singer clearly knew no English at all, and was making a stab at what she had picked up phonetically from listening to the originals. NOT A SINGLE WORD was a 'real' English word! We got the giggles so badly once we realised! Fair play to her though- there's no way I'd be brave enough to attempt to sing in an unfamiliar language in front of a restaurant full of people!
@@carolineskipper6976 oh that's funny! I would've had the giggles in that French restaurant too! That's what children do sometimes when they want to sing along but they can't read yet, they just make noises that sound like what they think they're hearing.😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels Oh! CHILDREN's MISHEARD LYRICS! I have a few of those, having taught young children all my working life! "I am the Lord of the Dance Settee" springs to mind! I'd LOVE a Dance Settee!
In my part of the country at least, a "funny phone call" almost always means a weird and/or sinister call, like when a caller hangs up before speaking, or the kind you get from cold-callers trying to sell you something.
@@MagentaOtterTravelsAs someone from the South West of England the most difficult English accent I have trouble understanding is the Newcastle/Geordie/Tyneside accent. Eric Burdon from The Animals is from there, which I didn't realise till I heard him speak in an interview. My favourite American accents are NYC and Minnessota. 'Oh, you betcha!' 😂 👍🏽🏴
I still have two old Barclays Bank paper coin holding bags, one marked £5 mixed silver the other 5/- Copper (5 shillings) marked “Bank appreciates return of the bag for further use” even then we reused the same item.
When Debbie Harry of Blondie fame sang Heart of Glass in a deliberate dreamy style I couldn’t decipher all the sentences, luckily the vinyl album inner sleeve had all the lyrics. The song reached number 1 in the uk charts.
I once worked with some builders from Glasgow and after listening to them for a couple of minutes had to tell them I didn't understand a word they were saying. Such a hard accent to understand
One of my favorite topics, Dara -- misunderstood lyrics. There's a million of 'em!! Several from my 1960's era: In "Help Me Rhonda" by the Beach Boys, the line "Help me get her out of my heart" was misheard by me as "Help me get her out of my car." Another was CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" in the line "There's a bad moon on the rise" misheard as "There's a bathroom on the right." The classic is Jimi Hendrix singing "Scuse me while I kiss the sky" misheard as "Scuse me while I kiss this guy." In my early years of Brit band listening, I had trouble with words I had never heard before. The Hollies sang in "Bus Stop" something about "a sweet romance beginning in a queue," but I had never heard the word queue, so I thought maybe they were saying "in June"?? One of the Beatle tunes that for years I thought was "Amanda she's a pretty nice girl" was actually "Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl." I could go on, but I won't -- thanks again for this fun video!! 🤣👍🎶
Roger Sanchez - Another Chance If I had another chance to love I fell into a bath with Ainsley Harriott Madonna - Erotica Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body The Police - Every Breath You Take “My poo hole aches”
@@MagentaOtterTravels The term “coppers is derived from when we had halfpence coins and farthings as well as pennies which were still legitimate currency when I was a child. There were twelve pence in a shilling. When the new decimal currency came in 1971, the new two pence copper coin was also introduced. BUT ….Pre decimalisation, the old money also included silver coins and they were the sixpence piece, the shilling (sometimes called a “bob”) which was worth twelve pence. Also there was a silver Two-shillings piece (2 bob, 2bob piece or a florin). There was also a silver half-crown (called 2 and 6 because it was worth 2shillings and 6pence). This coin has a clue in its name because there had been an old-fashioned coin that was a “crown” and that had been worth five shillings in previous times. The ten shillings note (ten bob note) was just a tiny bit smaller than the pound note. I was a school teacher in the late sixties and in the run up to “D Day” (Decimal Day) our primary school had been instructed not to teach money calculations for a year beforehand. The shops had to write the price of goods in both decimal and pre decimal equivalents. The funny thing was that everyone, including children, could manage the old money very easily. The difficulty came when they had to convert it to the new and much easier money method.😂🤣 Sometimes I have fun with my grandchildren with guessing the values with their new money into my old money reversal games.😵💫🤪
You may be amused to learn of an etymology for misheard lyrics. - There was an old Scottish poem that contained the lines "They have slain the Earl o' Moray And laid him on the green". People misheard it as "They hae slain the Earl Amurray and Lady Mondegreen" Thus in Britain misheard lirics became known as Mondegreens after that poor non-existent lady.
I sing lyrics wrong all the time! I drive singers mad when I'm working with them doing their choreo! I will always make it rhyme and it will always be close to the lyrics but not quite!! A funny phone call to us is when some weirdo cold calls! Sounds like you have fun with your Welsh friends!!! 🍻
Hi Dara hahah I will not be able to comment much on this Anna from FX Wales Channel has been teaching a little bit of Walsh language and OMGoodness, I have no clue how to memorize them haha Sounds like preparing TOEFL exam This makes learning languages is challenging but fascinating. Well done. Very descriptive and coherent. Haha it made me chuckles a little. Thank YOU Dara for making my day Happy weekend
Dara. Our pre-decimal coins (pre 1971) had many special names, one penny was a coin of an alloy of copper and brass? And was always called copper along with the halfpenny, the three pence coin was called a thruppenny bit or a spanner(wrench) job, it had 12 sides on the rim because you would need one to get it out of a misers hand, the six penny coin was called a tanner (also in the song “Sing a song of Sixpence”). The shillings, florins, half crowns and crowns were always called Silver. A pocket full of change was called “Shrapnel”.
I once had a 'painful' discussion with an American who was telling me about his wife Ernst. Well that's what I thought he said but it turns out her name was Ann which he pronounced 'Ayern'.
Hi Dara, my girls are always chuckling when I break into song as 9 times out of 10 I get the lyrics wrong! 😁 One example off the top of my head is from REM’s ‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’ I thought for years it was “Calling Jamaica” but it is “Call me when you try to wake her”. This sounds kind of clunky so I still sing "Calling Jamaica" 😀🎤We would say "Funny phone calls" which would often imply dirty phone calls. "Did you have six periods?" 🤣 I find it harder to understand what people say nowadays - I think the old hearing is on the blink! 🤪Brilliant topic. Sound like you and your friend were in fits of giggles most of the time ❤
@@The_Brit_Girls yes! SO many giggles!! I love that I have company in singing wrong lyrics and mishearing people! You and I can grow old together, laughing all the way! 😂 Too bad to hear what funny phones calls really means! 🙉
Fawns means the same the same as brown nosing. Eg. Some one who is always around trying to get attention and acceptance from someone, usually agreeing with everything they say, praising them etc.
Ha ha! Too bad we can’t have closed caption above our heads. TH-cam has exposed us to so many different accents, 30 years ago on a business trip to the UK I found myself lost in the meetings. 😂. Fun video Dara. ~Cara
The thing to remember about Welsh is that even some of the letters are not pronounced the same way as in English, and that's before you start speaking the actual words. A good example is double L which has no resemblance to L in English. Glaswegian is the most difficult english accent for us British. If you want an example, Google the sitcom "Still Game" - a long running British TV sitcom.
@@JohnResalb I do love the Glaswegian accent, even though I struggle to understand it. Yes, the Welsh language is very tricky to know how to pronounce as an English speaker!
There used to be a programme called *Nationwide presented by Sue Lawley. The Police were just breaking into the pop charts with 'So Lonely' but the Nationwide presenters heard it as Sue Lawley. It might have been that mention that propelled The Police to fame. 😁 *Nationwide = 1,000 times better than The One Show.
About copper pennies, not heard your friends version ever, but you might have heard “I need to spend a penny” Old English euphemism for going to the loo, from the era when you put a penny in the toilet door to unlock it.
Americans certainly used to call policemen 'Coppers'. James Cagney and Edward G Robinson used the word several times when they played gangsters in movies in the 1930s and 1940s.
I'm Ok with the Welsh accent but Scottish and Northern Irish has me constantly saying 'Pardon? Could you say that again' For the past 5 years I've worked with a colleague who is newly arrived from Northern Ireland, the first 2 years I understood about 10% of what he was saying. I got a lot of strange looks as I responded 'yes' to questions I think probably needed a no answer! I've slowly adjusted and now my understanding is up to 90%, however I don't have problems understanding the Irish accent from the Republic of Ireland, it's a different accent, perhaps softer so for me at least it's easier to understand.
@MagentaOtterTravels I just remembered one from the Cadbury Fudge advert. It starts normally but then... '🎵A finger of fudge is just enough until it's time to eat. It's full of peppery goodness, and very small and neat.' Why anyone would want to put pepper in a chocolate bar beats me, but lots of people say that's what they sing in the lyrics so it must be true. 😁😁
Dara. I can easily see how you can misunderstand your friend. I get the same problem with my nephew. I’m from South Wales and he lives in Bala, Gwynedd in Eryri, Snowdonia. He’s lived there since he was two so to speak to other toddles he learned to speak Welsh from the other toddlers in nursery school. In primary school in the village of Llanuwchllyn (in English place above the lake), secondary school was entirely Welsh. When he talks his accent is so northern I misunderstand him especially if he speaks quickly. His son, Osian, so far only speaks a little English, he’s just started school, his accent is very difficult for me! I was an apprentice with BT and some of training was with the operators on the Switchboard. Regularly kids would call (free call from phone box) and when the operator answered the kids would say “Is that the operator on the line?, Yes, get off the line there’s a train coming!”
@Peterraymond67 I'm afraid to say that 45 years ago I was one of those kids calling from a phone box to prank the operator. Me & 3 friends once sang, in perfect "call & response" harmony a rendition of "operator (operator) information (information) get me Jeeesusss on the line" I apologise. It wasn't big or clever but my 12 year old self thought it was
This was fun. I reckon Scottish is probably the hardest to understand English dialect. Apparently some Americans struggle with Aussie English too. It is funny meeting foreigners and you can tell who taught them English. Mostly they speak with an English or American accent but I've met a couple of people who definitely have an Aussie accent and once or twice a Scottish lilt to their English. Mis heard lyrics are my thing. There are some songs that I've been mis-singing for 40 years I only recently found out I was singing wrong. There's always that, oh that makes much more sense, moment. My other thing is making up my own lyrics. Michelle absolutely hates it because I've been singing some songs with the wrong lyrics for so long she only hears those lyrics when the song is on Spotify or something. 😂Case in point, the Pointer Sisters... I want a scrubber for a slow hand I need a scrubber with a steel brush When it comes to cleaning I want a slow hand....
Good point about not knowing the lyrics although there was a great week.y magazine that every kid bought and they would put in the lyrics for some of the best songs! I had the newsagent save me a copy! Great footage Ian! Welsh is a lovely accent, so many great singers come from there! Sharpen her leggings! 😂no not familiar with she fawns. Prank calls all the way, don’t get me started on the scam calls we have had today, ggrrr. Six periods? Yikes. Never heard throwing a copper, during present day it’s something that people get charged for during riots! I have seen people put curry under rice but yes Coriander Rice is quite popular! Great video, might download it now incase it vanishes 😱
@@GENerationXplorers no this one won't vanish! 😂 Yes there may be throwing other kinds of coppers these days... I filmed this weeks before the recent riots. So scary! 😱 Welsh is SUCH a delightful accent! Love it, even though I occasionally misunderstand it. 😉
I know In Abba's "Dancing Queen" when they sing "You are the dancing queen, Young and sweet, only seventeen" many people including myself mishear it as "You are the dancing queen, Young and sweet, only seven teeth" - must be the Swedish translation
Since it's on topic I can't recall ever referring to someone as a Briton. Except. perhaps, in a historic context "Britons & Romans". I suppose it wouldn't come up often in Britain, but they'd be British or a Brit - which is obviously a contraction of Briton.
@@ethelmini I've been severely scolded ( in uppercase letters) by pedantic English people for using the term Brit. Since then I have used the term Briton to hopefully invoke less ire. But I'm always getting in trouble for something, so there you go! 🙄
The Welsh accent can be very hard to understand, but I'll forgive them because they are very good singers! A very strong Glaswegian or scouce accent (Liverpool area) is difficult as well. Me, I don't have any accent, just a normal well spoken southern English one🤣Hope you enjoyed the Netherlands and now Deutschland. Ya? BTW, the weather over here in England has been really nice the last three weeks so you missed out this time round
@@iankelly5387 ah, so you sport an RP accent fit for a king, eh?! Yes that last bit of the video was singing from a Welsh male voice choir we attended ❤️🏴... they ARE great singers.
One of the biggest wonders in the UK is just how many accents we have for such a small area compared to other countries Having lived in various parts of the UK I don't struggle with too many these days, but when my youngest nephew was little, he had a Welsh accent and spoke rapidly when excited, so talking to him about his birthday or Christmas, I'd often get about half of it When i visit the USA and I'm speaking to locals there, we often end up having a conversation about how there are different words for the same thing between the two countries Things like sidewalk, fag and more I often explain are called pavement, ciggy or so on over here There are also different degrees of the same accent, so broad Welsh is harder than normal, same with Glaswegian having different levels of difficulty We have so many words for police over here, copper is the more polite version and as others have said came from the term for small change 1p & 2p coins being called copper
So many people are mentioning Glaswegian as an accent they find hard to understand. I hope to go visit there in the next couple years, so now I can't wait to see if I can understand anyone! Lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels there are different levels of Glaswegian We were at the festival in Edinburgh the other day watching Larry Dean, a comedian from there and he was mostly understandable but some of the older residents can have a broader version which can be a problem
@@cookiemonster1409 I love Larry Dean! And I'm so jealous of you being at The Fringe! I don't actually have a bucket list, but going to the festival is on my bucket list!
@@MagentaOtterTravels its good but prices for accommodation go sky high during it, so can be an expensive trip for some If you have a car, you could probably stay a bit further out for much cheaper, especially if not drinking and that would work for you
I remember watching Jumpin' Jack Flash with Whoopi Goldberg and having the same difficulty understanding Mick Jagger singing Jumping Jack Flash with the Rolling Stones as she did, infact half of the Stones songs could be included
Like all regions they have different phrases. I'm for Cardiff and fawn and 'throwing a copper ' are new to me. The Welsh accent can be quite thick and its no surprise you have the odd problem. My friends wife is from Maesteg and face to face I can understand her, but over the phone, hell no😆! I have had plenty of misheard lyrics. The one that bugs me the most is an old Peter Gabriel song 'Games without Frontiers'. When I was young I had no idea what was repeated in the song. It sounded like 'she's so puftio' lol. I couldn't for the life of me work out what was actually being said. I found out its in French. 'Jeux sans Frontiers'. Still sounds nothing like that to me. I can't get my 'She's so puftio' out of my head even now. Although to be fair I had no idea that line was in French, from the radio. 😂
I think Americans generally don't have enough experience of other accents. We hear American ones on TV all the time, so we are not confused. Yes, a copper is a 1p or 2p coin. The long American vowels are confusing. Cooriander rice sounds completely different from coriander rice with the short o.
🎵"...take your cat and leave my sweater"🎵 (Keith Urban, "You'll Think Of Me") sounds far more like _cat_ than "cap" which some say it is. If you listen to Keith sing, it sounds like _cat_, it makes more sense a _cat_ and Keith _doesn't_ close his lips on a 'p' sound when he sings it... (p.s. Sorry for the many typos. I have - hopefulky - corrected them all now....?!!)
@@MagentaOtterTravels My post-cataract eye surgeries have taken a full year (plus, plus!) to completely heal and allow near (not total, sadly) and improved vision, yet still I leave typos* (*again!!) scattered amongst my comments. It's sooo frustrating and even with an over-long comment writer, such as myself - it takes me _forever_ to go and correct all my errors!! I appreciate your kind understanding of my predicament and will continue to endeavour to avoid such heinous errors in the here, the now & the future.🤞🤔🤭🏴🖖
@@MagentaOtterTravels oh dear, poor Emma!! I admire you trying to speak Welsh - regardless of your results. So, well done for trying. I like to hear Welsh people speak in their native language, it's very 'musical' to my ears, but I know I couldn't attempt it. Carry on trying if you feel up to the challenge and my best wishes to you (& your friends and family too) especially in your own endeavours in learning how to speak / understand Welsh. "More power to your elbow" - as we say in London?!
As a Scot growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I often had difficulty understanding BBC TV presenters who in these days, had to use Received Pronunciation, because many regional accents were considered to be vulgar... Of course, the said regions and in what may as well have been what they call "The Colonies" beyond, we tended to view them all as overly posh and rather patronising, probably because the only other people in our experience to talk that way were some of our elderly schoolteachers, and perhaps senior professionals such as some doctors... Added to this air of mistrust was that they had to be careful not to advertise anything; which made the Children's Programme 'Blue Peter' very interesting, as the presenters were forever going on about "sticky-backed plastic," and postcards that evidently had no pictures on the front as, anything you had to write in about such as competition answers had to have these written on one side, together with your own name and address, and with their address and a postage stamp on the other side. Well, most likely in common with millions of other kids, I searched the shops high and low for sticky-backed plastic - unaware of what it even looked like, and having repeatedly failed to find any, decided that it must just be something that you can get in London, and possibly the other big English cities... Likewise, I'd only ever seen picture postcards, and wasn't at all sure that the sort they were talking of even existed until at great length, I eventually found a pack of plain ones within a large stationery store during a visit to Edinburgh! I mean, not saying 'Sellotape' is like insisting on calling all Hoovers 'vacuum cleaners' and then suggesting we allhelp our mothers with a bit of vacuuming... As an adult I of course realise that they are vacuum cleaners and that vacuuming is indedd the correct word; but a child living in a region whose accent is somehow deemed vulgar by unseen authority figues in London, it's almost the other way about - especially when you consider that we invariably use the word 'hoovering' to describe what they are used for!! As for song lyrics, the examples are pretty well endless - especially if your point of learning was a recording of yet more English accents who just will not roll their R's or place what we considered to be the correct emphasis on many of their words at all... I mean, that subject has even been covered by the observational comedians!!
@@DeniseCarter-vl7jw Big mouth strikes again is the song that Ian and I chose as "our song" when we were dating! 😂 You can guess who the big mouth is 😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels It’s Moonage Daydream by David Bowie. The actual lyric is “you're squawking like a pink monkey bird.” I mean, not that far off right? 😜
A 1p and 2p are coppers because they are copper coloured and they are made from copper-plated steel and previously from a bronze alloy of copper tin and zinc, so we call 1p and 2p coppers, so you might say something like “she gave me change in coppers” or “my purse is full of nothing but coppers” because with everything costing a figure ending in 99p eg £5.99, you would always end up getting 1p change so you would always end up with a load of 1p coins. I am a perfect example of that as I have a black bin back full of coppers that I have acquired over the past 30 years, lol You also have something called a copper jar which you used to throw your coppers into. Some people had a change jar which they threw all their loose change into. You could tell how wealthy someone was by what they threw in their spare change jar/tin/box. It’s not so much of a thing these days because most people pay using a card so don’t get as much change as back in the day. So the phrase “throwing a copper” can mean a couple of things based on the context, it can either refer to a game that used to be played where you would throw a 1p onto a surface and the person who got their copper closest to the target would win the rest of the coppers that were thrown, this is probably one version of the game and there were probably variations to this game. Out of this game which was kind of a form of gambling, the metaphor use of “throwing a copper” came into use to mean taking a small risk or making a small bet, doing something a little bit risky, nothing too risky
I'm a big fan of Tyrannosaurus Rex, (later T.Rex). Most of the words are unintelligible. Years later the lyrics were published on the interweb. I was most disappointed reading them. My misheard lyrics were better. 😂
I agree! 😂 I feel the same way about Welsh. I ignorantly thought that it would sound something like English, before I first heard it... but I can't discern a single word. Unlike German or Dutch, which at least has a few words you can pick out.
Your comments about misheard lyrics reminded me that many years ago there was an advert on tv for cassette tapes that played on mishearing lyrics. It's this th-cam.com/video/JZ07FbgQkqk/w-d-xo.html But there's also the now classic Peter Kay stand-up routine th-cam.com/video/7my5baoCVv8/w-d-xo.html
Funny phone calls - not prank Throwing a or some copper/s … usually said if there’s a charity bucket going around - you throw “a few coppers” (loose change etc) into the buckets also you are buying something and the total comes to £5.29 for example, if you don’t want to break into an other £note you might say to an obliging husband/wife/friend - “I need to Chuck in a few coppers, have yiu got any spare please?”… And….. please listen to her showing her finesse at cutting things with a sharp blade….gooly chopping is her art form! th-cam.com/video/zpzdgmqIHOQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EbgobkyDBvkN82th
My friend Arzu (who is Turkish) was working in a pub in Bristol and thought one of the customers had ordered a pint of water....In actual fact he had ordered a pint of Otter !!!🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦😂😂😂😂
I always call pennies Coppers, they can also be Brass. as in The Pretenders song "Bass in Pocket. another term for having Brass in your pocket is "a pocket full of shrapnel" from the meaning loose metal.
Brummie) Kipper Tie = Cuppa Tea.
Jamaican) Beer Can = Bacon.
misheard lyrics from Paul Young -
Every time you go away,
You take a piece of meat with you.
@@jeanlongsden1696 another great misheard lyric!!
Too bad Ian didn't inherit a Brummie or Jamaican accent 😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels I don't think Ian would have the career he has if he did. lol
Fawning is not cowering. It's showing excessive attention to someone.
@@helenwood8482 thanks for setting me straight
Haha my bad!
Years ago BBC Emily Maitliss interviewed Zuckerberg in California, it was criticised as a fawning interview, which implies exaggerated flattery, a fawn is a baby deer.
Yes - a good example of 'fawning'. It's definitely more exaggerated flattery and concentrated attendance on the fawnee rather than being nervous or anxious around them.
@@john_smith1471 thanks for the example!
ABBA, Super Trouper: "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow" became "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Tesco."
Listen and you'll also hear Tesco instead of Glasgow. :-)
@@Tom-xy9yy that's funny! I had to share that with Ian, since he's a big ABBA fan. He even went and saw the Voyager show!
How funny! You and Emma must have had a lot of laughs on that trip!
I know my hearing has been dodgy for years, and often realise when half listening to my daughter's music that I absolutely must be mishearing some lyrics- but of course cannot think of any examples right now!
A slightly different take on this was many years ago when we were holidaying in France. We were eating at a lovely restaurant, with a house band playing appropriate music in the background - a lot of which were covers of well known popular music with lyrics in English. After a while, we realised that the singer clearly knew no English at all, and was making a stab at what she had picked up phonetically from listening to the originals. NOT A SINGLE WORD was a 'real' English word! We got the giggles so badly once we realised!
Fair play to her though- there's no way I'd be brave enough to attempt to sing in an unfamiliar language in front of a restaurant full of people!
@@carolineskipper6976 oh that's funny! I would've had the giggles in that French restaurant too! That's what children do sometimes when they want to sing along but they can't read yet, they just make noises that sound like what they think they're hearing.😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels Oh! CHILDREN's MISHEARD LYRICS! I have a few of those, having taught young children all my working life! "I am the Lord of the Dance Settee" springs to mind! I'd LOVE a Dance Settee!
it depends on the tone of voice sometimes a 'funny' phone call could also refer to a wierd or dirty phone call
@@misolgit69 ooooh that's worse than a prank call!
In my part of the country at least, a "funny phone call" almost always means a weird and/or sinister call, like when a caller hangs up before speaking, or the kind you get from cold-callers trying to sell you something.
@@ftumschk Thanks for saying that... I don't think it was dirty phone calls in the story Emma was telling.
@@MagentaOtterTravelsAs someone from the South West of England the most difficult English accent I have trouble understanding is the Newcastle/Geordie/Tyneside accent. Eric Burdon from The Animals is from there, which I didn't realise till I heard him speak in an interview. My favourite American accents are NYC and Minnessota. 'Oh, you betcha!' 😂 👍🏽🏴
@@enterthebruce91 yeah Minnesota accent is great! And the people there are so friendly 💜
I still have two old Barclays Bank paper coin holding bags, one marked £5 mixed silver the other 5/- Copper (5 shillings) marked “Bank appreciates return of the bag for further use” even then we reused the same item.
When Debbie Harry of Blondie fame sang Heart of Glass in a deliberate dreamy style I couldn’t decipher all the sentences, luckily the vinyl album inner sleeve had all the lyrics.
The song reached number 1 in the uk charts.
@@john_smith1471 I loved that song! Yes I definitely had misheard lyrics with that song 😉
I remember Blondie performing that on Top of the Pops like it was yesterday. That's when I first realised skinny ties were cool.
I once worked with some builders from Glasgow and after listening to them for a couple of minutes had to tell them I didn't understand a word they were saying. Such a hard accent to understand
Lots of English people are saying that, so it must be a difficult one to understand!
One of my favorite topics, Dara -- misunderstood lyrics. There's a million of 'em!! Several from my 1960's era: In "Help Me Rhonda" by the Beach Boys, the line "Help me get her out of my heart" was misheard by me as "Help me get her out of my car." Another was CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" in the line "There's a bad moon on the rise" misheard as "There's a bathroom on the right." The classic is Jimi Hendrix singing "Scuse me while I kiss the sky" misheard as "Scuse me while I kiss this guy." In my early years of Brit band listening, I had trouble with words I had never heard before. The Hollies sang in "Bus Stop" something about "a sweet romance beginning in a queue," but I had never heard the word queue, so I thought maybe they were saying "in June"?? One of the Beatle tunes that for years I thought was "Amanda she's a pretty nice girl" was actually "Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl." I could go on, but I won't -- thanks again for this fun video!! 🤣👍🎶
@@bobbyxhilone9953 Bathroom on the right! 😂😂😂
That's hilarious, Bobby!
Misheard lyrics are called Mondegreens.
@@nigelgunn_W8IFF fancy name!
Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
If I had another chance to love
I fell into a bath with Ainsley Harriott
Madonna - Erotica
Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body
The Police - Every Breath You Take
“My poo hole aches”
@@marblwrexbro458 oh my 😂😂😂
British coins can generally and nationally be described as coppers (brown colour) or silver, and often ‘notes’ is instead of saying banknotes.
Oh so it's not just a penny that's a copper?
@@MagentaOtterTravels The term “coppers is derived from when we had halfpence coins and farthings as well as pennies which were still legitimate currency when I was a child. There were twelve pence in a shilling. When the new decimal currency came in 1971, the new two pence copper coin was also introduced.
BUT ….Pre decimalisation, the old money also included silver coins and they were the sixpence piece, the shilling (sometimes called a “bob”) which was worth twelve pence. Also there was a silver Two-shillings piece (2 bob, 2bob piece or a florin).
There was also a silver half-crown (called 2 and 6 because it was worth 2shillings and 6pence). This coin has a clue in its name because there had been an old-fashioned coin that was a “crown” and that had been worth five shillings in previous times. The ten shillings note (ten bob note) was just a tiny bit smaller than the pound note.
I was a school teacher in the late sixties and in the run up to “D Day” (Decimal Day) our primary school had been instructed not to teach money calculations for a year beforehand. The shops had to write the price of goods in both decimal and pre decimal equivalents. The funny thing was that everyone, including children, could manage the old money very easily. The difficulty came when they had to convert it to the new and much easier money method.😂🤣 Sometimes I have fun with my grandchildren with guessing the values with their new money into my old money reversal games.😵💫🤪
@@Angusmum such a strange concept to think of converting over all the currency! I can imagine what a difficult adjustment that must have been!
You may be amused to learn of an etymology for misheard lyrics. - There was an old Scottish poem that contained the lines "They have slain the Earl o' Moray And laid him on the green". People misheard it as "They hae slain the Earl Amurray and Lady Mondegreen" Thus in Britain misheard lirics became known as Mondegreens after that poor non-existent lady.
Thank you for that!!! I didn't know why they were called Mondegreens! 😂
I sing lyrics wrong all the time! I drive singers mad when I'm working with them doing their choreo! I will always make it rhyme and it will always be close to the lyrics but not quite!! A funny phone call to us is when some weirdo cold calls! Sounds like you have fun with your Welsh friends!!! 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint i love that you make singers crazy with your crazy made up lyrics 😉
Hi Dara
hahah I will not be able to comment much on this
Anna from FX Wales Channel has been teaching a little bit of Walsh language and OMGoodness, I have no clue how to memorize them
haha Sounds like preparing TOEFL exam
This makes learning languages is challenging but fascinating.
Well done. Very descriptive and coherent.
Haha it made me chuckles a little. Thank YOU Dara for making my day
Happy weekend
@@ms.kayak7seas thanks Yumi! I hope everything is going ok with your in laws 🙏
Thanks for watching.
Dara. Our pre-decimal coins (pre 1971) had many special names, one penny was a coin of an alloy of copper and brass? And was always called copper along with the halfpenny, the three pence coin was called a thruppenny bit or a spanner(wrench) job, it had 12 sides on the rim because you would need one to get it out of a misers hand, the six penny coin was called a tanner (also in the song “Sing a song of Sixpence”). The shillings, florins, half crowns and crowns were always called Silver. A pocket full of change was called “Shrapnel”.
@@Peterraymond67 interesting! I didn't know all that.
Funny phone calls are more sinister than prank phone calls.
...Peculiar or scary - funny
@@Poliss95 explain please ...
@@MagentaOtterTravels Heavy breathing calls from strange men.
@@Poliss95 yikes!😱
A small amount of money is called ‘a few coppers.’
I once had a 'painful' discussion with an American who was telling me about his wife Ernst.
Well that's what I thought he said but it turns out her name was Ann which he pronounced 'Ayern'.
@@marktennant7223 😂😂
Yes, to judge from YT, most Americans' accents are hard to understand --- though I must admit Glaswegians are pretty hard to understand, too.
Hi Dara, my girls are always chuckling when I break into song as 9 times out of 10 I get the lyrics wrong! 😁 One example off the top of my head is from REM’s ‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’ I thought for years it was “Calling Jamaica” but it is “Call me when you try to wake her”. This sounds kind of clunky so I still sing "Calling Jamaica" 😀🎤We would say "Funny phone calls" which would often imply dirty phone calls. "Did you have six periods?" 🤣 I find it harder to understand what people say nowadays - I think the old hearing is on the blink! 🤪Brilliant topic. Sound like you and your friend were in fits of giggles most of the time ❤
@@The_Brit_Girls yes! SO many giggles!! I love that I have company in singing wrong lyrics and mishearing people! You and I can grow old together, laughing all the way! 😂
Too bad to hear what funny phones calls really means! 🙉
Fawns means the same the same as brown nosing. Eg. Some one who is always around trying to get attention and acceptance from someone, usually agreeing with everything they say, praising them etc.
Most words and phrases that are local to an area can be hard to understand, so you're not alone
I think I'm also hard of hearing, which doesn't help!
Ha ha! Too bad we can’t have closed caption above our heads. TH-cam has exposed us to so many different accents, 30 years ago on a business trip to the UK I found myself lost in the meetings. 😂. Fun video Dara. ~Cara
Yes subtitles would be great! Thankfully we have them on TH-cam and TV shows!
The thing to remember about Welsh is that even some of the letters are not pronounced the same way as in English, and that's before you start speaking the actual words.
A good example is double L which has no resemblance to L in English.
Glaswegian is the most difficult english accent for us British.
If you want an example, Google the sitcom "Still Game" - a long running British TV sitcom.
@@JohnResalb I do love the Glaswegian accent, even though I struggle to understand it.
Yes, the Welsh language is very tricky to know how to pronounce as an English speaker!
There used to be a programme called *Nationwide presented by Sue Lawley. The Police were just breaking into the pop charts with 'So Lonely' but the Nationwide presenters heard it as Sue Lawley. It might have been that mention that propelled The Police to fame. 😁
*Nationwide = 1,000 times better than The One Show.
I still ironically think 'Sue Lawley' when I hear that track!
@@Poliss95 that's so funny!!
Ask Peter Kay about Misheard Lyrics. Lol!
@@_starfiend he has shared his favourites... very funny, innit?
About copper pennies, not heard your friends version ever, but you might have heard “I need to spend a penny”
Old English euphemism for going to the loo, from the era when you put a penny in the toilet door to unlock it.
@@john_smith1471 yes, and now it costs a euro in most places in Europe to spend a penny! That's a lot of inflation!
Americans certainly used to call policemen 'Coppers'. James Cagney and Edward G Robinson used the word several times when they played gangsters in movies in the 1930s and 1940s.
I'm Ok with the Welsh accent but Scottish and Northern Irish has me constantly saying 'Pardon? Could you say that again' For the past 5 years I've worked with a colleague who is newly arrived from Northern Ireland, the first 2 years I understood about 10% of what he was saying. I got a lot of strange looks as I responded 'yes' to questions I think probably needed a no answer! I've slowly adjusted and now my understanding is up to 90%, however I don't have problems understanding the Irish accent from the Republic of Ireland, it's a different accent, perhaps softer so for me at least it's easier to understand.
I think the Irish accent and English RP are the easiest for me to understand. That's funny about your colleague... I have definitely had that happen!
@MagentaOtterTravels I just remembered one from the Cadbury Fudge advert. It starts normally but then...
'🎵A finger of fudge is just enough until it's time to eat. It's full of peppery goodness, and very small and neat.'
Why anyone would want to put pepper in a chocolate bar beats me, but lots of people say that's what they sing in the lyrics so it must be true. 😁😁
@@Poliss95 there ARE chocolate bars with chili 🌶️ pepper in them!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Not in my flat there aren't. 😂
@@Poliss95 you know it was "Full of Cadbury Goodness" 🍫
'🎵Life ain't so easy when you're a Dental child.' Except it's Ghetto child. 😂😂
@@Poliss95 no anything dental is not easy!
Dara. I can easily see how you can misunderstand your friend. I get the same problem with my nephew. I’m from South Wales and he lives in Bala, Gwynedd in Eryri, Snowdonia. He’s lived there since he was two so to speak to other toddles he learned to speak Welsh from the other toddlers in nursery school. In primary school in the village of Llanuwchllyn (in English place above the lake), secondary school was entirely Welsh. When he talks his accent is so northern I misunderstand him especially if he speaks quickly. His son, Osian, so far only speaks a little English, he’s just started school, his accent is very difficult for me!
I was an apprentice with BT and some of training was with the operators on the Switchboard. Regularly kids would call (free call from phone box) and when the operator answered the kids would say “Is that the operator on the line?, Yes, get off the line there’s a train coming!”
@@Peterraymond67 THAT is a prank phone call! 😉
I'd love to hear toddler Welsh accents! ❤️🏴
@Peterraymond67 I'm afraid to say that 45 years ago I was one of those kids calling from a phone box to prank the operator. Me & 3 friends once sang, in perfect "call & response" harmony a rendition of "operator (operator) information (information) get me Jeeesusss on the line" I apologise. It wasn't big or clever but my 12 year old self thought it was
As a kid I thought Squeeze were singing about "pulling mussels from a shell"......... Oh...... looks like that IS what they are singing about.
That song has crazy lyrics!
To fawn over someone is to be enamoured by them.
Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face', when I heard it for the very first time, I thought the chorus was, "Carry my, Carry my, can't breathe on my mouldy face".
@@shmuelparzal haha that's a great image! 🤢
Poke her face 😉
This was fun. I reckon Scottish is probably the hardest to understand English dialect. Apparently some Americans struggle with Aussie English too. It is funny meeting foreigners and you can tell who taught them English. Mostly they speak with an English or American accent but I've met a couple of people who definitely have an Aussie accent and once or twice a Scottish lilt to their English. Mis heard lyrics are my thing. There are some songs that I've been mis-singing for 40 years I only recently found out I was singing wrong. There's always that, oh that makes much more sense, moment. My other thing is making up my own lyrics. Michelle absolutely hates it because I've been singing some songs with the wrong lyrics for so long she only hears those lyrics when the song is on Spotify or something. 😂Case in point, the Pointer Sisters...
I want a scrubber for a slow hand
I need a scrubber with a steel brush
When it comes to cleaning I want a slow hand....
@@ShaneNixonFamily oh yes, you and Ian are cut from the same cloth! He loves to mangle the lyrics and it drives me bats! 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels 😂
Song by Cypress Hill. They sing "insane in the membrane" and I thougjt it was "insane at the main frame" 😂😂
@@dirkverelst5423 that actually makes MORE sense! 😂
Good point about not knowing the lyrics although there was a great week.y magazine that every kid bought and they would put in the lyrics for some of the best songs! I had the newsagent save me a copy! Great footage Ian! Welsh is a lovely accent, so many great singers come from there! Sharpen her leggings! 😂no not familiar with she fawns. Prank calls all the way, don’t get me started on the scam calls we have had today, ggrrr. Six periods? Yikes. Never heard throwing a copper, during present day it’s something that people get charged for during riots! I have seen people put curry under rice but yes Coriander Rice is quite popular! Great video, might download it now incase it vanishes 😱
@@GENerationXplorers no this one won't vanish! 😂
Yes there may be throwing other kinds of coppers these days... I filmed this weeks before the recent riots. So scary! 😱
Welsh is SUCH a delightful accent! Love it, even though I occasionally misunderstand it. 😉
I know In Abba's "Dancing Queen" when they sing "You are the dancing queen, Young and sweet, only seventeen" many people including myself mishear it as "You are the dancing queen, Young and sweet, only seven teeth" - must be the Swedish translation
@@evancortez2 would be hard to eat BBQ and corn on the cob 🌽 with only 7 teeth 🦷!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Almost impossible! :)
Since it's on topic I can't recall ever referring to someone as a Briton. Except. perhaps, in a historic context "Britons & Romans". I suppose it wouldn't come up often in Britain, but they'd be British or a Brit - which is obviously a contraction of Briton.
@@ethelmini I've been severely scolded ( in uppercase letters) by pedantic English people for using the term Brit. Since then I have used the term Briton to hopefully invoke less ire. But I'm always getting in trouble for something, so there you go! 🙄
The Welsh accent can be very hard to understand, but I'll forgive them because they are very good singers! A very strong Glaswegian or scouce accent (Liverpool area) is difficult as well. Me, I don't have any accent, just a normal well spoken southern English one🤣Hope you enjoyed the Netherlands and now Deutschland. Ya? BTW, the weather over here in England has been really nice the last three weeks so you missed out this time round
@@iankelly5387 ah, so you sport an RP accent fit for a king, eh?!
Yes that last bit of the video was singing from a Welsh male voice choir we attended ❤️🏴... they ARE great singers.
One of the biggest wonders in the UK is just how many accents we have for such a small area compared to other countries
Having lived in various parts of the UK I don't struggle with too many these days, but when my youngest nephew was little, he had a Welsh accent and spoke rapidly when excited, so talking to him about his birthday or Christmas, I'd often get about half of it
When i visit the USA and I'm speaking to locals there, we often end up having a conversation about how there are different words for the same thing between the two countries
Things like sidewalk, fag and more I often explain are called pavement, ciggy or so on over here
There are also different degrees of the same accent, so broad Welsh is harder than normal, same with Glaswegian having different levels of difficulty
We have so many words for police over here, copper is the more polite version and as others have said came from the term for small change 1p & 2p coins being called copper
So many people are mentioning Glaswegian as an accent they find hard to understand. I hope to go visit there in the next couple years, so now I can't wait to see if I can understand anyone! Lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels there are different levels of Glaswegian
We were at the festival in Edinburgh the other day watching Larry Dean, a comedian from there and he was mostly understandable but some of the older residents can have a broader version which can be a problem
@@cookiemonster1409 I love Larry Dean! And I'm so jealous of you being at The Fringe! I don't actually have a bucket list, but going to the festival is on my bucket list!
@@MagentaOtterTravels its good but prices for accommodation go sky high during it, so can be an expensive trip for some
If you have a car, you could probably stay a bit further out for much cheaper, especially if not drinking and that would work for you
@@cookiemonster1409 yes, we would probably drive and stay somewhere outside the city. I know that lodging is crazy expensive during the festival!
'Lots of ballet laughs?' :-0
Haha I guess MY accent is hard to understand! 😂🩰
I remember watching Jumpin' Jack Flash with Whoopi Goldberg and having the same difficulty understanding Mick Jagger singing Jumping Jack Flash with the Rolling Stones as she did, infact half of the Stones songs could be included
True!
Like all regions they have different phrases. I'm for Cardiff and fawn and 'throwing a copper ' are new to me. The Welsh accent can be quite thick and its no surprise you have the odd problem. My friends wife is from Maesteg and face to face I can understand her, but over the phone, hell no😆!
I have had plenty of misheard lyrics. The one that bugs me the most is an old Peter Gabriel song 'Games without Frontiers'. When I was young I had no idea what was repeated in the song. It sounded like 'she's so puftio' lol. I couldn't for the life of me work out what was actually being said. I found out its in French. 'Jeux sans Frontiers'. Still sounds nothing like that to me. I can't get my 'She's so puftio' out of my head even now. Although to be fair I had no idea that line was in French, from the radio. 😂
I'm pretty sure I thought it was puftio as well! 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels Are you just saying that to make me feel better 😊
@@matc6221 lol... I can promise you I didn't know what the lyrics really were!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Well that makes 2 of us 😁
I think Americans generally don't have enough experience of other accents. We hear American ones on TV all the time, so we are not confused. Yes, a copper is a 1p or 2p coin. The long American vowels are confusing. Cooriander rice sounds completely different from coriander rice with the short o.
I think coriander is better known as cilantro in America.
@@Tom-xy9yy yes exactly 😉
TH-cam has available video of: Peter Kay misheard lyrics; very funny but not fully family friendly.
@@idristaylor5093 it's hilarious! I've watched it 😂
remember you only have an accent if you leave the place you learned it... and it starbucks lovers are now upset!
@@FlourEggsYeast haha I'm glad you caught that Theresa 😉
🎵"...take your cat and leave my sweater"🎵 (Keith Urban, "You'll Think Of Me") sounds far more like _cat_ than "cap" which some say it is. If you listen to Keith sing, it sounds like _cat_, it makes more sense a _cat_ and Keith _doesn't_ close his lips on a 'p' sound when he sings it...
(p.s. Sorry for the many typos. I have - hopefulky - corrected them all now....?!!)
@@brigidsingleton1596 at least both of those make sense. Some misheard lyrics are so ridiculous they don't even make sense! Lol
No worries! TH-cam comments are full of typos!
@@MagentaOtterTravels
My post-cataract eye surgeries have taken a full year (plus, plus!) to completely heal and allow near (not total, sadly) and improved vision, yet still I leave typos* (*again!!) scattered amongst my comments. It's sooo frustrating and even with an over-long comment writer, such as myself - it takes me _forever_ to go and correct all my errors!!
I appreciate your kind understanding of my predicament and will continue to endeavour to avoid such heinous errors in the here, the now & the future.🤞🤔🤭🏴🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 don't worry one little bit dear! I understand your typos better than I understand listening to Emma! 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels oh dear, poor Emma!! I admire you trying to speak Welsh - regardless of your results. So, well done for trying. I like to hear Welsh people speak in their native language, it's very 'musical' to my ears, but I know I couldn't attempt it.
Carry on trying if you feel up to the challenge and my best wishes to you (& your friends and family too) especially in your own endeavours in learning how to speak / understand Welsh. "More power to your elbow" - as we say in London?!
As a Scot growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I often had difficulty understanding BBC TV presenters who in these days, had to use Received Pronunciation, because many regional accents were considered to be vulgar... Of course, the said regions and in what may as well have been what they call "The Colonies" beyond, we tended to view them all as overly posh and rather patronising, probably because the only other people in our experience to talk that way were some of our elderly schoolteachers, and perhaps senior professionals such as some doctors... Added to this air of mistrust was that they had to be careful not to advertise anything; which made the Children's Programme 'Blue Peter' very interesting, as the presenters were forever going on about "sticky-backed plastic," and postcards that evidently had no pictures on the front as, anything you had to write in about such as competition answers had to have these written on one side, together with your own name and address, and with their address and a postage stamp on the other side.
Well, most likely in common with millions of other kids, I searched the shops high and low for sticky-backed plastic - unaware of what it even looked like, and having repeatedly failed to find any, decided that it must just be something that you can get in London, and possibly the other big English cities... Likewise, I'd only ever seen picture postcards, and wasn't at all sure that the sort they were talking of even existed until at great length, I eventually found a pack of plain ones within a large stationery store during a visit to Edinburgh!
I mean, not saying 'Sellotape' is like insisting on calling all Hoovers 'vacuum cleaners' and then suggesting we allhelp our mothers with a bit of vacuuming... As an adult I of course realise that they are vacuum cleaners and that vacuuming is indedd the correct word; but a child living in a region whose accent is somehow deemed vulgar by unseen authority figues in London, it's almost the other way about - especially when you consider that we invariably use the word 'hoovering' to describe what they are used for!!
As for song lyrics, the examples are pretty well endless - especially if your point of learning was a recording of yet more English accents who just will not roll their R's or place what we considered to be the correct emphasis on many of their words at all... I mean, that subject has even been covered by the observational comedians!!
@@paulharvey9149 thanks for your comment!
There was a song by the Smiths I always thought said Midnight strikes again but was actually Big-mouth strikes again 🤣
@@DeniseCarter-vl7jw Big mouth strikes again is the song that Ian and I chose as "our song" when we were dating! 😂
You can guess who the big mouth is 😉
Stephen loves to make fun of me for my misheard lyrics. How about David bowie's "Sqawkin' like a big monkey butt?"
@@StephenandAndie OK that is so crazy I don't even know what song you are referring to! 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels It’s Moonage Daydream by David Bowie. The actual lyric is “you're squawking like a pink monkey bird.” I mean, not that far off right? 😜
@@StephenandAndie to be honest the original line is almost as bizarre as your version! Lol
A 1p and 2p are coppers because they are copper coloured and they are made from copper-plated steel and previously from a bronze alloy of copper tin and zinc, so we call 1p and 2p coppers, so you might say something like “she gave me change in coppers” or “my purse is full of nothing but coppers” because with everything costing a figure ending in 99p eg £5.99, you would always end up getting 1p change so you would always end up with a load of 1p coins.
I am a perfect example of that as I have a black bin back full of coppers that I have acquired over the past 30 years, lol
You also have something called a copper jar which you used to throw your coppers into. Some people had a change jar which they threw all their loose change into. You could tell how wealthy someone was by what they threw in their spare change jar/tin/box.
It’s not so much of a thing these days because most people pay using a card so don’t get as much change as back in the day.
So the phrase “throwing a copper” can mean a couple of things based on the context, it can either refer to a game that used to be played where you would throw a 1p onto a surface and the person who got their copper closest to the target would win the rest of the coppers that were thrown, this is probably one version of the game and there were probably variations to this game.
Out of this game which was kind of a form of gambling, the metaphor use of “throwing a copper” came into use to mean taking a small risk or making a small bet, doing something a little bit risky, nothing too risky
@@Penddraig7 thanks for all the copper context!! Diolch! Dara
Glaswegian and Brum are hard.
@@Poliss95 true! I have a long list of ones I struggle with 😂
Northern Irish area strabane even other Irish people struggle
@Magenta Otter Travels You need to watch former Welsh Secretary, John Redwood 'singing' the Welsh national anthem. 😂😂
White Lies running through my mind.....😂
@@DeniseCarter-vl7jw 😂
To fawn is a legitimate verb.
@@Angusmum yes, I may not have used it correctly, but it definitely is
Pennies have always been called coppers. It'scwhat they used to be made of.
I'm a big fan of Tyrannosaurus Rex, (later T.Rex). Most of the words are unintelligible. Years later the lyrics were published on the interweb. I was most disappointed reading them. My misheard lyrics were better. 😂
I totally understand. Sometimes it's better not to know! Lol
Broad Glaswegian or Geordie could be Russian for all I know! 😂
@glastonbury4304 Not much broad Geordie around these days.
I agree! 😂 I feel the same way about Welsh. I ignorantly thought that it would sound something like English, before I first heard it... but I can't discern a single word. Unlike German or Dutch, which at least has a few words you can pick out.
@Poliss95 ...depends what part of town you're in I guess
Everybody are Northerners to me
And all hard to understand? So that's why you have to watch American TH-cam channels, because we're so easy to understand? Lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels they're pretty much South of me
Are you sure she didn’t just say curry and rice
Although Coriander (culantro here in Costa Rica) is used always here when making rice
@@ParadiseStreet it was coriander rice. She clarified when I made a funny face 😉
Your comments about misheard lyrics reminded me that many years ago there was an advert on tv for cassette tapes that played on mishearing lyrics. It's this th-cam.com/video/JZ07FbgQkqk/w-d-xo.html
But there's also the now classic Peter Kay stand-up routine th-cam.com/video/7my5baoCVv8/w-d-xo.html
You had to "try" to record songs?
Yes? it was hit and miss whether you managed to catch them as they came on the radio!
@@carolineskipper6976 yes exactly!
@@crackpot148 from the radio, yes! Timing was tricky.
Innernedd
@@jonathanfinan722 ??
Funny phone calls - not prank
Throwing a or some copper/s … usually said if there’s a charity bucket going around - you throw “a few coppers” (loose change etc) into the buckets also you are buying something and the total comes to £5.29 for example, if you don’t want to break into an other £note you might say to an obliging husband/wife/friend - “I need to Chuck in a few coppers, have yiu got any spare please?”…
And….. please listen to her showing her finesse at cutting things with a sharp blade….gooly chopping is her art form! th-cam.com/video/zpzdgmqIHOQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EbgobkyDBvkN82th
My friend Arzu (who is Turkish) was working in a pub in Bristol and thought one of the customers had ordered a pint of water....In actual fact he had ordered a pint of Otter !!!🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦😂😂😂😂
@@jamesbeeching6138 haha good lad!