@@Scoobay My British ear - RP - concurs, but it's only very slight. In order to make a proper comparison, it would be better to hear their original accents.
As a dual American/Brit who was born in Britain and live here now but grew up in the US, my accent is definitly all over the place. I was born in Yorkshire, went to the States as a 4 year old and came back here at 12 (then bounced back and forth a bit). When I visit the US, my American accent becomes much stronger but Americans still only hear the British parts of it. Over here in London, they hear the American parts. When asked where I was born, I say Yorkshire because its true, but I always end up having to say 'but I grew up in the US'.
As a Brit who was born and has lived in London all my life, my accent is STILL messed-up, because I've picked up on some of my dad's accent which mimics HIS late dad's Sunderland accent. So I'm 2 generations removed, and still sound part-London, part-Sunderland. xD
@@gswcooper7162 and probably even an old-timey Sunderlander. I'm Belgian, Flemish to be more precise, in the 19th and early 20th century, quite a few Flemish farmers 'emigrated' to Wallonia, the francophone southern part of Belgium, but they largely kept their accents when speaking Flemish. Once a year during pelgrimage season, lots of them come to Halle, and you can hear Flemish accents that have disappeared in their native region, and where locals of that region might find it hard to understand it...
I’m the opposite. British parents who raised me in California as a very proud first gen American (with dual citizenship). My parents have mostly lost their accent, but the odd funny word gives it away. For me, people hear my cadence and certain words I say that I’ve just picked up from my parents and their quite British lifestyle. I listened to BBC almost exclusively growing up and was very exposed to the posh accent. My Irish grandmother also tries her best to sound posh because she’s ashamed to be Irish. That’s also added to my funky language influence. I applied to grad school in the UK. I’m actually hoping I won’t have to go, I don’t much want to live over there, but hopefully it’ll be an adventure.
Comes of becoming a colonial possession of the US, such that our PMs have neither power nor ability. Of course they don't last now, because they aren't working for the people, and the people want rid of them sooner rather than later. It's the same reason we voted out of the EU, to try to get back sovereignty. Sadly Washington controls NATO and NATO controls the European Commission, so we're ruled from abroad either way.
it was great work either way and one of those super fun type of cross cultural reverse inverse reciprocal sort of things. which sometimes can go very bad. But when they go very good like this, it’s just so very good!
It's only in certain word usage, more or less. And as though he's practicing enunciation. Which never hurts. Americans can always brush up on enunciation regardless of our American variant.
In Britain, that works most of the time, but then you’ll have random days where 12 degrees makes you sweat profusely because it’s humid. Humidity is the secret killer in England, worse in the South than in the North in my experience.
I learned C by changing my thermostat to the C scale. I discovered I like to keep my house 21 in the winter and 23 in the summer. I love summer but 35 is sweltering.
Just noticed how Evan is cross legged and taking up less room. Lawrence is taking up more room. Is it subconscious adoption of their new countries mind sets?
ride the London underground and you'll see plenty of manspreading! tbf, I'm partial to a little femme-spreading myself, especially when I'm feeling tired (and not wearing a skirt/dress)
Language is funny that way. I'm German and I learned British English at school, but then you get americanised (-zed) through TV. When I lived in England as a student, I unlearned all the AE for BE again. Then I studied interpreting and had to drop the Greater Manchester accent because it sounds ridiculous coming from a German. These days, my English is all over the place and usually depends on what shows I'm currently watching. On a side note, the German dialect from where I grew up is now completely foreign to me because I've lived in different parts of Germany for so long.
As a Swede I feel the same way and it was even "worse" in a lot of ways. Because in elementary school, British English was the "proper" English and it had been that way for decades here. But then when I entered junior high, there was reform in English class where American English was allowed to be taught. And combined with also growing up with American movies has made my accent be a mix and match of American and British words and sometimes I'm not even consistent with words.
@@krystiankowalski7335 A lot of glottal stops, having "dinner" at noon and "tea" in the evening and pronouncing the "h" in HTML but not in Huddersfield. Still don't see any relation between "candy" and "floss" though ;)
This isn't just a colab. This is the universe succumbing to the inevitability of destiny. And heaving a heavy sigh of regret then saying; "Look. You two just have to do this. It's written." Evan and J Forman next up. Yay!
As a Scot who has lived in the US over 25 years at this point, I realised a long time ago that I was finding my accent becoming a hybrid Scottish-Mid Atlantic- so now I purposefully stress my Scots accent. But when I visit Scotland, people say I have a “twang” (to which I respond “how dare you!) 😂
Also, I still use Celsius (which Americans seem to find annoying). It took me 24 years to actually decide to get my citizenship, but I don’t feel American in the slightest (especially now). Scottish first, British second, American some way back! ;)
I was born in Yorkshire but moved to NZ when I was 17. I am now 69, have 2 grown up children and was a primary school teacher for many years. In that time people still recognise that I have a slightly different accent than most NZ people but I have completely lost my Yorkshire accent apparent from the odd word or phrase I still use. This year I went to the Uk on holiday for 2 months, including a week in York, staying with a cousin. In that time my Kiwi sister-in-law who came with me noticed that I was slipping into a more noticeable Yorkshire twang. It didn't take long. I guess Yorkshire DNA is strong.
I was born in London and moved to Australia when I was 9. I sound Australian to everyone except when I speak to my family, my cockney accent comes out instantly even 50 years later.
I’m an American in England for 4 years. I can see Britain sinking while America has hope in Trump. My English husband wants us to move to America if Britain can’t turn it around. Hopefully Farage gains some traction.
The question "what words do you refuse to use?" reminded me of something. I'm French and the English they teach in schools here is British (to a slightly ridiculous degree, they had us learn "how do you do" like it was something everybody said all the time), and about 10 years ago I got into a long distance relationship with an American girl. One day in one of her messages she wrote "learned" and I was like "oh no, never, I didn't suffer through learning irregular verbs just to end up saying learned, it's learnt!". Today my English is a big mix of UK and US words and accents (with obviously some French accent still) but even if I write in American English I'll use all the irregular verbs (or try to, I probably mess it up sometimes). Other funny story, a few years ago I lived and worked in the UK for 2 years, I was in Essex but close to London, one of my colleagues had a strong East London accent and I had to make him repeat quite often, and he had trouble with my accent so he made me repeat often too. In the middle was another colleague who understood both of us perfectly and was very amused.
I'm Scottish and my dad was a French & German teacher. We holidayed with friends he made as a student every year. He did a year in France. Their nephew came to Scotland to stay with us and when he returned in class he said *it's threatening to rain*. His English teacher told him this was not an English phrase and he told her head just been in Scotland and they use it a lot. It was true. He asked us when he arrived about pronouncing th sound. He said some teachers say v sound, some day z, which is it. We said neither. My dad was pranked by a French pupil to say the word coux for neck cause he was pronouncing every u sound with cu cu. She had wanted him to say *take that scarf off your arse*. He just thought she was weird wearing a woollen scarf in the heat. Her mother told him about her plan so he learned quickly to pronounce them properly.
As a Brit, i love the idea that there are classrooms of French children talking like the poshest Victorian children ever "Now children hold up your pinky fingers whilst holding your tea cup and say "how do you do?"
Dual Brit Canadian here. Currently in the UK. Lived in Vancouver Canada for almost 30 years and yet I've totally kept my British accent. Incidentally there's a subtle difference between Canadian and American accents. Particularly with a sentence like "Out and about in the house". 🇨🇦🇺🇲🇬🇧 Just came across your channel today and after looking at the very interesting lineup of videos, I'm now subscribed. Hello fellow North American neighbour (neighbor). Incidentally I've crossed the Canada US border around 400 times and very familiar with the US.
About pronunciation a dead giveaway. Remember when I first noticed it. Wondered why that person was pronouncing it that way and eventually realized it was Canadian.
Texan here and to us there is a massive difference in Canadian and American accents but just as with England it is sort of a geographical spectrum, like, I knew a lady from Iowa, and some of the words she said almost sounded North Dakotan, or Minnesotan, which is almost Canadian. But she also had bits of Missouri in her accent. A crisp American midwest accent. But yah it gradually changes from region to region and if one has a “musical” ear, one can catch the sometimes very subtle nuances. Believe you me, Canadian accent difference are NOT subtle in Texas😂 or any of the American South. haha. But if you are a Canadian going between Manitoba and Minnesota very often… the difference would not be as much as from Manitoba to Texas, for example. A sliding geographical spectrum it seems.
I’m an American in England for 4 years. I can see Britain sinking while America has hope in Trump. My English husband wants us to move to America if Britain can’t turn it around. Hopefully Farage gains some traction.
And in pronunciation of “schedule” and American talk of being in THE hospital, and Canadians will be in hospital. I lived across the strait from Vancouver and listened to Canadian radio.
As a Canadian Evan still sounds "American" to me, because he sounds Canadian and we have, generally, a more similar accent compared to the US than we do with the UK. And Lawrence sounds British. All imo.
I’m from Rochester, NY (on Lake Ontario, adjacent to Buffalo/Niagara Falls) and I get asked if I’m Canadian in England ALL THE TIME. But when I was still in America and worked in a call center and would call people in the Deep South, they’d also ask me if I was Canadian. Nobody in Western/Central NY thinks we sound Canadian 😂
10:05; Texan here, for fun, many years ago, I switched my vehicle “temperature outside” display and my phone temperature on the weather app to Celsius. Because for fun, but also because I just wanted to become familiar with Celsius in the same way that I am familiar with fahrenheit. Still not there but I am almost there! Like if I see anything 40C or above I now intuitively know that it is stinkin’ superrrrr hot outside and I don’t even have to do the math conversion anymore😂
Scottish American here - I still can't convert between celsius and farenheit but I've learned what numbers roughly go with the temperature I feel outside in different seasons (dang humidity sometimes throws me off though 😅)
My husband is British, I am American. I've lived here in Britain for 20 years (!!?!!). Never thought this would be. Anyway. We argue now and again about words, pronunciation, spelling and just made up stuff that Brits like to claim are real things. He KNOWS what I mean but he likes to nudge me toward his version of the language we sort of share. Now, is this fair? I haven't lost my American accent or gained a generic British one though my phrasing has changed so that my American family now think I sound British. Can't win for losing.
Linda McCartney had the most dry and boring personality I’ve ever seen in my life. They’d interview her solely because she’s the wife of Paul, then she’d downplay it like he’s nothing special. The interviewers all grasp at straws because she is SO BORING in interviews, cannot stand her, never could. Hated her stupid way of speaking.
You're right, most Brits forget the Midlands exists. To many of us it's just a giant mass of roads that you get stuck on and end up cursing going from North to South or vice versa. Hi from Manchester!
There’s an argument over here does Central New Jersey exist. North and South are pretty much well defined, but should there be a middle as well? It has gotten to the point that the state government had to “define” which parts of the state count… and even that is like “well it’s these counties definitely… and this other county… maybe?”
That's the West Midlands, which just proves the point even more, you completely forgot that the East Midlands exists. 🙈🤣😂 Even though you've probably day tripped there (Derbyshire / Peak District) a fair few times, being from Manchester. 🤣
Im from sheffield and its borderline midlands on a map,but yorkshire is one of the stereotypical northern counties. Derby,leicester are the borderline,north/midlands cities,watford the southern "border"?
@@davehoward22They’re definitely East Midlands mate, Derbys, Notts, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincs and Northampts make up the East Midlands, both on a map and administratively. We even have an ‘East Midlands’ mayor, that we have to vote for, these days! (Another waste of money.) Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, that all border the East Midlands, are classed as Southern Counties. But to be honest, I think most midlanders class themselves as Northern, and certainly relate more to the North than the South. ;)
Having friends in other cultures is nothing short of a blessing. This reminded me a lot of the conversations I have with my British friends. Thanks for the laughs.
It was fun watching you two doing this colab. As someone who moved from England to Germany over 50 years ago I didn't really have a problem with using a different pronouncing of words, my problem was learning a complete new language. The only German I knew when moving here was how to say Please, Thank you and count to 10. After 50+ years I now have to sometmes use Google Translate to write in English. Sometimes for spelling and sometimes to find the right words.
I have an American accent from growing up in PA, but in Germany when I speak English it interestingly shifts to a light German accent. Not sure why, but it's fascinating
I think it’s a bias that starts from a young age. My mom was raised in Iowa to her very midwestern parents with Midwest accents. And not the “central Midwest accent,” that sounds sort of made-for-TV, I’m talking like vaguely Dakotan/Michigan sounding Midwest speak. She moved to California with my dad and they’ve been living here for 30 years, and you would not be able to tell that she wasn’t from here just by her voice. But every time we go to Iowa, or her parents come and visit us, her accent suddenly shifts to Midwest like it’s her default. What I’ve learned is that accents aren’t just locally focused, but an important part of ingroup behavioral characteristics.
@@theavocadoguitarist.1823 We British do ( comedy ) German accents so well because our natural pronunciationin most dialects is far shorter and more clipped, more like German. Americans tend to drawl which just doesn't work easily.
I really loved the candor in this video. Evan does a decent job of being candid, but I think Lawrence helped him take it to the next level. This aspect would make the biggest difference in this channel IMO.
@@ethelmini 'burglarized' is just wrong on so many levels; it sounds like a home improvement: "we had workmen in to burglarize the house in time for Xmas"
I think if you’ve grown up in the UK, you are used to accent switching anyway? I was born and raised in a poor part of London, but when I was about 10 my mom remarried a rich, very posh Surrey guy. I pretty quickly learned how to move between the two 'societies' pretty seamlessly - or more often, how to irritate the Surrey crowd. For some years I moved between different parts of London and Surrey, always able to go 'undetected' if wanted. I’ve now lived in Canada for decades and have no idea what I sound like. But when I first arrived, people frequently asked me to repeat myself or where I was from. I very rarely get asked where I am 'from' anymore. I think most people recognize that I have a bit of an accent, but once you reach a certain fluidity in cadence and lexicon, as Lawrence and Evan - and many others have, you are recognized as a transplant rather that a foreigner or tourist. I suspect for an American moving to the UK 'cracking the code' may be a little more complicated, since the UK has many conventions that are more complicated. I heard an American who lives in the UK talking about hidden signals like putting your knife and fork together to announce that you are finished eating. I also think the UK has a lot of class and regional differences that need to be learned before you can 'pass' anywhere.
Ah yes the knife & fork thing threw me for a while in France - I kept putting them together and waiters kept asking if I was finished! Turns out there they tend to be at say 4 & 8 o'clock resting on the side of the plate, who knew?!
Totally agree, even in the same area of London hanging out with different groups of people my accent and vocab will change without me realising, and to top it off a lot of Londoners have an immigrant background so add a 3rd code switch if your grandparents speak English with a heavy foreign accent!
I'm from the south of Costa Rica and have been in the Metropolitan area for 11 years and boy my accent has changed, just moving 300 km away from home changes you
I'm an American that has been living in London for over 6 years now and every part of this is relatable, especially the Dude > Mate swap. My son was 4 when we moved here and now just turning 11 he has a super interesting mix of the two, I'm curious to see how it's going to evolve the longer we are here.
@@tarrynleaI find myself extending words unnecessarily like that when I'm with family/close friends like I might say something has been ratificisated for example instead of ratified.
How about "at the weekend". An American told me that nobody says that! I've never spoken it any other way. It's not "on the weekend" where I live. Also, "waiting on" irritates me especially when fellow British people say it. Grrr.
I too have had an accent change, I used to have a deep southern accent until I was about 10. Then we moved to MD, and at some point, I lost it and I've had a notherner, or "regular" american accent ever since. Didn't even know I had it or even lost it until I heard a tape of my voice several years later, and thought "I used to talk like that?" It must have been all the torment I received about it and subconsciously lost it.
You can lose your accent only in your cases guys, where English is your first language. I've lived in the States and now in Britain, doesn't matter which accent I speak people still recognised I'm from Europe......somewhere😅
Black Friday has lost a lot of importance, especially this year, as ALL of November is apparently “Black Friday”. It kind of makes me want to wait to shop until December because better deals are probably waiting.
With living in different places in the States I have been told that I sound like I'm from Texas. I grew up in Midwest and New England area until I graduated from highschool, equally. My daughter sounds like she's lived in Alabama (southern drawl) "purtty" ; son sounds like he's from New York City due to the speed of his speech. Have to tell him to slow down to understand him. Really enjoyed hearing this conversation with these guys.
You sitting in Grant Park is blowing my mind directly behind that bench is where I used to sit and watch people flying through on their bicycle😂 first I said oh that's Grant Park and then I said oh my God he's actually right next to the spot I used to sit!!!
What I noticed, as an American, was when Lawrence said “as if it were”. This is grammatically correct, but most Americans have lost the subjunctive, and would say “as if it was”. Also, when I visited Britain, I fell in love with sausage rolls, which you can’t get over here in the U.S. I learned from a British lady on TH-cam how to make them at home, and my son and I make a dozen every couple of months. I also enjoy Cornish pasties, which were available fairly easily in Britain, but no one sells them (that I know of) around here.
It was so cool to see you interview each other. I watched both videos and enjoyed them both. Freedom of speech is kind of a big deal. I'm glad you mentioned it.
Interesting. When I visited London a few years ago I noticed I started picking up accents bizarrely enough after being there for a week... when I needed directions and my phone battery died I popped into a mobile shop asked the shop keeper: "Sorry, where's number 29 Euston Road?" with an unexpected slight British accent. BTW, as a Chicagoan planning a move to Europe I instantly recognized that exact location, that's the bench I sometimes sit on when relaxing in Lincoln Park.
This is fun. :) I visited London clear back in 1978 with a school friend. We were both California natives. We were riding the tube and chatted with a group of college students from somewhere in the deep south. An English woman listened to us for a while, then said she loved listening to our accent. Singular. We said, which one, and she claimed to not hear any difference!
9:40 Oh, the frozen nasal hairs. I remember that from my years in Alaska. IIRC that happens when it gets down to mid-teens. You haven’t experienced real cold, though, until your car tires start to develop flat spots because the rubber doesn’t move.
Not relevant internationally, but I was born in Western NY , married a southern boy and ended up having a southern drawl. Friends and family noticed after I had moved to the south. When I moved back to NY I still had a southern drawl . The pediatricians office was "tickled" by my drawl and loved the way I said "insurance" - definitely a difference. 26 years later "insurance" y'all and many other words are still a part of my vocabulary. Love you guys! Uh, love y'all! Lol 😆
I’m so stoked that Lawrence feels pride to be a US citizen and does enjoy it so much. I remember his first videos where he was new to America and still fighting to acclimate and now he’s a full fledged American 🇺🇸 💪
I am Welsh but have lived in Slovakia since 2011 and the more my Slovak is improving the more my English is changing. My Welsh accent is definitely getting less strong and I definitely have the accent of a Slovak who is a fluent speaker of English on occasion. Food is a fascinating one -8 hated brhndza and most Slovak foods but the last couple of years or so I’ve grown to love them. I tbh k since the pandemic they’ve become my comfort food of my adopted home. I am totally with you on wanting a Greggs here!
Very normal. My mum moved to Portugal in the 90's from DRC when she was 19 and now she even forgetting French a little bit and she's fully fluent in Portuguese. I moved to UK from Portugal when I was 19 (10 years ago) and my English accent is a mixer of Portuguese/Manchester/Lancashire ahahaha. People get very confuse and can't figure it out where I'm from. I also say phrases and words such as "Do you want a brew?", "I'm knackered", "Fucking bellend", etc ahaha. In terms of food, I am surprised that I like beans on toast and pies (specially in winter time). I miss Portugal weather a LOT but I like the snow (in Lancashire) and Autumn in UK is LOVELY!!!
I've been watching Evan for 8 or 9 years (Whoa time flies sheesh) and thing I've noticed the most is how his diction has gotten sharper. The way Americans and Brits slur words are different from each other, obviously, but the people he's lived around have influenced him to shift a lot of words he used to kinda slur. Instead he's gotten more accustomed to keeping enunciation sharp to cut off words and make them quick and snappy. I noticed it with JaimeJo (BananaJamana; she's an incredible American painter and content creator who immigrated across the pond) too over the years. "Literally" is a good easy example for what I mean
I’m from Cardiff which has its own specific accent. I’ve lived in England for fifty-four years and can no longer speak with a Cardiff accent which I find sad. It’s a really difficult one to do if you’re not a native.
In the UK you are free to say whatever you want, but not free from consequences. If you say something that directly affects someone else or may cause an incident, you can be sued and/or arrested. Things have become more restricted recently, but I feel in the US you can get sued for anything, including what you say. So what's the difference?
The contrast is bloody well interesting! I have somewhat related anecdote on the whole being in a diff country and having lots of people question you about a certain political event. I live in the UK but often travelled to the USA as part of my role as a Community Manager online. I was working at VidCon LA the night of the Brexit vote and results. I was questioned by at least a hundred people in that 24 hour period about what I think about it, who I voted etc EVEN THOUGH I know full well the majority of people asking me didn't really understand it. As the final tallies came through I was sat in an iHop (post days work) at 3AM with an American friend, and a creator from Israel and we were discussing how disillusioned we all were with our respective political climates. Being in that scenario has always stuck with me for several reasons (one being all the Americans questioning me, another being sat in ANY sort of eating place at 3AM which is NOT common in the UK and another just being able to spend time with these friends from different places.) Wait how was that relevant again? Oh well I've typed it now.
Can I say this was fascinating and really interesting to see both perspective I could watch a video of Lawrence and yourself talking about living in your adoptive countries together all day!
After watching Evans oldest videos, I don't really detect an accent change. Howrver I have noticed Lawrence's accent isn't as strong as it had been years ago. And, the word bin isn't not used. It just isn't used as much as trash can. Most, here generally drop the "can" part on most situations. Like, "put this in the trash". But, if you need to bring in the thing that holds the trash (on pickup) day it's "bring in the can". Generally, we refer to "trash can" only rarely
Black Friday has certainly hit the UK. It started this year a couple of weeks ago for certain retailers. It's not only the Friday, whichever one it is, anymore.
As a southerner, I can confirm that there are indeed time an American wants to hide their accent. I moved to Wisconsin at one point and it got sooooo annoyed at people constantly asking me to say different words so they could hear difference. Even though they kept saying loved listening to me, it got old real quick. So I tried to pick up their accent more. I've had people in California turn around in line asking where I'm from in the south, ive had people from my own state turning around in line asking where I'm from because the eastern part is VERY different than the western part and I quote these individuals "they forget we exist". The kicker of it all is i had a teacher in highschool ask where I was from and didn't believe me when I told him I was from there. I then said my dad was from Philadelphia and he said " there it is ". I honestly have no idea what accent i give off because of these instances.
When I was a kid, my family moved from Cajun Country Louisiana to Central Ohio and I definitely wanted to lose my accent real quick because the other kids made fun of me so much. Now I have a non-regional accent, so I don't find like my southern family or sound like I grew up in the Midwest with sound, but occasionally the "y'alls" and "opes" mix together, and that confuses people lol
On freedom of speech, I agree with people who say we have freedom of speech, not freedom from consequence. In the same sense that ignorance of the law is not an exemption. We can say what we like freely as we like in both countries but there’s a chance people will take umbridge which is not a stain on your freedom.
That's socially, though. That's the problem with this idea--the US First Amendment definitely does not protect you from social ramifications. It does, however, protect you from those consequences being imposed by the *government*. The UK government is able to impose these sorts of restrictions with a more relaxed standard than in the US. So the UK has hate speech laws related to a number of groups, for example, and those are categorically unconstitutional in the US. They aren't aggressively enforced, but it's just not true that you can "say what you like freely". Of course, I'm not entirely sure that it being legal to have Nazi rallies in the US is actually better, but it is different.
@@Nassifeh I am referencing the law as well as socially when referring to consequences but I agree in a way. Issues like these are not as black and white as Twitter wants you to think lol
@@GHar94 Okay, then, to be clear, UK can pass laws where they can fine or jail you for saying stuff with a considerably lower legal standard than in the US. This isn't information I got from Twitter or something, and I'm not sure why you think it would be? But if it helps, I have a US law degree! The two countries just have entirely different legal approaches here. It's not just hate speech--UK defamation law is also wildly different in a way that would be unconstitutional in the US. I don't know on what basis you think they're legally similar, to be honest. As I said, there's benefits and drawbacks to both of these approaches, but they aren't similar.
To me, an Australian, I think you sound like neither has left their accents behind. Lawrence, you do sound very British. The other guy is very American.
As a Brit, they definitely haven’t lost their accents, but there are key tells sometimes. Not sure I could tell you exactly what they are, but I know they sound off when I hear them
I love this! When I went to England, I had to say "water" with an English accent, so the waitress could understand me and she was Italian! My cousin lives in England and when she comes to visit me in the US, I have to be her "Interpreter", so people in stores and different places understand her, lol. She can understand them. She actually can do the Yank accent too.
I just moved to the UK from America and finding food that I actually like has been the biggest problem so far. I never thought I was a picky eater, but the food here is so incredibly bland, it’s almost impressive. (One discovery I’ve made through is that you guys do tomato-based dishes VERY well, and at least from my limited experience from the past 3 months living here, I’ve never gone wrong ordering something with tomato as the primary ingredient, and I don’t even like tomato all that much.)
Really! Haven’t heard that before. It is just what you are used to, my cousin is now moving from USA back to England and have a long list of foods that she missed. You can literally get anything in the UK, you are not looking in the right places.
@nekoti.8~2 probably, if you look in the right places. I just don’t understand people that go to a different country and complain that it’s different ? Wouldn’t it be boring if everywhere was the same? Wouldn’t it be a waste of time travelling is there was no different food? I love going to different countries and eating different things, in fact, I refuse 9to eat what I can get at home when I’m abroad. I can get my fix when I get home.
Hi, expat Brit been living here in Ottawa Canada for 25 years nearly now. For me, my accent has shifted a bit, but more, I use north american slang and word choices nowadays. Chavs came and went since I moved, many other UK slang terms have done similarly. Every trip back is a refresher on all the language changes that have happened over in the UK. It's always a fascinating experience. Edit: on my identity. I am definitely still British, but I am also definitely Canadian. Just like you both say, I'm both.
I will never understand people who like twiglets. They taste like if you scraped up the bottom of a dirty oven and decided that's a tasty snack. But weirdly when Laurence said he likes them I thought "yeah, makes sense"
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Greggs sausage rolls are awful.
@@thetruthhurts7675 you have now been banned from r/casualuk
Wow, my 2 fav male "we now live here" tubers in the same vid !! Collabtastic :¬)
Is the correct answer
You said "shops" instead of "stores" without even noticing.
To me, Evan still sounds American and Laurence still sounds British.
I agree
I think they’re both shifted about 5% to the other accent and think it’s much more.
My British ear can pick up britishisms from the American, but I can’t pick up any Americanisms from the Brit. Maybe Americans can.
@@Scoobay My British ear - RP - concurs, but it's only very slight. In order to make a proper comparison, it would be better to hear their original accents.
Except when Evan uses the word "nice". As in, "oh, that's very nice". He did that a couple times in Lawrence's video when talking about food.
As a dual American/Brit who was born in Britain and live here now but grew up in the US, my accent is definitly all over the place. I was born in Yorkshire, went to the States as a 4 year old and came back here at 12 (then bounced back and forth a bit). When I visit the US, my American accent becomes much stronger but Americans still only hear the British parts of it. Over here in London, they hear the American parts. When asked where I was born, I say Yorkshire because its true, but I always end up having to say 'but I grew up in the US'.
I love the beat…. Beat… “but I grew up in the US”
As a Brit who was born and has lived in London all my life, my accent is STILL messed-up, because I've picked up on some of my dad's accent which mimics HIS late dad's Sunderland accent. So I'm 2 generations removed, and still sound part-London, part-Sunderland. xD
@@gswcooper7162 and probably even an old-timey Sunderlander. I'm Belgian, Flemish to be more precise, in the 19th and early 20th century, quite a few Flemish farmers 'emigrated' to Wallonia, the francophone southern part of Belgium, but they largely kept their accents when speaking Flemish. Once a year during pelgrimage season, lots of them come to Halle, and you can hear Flemish accents that have disappeared in their native region, and where locals of that region might find it hard to understand it...
You called your significant other your girlfriend first then "partner" the next time. "Partner" is very British/European.
I’m the opposite. British parents who raised me in California as a very proud first gen American (with dual citizenship). My parents have mostly lost their accent, but the odd funny word gives it away. For me, people hear my cadence and certain words I say that I’ve just picked up from my parents and their quite British lifestyle. I listened to BBC almost exclusively growing up and was very exposed to the posh accent. My Irish grandmother also tries her best to sound posh because she’s ashamed to be Irish. That’s also added to my funky language influence. I applied to grad school in the UK. I’m actually hoping I won’t have to go, I don’t much want to live over there, but hopefully it’ll be an adventure.
Cant believe you two started this experiment a decade ago
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I was able to tell you who the prime minister of the UK was, and then they had like 35 prime ministers in a one year period, and I gave up.
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Comes of becoming a colonial possession of the US, such that our PMs have neither power nor ability. Of course they don't last now, because they aren't working for the people, and the people want rid of them sooner rather than later. It's the same reason we voted out of the EU, to try to get back sovereignty. Sadly Washington controls NATO and NATO controls the European Commission, so we're ruled from abroad either way.
its easy, we had hagraven then bojo then cabbage then richi and now we have sir kid starver
@@qhu3878 lmao this is hilarious 😂
@@Somnia07 none of those nicknames were made up by me, we have to find a way to entertain ourselves somehow on this godsforsaken island
One of the better british vs american videos, the setup looked like there was a team behind it.
Haha thank you! We just got on super well and came prepared :)
it was great work either way and one of those super fun type of cross cultural reverse inverse reciprocal sort of things. which sometimes can go very bad. But when they go very good like this, it’s just so very good!
You can hear others behind the camera, pretty sure I heard Heather's voice
I think it's more the lingo not the accent that makes it seem more one way or the other
It's true. Evan's American accent sounded like a British guy putting on an American accent.
But at the same time, his British accent isn't very convincing lol.
@@jaclynrachellec chiswik
@@jaclynrachellec nowhere fits for him anymore
It's only in certain word usage, more or less. And as though he's practicing enunciation.
Which never hurts. Americans can always brush up on enunciation regardless of our American variant.
He also has a regional accent from the part of New Jersey he is from, when he says the "o" sound like hoagie and social.
American living in New Zealand here.
Don't try to convert C to F. Just do this:
0: freezing
10: cold
20: nice
30: hot
40+: very hot
In Britain, that works most of the time, but then you’ll have random days where 12 degrees makes you sweat profusely because it’s humid. Humidity is the secret killer in England, worse in the South than in the North in my experience.
I learned C by changing my thermostat to the C scale. I discovered I like to keep my house 21 in the winter and 23 in the summer. I love summer but 35 is sweltering.
@@aaron74 I start sweating around 26.
Or -
30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cool
0 is ice
Uh yeah I'm just gonna stick with Fahrenheit
Just noticed how Evan is cross legged and taking up less room. Lawrence is taking up more room. Is it subconscious adoption of their new countries mind sets?
I've always crossed my legs cause they LONG
Yeah, if we all spread out like Laurence over here, we wouldn’t fit
I think the baseball cap is the giveaway (even though I already know which is which, obviously).
@@evan You just made me realize that most people around me who cross their legs are tall
ride the London underground and you'll see plenty of manspreading! tbf, I'm partial to a little femme-spreading myself, especially when I'm feeling tired (and not wearing a skirt/dress)
Language is funny that way. I'm German and I learned British English at school, but then you get americanised (-zed) through TV. When I lived in England as a student, I unlearned all the AE for BE again. Then I studied interpreting and had to drop the Greater Manchester accent because it sounds ridiculous coming from a German. These days, my English is all over the place and usually depends on what shows I'm currently watching.
On a side note, the German dialect from where I grew up is now completely foreign to me because I've lived in different parts of Germany for so long.
That’s a real shame, I’m sure it doesn’t sound ridiculous! Now I’m curious as to what a German-Greater Manchester accent sounds like
As a Swede I feel the same way and it was even "worse" in a lot of ways. Because in elementary school, British English was the "proper" English and it had been that way for decades here. But then when I entered junior high, there was reform in English class where American English was allowed to be taught. And combined with also growing up with American movies has made my accent be a mix and match of American and British words and sometimes I'm not even consistent with words.
@@krystiankowalski7335 A lot of glottal stops, having "dinner" at noon and "tea" in the evening and pronouncing the "h" in HTML but not in Huddersfield. Still don't see any relation between "candy" and "floss" though ;)
I mean, I'm from England, but even my accent is all over the place. Grew up in South, spent the last few years in the North.
@@EvieOConnorxoxo Good point, English accents are ... many
This isn't just a colab. This is the universe succumbing to the inevitability of destiny. And heaving a heavy sigh of regret then saying; "Look. You two just have to do this. It's written."
Evan and J Forman next up. Yay!
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It still stunned me when Evan was in a Tom Scott video.
Even and J Forman have done a video together?
@ruebrownies ya, I thought so... Looks like at least 2 of them 5 years ago
it is written!
As a Scot who has lived in the US over 25 years at this point, I realised a long time ago that I was finding my accent becoming a hybrid Scottish-Mid Atlantic- so now I purposefully stress my Scots accent. But when I visit Scotland, people say I have a “twang” (to which I respond “how dare you!) 😂
Also, I still use Celsius (which Americans seem to find annoying). It took me 24 years to actually decide to get my citizenship, but I don’t feel American in the slightest (especially now). Scottish first, British second, American some way back! ;)
In your 26 years. I noticed you still use the letter S in realized instead of the letter Z. 🤷♂️
@ indeed. I won’t bastardise my spelling, either! 😜
@@stephanie-bwi Do you still pronounce 'Z' the correct way as 'zed', or the incorrect American way as 'cee'?
@@perryelyod4870 “zed”.
I was born in Yorkshire but moved to NZ when I was 17. I am now 69, have 2 grown up children and was a primary school teacher for many years. In that time people still recognise that I have a slightly different accent than most NZ people but I have completely lost my Yorkshire accent apparent from the odd word or phrase I still use. This year I went to the Uk on holiday for 2 months, including a week in York, staying with a cousin. In that time my Kiwi sister-in-law who came with me noticed that I was slipping into a more noticeable Yorkshire twang. It didn't take long. I guess Yorkshire DNA is strong.
That happens to a lot of people when they go back to where they grew up. The original programming is still there.
I was born in London and moved to Australia when I was 9. I sound Australian to everyone except when I speak to my family, my cockney accent comes out instantly even 50 years later.
I’m an American in England for 4 years. I can see Britain sinking while America has hope in Trump. My English husband wants us to move to America if Britain can’t turn it around. Hopefully Farage gains some traction.
Omg what a collab I never expected but extremely excited about!!!!
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The question "what words do you refuse to use?" reminded me of something. I'm French and the English they teach in schools here is British (to a slightly ridiculous degree, they had us learn "how do you do" like it was something everybody said all the time), and about 10 years ago I got into a long distance relationship with an American girl. One day in one of her messages she wrote "learned" and I was like "oh no, never, I didn't suffer through learning irregular verbs just to end up saying learned, it's learnt!". Today my English is a big mix of UK and US words and accents (with obviously some French accent still) but even if I write in American English I'll use all the irregular verbs (or try to, I probably mess it up sometimes).
Other funny story, a few years ago I lived and worked in the UK for 2 years, I was in Essex but close to London, one of my colleagues had a strong East London accent and I had to make him repeat quite often, and he had trouble with my accent so he made me repeat often too. In the middle was another colleague who understood both of us perfectly and was very amused.
I'm Scottish and my dad was a French & German teacher. We holidayed with friends he made as a student every year. He did a year in France. Their nephew came to Scotland to stay with us and when he returned in class he said *it's threatening to rain*. His English teacher told him this was not an English phrase and he told her head just been in Scotland and they use it a lot. It was true. He asked us when he arrived about pronouncing th sound. He said some teachers say v sound, some day z, which is it. We said neither. My dad was pranked by a French pupil to say the word coux for neck cause he was pronouncing every u sound with cu cu. She had wanted him to say *take that scarf off your arse*. He just thought she was weird wearing a woollen scarf in the heat. Her mother told him about her plan so he learned quickly to pronounce them properly.
As a Brit, i love the idea that there are classrooms of French children talking like the poshest Victorian children ever "Now children hold up your pinky fingers whilst holding your tea cup and say "how do you do?"
@chloer2207 your English sounds perfect now, very natural
@@DavidCruickshankMoreover in written English is the equivalent of How do you do, for some reason all EFL learners seem to use it!
Ooo you use "hanged" "hung"correctly, don't you? I can feel it
Loved this conversation! So interesting. It was a great idea. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dual Brit Canadian here. Currently in the UK. Lived in Vancouver Canada for almost 30 years and yet I've totally kept my British accent. Incidentally there's a subtle difference between Canadian and American accents. Particularly with a sentence like "Out and about in the house". 🇨🇦🇺🇲🇬🇧
Just came across your channel today and after looking at the very interesting lineup of videos, I'm now subscribed. Hello fellow North American neighbour (neighbor). Incidentally I've crossed the Canada US border around 400 times and very familiar with the US.
About pronunciation a dead giveaway. Remember when I first noticed it. Wondered why that person was pronouncing it that way and eventually realized it was Canadian.
@bamccabe1 Although it doesn't come up often but "bath" is another one. My mother was Canadian-American and her accent came out primarily on "bath".
Texan here and to us there is a massive difference in Canadian and American accents but just as with England it is sort of a geographical spectrum, like, I knew a lady from Iowa, and some of the words she said almost sounded North Dakotan, or Minnesotan, which is almost Canadian. But she also had bits of Missouri in her accent. A crisp American midwest accent. But yah it gradually changes from region to region and if one has a “musical” ear, one can catch the sometimes very subtle nuances. Believe you me, Canadian accent difference are NOT subtle in Texas😂 or any of the American South. haha. But if you are a Canadian going between Manitoba and Minnesota very often… the difference would not be as much as from Manitoba to Texas, for example. A sliding geographical spectrum it seems.
I’m an American in England for 4 years. I can see Britain sinking while America has hope in Trump. My English husband wants us to move to America if Britain can’t turn it around. Hopefully Farage gains some traction.
And in pronunciation of “schedule” and American talk of being in THE hospital, and Canadians will be in hospital. I lived across the strait from Vancouver and listened to Canadian radio.
This collaboration is better than the final act of Avengers: End Game.
I wish that was a high bar.
As a Canadian Evan still sounds "American" to me, because he sounds Canadian and we have, generally, a more similar accent compared to the US than we do with the UK. And Lawrence sounds British. All imo.
Evan enunciates more and easily uses British terms. Lawrence is a getting less sharp in his enunciation, and uses US expressions habitually.
I’m from Rochester, NY (on Lake Ontario, adjacent to Buffalo/Niagara Falls) and I get asked if I’m Canadian in England ALL THE TIME. But when I was still in America and worked in a call center and would call people in the Deep South, they’d also ask me if I was Canadian. Nobody in Western/Central NY thinks we sound Canadian 😂
@@fromhgwaiiEvan sounds more Irish to my ears like north Irish tbh
@@OakwiseBecomingno Canadians think you sound Canadian either 😂 I live close to Niagara Falls, ON, and the western NY accent always makes me giggle 😂
10:05; Texan here, for fun, many years ago, I switched my vehicle “temperature outside” display and my phone temperature on the weather app to Celsius. Because for fun, but also because I just wanted to become familiar with Celsius in the same way that I am familiar with fahrenheit. Still not there but I am almost there! Like if I see anything 40C or above I now intuitively know that it is stinkin’ superrrrr hot outside and I don’t even have to do the math conversion anymore😂
Scottish American here - I still can't convert between celsius and farenheit but I've learned what numbers roughly go with the temperature I feel outside in different seasons (dang humidity sometimes throws me off though 😅)
@@kevinreid272030-40 hot
20-30 breezy
10-20 breezier
10 and below cold
At least thats what i feel
Evan’s intensity is overwhelming- definitely an American. Lawrence is calm, northern English, never change.
All about perspective: I find Evan's energy to be fun rather than overwhelming, and I like Lawrence's videos but sometimes I find him dry.
Right, because all 330 million Americans are the same 🙄
My husband is British, I am American. I've lived here in Britain for 20 years (!!?!!). Never thought this would be. Anyway. We argue now and again about words, pronunciation, spelling and just made up stuff that Brits like to claim are real things. He KNOWS what I mean but he likes to nudge me toward his version of the language we sort of share. Now, is this fair? I haven't lost my American accent or gained a generic British one though my phrasing has changed so that my American family now think I sound British. Can't win for losing.
Great collab 😊 so funny - Evan sits like a brit and Laurence like an American
He commented he has always sat like that, even living in the US. He is "tall and has long legs" was his reason
What kind of comment this it’s so ignorant it’s not only a Brit thing it’s what you most comfortable with mostly for females or people who are tall
Linda McCartney had a hybrid American-British accent. A very noticeable one too.
Paul mccartneys not as broad liverpool as he was...Gillian anderson has a very mid atlantic accent.
Linda McCartney had the most dry and boring personality I’ve ever seen in my life. They’d interview her solely because she’s the wife of Paul, then she’d downplay it like he’s nothing special. The interviewers all grasp at straws because she is SO BORING in interviews, cannot stand her, never could. Hated her stupid way of speaking.
And millie Bobby brown the girl in stranger things, a really strange hybrid between British and American
Omg finally a collab - I’ve been wanting this for years
You're right, most Brits forget the Midlands exists. To many of us it's just a giant mass of roads that you get stuck on and end up cursing going from North to South or vice versa. Hi from Manchester!
There’s an argument over here does Central New Jersey exist. North and South are pretty much well defined, but should there be a middle as well? It has gotten to the point that the state government had to “define” which parts of the state count… and even that is like “well it’s these counties definitely… and this other county… maybe?”
That's the West Midlands, which just proves the point even more, you completely forgot that the East Midlands exists. 🙈🤣😂
Even though you've probably day tripped there (Derbyshire / Peak District) a fair few times, being from Manchester. 🤣
She's from Oxford, isn't she? Surely that counts... Midlands covers a lot more than just Brum.
Im from sheffield and its borderline midlands on a map,but yorkshire is one of the stereotypical northern counties. Derby,leicester are the borderline,north/midlands cities,watford the southern "border"?
@@davehoward22They’re definitely East Midlands mate, Derbys, Notts, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincs and Northampts make up the East Midlands, both on a map and administratively. We even have an ‘East Midlands’ mayor, that we have to vote for, these days! (Another waste of money.)
Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, that all border the East Midlands, are classed as Southern Counties.
But to be honest, I think most midlanders class themselves as Northern, and certainly relate more to the North than the South. ;)
Having friends in other cultures is nothing short of a blessing. This reminded me a lot of the conversations I have with my British friends. Thanks for the laughs.
"I'm about to vote for the first time"
Ooh, so this is from the before time? From the long, long ago? :D
Before Hallowe'en, if it was filmed at the same time as the Lost in the Pond video.
Wait till you see my next video where I wear my lil I voted sticker haha
It was fun watching you two doing this colab. As someone who moved from England to Germany over 50 years ago I didn't really have a problem with using a different pronouncing of words, my problem was learning a complete new language. The only German I knew when moving here was how to say Please, Thank you and count to 10. After 50+ years I now have to sometmes use Google Translate to write in English. Sometimes for spelling and sometimes to find the right words.
I have an American accent from growing up in PA, but in Germany when I speak English it interestingly shifts to a light German accent. Not sure why, but it's fascinating
I think it’s a bias that starts from a young age. My mom was raised in Iowa to her very midwestern parents with Midwest accents. And not the “central Midwest accent,” that sounds sort of made-for-TV, I’m talking like vaguely Dakotan/Michigan sounding Midwest speak. She moved to California with my dad and they’ve been living here for 30 years, and you would not be able to tell that she wasn’t from here just by her voice.
But every time we go to Iowa, or her parents come and visit us, her accent suddenly shifts to Midwest like it’s her default. What I’ve learned is that accents aren’t just locally focused, but an important part of ingroup behavioral characteristics.
@@theavocadoguitarist.1823 We British do ( comedy ) German accents so well because our natural pronunciationin most dialects is far shorter and more clipped, more like German. Americans tend to drawl which just doesn't work easily.
I really loved the candor in this video. Evan does a decent job of being candid, but I think Lawrence helped him take it to the next level. This aspect would make the biggest difference in this channel IMO.
been obsessed with your videos lately Evan, keep it up
Thanks! Will do!
As a Brit I agree with the dislike of the term "addicting".
obligated is worse
@@ethelmini 'burglarized' is just wrong on so many levels; it sounds like a home improvement: "we had workmen in to burglarize the house in time for Xmas"
@@Bakers_Doesnt Yes. This is the worst one. That and "anyways" it's either anyway or many ways.
@@ethelmini I don't mind thst one. I might even be guilty of using it occasionally. In fact I'm certain I have used it
But you use some words like hangover. Thank the Americans for that. 😊
Watched the Lost in the Pond video earlier (it was great btw)
So good!
I think if you’ve grown up in the UK, you are used to accent switching anyway? I was born and raised in a poor part of London, but when I was about 10 my mom remarried a rich, very posh Surrey guy. I pretty quickly learned how to move between the two 'societies' pretty seamlessly - or more often, how to irritate the Surrey crowd. For some years I moved between different parts of London and Surrey, always able to go 'undetected' if wanted.
I’ve now lived in Canada for decades and have no idea what I sound like. But when I first arrived, people frequently asked me to repeat myself or where I was from. I very rarely get asked where I am 'from' anymore. I think most people recognize that I have a bit of an accent, but once you reach a certain fluidity in cadence and lexicon, as Lawrence and Evan - and many others have, you are recognized as a transplant rather that a foreigner or tourist. I suspect for an American moving to the UK 'cracking the code' may be a little more complicated, since the UK has many conventions that are more complicated.
I heard an American who lives in the UK talking about hidden signals like putting your knife and fork together to announce that you are finished eating. I also think the UK has a lot of class and regional differences that need to be learned before you can 'pass' anywhere.
Ah yes the knife & fork thing threw me for a while in France - I kept putting them together and waiters kept asking if I was finished! Turns out there they tend to be at say 4 & 8 o'clock resting on the side of the plate, who knew?!
Totally agree, even in the same area of London hanging out with different groups of people my accent and vocab will change without me realising, and to top it off a lot of Londoners have an immigrant background so add a 3rd code switch if your grandparents speak English with a heavy foreign accent!
It's been a long time coming. So excited to see you two collab after watching both of you for years!
I Wholeheartedly agree with you on this, they Sound Alike!😊😮
I’m American and I hate when people say “On Accident” instead of “By Accident“!!!
I think "on accident" was started by the kids on Barney the Dinosaur show. Younger people use it more than older people do.
i usually just say accidentally
I use both lol
Oh yeah that is strange
And then there's Girl Gone London who also moved from America to London. You should meet up with her. I only discovered her a few weeks ago.
I was so hoping this collab would happen one day! Thank you both!
I'm from the south of Costa Rica and have been in the Metropolitan area for 11 years and boy my accent has changed, just moving 300 km away from home changes you
I'm an American that has been living in London for over 6 years now and every part of this is relatable, especially the Dude > Mate swap.
My son was 4 when we moved here and now just turning 11 he has a super interesting mix of the two, I'm curious to see how it's going to evolve the longer we are here.
I can’t stand ‘ I could care less’. That’s most definitely, I couldn’t care less.
That's not an American thing, it's just a lack of education thing. Not everyone in America says it incorrectly
@ i’ve only heard North Americans say it. Never heard anyone else say it, and I’m 70.
‘On accident’ triggers me too Evan, me too!
same! but to me it's not as bad as 'burglarized'
@@tarrynleaI find myself extending words unnecessarily like that when I'm with family/close friends like I might say something has been ratificisated for example instead of ratified.
Yes, especially when people say it by purpose.
Yeah, when people say "on Christmas" also. It's either "at Christmas" or "on Christmas Day" if you're a brit
How about "at the weekend". An American told me that nobody says that! I've never spoken it any other way. It's not "on the weekend" where I live. Also, "waiting on" irritates me especially when fellow British people say it. Grrr.
I too have had an accent change, I used to have a deep southern accent until I was about 10. Then we moved to MD, and at some point, I lost it and I've had a notherner, or "regular" american accent ever since. Didn't even know I had it or even lost it until I heard a tape of my voice several years later, and thought "I used to talk like that?" It must have been all the torment I received about it and subconsciously lost it.
Two of my very favorite TH-camr’s together, I love it.
You can lose your accent only in your cases guys, where English is your first language. I've lived in the States and now in Britain, doesn't matter which accent I speak people still recognised I'm from Europe......somewhere😅
The dynamic between you two is delightful. What a joy! Great editing as well. Bravo!
Black Friday has lost a lot of importance, especially this year, as ALL of November is apparently “Black Friday”. It kind of makes me want to wait to shop until December because better deals are probably waiting.
With living in different places in the States I have been told that I sound like I'm from Texas. I grew up in Midwest and New England area until I graduated from highschool, equally.
My daughter sounds like she's lived in Alabama (southern drawl) "purtty" ; son sounds like he's from New York City due to the speed of his speech. Have to tell him to slow down to understand him.
Really enjoyed hearing this conversation with these guys.
I’m so happy for this collab of y’all!!
The trees behind you look stunning. So beautiful.
Totally agree. Thanksgiving is our best holiday. For the same reason, no greed and family.
lol. Thanksgiving is the ultimate greed fest; whitewashing the ongoing genocide of and dismissal of the First Nations with a made up bs fest.
2 of my fave you tubers. I have just moved to America from the UK two months ago. You guys have both been a lot of help.
You sitting in Grant Park is blowing my mind directly behind that bench is where I used to sit and watch people flying through on their bicycle😂 first I said oh that's Grant Park and then I said oh my God he's actually right next to the spot I used to sit!!!
Absolutely delightful guys. American here, and an unapologetic Anglophile! 🇺🇸🇬🇧
What I noticed, as an American, was when Lawrence said “as if it were”. This is grammatically correct, but most Americans have lost the subjunctive, and would say “as if it was”. Also, when I visited Britain, I fell in love with sausage rolls, which you can’t get over here in the U.S. I learned from a British lady on TH-cam how to make them at home, and my son and I make a dozen every couple of months. I also enjoy Cornish pasties, which were available fairly easily in Britain, but no one sells them (that I know of) around here.
Cornish Pasties are a big regional thing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Excellent collaboration. Well done, gentlemen.
0:53 he says what w the glottal stop mentioned later. It was the only thing I picked up in his accent when he wasn’t trying to sound British 😂
It was so cool to see you interview each other. I watched both videos and enjoyed them both. Freedom of speech is kind of a big deal. I'm glad you mentioned it.
Interesting. When I visited London a few years ago I noticed I started picking up accents bizarrely enough after being there for a week... when I needed directions and my phone battery died I popped into a mobile shop asked the shop keeper: "Sorry, where's number 29 Euston Road?" with an unexpected slight British accent.
BTW, as a Chicagoan planning a move to Europe I instantly recognized that exact location, that's the bench I sometimes sit on when relaxing in Lincoln Park.
This is fun. :) I visited London clear back in 1978 with a school friend. We were both California natives. We were riding the tube and chatted with a group of college students from somewhere in the deep south. An English woman listened to us for a while, then said she loved listening to our accent. Singular. We said, which one, and she claimed to not hear any difference!
9:40 Oh, the frozen nasal hairs. I remember that from my years in Alaska. IIRC that happens when it gets down to mid-teens. You haven’t experienced real cold, though, until your car tires start to develop flat spots because the rubber doesn’t move.
Not relevant internationally, but I was born in Western NY , married a southern boy and ended up having a southern drawl.
Friends and family noticed after I had moved to the south.
When I moved back to NY I still had a southern drawl .
The pediatricians office was "tickled" by my drawl and loved the way I said "insurance" - definitely a difference.
26 years later "insurance" y'all and many other words are still a part of my vocabulary.
Love you guys! Uh, love y'all! Lol 😆
I subscribe to both of you so this was great to see. Thank you.
I’m so stoked that Lawrence feels pride to be a US citizen and does enjoy it so much. I remember his first videos where he was new to America and still fighting to acclimate and now he’s a full fledged American 🇺🇸 💪
im loving this crossover episode
I am Welsh but have lived in Slovakia since 2011 and the more my Slovak is improving the more my English is changing. My Welsh accent is definitely getting less strong and I definitely have the accent of a Slovak who is a fluent speaker of English on occasion. Food is a fascinating one -8 hated brhndza and most Slovak foods but the last couple of years or so I’ve grown to love them. I tbh k since the pandemic they’ve become my comfort food of my adopted home. I am totally with you on wanting a Greggs here!
Yay! I’ve been waiting for this since I saw Evan pop up on Lawrence’s channel a few days ago ❤
This was genuinely delightful Thank you gentlemen.
I knew a Welsh person who moved to Aus, when he came back he had an Aussie accent in English but retained 100% his original accent in Welsh.
i have been watching you both for years (Proud NJ BOY here EVAN) so great to see you collab
Very normal.
My mum moved to Portugal in the 90's from DRC when she was 19 and now she even forgetting French a little bit and she's fully fluent in Portuguese.
I moved to UK from Portugal when I was 19 (10 years ago) and my English accent is a mixer of Portuguese/Manchester/Lancashire ahahaha. People get very confuse and can't figure it out where I'm from. I also say phrases and words such as "Do you want a brew?", "I'm knackered", "Fucking bellend", etc ahaha. In terms of food, I am surprised that I like beans on toast and pies (specially in winter time).
I miss Portugal weather a LOT but I like the snow (in Lancashire) and Autumn in UK is LOVELY!!!
I've been watching Evan for 8 or 9 years (Whoa time flies sheesh) and thing I've noticed the most is how his diction has gotten sharper. The way Americans and Brits slur words are different from each other, obviously, but the people he's lived around have influenced him to shift a lot of words he used to kinda slur. Instead he's gotten more accustomed to keeping enunciation sharp to cut off words and make them quick and snappy. I noticed it with JaimeJo (BananaJamana; she's an incredible American painter and content creator who immigrated across the pond) too over the years. "Literally" is a good easy example for what I mean
I’m from Cardiff which has its own specific accent. I’ve lived in England for fifty-four years and can no longer speak with a Cardiff accent which I find sad. It’s a really difficult one to do if you’re not a native.
In the UK you are free to say whatever you want, but not free from consequences. If you say something that directly affects someone else or may cause an incident, you can be sued and/or arrested. Things have become more restricted recently, but I feel in the US you can get sued for anything, including what you say. So what's the difference?
The difference is people aren’t getting arrested for social media posts in the US.
The contrast is bloody well interesting!
I have somewhat related anecdote on the whole being in a diff country and having lots of people question you about a certain political event. I live in the UK but often travelled to the USA as part of my role as a Community Manager online. I was working at VidCon LA the night of the Brexit vote and results. I was questioned by at least a hundred people in that 24 hour period about what I think about it, who I voted etc EVEN THOUGH I know full well the majority of people asking me didn't really understand it.
As the final tallies came through I was sat in an iHop (post days work) at 3AM with an American friend, and a creator from Israel and we were discussing how disillusioned we all were with our respective political climates. Being in that scenario has always stuck with me for several reasons (one being all the Americans questioning me, another being sat in ANY sort of eating place at 3AM which is NOT common in the UK and another just being able to spend time with these friends from different places.)
Wait how was that relevant again? Oh well I've typed it now.
15:33. "I give up EVENTUALLY".... : a lovely British slip. In fact, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire conversation. Thanks, guys!
This is the ultimate Collab! Well done guys! My second and third favourite YT stars in one video...
The 1st spot goes to ItsJPS. ❤❤
Can I say this was fascinating and really interesting to see both perspective I could watch a video of Lawrence and yourself talking about living in your adoptive countries together all day!
My accent changed quickly from my phases living in Mississippi, Germany, and Nebraska 😂 The way the locals speak just rubs off on me.
Wasn't expecting this! Fun to see the two of you team up :)
After watching Evans oldest videos, I don't really detect an accent change. Howrver I have noticed Lawrence's accent isn't as strong as it had been years ago.
And, the word bin isn't not used. It just isn't used as much as trash can. Most, here generally drop the "can" part on most situations. Like, "put this in the trash". But, if you need to bring in the thing that holds the trash (on pickup) day it's "bring in the can". Generally, we refer to "trash can" only rarely
You neatly hit on the distinction, the can itself versus something going into it.
Ha, exactly the same here; 'Time to take the rubbish out/empty the rubbish' 'Oh can you bring the bins in?'
Black Friday has certainly hit the UK. It started this year a couple of weeks ago for certain retailers. It's not only the Friday, whichever one it is, anymore.
After my British citizenship ceremony, my husband hugged me then asked how it felt to be a subject!!
As a southerner, I can confirm that there are indeed time an American wants to hide their accent.
I moved to Wisconsin at one point and it got sooooo annoyed at people constantly asking me to say different words so they could hear difference.
Even though they kept saying loved listening to me, it got old real quick. So I tried to pick up their accent more.
I've had people in California turn around in line asking where I'm from in the south, ive had people from my own state turning around in line asking where I'm from because the eastern part is VERY different than the western part and I quote these individuals "they forget we exist".
The kicker of it all is i had a teacher in highschool ask where I was from and didn't believe me when I told him I was from there. I then said my dad was from Philadelphia and he said " there it is ".
I honestly have no idea what accent i give off because of these instances.
When I was a kid, my family moved from Cajun Country Louisiana to Central Ohio and I definitely wanted to lose my accent real quick because the other kids made fun of me so much. Now I have a non-regional accent, so I don't find like my southern family or sound like I grew up in the Midwest with sound, but occasionally the "y'alls" and "opes" mix together, and that confuses people lol
So good to see you both! 😁 👍 💙
A really interesting discussion and a unique view of your Country swapping experiences.
On freedom of speech, I agree with people who say we have freedom of speech, not freedom from consequence. In the same sense that ignorance of the law is not an exemption. We can say what we like freely as we like in both countries but there’s a chance people will take umbridge which is not a stain on your freedom.
That's socially, though. That's the problem with this idea--the US First Amendment definitely does not protect you from social ramifications. It does, however, protect you from those consequences being imposed by the *government*. The UK government is able to impose these sorts of restrictions with a more relaxed standard than in the US. So the UK has hate speech laws related to a number of groups, for example, and those are categorically unconstitutional in the US. They aren't aggressively enforced, but it's just not true that you can "say what you like freely". Of course, I'm not entirely sure that it being legal to have Nazi rallies in the US is actually better, but it is different.
@@Nassifeh I am referencing the law as well as socially when referring to consequences but I agree in a way. Issues like these are not as black and white as Twitter wants you to think lol
@@GHar94 Okay, then, to be clear, UK can pass laws where they can fine or jail you for saying stuff with a considerably lower legal standard than in the US. This isn't information I got from Twitter or something, and I'm not sure why you think it would be? But if it helps, I have a US law degree! The two countries just have entirely different legal approaches here. It's not just hate speech--UK defamation law is also wildly different in a way that would be unconstitutional in the US.
I don't know on what basis you think they're legally similar, to be honest. As I said, there's benefits and drawbacks to both of these approaches, but they aren't similar.
@@Nassifeh im not getting into an argument or debate in YT comments, I have better things to do. Thanks for the comment tho 👍
This was such an interesting chat. I’d love to see more of this. Maybe some zoom chats in the future
To me, an Australian, I think you sound like neither has left their accents behind. Lawrence, you do sound very British. The other guy is very American.
As a Brit, they definitely haven’t lost their accents, but there are key tells sometimes. Not sure I could tell you exactly what they are, but I know they sound off when I hear them
I love this! When I went to England, I had to say "water" with an English accent, so the waitress could understand me and she was Italian! My cousin lives in England and when she comes to visit me in the US, I have to be her "Interpreter", so people in stores and different places understand her, lol. She can understand them. She actually can do the Yank accent too.
I just moved to the UK from America and finding food that I actually like has been the biggest problem so far. I never thought I was a picky eater, but the food here is so incredibly bland, it’s almost impressive.
(One discovery I’ve made through is that you guys do tomato-based dishes VERY well, and at least from my limited experience from the past 3 months living here, I’ve never gone wrong ordering something with tomato as the primary ingredient, and I don’t even like tomato all that much.)
That explains why Brits are genuinely shocked when they eat food in the U.S.
You need to try Indian food...that should be spicy enough for anyone
Really! Haven’t heard that before. It is just what you are used to, my cousin is now moving from USA back to England and have a long list of foods that she missed. You can literally get anything in the UK, you are not looking in the right places.
@@krissyg7026 can you get barbeque ribs or chicken with barbeque sauce?
@nekoti.8~2 probably, if you look in the right places. I just don’t understand people that go to a different country and complain that it’s different ? Wouldn’t it be boring if everywhere was the same? Wouldn’t it be a waste of time travelling is there was no different food? I love going to different countries and eating different things, in fact, I refuse 9to eat what I can get at home when I’m abroad. I can get my fix when I get home.
Hi, expat Brit been living here in Ottawa Canada for 25 years nearly now. For me, my accent has shifted a bit, but more, I use north american slang and word choices nowadays. Chavs came and went since I moved, many other UK slang terms have done similarly. Every trip back is a refresher on all the language changes that have happened over in the UK. It's always a fascinating experience.
Edit: on my identity. I am definitely still British, but I am also definitely Canadian. Just like you both say, I'm both.
BEST COLLAB EVER!!!
i already really liked both of you guys, but i love yall as a duo. i cant wait for the inevitable British version of this video
I will never understand people who like twiglets. They taste like if you scraped up the bottom of a dirty oven and decided that's a tasty snack. But weirdly when Laurence said he likes them I thought "yeah, makes sense"
Hard to explain..it's like they're so wrong, it's right..can't resist that tang. Same for Marmite although I don't have it that often
Oh my gosh!!! The team up that I didn’t think I needed.
12:35 love his laugh :)
Oh you two together makes me so happy, I love it!
I'm from Missouri, but now I live in Texas. Maybe I should make a video series about the differences and call it, "Lost in the Ozarks."🤠
Born in Texas and living in Washington state, I’d watch it. My son is in Tennessee.