Always wore my old school scarf in winter until the dog ate it. As the school was merged with another in the 70's and no longer exists I have been unable to replace it. If anyone has a maroon and gold West Byfleet County Secondary School scarf and willing to part with it, let me know.
I remember as a child in the 1970's my Mum and all the housewives would shout out "Raining!" , and everyone would rush out to get their washing in. Community spirit 😊
We bring each other's washing in on my little street if it starts raining. The old girl next door can't move too quickly or she's rendered insensible by medication so we'll help out. Same with grocery deliveries if folk aren't in for whatever reason. Right now I've got a frock waiting for the woman over the road because she went on holiday by mistake in true Withnail style. She gave me a ring to ask me to keep my eye out for the delivery van.
Yes, usually Monday and the whole back street from one end to the other would be full of lines of washing. Running between them as a child and the lovely aroma of fresh washed linen sheets.
It's not really about being 'authentic,' infact it's natural for your accent to change if you move elsewhere. I moved to London for a couple of years, (from within Britain, up the north) and I thought I still had my original accent, until I moved back home and everyone said I sounded cockney. It had changed organically (you could say it was an 'authentic' change, or a natural progression) I had noticed a small change, but I thought that it was just in the few certain words I never used to say before moving to London, but it turned out I was wrong. I did manage to lose it after a year back home but I hadn't done it in purpose, either way. It wasn't a conscious thing. I just picked up words, vocal mannerisms and some of the general accent just by the osmosis of being located there. It happened slowly over time. Unintentionally. In the reverse, my daughter who was born in London but then moved back home with us, had a London area accent. As did my wife and son (I'll point out that my wife and daughter were both full cockneys and our son is an Essex boy, yet he had a full cockney accent, yet my wife and my daughter didn't have a typical strong cockney accent, it was just a mild "somewhere In London' type of accent, really soft spoken, and a bit posh but in no way are any of us posh, we are typical normal every day scum!) So my daughter, she was 6 going on 7 when we moved, and we got here on the Friday, and she started school on the Monday with her normal accent and came home Monday tea time sounding like a local. It wasn't the first time she had been here as we always came visiting, but it was her first time spending a large amount of time with a few hundred kids all grouped together up here (I also pissed her off because 2 months after we moved, her junior school that she would of just started at if we stayed in London was used as extras in one of the harry potter movies, and she missed out because if our move! We paid for that!) but it was a shock to hear her accent change so quickly. Our son who was ten didn't change his accent and still sounds like he's off EastEnders (think Danny dyer on steroids) but he has moved back down south in his 20s for his job. Also, if you go and watch the early videos on this channel, her accent has changed quite a lot. It's softened a hell of a lot now compared to then.
@@JacknVictorIt depends a lot on age and particular person. English is my second (or rather third) language. When I studied it at school they used Oxford English as a basis for school curriculum, but a lot of American stuff like music and TV shows were surrounding us, so my accent got quite mixed. Then I immigrated to US and lived there for quite a long time and 90% of vocabulary I’m using is American even though I perfectly understand British words as well. Nevertheless, I’m still frequently using aahh vowel sound whenever saying words like can’t or tomatoes and in many case I still drop R after vowel, while most Americans use eh - shwah sound, and of course American English is mostly very rhotic. Hence, the time I spent in the US definitely diluted my accent but didn’t entirely change it.
Kalyn, you're a girl after my own heart .... I've used tumble dryers since 1972 (can't remember the last time I hung any washing out on the line to dry). And then there's country music ... We are big fans of Home Free and actually flew across to see them near Chicago in 2022 - absolutely fantastic!!
Excess salt really means a lack of a good palate due to it being inundated with salt since being young. Food isn't bland due to a lack of salt. You think it's bland because you can't taste it anymore.
Or maybe it is bland. Today many dishes in restaurants have less salt in it. Either for health reasons or to let the guest decide what he likes. I regularily went to some simple restaurant where (after some time) I knew I needed to salt without tasting beforehand, because it was just never enough. At other places I don't need to add salt.
I'm an alcoholic and heavy smoker and I use lots of salt. When eating around my mum she gets worried but I just say "I hardly eat much anyway so it's still a normal amount overall"
A/C cools and most importantly removes humidity, a very necessary combination in hot humid Southern States. In contrast, I lived in Colorado which is dry and cooler and we rarely ran our home air conditioning.
I tumble dry everything. It's so much easier than taking washing out and in. Plus I have a washer/dryer so I just put stuff in, set it going, and forget about it. Washed, dried, without doing anything, but sadly not ironed 😂
@michaelhather9753 Being bone dry makes it harder to get the creases out. I always iron clothes as soon as they come out of the machine because it's easier. I loathe ironing but I hate creased clothes even more.
I think my dad was an American in his soul. My parents lived about 8 miles from Gatwick, yet at Christmas he decorated the outside of his home to the point that I worried we would be affecting landing strip. You would have totally loved him...he also did it for halloween. I think it was partly due to drabness of his 1950s childhood and he just wanted to celebrate and share the love. I use to be a little ashamed of this but I miss him and his energy for life every day
My dad has been gone these past 11 years now just this month. I hope you have lots of good memories of your dad to make you smile. You never stop missing him, but it does hurt less when you start smiling of him thinking of the good times. You have my heartfelt commiserations. May his memory always be a blessing for you….
Hiya. We wouldn't need a/c even on warm summer days - because we'd be OUTSIDE. But I understand your need even then - because you'd be INSIDE due to the Hay Fever. Stay safe. All the best to you.
I vaguely remember something about accents being linked to a particular gene, which is dominant, and you keep your OG accent, and if it's recessive, you assimilate verbally to your new environment (that MAY be the other way around) . Whether it changes or not seems to be as down to as much luck as being able to lick your elbow, bend back your fingers to an alarming angle and indeed roll your tongue. It's not like your emphasising it or anything, folk need to chill! Love, as ever, from Bonnie Scotland. Jacksonvile Jaguars rule!
I know a guy who was born and raised in Hollywood California in 1940. He's a bit of a hippy type, and when he finished school he decided he wanted to see the world. So he backpacked around the world, TWICE, before landing in New Zealand in the early 1960s. He found NZ fit his life style so at 83 years old he is still here, and he still sounds like he just got off the plane even after 60 years here. It's really weird when you hear Maori words and place names roll easily out of a mouth with a heavy American accent. Americans tend to hold on to their accents more than other people I think.
I have noticed several TH-cam channels of North Americans now living in the UK, but none of your accents have change. I've lived in several different regions (Scotland and England), and I've absorbed the local accents within months of living there. My sister moved to Canada and sounded like a Canadian within a couple of months. A friend moved to Australia and she has an Aussie accent.
3 things that are not only American... I love multi coloured Christmas decorations. I'm with you when I decorate the tree! I really don't like those single colour lights so many folks have. I haven't dried any clothes outside (apart from the stuff that is labelled not to be put in the drier) for probably 40 years. I got a tumble drier as a wedding present (41 years ago) and haven't looked back since :) I do also love air conditioning but sadly, while I had a system in my last house, the one I live in now is almost impossible to retrofit so I make do with ceiling fans.
Kalyn - do you think that, if you'd grown up in Alaska, you'd still expect A/c everywhere? Remember that Florida is at simlar latitudes to Morocco, Tunisia, Libya & Egypt - whereas the UK is in the same latitudes as Newfoundland & Alaska. The only difference is that, in the UK, we're not continental, surrounded instead by water, giving us less extremes of weather.
There are plenty of times during the UK summers that I absolutely need Air Con. Our flat is in East London. We bought it as a new build just 5 years ago and I am happy that we have a cooling system that works almost as good as real Air Conditioning. I’m an American myself. I’ve lived outside of the us since the 90s and have been told that I don’t sound American by accent or volume. So I guess I’ve been changed by living abroad since my 30s and I’m now in my 60s. I’ve also lost most of my American habits. Never been a sports person besides Ice Hockey but I just don’t wear alumni type clothes. Although I’m mostly living in China when not in the UK I tend to dress more European I suppose
It annoys me to think that a restaurant is going to throw away my uneaten food, so I like to ask for a box so I can take it home with me, then I'll throw it away.
Funnily enough we often call a to go box in a restaurant a “doggy bag”. I don’t know if the idea is that you are taking it to feed your dog (though that is what my parents do it for)
I couldn't imagine wearing a shirt with Deincourt Secondary Modern embroidered across it ! Let's leave that to you, Americans , Bless ya, though, me duck.🤣😂👍🏴
We've never had air conditioning but since 1970's always had ceiling fans in all main living areas and bedrooms,the only rooms we didn't have them were the kitchen and bathroom.Heavy salt use is main cause of heart problems,after I had very high blood pressure followed by a stroke I was told to cut to a minimum and now with CKD on dialysis avoid if possible,I wish I hadn't used salt as you appear to,I lived to regret it.
As a Brit in England, I have used sceiling fans in my bedrooms for years. It is so useful in our short summer, permitting me to get a good nights sleep. Relatively cheap compared to air-con, I recommend them.
My American housemate used to over-order, and would have several courses, even if she was not that hungry, so that she could take stuff home, rather than just have a single course and that be sufficient. Luckily our local restaurant had takeaway boxes and were used to her. I would not split the bill with her, as she always ordered far more than me, a significantly larger male.
How to start an argument in a restaurant with a Chef, ask for no added salt. I've been on a no added salt diet for 15 years now and now know the actual flavour of what I'm eating. Boy, do I miss a bacon butty though. I'm with you on the dryer, living in Ireland the laundry would never dry without one, even on a dry day the humidity can be very high. I must install a ceiling fan in the bedroom before this summer, a portable is too noisy, don't want sleepless nights this year. I sleep with the windows open in winter and struggle when the room gets above 10 C. 50 F. The birds chirping away at 03:00 in summer doesn't help.
In New Zealand, the climate isn't so different to the UK, but most homes have aircon units. We also have ceiling fans in our home, which are running throughout the summer. So yeh, I think you are right about the Brits never wanting to take the easy, comfortable option
My house doesn't. We decided to insulate our walls with this foam sprayed between studs (from the exterior of house). Keeps house at a constant 15-19C year round. Expensive, but already worth it.
NZ is definitely a lot warmer. British homes are designed to keep in heat for obvious reasons. If we have 3 weeks in the year of warm weather we are lucky. It’s not economical to spend thousands on air con for a few weeks each year.
Re tumble drying everything all year around - your electricity bill must be huge!!! 😱😱😱😱 - I get a Paddington Bear Hard Stare if mine is on for 20 minutes max!!
Yes, moving from country to country makes some changes in habit easier than others. Having lived 35 yrs in E Africa, fans were a big thing for me. Now in Europe, I ensure circulating air by having a bedroom window open a tad. A/C to me is too energy inefficient. Mild discomfort is ok. Floods, wildfires, drought, and climate change, less so.
We’re big into our A/C units up north too. Even here in upstate NY. We have one permanently installed in our kitchen window I even used the other week during that 70 degree heatwave. I used it the other day too but mainly to clean out the horrible odors from someone else cooking in there 😂.
Dollars...some of us still say...that cost a couple of bob..they're worth a couple of bob even though a 'bob' ceased to be legal tender about half a century ago.
Accents. You do not really lose an accent if you move to a new place after the age of about 7. The language you use may change, but accent less so. I moved from London to Lancashire when I was 7 and lived there for 11 years. But I still have a London/southern accent BUT I tend to use northern words and phrases (without realising it). This is very common. My mother moved with me to Lancashire and still lives there 50 years later... and still has a London accent.
I would say that a lot of these things are not habits, they're preferences and opinion. Keep being you, that's my opinion. Looking forward to the next video.
Sorry if you have already covered this one. light switches are down for one in the UK and up for one in the US. I agree about ceiling fans, I can live without the air conditioning. The biggest thing I miss from the USA is walk-in closets even in small homes and apartments. Strong showers. I suffer from an esophageal problem and can only eat a little but often, no problem in the USA but it is often a problem here in the UK. Everyone's voice carries when they speak in a different accent to the area you are in at the time. I lived in The USA for 30 years and used American words but I have never lost my British accent...RP.
Well into the 1980s many Americans still hung clothes on lines and racks. Central air con in many homes was still rare then due to it's high cost to install and run. It was a novelty (I thought buildings that had it were too cold!), and many stores and businesses didn't have it either. We acclimated to our dreadful American summers which is one of the reasons why Americans developed a craze for ice. When summer temps hover around 38-40 degrees Celsius, we have to have iced everything. We have cool homes and tumbled dry clothes but we pay through the nose for those things and so does the environment!
I think we like 'grumbling' rather than complaining - that is venting to our friends, family and neighbours about stuff they cannot do anything about. For example in a restaurant, if there's something minor we don't like, we grumble to our fellow diners but not to the wait staff. However I don't think this explains the absence of air conditioning; I've witnessed British expats cheerfully grumbling that the air conditioning is too cold, too dry, too noisy, not cold enough, etc.
I hear you with the the ' You look a million dollars' phrase, it would sound weird in pounds. At a push you can say 'quid', but still sounds forced. I think the phrase is American so weve adopted it as it is.
I have a couple of pedestal fans, which I think are more effective than ceiling fans as you can direct them. One interesting factoid that in South Korea there is a persistent belief by some that sleeping with a fan on in a closed bedroom can lead to death. It's called fan death, and whilst it is nothing like as prevalent as it once was, it is still a phenomenon. As to the source of this unlikely belief, it seems obscure, but some claim it was spread by the government back in the energy crisis of the 1970s to try and reduce electricity consumption. However, that doesn't seem to be the case at all as the belief was apparently around in the 1920s.
Been in the US and am a citizen. Still have an English accent. Still miss a lot of food from home. Recently went back and needed to bring back some marmalade!
My family is from the Black Country so I am blessed with an accent that Americans don’t understand (although mine is pretty mild). My uncle moved to Canada in his twenties and I didn’t meet him until he was a pensioner and he still had his accent but using Canadian/American terms which sounded very odd. But I guess some people just don’t loose their accents.
You can learn accent like you can learn a language. Emulate and practice. Sometimes it is done unintentionally and sometimes on purpose. Mostly bit of both.
I moved to the UK and within 6 months, developed a new accent! somewhere between british and american. I think it was a defence mechanism so that the Brits wouldn't treat me differently.
Must admit that as a Brit I use the tumble drier regularly. Winter it’s too damn wet outside, especially this winter and summer I have the same hay fever issues. Nothing worse like adding to the problem by airing your clothes in pollen.
I detect a slight southern accent in your speech. This is not bad (at all 😉), and no surprise considering where you’re from. I heard varying degrees of southern accents and drawls when visiting my dad down there in the past.
More than 50 years ago we decimalised our currency but even today I still occasionally mentally convert new pence to the old Imperial coinage so thinking in dollars after 10 years means you still have a long way to go 😊
Do you know we have Radio stations that just play Country Music. I you have an a Alexa Say Alexa play Absolute Radio Country. This radio station plays all old and modern Country music.
That fine nuanced fact about how mid and south Florida is not really The South. 😂 My mom was born in Pensacola - The South. Anywhere below the panhandle isn't The South. And a term we picked up after talking to you: "the Art of Suffering" . . . We use that one quite a bit. 😆
Pretty much the case with most 'American' cuisine having been gained from everywhere that has had immigrants migrate their - so from everywhere really.
Very common to have a ceiling fan in the UK. Air conditioning costs too much so we use ceiling fans and floor standing and desktop fans. In the UK you usually have to ask for a "doggy bag" to take home your leftovers. They will give you some sort of container such as a bag, a box or plastic tub to put it in. Your accent hasn't changed fully but it has really softened now compared to your accent in your early videos. You can change your accent as an adult, if you move to a different area, without meaning to or even trying? Mine did when I moved to london and it's changed back after I moved back home. Salt/seasoning in the UK is usually left to the recipient to add to their own taste. In regards to Christmas decorations, you live in London. People tend not to put things out in their gardens due to the fact it will not be there when they wake up, and the same with indoor decorations, it used to attract burglars around Xmas time in London. I lived there, my wife is from there. We used to decorate big but not many around us did. But if you go outside London you will see a big difference. Up north where live now, We make our front garden look like a Santa's grotto. Xmas lights, animated props in the window, And I use a projector outdoors project various Xmas scenarios in our garden (at Halloween too);Our neighbours across the road has a 20ft inflatable Santa on their roof every year with all the lights and ornaments. It's pretty typical around here. London is ok. My wife's whole family are from there 7 of them including her, but all moved around various places in Britain (Scunthorpe, Kent, Wales, Isle of wight etc) so only one remains in the greater London area now, they will all tell you that the experience of living in London is not typical of the rest of Britain. In General London isn't a good yardstick. It's a very insular place. It's in its own little world. It's good for a visit, whether it be a holiday or a few weeks working away, but it's not somewhere either me, my wife or any if her brother's and sisters would live full time in again. It's nice to see the sights, though every now and again. Your never bored of places to see. But I've seen Londoners visiting places outside of London, and it was as if they were dropped off on mars. Everything was alien to them. The open spaces, not having such busy queues, people talking to them as they passed by. Even just strangers being nice! My son who was ten when we moved up north, was with us on the Sunday after we moved, on a visit to Hemswell market and antiques centre, and it was basically a big boot sale in a muddy field. He was slipping about and almost went arse over tit, and this kind lady basically caught him and stopped him going flat on his face. Instead of thanking her he pulled himself away, and shouted in his very loud Danny Dyer cockney voice *watch it, you tramp!" We couldn't believe what we hearing! He had not been brought up to behave that way or talk to anyone like that. We apologised to the shocked lady, a nice lady in her late 40s who was only trying to help, and I pulled him aside and gave him a bit of a bollocking, and asked him why he did that, he basically explained that he got scared and thought she might have been trying to attack him or run off with him, stranger danger and all that. He was just nit used to people he didn't kniw being nice to him. (Not that there are no nice people in London there are millions, it's just people there tend to keep more to themselves and not get involved, and that is what he was used to) So we had to explain to him that she was only helping him and that people here are a bit friendlier than what he was used to. So when we went down the next isle we saw her again and he went and apologised. Honestly I have never been so embarrassed in my life.
I find the concept of expecting to take leftovers home from a restaurant meal a bit weird. I understand avoiding waste, but why deliberately create it in the first place?
The concept is completely OK. Sometimes the portions are just too big. My mother (old and small) often couldn't get a smaller portion in restaurants. So most of the time she took home the leftovers. Very rarely I take the large pizza instead of the small to have something for tomorrow. But I wouldn't order some big meal and some other meal or appetizer so I can have leftovers.
@@grahvisIn the US it seems to be a competition thing. The other thing is that people eat very different portions. I eat double than my mother. And a friend of mine eats double of what I eat. He would be disappointed with a "normal" portion. The goal is to satisfy as many people as possible.
1st up. No problem with the accent. However. I must ask. Is your Florida accent typical of the State? I Know a woman from Florida and she sounds like Scarlet O'Hara. I could listen to her all day. She is from north Florida, Would that explain it?
Do you plan to release an Audible version of your book? It's love to read it, but I'm Severely Visually Impaired, or legally blind, as you Americans call it. ❤
That's something you could do for a video. Explain the American school system and the words we hear in US movies and TV programmes. Alumni, Homecoming, fraternities (and the other one I can't even spell)... and wtf is a 'Glee Club'?
The issue is that living in two different countries can produce a really strange accent combination. Like mr. Van Dyke in Mary Poppins!! Also, i worked with a lady from England who lived in Texas for about 7 years and developed a strange Australian sounding accent.
Ceiling fans were common in the 80s and 90s in new buikds, but then rules and regs came in due to high profile accidents with children and fingers, so they dropped out of popularity in new builds as they needed a higher ceilings as parents lost their way in teaching their children
Living in Germany for a long while, I still always said... I still said Quid just like you say dollars I'm not sure it's that Americans are loud, maybe slightly, but they speak quickly, sometimes. Your accent isn't bad, who ever says so can bog off 😊 If tacky = happy, then more power to tacky ❤❤❤
If at ALL possible I dry clothes in fresh air. I absolutely hate tumble driers. It smells so fresh when dried outside and leaves things slightly damp which is super for ironing. Driers screw it up.
Wall mounted air conditioning systems are getting more popular in the UK as the climate changes, they become less expensive, and people realise that they can heat the home with them too. Some restaurants do offer a doggy bag to take home leftovers. I expect you'll find that even though you have an American accent, if you were talking to people in the US, they would comment on your British accent.
I actually really like the American accent, I have a friend who lives in Mississippi and she has a very strong southern accent but I like it. Some of the accents in the UK are annoying to some people. Also we ❤ going mad at Xmas our house is like Santa's grotto, plenty of lights on the outside and indoors 😊 just do what makes you happy,
Kalyn, you need to visit Italy. Italians, when we get together, can be very loud.
In regards to school clothing, thanks to shops like Primark, the amount of us Brits who went to UCLA or Harvard (for example) is amazing.
Always wore my old school scarf in winter until the dog ate it. As the school was merged with another in the 70's and no longer exists I have been unable to replace it. If anyone has a maroon and gold West Byfleet County Secondary School scarf and willing to part with it, let me know.
I remember as a child in the 1970's my Mum and all the housewives would shout out "Raining!" , and everyone would rush out to get their washing in. Community spirit 😊
We bring each other's washing in on my little street if it starts raining. The old girl next door can't move too quickly or she's rendered insensible by medication so we'll help out. Same with grocery deliveries if folk aren't in for whatever reason. Right now I've got a frock waiting for the woman over the road because she went on holiday by mistake in true Withnail style. She gave me a ring to ask me to keep my eye out for the delivery van.
Aye, I miss the extended community that went with extended family.
Where is my tribe 😢
Yes, usually Monday and the whole back street from one end to the other would be full of lines of washing. Running between them as a child and the lovely aroma of fresh washed linen sheets.
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Oh, I remember the smell
Stay authentic, never lose your accent!
It's not really about being 'authentic,' infact it's natural for your accent to change if you move elsewhere. I moved to London for a couple of years, (from within Britain, up the north) and I thought I still had my original accent, until I moved back home and everyone said I sounded cockney. It had changed organically (you could say it was an 'authentic' change, or a natural progression) I had noticed a small change, but I thought that it was just in the few certain words I never used to say before moving to London, but it turned out I was wrong. I did manage to lose it after a year back home but I hadn't done it in purpose, either way. It wasn't a conscious thing. I just picked up words, vocal mannerisms and some of the general accent just by the osmosis of being located there. It happened slowly over time. Unintentionally.
In the reverse, my daughter who was born in London but then moved back home with us, had a London area accent. As did my wife and son (I'll point out that my wife and daughter were both full cockneys and our son is an Essex boy, yet he had a full cockney accent, yet my wife and my daughter didn't have a typical strong cockney accent, it was just a mild "somewhere In London' type of accent, really soft spoken, and a bit posh but in no way are any of us posh, we are typical normal every day scum!) So my daughter, she was 6 going on 7 when we moved, and we got here on the Friday, and she started school on the Monday with her normal accent and came home Monday tea time sounding like a local. It wasn't the first time she had been here as we always came visiting, but it was her first time spending a large amount of time with a few hundred kids all grouped together up here (I also pissed her off because 2 months after we moved, her junior school that she would of just started at if we stayed in London was used as extras in one of the harry potter movies, and she missed out because if our move! We paid for that!) but it was a shock to hear her accent change so quickly. Our son who was ten didn't change his accent and still sounds like he's off EastEnders (think Danny dyer on steroids) but he has moved back down south in his 20s for his job.
Also, if you go and watch the early videos on this channel, her accent has changed quite a lot. It's softened a hell of a lot now compared to then.
@@JacknVictorIt depends a lot on age and particular person. English is my second (or rather third) language. When I studied it at school they used Oxford English as a basis for school curriculum, but a lot of American stuff like music and TV shows were surrounding us, so my accent got quite mixed. Then I immigrated to US and lived there for quite a long time and 90% of vocabulary I’m using is American even though I perfectly understand British words as well. Nevertheless, I’m still frequently using aahh vowel sound whenever saying words like can’t or tomatoes and in many case I still drop R after vowel, while most Americans use eh - shwah sound, and of course American English is mostly very rhotic. Hence, the time I spent in the US definitely diluted my accent but didn’t entirely change it.
Kalyn, you're a girl after my own heart .... I've used tumble dryers since 1972 (can't remember the last time I hung any washing out on the line to dry). And then there's country music ... We are big fans of Home Free and actually flew across to see them near Chicago in 2022 - absolutely fantastic!!
The clothes rack is either known as a clothes horse or airer.
Our tumble drier only gets used about times a year, if there is a dry breeze, it'll dry!
Or a maiden!
Excess salt really means a lack of a good palate due to it being inundated with salt since being young. Food isn't bland due to a lack of salt. You think it's bland because you can't taste it anymore.
Or maybe it is bland. Today many dishes in restaurants have less salt in it. Either for health reasons or to let the guest decide what he likes. I regularily went to some simple restaurant where (after some time) I knew I needed to salt without tasting beforehand, because it was just never enough. At other places I don't need to add salt.
I'm an alcoholic and heavy smoker and I use lots of salt. When eating around my mum she gets worried but I just say "I hardly eat much anyway so it's still a normal amount overall"
A comment about being too hot or cold is a conversation starter here in the UK. Without that the country would be silent.
A clothes rack is called a clothes horse!🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
I'm surprised you don't get blank looks when asking for a take out box, that's because we call them doggy bags
A/C cools and most importantly removes humidity, a very necessary combination in hot humid Southern States.
In contrast, I lived in Colorado which is dry and cooler and we rarely ran our home air conditioning.
I tumble dry everything. It's so much easier than taking washing out and in. Plus I have a washer/dryer so I just put stuff in, set it going, and forget about it. Washed, dried, without doing anything, but sadly not ironed 😂
@michaelhather9753 Being bone dry makes it harder to get the creases out. I always iron clothes as soon as they come out of the machine because it's easier. I loathe ironing but I hate creased clothes even more.
I think my dad was an American in his soul. My parents lived about 8 miles from Gatwick, yet at Christmas he decorated the outside of his home to the point that I worried we would be affecting landing strip. You would have totally loved him...he also did it for halloween. I think it was partly due to drabness of his 1950s childhood and he just wanted to celebrate and share the love. I use to be a little ashamed of this but I miss him and his energy for life every day
My dad has been gone these past 11 years now just this month. I hope you have lots of good memories of your dad to make you smile. You never stop missing him, but it does hurt less when you start smiling of him thinking of the good times. You have my heartfelt commiserations. May his memory always be a blessing for you….
Hiya. We wouldn't need a/c even on warm summer days - because we'd be OUTSIDE. But I understand your need even then - because you'd be INSIDE due to the Hay Fever. Stay safe. All the best to you.
I'm with you as regard the Drier. I know it's expensive to run but life's too short for pegging things out and then worrying about rain.
There are Country music stations on DAB Radio. I love Country music.
I vaguely remember something about accents being linked to a particular gene, which is dominant, and you keep your OG accent, and if it's recessive, you assimilate verbally to your new environment (that MAY be the other way around) . Whether it changes or not seems to be as down to as much luck as being able to lick your elbow, bend back your fingers to an alarming angle and indeed roll your tongue. It's not like your emphasising it or anything, folk need to chill!
Love, as ever, from Bonnie Scotland.
Jacksonvile Jaguars rule!
I know a guy who was born and raised in Hollywood California in 1940. He's a bit of a hippy type, and when he finished school he decided he wanted to see the world. So he backpacked around the world, TWICE, before landing in New Zealand in the early 1960s. He found NZ fit his life style so at 83 years old he is still here, and he still sounds like he just got off the plane even after 60 years here. It's really weird when you hear Maori words and place names roll easily out of a mouth with a heavy American accent. Americans tend to hold on to their accents more than other people I think.
I have noticed several TH-cam channels of North Americans now living in the UK, but none of your accents have change.
I've lived in several different regions (Scotland and England), and I've absorbed the local accents within months of living there.
My sister moved to Canada and sounded like a Canadian within a couple of months. A friend moved to Australia and she has an Aussie accent.
3 things that are not only American... I love multi coloured Christmas decorations. I'm with you when I decorate the tree! I really don't like those single colour lights so many folks have. I haven't dried any clothes outside (apart from the stuff that is labelled not to be put in the drier) for probably 40 years. I got a tumble drier as a wedding present (41 years ago) and haven't looked back since :) I do also love air conditioning but sadly, while I had a system in my last house, the one I live in now is almost impossible to retrofit so I make do with ceiling fans.
Kalyn - do you think that, if you'd grown up in Alaska, you'd still expect A/c everywhere? Remember that Florida is at simlar latitudes to Morocco, Tunisia, Libya & Egypt - whereas the UK is in the same latitudes as Newfoundland & Alaska. The only difference is that, in the UK, we're not continental, surrounded instead by water, giving us less extremes of weather.
I heard that if we didn't get a stream of air from the Gulf of Mexico, UK weather would be more like Scandinavia
@@IanJames-n9f It's not air - the Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current.
There are plenty of times during the UK summers that I absolutely need Air Con. Our flat is in East London. We bought it as a new build just 5 years ago and I am happy that we have a cooling system that works almost as good as real Air Conditioning. I’m an American myself. I’ve lived outside of the us since the 90s and have been told that I don’t sound American by accent or volume. So I guess I’ve been changed by living abroad since my 30s and I’m now in my 60s. I’ve also lost most of my American habits. Never been a sports person besides Ice Hockey but I just don’t wear alumni type clothes. Although I’m mostly living in China when not in the UK I tend to dress more European I suppose
It annoys me to think that a restaurant is going to throw away my uneaten food, so I like to ask for a box so I can take it home with me, then I'll throw it away.
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So we’re all coming over to you during our heatwave period? Apparently having a preference for salty/umami foods is a sign of a sophisticated palate!
Funnily enough we often call a to go box in a restaurant a “doggy bag”. I don’t know if the idea is that you are taking it to feed your dog (though that is what my parents do it for)
Im English and i have had proper a/c installed in my house,its getting hotter here every year
I couldn't imagine wearing a shirt with Deincourt Secondary Modern embroidered across it ! Let's leave that to you, Americans , Bless ya, though, me duck.🤣😂👍🏴
We've never had air conditioning but since 1970's always had ceiling fans in all main living areas and bedrooms,the only rooms we didn't have them were the kitchen and bathroom.Heavy salt use is main cause of heart problems,after I had very high blood pressure followed by a stroke I was told to cut to a minimum and now with CKD on dialysis avoid if possible,I wish I hadn't used salt as you appear to,I lived to regret it.
I love your accent it's part of who you are. Don't change nor should you have to change. Amazing channel interesting content xx
Thank you for watching Paul!
@GirlGoneLondonofficial thank you always replying keep posting your amazing
As a Brit in England, I have used sceiling fans in my bedrooms for years. It is so useful in our short summer, permitting me to get a good nights sleep. Relatively cheap compared to air-con, I recommend them.
Stoic....discussing the weather... read Kate Fox's book Watching the English...
Brilliant book, only anthropological text I have read that had me laughing out loud. Very astute and accurate.
My American housemate used to over-order, and would have several courses, even if she was not that hungry, so that she could take stuff home, rather than just have a single course and that be sufficient. Luckily our local restaurant had takeaway boxes and were used to her. I would not split the bill with her, as she always ordered far more than me, a significantly larger male.
How to start an argument in a restaurant with a Chef, ask for no added salt. I've been on a no added salt diet for 15 years now and now know the actual flavour of what I'm eating. Boy, do I miss a bacon butty though.
I'm with you on the dryer, living in Ireland the laundry would never dry without one, even on a dry day the humidity can be very high.
I must install a ceiling fan in the bedroom before this summer, a portable is too noisy, don't want sleepless nights this year. I sleep with the windows open in winter and struggle when the room gets above 10 C. 50 F. The birds chirping away at 03:00 in summer doesn't help.
Country is great,who doesn't love a bit of Dolly and everyone has heard Kasey Chambers this year?🏴
In New Zealand, the climate isn't so different to the UK, but most homes have aircon units. We also have ceiling fans in our home, which are running throughout the summer. So yeh, I think you are right about the Brits never wanting to take the easy, comfortable option
My house doesn't. We decided to insulate our walls with this foam sprayed between studs (from the exterior of house).
Keeps house at a constant 15-19C year round. Expensive, but already worth it.
We will cease to exist when we lose that stiff upper lip and grin and bear it attitude, which I fear is beginning to happen.
NZ summers are quite a bit warmer than in the UK.
@@robert3987 It depends on where in the UK or NZ you live. I don't think SE England is so vastly different.
NZ is definitely a lot warmer. British homes are designed to keep in heat for obvious reasons. If we have 3 weeks in the year of warm weather we are lucky. It’s not economical to spend thousands on air con for a few weeks each year.
I thiught this was a charming vlog. Thanks.
Re tumble drying everything all year around - your electricity bill must be huge!!! 😱😱😱😱 - I get a Paddington Bear Hard Stare if mine is on for 20 minutes max!!
I use mine all through the year & don’t find it all that expensive to run.
whats an alumni? and if you put 'um' on the end , do you make foil from it?
The loudness thing is funny--it happens to me, too, when I suddenly realize I'm being a bit too emphatic in a conversation!
Yes, moving from country to country makes some changes in habit easier than others. Having lived 35 yrs in E Africa, fans were a big thing for me. Now in Europe, I ensure circulating air by having a bedroom window open a tad. A/C to me is too energy inefficient. Mild discomfort is ok. Floods, wildfires, drought, and climate change, less so.
I have always loved the way Americans decorate their Christmas trees, I was there about 10 + years ago for a couple of months.
We’re big into our A/C units up north too. Even here in upstate NY. We have one permanently installed in our kitchen window I even used the other week during that 70 degree heatwave. I used it the other day too but mainly to clean out the horrible odors from someone else cooking in there 😂.
Dollars...some of us still say...that cost a couple of bob..they're worth a couple of bob even though a 'bob' ceased to be legal tender about half a century ago.
When I spent 5 odd years in Bristol (from Africa) I very rapidly spoke coreeck bristle... to my mother's confusion...
Accents. You do not really lose an accent if you move to a new place after the age of about 7. The language you use may change, but accent less so.
I moved from London to Lancashire when I was 7 and lived there for 11 years. But I still have a London/southern accent BUT I tend to use northern words and phrases (without realising it).
This is very common. My mother moved with me to Lancashire and still lives there 50 years later... and still has a London accent.
we have air con in our loft conversion and have done since it was done 15 years ago and we live in Wales lol
Nice!!
I would say that a lot of these things are not habits, they're preferences and opinion. Keep being you, that's my opinion. Looking forward to the next video.
Sorry if you have already covered this one. light switches are down for one in the UK and up for one in the US. I agree about ceiling fans, I can live without the air conditioning. The biggest thing I miss from the USA is walk-in closets even in small homes and apartments.
Strong showers. I suffer from an esophageal problem and can only eat a little but often, no problem in the USA but it is often a problem here in the UK. Everyone's voice carries when they speak in a different accent to the area you are in at the time. I lived in The USA for 30 years and used American words but I have never lost my British accent...RP.
Well into the 1980s many Americans still hung clothes on lines and racks. Central air con in many homes was still rare then due to it's high cost to install and run. It was a novelty (I thought buildings that had it were too cold!), and many stores and businesses didn't have it either. We acclimated to our dreadful American summers which is one of the reasons why Americans developed a craze for ice. When summer temps hover around 38-40 degrees Celsius, we have to have iced everything. We have cool homes and tumbled dry clothes but we pay through the nose for those things and so does the environment!
I think we like 'grumbling' rather than complaining - that is venting to our friends, family and neighbours about stuff they cannot do anything about. For example in a restaurant, if there's something minor we don't like, we grumble to our fellow diners but not to the wait staff. However I don't think this explains the absence of air conditioning; I've witnessed British expats cheerfully grumbling that the air conditioning is too cold, too dry, too noisy, not cold enough, etc.
Love your accent, you keep doing what you're doing.... 👍🏴
Thank you!
I hear you with the the ' You look a million dollars' phrase, it would sound weird in pounds. At a push you can say 'quid', but still sounds forced. I think the phrase is American so weve adopted it as it is.
I have a couple of pedestal fans, which I think are more effective than ceiling fans as you can direct them. One interesting factoid that in South Korea there is a persistent belief by some that sleeping with a fan on in a closed bedroom can lead to death. It's called fan death, and whilst it is nothing like as prevalent as it once was, it is still a phenomenon. As to the source of this unlikely belief, it seems obscure, but some claim it was spread by the government back in the energy crisis of the 1970s to try and reduce electricity consumption. However, that doesn't seem to be the case at all as the belief was apparently around in the 1920s.
I call it a clothes horse that I put my washing on to dry when I can't hang it outside to dry
Been in the US and am a citizen. Still have an English accent. Still miss a lot of food from home. Recently went back and needed to bring back some marmalade!
My family is from the Black Country so I am blessed with an accent that Americans don’t understand (although mine is pretty mild). My uncle moved to Canada in his twenties and I didn’t meet him until he was a pensioner and he still had his accent but using Canadian/American terms which sounded very odd. But I guess some people just don’t loose their accents.
Number'12' wearing hoodies or sweaters with high School team names or major city names
I’m English- British and I love country music . I have no problem saying it.
The salt thing isn't really an American thing, it's a preference thing. I'd put salt on my corn flakes if would taste good.
When I was in the US I did start saying some words the American way like for British, 'Bridish' instead of 'Bri-ish'.
I am interested to know what air conditioner you have, could you post a link so I can see exactly what you are talking about?
You can learn accent like you can learn a language. Emulate and practice. Sometimes it is done unintentionally and sometimes on purpose. Mostly bit of both.
I moved to the UK and within 6 months, developed a new accent! somewhere between british and american. I think it was a defence mechanism so that the Brits wouldn't treat me differently.
Must admit that as a Brit I use the tumble drier regularly. Winter it’s too damn wet outside, especially this winter and summer I have the same hay fever issues. Nothing worse like adding to the problem by airing your clothes in pollen.
My bungalow as air conditioning all council properties have it now
I detect a slight southern accent in your speech. This is not bad (at all 😉), and no surprise considering where you’re from. I heard varying degrees of southern accents and drawls when visiting my dad down there in the past.
Do you listen to Bob Harris on Radio 2? It is his weekly country show. When it comes to American food, are you a secret boiled peanut or grits eater?
Also ive read that Americans think the British dont complaint enough is this true x
More than 50 years ago we decimalised our currency but even today I still occasionally mentally convert new pence to the old Imperial coinage so thinking in dollars after 10 years means you still have a long way to go 😊
Ceiling fans and air conditioners very common in Australia.
No country music in the UK? Time to break out The Wurzels
Both uk and America mix up weights and measures.for example why buy dry goods in litres and Americans often say miles per hour
Do you know we have Radio stations that just play Country Music.
I you have an a Alexa
Say Alexa play Absolute Radio Country.
This radio station plays all old and modern Country music.
That fine nuanced fact about how mid and south Florida is not really The South. 😂 My mom was born in Pensacola - The South. Anywhere below the panhandle isn't The South.
And a term we picked up after talking to you: "the Art of Suffering" . . . We use that one quite a bit. 😆
The south end south of Gainesville!😊.
Mac and cheese originates from Northern Europe, first really noted in the 1760s. Jefferson discovered it on a visit to Europe.
Pretty much the case with most 'American' cuisine having been gained from everywhere that has had immigrants migrate their - so from everywhere really.
Never lived in the US but every time I come back to the UK after a holiday I miss liquid coffee creamer 😢
I'm a Brit and personally I love your accent
It would be interesting to hear your views on religion and the monarchy.
Very common to have a ceiling fan in the UK. Air conditioning costs too much so we use ceiling fans and floor standing and desktop fans.
In the UK you usually have to ask for a "doggy bag" to take home your leftovers. They will give you some sort of container such as a bag, a box or plastic tub to put it in.
Your accent hasn't changed fully but it has really softened now compared to your accent in your early videos. You can change your accent as an adult, if you move to a different area, without meaning to or even trying? Mine did when I moved to london and it's changed back after I moved back home.
Salt/seasoning in the UK is usually left to the recipient to add to their own taste.
In regards to Christmas decorations, you live in London. People tend not to put things out in their gardens due to the fact it will not be there when they wake up, and the same with indoor decorations, it used to attract burglars around Xmas time in London. I lived there, my wife is from there. We used to decorate big but not many around us did. But if you go outside London you will see a big difference. Up north where live now, We make our front garden look like a Santa's grotto. Xmas lights, animated props in the window, And I use a projector outdoors project various Xmas scenarios in our garden (at Halloween too);Our neighbours across the road has a 20ft inflatable Santa on their roof every year with all the lights and ornaments. It's pretty typical around here. London is ok.
My wife's whole family are from there 7 of them including her, but all moved around various places in Britain (Scunthorpe, Kent, Wales, Isle of wight etc) so only one remains in the greater London area now, they will all tell you that the experience of living in London is not typical of the rest of Britain. In General London isn't a good yardstick. It's a very insular place. It's in its own little world. It's good for a visit, whether it be a holiday or a few weeks working away, but it's not somewhere either me, my wife or any if her brother's and sisters would live full time in again. It's nice to see the sights, though every now and again. Your never bored of places to see.
But I've seen Londoners visiting places outside of London, and it was as if they were dropped off on mars. Everything was alien to them. The open spaces, not having such busy queues, people talking to them as they passed by. Even just strangers being nice! My son who was ten when we moved up north, was with us on the Sunday after we moved, on a visit to Hemswell market and antiques centre, and it was basically a big boot sale in a muddy field. He was slipping about and almost went arse over tit, and this kind lady basically caught him and stopped him going flat on his face.
Instead of thanking her he pulled himself away, and shouted in his very loud Danny Dyer cockney voice *watch it, you tramp!" We couldn't believe what we hearing! He had not been brought up to behave that way or talk to anyone like that. We apologised to the shocked lady, a nice lady in her late 40s who was only trying to help, and I pulled him aside and gave him a bit of a bollocking, and asked him why he did that, he basically explained that he got scared and thought she might have been trying to attack him or run off with him, stranger danger and all that. He was just nit used to people he didn't kniw being nice to him. (Not that there are no nice people in London there are millions, it's just people there tend to keep more to themselves and not get involved, and that is what he was used to) So we had to explain to him that she was only helping him and that people here are a bit friendlier than what he was used to. So when we went down the next isle we saw her again and he went and apologised.
Honestly I have never been so embarrassed in my life.
I find the concept of expecting to take leftovers home from a restaurant meal a bit weird. I understand avoiding waste, but why deliberately create it in the first place?
The concept is completely OK. Sometimes the portions are just too big. My mother (old and small) often couldn't get a smaller portion in restaurants. So most of the time she took home the leftovers. Very rarely I take the large pizza instead of the small to have something for tomorrow. But I wouldn't order some big meal and some other meal or appetizer so I can have leftovers.
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It is fine where the diner may have a smaller than average appetite. But why serve portions larger than most people can eat?
@@grahvisIn the US it seems to be a competition thing.
The other thing is that people eat very different portions. I eat double than my mother. And a friend of mine eats double of what I eat. He would be disappointed with a "normal" portion. The goal is to satisfy as many people as possible.
Air Con is bad for the environment, wasting energy. Las Vegas is an environmental obscenity for example, why build a city in the midst of a desert?
Macaroni & Cheese is a lot more popular in Scotland. Macaroni is one of the things I bring back to England everytime I visit Scotland.
1st up. No problem with the accent. However. I must ask. Is your Florida accent typical of the State? I Know a woman from Florida and she sounds like Scarlet O'Hara. I could listen to her all day. She is from north Florida, Would that explain it?
Do you plan to release an Audible version of your book? It's love to read it, but I'm Severely Visually Impaired, or legally blind, as you Americans call it. ❤
Hello! I would love to do that and sorry to hear it isn't currently accessible for you. I will see what I can do. :)
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial That would truly be amazing!!!!! Would be the first in line to buy if it came out!! ❤️
That's something you could do for a video. Explain the American school system and the words we hear in US movies and TV programmes. Alumni, Homecoming, fraternities (and the other one I can't even spell)... and wtf is a 'Glee Club'?
Hayfever is the first "good" reason to use a dryer.
The issue is that living in two different countries can produce a really strange accent combination. Like mr. Van Dyke in Mary Poppins!!
Also, i worked with a lady from England who lived in Texas for about 7 years and developed a strange Australian sounding accent.
Ceiling fans were common in the 80s and 90s in new buikds, but then rules and regs came in due to high profile accidents with children and fingers, so they dropped out of popularity in new builds as they needed a higher ceilings as parents lost their way in teaching their children
Ive got a portable AC. It's too noisy and it's touted as being a quiet one.
i’d recommend getting a fan, they are pretty portable and can be very quiet 😊
I know plenty of fellow Brits that use "dollar" as slang for cash in a generic way such as "I won't be out Friday, I just haven't got the dollar"
I like country music like Garth Brooks, John Prince, and I'm British!!!
Alumni in the UK usually wear a scarf or a tie from their university
You have a great accent.
A 'take away box' is known as a doggy bag in the UK
Living in Germany for a long while, I still always said... I still said Quid just like you say dollars
I'm not sure it's that Americans are loud, maybe slightly, but they speak quickly, sometimes.
Your accent isn't bad, who ever says so can bog off 😊
If tacky = happy, then more power to tacky ❤❤❤
If at ALL possible I dry clothes in fresh air. I absolutely hate tumble driers. It smells so fresh when dried outside and leaves things slightly damp which is super for ironing. Driers screw it up.
Your American accent is great! To hang clothes on it's called clothes horse and your taste palette is not strange, along with the other habits.
Ex UK. Lived in Aussie then Thailand (commenting from Isaan). I keep my sanity by watching Vlogs like yours.
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U keep your sanity..... by listening to an American??? hahaha
Wall mounted air conditioning systems are getting more popular in the UK as the climate changes, they become less expensive, and people realise that they can heat the home with them too.
Some restaurants do offer a doggy bag to take home leftovers.
I expect you'll find that even though you have an American accent, if you were talking to people in the US, they would comment on your British accent.
if the world all used AC it’ll just make climate change worse……😢
I actually really like the American accent, I have a friend who lives in Mississippi and she has a very strong southern accent but I like it. Some of the accents in the UK are annoying to some people. Also we ❤ going mad at Xmas our house is like Santa's grotto, plenty of lights on the outside and indoors 😊 just do what makes you happy,