@@Trix897or rather, that they're two different phrases that mean two different things, could care less and couldn't care less, one means you absolutely don't care, one means you could literally care less.
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard another American say “winningest”. Like, I’ve maybe heard that on tv. “Could care less” bothers some of us as well, don’t worry
My son lived with my sister in England for a couple of years, and the first things he told me was: it's a bum bag, not a fanny pack; a backward peace sign is like giving them the middle finger.
@@Sick_Boy_Rick74 Its called the Vicky for obvious reasons and in olden times soldiers caught there enemies and would cut the Two fingers off of archer's so they couldn't use there bow So they would give them the Vicky to say F.U we chopped you fingers off lol
@unclemaca I heard a different version, where the French, during the Hundred Years War, would chop off the two bow-pulling fingers of English archers, and that the English archers flicked vs at the French to show they still HAD those fingers and would continue to use them. After all, flicking a v is a British thing, something the French never do
I am 45 years old and in all that time I've never heard anyone use the phrase "I'm shook." In a conversation. Heck until this video I didn't even know that was a phrase, that existed and was attributed to us Americans. I still remember a line from an episode of M.A.S.H. Hawkeye and Trapper are complimenting a Korean kid on his English. Trapper says something along the lines of "Yes you speak our language well." Hawkeye responsds with something along the lines of "Yes you can't learn English from Americans."
As a Canadian, we're kind of middle ground, especially the older generation. When I went to school, we pronounced the last letter of the alphabet as 'zed'. My kids who went to school in the 2000s pronounce it 'zee'.
I've always wondered about the logic behind the use of 'could care less' when the speaker using it really doesn't care as opposed to the use of 'couldn't care less' being more correct.
There is no logic in that non phrase. If you say you could care less then that's exactly what you're saying. However if you COULDN'T care less, that's exactly what you're saying also.
Yeah, I'm a Canadian. We call the entire run of a TV program a series. We call one years worth of programs a season like we would call a years worth of baseball games a season. We don't use it like we would when describing spring, summer, autumn or winter. We refer to it in sporting terms. So in that case, you Brits have it wrong. You use series for a season and for the full run of episode until it's either cancelled or just comes to its natural end. We use 2 different terms.
Deplane has its origins in the American tv show Fantasy Island, where the character Tattoo (played by actor Herve Villechaize) would often shout, "De plane, de plane!"
Ive noticed from going to america several times over the years that they say "can i get..." e.g "can i get a cheeseburger" where as brits said "can i have" "please can I have" or "May I have" but i have noticed that loads of people in uk seem to have adopted it to "can i get..."
Exactly! It's a Lego brick, or a piece of Lego, but one does not step "on a Lego", nor does one "play with their Legos". That is one that I cannot let slide!
Season, in America, does not refer to the seasons of the year. A series is a show in it’s entirety. A season refers to a particular number of episodes in a continuous, ongoing series. For example: Season one might have six episodes, season two might have seven, and so on.
I never really thought about the "deplane" etc before! The word "detrain" is used as standard on London Underground, and maybe other railways these days. All the others annoy me though!
I’ve lived in London for 20 years and use the tube every day. I have never once heard the word ‘detrain’. I assume from your username you drive trains on the District line. Maybe this is a word for staff only. The tube uses a lot of American terms for some reason. Like ‘cars’ instead of the British term ‘carriages’.
@@ihateunicorns867 It probably is just a staff term to be fair! The controller could call us up and ask us to detrain at the next station for example. I used to be a driver on the District (and Jubilee before) but now retired.
@@micmac274 The use of detrain is generally for a non-timetabled termination, for example the controller could call up and say detrain at Parsons Green then stable. This would mean informing the passengers when you've been told of an early termination point, then on arrival at that station, the station staff would generally meet the train and they would start detraining from the rear, while the driver starts from the front. It's basically checking there's no-one or nothing in each car, then closing the doors on that individual car using a 'porter button'.
Since when is "pop" culture legitimate correct English? SOME people misspeak and use lousy English while most people do not. The loudest are normally the most ignorant.
Gotten is actually very old English and has been contracted to got. Also BandAid sang a song that has lyrics that don’t mean much. If it is Christmas then it’s warm which would negate the snow in the first place
#6 I totally understand as It can change simply by what the building is for or how who ever owns the building whishes it. Ground floor can be called, Lobby, ground, or even Main floor, kinda depends on how "formal" the build is.
the chip part is multi-level & culture specific. Chips is used as general term as most are sold as (what ever flavor) potato chip, Now UK Chips are what we call country style or Home style "fries" ya we got a crazy number of "style" of fries here.🤣 But ya fries is more or less just called that because that's how there made, in a fryer.
i agree on most of these. thank you for including quite and COULDNT care less. quite is typically overlooked. David Mitchell has always been a grammar hero to me.
On the season vs series thing, Americans and Canadians tend to have 21 or 22 episodes in a season which is one year of a program. In Britain, you tend to go for 8 to 10 episodes, but will have 2 series a year. Back in the day, all the new shows came out in the Autumn in the US and Canada so it was the "TV season" as all the new shows were on. OR< I could be way off base
‘Got’ used as a verb in its own right. I have seen in American film subtitles ‘what do you got?’, which explains why when I ask a yank or a Brit under 60 ‘have you got an explanation?’ they reply ‘Yes, I do/no I don’t’ which grates for anyone who grew up using the same auxiliary verb in the answer that was used in the question. The reply should be ‘Yes I HAVE/no I HAVEN’T’. If you think this is being pedantic try it with another auxiliary plus participle construction ‘Have you fed the dog?’ ‘No, I don’t’ But the yanks hardly use the perfect tense now - ‘Look what you did!’ Not ‘Look what you’ve done,’
As someone from the US, I agree. I don’t say I’m German…I say I’m of German descent or that I’m German American, but only if someone asks about my ancestral background. Otherwise, I’m just someone from the US, just like those that have people from Ireland as their ancestors. 🤷🏻♀️
32 million Americans are of Irish descent-that’s exponentially larger than the population of Ireland today. For many, their ancestors immigrated during/ after the famine and these ancestors formed large diaspora communities in major American cities. As a result, a unique Irish American identity formed- not Irish like compatriots across the Atlantic; but Irish in decent and clearly demarcated as its own sub-population within the US. Genealogy is a major hobby in the US, too; there are many Americans of Irish decent who have been able to track down their ancestors’ immigration records. The Irish diaspora in the US is a complex subject, but I would argue that the “Irish American” identity is distinct from Irish in the born and raised IN IRELAND sense.
I don’t know if this is strictly an Americanism but the one that REALLY annoys me (and I’m an American btw) is the way the word nuclear is mispronounced. Some people, including those who should know better, say “nucular”. Drives me crazy for some reason. Lol.
The one that particularly irritates me wasn’t mentioned “Burglarise”. It’s a useless term. The root is the verb to ‘burgle’ from which we get burglar. We don’t need to create an alternative verb when we already have the root word being a verb.
OK, here's a British-ism that annoys THIS American: When someone says, "He was taken to hospital." What happened to "the" before hospital? It's like saying "I'm going to grocery store" or "I'm going to ice rink." I'm curious as to why the article is dropped for hospital.
Spot on. I absolutely hate “irregardless.” And yes, the deplane explanation makes sense. I’m afraid many Americans would say “alight” sounds haughty. Possessing a wide-ranging vocabulary seems to be frowned upon. I don’t let it stop me from adding words to my vernacular. Hahahahahaha.
One wrong is "chips". Chips is not an Americanism. Every English speaking country calls them chips except the UK. It was the UK that changed the name to "Crisps" in the UK because they couldn't handle the hot ones being chips and the cold ones also being chips. Another wrong is "pants" for underwear. That's another British only thing as well.
As an American, I agree with many of these especially winningest,shook, irregardless, and I could care less. I never use those terms. I can’t get on board with Zed though.
A niche one that annoys me is how the Americans will call an albatross in golf a "double-eagle". Not only does albatross just sound nicer, but "double-eagle" is mathematically inaccurate. An albatross/double eagle is -3 for the hole, while an eagle is -2 for the hole, so surely a "double eagle" would be -4 for the hole? On a possibly-related note, I didn't get much sleep last night. 😔
American English (AE) is forced on us these days. It started for me when "Marathon" was changed to "Snickers". Nowadays we here AE everywhere you go and yet we're expected to understand this dialect that frankly makes no sense.
I’m from the US and some of these I agree with you…couldn’t care less, irregardless and gotten are the three that drive me nuts as well as a couple of others that didn’t make the list. However, keep in mind that for several centuries, there was AN OCEAN between us, so the language evolved differently in our respective countries. Plus “Alternative Facts” is all a Trump thing, and the country shouldn’t be punished for that. Yes, there are some confusing things about how the English language differs between the two countries, but they’re not hard to navigate. Different doesn’t mean wrong…it just means DIFFERENT. I swear, people from both sides of the Atlantic just need to get over themselves… Oh, and one thing that is cringe to me about Brits? You forget there’s more than one country in AMERICA! In fact, there’s TWO CONTINENTS and a stretch of land that connect the two that are ALL America!!! It wouldn’t hurt for y’all to be more specific when you say you’re going to America and say which country going forward. 🤷🏻♀️
First off, here’s one they didn’t point out, and it’s ‘there’s’ when referring to more than a single thing. At least try ‘there’re’, it would help, I feel like that’s the new one Americans are pushing. Also, ‘mad’ instead of ‘angry’ makes me apoplectic. Secondly, I think US folks push the America thing, and have done so for decades now in a bit of a propaganda campaign, mostly to build influence in the Americas. It’s kind of been that way since the Monroe Doctrine, which had its own problems.
I have the sudden urge to do the following. 1. Fly to London, England 2. Stroll down Downing Street 3. While I'm there say all of these Americanisms out loud 4. Afterwards shout "U.S.A, U.S.A!" But if I were to do that I would be banned from the U.K. so...choices.
"I have gotten" is grammatically correct as using the past participle. "Math" in American English is a collective singular noun, so the S is unnecessary.
I don't like 'gotten' and 'waiting on' either. I also don't like surplus use of 'of' as in 'off of', 'inside of' and similar, omission of 'of' as in 'couple minutes' instead of 'couple of minutes'. But the one I hate most is 'oftentimes'. Is that even a legitimate word? I like 'math' though.
Everytime they scream wooooooo! Also the recent start of everyone saying they have not done something for a minute (long time). Straight away (straight)
Surprised to see the one that really annoys me not on this list: "bit" in the passive voice, as in "I was bit". NO! It's "I was bitTEN!!!" If *you* were doing the biting *then* you could say bit, but if it's a dog or some other animal doing the biting it's bit*TEN*!
Look, I'm an American who lives in the UK and I usually try not to get too uptight about fun videos, but could you PLEASE try to make a cultural comparison video that isn't tinged with xenophobia and classism? We're not freaking stupid, we just have different phrases. There' plenty of British phrases that annoy us but you don't see us essentially calling you uneducated pricks. Maybe I'm just tired of people actively 'correcting' my language instead of getting to know me as a person.
I know what you mean but this is a British version of watch mojo. The American watch mojo makes similar assumptions against British. So don't take it personally x
The americanisem I hate is normalcy, what's wrong with normality or just straight normal, I've lived in america 23 years and all the others I can deal with or put up with even though I do agree with you about them, but normalcy makes me so passed off when I hear it
alot of hate the phrase "alternative fact" more so cause we know it mean there lying in a way that not illegal, people here hate it cause its so damn annoying.
What? Fanny means back side here in the US. Watching British TV, fanny usually implies ... a VJ jay. Since when is fanny backside in the UK? Am I wrong?
"Disasterence". I've heard this word used in US news segments; in place of the word 'disaster'. eg: "it's an unmitigated disasterance." Is this a real americanism, or is it just simple idiocy?
It’s a Latin thing for those in the UK, since it was once controlled by Rome. After all, Z is “Zed” in French and “Zeta” in Spanish, both languages that are more directly derived from Latin.
No, not really. I think it might be somewhere close to that in Spanish, but that’s about it. American English is closer to Spanish than English with some words, especially in words like ‘favor’ instead of ‘favour’, which is the exact same as the Spanish ‘por favor’.
Dude! Winnestist is a joke. It's not a real word. IT"S A JOKE. Irregardless is not a real word. Being told that by autocorrect as I type. At this point, I should just pick all the Welsh words and say, British. I guess the Brits call a microwave a poppy ping or such.
Soccer actually started in the UK as a shortened forrm of "association football". We all know that Briits like to shorten words, but not as much as Australians. Remember "rugger" for rugby?
@@jwb52z9 Yeah but at least Rugger is the same sport we shorten Football to Footie because no one calls it Association Football Anymore the only formal time you will is The Football Association Challenge Cup aka the FA Cup but we put the word Football in front of Association we also have the Rugy Football Union RFU Rugby Football Union but is because Rugby started from someone picking up a Football you Also have the RFL Rugby Football League. But for the Americans to play Gridiron which doesn't have Any football origins like Rugby or resemble anything close to Rugby either feels like the Americans stole the same of one the most popular sports in the world to market there Rubbish league. Because they don't have relegation and usually the same few teams get to the Super bowl and it isn't really competitive. I remember in England Channel 4 advertised American football I was a kid so I was like Football ⚽️ on TV cool I think it was the San Francisco 49ers vs the Jacksonville Jaguars I was like weird names I didn't know my American Geography and thought it would be a Local Derby like West Brom Vs Wolves. I put it on and was like what is this. I changed Channel. Forgot about it few years later the BBC advertised it and I thought Oooh Ok I think It was the Eagles vs the Patriots or something and then Again I was baffled. Then every 10 seconds it cut back to the studio I then learnt Americans had there own league the MLS I googled S I was still young and found out Soccer since then it has angered me just call it Football Footie. Soccer isn't used anymore and it wouldn't be an issue if you hadn't called Gridiron Football which should be called American Rugby maybe, American Handball or Rugball a Combination of Rugby and Handall. Or call it Gridiron or griddy or American rules
Bangs I get cause even my self as a kid that just what we were told they are, alot of things are named like that over here, just called that cause no one rly told them a different word for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No American with an education says the first or last thumbnail bit. I could care less is real though, and doesn't belong on this list. I could/couldn't care less, used to denote your level of care for insert thing here. Mom did drugs again, I couldn't care less (I don't care). Dad almost died from a stroke, I could care less (I care, but not much). Now, that last one is from like Chip and Dale or something, we say "Regardless", this term "irregardless" is a made up cartoon variation that I guarantee no American actually says. It's like "indubitably", it's not a real word. We say "Regardless". And finally, the first one. No one says shook, unless it's past tense of shake. I shook the jar until the contents mixed well. If it's I'm, it's shaken, or shocked. Now, as an American, and not one of the stupid ones, can I point out how messed up and wrong it is to say Americans say these things, and claim it annoys Brits, but without it being things that, 2/3 of the time, Americans actually say? Thanks
Yeah but, when most people say “I could care less” they really mean “I couldn’t care less”. They confuse the two. I also have actually heard people say “irregardless” on a few occasions.
Sorry, television seasons refer to the year, not the episode. So a television series that runs for ten years is said to have had ten seasons, S1 EP5, season 1 episode 5 lets you know it's not from season 6 episode 5. It's not wrong, it's just different, yet it makes perfect sense. From the dictionary: Series - a number of things, events, or people of a similar kind or related nature coming one after another. (pretty much self explanatory) Some things you mention are just bad English, like the non-word irregardless. No debate, it's just wrong. Chips. You can call them crisps all you like. They are an American invention so chips is correct. Trust me, nobody cares if you call them crisps. You'd almost have to call them something else since you call French fries chips :D French fries in France are called pommes de terre frites. Pommes de terre, meaning potato, frites meaning fries, though rumor has it French fries were invented in Belgium. Go figure (American expression) In the United States and Canada, gotten is the preferred past participle form of the verb get. So here it's correct, but not in Britain. It's not wrong, it's how language changes over time, and we're not on the same continent so it's perfectly natural. Alternative facts is something Trump's group came up with to pass off lies as truth. Any American with a brain and basic education knows this. "I could care less" is, again, just bad English. It's amusing though because they are trying to say one thing and saying the opposite. There are two facts not taken into consideration. One is that since we split with Britain, American English hasn't changed nearly as much as it has in Britain. Also, we're called "The Melting Pot" for a reason. A lot of our language now has absorbed words and phrases from the experience of our culture here being so diverse, our only real culture is diversity. I know for a fact our English reflects that. Thanks! This was fun as well as well as informative.
first entry, I was stifling nothing! #1 on the list was predictable, why do americans say they care when they mean they dont? people if you can care less about something it means you do care about it to some degree!
So this is an 18-minute defense (yes, with an S) of the British delusion that any term other than what they use is, by their definition, not just different but wrong. Maybe that offers a clue as to why many colonies hated their British overlords. By the way, some (many) of the terms you attributed to us we don't even say. You seem to use TV shows and films as your only sources. Or, maybe the only actual Americans you've heard talk are people interviewed on Fox News using grammar not taught in school. (Do you seriously think anyone who's not a MAGAt uses the term alternative facts?) As far as "z," I think Lost in the Pond explained that.
No, it’s the past participle when used in the perfect tense plus to have as the auxiliary verb. The preterite (past) of to get is got. Yanks (and some Brits) may say I have gotten up, but they all say I got up.
This video is very misleading. Many of the words mentioned aren't used in our everyday speech. Almost all the examples are from comedy shows. I have never heard anyone say winningest or irregardless.
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Americans who speak English correctly know "irregardless" is not a word.
And that the phrase is “couldn’t care less.”
Americans in general do, Brits projecting tbph
@@Trix897or rather, that they're two different phrases that mean two different things, could care less and couldn't care less, one means you absolutely don't care, one means you could literally care less.
@@lexruptor honey, stop mansplaining things that don’t need to be mansplained. It makes you look like an idiot.
Who wants to be around an idiot?
Mom taught me that people do the best they can....
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard another American say “winningest”. Like, I’ve maybe heard that on tv.
“Could care less” bothers some of us as well, don’t worry
The quotes in the thumbnail are just incorrect English. I'm American and I don't use those expressions because I know that they are incorrect English.
My son lived with my sister in England for a couple of years, and the first things he told me was: it's a bum bag, not a fanny pack; a backward peace sign is like giving them the middle finger.
I had no idea!!! Good to know. I’m going to try using that on one of my buddies that’s come over here (Colorado) to work. ✌🏽
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@@Sick_Boy_Rick74 Its called the Vicky for obvious reasons and in olden times soldiers caught there enemies and would cut the Two fingers off of archer's so they couldn't use there bow So they would give them the Vicky to say F.U we chopped you fingers off lol
@unclemaca I heard a different version, where the French, during the Hundred Years War, would chop off the two bow-pulling fingers of English archers, and that the English archers flicked vs at the French to show they still HAD those fingers and would continue to use them.
After all, flicking a v is a British thing, something the French never do
As George Bernard Shaw said, "England and America are two contries seperated by the same language". Sooooo true.
I am 45 years old and in all that time I've never heard anyone use the phrase "I'm shook." In a conversation. Heck until this video I didn't even know that was a phrase, that existed and was attributed to us Americans.
I still remember a line from an episode of M.A.S.H. Hawkeye and Trapper are complimenting a Korean kid on his English. Trapper says something along the lines of "Yes you speak our language well." Hawkeye responsds with something along the lines of "Yes you can't learn English from Americans."
As someone from the UK, I'll only use 'I'm shook' ironically
As a Canadian, we're kind of middle ground, especially the older generation. When I went to school, we pronounced the last letter of the alphabet as 'zed'. My kids who went to school in the 2000s pronounce it 'zee'.
The problem with "zed" is that it messes up the alphabet song! ;-)
For number 17 I usually say “A new series is on” and “The season finale of a show is on” I do this so im not confused
I've always wondered about the logic behind the use of 'could care less' when the speaker using it really doesn't care as opposed to the use of 'couldn't care less' being more correct.
There is no logic in that non phrase. If you say you could care less then that's exactly what you're saying. However if you COULDN'T care less, that's exactly what you're saying also.
This is one of most bestest videos I've ever seen about the English language.
😂😂😂😂❤
I genuinely thought fringes and bangs were different parts of the hair
Yeah, I'm a Canadian. We call the entire run of a TV program a series. We call one years worth of programs a season like we would call a years worth of baseball games a season. We don't use it like we would when describing spring, summer, autumn or winter. We refer to it in sporting terms. So in that case, you Brits have it wrong. You use series for a season and for the full run of episode until it's either cancelled or just comes to its natural end. We use 2 different terms.
Deplane has its origins in the American tv show Fantasy Island, where the character Tattoo (played by actor Herve Villechaize) would often shout, "De plane, de plane!"
Ive noticed from going to america several times over the years that they say "can i get..." e.g "can i get a cheeseburger" where as brits said "can i have" "please can I have" or "May I have" but i have noticed that loads of people in uk seem to have adopted it to "can i get..."
*Legos*
It’s Lego. Like rice. Not a “bowl of rices.” There’s not “a rice” on the floor. Lego is the plural.
Collective singular noun.
Agree!
Exactly! It's a Lego brick, or a piece of Lego, but one does not step "on a Lego", nor does one "play with their Legos". That is one that I cannot let slide!
Don't agree with the season as we in Britain say series because there are only 6 episodes, but for Americans its 24+ so takes an entire season to show
Season, in America, does not refer to the seasons of the year. A series is a show in it’s entirety. A season refers to a particular number of episodes in a continuous, ongoing series. For example: Season one might have six episodes, season two might have seven, and so on.
I'm British and I say season not series
Regarding the crisps/chips thing: in Australia, fried potato slices (be they wafer thin or chunky, cold or hot) are called 'chips'
I never really thought about the "deplane" etc before! The word "detrain" is used as standard on London Underground, and maybe other railways these days. All the others annoy me though!
I’ve lived in London for 20 years and use the tube every day. I have never once heard the word ‘detrain’.
I assume from your username you drive trains on the District line. Maybe this is a word for staff only. The tube uses a lot of American terms for some reason. Like ‘cars’ instead of the British term ‘carriages’.
@@ihateunicorns867 It probably is just a staff term to be fair! The controller could call us up and ask us to detrain at the next station for example. I used to be a driver on the District (and Jubilee before) but now retired.
@@DistrictDriver Are there procedures involved when you get off, maybe this is so they can use detrain to also involve those procedures?
@@micmac274 The use of detrain is generally for a non-timetabled termination, for example the controller could call up and say detrain at Parsons Green then stable. This would mean informing the passengers when you've been told of an early termination point, then on arrival at that station, the station staff would generally meet the train and they would start detraining from the rear, while the driver starts from the front. It's basically checking there's no-one or nothing in each car, then closing the doors on that individual car using a 'porter button'.
Since when is "pop" culture legitimate correct English? SOME people misspeak and use lousy English while most people do not. The loudest are normally the most ignorant.
Gotten is actually very old English and has been contracted to got. Also BandAid sang a song that has lyrics that don’t mean much. If it is Christmas then it’s warm which would negate the snow in the first place
#6 I totally understand as It can change simply by what the building is for or how who ever owns the building whishes it.
Ground floor can be called, Lobby, ground, or even Main floor, kinda depends on how "formal" the build is.
the chip part is multi-level & culture specific. Chips is used as general term as most are sold as (what ever flavor) potato chip, Now UK Chips are what we call country style or Home style "fries" ya we got a crazy number of "style" of fries here.🤣
But ya fries is more or less just called that because that's how there made, in a fryer.
i agree on most of these. thank you for including quite and COULDNT care less. quite is typically overlooked. David Mitchell has always been a grammar hero to me.
it frustrates us to no end
“Winningest” just sounds moronic
On the season vs series thing, Americans and Canadians tend to have 21 or 22 episodes in a season which is one year of a program. In Britain, you tend to go for 8 to 10 episodes, but will have 2 series a year. Back in the day, all the new shows came out in the Autumn in the US and Canada so it was the "TV season" as all the new shows were on. OR< I could be way off base
‘Got’ used as a verb in its own right. I have seen in American film subtitles ‘what do you got?’, which explains why when I ask a yank or a Brit under 60 ‘have you got an explanation?’ they reply ‘Yes, I do/no I don’t’ which grates for anyone who grew up using the same auxiliary verb in the answer that was used in the question. The reply should be ‘Yes I HAVE/no I HAVEN’T’. If you think this is being pedantic try it with another auxiliary plus participle construction ‘Have you fed the dog?’ ‘No, I don’t’
But the yanks hardly use the perfect tense now - ‘Look what you did!’ Not ‘Look what you’ve done,’
Not for the Brits but when an American claims they're irish it drives us. Fecking. INSANE!!!
As someone from the US, I agree.
I don’t say I’m German…I say I’m of German descent or that I’m German American, but only if someone asks about my ancestral background.
Otherwise, I’m just someone from the US, just like those that have people from Ireland as their ancestors. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Trix897 well done, finally an American with common sense
@@Trix897you’re not German American 🤦♂️
What's with all the periods, is that fecking "I"rish?
32 million Americans are of Irish descent-that’s exponentially larger than the population of Ireland today. For many, their ancestors immigrated during/ after the famine and these ancestors formed large diaspora communities in major American cities. As a result, a unique Irish American identity formed- not Irish like compatriots across the Atlantic; but Irish in decent and clearly demarcated as its own sub-population within the US. Genealogy is a major hobby in the US, too; there are many Americans of Irish decent who have been able to track down their ancestors’ immigration records. The Irish diaspora in the US is a complex subject, but I would argue that the “Irish American” identity is distinct from Irish in the born and raised IN IRELAND sense.
Americans always finds ways to annoy the British public
Because many British tend to be stuffy.
Americans do not EVER even mention England or anywhere else but here. Just not interested apparently
im and American but even i dont care what happens in my own country. all i care about is just living my life the way i want@@doreekaplan2589
@@freya8133 no thats the elites and lbtrds
If you're a bit shook in Ireland just means you're hung over. "Jaysus I am shook norris this morning lads"
Why am I suddenly reminded of Weird Al Yankowic's "Word Crimes"?
Fanny Does NOT mean Backside in the UK, Think female front parts!
Fanny is also a woman's name in the US, but an old fashioned one.
I don’t know if this is strictly an Americanism but the one that REALLY annoys me (and I’m an American btw) is the way the word nuclear is mispronounced. Some people, including those who should know better, say “nucular”. Drives me crazy for some reason. Lol.
The one that particularly irritates me wasn’t mentioned “Burglarise”. It’s a useless term. The root is the verb to ‘burgle’ from which we get burglar. We don’t need to create an alternative verb when we already have the root word being a verb.
OK, here's a British-ism that annoys THIS American: When someone says, "He was taken to hospital." What happened to "the" before hospital? It's like saying "I'm going to grocery store" or "I'm going to ice rink." I'm curious as to why the article is dropped for hospital.
Spot on. I absolutely hate “irregardless.” And yes, the deplane explanation makes sense. I’m afraid many Americans would say “alight” sounds haughty. Possessing a wide-ranging vocabulary seems to be frowned upon. I don’t let it stop me from adding words to my vernacular. Hahahahahaha.
No one says those, wtf do you mean you hate em?
In the series of Carry on films, one was called ‘Carry on, regardless’
One wrong is "chips". Chips is not an Americanism. Every English speaking country calls them chips except the UK. It was the UK that changed the name to "Crisps" in the UK because they couldn't handle the hot ones being chips and the cold ones also being chips.
Another wrong is "pants" for underwear. That's another British only thing as well.
As an American, I agree with many of these especially winningest,shook, irregardless, and I could care less. I never use those terms. I can’t get on board with Zed though.
A niche one that annoys me is how the Americans will call an albatross in golf a "double-eagle". Not only does albatross just sound nicer, but "double-eagle" is mathematically inaccurate. An albatross/double eagle is -3 for the hole, while an eagle is -2 for the hole, so surely a "double eagle" would be -4 for the hole?
On a possibly-related note, I didn't get much sleep last night. 😔
Shook is a past tense of shake, but it's either 'I shook' or 'I'm shaken'.
As a brit, I personally prefer the zee pronunciation over zed
definitely works better in some situations 😅
@@WatchMojoUKlike most of your name changes.......
@@WatchMojoUK*most
@@WatchMojoUK The Alphabet Song, for instance!
American English (AE) is forced on us these days. It started for me when "Marathon" was changed to "Snickers". Nowadays we here AE everywhere you go and yet we're expected to understand this dialect that frankly makes no sense.
I’m from the US and some of these I agree with you…couldn’t care less, irregardless and gotten are the three that drive me nuts as well as a couple of others that didn’t make the list.
However, keep in mind that for several centuries, there was AN OCEAN between us, so the language evolved differently in our respective countries.
Plus “Alternative Facts” is all a Trump thing, and the country shouldn’t be punished for that.
Yes, there are some confusing things about how the English language differs between the two countries, but they’re not hard to navigate. Different doesn’t mean wrong…it just means DIFFERENT.
I swear, people from both sides of the Atlantic just need to get over themselves…
Oh, and one thing that is cringe to me about Brits? You forget there’s more than one country in AMERICA! In fact, there’s TWO CONTINENTS and a stretch of land that connect the two that are ALL America!!!
It wouldn’t hurt for y’all to be more specific when you say you’re going to America and say which country going forward. 🤷🏻♀️
First off, here’s one they didn’t point out, and it’s ‘there’s’ when referring to more than a single thing. At least try ‘there’re’, it would help, I feel like that’s the new one Americans are pushing. Also, ‘mad’ instead of ‘angry’ makes me apoplectic.
Secondly, I think US folks push the America thing, and have done so for decades now in a bit of a propaganda campaign, mostly to build influence in the Americas. It’s kind of been that way since the Monroe Doctrine, which had its own problems.
Many Americans find winningest obnoxious as well.
The one I find weird is calling the main course of a meal the entree. Entree in French is entrance, so surely that would be the starter/appetiser?
I have the sudden urge to do the following.
1. Fly to London, England
2. Stroll down Downing Street
3. While I'm there say all of these Americanisms out loud
4. Afterwards shout "U.S.A, U.S.A!"
But if I were to do that I would be banned from the U.K. so...choices.
"I have gotten" is grammatically correct as using the past participle. "Math" in American English is a collective singular noun, so the S is unnecessary.
Math and Write me are the two that boil my piss every single time i hear them spoken incorrectly
I don't like 'gotten' and 'waiting on' either. I also don't like surplus use of 'of' as in 'off of', 'inside of' and similar, omission of 'of' as in 'couple minutes' instead of 'couple of minutes'. But the one I hate most is 'oftentimes'. Is that even a legitimate word? I like 'math' though.
I could care less just doesn't make sense
4:45
Then how do you clarify if the show is over or just the collection of episodes?
they also say bring when they mean take. If Americans claim that the language they speak is English then why don't they just speak English?
Watchmojo just showed Sponge Bob Square Shorts (he isn't wearing trousers or pants, even the American pants) but called it Simpsons. Heresy!
Everytime they scream wooooooo!
Also the recent start of everyone saying they have not done something for a minute (long time).
Straight away (straight)
Surprised to see the one that really annoys me not on this list: "bit" in the passive voice, as in "I was bit". NO! It's "I was bitTEN!!!" If *you* were doing the biting *then* you could say bit, but if it's a dog or some other animal doing the biting it's bit*TEN*!
Not sure if it's an Americanism but the way they say Craig like Greg always bothers me.
The rest don't bother me much at all, but #1 DRIVES ME UP THE WALL!!!
2:47 clip titled as Simpsons when you are showing SpongeBob
Then simpsons titled as SpongeBob
Passed really passes me off, if someone has died just bloody say it, it's not that hard.
Look, I'm an American who lives in the UK and I usually try not to get too uptight about fun videos, but could you PLEASE try to make a cultural comparison video that isn't tinged with xenophobia and classism? We're not freaking stupid, we just have different phrases. There' plenty of British phrases that annoy us but you don't see us essentially calling you uneducated pricks. Maybe I'm just tired of people actively 'correcting' my language instead of getting to know me as a person.
I know what you mean but this is a British version of watch mojo. The American watch mojo makes similar assumptions against British. So don't take it personally x
I wish "fortnightly" would catch on here in the States. (And how appropriate for it to be #14 on the list.)
Here in Australia we say 'chips' not 'crisps'
The americanisem I hate is normalcy, what's wrong with normality or just straight normal, I've lived in america 23 years and all the others I can deal with or put up with even though I do agree with you about them, but normalcy makes me so passed off when I hear it
Passed off?
I'm American, literally never said winningest or heard someone over the age of 9 use it before.
Saying "the best of the worst" is cumbersome.
A american be like: Wrexham is the winningest team (Ryan Reynold's team that he bought)
step up to the plate. I despise this. At least lets use "step up to the wicket / oche / penalty spot"
are we not gonna mention the fact that the Spongebob movie title popped up during the clip of The Simpsons?
alot of hate the phrase "alternative fact" more so cause we know it mean there lying in a way that not illegal, people here hate it cause its so damn annoying.
With irregardless, I don't know if they mean regardless or irrespective.
Entree really confused me when I was in the US.
Spices in food are SEASONINGS
I've never even heard of these words . I just talk normally . 😊
What? Fanny means back side here in the US. Watching British TV, fanny usually implies ... a VJ jay. Since when is fanny backside in the UK? Am I wrong?
The one thing that really irritates is "y'all" I just find it very cringe
Ground floor equivalent is lobby in the US.
"Disasterence". I've heard this word used in US news segments; in place of the word 'disaster'.
eg: "it's an unmitigated disasterance."
Is this a real americanism, or is it just simple idiocy?
Z is pronounced is zee in various European languages
It’s a Latin thing for those in the UK, since it was once controlled by Rome. After all, Z is “Zed” in French and “Zeta” in Spanish, both languages that are more directly derived from Latin.
No, not really. I think it might be somewhere close to that in Spanish, but that’s about it. American English is closer to Spanish than English with some words, especially in words like ‘favor’ instead of ‘favour’, which is the exact same as the Spanish ‘por favor’.
How about, “the feels”
Americans also say "often times", which makes no sense at all! Why do they talk such nonsense?
as an american I honestly never hear winningest & ya just sound wrong like mouses for mice.
Dude! Winnestist is a joke. It's not a real word. IT"S A JOKE. Irregardless is not a real word. Being told that by autocorrect as I type. At this point, I should just pick all the Welsh words and say, British. I guess the Brits call a microwave a poppy ping or such.
Why is Z called Zed, but C isn’t called Ced? Or E called Ed?
Truth😂😂
Who’s Zed? …….. Zed’s dead baby and it’s called a chopper.
Why isn’t ‘W’ pronounced ‘Wee’ in the US? We could do this all day, you should get off it, this is a bad hill to die on.
😂
@@theperson8539 honestly W looks like it should be called double V.
Just like the empire you Brits should just get over it
Erb
Them Calling Football Soccer and Gridiron Football you play Football with you foot
Soccer actually started in the UK as a shortened forrm of "association football". We all know that Briits like to shorten words, but not as much as Australians. Remember "rugger" for rugby?
@@jwb52z9 Yeah but at least Rugger is the same sport we shorten Football to Footie because no one calls it Association Football Anymore the only formal time you will is The Football Association Challenge Cup aka the FA Cup but we put the word Football in front of Association we also have the Rugy Football Union RFU Rugby Football Union but is because Rugby started from someone picking up a Football you Also have the RFL Rugby Football League. But for the Americans to play Gridiron which doesn't have Any football origins like Rugby or resemble anything close to Rugby either feels like the Americans stole the same of one the most popular sports in the world to market there Rubbish league. Because they don't have relegation and usually the same few teams get to the Super bowl and it isn't really competitive. I remember in England Channel 4 advertised American football I was a kid so I was like Football ⚽️ on TV cool I think it was the San Francisco 49ers vs the Jacksonville Jaguars I was like weird names I didn't know my American Geography and thought it would be a Local Derby like West Brom Vs Wolves. I put it on and was like what is this. I changed Channel. Forgot about it few years later the BBC advertised it and I thought Oooh Ok I think It was the Eagles vs the Patriots or something and then Again I was baffled. Then every 10 seconds it cut back to the studio I then learnt Americans had there own league the MLS I googled S I was still young and found out Soccer since then it has angered me just call it Football Footie. Soccer isn't used anymore and it wouldn't be an issue if you hadn't called Gridiron Football which should be called American Rugby maybe, American Handball or Rugball a Combination of Rugby and Handall. Or call it Gridiron or griddy or American rules
I like A to Zee of all of this, irregardless
Bangs I get cause even my self as a kid that just what we were told they are, alot of things are named like that over here, just called that cause no one rly told them a different word for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's lots of other car related ones you didn't mention.
No American with an education says the first or last thumbnail bit. I could care less is real though, and doesn't belong on this list. I could/couldn't care less, used to denote your level of care for insert thing here. Mom did drugs again, I couldn't care less (I don't care). Dad almost died from a stroke, I could care less (I care, but not much). Now, that last one is from like Chip and Dale or something, we say "Regardless", this term "irregardless" is a made up cartoon variation that I guarantee no American actually says. It's like "indubitably", it's not a real word. We say "Regardless". And finally, the first one. No one says shook, unless it's past tense of shake. I shook the jar until the contents mixed well. If it's I'm, it's shaken, or shocked. Now, as an American, and not one of the stupid ones, can I point out how messed up and wrong it is to say Americans say these things, and claim it annoys Brits, but without it being things that, 2/3 of the time, Americans actually say? Thanks
No, "indubitably" s an adverb meaning "impossible to doubt".
Yeah but, when most people say “I could care less” they really mean “I couldn’t care less”. They confuse the two. I also have actually heard people say “irregardless” on a few occasions.
Sorry, television seasons refer to the year, not the episode. So a television series that runs for ten years is said to have had ten seasons, S1 EP5, season 1 episode 5 lets you know it's not from season 6 episode 5. It's not wrong, it's just different, yet it makes perfect sense.
From the dictionary: Series - a number of things, events, or people of a similar kind or related nature coming one after another. (pretty much self explanatory)
Some things you mention are just bad English, like the non-word irregardless. No debate, it's just wrong.
Chips. You can call them crisps all you like. They are an American invention so chips is correct. Trust me, nobody cares if you call them crisps. You'd almost have to call them something else since you call French fries chips :D French fries in France are called pommes de terre frites. Pommes de terre, meaning potato, frites meaning fries, though rumor has it French fries were invented in Belgium. Go figure (American expression)
In the United States and Canada, gotten is the preferred past participle form of the verb get. So here it's correct, but not in Britain. It's not wrong, it's how language changes over time, and we're not on the same continent so it's perfectly natural.
Alternative facts is something Trump's group came up with to pass off lies as truth. Any American with a brain and basic education knows this.
"I could care less" is, again, just bad English. It's amusing though because they are trying to say one thing and saying the opposite.
There are two facts not taken into consideration. One is that since we split with Britain, American English hasn't changed nearly as much as it has in Britain. Also, we're called "The Melting Pot" for a reason. A lot of our language now has absorbed words and phrases from the experience of our culture here being so diverse, our only real culture is diversity. I know for a fact our English reflects that.
Thanks! This was fun as well as well as informative.
I’m a Brit and hopefully speak properly xx 😳😳😳😳
I use seasons and series interchangeably tbh
first entry, I was stifling nothing! #1 on the list was predictable, why do americans say they care when they mean they dont? people if you can care less about something it means you do care about it to some degree!
Excuse me, but I am an American and I do not say “I could care less”. Only ignorant people speak that way. Stop generalizing.
So this is an 18-minute defense (yes, with an S) of the British delusion that any term other than what they use is, by their definition, not just different but wrong. Maybe that offers a clue as to why many colonies hated their British overlords. By the way, some (many) of the terms you attributed to us we don't even say. You seem to use TV shows and films as your only sources. Or, maybe the only actual Americans you've heard talk are people interviewed on Fox News using grammar not taught in school. (Do you seriously think anyone who's not a MAGAt uses the term alternative facts?) As far as "z," I think Lost in the Pond explained that.
Isn't "gotten" the PAST TENSE of "get"?
No, it’s the past participle when used in the perfect tense plus to have as the auxiliary verb. The preterite (past) of to get is got. Yanks (and some Brits) may say I have gotten up, but they all say I got up.
Normalcy has taken the place of normality.
David Mitchell for the win!
This video is very misleading. Many of the words mentioned aren't used in our everyday speech. Almost all the examples are from comedy shows. I have never heard anyone say winningest or irregardless.