American Reacts to Favorite British Phrases!
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- Let's check out Reddit's favorite British phrases! From quirky slang to everyday expressions, let's dive into the charming world of British lingo through the mind of Evan Edinger!
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Any UK people here remember saying 'Gordon Bennet'?
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Yes (and I still say it sometimes, although in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way). My grandma shortened it and used to just say "Oh Gordon....".
@@letsrock1729 Gordon Bennet the British footballer, or Gordon Bennett the New York firefighter?
@@BillDavies-ej6ye According to the Wikipedia page about this phrase (which I've just googled) neither. Never even wondered where it came from, as it was just something I heard a lot growing up in the 1970s (as being a version of 'Gorblimey').
@@letsrock1729 I thought it was the footballer, from the 1960s, a surprisingly common name in this context.
Taking Viagra wont turn you into James Bond, but it will make you Roger more.
Lol 😆
😂
That's clever.
Just be careful you don't Pierce Brosnan.
Naughty! 😀😀😀
The Tip is what we call the local disposal site where you can take old furniture and stuff to be recycled or dumped in landfill
The tip is what I call my sister's flat!
Nothing at the Tip goes to landfill anymore it's all recycled one way or another.
If you can dump something out you can tip it out, they mean the same thing!
When I first moved to England I was so confused by all the signs I would see for Boot Sales. I thought British people must really like boots 😂
"I'm not seeing that definition about 'Tip' at all! I think it's a LIE" - *while the UK definition of "Tip" is on his screen*
Numpty is okay, muppet is good, but PLONKER is very satisfying.
Give me a Wazzock any old day.
Pillock is up there too.
A thing people just dont get about the UK is we love slang, slang is STANDARD in speech not a special word or unique addition. We dont like to say the same things the same way over and over again, its what makes americans seem robotic like theyre saying canned lines. We love coming up with unique and silly ways to say things utilizing a vast range of rhyming slang, inuendo, satire, wordplay etc to make a unqie sentence. Its why americans will hear us saying we have 5 'quid' or referring to our shopping as a 'haul' and think oh in the uk they call money quid and their shopping a 'haul' and its like yes but also no, there are like 50 slang words for all these things as well as oc standard words for these items we will use in professional settings, we just speak in slang most of the time normally because its more fun and its how we grew up, having good bant or the gift of the gab is something massively respected in the UK imo. You often try to search for dictionary definitions for british words but thats missing the point that we speak in slang.
I especially love how creative we are with swear words and insults. Even adding 'absolute' in front of a random word and calling someone that always makes a good insult.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 and you can almost scale up the level of it too by how long you elongate parts of each word. Like abbbbbbsolute or abbbsoooooluuuuteeee dickhead.
"Like" we like to use full stops and paragraphs to ease comprehension and keep people from not being arsed to carry on reading a bloody great block of words, too.
I'm "like" sorry if you initially don't like what I've pulled you up for, but it's meant as constructive criticism so that your words of wisdom are accessed and liked by as many people as possible.
You might "like" like to drop the time, text, breath and brain power wasting West Coast affectation of the unnecessary "like" as it goes as well, fella.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch Your comment was harder to read than the other person's comment. Language changes, it's really cool. I hope you come to appreciate language one day- it's a fascinating subject!
@@bambino9235 And you, irony.
Best wishes from the motherland.
Thing about bloody being a swear is We'd always clap back with, when being told off-
"Bloody's in the Bible, bloody in the book, if you don't believe me, take a bloody look"
That just unlocked a core memory for me so thanks mate.
I learnt a slightly different version which, I think, scans better - Bloody in the Bible, Bloody in the Book, If you don't bloody believe me, go and bloody look.
Bloody was the only swear word I ever heard my dad utter!
Then there's the double euphemism "bleeding heck"
When Evan says that's not a British word, its just because it has been adopted by Americans. It doesn't mean the word didn't originate in Britain. Also, I hate to break it to you Evan, but 99 percent of the words that you speak originated in Britain, that's why it's called English. 😊
Apart from the several 1000 French ones we nicked.
@@Shoomer1988 Shh don't tell them. Their all original and not stolen.
You have to forgive him he’s gradually transitioning and is only half baked so far to go.
Very true, plus Latin, Indian, German, Celtic etc. it’s a beautiful mish mash.
99% of English didnt even originate in Britain. Arabic, Yiddish, Bengali, French German, Latin, at the very least.
“Fanny’s your aunt” is the 2nd half of “Bob’s your uncle”.
And Dick's your best friend.
Not heard that version.
A good friend at school was called Dick, only when we reached 13-14 and we found out what Seaman was other than his last name, he changed his name on his 18th birthday, what his dad was thinking christ only knows.
@@chrisshelley3027 😂
Rubber in England is an eraser, kids carry rubbers in their bookbags 😂
Sarky is a sandwich
Bap is a bun
A fanny is a vagina, finally, for explains to me, the term fanny pack being worn on the front
15:58 twat is 100% British word you picked it up from us, but 99% of Americans pronounce it wrong, they say ‘twot’ and i have no idea why
Because English has wallop, wash, swap, etc., and how about wander (-oh-), and wonder pronounced like a 'u'.
@@BillDavies-ej6ye and hat, cat, what's your point?
"What's all this then?" used to be a kind of stock phrase for policemen in TV and music hall acts before then. The policeman would announce their arrival with "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello," and follow it up with that phrase. Monty Python (and others) would typically use it (or a variant) for all of their police characters.
"i'm not seeing that definition about tip at all, i think it's a lie" while its literally on screen lmao
Dead centre as well, lmao
@@ericforsyth ikr
Certainly! Here's the revised text:
"It's not a lie. I'm American, and I've lived in England for 20 years. I say "the tip" or it looks like "a tip"."
Sharon & Tracy were talking down the pub:
Tracy: So what's this new man of yours like?
Sharon: He's tall, handsome and has the most incredible blue eyes - like sapphires!
Tracy: Ooh sounds great. What else?
Sharon: Well he's so brave, he's got nerves of steel!
Tracy: Wow! Impressive.
Sharon: And he's so kind. He's got a heart of gold!
Tracy: Sounds perfect!
Sharon: But I'm thinking of dumping him...
Tracy: Why? Sapphire blue eyes, nerves of steel and a heart of gold... what's wrong with him?
Sharon: Knob of butter.🙁
If you call the batsman a hitter, does that make the bowler a tosser?
oh my that's so funny.
Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy. Marvin, where are you? I’m in the car park. What are you doing in the car park? Parking cars. What else does one do in a car park. Love that line
Here I am,brain the size of a planet and what have they got me doing? Opening doors.
If there’s an afterlife I fervently hope that Mr Adams and Mr Pratchett are friends. Both sorely missed.
Wikipedia says "A landfill site, also known as a TIP, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, trash dump, or dumping ground".
He literally Googled the word tip and didn’t even add British in, couldn’t find it and declared it a lie. A perfect example of a muppet. Or a stereotype of an American?
A tip to me at least is usually a council run facility where you can take household waste that you want to get rid of or recycle that can't be put out for the bin men (refuse collectors for any confused Americans reading this). I wouldn't generally refer to a landfill site as the tip, it's a landfill.
@@susanpearson-creativefibro it was on the same page he looked on! it was on the screen!
@@susanpearson-creativefibro this is particularly good because it's true.
Coup is the word in Scotland.
If something is 'shit hot' then it is the same as the 'dog's bollocks' . That was common where I grew up, a farming area in Devon.
When something goes wrong it has gone 'tits up'.
I like "She's aw fur coat and nae knickers". That one has been making me laugh since I was a wean.
My Nan used to say "fur coat and red drawers" (to mean exactly the same thing) but I've never heard anyone else use her version, yours seems to be the norm!
Your average septic tank would skip past that comment totally baffled.
What is a wean?
Hahahaha.
@@TheCornishCockney Ah, sorry mate, wean's are what we call kids in my part of Scotland. Great username btw, bet you have some grand patter. ❤
@@ajikpajik9331 no,I know what it means.
Me ma came from Brigton so I hear “jock-isms” a lot.
The patter is in our DNA
😊
@@TheCornishCockney To be fair without having a laugh the rain up here would make life truly depressing. 😆
Dogs Bollocks is rumoured to be taken (adjusted) from when Meccano came about, there were two versions Box Standard and Box Deluxe, they became known as bog standard and the more expensive all singing Box Deluxe being Dogs Bollocks, Stephen Fry spoke about this on the programme QI but as he said it isn't guaranteed to be true, however I can see the chances being quite high and if it isn't true it should be.
Not many Americans in Scotland on reddit it seems. So many great Scottish expressions
One of my favs is "They looked like a pitbull, chewing a wasp".
Has always been a bulldog chewing a wasp, never heard Pitbull, they're not even legal in the UK
Usually bulldog rather than pitbull. Another variation is "A face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle".
And “Are you talking to me or chewing a brick?”
He isn't very observant when looking things up. I can clearly see the definition of tip on his screen.
The guy's name is Cecil, not seasill.
according to E M Forster author of 'A Room with a View' the correct pronunciation of cecil is most definitely seasil
@@garyhaines8385 Good for him. I've never heard any person from the UK ever say seasil.
@@elemar5I think we changed it cos it sounded silly saying seasil sometimes, see? (Or just to annoy some Cecil… and then it stuck.)
@@elemar5 wrong , my mother called an aquaintance that.
@@auldfouter8661 I've never met your mother.
One of my faves is: “Built like a brick sh*t house” (best said with the accent “buil’ like a brick shi’ ‘ouse”
Basically comparing someone to a brick outhouse that is built to be sturdy, as a way of saying that someone is a “unit; big and stocky”
The tip is where you go to tip your rubbish.
USA Cecil (See-cil) is pronounce Seh-sil in the UK
The bells in the old phones used to tinkle
The Cornish don't say 'love', they say 'moi luvver'. (accent included)
Ditto Bath (Bahf. No, not that, the pronunciation).
7:02 "I'm not seeing that definition about tip at all" he says, as his screen clearly displays the definition he is looking for.
Not sure what HE means by “rubber” but it may not mean what you think it means. In England “rubber” just means “eraser”.
Rubber also means condom in some parts of U.K.
I use “chuffed” ALL THE TIME. I’m proper chuffed by everything 😅
Chuffed to little mintballs.
I often don’t give a monkeys chuff
"What are you on about?" Usually means the person is talking rubbish, has mis-understood or is misrepresenting something. I don't recall it being said in any other way - but, maybe that is just where I've lived. Could be inter-changeable with "you're chatting sh*t." Haven't heard it used to ask someone for more explanation or clarification. "What's that?" might be used for that.
JJLA has such a likeable vibe that I can even tolerate whispering. That says a lot.. I usually am a hard no on any whispering on mic... But I dont mind with this bloke.. Great performance that can hack/bypass my misophonia.
The British meaning of TIP actually came up when you googled it, but you missed it - "a place where trash is deposited; a dump"
TIP - causing the contents of a container to be emptied. Thus if you have overfilled a glass of water, you tip some water out of the glass. This led to the term Fly Tipping, meaning to dump contents out of your car at the side of the road, ie you are tipping something out of your car spontaneously or "on the fly". Thus if we needed to dispose of say garden waste or a broken TV, that may not be collected in the normal rubbish collections, then we take them to the "tip". I'm sure other terms are used as well. We like having multiple meanings for words, and multiple words for the same meaning.
I do find it strange how often you are surprised that both our countries use different words to mean similar things, as if we are the weird ones ;), although I do have to give you credit for attempting to look up something that you are being told. However when looking up a common word such as tip, which has a variety of meanings, it shouldn't be a surprise that not all the definitions are displayed with the results of a quick Google search , as a search for "tip definition" produces tip (1), tip(2) and tip(3). You would have seen the definition that Evan referred to as a noun within the search results displayed for tip (2) - A place where rubbish is left
I always thought fly tipping was like cow tipping, but for very small people 😉
The full phase is actually: _Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt !_
Sarnie isn't particularly a northern word. It's used all over the country. I live in Derbyshire, (East Midlands), and in a little parish near me called Breaston, (pronounced Breeston), there's a shop called Barnie's Sarnies.
I’m from Sheffield and a saying we have is “ right good “ instead of very good eg, we went to the pub last night and it was right good. Another saying is when it gets dark clouds and it looks like rain is coming we say “ it looking black oer Bills mums “
it's more like reyt good surely
"Bleeding" is the typical bowdlerisation of "bloody", although I have heard "bloody bleeding".
I'm always doing word plays and these days I seem to spoonerise everything, even to point that the interesting sounding ones enter my vocab.... 'phobile moan' 'bosh the weird' for example... my point being I feel the British are naturally Word smithy. I , for the record, have also failed to bring back the word 'Forsooth' into the general lexicon. Which is a crying shame.
That's why we invented the crossword!
I was one time playing a game on the tinternet when a American said something , my reply was , stop being a daft " sod " , well all the Americans asked why did I call him a piece of turff , it was funny for a while until I got bored 😂 , then of course I said " it's sods law " 😂
Should have told them to "sod off" and left it.
Wee clarification - I would not call it British phrases it's more English. Scotland and Wales are British too. I can't make a judgment for Wales (never 've been there) but in Scotland - we have completely different phrases.
You’d be twp to go to the tip but I’ll give you a cwch to get over it,ych hi fi mun the place was boggin.
He did include one Scottish word, numptie, but don't know if there were any Welsh ones.
Nonce is an acronym - it stands for "Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise" & was either written on the cell door or in the paperwork of a sex offender - generally a paedophile - in prison to signify that the couldn't be in the exercise yard with other prisoners - because they would get the sh*t kicked out of them.
It isn't. Just as Posh has nothing to do with ships.
@@ruthmeb- correct, not an acronym
Oh and "bumf" (for junk mail).
I think a lot of English people would recognise the word but not know it's origin. It's short for "bum fodder" because in the days before commercially produced toilet paper, you'd use junk mail for the purpose!
Everytime he said Non-brits in the video I heard "Naan-breads" 😂
Same here!
😂 thank God it wasn’t just me! I was baffled.
“Bobs your uncle, fanny’s your aunt….”
Scots have the advantage of a whole other language to drop into with words like hirple, stramash, wheesht, corrie fistit, thrang, crabbit and fouter !
Tip is definitely the word for landfill area. It is used in Australia and NZ as well. We do not say the dump usually.
The Tip is like a land fill.. Where rubbish ia sent when picked up by the dust men..
We go to the tip to discard of rubbish, it's a national pastime. The rubbish lorries still tip unrecyclable rubbish onto a giant spoil heap called a rubbish tip (guess because the lorries empty by tipping up the back so the rubbish falls out.). These tips are also called 'landfill", but we still call the recycling centre, which is highly organised, THE TIP.
Bob’s your uncle. Bro, this is 2024. These days, Bob’s your auntie….🤭🤣🤷🏻♂️🏴
yes I've heard that used before
And of course “Robert is your mother’s brother!”
Blackadder knew all about women called "Bob"
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 no one says Bob like Rowan Atkinson..🫡🤷🏻♂️🏴
7:01 it is right there on the screen
Poppycock was originally American! Likely from early New York, from Dutch words meaning "soft shit". Another term like "numpty" or "muppet" is "wazzock" - it's regional but a good one and fun to say. The most British thing - particularly in some parts of London, is to combine the "question at the end" with "innit" - that's the way people talk, innit? I think "Taking the piss" comes from "piss-take" being a joking mispronunciation of "pastiche" - i.e., a spoof or imitation. BTW, another one from cricket is "I'm stumped", meaning I don't know the answer.
Not many people today seem to know that there's a proper response to "Bob's your uncle", which is "And Fanny's your aunt". Plus, I wonder how you'd react to someone promising to "give you a tinkle on the blower"?
At 7.04 he says: "Im not seeing that definition of tip at all", despite the dictionary definition right in front of his eyes stating: "a place where trash is deposited".........
the definition of tip was right there! 'A place where trash is deposited; a dump'
Nonce was prison slang for pedophiles.
N - Not
O - On
N - Normal
C - Courtyard
E - Exercise
It was written as nonce for short on the cell door.
Origin at HMP Wakefield. The guards put it on the doors of those 'not on normal courtyard exercise', thus why prisoners started to use it
When we talk about “the tip”, that is a Council run facility where you can take rubbish to be recycled or for landfill.
And "tip" is not a lie. I need to take lots of stuff to the tip currently. I've been procrastinating about it.
Your objection to love is because of insecurity about your manhood? We call both men and women love.
A Bin is a container used to hold hardware etc or rubbish. It can be tipped out.
Evan Evan, people do say ‘you what?’ usually angry over what someone has said, daring them to say it again. Yeah after a sentence isn’t British it’s an annoying London speak. If you want to sound British you definitely have to say bollocks or bellend it’s the law! Piss off can be taken in lots of ways depending how you say it, angrily or if some tells you something you think is ridiculous or is having friendly banter you can tell them lovingly to piss off. Your right ‘What you on about’ is saying your talking bollocks! Evan is right about tip. Innit ugh another London word used too much in a sentence usually at the end. Pop round is British. We say I’ll give you a ring, tinkle or a bell, maybe on the blower? Bruv sigh London again. We do say sticky wicket.
I am british and an evan edinger watcher, but it was only today I learned what a sticky wicket was.
I was born and grew up in England, then emigrated to Australia and we say a lot of the same words as the English but not all of them. My granddaughters who are 10yrs old are saying lots of American words as they watch utube and im always trying to correct them haha
Tip IS used for rubbish dump. As in, “going down the tip to offload the old fridge”.
My local version of calling someone love is to call them duck, so, hey how are you: ey up me duck
Where my dad lives, the version local is 'cock'
I remember being called that in Staffordshire, as a kid (pronunciation 'dook') - down here in the westcountry we say 'my lover'. Also 'proper job' which kind of means 'well done' but is used much more variedly.
I’m from Nottingham 🇬🇧 and we say eyup meduck!
@@drwoo6090 I'm on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border ☺️
we use duck a lot too in Sheffield (as well as love, sunshine, darling, etc)
@@leonardochapman4736 yes, duck is a bit further north, I think Doncaster says duck, too! 😀
Tip is not a lie. We go to the tip. We are talking phrases though on this clip right? My fave is not the sharpest knife in the block.Some words are only used in a subset of situations, sticky wicket is used around us in a micking way when a rich person is in trouble
Tip is our local recycling place.. for bulky items and things that can’t go in you every day bin.
Numpty is a Scottish phrase.
Amazing how many of these words and terms are used in Australia. We have developed our own slang of course and a few US terms have crept in to everyday use, but our language hasn't become so removed from the original English language as it has in the U.S.
Ditto across the ditch here in NZ. And of course a lot of kiwi slang is heard in Oz and vice versa.
Fair dinkum.
“Robert’s your Mother’s Brother”
I've never heard anyone say, "sticky wicket". A couple of years ago I watched a video on the Korean War and one officer's reply to a question of the current situation was, "It's a bit sticky". The questioner didn't understand what that meant, neither did I. The narrater said he meant "sticky wicket", I didn't know what that meant either and had to look it up.
The questioner thought he was saying the weather was warm, which is what I would have thought.
What he meant was they were outnumbered, nearly out of ammo and about to be overrun.
There was a recent study that found we have 546 words that mean “to be drunk. Basically any noun can be used 😂
Put any verb past participle after "absolutely" and it means drunk: absolutely painted, absolutely keelhauled, absolutely bleated...
Similarly, put any noun after "you absolute" and it means idiot: you absolute hatstand, you absolute planet, you absolute magnet...
Numptie (not the 'y' ending) is used more in Scotland, I believe. "He's a c***" is most definitely an insult. However, "He a good c***" is possibly the greatest compliment in Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia (among men).
Yes..a workmate called my son an "affable c*nt" and I was very proud 😅
It's great watching a video like this, the words and phrases that we use every day sound hilarious on here. 😂
I love and often use the phrase "face like a slapped arse" and if I drop anything my go to word is bollocks.
In the South West we say "Proper job" for something great and useful. I'm not sure if that's used anywhere else in the country.
I am originally from Devon and still use 'proper job' even though I now live in SW Hampshire.
That's brilliant, we should spread our West country words around the country 😄
Little explanation about "Trolley"... it also refers to the street car or tram, the light railway that can run down the centre or one side of a street, in traffic, there is also the sub-set called a Trolley Bus - both use or used a device called a trolley pole to connect to the overhead caternary wires for electricity to run (trolley buses still use them, trams have changed to a pantograph). To be "off your trolley" refers to the quite regular occurrence of the trolley pole jumping off the wire.
The thing with "nonce" as an insult is that there is actually a lot of people who do use it as an insult for when someone does something mildly objection, even though it's origins come from something deeply criminal
If you want to be a bit more erudite, rather than "Bob's your uncle" you can say "Robert's your avuncular relative".
"Roger" may not be much used now, but everyone knows about "Roger the cabin boy".
Or "Bob's your father's brother"
I'm 71 yr old Brit. I've just looked up the meaning of nonce. Wow. I never knew !
Bobs your uncle is for future plans mostly. Implying that the plan will work out fine.
Love how Evan says the expression and what it means and then he has to look it up to get the same answer
You should watch some cricket.
It's basically where baseball comes from. Baseball but with only two bases.
But the best thing about cricket is the fact that it's so ridiculously slow to play. Like, they play it over several days. The most chilled and relaxed of sports.
07:01 Tip. Noun British.
1. a dump for refuse, as that from a mine.
2. Informal. an untidy place, especially a room:
They must have packed and left in a rush, because the place is an absolute tip.
07:14 Dog’s bollocks has an interesting origin. Started off as typographer slang for a colon dash :- because obviously it looks like a crude representation of a pairs of balls and a phallus. But then became a riff on other popular animal based turns of phrases of the day like the cat’s whiskers or the bee’s knees. Usually said by the better classes and not the hoi polloi (the masses aka the average person). Some say dog’s bollocks is basically the working class version of bee’s knees! Both a piss take and something pretty accurate! 😂
Another version of "are you taking the piss?" is "are you pulling my pisser?".
And 'Steady on' does NOT mean 'carry on'! Usually the exact opposite. Example:
Friend: "I'm going to kill my mother-in-law!"
Me: "Steady on, Old Chap!"
And if you want to sound Old School and patrician (even if only ironically): "I say, steady on etc." Redolent of the (sadly) vanished world of Jeeves and Wooster. No shit, dude!
I love your example 😆
Sarnie isn't Northern but Bap is but is very localised. The term for a ban, roll, bap, oven bottom cake, pikelet, stottie is a special locator in the UK
when I lived in Canada my workmate who had been to the UK on holiday thought nonce just meant idiot. I didnt tell him for 6 months. A highlight was him calling the owner of the company a nonce.
Tip was right there on the page half-way down time index 7:02
i think as well its the context - us brits swear but some of them are said as terms of endearment- British humor its hard to explain. then theres all the non-swear words that you use to insult other people (again can be mean or jest) - my favorite is calling people a cabbage, donut- really just throw random words in there all normally to call people stupid. wazzock another really common one - they said it loads in red dwarf tv series. i'm a Yorkshire lass so most my saying are northern. enjoyed the reaction vid! you should do a Yorkshire dialect react - its like a language to itself.
I'm surprised that "ponce" didn't come up. "Here comes Nigel, he's a right ponce", meaning that Nigel is always looking for a handout. He'll never have any cigarettes so he'll be poncing them off someone. Never has any money and will try to ponce a drink off someone at the pub.
We also have "poncing about", meaning dithering. "Stop poncing about and give me a straight answer". Such a versatile word :) Oh right, my apologies to all Nigels.
"You what mate!?" was used a lot when I was a kid, I live up North as well, not in London.
Parking lot: A ‘lot’ is a piece of property for sale at an auction.
Pat of butter: As a child, in the grocer’s shop he would cut a slab of butter with a wire and pat it with a paddle to make it easier to wrap in greaseproof paper.
Rogering: Used frequently - Suchomimus on YT doing Russo-Ukraine war reports often talks about Ukraine drones giving a Moscow tank “a good rogering”.
Having travelled and learnt a variety of languages (at least to an elemental level), the expression 'innut' is relatively new to the British English dictionary. Being associated with 1st/2nd/3rd generation migrant populations in London, I can imagine that it comes from simplifying the complexities of the English question tags (isn't it, aren't they, won't he, etc.). The Dutch are great linguists but the only time I have found them struggling is in the subject and verbal agreements necessary for the English question tags. In Dutch they use the question tag 'hé?' for everything. It does not need to agree with the subject or verb. The Dutch, therefore, tend to say, 'He is going to school, isn't it?' or 'We are happy, isn't it?' ...
Ring,tinkle, or bell all interchangeable here
I think the confusion with chuffed is that it sounds really similar to "chaffed" and "chafed" and with so many words that sound similar that you presumably dont use very often youre bound to get them mixed up.
Anyway as far as britishisms that i personally like or use as an american id definitely have to say "waffling", "bang on", "what're you on about", "taking the piss", adding "job" to the end of certain words when describing things that i or other people have done like "botch job" or "hack job", and "sorted", with sorted in particular i didnt even realize it was a predominantly british phrase until relatively recently 😂 Mostly because its more or less semantically identical to "in order" which is the version that i think would be more likely to be used in the US and its one syllable less so it was super easy to pick up. Though obviously wkth my american accent it does kind of sound like im saying "sordid" but I dont think most people in the US (at least no one that i know) knows sordid is even a word so it doesnt cause me any issues.
There are some others that i do like but i wouldnt really use them IRL, like i like "plank" as an insult becauee it reminds me of Ed Edd & Eddy. And theres 'faff/faffing", "willy", "pillock", and of course the classic "bollocks"
Tip is definitely a word we use all of the time. I'm going to the tip to dump some stuff.
I've known my girlfriend (from Connecticut)for 14 years, we've been together for 4 years and she only just figured out what I mean when I say "ave a day off"! 😂
Tinkle on the blower… call on the phone…
Totally off topic but you have such a lovely voice. It's proper nice. I could listen to your calming tones all day!
We use Tip but it's a Recycling Centre but we just tip the everything into the big bins at the Recycling Centre (the Tip). In fact I'll be doing just that tomorrow as I've cut down a holly tree in my garden and will be tipping it into the Garden waste bin at the Local Council (Tip) Recycling Centre were it will be all chipped to be used on park gardens or made into compost which is then can be resold to people for their gardens.
"I'm made up for you."
When a friend succeeds in something. A comment of warm congratulations. "You're pregnant? Oh wow! I'm made up for you!"
I like "love" because I knew my gender transition was successful when strangers said "love". 😊
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Same. Though I have had people switch from "love" to "mate" after hearing my voice.
Which I find more funny than anything
"Yes but I'm laughing all the way to the bank" is a famous quote from Liberace, when someone insulted him.
one of your best, I think because it is one Americam reacting to another American's observations.