Same. I'm 45 and I run a brewery and have never heard of this. I think this is only in 1 state. Everywhere else in the country calls them a liquor store.
The "ABC Store" is something I've never heard in my 43 years as a life long American. It just goes to show how large and diverse our country is and that we all do not speak the same.
@@DanielConwayRacing Also, Hawaii has a chain of stores called ABC Store, & it has nothing really to do with alcohol regulation. It's basically just a convenience store for tourists.
The person representing the US has a few things she probably refers to that are local to where she lives. As an American, I was not familiar with a couple of her descriptions, and she did not list optional names that I am familiar with. In the US there can be quite a bit of variety of terms used based on the region they are in. BTW: It is definitely not an ABC Store here in Colorado. It is a liquor store.
ABC store where i'm from is just the brand name of a liqour store. But we say "going to the liqour store which is the closest." "Oh we have a ABC store down the road" If that makes sense.
I will be honest with you, I have never heard anyone call the store that only carries alcohol the "ABC Store". I have lived in the USA my entire life and have always referred to it as the Liquor store.
It's a southeastern thing. Only used in like five states. Unfortunately, she thought what was said in her 1/10th of the country was representative of the whole nation, but no... It's almost universally called a liquor store everywhere else.
I would comment that the USA is big enough that there’s a lot of regional differences and a number of these would cause disagreement on what to call them even within different portions of the US. The majority would be pretty much universal agreement in the USA but there were several that the one presented as the US word choice were strange to me as well.
I agree with you. In the USA, depending on where you live or where you are from, you will call things differently. The USA has a lot of different dialects of English where some things are said in "Old English" and some are said in USA English. It just depends on what region of the country you are in/from. As a person from NE Ohio and having lived in Georgia since 1995, I use different terms for things depending on who I'm talking with or what the "Thing" is. For example, When I talk with my family still up north I call soda "pop" or "Soda Pop" But if I am talking with someone from Georgia then I refer to it as "coke" or "Soda". It just depends on company and if I am here. Having friends in other parts of the world "UK, Canada, Japan, and a lot of different countries" I've learned a lot of different terms for items. Sometimes it comes down to translations but when it comes to English, Us Americans are more lazy with our terms.
I agree. Also, in many places in the US, it is rare to see a store that just sells alcohol, as we seem to prefer stores that sell a lot of various things so it can be more of a one stop shop. I think this also plays into the supermarket one, as for us we do have grocery stores, but they are rare as most stores sell more than just groceries.
In the US, it’s generally called “liquor store”. I’ve never heard anyone call a liquor store an “abc store”. Beer, depending on its alcohol percentage content, generally is sold in gas stations, or grocery stores or supermarkets, like Walmart. Wine, liquors, and higher percentage beer gets sold in liquor stores, which varies state to state on how it’s sold.
I've only heard "ABC store" or "state store" used by a friend in Pennsylvania. But there are multiple states where liquor stores are Alcohol Beverage Control stores. Usually beer and wine can be sold other places, but hard liquor is limited to government controlled or licensed retail establishments. As I look to move states I am definitely not going somewhere I can't grab some vodka from the supermarket. (Which we definitely use in the US, and I'm personally more likely to just say "I'm going to the store tomorrow, add stuff to the list" than specifying what kind of store.)
Obviously, in America, we could not call bell peppers just “peppers” because the huge Latin American influence in our country means we cook with MANY types of peppers. Since bell peppers are one of the only sweet nonspicy peppers that we use, we definitely like to say them by their full name. Also, some of these things have different names in America depending on which part of the country u are in, I mean, America is almost like 6 countries in one! Lol
Exactly what I thought too. We have hundreds of peppers here in the U.S. and it would be very confusing if we did not refer to them by the exact type of pepper.
I just made a comment how in much of Massachusetts, especially the Boston metro area, calls a liquor store a "packie". We are a very big and different country.
Best Comment!!! I was just going to type this - We say both grocery store or supermarket, we say Truck in everyday talking, Liquor store, and we use either freeway or highway in Michigan.
Also, as an American, a comforter and a duvet are different things to me. A duvet has a removable cover which can be taken off to wash while a comforter is all one piece and if you wash it you have to wash the whole thing stuffing and all. Both have some sort of feather or synthetic stuffing/filling.
And we pronounce them English-style duvet with a hard t. I’m pleasantly surprised to hear a Briton correctly pronounce a French word, duveh, with a Latin e (long A sound) and a silent t.
Most states in the U.S. don't have ABC stores. We call them liquor stores, package stores and beverage stores. We have several names for motorway. We call them highways, freeways, interstates, parkways, roads and roadways. I'm sure there are others that don't come to mind.
Yeah, I've lived in three states in the US over almost 40 years, and I have never heard of an ABC Store. That's a liquor store. Where in the US are they called ABC Store?
ABC Stores are in the southeast. Package stores are in the northeast, liquor stores are the the common, and some fancier liquor stores would call themselves spirit shops. A lot of these names are regional within the US.
As an American, we also use the term supermarket, but maybe it's more of a North Eastern thing. Edit: What in the nine hells is an ABC store. Its just called a Liquor Store.
We experienced this visiting Oregon, buying booze from a woman behind a little window front, you have to know beforehand exactly what you want. Still don't know why it's called an "off license", kinda like public school means a private school to Brits.
I had never heard of an ABC store until I went to Hawaii the summer before 9/11. They had lots of ABC stores, but they were just gas stations where alcohol, souvenirs, beach items, some go-to grocery items, and other convenience store items were sold. I was even able to buy an extra suitcase there!
I’m pretty sure supermarket is fairly common, having lived in a number of different states on the west coast and the Midwest and traveling through all 50, though grocery store is often interchangeable. I feel like it’s 50/50 on usage and not even consistently used. Sometimes I’ll say supermarket, other times grocery store … for no discernible reason at all. 🙂
Actual professional driver here. The term “tractor trailer” is a professional term. The word, “tractor” is shorthand for a “traction vehicle”. That is, a vehicle designed to pull something. The only real functional difference between a farm tractor and an over the road tractor is the item they are designed to pull. The cabs of each are designed to provide comfort for the operator, but aren’t otherwise part of the primary function of the machine. The word, “truck” comes from railroad use. There, a truck is one of the tandem bogie wheel assemblies mounted at each end of the rail car. Since American tractor trailers have used tandem wheel assemblies dating all the way back to commercial versions of the model T, it seems the term was transferred, then applied to the whole vehicle. I suspect “lorry” has origins in the ancient practice of the teamster, which would be more appropriate to the British Isles.
Yes on the "tractor trailer" @Robert Gerrard - very much more an industry term. We would call it a Semi, Rig, or 18-wheeler. ("We've got ourselves a Convoy")
Im American and I've never heard of it being called an "abc store", Ive always just called it a Liquor Store Also, a duvet for us is slightly different from a comforter, a duvet goes inside of a duvet cover (like how a pillow goes inside a pillowcase, the cover can be changed). A duvet is made up of 2 parts that can be seperated, a comforter is just one piece
I agree on both points. Regarding the ABC Store.. never heard that one before. It's always been the liquor store or party store. Personally, I prefer calling it a party store. You go there before a party to grab your drinks for the night. It can also be called a convenience store if they have a small section for common groceries too.
I'm American. Different states have different alcohol laws. In California, there's no ABC store run by the state of CA. We call it a liquor store. But I've been to states like North Carolina and they have ABC stores, where wine and liquor are sold there and nowhere else. And they don't sell anything else other than wine/liquor. Of course, different regions have different names for this. The Bostonians call their liquor store as "packies".
As a life long resident of the US I've never ever heard the term "ABC store" before. Here (Boston area) we call them liquor stores, or "packys" which is short for package store. The term package store refers to one of the laws we have in this region where alcohol must be concealed in a bag or package while its outside of the store or your home. This law is the same reason you may have seen people drinking booze out of a brown paper bag in some movies or shows.
I know a dispensary is a different thing from a liquor store but I’ve only ever heard them called dispensaries or liquor stores that’s the only places you really can get booze in Pennsylvania
That's interesting. My nana says ABC store and she lives in Boston (Dorchester), but my Grandparents who also live in Boston (Malden) call them liquor. It may be because my nana grew up in Alabama. Although ABC may be a specific brand of store she refers to.
@SansBazinga98 it makes sense that she would call it that if she is from Alabama because it's a term only applicable in, I believe, something like 17 or 18 states. In MA, specifically from lifelong residents, you'll only really hear it called a liquor store or a packie.
As a Californian born and raised in the Central Valley: 1. Chips 2. French Fries or just fries. 3. Cookies (we do say dog biscuit or dog cookies though). Biscuits aren’t as dry as scones if you make them right. 4. Big rig, Diesel, Semi are common uses. Truck can be used if you are looking right at it, but can be confusing with all of our small trucks. Tractor Trailer is rarely used, but varies by who owns the trucking company. (Anything delivering high torque at low speed is technically a tractor, which we exclusively use for farm vehicles. The trailer part of the word would never be added for a farm vehicle). 5. Bangs (fringe cut in fancier salons, but not used outside them) 6. Candy or sweets. Candy in stores, but you might be told you are eating too many sweets or “no more sweets”. 7. Bathing suit, one piece, swimsuit is anything you use to swim. 8. Bathroom in the house, restroom in a restaurant or business. If you are looking for a toilet, a port-a-potty has a toilet with no sink so you might be pointed out to use one if you are “looking for the nearest toilet” in a rural setting. 9. Apartment 10. Grocery store or Supermarket or store (food stores). More often than not you will use the store name. 11. Comforter (Duvet is something you can remove, and has a cover). 12. Bell peppers are always green to us, all other peppers can be sweet or designated by color. We have different peppers too. (Capsicum is the actual plant species, not the berry which we call a pepper.) 13. Rain boots, older people might say galoshes. Rubber boots are used anywhere wet, but not exclusively used because it rains. So even though rain boots are rubber boots too, we would not call them that or rubbers. My Grandfather from Michigan would say rubbers. 14. We called them thongs or sandals when I was really young, and now everyone says flip-flops. Thongs as underwear or swimsuits would almost always be used as singular. I’m wearing thong underwear as an example. The girls were wearing thongs could be misinterpreted though. I think that might have been part of the reason for the change. 15. Gas station. 16. Liquor store (only alcohol). 17. Pants. (short for pantaloons). Trousers are generally referring to a more formal cut for us. I always thought it was weird when I heard English people say pants were underwear yet they still said underpants. Does that mean underpants means naked? 18. Sidewalk ( Footpath is generally a trail which can be paved or unpaved, and does not run alongside the main road as a general rule. Pavement is the actual material to us, such as a paved driveway) 18. Highway, freeway depending on road. Interstate is found only on signs. I find we say Highway 41 when from the San Joaquin Valley. My Bay Area family will just say 41, and my Los Angeles family will say The 41. Region and Age make a large difference. We say aluminum as that was what Sir Davy called it. It was later changed by another Scientist referring to Sir Davy’s work as aluminium. We don’t like to change things often as far as words are concerned. Otherwise we get the thong vs. flip-flop debates on what to label things as in stores.
I live in Maryland, and we don’t call stores that sell alcohol “ABC stores”. We call them either liquor stores, or beer & wine stores. I have heard of ABC stores, but that might be in particular states. It really varies state by state. And as for “Tractor Trailers”, thats like the specific type of truck. We have pick up trucks, box trucks, semi’s/tractor trailer trucks, etc.
@@scottdowney4865 I live in Hagerstown in Western MD. But I grew up in Montgomery County. In Montgomery County “hard” alcohol is controlled and regulated by the county. So we had county owned and operated liquor stores, and then privately owned beer & wine stores. But up here in Washington County, we only have privately owned liquor stores that sells all alcohol. So it even varies county to county, and city to city. Weird how the alcohol laws are in the US. 😂
15:03 I have to clarify here: only in some limited places in the US do they call it an 'ABC Store'. Much more common is 'Liquor Store'. (This is the problem with these kinds of videos is the US is very very large and culturally diverse and you will find several different names for things across the US.
I have been to 48 of the 50 states, and never heard the term ABC store. Not saying that it isnt used somewhere, but not in my neck of the woods, nor anywhere ive visited. Liquor store is the common term.
@@dbsagacious Look up states with an alcohol beverage control as a state agency. You will find "ABC stores" unless they changed their laws on liquor sales which many did. Oklahoma had them at least through the 1980s when I was living there. It was always a small plain white building with no big signs or ads allowed. They had no liquor stores from statehood in 1907 untol 1959, and the last "dry county" finally allowed "liquor by the drink" in 2018. Now I live in Texas which also had the blue laws restricting sales of even beer on Sundays until a certain time. Diapers weren't even considered essential, so people either had to not run out or wait until the registers would allow things besides food to be rung up. Now, I can buy all sorts of alcohol in the supermarket in Texas.
@@Peri2C naw... you said the 80s? That was 40 years ago. Maybe it could be called a package store but it's a liquor store in almost all the states. So 48 of 50 (with some in the 2 also having them) makes ABC obsolete.
@@Peri2C Oh Im familiar, ive lived in OK most of my life. I never remember the ABC thing, but they were probably all gone by my time. And we couldnt even buy beer over 3.2% strength outside a liquor store until i think 2020. Thats why we would all take a trip across the red river to get the good "Texas Beer" lol
Also one thing to remember about American English is that there are over 200 different accents & 50 different pronunciations & slang because it’s so large. Every area is influenced by so many different cultures over the years.
I'm surprised the British woman didn't mention water closet or WC for the bathroom, it's extremely common there and the common English translation in countries like India. Canada calls it wash room.
As for if you asked, "where's the toilet?", Americans would definitely point you to the nearest bathroom/restroom, but we'd never say that ourselves. We'd either know immediately you weren't American OR (depending on the accent) believe you've grown up without learning your manners! 🤣
@@centuryrox gotta have the morning beer and cigar when emptying it. Also maybe its because my family is deep Texan but asking for the "commode" isn't rude and fairly normal.
We do have duvet in the US. It is different from comforters. Comforters are an all in one item that cant be separated for cleaning, whereas duvets can remove the duvet cover for cleaning to be reapplied later.
When I was much younger, flip-flops were called thongs. At some point in history, they became flip-flops. I think it's because female underwear with just a piece of string in the back became a thing and was also called a thong. I've never heard of an ABC Store. I've always heard them called Package Stores or Liquor Stores. We call it a sidewalk because the street itself is the pavement. Interstates/freeways are major throughways that have at least 2 lanes in each direction and do not intersect with other roads. Highways are the little brothers of interstates in that they also span multiple states but their speed limits are lower than interstates as they do intersect with other roads and run through cities and towns. Highways also are mostly 2 lane roads but can have 4 lanes in certain sections.
Yes I remember early flip flops called thongs. they were the ones that went between the toes. Then Americans preferred the, 'slide" style type and they flipped and flopped more than the thong style. After trade with China opened up, the thong style was cheaper and more practical, but still some call them flip flops.
I'm an American born and raised in California. We only call the roads that you can go about 70-80 mph on as freeways. Now that I've moved to Idaho I have heard them called almost exclusively a highway. If you're interested in the different accents, you totally need to check out the different American accents. It's super fun to hear what just one country can call something. Take the ABC store, never heard of it in my life, always known it as the liquor store.
Freeways are limited access roads that don’t cost you to drive on them. The same road on the east coast would have toll booths that require you to pay for driving on them. Highways are any main road that goes through a state and can be either state owned or federal owned and use a numbered system to designate them. Even numbers are east-west routes and odd numbers are north-south routes although sections may actually go a different direction it’s the general direction of travel.
I don’t consider freeways and highways to be the same thing. Highways can be state owned and sometimes only two-lanes. There will sometimes be homes and businesses on a highway. I have never seen a two lane freeway or one that has homes or businesses on it. I think of freeways as synonymous with interstate but Since moving from California I have gone from mostly using freeway to mostly saying interstate.
In America, just state to state we have different terminology and accents. With that being said I have never heard a liquor store be called a "abc store" by any American I have ever talked too!! Love your channel keep the vids coming guys!!
So when the American lady said ABC store for the store that sells alcohol, I've NEVER, as an American, heard it called that. I've always called it the "liquor store" Also, we use not only highway and interstate, but we do also say freeway in the US
ABC stores are located in states that strictly control the sale of all hard liquor. In Virginia, for example, you can only buy hard liquor from a state run store called an ABC store. ABC stands for Alcoholic Beverage Control. Alabama, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia all own the stores selling hard liquor. Virginia calls them ABC stores. I do not know what the other states call them.
In Michigan (at least) they're called expressways. When I lived in CA I picked up calling them freeways, and when I went back home they gave me funny looks.
@Atheos B. Sapien Seems like every state where this goes on has it's own term for it. I think in some places they also call it a package store. Where I'm from a package store is a UPS-type business.
When I was a young kid in America in the 60s and 70s, what are now called "flips flops" were called "thongs" like in Australia. The name evolved to "flip flops" over time so as not to be confused with a woman's g-string. Also, "trousers" is a recognizable, but considered to be an old-fashioned term term for what we call "pants".
In the 70s we definitely called them thongs in the U.S., but flip-flops were also in common use. Cf. Jimmy Buffet "I blew out my flip flop / Stepped on a pop top" from "Margaritaville" which was recorded in 1976.
I've never heard of a store that sells only alcohol a "ABC store", typically people know it as a "liquor store" as most large supermarkets here sell beer but not hard alcohol. Here in New England you might hear it referred to as a "packie" or "package store" as the brown paper bag they give you at checkout makes it look like a package.
I'm from South Carolina and they are officially called ABC Stores here, but most people I've known call them liquor stores. I've also heard them called Red Dots because they are labeled by the letters "ABC" inside a big red dot.
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I don't know why the American didn't say Supermarket. 'Grocery store' and 'supermarket' is interchangeable in the US. Also, we do indeed have Duvets in the US. I think she is right she is just very sheltered. The liquor store is only called an ABC store in certain states everywhere else it's just a liquor store.
That was a blast! Thank you for posting this! I was stationed in the UK for two years in the USAF, I was amazed at how many different words we use for things, like the trunk of a car they call the “boot”.
While tractor-trailer is technically correct (however only when the trailer is attached), the more common term in the US is semi-truck, or just truck, or just semi. Occasionally you will her it called other things, like big rig, or 18 wheeler (again only when the trailer is attached), or others, but those are far less common.
In the US we use the word “pavement” to specify the material on an improved road. As if “walking on the pavement”. Meaning the hard surface. Pavement could be concrete or asphalt.
I disagree with Lucy on the whole biscuit thing. If you’re in the US, definitely ask for a biscuit. You won’t get a sweet, baked treat, but you’ll get one of the best bread items out there (if it’s been prepared correctly). Here in the south, biscuits and gravy (sausage gravy) is a beloved breakfast dish! Also, I’ve often referred to “rain boots” as galoshes. 😂
@@firstenforemost That may be the definition, but I've definitely heard it used interchangeably with rain boots. I grew up just calling them rubber boots, though. And the American in this video also mentioned that you wear them along with a rain coat, but I grew up calling that a rain slicker, or just a slicker.
If you order a biscuit in the states, do not expect a sweet pastry. Those are cookies. But what you:LL get is even better. I love the smell of biscuits baking and wondering what I am going to eat with my biscuits...sausage, fried egg, bacon, ham, butter, jelly, jam, syrup, honey or if I will just use it to sop up gravy, or crumble it up with a big mug of milk or beans or peas. And I have rubber rain boots close by since we are in the middle of 16 days of predicted thunderstorms here. I was disappointed that the word galoshes wasn't even mentioned. I personally don't use the term Wellington's, but that's what my Granny used to call them. I have made use of a thin raincoat that I call a parkha.
To clarify about "tractor trailers" we also recognize them as a type of truck in America, we just call them "tractor trailers" because they would would have trailers (wheeled attachment for holding large objects) that would often be used to transport farm equipment. We also call them "18 Wheelers"
For an American who lived in the UK, a Biscuit is a hard dry sugary disk that you dip in tea. I'm sure its a hold over from WW1 and WW2 cuizine/ration like their breakfast. But a nice, warm, goey, soft American cookie is a pleasure to the tastes buds. It's just above and beyond a dry UK Biscuit.
As a native Californian, I'd never heard or knew about an ABC store until the age of 20 I met people from Virginia and it came up in conversation. It just depends which state you're in. But we call that a Liquor Store.
I've seen a liquor store here in Florida with the name ABC and that's the only time I've ever heard of it I certainly would never call liquor store by ABC
Maybe it's a regional thing but where I'm from (New York City), we've never made a distinction between snow and rain boots. We know which one we want or need for the occasion but we refer to both as simply "boots". We do, however, call coats meant specifically for protection from getting wet "rain coats".
I find it odd that everyone outside the US gets stuck on the word gas. We understand that it is a short form of gasoline. I have the same hang up with petrol. I think of petroleum as crude oil.
Yes, it takes petroleum to refine into gasoline, kerosene, diesel, etcetera. As far as I know nobody makes vehicles that run on crude oil, so petrol doesn't make any sense to me either.
And then there is me the automotive racing enthusiast that calls them all fuel, because I'm always right this way, lol. Not 100% but some diesel engines might be able to run on filtered but unprocessed crude oil. It would run like shit though. Set up right a diesel engine can run on almost any liquid that explodes/burns. But all that aside, yes, petrol = petroleum = crude oil.
Hey guys. I haven't watched the whole thing but when they got to biscuits I had to jump in. In the South, buttermilk biscuits are a staple. They are fluffy on the inside and crisp on the outside quick breads that rise using baking powder. The bag of White Lily flour that I sent Atlanta has an excellent recipe that makes a great biscuit. White Lily is made from soft winter wheat and doesn't have much gluten in it. Almost like pastry flour. There is nothing better than a hot buttered biscuit with peach preserves! Or a country ham biscuit. Or biscuits smothered with sausage gravy. Mmm mmm! Yall would love it!
Thank you for pointing that out too Kat! I was shocked when Nadine didn’t know what a biscuit was. I need to cook them a Southern breakfast one time, haha. I’m glad ya did send that flour and hopefully it didn’t perish in the travels over and they can make some delicious biscuits. I could do a lot of damage with biscuits, haha.
I keep having a fight with people from the UK and Ireland who will not admit that a biscuit and a scone are not the same thing. Scones to me are almost like rocks.... you could throw one at somebody and hurt them. Not so with a biscuit. Not that I would ever throw 1 of those things..... That would be a waste. I do recognize that they're similar, but they are not the same, and some people just refuse to listen to it
@@LindaC616 Amen, they are NOT the same thing. I mean sometimes at Cracker Barrel you may get a hard biscuit that could be considered a scone or what my family calls a hockey put, but a true biscuit is fluffy and soft with amazing preserves, jam, jelly, or gravy. Got me hungry for em tomorrow! 🤤
@@LJBSullivan you're right we don't say you all over we're starting to get some people trying to say it probably because of social media it just looks ridiculous.
It's starting to get list of isis cuz we all watch each other's TV and movies so after while you're sad to see some different blending I mean I can understand all of them anyways.
We call it a comforter because it is something that is heavier thicker more plush that is more comfortable feeling than just a regular bedding blanket or sheet. The quilt on the other hand is a specific type of stitch pattern of a blanket. Quilts are seldom used in the United States. My wife has one quilt and this is an old antique handed down by my great-grandmother. Quilts are hand-stitched and the stitching throughout is in a diamond pattern or some other ornate geometrical shape. Quilts in the United States are made from sections of fabric sewn together
In the southern US, we certainly do have duvets, but here, there is always a removable inside part that has the down filler, and an interchangeable duvet "cover," whereas a comforter is all of one piece, kind of like a very, very fluffy quilt, though not necessarily pieced.
I live in Florida so a duvet is actually like two sheets sewed together with a zipper so I use that as my comforter all summer because it's 90 here and I don't need a comforter
In the Pacific Northwest, we don’t call them ABC stores, we call them liquor stores. My dad was a trucker and we grew up calling them Semis, big rigs, semi trucks. He would use tracker trailer from time to time, but not as often as the others. Also, I hear highway and freeway more than I hear people say interstate. LOVE your videos!
I'm from the pacific northwest too. I' remember when I was a kid thirty years ago we transition to calling flip flops from thongs... I still call them that sometimes. I always
We do have something called a duvet in the U.S. But it goes on top of the comforter for extra warmth. It usually lies at the foot of the bed during cold months. Hotels often have them.
for us in the usa, a flat, is used for a specific type of apt. its generally used to reference a large studio(where its all one huge room with no walls, except the bathroom) apt.
I remember calling flip-flops "thongs" growing up in the 1980's. This is in the US. I don't remember anyone calling them "flip-flops" until the word "thong" started being associated with that certain style of ladies undergarments. Great video.
When you're talking about the US, you can't assume that the whole US says stuff the same way. Words are regional here, sometimes even by state. Never heard of abc stores. Every one calls them liquor stores.
I'm 61 years old and have lived in the US all my life and I have never heard anyone say ABC Store. 99% of Americans call it a Liquor Store, while a small percentage of people may call it a Package Store.
In the US, ABC Stores are mostly in the South; elsewhere we call them liquor stores but these days you can buy most of your alcoholic products in the "supermarket."
Thnk you. Haven't seen one is a while, but yes, ABC Package Stores aka Red Dot, since the ABC would be on a big red circle sign, were what I saw growing up in South Carolina.
Growing up in the U.S. Northwest in the 1980s, I remember we used the word "thong" to refer to flip flops, but then that was replaced with the word "flip flop" in the late 80's and early 90's. I think it primarily switched because the word "thong" was used to refer to the other type of fashion accessory.
My grandmother always called them thongs, and so did my mom. I called them that until later in the ‘80’s. I asked her about it she said nobody called them flip-flops until around the sixties. I guess it was about marketing.
First, when I was in the Navy, they were "shower shoes", then, I guess because of the part that goes between your toes, they were called "thongs" but mostly, because the way they sound when walking in them, I've called them "flip flops".
🩴🩴In the US Midwest we called flip flops “thongs” until sometime in the 90s it seemed to change. My Polynesian friends call them “slippers” because you slip them on. 🚛My grandfather, brothers, and various uncles drive and have driven trucks for decades. We call them “semis” for short and tractor trailers for clarification. 🛻Passenger trucks are “pickups” or “pickup trucks”. Still drives me nuts to hear pickups called “trucks”. Trucks haul large loads across the country. Or livestock. 😆
I was going to post the same thing about the flip flops. I'm also from the Midwest, and growing up we called them thongs, too. Everybody I knew did. I'm not referring to those woven sandals, just those "rubbery" ones. I think when bikini bottoms started getting really skimpy (1990s?) and people started calling them thongs, the footwear thongs were phased out and called flip flops. At least where I'm from. Terms vary from state to state and region to region.
I think the "thongs" thing is an era situation as well. Just like men's pants used to be called trousers in America and we still have trouser socks. I think blue jeans caused the need to differentiate. Then trousers became the term for casual or dress pants, and "jeans" for blue jeans. To those who remember their farmer grandparents call them "pick-em--up" trucks, using the term 'truck" for them is not unusual. There's also a "hand truck" that most people call a dolly or a furniture dolly. Then add to it the SUV confusion now. So many people call their suv a truck, as in "Oh, I left it in my truck." When you go out to their "truck", you find it is an SUV. I guess it's the fluidity of our language.
I grew up in Pennsylvania and have never called a liquor store a dispensary. Now if you hear someone saying they are going to the state store, they are going to get liquor. In PA the liquor is state controlled. However, recently grocery stores have also been allowed to carry alcohol as well. And then there is beer that gets its own separate store as well. Until I was like 16 I thought that was the way it was everywhere. At 16 I went on a school trip to NY and was shocked to see alcohol in grocery stores. I lived a sheltered life😆.
Biscuits and gravy is a traditional breakfast item, especially in the South and Midwest. I highly recommend trying it sometime. It's pretty easy to make from scratch at home too.
I was raised in the U.S. in the 60's and 70's and those shoes we wore to the pool were ALWAYS called thongs until the skimpy underwear became more common (probably in the early 90's) and then it was flip-flops. It wasn't hard to switch to calling them flip-flops because otherwise you would get laughed at when you called them thongs.
I grew up in the 1960's and 70's. They were called thongs and originally had the three point strap between the toes. Americans, especially men, didn't care for the thong and a slide on type was developed, that had a rubber strap across the foot and had two attachment points on each side. These didn't stay on the feet as well as the thong type, but were more comfortable. They flipped and flopped even more than the thong type. These were often called flip flops. After opening trade with China and because the thong type was more popular internationally, the thong type became cheaper than the American market only slide on type. Due to the prices, the thong type won the market, but the flip flop name remained.
Here in Virginia we called the all rubber ones flip flops. The grass mat covered type, like in the video was referred to as thongs. Every other flat open shoe were called sandals.
just for clarification: the name for a place where you buy liquor is regional. ABC Store is actually the least common. Liquor Store, Liquor Shop, or Package Store are more common.
In the us I have heard ABC store, liquor store, or even package store. Mostly I use liquor store. Also, a comforter refers to a heavy one piece bed cover, a duvet is two pieces that can be taken apart for cleaning. A lightweight bed cover is what I have always called a bedspread or quilt. Bell pepper is to distinguish the type of pepper as we have so many types here. While we do sometimes say tractor trailer, you will often hear semi, semi truck, big rig or 18-wheeler. We have so many names for them because we have so many of them on the roads.
We have no ABC stores in California. We can buy alcohol in a grocery store, a liquor store or a quick stop type store. It depends on the laws of the specific state whether you have ti go to a government regulated store. That American woman comes from a different region of the US because many of her words are different.
I've lived ALL OVER AMERICA for over 50 yeas and have NEVER heard of a liquor store being called an ABC store. I do know there are a FEW states where the state government controls the stores themselves....but in just about every corner of this country its called a "liquor store." Also ...we call them BOTH "flip flops" and "thongs" and yes the g string is also called a thong.
Growing up in South Carolina (near GA border), we had ABC "Package" stores. They had red circles (dots) on the outside as signs, with ABC on one of them. Don't really see them anymore, but they did, maybe still do exist.
Totally agree, never heard the term ABC store, its a liquor store, that's the sign on the buildings even Liquor Store. Also, would call them thongs or flip flops interchangeably.
There are a lot of regional differences in the US. I've never heard "ABC Store", I've always heard "liquor store", but I also don't drink. Also a lot of the words that are used in the UK and Australia would be understood in the states like trousers, super market, flat, etc. People would just smile and probably use their fake British accent when responding to you, but they would know what you are talking about. Also we take pride in ruining the "Queen's" English here.
A highway is pretty much any non-neighborhood roads. The picture she's showing would be an interstate (a road system that criss-crosses the nation), a freeway (as opposed to a toll road), or a State Route (a major route in a specific area).
Some of these cracked me up. I live in the Southern part of the US and I don’t think I have ever heard anyone call the liquor store an ABC store. I love watching your videos!
Depends what state you are in....NC only has ABC's.... wine and beer is sold in supermarkets, to sell anything else the State runs it through their ABC (Alcohol Beverage Control). And then some states, like California, almosty all liquor is just sold anywhere you get food, like a supermarket, or convience store. You need to look up the History of Prohibition in the US to understand why
Alabama, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia have what are known as ABC stores. The state is the only entity permitted to sell hard liquor. Usually, beer and wine can sold in places like a grocery store, although I have no clue if any of those states have exerted complete control over all alcohol sales.
When I was in the U.S. Marine Corps we called them trousers. Our Drill instructors said "only sailors wear pants"! Just a little good natured fun with our Navy friends...of course the Navy Corpsmen assigned to the Marine Corps who went into combat with us wore trousers too. Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71
What you would call "scones", might look similar to US biscuits, but that's all. It doesn't help that scones here in the US aren't the same as the ones over there lol. And a tractor basically just means a vehicle designed for high traction/torque to pull heavy loads. They just happen to be used for heavy farm equipment a lot. But I've only really heard children use tractor-trailer. Myself and everyone I know calls them either a semi-truck or an 18 wheeler. Hope this helps! Edit : And I have never heard "ABC" store before in my life. Always been a liquor store around here in NY. Goes to show how many regional differences there are here ig.
I'm in New England and I think scones do taste a little bit like biscuits not exactly but if you have a buttermilk biscuit or you have a shortcake biscuit it's very similar to a scone not the same but close
@@WhatsCookingTime savory scones are perhaps just a little more dense/heavy than a buttermilk or baking powder biscuit but they're fairly similar. Scones can be sweet or savory.
I keep on hearing that scones are like biscuits, but I've yet to find a scone that tasted similar. Some might have a slightly similar texture, but biscuits are much, much better. At least one Australian suggested to me that our biscuits might be more similar to their damper, but I think they are still somewhat different.
I don't think she knew the answer so she looked up something on Google and got a bs answer. in Fl we do have a chain of ABC liquor stores but that is not what she was referring to at all.
I’m American and we differentiate between duvet and comforter, the duvet has the removable cover, liquor store, never refer to them as abc stores, and we have interstate roads and intrastate highways, we also have highway loops. We also have (grocery) markets . Thongs or sandals (huaraches, flip-flops).
I’m from the US and it’s hilarious how adamant each language has its on version of each word and that’s the correct way! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so the Truck…I’ve always called a Semi or just truck. Never a “Tractor Trailer”. You typically hear that word mostly on the news when one has been involved in an accident I feel! And OMG this lady…lol. It’s a liquor store. I have NEVER even heard it called an ABC Store? I’m gonna need some better US representation. 🤣🤣🤣. Great video yall❤
I've seen other react videos of this woman and she has some strange information. Like it's either her own personal preferences or stuff she's looked up that's not really accurate for the majority of the U.S. I feel like they need to ask people from various regions of the U.S. because we all have our own dialects and saying here lol
Tractor trailer is one of the terms used for the 'legal' definition. This is to distinguish it from a 'box truck' - a truck where the container is attached to the vehicle. Remember, each state has their own liquor laws. That's why they can make Jack Daniels in Lynchburg, Tennessee but it's illegal to sell for consumption the same product within Moore County [it's a dry county]. Hench, she probably lives in a state with an ABC.
As an American, I've never heard it called an ABC Store. Its always called a liquor store if they only sell alcohol. As for the "flip flops" we also call them just sandals, because people wear them on the beach, But also people wear them anywhere when its warm out. As for "grocery store" we also call them just stores, because a lot of grocery stores also sell non-grocery items.
A lot of the time we refer to the store by it's name... adding a posessive 's to it. Like "I'm going to Kroger's" or "I'm going to Aldi's" When I lived in Flint, as a Star Wars fan it gave me a hoot to say "I'm making a Kessel run" :-)
Biscuits are still quite a bit different than scones; I have been noticing Atlanta has excellent baking skills, including skills working with dough; she should try a recipe for a fluffy buttermilk biscuit and you guys try them warm from the oven with butter - and then also try making a white sausage gravy and try "biscuits & gravy"
As an alabamian: 1) Chips 2) Fries 3) Cookies (biscuits typically have sausage in between them) 4) Semi Truck or 18 wheeler 5) Bangs 6) Candy!!!! it’s candy!!! 7) Bathing suit or swimsuit 8) Bathroom (restroom only in public) 9) Apartment (it’s not a flat) 10) Grocery store or supermarket (aisle, buggy) 11) Comforter (Doona??? Duvet?? huh? 12) Bell peppers 🫑 yummy (wtf is a capsicum?) 13) Rain boots (gumboots? 😂) 14) Flip flops (thongs are sexy underwear for women 😂) 15) Gas station (only correct answer) 16) liquor store (very not good place. Alcohol is bad) 17) Pants 18) Side walk (a footpath is a walking trail in a forrest) 19) Highway. Interstate is a very busy fast paced highway (i’m open to any questions about the states 😁)
Rain Boots, Gumboots, Welllies . . . I have another name: Galoshes. I was brought up on a diary farm in central Wisconsin. As you can guess, cows produce milk. But they also produce 'offal'. It is impossible to work there, without getting your galoshes messy. There is usually a nearby 'mud room' with a shower and places to store your barn clothes. None of that ever goes inside the living quarters.
The tractor-trailer is so-called because it consists of two parts, with the trailer being detachable, and the cab is called a tractor (why, I'm not sure). It's more commonly called a semi, big-rig, or truck; and the larger versions are also called 18-wheelers, due to the number of wheels (including axels with double-wheels).
I would love to see them react to a video of different accents across the US. It's such a huge place and it's so varied. I often feel bad for some of the non-Americans working in the call center I work for having to navigate Southern accents and UP accents and everything in between.
In the early days of the combustion engines in the US the engines were fueled with a common cleaning solution that was "petrol" based. The brand name was Gasoline. When someone would ask what the engine uses as fuel, the answer would be "Gasoline." Gasoline became the American term for what you call petrol. Shortened to gas.
for the last one in the US we have: Toll-road - these have toll-booths that you pay a fee for using the road (no taxes are payed for the upkeep) Freeway, Highway - these are free to use in-state roads that are largely not directly connected to city roads except every mile or so (we pay road taxes for the upkeep) Interstate or Interstate Highways - are Highways that cross state borders (these are payed for with federal funds) For the tractor trailer we call them Mack trucks, semis, big rigs, 18 wheeler, or trucks however the industry term is tractor trailer tractor - the front cab trailer - duh we also have Box trucks that do not have a separate trailer in box trucks we have several based on what they are used for like moving truck
Why would you call a tractor trailer a Mack Truck? Mack is a brand of truck just like Kenworth, Peterbilt, Freightliner, Volvo, OshKosh, Autocar, Western Star, etcetera.
I have lived in America my whole life and I have never heard anyone say "ABC Store". Perhaps she lives in a dry state that regulates the sale differently but here in Michigan we call it the liquor store, party store, convenience store or sometimes the beer store.
Ya. If you go to Virginia (for example) all the alcohol sales are governed by the state. It can only be purchased in ABC stores. But right around the time of the 9/11 attacks they began allowing beer sales in grocery stores. And it's clinch on wine has started to open to grocery stores too (common cooking ingredient). Michigan, and much of the midwest, has never seen liquor control like the bible belt states. Down there it's not uncommon to have all ABC stores closed on Sundays in hopes that people will focus on church. Yes, really!
@@EmbossedVideoChannel Yup...I visited a friend once in Utah and asked if we could get some drinks and chill out by the campfire. He said we probably could but also said something about a membership in order to do so. Sounds very controlling but regardless...we got our drinks, and everything worked out.
ABC stores are popping up lots of places, but the first state I heard it was in Virginia. Hawaii has them, too. But growing up in the Midwest, it was just liquor store. On military Bases, they’re called Package Stores.
When I was a child I was visiting relatives in Bismark, North Dakota, USA. My aunt handed me a basket of fresh laundry and told me to put it on the "davenport." I stood there confused. She was actually referring to the couch or sofa. First and last time I heard that word.🤔
Yes, it was a sofa made by the Davenport company and known for its specific style. It would be akin to how a Tiffany lamp was a brand, but then everyone knew what style it was.
my British grandma always called it a davenport.....and as far as she was concerned a purse was a "pocketbook" now her purses always has tons of pockets...but never a book.....I was one confused kid!
Here in the states a grocery store specifically means somewhere that only sells food, possibly non-food items related to food, but normally wouldn't included appliances or anything too fancy. Supermarket on the other hand, such as a Walmart, would sell many types of items, including food. Also, if you are going to a supermarket specifically to buy your groceries, you would still say your going grocery shopping. There is a difference between Highways and Interstates, as Highways are state property and the responsibility of the states to maintain, whereas Interstates, which are the main Highways that connect the states, are maintained by the Federal Government. Normally, if you stay on an Interstate, you'll pass through multiple states, or even cross from one side of the country to the other, whereas Highways connect major cities/areas within a state. So if I wanted to go from Houston, Texas to Dallas, Texas, I'd use a Highway, if I wanted to go from Dallas, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana, I'd take the Interstate. On the other hand, if I lived in a small town, I might need to leave town, connect to the Highway, and then connect to the Interstate. It might even be faster to use the Interstate to cross larger states such as Texas and California, it really just depends on where you are and where you are going. Also, I've lived in multiple states over the course of my life, I've never heard a liquor store called anything other than a liquor store, lol.
You don't really hear tractor-trailer much. Usually it's truck, 18 wheeler (if it's the long kind), semi. "Mack truck" is a brand but is also sometimes used generically.
In case anyone is interested in the German version, staying in the Germanic language family: 1) Chips, 2) Pommes frites (French pronunciation) or Pommes (two syllables, German pronunciation, most common) or simply Fritten, 3) Kekse (almost pronounced as "cakes"), Biskuit (French pronunciation) for us is a sponge cake type of dough, 4) LKW (short for Lastkraftwagen, meaning heavy load vehicle), a Traktor over here would be found on farms as well, 5) Pony (pronounced as ponny), 6) Süßigkeiten (meaning sweet things), a lolly = ein Lolli, 7) Badeanzug (meaning bathing suit literally), 8) Badezimmer (meaning bath(ing) room), toilet = Toilette (both private and public), 9) Wohnung (wohnen = to inhabitate, lo live, as in Wohnzimmer = living room), 10) Supermarkt, 11) Decke/ Bettdecke (bed blanket), Decke also means ceiling.... , 12) Paprika, 13) Gummistiefel (literally gum boots), 14) Flipflops (and a German thong is Tanga or Stringtanga), 15) Tankstelle (meaning a "place for refuelling"), 16) there is no word for that as we don't have this type of shops, there are wine shops and shops specialising in beer from around the world, but shops selling nothing but different alcoholic beverages, never seen one, you can buy what you need in supermarkets, 17) Hose (and underpants meaning Unterhose), 18) Bürgersteig (literally citizen's pathway) or Fußweg (footpath), 19) Autobahn. The German letter ß is pronounced like ss, by the way. And togs and doona I have never heard before! Two new words for me, hurrah! Best wishes!
In US, a biscuit is simple bread without yeast made with baking powder and bicarbonate of Soda made by cutting in cold butter into the flour. We’d call a big truck by several names depending on where you live: truck (this is actually used for a lot of different vehicles), semi (most often), 18 wheeler, big rig. My grandma called bell peppers by mango. I was very confused when I saw the mango fruit. Alcohol is sold at the liquor store or the state store (some states have stricter laws and only state licensed stores can sell hard liquor (beer and wine can be bought at the grocery).
I’m 45 and have lived in America my whole life and have never heard of a store where you buy alcohol referred to as an “ABC” store for buying alcohol. It’s called a liquor store
I'm from USA and I'm laughing through the whole video, shaking my head disagreeing with a lot of those answers, please do a part 2 to this video thank you kindly.
Some of the names mentioned are regional in the US. I grew up on the West Coast, and we called flip flops "Thongs." Supermarket and grocery store are interchangeable. I have lived all over the US, and terminolog and pronunciation are subject to region. Make things interesting and fun. Lol
Different parts of the USA refer to these " shoes" in different ways. And in Hawaii, they refer to them as "slippers"; where, normally in the other parts of the USA, slippers would be thought of as the fuzzy things you put on to walk around in the house or in your P j's with 🙂
We use "Supermarket" in the US, too. The rain boots are also called "galoshes," or "overshoes," depending on the region you live in. Remember how many different accents and dialects we have here. NEVER have I heard of an ABC store. I don't know what region she is from, but everywhere I've lived, it has been called a "Liquor Store."
I've never heard of the term ABC Store being used to describe a place where you get alcohol here in Canada. I would call it a liquor store. The only ABC Stores I know of, sell a bunch of different souviner things, and can be found all over Hawaii and in Las Vegas.
Very cool video. As an English teacher in the US, I find students are really interested by how much English vocabulary and slang vary based on country or regions. It would be cool for you guys to do a video on your favorite slangs words and/or different accents or slang in different parts of NZ. Also most Americans I know call it a bottle shop or liquor store for alcohol as well. That other term is more technical but not used much.
I'm 64 and and have never heard of bottle shop used to refer to a liquor store ! State store is a common reference in Ohio, as is liquor store ! I've also never heard ABC store used as a reference . It's possible that there are regionally used terms .
We say both "tractor trailer" AND "semi" (pronounced sem-I). Honestly though the latter is more common in everyday speech. Another alternative is "18-wheeler".
I think it’s time that Atlanta make some American style biscuits. Biscuits and gravy Yum. I’m not sure what state you would want to attach it to but many southeastern states feature this food but it is quite delicious. Wait I went and looked it up and it appears that biscuits and gravy are part of the official state meal of Oklahoma.
3:26 I'm from the US, and I've always looked at it as there are two types of biscuits. The savory ones she's talking about and the sweet ones you'd have with tea or something. But those sweet biscuits are different than cookies. 4:22 It's a type of truck, so it still counts lol 5:29 Whaat lol for us lollies would be a type of candy (lolly pops or hard candy you suck on) 9:30 We say supermarket sometimes too 12:12 I've always called them slippers haha 17:10 We say freeway too sometimes
As far as the road type - very often you’ll hear Americans refer to it by the Highway number. In California it’s very common to hear people say “the 5” when talking about Interstate Highway 5, also called the I-5. (that’s a capital letter i). Interstate highways running north and south are numbered 5, 15, etc starting with the 5 on the west coast. Interstate Highways running east and west are numbered 10, 20, etc with the 10 closer to the southern border. Also a freeway is a multi lane road that does not have any tolls, meaning that you can travel on it for free.
Lollies in the states are usually used to describe the single passenger trains in big cities, or another name for mountain tram lines. It's an older used word. It can also be used in the US for very small hauling devices like a lift, but non-motorized.
USA here, I've never heard the term "ABC Store", would be interesting to know what state she is from. The way the sales of alcohol takes place here in the US greatly varies from state to state. For example, here in New Hampshire, while you can buy bear and wine in most any grocery store, Walmart or other corner store, you can only by hard liquor from the state owned and operated liquor stores. And, for an added touch, some of those liquor stores are at the rest stops along the highways . LOL In Massachusetts, the state on our southern boarder, they have what is called "package stores" which, as I understand, hold a special license to sell liquor. I think beer can be gotten in most regular stores. In some states, like Kentucky, drive through liquor stores are a big thing, you call in your order, and then you go there, drive into the warehouse, pop your trunk or hatch, and they load you up; as I understand, you don't even get out of your car. Personally, I don't drink at all, I've never liked the taste of alcohol, and I am glad I don't drink, it's so expensive. Pre-pandemic, when my wife and I would eat out, with tip, the bill would be just under $50 (we don't have expensive taste), but add a couple drinks, and that bill would quickly become $70 or more.
I grew up in Virginia and they have ABC stores but we have always called them liquor stores. According to Wiki there are 17 states that sell alcohol. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state
Here in Louisiana you can buy hard liquor at any store that gets a license, including grocery stores and gas stations. But until a few years ago, it was against the law to sell any alcohol at all on Sundays! They would actually rope off the alcohol aisles in the grocery stores on that day.
It's weird how different the alcohol laws are now. In PA, grocery stores (or convenience stores) can only sell beer and wine if they have seating areas. Even if the beer is to go in a 6 pack or 12 pack or whatever. We also have what we call beer distributor stores where they sell cases and kegs of beer. And then we have what we used to call state stores that sell wine and hard liquor.
In the U.S., ABC store is a regional term based on the states liquor laws. Also some states will sell beer and wine in a grocery or convience store, while other states only sell it in liquor stores or ABC stores. Where I live, grocery store and supermarket are interchangeable. Freeway usually is used to differentiate from a toll road. A truck is a single chassis vehicle where a tractor trailer has a seperate chassis for the trailer and another for the tractor which tows the trailer. The trailer can be dropped at its' destination while the tractor goes on to another job without waiting for the trailer to be unloaded.
As an American, I've never heard it referred to as an ABC Store. Everyone I know also calls it the Liquor Store.
YES! I've never in my 44 years in the U.S. heard a liquor store called an ABC Store.
Same.
They are called ABC stores in PA. It is really weird.
In Michigan they're Party Stores.
Same. I'm 45 and I run a brewery and have never heard of this. I think this is only in 1 state. Everywhere else in the country calls them a liquor store.
In the US I rarely hear people call them tractor trailers. Its normally called semis, big rigs or trucks.
Yes.
@@randycooper3428 Yep!
In Canada too
My son is a semi driver
I call it an 18 wheeler
I have heard tractor trailer before but no one I know uses it. You will also hear the variation semi-truck.
The "ABC Store" is something I've never heard in my 43 years as a life long American. It just goes to show how large and diverse our country is and that we all do not speak the same.
We’ll I think only like 17 or 18 states have ABC laws, so, I can see why you may not have heard of them
@@DanielConwayRacing Also, Hawaii has a chain of stores called ABC Store, & it has nothing really to do with alcohol regulation. It's basically just a convenience store for tourists.
All liquor stores are ABC stores in Virginia, it stands for "Alcoholic Beverage Control" it's run by the state.
There is a popular chain of liquor stores in Florida called ABC liquor
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Yes. This is what I thought about being a Floridian.
The person representing the US has a few things she probably refers to that are local to where she lives. As an American, I was not familiar with a couple of her descriptions, and she did not list optional names that I am familiar with. In the US there can be quite a bit of variety of terms used based on the region they are in. BTW: It is definitely not an ABC Store here in Colorado. It is a liquor store.
It's called a liquor store here in PA too. I've heard people call it a state store but that's rare. I've never in my life heard ABC store.
Could be Canadian influence. Liquor store, tractor trailer etc.
@@LornaMoz same, also from PA. Either liquor store sometimes state store or wine and spirit cause that's the name of most in the area
ABC store where i'm from is just the brand name of a liqour store. But we say "going to the liqour store which is the closest." "Oh we have a ABC store down the road" If that makes sense.
We call them liquor stores in California too. An ABC store is a general goods store in Hawaii.
I will be honest with you, I have never heard anyone call the store that only carries alcohol the "ABC Store". I have lived in the USA my entire life and have always referred to it as the Liquor store.
I thought ABC was a name of a specific liquor store.
Called ABC stores from Maryland to Florida
If your in Boston it's a packie, short for package store.
@@craigoryrobie5676 there is a liquor store chain called ABC liquors. I used to go to one in Jacksonville, FL.
It's a southeastern thing. Only used in like five states. Unfortunately, she thought what was said in her 1/10th of the country was representative of the whole nation, but no... It's almost universally called a liquor store everywhere else.
I would comment that the USA is big enough that there’s a lot of regional differences and a number of these would cause disagreement on what to call them even within different portions of the US. The majority would be pretty much universal agreement in the USA but there were several that the one presented as the US word choice were strange to me as well.
Agree. We go to the Liquor Store in the Midwest. I went to the ABC Store on vacation in Hawaii.
I agree with you. In the USA, depending on where you live or where you are from, you will call things differently. The USA has a lot of different dialects of English where some things are said in "Old English" and some are said in USA English. It just depends on what region of the country you are in/from. As a person from NE Ohio and having lived in Georgia since 1995, I use different terms for things depending on who I'm talking with or what the "Thing" is. For example, When I talk with my family still up north I call soda "pop" or "Soda Pop" But if I am talking with someone from Georgia then I refer to it as "coke" or "Soda". It just depends on company and if I am here. Having friends in other parts of the world "UK, Canada, Japan, and a lot of different countries" I've learned a lot of different terms for items. Sometimes it comes down to translations but when it comes to English, Us Americans are more lazy with our terms.
I agree. Also, in many places in the US, it is rare to see a store that just sells alcohol, as we seem to prefer stores that sell a lot of various things so it can be more of a one stop shop. I think this also plays into the supermarket one, as for us we do have grocery stores, but they are rare as most stores sell more than just groceries.
You are right. I've never heard of an ABC store. Some just call it a Liquor Store
Hawaii, Virginia, Utah are the states that I know have ABC stores but there are more.
In the US, it’s generally called “liquor store”. I’ve never heard anyone call a liquor store an “abc store”. Beer, depending on its alcohol percentage content, generally is sold in gas stations, or grocery stores or supermarkets, like Walmart. Wine, liquors, and higher percentage beer gets sold in liquor stores, which varies state to state on how it’s sold.
Liquors also sell food which is different from the alcohol only ABC stores (which is why the term was used).
ABC is used regionally in the US
Liquor is also sold in CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and other grocery stores
Same. I've never heard anybody call it an "ABC store" in my life. It's just liquor store.
I've only heard "ABC store" or "state store" used by a friend in Pennsylvania. But there are multiple states where liquor stores are Alcohol Beverage Control stores. Usually beer and wine can be sold other places, but hard liquor is limited to government controlled or licensed retail establishments. As I look to move states I am definitely not going somewhere I can't grab some vodka from the supermarket. (Which we definitely use in the US, and I'm personally more likely to just say "I'm going to the store tomorrow, add stuff to the list" than specifying what kind of store.)
Obviously, in America, we could not call bell peppers just “peppers” because the huge Latin American influence in our country means we cook with MANY types of peppers. Since bell peppers are one of the only sweet nonspicy peppers that we use, we definitely like to say them by their full name. Also, some of these things have different names in America depending on which part of the country u are in, I mean, America is almost like 6 countries in one! Lol
Or sweet peppers.
Exactly what I thought too. We have hundreds of peppers here in the U.S. and it would be very confusing if we did not refer to them by the exact type of pepper.
Nah they just peppers 🌶️
How many United States and we've been calling them Peppers forever
Nah they just peppers
In the U.S., what we call things and how we pronounce thing really depends on the region of the country you were raised in.
Several accents in the States alone. especially Northern and Southern
I just made a comment how in much of Massachusetts, especially the Boston metro area, calls a liquor store a "packie". We are a very big and different country.
Same in Australia totally depends where you’re from.
Best Comment!!! I was just going to type this - We say both grocery store or supermarket, we say Truck in everyday talking, Liquor store, and we use either freeway or highway in Michigan.
@@shayLEVSHE I think it’s the case in every country. Regional variations. Same in Oz, China, UK
Also, as an American, a comforter and a duvet are different things to me. A duvet has a removable cover which can be taken off to wash while a comforter is all one piece and if you wash it you have to wash the whole thing stuffing and all. Both have some sort of feather or synthetic stuffing/filling.
Yes. This. We definitely call them duvets though.
And we pronounce them English-style duvet with a hard t. I’m pleasantly surprised to hear a Briton correctly pronounce a French word, duveh, with a Latin e (long A sound) and a silent t.
@@Baritone45 Hard t? I've always called it a du vay.
A duvet is a cover for a stuffed comforter, easier to wash.
Don't even get me going on Mange Tout, Courgette, and Aubergine.
Most states in the U.S. don't have ABC stores. We call them liquor stores, package stores and beverage stores. We have several names for motorway. We call them highways, freeways, interstates, parkways, roads and roadways. I'm sure there are others that don't come to mind.
We call um spirit shop out here, or package store... also never heard of this abc mumbo jumbo
Yeah, I've lived in three states in the US over almost 40 years, and I have never heard of an ABC Store. That's a liquor store. Where in the US are they called ABC Store?
ABC Stores are in the southeast. Package stores are in the northeast, liquor stores are the the common, and some fancier liquor stores would call themselves spirit shops. A lot of these names are regional within the US.
In Michigan they are called "party stores". But here the state sets the prices of hard liquor but doesn't handle the sales.
To make it even more confusing in Hawaii there is a chain of tourist gift shops/ mini-mart stores, you guessed it, called ABC stores.
As an American, we also use the term supermarket, but maybe it's more of a North Eastern thing.
Edit: What in the nine hells is an ABC store. Its just called a Liquor Store.
We experienced this visiting Oregon, buying booze from a woman behind a little window front, you have to know beforehand exactly what you want. Still don't know why it's called an "off license", kinda like public school means a private school to Brits.
I had never heard of an ABC store until I went to Hawaii the summer before 9/11. They had lots of ABC stores, but they were just gas stations where alcohol, souvenirs, beach items, some go-to grocery items, and other convenience store items were sold. I was even able to buy an extra suitcase there!
I’m pretty sure supermarket is fairly common, having lived in a number of different states on the west coast and the Midwest and traveling through all 50, though grocery store is often interchangeable. I feel like it’s 50/50 on usage and not even consistently used. Sometimes I’ll say supermarket, other times grocery store … for no discernible reason at all. 🙂
I live in NY and I’ve always known it as a liquor store.
ABC stores are a general goods store in Hawaii. Most people in the U.S. refer to the place where you buy spirits, beer and wine as liquor stores.
Actual professional driver here. The term “tractor trailer” is a professional term. The word, “tractor” is shorthand for a “traction vehicle”. That is, a vehicle designed to pull something. The only real functional difference between a farm tractor and an over the road tractor is the item they are designed to pull. The cabs of each are designed to provide comfort for the operator, but aren’t otherwise part of the primary function of the machine. The word, “truck” comes from railroad use. There, a truck is one of the tandem bogie wheel assemblies mounted at each end of the rail car. Since American tractor trailers have used tandem wheel assemblies dating all the way back to commercial versions of the model T, it seems the term was transferred, then applied to the whole vehicle. I suspect “lorry” has origins in the ancient practice of the teamster, which would be more appropriate to the British Isles.
They think the word “lorry” for truck came from a 16th century English word lurry, which meant "to pull, tug".
Thank you. I've heard "tractor trailer" plenty of times, but never knew any of this. Cool!
@@SheldonHelms Probably related to the word "lure".
Yes on the "tractor trailer" @Robert Gerrard - very much more an industry term. We would call it a Semi, Rig, or 18-wheeler. ("We've got ourselves a Convoy")
In my neck of the woods, we're more likely to say "semi", but also tractor-trailer. Semi is easier.
Im American and I've never heard of it being called an "abc store", Ive always just called it a Liquor Store
Also, a duvet for us is slightly different from a comforter, a duvet goes inside of a duvet cover (like how a pillow goes inside a pillowcase, the cover can be changed). A duvet is made up of 2 parts that can be seperated, a comforter is just one piece
Agreed to both of these things
I agree on both points. Regarding the ABC Store.. never heard that one before. It's always been the liquor store or party store. Personally, I prefer calling it a party store. You go there before a party to grab your drinks for the night. It can also be called a convenience store if they have a small section for common groceries too.
I'm American. Different states have different alcohol laws. In California, there's no ABC store run by the state of CA. We call it a liquor store.
But I've been to states like North Carolina and they have ABC stores, where wine and liquor are sold there and nowhere else. And they don't sell anything else other than wine/liquor.
Of course, different regions have different names for this. The Bostonians call their liquor store as "packies".
I'm 52 and lived in Oregon all of my life, and have always heard liquor store, also.
Tractor trailer? Commonly called a semi in the USA.
As a life long resident of the US I've never ever heard the term "ABC store" before. Here (Boston area) we call them liquor stores, or "packys" which is short for package store. The term package store refers to one of the laws we have in this region where alcohol must be concealed in a bag or package while its outside of the store or your home. This law is the same reason you may have seen people drinking booze out of a brown paper bag in some movies or shows.
I know a dispensary is a different thing from a liquor store but I’ve only ever heard them called dispensaries or liquor stores that’s the only places you really can get booze in Pennsylvania
That's interesting. My nana says ABC store and she lives in Boston (Dorchester), but my Grandparents who also live in Boston (Malden) call them liquor. It may be because my nana grew up in Alabama. Although ABC may be a specific brand of store she refers to.
@SansBazinga98 it makes sense that she would call it that if she is from Alabama because it's a term only applicable in, I believe, something like 17 or 18 states. In MA, specifically from lifelong residents, you'll only really hear it called a liquor store or a packie.
All hard liquor in my state is sold at ABC stores only.
ABC store is a Brand of liquor stores, i see them all the time in the south east, but nowhere else really.
As a Californian born and raised in the Central Valley:
1. Chips
2. French Fries or just fries.
3. Cookies (we do say dog biscuit or dog cookies though). Biscuits aren’t as dry as scones if you make them right.
4. Big rig, Diesel, Semi are common uses. Truck can be used if you are looking right at it, but can be confusing with all of our small trucks. Tractor Trailer is rarely used, but varies by who owns the trucking company. (Anything delivering high torque at low speed is technically a tractor, which we exclusively use for farm vehicles. The trailer part of the word would never be added for a farm vehicle).
5. Bangs (fringe cut in fancier salons, but not used outside them)
6. Candy or sweets. Candy in stores, but you might be told you are eating too many sweets or “no more sweets”.
7. Bathing suit, one piece, swimsuit is anything you use to swim.
8. Bathroom in the house, restroom in a restaurant or business. If you are looking for a toilet, a port-a-potty has a toilet with no sink so you might be pointed out to use one if you are “looking for the nearest toilet” in a rural setting.
9. Apartment
10. Grocery store or Supermarket or store (food stores). More often than not you will use the store name.
11. Comforter (Duvet is something you can remove, and has a cover).
12. Bell peppers are always green to us, all other peppers can be sweet or designated by color. We have different peppers too. (Capsicum is the actual plant species, not the berry which we call a pepper.)
13. Rain boots, older people might say galoshes. Rubber boots are used anywhere wet, but not exclusively used because it rains. So even though rain boots are rubber boots too, we would not call them that or rubbers. My Grandfather from Michigan would say rubbers.
14. We called them thongs or sandals when I was really young, and now everyone says flip-flops. Thongs as underwear or swimsuits would almost always be used as singular. I’m wearing thong underwear as an example. The girls were wearing thongs could be misinterpreted though. I think that might have been part of the reason for the change.
15. Gas station.
16. Liquor store (only alcohol).
17. Pants. (short for pantaloons). Trousers are generally referring to a more formal cut for us. I always thought it was weird when I heard English people say pants were underwear yet they still said underpants. Does that mean underpants means naked?
18. Sidewalk ( Footpath is generally a trail which can be paved or unpaved, and does not run alongside the main road as a general rule. Pavement is the actual material to us, such as a paved driveway)
18. Highway, freeway depending on road. Interstate is found only on signs. I find we say Highway 41 when from the San Joaquin Valley. My Bay Area family will just say 41, and my Los Angeles family will say The 41. Region and Age make a large difference.
We say aluminum as that was what Sir Davy called it. It was later changed by another Scientist referring to Sir Davy’s work as aluminium. We don’t like to change things often as far as words are concerned.
Otherwise we get the thong vs. flip-flop debates on what to label things as in stores.
Also from the Central Valley, and the only thing I would change is that bell peppers can definitely also be red, orange, or yellow :)
I live in Maryland, and we don’t call stores that sell alcohol “ABC stores”. We call them either liquor stores, or beer & wine stores. I have heard of ABC stores, but that might be in particular states. It really varies state by state.
And as for “Tractor Trailers”, thats like the specific type of truck. We have pick up trucks, box trucks, semi’s/tractor trailer trucks, etc.
I also live in Maryland, on the Eastern Shore, and call them liquor stores. Originally from Northern Virginia and did call them ABC Stores.
@@scottdowney4865 I live in Hagerstown in Western MD. But I grew up in Montgomery County. In Montgomery County “hard” alcohol is controlled and regulated by the county. So we had county owned and operated liquor stores, and then privately owned beer & wine stores. But up here in Washington County, we only have privately owned liquor stores that sells all alcohol.
So it even varies county to county, and city to city. Weird how the alcohol laws are in the US. 😂
They are ABC stores just across your border in Virginia.
I lived in Richmond, VA for a time and they called them ABC stores there.
It's a liquor store in Illinois and Indiana too.
15:03 I have to clarify here: only in some limited places in the US do they call it an 'ABC Store'. Much more common is 'Liquor Store'. (This is the problem with these kinds of videos is the US is very very large and culturally diverse and you will find several different names for things across the US.
I have been to 48 of the 50 states, and never heard the term ABC store. Not saying that it isnt used somewhere, but not in my neck of the woods, nor anywhere ive visited. Liquor store is the common term.
@@dbsagacious Look up states with an alcohol beverage control as a state agency. You will find "ABC stores" unless they changed their laws on liquor sales which many did.
Oklahoma had them at least through the 1980s when I was living there. It was always a small plain white building with no big signs or ads allowed. They had no liquor stores from statehood in 1907 untol 1959, and the last "dry county" finally allowed "liquor by the drink" in 2018.
Now I live in Texas which also had the blue laws restricting sales of even beer on Sundays until a certain time. Diapers weren't even considered essential, so people either had to not run out or wait until the registers would allow things besides food to be rung up. Now, I can buy all sorts of alcohol in the supermarket in Texas.
@@Peri2C naw... you said the 80s? That was 40 years ago. Maybe it could be called a package store but it's a liquor store in almost all the states. So 48 of 50 (with some in the 2 also having them) makes ABC obsolete.
@@Peri2C Oh Im familiar, ive lived in OK most of my life. I never remember the ABC thing, but they were probably all gone by my time. And we couldnt even buy beer over 3.2% strength outside a liquor store until i think 2020. Thats why we would all take a trip across the red river to get the good "Texas Beer" lol
I call it "the learning store". Where we go to learn our ABCs...
Also one thing to remember about American English is that there are over 200 different accents & 50 different pronunciations & slang because it’s so large. Every area is influenced by so many different cultures over the years.
I'm surprised the British woman didn't mention water closet or WC for the bathroom, it's extremely common there and the common English translation in countries like India. Canada calls it wash room.
As for if you asked, "where's the toilet?", Americans would definitely point you to the nearest bathroom/restroom, but we'd never say that ourselves. We'd either know immediately you weren't American OR (depending on the accent) believe you've grown up without learning your manners! 🤣
Yes, for some reason "toilet" is considered a "dirty word" to use in that context. Some people go so far as to call toilet paper "bathroom tissue".
Yeah, "where's the toilet" sounds a bit crass to my American ears lol. Might as well follow it with "I gotta take a leak"
"Wheres the sh1tter!"
@@justanotherdayinthelife9841 "The sh*tter was full"
@@centuryrox gotta have the morning beer and cigar when emptying it.
Also maybe its because my family is deep Texan but asking for the "commode" isn't rude and fairly normal.
We do have duvet in the US. It is different from comforters. Comforters are an all in one item that cant be separated for cleaning, whereas duvets can remove the duvet cover for cleaning to be reapplied later.
Yes! I agree!
Yes! A duvet is like a pillow case for blankets and quilts, but a comforter is like a quilted bedspread.
When I was much younger, flip-flops were called thongs. At some point in history, they became flip-flops. I think it's because female underwear with just a piece of string in the back became a thing and was also called a thong. I've never heard of an ABC Store. I've always heard them called Package Stores or Liquor Stores. We call it a sidewalk because the street itself is the pavement. Interstates/freeways are major throughways that have at least 2 lanes in each direction and do not intersect with other roads. Highways are the little brothers of interstates in that they also span multiple states but their speed limits are lower than interstates as they do intersect with other roads and run through cities and towns. Highways also are mostly 2 lane roads but can have 4 lanes in certain sections.
Yes I remember early flip flops called thongs. they were the ones that went between the toes. Then Americans preferred the, 'slide" style type and they flipped and flopped more than the thong style. After trade with China opened up, the thong style was cheaper and more practical, but still some call them flip flops.
Same here in Canada when I was a kid in the 60s,,we called them thongs and usually got them at Woolworths or Kresges. Now they're flip flops. M
I never heard them called package stores until I moved to New England for the 10 years I was there.
Yup thongs growing up and it changed to flip flops
This is a great explanation about our roads and liquor stores in the USA.
I'm an American born and raised in California. We only call the roads that you can go about 70-80 mph on as freeways. Now that I've moved to Idaho I have heard them called almost exclusively a highway. If you're interested in the different accents, you totally need to check out the different American accents. It's super fun to hear what just one country can call something. Take the ABC store, never heard of it in my life, always known it as the liquor store.
Freeways are limited access roads that don’t cost you to drive on them. The same road on the east coast would have toll booths that require you to pay for driving on them. Highways are any main road that goes through a state and can be either state owned or federal owned and use a numbered system to designate them. Even numbers are east-west routes and odd numbers are north-south routes although sections may actually go a different direction it’s the general direction of travel.
I don’t consider freeways and highways to be the same thing. Highways can be state owned and sometimes only two-lanes. There will sometimes be homes and businesses on a highway. I have never seen a two lane freeway or one that has homes or businesses on it. I think of freeways as synonymous with interstate but Since moving from California I have gone from mostly using freeway to mostly saying interstate.
In America, just state to state we have different terminology and accents. With that being said I have never heard a liquor store be called a "abc store" by any American I have ever talked too!! Love your channel keep the vids coming guys!!
ABC is an actual liquor store chain in Florida. Never heard the description she gave before.
Or Alabama. But even only state controlled ones.
I’ll say liquor store, package store, class 6 store (military).
Same.
I have never heard of an A B C store either. We call it a liquor store.
I also have never heard it called this. In PA we call them state stores or liquor stores.
So when the American lady said ABC store for the store that sells alcohol, I've NEVER, as an American, heard it called that. I've always called it the "liquor store"
Also, we use not only highway and interstate, but we do also say freeway in the US
ABC stores are located in states that strictly control the sale of all hard liquor. In Virginia, for example, you can only buy hard liquor from a state run store called an ABC store. ABC stands for Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Alabama, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia all own the stores selling hard liquor. Virginia calls them ABC stores. I do not know what the other states call them.
@@garygemmell3488 Maybe they should have clarified that then, because that’s a small number of states. Everyone else calls it a liquor store.
I would be very confused if someone told me they’re going to the ABC store. Never heard that. Liquor store is most common.
In Michigan (at least) they're called expressways. When I lived in CA I picked up calling them freeways, and when I went back home they gave me funny looks.
@Atheos B. Sapien Seems like every state where this goes on has it's own term for it. I think in some places they also call it a package store. Where I'm from a package store is a UPS-type business.
When I was a young kid in America in the 60s and 70s, what are now called "flips flops" were called "thongs" like in Australia. The name evolved to "flip flops" over time so as not to be confused with a woman's g-string. Also, "trousers" is a recognizable, but considered to be an old-fashioned term term for what we call "pants".
In the 70s we definitely called them thongs in the U.S., but flip-flops were also in common use. Cf. Jimmy Buffet "I blew out my flip flop / Stepped on a pop top" from "Margaritaville" which was recorded in 1976.
My Mom was from the Deep South and called them Britches.
I grew up in the US in a beach town in the 60’s and 70’s and we always called them flip flops. So again it must be a regional thing.
And now pop-tops are long gone.
We called them thongs in New Jersey
These are awesome!! I love how your whole family is getting involved in learning about our very diverse nation!!
I've never heard of a store that sells only alcohol a "ABC store", typically people know it as a "liquor store" as most large supermarkets here sell beer but not hard alcohol. Here in New England you might hear it referred to as a "packie" or "package store" as the brown paper bag they give you at checkout makes it look like a package.
Exactly. I've never heard of an ABC Store, and I've lived in three states.
ABC stores are mostly located on the east coast but I do know Hawaii has them too. Not sure about the other stares
I'm from South Carolina and they are officially called ABC Stores here, but most people I've known call them liquor stores. I've also heard them called Red Dots because they are labeled by the letters "ABC" inside a big red dot.
@@gregtaylor8857 Then you have never been to Hawaii because they have ABC store on every corner lol
@@elizabethgainey4742 On every corner
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I don't know why the American didn't say Supermarket. 'Grocery store' and 'supermarket' is interchangeable in the US. Also, we do indeed have Duvets in the US. I think she is right she is just very sheltered. The liquor store is only called an ABC store in certain states everywhere else it's just a liquor store.
In Michigan we call them "party store"
@@DW94576 - I'm in Illinois, we have liquor stores and party stores... all the same thing lol
That was a blast! Thank you for posting this!
I was stationed in the UK for two years in the USAF, I was amazed at how many different words we use for things, like the trunk of a car they call the “boot”.
While tractor-trailer is technically correct (however only when the trailer is attached), the more common term in the US is semi-truck, or just truck, or just semi. Occasionally you will her it called other things, like big rig, or 18 wheeler (again only when the trailer is attached), or others, but those are far less common.
You are probably speaking from a western USA perspective. Tractor trailer is most common in the South and the east coast.
Also trailer truck.
with the trailer on I would say 18 wheeler personally. without I would probably say Semi
Yeah, 18 wheeler for me.
@@willp.8120 I'm from the south, and I must disagree with you.
In the US we use the word “pavement” to specify the material on an improved road. As if “walking on the pavement”. Meaning the hard surface. Pavement could be concrete or asphalt.
I disagree with Lucy on the whole biscuit thing. If you’re in the US, definitely ask for a biscuit. You won’t get a sweet, baked treat, but you’ll get one of the best bread items out there (if it’s been prepared correctly). Here in the south, biscuits and gravy (sausage gravy) is a beloved breakfast dish!
Also, I’ve often referred to “rain boots” as galoshes. 😂
My grandmother used to say galoshes! And jeans were dungarees.
Galoshes don't go up your leg. They are just rubber shoe covers.
@@firstenforemost That may be the definition, but I've definitely heard it used interchangeably with rain boots. I grew up just calling them rubber boots, though. And the American in this video also mentioned that you wear them along with a rain coat, but I grew up calling that a rain slicker, or just a slicker.
You are making me hungry biscuits and sausage gravy that’s good eating right there that’s the kinda food that sticks to your ribs
If you order a biscuit in the states, do not expect a sweet pastry. Those are cookies. But what you:LL get is even better. I love the smell of biscuits baking and wondering what I am going to eat with my biscuits...sausage, fried egg, bacon, ham, butter, jelly, jam, syrup, honey or if I will just use it to sop up gravy, or crumble it up with a big mug of milk or beans or peas.
And I have rubber rain boots close by since we are in the middle of 16 days of predicted thunderstorms here. I was disappointed that the word galoshes wasn't even mentioned. I personally don't use the term Wellington's, but that's what my Granny used to call them. I have made use of a thin raincoat that I call a parkha.
To clarify about "tractor trailers" we also recognize them as a type of truck in America, we just call them "tractor trailers" because they would would have trailers (wheeled attachment for holding large objects) that would often be used to transport farm equipment. We also call them "18 Wheelers"
You would definitely get different answers to some of these pics if you asked 4 Americans from different parts of the country. Great vid!
For an American who lived in the UK, a Biscuit is a hard dry sugary disk that you dip in tea. I'm sure its a hold over from WW1 and WW2 cuizine/ration like their breakfast. But a nice, warm, goey, soft American cookie is a pleasure to the tastes buds. It's just above and beyond a dry UK Biscuit.
As a native Californian, I'd never heard or knew about an ABC store until the age of 20 I met people from Virginia and it came up in conversation. It just depends which state you're in. But we call that a Liquor Store.
I've seen a liquor store here in Florida with the name ABC and that's the only time I've ever heard of it I certainly would never call liquor store by ABC
It was a State Store in PA and NJ
It's just a liquor store in NY.
From los angeles here
We call it the liquor store in Utah as well, it probably helps that it’s the only store in the state that has the authority to sell liquor lmao
Maybe it's a regional thing but where I'm from (New York City), we've never made a distinction between snow and rain boots. We know which one we want or need for the occasion but we refer to both as simply "boots". We do, however, call coats meant specifically for protection from getting wet "rain coats".
I find it odd that everyone outside the US gets stuck on the word gas. We understand that it is a short form of gasoline. I have the same hang up with petrol. I think of petroleum as crude oil.
I agree. Saying petrol seems weird to me because you don’t put petroleum in your vehicle.
Yes, it takes petroleum to refine into gasoline, kerosene, diesel, etcetera. As far as I know nobody makes vehicles that run on crude oil, so petrol doesn't make any sense to me either.
Exactly what I thought, gasoline - or gas - is what you put in your car to run on, petroleum is crude oil and that’s not what your car runs off of lol
And then there is me the automotive racing enthusiast that calls them all fuel, because I'm always right this way, lol. Not 100% but some diesel engines might be able to run on filtered but unprocessed crude oil. It would run like shit though. Set up right a diesel engine can run on almost any liquid that explodes/burns. But all that aside, yes, petrol = petroleum = crude oil.
Petroleum is the unrefined form of gasoline. (I looked up the definition just to be sure) :P
Hey guys. I haven't watched the whole thing but when they got to biscuits I had to jump in. In the South, buttermilk biscuits are a staple. They are fluffy on the inside and crisp on the outside quick breads that rise using baking powder. The bag of White Lily flour that I sent Atlanta has an excellent recipe that makes a great biscuit. White Lily is made from soft winter wheat and doesn't have much gluten in it. Almost like pastry flour. There is nothing better than a hot buttered biscuit with peach preserves! Or a country ham biscuit. Or biscuits smothered with sausage gravy. Mmm mmm! Yall would love it!
Definitely need the biscuits with the sausage gravy!
Mmmm! Biscuits and sausage gravy!
Thank you for pointing that out too Kat! I was shocked when Nadine didn’t know what a biscuit was. I need to cook them a Southern breakfast one time, haha. I’m glad ya did send that flour and hopefully it didn’t perish in the travels over and they can make some delicious biscuits. I could do a lot of damage with biscuits, haha.
I keep having a fight with people from the UK and Ireland who will not admit that a biscuit and a scone are not the same thing. Scones to me are almost like rocks.... you could throw one at somebody and hurt them. Not so with a biscuit. Not that I would ever throw 1 of those things..... That would be a waste.
I do recognize that they're similar, but they are not the same, and some people just refuse to listen to it
@@LindaC616 Amen, they are NOT the same thing. I mean sometimes at Cracker Barrel you may get a hard biscuit that could be considered a scone or what my family calls a hockey put, but a true biscuit is fluffy and soft with amazing preserves, jam, jelly, or gravy. Got me hungry for em tomorrow! 🤤
They say that us and the UK are "two countries divided by a common language" but it really applies well to all 4 of us, y'all, the UK and Australia
you forget the poor canadians
@@TooDarnEasy everybody forgets the Canadians lol
Also y'all in the South, Northerners never say that. Lol
@@LJBSullivan you're right we don't say you all over we're starting to get some people trying to say it probably because of social media it just looks ridiculous.
It's starting to get list of isis cuz we all watch each other's TV and movies so after while you're sad to see some different blending I mean I can understand all of them anyways.
We call it a comforter because it is something that is heavier thicker more plush that is more comfortable feeling than just a regular bedding blanket or sheet. The quilt on the other hand is a specific type of stitch pattern of a blanket. Quilts are seldom used in the United States. My wife has one quilt and this is an old antique handed down by my great-grandmother. Quilts are hand-stitched and the stitching throughout is in a diamond pattern or some other ornate geometrical shape. Quilts in the United States are made from sections of fabric sewn together
In the southern US, we certainly do have duvets, but here, there is always a removable inside part that has the down filler, and an interchangeable duvet "cover," whereas a comforter is all of one piece, kind of like a very, very fluffy quilt, though not necessarily pieced.
In the north and we have them too! I’m a college student and it’s so common for us to have them for our dorms
I live in Florida so a duvet is actually like two sheets sewed together with a zipper so I use that as my comforter all summer because it's 90 here and I don't need a comforter
The picture looked like a comforter Which is what I sometimes use to put inside a duvet. 😊
In the Pacific Northwest, we don’t call them ABC stores, we call them liquor stores.
My dad was a trucker and we grew up calling them Semis, big rigs, semi trucks. He would use tracker trailer from time to time, but not as often as the others.
Also, I hear highway and freeway more than I hear people say interstate.
LOVE your videos!
Ohio calls them liquor stores
100% - it's called a liquor store.
I'm from the pacific northwest too. I' remember when I was a kid thirty years ago we transition to calling flip flops from thongs... I still call them that sometimes. I always
We do have something called a duvet in the U.S. But it goes on top of the comforter for extra warmth. It usually lies at the foot of the bed during cold months. Hotels often have them.
Usually I’ve seen them as a cover for down comforters. I imagine washing isn’t the best for feathers.
for us in the usa, a flat, is used for a specific type of apt. its generally used to reference a large studio(where its all one huge room with no walls, except the bathroom) apt.
I remember calling flip-flops "thongs" growing up in the 1980's. This is in the US. I don't remember anyone calling them "flip-flops" until the word "thong" started being associated with that certain style of ladies undergarments. Great video.
In Florida I hear flip flops and Sandals used interchangeably also the little piece that goes between your toes Is a thong.
That's what I thought, that at some point in the '80s it started to change from thongs to flip flops.
I agree, long ago they were called "thongs", but not in recent years ... it is now flip flops.
Always called them flip flops and I’m 60 and from the south. Never heard them called Thongs until I was in my 40’s.
I remember them as thongs in the early '90s and they became flipflops around '97. I'm from PDX.
When you're talking about the US, you can't assume that the whole US says stuff the same way. Words are regional here, sometimes even by state.
Never heard of abc stores. Every one calls them liquor stores.
There are ABC stores all over here in Myrtle Beach SC.
In New England it's a package store or packy.
I'm 61 years old and have lived in the US all my life and I have never heard anyone say ABC Store. 99% of Americans call it a Liquor Store, while a small percentage of people may call it a Package Store.
I'm in North Carolina, born in South Carolina and I've always called it a liquor store. Sometimes jokingly I will say Aunt Bettys Cafe but that's it.
@@kriegzz4095 😄 I like that!
The mid Atlantic and East Coast says ABC but down south we say Liquor store
I forgot about Package store. I remember people saying that when I lived in Mississippi.
@@kimbeerly - I’ve heard of Package Store in Texas and Oklahoma as well. I believe that term has pretty much fallen to the wayside, however.
I enjoyed this video. it exemplifies the old adage that "meanings are never in words...they are in people. Well Done.
In the US, ABC Stores are mostly in the South; elsewhere we call them liquor stores but these days you can buy most of your alcoholic products in the "supermarket."
Thnk you. Haven't seen one is a while, but yes, ABC Package Stores aka Red Dot, since the ABC would be on a big red circle sign, were what I saw growing up in South Carolina.
Growing up in the U.S. Northwest in the 1980s, I remember we used the word "thong" to refer to flip flops, but then that was replaced with the word "flip flop" in the late 80's and early 90's. I think it primarily switched because the word "thong" was used to refer to the other type of fashion accessory.
Yeah I think it was replaced for the word thong went all the women started wearing thong underwear that stuck 6 in above their clothing
For me, they were referred to as sandals 🩴, for walking on the sand only.
My grandmother always called them thongs, and so did my mom. I called them that until later in the ‘80’s. I asked her about it she said nobody called them flip-flops until around the sixties. I guess it was about marketing.
I said virtually the same thing.
First, when I was in the Navy, they were "shower shoes", then, I guess because of the part that goes between your toes, they were called "thongs" but mostly, because the way they sound when walking in them, I've called them "flip flops".
🩴🩴In the US Midwest we called flip flops “thongs” until sometime in the 90s it seemed to change. My Polynesian friends call them “slippers” because you slip them on.
🚛My grandfather, brothers, and various uncles drive and have driven trucks for decades. We call them “semis” for short and tractor trailers for clarification. 🛻Passenger trucks are “pickups” or “pickup trucks”. Still drives me nuts to hear pickups called “trucks”. Trucks haul large loads across the country. Or livestock. 😆
Liquor store in Midwest. Never heard of ABC. 🤷♀️
I was going to post the same thing about the flip flops. I'm also from the Midwest, and growing up we called them thongs, too. Everybody I knew did. I'm not referring to those woven sandals, just those "rubbery" ones. I think when bikini bottoms started getting really skimpy (1990s?) and people started calling them thongs, the footwear thongs were phased out and called flip flops. At least where I'm from. Terms vary from state to state and region to region.
I grew up in Utah calling then thongs, but now call them flip-flops
Same thing in California they were thongs growing up. Till the ladies started wearing underwear up their bums.
I think the "thongs" thing is an era situation as well. Just like men's pants used to be called trousers in America and we still have trouser socks. I think blue jeans caused the need to differentiate. Then trousers became the term for casual or dress pants, and "jeans" for blue jeans. To those who remember their farmer grandparents call them "pick-em--up" trucks, using the term 'truck" for them is not unusual. There's also a "hand truck" that most people call a dolly or a furniture dolly. Then add to it the SUV confusion now. So many people call their suv a truck, as in "Oh, I left it in my truck." When you go out to their "truck", you find it is an SUV. I guess it's the fluidity of our language.
I grew up in Pennsylvania and have never called a liquor store a dispensary. Now if you hear someone saying they are going to the state store, they are going to get liquor. In PA the liquor is state controlled. However, recently grocery stores have also been allowed to carry alcohol as well. And then there is beer that gets its own separate store as well. Until I was like 16 I thought that was the way it was everywhere. At 16 I went on a school trip to NY and was shocked to see alcohol in grocery stores. I lived a sheltered life😆.
A dispensary is another name for a store that legally sells marijuana.
Biscuits and gravy is a traditional breakfast item, especially in the South and Midwest. I highly recommend trying it sometime. It's pretty easy to make from scratch at home too.
Biscuits and Gravy with over easy egg on top! Best breakfast in the world!
Good biscuits are way better imho than good scones
Yeah they aren’t the same as a scone. Similar but not same.
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In the West biscuits is a dinner item.
I was raised in the U.S. in the 60's and 70's and those shoes we wore to the pool were ALWAYS called thongs until the skimpy underwear became more common (probably in the early 90's) and then it was flip-flops. It wasn't hard to switch to calling them flip-flops because otherwise you would get laughed at when you called them thongs.
Same age range as you and I grew up calling them flip flops I had heard thongs for them but not where I am from so it was probably regional.
I grew up in the 1960's and 70's. They were called thongs and originally had the three point strap between the toes. Americans, especially men, didn't care for the thong and a slide on type was developed, that had a rubber strap across the foot and had two attachment points on each side. These didn't stay on the feet as well as the thong type, but were more comfortable. They flipped and flopped even more than the thong type. These were often called flip flops. After opening trade with China and because the thong type was more popular internationally, the thong type became cheaper than the American market only slide on type. Due to the prices, the thong type won the market, but the flip flop name remained.
The Beach Boys 1964 song, All Summer Long mentions "T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs." This refers to flip flops.
Here in Virginia we called the all rubber ones flip flops. The grass mat covered type, like in the video was referred to as thongs. Every other flat open shoe were called sandals.
I was raised in the 90s and I remember that split. They were called thongs then just into it they became flip flops.
just for clarification: the name for a place where you buy liquor is regional. ABC Store is actually the least common. Liquor Store, Liquor Shop, or Package Store are more common.
In the us I have heard ABC store, liquor store, or even package store. Mostly I use liquor store. Also, a comforter refers to a heavy one piece bed cover, a duvet is two pieces that can be taken apart for cleaning. A lightweight bed cover is what I have always called a bedspread or quilt. Bell pepper is to distinguish the type of pepper as we have so many types here. While we do sometimes say tractor trailer, you will often hear semi, semi truck, big rig or 18-wheeler. We have so many names for them because we have so many of them on the roads.
We have no ABC stores in California. We can buy alcohol in a grocery store, a liquor store or a quick stop type store. It depends on the laws of the specific state whether you have ti go to a government regulated store. That American woman comes from a different region of the US because many of her words are different.
I've lived ALL OVER AMERICA for over 50 yeas and have NEVER heard of a liquor store being called an ABC store. I do know there are a FEW states where the state government controls the stores themselves....but in just about every corner of this country its called a "liquor store." Also ...we call them BOTH "flip flops" and "thongs" and yes the g string is also called a thong.
That's what I'm saying, I don't know anyone that calls it an ABC Store
I agree with you.
I have never heard it called an ABC store either. Liquor store and or state store are all I have ever heard it referred as.
Growing up in South Carolina (near GA border), we had ABC "Package" stores. They had red circles (dots) on the outside as signs, with ABC on one of them. Don't really see them anymore, but they did, maybe still do exist.
Totally agree, never heard the term ABC store, its a liquor store, that's the sign on the buildings even Liquor Store. Also, would call them thongs or flip flops interchangeably.
There are a lot of regional differences in the US. I've never heard "ABC Store", I've always heard "liquor store", but I also don't drink. Also a lot of the words that are used in the UK and Australia would be understood in the states like trousers, super market, flat, etc. People would just smile and probably use their fake British accent when responding to you, but they would know what you are talking about. Also we take pride in ruining the "Queen's" English here.
Many many regional differences in Australia. We say things totally differently in Sydney than they do in say Melbourne or Perth
A highway is pretty much any non-neighborhood roads. The picture she's showing would be an interstate (a road system that criss-crosses the nation), a freeway (as opposed to a toll road), or a State Route (a major route in a specific area).
Some of these cracked me up. I live in the Southern part of the US and I don’t think I have ever heard anyone call the liquor store an ABC store. I love watching your videos!
Depends what state you are in....NC only has ABC's.... wine and beer is sold in supermarkets, to sell anything else the State runs it through their ABC (Alcohol Beverage Control). And then some states, like California, almosty all liquor is just sold anywhere you get food, like a supermarket, or convience store. You need to look up the History of Prohibition in the US to understand why
I agree, I'm approaching 50, southern but have traveled, I have never once heard it called an ABC Store.
On US military bases, or at least the ones I've been stationed on, the stores that sell just alcohol are called ABC stores.
....or class 6
Alabama, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia have what are known as ABC stores. The state is the only entity permitted to sell hard liquor. Usually, beer and wine can sold in places like a grocery store, although I have no clue if any of those states have exerted complete control over all alcohol sales.
When I was in the U.S. Marine Corps we called them trousers. Our Drill instructors said "only sailors wear pants"! Just a little good natured fun with our Navy friends...of course the Navy Corpsmen assigned to the Marine Corps who went into combat with us wore trousers too.
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In Australia 🇦🇺 trousers better quality and more formal quiet often made of wool or wool mix. Pants ( cotton) more informal but not jeans like levi's.
I guess Squids are no longer issued dungarees🤔
What you would call "scones", might look similar to US biscuits, but that's all. It doesn't help that scones here in the US aren't the same as the ones over there lol. And a tractor basically just means a vehicle designed for high traction/torque to pull heavy loads. They just happen to be used for heavy farm equipment a lot. But I've only really heard children use tractor-trailer. Myself and everyone I know calls them either a semi-truck or an 18 wheeler. Hope this helps! Edit : And I have never heard "ABC" store before in my life. Always been a liquor store around here in NY. Goes to show how many regional differences there are here ig.
I'm in New England and I think scones do taste a little bit like biscuits not exactly but if you have a buttermilk biscuit or you have a shortcake biscuit it's very similar to a scone not the same but close
@@WhatsCookingTime savory scones are perhaps just a little more dense/heavy than a buttermilk or baking powder biscuit but they're fairly similar. Scones can be sweet or savory.
I keep on hearing that scones are like biscuits, but I've yet to find a scone that tasted similar. Some might have a slightly similar texture, but biscuits are much, much better. At least one Australian suggested to me that our biscuits might be more similar to their damper, but I think they are still somewhat different.
I don't think she knew the answer so she looked up something on Google and got a bs answer.
in Fl we do have a chain of ABC liquor stores but that is not what she was referring to at all.
I’m American and we differentiate between duvet and comforter, the duvet has the removable cover, liquor store, never refer to them as abc stores, and we have interstate roads and intrastate highways, we also have highway loops. We also have (grocery) markets . Thongs or sandals (huaraches, flip-flops).
I’m from the US and it’s hilarious how adamant each language has its on version of each word and that’s the correct way! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so the Truck…I’ve always called a Semi or just truck. Never a “Tractor Trailer”. You typically hear that word mostly on the news when one has been involved in an accident I feel! And OMG this lady…lol. It’s a liquor store. I have NEVER even heard it called an ABC Store? I’m gonna need some better US representation. 🤣🤣🤣. Great video yall❤
Agree on Semi. I'm from NC so her saying ABC store wasn't weird to me lol. But I use it and liquor store interchangeably.
I've seen other react videos of this woman and she has some strange information. Like it's either her own personal preferences or stuff she's looked up that's not really accurate for the majority of the U.S. I feel like they need to ask people from various regions of the U.S. because we all have our own dialects and saying here lol
Yeah, it's truck.
I've always called tractor trailer trucks "18 Wheelers" (they usually have 18 wheels but not always)
Tractor trailer is one of the terms used for the 'legal' definition. This is to distinguish it from a 'box truck' - a truck where the container is attached to the vehicle.
Remember, each state has their own liquor laws. That's why they can make Jack Daniels in Lynchburg, Tennessee but it's illegal to sell for consumption the same product within Moore County [it's a dry county]. Hench, she probably lives in a state with an ABC.
As an American, I've never heard it called an ABC Store. Its always called a liquor store if they only sell alcohol. As for the "flip flops" we also call them just sandals, because people wear them on the beach, But also people wear them anywhere when its warm out. As for "grocery store" we also call them just stores, because a lot of grocery stores also sell non-grocery items.
A lot of the time we refer to the store by it's name... adding a posessive 's to it. Like "I'm going to Kroger's" or "I'm going to Aldi's" When I lived in Flint, as a Star Wars fan it gave me a hoot to say "I'm making a Kessel run" :-)
We also say supermarket.
Biscuits are still quite a bit different than scones; I have been noticing Atlanta has excellent baking skills, including skills working with dough; she should try a recipe for a fluffy buttermilk biscuit and you guys try them warm from the oven with butter - and then also try making a white sausage gravy and try "biscuits & gravy"
As an alabamian:
1) Chips
2) Fries
3) Cookies (biscuits typically have sausage in between them)
4) Semi Truck or 18 wheeler
5) Bangs
6) Candy!!!! it’s candy!!!
7) Bathing suit or swimsuit
8) Bathroom (restroom only in public)
9) Apartment (it’s not a flat)
10) Grocery store or supermarket (aisle, buggy)
11) Comforter (Doona??? Duvet?? huh?
12) Bell peppers 🫑 yummy (wtf is a capsicum?)
13) Rain boots (gumboots? 😂)
14) Flip flops (thongs are sexy underwear for women 😂)
15) Gas station (only correct answer)
16) liquor store (very not good place. Alcohol is bad)
17) Pants
18) Side walk (a footpath is a walking trail in a forrest)
19) Highway. Interstate is a very busy fast paced highway
(i’m open to any questions about the states 😁)
Rain Boots, Gumboots, Welllies . . . I have another name: Galoshes. I was brought up on a diary farm in central Wisconsin. As you can guess, cows produce milk. But they also produce 'offal'. It is impossible to work there, without getting your galoshes messy. There is usually a nearby 'mud room' with a shower and places to store your barn clothes. None of that ever goes inside the living quarters.
I am also from Wisconsin, and I know galoshes
The tractor-trailer is so-called because it consists of two parts, with the trailer being detachable, and the cab is called a tractor (why, I'm not sure). It's more commonly called a semi, big-rig, or truck; and the larger versions are also called 18-wheelers, due to the number of wheels (including axels with double-wheels).
A tractor has the motor and pulls the the load behind it. Whether on the farm or road . There is even names for a Road tractor or Yard tractor.
I would love to see them react to a video of different accents across the US. It's such a huge place and it's so varied. I often feel bad for some of the non-Americans working in the call center I work for having to navigate Southern accents and UP accents and everything in between.
In the early days of the combustion engines in the US the engines were fueled with a common cleaning solution that was "petrol" based. The brand name was Gasoline. When someone would ask what the engine uses as fuel, the answer would be "Gasoline." Gasoline became the American term for what you call petrol. Shortened to gas.
for the last one
in the US we have:
Toll-road - these have toll-booths that you pay a fee for using the road (no taxes are payed for the upkeep)
Freeway, Highway - these are free to use in-state roads that are largely not directly connected to city roads except every mile or so (we pay road taxes for the upkeep)
Interstate or Interstate Highways - are Highways that cross state borders (these are payed for with federal funds)
For the tractor trailer
we call them
Mack trucks, semis, big rigs, 18 wheeler, or trucks
however the industry term is tractor trailer
tractor - the front cab
trailer - duh
we also have Box trucks that do not have a separate trailer
in box trucks we have several based on what they are used for like moving truck
Why would you call a tractor trailer a Mack Truck? Mack is a brand of truck just like Kenworth, Peterbilt, Freightliner, Volvo, OshKosh, Autocar, Western Star, etcetera.
@@foltzenlogel What do people normally call aluminum foil of any brand?
I have lived in America my whole life and I have never heard anyone say "ABC Store". Perhaps she lives in a dry state that regulates the sale differently but here in Michigan we call it the liquor store, party store, convenience store or sometimes the beer store.
Yep. You say “ABC Store” in Metro Detroit, and we would think ABC Warehouse. LOL.
Ya. If you go to Virginia (for example) all the alcohol sales are governed by the state. It can only be purchased in ABC stores. But right around the time of the 9/11 attacks they began allowing beer sales in grocery stores. And it's clinch on wine has started to open to grocery stores too (common cooking ingredient). Michigan, and much of the midwest, has never seen liquor control like the bible belt states. Down there it's not uncommon to have all ABC stores closed on Sundays in hopes that people will focus on church. Yes, really!
@@DJMetzler337 That is exactly what came to my mind when she said ABC. LOL
@@EmbossedVideoChannel Yup...I visited a friend once in Utah and asked if we could get some drinks and chill out by the campfire. He said we probably could but also said something about a membership in order to do so. Sounds very controlling but regardless...we got our drinks, and everything worked out.
ABC stores are popping up lots of places, but the first state I heard it was in Virginia. Hawaii has them, too. But growing up in the Midwest, it was just liquor store. On military Bases, they’re called Package Stores.
When I was a child I was visiting relatives in Bismark, North Dakota, USA. My aunt handed me a basket of fresh laundry and told me to put it on the "davenport." I stood there confused. She was actually referring to the couch or sofa. First and last time I heard that word.🤔
Yes, it was a sofa made by the Davenport company and known for its specific style. It would be akin to how a Tiffany lamp was a brand, but then everyone knew what style it was.
My relatives in Indiana also called couches davenports.
I am guessing Iowa would too hence Davenport, IA.
My grandparents hated the word couch. Good way to get a lecture on davenports. LOL.
my British grandma always called it a davenport.....and as far as she was concerned a purse was a "pocketbook" now her purses always has tons of pockets...but never a book.....I was one confused kid!
Pavement is the material used to make the sidewalk. We call the sidewalk to the house a walkway
Here in the states a grocery store specifically means somewhere that only sells food, possibly non-food items related to food, but normally wouldn't included appliances or anything too fancy. Supermarket on the other hand, such as a Walmart, would sell many types of items, including food. Also, if you are going to a supermarket specifically to buy your groceries, you would still say your going grocery shopping.
There is a difference between Highways and Interstates, as Highways are state property and the responsibility of the states to maintain, whereas Interstates, which are the main Highways that connect the states, are maintained by the Federal Government. Normally, if you stay on an Interstate, you'll pass through multiple states, or even cross from one side of the country to the other, whereas Highways connect major cities/areas within a state. So if I wanted to go from Houston, Texas to Dallas, Texas, I'd use a Highway, if I wanted to go from Dallas, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana, I'd take the Interstate. On the other hand, if I lived in a small town, I might need to leave town, connect to the Highway, and then connect to the Interstate. It might even be faster to use the Interstate to cross larger states such as Texas and California, it really just depends on where you are and where you are going.
Also, I've lived in multiple states over the course of my life, I've never heard a liquor store called anything other than a liquor store, lol.
You don't really hear tractor-trailer much. Usually it's truck, 18 wheeler (if it's the long kind), semi. "Mack truck" is a brand but is also sometimes used generically.
In case anyone is interested in the German version, staying in the Germanic language family: 1) Chips, 2) Pommes frites (French pronunciation) or Pommes (two syllables, German pronunciation, most common) or simply Fritten, 3) Kekse (almost pronounced as "cakes"), Biskuit (French pronunciation) for us is a sponge cake type of dough, 4) LKW (short for Lastkraftwagen, meaning heavy load vehicle), a Traktor over here would be found on farms as well, 5) Pony (pronounced as ponny), 6) Süßigkeiten (meaning sweet things), a lolly = ein Lolli, 7) Badeanzug (meaning bathing suit literally), 8) Badezimmer (meaning bath(ing) room), toilet = Toilette (both private and public), 9) Wohnung (wohnen = to inhabitate, lo live, as in Wohnzimmer = living room), 10) Supermarkt, 11) Decke/ Bettdecke (bed blanket), Decke also means ceiling.... , 12) Paprika, 13) Gummistiefel (literally gum boots), 14) Flipflops (and a German thong is Tanga or Stringtanga), 15) Tankstelle (meaning a "place for refuelling"), 16) there is no word for that as we don't have this type of shops, there are wine shops and shops specialising in beer from around the world, but shops selling nothing but different alcoholic beverages, never seen one, you can buy what you need in supermarkets, 17) Hose (and underpants meaning Unterhose), 18) Bürgersteig (literally citizen's pathway) or Fußweg (footpath), 19) Autobahn. The German letter ß is pronounced like ss, by the way. And togs and doona I have never heard before! Two new words for me, hurrah! Best wishes!
In US, a biscuit is simple bread without yeast made with baking powder and bicarbonate of Soda made by cutting in cold butter into the flour.
We’d call a big truck by several names depending on where you live: truck (this is actually used for a lot of different vehicles), semi (most often), 18 wheeler, big rig. My grandma called bell peppers by mango. I was very confused when I saw the mango fruit. Alcohol is sold at the liquor store or the state store (some states have stricter laws and only state licensed stores can sell hard liquor (beer and wine can be bought at the grocery).
I’m 45 and have lived in America my whole life and have never heard of a store where you buy alcohol referred to as an “ABC” store for buying alcohol. It’s called a liquor store
I'm from USA and I'm laughing through the whole video, shaking my head disagreeing with a lot of those answers, please do a part 2 to this video thank you kindly.
I wanna say she's from Utah, I did a lil google and abc stores are prominent there. That makes her odd answers make sense, at least for me.
I always get so excited when I get a notification that my NZ Fam posted a new vid! Thanks for the AWESOME content! :)
Some of the names mentioned are regional in the US. I grew up on the West Coast, and we called flip flops "Thongs." Supermarket and grocery store are interchangeable. I have lived all over the US, and terminolog and pronunciation are subject to region. Make things interesting and fun. Lol
Different parts of the USA refer to these " shoes" in different ways. And in Hawaii, they refer to them as "slippers"; where, normally in the other parts of the USA, slippers would be thought of as the fuzzy things you put on to walk around in the house or in your P j's with 🙂
I call them sandals and the fuzzy things are called house shoes.
Hausschuhe! My German mom strictly enforced their utilization by every family member😉
_"...to walk around the house."_
So, I should stop wearing my bunny slippers when I go down to the beach?
we just call them chanclas
@Natwahl
If it makes you feel comfortable and it feels better than flip flops, take those bunnies to the beach!
I've never heard of an ABC store. Here in Kansas City, USA, we call those types of stores that sell only alcoholic beverages liquor stores.
We use "Supermarket" in the US, too.
The rain boots are also called "galoshes," or "overshoes," depending on the region you live in. Remember how many different accents and dialects we have here.
NEVER have I heard of an ABC store. I don't know what region she is from, but everywhere I've lived, it has been called a "Liquor Store."
I've never heard of the term ABC Store being used to describe a place where you get alcohol here in Canada.
I would call it a liquor store.
The only ABC Stores I know of, sell a bunch of different souviner things, and can be found all over Hawaii and in Las Vegas.
Very cool video. As an English teacher in the US, I find students are really interested by how much English vocabulary and slang vary based on country or regions.
It would be cool for you guys to do a video on your favorite slangs words and/or different accents or slang in different parts of NZ.
Also most Americans I know call it a bottle shop or liquor store for alcohol as well. That other term is more technical but not used much.
I'm 64 and and have never heard of bottle shop used to refer to a liquor store ! State store is a common reference in Ohio, as is liquor store ! I've also never heard ABC store used as a reference . It's possible that there are regionally used terms .
We say both "tractor trailer" AND "semi" (pronounced sem-I). Honestly though the latter is more common in everyday speech. Another alternative is "18-wheeler".
No, the latter is not more common, only in certain regions.
I think it’s time that Atlanta make some American style biscuits. Biscuits and gravy Yum. I’m not sure what state you would want to attach it to but many southeastern states feature this food but it is quite delicious. Wait I went and looked it up and it appears that biscuits and gravy are part of the official state meal of Oklahoma.
I live in Kentucky and we love us some biscuits and gravy!
This is a great idea!
I live in Tennessee 🇺🇸 and I’m all for some biscuits and gravy 🤤
Thanks. Now I'm hungry for some biscuits and gravy! Oh, and the Waffle House is right down the road!
When she gets the gravy recipe, the next recipe to do is chicken fried steak and gravy.
Supermarkets are huge stores that have groceries and everything else you would need, like clothes, electronics, home decor, etc.
3:26 I'm from the US, and I've always looked at it as there are two types of biscuits. The savory ones she's talking about and the sweet ones you'd have with tea or something. But those sweet biscuits are different than cookies.
4:22 It's a type of truck, so it still counts lol
5:29 Whaat lol for us lollies would be a type of candy (lolly pops or hard candy you suck on)
9:30 We say supermarket sometimes too
12:12 I've always called them slippers haha
17:10 We say freeway too sometimes
A lot of us in the US use liquor store instead of saying ABC store as well.
the sweet ones i would probably call a scone...but that are more bread in consistency than the various fluffy biscuit styles
As far as the road type - very often you’ll hear Americans refer to it by the Highway number. In California it’s very common to hear people say “the 5” when talking about Interstate Highway 5, also called the I-5. (that’s a capital letter i). Interstate highways running north and south are numbered 5, 15, etc starting with the 5 on the west coast. Interstate Highways running east and west are numbered 10, 20, etc with the 10 closer to the southern border.
Also a freeway is a multi lane road that does not have any tolls, meaning that you can travel on it for free.
Lollies in the states are usually used to describe the single passenger trains in big cities, or another name for mountain tram lines. It's an older used word. It can also be used in the US for very small hauling devices like a lift, but non-motorized.
@5:29
To expand, what we’d call “lollipops” some others call “suckers”…
A hard, circular/spherical, sweet candy on a stick: 🍭
USA here, I've never heard the term "ABC Store", would be interesting to know what state she is from.
The way the sales of alcohol takes place here in the US greatly varies from state to state. For example, here in New Hampshire, while you can buy bear and wine in most any grocery store, Walmart or other corner store, you can only by hard liquor from the state owned and operated liquor stores. And, for an added touch, some of those liquor stores are at the rest stops along the highways . LOL
In Massachusetts, the state on our southern boarder, they have what is called "package stores" which, as I understand, hold a special license to sell liquor. I think beer can be gotten in most regular stores. In some states, like Kentucky, drive through liquor stores are a big thing, you call in your order, and then you go there, drive into the warehouse, pop your trunk or hatch, and they load you up; as I understand, you don't even get out of your car.
Personally, I don't drink at all, I've never liked the taste of alcohol, and I am glad I don't drink, it's so expensive. Pre-pandemic, when my wife and I would eat out, with tip, the bill would be just under $50 (we don't have expensive taste), but add a couple drinks, and that bill would quickly become $70 or more.
I grew up in Virginia and they have ABC stores but we have always called them liquor stores. According to Wiki there are 17 states that sell alcohol.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state
Here in Louisiana you can buy hard liquor at any store that gets a license, including grocery stores and gas stations. But until a few years ago, it was against the law to sell any alcohol at all on Sundays! They would actually rope off the alcohol aisles in the grocery stores on that day.
It's weird how different the alcohol laws are now. In PA, grocery stores (or convenience stores) can only sell beer and wine if they have seating areas. Even if the beer is to go in a 6 pack or 12 pack or whatever. We also have what we call beer distributor stores where they sell cases and kegs of beer. And then we have what we used to call state stores that sell wine and hard liquor.
@@lizbr100 I believe that was the case here in NH at one time, too, but you could still drink in restaurants and bars, just not buy it in stores.
Well we do have a chain in the south called ABC lol
Biscuits and gravy need to be on your list of things to try. You will never go back to thinking of “biscuits” the same way ever again I promise you.
I bet atlanta could manage as well, she seems quite good at picking up new recipes and biscuits aren't all that hard to do from scratch.
But only if it's done right. Buttery, fluffy, buttermilk biscuits 🤤 and I love bacon gravy even more than sausage gravy.
In the U.S., ABC store is a regional term based on the states liquor laws. Also some states will sell beer and wine in a grocery or convience store, while other states only sell it in liquor stores or ABC stores. Where I live, grocery store and supermarket are interchangeable. Freeway usually is used to differentiate from a toll road. A truck is a single chassis vehicle where a tractor trailer has a seperate chassis for the trailer and another for the tractor which tows the trailer. The trailer can be dropped at its' destination while the tractor goes on to another job without waiting for the trailer to be unloaded.