5 Words I Didn't Know Until I Moved to America 

Same, I live in MN and have never heard it.

I'm from Ohio, and I never heard of that. And it does sound weird. Sounds like something kids would do at summer camp.

Missouri + Kansas and same!

It’s a thing tourists do in New England, when they look at the the leaves when they turn. Never heard it used elsewhere.

Chicago suburb, and same. First three I was "really, you never heard that before?" then leaf peeping... wtf?

mindofmyown333 😂😂😩☠️

I live in Vermont and it’s super common there, we get “leaf-peepers” in the fall when the leaves start changing color. It’s just a word for tourists

Same in New Hampshire. We get alot of massholes (people from Massachusetts) that come from boston to stare at the stupid leaves.

uh-

Christopher Lee that’s real sad 😂

Same

Same

Same. Family Guy taught us all about "leafers" though.

@@nightsong81 exactly! damn leafers!

Leef Peaping

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Cuz it's "leaf peeping" Can you call the guy "leaf peeping Tom"?

@@russelltangren6883 leef peaping tahm

You weren't wrong. I stopped scrolling after the 576th leaf peeping

Best Phone Repair you haven’t been to New England

Your username is the best joke ,I call bullshit you spastic yank .

Yeah, absolutely no one says leaf peeping here.

@@2023Mermaid We do in maine, leaf peepers fund a lot of our tourism industry by showing up in october and holding traffic to take pictures trees

SuperMaria 64 ye cos you speak for the whole of the us

Don't forget that addictive is more past tense while addicting is present and future tense

Same

Wtf is that

You've never been to New England clearly.

Lalnator i live in Maine lmao

Same.

Michigan either.

Wisconsin here, never heard it...

I'm also from New Jersey and never heard of the phrase.

I grew up in NJ and never heard the term, and now being in the south I never hear it hear either. Completely new expression to me!

Marie R I think I heard it used on the Weather Channel.

The stalking of Joaquin Phoenix....?

yes

Me too.

I don't understand how 😂😂💀

Like peeping tom

Everyone Else: "what the..." Juho S: "Is that a...-" Me: *scrolls up to check*

Because leaves don't change here. It's what New Englanders call you when you go up there. I had to take the "leaf peeper" flight from Houston to Boston last October. I helped all you people from my adopted home state avoid all the tourist traps to get the best views.

Tye Sikes what a stupid phrase

Threshingfloor814 leaves change here!!! In the hill country, at least

Threshingfloor814 the leaves change in late october, early november where im from in texas. Im in the DFW area too lol

@@Lilbitpurp We are lucky if we get a true fall with leaves gradually changing though, it doesn't happen every year. Like this year we went from 80 degrees to freezing cold too fast. We went from green leaves to brown leaves over night due to the rapid temperature change. I'm DFW too.

yeah

Yeah

Definitely

mhm

definitely

Timothy Reynolds that’s what I’m sayinngggg

I’m from NE and many people commenting here are from Chicago or Iowa

Also he said it is primarily in NE and only sometimes in the Midwest

Yeah, I’m from Iowa and have never heard of “leaf peeping.” And I even go bird watching often!

1. It was the opposite, primarily in New England, sometimes in the Midwest 2. A majority of these comments that specify the location within the US are from one of those places 3. I'm from the midwest (Minnesota specifically) and I've never heard of the phrase "leaf peeping"

Wasn't it primarily New England primarily? I think that would make sense. This is a region where not many outsiders, including outsiders from other parts of the US, ever really explore. It is unfortunate, but the reality is that New England, for a lot of Americans, has very little to offer that other parts of America don't offer, but with much increased friendliness and hospitality and much decreased expense. Thus, the fact that many people Americans have not heard this term is hardly surprising, because New England's relative isolation makes it rather weird...

I live in it

I live in it and I’ve never heard any of these

It’s always nice to see a fellow Chicagoan on RU-vid. That way I can always see a relatable person.

Lots of leaves right now in Humboldt Park, plenty of people looking at them, but can't imagine a single person here saying leaf peeping.

sweetspicypepper I’ve never really been to the westside of Chicago. But I can confirm that there are an ubsurd amount of leaves on the ground where I live.

Tennessee/Georgia here. Haven’t found it in these states either lol

Why would we use a word for viewing autumn foliage when we don't have autumn? :)

@@Stanzafly Right....leaves don't change color anywhere in Texas. /eyeroll What next, will you be telling people no one has to ever rake their yard in Texas, either? lol

I'm feeling rather confident that there are probably another 46-47 states who (majority) population have never heard of "leaf peeping" either, except maybe for the minority that grew up wherever this YTer lives now.

It sounds like that would be necessary here to

We have snow birds in the SW. Come down for the warm climate during the Winter.

i'm from NH and we definitely say leaf peeping lol.

In Arizona we're call them Snow Birds!

AdamAndJanie Ohio me either

Massachusetts same

I’m from Indiana as well, never heard of it

It’s a northern New England thing when the leaves change colors in the fall and tourist come up to see them

Also Indiana, same

This is hilarious!!

Haha!

Oh my God! How funny!!

I was reading this comment during said attack.

😂😂😂

I read your comment as “leaf peeing” 🤣

I thought that was just a Family Guy joke!

As someone from Vermont I can confirm! The leaf peeping season is beautiful, but the out of staters are not!

Probably a western mass thing, theres no rules out there. (Im a Cape Codder)

Out of The Hat Deep South dialect is actually closer to the English of pre- revolutionary times than British English is today.

Have you ever heard of punctuation? I’m not sure what you were trying to state.

Mainer here, we go down to the white mountains every year to peep some leaves.

Yeau. I'm from New Hampshire and leaf peeping is a thing here too!

As a native Texan, despite having spent time visiting family in Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, as well as visiting Philadelphia and other parts of New England in my youth, I had never heard the terminology of "Leaf Peeping" in over four decades of life... Until this video.

Haha so true. I'm from mass

I live in the white mountains and work in the tourism industry, leaf peeping is DEFINITELY a thing

Wyo Laskan it’s a strictly New England thing

Bobby Sacramento Would explain why I’ve never heard it, ha

@@FizzyCape I think it's more specific than that, like, NH, VT and ME

I heard it on "The Simpsons" once.

Wyo Laskan it’s definitely big in NH

Agreed, I ain't fixin to start either.

simbasrealdaddy 😂

Texan here I thought it was something dirty too.

Im from Missouri and I've never heard anyone say 'addicting' either. As a matter of fact, my keyboard is currently telling me it's not a word lol

Lived in Chicago 12 years - definitely heard ‘addicting’ over and over. Just figured it was yr version of ‘addictive’. But heard it often...

Same im from south Louisiana

I took a picture of "No Name" on my way to "Truth or Consequences"

We know where you’re from now, but the real question is have u heard of “leaf peeping”??

There’s a place near where I live called Hell for Certain. That’s where the Hell for Certain Church of God is.

My favorite is Humanville

stockart whiteman my mother and I drove through intercourse last year when we were visiting Lancaster, had a laugh about it lol

I'm from the us, never heard of leef-peeping.

Im from the us, I haven’t heard of most of these

Stewie Griffin if you haven’t heard most of these and you live in the U.S you need to talk to more people.

I am an American (from New England). 'Addicting" is viewed as a less formal/educated form of addictive there. Akin to how you can say "irregardless", but "regardless" sounds more refined/appropriate. I have never heard of "leaf peeping" until this video.

Funny, I'm from VIC, Australia and I've heard acclimate, acclimatise, normalcy, normality, addictive, addicting, speciality and specialty used in everyday conversations by Australians, I think it depends more on sentence structure what's used and no one is going to misunderstand you. Probably because 90% of our TV shows are international.

Im American too and this also sounds weird to me. That phrave is very regional

It's southern.

It’s an innovation that replicates the utility of the future proche tense found in most Romance languages.

It’s finna and mostly Ebonics. Other than that I’ve never heard “fixing to” in my life

In Texas, we say "fixin' to" all the time.

I've never heard of leaf peeping and im from Northern Virginia originally

Fellow Ohioan here, grew up Northern Ohio, living central... Have never heard "leaf peeping"

Andir same. From Cincinnati and have Minnesota and North Carolina toots. Never heard of it

I was born in the eastern part of Ohio and never heard of that

Seconded.

John Carroll you mean no one right

@@quackers2442 he did say new england

:3c Your profile is adorable

Bollocks

This is one of the worst comments I’ve ever seen

Scott I agree

Never heard it here in Texas either

never heard it in Michigan, which is surprising since it's so popular here.

Same with Nebraska.

Oregonian here too and I’ve never heard the term either.

Never heard in Louisiana

Utah, same for me.

Never heard it in Oregon either

Western Iowa, I've never heard it before either

Well it is from the northeast and they tend to sound British so that fits.

Exactly.

Yup

Yup

But addict is not a verb

Actually wait.. Just found this: "Addicting" IS actually a word, but since it is not an adjective, it is often used incorrectly. As used correctly, it is a verb, meaning "tending to or causing to become addicted." For example, "By drinking too much coffee, I run the risk of addicting myself to caffeine." So addictive is the adjective and addicting is the verb with present participle?

Same

Same from New York

This one is weird, I'm from CT also & have heard leaf peeping a lot.

I first heard it in the Albany, NY area in the min 1980's. I did hear it from a woman who lived in Vermont though. I always prefered "leaf looker" though.

Same. I grew up in the Albany area and leaf peeping is a new one for me.

Currants. Blackcurrants are not the same as currants.

@@manchestertart5614 ( : I didn't have to spell it.

There are two types of fruit called "currants." The first is in the Ribes family and includes blackcurrants, red currants, and white currants. These are closely related to gooseberries. The other is a type of small grape that's often dried into raisins. The Sun-Maid company sells them as "Zante currants." They're not closely related to the Ribes type of currant at all, and the flavors of the two species are very different. Most commercial spotted dicks are made with the raisin type of currant, or from sultanas. You can find recipes for spotted dick using blackcurrants, but people usually use raisins of some type. Historically the word "currant" was originally applied to small raisins. It's related to "Corinth," which is where this type of grape originated. The word was later applied to blackcurrants because of their physical resemblance to these grapes.

what? snow? in arizona? what madness is this? is it near the ocean front property?

@@mrexists5400 no no, it's still as hot as satan's asshole, its the term we use for the people that come from up north for our autumn/winter season because it's still hot. People from the northern states of the U.S ,or even from Canada, come down to warm up. And because they come from snowy places, we call them Snow Birds.

live in AZ, can confirm

Yeah and Sun City is the worst during that time...which is now. The snowbirds come and bring their slow ass driving with them. Come on, snowbirds, get that corvette up to at least 40mph.

@@Esbrittanyputa Snow bird like going to Florida a ton too, my grandparents are snowbirds.

Top the tater

Technically, it should be addictive

I'm also a Minnesotan and leaf peeping wasn't a term I had heard of

He could be making it without (under)pants. We'd never know either way.

😂😂

Stop imagining him naked ! ;-)

I found his tie to be distracting. I kept wanting to fix it.

I've mostly heard addictive myself but the few times I have heard someone use addicting they were speaking about something in present tense like while they are sipping a new flavor of coffee at starbucks or while they are playing a new video game "oh my gosh this is so addicting". I heard it used by a friend of mine and he seems to use addictive too but in past tense.

Now we finally know the source of all that hate in scene 38.

Mr. Speaker, we are _for_ the Big!

Yeah I was gonna say the only time iv heard that word in my life was from obi wan

Obi Wan was a Brit; so... (assuming you're talking about the newer ones)

im from RI......never heard of it! unless ur being sarcastic?

@@corsicanlulu nope, no sarcasm! Although I went up to new Hampshire sometimes as a kid, and went to university there too, so I might have picked it up further north

Well that explains it. Backwards ass states talking about leaf peeping. (Im from MA)

We just called it leaf watching and the tourists that roll through for it "leafers"

As a fellow floridian this is true 😣

Yeah same (i live in florida as well ^-^)

This

True for my experience.

for me it's the opposite

@6dazey9 This is the reason why I live Minneapolis , Mother Fuckers in Saint Paul are weird asf 😬

Come on over - in an outstanding year nothing beats the display in VT, NH, ME and parts of MA.... but plan to do something else too, some years are just meh. One group I escorted around in the late 80's stayed for two weeks and it was glorious, the maples were outstanding and even the oaks went scarlet. Another group another year was wondering why they bothered because even the maples were muddy

Why Wisconsin

Melynda Pahl Maybe Wisconsin needs to get better leaves

Fr lmao 😂💀

@@mlgprussian7115 lol