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American Couple Reacts: BRITISH vs AMERICAN English! *55 DIFFERENCES* FIRST TIME REACTION! It's actually quite shocking just how many differences the United States & the United Kingdom have in the words we use for everyday things. Since we have been doing this for 2 years now, we thought we would test our UK knowledge and see if we could guess the British word. How do you think we did? Some of these REALLY SURPRISED us! We hope you have fun with us on this episode. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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@TheNatashaDebbieShow 10 месяцев назад

It's actually quite shocking just how many differences the United States & the United Kingdom have in the words we use for everyday things. Since we have been doing this for 2 years now, we thought we would test our UK knowledge and see if we could guess the British word. How do you think we did? Some of these REALLY SURPRISED us! We hope you have fun with us on this episode. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

@waynegray2284 10 месяцев назад

Have you wildbears new video aka Claire

@RushfanUK 10 месяцев назад

One thing that does irritate me is this notion that there is something called British English, as if it's just one of many dialects, the UK is the home of the English language, it is our mother tongue, the people of the USA don't speak English, they speak a highly modified variation of the language that at times bears little resemblance to English, it's also a bit rude of RU-vidr's to keep referring to our language as weird, it's way beyond time that the people of the USA stopped saying they speak English, just call your language American.

@elainesheldon5823 10 месяцев назад

We use stocking the shelves England.

@elainesheldon5823 10 месяцев назад

Chassis England.

@Otacatapetl 10 месяцев назад

@@RushfanUK Couldn't agree more. The two languages are diverging more and more, and it's not just a case of saying "elevator" instead of "lift"; even the grammar is different. We're rapidly reaching the stage when saying Americans speak English is like saying the English speak German. We and The Americans can still understand each other (at the moment), certainly, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if a modern German ever met an Anglo-Saxon, they'd probably, with a few misunderstandings, get by.

@dougiehowe802 5 месяцев назад

As a Brit, and Former UK HM Forces Serviceman (RAF), I want to take this opportunity to thank you both for your reactions. I love the content you both upload and especially the content on learning about GBR/UK. You always make me laugh and smile and I hope this will continue for as long as you want to keep on entertaining your followers. I would seriously miss you both if you gave this up. Much admiration and best wishes, Dougie ... from Frome, in Somerset, England.

@alanjohansen8523 10 месяцев назад

We old English guys say " MERRY CHRISTMAS " and "HAPPY NEW YEAR ".

@primalengland 10 месяцев назад

I can’t remember anyone saying ‘Happy Christmas’ to me in the UK, and I’ve been acknowledging the gesture for 69 years. ‘Merry Christmas’ has always been my go to.

@MrVisualHigh 10 месяцев назад

Are you a northerner perhaps? I've also only ever heard it as "Merry Christmas" and wonder if it's a southern thing.

@primalengland 10 месяцев назад

@@MrVisualHigh Bolton ….. So yeah, very northern. 😊

@jiggely_spears 10 месяцев назад

Sometimes hear Happy Christmas, but not when it's coupled with Happy New Year....

@alexmckee4683 10 месяцев назад

@@MrVisualHigh I live in Gloucester and only use Merry Christmas. Think this may be another instance of Londoners taking their personal experiences and extrapolating them to the country as a whole.

@welshed 10 месяцев назад

I’ve always said Merry Christmas and never really heard anyone say happy Christmas

@markthomas2577 10 месяцев назад

All this Year 11, 12, 13, etc didn't exist when I was at school ........ we'd have called 17/18 year olds 'Sixth Formers'

@CanWeNotKnockIt 5 месяцев назад

In the video he did actually put brackets around years 12 and 13 and label it Sixth Form.

@WandaWitch2800 3 месяца назад

Y11 is when you do your GCSE’s. Y12 and 13 is sixth form or college

@eddiehawkins7049 10 месяцев назад

I was born in 1957 and am English. I've always said Merry Christmas, everybody I grew up with always said Merry Christmas. It is only comparatively recently that I've noticed people saying Happy Christmas and it annoys the hell out of me.

@CanWeNotKnockIt 5 месяцев назад

I'm a generation younger than you and I agree with everything you said.

@stuartfitch7093 10 месяцев назад

I'm from the UK and I would actually contest that a bathrobe and a dressing gown are the same thing. A bathrobe is something you put on exclusively after you've had a bath. It's most often made of thin, towelling material that soaks up any wet still on you. A dressing gown is often made of thick, soft fleece that's like fur. I would never put my dressing gown on immediately after having a bath. It could ruin it. Because my dressing gown is a thick soft fleece, I often put it on over the top of my PJs in winter to keep warmer than just wearing PJ's alone. My dressing gown has a hood and is made more to keep you warm than to dry you. My partner has two items of clothing in this subject. One I would call a bathrobe which is thin and towelling which she puts on immediately after having a bath. Then separately she has what I would call a dressing gown, which is similar to mine in that it is thick, fleecy and it's qualities are more for keeping the wearer warm.

@MrVisualHigh 10 месяцев назад

I think I and many others would refer to both as dressing gowns, probably regional.

@gillianrimmer7733 10 месяцев назад

A bathrobe to me is light and made of towelling or some other absorbent fabric, and they're short - not past the knees - dressing gowns are made of thicker, heavier fabrics and are often longer. I have one of each - I put my bathrobe on after a shower/bath to walk into the bedroom etc... before getting dressed - I wear my dressing gown over my pyjamas for warmth when I'm sitting around the house /making breakfast etc...

@iallyl3877 10 месяцев назад

I have never called anything a bathrobe, its a dressing gown, i have always dried myself with a towel before putting my pjs and dressing gown on... but yea never heard anyone use the term bathrobe in the UK

@oildrag 10 месяцев назад

Dressing gown for me

@helenreid4174 10 месяцев назад

Robe or bathrobe after a shower or bath. It’s towelling material. Dressing gown is worn on top of pyjamas when you are dry.

@duelroadknight737 10 месяцев назад

When writing my cards,i always say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I am from England ❤❤

@gtaylor331 10 месяцев назад

You met 20 years ago???? When you were both 3? That's heart warming.....

@TheNatashaDebbieShow 10 месяцев назад

You win comment of the month! 🏆🏆

@stephen1395 10 месяцев назад

Funny thing is the older generation 45+ when we went to school 1st.2nd,3rd,4th, and 5th year students and 17 and 18 year old were the 6th form, in our day we left school at 16 to go to work

@Sue474 10 месяцев назад

Yes, when I was 16 I lived on my own and had a job.

@neilmcdonald9164 10 месяцев назад

I'm british and I've only heard of ball pit,not ball pool 🎩

@malcolmbrown7683 10 месяцев назад

I'm British and I have never heard Ball Pit!

@user-xs5bn1de4d 3 месяца назад

Ball pool if your English

@duncanliath 10 месяцев назад

got to dispute the xmas greeting comparison. I live in the UK and have never, ever (and I'm 74 yr old wished anyone 'happy christmas'. it's always 'Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year'. Nor has anyone ever wished me a happy christmas rather than merry christmas. By chance, I have a box of unused Christmas cards left over from those I bought last year. I dug the box out. There were 18 cards. Two were printed with 'Happy Christmas' The rest were printed with the greeting 'Merry Christmas'

@janice506 10 месяцев назад

My family say happy Christmas we’re from North Lanarkshire but I’ve also heard merry too .

@lesleymay8006 10 месяцев назад

Never used merry, always happy. Not that they are either

@michaelfoster5577 10 месяцев назад

As Oscar Wilde described us - “two nations separated by a common language”!

@wowtuninglancs 10 месяцев назад

And, as the 'The Pub Landlord' said, 'A k'ing big ocean !'

@michaelfoster5577 10 месяцев назад

Oscar Wilde in “The Canterville Ghost” published 1871. Repeated by George Bernard Shaw in 1942.

@tonys1636 10 месяцев назад

England is also divided by the same language, try understanding Shakespeare's English from that time, it is hard to comprehend. What we read today has been updated to the 19th century at least. A lot of American English still uses words and meanings from the 16th and 17th centuries.

@johnkemp8904 10 месяцев назад

As a British person, I am indebted to Bob Newhart for my knowledge of what a realtor is. He defined them as people who couldn’t make it as used car salesmen.

@jonathanfinan722 10 месяцев назад

There used to be a thing on Steve Wright's radio show when they'd use the same malapropism. For instance Draclea in an ambleance with a spatchlea@@sharonmartin4036

@micksmixxx 10 месяцев назад

@johnkemp8904 😆

@JACB006 10 месяцев назад

I have no idea where realtor or real estate came from? What does “real” mean? Not fake?

@sharonmartin4036 10 месяцев назад

@@JACB006 LOL. The term “real estate” means the land plus anything growing on it, attached to it or erected on it, including man-made objects such as buildings, sewers, and fences. This is as opposed to buying virgin land. At least that's the way I understand it.

@tonys1636 10 месяцев назад

@@sharonmartin4036 In GB the term Estate can mean a physical estate (property) and the items in one's will which will often include the contents of bank accounts and stocks/shares etc. Real Estate is used in the US to differentiate between the two. An Estate Agent was the manager of an estate for the landed gentry, managing the tenancies, sales and acquisition of land/property.

@RCassinello 10 месяцев назад

Just to clarify: No one over the age of 40 says "Happy Christmas" in Britain. It was always "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" until the millennials somehow got stuck halfway between the two. We even have several traditional Christmas Carols (songs for Christmas time), dating as far back as the 1600s, using "Merry" for Christmas.

@Flossey114 10 месяцев назад

I’m nearly 70 and say Happy Christmas

@eddiehawkins7049 10 месяцев назад

@@Flossey114 I'm beginning to wonder if there's a regional aspect to this.

@JimforbesRitte 9 месяцев назад

Beg to differ… 51. I’ve always said happy Christmas. But only in late December.

@MrStratofish 9 месяцев назад

I'm 47 and have always said it both ways, they are both as good as each other

@R0d_1984 6 месяцев назад

Same in Australia...i wonder why ;D

@mancbiker17 10 месяцев назад

As a Brit it gets my goat when people say happy Christmas, because happy is reserved for new year! It’s merry

@AGSSSH 10 месяцев назад

A P45 is what you get when you leave a job regardless of whether you resigned or were fired, as its main purpose it to tell your next employer how much tax you paid via "Pay As You Earn" which is kind of like Withholding but much more accurate, so much so that most people who are not high earners don't have to do a tax return at all, and tax refunds are rare, rather than routine.

@SuperDebyO 10 месяцев назад

Yes, for being fired, we’d say “you were let go”……then you get your P45 afterwards.

@helenchelmicka7894 4 месяца назад

Lee Nelson (Simon Brodkin) did a great prank a few years ago when Theresa May had lost the support of the government and gave her a fake p45 while she was giving a speech 😅😅

@genm303 10 месяцев назад

Dressing gowns usually made of warm fabric or lighter fabric and worn over pj's etc, bathrobes are made of absorbent fabric like towelling to put on after a shower or bath. Distinct difference between the two.

@Morpheus_M 10 месяцев назад

I'm a Brit and I say " Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Not Happy Christmas. so not all Brits say Happy Christmas

@primalengland 10 месяцев назад

With you on this one! Never heard anyone say ‘Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year’.

@applecider7307 10 месяцев назад

I'm 75 and lived all over the UK and never heard anyone say happy christmas it has always been Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

@BedsitBob 10 месяцев назад

Here in the UK, the American pronunciation of "Route" is spelled "Rout", and means to totally defeat an enemy.

@reluctantheist5224 10 месяцев назад

And spelled is often spelled spelt

@crocsmart5115 10 месяцев назад

But is spelled instead of spelt going against the grain? 😇

@reluctantheist5224 10 месяцев назад

@@crocsmart5115 Haha .. are you here all week ?

@RCassinello 10 месяцев назад

@@reluctantheist5224Spelled is spelt spelled, but spelt is spelled spelt.

@steveshephard1158 10 месяцев назад

Rout also means to gouge or grind out excess material, for instance when you are making timber mouldings.

@mpaws 10 месяцев назад

We would call the vehicle at 9:50 a motorhome. A camper van is a smaller vehicle.

@tonycasey3183 10 месяцев назад

When my daughter was around 3 years old we used to go to a farm that ad a barn play area with forts and tunnels and climbing structures made of straw bales. there was also a ball pool made of straw bales but it was lined with hessian sacking material. One time we took my parents along and she asked my dad to take her "to the farmer's ball sack"

@CherylVogler 9 месяцев назад

🤣

@cketts8128 10 месяцев назад

So many Brits say Merry Christmas and not Happy Christmas! I’ve always said Merry 😂. Congrats on 20 years together 👏🏼🎉🍾🥂💚🧡

@AGSSSH 10 месяцев назад

We used to say Janitor or "Jannie" in Scotland

@mattymoowhite 10 месяцев назад

From the Latin for doorman which is from the Greek, Janus the two faced god of doors, as in January moving from one year to the next

@greyknightsrealm8251 10 месяцев назад

Interesting that in The Simpsons (American show) the Scottish guy who looks after the school is known as Caretaker Willy, not Janitor Willy.

@MrHws5mp 10 месяцев назад

I'm British and I've never heard a Ball Pit called anything other than a 'Ball Pit' in my life. Certainly not 'Ball Pool'. We do use the term 'yard' for an open area next to a house, but it specifically means a _hard-paved_ area: grass & flowers is a 'garden'. A 'camper van' is self-powered. A 'caravan' is towed behind another vehicle. We say 'Merry Christmas' just as often as we say 'Happy Christmas': this is kind of a non-distinction. We also use 'flasher' or 'winker' as less formal alternatives to 'indicator' for what you call a 'turn signal'. Blondie were decent enough and Debbie Harry was quite the pin-up in her day, but Pink Floyd are just on a whole other level. Congrats on 20 years you two! 👍

@trickygoose2 10 месяцев назад

Motor caravan is another UK name for campervan/RV. Blondie had chart hits in the UK before they did in the USA.

@AshleeR 10 месяцев назад

I'm British and I say ball pool. Never heard anyone call indicators flashers or winkers either.

@GlebelandsMiniatureRailway1 10 месяцев назад

@@trickygoose2 I am 14 and I love blondie she is my fav

@gwtpictgwtpict4214 10 месяцев назад

I'm sixty. Debbie Harry was the cause of many "interesting" dreams in my youth. Blondie were classic pop punk for me, way better than "decent enough". I'm in total agreement with you on Pink Floyd.

@hadz8671 10 месяцев назад

Same hear with ball-pit. I say both Happy and Merry Christmas - but always Merry if I'm going to follow it up with "... and a Happy New Year."

@alangauld6079 10 месяцев назад

*Merry* Xmas and a *Happy* New year. Never Happy Xmas! And the P45 is the official form you need to sign-on for benefits after you lose your job. And although he didn't ask, you were right, it's a wing mirror. Brackets is an interesting one. We call all of these: (),{},,[] brackets. We differentiate by adding a descriptor: curly-brackets, angle-brackets or square-brackets, but mostly it's just brackets. I got a lot of flack from US reviewers for a book I wrote where I called parentheses and braces brackets! One even accused me of being illiterate!

@andyt8216 10 месяцев назад

Even HM the Queen used to end her Christmas Day speech with Happy Christmas. Find one on here and skip to the end. I sure the King probably did last year. Anyway, merry Halloween and a happy Christmas to you.

@silasfatchett7380 5 месяцев назад

@@andyt8216 A dressing gown could also be called a housecoat.

@yorky1111 10 месяцев назад

I am 73 tears old born and lived all my life in England and I cannot ever recall anyone saying Happy Christmas. Everyone I know says Merry Christmas, but then I'm not in or from the London or south east which has it's own version of the English language.

@chriswyman6460 10 месяцев назад

I am also 73. My maternal grandparents were Londoners (Grandad talked like a proper Cockney) and they never said "Happy Christmas". It was always "Merry Christmas".

@MillsyLM 10 месяцев назад

53 year old here that has never said or heard anyone in London or the South East say anything other than "Merry Christmas". Love to know why when "non Southerners" hear something they don't like they decide to denigrate London.

@chrisperyagh 10 месяцев назад

I only recently discovered Americans call aeroplanes 'airplanes' - I thought that was a deliberate misspelling for the comedy film 'Airplane!' as opposed to being a real word. Even the Bangles (or Prince) use the word 'aeroplane' in the song 'Manic Monday' (and Prince even says 'telly' instead of television or TV in 'Sign 'O' The Times').

@jettserUK17 10 месяцев назад

I didn't realise people say aeroplanes ever since maybe the 80s lol! It's similar to how bicycles get referred with bikes/pushbikes.

@wendysparks4346 10 месяцев назад

“Merry Christmas” is our family’s way of saying the traditional greeting

@botticellirejectbotticelli2668 10 месяцев назад

We do have school janitors in Scotland, though. Most people in the UK would say Merry Christmas. Dressing gowns are different from bathrobes, we do have bathrobes but they are made of towelling and used specifically after bathing/showering. It can be intensive care here or ICU.

@Jack-xi8ji 10 месяцев назад

Just to clarify, a P45 is actually a tax form that the employer you've just left gives you so that your next employer knows how much money you've already earnt that tax year. This is so that you end up paying the correct amount of tax at the end of that tax year. You'll get one regardless of the reasons for leaving a job - not necessary because you've been sacked (fired).

@AlBarzUK 10 месяцев назад

I’ve seen old USA films (movies) in which the word ‘route’ is pronounced much as we Brits do. On the other hand the word ‘rout’ (meaning to defeat an enemy/opponent) is pronounced the way Americans pronounce ‘route’.

@markjones127 10 месяцев назад

I think Blondie were a much bigger deal in the UK than the states, they had huge success here and were signed to a British label. That's the first time I've ever heard the term year 13 used, when I was in school in the 80's A-Level students during the last two years of high school were called sixth formers, lower or upper depending if you were first or second year sixth formers, to me first school type experience was nursery, then first proper school at 4/5-7 was Infants, 7-11 was Juniors, 11-16 was High School, 16-17 was Lower Sixth Form and 17-18 was Upper Sixth Form.

@carolineskipper6976 10 месяцев назад

The change was with the introduction of the National Curriculum, which stipulates Early Years (Nursery and Reception), Key Stage 1 (Year 1 & 2) Key stage 2 (Years 3-6) Key stage 3 (Year 7-9) and Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11). Schools still refer to their 'Sixth Form' but the Years are officially Years 12 and 13.

@nigelanscombe8658 10 месяцев назад

The computer device we would call a “rooter” (because it routes the signals) but there is also a woodworking power tool we would probably call a “rowter” (because it routs out the wood) even though they have the same spelling.

@danielferguson3784 10 месяцев назад

Girls. Some of these are a bit out, at least in my memory, & may have changed over time. Pickles in the UK are more than just gherkins. Jelly in triffle is yummy. A back yard is a small enclosed area behind Victorian street houses. A garden has lawns, flower beds etc. Janitor from Latin, door keeper. A gym is just a gym. All gyms don't have other facilities, only an exercise room. Baggage is not British. A camper has an engine. A caravan has to be towed. A budgie is smaller than a parakeet, sort of sparrow sized. They used to be very popular household pets. You drink the juice, not the box or carton. A large liquid holder is a carboy. A box in the UK is for dry goods, not liquids. An exam is more serious than a mere test. A Proctor is a city official in Scotland. Universities in Britain contain several colleges. Rounders is the origin of baseball. In the UK we say Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Holidays are when you go away somewhere for leisure etc. Some say blinker instead. Some are known as Main street in the UK. A show is an individual thing. Programmes are more regular. AnAEsthatist has a dipthong! A P45 is a real tax document. Being fired is not always redundancy. CV is course of life in Latin.

@AshleeR 10 месяцев назад

Spot on

@robertanstey5583 10 месяцев назад

Natasha digging around in the recesses of her memory for the word indicator was priceless! So many epic faces pulled 😁 thanks as ever to the two hardest working, loveliest people on the internet- can't wait until 8:00 on the 19th to see you two celebrate your 20th anniversary 🎉

@alexmckee4683 10 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas is found in lots of our classic literature. I grew up saying that, I am flabbergasted by the idea that we don't say it. I am very traditional too, and have a good understanding of the differences between dialects of English from all over the world. I am rarely surprised.

@shaunmoneil 10 месяцев назад

I don't know why, but I usually associate "merry" with some level of intoxication. like rosy-cheeks intoxication. Now I'm wondering if I've got it wrong, or if this implication is related.

@alexmckee4683 10 месяцев назад

@@shaunmoneil I think we can trace that back to the temperance movement. Merry doesn't necessarily equate to intoxicated but "eat, drink and be merry" could be interpreted as the drink makes you merry. Merriment is also associated with other high days and holidays especially the first of May, where no suggestion of alcohol is present. I think a certain dour sort of Christian started to rail against merriment as interpreted as synonymous with drunkenness, but no such association was originally present. My family was quite religious yet nevertheless did not equate merriment with drink. This sort of confusion may originated with the English tendency to euphemize. To cover embarrassment with a euphemism such as switching out drunk for a word that does not mean the same but can be coloured by association. Your aunt is drunk, no she's just a bit merry. Then merry starts to mean tipsy, where it never did previously. Then it hardens into meaning blind drunk. But the original meaning is still known and used by others. Queer is another word that's gone on a fabulous journey and had two different modern meanings, the original now fading somewhat.

@therealpbristow 10 месяцев назад

@@shaunmoneil Yeah, "merry" used to just mean happy or joyous, but over time got used as euphemism for "tiddly" (slightly inebriated) - as opposed to "pissed" or "plastered" (extremely inebriated). So it can mean either thing, depending on context. (And at Christmas, people are often merry in both senses! =:o} )

@suepoole8323 10 месяцев назад

@@shaunmoneil me too, 1 floor below drunk.. I say Happy Christmas always have.. save the Happy New Year for week after Christmas

@eddiehawkins7049 10 месяцев назад

I only saw this after having made a comment myself. As far as I'm concerned, it was always "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

@peterfhere9461 10 месяцев назад

We have bath robes, which are put on after a bath of shower and are made of towelling. However, we also have dressing gowns which we put over our nigh clothes when getting ready for bed or when we first wake up prior to a bath or shower. They are not usually absorbent and are often made of silky materials.

@MaxineSmith027 10 месяцев назад

The love in Natashas eyes at 58 seconds was a joy to behold ❤

@susanashcroft2674 10 месяцев назад

I smiled when the US word for Hippie was Crunchy...we have a chocolate bar named Crunchie and I couldn't get the vision out of my head of a load of Hippies floating around eating Crunchie Bars. 😃😃

@nevilhosler3636 10 месяцев назад

Love those Crunchies (Sugar addict)

@timothyallan111 10 месяцев назад

The rotisserie chicken is a bit of a strange one; I call a chicken that has been roasted in-store at a supermarket, often purchased hot, a rotisserie chicken (because they are usually cooked on a rotisserie) - almost all other circumstances I call it roast chicken because a rotisserie is not involved! I also think there are regional differences for some of these, because I have always called it a 'ball pool', whereas many in the comments seem to call it a 'ball pit'.

@jntdad 10 месяцев назад

Merry in UK English equates to slightly drunk so we may say merry Christmas to someone we know and who we know enjoys a drink - but would say happy Christmas to an acquaintance or passing stranger

@goodshipkaraboudjan 10 месяцев назад

I'm really quite surprised that here in Australia we borrow a lot more from American English than I thought even if we're culturally closer to the UK. Learn something new every video. "Root" pronunciation means something very different here though!

@iaincphotography6051 10 месяцев назад

Like we put a rubber in a childrens pencil case LOL

@robertfitzjohn4755 10 месяцев назад

I believe standard use in the UK is that a router pronounced "rooter" is something that routes (e.g. sends packets of data to the correct destination) whereas a router pronounced "rauter" is something that routs ("a machine with a revolving vertical spindle and cutter for milling out the surface of wood or metal").

@steveshephard1158 10 месяцев назад

@@robertfitzjohn4755 Just what I was going to say.

@edwardmorgan5373 7 месяцев назад

In that case, your words are weird too! At least you drive on the proper side of the road though! 😊😂

@PaulTheFox1988 10 месяцев назад

A camper van and caravan are different. A caravan is pulled along by another vehicle (usually a car) a camper van is a self contained vehicle that has both its own propulsion and living area. Both serve the same end goal, but are different. Edit: Most people don't say Happy Christmas in my experience, some do, but the vast majority say Merry Christmas and a Happy new year It's even in a Christmas Carol that goes back at least 200 years and is most likely even older. A p45 is an official document that is a copy of one that is given to the government to indicate to them that you're unemployed. You hand it in the DWP (department for work and pensions) to start the process of claiming JSA/UC (job seekers allowance/universal credit) it has other uses but that's usually what it's for

@ian757 10 месяцев назад

17-18 yer old school students are in the Sixth Form. I don't think we say Year13.

@robanderson240971 10 месяцев назад

A p45 isn’t for when you’re fired, it is given when everyone leaves a job. It is purely for tax purposes to inform you’re next employer what your tax code is and dictates how much tax your new employer takes from you each month. It has nothing to do with being sacked (fired). There’s a new one for you. 😄😄

@loup7454 10 месяцев назад

Did any one else get to 42 and think, “crusty jugglers!”? On which note, I think you two ladies would enjoy the film Hot Fuzz - both because it’s an excellent film but also you’d learn so much British slang, phraseology and culture. It would be for the greater good (the greater good!) of your learning experience!

@Dasyurid 10 месяцев назад

I think there’s a lot of overlap on some of these and some regional variations in both countries, but the one that I got unreasonably annoyed by was the Christmas greeting. Brits absolutely do say “Merry Christmas” to each other, particularly when we’re going on to add “and a happy New Year”. Try it the other way round: “Happy Christmas and a merry New Year.” It looks weird if you put it that way round in a Christmas card, and it sounds weirder if you say it aloud. We say “happy Christmas” a lot but I don’t think anyone would even notice if you say merry instead.

@norfolkvapers867 10 месяцев назад

I would say " Happy Christmas and New Year"

@janice506 10 месяцев назад

I would shake the persons hand on Christmas Day & wish them a happy Christmas.

@janice506 10 месяцев назад

Ps on a Christmas card I would write merry though so it depends on the context

@nolajoy7759 10 месяцев назад

Australia pretty much follows the English with all these examples, when we're not using slang that is. 😊

@marieparker3822 10 месяцев назад

We say 'Merry Christmas' often. We need 'Happy' for 'New Year'. We have bath robes as well as dressing-gowns.

@rozhunter7645 10 месяцев назад

Thank you that was really fun though I found we say some differently in Scotland ❤️

@katherinewithak2865 10 месяцев назад

If there was ever a British quiz in an American bar you two would ace it xx

@TheNatashaDebbieShow 10 месяцев назад

Not so sure...then again, probably 😉

@katherinewithak2865 10 месяцев назад

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow I hope when your over you get to experience a proper pub quiz xx

@MaxineSmith027 10 месяцев назад

@@TheNatashaDebbieShowyou did incredibly well girls x

@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja 10 месяцев назад

That was so much fun, I thought you both did very well! As a New Zealander, I found it particularly intresting that I seem to use half American and half British terminology. I must be a very confused kiwi! 🤔🤣😂 Thanks for being you! ❤

@user-mv6ve8pm7k 9 месяцев назад

Oh. My. Gosh. I find myself laughing; I find myself cheering you on; I find myself congratulating you out loud when you get these right - and I’m only half way thru the vid! You guys are *so* engaging! I’m doing the second half now and I’m rooting for you gals!! Come on! You’ve got this!

@TheNatashaDebbieShow 9 месяцев назад

♥️♥️

@maxmoore9955 10 месяцев назад

We also call a Leisure centre a Sprts Centre .

@zedbee42 10 месяцев назад

The P45 is an important document in the UK which you will always get when you leave a job, either by being fired or voluntary to more onto a new Job. Because we pay our taxes through deductions on our wages (called PAYE or Pay-As-You-Earn), this shows what you have earned and what tax you have paid in the current tax year as well as the Tax Code (this is which is used to show what you can earn before you pay tax) which your new employer will need so they can calculate the correct amount of tax to be deducted from your wages when they start paying you. Also while saying that you've been made redundant is generally used it's not actually correct. HR and Unions would say it's the Job that's redundant, not the person.

@atlantia 9 месяцев назад

When I was at school the UK secondary/comp school was 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th year after that you had the choice to either leave school, go to collage or go to 6th form

@sarahbowman7566 10 месяцев назад

My grandparents were Edwardians and even they said Merry Christmas.

@stephendisraeli1143 10 месяцев назад

When I was in primary school, "break" was still being called "playtime". Which was happening, obviously, in the "playground".

@lolsaXx 10 месяцев назад

Debbie's "juice carton" accent was brilliant!

@gmf121266 10 месяцев назад

Terms have changed in the UK, too.....I'm old enough to have been a 6th former which covered 2 years. Lower 6th was what we now call year 12 and Upper 6th is now year 13. It was basically for students who stayed on to study A levels after O levels.

@KirstenJoerg 10 месяцев назад

I always find things like the different words so so interesting! Thanks so much for sharing that.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow 10 месяцев назад

Hey! Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it! ❤️

@richardhathaway2901 10 месяцев назад

It might be worth noting that many British words are derived directly from French. Hence Router is pronounced "Rooter" because that is how the French pronounce it. I have never said "Happy Christmas!" in my life. I've always been merry.

@russcattell955i 10 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas for me too and a happy new year. Another French word is garage and the Americans pronounce it correctly, I say it the French way.

@nevilhosler3636 10 месяцев назад

Yes, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

@gilledwards9302 10 месяцев назад

Always 'Merry Christmas' and 'Happy New Year' in the UK

@watfordjc 10 месяцев назад

Technically, you got 34 right, although not in the common vernacular. My first job title was "replenishment assistant", and I'm pretty sure the job description used the phrase "replenish shelves". As for juniors and seniors, we also have them (language varies between regions/schools). To me, juniors are 7-11 years old (UK years 4-6) and seniors are 11-16 years old (UK years 7-11). Don't ask me what we might call those at middle school, I never went to one. Router: I've been trying to ween myself off the American pronunciation for 25 years thanks to 90s cable TV tech shows - I think I say it the British way about 98% of the time now. One type of vehicle in the UK might have blinkers: horses. Given the faux outrage I'd probably go with Happy Christmas these days. Those that get upset only seem to appear on the TV and radio, so I've not had a chance to use my faux inebriated retort yet: "Merry Yuletide! Those Christians banned Christmas and their soldiers seized all the food, but we kept our alcohol! Merry, merry, merry! Down with Scrooge McCromwell! God Save The King!"

@FionaEm 10 месяцев назад

in Australia, we use a mix of British & American terms, along with many of our own. We say stacking the shelves, using the indicator, backyard, autumn, full stop, budgie, zed, happy or merry Christmas (whichever!), TV show or program (spelled the American way), fire engine, A&E/casualty, anaesthetist, real estate agent or estate agent, made redundant, CV, snakes & ladders, torch. Also, we don't say sidewalk or pavement; we say footpath!

@SuperDebyO 10 месяцев назад

We say footpath in the uk too but use that mainly for country paths. But I still would use footpath in the towns too.

@CallumboMagumbo 10 месяцев назад

Another Brit saying that it’s Merry Christmas though I will add that I have read somewhere it is regional, with some areas associating Merry-ness with drunkenness. But I’m a Merry man myself 😂

@RCassinello 10 месяцев назад

P45 is just a tax form you receive when leaving an employment, irrespective of how that job is terminated. It details your earnings to date, tax paid, current tax code, etc., so that your next employer knows how much tax to take from your wages.

@jen.196 10 месяцев назад

Hello from Australia 🇦🇺 my gorgeous girls , can't wait for this to start ❤❤

@Chris_GY1 10 месяцев назад

Number 12 is a cleaner as the person in the photo is cleaning. Number 16 is a motorhome a camper van is smaller, I have travelled in a motorhome in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland and Luxembourg. I have seen camper vans and van conversions at the caravan and motorhome show at the NEC in Birmingham and the motorhome show at the Lincolnshire Showground near Lincoln. There is year 10 and year 11 and then sixth form or sixth form college or you would go to the local college, nowadays you are told to attend the previously mentioned places no longer optional like when I left school, the other choices are apprenticeships or a job. Number 34 he is restocking the shelves I have worked in supermarkets that is what it is called not stacking.

@jettserUK17 10 месяцев назад

Can say the same about weird American slang e.g gas (liquid fuel) faucet, "simp", cheugy, and also "meemaw" which I've heard recently off Young Sheldon to name a few! 😆

@CherylVogler 9 месяцев назад

Gas is short for gasoline, which is derived from petroleum. Faucet isn't slang, it is a word for the part of the sink where the water flows out, and usually includes the handles. I don't know about the other words except "Meemaw" - that's just another name that some kids give their grandmothers. That's what my daughter called her grandma, and we have no idea where she got it. Maybe it was easier to say?

@helenwood8482 10 месяцев назад

You did so well at this. Merry often means drunk over here. My mother always said saying merry Christmas suggested people would be drunk.

@vaudevillian7 10 месяцев назад

I’m definitely using Cold Kettle from now on. My American ex decided that the British name for a car wash must be bubble scrub so that stuck as the term for years, I still think that when I see them now 😂

@andrewlyons5850 10 месяцев назад

Congratulations to my TWO FAVOURITE Americans. 20 years that's a credit to you both. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Andy UK 🇬🇧

@coot1925 10 месяцев назад

I was married to an American for 15 years and visited her parents in Florida, near Pensacola twice a year. I'm pretty good at understanding accents, but wow, that southern drawl is quite something. When her mum told me she was fixing to make dinner I thought the stove was broken. 😂😂😂

@steelpanther9568 10 месяцев назад

A vehicle similar to the American RV is a camper van, A caravan is the luxury trailer that is towed behind a vehicle, 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

@philfenn3991 10 месяцев назад

Camper van is sometimes known as s motor caravan (or it used to be), so Natasha wasn't wrong.

@steelpanther9568 10 месяцев назад

@@philfenn3991 , which was otherwise known as Motorhomes in the UK, 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

@mandypotts9090 10 месяцев назад

It’s Blondie for me . Congratulations on your 20th anniversary.enjoy your trip ❤. Now this episode was fun . I learned some American words and it was funny watching you trying to remember the English words you knew but couldn’t remember. More like this would be good 👍

@deannawoolvine5725 10 месяцев назад

I'm glad your not stopping this show till you learn all of it that means I will enjoy your company for years yet xx

@jen.196 10 месяцев назад

Thanks that was great 👍

@TheNatashaDebbieShow 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching ♥️♥️

@willstevens4161 10 месяцев назад

You guys compliment each other so well ❤ I dare you to try Glaswegian 😂😂

@elemar5 10 месяцев назад

*complement

@margaretnicol3423 10 месяцев назад

... or Geordie? 😀

@janice506 10 месяцев назад

I don’t think there’s a great difference between Geordie & Glaswegians I can understand Geordies nae bother .

@margaretnicol3423 10 месяцев назад

@@janice506 My friend's father was a mix of Geordie and Glesga. No-one could understand him at all. 🤣

@QuentinRichardson-supersnail 10 месяцев назад

One of the differences I notice in American english v English english is the American lack of adverbs. In American you do it DIFFERENT, we do it DIFFERENTLY. You play NICE, we play NICELY. You talk LOUD we talk LOUDLY. In British english verbs are described by adverbs which often (but not exclusively) end in LY. Americans seem to have no concept of the adverb. I notice it on your news channels too. Spanish use adverbs too - they often end in MENTE.

@alexmckee4683 10 месяцев назад

Absolutamente.

@viviennerose6858 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for bringing that up. It's absolutely a pet hate of mine grrr

@johnkemp8904 10 месяцев назад

Sorry to contribute fir the second time, but when I was in my last year at primary school (aged 10 or 11) in 1958/59, our class teacher instructed us that we were not to say Merry Christmas but Happy Christmas because ‘Merry’ meant drunk. I remember him as a lovely fellow and an excellent teacher, but I think this instruction stemmed from the fact that he was also a lay preacher. My parents were most abstemious but always ensured they had a certain amount of alcohol in at Christmas for visitors. No drunkenness took place on our premises but a Merry Christmas was had by all.

@michael7286 10 месяцев назад

Like the printed T shirts 👍. Pink Floyd = Another Brick in the Wall. Blondie = Heart of Glass. 🇬🇧

@barbarathomas8556 10 месяцев назад

You two are such fun to join in and learn American with 😂❤

@elainec1188 10 месяцев назад

OMG, I’m reading all these comments that nobody in the UK says “Happy Christmas”. I’m 70 and have always said “Happy Christmas”. Born and bred in Bournemouth South of England. Is it just Bournemouth or just me 🤔

@kathryncoleman6973 10 месяцев назад

Congratulations on your 20th anniversary, enjo y and thanx for the laughter of a girl who lives in the UK.❤

@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632 10 месяцев назад

In the UK, that was a Motor home, not a camper van, a camper van is something much smaller.

@nigelanscombe8658 10 месяцев назад

The smaller one would be something like the ubiquitous VW camper with the pop up roof. 🙂

@vaudevillian7 10 месяцев назад

You’re right about ADHD Natasha. The vast majority of comedians I know have ADHD

@malcolmross8427 10 месяцев назад

We say Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

@jacquelinepearson2288 10 месяцев назад

I think more people in the UK say "Merry Christmas", and "Happy New Year". Most Xmas cards have the standard printed greeting on the inside - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

@Andreaod73 10 месяцев назад

I don’t know anybody that calls it a ‘ball pool’ in the UK, it’s a ball pitt. Not sure where they got that from ? Plus we say ‘merry Christmas’ not happy ! x

@alexmckee4683 10 месяцев назад

Same for both.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow 10 месяцев назад

In EVERY British movie when it's Christmas, Happy Christmas is always said

@michaelfoster5577 10 месяцев назад

Always seen it called a ball pool! And Merry and Happy are both in common use for Christmas greetings.

@Andreaod73 10 месяцев назад

@@michaelfoster5577 they can be , j just hear merry Christmas much more . As for ball pool, never heard it called that. Maybe depends what part of the UK you’re from ?

@Andreaod73 10 месяцев назад

@@TheNatashaDebbieShowreally? Maybe older movies . I just know that I live in the UK and it’s rarely said

@-Sarah- 10 месяцев назад

Damn, I came in too late, and chat opened for me so I started chatting... to myself 🤣 Fun fact, some American words are actually the original English words. Our language evolved but the settlers took the original words with them. Diaper and Fall are examples of this. Great video guys, thanks! 😊 Edited to add, the captions weren't right for programme. Program is as in computer programs. I imagine the mme is a French influence.

@Prospro8 10 месяцев назад

This 'year 10, year 14' carry-on is very recent. Traditionally, people of around 18 in final year of school are called 'Upper Sixth' still in many schools. And first year university students are called 'freshers'.

@Flossey114 10 месяцев назад

That ‘tradition’ has not been current for thirty years!

@martylawrance 10 месяцев назад

I am almost 70yrs old and have never said Happy Christmas, I always say Merry Christmas. On Christmas cards we usually put "Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"

@margaretnicol3423 10 месяцев назад

Programme is what you watch on TV. Program is for computers/computer languages.

@kirstie-justbeingme 10 месяцев назад

Great video. Some things ate said differently in Scotland but forgot which ones as I was literally laughing my ass off when you got to pink slip/P45 and noticed the name on it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AzimovTube 10 месяцев назад

I'm from the UK never heard anyone say Ball Pool, though I don't go to kids play centres. I would also say that Haystack and Hay Bale are two separate things, both terms are used. The picture in question was of a large round bale though.

@mothmagic1 10 месяцев назад

Your take on things is always worth watching. You make our differences interesting.

@andyp5899 10 месяцев назад

To clarify a camper or camper van is a van converted for use. The next level up is where the body has been specially built from the chassis up and is called a motorhome. A caravan is towed and used predominantly for holidays although some people use them to live in. We have larger ones which are kept on a site long term and are almost never moved but have wheels, these are called mobile homes.