American Reacts to Mistakes Foreigners Make in the UK (Part 1) 

In the UK a *HIGHWAY* is any path (path meaning route available for travel) open to the public. That includes paths,roads,canals and other areas used by the public to travel on.

I watched another American reaction video about MOTs and the fact the US don't have such a thing. So everyone speeds, no speeding cameras, driving test almost non existent and clapped out vehicles on the road sounds like a recipe for disaster. If the guns don't get you then driving about will. The undertaking business must be the best business to be in in the US.

A “back yard” in the UK is a walled, paved area. No plants. Paving stones. Anything with grass and/or plants is a garden

Yes speed cameras are everywhere and while we hate them, we are very proud of having some of the safest roads in the world. Ironically though there was a guy living in a village somewhere who was annoyed that traffic always broke the speed limit driving through so he attached a fake yellow speed camera to his house to make them slow down but the council forced him to remove it, claiming it was a distraction to drivers. Very British lol

In Britain a yard, including a 'backyard', would imply a relatively small outdoor space enclosed on at least three sides by buildings or walls and probably paved in some way. This would cover, not only backyards, but also farmyards and stableyards. Gardens would tend to be unpaved, with flowerbeds, lawns, hedges, trees etc. and surrounded by fences or hedges, though enclosed gardens attached to very large properties (stately homes and suchlike) would have high walls around them. A house could have both a backyard and a back garden. The backyard being a paved or gravelled space, framed by the back of the house and outbuildings projecting from it, with a garden beyond.

We use Highways all the time .... the legislation around roads are usually called Highways Acts and local councils have Highways Departments responsible for upkeep of the roads. Motorways are a specific type of highway with different regulations, higher speed limits etc they're generally the big 6 lane 'highways' which connect the big cities and I believe are maintained by central Government rather than local councils.

I worked with a British lady who had spent an amount of time working in the US and had picked up some of the language. On returning to the UK, she went to a large, and rather posh, department store and asked where she might be able to buy some leather pants - only to be told by the snooty shop assistant that "I'm afraid it's not that kind of shop!"

One mistake foreigners make is taking the Tube for a couple of stops in Central London. It is often both quicker and involves less walking to simply walk in the surface. This may mostly apply to Americans who do not appear to like walking anywhere😊

Most foreigners in the UK aren't Americans.

We say 'day ta' in the UK and Americans used to say 'da ta' a lot more than they do now( maybe thanks to Patrick Stuart's accent in Star Trek). We have yards but we tend to use it when it's concrete or paved. We don't use trousers for all "pants" just for more formal wear, we tend to use what the item is called like he/she is wearing jeans, shorts etc.

I have never heard anyone in the UK call the area in front of their house the "front yard". If it has bare earth with things growing in it (even just weeds or grass), it is called the "front garden"; if not, it would most likely simply be called the "front". The space at the back of the house if covered in paving, gravel or concrete will sometimes be called the "back yard" and even more frequently if it enclosed by walls or high fences on most or all sides. Otherwise, if it is bare earth with things growing in it (even just weeds or grass), it is the "back garden". Typically the enclosed paved/concreted area at the back of a terraced house, separated from neighbouring properties by high brick walls is called the "back yard". If such an area is shared between dwellings or other buildings, it is called a "courtyard". "Courtyard" is also used in large mansions or public buildings for unroofed parts of the building surrounded on all or most sides by wings of the building. Again, these are mostly paved. When I was at school, the paved/concreted/tarmacced area adjacent to the school was sometimes called the "school yard", especially if it was an older type of building. Nowadays, this would tend to be called the school playground. A prison will have an "exercise yard": again, this will be largely paved, concreted or tarmac. These definitions are consistent with the use of "yard" in the UK for commercial premises: farmyard, builder's yard, boat yard, shipyard where one would expect the ground surface in the yard to be largely or wholly paved, concreted or covered in tarmac. On the other hand, the area used for burials around a church in the UK is called a "churchyard", even though there is very little paving, concrete or tarmac within this type of yard.

I have learnt so much about driving in the States over the last couple of days. Not only do they not have an equivalent to an MOT test, which means that a lot of their cars will be potentially dangerous and un-roadworthy, they also do not have speed cameras, and most drivers go over the speed limit by around 10 to 15 mph routinely. When I think of a highway, I automatically think of Dick Turpin, a notorious highwayman from history.

A yard is usually a paved area a garden is grass and flowers etc . Most houses in the uk have a front and back garden but some do have a back yard

A "highway" in the UK mean's any public road, or right of way. It was previously known as the "Queen's Highway" and is now (presumably) the King's Highway.

The word yard is associated with a more commercial environment, normally covered with a hard surface, like a builders' yard. We use the word garden for our areas front and rear of the house.

As a 75 year old Briton you may take it from me that I have always, when it comes to data, pronounced it ‘dayta’’ and never ‘data’. I had always assumed the latter to be solely American. As for yard or back yard I was brought up as a child in a terraced house (row house I believe in the USA) which had a back yard which was characterised by having no grass or flowers in it, otherwise it would have been a garden. I am not saying back a backyard cannot have any foliage in it but ours didn’t. It was of relatively small size. My attention was initially drawn to this many decades ago, when I read that Gene Kelly had broken his leg whilst playing ball in his yard. I speculated that he surely did not live in a house with a small British working class back to it! I believe I was right to do so.

Listening to your opinion on driving, its not surprising that the majority of Americans that have passed their "test" in the US and think they're good drivers, fail miserably when they first take their tests here?

If you say French fries instead of chips. They might just serve you fries instead of chips. Fries are thin, and chips are thicker. Like asking for a cookie instead of a biscuit. Biscuit means twice baked and are crunchy, and cookies are soft and doughy. America just uses fries and cookies as a catch all name. Where in the UK they mean different things.

Easy! . If it's GREEN it's a GARDEN, if it's CONCRETE it's a BACKYARD. . Backyards DO exist in Britain, but they're generally in cheaper and/or inner city properties.

Part of driving in the UK is knowing where the speed cameras are on your frequently travelled routes, knowing which cameras actually work and what type of camera they are (ie the instantaneous ones or the average speed ones). If you're driving somewhere you don't know, follow what everyone else is doing. If they're speeding, chances are there's no speed cameras along that route. If everyone is going 5 under the speed limit, chances are there's probably many speed cameras along the route

A yard is usually hard standing or a paved or concreted area, as in courtyard, prison yard or stableyard. A garden is grass, vegetables or flowers and a garden is never a yard, no matter if front or back.

Average speed cameras are the logical development from spot speed cameras. When drivers often will speed between fixed speed cameras, and then slam on their brakes at the next camera. In the UK we would usually say that a house with only a smaller paved behind it, had a backyard. Yards are more a working space, rather than a growing area. Like a farmyard, or a builder's yard.

Almost all UK houses have a garden front and back with flower borders and if it is a large garden, one or two trees. A yard conjures up a concrete or paved area, like a builders yard, scrap metal yard, farm yard. Some smaller back to back, terraced houses that used to be mill workers homes have a yard at the back with nothing at the front bur a pavement and road. These yards were tiny, sufficient for a washing line, rubbish bin and outside toilet.

Someone needs to tell her that the Circle Line is exactly that. Trains run clockwise and anti-clockwise. If you want to go to the next station, but you find that you are on a train going the opposite way to your station, just stay on the Tube until it goes all the was round and ends up at the station you wanted to get to.

Highway is an originally British word applied to any important road. It does not apply only to motorways, which are major three lane roads. It comes from the ancient Roman roads, which were raised above the surrounding land, so actually they were 'high ways' . Later the term applied to the main Royal roads, along which the mail coaches ran. We have back yards in the UK. These are smaller paved yards, usually behind Victorian style terraced street houses. Anything bigger, with grass & plants is a garden. A subway in the UK is a foot walk under a street or similar, Or a sandwich. The Circle line is one of the London tube lines. In the UK it is route (root) as you say (route in Australia is a bit s----xual,)

Speed cameras do exist in some states in America, but as you never go out, you don’t see them.

Americans used to call flip flops "thongs" before the underwear style became popular.

The London Underground is extremely easy to use, there are maps on the platform and in the carriages, so you don't get on in the wrong direction or whatever. You do often have to do one or two changes to different lines but you just look at the full system map to plan your route.

In the UK, the term 'highway' describes a main thoroughfare that is used by general traffic. On the other hand, Motorway usage is restricted to motor vehicles of sufficient power and speed.

Many main roads in the UK, not just motorways, have average speed cameras. We call main roads highways too, indeed the book of rules for driving or using roads is called “the Highway Code”. The main roads, non motorways, are usually “A” roads, with a number after, eg. A1 or A9 etc. and when you’re on an average speed there’ll be a camera over the road at the start of the average speed zone, and some distance later a 2nd camera, also reading your number plate, and it’s a simple calculation whether you have kept within the speed limit or not.

The utter confusion on your face Tyler regularly gobsmacked (shocked) at our “oddities” is sometimes very funny. Keep up the confusion!!

Another incorrect comment is we always say back garden. If the back of the house is all concrete, we call it backyard, if it has grass no matter how much or little we say back garden. I am a UK citizen born and bred and I can assure you, that is the rule.

In England a yard implies a paved area, either in front or behind your house. An area with soil and plants and flowers etc, is a garden. When selling a house, it is often described as a "courtyard garden", meaning you have some flower beds or planters in your paved back yard, to sound better than a yard.

Garden - brown stuff in which one can grow plants. Yard - hardened surface for vehicles.

If a foreigner or local tries to cut the queue, we do let them know that the queue is at the back.

In the UK, all major trunk roads were once called "highways" (the Kings Highway) - hence "highway men" like Dick Turpin and William Neverson. It's only since the late 1950s and the Preston Bypass that we have called major roads "motorways". We even have an agency called National Highways, formally Highways England, who look after these motorways.

I have lived in the UK 70 years and I have NEVER heard anyone pronounce it DAATA we always pronounce it DAYTA.

I believe I read somewhere that the concept of the speed camera actually came from a Dutch racing driver, who wanted to see exactly how fast he was going on track. Odd that a speed merchant came up with an idea that infuriates everyone else by keeping them slower than they want to! LOL

Houses in the U.K. have gardens but certain older houses called terraced houses have back yards

Here's food for thought. The UK has Royal Mail as it's main postal service, and we call it Post. You guys have the United States Postal Service, yet call it Mail. (My dealings with USPS in the US are interesting to say the least...outside the US when it's not me doing the posting, quite positive)

In the UK "a yard", other than being a measurement, would be used to describe a place where you would store things, generally in a work setting. So for example, if you went to a home improvement store to buy a door, and there were none in the shop, the store assistant might say "I will go out and look in the yard to see if we have any more"

Some speed cameras in the UK are also paired with an anpr (automatic numberplate recognition) camera. If a driver has not paid their road tax or are uninsured, the camera can take a photo of the driver to send it to the DVLA and prove the driver was driving without without being legally covered.

Yes, average speed cameras are common. Not just on motorways either. Usually at least 5 cameras in a set over a certain distance to measure average over a longer distance.

Yes - in the UK, a 'yard' is paved in some way, whereas the part with a lawn and possible shrubs and flowerbeds is the 'garden'. That's the difference. The yard is PAVED or concreted-over. The grassy bit is the garden, both front and/or back.

A yard is an enclosed paved area. So a backyard is an enclosed paved area at the back of a property. A back garden usually has plants & some kind of lawn. I have a tiny front "garden" & a backyard.

We have these speed cameras in Norway too. The average also. And not hust on the highways...all over actually. But the cameras are moved around in the the different boxes, there aren't always a camera in them. But when there are you can see this tiny red flash going of. :)

A yard is a small paved/ concrete area at the back of a house, with high walls all around. Yards are usually in older outer city terraced houses and don’t have grass. Gardens are an area at the back of a house with grass, plants etc.

The UK has the 6th safest roads in the world. The US only ranks 26th. The UK has 3.21 road deaths per 100,000 people. While the US has 12.26 road deaths per 100,000 people.

7:40 the camera probably went off because her numberplate was being obscured by the vehicle tailgating her. I.e., someone will have to manually match the vehicles to check their speed if the ANCR can't do it automatically. 8:40 And yes, there is a big flash.

The average speed camera's are usually sections of road up to around 20 miles with a set of camera's every mile or two. I also once had a standard speed camera go off as I passed it doing just under the limit, the reason it was triggered was the numpty speeding past overtaking me. In the Uk we tend to use Yard in reference to a companies external storage area, for houses it's usually front and or back gardens.

Day ta in the uk. Yes we have back yards but they are usually low to no maintenance usually concrete or slabs and typically quite a small high walled space.

Very few Brits now have "yards" which have no plants. We now have a lot of plants (often weeds) so call them gardens.

In the UK a back yard is a concrete base at the rear of the property with a surrounding wall with a high gate. Garden is either a front or rear garden, normally with a lawn with flower, bushes or a couple of tree’s surrounding the law .

Grass, flowers, shrubs and trees. A back garden. We also have front gardens too

Highways is the group name for all road infrastructure in the UK. So it would be confusing to call a motorway this. The laws we have to lern to drive are called the highway code.

Average speed cameras are extremely common in Norway as well. Take fx tunnels (we have lots and lots of those). Your speed might be measured by a camera when going in and when going out. Hence "average speed".

No a subway is a road crossing for major road, roundabouts and junctions where pedestrians can cross the road safely. Under the main carriageway.

Yes we have a front garden and a back garden. we use the yard for industrial units e.g. the fork lift truck is in the yard

In Britain, a highway is any main road, not just dual carriageways intended for high speed driving like motorways. There are even highways in the north of Scotland that are single track roads with passing places to pass vehicles coming in the other direction. The set of rules you need to learn and inwardly digest before learning to drive is the "Highway Code".

A lot if not most yards are commercial, builders yard, scrap yard etc , most domestic homes have a garden with lawns hedges flowers etc, even patios will have pot plants.

We also have "variable"speed limits where the maximum speed limit on a motorway can be changed at the drop of a hat.

Speed cameras are very popular in the UK. They used on all types of roads. On standard roads such as where there's a 30mph or 40 mph speed limit you will usually get either a fixed location speed camera or a speed camera van to detect your speed at that exact second it detects your car. On motorways where the speed limit is 70mph you can also get an average speed camera. This is actually two or more cameras located a certain distance apart. The first camera detects your car via it's registration plate then, in effect, sets a clock going. When you pass the second camera your car is detected again and the clock stopped. Your average speed can now be worked out by using the known distance between the two cameras and the measured time it took your car to travel that distance between camera one and camera two. This disadvantage of a traditional single fixed speed camera is that locals or people that use that road regularly get to know when you have to keep to the limit and when you can let loose because the camera can no longer detect your car. But with the average speed camera system you have to keep an eye on your speed over a longer distance, maybe several miles. This stops excess speeding over a longer distance than the traditional single fixed speed camera.

yeah I have a front Garden and a back Garden. both have lawns and flowers in etc

Yeah we have backyards but they are just bare concrete or slabs that are void of life. Usually found in working class terrace houses. Most houses have front and rear gardens with grass lawn & flowers ect

We have yards and gardens. I currently have a front garden and a back yard, in my last house, I had a front and a back garden. Garden implies having a lawn and / or plants. A yard tends to be paved or concrete.

We use yard AND garden but there is a difference. Garden = a grassed area which may or may not have flowers or plants but will defo have at least grass. Yard = paved or concreted area with no grass.

We also have traffic light cameras on some junctions when people keep running a read light. Only downside to them is, if you move over the white line ( even safely ) when an ambulance/fire engine is trying to get through the junction during an emergency, they will still give you a fine and the courts never reverse the decision, even though most people think it’s unfair

It's front garden & back garden.. its Always a garden unless you park a car on it then that's a driveway

What you consider a 'garden' we would probably call a flowerbed. We use 'backyard' for a specific type of area which would generally not include any flowerbeds and is usually paved.

I live in the UK and everybody I've ever known has said 'back yard'. It's only a garden if there are cultivated parts. Lots of back yards are completely paved.

Yard is a small concrete area on the back of old victorian houses. So we have gardens mostly

Fun fact, we have the highway code (rules of the road) and the highways agency (responsible for maintaining the motorways) yet don't use the word highway to refer to roads in common usage lol

We do use the word 'Highway' but we use it in a wider context. Our rule booklet on driving is called 'The Highway Code.' :-) You might enjoy looking a vods about the origin of the English 'garden.'

In my experience a 'yard' be it the front or the back, is a specific thing. My grandfather for example had a yard at the front of his house, but he was a self employed truck driver and his truck got parked in the yard. The back garden though, that was where the plants and grass were.

There's an "average speed check" stretch of road near me, although I don't know of anyone who's ever been caught by it, regardless of the speed they were doing. The trouble is, there are so many places along that stretch of road where you have to either slow down or stop (traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, roundabouts, bottlenecks etc.) that even if you do speed, your average speed drops right down because of the places where you couldn't speed even if you wanted to!

Okay Tyler, I'll talk you through this. In London there's writing on the ground everywhere saying "Look Left" because people were indeed getting splatted. Motorways in the UK are M1, M5 etc because the M stands for motorway, why are the Aussie highways called M1, M5 etc.?! With GPS, our cars know what the speed limit is and won't allow you to set the cruise control above the speed limit. The speed cameras flashing were probably flashing the next lane along, not going off at random. Data is pronounced Dayta in the UK, (a darter is a type of dragonfly). Neither Brits nor Aussies say DaTa. Ah, the back garden. These are an open secret. The front door is the one with a letterbox. You'll see all the front doors as you walk along the street. But you'll rarely be able to see the back garden. This is done purposely to disguise how big (or small) your garden is. It's related to the centuries-old class system and politeness but it would need a long essay to explain thoroughly. Most back gardens do have plants, flowers and trees and an area of grass (some also have a vegetable patch). Brits love gardening almost as much as they love pets. A front garden is usually much smaller than the back garden if there even is a front garden at all. I don't have a front garden. We don't spend nearly as much time talking about our pants as it appears you do! You talk about your pants every day? The Tube is pronounced Chewb. No big deal. Transportation is a word you won't hear often in the UK because transportation was historically a sentence you were given if you were found guilty of serious crimes. When we stopped transporting criminals to the colonies across the pond, we started transporting them to Oz which we had recently discovered. We just say transport, e.g. public transport. Route: I've heard some of your fellow RU-vidrs from Indiana say rowt, not root and my Canadian family say rowt. But famously, it's pronounced root 66, right?

The rules of the road is called the highway code, and refers to all roads (highway) the motorway has its own set of rules and restrictions as well as the highway code.

We still have highways - motorways are just a type of road: "A highway is a main road. The word goes back a long way - hence highwayman. A motorway is a UK term for a road on which only motor vehicles are permitted."

Born and bred Brit here! If you say I’m having a BBQ in the garden… it implies it’s in my garden out the back of my house… we don’t use yard… they aren’t yards big enough to be called a back/front yard! It’s definitely a front or back garden! Front gardens are normally pretty small in comparison to rear gardens…

In the UK the "Highway" refers to any road paved or unpaved (where there is a public right of passage over land at all times), so a private road is not a highway, we also have The Highway Code ie rules of the road which is used by the police and courts for prosecuting driving offences. Yes, the cameras have a flash and speed cameras have a kill zone marked on the road, average speed cameras are on overhead gantries. “tuh may to” and “tuh mah to”..."dah ta" and "day ta"..."pr oh ject" and "proj ect"...the last option I've always heard in the UK. Suburbs and rural, yes a front and back garden, more urban area may have neither, could just be a paved backyard. I think the London Underground is deliberately designed to confuse visitors... A good rooting in aus slang is a good shagging...

In Britain, every public road is a highway ie a road between two places. The rules governing our roads are compiled in a document called The Highway Code. Back in the days before cars when people travelled on horseback or by horse drawn stage coaches, they were often under threat from thieves and robbers known as highwaymen.

Most house owners have a garden, except for those with yards, which are concrete and swept with a yardbrush.

In the UK, underwear is a collective noun for pants (men's briefs), knickers (womens panties), thongs (g-strings), boxer shorts, vests, socks, bras etc

Yes the cameras flash, the average speed camera are often found on 'smart' motorways where variable speed limits may be in effect for long stretches at a time. The cameras flash when the variable limit is changed, you also have a 1 minute grace period after they have changed. If you don't receive the penalty notice within two weeks you're in the clear, obviously this is dependent on you having all your vehincle registration docs in order.

The London Underground is amazing and amazingly horrible at the same time. You try to get as close to what you want see, and end up making multiple changes, and you suddenly realise that there is a station about two minutes away and you didn't have to change at all. I think the most famous is going to Regent's Park Station on the Bakerloo Line when Warren Street Station (Northern and Victoria Lines) is literally 5 minutes walk away.

Hi there refering you to one of your other videos u watched about pubs where they mentioned pub gardens and you asked if this was a place attached to a pub called a garden which was an indication that we call that space at the back of house pub whatver a garden..or it wuld have been pub back yard

A couple of things: 1) The word "motorway" describes a very specific type of road. They have different road signs (white lettering on a blue background), different road rules (such as not allowing learner drivers - you have yo get your full licence before you're allowed on), and different design. Essentially the Germans first thought up the idea of fast, specialised, separated roads, the autobahns; the Americans copied that idea with their highways; the British stood back a while, saw the problems in them, and redesigned them. For instance, American highways have horrible problems at junctions, where traffic leaving the highway crosses traffic entering it, either under the crossing bridges or on them. That means that American drivers treat the "slow" lane as reserved for either leaving or entering at a junction, and tend to avoid driving in it if they are driving long-distance. The British motorway avoids this by carrying out the traffic mixing away from the main road: Traffic leaving the motorway at a junction filters off onto a decelerating lane and should not slow down until it has left the main lanes; traffic entering the motorway at the same junction does so with an accelerating lane at the far side of the junction; and the two streams of traffic come together away from the motorway at a roundabout, with the traffic mixing done there. So traffic on the motorway passing a junction does not need to slow down as it does so, not even in the "slow" lane and the risk of collisions at junctions is much reduced. Also, motorways are generally designed to flow sinuously through the countryside rather than just running in a dead straight line, with the deliberate intention of avoiding boredom and inducing sleep, as the long, straight American highways do. As a Brit having worked in Germany and in America, and now living in Canada, I've experienced all these variations. I love German autobahns because so many of them are unrestricted in speed, and that encourages much better driving skills in order to make it work. I love British mortorways because the traffic flows much better and more safely. But I hate the American highways because if you leave the "slow" lane for traffic entering and leaving at junctions, some American drivers use them as overtaking lanes between junctions. And I've seen a large number of very-near accidents from fast traffic using the "slow" lane in this way, having to dodge slow-moving or even stationary traffic at a junction. 2) The word "pants" may be a more appropriate use in American rather than British usage. It is derived from the word "pantaloons" which described the exterior, visible leg clothing. In English usage, we initially shortened this to "pants", which Americans still use. But in England we referred to undergarments as "under-pants" - for obvious reasons. As pantaloons went out of fashion, we referred to the new fashion of leg-wear as "trousers", and "under-pants" became shortened in general usage to "pants", with that word then applied only to underwear. So the word has changed meaning in English, but American has kept the original meaning.

Using "Highway" in the UK would probably be regarded as referring to Major Roads that weren't Motorways. That is in the UK "A" Roads. There are certain restrictions that apply to Motorways, like no pedestrians, no vehicles of 50cc or less, no horses etc. In the UK we tend to think Americans refer to their "Motorways" as "Freeways". Average speed cameras don't flash. The "Instant speed" cameras do. We say Data not Darter in the UK. Of course Data is on the Star Ship Enterprise. Back yard is usually a paved area (usually in Terraced houses). If you have an area where grass or flowers etc are placed front or back of the house is a Garden. Dead give away in the UK if you ask where the "Toobe" is it's Tube with the "U" as in "you". Just like in the UK it's Tune not Toon (which is a Cartoon character). Just having fun.

On the Underground there are very simple colour coded maps of where you are going every few yards, the train fittings match the colour of the lines on the maps. If you read the signs I can't see how you can go wrong, and if you do, you just get off, go to the opposite platform and try agan. Unmanned speed cameras on motor ways are only allowed in areas with a "Variable speed limit", or in roadworks, and commonly only active when the limit is below 70mph. Other cameras are only in problem areas, like where there have been fatal or multiple accidents. Otherwise the police must use camera vans, hand held cameras, or calibrated dash cams.

When she's talking about the Tube, the different routes (lines) are named not numbered. So there's the Circle line, the Northern line, Bakerloo line etc and trains run both directions along them.

Back in the 90s, we had a woman join the company I worked for at the time, who many blokes in the office instantly fell in love with! She was beautiful and a lovely person. It turned out that she lived very close to me, but she hadn't yet worked out the best way of getting to and from our office in Central London. So one evening, I offered to show her how I made that journey. The next morning, when she arrived at the office, her first words were "Great route last night, Andy" (she, of course, pronounced it "root"). Well, the face on my Aussie colleague was an absolute picture!! I let him believe for a while that I had actually slept with our new colleague the previous night, before eventually confessing that I had simply shown her a new route home! 😁

Tyler, in Victorian times when rows of 2 up, 2 down houses were built, in the thousands, a tiny yard was there at the back if you were lucky, and may have a lavatory again if yiu were lucky. This was the backyard. Now we would only say backyard if referring to a small Victorian-built house. Otherwise, always garden.

Its 'Day ta' because in english the A after the D is changed to AY by the vowel at the end of the word. So At and Dat vs Ate and Date.

I think speed cameras only ever flash when they're catching someone speeding. They will log everyone but they just don't flash. There's a tolerance of 10% +1 (used to be +2), so if you accidentally drive a bit too fast, you won't get pulled up, but people often see that as a way to drive 10% over the speed limit the whole time

Also called point to point cameras, also have seatbelt cameras and mobile/cell phone cameras as well in Australia.

"flowers or plants" ... Tyler ?! Flowers _are_ Plants !! 😊

Understanding what a 'Motorway' is can be important, as slightly different driving rules apply (for example 'Learner Drivers' are not allowed to use them, the speed limit is higher than on any other roads) so you do need to be able to discriminate between a normal dual carriageway and a mortorway, even though they initially may look very similar. In the UK we tnd to call any outdoor space at our homes a 'garden'. We do use 'backyard' but this means specifically a concreted area with no greenery. Most Brits have at least some plants in their garden, and it's common to have a lawn and flower beds.

A Circle Line goes in a circle, like a Ring Road. Other lines goes from one point to another, stops and goes back the oposite way.

I have a yarden because it's concrete but I've filled it with plants, shrubs, flower and herbs all grown in pots.

Backyard is used but usually for a terraced house. Also would be a yard.