Americans Guess British Slang 

Teke B. Ikr

ugh samee

Believe me, we cringe when we do it too

they always sound australian

doot and when they try to do the aussie accent they sound british

Ayeee

Madalyn Kelly im here you want a cuppa ☕ no honestly im British

Madalyn Kelly hey

Madalyn Kelly hi

Madalyn Kelly Heree boi

Same

sameeeee

Same

Freya JJ ik lol

Their*

exactly

They are other places In England they don’t realise that

And even a lot of people from London don't sound like that. East London is full of non posh people

And they think that us Scots are not British!!!!

Nobody thinks that here lol 😂

lol i say this all the time

Dhhddh Ehvve Billy mate

Dhhddh Ehvve cheeky Nando's w the mandem innit

hhahahah

Dhhddh Ehvve TRUSS

Amy Moffatt yes I HATE people trying to do "British" accents

as an Irish girl *gets ready for "top of the mornin to ya!" in leprechaun voice*

Amy Moffatt OR UR MUM WAKING U UP WITH TEA EVERY FREAKING DAY

Dear Americans, Believe it or not, barely any of us are posh twats! Sincerely, the British

I'm pretty sure if they heard my northern accent they'd never feel the same way about British accents

Exactly 5 yo now Adays be acting like roadmen

Cool creative Cousins were literally the complete opposite like I’m a right skank😂

Literally every single British accent video is someone from London which triggers me xD

Cool creative Cousins please don’t say proper posh

Cool creative Cousins Yea like some of us are the exact opposite I’m always screaming at my sister like “OI PARASITE GET BACK ERE NOW” ;w;

Ikr, I am from near Leyland

Rhys Jones trueeeeee

Britain*

i love your profile pic so much i literally just peed myself

Rhys Jones what, why.

thank you

Lymm True dat

Lymm 👏🏻👏🏻😂

Actually +Lymm, American English is to Mandarin Chinese as British English is to Traditional Chinese spoken in Taiwan. ^^ (To put it simply, American English is a simplified version of British English, which is considered more traditional.)

Lymm "American English" is just simplified English.

Don't think American english can be more traditional over British english as British english is older that American english. Truth of the matter is that American english hasn't evolved as much as British english. Yes you can argue that American english is simplified english, but its not really simplified when you call things like petrol, gas. peterol is a liquid idk if its one too many syllables for the American brain to handle but the American language has defenity stunted the room for language growth in America. Probably why Britain has a higher IQ than the US

😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

Brit: I live in Britain but not in England American: wait so the sea

I live in london and im litterally the same as them bc sometimes i forget there are other cities

Me : I live in UK but not in England, Ireland or Scotland Americans : WTFFFFFF HOW????

Chin wags just not that popular

Jtcgaming ultimate :3 nah it’s just more of an old one that like your mum would use

I remember my teacher said to my class and we were so confused 😂😅

EXACTLY

Highlander ikr! My teacher tells me and lots of others off for chin wagging!

Kiko Tanto Ah, the English language

Nil I would have said it meant pleased. like "I'm really chuffed with how my drawing came out"

yeah exactly same, I wouldn't say I was chuffed if I was excited for something though

I would say pleased, happy or proud would be the best way of describing it.

Nil nah I agree with you

I'm chuffed I passed my driving test...would have been a better definition. For me it means delighted

Ninja HasLigma it’s the chavs slang

kimmry omg yes 😂

truuee

Exactly 😂

innit

My granny used it. We are Scottish.

It's kind of outdated now, it's a really old saying.

Me neither, it’s usually teachers 😂😂

hi im isabel I can relate

My teacher: oi you two stop having a chin wag will ya and do ya werk

Marshmallowcupcake10 same I think I hear pissed and tosser about 10 times a day

Same

Marshmallowcupcake10 ikr

Yep.

Ikr

Mtcheww ｔｒｕｕ

Mtcheww Same I was hoping that they would have battie or something

they are using what is established not what is hot right now lol. its like if someone did american slang and they used words like "cool" and "dude" instead of "lit" and "shade"

Why? They're only used by a tiny minority of Brits.

Mtcheww peng? Mad ting? Are you saying the British talk like that? (Just sayin)

Alie

it's like really old outdated slang

Barney C truss

Same, but I heard one person use it the other day and was like ‘oh.. so people actually use that?’

@@hpsauce8152 same happened to me. Literally the day after I heard about 3 different people say it

double dare its dosser not tosser lol

Thalia Zissman dosser means ya mess about not a weird person

Thalia Zissman No it’s not.

It basically means your a twat and the person thinks you're annoying 😂

Ur a tosser

haha nope

Skint and nicked aren't necessarily well-used, but no one would be confused if you said either. Though I'm from the Midwest and this video is all Californians, so maybe that makes a difference? And as for leg it - who in the hell wouldn't understand that one? ITS COMMON SENSE.

Also fortnight. They have NO IDEA.

When had you ever heard Americans use them?

never heard any one but brits use the tearm nick and never heard of skint. but i've also never been to the midwest lol

No

Farah Jebari yes

Yes

Farah Jebari me

Farah Jebari yep

Max Carran u British

Not really

No, we’re not, dont get too excited though.

Fr stay pressed

How’s ur health

msnjmswrdl_ init

msnjmswrdl_ manny on the map

might have to come thur and say wag1 G

Ali G Yep, me everyday 😂

kaylan burnett stop being cheeky, you've got a tenner for sure, innit?

Sounds like quality banter, you met my m8 steve? hes an absolute ledge

be careful of them tossers

FangirlWifi ikr. Im from kent (a county in england) and we are NOT posh. Its only the counties near London that are posh like Kent becaude we have the queens accent

Eli Charlton Do you mean cities

FangirlWifi Ikr 😂😂😂

Em course he did

Em Not sarcasm coming from a brit with many American friends😂

I've heard all of them but some of them are damn near obsolete. Ok what they all mean but I've never in my life heard anyone use chin wag.

I’ve used all of em’ except chin wag

yh ony moist youths speak like that in Scotland...

I'm a northerner so have heard all (and used most) of these and more. Tbh northern slang is so much weirder than most other British slang

p l u v i u m I'm a northerner and that's so true!!

hi When you doing knock down ginger with your mates

+hi Same mate, when I last used it me and the lads had egged someones windows on mischief night. I was a little bastard when I was a young'un.

hi I say leg it quite a lot lol

I say it sometimes but I used to say it when we would play knock a door run and we would knock on and everyone would shout "Leg it"

i've never said leg it

or do ten toes

Jin's Hoe yes u use leg it when you did somthing really bad at school XD if u got that stare from the teach SHIR WAS GOIN DOOOOOWWWWWNN

ARMY!!!!!! Also agree

Doesn't leg it also mean wing it?

Jin's Hoe ikr.

Tia Macieszonek have you ever been to Kent? Or Sussex?

We're not posh, plus there are many different English accents.

You’re definitely not British

@VIEWS GRANT no im 100% British

@@CallieYanChanEdits man said 'lassy' gtfo here looool we ain't irish still

@@DJSaM2K10 lots of people say Lassy where i live in England

@VIEWS GRANT Newcastle

Lassie is Scottish ya bambot

Maya Stilinksi I love tea and crumpets

Maya Stilinksi Yes, there is certainly a stereotype that Brits drink tea and eat cookies/biscuits daily. That said, tea is actually pretty popular in America - especially thanks to Starbucks and their "chai tea", which literally means "tea tea" because "chai" means "tea" in South Asian countries... That drives me crazy lol. Anyways, the popularity of tea in England (or at least how popular Americans think it is) is the popularity of coffee in America. Not really sure what my point is, but just wanted to affirm your statement that there is a stereotype that Brits drink lots of tea, and even share a bit about what it's like across the pond.

I wont lie... i'm British and I do drink tea and eat biscuits on a daily basis lol

Maya Stilinksi Init kmt

Maya Stilinksi 😂😂😂

Shahir Ali I'm English and I have never heard 0161, what is that???

Ebony Harris, 0161 refers to Manchester in grime. It is hashtagged by artists like Bugzy Malone and maybe Chip too.

Shahir Ali LmAo I was expecting that aswell. I thought they were gonna say "Wag1", "0121 DO 1", "Do 1", "Mandem" and "Innit".

where is "bruv"? or "famalam" that would've proper confused them loool

If they said "shank" they would probably start naming meats lol

Lmao

Waffling is how I got through English GCSE 😂

THE EXAMPLE IS TOO FUNNY STILLLLL. But you’re not wrong my g, they are waffling a lot. Talking bare trash

marcus mooney yessssss

marcus mooney lol

Oml yes

Omg so true😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂

Danial Amin I hope they do a video about road man slang

Danial Amin truss

*+Danial Amin* what do you know about being on road Danial?

Danial Amin truss

michelle ukandu yedsd

innit fam

michelle ukandu what's roadman slang? chav talk?

Sushi Roll yeah, basically

Sushi Roll chav makes it seem so bad and uncivilised. It's slang

Amina Javaid im Irish i still know a lot of theas words Is that close inuf ye ..... oh and i like doctor who so im sorta a brit couse im related to my nan who is from Britain

Amina Javaid Yea, I had no idea what skint meant

Me

Amina Javaid meeee

WHO ISN'T, HONEY?!

diy mania IKR

diy mania is that's so true I got slightly offended that they thought that.

The same reason anytime someone does an American accent it's Californian or Texan.

Why do people from England forget about the 3 other countries in the UK?

diy mania stereotypically people think that all of the uk is England, all of England is London and all of London speak like the queen from 1800.

So I'm i

I am Canadian

TheSaucyShow same thing lol

TheSaucyShow Me too

Anaya Prinja samed

Its grime IDC if in late but just get it right plz

AceArcherYT you mean drill.

it kinda is tho

ThatGamerKid YT truss me

on a real

My exact thoughts every single time

we know that..

SwaySwayy1 Great Britain and the British Isles are 2 different things.

SwaySwayy1 British isles...

Sarah Woodland Punch yeah but Britain and UK can be used interchangeably, so technically Northern Ireland is in Britain even though it's in Ireland not Great Britain.

Ellie Wilson no but my teacher does so I guess the younger generation don't say it

Ellie Wilson Only sarcastically

Or "you're" as it seems

omg you're saying that an entire country doesn't speak exactly the same. what!!!

Ellie Wilson I've heard folks say it. I don't really use it myself though

Anastasia Aleksic 😂

Ahaha true tho

Anastasia Aleksic ya dunno

Anastasia Aleksic trusssss😀😂😂😂

😂

Ellen Forddd I never knew chin wags existed! 😂

my aunt does but shes also 50 so maybe its age restricted

My old teacher did

Ikr

Ellen Forddd oi mate what you on bout govnor chin wag wan want some crumpets and tea god save the queen cheerio

Actually besides chin wag they're all actually very common in different parts of Britain.

Yesssssss

Philippa Addo true😂

And Americans are batty creases

Philippa Addo I'm from up north an we say chin wag. To have a gab or natter

Poppy Naomi Smith fud

Poppy Naomi Smith Woop Woop #scotlandrules

but im from london and idk anyone who talks like that lmao londons full of roadmen

Ava Miaa truss me I live in the endz and they'd bare roadmans BTW they american what if we said all of you sound like Canada

They probably are aware that Scotland does exist, but for some reason Americans seem to only associate 'Britain' with 'southern England'.

why

Stardoll & Nightcore101 same the stereotypical British accent they tried 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

Yeah

Stardoll & Nightcore101 yes I got so offended and only my grandparents use chin wag and it means talk

Same

Shitfaced

When I lived in England, I was repeatedly told to just add -ed to any one syllable noun and it would mean drunk. Anything goes.

purple monster Lol in Ireland if you just ad "ed" to the end of any noun, adjective, verb, it can mean drunk.

Inquisitive Lady aye that's all ye hear goin down the street up where A live xD

if u take almost any noun and add "ed" at the end, it sounds like it could mean dr

Daydreamer X u just copied someones comment

Daydreamer X yes!!!

Omg yesssss

Legend

nutella for life No I didn't, I didn't see the other person's comment when I put this, it must have been nearer the bottom.

Milly Dawson ha me

I'm with ya g

Mood

Milly Mellow me.

Innit

Iwan Harvey oh you guys don t like generalizations? then stop generalizing Americans then.

I wan Harvey, yes mate!

Iwan Harvey come to Birmingham

💀😂 killed me

Iwan Harvey init they’ve clearly never been to newcastle

Alice Roberts same

I think most of these are still fairly common across the Commonwealth.

Alice Roberts same

Bangtan Sonyeondan nope ur not alone, i knew what it meant too and hey british army😊

Ikr I knew all of them apart from the chin wag

Bangtan Sonyeondan trueee

A lot of these words aren't "slang" to us ie knackered, they're just English words. Words like "Skint" are slang though

Omg same, I just assume they know them 😂

Saskia Barilló same

Saskia Barilló IKR

Saskia Barilló yessss that's what I thought

Same, especially pissed and leg it, I thought they used those in America as well.

pissed doesn't mean drunk in scotland, we mostly use it as "I'm so pissed off right now" as in annoyed with someone/thing

ikr

Ikr when I went to America it was constant like 'OMG I LUV YOUR ACCCCENT ' I'm like dude chill

Piko 786 you know

Piko 786 My aunts from America when she came over I was like whoa and I go over they're like whoa It's vice versa.

I'm British but I hate tea... I'm a disgrace to the country

Janae Olivia I am British

wagwan come to my gaff the mandem r round my block bruv

Janae Olivia I'm British

Janae Olivia I’m not but Hiiiii!!!!! From Pennsylvania, USA

Kieran Cooke hi hi

fizzy ! I dunno I am from the south so I have more of a accent like that but not like the one that is "brittish"

I’m only 11 and I use most of those lmao am I doing life incorrectly 😂

other than chin wag and tosser I use them all lmao

fizzy ! I use most of them, tbh! Edit: I don’t use chin wag though. XD

fizzy ! Exactly most English people are actually really Chavy sounding

Eleanor Catterall Idiot :-)

Omg same

Eden Wright yeah ik

don’t know where you’re talking about but up in scotland we still use all of this

I agree, these are all still very common...

Down in Kent we still use them all

I had a chin wag but my purse was nicked

I'm an american and i don't think you guys act like that.

I know we act like that bc im scottish and their all of their heed

XsadiyaX No today it's like:Fam, your girl is peng u get me Fam. So r ur crepes oi oi!

Stereotypes: Drinking tea with fish and chips and scones and speaking in posh accents. Reality: Having a plain accent or cockney or Scottish or Irish and having all the trends and stuff that goes on in America.

XsadiyaX sorry but who says thst

Lizzie._._. Hearts I have

Chin wag is pretty old, and a tiny bit posh, really isn't used any more.

I have

Ya. I’ve never either

it's a common old phrase...

my name is yuli Harry Potter.

It's the same reason people use a Southern accent when they try impersonate Americans. Its the most distinctive and iconic accent.

my name is yuli , I also want to beg for likes pls shower with them 🖒 😯

my name is yuli yeah like some people do that but not everybody

my name is yuli it's funny when you explain to an American that a Scottish accent is technically a British accent

bare man wanted to sweet that, at least that narn's under wraps now G

Internet Child 1647 3452

Internet Child 999

Internet Child I love this

😂😂😂😂bbm died when everyone got iphone 4 and 4s😂😂😂😂

Your shotter doesn't? 😂

Ah not around here 😂

Basingstoke/ whichever area

You?

neon fire Tbh British slang differs in different areas in Britain too. For example, here we use the term, "mardy," which apparently isnt used in Britain a lot

Khadija Dabaiba lmaooo honestly

hannah-joy walker no most of these words are used a LOT in England except chin wag which is very old

I live in Britain and say all of these. Im so baffled how only brits understand our slang. Its bloody GREAT. We have our own language that boggles everyone else!

Khadija Dabaiba tbh I love crumpets in the morning there tasty with jam or honey and i like tea as well XD

um actually the words/phrases in this video aren’t posh, they’re more of the sort of thing someone from Essex or London or somewhere like that would say.