Americans React to British vs American English **50 Differences** 

For real. You can pretty much travel to the next city and locals will know you're not from there because of your accent and/or dialect. Although, a lot of the US words are different depending on where you live in the US too. I'd like to see him react to some of the regional US dialects that exist, like Wisconsinites calling traffic lights a "stop and go light"

If you go to any city in England and you have an English accent they will know you aren't from there.

Same in USA

Yeah never heard of snow settling always used sticking.

Yes but most aren’t. I have friends & fam from Glasgow to Durham to Newcastle to London to Cornwall. We might use slang words but essentially the base word is the same. E.g. Potatoes, spuds, tatties, etc. The slang is now U.K. wide but started off regional. the base word stays the same.

And spew

i would say puke was american also. try sick or vomiting

"I come from a land down under, where beer does flow and men chunder"...

Yeah I’ve never said chunder in my life

Agree I have never used the word Chunder, puking up or vomiting.

In Glasgow, we sometimes say "subway" as that is what the sign says, but underground remains popular. The footpath is for the benefit of drivers, I swear bridges or tunnels crossing roads are there because urban planners would rather make people climb than dare to inconvenience entitled cagers!

Isn't it an underpass?

@@Appleduck2007 I would call it an underpass too.

A dual carriageway does not mean it has 4 lanes of traffic. As the name clearly states, it is a road that has 2 clearly defined carriageways with a separation between the 2 directions of traffic.... it can be any number of lanes in each direction... Motorways are dual carriageways, generally speaking if a road has a central median or a barrier separating 2 opposing flows of traffic. So if a motorway is also a dual carriageway, what makes it a motorway, I hear nobody ask ??? ... Motorways cannot have junctions without slip roads (on / off ramps) but other classes of dual carriageway can, motorways have a higher speed restriction for HGV / LGV (truck's / semi's) and it used to be that All motorways are required to have a hard shoulder (breakdown lane) but now that is out of the window thanks to our money grubbing government so we can no longer use this as a distinguishing factor. (yes that is right, our government prefers profit over safety.)

@@5688gamble I came here to say Glasgow Subway LOL.

where women glow and men chunder 😜

i hear it quite alot especially when i use to go out drinking

@@sac5608 its quite common amongst college and uni students especially south of the country (and the students do use it after leaving said schools) it became popular in the 80's and 90's and kind of stuck. most likely thanks to the song "down under" that contains the line in my previous comment 😉

​​@@s4ss1n also remember that the mid 80's to late 90's TV Aussie soaps _Neighbours_ & _Home and Away_ introduced & popularised the term chunder to the UK. I think it was from a youthful Toady/Toadfish having a bender of mega drinking binge as a semi-alcoholic part of his character story arc....

@@razor1uk610 oh yes i forgot about them lol, this most certainly could have helped popularise the word more. i didn't watch such ridiculous soap operas myself but they were most definately popular enough in britain to influence such terms. i personally started using the word after liking and replaying the "down under" song but australian programing was just as influencial (possibly even more so to be fair) in britain 😉

Or "Honked up".

I’m a Brit and I’ve heard chunder

I’ve heard chunder loads, I’m a Londoner

Missed the Obvious being sick?

I've only heard chunder used as a brit (TW: graphic) if the vomit has chunks in it and isn't completely liquid.

Petrol garage

​@@101steel4rubbish

What if you drive diesel?@@101steel4

He doesn't.

I live in the Southwest of the UK and use ‘Gas Station’ all the time….probably more than petrol station.

People who sell alcohol in the uk call their shops by lots of names but the true British words are off licence

Just because the kid says hen-do. (slang.) It doesn't mean we all do. Steve & Lindsey : Stag Party/Hen Party. Regarding the education question. My best example: I went to college, but not university. I think of a three tier structure. 1.School throughout the formative years. 2.College for early higher education. 3.University. For academic excellence which may lead to high-paying career.

I deliberately only got 3 O levels because I did not want to go to University. I am English by the way. I got 3 Bs in O level but then got a French O level because I needed one to go to Technical College. Got a B in French too.

Still trying to work out how a Salamander got its name, it's a grill that grills both sides, top and bottom at the same time.

@@russellfrancis6294 I say hen party and stag do.

An off licence is somewhere licenced to sell alcohol to be drunk off the premises - as opposed to an ordinary premises licence where you sell alcohol to be consumed on the premises.

Steve is correct re the bang tail though. I worked with horses, teaching both horseriding and stable management' and the horse's tail is held up at an angle and they cut / trim the ends of the tail til when the tail hangs in its natural position, the ends appear straight. The bob-tail thing always confused me because rabbits are called bobtails!! ("Rag, Tag and Bobtail" an _old_ children's story!!) I think it instead, refers to the old carthorse types, which were docked to stop their tails getting caught up in the 'crupper' - which is at the back end of a horse's harness, where the tail is poked through, rather than the straight sleek tail of a smartly turned out riding horse.🐴❤🐴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿♥️🐴♥️😏🖖

Steve is correct re the bang tail though. I worked with horses, teaching both horseriding and stable management' and the horse's tail is held up at an angle and they i

Bob-tail would be a short cut up to the tail bone (hock height, for example), docking would be amputating the tail bones for an even shorter tail, but bang-tail is simply cut blunt (usually cannon height), so Steve is correct

Ah, that makes sense! :) Thanks for explaining

@@reactingtomyroots Always know it as Airbed.

The word “plaster” is of old English origin, meaning “a bandage spread with a curative substance”. This comes from the medical Latin word “emplastrum”, also meaning “plaster” or “bandage”.

Wiki is your friend😄

​@@MrCallandAnd isn't it "sticking plaster" or "sticking-plaster" and "plaster" is the short form? And nobody says the full form anymore and some might not even know it?

The distinction used to be clear, with universities and polytechnic colleges. Many of the 'polys' have upgraded to university status, so it's becoming a legacy term.

My Grandchildren go to a COLLEGE... They are 13! (Twins, in case you thought they were born separately the same year 😂) The younger 3 Grandchildren go to an ACADEMY. Basically what I would have called in the '70's - '80's A Secondary School. And A Middle School. It's basically a load of pretentious yuppy twaddle! "Fake it til you make it" mentality. Or what my Mum would have called "A big hat, with no drawers on" 😂 (for any millennials or younger who don't understand what that means, the drawers means knickers... because they are drawn up and drawn down to use the toilet, right? So some people still call them "drawers". So the saying: *a big hat and no drawers* means, a woman who's dressed up all fancy, for example Ladies' Day at Ascot, designer outfit, shoes, bag, and a big fancy hat...yet no knickers on underneath! Basically, all for show! Looks like a Lady but quite clearly isn't one! These days you could equate it to an Instagram "influencer" some cheap old trollop who makes out like she's some model living the high life! Hah! There's a reason so many of them get FREE trips to Dubai....😜) But I digress... I used to go to an "Academy" when I was younger. At age 3-14 I did Ballet, Jazz, and Modern at a "Dance Academy." Back then an Academy was (in terms of children's education) somewhere you went to for classes of a specific nature, outside of your normal school hours. For example dance, gymnastics, or swimming etc. It was not a fancy name for a plain old ordinary school! I went to: PLAYGROUP aged 3-4½, INFANT'S SCHOOL aged 4½-8 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years) MIDDLE SCHOOL aged 8-12 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years) SECONDARY SCHOOL aged 12-16 (2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th years) This accounts for some schools at the time taking children at age 11, so they would class that as the 1st year of secondary school, having missed the 4th year of middle school. So regardless of what type of school children went to, starting aged 11 or 12, by the time ALL children in ALL secondary schools were 12, they would all be in the 2nd year. In case you wondered why I skipped the first year above. We all left secondary school after the 5th year aged 16....those who chose to stay on to 17-18, for higher education, would then enter the 6th form....hence why it is is still called that today, despite it following what you now call year 11. The schools that took children aged 11 were from the older school system of the '40's - '70's, when children sat an exam called the ELEVEN PLUS. The 11+ exam was very classist in nature and basically separated the children based on who was deemed academically brilliant, and those who... weren't! 🙄 The ones who passed the 11+ exam would go to single-sex Grammar Schools, those who failed would go to secondary schools that focused more on technical learning. Basically training them up for going to work, because they were deemed too stupid to absorb any more "intelligent" education. That's a very broad explanation....but the basic point was, ONLY CHILDREN IN GRAMMAR SCHOOLS could later go on to university! So it was snobby as generally more wealthy children went to boy's or girl's grammar schools. Not that their MONEY bought them a place, but parents with money tend to demand better from their kids so as to not show them up! Poorer families tend to be proud of their kids if they're well behaved and polite, rather than because they know every country and their capital cities off by heart! The eleven plus exam was eventually abolished because, duh! How can you judge academic brilliance in 11 year olds who still laugh at farts or boobs? Many children who passed had been under pressure to do so, yet in themselves were average in intellect so they struggled in grammar school. Many who failed had presumed they would fail anyway and so didn't do their best. It ended up with a lot of children going off to the wrong school setting for them. Anyhoo, for anyone other than the O.P who is reading this, especially if you happen to be British and younger, that explains why your current schools have sixth form, because they counted years in each school, primary, middle and secondary school, separately, rather than how they do it these days for the entire duration of your education. Grammar schools especially, and much earlier schools tended to name each year a "form" rather than year. It's a hot mess basically of a number of school systems introduced in many different decades over the past century, and different schools still clinging to those varying terminologies. It's about time they started afresh and made all schools follow one system and one set of labelling. Side Note: the ELEVEN PLUS EXAM was abolished! Gotten rid of. No longer exists. "But, but, but" some of you will say, "I had to do my / or my child had to do their - 11+ exam only a few years ago, so it's not abolished at all!" I repeat, it was and IS abolished. Remember I mentioned snobby before? Well, there are some schools, run by old fashioned snobs, who still make kids sit "their own version" of an eleven plus exam, and some equally snobby schools who only agree to take children who passed their exam. This is bullshit! The government abolished the exam as it was unfair. The government decides which exams schools must give to children, not the schools. A lot of headmasters/mistresses (oooh sorry, how sexist of me...🙄) I meant head teachers, would do well to remember they are in charge of the RUNNING of the school, they are not in charge of HOW it should be run! It's not a free-for-all where they can make it up as they wish. Yes they can implement certain measures and strategies for parent participation, or tackling bullying etc, they can have a fun feel or a zero tolerance approach to running their school, but the curriculum is set by the government, the exams are set by the government. No school can refuse entry to your child because they failed their 11+ exam because it is abolished. Neither can they prioritise children who did pass their bogus exam! Any school still making kids sits their version of the eleven plus exam are misleading you! As parents, we tend to think the school knows what it is doing and so encourage our kids to follow the system and don't question it. As I said, the whole school system needs an overhaul, all using a universal terminology, the same year structure across all schools, and strict guidelines as to how far a head teacher is allowed to interpret the way it should be run. Because ultimately, schools still vary far too much from county to county and the kids are the ones who suffer. Every UK child should be guaranteed an equal education experience up and down, left to right. Parents are still pushing for their children to attend "better" schools in a different catchment area, because that school is better than the one directly opposite their house. Not that I blame the parents, I did exactly the same! We want the best for our kids. But there shouldn't be "better" schools in the first place, which is WHY the eleven plus was dropped to ensure ALL children have equal opportunity and education no matter what school they go to or what area they live in. It's ridiculous how schools are allowed to run so differently! There's been more than one teacher over the years who deserved a good punch in the throat! My daughter's school years were worse for me as a parent than my own school years had been. And I was bullied! What with all the woke crap they're allowed to tell the children these days as well. Grrrr! Ok I'm gonna shut the fuck up now! Apologies for long ramble. 😂 I was getting annoyed the more I thought about it! 🤣 Sorry. 😘😘😘 xxx

In the UK, the term “college” can be applied to any educational or training institution irrespective of the age group being catered for. It is only part of their name, and doesn't have any particular significance. If you asked me what college I went to I would say “Hertford College”. I would mean the one that is an integral part of Oxford University, but, to you, it might be interpreted as a school or further or higher education institution in the town of Hertford. The word “college” also means anything that is operated on a collegiate basis, i.e. one in which the members of the college run it independently of any other body. The College of Arms, for example, is nothing to do with education at all.

@@allenwilliams1306 exactly my point, one word that brings to mind completely different things for different people. In Roman times a collegiate was basically a street gang that administered "policing" in their area. (Policing in the broadest possible sense! Very much "an eye for an eye" kind of punishments dished out! 😳) In the end, especially with schools, when these words started to be applied to schools of younger children, it initially made that school appear to offer a better quality education. An illusion of being better-than. But so many jumped in on it, that these days the words don't actually mean anything anymore. It's literally like Instagram, slap the word "model" over an ordinary girl who works in Tesco, and all of a sudden she's "beautiful" "stunning" "gorgeous" etc. It's all a front. We live in a world that's become obsessed with how people, places or situations are judged based on what they look like, rather than what they are. Models used to be rare, and we're chosen by scouts. I know they still are scouted, but with Instagram and only fans anyone can be a "model" now. I saw a photo in an article of the pyramids at Giza, right? I've never been, but the photo looked so enticing. The article then showed what the photo looked like if zoomed out a bit, then a bit more etc. You imagine the pyramids being in this vast sandy desert, when in fact infrastructure and roads have crept up closer and closer, covering the sand, and the pyramids are directly opposite a Burger King built on a crammed busy street full of shops, cars and tourists...just a short walk away! Everything is not as it appears anymore, labels and illusion have replaced truth.

And yet universities like Cambridge are made up of several colleges

Rather than prevent them.

😂

No doubt the Americans insisted the washroom towels were sanitary!

My sister works in the oil industry here in the uk. It’s always great entertainment when Americans come over here to work and they retell the office of their horror of their children coming home calling it a rubber instead of eraser

Ironically, it's actually because US English is closer to archaic English while UK English has modernised, the 2 dialects have diverged, US English has in many ways diverged LESS.

same in Aus

I was there last summer. It’s pretty great.

@@AutomaticDuck300 My parents use to go 2/3 times a year, all the islands are nice. Took my son in January for his 18th birthday. We went on a camel ride, the guy owned the two camels and there were two seats to each camel. He tied me on so I didn't fall off but left the lads free 😂

They get the name Canary from the Latin for Dog, Canine, not the yellow bird. If they had wild felines on them they might have been named the Felony Islands Lol.

I used to work in the IT department of a large UK travel agent. Someone replaced Lanzarote with Lanzagrotty in the test sale system. This was accidentally rolled out to the live system in the shops and a fix had to be rolled out the next night.

I’ve never heard anyone in the UK refer to curtains as ‘Drapes’ I’m in the South snd retired

@@countesscable its an American word lol, they are saying that they havent heard anyone in America say drapes and im saying that alot of “british words” in these videos are unheard of

Drapes are usually those 11ft curtains in stately homes and London houses, Us working class have Curtains, Its a class thing😉

@@alimantado373 damn, didnt have to shame me like that 😂

​@@alimantado373I'm middle class and from London and I've never called a curtain/curtains "drapes" in my life! I was mystified by the Yanks' "drapes"! And I've never heard of *anybody* in this country calling curtains "drapes", of any size, of any class, anywhere in the country; so I don’t know what you're talking about.

So....Americans don't say "Boo-ee-ent? :D

John Foxx begs to differ. /Sings.. Underpass

It might be apocryphal, but I once read that it was because one of the first places to sell them was an Apothecary shop owned by someone called John Mills...hence the johnny's part. May or may not be true.

@@vallejomach6721 hmm, I’ve never heard that before but sounds perfectly plausible. I did wonder if it had anything to do with the slang term of Johnson for a male appendage but Johnson isn’t a commonly used slang term for it here in the UK…at least not in my lifetime.

The one in Glasgow is officially called the subway, and I hear people use the term these days, probably depends on age as it used to be the underground. The Clockwork Orange is more of a nickname, I have never heard that term used casually, nobody will ever say they are going to get the clockwork orange to work! I always called a walkway under a road an "underpass" where they built such a wide obnoxious road that having a zebra crossing would interfere with all of the more important cage dwellers on the surface, a bit like you need pelican crossings so motorists don't have to stop constantly in the rain, better making all the lesser pedestrians stand in the hail!

@@5688gamble although I’ve never heard anyone say they are going to catch the clockwork orange, I have heard it used when discussing travel plans but I’m not from Glasgow itself and I’ve never actually had to use it. Subway is what my Mum always called the underpass in the town next to where I grew up on the Firth of Clyde, so it was the term I learned from her but it is also completely interchangeable and I think most people in the UK would know what you’re referring (in context) if you were to use either…the only confusion being the fast food chain.

How about 'charabanc' ? I love this old word and love to use it ! Just to be silly really!!!

How about 'charabanc' ? I love this old word and love to use it ! Just to be silly really!!!

Coaches have luggage storage. Buses don't.

That's true as well. Good catch.

​@@Calamity-Spice Yeah, its literally about the type of vehicle it is. Simple as.

yes secondary school in Uk are high schools in America, however not often where I live in the west country do we use secondary anymore,

Sometimes primary is divided up into Infants and Juniors. Our secondary schools technically end at 16, whereas high school continue to 18. But since most people going to uni will do A-levels at their schools 'Sixth form' (lets not get into the naming), you are probably there to 18 anyway.

My first school back in 1951 was called an "Infant School".

@@Dave.Thatcher1 ahh about a decade before my time, but still good to know, thanks.

Why did you put "College/University" instead of "College < University"? University is a step above College in the UK.

Have definitely heard it - referenced in Blackadder too in the Beer episode (Cardinal Chunder)

I would say 'chunder' is more Australian than British...I'd say 'throw up'.

It's in use in Northern Ireland, alongside 'boke'.

It's used in the song by Men At Work - I come from a land down under (I can't recall the line but it ends...and men chunder?!) The band got into copywrite problems for including an instrumental portion of the song "Kookaburras Sits in the old (something*) tree" (...sorry, my memory tennds to let me down when I need it most!!😢) (*oak / ash? ...oh, maybe the old _gum_ tree?!!) 😊🌿🐨 Couldn't find a kookaburruh so used a koala instead!!

Wow, I pretty much said the exact same comment word for word..

The ball pen was invented by Laszlo Biro.

Also, Whirlpool Spa is a Jacuzzi

I always thought it was called that because you lie in then and they are low down (lie low)

Australians should use it in a song. When the men are at work... or not.

Calling God on the big white telephone?

Brit here, but I'm pretty sure I've heard Americans refer to the cops as pigs before. Also feds, five-o, po po etc. There are just as many slang words, its just what you're more familiar with.

IF you deserve it and funds allow for it.

Through movies like Harry Potter, lord of the rings and james bond it has

You didn't hear about the so-called Peppa Effect? American children were using British English idioms because of the Pepper Pig tv show. "Mummy" instead of "mom", "telly" instead of "tv" and suchlike.

@@harbl99 *Peppa Pig

this is one word i feel the americans got it perfect, eraser sounds better it erases

@@paulmilner8452 wasn't a play on the words it honestly rubs lol

It's called a rubber because it's made of rubber. Or was

I don’t why in the US condoms are called rubbers? In the old days they were made of leather and now made from a latex material but never rubber! Leather must have been bad enough but rubber.. ? 😂

This is something I had to unlearn working with international bosses. It was very confusing saying I was sick last night meaning I vomited, but then they'd often ask what kind of sickness.

I always want to say Arkansas the way it looks!

⁠ Arkansas and Kansas are named after two different Native American Tribes.

As a Brit Connectycut, puffkeepsy, alber-cuer-cue, R-kansas I know how they're actually spelled but Poughkeepsie just makes me think of people trying to pronounce Loughborough 😂😂

I think chunder is Australian in origin. Story I heard is that it's from 'Watch Under' from the days of emigrant ships when the passengers slept in bunks and there was a lot of sea sickness. I'm sure you can work out the rest 🤣

Chunder is an Australian term I first heard in the 1970s

You've never heard of the chunder wander? It might be a foreign word but I've heard it in England going back over he last 30 years.

Neither have I........

Generally when students mention the chunder wander they mean being so drunk that they stagger about from one place to another vomiting everywhere with no particular sense of purpose or direction.

Yes we did 😂😂😂😂

I've never heard English people use the word 'drapes'. We use curtains for fabric hanging in front of windows on a rail.

We were watching an American programme where little children were ‘graduating’ from their pre school / kindergarten in robes and mortar boards which we all found really amusing.

We were watching an American programme where little children were ‘graduating’ from their pre school / kindergarten in robes and mortar boards which we all found really amusing.

Also 'use by'

The metro in Newcastle has about 10 stops - why would we call the real tube the metro after the system in a northern small town ??

@@adamwynyard4065 It appears to be used generally to refer to such systems elsewhere but it also can refer to overground services, so "underground" or "subway" might be best to refer to specifically underground lines.

Subway is a fast food outlet and underground means simply under the ground. London was the first and being by far the most important place in the UK it will always be the tube

Actually I believe it is older than that, predating crematoria. In the past it was customary to draw the curtains even in daytime as a sign there was a death in the household.

I say sofa. I don't know if living in Scotland means anything...

I would call it a Sofa over a Settee. Settee is a bit posh

Everybody says settee in Yorkshire.

It was settee in Scotland, but regarded as old fashioned now. Most say sofa or couch

@@bermudagirl50 Possibly. I'm in Yorkshire so maybe settee's a southern thing. :P

I agree, i love Steve and Lyndsey together 🎉❤

ALL.

I've definitely heard people say and use it...usually in the context of a 'going for a tactical chunder'.

Never heard chunder in my puff lol

@@vallejomach6721 Yup, the tactical chunder was used during pub crawls when I was a student and that was over 30 years ago. Letting everything go was a vom bomb.

Some Brits certainly DO say chunder, I’m a Londoner and have heard it said many a time

Almost all beetles can fly. That's why they have that shape, it's a wing cover.

They are also a type of beetle :)

Their proper name is "ladybird beetle", they are not ladybugs because they are not "true bugs".

You missed out, the filth and bizzies.

Indeed and that makes even more sense when you consider that historically they tended to be a simple pouch commonly attached to the wearer or their clothing by a string closure. So stealing one would often require dispatching said string with a blade.

It's an Australian word.

I think it's southern because I've heard it in Sussex.

Definitely makes sense!

Robert Peel was the Prime Minister who established the first police force in London. He wasn't a policeman. The London police force wasn't the first in the UK however, Glasgow already had a police force.

Bus is for everyone’s use a coach is standard as a private hire or pre booked

@@sirderam1 My mistake.

I have never heard chunder used (and as a Doctor words for vomiting are stock in trade ) in N Ireland but after the popular Australian TV soaps people started using a lot of Aussi slang , thank goodness it has faded away . Boke is the standard .

No, it would be co worker.

And what about Arkansas. Are Can sass?

@@TheCount66Arkansas is not a English word, the state of Arkansas is named after the Native American tribe, who settled the state and the same with Kansas.

Certainly according to Scott Adams in the Dilbert cartoons

Only a fool would try to pronounce any English word phonetically. What a crazy language

Indeed. The picture was of a British Motorway which would correlate to their Freeway. A Highway is a road anyone can use.

There are plenty of designated motorways with M prefix in the UK which have only two lanes in each direction so why can't that be a motorway?

@@Matt-kc2rp If the road signs were blue (can't remember now) then it IS a Motorway and as you say, there are plenty 2 lane motorways.

A dual carriageway is any road with 2 lanes in each direction and a central reservation. Motorway is a legal definition for a specific type of road.

Flying start and reception is not compulsory but is offered, it is compulsory by law from the age of 5

We also get fined as parents if your child doesn't attend school within certain attendance percentage.

I've not heard of "Flying Start" - only "Reception". 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂♥️🖖

Flying start is offered for low deprived areas ie. you must be with in catchment areas, all you need to do is Google flying start Wales and enter postcode and it will say if you can apply, it's a great start to early development 😊​@@brigidsingleton1596

Flying start is available in deprived areas of Wales and is a great start to early development, just Google "flying start Wales" and enter postcode and it will tell you if you're in the catchment area to apply 😊

You start school in reception at aged 4 though

@@RottingEarth Scotland 5 to 12 is Primary 1 to 7 13 to 18 is first year to sixth year.

@@RottingEarthreception is classed as early years foundation stage in England and wales.

Same in Yorkshire as in Wales .

Chunder is Australian and comes from the expression "watch under" which was a warning people would call out to people below 😂

I’ve not heard it either!

Only ever used sarcastically with a faked Ozzy accent. Commonly "technicolour chunder" for a really impressive one involving either an Indian takeaway (tikka masala) or a pizza....🤮

@@tonygreenfield7820 "pavement pizza" 🤣

It's Australian in origin.😊

Except Aussies say _Dar_ta (Tim Minchin for example) 😶

@@brigidsingleton1596 Yo Ghurt too But they listen to Stat-us Quo

@@0utcastAussie Yes, though I say "_Yog_urt" but I spell it with the _aitch_. 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿♥️🖖

It's not it's "ass" / "arse" .. it's its _tail_ !! And a "bang tail" as Steve described is correct. (I worked with horses, teaching horseriding and 'stable management' so that's my source.)

Remember, they speak american, not English

*you're* welcome too.😊❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🖖

'You're', not 'your'. 'You're' is a contraction of 'you are'. 'Your' is a possessive adjective. So much for your English.

Technically we didn't teach them it, our settlers already knew it when they went there, over the years they developed different accents due to other nationalities.

@@8outof10catzDOOM.....Who is this 'them' you refer to? Aside for the indigenous peoples, the 'Indians', there were no English speakers prior to when the pilgrims and other settlers arrived from parts of the UK.

It's an Aussie term!!

Many motorways initially had only two carriageways. Then they expanded to three, then four...

Green signsa are carriageways blue is motorways.

A dual carriageway is a road with a median, like a grass median or a barrier. Meaning one carriageway on each side, nothing to do with the number of lanes.

@@Mackieee dual carriageway has 2 lanes, that’s y it’s called dual and a central reservation either with or without a grass verge , and the speed limits determine which it is ,

@@user-ks1vi8cc5o wrong, its about the number of carriageways, not lanes.