British words I say without even realising

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As an immigrant living in the UK, I really didn't think I would change that much.. but wow, that was a mistake! Here's some British words I say all the time without even realising...!
0:00 what are we doing today
1:12 man in shorts
2:20 that's lousy!
4:10 garbage
5:38 load of old..
7:08 big exciting announcement!!
9:20 sitting on the floor (again)
11:36 what bags don't carry?
13:03 blast to the past
16:12 anger or pint?
18:03 blood everywhere lol
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@AdventuresAndNaps 4 месяца назад

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@hughegentry8255 4 месяца назад

Wow, you used to look so much like Winona Ryder!!

@seanscanlon9067 4 месяца назад

Ironically, the North American equivalent of tat is probably garbage too. Or possibly in some cases perhaps junk, although that words seems to have an alternative meaning now to describe a certain part or parts of the male anatomy. As in, he split his pants and his junk was showing.......and we will not even get on to the subject of pants either! That said, both garbage and trash can be used in multiple ways too, in the way that rubbish is used over here. On a side note Alanna, I have had a small, hopefully humorous gift for you for ages now and have asked for your P.O. Box once or twice but not sure that you have seen it. I appreciate that you do not know me from Adam, but I promise I am not some weirdo (well, not that weird anyway) although I appreciate that you have to be careful online for your own safety and wellbeing. Is there somewhere else I can send it though that is obviously not your home or a work address, maybe to your aftershave and fragrance business address?

@samk9729 4 месяца назад

You want to assimilate? ........ Resistance is futile 🤖🤖 lol

@Martyntd5 4 месяца назад

trivia: Ibuprofen (brufen, nurofen, advil) was invented in England in the 1950's by Boots chemists.

@alexbernard8907 4 месяца назад

As a lot of the postal workers are women, I tend to say postman or postwoman or just simply postie, and when I go in an Aldi or Lidl I do see a lot of tat for sale, and the majority of what the television and radio stations broadcast is a load of tat,

@alansmith2197 4 месяца назад

You're British when you can naturally say "bollocks" without feeling embarrassed 😁🇬🇧

@frankf5486 4 месяца назад

And just know the difference between Bollocks and The Bollocks.

@frankf5486 4 месяца назад

@@fizzog12 Yep

@byeckfella 4 месяца назад

Cos bollocks has about 30 different uses…

@david_harvey 4 месяца назад

@frankf5486 don't you mean the dogs

@tonyrobson4681 4 месяца назад

I like that.

@dprid 4 месяца назад

When my wife goes back to the USA her family accuse her of having an English accent, yet to the ears of any Brit she absolutely sounds American. What they're actually hearing is the fact that she uses British phraseology, structuring & slang, not that her accent has changed.

@MagentaOtterTravels 4 месяца назад

YES! Same here! It's because of the way I say Amazon after being in England for too long ;-)

@seanscanlon9067 4 месяца назад

@@MagentaOtterTravels I am from London and have always pronounced the word dance as if it has an R in it, as in darn-ce. Yet if I moved to America and changed it to dan-ce and then came back to London on a visit and was saying dan-ce, I would probably be told that I have changed my accent because merely by saying it that way makes it sound American, even though other areas in the UK say dan-ce too.

@bobblebardsley 4 месяца назад

When I visited Chicago (I'm British) the first thing I needed to do was catch a cab to West Devon Street. Devon is a county in England and is pronounced (there's no good way to write this but I'll try) Devvun. It took a very long time and pointing at a map before the driver understood I needed to go to West d'Vorn Street. Some words I can look at and immediately understand that they'll sound different in a US accent but that one really came outta nowhere.

@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. 4 месяца назад

@@seanscanlon9067As an actor, we say that's the difference between American speech and English speech, here we tend to use the long 'a' in words which creates a 'r' sound, in America the use the short 'a', this is especially noticeable when using 'RP' (Received Pronunciation) as an actor where everything is said with the long 'a' sound.

@revbenf6870 4 месяца назад

Hey Allanah, I don't think you're that unusual. I'm from a NI background, but my first school was an American-run school (abroad) and of course I grew up with an American accent. We then moved back to Belfast for a while and (as this was during the "troubles" when they struggled with anything more complicated than Protestant/Catholic), I very quickly adopted a NI accent. A year later I was in an English boarding school! So I now find I have a broadly English accent with Irish undertones and occasional US words. It's just about where life takes you really....

@EASYTIGER10 4 месяца назад

In the US, the mail is delivered by the US Postal Service. In the UK the post is delivered by the Royal Mail.

@dapablo2 4 месяца назад

"Innit" I heard that.

@chrissmith8773 4 месяца назад

USP(ostal)S delivers the mail, the Royal Mail delivers the post. I love how bonkers we are.

@ColinCarFan 4 месяца назад

The Post Office used to deliver our post and run the UK phone system before it split up in the '80s.

@tiggerwood8899 4 месяца назад

@@ColinCarFan it was the GPO in those days, general post office. My mum was a telephonist for the GPO

@stevemawer848 22 дня назад

@@tiggerwood8899 Or Gods' Poor Orphans as we used to call 'em. BTW, "posties" is a good non-gender specific word for post persons.

@kendee4421 4 месяца назад

Tatting was a way of making cheap lace, which was nowhere near as good as proper lace but was used as trim on lower quality clothing. Tatted lace would 'undo' and fall apart after being worn and washed for a while.. Hence 'old tat' meaning low quality or 'tatty' meaning worn out or damaged.

@stuartselkirk7581 4 месяца назад

Yes Alanna, rubbish is a versatile word. When you dont feel well you can also say "I feel rubbish"

@charlestaylor9424 4 месяца назад

Angry would be "pissed off".

@johnleake5657 3 месяца назад

…while a drunk person is "pissed" but can also be "pissed up".

@RalphBellairs 4 месяца назад

Alanna - 6:25 you said "Innit" without reacting! I reckon you're a proper South East Brit now!😄

@suzannemortimer9752 2 месяца назад

My daughter tells me off for saying Innit!

@blahmcblahface3965 Месяц назад

Just posted the same...it sounds very odd but it's so natural to her I think she gets brit points for it 👍

@Technoir444 4 месяца назад

Carrier bags have handles, so that they are easier to carry around. You can also get bin bags, paper bags etc which don’t have handles and are therefore not ‘carrier bags’. I expect there are exceptions but this is a general rule.

@TheJulianFletcher 3 месяца назад

And there are baby carriers, bike carriers…

@iancrosby3475 4 месяца назад

The bin mon came and said 'wheres you bin?' I said "I've not been nowhere" 'no' he said 'wheres your wheelie bin?' I said, "ok, I've been in the pub, but don't tell my mum, she worries"

@garyfaulkner1480 27 дней назад

Yo from dudley ah wench

@Poweroftouch 4 месяца назад

When we described someone that annoys us ,we say pissed off .same as u with off at the end .

@shaunw9270 4 месяца назад

My English teacher at school was an American lady from Asbury Park NJ, not only was she on board with our Brit words but also Bristolian slang which I probably didn't appreciate at the time..Years later I worked with a lady in her early 30's from the state of Georgia who had lived in England from the age of 18 and spoke British English without thinking about it ..I have to admit, I found it adorable! 😊

@douglascharnley8249 4 месяца назад

I noticed a couple of months ago when you were talking about the "flat" you were living in. No more apartment got her.

@alexandermuir8160 4 месяца назад

"Where's you bin?. I've bin to the toilet, Where's you bin? An oldie but a goodie 😂😂

@cornholiyo 3 месяца назад

No, where’s your wheels bin? I’ve really been to the toilet

@Sandysand701 3 месяца назад

I'm English, but I always thought your garbage went into a trash can/basket. Now, I tend to identify a plastic carrier bag as a shopping bag. Taking or getting the/a lift, can also mean having a ride in a car, you might say to a car driver, can you give me a lift. A Hoover is a brand name, slowly being taken over in the UK by a Henry, suppose easier to say than a vacuum cleaner.

@TheJosephKnight 4 месяца назад

In Shaun of the Dead, the changed the word pissed to drunk in the back garden scene. "She's so drunk" kind of sounds weird compared to "She's so pissed" from Nick Frost. But to Americans the joke wouldn't work since pissed means angry. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

@stevemawer848 22 дня назад

In the UK an angry or annoyed person would be "pissed off", so the Yanks are probably just being lazy and truncating stuff like they do. Of course, "pissed off" also means "gone away", maybe in a huff, or a minute and a huff. 🙂

@rikmoran3963 4 месяца назад

"faffing around...". Excellent! The conversion process is almost complete!!! 😂

@Judgles 4 месяца назад

In the north-west of England, a clothes horse is called a "maiden". My flatmates used to take the piss out of me a lot for that! Great video, Alanna - hope you feel better soon.

@AdventuresAndNaps 4 месяца назад

😂 that's so interesting!

@wuxing100 4 месяца назад

Same in the midlands, its a maiden.

@elizamarz7607 4 месяца назад

I got very strange looks when I went in to a london hardware shop and asked for a maiden. I had no other words to describe it who knew it was a clothes horse to the shop assistant.

@Judgles 4 месяца назад

@@elizamarz7607 that's so true - my London flatmates thought I was totally mad when I first said it!

@elizamarz7607 4 месяца назад

@@Judgles i has to question my sanity at the time because no one had ever heard about a maiden. I thought I must have made it up til I called my nana to verify I wasn’t loosing my mind lol

@ge48421 4 месяца назад

I was taught British English in school, but 20+ years in the US has changed my pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and use of idioms quite a bit. BTW: we have trash cans here in Nevada. It's amazing how versatile the word "piss" and it variants are: He's pissed [off]: annoyed/angry He's pissed: drunk it's pissing down: raining hard He's pissing in the wind: He's doing something pointless/futile He's taking the piss out of someone: He's mocking someone piss: low quality booze He pissed away his inheritance and now he's piss poor. He wanted to borrow more money but I told him to piss off. A saying I heard in the US south: "He does not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of." He's very poor. And there's the literal meaning: urine/urinating I'm sure I'm missing some meanings.

@ColinCarFan 4 месяца назад

Pissed is one of our classically adaptable words and you've missed quite a few uses - all negative. The word itself being slang for urine and urinating lends itself to 'going for a piss' , but you can say 'piss off' (can be very aggressive command or be a statement of disbelief), or 'take the piss' when making fun of someone, or be 'piss poor' when bad quality. Pissed is only interpreted as being inebriated here and the American context is an import as we would be 'pissed off'. Loved the video!

@racheltaylor6578 4 месяца назад

It’s such a versatile word.

@LeedsInAHat Месяц назад

Most people would rather be pissed off than pissed on.

@cruachan1191 4 месяца назад

Genericised trademarks are always a funny one. Hoover (instead of vacuum/vacuum cleaner) is one of the best known, and is very weird for me because all my kitchen appliances (oven, hob, microwave, fridge freezer) are in fact made by Hoover whereas my actual "Hoover" is a Dyson. 🤣 Perhaps it was just because you were pointing out your own speech and language usage, but your pronunciation of adult in the North American way was very noticeable in this video too!

@stevetheduck1425 3 месяца назад

As a Brit, I can say; 'this happens'. My local accent changed several times while a member of the RAF, Kent to Norfolk, to North London, to a bit of Lancashire, and finally to something like modern BBC 'neutral'. I guess I just stopped adapting at the end...

@Nollauno 4 месяца назад

The one thing that always amazed me when I was in the USA, get an american to say the opposite of him, then add a "b" at the end of it and suddendly the "h" vanishes.

@stevemawer848 22 дня назад

That 'h' reappears in "vehicles". They misplace "of" a lot, too. They'll say "not that big of a deal" when they mean "not the big a deal" but omit it from "a couple of months". And they say "I could care less" when they actually mean they couldn't! Nutters!

@ProgressiveRoxx 4 месяца назад

We've seen drunk Alanna on alcohol taste tests, I think we just met cold medicine loopy Alanna, and I'm here for it! BTW I always thought "plaster" was named after "Elastoplast" a brand that has been around since 1896, but turns out it is based on an Old English word for a "bandage with curative properties". The sticky part I guess can be attributed to Elastoplast, at least in terms of the naming them plasters.

@DidrickNamtvedt 4 месяца назад

We say "plaster" here in Norway too, so I wonder if that's more of a European word rather than a specific British brand word.

@wessexdruid7598 4 месяца назад

It's what gave Elastoplast its name.... PS - she might have been a little pissed?

@davidjones332 4 месяца назад

"Court plaster" appears in Jane Austen's "Emma", so sticky-backed dressings for minor wounds go back to Napoleonic times. Apparently the product originated as artificial "beauty spots" used by ladies at court, hence the name. Elastoplast seems to be disappearing from common usage, probably because supermarket own brand plasters have taken most of the market.

@Gerishnakov 3 месяца назад

It's from plaster of Paris.

@wessexdruid7598 2 месяца назад

@@Gerishnakov They're all from medieval Latin - _plastrum_ - via Old English & Old French. A bandage spread with a curative substance.

@MagentaOtterTravels 4 месяца назад

I agree that saying rubbish is much more satisfying than garbage or trash! (I'm an American who after living in England for 5 months each year comes back and has trouble stopping saying "rubbish" and "cheers" LOL!)

@xzdeltaxz 4 месяца назад

fun fact, trash and garbage are old british words. but the posh/rich people didn't like the words so they was changed to rubbish. so thats what we use today.

@MrRawMonkey 4 месяца назад

I watch your channel.

@robertwatford7425 4 месяца назад

Dara, when you did your grocery comparison you were using the Brit pronounciation in Tesco and the Yank in Kroger :-)

@MagentaOtterTravels 4 месяца назад

@@robertwatford7425 yes, wasn't that funny? Lol

@MagentaOtterTravels 4 месяца назад

@@xzdeltaxz I always assumed garbage was a French word...

@mothmagic1 4 месяца назад

It happens, I would have been more surprised if you hadn't at least adopted a few British words and phraseology. Almost 50 years ago I was stationed in Dorset when I was in the army. Because the Dorset dialect is very similar to Oxfordshire except much broader. Within 6 months I had adopted the local dialect and still haven't totally lost it to the extent that people still comment "That accent isn't from around. You are definitely slowly becoming Anglicised. Say whichever you want to use. Whatever feels natural to you is the way to go. Taking too long over something is also known as farting about among other terms. A belated happy new year to you by the way.

@johnpickles974 4 месяца назад

Am British 😂and you are hilarious. Have lived in US for 22 years, still have my British accent using American vocabulary. Loved this ❤

@lizrichardson3309 4 месяца назад

Poor Alanna, I hope you feel better soon. I heard that postmen wear shorts in all weathers is because if it's raining, wearing long wet trousers is worse than the cold legs you get wearing the shorts.....(but I'm happy to be corrected! 😉)

@Forest_Fifer 4 месяца назад

Can confirm as a delivery man that wet trousers suck.

@wilmaknickersfit 4 месяца назад

That's an interesting fun fact - thank you! ❤

@mauricecasey866 4 месяца назад

HMRC wants you to get yourself a letter opener and stop procrastinating! "Pissed off" for angry. 👍

@ShalomPalabradeFeyGracia 3 месяца назад

My mum's husband who was British, but living in USA many decades, used to say goofing around, as you say faffing around 😂

@ASMRbudgiesounds 4 месяца назад

My son in-law is from Balsam common in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧. He is living in Barrie, Ontario Canada right now.

@Clayton-S. 4 месяца назад

You are one of us Alanna. I hope you feel better soon because having a cold is rubbish...😉👍

@alanmills9492 4 месяца назад

Hi Alanna, Happy New Year ! A British phrase you probably thought was bizarre is, in the pub when they take your empty glass - "Is that dead ?" I once was persuaded to buy a "bag for life" which collapsed before I got home. Alanna, I dare you ring HMRC and tell them they're rubbish. Anyway, I have to pop to the toilet.

@The45thClown 4 месяца назад

When your bag for life breaks, most supermarkets will allow you to exchange it for a new one, regardless of how old it is. These are being phased out, I recommend a good tote bag.

@frankbrodie5168 4 месяца назад

I've got about a dozen of those green Tesco bags for life still going strong after almost 10 years. Ended up with that many by keep forgetting to take them when we went shopping back when I was still married. So we would just buy more of them. Now I'm single and happy at last, they are my comfort blanket when shopping. It makes my little heart sing if I'm walking to or from the village shop, and I happen to pass someone using the same style of bag.

@markelliott9737 4 месяца назад

I had a bag for life that didn't make it out of the store. The handle came off when I picked it up from the self checkout. They are rubbish now.

@nickgooch 4 месяца назад

they do have a cheek calling them bags for life when they are less durable than the old type, i once had one break before i made it to the car. i stormed back into the shop with my receipt in hand ready to make a stink but a nice lady quickly diffused the situation by replacing it no questions asked. as someone else said they are bags for life because the supermarket will replace them but seriously does anyone do that?

@Gerishnakov 3 месяца назад

I haven't had to take a bag from the supermarket for what must be almost 10 years now.

@BobHUK 4 месяца назад

I remember hearing about Trash and Garbage from American films and TV programmes when I was a kid, and wondering why the Yanks had two different words for rubbish. Then I discovered that they meant two different things. Apparently Garbage was mainly food leftovers and scraps, or other organic waste, whereas Trash was all the dry rubbish like cans, plastic bags, cardboard boxes, etc. Nowadays people seem to use the two words interchangeably on American shows/films, but perhaps they should adopt our British English word Rubbish instead. Saves having to remember which is which after all. 😊

@davidwebley6186 3 месяца назад

No not all bags are for carrying some are purely for protection. For example I recently bought a new printer (to connect to my computer). The printer was in a clear plastic bag within the polystyrene and then cardboard box. There is no way the plastic bag would be strong enough to be used for carrying the printer. A carrier bag has handles an ordinary bag may not have.

@lulib6372 4 месяца назад

I love the word faff too, and it can be used more broadly. So you might have a job to do and it seems that there are lots of little things to do to get it done, or you are doing a task that is a bit fiddly, and it could take you a while to do something that you wish was a lot simpler. in these circumstances you might say "wow that sounds like a lot of faff", or "I have to do this, and it is going to be a faff", or "I was going to put those Ikea drawers together, but it looks like a right faff, so I am going to do it tomorrow"

@Rjhs001 4 месяца назад

Hi Alanna. I LOVE the fact that our British words now infuse your lovely Canadian accent. This vid made me very happy. Cheers.

@frankhooper7871 4 месяца назад

It's been 50+ years now since I ceased being an American, so my memory might be off, but I think when I was in California I'd say "trash" rather than "rubbish". "Trash" went in the trash-can, "garbage" went in the garbage-disposal.

@San-zq3br 2 месяца назад

Yea, those Canadians are silly with their goofy words too. lol😊half my family is Canadian, so I tease them any chance I get and I like to pretend their words are silly.

@chris_telclear 4 месяца назад

US here. We don't use garbage all the time here in my house, for us it's trash, and you put it in the trash can. We do call the person taking away the trash the garbage man, don't know why. For tat, it's tattered here, at least for us, so very close. The bags are called shopping bags for us. Washing is usually laundry. Phaf is fooling around. "Stop fooling around and let's go!". There's also a more vulgar term used often, as in "****ing around". Pissed is just drunk here. It's bandaid for most here.

@stephenrowley880 4 месяца назад

Oh Alanna, I was having such a bad day and oddly my dramas were connected with your favorite film but after watching this video it will take the rest of the day for me to get back to normality and stop laughing. Thank you.

@charlestaylor9424 4 месяца назад

My post woman this morning was wearing a fetching outfit of long trousers, a post office windcheater, an anorak and a woolly hat.

@blahmcblahface3965 Месяц назад

Hearing you say "a load of tat innit..." is hilarious and adorable

@blahmcblahface3965 Месяц назад

...but its fine. It sounds very natural so we'll allow it

@jarekweckwerth1390 4 месяца назад

There were a number of real gems in this one, but Bag For Life, hell yeah! You nailed it!

@alangknowles 4 месяца назад

They wear shorts instead of long pants that can get thoroughly soaked in rain. And it's always raining.

@stevemawer848 22 дня назад

They do wear long trousers when it's really cold.

@charles.field.uk_official 4 месяца назад

4:17 Hadn't really analysed it before, Alana. But the rubbish goes in the bin and is taken away by the dustmen. When I was younger I had a couple of mates who were 'on the dust', which was enviable due to the fact that they could be in the pub by midday !

@Ninja_Penguin 4 месяца назад

I haven't heard the phase "dustmen" for years, it tends to be binmen these days. I think the change occurred when we switched from dustbins, to wheelie bins. Could vary by region though

@juliebrooke6099 4 месяца назад

Where I live(Yorkshire) we’d say your mates worked ‘on the bins’.

@charles.field.uk_official 4 месяца назад

@@juliebrooke6099 Might be a north/south divide situation, I lived in Sheffield for a couple of years and don't think I ever heard the term 'dustmen'.

@MrGrimsmith 3 месяца назад

Faff is a wonderful word, another one for you is "bimble" which is to wander around without purpose. "What were you doing?" "Nowt special, just bimbling around" :D Pissed? Eh, more awkward. Pissed up and pissed off are two different things. The former is drunk, the latter is angry. Plasters were originally "sticking plasters", our brand was Elastoplast but we don't use it as a noun. Oh and Ibuprofen? Brufen. Most folks know what you mean and it's shorter. We do tend to corrupt the North Americans that end up over here though, one of my nieces was over at Christmas from Ontario and she'd adopted our speech pattern after the first 10 days or so :)

@suehammond9417 4 месяца назад

I heard a ‘D’you know what I mean’ in there too!

@SteveMikre44 4 месяца назад

Alanna is not Canadian nor British, but an International RU-vid Superstar...😊🇨🇦🇬🇧

@AdventuresAndNaps 4 месяца назад

😂 you're too kind!

@colingregory7464 4 месяца назад

mid-Atlantic ??

@jamesbeeching6138 4 месяца назад

Britadian or Canadish??

@martinjackman2943 4 месяца назад

The girl who puts the 'lady' in 'Angladian'

@joannecunliffe8067 4 месяца назад

Aww Alanna - you don't look well. I hope you're feeling better soon ❤ Belated Happy New Year and lots of hugs 🥰 You're such a wonderful person and one of the most British people I've ever met!

@spuddles98 23 дня назад

Heard you use the slang “innit” from time to time. Always leaves a smile on face when I hear it.

@byeckfella 4 месяца назад

Hey, Alanna, do you have a muddledy draw in your kitchen? The muddledy draw has a mixture of things in it such as batteries, birthday cake candles, tubes of glue, keys you no longer have locks for, puncture repair kit (even if you don’t own a bike), plasters, those tiny screwdrivers that come in Christmas crackers, a key for bleeding radiators, Allen keys left over from self assembly furniture, a random button that fell off a shirt, a watch that no longer works, a pair of glasses that are broken and a small ball of string.

@SallyLovejoy 4 месяца назад

You forgot about the key from an old shed, a sachet of flower food and a small plastic robin from an old Yule Log cake. Or is that just me?

@harrisonandrew 4 месяца назад

Yes I have been sick Alanna, thank you for asking. I had Covid for about 7 days. Just come out of it and no longer test positive. Lots of people had it over Christmas. Talking of Bins, have you heard the word “Binfluencer”? Apparently every road has one. It’s the person who puts their bins out first so everyone else knows it’s bin day and which bin to put out I.e. is it dirty rubbish or recycle rubbish. Who is the Binfluencer in your road? Is it you Alanna?

@PeleRana-pp6zc 4 месяца назад

😂😂😂😂😂. I like that

@zmiem9556 4 месяца назад

Hahahahaaa I love that 😂

@SallyLovejoy 4 месяца назад

Wow! Just realised, I'm the "Binfluencer" in my Avenue!

@suzannemortimer9752 2 месяца назад

Yes rely on one of those!

@williambailey344 4 месяца назад

Your a cool person and really have adjusted well to our culture and language and slang terms. Which really qualify you as near on fully Brit but you will always be proud of your Canadian roots and so you should 😊. Thanks again for a great video.

@shanemjn 4 месяца назад

I've been to see Old Dominion every time they've been over to the UK. The first time they were over, quite a few people had signs that just said "plaster" as one of the lines in one of their songs is "rip it off just like a band-aid" the next two times they sung "rip it off just like a plaster" 😂

@laratheplanespotter 4 месяца назад

I moved here from Ireland when I was 8 and I’ve lost my Irish accent 🙁. I want it back!

@markb2035 3 месяца назад

So did my Dad but he never lost his.....

@fatbelly27 4 месяца назад

If you ask a Yoyrkshireman 'Where's tha bin? you might be surprised by the answer.

@LukebridgesCoUk 4 месяца назад

Absolutely enjoying the lemsip fuelled rambelling e

@AdventuresAndNaps 4 месяца назад

🙏

@ajorngjdonaydbr 4 месяца назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps add some honey to a lemsip, you're welcome

@willtandy3235 4 месяца назад

We went to friends in US and my wife asked “where’s your bin?” Our American friend said “I ain’t been anywhere!” 😂

@MattWells0 3 месяца назад

What a load of rubbish

@davidioanhedges 4 месяца назад

Tat is from a Hindi word for thick canvas... originally referring to Gunny cloth (a very cheap course fabric) There are lot of British words imported from the Indian subcontinent, that don't really exist in the USA If you're pissed then you're drunk, If you're pissed off you're angry ... Gas (Gasoline) is a brand name .... Petrol is a generic name ... But see also Sellotape and Hoover

@AdventuresAndNaps 4 месяца назад

Interesting!

@Phiyedough 4 месяца назад

The word shoddy is also related to the fabric industry. It was an early form of fibre recycling whereby old clothes were shredded and the fibres woven to make new fabric which was of low quality.

@martinjackman2943 4 месяца назад

'Tatty' 'tat' and tatters / tattered are all recorded in middle English.. It's a VERY old word with the Hindi connection due to the Indo European common etymological root.

@jschreiber6461 4 месяца назад

Like Starbucks Chai Tea Latte… a combo of Russian English & Italian?

@davidpaterson2309 4 месяца назад

@@AdventuresAndNapsOddly enough, “gasoline” originated in the U.K. A guy called Cassell patented a lamp oil in the 19thc which he called “Cazelline” but changed it to “Gazelline” because it was ripped off in patent disputes. That word found its way to the USA (allegedly with Irish immigrants) and became a generic.

@graeradt 4 месяца назад

you're British when your friends and family no longer understand what you're saying and you have to respeak sentences using words and phrases that they understand.

@brigidsingleton1596 4 месяца назад

❤ Tat is short for "tatting" which is a form of creating lacework... beyond that, I've forgotten the specifics but am sure you can Google it for extra info.🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😊❤🇬🇧🖖

@stephenlee5929 4 месяца назад

Hi Alanna, Re Crap or Tat, We use both terms in UK, but Crap is just a bit less good than Tat. I think the 'carrier bag' : We used to have a shopping bag, then we got supermarkets and they gave away 'carrier bags', it was an American import I believe, I think it refers to someone carrying your shopping to your car, note in UK we didn't do that bit, or the shop 'errand boy' delivering your goods, these were often paper bags, pretty soon they became known as plastic bags. Hope your cold/flu/plague/discomfiture abates.

@nolslifegren 4 месяца назад

When you start to say film instead of movie we'll know your ours forever 🤓

@bobblebardsley 4 месяца назад

Oh and if we're using the British words for things, a Q-tip would be a cotton bud (although I'm sure cotton swab is used too). As for the clothes horse... I'd call it a clothes horse, most of the people I knew at university called it a 'maiden' which still sounds really weird to me, and nowadays in shops they seem to be called 'airer' more than anything else.

@wilmaknickersfit 4 месяца назад

Growing up in Scotland we'd call it the pulley because it was a long wooden thing that hung from the ceiling and pulled up and down with a pulley mechanism. Now in England in my 60s I'd say drier and I have the same one as Alanna!

@rh2577 4 месяца назад

My wife from Motherwell in Scotland called it a "winterdyke" ! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@tonyrobson4681 4 месяца назад

I met a woman in Plymouth, England at the end of last year, she comes from New York and she does not speak with a 'half and half' accent. She is English.

@andeeharry 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing, the English Language is a complicated language that is always breaking it's own rules. As a Native Brit, these words can be choppy...in fact, I say these words differently. Postman stays the same Trash: General Waste The Bin? There are different names for bins for various reasons. I call it Dustbin, Black Bin, Green Waste Tat? I am not sure of this one, either being tatty, rough, or terrible. Washing Machine? The Load Dishes? Washing up, Soaking the dishes, The Clothes horse: That thing is a handy gizmo, I either call it the Hanging Dryer or the Folding Fence Carrier bag: Plastic Bag Faf? I am not sure of this word other than going around the Mulberry Bush, or being a snail, or going around in circles Angry/Pissed- Something like that I

@mikepxg6406 4 месяца назад

Hope you get well soon. I don’t like the membership idea this is meant to be open to everyone. Times are hard some people can’t afford much and just like to have a laugh with you. Paying makes it a bit tacky. Mike

@OneTrueScotsman 4 месяца назад

I noticed, recently, that I prefer how people across the pond pronounce "nasty". They seem to drag the N and A out more, it really emphasizes the word and makes the thing they're describing, sound really nasty. It's an odd observation, I know.

@markstuart4719 3 месяца назад

Hi, great vids, lass. There's another term or two for bathroom, one is.. The " Loo". Two is.. " the Bog". But sometimes, it's can be the word of " crap house". Different parts of the UK were dialects, accents and slangs are different and mostly funny.

@jra55417 Месяц назад

Cludgy

@rideitalia Месяц назад

Awesome :) Carrier bags also = placcy bag. Pissed when it''s about angry is 'pissed off'.

@stepheng9607 4 месяца назад

I shouldn't worry about the change as I don't think you have completely lost your North American language. You said "we got pizza" rather than "we got a pizza". Hope you feel better soon

@BigScubes 4 месяца назад

They might have got more than one

@stepheng9607 4 месяца назад

True - although in that case we would normally use the plural, i.e. pizzas, a couple of pizzas, etc@@BigScubes

@thetragicyouth 4 месяца назад

Alanna, it's the choice of swear words and obscenities that makes you truly British... 😉 Would make a fun video, but would be instantly demonetised, I guess! 🤣🤣

@Elwaves2925 4 месяца назад

Bollocks. . . . . I mean that as a great example of a versatile swear word, not that you're talking bol.... 😁

@THXUK 4 месяца назад

I tried to buy regular Paracetamol (pain killer) in the US and the pharmacist had no clue what it was. It's actually called Acetaminophen in the USA, but everybody calls it by the band-name: Tylenol.

@eugeneshadwell6596 4 месяца назад

A wonderful and funny video, I laughed a lot, hope you're feeling better since this was recorded. And what a delightful flashback to 'Slightly Squeaky Voiced Nose-Studded Baby Alanna' (as I'm sure you were often referred to back then), I do remember those videos from the first time I discovered A&N but haven't seen them in a long while, wow, you really HAVE changed over the years! 😃

@anyone4acupoftea 4 месяца назад

Well, you're definitely Brit-ish! 😜

@englandcalling9721 4 месяца назад

Maybe Junk, is the North American alternative to Tat. The UK version of America’s pissed off, would be p’d off. We use both, but wouldn’t describe a drunk person as p’d, only pissed! You sounded lovely 6 years ago, and sound equally as lovely, if a bit sniffly today, 6 years later.

@chuck1804 4 месяца назад

Delightful video as always, Alanna! As a British expat to Canada, my approach was to replace british words/phrases with North American ones to ease the flow of conversation, and to avoid awkward tangential questions about how funny I talk and such. Ergo, "garbage" is garbage for me whichever side of the pond I am on, for about 15 years now. While you didn't include these in the list, I couldn't help but notice your involuntary use of "ill" to mean sick, and "shouting" instead of yelling. I feel like the latter is way more common here. "Shouting" is almost ...formal? But anyway(s?), a couple more examples of how you have become Anglicised in the last 8 years. 😇 Some other thoughts.... Tat = nik nacks? trinkets? Junk? Hoover = Vacuum - one rare example in which the brand-becoming-the-name-for-the-thing is reversed in British vs Canadian/American English. I used "hoover" when I first got here and people be raising eyebrows at me like "this is a Dyson". Curiously, it is pretty rare to see a Hoover brand hoover in the UK, although I expect the ubiquity of "Henry the hoover" has had a lot to do with that linguistic anomaly. There legitimately is no North American word for faff. I have made it my life's work to roll it out here! Language is funny, eh? 🍁

@nickgrazier3373 4 месяца назад

Carrier bag is very specific for shopping using a plastic bag! A shopping bag used to be what your mom would take down the grocers for some potatoes and other veg. It’s now the plastic shopping bag / carrier bag for shopping.! It’s a cloths horse, now a days it’s very thin and you can buy it from a shop, my dad made the cloths horse for my mom . Basically it was three rectangles held together with some old belt strapping so it could open out in front of the fire in the living room this was back in the 50s in our 2 bed council house.

@pauly5418 4 месяца назад

As I'm Canadian, your accent is very recognizable to me as a Canadian accent. I wouldn't confuse your accent with an American one. If you lived the rest of your life in England, you would probably still have it or at least some of it.

@bobpockney 4 месяца назад

I'm in the midst of a cold too. Yuk. Bathroom is simple - it's a room with a bath - which will probably have a toilet as well. Other rooms with toilets but no bath are not bathrooms ! Restroom is an even stranger term ! On the subject of plastic bags, a carrier bag is distinctly different to a general plastic bag. It'll have handles for a start. A plastic bag will generally be smaller and used for storing smaller items, not much use for shopping.

@jahnome 4 месяца назад

Dang - haven’t been here in a while (RU-vid algorithm)! So proud to see how big your channel has grown over the years!!🎉🎉🎉

@Lanser1964 4 месяца назад

As always adorably delightfully random, I've been subscribed since your early days and until you pointed it out I hadn't noticed how your voice and online personality has changed, so much more relaxed and self assured.

@Phiyedough 4 месяца назад

A carrier bag is a specific type of bag used for carrying assorted items. A bag could just be a bag of peas, pasta or whatever.

@jillianb8992 4 месяца назад

I did notice you said "vitamins" the British way during your last patreon video. Words are cool!!

@plunder1956 3 месяца назад

Our lovely postman (who we always say hello to) was wearing shorts in January. OK it wasn't that cold in our area, but it still seems like an odd choice. I was impressed. I moved To England in 1970 & changed language. But I still occasionally use Danish terms for things, because they cover issues that English can't.

@heskeyisgod8039 4 месяца назад

Great video Alanna! Very funny and entertaining :-)

@nieldooley2906 3 месяца назад

After binge watching Corner Gas. I got that you were Canadian when you started talking. However I don't think it was just a very good guess; Canadian is a mild sounding and beautiful accent. I don't know why Corner Gas was never bought by a main stream Britsh Channel. Things Ihave always said coming from Liverpool: "doing the dishes, buying a pair of pants, (trousers). Doing the laundry/washing (interchangeable). Also I often say soccer because when I was young it was in common usage in Britain, especially in the media. Lastly where I specifically came from in Liverpool our slang word for football/soccer was "togger". Enjoyed the video by the way.

@peterfarley3217 4 месяца назад

Hi Alanna, I really enjoyed your video this week. I remember watching that "speak like a brit" video back in the day. I'm pleased things are working out so well for you and you seem so relaxed and positive. All the best for 2024 and good luck with the subscription channel

@raymondporter2094 4 месяца назад

Your videos are the antidote to feeling down or bored. Absolutely guaranteed to raise a smile - even if you spent 18 minutes reading the train timetable or what people in North America may call the TV Listings for the day. Keep it up!

@chrisabbott6864 4 месяца назад

And I quote... "that's a load of tat in'it". Definitely a sign you have been here way too long! You are no longer Canadian Alanna, you are an honorary Brit. With respect to brand name usage, us brits have always called the vacuum cleaner a Hoover, so its not just America that uses brand names as common terms. I feel for you with the sinus issue. Currently suffering with it myself so I know all too well what a crap experience it is. Its that time of year when we all seem to get colds and are generally miserable - just glad you are here with your usual bonkers outlook on life to cheer us all up! The thing you dry your clothes on... clothes dryer, clothes airer, washing stand. Just some of the names you could use. I just remember it as being that annoying thing you always seem to trip over as you walk past it. You are absolutely hilarious Alanna, and, dare I say it, have a truly British sense of ironic humour. Keep up the good work, the UK is all the better for you being here.

@johnrhodez6829 4 месяца назад

Came home pissed fell over the clothes horse, hit my head on the toilet door and needed a plaster, threw the tear off bits of tat in the bin took a Nero.... Nero.... Pain killer, switched on the telly and caught Donny Trump waiving a star spangled spanner, it wasn't a wrench to switch him off.... ,

@paulroyal1523 2 месяца назад

I asked a postie about the shorts thing, and he said if it rains and he is wearing trousers, it takes forever to dry, whereas if he has shorts on a quick wipe with a towel is much more comfortable

@user-dz1lk9gk9d 4 месяца назад

i came to the uk at 13 to live with my welsh dad from my native American Choctaw nation , i learnt the British slang and welsh slang words and sayings 😂

@beautifulchlorophyll2285 4 месяца назад

one of my best friends is chinese and when she uses british words I find it so cute, like in a funny way it always makes me laugh when she comes out and she's like 'bloody hell' or something but in a chines accent hahaha - same thing for you when you say things like 'faffin' - I would say that 'pissed' is drunk 'pissed as a fart' is EXTREAMLY drunk. I think plaster also comes from the brand Elastoplast.

@markwalsh1474 4 месяца назад

Great vid Alanna .Many thanks for today's vid ..👍

@kateparkinson5068 4 месяца назад

I went to stand on the picket line when the postmen were on strike to show my support for them. I hardly recognised my postie Paul because he was bundled up with a massive coat, woolie hat, scarf and gloves. When I commented on this, he said it was so cold just standing about, but he wore shorts on his round because all the walking kept him warm. I hope this goes towards explaining why postmen wear shorts most of the year round in the UK x

@WillRiker0504 4 месяца назад

I tend to think carrier bag is used to differentiate them from say bin bags…maybe. 🤷‍♂️ Yes bags carry things, but there’s different kinds of bags lol. As for ibuprofen my Gran always called them Brufen, which I think is also a brand name, and I call them that now as it’s just easier than saying ibuprofen.

@RGC198 4 месяца назад

Hi Alanna, thanks for sharing another interesting video. i think as people change locations it is also very easy for them to start imitating the new surroundings and especially the local language. I remember after having holidays in New Zealand, I found myself speaking slower and more deliberate after staying with relatives there. I think my speaking may have also slightly changed since living here in Melbourne, as compared to my prior way of speaking when living up in Sydney. Sorry to hear about your cold and I hope you feel better soon. Here in Australia, we do the washing or washing up, like in the UK. Our washing machine is in the laundry here. The item we hang clothes on is called a clothes hoist or clothes rack here. Then again, if we are hanging clothes to dry outside in the yard, we use a clothes line. Carrier bags are mostly called shopping bags here. Elevators are known here as lifts, like in the UK. Drunks here may be referred as completely stonkered or stoned out of their brain. That is the polite term!!! LOL. Band aids are called band aids here as well. Anyway, take care. Rob in Melbourne Australia.