Brits Vs Americans: Who Speaks Proper English? 

XD 😂

Same

Same😂

😂😂😂

same. i was like, cant u just show us a jar of sprinkles, not ice cream

me: laughs in bodywarmer

Me on the side : a life jacket

Me: *Clothing is clothing!*

an anomally YES always called it a body warmer

Me: Laughs in jacket with no sleeve

Hehe, samee

Same

Same

Same

Lmao same😂

??7991¿¿ no hmmmm

No such thing as American English

BOB dob it is true Americans speak nonsense

Carl Jones Wait what? Yes there is 😂

Carl Jones yes there is it’s the American variation of English

Bevsworld04 I can say it easily I’m proper posh

I say spinkles...

Yeah I am English and I say sprinkles 😂

I just say sprinkles , I never say hundreds and thousands 😂😂

stormhawks6 that person doesn't mean that it's impossible to say hundred of thousands that person is saying you would have to be really British to use that word and just because you are posh doesn't mean you will always use the language English

Actually, Old-English ia more correlated towards the American dialect of English while the British dialect of English has more of a French tounge.

England has so many dialects

therealbomb_ com and yet we make it a national obligation to keep our rivalry with the frogs going.

@arthsey how about you frine

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sweetie girl true but most English words are from LATIN. Like Gillet. That shit is French .

Aviatato English is a derivative of old Germanic languages

@G B thats what i thought i just forgot the rest

@@Aviatato vest is a French word too but it's spelled veste sooo?

Artic_wolf_123 456 America stole English, Canada stole French, Mexico stole Spanish, and Brazil stole Portuguese. great job, North and South America..

bro idk what english even is i fuckin speak american

if u sub to me pewdiepie will give u money its true are you really this dumb America is a country English is a language

@@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569 pls say this is sarcasm

Fälc0n Çlâw omg yeah😂😂😁

hahhaha

USA 🇺🇸

something you will never be xD

Lyfe&Logik a male

CoolTomato LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FUCKING BACK BRO. literally. ugh

CoolTomato I agree man or do I I do just to clarify

stressed i move to back because your breath stinky nigga

That’s a lie- Americans created the modern English language-🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Rafat Rahain no Americans created the American version of English. English is a mix of many languages and is the original language which is correct. Ya tea waster.

some HOT kpop TEA i’m british and i say mates and lads

US is bros or fam

In NI it is lad and mate.

@@yoblol basically anyone colonized by the British.

i say mates and i’m from the uk :)

but is anyone speaking wrong... dodododododododododododo dooo doo doo doo doo doooo

Lmao

Because the 1st word they said was french, & there are so many other Latin words that we use it at least derive from, plus it stems from german so

Buuuuut American people are English peopple...

@@resourcefulhedgehog936 Uhhh no they are not. Americans live in America with their guns and their American dream. Us Brits live in England with a cuppa watching the world go to hell.

Pizza goes splat lol I’m British and I call “crisps” chips and chips is called french fries

@@user-dp8gw2cx4s I'm English myself and when you ask the barman for a potion of chips you never get crisps. French fries are basically skinny chips. If you go to the chippy you never see french fries and fish do you?

Pizza goes splat lmao.

Stayinsomnia well if u do that u need to cut down on the American TV, lad. But if u don’t watch American things....hehehe ya need to sort ya self out 🤗

😂😂

I saw that meme lmao.

Alright don’t get ya knickers in a twist

Madeleine your wrong

Your ugly

Thanks...The title is who speaks proper English so British people speak proper English...?

Ik I think they just payed a American guy to make British sound wierd as

I don’t say any of the things the engelish person said and I’m British

I say both, like it depends for me lol

it has no sleeves tho, thats what makes it gilet. I pronounce it like Gilit though haha

Puffer... Vest? Honestly my answer was "Abomination" so what the hell do I know 😅

Laughs in bodywarmer

I was calling it a coat and I’m English…

As an Englishman I’d say it was a body warmer, as it is only on the torso. However, nowadays I’d call it a gilet instead. I suppose I differentiate them as one is quite thin and the other is thicker like a parka without sleeves

Pink Pixie it’s not cheers because it’s the person holding two beers

Oliver Clarke ohhhhhhhhh know i understand

Same dude

Must be from Australia like me and we are like half British language half one that the bogans made up😂

Ya

What's there to agree upon? They've been around for decades. No point agreeing now!

You realise chips or crisps are origanaly English

That's not up for debate, that's a fact.

Exactly you get confused between chips and potatoe chips

Rosida Andriyana Okay we get it, also please stop pestering me on my channel, it’s a really dick move. We really stopped caring in 1776 and I’ve already told you this.

But different accents

Correct.

And they also say fanny pack

Esme 404 yes we do

@@katecharlotte1848 🤦‍♀️

As an American I thought that was so funny 😂😂😂 I love you guys

Ninja Gaming yay

I call it an elevator and I’m from the south west

Hammer 001 I think it might be a family thing for me, I just picked it up at an early age xD

@@thomas8099 I'm south west to from wiltshire never heard of that

Us Americans invented the elevator soooo trump 2020 god bless the USA and free guns for everyone! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😉

@@kylefosnaugh4148 guns aren't something to be proud of the amount of school shootings is crazy and yr proud ? Wow americans really are stupid

Kewler Mills so you literally took it from Germany great😐🤔

Don’t say “y’*ll” if you’re a Brit.

@@qoqosodkdjkskdjsjef2923 I don't see a rule determining that.

@Rosida Andriyana he said that they created it, not speak it

proper american english - proper united kingom english ......... OoOoOOOOOOOOOOOOOO toasted

Still English lol I’m not American tho so don’t think I’m just defending em cause I’m American. Don’t get why y’all have to always compare everything u have with Americans. Like it’s diverse.

They knew what we said and we wanted to say it like that for the meme

Maybe because we made the language​

You can't even use good grammar it's "I think the British people speak better English." And people keep acting like English is owned by the British everyone has borrowed it. English itself in borrowed from a Germanic language.

Super Flute I agree with the statement and plus it's your opinion which is also fact :P

Alilish Suki it's 'colourful' don't know why you guys spell it wrong? 🤔

Hussain its actually 'Colorful'

Than what language did Americans speak

@Hello! 4231 wdym by did?

@Rosida Andriyana what did you say?

Rosida Andriyana wut

CAT CAT ITS BRITISH AMERICA USED IT

*Tovarishch

Some Dude They could, however, a lot of terms we use that they consider is “American English” actually migrated from the Brits themselves. Their slang changed over time because the loyalist went back to Great Britain and the people who wanted to stay in the US, stayed in the US. As that statement stands, it is good to note that the geographical separation of the two countries made changes to the english slang. (this may be inadequate information, idk this is just stuff i have gathered from observation) If that statement doesn’t make sense, basically what i’m saying is that some words that us Americans use, were historically used first, and that the British changed some of those same words, while Americans kept using the original terms. (wow i just did a whole comment about something idk that much about, i’m in 8th grade so i only get to learn about the history of my state.)

Thank you for speaking sense!

@Jonathan Parks Because your ancestors will have spoken our (the correct) version of the language, not the watered down American version. Meaning that even if you share the same ancestors, our language still came first.

@Jonathan Parks Well actually it IS more my language than yours because we originated it. You can speak it but in order to speak it properly you need to use our version. The same as you wouldn't change the French language because it doesn't belong to You, don't change the English language because it isn't yours. Just because you have British ancestry also doesn't automatically make you British same as having Italian ancestry doesn't automatically make you Italian.

No they didn’t. Americans are Brits who have ancestors who migrated to America.

NeveYT Where did they get hundreds and thousands from

Ace 4 life I think because here is hundreds and thousands of those things

It's probably a regional thing maybe somewhere in the country still stays this but I just say sprinkles

I've never heard a Brit call them hundreds and thousands. To be fair, it's not an everyday occurrence that someone says that, but I've only ever heard of sprinkles.

Andrew Smith I have never heard a Brit say hundreds and thousands ahaha

Nobody in America says it anyways. You certainly can't assume people know the 2nd meaning of "double fisting".

Are you even American? It’s double fisting

My brother

I’m not American I’m British 😂 sorry if I offended anyone

Rosida Andriyana 😂

Ikr, like im sorry america and everything, but we won before this even started

@Rafi Ahmed oh dear i think you need to reread my comment, you got the wrong idea. I said im sorry AMERICA, but we (meaning British) won this before it even started. Hmmm, I'll edit in a comma after the word everything then maybe it would make it easier for you to understand. I am british and was having the same point as you

@Rafi Ahmed it's ok don't worry about it

Esme 404 y’all been taking Ls since the 1700s

@@jbizzle2232 what is Ls

But it's quite clear that given we originated the language that it is our version that is the truest and most correct form of the language.

Cole Mclaren - Except you don’t speak the same way as the people who originated the language. You think you're speaking the "pure" form of English, but the reality is the language you're familiar with has evolved over hundreds of years to become what it is today, including branching off into different dialects. Even if you disregard other countries, who in the UK gets to lay claim to the title of "true English?" Do Scottish people not speak true English? Which accent is the true English accent? What purpose does it serve to insult millions of people by telling them their language is incorrect? You’re not going to change the way Americans or Canadians or Australians speak. You’re not going to convince them to stop referring to their language as "English." You're not going to stop the language from continuing to evolve.

@@artistfloor9 Trust me you ask any patriotic Scot and they'll tell you "I speak Scottish not English" because actually we Scots did have our own language, funnily enough called Scots. A lot of us didn't speak Gaelic contrary to popular belief, only the western and northernmost regions of Scotland did because they were closer to Ireland. Scots was an amalgamation of anglo-saxon and English from what linguist can tell. But we don't call it English, we call it Scottish because it's different from English the same as American English is different. As far as I can tell Australian English is really quite the same as British English with the addition of a few slang terms. Americans literally changed the spellings of words because the cost of ink was too high to have the "u" in colour and armour. Not to mention you don't distinguish between biscuits and cookies, the Australians and other English speaking countries of that region for the most part do. And that's only naming very few changes they've made because I don't have the time to list all the contextual differences (certain words are used in different contexts e.g. rubber in England means earaser in America and rubber in America means condom). As to who has most claim to the language, people born in England today have most claim, primarily the Queen has most claim to the language because she is the monarch of the commonwealth including Britain which is where the language originated.

@@artistfloor9 we are speaking true english, duh, cos we're english. So youre saying that we, english people, don't speak english properly, when english is literally the language we speak and invented

Yanks devolve the English language.

something true

Ikr

Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks proper english

Well to be fair. You British mangle the language. In fact a proper posh British accent SOUNDS MORE LIKE AMERICAN ENGLISH

@@TheBasher-_- That's called an 'accent', not a language.

FINALLY someone who spelt all their words correctly

Indraja Pu where’s your reason for it

Indraja Pu Marien made a more solid reason than that

Aiden Ash He is joking

330 million people speak American English so yeh

or did u make the language..... i thought it was ur... ... ANSESTORSWHOALSOPROBABLYMOVESTOAMERICAORBRITAINATSOMEPOINT!!!?!!?!?!

if u sub to me pewdiepie will give u money it's true, you're not wrong, but I think you had a stroke. Are you ok?

Well thermally the germans did, so, how far you want to go back

@@kurtsudheim825 Go back far enough then German is derived too. English is from England and the reason why we speak it and so do our ex colonies such as Canada,Australia and USA. Problem is that the yanks don't like to accept the truth.

@@lordlucan3241 You’ve got a point. Absolutely true.

England and Great Britain are the same GB is The official name of england

Rosida Andriyana and Northern Ireland I think

WHICH ISNT FROM EUROPE COZ OF BREXIT 🤣🤣🤣

@@rozanx8714 No its still a European country just not in the European Union....

@@joel6710 Yh ik coz I live in the UK as well ,but I thought that my joke might have been a little funny

Everything SJ lol love it

I am a big fan

🤣🤣🤣

😂😂

They speak English

DanTheMan2170 which is from England

I know

we have "bro this burrito slaps. lmr and while ur there look at audrey's post she be thirsty. yo she a snack tho."

Ya I agree!!!

ItsJustTech Honestly, thank you for saying that last bit at the end cause I swear the comment section looks like the revolutionary war started again lol also nice joke

Caramel and herbs. Parmesan, not parmegian.

@@dans3.macabre agreed

Cole Mclaren carmel n herbs without proboubcing the h

CareAmel & Errbs.

If you go back into history a lot of people in America are or have (Had) family from England we had no time to make a new language so we keept the one that we were used to from our (Their) homeland.

Germanic people created the English language

Benjam _ 360 exactly

Benjam _ 360 but they’re wrong

English is a Germanic language

Benjam _360 true

Raffaele Vescio No it's actually from a range of languages put together. True fact

Lol

That’s actually not true

www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

Lmao Americans didn’t take anything. The U.S was built from English settlers as well as many others so we have a right to the English language. We didn’t steal anything

supposedly both England and the colonies had a similar accent that was closer to the typical American accent where we pronounce our r's but over time, the middle and upper class of England began not pronouncing those r's so as to show their social status, creating what is seen as the typical British accent. Add in the fact that the colonists interacted with numerous different countries, and therefore, cultures over time and its no wonder that we are different with our slang, though Americans do use British slang from time to time.

Don't worry mate, New Zealand is a downgrade of Australian English.

SORRY

Ted Cruz yep kiwis

*cries in Australian also*

Ben_ don’t be upset mate, you still speak better English than those Americans

Louis Markham OMG AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE A OFFICIAL LANGUAGE we never even stole it it’s just how we speak and that’s how brits speak so don’t you dare say that about America also there is American with a accent to it like northern American

Awesome AC calm down I never said Americans stole it, English is the proper language, and Americans simplified it, so don't you dare say that about me

And I'm american too so think before you speak

Louis Markham I never said you were British but still I don’t really understand why most people say that Americans simplified the language when literally in America here isn’t a official language

AwesomeAC05 You do know that American has a veriaty of accents same with England If you're from the Northern part of England you speak with a lot of slang and I mean it if you're from the Southern part of England it's not as hard understand if your Country speaks English

SeleggTheStupid yeah, except I say gilet x

SeleggTheStupid same, except ill say jacket

Imogen Mai Barker thats a body warmer a jilet is a fluffy one

SeleggTheStupid exactly!

SeleggTheStupid yes

Maximus Waughman You use more than your feet in soccer

Actually, when the rules of football and rugby were created, Rugby was known as Rugger and Football was known as Soccer. So it makes sense that the United States and a few other nations used the term soccer.

You do realize that Brits invented the term soccer, right?

Contrarium Yes, we did you know and that was what William Ryder was saying. He was saying that soccer was actually used to be called soccer.

@@williamryder8497 You're almost there. They weren't known as JUST Soccer and Rugger. It was called Football in the first place, when peasants and freemen played it on the streets in medieval times. In 1863, the Football Association (FA) was founded. It was called "Football". At the same time, another group also set up a foundation for football, but in the rules it said that using your hands was okay. Since there were two different groups with the same name, they named them "Soccer Football" and "Rugger Football". Since Rugger Football has become Rugby, and the "Football" ignored pretty much all the time, there is no need for "Soccer" before "Soccer Football". Just taking that, it seems that Americans, Canadians, South Africans, Namibians, Botswanans, Zimbabweans, Australians, New Zealanders and Papuans are about 100 years too late for calling Football Soccer.

kattomboii language is always evolving, even the brits don’t speak it how it used to be spoken. Also, most of our founding fathers where British, so if we “took it and made it our own thing” they are still to blame for that

Technically Germanic created English....🙄

English is a Germanic Language

lunar 808 oh yeah forgot thanks for reminding me

The truth is england was invaded SOOO many times that the english language is made up of several others, e.g. cow is from german (Kuh) but beef is from french (boeuf)

Technically English is a mix of Germanic and Romance languages.

Star that's what I was thinking

Star ikr

deffo a bodywarmer

I know

That’s also a french word tho

As a Briton I can say I think it's a regional thing, here in Wales it's called sprinkles, hundreds and thousands are a type of sweet

@@Adlais279 a British person with a communist flag? Super edgy 12 year old

@@westhoodqualzini7884 You're probably right tbh, this is likely temporary anyway, I do it for the memes

@@Adlais279 it’s amazing how you can sport that profile picture with no pushback but if you had a Nazi flag people would go beserk even though communist killed way more people. I guess people hate discrimination because communist usually only kill their own people

@@westhoodqualzini7884 Woah there buddy, nazisism killed 75mil intentionally, communism killed 61mil accidentally, also communism lasted for 100 years, nazisism for 6, and nazisism still killed more. Also nazisism was racist?

australia basically doesn't exist no one cares

InsertMemeHere fuck off mate! Australia is still on the globe and it's one of the most successful countries in the world

he is probably an American

It's a jacksfilms joke btw jacksfilms has 3 million subscribers

InsertMemeHere stfu stupid our country even better than your stupid country allowing people carry gun bye

I say it to

i just said pufferjacket fam

I just say coat.

Bodywarmer here too

I just call it an ugly ass jacket but if you would get technical i would just say puffer jacket

Saksham Gupta I call it a jacket with no sleeves

Well done u know ur facts

Jonathan Parks excuse me, how bout you search up the word originated. If England originated America then that means that England came earlier than America.

@Jonathan Parks How can that be possible when the entire reason today's America exists is because of British colonism? Without Britain, and by extension it's language, the America you hold so dear to your heart, and your version of our language, wouldn't exist

Respect u brotha

We have simplified their English

@@johnr.6023 so dont call it english and dont say you speak it properly, not to mention the whole using the same word for multiple things fiasco, it is so rare to come across a word in the *ENGLISH* language that has to material meanings

@@sadlad5985 Who needs English when you can't type it correctly.

Johnathan Flores what is wrong with that, no spelling mistakes and as far as I can tell no one on RU-vid cares about punctuation

jelly cheese Thanks for saying proper, which is the actual name of the dialect the Brits use

Like meh (≧▽≦)

I don't like it tho

You renamed your country Britain, so your argument is not useful.

@@ohno290 he said brits. He didnt call the uk britan. He called the people from the uk brits. Btw u american the uk has 4 countries. Its not a full country XD u american boy

They were both wrong. It's Jimmies!!

James McKeon It’s not the real word dumbass. There are two words for it

Izzy Byrnexx I’m from wales :D

Actually Ireland is its own country. Northern Ireland is a British country

No it wasn't

woooooooo Wales!

lol americanish

Germanic people did^

I agree if you’re British

I hate to burst your bubble but the germanic people created old english but the normans were associated with modern english.

Magenta Furry Aj It’s called English it’s not like your speaking your own language the people who made the language speak it better

You are?

AB Rapid according to this Both country combined is the correct way of speaking, that mean Brimerica won

Yet you still don’t call us English? Also we both say that

@@redpandajet478 lmao im english and ive never said refrigerator in my life or heard any English person say that

yes, the straight ones are called sprinkes and the round ones are called hundreds and thousands..at least that's what Ive been thinking for 40 odd years

Tommy Orr Jr Yup, that’s what I do too.

Dude I’m British but I’ve never heard anyone call them hundreds and thousands

Also that gillet thingy I’d call a body warmer. Is that weird?

Same! And ye I say gillet but like (g-ill-it) instead of (j-i-ll-ey)

ENGLISH

ENGLAND BECAUSE WE FOUND THE LANGUAGE FIRST!

Eve Rogers the LATINS since they came up with it 😘

Amy Gibbons actually it stems from Germanic dialects and developed into English as the language altered when the Angles and Saxons settled in England but okay

Amy Gibbons ok the latins invented a language called ENGLISH, not American 😘

😂😂😂

English English, wait! You have South English North English West English East English, they don’t only have a different accent. They have a new fucking language.

all these are correct

I’m exactly the same

I thought the first one was a life jacket.......

😂

ChimChimLove yeah the Americans are just tweaking our language lol

You just made my day

Relatable😂

ChimChimLove lol but I don’t do the changing

no

Cordeycat MSP how not saying no proves nothing

remulsive I never mentioned football? All I’m saying is the main English language is England English

TheRealLuke 007 It’s called an example

remulsive England got to the semi-final in the World Cup and America didn't even qualify. Explain that please.

Noah Parker nigga?

Is that a chocolate chip cookie? mmmm

Noah Parker Samsung?

Lily Vickery BRUH

Texas Red on Apple, it’s a cookie.

Holly Bramhall word

I would call it a puffer jacket and I’m English I dunno 🤷‍♀️

Grace Does RU-vid No I’d say a puffer jacket is the ones like body warmers but with sleeves too!

Thank you!!!

I called it a vest 😂 And I’m British

God stop

China-chinesish

AmerLish- amerLand , actually!

We came from england bringing the older unmodified english england changed there english over time

America is a continent fam.

Caitlyn Cottam It’s not from “England” it’s a Germanic language which had strong roots to the German language before the battle of Hastings in 1066. No such thing as “proper English”

@@troelembiid6970 This is going to annoy a lot of people. In 1937 the ‘First Head Of The Commonwealth’ King George VI established ‘Proper English’ via his two famous speeches at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The document named “Proper English Never To Be Changed” was entered into the royal archives soon after. Proper English as it were only applied to the Commonwealth Countries and still does. Other than England, Australia, Canada and New Zealand there are approx. 54 other countries, dominions, republics etc that use their own version of the English language as their first language. The English language is mostly Germanic and Latin.

Shirley Butler it didn’t annoy me because I read the the first sentence and didn’t want to read the rest, I don’t read a lot.

It's highlighted because it's your comment

English is from Germany 🇩🇪

Bella Beanz :3 exactly lol

Thats the brand name...

Yeah

Nah because hundreds and thousands are the spherical ones, and sprinkles are the strands

@Rosida Andriyana You're wrong. Two-thirds of the language came from French, which is a Latin language. There is Germanic influence (via the Saxons) on our grammar and some of our vocabulary, but most words derive from Latin via French.

Which English accent?

So is it less English when its in Ireland or Scotland or Canada or the US? No.

Actually English is a derivative of the word Engels, cause the people that lived on an island near Germany were called Engels

Jeff Morse, true English comes from England, because Irish, Welsh and Scottish are all languages, England just had big influence in history

G B, yes many angles, especially rectangles

Tiny Blokz me too.

Tiny Blokz coockies is a type of biscuit American s are so confusing

brock crews I am Aussie and I say Cookie a biscuit is like a Tim Tam and a Cookie is what you think

Yuki Kaneshiro No Biscuit Cause im English Not American this is the way I was taught.

Tiny Blokz

@@tekplays5366 ye m8 r a bloody ball sack 4 reading fictions and not facts

@ola jong you fokin' wot m8 aussie land int' even real ye fookin wanka

@@tekplays5366 read wot ye fokin wrote ye twat sket geezer

NOPE WE JUST WANT TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US AND ENGLAND NOW IF YOU EXCUSE ME USA USA USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@@tekplays5366 i suddenly don't understand english anymore

Lily West ah, no you didn't. English comes mainly from German, Dutch, Greek, and French

Kathryn Pearce Well it definitely doesn’t come from the Americans and ah yes we did make it from other languages,

English was created by Germanic tribes, who then brought it to England. Not to mention, Americans have the traditional British accent. People from England adapted the modern British accent to differentiate between the upper and lower classes.

Kathryn Pearce where the fuck did you get that from?? WIKIPEDIA?

I got those facts from my own research and study I did a couple months ago, I had to write a paper about the English language. Have you even done any research? Or did you just assume what you thought was a fact?

You know that Americans are winners right?

@@sanakamran1400 excuse but us Brits are fabulous

Really?

@@cpik your accents to us sound weird

Ally Kinz dirty yank

That is not proper English

Layla Diaz we did spread English in our colonies so shut up you ignorant American

Just George Just say English. America is a country made up of immigrants, which is why we are more diverse in language.

Cool F1Racer239 you may have invented it but we just made it better.

Cool F1Racer239 you guys invented english. And we invented maximum freedom.