English differences Among 4 countries! (American,British,Aussie,Canadian) 

Toronto

🇨🇦 Agree…many words and expressions from the Canadian girl sound more like British. I live in the west, and don’t know if it is regional, or if she has British family/parents.

She's from Toronto. Would you happen to be from out West? I've mostly lived in cities in Quebec and Ontario (Montreal, Quebec City (yes it has an anglo population), Kingston, Toronto and Ottawa) and "postman" is absolutely the default word everywhere I've lived although mailman isn't unheard of (but is sounds really American). In general terms, the level of British English influence basically goes up as you travel further east in Canada (that's a broad statement, not a perfect continuum). My Quebec English dialect is noticeably more laced with Brit vocabulary than most southern Ontarians I meet (with eastern Ontario being closer to Montreal English's level of Brit jargon - Quebec City English has a bit of an Irish influence going on for historical reasons). My English sounds way more British than hers in vocabulary choices but accent-wise, I'm distinctively North American (and my ancestry is French Canadian, not Brit - it's just the local dialects I learned rather than something picked up from family). Westerners generally sound (accent-wise) like other continental Canadians to me but their vocabulary choices can sometimes seem very Americanized to my ears (that happens with some southern Ontarians too). Of course, Atlantic Canadians sound very distinctive and have tons of British influences (although perhaps some New England influences in their vocabulary too) and Newfoundland has strong Irish influences.

@@shirleyk7647 It's regional. While the urban accent isn't drastically different from Victoria to Ottawa, the vocabulary is more American-influenced as you go west and more British-influenced as you go east. That holds true even further east too. I have a Quebec English accent (mother tongue Quebec anglo, not a French Canadian accent - mix of Montreal and Quebec City, rather heavy on Quebec City/Shannon influences) and I words like "bloody", "loo", and such. No British family except maybe a few very distant Scottish or perhaps Irish ancestors. My accent sounds fairly typically Canadian but my vocabulary is peppered with a lot more British and Irish English and French Canadian vocabulary.

On the east coast, we usually say mailman. Never, ever heard 'hang a Roger' before. I also don't really get that turning slang, as it is literally easier to just say 'left' or 'right'.

I was looking for someone else to mention this! Like...why change their shoes???

@@alexakimbro7595 White room/backdrop. I think they didnt want to get the backing dirty or something. Weird though

@@TheRogueRockhound yeaahhhhh I could see that. Makes sense

As far as i know this whole show is shot in korea and in korea it is common to take off your shoes at home and even in the studio or school. You wear home slippers there and obly there and i guess this is just one of those occasions. So they are in the studio and they have just a bunch of these same slippers gor all laying around

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I’m from Liverpool, you have to dial it back when talking to people outside the UK (as I’m sure it is for many of the stronger regional accents from around the world!!)

As an American I still have trouble distinguishing regional British accents. I just know that people in the south of England I can understand easier than the people further north. And by the time you get well into Scotland it might as well be another language. I can pick out the London accent though, and somewhat the people from the southwest(my favorite). I know accents in the UK are also have a class dimension too layered on top of region.

Could be that she's moved away. I know a lad from the Paras and bootnecks who sound like this because they've been in Colchester and Scotland and stuff for 12+ years. Also it sounds strange but it could be because she's a bird. I'm one myself but I've not been with a scouser since I was like 21 or something but I went out with a girl from Whiston or Prescot or whichever one, maybe even Huyton, who spoke like that and a girl from Page Moss (not at the same time). Even my mum from Tuebrook spoke like that. There's kind of different accents in Liverpool but it tends to be women who have a bit if a softer accent as opposed to the lads who sound like radio static

Led me to think

yeah i also noticed that

Bob Tonner: Afrikaans, a South African language which derives from Dutch, also has a Malaysian influence. The word 'beskuit' may originate from the Malay 'biskut' and correspond with 'biscuit', or vice versa. Having German as a 3rd language, I would be able to converse with the Amish because the 'Pennsylvania Dutch' were German speakers who have retained their language as a closed community, much like the Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews in the US.

@@vivicohen199”Biscuit” is a direct loan word from French. Biscuit (British) and biscuit (French) mean the same in both languages, except how it mutated in southern US *bis (or bi) = two, twice cuit = cooked/baked Biscuit = twice-baked

I think I have heard that before about the word cookie coming from the Dutch. 3:40 - As for adding "ie" to the end of other words, yes it's generally to make a word sound a little more fun, casual and informal sounding, such as postie for postman. I think that US, Canada, UK, and down under all do that about the same, maybe not for all the same words, but equally frequently

​@@bobbiusshadow6985explain the mutation

@@bobbiusshadow6985 The French loaned it from the Italians. The original word is Biscoctus which eventually turned into biscotti. But either way it still means twice baked.

I've always said postman

I’m in NB and you could say postman or mailman, probably equally used.

Same

@@amberchrysostom7994 in NB too

Same

I think Lauren (GB) is from Manchester, but is speaking RP.

Definitely. I'd be especially interested in knowing which province the Canadian girl is from, because I've never heard a fellow Canadian say postman. It's always mailman. Also, the hang a Roger/Larry thing? Never heard of that either.

@@terryomalley1974 She can't be from east of Hamilton, because even I would hear her accent. Ontarians say it's not there, nor do those west of Alberta. Even those from the Prairie have said its not Canadian. Maybe it's just her family.

@@mholtebeck Perhaps, but then she's not a very good representative of Canadian English if so few of us relate to the way she speaks.

@@terryomalley1974 That appears to be the case. What do Anglophones from Quebec sound like? To be honest- it was close to RP. The video had an American that was close to RP-American style, an RP speaker from England, and the least sounding Aussie from Australia I've ever heard. FTR- I sound like the American girl when I speak, so she is accurate to Northwest USA.

LOL im from BC and I completely agree with you

Agreed. Also in terms of slang words I feel like we're exposed to American, British and Australian slang some of which is in common use.

The letter U often has a weird effect on how the letter before it is pronounced. Here's some examples: Cute = cyoot, not coot Huge = hyooj, not hooj Human = hyooman, not hooman Statue = stachoo, not statoo Emu = emyoo, not emoo Tube = choob, not toob Puma = pyooma, not pooma Tuesday = Choosday, not Toosday Mute = myoot, not moot Hubert = Hyoobert, not Hoobert Cube = cyoob, not coob Tuna = choona, not toona Attitude = attichood, not attitood Pressure = preshur, not pressur Sure = shur, not sur This is actually something we all do, no matter where we're from. The difference is in how many words we apply it to, and more specifically, which words. I've heard a lot of British and Australian people say "ashume" and "preshume" for "assume" and "presume", respectively, but I would never pronounce the S in those words as if it were followed by H, even though I do so in other words. Americans do these things too, but often on different words. It mostly happens when the U makes the "oo" or "ew" sound. Other examples include: Pew = pyoo, not poo Mew = myoo, not moo Dew = joo, not doo But it doesn't ALWAYS happen. I don't know anybody who pronounces "dude" as "jood".

I’m sure that you could for all four countries. I’m from the Midwest in the states and we have a totally different accent from the rest of the country

newfoundlanders, New brunswick and nova Scotia are extreamely different from the rest of Canada. Québec is just another language...

It's strange bc australia is one of the biggest countries by landmass but our accents don't change very much if at all.

Same in the USA. They could have had people from NYC, New Orleans and Maine and have gotten very different results.

Canada is humongous. Just like the US there may be different words for the same thing.

I used to said “chooseday” and “baehg” (bag), “laehg” (lag) and “flaehg” until I got bullied in america 😩

@@ijustineapplestore yeah we bully everyone

I say it like that and I am Canadian, on the West Coast. without British influence To be honest, I feel younger Canadians are losing some of these little quirks (although building newer ones). Some of the other videos, I have never heard the slang, but the commenters say it is used a lot in my region. But I guess they were much younger or from different groups. Also, tv shows and movies have had a lot of influence.

To tell the truth I don't really notice a difference between American and Canadian accent.

the girl from canada really wanted to be different than the american girl 🤣

You get all our American TV shows, right? Maybe that is why.

Im Canadian. Ive heard both American words and British words all the time.

@@dennyj8650 Most Canadians live within a few hours of the US boarder.

@@elizabethpaulsen5895 I was looking for this comment. America gets a lot of shit for the way we talk and I can't tell a person is Canadian until they say "bag" so I was side eyeing ms Canada like... 🤔

I'm in NB and I totally agree with all of these. My parents are Brits and they're the only ones i know that say postman

I’ve never used Roger, must be where ever you’re from, but it’s always been hang a randy for right and Larry for left

Yeah and even the way she says "geographically" sounds like English is her second language.

From Toronto here and I’ve heard many people use either postman or mailman. I also say Chewsday and I hear other people say it that way regularly also to be honest. Also I think I say Harry Potter the same way as her? I hear Harry Pot-der or more Harry Podder but I don’t think I’ve hear any one say Pod-ter. Toronto raised though so I have no idea if it’s an American influence or immigrant influence since my parents aren’t from Canada. Canada is super diverse really so it makes sense there’s a lot of variety.

agreed

I’m American and she sounds 100% Aussie to me, not American at all.

As a Singaporean who has been to Australia many times, she sounds more American but with a subtle Australian accent. Maybe she's practicing different English accents, that's why her Australian accent isn't that strong.

@@ninazayne Nah, I'm American and she sounds nothing like anyone from America.

As an Australian, she sounds like a normal Australian.

Her accent sounds very similar to mine definitely more of an City accent. I find there are very large variations to different states and also age groups. Rural areas tend to have much thicker accents

Just consider what some Canadians say as 'cottage', others say as 'bungalow', 'camp', 'cabin', 'chalet', and more.

@@j2174 Yup! And never forget the classic “bunny hug”, chesterfield, runners debates

@@marietailor3100 What debate is there around those? Who doesn't say 'runners'?

A bungalow is specifically a house without a 2nd storey

Dep? Like a servo?

U're Indian? Ur name seems like that.

She doesn't even say Australian right. She sounds more American than Aussie. Why the heck they chose her I don't know, it's embarrassing for us.

I’m not Indian? Haha I’m an Australian with European background

@@sonias748 Oo.. ohk. I thought so bcz you have an Indian name.

She sounds like she's from Adelaide

Hold on! I'm from Tdot And I always say "chewsday". Whether I'm hanging out in the hood or I'm in the office punching numbers, I always say "chewsday".... what in the world do you say? were you even born in Toronto? Don't claim Toronto if you weren't born there.

@@TheVernonENT Ya know, it's possible to have been born in the same city and not say the same fuckin' thing, right?

​@@TheVernonENT Toronto all my life. Rarely ever hear anyone say Chewsday from Bramptom, Sauga, Toronto, Vaughan, Scarborough, Orangeville, etc.

Not always. For example, in the US you can have neutral "newscaster" sounding accents in all 50 states. Same in Canada. In fact Canada has very few regional accents to begin with.

@@Coco_Loco95 Who said all Americans sound the same? I just said that people don't ALWAYS have regional accents in every state. Yeah duh I know what Southern accents sound like. I travel to all 50 states regularly for work. I'm from Queens, NY, you think I don't hear a difference in accents between Queens and New Orleans? 😂

@@Coco_Loco95 each ethnic groups have their own unique accent too, Hawaiian are much more obvious especially those Somoan or Pacific Islanders decents.

@@kayflip2233 Have you ever met someone from Quebec or Newfoundland?! They have very distinct accents compared to the rest of Canada.

@@sapphirerocky Well Quebecois speak a different language, obviously the accent will be different. Newfies have pretty much the only regional accent in Canada. Like I said, very few regional accents in Canada. 99% of Canadians have the same accent.

I'm guessing you live in Ontario like me where its pretty much a different country lol

You and me both. 40+ years. I live in BC. Definitely not a West Coast thing.

Not a prairie thing. Never heard of it.

@LindseyR I agree and I'm from BC as well. I've never heard the expression "Hang a Louie" or "Hang a Rodger" but I have heard people use the phrase " (Hang) a Right / Left".

@@mayahampton3325 hang a louie was (oddly) the American perversion of the Canadian saying 'hang a Larry'. The Canadian girl just said she heard of the Louie thing, not says it herself.

Spot on. Australia is actually studied because their language is so similar across the country.

australia actually have a bit of difference in its areas too. they arent completly different say like someone from texas vs someone from California. but someone from the south of perth vs my cousin from sydney sound different sometimes. mostly nasally tbh

I can always tell a fair dinkum Queenslander from some of the pronunciations!

In Canada, it is definitely not the same across the country. Almost every province/territory has a little bit of a difference in the accent.

Barely a noticeable difference in Oz.

You mean Convict accent? 🤣

i agree, and a question for you, of these 4 countries which would you say has the least regional diversity in the way english is spoken of the 4 countries ?

American speak English?! Well I never. When did this happen?

@@homebrandrules, That is a good question! I had to think about my response to your question first. I think what plays the biggest part in this is geography, most specifically, the size of each of us. Of the 4 of us, 3 of us have a rather large land mass. England has a much smaller land mass. So I believe England's English is less diverse than America's, Australia's, and Canada's English. That being said, being an American, I really love the British accent! When I was young, Mom and I would pretend to be British and adopt the British accent! @homebrandrules, have a good day!

@@seanlander9321, I do not know if you are being facetious or serious. Whichever one is the case, my response is the same. You should read the history of America. Before being a free country, we were 13 Colonies of Great Britain which speaks English. Most of the world knows they do. And could you do yourself a favor as well? Please work on your grammar. Thank you.

@@michaelsadams524 Oh gawd.

Well Elvis sang hey wait a minute Mr Postman 🤣

Song of Lindsay Lohan “I wait for the postman to bring me a letter I wait for the good Lord to make me feel better”

But Elvis got that song from the Beatles, who are Liverpool natives. 😊

My dad was a rural-route mailman and I never heard anyone use postman, but the head of the US Postal Service is the Postmaster General.

No, we don't sound basically the same because both countries have many distinct regional accents. But Canadians use both US & British spellings.

There are a lot of differences between the two accents as well. And then theres word choice, slang, and spelling which will definitely be different a lot of the time.

I had that experience in the opposite direction. I grew up near the Indiana/Kentucky border but didn't think I had an accent until we visited relatives near Buffalo.

@@j2174 It depends who you're talking to. Many Canadians don't have regional Canadian accents. Look at Ryan Gosling, Keanu Reeves and Justin Bieber for example. They just have a neutral newscaster accent. I'd say 70% of Canadians sound like that and you couldn't tell that they weren't American. Canadians over 50 tend to have the thicker typical hockey player sounding accents.

@@kayflip2233 "Keanu Reeves" - he moved around, a lot, and also grew up mostly in Toronto. "Justin Bieber" - A youngin, who's lived most of his life in the US and travelling. Yes, I'd say this generation who consumes a lot of US and other country media tend not to have as strong of Canadian accents. He's also from Stratford which is not horribly far from Toronto. Southwest Ontario doesn't tend to have as strong of accents. "Ryan Gosling" - moved around a lot, and while he did live some of the time in Cornwall, he also lived in Burlington, essentially a burb of Toronto and the GTA. He developed an idiosyncratic accent because, as a child, he thought having a Canadian accent did not sound "tough".

@@j2174 I know all the history, but I also know countless Canadians that haven't left Ontario that sound just like Justin or Ryan. It's not unique to hollywood types that moved around a lot.

Letter carrier/postal carrier are far more inclusive terms that are gaining ground. I'm in Alberta and postie is pretty common and, in its own way, inclusive. Ditto for firefighter and first responders.

@@cujoyyc4453 Lmao what? Nah. I’ve been in YYC since 1999 and nobody says “letter carrier” or “postal carrier”. Not a single person out of the thousands of people I know and have met in the last 2+ decades. It’s mailman, even for women, and they work for Canada post, the the people who work at the post office are post office workers. Fireman is used for singular, firemen and firefighters is interchangeably. And “fire responders” is such a corporate wokewashed bland term with zero life in it. Say what you REALLY mean. Are you talking about paramedics? Firemen? Cops? Bystanders? Any one of those categories can be the first to respond.

@@cujoyyc4453 And if you’ve heard anyone in this city say “postie” then you weren’t hearing a Canadian, you were hearing a Brit, or an Aussie, or a Kiwi. Not an Alberta, or a Canadian. We don’t say that here. That’s weird, you would definitely get weird looks and questions of “huh?” if you want around saying something foreign like that.

@@JesusFriedChrist I assure you, they are Canadian.

@@cujoyyc4453 YYZ here, i’ve never heard anything other than Mailman in the 6ix fam.

I'm from Perth. Most people here would pronounce the o in alone with a regular Australian "oh" sound and the a as a schwa sound, so like "uh-LOH-n".

I agree. As soon as I cross from Ontario to New York State. The change in accent is dramatic

@@tammymcleod9860 Exactly I did the same and I felt that.

I grew up in cities in SK and as a young teen went and met some cousins from southern ON and the differences in our accents were really noticeable.

Yup, as someone who’s lived in Alberta since ‘97, and travelled to Great Falls…people sound totally different down there.

Here in PEI dialects/accents change every 10km. For a small place we have a lot of variation.

You are correct sir, we got more accents than that in Canada probably. The further north you go the thicker it gets. I dont say "chews day" either lol. I'm northern central Canadian smack on the Manitoba/ Saskatchewan border past the prairies into mining territory.

from Ontario, we totally say mailman, like Americans.

@@jocelyngelms4117 same here, I say mailman

And theres probably more female walkers In flin flon, but it's just a blanket term were so use. It's like a 3:1 ratio I'd say

Also, why did you skip over Quebec and the territories? Also, there are different accents in some regional parts of provinces, including the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, etc. The accents out West sound much mote similar to each other and uniform.

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Yeah, even within the U.S. and Canada (and I guess Australia and the U.K.) there is some variation

There's alot of expats from Australia NZ and the UK in BC/Banff and Jasper mostly for snowboarding and mointain biking. Alot of them get jobs in the tourism industries.

Lololol because you were talking to an Australian 😂😂😂

@@Hgdhgfdssxvbbnjoo Lol maybe that is the case - would be funny

These girls here have different regional accents from the others you mention. Lauren's from Liverpool but tends to speak with a more southern sounding accent while Cady doesn't alter her northern accent. Christina's from New England while Callie's from Michigan. Sydney's from out west (BC I think) while Kari's from southern Ontario (central Canada). Geographically, Kari and Callie are the two physically closest in origin of any of the girls in these videos (just a few hundred km apart) except the Brits since Michigan is literally next door to the southern peninsula of Ontario.

@@paranoidrodentwhy did u have to waste ur time typing dude

Who says "mail lady" or "mail person"? Lmfao

@@j2174 well, we have a female letter carrier so, yes, we call her the mail lady

Yes and we do say postie when we talk about someone's job.

I'm from Canada too but it's complete opposite where I live. Postman is more common, mailman sounds strange to hear.

@@MasonBrumseymeisu88 Probably a regional thing.

ya, I say mailman. might be the American influence. Never heard of a postie. Heard of a post-it though.

What city/province are you in? There's been a lot of US influence in younger generations, especially after 1990s. Some words I would say I notice change as I grew up.

@@j2174 Eastern Ontario, late 40s.

I say postie 😝🦘 I’m Aussie

Yes. Southern Ontario, the mailman/lady delivers the mail. But we grumble if 'the posties go on strike"

i was correct

We definitely have our own language in PA compared to the rest of the country. That's for sure.

I think these traits spread with international media. There's was an issue in the UK in the 90s where we watched so much Australian kids TV that my generation caught that Aussie upward inflection. It was also noticed recently that American toddlers and young kids were adopting British accents and vocabulary because Peppa Pig is so popular and they were watching so much of it throughout lockdown.

We all agree we don't have to roll our "r".

To-Maa-To make more sense to me tbh. Maybe it's because i grew up speaking like that.

Yeah but, regional expressions aside, she sounded Canadian. It is hard to put my finger on it, but it is like more abrupt diction than the American accent. More..."clipped" sounding? I am sure a linguist would explain it better.

Good idea, but it’s the English north-south divide, not the ‘British’ one

It's an 'England' divide not really a 'British' divide. And if you compare the Liverpudlian accent of Cady to a Geordie one (both Northern accents) you'll see a vast difference. There are videos out there showing different English and UK accents- some are a bit stupid/false/inaccurate when they use supposed 'celebrities' so avoid them and go for the ones using real (native, I don't want to say common!) people in those areas.

I feel like this would be interesting for any country honestly; at least I know that depending where you are in the UK, US, or Canada can make a big difference and I'm assuming that Perth is different from Sydney or Brisbane AU.

@@joel351K Yes you're right. Scotland and Wales are also very different when it comes to accent and vocabulary.

@@liukin95 also northern ireland is very different again from mainland britain and southern ireland

It's a regional thing. I'm used to postman being dominant (lived in Quebec and Ontario - our English has more Brit vocabulary out here).

Interestingly im from Southern Ontario and it’s mostly the opposite as opposed to what you just said, we would say postman more than mailman but again it varies on the type of person depending where they grew up in.

Ya, our terminology on the West coast is often pretty different than what gets portrayed as "Canadian" (Ontario/Quebec)

Hello Shirley how are you feeling today. Hope you had a wonderful day?

I heard y'all in Canada as well, even though it was shorter than the Texan y'eaaaallll

No we don't just call them muffins here, they are still "English muffins"!

We have muffins and English muffins, biscuits and scones, as well as cookies here in the US. 😊

Yeah, UK is the fatherland after all.

Toronto accent is like the London accent as they both use words like “bare things” or “waste yutes” 😅

The Aussie is a hottie.

I love that electricians are called sparkies. Wow

@@inafridge8573 Shoot I've heard them called that in the US. It's pretty common from ex Navy.

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I'm from England & to me the Geordie accent is the best.

Ya, eastern Ontario here. We say mailman.

I’m from Toronto, though my parents have ties to Newfoundland and Alberta, and I say Tuesday like chewsday. It’s how my parents say it, though people always found my pronunciation odd here in the city.

@@lif6737 My dad used to pronounce it Tyusday.

same, and I've definitely used "can't be fuckked" or "don't give a fuck" as a way to say I can't be bothered

The 'hang a Louie' was an American perversion of the Canadian 'hang a Larry'. The Canadian girl knew of it, she didn't say she said 'Louie'.

Postman makes more sense to me as they carry more than mail. I'm east coast Canadian, and use postman, or postal worker

@@supergirl0526 postman/postal worker these are job titles/descriptions. It describes what the person does for a living. Mailman was never intended to be a name that describes the person’s career. Mailman is a nickname. The postman in relation to the customer is just the man who delivers their mail. Hence, Mailman. The nickname is personalized to the customer. The man who delivers my mail is here. The man who is here to give me mail. The Mailman. Again, postman is more of a job title. Just like you can be a Delivery person but I still might commonly call you the pizza man.

Oh dear... not great.

@@zammmerjammer What do you mean?

@@CaylasCapsule the word u describe is extremely offensive to Indians/Pakistani’s in the UK. Though not intentional i’m sure…

@@StefanWolves2013 Oh, I’m sorry. I had no idea. In the northeastern USA, it’s just a shortened version of the word “package” as in package store. There’s a lot of emphasis on the “ayh” sound in it, like imagine a Boston accent. Never heard it used any other way.

Wouldn't recommend saying that in the UK 😂