US / UK / Aussie English Vocabulary Differences PART 4 

Which word sounded the most interesting to you? 😆 어떤 단어가 가장 신기했었나요? 😆

I live in the US and we sometimes also call a pacifier a binky

You should have people talk only in their country’s slang, and have the other people try to guess what they are saying.

Her Melbourne is showing. For "Bathers" it's a very regional thing. For example in Sydney we use "swimmers" and as mentioned "togs" is common in Queensland

We also call bathers “cozzies” or “swimmers” here in Australia. We also commonly use the word “PowerPoint” for the outlet.

In Australia Board shorts are called Boardies.

Its good to see Australian Bella! Its been a while ☺️

6:17 I live in America the midwest, I use socket, plug-in and outlet.

Australian here. We call swim suits "togs" and "swimmers" where I'm from in queensland

Enjoyed the comparisons. Noticed that at the end all of you wave typically like Koreans. Suggestion on comparing how people from the various countries greet and wave goodbye.

Extras in Australia: - swimming costume or swimmers for bathers - I think this is a Sydney/Melbourne difference - power point for power outlet; - old Australian homes have two separate taps, new the single, but there's an in-between for say 1950s to 1980s of 2 tap handles but a single outlet, so the blended temperature comes out of the outlet. And the outlet and the tap handles are all just called taps :-).

The reason for separate taps is old houses typically had hot water tanks that where the water was not safe to drink but the cold water came direct from being treated and was safe to drink.

Canadian here! we call a pacifier a "soother". On a funny note we had a one of those little red Henry vacuums at one of my old workplaces, we referred to it as simply Henry. If you couldn't find the vacuum we would call on the staff radio channel asking if anyone had seen Henry or knew where Henry was as if it was a member of staff.

I swear you just have like a whole stash of Australian people. It’s always the same American and English person but there are so many Australians 😂

I love how in Australia it’s always like ‘We *just* call it ___’ 😂😂 we love the casualness ❤️

6:46 I ALMOST DIED SHE FORGOT MY CHILDHOOD "POWER-POINT"

I was born in Queensland and bathers are called “Toggs” in that state. Thought that was certainly the case when the family left for Western Australia in 1971 where they are called bathers.

Austrailian bella's attempt at a southern accent is hilarious lol

How has John not heard "swimsuit?"

Australia - Swimmers, togs! (BATHING SUIT), power point for outlet, with 2 taps you would fill the sink (im guessing to preserve water) back in the olden days.

What a great video on English from different countries. As a Canadian English teacher, I’m very surprised by the number of words in this video that I have never heard of, for instance, hoover lol I’m sure many viewers will find this video rather entertaining as well as educational 🙌💯📚🍿

"Hoover is a vacuum cleaner company founded in Ohio in the US. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom; and, mostly in the 20th century, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland." (Wikipedia)

In Australia swimming wear is different depending on where you live. In QLD we say "togs", others say "bathers" and others say "swimmers"

I always thought is was a “Power Point”? 🤷🏽‍♀️

We call mosquitoes “Skeeters” in Minnesota as well. Not just a “down south thing...”

Us Australians do say "hoover" as well, both as a noun and a verb, but "vacuum" as the noun is more common. We also call bathers, "swimmers", "a cozzie" (short for swimming costume), "boardies" (short for board shorts) and "togs" ... it depends on the family. The common name in Australia for an electricity outlet is a "power point", I was surprised this wasn't mentioned.

I love this trio...... Sam, John and Bella together.

I believe Tom Scott actually did a video about why the UK has separate taps for hot and cold, basically it had to do with the fact that cold water was hooked into a master system but hot water was kept in tanks in most attics. Since the cleanliness of the tanks wasn't guaranteed, the two taps had to be separate to prevent contamination.

When he said that he has 'heard' of it being called a swim suit I was actually kinda shocked because where I can from in the U.S. we really only call it a swim suit although some people will say either. I also think that oatmeal and porridge are suddenly things like how the UK it is more liquid, I would consider porridge to be the more liquid base and oatmeal to be the more out base.

Australian swimwear words (to my knowledge)- Swimmers, Bathers, Togs, Cossie. One of the few pieces of linguistics that varies significantly by region in Australia. Queenslanders tend to say Togs. In NSW they tend to say either Cossie or Swimmers. Victoria, SA, WA and Tasmania all tend to use Bathers.

Togs are also used in Ireland as well to refer to speedos as well as swimwear. And I can't believe the Brit and Aussie chick didn't say cossie. 👙🇦🇺

Her Top reminds me of Shinee's album cover

In my profession (marketing) words like hoover are called a generic name, where an extremely popular brand name becomes a widely used (household) name for a whole category of products e.g. coke, aspirin, thermos, jacuzzi, zamboni, kleenex, velcro etc

I like how the Australian is always changing

It’s really Good to see Bella again !

I have heard and used around 4 words to describe swimming gear in Australia: - Swimmers - Togs - Bathers/bathing suit - Cozzies The words are generally regional but all can be heard in a general area.

When John was talking about drinking tap water etc I was low key waiting for Bella to come out and say you drink out of a bubbler (Australia)

Here is what I as an American use: 1: Vacuum cleaner/vacuum 2: Swimsuit, trunks, bikini 3: Oatmeal 4: Power outlet/outlet/socket 5: Never used that word for some reason 6: Mosquito 7: Sink/faucet

I always referred to a pacifier as a binky when my kids were babies. I'm in the western US.

American John always does a fantastic job representing US words. Way to go John, 👍🏼!

As someone on my 40s in the UK I think some of the words that we “know but don’t use” are because of USA tv & movies. They are not part of our daily usage but we grew up hearing them.

In Australia we also call the socket, a power point

In Australia 🇦🇺 board shorts get shortened too boardies and a sun safe rash vest is a rashy. Power point is what I call the “socket”

What I call them in Canada: 1. Vacuum, shop vac, or central vac depending on the type of vacuum. 2. Swimsuit 3. Oatmeal ("hot cereal" is also sometimes used to refer to oatmeal, cornmeal, etc.) 4. Wall outlet, power outlet, or sometimes just outlet. (The term "socket" is used to refer to the hole that a lightbulb is screwed into, which can be confusing when someone from Britain uses it. "Plug" refers to the part at the end of the cord, or the verb of "plugging something in.") 5. Soother 6. Mosquito, skeeter, or GAAH THESE F***ING THINGS ARE EVERYWHERE!!! 7. Tap, or faucet. (A "spigot" is what you put in a maple tree to get sap for making syrup. I've also only ever seen separate hot and cold taps once in my life.)

yay! bella is back!!!!! she’s so pretty love the hair

I'm from Australia, I think togs is common in qld when talking about swimwear. Alctually when I moved from Brisbane to Melbourne I realised there are a lot of interstate differences. I think my Kiwi(New Zealand) half of the family calls it a cozzie (short for swimming costume). I also call it a power point, power socket sounds strange

As a Canadian we use oatmeal and poridge boil the oats in water then once its soaked in the water usually mix it with milk and brown sugar. With the pacifier I believe it could also be a soother? To soothe a baby?

It's always a good time with you guys 😊 Great explanations 👍💕

Would love to see some Canadian representation sometime!

I'm from South Africa and here oats and porridge are two different things 🤔 Porridge is smooth and can be made from maize (corn) flour, millet flour or sorghum. Oats are chunky and are made from oats which are a different grain to corn. 🤷🏾‍♀️ Here's to embracing all our differences 🖤✨

This is such an outstanding channel I ever watch on Yt. Totally help us enrich many vocabularies. Thank you so much you guys, English speakers, across the world.

John is very Californian. A lot of his English is "standard American" English, but it's important to note that the U.S. has a very regionalized language. If you speak to someone from a different region you'll get entirely different answers for a lot of these questions and how they should be pronounced. Also, a pacifier could be called a "Paci" (pronounced pass-ee), or a binki. "skeeters" is used, but it's very back-woods. Faucets can also be called taps, and outlets can also be called socket, but usually it's a preceded by a verb (i.e. put the plug in the socket).

Billy is becoming healthier 👍

I love all your videos, so entertaining! I also love Bella's shirt! 🇺🇸❤

In Australia, we also use "swimmers", "cossies" or "Swimming trunks". "Budgie Smugglers", "Speedos", "Bikini", "Wetsuit" are more specific types. "Porridge" made from rice is usually called "Congee" - actual porridge is always made with Oats. "Powerpoint" for the socket, and "Powerboard" for the multi-socket adapter. Most fixtures have a separate cold and hot tap with a common spout. But we changed all our hot and cold taps to a "mixer" tap with a lever - fixed the dripping problems as well.

I’m Aussie and it depends where you’re from. Togs, swimmers & bathers are used up and down the east coast. It’s like how Queenslanders call a backpack a port. In Melbourne we’d be confused 🤷🏼‍♀️

Aussie BELLA! finally , lovely to see you mate!

The first comment ever! Bella is so pretty OMG...

I agree with John on the dual faucets, but wanted to add that I just moved into a house (built 1911) and it has the two faucets in one of my bathrooms. It is in the upper Midwest.

항상 명쾌하고 재밌는 설명 감사 드립니다! Very interesting!

Great video. I think it depends what part of Australia you live in, will determine what you call swimwear. From my experience, when I lived in NSW, they were called swimmers, whereas in QLD, it’s togs. In saying that, male swimsuits are also called ‘budgie smugglers’.

We only say faucet where I'm from in America

Thanks for another video, please keep doing these we love them

Thanks for the video 💕 Can't wait for the next one ☺️

American here: we say tap and socket too...very common all over the U.S.

8:27 Where i am from in England we call them midges, or gnats.

thank you guyz so much, this is so interesting, useful and educational

Awesome one Love you guys... Keep rocking

지역에 때른 영어단어 차이 알아보는게 진짜 재미있어요 ㅎㅎ 코리안 빌리 ㅎ하이팅 입니다 ^^

I'm American and a lot of people in southern Ohio say "sweeper" for vacuum

I love this series its very knowledgeable I had not known many things that I know now

Here in Malaysia, we use almost all the words mentioned, except the hoover lol. And funny that I've seen bathrooms and kitchen sinks here with two faucets before but they both spew out normal tap water, not heated or anything. Good to see Bella again, love the shirt~!

said this in one of your other videos but you do need a person from NZ too. we know all the uk and aus sayings but we have our own.

"some of them can be up to 400 years" *House older than the country*

Very thoughtful and informative video. thanks👍✌

Aussie here! We say cozzie a lot for swimming costume as well in NSW🏊 boardies for board shorts and power points for outlets

I love watching this type of video so I can practice my English while I’m trying to get some words in Korean, cuz I’m learning And also try to “get” an Aussie accent !!!

"The male" got me

yes, John, it is skeeters in the South and some parts of the Midwest ^^

Love you guys' videos!!

When they said “Hoover” I thought of the Hoover dam... I grew up in the US and majored in history soooooo

Please more videosss 🇺🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇳🇿💜

I love videos like this where english countries come together and share their way to sa vocabularies.

When the Aussie called a power point a socket 😣 and swimming costumes (cozzies) bathers! You have misrepresented us! 😂

When I was growing up in Aus we always called swimmers Togs...😅

I'm an Aussie and I say "power point", not "socket". I can't be the only one!

I love your videos so much and are so useful and useful!!!👍👍👍

Very interesting as an Irish person to learn how distinct our own vocabulary can be after watching these videos, would love to see an Irish person on this channel sometime!

Fun fact: South Africans use a mix of American, British and Australian terminology. Mainly British and Australian though.

Pacifier? Suddenly I’m confused why I’ve called them “binkies” my whole life 🤯 I’m American btw....

I grew up, in California, with the two faucet configuration. A few years back, my mom renovated her old bathrooms and changed them.

as an american i recognize the "hoover" vacuum name as door to door salesmen that sold quality vacuums. we didnt really have a "henry the hoover" as it was in the UK, or if we did it wasnt the defining characteristic of the "hoover" brand. granted i grew up with parents 40 years older than me, and i was born in 1991. In recent years as brands change, dyson is becoming more popular, but we still refer to the general object as a vacuum. side note: in america we have Herbert Hoover who was a prominent american president during the depression and is the origin of "hoovervilles" so it's kind of understanding that the vacuum brand would want to stray away from that kind of brand recognition.

Bella has changed from last videos ...she looks so beautiful

🇦🇺she forgot SWIMMERS! Dont know what part aussie shes from that still says bathers🤣 but swimmers is very common. Then ya Budgie smuglers..😂

There is definitely a lot of regional difference in Australia, although some slang is used across the country. A lot of the more well known Australian slang comes from the east coast since that's where the majority of our tv and film industry is located, so that's what gets exported.

I like when the British guy is over there . I'm learning British words . Thanks ☺️

In Australia it's definitely a powerpoint which you plug into. Bathers, swimmers and togs are regional variants.

Tq so much. I have seen all the videos...I have learnt 👍

Pacifier sounds like a tazer or handcuffs. Dody or Doughdy because it has the texture of dough I guess, but that’s what we call it here in Ireland although Dummy would be used.

East coast American here! We do have those double faucets here. We have them in our schools too. The school was built in the 1990s