You won't hear these British words anywhere else 

Gercha. Never heard such a load of bleedin' bollocks.

@@morespywareforyou2262 I thought that it was the dog's bollocks.

Never Mind The Bollocks...

" couldn't tickle a moose's bollocks " - a Ukrainian work colleague learned a lot of English words - but still an unusual way of describing a small car.

Bollocks is a very useful word.

don't forget about the Saffas too :P

@@Tockz I think its the same for most commonwealth countries,with Canada being the exception,probably due to the US influence,not visited SA so I couldn't include it. Hope you're well over there,SA making headlines for all the wrong reasons at the moment.

100% in Australia, some more so than others.. least common is ay oop , but I've even heard that and even said it 😁

And why do you think that is?

@@krissee6961 AyOop is definately a north England thing, Yorkshire especially.

The original definition is, sexually exhausted. I got a wallop for saying it as a kid. Mind you even now I don’t know how you would reach that point 😂😂 a couple of minutes doesn’t use up that much energy 🤣

@@lesroberts3226 it was not allowed in our household but my Grandmother used it all the time.

The origin is when a horse reached the end of its useful life it was knackered. This means to be taken to the knackers yard or collected by the knacker to be humanely killed and the various bits made use of.

@@lazyoldmanathome7699 Although on-line research in many cases indicates the origin of the phrase is obscure.

@@lesroberts3226 well you need to ask the girlfriend!:D But seriously ask her until you are BOTH happy..:)

How about “well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs!”

LOL!!!

Or suffixed with "to bits". So: "chuffed to bits" aka over the moon aka happy as Larry.

Cool

I had a mate who always wanted to get run over by a steam train. When it finally happened, he was chuffed to bits

Exactly. It is normally some sort of personal achievement that gets one chuffed.

It is important not to confuse "chuffed" with "chuffing" or "chuff" which are both rather rude, but are used as synonyms for much ruder ones.

And Essex 👍🏻

@@1980alsful everywhere

@@lancewalker5895 is that near Leeds?

Here in South Yorkshire, you will also often hear "Gerron wi' it, Stop Fannying abart", or even a reverse of the two parts. Usually said when someone has exhausted you patience with their faffing.

The apprentice is faffing about getting nothing done! (But trying to look busy)🤨

Here's Freddie. There'll never be another. It was a privilege to have seen him 6 times live in concert. Thank you Queen ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lkbP5OPQhdQ.html

Yes - proper is an intensifier.

More common for the younger folk is adding "well" before a word eg "I'm well chuffed at that"

In England, quite a bit. In Wales, a lot more so. (I'm not sure if there's an equivalent word in Welsh.)

American men don't use the word lovely. It's illegal apparently. It's like wearing pink.

@@philroberts7238 "There's lovely isn't it look you". Do Welsh people actually say that?

Except for those maniacs who say 'hey, you alright' and the awkward moment occurs where u dont know if they are asking how are you or just extending the hello

Always gotta use the nod!

I live in Scotland now and saying alright opens up people to whole conversations... I'm trying to stop myself using it because I'm a southerner I really don't want to know 😂

the point is most cultures don't care if the person they pass or buy something from is alright... so they don't ask. we like to check that people around us are comfortable... it's a Saxon tight-nit tribal thing

Anyway, it's 'all right' not 'alright'...just to be pedantic.

As another Londoner, if I heard you trying to say "Ay up" I'd immediately ask "Y'alright?"

Same here...Hackney born, lived in Leyton, Walthamstow and then went south of the water and then very quickly moved to Essex and 'Ay Up' just don't sound right. But even being just 20 mile north, people can still tell I'm from London.

Alright is Awreet, or even Tawreet? Oop North that is.

Agree Tim. At least in the literary sense. Must be all those British radio programs we listened to in the seventies and eighties like My word and Just a minute and Round the Horne

@@zapkvr Round The Horne was the 60's.

What about ' Fook the Villa ' ?

@@trevordance5181 Round the Horne may have been recorded in the sixties - doesn't mean it was broadcast in Oz in the same decade...

@@sheridanwilde Fair comment.

Also, Flaming Ada!

Knacker'er is the man, knackered is the animal brought to the yard, dog cow horse etc. Glue is the animal after the process 😉

I believe that the Queen still has an official knackerer , or at least did have until a few years ago.

Another word for knackered is I'm buggered...Buggered is more commonly used in Australia than knackered also saying your buggered can take on a different meaning if you say well mate I'm buggered if I know meaning you don't know the answer. Or say to someone too bugger off meaning too go away. .. Pete from Australia 🇭🇲👍

@@peterlyall2848 to Brits, "buggered" is "screwed", "up s**t creek", or "in a lot of trouble".

@@awakeningcry my parents were from Yorkshire and used "buggered" to mean both "exhausted" and "broken", and my dad also used "nadgered" with the same meanings. I also use "bolloxed" to mean both "exhausted" and "broken".

It's the subtext that's important. You've encapsulated that very well. Respect

Tea?

@@lmostayoutuber Which could be anything from "shall I put the kettle on? " to " I understand that the flooding has destroyed your entire farm and all your family drowned "

@@kumasenlac5504 😂😂

I think you're on to something. For years I imagined it was guttered as in "I was in the gutter". Don't know why. Then I saw it written, I felt like an idiot. Lucky for me there was one close by.

Yes, "I'm gutted" simply means "I've been punched in the guts" - but used metaphorically.

@@leemoore5212 As in "sick to the stomach". It's not used for a trivial disappointment.

After my colectomy I could literally say I was gutted! But also chuffed!

Yeah, thats pretty much it.

Thanks for watching!

why would you urinate on your friend?

@coolinjapan i have never heard a british person use tinkle like that, it might be just some people in london who say it like that. Tinkle i presume as an englishman is onmatopeoa, the sound being made sounds like a tinkle, so it can mean the sound urine makes as it hits the ground, or the sound a bell makes as it rings

​@@krisinsaigon Yes, tinkle as in the.sound of a telephone's bell.

Or Cold.

@@trampsvest6657 no, that's nippy

@@trampsvest6657 nipply

Nippers, the term for young boys, comes from the navy. Making up rope on ships was called Nipping and was done by young boys, hence nippers

You can 'nip', but you can also 'pop'.

I’m from Derbyshire and say ‘ay up’ all the time. Strangely, I never used to say ‘duck’ until I hit 40 and now I say it all the time. Must be a symptom of me hitting middle age 😁

It's when you get "now then, moi luvver" - even as a British person that took my by surprise when I first encountered that.

I always thought that was a greeting you would give a female only.

@@joeking5310 - Well, I wouldn’t call another bloke duck but some do.

@@joeking5310 It was quite peculiar

I think there are regional differences to this. We'd more usually say "Alright then?" with the expected response (various levels of gruffness) "Aright?"

@@octomancer my apologies, it's been a while since I studied French at school. 🙇🏿‍♂️

Here in Richmond (LBRUT), I've been asked "Are you alright?". No contraction or shortening.. I was very confused the first time and answered "Uh.. yeah? I'm ok." I was thinking this person thought something terrible just happened to me.

I think that's ça va if I'm not mistaken.

@@octomancer literally closer to "how's it going?"...isn’t it? Means the same thing too of course. 🙃

spot on, duck

Well chuffed or chuffed to bits.

I've NEVER hear tara a bit. Ever.

@@zapkvr Mostly used round Birmingham

Tara a bit! Yup we say that in the Black Country!

Tara is northern English.

@@malcbarrass7090 north in general not Birmingham.

"Bob's your uncle" is used in Canada. It's not super common though, but I'd say a good percentage of the population will have heard it and understand its meaning. Piece of Cake is definitely not synonymous. "Bada-boom, bada-bing" is a definite match though. Now I want to go to East Side's for some run of the mill pasta for some reason.

I was going to say that! "Can you do this?" - "sure, piece of cake". But you wouldn't say "Bob's your uncle" in that context.

'the source ".?? Lol this isn't GCHQ you know lol

Piece of cake becomes piece of p1ss in the UK.

The only English language is British, the rest isn't.

Right round means all around as in I took the dog for a walk right round the block.

Knock her up goes back to the days when a knocker upper went round the streets in the morning and tapped on the bedroom windows with a long pole to wake people to go to work. It was basically a human alarm clock.

@@ianz9916 In the countryside the rooster would wake you up as you got up earlier in the summer when the sun rose earlier. In the towns there were no rooster and people started work at the same time of day no matter what part of the year it was. So they got up and left for work before sunrise in the middle of winter and a couple of hours after sunrise in the middle of summer.

It’s really similar to ‘voila!’ ‘Done!’

We in the USA use "bonkers,""piece of cake," and "cup of tea" in the same way as the English do. Thx for the video...

Pizza..... Stark *raving*

Is that just the English South africans, or is it with the afrikaans also...

@@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 I think everyone's familiar with the words but it may be that the english are the only ones using it day to day

All of this stuff is also very common in Australia, fwiw.

@@richardforster5394 it seems then that these phrases and words are known in a lot of ex British colonies. As they're also known in South Africa. I wonder if it's the same for Canada or India for example...🤷🏻

@@KissMyFatAxe There is some overlap, but I think Canadians are quite detached from the rest of commonwealth in this regard - more North American lingo going on there (as our RU-vidr here evinces herself), while Indian English is a language unto itself, with a lot of interesting relics that have disappeared from most other forms of English. For instance, you hear the word "thrice" used not infrequently in Indian English, an expression probably not heard without irony or intentional anachronism in England since the Dickensian era, I'm going to guess...

We still do a similar thing in South Yorkshire. We will say Two Ding me when..... Meaning a signal when you've set off, or got home.

The three rings used to be a very common practice. I had forgotten it.

Then mum picks it up after TWO rings and thereby incurs charges...Doh!

The ring tone is generated in the exchange and is not at all related to the ringing of the bell in the called telephone. You might hear 2 ring tone 'rings' before the distant telephone bell even starts to ring!

Although, I've never heard anybody say the 'you' bit unless they're actually asking if you're alright.

Torrah, or tarrah is just sloppy pronunciation of ta-ta, which you will find used in Oz and NZ.

@@allenjenkins7947 Agreed.

I'm from the Midlands and never have or never heard anyone say Ta-Ra... So I think it isn't really used now at all here. Unless as you say it may be used in the North? But definitely not used much in the Midlands.

@@hanfran89 yes, it’s used in the North a lot. We also say “ta-da” and “si’thee” (on its own or si’thee next week, si’thee soon)

@@hanfran89 I'm from wolverhampton and nearly everyone says ta ta or ta ra so don't believe people who say they are from the Midlands and never heard it.

@@williamsmith1044 OK well that makes sense for you but you're from a different part of the Midlands, West Midlands isn't the only Midlands and in the East I've never heard anyone say it 😊

@@hanfran89 I believe "tara a bit" is still alive and well in the Black Country boomer generation!

No just working class, no more no less.

And if you're in NW Birmingham or the Black Country, it's "ta-ra, a bit"!

... and of course ta-ta (for now), as in TTFN.

Sev. Exactly. I was taught that Tarra was common.

@@karenax254 Working class snobbery my mother was the same couldn’t call her mam had to be mum, and other little things that aren’t important.

It a general East Mids phrase really. It's popular in Notts, Derby and Chesterfield as well.

Also around North West Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire and probably Staffordshire there is “ayup me owd bod”.

I once heard that 'duck' is from an old Danish word for a doll. So it's a common word in the old Danish areas of England - Leicester, Derby, Nottingham for example.

@@frankmitchell3594 The explain that's always given around my end is it comes from the old English for Duke. Which is why it's affectionate. How true either of these stories are, if even true at all who knows 🤷

@@jacobthrym7552 use to be common in Northampton

Absolutely ..... Alright (usually pronounced Aright) means Hi, or it can mean are you happy with something, whereas You allright, or are you allright are, as you say used when you are concerned about them for some reason.

Thank you!!

Roberts your mother’s brother 🤪

and Felix is the cat 😆

Bob’s your uncle was reference to Robert Peel who invented the police force, his nephew was promoted to a high position with accusations of nepotism. So Bob’s your uncle

@MāTT You just had to 😂

I often say Robert's your mums brother !

True!

@@AdventuresAndNaps You can substitute 'dodgy' with 'moody'... There's a bloke down the market selling moody designer sunglasses. Meaning they are either of dubious quality, counterfeit, or stolen goods, (they fell off the back of a lorry) or all of the above! 'Selling' in the above example can also be referred to as 'knocking out'...There's a bloke down the market knocking out moody designer sunglasses.

@@trevordance5181 [insert Only fools and Horses sketch here]

@@AdventuresAndNaps You say dodgy perfectly!

“Anybody got any veeras? Laaaaaavely”

"Naughty, naughty, veryyyyyy naughty"

He's Ebeneeeeeeeze Goode

See it, Say it, Sorted

Bosh!!

It's also a way to end up in a fight 🙂.

@@elroymartyn8429 So is telling someone to "foxtrot oscar"

I like to say "Sling your Hook" .

With my luck they'd be bad at math.

@@WhereWhatHuh or maths

That's true sharkarris , greetings from North of mexico

Yeah sorted now is usually used when referring to procuring drugs as in: Person 1; “We going out tonight?” Person 2; “Yeah man, you need me to sort any bag?”

@@joealyjim3029 speak for yourself

I think "bird" is still used quite a lot.

@@OneTrueScotsman I hate it. It's an insult to my pet cockatiel. And the same with chicks. My father liked to be different so called them quackers. He would say to my brother when he was five and we were watching pop programmes on TV "There's a quacker for you, mate". Like my brother would be interested in teenage girls at that age.

Not too bad

not many people from outside uk know how to answer this. although you could also just nod or say alright back.

Normally just reply Alright back... and both people know they are cool with each other.... It's a quick way to acknowledge each other without having to make a big thing about it. From London, England, UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I always associated "tar'rar" with Liverpool, but that is probably down to it being part of being Cilla Black's catch phrase. Certainly not posh, I think she was possibly thinking of "tattie bye" (very my Old Man) or even "toodle-pip" (posh Twitt).

@@DavidMartin-tk4fs To me, "Tatty-bye" is pure Ken Dodd. Can't think I've ever heard it anywhere else.

I thought it was from old Welsh for goodbye.

@@StephenButlerOne As a native Welsh speaker with a keen interest in Old Welsh, I wouldn't have thought so... but I'd be happy if the opposite were true :)

@@ftumschk I don't know if there is any truth in it, it's just somthing I was told about 35 years ago.

Meanwhile in North Staffordshire we just say "Eyup duck".

We have it a bit in Warwickshire, mostly older people but I'm going to try to use it more

Synonymous with Stoke, isn't it?

Thanks so much!

Thanks for watching!

😂

Seppo means American? Weird.

The convicts are way more obscure than we are with their slang. They shorten everything to the point where it's all but impossible to glean the meaning. "I am going to the shop to buy some cigarettes" becomes a shake of the keys and "ciggies"

Septic Tank. Started being used, I think, in the late 70s when everyone started confusing cockney and south London and terms seemed to be being invented daily. But more probably weakly. I blame Minder.

@@2ridiculous41 it’s till rhyming slang for yank though? In the 70s? That would surprise me that it then got to Australia and then they turned it into their own slang seppo, seems too recent

Like Americans would say "get outta town."

Americans somehow think "second" ends in a T as in "secont" and if they say, "Nottingham" or "Birmingham" the ham part is always overly pronounced.

🤢😂

As southerner with a can of Irn Bru in front of me I agree.

It’s mingin ha ha

It's not my cup of tea and I'm Scottish, Rots your teeth! 😁

@@harrietkinloch7451 I mean, I DID get a tooth out today, so you might have a point. But it's so good!

Thanks so much for watching!

Glad to hear it!

Tarrah (wack) is pretty singularly Liverpudlian, which of course is where Cilla came from. They don't even use it in Manchester 35 miles away. Nor in London, where you'd be taken for a Scouser!

I remember hearing, "Ta ta," when people parted company and was equivalent to, "See you later."

@@CAPTAINSLOG666 . Tarah is used a lot in and around Manchester.

@@monicawarner4091 Mmn - lived there 3 years never heard it once. Maybe coz I was mostly in Didsbury/Chorlton/Walley Range, South Manc, but even in town I don't remember hearing it. Just looked up a Manc slang dictionary and it's there so you're right.

@@CAPTAINSLOG666 . Having lived in what's now part of Greater Manchester since I was born over seventy years ago, and worked in the town centre for many of them, I know I'm right...but thankyou for confirming it. 🙂 It isn't surprising that you didn't hear it in the "posher" areas like Didsbury and Chorlton though.

The Appalachians were originally settled by people from the UK, mainly Ulster-Scots like me so it make sense the language traveled there, the relative isolation could explain how they have remained.

That's cool! Someone needs to make those connections before they're lost forever.

Some of our UK regional sayings and way of expression go back hundreds of years Lucas. They will have travelled with the early settlers and remained in the more remote areas. You wouldn't have too much problem interpreting between UK and USA English 😁

@@brianwhittington5086 This stuff is endlessly fascinating to me. Language is so dynamic, but at times not. I'm interested in the OED and Webster's Dictionary and the war (intended or not) that was created with accepted spellings, words, etc., but at the same time, seeing the Internet now bring everything full circle to where we're all exposed more and more to things. Much of English was becoming defined more concretely around these moments in the 18th and 19th Centuries, poshing up words with French influenced spellings in the UK, that was not part of the US style or mentality, especially at the time it was making its way in Webster's. Aluminum Aluminium is one of my touchpoints, because the US word aluminum was in common use by the time the elemental word aluminium was settled. The US jumped the gun on that one, I fully agree. Anyone up for changing it to aluminol or something? 🤔

@@xyzcomp08 Much of our English language emanates from centuries of mixture with Scandanavian and other Northern European tribes and their languages. One of the biggest giveaway as to which mix of people influenced the area, language and accent is to study the place names of our towns and cities. Some areas have a distinct Viking, Roman, Old Norse, Celtic, Norman Fench or Dutch / Germanic influence. Here in Yorkshire you will find it's a predominant mix of ancient Anglo Saxon, Old Norse and Viking, with some Roman. The further North you go , it then adds in Celtic origins. The endings of town names in Ton, Borough, Burgh, By , or the addition of By, On, or With in a town name will often be the clue as to who had the longest period of influence and occupation there. You will find pockets of villages and hamlets with older names. Then you could find larger towns nearby with names of a different origin, as an areas resources attracted inhabitants and it's population shifted around. England probably has the most mixed of any influences in the whole British Isles. Ireland , Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland tending to be mainly Celtic with Viking / Norse heritage. As to Aluminum... well it's always been Aluminium to me, it must have lost something crossing the pond. 🤣😂

I have not heard any person from the UK using the word store either

A store of something is what one might find in a cellar. ;)

Store is an American usage, here we have shops.

You go shopping at a shop...not storing at a store. Right?

@@vallejomach6721 Absolutely right 😁👍

Yep and down south it’s ‘alright my luver?’

I've always heard American English say "sorted out" for completing something or getting something done. "It's all sorted out".

@@leesharra1413 Interesting, have never heard any American English speaking people saying that but I wouldn't know as I've only been over that part of the world a couple of times. When I was young you never used to hear people say just "sorted", you'd hear "sorted out" much more often. Along with "stood" and "sat" instead of "standing" and "sitting" which is much more common nowadays. I think that used to be something you only heard up north.

@@kelpkelp5252 True, American English may be too broad. Perhaps I should have specified when I have heard the use of "sorted" in this context it was always as "sorted out". It might be regional or social or familial, a bit of all three.

Ahh that's so true, I forgot about that one!!

This is so interesting because I’m from ON like Alanna and I’m used to people saying “I’ll give ya a shout after ___” or whatever. Now I’m wondering how so many of these phrases are somewhat common for me, but she barely heard them in Canada. I guess Canada has a lot of variation depending on the area even within the same province. 😂

@@AdventuresAndNaps It's not really that funny. Maybe, it was in combination with your accent...

Glad you enjoyed it!

It's just a short friendly greeting and not usually intended for you to tell them your troubles, unless you were good friends. You could use any number of short or one word replies as a response, such as.... Fine thanks, Great, Not too bad, or even reply back with Alright. It's just an acknowledgement and the reply would fit to how well you knew each other.

It goes like this: Person 1: "Alright?" Person 2: "Yeah. You?" Person 1: "Not bad."

“All things considered”. See Bill Bailey doing a thing about this

Yeah definately not equivelent, its more, after the main hardship of the task is complete, from there on in, its pretty much done and we are all good.

@@zoltrix7779 It's also used to describe something you thinks easy eh, as in, "D'you think you could jump over that wall?", "Oh yeah of course, piece of cake!" lol!

Yes I agree with the other comments piece of cake means that was easy as in doing a a job you thought was going to be hard but it turned out to be easy so it was a piece of cake were as bobs your uncle means I'll get it done as in can you get the job finished by the weekend yes bobs your uncle

Thank you so much

Good job. Probably just a coincidence though.

😂

That is adorable.

Actually, it would be "heating". Heat would have sexual connotations.

@@helenwood8482 good to know.

But it isn't a euphemism or turn of phrase, we literally mean we will sort it out- particularly if something is a mess or you are in a mess. I've never heard turn on/put on the heat. Put the boiler on, the fire on, turn the heater up, put the central heating on. You can't put on or turn on heat. Nonsense phrase.

@@helenwood8482 I've never heard that.

Back in my university days I knew of several students who'd come from other parts of the country, mostly the South East, who would react with outrage when someone addressed them as 'love', particularly if it were a man addressing a woman, until they realised that literally everyone local calls each other 'love' and they were being friendly rather than patronising.

Probably because they say that in America?

As in 'Got to see a friend off to the coast'?

lol. A friend, years ago, used the expression with "Cosby Kids" 😬

An old workmate would always use one or other expression to avoid a task . They varied by urgency to get away by saying. Gotta go, Turtle's head is popping out. Or, gotta go drop off a Richard - rhyming slang for Richard the third.

Are you allowed to drop your kids in the pool these days?

Thanks!

Spelt gawp or gawping though.

@@billswifejo good job

Gawping!

I've always used tut tah. Is it me?

Hammer mate, that's my bit too. I'll always greet someone with "you're back. And ya front" been at it for decades. I remember because a work mate used to mock me about it in the eighties

@@zapkvr Yes I started saying it in the 1980's I'm not sure why though.

What the removal of a male lambs testicles

Although you don't get broth in a brothel.