British Answering Questions American People Are Too Afraid To Ask
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I was curious about where we Americans got the word "cookie" so I looked it up, thought I'd share for those who care. The word "cookie" comes from the Dutch "koekjes" which came from the Dutch "koek", meaning "cake"; cookie was introduced to English in the very early 18th century. It is thought this term caught on more in the United States due to the strong Dutch heritage in early America.
From a Dutch person, koek, means like a big variety between cupcakes and shortbread and things like that. Koekje is like a little biscuit you usually have with thee or coffee. Cake is cake thatâs easy.
That makes sense. We used to say biscuits and not cookies when I was a child.
Ty
It's more due to European colonialism
@@menotme9095 Aren't all koekjes the really good tasting ones and biscuitjes the cheapest one you dunk into your coffee or tea?
When all people sing, they change their vowel shapes to get out a pure sound and tone. A lot of people end up doing it subconsciously to some extent, but if you've ever taken voice lessons, you emphasize certain vowel sounds and leave out certain consonant sounds in ways that you don't when speaking because it won't sound "song like" otherwise. There are exceptions to this, if you are going for an affectation, but in traditional/classical training, it is what you do. Singers don't really sound "American" either, they just sound neutral.
Maybe this is part of why i sound terrible when I sing? Whenever there's a long R sound I think I tend to spend more time pronouncing it than I should
@@joeysung311 When you sing, trying to sound out consonants tends to shut the mouth. Try it - most consonants involve stopping the airflow with your lips, tongue or teeth. But vowels open the mouth and the sound comes out more clearly and is more attractive. When you learn to sing (when you're trained to sing), you learn to sing mostly on vowels (opera singers in particular) limiting consonant sounds to the margins of each note and keeping them short.
Well put. I'd also add that most British English is non-rhotic; they don't pronounce the 'r' after a vowel; ie. 'buttUH' instead of buttER. It's easier to sing a non-rhotic 'r.' When Americans sing they tend to sing a non-rhotic 'r' or at least truncate the r-sound significantly. Listen to Sinatra in "Fly me to the moon" sing 'stahs' instead of stARs and 'Jupiteh' instead of JupitER. Another distinguishing characteristic of a dialect is its cadence or rhythm, how long one stresses a certain syllable or pauses between words. Music forces the singer to make the lyrics conform to the song's rhythm rather than his or her own dialect. Lastly, I think most singers are aware of their dialect and can code switch to a more standard version of the language if the song calls for that. They make a conscious effort to minimize their own natural tendencies. C&W music seems like the opposite. Some 'country' accents sound like affectations or exaggerations to put a more 'authentic' stamp on the song.
Yes...if we're talking about "trained" classical singers. But I think what the question is concerned with is why, for instance, Paul McCartney sounded like Little Richard when he sang a Little Richard song - or why Robert Plant's speech during an interview sounds nothing like his singing of "Hey, hey mama..." at the beginning of Black Dog.
@@steveeliscu1254 Nope - we were talking in this short thread about singing vowels as opposed to consonants. It might have been the question in the video but this short discussion wasn't specifically about that.
it was funny to hear ally say bad words in her sweet little voice đ
There's a simple reason for the singning accents.
Classically trained singers tend to simplify their phonology. American English tends to be simpler phonologically than most British dialects. Folk (not high class, in other words) singers (including things like country) don't have this problem, though. Listen to a folk singer from any region and you'll hear their natural accent (or, say, 95% of their natural accent). This even happens in the US, though. Classically trained singers rarely sing in the same accent they speak in because NO ON speaks in that accent naturally. You'll also notice most US accents are Rhotic (think about Car or bar or four in American English vs RP, for example) but even American Classically trained singers are non-rhotic, because that's a complicated phonological feature and is dropped when you learn to sing classically. Even folk singers will drop rhoticity because it doesn't sound good in song.
"There's a simple reason for..."
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Sorry, mate. I agree, but it was to ironic not to say something.
That is also a big thing in spanish too, we have lots of different accents in every country, but when they sing people from different places sound mostly the same. It's so hard to tell where a singer is from when they sing
There are some British singers and bands that do retain their English accents in their songs,
Artic Monkeys as Lauren suggested is a good example, and then there is Oasis, Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love, Simple Minds, Kaiser Chiefs, Blur, The Proclaimers, to name a few, and gosh they never mentioned The Beatles.
The proclaimers are Scottish
Madness too
Plus there are Welsh bands such as Catatonia.
@@user-tp8io4vz6s it used to say English singers
@JJ X They don't sing with much of an accent. Sh1t sounds the same whatever the accent.
It's a pretty good set of questions that (as an American) I wanted to know the answers to. Lauren did an excellent job with her answers. Especially being off the cuff (impromptu). Our biscuits are not at all like English muffins though. More like scones in composition, but with a different flavor. Now I'm getting hungry! Cookies are usually sweet, where biscuits are a type of bread (savory/buttery).
I thought the opposite but at least they were interesting and unique even if they were a bit odd
Also a little off with the British Baked Beans response. We have Baked Beans.... lots of popular American brands. B&M is popular brand in the North East. Bush is popular brand in the South.
Ally is so adorable, so calm, when I listen to her talking is like some kind of dream.
Same thing in France, biscuit is the generic term and cookies are a specific type of biscuit
King Philip IV was sh##e
They probably got the biscuit from the French language, and it's similiar to the way the other languages that come from Latin (like biscotto in Italian)
@@irenecarrillo6750 while in spanish... 'galleta' đ
@@rosaline953 Which comes from french "galette", a variety of "crĂȘpe".
@@rosaline953 it reminds me of what in english is called rice cake, those crunchy snacks made with puffed rice
When I was a kid in Britain, the word 'bloody' was definitely considered an expletive. Children would be soundly reprimanded if they used it.
0:40 no, an American biscuit is nothing like an English muffin. They're closer to scones but definitely not the same thing.
I would characterize it as a soft sort of scone.
If you watched the British Girl ask the American girl questions, you would see that she is a complete moron who knows nothing about the country, so it's not surprising she couldn't get that right either. An English Muffin a biscuit? Really? Like, just say you dont know SMH
Oh man, that was cringe worthy. Totally different. Who doesn't know this? Both are common in the US. FWIW, the drop biscuit variation of _American biscuits_ is more or less exactly the same as a scone. They don't sell them at KFC. They predate the current fluffy round cut southern style biscuits.
yeah how the heck are biscuits and an english muffin the same
"Why do british lose thei accent when they're sing?"
louis tomlinson: AM I JOKE TO YOU
With one direction it was same too they lost there accent when used to sing even tho Zayn malik has a thick accent and sometimes it showed but they all sounded American
Some of them retain it. Listen to "Misis Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" by Herman's Hermits from 1964 sang with a heavy English accent or New Wave bands from the 80's like Depeche Mode, The Smiths or The Cure. Most of them retain the English accent although there are more British acts which sound American like Rod Stewart, Elton John or Ed Sheeran
This channel has quickly become my new favorite! I cannot get enough of these videos! Lauren is definitely my favorite panelist so far, but everyone does such an amazing job and are super entertaining. :)
"Why do british people lose their accents when they sing?"
Do the Patchicuti: Am I a joke to you?
I love this American girl đ She's so adorable â€
K then -
The UKâs official measurements and system is metric, so stones is not taught as much and mainly used by older generations or those that were taught imperial by parents. So the UK use KG and grams for weight.
So official that all highway code and road signs are in imperial. The weather forecast is a nightmare as they mix imperial and metric measures which is an etiquette no-no. Millimetres of rain/snow and then miles per hour for wind speeds. Make up your bloody mind. I can't guage Fahrenheit but I can't Celcius either, tbh. I am around 10 stone or so and haven't the first idea what that is in kilos. I always have to ask when I am weighed medically if I can have the result said to me in English, please.
@@simonsaunders8147 Well said. But I'm so old I'm still struggling with money decimalisation!
I'm 35 and use stones. So I'm the older generation now, oh dear
I use only metric (aged 44) but many, especially younger people use imperial for human weight and height, while using metric for everything else. Even I use miles because of the road signs but like many I'd measure a walk in km.
@@gchecosse I'm 50 and wouldn't use metric because I can't speak or think in it. I know what it is and can work out calculations with it. It just doesn't feel right for me to use it full time. Guess it is what you are brought up with.
The word biscuit literally means 'twice cooked' in French (Old French or Middle French, I'm not sure which) and biscuits used to be cooked twice to get that crunch. Cookies are softer and don't have the same crunch.
Pounds and stones are Imperial measurements, there are fourteen pounds to one stone, so we use the bigger of the two when measuring weight. 140 pounds? Ten stone.
American saying âWhy do say Mum but not Dud?â
But then forget that they say Mom but not DodâŠ
I didnât even know measuring in stones was a thing đ
Same haha
They stuck in stone age đ
Where have you been living though. I'm not from the US nor UK, but I'm familiar with pounds and stones.
@@Traveler-rf8ye I've never heard of stones and I'm german
@@lizzynjm9854 The British do it, if you watch British TV shows you can hear it, since you're from Germany it's probably dubbed into German and converted into Germa, so you won't hear it
Allyâs (the American) voice is so cute, I love it đ
With regard to the mum vs mom I would have said that in my mind I would imagine mum was the original word since English language was here before America. I imagine that once the word mum was taken to America it sounded different as the accents changed and then it just was adopted to being mom.
The temperature of summer in Britain is somewhat relaxing for some hot climate country in the summer. đ
The beans with tomato sauce like thing Lauren said is delicious
"Why do British people lose their accents when they sing?"
The two girls should sing together "Smoke on the water", just to hear how the British girl sing "water".
i love how ally just say bic*th and f word so clear and lauren use *beep* instead đ
To clear up the pounds/stones thing. By and large the UK is metric (although we still use miles, which are actually different to American miles) so we use grammes and kilos for most things. Stones we use when we're talking about human weight so we tend to know how much we weigh in stones but buy our food in grammes and kilos. Most gyms weigh you in kilos so I've noticed a lot of younger people talking about their weight in kilos recently. We also use metres for most things but still talk about our own height in feet and inches. Speaking personally I'm comfortable with talking about feet and inches for people's height but once we get beyond that to ten or twenty feet or more I get confused and have to go back to metres.
I'm an ancient 50 years old and keep clear of metric measurements (apart from Celcius!). They make no sense to I.
Actually the mile was standarised now, so they are the same distance.
@@jaycee330 I was just about to say that they aren't actually different.
The US Survey Mile is I think 4mm longer than an Imperial Mile, but some US states use the International Mile, which is the same as the Imperial. Some states don't specify, because it hardly matters.
Agreed. I'm unusual at my age in using metric for height and weight of humans, but many people only use imperial for those and are otherwise metric. I use miles when driving because of the road signs, but use km when walking.
"why do british people lose their accent when they sing?"
Louis Tomlinson: i do not exist
OMG!! In Mexico we love toasts with beans and cheese on top đ€€, we call them âmolletesâ.
I didnât know Stones was actually recognized in the UK as a Legitimate unit of measurement.
Yeah, but only really for the weight of people. Babies are measured in lbs though.
It's not used much anymore by the younger generation, who just use kg for their weight.
@@jdsrne22 that's because stone babies aren't that common. My baby boy weighed 10lb 2oz, the doctor said it was like handling a one month old!
"Bloody" is an awesome adjective. It sounds right out of a Shakespearean novel.
Shakespeare wrote no novels, only plays and poetry.
I'm glad they brought up the singing thing. I think singing forces you to enunciate more so the words follow the melody of the music and that's what the American and Canadian accents are , just making the sounds longer and flatter if that makes sense.
What?! The American girl doesnât know that America has baked beans?! Sheâs definitely not from the southeast US...đđ
Funny, as an American I would watch James Bond movies and wonder why he referred to M as "mom," but of course thinking about it he was actually saying "ma'am," but with the "ah" sound in his accent.
A toast with beans and melted cheese in Mexico is called: "mollete"
6:05 - 6:11
British: Trying to be polite
Americans: Being direct.
First I'll say that I LOVE The Smiths T-shirt! They and The Cure are still my favorite bands. I live in America and have eaten a sort of beans on toast for as long as I can remember. It's not so much like baked beans (too sugary), but it's more of a "pork and beans" type. Yum! And I've always eaten a big burger (or any huge sandwich) with a knife and fork (not fork and knife).
I adore the Smiths too!đ
I just ate toasted bread with baked beans and an egg, it's sooooo comforting
Lauren's the best...
A little correction on the use of the metric system around the world: while we do use it for pretty much everything in Germany we also still sometimes (especially the elderly) use our own old system of measurements for shopping.
So while i would always tell my height and weight in meters and kilogrammes, I will still order a Pfund (pound) of minced meat at the butcher's or three Ellen (lower armspan from wrist to ellbow) of a certain yarn at the tailor's. For some reason while we also have had the decimal system for centuries now we also do still think and order in duodezimal (so 1-12 being a "full" array of numbers as opposed to 1-10) when buying stuff (so half a Dutzend (dozen, guess all Germanic languages had originally a duodezimal system) or a Dutzend of something.
Oh and for seafare we also still measure speed in knots and measure distance in seamiles while for races we also still use miles (though all those measurements differ from the British empirial units, which was the whole point of adopting the metric system globally to begin with)
"It's never hot or sunny"
"It'll be like 22 degrees and we'll say 'Oh my Gosh, it's so hot...."
UK with a temperature of 27 degrees now and freaking out.
Rip
Oh my god, yess its soo hot right know, im dying
And we Indians will be in blankets....
While for me 27 degrees is perfect weather đ
and 3 days later and itâs raining
LOL US biscuits are flour, lard or shortening--possibly chilled butter, and regular milk or buttermilk. Knead it and cut into circles--there is even a biscuit cutter kitchen tool. I live in the Southern US so maybe other parts of the country they are different. Then there is Pillsbury's canned biscuits, regular and Grands. :) Generally used for breakfast, but in the South they are served with any meal and you can even buy them with meat or with icing and cinnamon from some restaurants at any time of day. As far as beans on toast, my understanding is they are "Pork & Beans" in the US. Baked beans have added ingredients like molasses and some spices (cloves for example). As far as the "taste different", you can be canned "baked beans" that have all sorts of flavors like hickory smoke, onion and bacon, spicy, etc. I think the main brand I know of is Bush's Grillers. My mother was from a British family and hated "bloody". She said it had to do with women and menses and was very vulgar. I think she was wrong, but you don't talk back to mama!
5:00 I hear the Rhythm Heaven tutorial music in the background. I mean hey, it's a bop! I love that game đ
2:44 listen to louis tomlinson music, thatâs the most british accent you could ever hear. (and beautiful too)
We sing pop/rock in a sort of American way, because it kind of slurs the phrases together and makes them less jarring. However, people tend to sing traditional/folk/classical/choral/opera stuff etc with British accents, as that would sound odd to us if sung in a kind of American way.
The weight in stones is an ancient measure going back to antiquity - based on multiples of pound weights made from actual (rock) stones. Several areas in Britain had their own numbers of pounds in a stone but in the 1800s it was standardised to 14 pounds in a stone. The reason the British currency is called a pound is because in Anglo-Saxon England it was one pound (weight) of silver, comprised of 240 silver pennies. The symbol derives from the upper case Latin letter L, representing "libra pondo", the basic unit of weight in the Roman Empire, which in turn is derived from the Latin word, "libra", meaning scales or a balance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sign
@Blue Moan I completely agree with you that the origins and style of the music and the characters/locations portrayed play a great part in it. As children we used to have fun singing rock/pop songs in very British voices and seeing how ridiculous and pompous it sounded - and then conversely impersonating operatic music with very heavy American voices and seeing how weird and inappropriately "slangy" it sounded. I also agree that I like the way both are used - and people do it because it works and sounds right. Similarly, to you wanting to keep Mary Poppins in British accents, I have no desire to hear things like The Deadwood Stage sung in anything other than an American style - we used to crack up doing very received pronunciation and pompous British voices signing the line "So whip crack-away, whip crack-away, whip crack-away!" which sounds completely ridiculous.
@@isiteckaslike I also think the American accent is more musical in nature anyway, it has a cadence that is much closer to singing than the British way of speaking.
6:09 It's supposed to be rude, but the way Ally said it is so cute :'
Their interaction is so cute.
agreed
Stones are dying out in the UK as well, fast.
what are we using instead then cos itâs definitely not pounds
@@thinkingboutyou1293 Kilograms, of course, the only PROPER unit of mass
That's not true. Only people who go to the gym and stuff measure themselves in kilos.
@@Emmet_Moore nope, I've been taught to weigh myself in kgs since primary. no idea how stones/lbs work.
@@Emmet_Moore most people I know use kg, regardless of whether or not they go to the gym
Here in mexico we also have beans on toast w melted cheese, it's Made w another type of bread but is basically the same, we call it "mollete" and also you can put salsa mexicana/pico de gallo on it (made w tomato, onion, lemon juice)
It's a very popular breakfast here
Woah! Were those the first ever F-bombs on this channel? Ha! They're cute. Now, I wanna hear Christina drop one, as well. Just for giggles.
@Blue Moan Why put a space between the word and the full stop?
@Blue Moan It was just a question, I was wondering if the space was an American thing, but thank you for the wonderful alphabet soup.
Toast and beans is soooo good. :P
So impressive with Lauren Scottish accent đ€Ł
No. It was bad. No offence to her, but non Scottish people cannot do convincing Scottish accents. None of them are good.
@@mjudec my impression is my personal preference and got nothing to do with you!? I know how Scottish accents like. FYI she is not from Scotland and she just tried to speak Scottish accent doesnât mean that she can do it perfectly!! She just does what she can.
@@borntobesweetie I know she's not from Scotland. Good for you being impressed. No Scottish person is. Fair play to her for trying, but it sounded nothing like a Scottish accent.
@@mjudec I think she just tried the best she can to explain how Scottish accent like to an American and if you think it doesnât sound like Scottish accent thatâs up to you. Btw Iâm impressed by her effort at least she tried so hard to explain how it likes. Tbf thereâre many accents in Scotland though doesnât mean everyone in Scotland speaks like this!
@@borntobesweetie I know. I'm Scottish
Most singers of rock music - both American and British - are imitating the sound and pronunciation of the founders of that style: the black-American blues and RnB artists of the 1940s and 50s (and before.) So they would sing, for example, "bae-beh" for "baby" instead of "bay- bee."
It's a kind of interesting videoclip. Good questions & answers.
In my (British) household bloody is defo a swear word đ but itâs a milder one compared to others⊠still would probs be frowned upon to say it around kids tho hahah
Agreed. Bloody is definitely a swear word for me - unless a literal description of something covered in blood. Where it comes from is a contraction of 'By our Lady' the Virgin Mary) so it might be the blasphemous aspect too.
Uhhhh
*thinks*
Interesting mate
Greetings from Toronto Canada đšđŠ đ đč
As an American I love baked beans on toast with like parmesan cheese, itâs SO good you guys have to try it omg
I think with singing, accents donât disappear but are less pronounced as the sing-songy idiolect or inflections are lost when there is a melody. For example, the welsh accent is quite sing-songy and some phrases end in a higher pitch (like Australia) put that part of the accent will be lost when there is a melody. Hope that makes sense!
"KFC Bread" is the best description of an American "Biscuit" I've ever heard. And you're not wrong either.
Bloody is definitely a swear word it just isn't very strong- hence bloomin instead of bloody. Ask your grandmas folks
Yes, we have baked beans in the US. We just don't put them on toast. Maybe I should try it though, looks good!
Ally really needs to play Max for the Life is Strange film being made. It's too perfect.
6:08 The US girl gives me little sister vibe, who learned from big sister to swear.
*sneezes on phone-*
Being my night routine lol
6:09 is the softest, most adorable 'f*cking hell' i've ever heard in my life istg
I searched for this comment. I was going to comment my self if I couldn't find it. It was adorable, but wired too.
Fookin' hell.
2:18 I'm in Turkey and it is 35°C degree even tho it is 9pm. I would even kill to see 22°C degree in summer đđIt's hot af.
I feel you, same in Spain, summer is hell ;-;
It even gets absolutely boiling in summer in the UK! It was 29°C in summer once,. But it also snowed last may, soooooooo...
In Singapore, summer is not VERY hot , about 32°C or maybe a little less. But itâs summer all year round. We only have rain, sun and cloudy, thatâs it.
@@rosaline953 Maybe my family should think again when going to Spain, (travel restrictions and covid restrictions are being lifted in the UK)
in peru we eat bread with beans inside, but we dont bake them with too much tomato. it's sooooo delicious
I got the gist of this video: Fucking hell!! Greetings to British and American cursing class !! Good evening, ha-ha!!
Whoa, what's up with that "Johnny come home marching" remix at 4:18 ?
In India , its same as Brit. Biscuit is regular ones u sip in tea and make it soggy and have a nice momentđ. Cookies are the ones very hard with nuts or choco chips or raisins or all on it and you buy them rare or on fancy occasion.
Soft muffins are called Cakes. Everything soft muffiny, small or big is cake for us.
I love digestive biscuits. đđđ from wa state here.
The Summer in UK feels like the winter where I live :o
@@jackmason7099 thank you! I was mainly referring to sunny days. Here, in winter, the maximum temperature ranges from 12 to 17 °C on average. Sometimes we have days with 2°C (which is cold for us) and sometimes we have days with 24°C. But every year we have some exceptions.
Diction is why they lose their accent. I had to take a whole class in college talking about it. Basically it makes it more easily understood and keeps words from blending together.
Accurate! I'm an operatic tenor in training, plenty of people lose their accents when they sing because it also frees up and improves the vocal quality of the vowels.
Most of people are calling them biscuits!
Iâm from Hellas đŹđ· and we call them ÎŒÏÎčÏÎșÏÏα/biskĂČta
Italians call them biscotti
French call them biscuit
Spanish I believe they call them bizcocho
Maltese call them biskott
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So the American cookieâŠI donât know from where it began?
I was lucky enough to have seen Adele liveđđ» thanks God!
I think she sounds pretty British!
She said in a song: ââ When youâre here, foreva
You and me togeva nofinâ gets be-a (better)ââ
I loved it! She has a cockney accent and when she speaksâŠđ€©đ€©đ€©đđđ
Brazilians call them biscoito too
@@gregorymuniz2276 ahh, in Portuguese! Right
I donât think that there is something equivalent to cookie in any other language!
It cannot be translated. Americans just calling the biscuits cookies!
There is another comment that says that the word cookie came from the Dutch word meaning cake!
We India call it biskut. Same thing.
@@svgstarlight Germanic languages have their own term
Germany: keks
Denmark: kiks
Norway: kjeks
Sweden: kex
Finland: keksi
In Netherlands they have pretty much a lot common words with German but they have a heavier accent/pronunciation
But Dutch đłđ± and Deutsch đ©đȘ they have a lot of common words!
I donât know, how in Hell, in the Netherlands they are calling them biscuitsâŠ
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âI thought they were just singing in a funny accentâ- I remain offended on behalf of the proclaimers đđ
Their chemistry is so good isnât it?
As an Aussie baked beans on toast is THE BEST
"Bloody" was allegedly a sloppy pronunciation of "by Our Lady". And when I was a kid, it was really bad swearing.
singing is made more for the US accent, in how the vowels are pronouced (you can wail them out emotively, as Adele does). A British accent (Southern) downplays the vowels (first rule of imitating a Brit accent, open your mouth smaller) - if you were to wail them out in a British accent it would be droooney. If you listen to British folk, choirboy hymns or Gregorian chant, that's the kind of singing British accents are more designed to do (also rock and rap) -but not so much crooney or pop. There are of course exceptions such as Pet Shop Boys or The Cure, The Kooks or Arctic Monkeys, Paolo Nutini etc. Northerners who sing in a Northern English accent also have elongated vowels similar to the US accents, and are often misheard to be singing in an American accent, such as Oasis.
I remember hearing Brit's sing in an American accent because rock and roll was hugely influential to the musicians, which came out of America.
American biscuits are NOT like English muffins (not even close) or scones. They're definitely their own (delicious) thing! đ
Iâve never heard maâam pronounced like that lol Iâm British and I say it rhyming with ham
bullshit. there's no way you've "never heard" it pronounced like that. literally every british show, movie, youtube video I've seen it's mum mum mum mum mum.
@@chumkrimson8161 ok weird to call someone elseâs experience bullshit but if you can read I didnât say mum
We donât use the word maâam in Britain
I feel like in the UK, the further away you get from France, the more people swear.
Before 2010 I suppose, I don't remember, in Panama we didn't have an official measurement system but now we have the Metric System. And we don't use kilograms, we use pounds even though you'll find things in both kilograms and pounds or just in pounds, we use inches, feet, yards, miles, acres, ounces, gallons, tons as well as millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, hectares, milligrams, grams, milliliters, liters.
For example soda is always in ounces, feet is often used for construction or stuff related to the ocean, inches for TVs, fabrics, etc, yards are used for land or fabrics, miles sometimes used instead of kilometers, acres sometimes instead of hectares, gallons for bottles of juice or water (formerly also used for gasoline), tons are used for water as well.
Something some people find awkward is that when saying our weight and height we use both. For example, 1.65m and 127.8lbs.
We Panamanians use both systems even though the Metric is the official one
The reason that Brits say mum is to distinguish the maternal nickname from a form of polite address, which can't be pronounced "maem" like in American English because that's the Welsh/Irish (somewhat regional) equivalent of the former.
US: pounds, feet, inches.
Rest of the world: kilograms, meters, centimeters.
in the UK we generally use metric measurements for everything except height (ft and inches) and speed limits (miles per hour). I think for weight it's a generational thing - the younger generation use kilograms instead of stone and pounds
UK uses metric in business and science but colloquially people still think and refer to themselves in imperial. A British person would still say I'm this many feet tall and this many stone rather than I'm this many centimetres and kg.
@@FadeToBlack888 No in UK we say centimeters.
@@realscottsummers That's weird be because Im British and i tell people how many centimeters and even sometime e.g 156.4 cm (My Height).
in spanish we use feet "pies"
and "palmos"
mide 5 palmos - measures 5 palms
So biscuits are like savory scones definitely not English muffin, our cookies just vary from soft and chewy to thin and crunchy itâs just a generic term for us, and yes we have canned baked beans that are more tomato based campbells and van camps, in the south we used to eat them all the time with breakfast as kids with grits and toast and eggs and sausage.
In Portugal we use the word biscuits (biscoitos ) too!
British person here, who the hell is eating burgers with a knife and fork???
I love the British accent! :D
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There's no such thing as "the British accent."
"British" baked beans? Never heard of it. BOSTON baked beans maybe.
That's where boston baked beans comes from, except the yanks used molasses instead of sugar in the sauce.
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When she said 22 C was hot I was like what?! I live in Malaysia a tropical county so almost everyday is sunny and usually at 27 C and hot days maybe 30+ C. But America man 46 C whattttt!!!
I am British and iâve never measured in stones. I always measure in kilograms and so does my school and family
Isn't Stone pretty much only used for people's weights these days, while everything ELSE will be kilos.
@@Wiley_Coyote i use kg for my weight swell but thatâs just what i grew up with so it will obviously be different for others.
The fact its been 30-40 celcius in brorson now the Time lauren dont live there so its pretty hot sometimes but it was extreme for them
I'm British and a lot of people here use kilogrammes but some people use stones
Omg I love arctic monkeys and the proclaimers lol
Man i gotta move to the UK the perfect temperature for me is 23°C
Move here instead đŠâŹđ„đ«đ·. The weather and temperature are way better here than UK
Me too! 23°-25° is my fave temp!
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Love France but I live in Germany so the weather probably isn't too different. (Plus I don't speak French) I just hate the super hot summers with 35ÂșC and it's definitely not getting better with climate change :/
@@ladydiamondprisca Yes it's perfect because you don't freeze and don't sweat either.
@@mariexx5762 Understandable. Same here. Dont like high temperatures. I usually go to Normandy or Nord Pas-de-Calais during Summer Vacations. Cause in South of France like Cannes, Nice, Monaco. it's really hot and so crowded there. Unless you go to the beach ealy morning
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I donât care what yâall say, but Ally is pretty cute to me
Hi I have to disagree with you regarding MAM in Wales we always invariably call our mothers Mam, and collectively it is common to say they are Welsh Mams.
British baked beans is just America's version of Pork and Beans ( white beans usually- Great Northern beans in a đ sauce ). Which here are a lesser variety of bbq baked beans.
British baked beans seem to have tomatoes in them, US backed beans are sweeter with added sugar.