Americans take British Slang Quiz
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The "Made redundant" was wrong.
Brits say "sacked" to mean fired.
Made redundant is to be laid off from work rather than being fired.
Being sacked/fired is your fault whereas being made redundant means the company is downsizing or doing away with your role.
Yeah sacked or to get the sack
Lol picked up that one during the quiz, both done extremely well.
Fired is used too though but usually because you've done something bad rather than just made redundant.
No: if you are “made redundant” you are “fired”, although for a particular reason, namely your job (rather than just you) is/are no longer required by your employer. Being “laid off” is usually applied when there is some real prospect of being “set on” again in the future. If you are made redundant, you would not say you had been “laid off”.
@@allenwilliams1306 my mam was made redundant.after 25 years because the place was closing down they gave her about 15k.
"Tosser" is the more tame version of "wanker" - though both derive from the same activity, lol.
I'd say the opposite. I would use the term wanker in front of my elderly father, but would never say tosser in front of him.
Calling someone a "tosspot" is pretty common up north
I said the same but there was no way I was going to explain what it meant. Blush!!! :-)
@@JC-qk1rq It is, but it does not mean wanker. It means drunkard.
Though even worse would be being called a tosspot, "tosspot" being the thing that the "tossee" is "tossing" into :)
Regarding French fries... in the UK, yes of course we know what they are and hear it often, however I think they refer more to a specific type of chip, namely McDonald's style ones that are very thin and crispy. Normal chips are a bit thicker than that, and then after that you have "steak cut" chips that are even chunkier still. So yes, French fries are known and understood, but in the UK really when you think of them it's just the one style of very thin chip.
The British word for French fries is 'frits' but it's not that well known.
They are specifically thin chips, like you said - the McDonald's ones are frits.
@@samhilton4173 I've never heard of the word frits. MacDonalds and Burger King both sell French Fries. McCain Oven Chips, which are sold through supermarkets like Tesco or Sainsbury's, sell a variety of French Fries and Curly Fries as well as their Straight Chips, Crinkle, Home, and Skin On Chips. However, as every Brit knows, chips are best eaten with fish from a chip shop, preferably a chip shop at the sea-side.
@@samhilton4173 that’s actually what the french call french fries, in the U.K. they are just french fires or chips
I’d also add that you’re way more likely to hear just ‘fries’ than ‘French fries’
@@samhilton4173 Here in England, whenever I've bought "frits", they're crisp shaped chips. So the same shape as a potato in chips, exactly like crisps, but thicker.
Edit: Hold up, I don't think Frits is a pure cut from a potato, rather potato that's been mashed & then fried. So basically like a chip. Why it has to be mashed first confuses me.
"It's cold enough outside to freeze the balls of a brass monkey".
A brass "monkey" is the thing that used to hold cannon balls. In extreme cold the frost would cause the monkey to temporarily distort which would dislodge the balls and they would fall off.
A clean origin for a colourful expression
Brass monkeys yes, but not monkeys on their own. Never heard of it being used like that
I know I'm being a pedant here but it wasn't that the brass monkey distorted, its that brass and iron contract at different rates in the cold so below a certain temperature the brass monkey was no longer big enough to hold the cannonballs.
A lot of sayings originated from the British Navy.
@@stevelknievel4183 A quick trip to wiki indicates that canonballs explanation is a load of crap.
“Budge up” makes sense as “move” because “budge” means move as well. For example “Despite my pushing, the cow didn’t budge”
"Otch up" is more common.
@@capcompass9298 where the f*ck are you?? 😂😂Never heard that one 🤙
@@tieganmccusker3034 It's from Yorkshire or t'north of England.
@@capcompass9298 pal, I'm from Hull. I'm from the North Yorkshire, in North England. And no tf it ain't. 😂😂
Knackered has 2 meanings. “I’m knackered”= im tired. “It’s knackered “= its broken.
Skive is pronounced sky-ve.
Chuffed is to be happy/pleased ‘I’m really chuffed with the results I got’.
Peeved is another not in this- means to be annoyed/irritated by something
Gutted means to be disappointed. ‘Im gutted I missed a great deal’.
Skive is pronounced “Skyve” not “Scivv” and the second half of Wazzock is said like ‘duck”
Yeh, it's wah-zook.
And the a in wazzock is like the apple...not an o sound.
While we're on the subject, twat is the same a sound, it's not twot!
You pronounce wazzock wrong.
Lost the plot: they spelled ''stollen'' wrongly. Stolen - steal. Stollen - cake. :-D
And it's not Skiv it's SkivE - Sky v
@@0utcastAussie agreed - long I silent e
The full expression is "I'm going up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire." I.E. climbing the stairs to the bedroom.
Never heard of it! How much more simple is just bed.
@@jontaylor1587 More common in SE England.
@@russcattell955i thanks russ, i lived in Bournemouth for a number of years, i cant say i heard it there must be an old saying.
My parents called stairs the wooden dancers for some reason lol
Never heard of it and i Liv e in Bedford!
The question about the TV is misleading as both "telly" and "TV" are acceptable answers.
The noble British chip is not a French Fry!!!
chips are fatter fries you get from Maccy D's
@@chrispalmer2136 you mean fatter than the fries that you get from Maccy D's?
@@padmelotus I think they meant "Chips are fatter, fries you get from Maccy D's"
Nah nah nah, telly or idiot box is proper
Chips are healthier than French fries, because chips are wider than fries they absorb less fat into them as the cooking fat only reaches a short distance in
Actually being made redundant is different from being fired. You are made redundant when your job no longer exists, being a ticket salesperson when a ticket machine is installed. There is no fault in being made redundant, and if you are unable to be redeveloped you will receive a single redundancy payment when you leave. If you are fired, it is because you have done something so bad that your employer must stop employing you. You would normally have to leave immediately.
It's basically the difference between being fired and getting laid off in the states.
You're right and Thank Heavens that I worked in a Nationalised Company from 1973-1989 because I was the laziest person there and would have been fired within weeks :)
One's basically a euphemism of the other. (Guess which one's the euphemism)
"Gutted" is very often not just being unhappy but usually the "unhappiness caused by great disappointment", so that when you're team loses the championship or you buy an expensive, fragile present for someone and then drop it in the street smashing it to bits, or you finally find your dream flat/house, ring to put an offer in and find out that someone's just beaten you to it and the offer has been accepted. Or, it could be that you have a special birthday treat planned and find out that it's cancelled at the last minute. After any of those things you can say "I'm gutted" or "I was gutted". You don't use it for trivial things, so you wouldn't say "I was gutted when I dropped my last chip", unless you were joking.
ie You feel like your guts have been ripped out
@@neuralwarp yeah like a fish is gutted.
Yeh, it's like, "I'm gutted that England didn't win the football match", or, "I'm gutted that I didn't get that job", or, "I'm gutted that no one came to my birthday party".
Gutted means fucked as in buggered.
@@crimsonwizard2560 it can also mean that, but generally only in the sense of a building beinf destroyed. Eg, the building was gutting by fire.
12:35 To me, ‘fired’ means dismissed for incompetence whereas ‘made redundant’ is dismissed because you are no longer required.
fired = sacked
still out of a job though.
@@ianprince1698 Would you rather tell a prospective employer that you were fired from your last job or made redundant?
Fired and made redundant is the same thing.
You say potato, and I'll speak sodding English, mate.
@@ericdpeerik3928 Fired and made redundant are not the same thing. If you’re made redundant your job no longer exists anymore. The company won’t be replacing you, as your role does not exist. They’re not allowed to reintroduce your role for a year or two, either.
"Wicked" was 90s "ace" was 80s. We do have French fries, they are the flavourless, thin chips sold in fast food places. Ordinary chips are much nicer.
I was saying wicked in the 80s too though I thought it might have been a regional term up north and Scotland.
In the 70's we'd use peach
I very occasionally still say wicked and immediately feel my 47 years.
00's was mint. people still use these though
Jammy is annoyingly lucky. For example, if you get a parking ticket but you're friend drove off while they were writing out yours - your friend would be jammy. It's like not getting caught for doing something naughty. That would make them a jammy sod.
Or "ya jammy bastard" is a common one
That’s why it’s almost always followed by an insult. ‘Jammy git’ also effective.
Being very, very lucky would be "having more jam than Hartley`s".
There are 3 levels of jammy, when talking to family "jammy git" normal friend "jammy bastard" and best friend "jammy c*nt" :):)
I learned it from my Grandad, he was a good card & domino player. If we manged to beat him he'd call us a "jammy git"
Chips and french fries are not interchangeable. French fries are those skinny chips that are too crunchy that you get at fast food restaurants (like Burgerking or McDonalds) whereas Chips are thicker (about as thick as your little finger) and come in a variety of textures.
That's not quite right, everyone I knew still referred to McDonalds fries as chips when I was little.
It's more like a Venn diagram with the fries circle being inside a larger one.
All fries are essentially chips but not all chips are fries.
Also I don't think anywhere in the UK referred to them as 'french' fries, that was just something you'd hear on US TV shows and movies.
little finger thumb!
@@Bandanko lol yea fries are my little finger and chips are my thumb
Chips can also be cooked in a variety of ways, or even made with a combination of cooking styles as with say triple cooked chips.
French fries are pieces of deep fried cardboard covered in salt.
Yeah you can't have fries with fish and peas has to be traditional chips.
About the percentage: in the UK academic exams are much harder to score high percentages in, but lower percentages are expected. 70% is typically the threshold for the top grade of honours in an undergrad degree.
When I sat my GCSEs, I did the higher tier Maths paper which you couldn't get below a C on. You only needed 20% to do this though. Someone in my class worked out that you could get this without being able to add so long as you got everything else correct. (For reference, in some papers you could get as low as a G. F does not mean fail in the UK.)
@@stevelknievel4183 Well GCSE maths is pretty trivial anyway. In theory below C isn't a fail but in practice for most purposes it is - most places only count C and above.
For A level economics in northern ireland, 45% is often a pass. I hated it so so much
@@godlovesyou1995 As a former GCSE Chief Examiner in Economics, 40% was perfectly decent score, but then, my papers tended to be quite difficult compared with those of other examiners. What they are designed to do is differentiate between the abilities of candidates and that the results have a sufficient range to enable you to do this. The absolute values of the scores are irrelevant. If the scores range from 2% to 66%, that is perfectly OK, no better or worse than 36% to 100%.
@@jamietaylor5570 I view GCSEs as being one whole grade lower than the 'O' Levels they replaced. So a 'C' at GCSE is much closer in my mind to a 'D' in 'O' Level. This is just my belief at how dim some GCSE pupils are not knowing things I knew many years before 'O' Levels anyway.
Skive is a good word to highlight the complexities of English. Skive is pronounced the same as "hive" (as in bee hive), but live can be pronounced both ways - live as in skive to mean a live gig/concert or live as in give to mean you live your life. It makes it complex when non-native speakers are learning the language
You guys are hilarious, and the saying is "it's cold enough outside to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
And that is NOT rude as the phrase is about Iron canon balls which were stored on a brass stand (it looked a bit like a monkey). Since different metals shrink at different rates an extremely low temperature meant stand’s platform shrunk more more than the balls. Hence the ones on the edge plummeted to the ground. It was more impressive when stand was completely full with the balls being stacked in a pyramid. The letter Z pronounced Zed in the UK is not slang it is just how we pronounce it, when discussing just the letter. Along with A (pronounced Ay as in hay) B (pronounced Bee), C (pronounced Sea) etc.. Hope this tickles your fancy & I’m stoked you’re letting the cat out about slang from Blighty. Whether you nail it or not you’re an engaging couple!
The phrase of "going off to Bedfordshire" for going to bed is usually "[I'm off] up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire" - the wooden hill being the stairs. (or variants).
or even 'up the dancers'
That must be regional because I have never heard that in my life.
My Grandfather used to say that, and I occasionally bust it out myself.
my dad used to sing #up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire#
some parts will say up the apples. or apples and pairs
We use the term fries to refer to the thin McDonalds style chips in the UK, or we might call them skinny chips. Also to confuse you more there is a brand of UK crisps called 'French Fries' and they're shaped like the McDonalds fries.
Lol, they were "chip sticks" in the 70's.
@@danosverige Walkers make French fries, Smiths make Chipsticks. Two different snacks.
@@knottyeti - There wasn't two different snacks in the 70's mate! "French fries" only appeared when the Yank fast food places arrived.
@@danosverige You may be right but I'm not sure. I remember eating chipsticks in the 70s but live never been a fan of walkers french fries. There were definitely American style burger places in the UK in the 70s though.
@@danosverige chip sticks are different though, very vinegary. And not really crisps more a maize snack.
12:37 Redundancy is a specific legal term in UK employment law (specifically section 139 of the Employment Rights Act 1996). It results from a reduction in workforce, so while your employer can hire someone to do your old job if you're fired, if you're made redundant, your old job should no longer exist.
Also you may get redundancy pay if you have been at the company for over a certain amount of time, I know someone who got around 15k because he had been working there for almost 20 years.
@@derekdelboytrotter8881 IIRC it's something like 1 week's pay per year you've worked there, but it's got a couple of caps (one for length of service and one hard cap on total value).
Plus it's not a slang word
@@moiragoddard592 but I've been made f'king redundant is.
Ian, I'm sorry to hear this ☹️
You both should do more videos like this 1 it was fun to watch you both trying to guess p.s could you take a scottish slang test 😁👍🏴
...then Glasweian.
Ach, they wouldnae stand a chance.
Calling someone a "wet lettuce" is like saying they're a bit pathetic. It also means something else 🤪
Scrummy is just a mix between yummy and scrumptious. Quite a few words are like it. Ginormous is another- gigantic and enormous
Bootylicious - Booty for beautiful, licious for delicious.
Floordrobe: when you use the floor as a wardrobe 🤭
and scrumptious can be bastardised into scrumdiddlyumptious or combined with delicious for scrumptilicious
You did really well! We have SO much slang it's crazy 🤪
I'd love to test you with more but I think you've had a gut full and probably can't be arsed!
Throw in the towel in for today, stay chipper and give it both barrels another time x
The common (and quite old) expression to kids is; "Going up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire." Most UK homes are two story and have a flight of stairs (staircase) made of wood, thus; "Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire."
To say; "It is monkey's outside" is not the usual form. It will often be remarked that it (the weather or temperature) is "Brass Monkeys" and is very old slang. The full phrase is; "It is cold enough to freeze the bull off a brass button", which is Infantry slang. 'Bull being to highly polish something - like buttons or boots. However, a Brass Monkey has, I think, a naval connection.
I may be confusing things, but I believe a 'monkey' was a frame used as the base for cannonballs to be pyramided next to their guns as ready use ammunition. Some may have been made of brass and, being the Navy, would have been polished to within an inch of its life. So, it could be "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."
A great many British slang terms had their origins in the military, often hundreds of years ago and some even traveled. "Going off half cocked" refers to the striker mechanism of flintlock muskets and that certainly traveled.
I'm from England myself and its funny hearing these slang words. These slang words are used in day to day life and I dont take much notice of how funny they are until someone talks about it.
Monkeys Outside- a traditional saying around weather is "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" (a brass monkey being a naval tool but, in true British style, we manage to make it into a double innuendo) so "it's monkeys outside" is just a shortened version of the original
My dad was from Scotland, he used to say up the wooden hill, but I've never heard the Bedfordshire bit before, English can be so region based that someone from a couple of county's away can use a saying that you have never heard of before.
I love the UK 😁
Without the wooden hill part it doesn't really make sense
In Wales we'd say "up the coed-y-daran" (coed is pronounced like coy-d not co-ed)
Off t mi pit. Or I'm off up. In Bradford. West Yorkshire.
The word "chuff" is brilliant it can be used in place of a swear word as in "I'm chuffing annoyed" and children use it to describe the sound a steam train makes, the daughter of a friend was once playing trains at home when she suddenly shouted out "come on mum, get on the chuffing train" 🤣🤣🤣
So every time I took a train journey I'd take a picture just as I was getting on the train and send it to my friend with the message "I'm getting on the chuffing train" 😂😂😂
hahaha :D
Forgot about trains going 'chuff, chuff!'
I also use chuff to say "it's cold", as in it's chuffing, meaning it's "chuffing freezing".
We also have French fries, but French fries here are the very thin chips you get from places like McDonald's. All thicker chips are chips.
And French Fries came from Belgium anyway. The Americans decided that Americans wouldn't know about or have heard of such a small country so chose the francophile neighbour to name them.
The quiz was good. Please do more. The quiz itself was moderately accurate I would say. It was up-to-date for adults but not quite up-to-date with the new young things.
When ordering chips in a place like McDonalds when they are the thin ones I would say fries. I would never put French before them though. Just fries. And chips would be the thick cut type but many older people would not use the word fries ever and they would all be chips regardless of thickness/shape. Curley fries are always referred to as fries though, you don’t get curly chips.
chips are basically fat fries and french fries are basically just skinny chips, we only use fries when referring to skinny chips but even that isn’t too common in the uk
i love you guys, one of my fav channels
As a Brit, i've never heard the saying "off to bedfordshire"
:P
I've heard it, it's Cockney slang but I've never actually used it. I'm not a Cockney though.
I've never heard dishy either
@@Jackalos1 dishy is pretty common in the southeast 🙂
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire and dishy both used here in East Yorkshire
But our Rose is always going on about the dishy vicar.
Great fun! I’m a Brit and certainly knew all of them. It’s strange hear of others speaking English that don’t 😂 Nearly all of them in still in pretty common usage…
Another entertaining video from you two, hope you come over to the UK again.
I'm chuffed to bits about this channel.
Snog means French kiss, as opposed to entirely to make out.
I was going to say this. Heavy duty kissing with tongues.
"Scouse" is actually a type of stew that was once closely associated with seafarers. Liverpool being a major port city, its inhabitants became known as "scousers."
And because of being a major port city the Germans bombed us
And none of us have ever eaten it, since we’re mostly Irish or Welsh, and who wants to eat some Norwegian leftover stew anyway? Especially now there’s McDonald’s or KFC or Burger King. … Lobscouse. Even sounds disgusting.
@@ifeeldeadinsideD2 My grandfather never forgave the Germans for missing the Victoria memorial….
@@lindylou6864 What your on about I'll never know
Great video guys.
I’ve heard the phrase “up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire.”
In the UK, we have "fries" but it applies only to thin chips (e.g. McDonald's fries). All fries are chips but not all chips are fries. "Scrummy" actually comes from "yummy scrummy". And the word "tosser" literally means "wanker".
Some brits might say french fries for places like McDonalds because fries are different to chips, but i'd just call them fries, like big mac and large fries please :D
And chips are just large fries 😂
'French' anything is not at all popular in UK!
Hi 🙂. With the chip thing, officially, only the thick ones are called chips, whereas the thin ones are still called fries.
And Chinese chips are mega chunky and awesome !
@@0utcastAussie yeah i agree, unfortunately it’s been a while since i had some. (My local chinese restaurants only do normal chips)
Love this channel xx
This was great you guys are amazing!
Would love to see you do a quiz for Scottish slang, it is completely different from the rest of the UK and I'm pretty sure you'll have a laugh in the process.😊😜
Plus the Scots have mastered the art of being able to type in their accent. Scottish twitter is amazing. That'd make a brilliant video on it's own. Them trying to decipher Scottish tweets.
Aye like Scottish Doric
'Time to go up the wooden hill (stairs) to Bedfordshire (bedroom/bed)' - My mum always said that to us kids when I was little :)
Where did you grow up?
@@BuzzaB77 London
@@Kericka69 ah cheers. never heard it up north
I haven't heard a lot of these for ages! Was anyone else shouting SKIVE (to rhyme with hive)?
Thanks so much!
The phrase "Your going to Bedfordshire" I have heard and always thought it meant, "Your going to Bed for sure" as in no messing about it's time for bed, or "time to visit sleepsville".
As in the phrase "Monkeys Outside" the phrase I've heard is "It's cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey", this I think was a navy term when cannons were called monkeys and the cannon balls were placed next to them "the balls" and when it got so cold it would freeze "the balls of a brass money", something on them lines.
"Go you steady" is a nice Norfolk way to say "take care" 🙂
The Geordie way is "gan canny" 😊
@@helens3693 pronounced gooyoo steddy
I worked for a bit hup theya. The money was shit but the people were nice. I think.🤣👊❤
@@samgarrod4781 we really are ripped off with wages, but we're a canny bunch up here 🤣🤣
@@helens3693 A Norrr 😁❤
A little off topic. Bedfordshire is the only county in England where you have to travel through at least two other counties to get to the seaside. (I think).
I know a place in Derbyshire is the furthest point from the sea at around 75 miles :)
West and East Midlands surely have 2 counties between them and the sea?
In my native north-east England (I speak like Sarah Millican and Brian Johnson), 'knackered' or just 'knacked' also means 'broken' if applied to a machine.
French Fries.... From Belgium 😂
In the UK, all French fries are chips, but not all chips are French fries. We generally do call skinny chips fries, but we tend to drop the French from it.
I'm British and never heard of wazzock. It sounds localised like it's used in the West Country of the U.K. "Give them a bell" originates from Alexander Grahame Bell,the "inventor of the telephone
Wazzock isn’t common these days
I've not heard the going to Bedfordshire but I'm down south, most are still used, having the bottle to do something is like having guts to do it.
I'm surprised you've not heard that expression because, just like someone who comes from Bedfordshire is from the south, so is the expression.
The first mention of "the wooden hill" meaning a flight of stairs comes from the early 1600s. The first mention with the extension "to Bedfordshire" dates from the 1860s, although it is probably older. There is an old lullaby of uncertain date that begins "Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire and down sheet lane to blanket fair". Vera Lynn also sang a song with this title in 1936 as did The Small Faces in the mid-60s. czcams.com/video/NtbmYUIwXNA/video.html
I'm up north and never really use it in that way. But we say "they bottled it" when you mean they chickened out or messed up.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches Bottle and glass (for arse) is also where we get the term Aris for arse, too. Most people incorrectly believe the word is 'Harris', but, as you probably know, it's Aris, short for Aristotle. Aristotle, bottle.
@@grapeman63 Top marks for Small Faces reference!
Going off to Bedfordshire is more usually said as ‘up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire’.
Regarding UNI being short for university, it is actually an Australian term made popular by Australian soaps
I'm a brit and have never heard of going to Bedfordshire as going to bed.😕
Me neither.
Me neither.
Funny, a lot of people say the same. I thought all parents said it to their kids. Makes going to bed sound like fun.
"What is Zed?" Zed is dead baby, Zed's dead
You're thinking of Zed Lepplin.
What a Group they were..
@@Isleofskye The Datefull Gread and Fink Ployd were better.
@@henrybest4057 Maybe, but still not a patch on Peep Durple though
So where's his chopper?
Monkeys for being cold outside comes from a phrase “It’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey”
Some corrections we do eat bags of chips. That’s how they come from the take away. Its brass monkeys for cold. It’s so strange you not knowing these words they really are part of our everyday vernacular (except wazzock!). And it’s pronounced sky-ve off not skeev off 🙂
'Tosser' comes from the Scandi word for crazy, 'tosset'
Canadians say, 'Zed' too
You did good guys, the words are still relevant and having loads of UK friends, you hear them all the time, including those not so 'clean' 🤣😉
hello from Denmark 🌸🌱
chips and fries are different things, fries are thing like what you get from McDonalds. Chips are like fries but a little bigger and better!
In general fries in England is usually prefixed by 'skinny', so thin cut chips are marketed as skinny fries.
No no no, chips are never wimpy. French fries are an American invention where they made them skinny, pressumably to absorb more fat and salt, and cooking faster. Chips are chunky and comes from Belgium originally.
I love your videos and have been following from the beginning, keep up the great content 👍🏻.
You’re not far off being true Brits now guys!.. If I may be so bold, one criticism though mate… please let your lady talk.
It’s nice to see both of your opinions 👍🏻
Much love
The history of french fries comes from American soldiers in world war 1 being in Belgium (but thinking they were in France) were given fried potato chips to eat. Not knowing what they were called, called them french fries. So actually, even then geography was not their strong point.
But then, we in England call anything disgusting French. Syphilis has been known as the French disease for centuries.
Monkeys comes from the phrase "freeze the balls off a brass monkey". Brass monkeys were used to hold cannon balls and when it was cold they would contract and the balls would fall off the monkey.
This origin story has been widely debunked.
British slang is very regional, so different parts of the country has different slang, so I didn’t even know some of these and there are a lot more I would personally say
For sure - it would be very odd for the same person to ‘go to Bedfordshire’ and also ‘have lots of dosh’. It suggests a totally different class and region.
@@oldvlognewtricks yeah it really would haha
Tosser / Tosspot is the same as wanker, can be used as an insult or funnily enough as a term of endearment depends why your saying it! Made redundant isn’t being sacked, it’s being more layer off. In the North trousers are called pants, more so now by the older generation. We say it’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a monkey, it’s not an animal we’re talking about apparently it comes from a tray which held cannon balls on navy ships, but others say the monkey was a gun on a ship, so no one knows for sure.
In the uk there is a difference between chips and fries. Fries are like McDonald's chips and skinny whereas chips tend to be cut thicker.
They're all still used. I'm intrigued though - why do you say 'fish and chips' and not 'fish and French fries' ?
Because chips and French fries are strictly speaking separate things. French Fries are the skinny thin things you get from MacDonalds, while chips are much thicker cut and much better
Yes, I realise that, but US folk don't normally use the word 'chips'. Are US fish and chips served up with thicker French fries ?
@@elunedlaine8661 Fish and Chips is an inherently British meal. It's like sausage rolls or scotch eggs, you won't get them anywhere other than the UK. Therefore when you take Fish and Chips out of the UK (not that anyone would ever want to), it's still Fish and Chips.
@@elunedlaine8661 Steak fries are the nearest thing to chips but they still aren't quite the same. They are always too dry and crispy. Decent chips should have a certain sogginess to them that's further enhanced by excessive amounts of salt and malt vinegar. Picking the soggy remnants from the bottom of a chip bag while walking down the street in the cold rain is a must.
"I'm off up the wooden hill to get to blanket bay" is another somewhat twee British way of saying I'm off to bed lol
Good video for a friday afternoon, cheers :)
For skint in the advanced quiz you can also have potless, brassic, church mouse, stony, on your uppers.
We know french fries, a Belgian invention I believe, as thin cut chips served, most often, as a fast food element. Proper chips are thicker cut crisp outside and fluffy inside (generally through frying twice or thrice).
The questionnaire is wrong. If you order chips you won't always get french fries. French fries are thin, chips are fatter. The UK definitely says fries, it's a different thing to chips very slightly.
All fries are chips, but not all chips are fries.
ummm nope you're wrong. All hot chips are referred to as fries in the US and I'm guessing this quiz is aimed at the US. It didn't say french fries, it said fries. big difference
Yep it's up-to-date I think you did really well, the only thing wrong with the quiz was some of the spelling
Bottle as courage can also be used in a negative way. "He's bottled it" means he's lost his nerve or chickened out.
From rhyming slang: bottle & glass = arse, presumably connected to shitting yourself (i.e. you've lost your bottle). If you've still got your bottle, that's courageous.
Snog means to vigorously kiss a woman, it doesn't mean to make out. Make out is an American term and is never used in Britain. We often use pretty crude words such as banging or jumping or getting on the nest or basically fucking.
Wagwan bruv dat vid was propper lit init big up on the next one Fam ,inabit safe
Hi guys! FYI: knackered is an old word which was used to reference the Knacker man or Knackers yard, the knacker man was called when horse# had grown to old to do their work when they were the tractors of the farm yard or basically any working horse to be taken away and butchered hopefully humanely, hence knackered, at the end of your strength and feeling as though you can’t go on can’t. I’m feeling really knackered - you have to say as it like you really mean it!
😂😂😂 nice one guys loved it yes we still use the slang words well I do anyway we Im up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire now 🙏🙏🇬🇧
- Television: We use both Telly and TV. Also 'the box' short for 'The idiot box'. One of the many inventions Britain has given the world.
N.B. almost half the worlds inventions and discoveries are British or have a significant British input. That could be a good reaction video.
- Budge up: We also say shove up, move up, shift your arse, etc.
- Chips: French fires are the nearest thing you'll find in the US but chips are bigger, chunkier and greasier. Fries are skinny, crunchy and fluffy inside so are a bit different. Much like biscuits are similar to cookies but not quite the same. Biscuit litterally means 'twice baked' which means they're hard/crunchy all the way through and last longer before going stale. Cookies are only baked once, are soft/chewy in the middle and go stale more quickly.
- Jammy: you'll often hear someone called a 'jammy git' or 'jammy bastard'.
- Knackered: It can mean both tired and broken. i.e.If you're exhausted you're knackered and if something no longer works/is broken it's knackered.
Originally a knacker was a man who removed dead/dying animals, especially horses so at the end of their life they'd go to the knackers yard to be made into dog food, glue, tallow, etc.
- Know your onions: There are several theories for the origins of this phrase but it's thought that it was originally an American phrase, not British, but it fell out of use there.
- Skive: Prounced like hive, dive or five.
- Tosser: Just like a wanker. Someone who wanks/tosses off/jerks off. The implication being they're a sad loser who can't get a girlfriend so has to masturbate. However both tosser and wanker are mainly used as general insults along the lines of idiot or bastard.
- Wazzock: The wazz part is pronounced like jazz and the 'ock' more like 'uck'. Mainly used in the West Country and a fairly mild insult. You might hear someone saying 'You daft wazzock' or 'You girt wazzock'. 'Girt' BTW is a way to add emphasis like 'great or 'very' depending on contex.
e.g. 'You girt wazzock' = you great big idiot. 'He/she's girt lush' (lushcious) = extremely attractive/sexy/hot.
- Scouse: Pronounced like mouse or house.
- Redundant: Is being laid off, NOT fired. By law someone made redundant is entitled to a renumeration package (pay off). The exact amount varies on the length of time you've worked there and the individual company as many offer more than the legal minimum amount. If you're fired/sacked you get nothing because you've breached your contract in some fashion.
- Bedfordshire: Pronounced Bed-fud-shur. They missed out the 'd' from ford in that quiz which is why you messed it up slightly.
- Monkeys: Short for 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. If it was very cold it was common to say it was cold enough to freeze off the extremities of various animals e.g. the nose, whiskers, tail, etc. In the 19th century Brass ornaments from china in the form of the three wise monkeys became popular. So if it was very cold it would freeze the balls off not just an ordinary monkey, but a brass one.
N.B. You may also hear a story that it comes from cannon balls but there's no evidence to support that and it's considered an urban myth.
- Ace/Wicked: I haven't heard anyone use 'ace' since the 70s and you don't hear 'wicked' very often these days either.
- Bottle: Cockney rhyming slang for bottle and glass = arse. i.e. They've crapped themselves.You might say 'He's lost his bottle' or 'He's bottled it' if someone's scared and loses their courage.
- Chuffed: Comes from the sound you make when you blow your cheeks out as people sometimes do when very happy/excited. Like the chuffing sound a steam locomotive makes.
Incidently 'chuff' also has another slang meaning. Oop north it's slang for a vagina/anus. A common phrase is 'Tight as a gnat's chuff' meaning something that's a tight fit or someone who's a scrooge/tight with money.
Hope that's helpful.
Hi, a few explanations: i) Bog roll,- a slang for toilet is bog. Originally people had open sewer pits, resembling a bog ( as in wet marshy land). The building next to it also became known as the bog. ii) Cheesed off - similar origins such as hard cheese , getting hard cheese was the old cheese given to foot soldiers . iii) Dishy - as in ‘The dish of the day’ iv) Jammy - poor people often ate dry bread , occasionally with a scrape of fat or butter. To put JAM on it (similar to your jelly , but better) was to be very lucky, or jammy. v) When an animal was too tired and old too work it would often be sent to the “knackers yard” for slaughter. So to be knackered was originally to be slaughtered to be made into glue etc. vi) Kip - a Kip ( a word adapted from Dutch origin) was a leather travel bag. To,be kipping was to stay somewhere else than home, this evolved into the act of sleeping being a Kip and now to indicate a nap vii) Scouser - a Norwegian stew called “lobscouse” was brought to Liverpool by Norwegian soldiers., so people in the area ate a stew that was eventually called scouse.
Up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire = upstairs to bed
they are all used even now
The phrase "it's monkeys outside" is I think derived from the phrase "it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey". A brass monkey is a triangle of brass on the deck of old sailing ships (16th to 18th century) and was used to store cannon balls. In really cold weather, the brass would contract, and the cannon balls would fall off. However, this is only one of many theories as to why the phrase exists, and I could be totally wrong!
It’s a common story, but it’s very likely false.
The original saying was "Its cold enough to freeze the balls TO the brass monkey." Nothing to do with contraction, expansion or balls falling off. Common parlance has changed the "to" to "off".
Thank you for this, yes it was fun. And also educational in the reverse direction as I'd never heard the phrases "play hooky" nor "make out" before and would not have guessed what they mean. Funny that "wicked" is slang for "cool" but then "cool" is slang for "good" (not just "at a low temperature"). Well done.
Ethan & Mrs Ethan:
Chips vs. French Fries: we have both, our fries look just like yours, though IIRC yours have some meat flavouring, or are cooked in a meat oil or something, whereas ours are typically just thin sticks of potato cooked in vegetable oil. Chips are like fries, but thicker - at least twice the width & thickness. Lengthwise they can be less uniform than fries as well.
Skive - rhymes with five.
Wazzock - the wa sounds like the wa in wack, whilst the o is usually pretty short, or can sound like a short u, depending on the area. i.e. wazzuk, or wazz'k. The only time it has the ock ending you used is when the word is deliberately stretched out for emphasis, like when you're really talking down to someone because they've done something really stupid.
Scouser - the second s sounds like the first, not a z sound. Or, to put it another way, scouse rhymes with mouse.
Going to Bedfordshire - in the quiz they misspelled it by forgetting the d before the s; it's Bedfordshire, not Bedforshire.
"Monkeys outside" comes from the expression "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."
im a 56 year old bloke living in Birmingham and have never heard of going to Bedfordshire ?that is so weird. but well done and go to the top of the class. love your vids
In the UK thin chips as served in McDonalds are called French Fries. While proper chips are usually thicker and Chunky Chips are the thickest. There are also Potato Wedges and Curly Fries available in the frozen section of the supermarket. A proper Fish & Chip shop will make chips from whole raw potatoes cut with a chip cutter. Which pushes the potato through a 9.5mm square grid of blades. Other places, like pubs etc, often serve frozen chips with their meals now. The frozen "Oven Chip" has become a major part of the UK diet. The traditional chip pan filled with lard or cooking oil and heated on top of the cooker has virtually disappeared. Unattended chip pans were a common cause of house fires in the past.
You guys are so likeable, love your videos
Thank you!
Pretty good score guys :) much love from East Midlands, England x
Impressed with a lot of your answer Midwestern Wife ^*^ and the reasons behind them - a lot of them are still in use BUT more to the older population - Language by definition is fluid and everchanging
I’ve lived in the UK for 45 years of my life and I’ve never heard one single person saying they’re ‘going to Bedfordshire’. If you want to talk slang (Cockney rhyming slang) we’d say ‘Up the apples & pears’ (stairs) 👍
I think it's interesting that even though there were a couple in here that I'd never heard of, I was able to intuit the answer anyway. Almost like understanding the British mindset when it comes to slang helps to translate words based on context.
You did ok. The Bedfordshire one isn't used a lot up North.
Glad you got 'Scouser' correct because I am one and proud of it !
The saying Monkeys is a shortened version for it's cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey, a brass monkey was a brass triangle that the royal navy used to stack cannon balls on, when it was really cold the brass would contract and the cannon balls would fall of the triangle.
The monkeys outside one goes back to when the navy used cannons. The whole phrase is ‘cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey’ because something called a ‘brass monkey’ would hold the cannon balls. When it was cold the brass would shrink and the cannon balls would fall off
"Time to climb the wooden hill to Bedfordshire." usually said to children to get them to bed. Oh, and these are all in very common use today.