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One phrase I've noticed more Americans using over the past 10-15 years is "no worries", which I believe originated in Australia, but somehow got appropriated by Americans.
Yeah, I have no idea how that happened. I liked saying it back before it became common here in the US, but years later it’s become a fairly regular thing here.
Quite a few of those fanny packs are actually holsters for firearms, I used to carry that way when it was hot so you can wear cooler clothes but still be able to carry a full sized pistol.
Beat me to it. I was going to mention that. Especially in the summer where a gun belt & holster will "print". Easier to conceal.
I definitely wouldn't feel bad about not being able to distinguish Canadian and American accents. Even as a Canadian, it is really hard to tell the difference unless you're specifically listening for it. Or there are certain words that don't sound quite the same (about being an obvious one). I've been told my accent sounds "American but slightly off".
It’s those Minnesota crowd that sound like Canada haha
I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan within an hour or so of the border crossing with Ontario. I was told before that my accent sounded like bootleg Canadian.
Born in Georgia, grew up in Florida. Definitely different accents across the country
It always takes me a second to notice when I’m speaking to a Canadian. Honestly, a lot of the time, I don’t notice, depending on the region they are from.
There isn’t an American accent; that is, there isn’t one singular accent. There are numerous accents. Off the top of my head I can distinguish at least 11, 5 in the American South alone
Autumn and fall have always been interchangeable in my neck of the Midwest. Regarding Cornish Pasties, they are popular in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the adjoining region of northern Wisconsin. The reason is because miners from Cornwall came to mine copper and iron. However, southwestern Wisconsin predates those regions with Cornish miners settling the area and introducing the Cornish Pasty. The Cornish miners came to Southwest Wisconsin in the late 1830s or early 1840s due to the lead rush in the area. Lead mining continued in the area until after the civil war. Not only did the Cornish introduce their food, but their mining techniques, their quarrying skills and their architecture which combined eventually with American styles. To this day, driving through southwestern Wisconsin, you can see Cornish farmhouses, some barns, buildings in town squares, historical sites, such as Pendarvis House, etc. Mineral Point, which used to be larger than Milwaukee has numerous Cornish buildings, including an opera house.
My grandmother grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Although she was Swedish/Norwegian, she also made pasties and passed her recipe down to my mother and she passed it on to my siblings and myself. Now that the weather is getting cool here in the Midwest, I will soon be making pasties. They can be ordered online but homemade are best!
@@kathyross59 agreed to both homemade being best, and the time of year for them. I live in north-central Wisconsin, but as a kid lived near Dodgeville in south-west Wisconsin in the lead mining district which is where I’m familiar with them. I’ve also had them in diners a restaurants along Hwy. 2 in Wisconsin, not far from Hurley.
You can find pastie shops all over Northern Michigan. but yes pretty much pasties can be purchased almost anywhere in the UP, especially the Iron Mountain region.
As an American I can't usually tell the difference between an American and a Canadian
@@norwolf4765 😆
I was taught when visiting other countries especially countries hostile or not allies to the U.S. Say you're Canadian. haha
Eh?
@@levin448 he means accent
@@norwolf4765 Depends on the region but the "standard" Canadian accent sounds like the "standard' American accent. It's not until they pronounce out is when you know for sure. lol
Fanny packs are very commonly worn by people who have health issues where they need to keep medical supplies nearby. They might even have a machine in there that's attached to them. They've started to head towards having more discreet ways to carry those types of supplies.
We could learn a lot about each other's cultures. So many differences but I think we share a lot too!
On American/Canadian accents: the easiest way to tell (IMO) is how we pronounce sorry. American's give it a short 'a' sound while Canadians give it a short 'o'.
My daughter is an autumn baby, and I named her Autumn. My favorite time of years. I think we say fall because autumn leaves are falling. At least here in the South.
Not sure where the mile and house number idea came from....here it is based on blocks. If there are 16 numbered streets and say crossing avenues that are named after trees for example, then the houses would be 102 Oak Avenue, and next door would be 104 Oak Avenue and on the opposite side of the street would be 101 Oak Avenue and 103 Oak Avenue, even numbers one side and odd numbers on the other, and the first number in the address denotes which block it is in. So where Oak Avenue crosses 14th Street, the houses would start with 1401, 1402, 1403, etc...The number street blocks would also be numbered in their direction say east to west, with 100, 200, 300 blocks. Rural addresses may or may not be mile marker driven. Also, say a street crosses the center point of the number system, you may have 102 E. Oak and 102 W. Oak so you know which direction it is.
Depends on the state and individual city in some case, here in Oklahoma City house may 2 or 4 digits apart and our numbered streets run east/west and name streets run north/south and our measurement by from downtown is like what Lawrence said
@@JAB2010 The numbering system doesn't really line up with distance, like miles, it aligns more with the number of blocks. I lived in Chicago for over 30 years, and Chicago has about eight blocks to a mile, roughly. For example, in Chicago I know Fullerton Ave is 2400 north. If I see an address that says 2420 N Kimball Ave, for example, I know it's just north of Fullerton on Kimball. Most cities in the US work that way.
I’ve noticed in Wisconsin, sometimes if a city has a river through it (and most have some form of waterway), one side of the river will have avenues running north/south and streets running east/west, and the other side of the river will have streets running north/south and avenues running east/west.
I got lost in Wausau, WI when I was younger a few decades ago when I didn’t realize that. I was on one side of the river looking for a numbered address, crossed the river and it changed from say, Oak Avenue to Oak Street (don’t recall the real name but f the road). The numbers also reset. The person that gave me the address didn’t tell me if it was a street or an avenue.
@@JAB2010 not true
@@JustMe-gn6yf That's because the lot sizes are larger here than if they were rowhouses, with twice the properties per block, they would be alternate numbers instead of mostly skipped addresses to the 4th digit.
Here in OKC East / West is ~10 blocks per mile / 1000's address and North / South ~ 15 blocks per mile...
there are places in Canada, especially the suburbs of Toronto, that look almost identical to some of the suburbs of Massachusetts, New York or Pennsylvania. there are other places that are entirely distinct, of course, like Quebec and Vancouver.
Windsor and Detroit are literally separated by a few hundred yards of water and share a lot.
The street address & miles doesn't work for my childhood home, either. As sound travels (4th of July fireworks downtown), my childhood home was 3 miles away. My street address started with a one.
The infrastructures of Canada and the US are quite different as are the currencies and measurements. However, the people (at least to me) can intermingle to a point where you would find it a bit difficult to distinguish the differences between the people. The more notable difference would be French being the main language in areas of Canada whereas in the US Spanish may be the main language, particularly in the south western states. The English accents vary from Northern Canada all the way down to the Southern United States and every place in between, as well as the east to the west. I lived in a farm town in Indiana and we w(or)sh our clothes, whereas in Southern California, we w(ah)sh our clothes.
It took a long time to break my wife from saying worsh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are not acknowledging the people of Alberta who embrace Trump and his nutters who love him. I am an American who has a good friend in Alberta, and they are unbelievably insane.
We are culturally the same.
Although the influence is reduced and truthfully nowadays you are more likely to hear French spoken by a Haitian, there was a time not that long ago when Quebec French settled in various towns in Connecticut and Rhode Island to work in the textile mills... I worked for 9 years as a Certified Nurse's Aide in a Convalescent home where we had quite a few residents that either could speak French because of this although mainly spoke English or there were those who had regressed completely back to French because of Alzheimer's....I had actually taken French in high school so was able to at least understand the basics and always asked politely "Voulez vous promener avec moi" before starting a walk with one particular resident... Another resident I would joke around and say "Je travaille, je travaille toute les jours" ( I work I work every day ) which was a joke as at the time I only worked weekends... Anyway she would respond "Mais beaucoup d'argent" but lots of money... and I would respond in a sarcastic tone "Oui, beaucoup d'argent"... obviously unless you are talking about Louisiana Spanish is far more prevalent currently but that was not always the case.
My wife always tells me “you only have 1 volume… ON.”
So as a Texan, yes I’m loud
FYI...I live in a small town in the foothills of California. We have Cornish Pasties. I love them. :)
The town of Butte, Montana, a late 1890's hard rock mining town has great Cornish Pasties. Cornish minors settled there, hence Cornish Pasties. And they are GREAT!!!
The US is different from Canada, but in many ways we are quite alike. This statement will make alot of Canadians really angry, but I challenge anyone to tell the difference between a southern Canadian accent and a northern American accent. Regardless of borders, yea we are the same in many ways.
There's a very logical reason why our house numbers are they way they are. It comes down to city planning and emergency services. Most of our cities are set up in some form of a grid pattern with a central point or intersection of two major roads, and the housing numbers go up from that central location. This allows for police and fire to find our addresses quickly. For example if you lived in the 400 block, that means that you are 4 blocks from one of the central roads that make up the city center.
Where I come from, many times that number is actually the number of feet your driveway is from the beginning of the street. So 372 Maple Drive might be the 4th house on the left side the street, but be 372 feet from where the street begins.
In some cities, there are numbered streets (Third Street, 37th Street, etc.). Now, the cross streets will have names (in Washington, D.C. , they have letter names like F St., or G St.), so the street number will tell you which block you are on: 301 F Street is pretty much at the corner with Third Street. Or, say, 2350 Albermarle Street might be in the middle of the block between 23rd and 24th Streets.
Some cities will duplicate or complicate the scheme by having an east/west street that serves as a central x-axis. The cross streets are then designated North Oak Street above that central east/west street, or South Oak Street when they cross it heading south. So then you could have 100 North Oak Street (basically one block up from the x-axis) or 100 South Oak Street (one block down from the central avenue. Now, overlay onto that a central north/south avenue (a y-axis) and you get 100 West Maple Street or 100 East Maple Street for any given east-to-west side street.
Once you know the scheme for each city, it is much easier to find your way around -- even without GPS.
In my "BumBag"/fanny pack resides my .45acp, I also have a crossover shoulder bag that I use for concealed carry as well, most of the time it's either IWB or pocket carry depending on which .45 I'm carrying on that day.
People do still wear "fanny packs" but rarely see them wearing them around the waist...more often see them worn as a mini cross-the-shoulder bag...and have worn one like this myself a few times. Especially good for theme parks, walking around a flea market/outdoor market, walking on the beach...basically anywhere a full-sized purse might be cumbersome.
Where I live, we call it both Autumn and Fall...depending on which part of the season it is. Autumn for when the leaves change color....then Fall when the leaves start falling.
Americans are loud because our houses are so big we have to shout to hear each other 🤣
Crater lake is a must see. It's so beautiful. Took my breath away.
I'm American and I say both Autumn and Fall but I prefer Autumn. Maybe popular culture prefers Fall sometimes for something like a song...because the word fall is a much easier rhyme. Just something that popped into my head for some reason 😄. I really enjoyed the reaction, btw. ☺
Runnin through the grove in autumn
He said get him so I gottem
Tackled him onto his bottom
Took back the Jordans that he bought him
All of it went down in autumn
They said see them so I sought 'em
So many targets, there's a lot of 'em
Never meaning to be botherin'
Part of the job to be slaughterin'
Sorry
Fall here
@@tyunpeters3170 sounds Pratchettesque to me. 🤓😄💓
Bonkers and getting jabbed have always been common terms also.
My mom uses a fanny back when she travels. It's highly convenient, more efficient and comfortable in comparison to carrying a backpack or purse. She's been using a fanny pack since the 80s ever since she immigrated to the States. The severity of the fashion stigma towards the item is odd to me.
Mark 14:56. Well, as someone that graduated to be a, "Graphic Artist", the word, "Fall", is less expensive and also easier to use than, "Autumn", hence why school publications used, "Fall Schedule of Events", "Fall Semester", et cetera. But to me, thanks to, Bugs Bunny, maybe, "Fall Season", sounds like a scheduled time to be clumsy. So I prefer, "Autumn", though I will use, "Fall". Imagine if actor, Norman Fell, had a daughter named, "Autumn Fell"! 😆😁
I'm with yah girl, no matter how popular Fannie packs become again, you will never catch me wearing one 🤣
Many of us started saying jab so that you’re phone wouldn’t pick up on what you were talking about and it just stuck.
And by the way, I can tell James’s accent from Millie’s. Love watching you guys.
As an American, my observation is that fall vs. autumn is about 80/20. But everybody knows the term autumn. For some reason autumn is more common in advertisements, such as "autumn savings event."
Mark 2:35
Hmm. Well, even tiny NYC apartments like those seen in, "The Honeymooners", require that the, Fourth Wall, be wide enough to accommodate a camera crew. Though I have noticed that some crew, be it the director or whomever makes such decisions, don't seem to care if you see the frames inside the set walls on the edges. That, or they expect you to understand that, "Third Person Omniscient", means that we get to see though stuff. 🤔
Coming from the upper Midwest we only have two seasons, winter and road repair.
As someone who works in an airport I can say fanny packs are used when you're traveling. Especially if you're going to a different country. We don't wear them on a daily basis.
I can blame the band Supertramp for getting me hooked on the expression "Bloody" when I was a kid and I still use it in all its colorful forms to this day and I have never been closer than 4,000 miles to Great Britain in my life, lol.
For me, Autumn is when the leaves are pretty and are still on the tree. Once the leaves fall of the tree and I have to clean them up then we are in Fal.
Kirk from Arizona. I speak to all pats of Canada every day on the phone. Just like in the US Canada has regional accents as well. Example, if I speak to someone from Vancouver, it’s the same west coast accent. I would not know if I am speaking to someone from Vancouver or California. That is until the conversation go along for bit and maybe they’ll say something uniquely Canadian.
I'm west coast American and it's fall when talking about the season but for some reason.....for decorating....the use of autumn comes up.
I live on a 'Loop' road and the addressee are based ...going counterclockwise...how many feet your property is from the start of the loop.
Another great reaction!! I only see "fanny packs" when I visit theme/amusement parks.
Wow, I never knew that the addresses pertained to the distance from downtown. You learn something new every day!
The biggest stereotype I hear foreigners say about my country is that all Americans live with the same laws. Our country basically functions in a similar way to the European Union. Almost like a bunch of individual countries. We have a proportional representation voting system, our states have their own governments. And in some cases states get to decide if they adopt a law or not. Example: not every state has the death penalty, or corporal punishment in schools. And gun laws aren’t the same everywhere. Even laws on whether you can buy alcohol or not exist. We have different cultures in each regions. So pretty much culture of dressing up or down is regional too. My main point is: if you’re a foreigner, don’t assume we all share the same way of life habits and thinking.
The practice in many parts of the US is to plot an entire city or county onto a grid, and to number 200 per block. Blocks are usually 8 or 16 to the mile. Chicago is actually an exception, numbering 50 per block. In some eastern cities that do not have clean grids, such as Boston, this is not strictly practiced.
That grid stuff is only in flatter areas. Hilly areas of the country don't really have very many grids
Laurence’s ‘general rule’ about miles determining addresses isn’t true in most cities. The house numbers are determined by the number of blocks (not miles) from a certain starting point.
Where I live some of the traditional American houses have been made into Apartments. They were originally a one family home but someone built interior walls so the front door and back door belong to two separate tenants. Sometimes they're broken up even more than that inside.
The upper peninsula has pastes, not under the bridge maybe around Mackinaw City
fall and autumn are both used. it's a bit half and half depending on where you at
You have to see Crater Lake in Oregon in person. It is very much worth seeing.
Growing up in Louisiana in the late 50's and early 60's we sang a song that included the line "Autumn leaves are now falling Tra-La-La La-la" during music class in elementary school. So, I'd say we've always used both fall and autumn.
I was going to mention this too. That is the only example I remember of using the word.
The NYC apartments shown in TV shows, Seinfeld and Friends, are unbelievably large.
I grew up near Detroit and people often comment how I sound Canadian at times. I can’t really differentiate between accents in the UK so I can’t expect someone to do the same within North America. 🤷🏻♀️
As a Minnesotan I think our accent is similar. But ive heard that for us we do tend to fall back to our accents sudtly.
When I was living in Alabama a while back, a dude came through and asked: "Any yall seen my beagle?" I'll be damned if my buddy from DC didn't understand one word that guy said. I had to translate it to: "Excuse me, have any of you gentlemen seen my beagle hunting canine?" What a trip
I'm an American that lives in The San Francisco Bay Area and I usually say Autumn, sometimes Fall but not too often. Also, I won't say jab because it sounds like it would hurt more then saying shot or injection. Also, for a very long time I worked with Lloyd's Register of Shipping as the West Coast Area Admin. Most of the Technical staff came from the U.K. or out of this country, so it was hard to get the swing of your language even though I knew a lot of it. The one thing I had a hard time getting was when one of the staff said he was going home to have a 'lie in'. I kept thinking he said 'lion' Finally had to ask what he was saying.
I'm a bit south of you in Long Beach, and I've mostly heard and used Fall. Autumn seems to be a more flowery way of saying it. Also, jab makes me think of a boxing punch, so I would never associate that word with an injection.
Fanny packs are often worn by people with chronic conditions like diabetes so they can carry supplies easily especially on trips.
On that Canada thing...
If talking with English-speakers from North America, urban English-speakers in the U.S. and Canada can -- but don't always -- sound very much alike. If they aren't speaking in a regional dialect, subtle differences in vocabulary can be the only clues as to the speaker's origin. If you get into small town and rural people, the differences become huge.
They skip a lot of number when houses are side by side in case they get subdivided and a house is put in the middle. They don't have 1/2s like Sherlock Homes.
No, but in infill areas, houses can definitely be 1602A and 1602B.
I live in southern Ohio and during the summer and fall months, I can't see any of my neighbors home.( I only have 3). I see more deer on any given day than I do people. Plus I live in a hand built log cabin. Maybe 400 square feet if I'm being generous. But I wouldn't change it for the world. Looking out my window right now is absolutely beautiful. The golds, reds and yellows of the leaves is amazing. I saw snow last night , the earliest I've ever seen it. (10-18-22) I go up to the upper tier of my deck and that's all I can see for literally miles. The driveway to get to my house is 1/4 mile long. On the crossover of words, my favorite British word (I had to Google the meaning) is minging. I love that word.
**dive bombs onto the couch**
THIS IS WHERE I LIVE, NOW!
Like the US, Canada has a variety of accents. I am from the US, but could easily tell if I was talking to a Canadian from Quebec, from the Maritimes or from the west. Also, different American accents come along with different levels of loudness. I live in Vermont, and we think that people from New York and Massachusetts are insufferably loud.
I GREW UP IN MASSACHUSETTS AND I DON'T THINK WE'RE LOUD AT ALL :)
I'm from Vermont and was going to make a similar comment
@@ptournas 😂😂
I'm not fond of the term fanny pack, so I call it a belt pack because it wraps around the waist, and I do use one because it's a very convenient way to carry all my essentials. I never cared about whether something was in fashion or not, only what I like or find useful.
I have worn a fanny pack (bum bag)one time, literally,and it was waterproof.I went to a theme park and knew I was going to be walking around for 10 hours or more and going on lots of water rides 20 years ago
Same here.. I bought a maroon Nike fanny pack for my first trip to Disney World back in 98.. never wore it again!
Living in California (the "newer" side of the county) Fall is more common. In my travels to the "old" part of the county (the Northeast) I hear Autumn more often. My great grandmother was Scottish and her language slang continued with each generation and they made way down to me, I grew up hearing Loo (the first word I learned from my mother for toilet, er bathroom), Lift and Boot frequently. But the one word I always use is Aye, I never say yes.
I’m in Oregon - I think people use them interchangeably.
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11:04 wow I loved that! The MURICAN version of him haha. That's how a lot of us talk around the Midwest. Detroit and Chicago essentially the same accents
They are very similar, but there are a few very notable differences. Constitution vs Charter of Rights, congress vs parliament, temperature, and population are the big differences.
As someone from the southwestern US, I’m quite certain I would have a lot of trouble telling some Canadians from Americans. The truth is, Canadians and Americans really are far more alike than they (especially Canadians) would like to believe.
That doesn't apply to Quebec, however.
One of my first addresses was 16226. The 162 part was the cross street was 162nd St. And we were midway down the block. Another address was 671 and it was on the 6th block west of the middle of town and midway down the block.
I live north of Boston about 3 hours from the Canadian border and I know a lot of Canadians and the accent is very subtle. The only distinguishing factor is Canadians say sorry a bit differently😂 not offended at all as I have difficulty distinguishing the difference. We also use fall and autumn interchangeably here. I’m from New England and we love the white mountains New Hampshire in autumn, the foliage is incredible!
West coast North American accents are quite similar.
There are so
Many Canadians in the entertainment business with no accent or basic Canadian accents you can judge for yourself
We have 2 restaurants called Cornish Pasty in Phoenix. Their pasties are incredible.
Point of Information: Street numbering will start at 1 but only if you are at the center of the city's numbering system. Usually they go up by a hundred starting the next block. There are not a hundred houses on the block just they start numbers up on the next block. Say for example A Street runs across several numbered streets. When A Street crosses 7th Street, the houses start with 701 on one side and 702 on the other. Say there are 6 houses on a side. When A Street crosses 8th Street, the numbering repeats starting with 801 on the odd side and 802 on the even side. This can go on for miles. I know in Phoenix, Arizona roads can be 30 miles long. BUT they have North and South, and East and West. So your address could be 15432 South 44th Way. But there is also a 15432 North 44th Way. About 30 miles away.
Wait one minute, there Laurence! South West Wisconsin has "Cornish Pasties"! Why? Because the area was settle by Cornish Lead Miners. And go further north to Northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula and you can find Pasty "fast food" joints.
Passed by a house today with the address 28502 ... just out in the country.
We have a loch Ness monster type legend in lake Champlain. Just look at the cryptid stories and such to get a better idea of the folklore.
Houses are also rented. I would say most young people in 20's rent apartments or rent co domimiums. 30ish we start trying to buy houses, but a lot of lower income people are never able to buy a house. And there are a ton of older and smaller houses. My first house was a 1000 Square feet, 3 beds 1 1/2 bath with small rooms and 1 car garage.
Some cities also do streets where its like. West = Ave, North = ST, East = Rd, South = Blvd. There's also a lot of Lanes or Ln for small streets that branch off slightly larger streets that then connect to normal main roads.
Accents and the USA and Canada. I come from southern California, I worked for 13 weeks in Edmonton, in Alberta Canada, and they sounded like everyone in SoCal.
But there are specific regions that are very distinct from others.
Yeah, Autumn has pretty much always been used in the US, just less commonly so than Fall.
Mark 12:24. Hmm. 🤔. Dad, before his hearing loss, was one of those that thought he had to be louder than the background noise, to be understood. Now he doesn't hear the background noise, but he still speaks loudly. I know the meaning of, "Indoor Voice", and he refuses to understand my explanations, though he was in the room with me, when I first learned about it. 🙄
Also, he and my best friend, don't know that, "Stage Whispering" and "Whispering", aren't the same thing. It's like they learned how to whisper from television. 🤔
Now if you're outside, and are near NYC traffic, or the like, being heard above that cacophony, is another cause for people getting in the habit of loud speaking. 🤐
Tourist from anywhere generally use a bomb bag or fanny pack when travelling because you know...your in another country and there are always people attempting to take advantage of tourist or even pickpocket them. Your accessing your cash or cards and you dont always want to leave your passport at a hotel so its super important you dont lose that stuff. So that's why people rock fanny packs when abroad. For extra security even though they are funny looking.
I have a family of four. We live in a 4400 sq ft home on 2.5 acres in Colorado Springs.
Here in California I have heard "brilliant " used more often in the last couple of years.
Mark 14:00. Hmm. "Fanny Pack", is probably Slanguage like, "Bum Bag", as neither seem like a good brand name suitable for a trademark. Yikes! It's 2022! But anyway, back in the late 1980s and almost all of the 1990s, I was a delivery driver for the local, "Pizza Hut". I started in, 1987. We had to carry those zipper pouches that banks use, for our cash. I tucked mine into my belt, like I used to do with by, "BSA", uniform hat, and like those Marines in, "Gomer Pyle-USMC", do with theirs. Others, into their hip pockets. Eventually we were issued, "Waist Pouch Belts", and not only could we use them for the money, but for the condiments and our keys. We jangled as we walked. Some people would tease us for using, "purses", while others did call them, "fanny packs", while some, "money bags". Oh, if you used Tobacco, it was a handy place for your pack, can, or pouch. 🙄
I'm a dual citizen of both Canada and the USA, I have an American mother and a Canadian father, and I grew up less than two miles from the USA/Canada border.
So I can tell you that Yes - Canada and the USA are basically the same.
That close together? Absolutely!
On the part about Americanisms and Britishisms. I found myself in conversation with my wife using the term nutter to describe someone. Never used the word in my life before then. My daughter who happened to be listening to the conversation pointed it at. The only thing I can contribute it to is from watching the BBC every now and again or watching Mrs Brown one or the other.
With address numbers, I've lived in a few towns where it is based on blocks. So you walk down the street, every house is in the 100's, you arrive at 146, you cross the road to the next block, and the next house is 200. So you could even say that the crime happened on the 400 block of XYZ Street. So you can say where it happened, so people know what is going on with out giving the exact address, snd having the person's family get harassed.
Yeah, American house numbers use the hundreds digit to tell you what _block_ the house is on. So for example 420 W Market St. is one block west of 320 W Market St., which in turn is a block west of 220 W Market St. The first block is the 100s block, so 100 is the lowest possible house number except in a relative handful of exotic special cases (e.g., houses built directly on a "town square" at the center of town). Cross the main drag, and now you'll be in the 100s block of E Market St. Note too that you can tell which side of the street the house is on, based on whether the house number is even or odd. So yes, when a given street is missing a section for a few blocks for whatever reason (e.g., because somebody didn't want to build a bridge over the river and then a building got built where the bridge would've gone so now it's too late to add one), the numbers for those blocks just get skipped. If a street doesn't go all the way into the middle of town, it's entirely possible for the lowest house number to be over 500 even in a small town like Galion, and in a large city like Chicago a street can indeed have only four- or even five-digit numbers, because it uses the numbers in the same range as other streets running parallel to it. If Oak street uses numbers in the 1800-1900 range between Jefferson and Polk, then Maple Boulevard one block over will also use numbers in the 1800-1900 range between Jefferson and Polk.
It gets a little weird when a city is built in an oddball geographical situation that forces a lot of the streets to run in directions other than parallel/perpendicular to one another; topography is the usual culprit. In some case streets change names and officially become a different street when go around a 45-degree turn, e.g., see Washington PA for numerous examples of this. This can add significant subjectivity to questions like "so should this block be the 300s or the 400s?" But this is the exception rather than the rule. Most of the streets in most American cities run either north-south or east-west, and then there'll be a small number of exceptions made necessary by rivers, railroads, or state highways that run through town at a diagonal because of where they're going.
In some places the house numbers reference the street system. The city of Cleveland has a lot of its North/South streets numbered starting from the center of downtown. E 9th street and W 9th street are parallel on opposite sides of Public Square, That extends out into the suburbs. I lived in a house whose address was 26481 - it was an E/W street between East 260th street and E266th, but the numbers go up by 10s. The neighbors on either side were at 26471 and 26491. Even numbers were across the street.
That's how our numbering system works here in Kansas City as well.
"Jab" for injection is something I've never used, never even heard except when people are being sarcastic about the need for all of the Covid injections. "Shot" is what you hear around hear almost exclusively, unless someone is trying to be specific or pseudo-scientific, when they might use "injection". Even doctors and nurses don't normally say injection. "I get a flu (influenza) shot every year" would be something you might hear from anyone, but I've never heard anyone say "I get a flu jab every year."
The only reasons Americans will usually wear fanny packs these days is if they’re carrying snacks for a baby/toddler or training supplies (and snacks) and baggies for a dog.
Question? Does The Lost in the Pond dude Lawrence ever give you guys a shout out on HIS channel? I mean you guys watch & promote his videos enough. The least a fellow Brit could do is return the love. lol Hope he does! ;)
I started following Lawrence after watching him on The Beesleys. Love him too.
We would wear fanny packs quite frequently when on field trips when I worked as a day camp counselor. They allowed us to keep some of the things we used close at hand and not in our backpacks along with a belt to clip our walkie talkies to.
Enjoy your videos! This is totally off subject, but if you haven't already seen it, I think you would enjoy the CZcams video: "Behind The Scenes at the Ohio State Marching Band London Show at Wembley Stadium 10 25 2015". It showcases many of the band members and their journey to London, with performances.
I was there. Best experience I had in those years.
The address of my first house was 10585. The street had about 12 houses on it.
The one about us all being the same is the one that makes me laugh the most when I hear it. There is a lot of diversity in countries that are way smaller in both population and geography than us. It's why the stereotypes ars so stupid.
I just paused at 8:38 to interject: We understand that you could confuse Canada and America because we are simular, and Canadians don't have a British typoe accent, BUT you two DEFINITLY have a very British accent!!!
Here in Central Pennsylvania Fall tends to be used more often whereas Autumn seems like a more formal use - as in novels. The general trend in language, especially English, is simplification. Look at the way people wrote only 100 years ago and read something modern now. As for accents, 'Pittsburghese' is spoken by 'Yinzers' - it's largely a cultural thing formed by various European groups of immigrants that's carried over until today. In addition to the accents, my wife is from a family who says 'sweeper' instead of 'vacuum cleaner', 'Yinz' for 'you guys', 'dahntahn' for 'downtown', etc. "Yinz wanna go dahntown, have a pop?" 🤣
However, what I find interesting is how these language and accent differences are almost non-existent these days in news or nationally broadcasted programs. If you watch a local news show, it's likely you won't hear a southern drawl or midwest twang. These things tend to get beat out of the journalism students for fear they'll sound too 'provincial'. It never used to be that way. When I was a kid, back in the 70's, the people on your news program sounded like you did. As I'm sure it's true of programming from the UK. I'll bet the BBC tends to favor those who have a more posh 'Londoner' accent - at least it seems that way to me.
Thankfully the BBC started to bring in more regional accent speakers a few years ago - following a lot of criticism for the lack of accents.
Personally, I think it is sensible that @BBC World the presenters speak with received pronunciation (they are talking to a global audience). Years ago, as I was learning English for the first time, it was challenging enough to understand fluent language in the first place but found BBC news a wonderful help. To this day, I still find it tricky to understand Cheryl Cole or a northern Scottish accent 🤭. Same goes to Matthew McConaughy's heavy Texan drawl.
Accents are fascinating and I am fascinated by how native English speakers can understand each others' accents.
Would be nice for more inclusion of regional accents/ dialects on US networks, too:)
I'm from Texas, and because there are so many Spanish people here, Mexican & Cuban & South American, we also speak "Spanglish", a sloppy mix of Spanish and English. As for Autumn vs Fall, Autumn seems to be more formal, like Autumn Leaves and Autumn Colors, where Fall is used more describing the time of year... Spring, Summer, Fall, & Winter. As far as accents, ours seem to be more confined to the different states, New Yorkers vs. Massachusetts, North Carolina vs. Alabama, whereas the Western half of the US, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and even Texas, our accents are much more blended due to people moving there from other states. But take a look at London (the city), there seems to be 5 or more very distinct accents just within the city limits. Then throw in the Irish, Scottish, other England mix of accents. As far as fanny packs, I've NEVER worn one in my entire life, nor plan to. The school age kids now-a-days all wear backpacks to keep their books and such in. Back in the 60's and 70's when I went to school, we just carried them under our arms. Congrats on getting married, too!!!
Does "bonkers" in Britain mean "crazy, wacky?" Because we had a board game called Bonkers when I was a kid in the 70s. It was called that because the board was set up by cards that were drawn randomly, so it was always a different game. Anyway, that word has been known with that meaning here in the US since way before the Internet.
When I notice loud people in restaurants here, they usually have an alcoholic beverage in front of them. My husband is Italian, but is super sensitive to loud noises; we never talk very loudly when we're out.
Yes, “bonkers” means crazy in Britain.
Laurence is correct about the timeframe for fanny packs/bum bags. I haven't see any Americans (in America) wear one in over twenty years.
The only time that I wore one was when I was a tourist in Europe during the mid-1990s. I carried my passport, wallet, travel guides, etc. I was carrying a camera with extra gear (kit), so it was nice to have something that could not easily be stolen without me noticing it. It helped thwart a pickpocketing attempt in Rome; the would be thief tried to access it while next to me, but I detected the attempt.
My dad always wore a fanny pack when travelling abroad. But I always thought it was kind of weird
I've started wearing not really a fanny pack, but a waist/running belt. More discreet than a fanny pack. It's only large enough for my phone a few credit cards, and a bit of cash. Mainly because more and more places don't allow bags. So I wear them at football and baseball games, concerts, festivals, fairs, etc.
I'm from the US, and I follow a lot of Canadian streamers on Twitch, and for the most part it would take a while to catch much of a difference in our accents save for how a couple of words are pronounced.
I can tell when a person is Canadian by the way they speak sometimes it takes a while to figure it out though😂
@@DA-db9bi Right, and of course there are going to be those with stronger accents than others, but just like how a lot of americans have kinda the same accent thanks to TV and the internet, I think a lot of Canadians folks are getting that way too just a bit.
With the exception of Quebec, most Canadians speak English that's very similar to American English. They have slight word usage and pronunciation that are uniquely Canadian but overall it's very close to American.
I always wear a fanny pack or something like that State Fair or something like that where I don’t wanna be caring person around .
There's a chain restaurant in Arizona called The Cornish Pasty. While I've never been to the UK so have nothing definitely authentic to compare it to, it seems pretty delicious to me! If any native Brit has ever tried this place here in AZ, maybe u can tell me how close it is to the real deal back home!