BRITISH VS. CANADIAN ENGLISH!
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I'm English, my wife is Canadian. We've been married for 20 years and we seem to have combined our language now only we know what were talking about 😂
Right on dude, good humour.
Hahahaha
Hahahah 😂
God bless you mate
lol that’s funny 😂
I love Canandian English. For me as a foreigner is the most "understandable" English!
@Yonas Sbhatu No, I met Canadian activity leaders in Ireland in the summertime. I enjoyed their accent
I'm a fan of Canadian and American English, hands down. British English is unnecessarily complicated, truncated, and pompous. I'm Italian first, Australian citizen second. Yes I have worked with Canadians, Brits and Americans...
@@KeyboardPussy Brits are sometimes full of bollocks. Like this English girl said the Canadian girl "speaks some wrong English". Slangs and local dialects are not the same from one town to another. IMHO, the Canadian girl sounds more charming than the tight upper lip girl.
I think it's because Canadian English has been transformed by many other languages and so some words are different or easier to pronounce because they have been influenced by many other languages.
@@Amy-wf7qe Rhotic. Is a form of enunciation familiar to American, Irish and Canadian. The consonant R is thicker on the palate. Other consonants and vowels in the above mentioned speakers are clearer when listening for comprehension, bar Irish. Irish alone is a dialect of its own. Additionally American and Canadian have been influenced by migration influx, such as French, Scottish, German, Italian speakers. They alone introduce loan words that have a bearing on what and how a word is expressed. It's academic yes and complicated..ha ha. I am an English language specialist...
No clue why this 2 year old video showed up in my news feed but I watched the entire thing in delight, simply because it's 2 friends hanging out, sitting side by side lol I really miss those days.
And 10 mounts later the situation is still the same :(
Both sides of my family are British (cornwall) but I'm canadian so alot of this lingo transfers to me as a Canadian. I grew up with specific words for things. Like knickers, whellies, puttering around, dodgy and knackered. I completely understand both of you.
LOL! This is hilarious - I'm British and my husband is Canadian - we have had this conversation SO many times! We are both laughing our heads off!
You seem Scouse, saying 'laughing our heads off'.
how sweet...
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Y'all look like sisters
Pamela Jones Yeah, almost like twins at first sight. Then I noticed how the faces look differently and the colours of their eyes are not the same. But same skin tone, same colour of hair, same eyebrows, same shape of head, similar cheeks (except for the dimples), nose, chin and all that... Could be sisters...
"Maple syrup is thicker than blood" -sage unknown
I thought they were twins, very beautiful twin. She's from my hometown, Toronto. =)
I'm from Western Canada and have never heard of Hundo P. 🤔
Trisha Petropoulos - From the U.S. here - same! I've never heard of hundo, either.
I love the british girl...
The British one is soooo cute.. i loved her accent as well..
The Canadian girl is so cute.
Damn right!
Canadian is cuter
@@shxgeo_kageyama9448 the British was a little arrogant
The British one sounds like a grandma 😁
Im mexican but I lived in Canad for 6 years, I can say Canadians are humble (from heart) people! They are relax and nice😜.
And so very kind & polite.
I think because it's how we are raised.
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Thank you. 💛🇨🇦
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So my Canadian friend moved to England and was caught in the rain she got to work and said "ugh my pants are soaked!" everyone stared at her, that's the day she learned what pants mean in England.
To help some confusion in the comments: England usually calls underwear pants, like underpants.
hahaha, thats a good one..
It's pouring down.
Lol
I could've made that mistake as well.
What does it mean in England? Underwear?
Canadian here and when I hear "biscuit", I think of plain, dry cookies for either babies or old people. Like Arrowroot, Biscoff or digestive cookies.
I think in Canada most people would say crackers instead of biscuits. Cookies are more on the sweat side lol
Biscuit is either a cookie or when talking to Americans, kinda like a scone.
Lol as a Canadian I can confirm this
Where are you from
Yeah. A cookie is sweet. A cracker is salty. A biscuit is kind of bland and in between, leaning slightly sweet. Arrowroot and digestives sound spot on to me.
An American biscuit is kind of a savoury scone-like thing, like a small dense rich little bread. We'd understand that meaning but only apply it in relation to American cuisine. The word along conjures up a boring "cookie" you would give to a baby or have along with tea if you wanted to focus on the taste of the tea.
I love british English, it’s music to my ears!
Finallyyyyyyyyy I've found a Canadian VS British! I've seen so many American VS British; it's great to see my country reresented in some videos
YES
Canadian is American =P
@@sigmaprojects No we are not! >:(
@@Random-bw2km Hmm... Where is Canada located?
I’m British I’m from London why do they always do American vs Britain 🇬🇧
I love the britsh girl's accent, li sounds lovely.
Queens english
Totally agree about the british girl, she looks so hot. Without undermining the canadian girl, but the british girl its so hot.
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I like the Canadians girls voice/accent more my type I like I guess
@@Yeoman7 The Queen does not replace the letter T with a slight hiccup.
I just love the British accent, so captivating. American English carry with a rich tone and so modernized language. Hearing a British native speaker real leaves with feeling of language authenticity.
agree
The British accent you hear nowadays isn't exactly authentic. During British colonisation in America, Brits sounded fairly similar to the way Americans speak English today (the pronounced r is an example). Over time, the Brits changed their accent to a more non rhotic one (the r being pronounced less). If you go to the West Country in England, you'll notice they sound similar to Americans because they pronounce the r a lot.
The Canadian girl so cute
I work at Starbucks in Canada and I had a British customer come in and ask for a blueberry flapjack... After a couple minutes of trying to figure out what the heck they were talking about I realized it was a blueberry bar. Then I told them how in American flapjacks are pancakes and that confused them even more lol
"Male syrup"! That's my favorite kind!! All over my face.
That is funny. I read your reply and my first thought was, Starbucks sells pancakes in Britain? Lol
Flapjacks are pancakes in Canada.
@@jellyfishattack I feel like "flapjack" is a more American term, or maybe used by older generations of Canadians?? Seems more Eastern / close to USA?? In the west, the only time I've heard anyone say "flapjack" for real was a fellow in his 80's. Everyone else says "pancakes". Even when used as a joke, some younger people don't know what "flapjack" even is
I use flapjack when describing like an oat bar with honey, I am british
I'm Canadian, and when it's raining hard, we say, it's "pouring" out. Never heard of hunnapee. At all.
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"Its pouring it down; Its chucking it down; its raining cats and dogs..."
Ya that confused me a bit
I've heard hundo p but seems like a newer slang
It' s raining cats & dogs!!!!
The perfectly synchronized laugh at 14:02 is my favorite part of this video! Classic!
As a Canadian, I would call the room with just a toilet and sink a 'water closet' or a WC. Often when you are shopping for homes in Canada the ads will say WC or Full Bath to make the distinction between a bathroom with or without a shower/bath. It's also common in Canada to hear 'half-past seven' to mean 7:30. Maybe that's the missing word? For rain I think it's common to hear 'it's pouring' or 'it's really coming down out there'.
The term "zebra crossing" sounds funny to Americans because we are accustomed to seeing roadsigns such as "deer crossing" and "bear crossing" and "moose crossing" which warn us that those actual animals tend to cross there. Hearing "zebra crossing" instantly creates an image of zebras running across a highway.
Ana Nouri we have them here in USA 🇺🇸 universal Hollywood. Studio tours and tram 🚋 assistance entry have deer 🦌 signs all the way by dint of the hilly location though I see that it’s the zebra 🦓 crossing one unfamiliar here in USA 🇺🇸
🤣🤣🤣 don't forget gator crossing as well
same I got so confused, my first thought was that zebras live in England and I was just like what
hahahha...you are totally right ANA...canadians don't use zebra crossing either
and then they add in such things like a humped pelican crossing, or toucan crossing. I love it!
There are a few Canadian terms that she used that - as a Canadian - I’ve never heard 🇨🇦
- when it rains it’s “pouring” I’ve never heard “‘monsoon-ing”
- when you’re hungry you could be “starved”
- a lot of people tend to say “it’s addictive” because it’s the proper use
- we have “beanies” but they’re specifically slouched hats, toques or hats we use it interchangeably.
- we use anything from “I’m going to the washroom/bathroom” to “I have to go to the washroom”
- pants/jeans/leggings/tights
- underwear can be anything from the broad term “underwear” to “panties” or the specific type of underwear you’re wearing
- we don’t use “half-seven” but we do use “half past seven)
Or “quarter-to-seven / quarter-after-seven” meaning 6:45/7:15
- 100% the term she uses I’ve never heard it living in Southern Ontario
I recognize a lot of both terms though 😁
Kate Herron I've heard all those before (except for monsooning)
Kate you are so right about all of that. I also have never before heard the phrase 💯P or it’s monsooning and I also used to live in Toronto.
I live near Vancouver, and with all the rain we get, I've never heard used or used the term monsooning. Pouring, raining cats and dogs, coming down in buckets, etc.
Loved this! I'm a Canadian and total anglophile who lived in the UK for 7 years a while back. A few other differences came to mind (I left in the early 2000s so maybe these have fell out of the vernacular...):
1. Brits say "what's for pud?" - "pud" is short for pudding and means dessert in this context. Canadians would say "what's for dessert"
2. Brits say "cooker", Canadians stay "stove"
3. Brits say "gas mark 1 - 4" to represent an oven temperature - Canadians think in Fahrenheit when it comes to ovens
4. Brits say something is "moreish" if it's tasty and they want more - Canadians don't say that (well I do but people still look at me strangely)
5. Brits say "she fell pregnant" which I always found hilarious as it's as if someone fell down on the street and got pregnant - Canadians say "she got pregnant" or "she's pregnant"
6. Brits say 'bog standard", Canadians say "plain vanilla"
7. Brits say "mince" Canadians say "ground beef"
8. Brits say "spag bol" which is short for "spaghetti bolognaise", which is spaghetti with a tomato sauce made with mince/ground beef. Canadians would refer to this dish as simply "spaghetti"
9. If someone isn't feeling well Brits say "she's poorly", Canadian would say "she isn't feeling well" or "she's sick"
10. Brits say "vest" which is a "t-shirt" to Canadians
11. Brits call the least common third part of a man's suit a "waistcoat", Canadians call it a "vest"
12. Brits call twins who aren't identical "non-identical" (makes sense), Canadians refer to non-identical twins as "fraternal"
13. Brits call the boots you wear when it's raining "rubbers", Canadians call them "rain boots" ;)
14. Brits also refer to the thing you use to erase pencil as a "rubber", Canadians call it an "eraser". Rubbers only refer to contraception in Canadian vernacular ;)
15. Brits will say "brolly" which is short for umbrella, Canadians don't have a short form
16. I may mess this one up but I think Brits will say "what's for tea" and tea means the last meal of the day in this context. Canadians will refer to the last meal of the day as either "dinner" or "supper" (more formal).
Pronunciation differences -
1. Brits pronounce the word "aluminium" - "aloominium" (no emphasis really, but the 'lu" part is pronounced "loo"), Canadians put the emphasis on the first part of the word
2. Brits pronounce the word "vitamin" - Brits pronouce the "vit" like "lit", Canadians pronounce the "i" differently (is it short or long, never can remember), like "eye", "vEYEtamin"
3. Brits pronounce the "latory" in "regulatory" as "LAYTREE", Canadians say "la" (like the music note) and "tory" (like the either the name or the term used for Conservative politicians in the UK
Expressions
Brits have the BEST expressions!!!! Here are a few I loved and still use (I endure the blank stares :) :
1. "Dog's breakfast" - refers to something that's a complete mess
2. "Couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery" - a "piss-up" is a big drinking session so someone who couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery is someone who can't get the simplest thing done
3. "Lost the plot" as in "I've completely lost the plot" - if someone says this it means they have no idea what you're talking about
For when it's raining hard outside, I equally interchange between any one of the following: 1) it's pouring; 2) it's teeming; 3) wow, it's really pissing! When I'm feeling especially Quebecois in the moment, I'd say - il mouille en tabarnak!
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I say pouring
Dam this man said the sky is frickin pissing if I was beside u and I said that I would be confused
@@ssdsamm6247 Quebec English (as in the mother tongue speakers) is its own dialect distinct from the Canadian Standard accent typical from BC to Ontario. It has very little Canadian Raising, more British and French influence (including occasionally using French grammar) and less American. The American influences that are present tend to be from New England and upstate NY rather than the US Midwest and West Coast.
It's not as glaringly obvious as a Maritimes or Newfoundland dialect but Quebec anglophones can usually identify one another among a bunch of other Canadians fairly quickly. There are a bunch of obvious tells - tone is too flat, the vocabulary has variations and the subtle French borrowings (e.g. "close the lights" rather than "turn off the lights"). Most other Canadians have heard anglo-Montrealers on TV enough that they don't immediately notice the differences.
It's pissing outside is definitely heavier rain than pouring. I've definitely heard anglo-Montrealers use the expression.
And yeah, slipping into French Canadian cursing when you want to amplify the effect is not uncommon. 😆
@@ssdsamm6247 Actually what we say is "it's pissing down" or "it's pouring out". We never say "the sky is pissing". We would know you are not Canadian if you referred to the sky doing the pissing. My mother would say "it's raining cats and dogs" or "it's a good day for ducks".
@@wendygillett1629 im sorry i am canadian and stuff but i get it other people use different things i was just saying that id be like what xD in that situation
I freaking love the british one, could listen to her speak for days
It’s so cool to see how we Canadians made the English language more of our own and loss the accent some odd 500 years later lmao, great video! Shows our evolution! 🇨🇦🇨🇦 p.s. As a French Canadian, yes “toque” is originally a French word, originally “Tuque”
I love Cheryl's smile and those dimples 😊
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@@arfanrafiq9983 wtf
"Sweater for your head" - where / when I grew up in NY State, we called it a stocking cap. When I moved down South, is called a toboggan (which is what we called a type of sled up North!).
American here living in Canada now and we probably called hats, beanies or a stocking cap. BUT I LOVE TOQUE so much more!!
Aubrey Stoughton k where u from in America I'm from Cincinnati Ohio
LOL Aubrey, not Toque, it's Tuque. In English, it would sound the same as the name "Luke". The French Canadian version (which is the best French by the way ;-) ), would sound more like the U in the word "Actual". Pretty hard to find the French U sound equivalent in English.
Cheers!
The French Canadian guy ;-)
@ @@Metabrowser
French Canadian is the "best" French? You must be on drugs. French spoken in Canada is horrible to the ears. It's literally like trying to listen to an American Hillbilly in the South speak English in that horrible accent. Ugh!
@@kingofpendragon And where are you from to say that, if I may ask?
Yes, we do have our regional accents, like all other languages around the world, that's what makes a language so colorful.
Cheers!
americans also call stocking caps/beanies toboggans
I love love that style of British accent. So gorgeous
Me too
Over here ( in England ) the girl`s accent would be regarded as `posh.` But it is also rather reassuring - rightly or wrongly.
Bill Keon No it’s gross accent
Xav215 XL then why are you watching this video? you have gone to other comments to say the same thing lmao, you obviously like it and you are jealous because you don’t have it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Awe this is so cute!! Thank you so much! Love the ladies! Love our Canadian girl and British girl!!!
I have lived in Canada all my life, and been from BC to Newfoundland, and have never heard of "Hundopee"!! Definitely slang, and likely regional.
As a British person I feel so enlightened, thanks so much for making this video!! 😊 🇨🇦❤️🇬🇧
Sarah im Augenblick can I marry you
As a Canadian. I am ashamed that she didn't know any of those. More for the fact that we use both American terms and British terms.... i still call a couch a chesterfield...
Don't listen to them this is not how we talk
Sarah im Augenblick I'm also British
Just never say Hundo-P... that's straight up nonsense.
Canadian here. Never heard “hundo P” in my life before this.
BBKing1977 i like canada
hundo p became a thing in toronto after big brother aired, and that newfie, would say it every sentence. its not used at all anywhere civilized.
Likewise. But you can tell when you hear some of these newly made up slang terms that it's something only teens will use, and maybe twenty somethings who still wished they were in their teens.
@@DaGoBlueFan lool hundo p is pretty old slang, for millenials. No teen is saying hundo p
@@HooperFam no one in toronto says hundo p the same way no one in toronto except ten year olds and gay men watch big brother.
When I was in elementary school in the 70’s, my old teacher taught us to say “zehbra” as in with a short “e”. I’ve heard older Canadians from the east Coast say it with a short e too. I go both ways.
In US we used to say "half PASS 7" back when circular clocks were normal. Every since digital clocks became the norm, we say seven-thirty.
I'm Canadian, when I hear 'jumper' I think your car battery has died, as in you need a jump start, or jumper cables
In the U.S., a jumper is also someone who commits suicide by jumping off of a tall building.
I thought overalls, when I heard jumper.
That was my first thought too.
Ya I thought of several different things when I heard that word so I guess it has a bunch of meanings
I’m Canadian and we say in my area “it’s pouring” for raining
Same here
Where in Canada?
@@lovemusic0461 Saskatchewan
Same here
in pickering we say the same
As a Canadian this video is SO hilarious - subscribed!
Once in Rome, Italy, I was a witness, when two English teachers, they couldn't understand each other at all !!!! First one .... she was from Kansas US, the second was from Melbourne, Australia (not Austria !!) LOL ))))
@Adrian Jarvis WELL SAID.
This doesn't surprise me! I am Italian by birth and culture, raised and educated in Melbourne from P1, then later Uni. I can not understand thick Scottish or thick Irish English when spoken rapidly. It's no surprise, Australians however don't know spoken English themselves. Australian ed system is poorly informed historically. Only the privileged upper middle classes have access to an informed and traditional education. Think in terms of studying Latin, French or Indonesian.
@@KeyboardPussy ma cosa dici??? Cit.
I was married to a man from England and we bought a new car and we had a few things to report to the dealer, there was a ding in the wing, leak in the shield, the boot wouldn't latch. In Canadian their was a dent in the fender, a leak in the windshield, and the trunk wouldn't close. Good thing there wasn't something wrong under the bonnet. He also said the milk had gone off and we needed to repair the skirting. Yup it took me awhile to interpret him.
For heavy rain we say it's pouring.
Yeah! I was going to say that.
Pissing down, pouring, drizzling.
Or it's 'chucking' it down
I say "It's raining buckets" probably because it's a direct translation of "Il mouille à sceaux" from French.
I think I've heard "it's pouring down" as well, if I am not wrong.
in Canadian French, though, you would say "dans la toilette" (literally "in the toilet," but it also refers to the room as in the U.K.)
I've used and heard other Quebec anglophones use the British/French style phrasing all my life (in addition to the usual North American English variations) but I couldn't tell you if it was a holdover from the British or a borrowing from French. Probably a holdover that was reinforced by the French usage.
In the US, we call it a beanie, winter hat, or ski hat or ski cap, or warm hat. However, we’ll also use wool hat, knit hat, or fleece hat in reference to either how the hat was made, or what type of warm material the hat is made from.
I’m from the province of Ontario in Canada. As far as I know, when you sing your abc’s you say “Zed” but when you say zebra you pronounce it’s zee-bra. Canadian English sounds similar to parts of certain areas of American English to outsiders but they’re two major differences. words are spelt the “correct way” in Canadian English, example: colour. American spell it color. Also to most people outside of North America Canadians and Americans probably sound exactly the same. (like Australians and kiwis sound the same to us) but when we talk to each other we can tell who’s from which country in a matter of 30 seconds or less. At least I can. Americans from the north say their “OU’S” funny, example: out, about etc. And Americans from the south, obviously a ridiculously strong accent
it is weird how they say "zed" in their ABCs and say "zee-bras" but then again, we wouldnt say "zedbras"
And we are sorry. Oh and 'Take off, eh?'
British English and Canadian English are alike in spelling. But oral English? Canadian English is closer to American English.
Wow, you got some serious deductive reasoning powers! It's not just oral right? It's EVEN GEOGRAPHICAL! I assume you are from american england.
biedl86 he made the comparison that written Canadian English is closer to written British English than American. This goes against what one would assume so he did make a good point.
@@jamesrune1012 thanks for your hint. From a linguists point of view those differences in spelling are so insignificant and even backed up with logic, that I just couldn't help my self but naming mr. obvious. There are a lot of other objects to discuss about these languages which are far more interesting than something like 'wow sounds different, is written the same' or vice versa. British English has a stronger link to French than American English. French is even an official language in Canada so there still is a link somehow, just to name one reason behind that logic ('raison' is French for 'reason' btw. dang such similar). Compare for example 'color' and 'colour'. the link to the french language lies within the letter combination 'ou' and I'm sure I don't need to explain which version is the american one. Words like beautiful are of french origin (or rather Romanic origin to name the language family) which is obvious if you look at the letter combination 'eau' within the word. Phonetically it's just an 'u' like it would be an 'o' in french ('beau' is the french word for beauty as an adjective and it's pronounced 'boh'). And just to play around with words without the French origin, I'll give you examples ('je donne des EXEMPLES') for words with germain/germanique origin (Que? French again? They are everywhere. Mind blown!). Look at 'strong', 'fish' and for example 'snow' ('fish' is pronounced exactly the same way in German as it is pronounced in English, there is just one more letter in it btw. (German? Germanique? Huh?)). You notice the difference? Just single vowels? That's right. And they even sound like they are written (that's like never happening in French). Those words are linked to the north of Europe, not to the south (respectively south west as in French). English is a language marriage between the Romanic language family and the Germanic language family (same applies for German but not so much like it does for English, even less if you go further north in Europe).
So what one might assume as a good point, might be obvious for someone else or even an incomplete perspective.
biedl86 r/iamverysmart
LadyHeathersLair no as a Canadian our culture is different from America
The interesting part of this video is that it shows that it depends where in the countries in question you are from. My wife is from Nova Scotia, I'm from Shropshire. Some of these words neither of us would use, having our own variations for them. The Beanie hat to me is a Benny Hat (which ages because it refers to the character and his hat from Crossroads the soap set in the Midlands. But none the less, this is rather fun to watch / listen too.
Lots of good fun !!! Great post !!! Please read this after a few drinks ;) Not being a snob or anything but you do say Zeebra in British depending on your social status. As for a zebra crossing, it is seldomly utilized but may be and has been heard in Canada in the province of Quebec as many expressions are translated from one language to another (English/French) veeery often :) . Love your stuff ! Keep it up !!! Go to the loo or rest room and even the back house because they were out side of the house a long time ago and looked like a garden shed... In the toilet is like what's on tv: watch tv not on :) Sweater or jumper or a wooly short for a wooly jumper: sweat shirt , pull over Good shout used to be more of a pub beer call as you were a bit drunk and had to call louder for drinks to be heard. Gym shoes too. Purse or bursa (university bursary) but that is an old sophisticated word only seen in crosswords from the French bourse wich means a purse or mens genitalia :) I'm Starved, for peckish (Pinguin chocolats advert in England were you'd identify the penguins pecking at the chocolat) famished, when wanting to "scuff up" some food , Winter a winter bonnet in British or yes you are right a tuque in Quebec. Aubergines and courgettes ...Egg plant and zucchini wich actually is Italian and courgette is French for a small courge or gurda (gourde in French) or of the pumpkin family (citrouille or potiron or courge or gourde) melanzane from melanzana old dialect seldom used but mela means apple (also melon) from malus wich actually was badly translated in the Old Testament in Latin in Adam and Eves story as Malus or apple can bee confused with the word: bad in Latin (mal in French). Shotgun is mostly used when you drink shooters or chugging any strong alcool very fast. You sometimes use trash in British when someone is smashed or drunk or trashed out. Half past seven never half to eight (in French seven for 7 am and 19 for 7 pm). Hundo P i'm too much of an old geezer (Word of Irish origin from laois meaning wisdom), yes probably a Toronto thing ! Pretty paused (chill or cool) actually ! Trunk , also for an elephant ! Another few words truck and lorry a wellies or wellingtons and boots , underground, subway, metro... Pistachios we pronounce it pistasheowze. Chunking it down is swallowing or gobing fast over here as for pissing it down in French a pouring rain expression is (it's raining like a cow pissing : Il pleut comme vache qui pisse). Poridge is also the British slang for a jail or the slammer in North America. Scone pronounced the first way were I lived. Cookies, Biscuits wafers or sometimes cake (British: Jaffa Cakes) too! Turnovers, shortbreads... Thanks for the giggle, it was a riot actually ! Take care and keep on the good work well good fun ! Terry or Thierry
I've heard "trousers" and "dungarees", but I am from New Brunswick and we use all kinds of old English and Irish words and phrases.
Washroom ??
Toilet ???
Try...." I'll be right back....gotta poop"
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BOGS 💁🏻♀️
American say restroom. ... the only place you find really more peace and rest 😂😂
In England the call it the Loo
Great learning experience, thank you for taking the time.
A few others - Brits say TV presenter where we say host, and they say series instead of season. The fifth season of a show, and the whole show is the series. But the Brits seem to say series 5.
those dimples and the british accent sooooooo lovely
I'm Canadian, and I've NEVER heard of 'hundo p" or however you spell it. And if you haven't guessed, I am from Toronto. I had a family friend from the UK, so I've heard of most of the British-isms. Use some of them too.
So many things this chick said I was like Wtf? How are you Canadian? I have never said that or heard anyone say that.
monsooning (Wtf?!) Turential down pour all the way...
and houndo p? Did she make that up herself?
I am British and have never heard the word daps on checking no one else seems to have either
I'm Canadian too and I've never heard of hundo p either
imiss toronto "hundo p" is more slang for younger people. You must not be young enough then..
@@gu3sswh075 I won't be around when it does, but it will happen to you too one day
I watch a lot of UK TV and I love that they say "pressurized" instead of pressured. As in "she was pressurized to go with him".
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I live just outside of Toronto and I've never heard "hundo P" before
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she is beautiful
Layla Addow sure
Layla Addow absolutely!!
IKR!!! Her high cheek bones really accentuate her dimples
You both are so kind and cute❤
Your awesome as always, Zoey
I used a lot of here terms growing up in Ottawa, but I’m also many many years older than you , so a lot of those terms probably got lost in 20 years lol.
In the Midwest, or at least the part where I come from, we call sneakers "tennis shoes". That word is a bit like the word "soda"...there are lots of different words for it all across the US! It varies greatly by region 🙂 Great video, ladies!
Andrea Heckler I'm from the Midwest in the U.S. in my region we call soda just "pop." We say gym shoes and older people say tennis shoes!
I'm from Los Angeles and people say tennis shoes and sneakers. But you'd only hear gym shoes if ur actually in gym class
Andrea Heckler Midwest- pop or a coke even if is not a Coca-Cola. In the south its a coke. Unless your in Texas and Dr Pepper rules lol.
Tennis shoes unless its tennis shoes that you wear for gym class then they're gym shoes lol.
I call the shoes running shoes. I'm Canadian
Tennis shoes or gym shoes
Loved this so much. Love Canadians. Been exposed to British way of life. Great to be in canada now. Learned these from this channel today: I need to use the washroom. Trainers are runners. Toque is what you wear on your head during winter. Cell phone. Parking lot. Side walk. Trunk. Addicting. Cookies. Thanks guys. Both of you are beautiful.
Parkade is particularly Canadian as well. it's usually a muli-level parking structure.
Wow, these girls are amazing and lovely. Love the accents and different meanings to certain words. And these women are so beautiful and I love the way they laugh. I think I'm in love. :D
I'm American by birth; Canadian by culture. I lived in Canada from the age of 3 until 43. I have lived in Utah for 26 years.
When I was in high school (1967-1972), a jumper was a sleeveless dress that you wore a blouse or turtleneck sweater under.
American refer to a "toque" as a "beanie" or a "stocking cap", as in the stocking stitch that it is knitted in.
"Shotgun" is the person who claims the front passenger seat of a car.
I use a lot lot of English expressions because my first husband was a first-generation Canadian with British parents (his Mum was a War Bride). He introduced me to "BritComs" in the early 70's and my language and expressions evolved. For example, I almost always say "I'm off to the Loo".
Porridge is a generic term, referring to oatmeal, cream of wheat, Red River porridge or corn meal porridge.
I’m Canadian and say ‘peckish’ all the time when I’m hungry, I say rubbish, mobile, lift, and windscreen to describe crappy, cell phone, elevator, and windshield because I worked in Malaysia - a former British colony where people speak UK English and had to adjust my English so people knew what I was saying. For some reason it stuck. I am twenty years older than Zoey which also means I know/use some UK English my younger countrymen/women do not. In Canada in the seventies we were exposed to far more British television and hence grew up using more UK English expressions - biscuits, trousers and porridge for example - than millennial Canadians who were, unfortunately (IMHO) deprived of that influence and mostly shaped by US. culture. The lexicon began to split in the 80’s. Other common UK English most Canadians do not use: pram (baby carriage), torch (flashlight), nappies (baby diaper), jettee (dock), lift (elevator), cooker (stove/oven), petrol (gasoline), lorry (transport truck/semi-trailer), crisps (potato chips), chips ( French fries), snog (kiss/make out), shag (have sex with).
i was in canada and i used the term trousers and they understood me !!:)
You've really gone back to your roots
As a Canadian I have never hear anyone say" Hundo P" or its" Monsooning". I would say it's pouring rain out .
same lol
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'Bucketing down' or 'hosing down' (NZ) if it's a real downpour.
I know. Never heard some of the words she's using. She must be a Newfie or something.
I'm a Canadian and say monsooning probably because I'm from Vancouver Island
Thanks! Also learned common british and canadian terminologies that are useful for travel!! :)
I just loved it 😍😍
The English girl is speaking the queens English which is only a small part of the UK. She’s very posh!
most people i know speak like her
All of the people I know speak like that
Hans Gruber only a small percentage of the uk speak BBC English obviously you have only heard people from the south
Hans Gruber believe me I’m English so I know!
The south isn’t just a small percentage though 😂 (from East Sussex so again most people in this area and lots of Surrey and Kent too) sound like this!
As a Canadian Anglophile, this is awesome to see. Do more please! I love to see this.
You two look eerily like twins.
lol did y oui see the one with their American friend? Triplets!
Monsooning, what a beautiful way of saying it.
Never heard of hund'o'pee or expression "it's addicting" (I would say it's addictive). Snickers or Sneakers (now I don't know which one is the correct spelling) is commonly used on west coast as well as runners or running shoes. Shotgun is for front passenger seat, that beer thing must be from the spring break scene :-O. For underwear in Canada there's also boxers and briefs for guys or panties for girls. Some use the expression "going to the toilet" in Canada as well but the most common is indeed washroom
, I've also heard some saying "going to the can" (though I am not sure if that's a Canadian expression or British) and I believe in England they also use the term "loo".
Here are a couple other differences that I heard: Lift vs Elevator, Bonnet vs Hood.
I grew up in New Brunswick, Canada. For breakfast we ate porridge every day. This is a general term used to refer to any cooked cereal. It could be oatmeal, cream of wheat, corn meal, or Red River cereal; it was all porridge.
That makes sense!..but in Missouri USA, the only time I heard 'porridge' was in 'The Three Bears' or 'Little Miss Moffet'..I'm not being sarcastic, just honest..
I thought Little Miss Muffet ate curds and whey. Maybe there's a verse that I've never heard!
Whitbypoppers..correct you are!!..I am mistaken!..thanks for your correction!
It's oatmeal. lol
Red River cereal... omg, haven't heard that in a long time lol. Did you hate it??
That dimples made me fall in love with Cheryl
I love Cheryl's dimples
Opppss that british smile make my day
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Hi girls. Greetings from Washington D.C.. The woolen or knot hat you mention is a cap or hat. We don't really say beanie. To us, a beanie is more like what a Jewish man or a Catholic cardinal wears on their head. I usually just say knit hat. And to me, a jumper is a short dress without sleeves that you must wear a blouse or turtleneck under.
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This was really fun to watch, cause first, you both seem really nice, and second, I'm German, so I've learned all the British vocabularies in school, but I also did an exchange in Canada so it was great to see how my usage of words might have changed. Yeah, so I definitely noticed that I mostly use the Canadian expressions but some of the ones you said I've never heard before. Of course that might be cause I'm not fully into the language since it isn't my mother language or maybe it's also cause I was in victoria, not Toronto. Still I really enjoyed the video and it was great to hear some Canadian English again 😊
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Nope on hundo p, addicting and monsooning.
For sure, addictive, pouring or pissing down rain.
The level of a building/house ground floor is first is a difference I've found.
S vs Z in words like realise, energise, etc
Crisps vs chips vs fries
Bins vs garbage
From the Maritimes - same here.
Except we Canadian's spell using the S not zed like Realise. We also spell with a "ou" in words like flavour and colour etc.
@@Allan003 above applies to me and what I grew up using. Though I did likely switch back and forth a bit I was primarily Z over S. O and OU were 50/50.
as a foreigner, I like the British speaker's tone, American accent, Australian expression. today, in this video I discovered another fascinating accent such as Canadian one that I heard for the first time (because in Tunisia we have more affinity to Britsh English) but I can say a lot of charme at the accent.
in the states they call it the restroom I always picture a place they have a couch where you could lay down and have a nap.
Same
Not really, the only place you could rest there for a bit would be “on the toilet”. Sorry to break it to you
@@spruceguitar I figured that out already
When I was in middle school my teacher was mad because I asked to use the restroom instead of bathroom 😂
that always fascinated me why they chose that terminology. LOL I agree with you on that one. Its funny EXPRESSION. LOL
I'm from Canada and I have never heard of most of those British words! The funniest one was the "skanky" one! And toilet vs bathroom, the touque vs the bobble hat! You should definitely make a part 2!
I found it interesting that Cheryl (the Brit) made use of an American slang phrase that I am sure she uses routinely. The expression is “you guys”, as in: “you guys are using the wrong word”.
Great job girls !
I am a senior citizen in Canada and this show is the first time I ever heard "hundo-p" for 100%. That must be a Toronto thing.
Reverend Brother Christopher Lawson I’ve never heard of it either. Must be a Toronto thing
I have lived in Toronto since 1960 and have never heard hundo-p.
not a toronto thing
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I am in my 40s, Toronto born & raised, & there is no such thing as "hundo-p." I think it's a phrase she & her friends made up & they're now trying to get it to catch on like "fetch" from the Mean Girls movie. Stop trying to make "hundo-p" happen, Gretchen! It's NOT going to happen!
Tuque is indeed a French-Canadian word :)
The word toque is Breton for "hat". The spelling with the "que" is Middle Breton, and Modern Breton is spelled tok. Old Breton spells the word toc. The word was borrowed into the French language both for the chef's uniform and the knit cap.
The word toque is Arabic "طوق" for "round" and "طاقية" "taqia" for "hat" originally for something "round" that has an opening. The word has been known in English since 1505. It came through the Medieval French toque (15th century), presumably by the way of the Spanish toca "woman's headdress", from Arabic *taqa 'طاقة' for "opening"
Finally! An explanation for that bizarre spelling... because in French Canada, it's definitely a tuque, not a toque. A toke is something else...
Makes sense as the Brazilian Portuguese also say "tooka" (not sure of spelling) and the Japanese say tooku which is likely derived from the portuguese.
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The timing of the cricket noise when she said “tuque” was priceless.
As a Canadian that lived in England for a few years, I pretty much lived through everything in this video. I thought coming from a western English speaking country, that happens to be a former subject of England, things would be pretty similar but I definitely had a bit of culture shock. I went into work one day and said to one of my female colleagues "you look great in those pants" and she got really mad as well as the other female colleagues with her. Luckily, a male colleague stepped in before I was lynched and sorted out the misunderstanding between us.
So what do they do if someone sings my babe got her blue jeans on?
@@hydrolito British people know what jeans are and it's not a song that would ever be played in the UK to begin with.
Never heard of "hundo p" I live 1hr from Toronto
Same
LOL. When I was a teenager, a friend of mine's cousin came over from England to Canada for the summer. Seemed like we spent the whole time translating for her and her for us. ;-)
I'm Canadian and from Toronto and have never heard of "hundo-p". Must be a generational thing.
same and im also from Toronto
It’s american
PokeGeo1668 no?
PokeGeo1668 It’s not American either. I have never heard of it.
It's definitely eastern Ontario
British have “Class”, Americans have “Cool”
Canadians have both
@IXE 28372 how dare you to talk this for India you are shameless
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Australians have swag MAAITE xD
Ahhh we all love Canada comon you got to agree with me
when I studied English at the university, we used the word 'peckish' quite a lot, we were told that it's like hungry but hungry has a stronger meaning.
I am Canadian from Ontario, I knew about the zucchini and egglant. I use hat vs toque, my youngest kid probably wouldn't know what a toque is. My mother is Scottish and I am married to a Scot as well. Growing up I heard a lot of these British terms so they are not unfamiliar. "100P" is a new term for me. I live 2 hours north of Toronto. "Raining like crazy". Sponge vs cake. Candy vs sweets. popsicle vs ice lolly
parking lot=parkade.
Digital age '7:30' old Scottish " half past 7'. What does 'quarter of 7' mean?
"Raining cats and dogs" Old British. In the time of thatched roofs, ratter dogs and cats would hunt and sleep in the in the thatch roofs. In the famous English heavy rains the dogs and cats would slip out of the thatch.
Toque in American is a 'knitted cap', re US Navy.
Bennie is a red, black, white brimless bowl shaped cap with a propeller on the top.
I love british girls their way of speaking beautiful voice and good reaction of speaking
If you look at very old cars they did not have a trunk ( boot ) but a rack that a steamer trunk would sit on so in Canada and the US when trunks became part of the car the name trunk was applied.
Hi! I know the story behind melanzana (plural melanzane). Eggplant was unpopular in Italy in the past. It was believed it might cause digestive or even mental problems so they called it "not healthy apple" - "mela non sana" (like "not salubrious" or "not sane" from latin). The shape seemed more like an apple than like an egg for them :)
The white ones look like ostrich eggs