Brits Vs. Americans: Who Speaks Proper English? Pt 2
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 27. 07. 2024
- We once again pit Brits vs. Americans to debate who speaks 'proper' English đșđžđŹđ§đ
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Americans: They're called pants
Brits: no they're called trousers
Me, an intellectual: leg sleeves
I mean you aren't wrong tho...
Lmaoo
He's too dangerous to be kept alive!
You are hella correct
Lol
*That girl saying Aubergine is a french word yes it is but does she realise that English is a mixture of many other languages such as french, German, Latin and many more..*
Royal Legend innit
The English language was reformed under William the conqueror's rule in England, he was french, Just to back this guys statement ^^^
@@AlphaUk technically, he was Norman. "France" didn't exist back then.
@@paulbarrett1984 Well done mate i think that's obvious
YASSSS
English: Vaccine
American: Bleach Injection
America: Autism
l l -I agree
@@ll-cb3py thats rude-
@@mayamarino1197 boo hoo
l l :)
USA "Don't use Aubergine, get your own words!"
Completely forgetting their use of cilantro (Spanish word for the coriander plant)...
Completely forgetting their use of LITERALLY OUR ENTIRE FKIN LANGUAGE
Hmm, we have links to the France, go and read our history.
Americans: get your own words
English: get your own language
And cookie is Dutch.
Pretty sure every language has influence on others to some extent
"You've stolen French words"
Well, a few of our kings were French so it's no surprise we have French words in our vocabulary
William the conqueror
Well they stole our language
Dwi ddim yn gwybod beth rydych chi'n siarad amadano
@@tam496 u speaking welsh?
True haha
The Americans want to come for us because we use a "french" word, for Eggplant. Yet they use an italian word for Courgettes (Zucchini)
Real Americans dont care about other cultures lol
PhootPhetishPhilip ! Yes american only care about themselves we know that
And courgettes is also french to be fair
@@chiara3424 idk even know what that is
Of course we have French words they invaded us in 1066
Zakarie zucchini is not even italian to be honest
âGet your own wordâ GET YOUR OWN LANGUAGE
The reason we donât have our own language is that you all colonized everything you could reach and forced the natives to speak English or be killed. And most of the time, native peoples didnât have that choice, they were just killed. So people in the Americas wouldâve had their own languages if Europeans didnât come here and ruin them by killing them. Same goes for a bunch of countries across the world. So.....
ćżçæš Canada: *Am I a joke to you?*
AdamTheProp True for Canada as well.
ćżçæš en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language_in_Canada
AdamTheProp Right, I know about French Canadian. Still a result of colonization and forced assimilation of Natives.
brit: âitâs an aubergineâ
american: âno youâre just taking someone elseâs wordâ
but america took an entire language from us..
(edit) rule fuckin britannia
That One Guy You Walk Past America steals everything they own lmao we made the language thereâs no more to ut
We call it brinjal in India
Actually the true Americans are the "red Indians" or Native Americans.
Jessie no americans are british people who invaded the native americans, americans wouldnât be predominantly white if they were native americans
@@kipnook4404 The original Americans, I mean.
*Brits:* We speak proper English
*Americans:* No, us
*Every other language:* English is English...
Lol yeah
420th like, nice
WE ORIGINATED THE LANGUAGE. Therefore you should follow OUR rules
Yeah
Cole Mclaren its been changed
Your taking someone elseâs language. Says the American.
E. G. Ur wrong. They donât have as long a HIstory because not all the people who moved over from Europe were English
E. G. Your county was founded in the 14th century đ We have been speaking English 100s of years before you
@@usuarios.164 by British you mean Scots irish? Right.
@@usuarios.164 interesting . Clay might originate in Yorkshire as I now of a few families around my area. If you feel so strongly about your roots then maybe you should pay the old world a visit and get a feel for your ancestral home land
English originated from England lol its the slang that makes it confusing
Americans: you canât steal another countries word
Literally the entire American dictionary: *exists*
Also they are forgetting that French was the main language of Britain for a long time!
funy
Ikr
country's*
Almost like most people here aren't decendants of English speakers...
To anyone curious enough as to why there's a lot of French words in English, I'll just brush up on a bit of "super quick" history, and some etymology, so skip if you don't feel like reading a lot lol. EDIT: Had to shorten it cause I went full on writing an essay LMAO
William the *Bastard* of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings(1066) and became King of England, and taking the new title of William the *_Conqueror_* . He was a Duke from Normandy(NW coast of France), who was a _vassal_ who pledged his fealty to the King of France. Normans, were once Vikings who were given territory by the French King, King Charles III, back in 911 AD, because the Vikings basically pillaged and massacred a lot, and it annoyed the French King obviously lol. The catch was that they swore fealty to him, becoming France's subjects, and they protect France from future Viking invasions. They settled and inter-married with the local French population, and eventually created a separate identity, and adapted French culture, language, and customs. *_Norman_* came from the word "Norsemen", meaning people of the "North".
So England, and eventually the rest of the British Isles and parts of Ireland, were ruled by the Normans for centuries, they brought with them their culture and language, and even many of the castles and cathedrals were built by the Normans(importing castle-building technology and architecture from France to Britain). As a result, a lot of the French words we still use today, especially the ones from Old French and Norman French(later Anglo-Norman), are more associated with power, government, formality, and class. The Norman lords used words like _bĆf_ (beef), _porc_ (pork), _venesoun_ (venison) and _mouton_ (mutton) as words used to differentiate the meat that they consumed from the actual animal raised by the peasants, while the English peasants ate cow, pig, deer, and sheep. The English eventually borrowed MANY French and Norman words and is now in our everyday speech. This created "etymological twins" where we both have words of Germanic origin(Anglo-Saxon) and of French and Latin origin, but having similar meaning, often in differing context. Examples of these are:
*Germanic* *French*
to ask to inquire
thoughtful pensive
belief faith
weird strange
a drink a beverage
woods forest
understand comprehend
room chamber
come arrive
leave depart
book craft literature
belly stomach
cook(noun) chef
think conceive
house mansion
abide obey
fair beautiful
deadly lethal
friendly amicable
We can literally go on and on lol
And then, we absorbed a lot of French words throughout the years, and we have an interesting situation where we have a word that was first borrowed from Old French and Norman French, and also have a word borrowed from Modern French, while still keeping the words of Old/Norman French origin. An example of this is:
CASTLE & CHATEAU:
_chastel_ (Old French) -> _castel_ (Late Old English) -> (Modern English) *_castle_*
_chastel_ (Old French) -> _chĂąteau_ (Modern French) -> (Modern English) *_chateau_*
We took both words but in different time in history, and applied it to different types of buildings. They both came from the same origin, but developed and taken in different times in history, "castle" was back in the Middle Ages, and "chateau" in the 18th century. Castle is called "ChĂąteau fort" in Modern French, basically "fortified castle".
Then you have old French words that we took in the Middle Ages, but are not used in France anymore, or it evolved differently into Modern French. An example is:
PURCHASE:
In English: (Old French) _porchacier_ -> (Anglo-French) _purchaser_ -> (Modern Eng) *_purchase_*
In French: (Old French) _porchacier_ -> (Modern French) *_pourchasser_*
The original meaning from the Old French word was, "to go after something", "achieve", "pursue". It eventually evolved in English as "to acquire". In Modern French, the word evolved to _pourchasser_ which means "to hunt down", because the word _chasser_ is the word "to hunt". The verb "to buy" in Modern French is _acheter_ , which came from Vulgar Latin _accattare_ . Bonus words: "achieve" and "pursue" all came from Old French too, _achever_ and _pursuer_ lol
In conclusion, we took a lot of words from French, and also Latin, which makes English the most Latinised or Romanised Germanic language. Thanks for reading!
Ali C mate any British person would know that so I donât get why the Brits the vid didnât when talking about is an aubergine was French
"Super Quick History"
Thanks for the history lesson.
My guy jus waffled wikipedia
Willy Ekerslike Yep. English is derived from a lot of languages, but ya know, all languages come from somewhere. Well nice talking to you. I hope your quarantine is going well! đ
American: Aubergine is French.
French was once the official language of England
Nigh Chaiyaban THANK YOU
Don't Americans wear perfume? That's french too.
SCP Time and use the word entrepreneur
@@liamwilkinson9902 yeah
SCP Time and their language came from Britain, I think theyâve all forgotten that
We Brits call it a dummy because it replaces a nipple, it's a dummy version.
This is my conclusion.
You would be correct it is shortened from âdummy teatâ. Aka âfake nippleâ. What a lovely comparison đđ
Yeah dummy just short for dummy tit
VisualSoldier teat**
@@daisy6545 not in my neck of the woods mate. It's dummy-tit or dummy-titty in the north
VisualSoldier wow. Iâm from Essex so đđ
"Get your own word"
Why don't you get your own language?
What
@- kool - Look at y'all now.."CoRoNaViRuS WhAT?" Protesting about Corona and an orange đ president bruh Kid President would do better than TrUmP
@- kool - not mad đ
@- kool - Most Americans arenât natives lmaooo
We didnât steal it you gave it to us
Americans- "eggplant"
Britishers - "Aubergine"
Americans- "that's french. Make your own words."
Some Southeast Asians- "Brinjal". đđđ
Even we Sri Lankans call it brinjalđ I thought Brits called it the same since we learn British English
talong
In Brazilian portuguese is beringela
Inuri Hettiarachchi brinjal is a Portuguese word
South African and it's brinjal here too
Brits: It's an aubergine
Americans: It's an eggplant
Me in Asia: Bro that's a brinjal
me : laughs in asian
Lol I am not even Asian but I left so loud kkkkkkk I am American but in Portuguese you say "berinjela" and it looks like the Asian way you said and it's like 2:30 am and I just laughed out loud đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
baigan
@@marcjugmohan baigan in Hindi đ€Ș
@@yoonjinlife9579 Hahahah
Try to pronounce âgunâ
American people: *toy*
English people: *gun*
Hahaha
Hahaha
Hahaha
It's more like.
"Child's toy."
"Crime."
baril
Americans-"eggplants"
Brits-"aubergine"
Indians-"the heck!! That's a brinjal"
I have no problem with Indians calling it something different if they don't call it English.
@@0forwarner-duck123 It's"Indian English" Indian languages have their own words for "Brinjal".
other people in the comments: arguing about which one is proper
*me: just watching the video in quarantine*
British English: traditional
American English: simplified
Damn thanks for the likes đ
American English simplified by a 5 year old.
Well done soldier , you've cracked the code to peace
Not really hard to crack considering that the American president has the English skills of a 6-year-old.
As an American i can verify this
nah brits got slang
*English* - the clue is kinda in the name lol
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English. England
E. G. No they havenât
E. G. English has been spoken in Britain since 1500 thatâs 276 years before America became independent..
@@usuarios.164You being serious?
"get you're own language stop copying French"
Excuse me William of Normandy invaded in 1066 and won the battle of Hastings like dont attack us for it jesusđ
Yeah, now we have the vocabulary of a CONQUEROR and you just copied everyone america lmao
@@esme4048 wait nahh my brain can't understand your reply please explain it my brain is still running Windows 7 and zero sleepđ(I mean I'm dumb with sleep anyway but the no sleep thing amplifies it)
@@freyjarichardson1519 ill try and say it again in a way that makes more sense lmao
"Yeah, now we have the vocabulary of a conqueror (william of Normandy is william the conqueror) and america is just trying to copy and improve our own language and failing badly"
@@esme4048 ohhhhhh ye now I understand thanks for thatđ and also yep William the conqueror was just engraved in my brain by horrible histories and my year 2 teacherđ
@@freyjarichardson1519 sammee lmao, every british person has watched horrible histories, the best kids tv show EVER đ€
đșđž speaks english because of đŹđ§.... HISTORYYYYY...just sayyyiinnâ
But you don't speak proper fucking English.
@That One Guy You Walk Past Ely
@That One Guy You Walk Past correct
@That One Guy You Walk Past Mercury
@That One Guy You Walk Past not the usa. Why do you care.
English - The clue is literally right in the name.
English .... England
Most americans came from england bringing english with them over time english from england changed but american english stayed closer to its roots
Artavenday Osnaughfay no no no English did not come from America English came from Latin, french, German etc I think it was the Normanâs or the vikings Iâm not sure that brought the languages over to England and itâs a combination of all of them which originated in wngland
Artavenday Osnaughfay no they didnât there all just ignorant and rude and annoying fat and stupid .they styled it horribly and less close to how it is. I mean who calls water wader.
@@sariahjames8331 i have never been fat nor have most americans i have ever seen and nobody in my region says wader america has many different accents people close to the canadian border kinda have a british accent and people close to the mexican border kinda have a spanish accent
Artavenday Osnaughfay actually they changed the English language in America to suit their needs. The English thatâs changed from how English people used to speak- is slang and we do not use the Old English words anyone. But the English that English people used when they moved to America would have been old English- shakespeares English. American English has moved on with the years just as English English has- except we have more slang. So English English would be the correct English.
âItâs an eggy shaped plantâ girl what eggs have you been looking at đ
A variety of eggplant when still young actually looks rounder and white in colour, hence the name.
Iâm British and still donât understand like- why not a... oh I donât know a... ah. Itâs hard to make a word um.... nevermind
@@gandaruvu Indeed, but isn't the massive, misshapen purple vegetable the image that normally springs to mind? I know that the white, egg-shaped variety exists, but I've never seen one in the supermarket.
Lee Marie I think we found the one American in the comments
@supercĂžn20 you just described German in 2 sentences or something
1:10 why you speak french for one vegetable? *Get your own words* *said an american women who speaks English*
Mtsm
Finally someone has commen sense
Hush up we stole ur language and we dumped ur tea hush up yanks
Quincy yeeter at least we arenât obese.
@@Yeety2x hbu shut up grandma :)
Yea, like all English words are English, most are Latin, French and Germanic.
When the girl started laughing when he said the dummy I about lost it đđđđ
"use your own words"- said by an American speaking English. đ
edit: damn yous are still going 9 months later đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Don't Americans say 'zuccini' for 'courgette'? That's a German word.
Most Americans will never admit they speak ENGLISH... as an English woman I can accept our English language has been developed and influenced by Latin, French, Germanic etc đ we ainât to precious đ
@@leahj2495 it's zucchini and it's italian.
No said by an American citizen whos country is built on by slavery racism and starting wars in Countrys for oil gold diamonds ect
E. G. I have to politely disagree I have developed a family tree. I believe Britain and France are the Parents of Canada and The US and Canada is the favourite while the US is always having to argue and fight for things while Canada asks and they are like, sure sweetie, âmercia go tidy your economy.
Americans: you're taking someone else's word for eggplant.
Brits: where tf you think zucchini comes from?
Italy!
@@henry55 nope german
Der ohne Namen nope, Italian
Lemon Gang nope, americaneese
The first 4 replies is why I love CZcams đ€Ł
ppl are so pressed, itâs just different accents and slang of the same language, no ones better than the other this was just a fun video.
edit; love how ppl bring history into this like THEY FOUGHT in the wars lol no one cares about either srsly
Fuckin PREACH dude
That One Guy You Walk Past ok?
ik. its funny seeing how seriously the brits are taking this video. Bringing up history and their french kings like bro we do not caaarrree.
@@akakaklul4219 i mean we colonised ur country, gave u a language that u altered and starting saying we speak it wrong and then u obsess over independance from a country thats more than 40 times smaller than you...
Exactly, people are taking this way too seriously.
It's obvious the people in the video are just joking around so I don't know why everyone's getting so worked up.
"So you go to the hairdresser and say I want fringe"? LOOOOOOOOL
No lol but its like a hairstyle, like i want a fringe.
. Ost people to cover there wham forheads
Her: âGet your own wordâ
Americans speak the type of English of colonisers. English people speak original English.
Her: ight imma head out
We came from english descent bringing our language with us there was no stealing involved
@@taventube2151 yes there is
@@samihahyasmin4343 you can't steal something that is yours
@@taventube2151 English England
Nuff said
@@samihahyasmin4343 we started out as english citizens
england was invaded by normanâs and they ran the country so yeah english has a lot of french in itđ
Yeah the English were literally forced to speak French whilst William the Conqueror (or Guillaume) was in power under pain of death. You imbeciles or should I say 'imbéciles'
Gcse history
Supernova Cinnamon yeah it has lots of french and german history aha
Oh fuck it guys can we just say itâs all derivations of Latin, likewise with the other languages that were listed given that the Latin alphabet contains the letters in which the Germans, us and French etc still use today.
Supernova Cinnamon the Anglo-Saxons were German
hello from Malaysia, a country that uses British English but in this country there's loads of ppl who use American English
America - egg plant
England - aubergine
Indians - are they mad , this is a bengan
đđđ
Brinjalđđ
The irony when the Americans talk about taking a language and changing certain words.
Actually British people colonized America so if they never did we Americans wouldnât be called Americans and we would have our own language
Lowks Liana so you are a Native American
Ok probably not a native
Lowks Liana actually you would still be called Americans in a way because of the continents, just like the brits are Europeans
@@Ana-bt8pr we'd be called north Americans.
Brit: Hello mate
Americans: sorry donât understand language barrier
Iâm American and I say,â Mateâ
TrollYo Plays clearly didnât get the joke ya stupid yank
ExplorerK, clearly doesnât know what context clues are.
ExplorerK, lmao, some kid being triggered over âWrongâ answer when clearly, youâre literally dumb and that youâre not a Brit since you literally said âyankâ meaning youâre American and clearly arguing with the person, but you âBritâ need to learn what a damn âEggplantâ is called, probs you call sprinkles,â Hundred and thousandsâ lmao, wrong word for sprinkles, idiot.
ExplorerK. And plus, you literally not even one since you said. âYaâ lmao, not a single Brit on Roblox said âYaâ and plus, âYaâ means yeah. Clearly, you need to have a brain.
This video: talks about differences in words
Comment section: *so you have chosen*
*WAR*
Alice Angel YES
0:58 I'm from the uk and i've never heard anyone call that "hundred thousands" we just say sprinkles Imao
hundreds and thousands is old
I'm only 12 and I call them hundreds and thousands
Going off about aubergine being French doesn't realise English is a mixture/derivative of languages like French, Latin etc
Optimus Grime I know right English is a mixture of french, German and a bit of Latin
Exactly, Language is an evolving thing. Most of English stems from Nordic, French/German, Latin, even Indian and Arabic words too I think.
As a younger country Americans have taken English and used different words to fit their own explanation of things. Some I like but most I think are weird lol.
Could be worse, could be like the nonsense kids today speaking street slang.
Lee1978R exactly I agree with you 100%
Aubergine. I blame the Normans! Why can't we go back to good honest Anglo Saxon. It's one in the eye for King Harold!
Optimus Grime exactly and donât they use the word Zucchini for Courgette which is an Italian word??
So us British steal one word from the french but itâs ok that Americans copied are whole dictionary and removed the words that take effort to say đ lol, nice đ
Both British English and American English were independently standardized in the 1800's. Dictionaries did not exist before the language was standardized.
are does not equal our.
Wi ll ??? We didnât steal your language! Your language came to us from colonization! Most white people and most blacks in America have descended from the British colonies! Your people forcefully taught SLAVES English and wouldnât let them speak their native language! You BROUGHT English to the colonies that your king created!
Lord Voldemort Actually the Spanish ( Christopher Columbus) first colonised your country and during 1776 your country voted to change there national language to German yet you decided to keep the English so now whoâs forcing it down your throat? Seem like your enjoying it đ
Wi ll lol what. Colombus never stepped foot in what we now know today as the USA, he landed in the Bahamas. And the spanish colonized the Southwest and Florida. The English colonized the 13 colonies, essentially the whole eastern portion of the usa.
The reason we have french words is the english language is a mixture of other languages left behind from all the times we were invaded. I always find it weird when Americans argue that their version of the language is right because they literally took our language and over the years randomly changed some words
Omg an American moved to my school and we thought it was real cool! Next day we were in our p.e. clothes, she came to the front and said like my pants-
The girls:đł
Most of the boys: hahahaaahahaahahaaaaa~ wait wat
That one boy: how can we see through your trousersđŹ
He: wait what did I sayđđŒđđŒ
these Americans are quite patronising arenât they
Theyâre American. We fight their patronisation with our sarcasmđđŒ
Itâs all for jokes. Donât take it personal lol. Thatâs just American humor
Yeah but then when we're sarcastic in our comebacks, the americans get offended,
(more often than not).
JustAGuyfromLDN Lol itâs all because we donât understand each otherâs humor sometimes. But honestly we have love for each other
Chris B of course we dođsurely you can agree though an American saying âyouâre using someone elseâs languageâ to try and prove a point is just madđđđ
The funny thing is us Americans copied British peopleâs language
Taylor Swift itâs literally the same language. The early settlers were British, hence they spoke English with time the dialect changed but itâs still the same language
@@amalzuhair4495 but america speaks it wrong
It funny how british peoppe copied French people
Pyro0878 shit I think the American civil war was more than decades ago
Taylor Swift thief u stole my language
Every Brit: Get your own language!
All of us Americans: You people are the ones who taught us it-
I grew up in the UAE and I got teased so much for calling it a "rubber" when I moved to Canada. 11 year old me had serious culture shock that year.
Ummmmm do they realise that history states in 1066, William, who was French, became king of England and that's why so many French words are in the (proper) English language
He was not French he was Norman.
My mistake. But I guess Normandy is in France
@@surayyahravat7342 yeah but they were descended from vikings who raided France so the french gave them Normandy to create a buffer state between them and other viking raiding party's. But essentially they had became French culturally by the time of 1066 but they were still not French if you know what I mean
Sorry I'm not really a history nerd or anything. I literally just made this comment based on my history lessons back in year 7 (which I hardly remember) đ
@@surayyahravat7342 đdon't worry about bro
This comment section is a melting pot for UK-US antagonism
Yeah it's really sad. I wish that both sides would think that maybe they can both be right instead of just one.
@@blucas994 its called Buzzfeed
B Lucas british people have to have a winner. Tying is ridiculous.
Lily's Life or maybe people are from different cultures, so things are different.
Zack Olander ya what mate
quick google search "which country has the English language originated from" will tell you the obvious answer here lmao
Pasicifer can be called just Pasifcifer .
American English : binky or wookie
Austrailian and British English : dummy
Soother in Canada .
Hiberno-English : soother or dodie
Pakistani/Urdu word: Chusni
Pasificer were invented Christian W. Meinecke were the one and first recognizble in 1901 and it usually a rubber , plastic , or silicone nipple .
Benefits of using Pasificer : soothe a fussy baby, tempary distraction , help baby fall asleep , eases discomfort from fligths , Reduce of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome , and they are disposable
Drawback - dependet on them , increase of middle ear infection , disrupt breast-feeding. A prolanged pacifier can cause speech sound disorder , and delays.
Now , let move on to Eraser . Eraser are made usually syntehtice rubbers and syntheich soy-based gum . Expensive ones are made at vivnyl , plastic , or gum-like materials.
âThatâs French? Thatâs like... get your own word!â Whoâs gonna tell her just how much of English is from French?
Bug Crusher we took a couple words from French Americans took our whole language and has anyone told u about 1066
She was not a good spokes person on behalf of Americans
@@PuckDaily I'm confused are you American or English? Cos if you're English your extremely wrong in many ways.
@@PuckDaily ohk got it
@@PuckDaily you do realise Americans are Europeans right? Majority of Americans are English/Irish. So the only people who could beat us english was the English đđ
American:why are you speaking someone elseâs language?
Also American: speaking English
Edit: wow I didnât expect this many people to see this đ
we come from the same place you know right?
But the English language originated from west Germanic- so technically anyone no matter where theyâre from today unless theyâre western Germanic and speaks English is speaking someone elseâs language.
blondie xx we donât really get to chose the name of the language we speak, I mean- Australians and Canadians also speak English(for the most part)
blondie xx we donât get to chose what to call it, we can just decide one day to go to Wikipedia or a dictionary and change the name of the language we use, thatâd be great; but it just wonât happen.
Chanthecat sad nz noises đąđłđż
The Aubergine is native to India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) as a Brinjal. Alexander the Great took a liking to the fruit during his conquests and had intended to introduce it to Macedonia and Greece upon his return.
Unfortunately he died in Babylon but his armies eventually brought back seeds to a city called Vergina (spelled ÎΔÏÎłÎŻÎœÎ± in Greek). In the late 15th century a French chef was travelling for new ideas and came across this curious plant with an edible fruit. He bought it back to France having listed it as being found:
Au (At) Bergina (mistaking the Vee sound of Greek B for an actual B). So it was erroneously found at Bergina Hence Aubergine.
When the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America they were kitted out with lots of consumables. Over and above food for the journey the brought cloth, leather, iron, some livestock and loads of seeds. They had dressmakers, a shoemaker (who brought 124 pairs of shoes and boots), a blacksmith and lots of farmers. They didn't have a Doctor, Botanist or Scientist.
When some of the seeds eventually started to grow the plant would have been unknown in England. However, take a look at this link:
marshallsgarden.com/products/aubergine-plants-ivory-f1-x3-7cm-potted-10806324
I reckon it's a perfect name for a growing AUBERGINE plant.
English is called because it's from England and England is in Britain.
England is not Britain. England is just one of the nation's that make up the greatest county ever, Great Britain.
Great Britain isn't a country it is an island
@@alfieb8106 I know that I am sorry that I accidently used a comma instead of a full stop. They were meant to be separate sentences.
@@0forwarner-duck123 ok
The word âdumbâ means not able to speak so maybe thatâs where âdummyâ comes from. Just a guess though
Yeah that's what I also thought. Kinda makes sense!
That's literally what my brain was thinking!!!đ
Ivysaur :3 the word dumb means you for thinking thatâs what it means
It's called a dummy because its a dummy nipple. Like, a fake version of a nipple đ
No, it does come from dummy as in substitute. Though the product itself was designed and patented in the U.S., so....
Iâm sorry but this video is just Americans being offensive
Oh and anyone saying âthere just over sensitiveâ is just proving my point
My thoughts exactlyđ
xd snarison _ nah it just goes to show that americans are just up their own arses and overall unnecessarily rude
BigCMiner We see it as British people being offensive
xd snarison _ 1:06
Meem Nub we donât give a shot get your own language.
American: see's dummy as a swear word
Any English person: allow me to introduce myself
batshark 007 bruh dummy is not a swear wordđ
i dunno man Agree
Isn't "fart" considered a bad word to British people? But to Americans its not.
@@FourYshadowI6004 No lol
When a country has defeated the most powerful country in the world with an army of farmers and politicians I believe one receives the right to pronounce words the way they think.
âwhy are you using french for your vegetables,get you own words.â
then you canât use a word like clichĂ© either because itâs french.
no fight an american puts up will be able to hold up in any argument or debate.
americans have some how standardized broken english and too an extent it is rather commendable
Then an American pulls out a Zucchini...
There was a period of a few centuries after the Norman Invasion, when French was actually the language used by the English aristocracy.
English is derived from several main culturesâ languages, that of the: Anglo Saxons, Germanic People, Vikings, Normans and Romans. The French words in the English language are derived from the Norman language. We didnât steal the word from them, they shoved in in our mouths when they invaded from across the channel.
Bennie Gibbons technically they cant use 'pants' either as it derives from the French word Pantalon
You literally can't speak English without French influence. As a Cajun French speaker, I'll point all the words that you used that come from French origin.
*using - utiliser
*French - le français
*argument - l'aurgument
*debate - le débat
*commendable - commendable
*standardized - standardiser
*extent - l'extension
american english is a dumbed down version of british english
Yeeunology yep donât have to say any more
Are you that stupid? You need to crack open a history book.
Itâs not âdumbed downâ, itâs just that itâs different than British English and is therefore seen by many people in England as âdumbed downâ, which is not true in any way.
@@arryzlo7664 it basically is the dumbed down version that so many people use/used so it became normality. It's no different from a young person who speaks urban slang mixed with proper English. Your literally just making up new words or using other words differently just like a young person does when they make up their slang. Lol which was originally a slang term became proper English due to its mass use just like the entire American language
Technically, weren't Americans originally british?
Cuz the original Americans are the "red-indians", but the english colonised america......
For those curious about the etymology of "eggplant" in America, the vegetables we were first introduced to were small, white, and oval-shaped
I always love the way Brits use the phrase "Ahoy Matey!" and "Jolly good day to you, sir!"
You guys are amazing. =)
When
I donât care but british accents sound WAYY more calming and natural.
Have you been to Blackpool or heard of Little t?
Midwestern America is considered the most "neutral" accent of any English-speaking locale. Plus, American English is the form taught in second-language classes worldwide, including Asia.
Ew. Wtf?
@Will Robinson u should totally listen to Tom Hiddleston Speakingâ€â€â€â€â€
ElectricAxylplayz #SAVECZcams *English
âYouâre taking someone elseâs languageâ
Says the person who uses words like âFilet Mignonâ and âEntrĂ©eâ
they must have never heard of "loan words"
Resumé, other foreign words, maybe a racial slur. Who knows with Americans
Rsy Tn those are not specific to France. Latin America uses them as well, as so do the Portuguese & Italian. Theyâre Latin words.
That is a statement I canât argue with. I donât know why they said that. And Iâm American.
And café
âIâm going to pacify youâ đđđ
We use aubergine which is a French word, but itâs the colour of the vegetable so that makes sense. Americans invented egg plant, which makes no sense. Also, if they were having a go because we use a French word, they call trousers pants, which comes from the French word Pantaloons. They use zucchini for courgette which are Italian and French words respectively.
I assume a dummy is used as âa dummyâ like a substitute. Like the dummies you use for car crash tests etc. Itâs there to replace either a babyâs bottle or a womanâs breast depending on the way theyâre fed. Hence itâs a dummy.
I always assumed that it came from the word "dumb" meaning unable to speak.
I was under the impression that it was a shortened/more polite version of dummy tit, as in substitute breast, as they were generally given to babies who were crying to be fed.
@@edwardeastham7988 that's exactly what it means
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I thought of it like âthe internet for dummiesâ books. Youâre educating an idiot or ignorant person about something, like a. Hold is young and needs to be taught so is ignorant and a dummy
They say we stole the word aubergine when their entire language is a copy of English
Father Edmund Cargill Thompson because British come to America and thatâs why they speak English and besides, English is derived from other languages
they both speak english though,, you canât steal a language you both share
@@devoured1221 The language in the UK has always been invented by us just expanded by others
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Well, America WAS colonized by the British.
The British logic behind these: An aubergineâs etymology comes from the Arabic BadinjÄn through a range of modifications to the French aubergine. French has throughout the ages been popular in England, and the plant was likely imported through france. Trousers are a combination of the Middle English âdrawersâ and the Middle Irish âtriubhasâ. A dummy is so named because it is a decoy nipple - or a âdummyâ nipple. A rubber is named a rubber because not only does it rub the graphite off the page but it is literally made of rubber..
India was colonized by the British but we use legit all of the American terms
"Why are you speaking French? get your own word."
Why are you speaking English? Get your own language.
Krii Chan
Exactly đ
It is our language because we were once English colonists. If you bring your people to another continent and leave them alone for a long time what do you expect?
@@inspiringer6418 Brits try to call Americans dumb but forgot they colonized us
@@makoto3766 Maybe they never learned??.. Yeah you are right.
Exactly
The Karen in there saying a âdummieâ is offensive, đ I cannot
lmao
I like how they didn't realise the reasons it's called a dummy. How do I put this? It's a pretend nipple for babies to suck on in replace of actually breastfeeding them, that's why it's called a dummy. A pacifier also sounds fine as well but maybe pacify sounds a bit too aggressive?
Well in elementary we used to call people dummies but I guess I Kinda can understand where sheâs coming fromđ€đ€·đŸââïž
Pascal
if thatâs the case they should call it a nipple sucker or a sucker says babies nipples or somethingđ€·đŸââïž
Itâs called a dummy because it makes the baby dumb
1:06 The reason we have some french words is because we were invaded by Norman's in 1066 and the words used by the leaders (the French) were French and the words used by the citizens were English giving us a mixed English/French language. An example of it is the Englishman ran the farm with cows (the English word at the time) and the French leaders ate Steak (the French word for cow at the time). So you have many French words in your American language as well like accidental, barber, cabbage and many more.
There's a lot of languages that have loan words adopted into the language from other languages. From that point on, that word is a part of the language regardless of its origin.
Why is the feud still strong between us đ like we have our own differences why dont we go after australia they cant seem to make up their minds about which side they're on with words đŹđ
As an Aussie, I find this really funny xD
they use the same words but for different reasons it seems like
4th Wall Breaker Because most British want to distance themselves from America.
@@zyco9188 lol that's ironic
Lol
"Why you speak french, use your own word?" - That's called history. đ
Random Lassie this is because of the invasion from the Battle of Hastings. The Duke of Normandy invaded Britain in order to take the throne and he succeeded. We never even wanted to take in the French language as Anglo-Saxons đ
Mhm, it is history sis.
And like AMERICANS speak ENGLISH. Idm Welsh people, Scottish people, and Irish people speaking English, because they're not complaining that we have "copied" words from French. They have copied practically every word from English, and we've copied a few.
Random Lassie It's because one of the kings of England back in the 10th century was from Normandy (France) that's why
DariusPlayz Roblox 11th century. King William the conqueror or William the 1st, king of Normandy and England. He is distantly related to Queen Elizabeth II. Research the heritage of the royal family and you will find they are part scottish, welsh , English, Italian, Dutch, French, Norman, and Norwegian.
@@ahsanimam73 You mean Elizabeth the I?
US: get your own word
UK: GET YOUR OWN GODDAMN LANGUAGE
Why are americans complaining about there being french words in english. There are french words in american engilsh as well. Spanish words are also in american english.
The french conquered the UK for a while which is why.
Normanâs did for around 70 years
Donât Question my PFP I just like downfall exactly
American: eraser
English: rubber
Me, an intellectual: deletanator
The clue to a rubber being a rubber is that its made out of rubber đ
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I call it the destroyer of words
They should do UK And SA English. They are both very similar
The pants vs trousers debate is also a north vs south thing in England...
Pants, referring to boxers/briefs, is a southern term and I always thought was a shortened version of underpants, hence "trousers" are pants!
Up north we would say undies if referring to briefs and boxers for boxers obviously. Kecks (from underkecks) is another slang term for both.
âOH đ thatâs ridiculous!â
Says the one who uses BANGS for a fringe.
ìŹëíŽë°©í both arenât ridiculous...itâs just perception
ìŹëíŽë°©í both arenât ridiculous...itâs just perception
Well American English and British English have words that would be said differently like Pavement and sidewalk
..you forgot the space between ìŹëíŽ and ë°©í đ
They just have different typed of words đđ itâs a joke, they donât mean it. Iâm American and I find this weirdly offensive.
What's a rubber made out of?
Rubber
dani No one asked about your irrelevant âeraserâ knowledge. Call it a rubber or Iâll erase you
lacari0 oml lol đđđđ
They were just trying to help tho
Tharushi Ranasinha Someone needs to put these Americans in their place. If they come to ends they better be ready for beef
lacari0 no American is going to call it a rubber because that means condom in America
in america a rubber is a condom so
why are they making fun of British using french words? We use words from different languages too đ€·đŒââïž
For all the brits having the pants trousers debate pants is not an Americanism calling them pants is actually an English thing America adopted, it comes from a popular style of pants in the 19th century called pantaloons which was shortened to pants thus the slang term pants came about
That explains why everything needs to be simplified for Americans
English in UK vs US
UK: School
US: Shooting range
God bless america and its amazing gun laws
Lmfao
That's not funny, not all school's are like that dumbass
Lily Rodriguez it is funny
Copy pasta
@SunzOffski and there have been 110 mass shootings in the US since 1982
âGet your own wordâ
âToo lazy to create a new wordâ
Umm,you actually took our languageđ
OI! OI! Letâs not start a fightđđ
(Remember itâs a jokeđ)
ăL O A D I N G P A G EăDonât act like we canât do that to you www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-people-are-proud-of-colonialism-and-the-british-empire-poll-finds-a6821206.html
ăL O A D I N G P A G Eă The Dunblane school massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.
Yasmeen Shaheen en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_Kingdom
Josh boom
when you learn british english in school but american english from the internet so all the words sound natural
The name of eggplant was given it by Europeans in the middle of the eighteenth century because the variety they knew had fruits that were the shape and size of goose eggs. ... In Britain, it is usually called an aubergine, a name which was borrowed through French and Catalan from its Arabic name al-badinjan.
Even though we both speak English, we still have a major language barrier
E. G. No worries, I was just saying that we both have slang terms the other doesnât understand
@@usuarios.164 I live about 45 mins away from Ipswich. Cmon you tractor boys
You must haved learned English as a second language because I'm American and I can understand Brits perfectly.
Honestly Americans I understand but like when I heard for the first time an American say to me do u like my pants I was like đ€Łđ€Łwattt!!so maybe a little barrier but easy to pick up on when I learn
âWhy are you speaking French get your own languageâ says the American.....
Why are you speaking English get your own language.
English wasnât technically created by the British, so itâs not theirs either
Chanthecat I never said it was. English was created by the English not British
maybe if the british didn't colonize a majority of the world and force english onto the natives of the land americans would have their "own" language
Jay Louis yikes...
Jay Louis you could still make your natives language an official language đ§ and actual make an effort to teach it, here in nz (most) people actually care about retaining the Maori culture so we teach it in most public primary schools
Letâs make this clear. We brits went to American some stayed, got a new accent and made there English American-English. So we originated it first you all came from us Brits so therefore we are superior in the language
Lol the American's complaining about Aubergine being French, when they pronounce herb without a 'h' or filet without the 't'
The reason we have so many french words is because of William the Conqueror it has become part of our language
American: That's french get your own word.
Me: Get your own language
nevedejouer it is their language most Americans are descendants of brits who settled there hundreds of years ago and some words just either got lost or different groups of people in Britain who moved to America called them different things like slang words so no they did not âcopyâ your language they simply changed it to make sense
@@luxx_pete8415 theres guys in texas that speak german and im like what?
nevedejouer the reason weâre French is because of the Normandy invasion, NOT OUR FAULT AMERICANS! What do you have to say for stealing our language?! đ
Me: Get your own freedom
Casey sheesh, if youâre such a history nerd Iâll change it đ
This shouldnât even be a discussion.
4:23 it's a rubber not an eraser as you can erase ur mistakes out but u can rub them out