The British Slang Quiz! Can it Guess Where We're From?
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2019
- The NYTimes have recently come out with a quiz that can pinpoint the exact area of the UK and Ireland you're from based on certain slang you use! I decided to test it out with a Brit, a Scot, and let's see where I'm meant to be!
If you'd like to take the quiz yourself, check it out: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
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Oh god I laughed so hard at this. “ how do you refer to your grandmother ? I usually leave her flowers and then walk away” 😂😂😂😂😂
Alternative Title: 20 minutes of Noah and Evan taking the piss out of Corry
Scottish people stand with Corry haha - I agreed with him on 99% of all his answers lol. The quiz is pretty scary, I did it before watching the video and it pinpointed it exactly!
Technically it was 17 minutes (a one second)
As a Scot I was shocked by their reaction
I say crick, it's kinda an American Southern stereotype (I use others too though)
@@jude8067 im from Pennsylvania and half of us say crick while the others say Creek...it can be very annoying at times
Corry: "Fizzy juice, actually."
Evan: "NO"
Corry: “fizzy juice, actually”
My friend:”that sounds like some thing very inappropriate”
Me: “you dirty minded peace of terf”
My friend: “don’t use words that don’t make sense”
My Alexa: “are we quoting things from billy bob pixles now?”
Me: “oh sweet mother of cheese, save me”
Fizzy juice is used for describing fizzy juice lol
My favorite part of this video is Noah looking at Corry in shock as if he's never heard him speak before
Ikr they're literally a couple 😂
Scottish person here to say that Corry is VALID
Dundonian here to double that he most definitely correct
Kathryn McDonald eh
Yes
Grace Torrance Scottish person here to say corry is TOO FANCY
Kaia Xp agreed
15:08 "I'd just say sneakers" " *But you're not sneaking I don't understand* " 😂😂😂😂😂
I call them daps
I say sandshoes...it's from dunlops/tennis shoes for grass/sand courts.
p.e shoes we call them pumps
I call them plimpsouls idk how to spell it and I'm pretty sure it doesn't normally have a p but that's how we said it
They're TRAINERS
“Irish people and Americans have the same slang”
I feel offended Evan we don’t stoop to your level 🤣🤣🤣
I would more say Australians and Irish have more similar slang as Australia has a lot of Irish ex pats and people like me of Irish descent . America only certain areas
I felt offended and I'm not even fucking Irish 💀
settee is not french and it is pronounced as Corey said: set-ee
They say that in the north
exactly thats what my grandma calls it
In America a settee is usually a very specific type of seat, different from a sofa or couch lol
@@shrek_has_swag2344 and in the Midlands but sofa and couch are also widely said here. The same’s true for ‘cordial’ vs. ‘squash’ and breakfast/lunch/dinner vs. breakfast/dinner/tea where both Northern and Southern variants are widely said and heard.
@@fuckdefed in the south I think most people consider cordial and squash to be different things, not sure about other places though.
Feeling personally attacked with the slagging Scotland took in this video 😂😂
Same
The hell is SLAGGING
Julianna Elwell it’s yer maw
Personally attacke? Really? You need to grow up, fast... lol
Surely not more attacked than that surname gets ya on a daily basis? BTW loved the new hoi sin duck flavour, keep em coming
the way you pronounced “pillock” made me lose 10 years of my life
You’re welcome
Evan Edinger wazzOck
Bugger
I know lol I was like "you mean a pillock?" 😂😂 xxx
*Pilok*
No one:
Evan to his grandma: mom mom
Well, Swedes do it too, and "dad mom" to the grandmother on the father's side.
@@Liggliluff Same with Danish. Your dad's mom is farmor here
I call my grandma and mom “mummy”🧍🏾♀️ not pronounced like mummy🧟♀️ but “mum-me” idk if y’all are gonna understand what I mean😭
"Irish and Americans have similar slang."
Hahaha hahaha stop it
I felt physical pain to be co,pared to an American.
But British people think I’m Americans than actually hurts.
@@oliverqueen5883 True, Americans > The Irish
I'm from essex and we played the "kissy kissy catchy" game in my primary school but we called it kiss chase
I'm from Somerset and we played kiss chase too.
It's kiss chasey in Aus
I think we called it kissy catch in the Midlands.
Aye I remember playing we called it kissy chase
We called it the kissing game
i did that test and it guessed about 30 minutes from where i live and that’s either cool or creepy i haven’t decided oof
It literally guessed my town oh god I need help they are after me
Got both my home town and my dad's home town, clearly I'm a mix of the two
It guessed birmingham and I live 30mins away I’m kinda creeped
Same, it's so creepy, it said for me Swansea and I live approx 35 mins away from Swansea
It guessed my town I'm well freaked out aha
6:02 yeah, but we called it "kiss chase" 😂
This was such a fun game
Yeah we called it that too
in australia its catch and kiss
I feel like people used to play this but I never played it so I don't know what they called it
Did anyone else play Kissing Gates?? The boys would stand in two lines facing each other, and hold their hand in the air together like an arch, and the girls would walk through, then come out the other end, walk to the start of the line and go in again, all while music was playing. Then when the music stops the girls stop and the ones that are in between the boys have to kiss the ones whose arch they are in (or the boys had to kiss the girls, can't remember which lmao) 😂. Possibly it was done vice versa, with the girls making the arches, but I can't remember, either way it was a weird game looking back on it 😂
This is primary school in Scotland btw, also I don't remember ever playing the kiss chase game lol.
I feel attacked by the heavy amount of slagging Scotland took😂😂😂😂
I knowww same 😂
Hey, I'm Northern Irish, we talk a lot like that too.
‘the midlands don’t even exist !’
guess i’ll just go not exist somewhere else then :(
Same 😢
*joins the non-existence club*
Me too
Joining the non existent Brummy gang
Yeah I'm from Nottingham so I practically don't exist.
“You’re a turf”
“Stop using words that you don’t know.”
This is me with my friends
...*terf
13:09 I call a stupid person a numpty and a plonker ??
Does anyone else relate ??
Yep I'm Scottish so eedjits there as well
@@kae-uz2cc me too
yup me haha and ninny lmao but theres like childish i think
Scot here. Numpty, eejit, dafty, plonker, fanny.
Isn't edjit irish ? (I use it too)
0:44
"I think Ireland and America have similar slang"
No thay don't Evan
My dads from Ireland (I was raised in the US) so when he said that I just laughed 😂 1/2 the time idk what my dad is referring to
If someone invites me for tea, they better have gossip and the drink or I'm leaving
You’re obviously going to your mates’ house after school if you’ve been invited for tea
Haha but then they'd be inviting you round for a cuppa, not for tea. Invite me round for tea and I'm expecting a hot meal with plates and cutlery.
I'm scottish and agree with everything Corry said hahahahhaha it's definitely fizzy juice!!
Amber Dunbar my father is half Australian, quarter Irish and quarter Scottish. He lived in Edinburgh for a year or two and picked up an accent. He told me to never call it fizzy juice or I’ll get teased at school!
I call it ginger most of the time but I guess I call it fizzy juice sometimes
I’m roughly half Scottish (from both sides) and I use many of the inflections Corey did. I can’t wait to go back to the highlands, this week!
it's ginger
same
You know when you hear a word from your childhood like “backie” and you haven’t heard or said it in so long that it doesn’t even sound like a real word anymore 😂
as somebody with english as a second language this is so interesting! I'd be like, well depending on what english word I learned first for this thing, that's what I call it now :D
I ended up with the british or american written form depending on context.
@@HappyBeezerStudios yes that too! But then again, at both school and university they then asked us to pick one (mainly for spelling reasons) and stick to it so I cant vary as much
8:45
Noah: Hi chillis welcome
Idk why but I found that hilarious we love misquoting vines
Hi, welcome to Chilies! 👍
I'd just like to point out one thing- Scottish has a lot more similar words to Norwegian than the rest of Britain (and ireland). We say "Barn" about children for an example. And I believe Corry said "bairn" which is very similar. (Correct me if I misheard anything. It's 4am)
In some varieties of broad and (nearly) extinct Yorkshire dialect they say, or said, ‘barn’ instead of ‘bairn’ for child - so they used the exact same word for a child as you do.
Why does the UK have so many words for tag? Fascinating
Well English has been there for a really long time so there's a lot of regional variation, and the population is quite big for its size (but that's mainly cos of England lol). This quiz is also about Irish slang tho, so that definitely adds more words.
You can tell Cory is from Dundee by the way he pronounces, “wean.”
Damn this is incredibly accurate, just did it and it gave me an area of Scotland that incorperates all 3 places I have lived or spent a lot of time in in the last two years and my accent is a mixture of all of the three accents from those places. SO weird!!!
It got my home city straight away + It picked up the town I went to uni in on the extended version too!
Got the right part of Wales my city is on the border of. Ps, I'm British. That side of the border
"Crick" as a variant spelling & pronounciation of "creek" goes back to the Domesday Book in 1086! A place called "Creeksea" was recorded as "Criccheseia." (I only know this cos I have an ancestor with the surname Crick. & care about weird shit.)
corry literally BLEW my mind
Anyone noticed the hickey on Noah’s neck 😂🤦🏼♀️
@@W1llRoss You're so innocent
Just noticed 🤣🤣🤣
"Love bite"
Omg now I see it
It’s rank
I took that quiz and yes, it was accurate, but it also made me rethink my vocab. Ned is so much better than chav...
I never understood what representation feels like until I saw a Scottish person in one of these videos thank you evan, get out of here with all that English person speaks on behalf of the whole UK shiz (I'm from Edinburgh btw)
I’m from northern England and the Scottish guy speaks more like me than the others
Yes I feel rly happy!! Even though I’m Welsh myself, Scottish, Irish and Welsh people always are forgotten when speaking about the UK and people act as if England is the only country here🙄
Same
I'm Scottish too but Glaswegian!
@@NqcturnalPvP i'm was raised in north east and fife Scotland and there slang is very similar thats why some scot refer to some of north east such as Berwick and Newcastle as half-baked scots. Plus Edinburgh used be part of kingdom of Northumbria and north east used be part of Scotland before we were ever english. Scotland ended up keeping Edinburgh.
Me: *an tired Australian answering the questions in my head*
Same
Why am I getting recommend this 8 months late but I’m still gonna watch it all
I feel like having lived in England almost 5 years that the way I talk has changed a lot and I've picked up a lot of different slang (though I do notice myself code switching a little when I go home) so I though this quiz would be completely wrong. Not only did it figure out I was Irish but it got the county right as well. I don't know how it works but it does.
I was pretty shook by how accurate it was but I had no idea how ‘posh’ I was compared to my uni housemates 😂🙈
3:30 where I’m from it’s called pegging because you’re riding the pegs of the bike💀💀
American dude: its foowd and gud
Scottish viewers: I’ve had enough by now fetch the spears
I'm Glaswegian. Agreed with Corry on most of this. FOOD AND GOOD SOUND THE EXACT SAME, OKAY? Okay.
The Cooperative. Guud with fuud. o.o
foohd and gud
that's how i pronounce them
> from the north-west
A video with Evan and Noah is all I could have asked for on my birthday 🙌
The old people in Kansas, and also basically everyone I know west of Topeka says crick instead of creek, especially in small towns.
everyone in Pittsburgh does too so that's an odd connection
I was friends with Noah ages ago, amazed how well he’s done like whattttt😱
I got Highlands. ( Where I am from)Enjoying the North Scot representation!
Glad I'm not the only one!
Lily Henderson wait.. they have multiple areas in Scotland? *happy tears* they used to think we didn’t exist😂
I feel so attacked watching this as a Scottish person.
Grace Galloway same
Grace Galloway - Scots always feel attacked and offended for no goddamn reason
@@abcxyz-cx4mr no need to be nasty!
Grace Galloway - I’m just blunt
Marley Barley pahah nah we dinny mate a dinny ken what yer chattin aboot
i’ve lived in scotland all my life but my mum’s english so this’ll be interesting to see
I love how Noah's hair is so radically different in every video.
Really ? And nail polish? Oh fuck. He/She/It has lost all credibility.
"roly poly."
"That's _so_ American!"
....Shut up lol
I fucking love Noah so much! 😆😆😆 And I've been subbed to Evan for like a decade, so every time they collab my mind just implodes. 😵
A lot of the time I’d say “You’re looking a bit peely wally”
lottie - thats amazing. id say "ya lookin a lil blue"
Yesss same, my dad used to always say that to me, are you from Scotland by any chance? :)
@@aceatlasska4343 i am haha
@@lottie6920 guess it's a Scottish thing then haha, when I did the quiz I submitted that for the question about feeling unwell lol
The evening meal one is weird for me and my family because we use dinner and tea interchangeably. But we also refer to the midday meal as dinner and lunch interchangeably too.
As someone from Scotland 🏴 Corry was 90% correct on everything
i did it and it guessed exactly the right area im scared
Same, I’m from Stoke-on-Trent and it told me I was either from Stoke-onTrent, Manchester or Douglas
(10:00) That's what we go with in Swedish, but with Swedish words of course; "mum mum" and "dad mum" for the grandmothers, and likewise "dad mum" and "dad dad" for the grandfathers.
I can't be the only one that says pissing it down for rain....
Yorkshire?
Does anyone call siblings “our kid” it’s usually the youngest brother and you adopt that nickname when your siblings are adults.
This is common in West Yorkshire, where I grew up. And you refer to a family member more generally by adding "our" to their name - "our George", "our Emma".
Yep, I recognise that as Yorkshire. I was born and raised in North Yorkshire, with an English mum from Hertfordshire and Scottish dad from Edinburgh who emigrated to Nyack, New York at the age of 8. XD
He called the sofa a couch, my mum called it the settee.
“Sand shoes... if you live in like... the desert?”
As a person who lives in the desert I can confirm that I’ve never in my life heard someone refer to them as “Sand shoes”
And as a person from Scotland (not known for its deserts) I can confirm I've used the word sandshoes all my life 🙂.
With the tributary thing it’s a genuine geographical term. I remember learning it in year 8 in geography.
Tributaries by definition are a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.
The quiz managed to differentiate between the Black Country and Birmingham, which is amazing. Only missed my town by about 4 miles as it said Wolverhampton which is the closest city.
Food and good is like that coop advert. 'Gud with fud."
"I'm in the midkands? They' don't even exist"
Damn, son. You truly are a citizen here! Southerners and Northerners teaming up to shit on the midlands :D
PE shoes = pumps
I've never heard them called anything else!
arent pumps like what older people call heels?
I say joggers or runners
Bro pumps are heels
Pumps are like kitten heels or really posh looking flats to me 😂
pump gang represent
Honestly Corey and Noah are such couple goals.
I am from the eastern panhandle of West Virginia and I have answered just about all of them the same as you did (including crick). :)
Crick is like a crook, not water, but a bad person. (I'm from west coast Florida)
I'm from the UK - where I'm from, you can "crick" your neck but I've never heard it in any other context.
Crick is from creek
Like certain Americans once got critter from creature
@@really-quite-exhausted I grew up in a very backwoods area and very many of our words are slang or just mispronounced. We also say a 'crick in the neck' which means a sore or stiff spot in the neck area and a 'crick' is just a mispronounced version of creek. :)
They know you're from England when you submit 70 different words to mean raining and drunk.
Goddam this is such an entertaining channel! As a British citizen, I am fascinated how other People who aren't from the UK find it! Great video mate, and you should do a video on Devon.
Wait people besides me call soda fizzy juice? I always have but never heard anyone else call it that
Literally whole of Scotland
i picked it up from my other half also council juice for tap water.
@@kae-uz2cc idk I'm from Scotland and never called it that, always been fizzy drinks for me.
@@deejayy2k oh I think I've heard of council juice too 😂
Corey is from the posh part of Scotland jeez😂😂
Rebbecca Park trust me he’s not
Have you even been to Dundee 😂
@@brookieexx5729 wouldve @ed you if I was talking to you?
No, all I know is the university there is in the top for history lol@@joshurban9778
The posh part of Scotland is Edinburgh
I'm from just outside Boston and the only area shaded on the map for me was South/West Ireland. The two city names popping up being Limerick and Cork. It's a little bit interesting because one of my great-great grandparents was from Cork.
From Greater Manchester -
I say wag school rather than skive
A bread roll is a muffin
The game is called tig
We wore pumps in P.E (which confused me when I realised pumps are high heels in America)
I call the evening meal tea and call lunch dinner. It's a fizzy drink. Sofa and couch are most commonly heard. Sometimes the weather is throwing it down.
Evan: "Catch is a completly different game."
Me as a german: Yeah, so we call tag "fangen"...which literally translates to catching
Council house and violent (or council house and Vauxhall) is a backcronym
The impression of Dan was spot on 😂
😂😂
Thank you thank you
oof in australia we called skipping out on class wagging...
@ 12:34 , Here in Oregon, us 'natives' say creek as "crick".
It got me bang on near Leeds/Bradford. It was "spogs" that got it I think.
I love that Scots say "bairn" cause in Norwegian it's "barn". Language history is so cool 💖
Yeah I'm pretty sure it came from Norwegian. Although it's only certain parts of Scotland. I think people in the East tend to say "bairn", and in the West "waine" (comes from wee'un) is used more. I'm from the west of Scotland and that's what most people use where I live, I'm quite familiar with bairn from traditional music tho.
I also watched Derry Girls recently, a show set in Derry in Northern Ireland, and they were calling them waines too so that's interesting.
love this so much he is an inspiration this so true from what I have heard love ur videos and channel
If you get someone from up north the answers would be so different to people from London.
thank god you finally know the country boy vine
I’m so relieved that Noah says everything that I would have said. I can imagine how frustrated I’d be without him lol.
Coming from Yorkshire where we call fish and chips "fish and chips" it makes me laugh how in scotland they call fish and chips a "fish supper" even if you buy them at midday. Supper is a late evening meal. When I asked for fish and chips in Inverness, the person looked at me weird and said "oh you want a fish supper" go figure? lol
It would be set-A if there was an acute accent on the e: é
I had to pause this video to do the test and it was 100% accurate to where I live 😂 I wasn’t expecting that
This is such an unexpectedly great group.
Took the test myself. Heatmap showed a lot around Scotland and Ireland. Makes sense for Blanton like me.
ok but I love Noah so much omdddd
This quiz is so cool! I have such a mild accent but that quiz totally pinned me down
Edit: I love the Scottish dude! Damn right stand up against the south.
With scone I tend to use both, particularly if someone else mentions it first and then I'll choose the opposite.
as someone who has a northern dad and a mum from the midlands, there were a fair few petty fight on the pronunciation of things and weather (mid day meal) was lunch or dinner ect lol
I got more or less completely London/East London which is very accurate tbf lol
Ay I’m from East London too blud
On behalf of my Nanny, I must point out that a nanny isn't always a babysitter in America. My Nanny is my great grandmother and she's still going strong! She's so well known in our area that even neighbors call her Nanny. xD
Yeah I'm Canadian and we have nanny, nan, and nana.
For the last/second last question about what you call it when not going to school, we call it wagging (if you don’t go to school without your parents knowing) or chucking a sickie if you stay home from work/school for no actual reason.
Definitely crick. Had one right behind my childhood home. We spent hours in the crick in the summer!
I did it and it was correct that I am from newcastle
Same as me :)
America vs England school subjects/timetable/exams?
We refer to each fizzy drink by induvial name or call it pop collectively because it makes sense. Soda is more used in terms of soda water as a mixer for cocktails.
That test seemed pretty good, for a change. It got one incredibly accurate, one in the same general region and said that you were from outside of Britain and Ireland. :)
Noah and Corey are so cute together!!!