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Like many Americans there are many things I do not understand about England. Today I am very interested in learning about unique English things that confuse Americans. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I may be wrong, but I think Tyler gets easily confused.
You dont say 😊
He suffers with memory loss too... Often saying "I didn't know that..." a few weeks after commenting on exactly the same thing! DUH! 😂😂😂
Hit the nail on the head!
Nope , Tyler still won't talk to you , unrequited Fan love can hurt can't it
I dont think you're wrong
In New Zealand we say Breakfast, Dinner and Tea as is morning meal, Dinner as in lunchtime meal and tea as in evening meal
It’s the same in Australia….. The “posh people” call the evening meal Dinner, Lunchtime is middle of the day and in my house it’s Breaky in the morning😋But, I’ll eat anytime !🙋🏻♀️
We do in the North East of England too
This Kiwi says lunch for lunch. Dinner or tea for tea time.
I go with Lunch and Tea, I think of Dinner as whichever one of those was Hot
@@chrissiecarr5721Depends on your lifestyle. Breakfast, lunch tea, Supper.
Brits drink so much tea that it’s just a regular drink that doesn’t need a specific time.
So if someone say “tea time” or that they’re “having their tea” it means an afternoon meal.
No, evening meal in Lancashire is Tea, not afternoon tea thats different.
Only in the North.
In the South we call it "dinner". We also call lunch "lunch" in the South.
I'm from the South and some people say tea for dinner, but I think it's much less common than north.
Well them that are uptight call it dinner and are usually from .......
@@Dan-Bin the North we say tea, the main meal around 6pm. Some southerners say dinner.
And my family always say lunch which is about 12.30 pm
The average summer temperature in England is between 48 - 64 F we don't need air-conditioning
Tyler, don’t forget, your legal system was started and originates from English law, although you’ve totally buggered it since. Our legal system still uses wigs.
LOL you need to explain to Americans what exactly "buggered it" means :).
I'm from Liverpool , we have breakfast, dinner, tea, supper.
Yorkshire uses dinner and tea too.
I do like to squeeze in elevenses aswell
I’m from down south, and I do too.
Breakfast, lunch, tea, then dinner.
Im from Norfolk, and its always been Breakfast, Dinner and Tea
Up here in the north, we say “breakfast, dinner and tea” whereas in the south it’s “breakfast, lunch and dinner” it’s all roughly the same time of the day, just said differently
Not always. I'm from north Leeds and we say "Breakfast, lunch, tea".
I'm from Kent and it's always been "Breakfast, Dinner and Tea". Lunch is referred to as dinner, as in dinner ladies at school. Unless it's a packed lunch.
I think its also depends if parents were born Britain or not. My parents not from UK so never called dinner tea, but all my friends who's parents were born in Britajn did - this was in Brafford.
Bradford here breakfast lunch dinner or tea then supper
@@Xeroph-5
No dinner time or dinner ladies at school then ??? Just saying. 😂😂😂
I am Australian and the meal I eat in the evening is Tea.
Goes back to Britain and working class roots. Middle class people stick to Dinner.
@@valeriedavidson2785No they do not. I am middle class.
@@valeriedavidson2785 yeah I'm a public school boy and we said tea in school as a boarder. Dinner was lunch and we had Tea in the early evening. A cup of chocolate as supper in time to help us sleep.
@@valeriedavidson2785To be fair, lots of middle class people use tea as well, it's more regional than a class thing.
I am Australian. Tea is a drink, not a meal
Re Schools.
In England, our oldest fee paying schools are called 'Public', this differentiated them from the schools provided by the military or the church.
You did not need to have family connections or religious affiliation, they were open to the public, if they could pay.
We also have Independent schools which are fee paying.
What you might call Public Schools in the US, those supplied by the Government for all, are called State schools here (England).
“Why wear wigs in a courtroom” well why are you wearing headphones when you aren’t watching a video?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant
Ha ! Gottem !
Oh dear 🤦♂️ don’t waste oxygen on an American.
lol what an idiot, not even partially relevant, do they keep microphones hidden in their stupid wigs? NO
So you can monitor the audio for glitches, pops, crackles etc while recording. It's a common practice.
In the High Court wigs are worn by lawyers
Crown Court not High Court
It's not just in the High Court. It applies to all of the courts above the lowest level (e.g. Crown courts) and it is not only lawyers ("attorneys" you would say in the US) who wear them - known as barristers in England and advocates in Scotland: the presiding judges do too. The clerks of the House of Commons in Parliament also wear them.
Breakfast, dinner, tea, supper . I'm from Newcastle UK.
Cannot forget supper!
Yes, it was the same when I grew up near Newcastle 60 years ago: is it still like that?
Same here in the West Midlands. Supper is more of an occasional treat though in our house.
"Oh- that's a lot of text" Yes- but it was literally explaining what the public/ private thing ws all about....but clearly not knowing is more entertaining.
We only have baked beans as part of a full English breakfast. The rest of the time, they are for lunch and tea. Our beans are very different to yours.
We don't need air conditioning because we have a technology called windows.
There is air conditioning in stores and hotels
Exactly it’s just in our homes we don’t have a/c. In shops offices etc there is 👍🏼
You've looked at videos of judges wearing wigs before!
Yes..he has. He talks so much B.S. ..
You know, I like tyler. I really do. He seems a good guy. But holy moley his head is empty. I would love to know what he does for a living
Another weird thing concerning British courtrooms. A Gavel is never used and never has been. Despite this many otherwise meticulously accurate British courtroom dramas feature the Judge banging away and shouting 'Order!'. It's either put in for dramatic effect or the writers have been watching too much Perry Mason.
Gavels. Although they're often seen in cartoons and TV programmes and mentioned in almost everything else involving judges, the one place you won't see a gavel is an English or Welsh courtroom - they are not used there and have never been used in the Criminal Courts.
An exception is the Inner London Crown Court, where clerks use a gavel to alert parties in court of the entrance of the judge into the courtroom.[12][13] Wikipedia.
That's strange, I've never been in a large department store or shopping centre (mall) without air con and I've always lived in England.
I was thinking exactly that.
I don't think that's anything to do with hot weather, though: it's the likelihood of asphyxiation if a large area is not well ventilated. In our tiny houses and when shops were tiny compared to today, there was/is no need for A/C: you are always near an outside wall and the window or door will do just fine.
Afternoon tea is sandwiches, cakes etc and of course a cup of tea. The evening meal is also referred to as "tea", especially if the main meal was at lunchtime (and often called "dinner".) Sorry, I realise that's even more confusing.
An evening meal is never referred to as "Tea" except in lower classes. I am a fairly average sort of person and was taught that an evening meal is Dinner. Tea is sandwiches and cake.
@@valeriedavidson2785don't be so condescending. It is not only used by lower classes. It is the region.
Tyler take no notice of these condescending fools who sound like children.
I love watching your channel, it makes me smile. Some people are just argumentative because you can't answer back as you are too busy. They don't understand how youtube works. Howcwould they feel if someone was constantly criticising their work. Ignore them, they're just keyboard warriors.
Keep up the good work Tyler
Numberwang is a sketch from the British sketch show "that mitchel and web look", it was a quiz show where the joke was that it was so complicated no one could understand the rules.
It’s like Mornington Crescent but without the reversed escalator rule.
You basically said what tyler read on Internet so he won't understand it
We drink tea all day long. We have breakfast lunch tea & supper. At least here in Liverpool UK 🇬🇧 So we have a drink that’s tea & an evening meal at teatime. 👍🏼 Wigs worn in court is an age old tradition. As you know by now we love our traditions & keep many over the years. Wigs being worn go back hundreds of years . I’m not sure how many but hundreds!
Yup a Scoucer too and always been breakfast, lunch, Tea and dinner are interchangeable then supper is a snack before bed
"Oh, that's a lot of text..." that he can't be bothered reading, just like these comments.
And still you post!
@@huwlong9406We post because we are talking amongst ourselves at this point
@@huwlong9406 Not to him, to those wasting their time commenting. Call it compassion.
Here in the UK there's virtually no a/c purely because it only gets hot enough to use a/c about two weeks of the year.
Around where I live we have just come out of a very cold and wet April that was more like a December or January where there has been frosts on the car in a morning because it's nearly been getting down to freezing point. I've been using the central heating in the house as much in April as I was during December so why would I want a/c? I need to keep as much heat in the house as possible not let the heat out.
Yeah but owning one or two portable AC units is worth it even if you only use them for 5 weeks of the year.
@@glo0115 Five weeks? If only! Where I live in the UK there have been only 18 days in the last 10 years where the temperature has got above 25°C (77°F) Average high temperature here is 18°C in the summer, thats only just room temperature. I do not need AC
@@SpiklethingThem down South take decent weather and leave us cold and damp up here. Feel sorry for Scotland, always see on forecast that they rarely get any hot weather if at all. So greedy with weather down South, give us some up in Midlands and to tip of Scotland and Ireland, all they get it bloody rain poor souls.
Excellent informative, explanatory comments, everyone! It's such a pity he's unlikely to ever read, let alone respond to them. No wonder he's still "confused" about things he's come across before that have been endlessly clarified and explained by his subscribers in their comments. Save your fingers would be my advice in future. I'm pretty sure his brother Ryan actually reads a good number of comments 'cause he responds with a heart quite regularly, and even at times with a reply. Seems to me that Tyler is just in it for the advertising revenue. It's very dishonest of him to invite comments at the end of every reaction as if he's going to read them when he clearly doesn't.
The comments section is just for us to make fun of him. 😉
I don't think that Ryan reads many of the comments either, we Europeans are just having too much fun replying to each other about how much better we are than Americans. Then the Americans get all the money because it's their videos that we're commenting. They have a good thing going on here.
He's pretty clever. Bare minimum effort videos, doesn't bother reading his comment etc. He's bright enough to know that British people won't be able to help themselves going to his comments to inilst him and correct him etc and he gets all the channel engagement he needs 😂 everyone knows that. People are free to just not click his videos, any engagement helps him keep going.
@@damonx6109no wonder he doesn’t want to read the comments when it’s filled with hate 😢 I wouldn’t either if it was just negativity. He’s enjoying what he does, so good for him 😊
we have breakfast, dinner, tea, supper. in Wales
We don't have A/C as it's too expensive to use for 1 month of the year, if that. Open a window, the back doors, get a fan out, have an ice lollie, do any of those to keep the house (and yourself) cool.
Our houses are built for retaining heat. Couple that with the unaffordability of air conditioning, and it's easy to see why we struggle in summers.
Insulation works both ways. The mistake us Brits make is opening the windows when it's hot. That lets all the heat in!
I had to move back to Florida after living in West London for 12 years because I could not take the heat in the summer. I loved living in London. But I could not have AC in my apartment, there was little AC around, and I hated heat waves.
Schools could do with letting you take off your blazer when there classrooms are acting like furnaces
It`s a class thing ! Working class people here called `dinner` "tea" and consume the latter at about 5pm. They have dinner when the `la de da` are having lunch.
Basically it goes like this :
1) Breakfast - varies between classes depending upon ones rising from slumber.
2) Elevenses - tea or coffee drunk between 11am and mid-day by the upper middle class - and unknown to the working class.
3) Lunch for the middle and upwards class and called dinner by the working class.
4) Afternoon tea for the upper middle and beyond classes.
5) Tea for the workiing classes and ignored by those `above them.`
6) Dinner for the middle classes and those above them.
7) Supper for the middle and upper classses ( the working class are still eating from their tea-time ).
Perfect!
That's correct, to which I would add:
8. Supper - working class, an optional light meal taken just before bedtime if you are peckish (as tea was a while ago).
I remember this from childhood and others have similar memories.
When I was a kid in UK the midday meal was dinner and the evening meal was tea. At school there were staff called dinner ladies.
Don't dis the wigs Tyler! they command respect I think? x
Many Australians (mostly in rural areas) call dinner tea.
Wigs are also worn in some Australian courts.
Canadian too
Wigs are a British custom going back hundreds of years. Any country that was once British normally keeps up the British tradition.
Also in other places which are part of the commonwealth, e.g. I think lawyers in Kenya wear them too.
@@weejackrussell Kenya was a British Colony (I lived there for 3 years). Yes, they keep up the British tradition.
Court wigs common in Australia as well
learn these for you trip to blighty:
Breakfast - 7 a.m.
Second Breakfast - 9 a.m.
Elevenses - 11 a.m.
Luncheon - 1 p.m.
Afternoon Tea - 3 p.m.
Dinner - 6 p.m.
Supper - 9 p.m.
Oh look - same shit, different day.
YET AGAIN !!! - He has a memory like a sieve !!!!
And you're here for it 😂 helping his channel.
He always does this, never responds to comments and plays up the dumb stereotype because he knows British people can help rushing to the comments to call him a idiot 😂 he's pretty clever, look at all the interaction he gets on his channel by doing the bare minimum.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517To be honest, I am really very, very disappointed if this is the case although lately I have become very wary of his comments in certain videos. Do you suggest all of his 'duped' followers UNSUBSCRIBE ? That will be be FIFTH American CZcamsr in a month !! - Brian.
Difficult to clarify but please be vary wary over his future comments particularly if he starts discussing wretched GREGGS again !!
Brought up in SE London. As a kid would refer to the evening meal as tea. Now I would generally call it breakfast, lunch and dinner, however if you has your main mean at lunchtime ( a roast dinner!) and had a smaller evening meal that would be tea or maybe supper. I believe that dinner traditionally referred to the main meal of the day.
A fully air conditioned home is unusual but you might have a a/c unit. Partly it down to weather but also down to heating systems. we have radiators which only have one function to heat. many US home have air heating, not great, but has the multi function of beeing switched to a/c.
Hobnobs is a type of biscuit and Bisto is a brand of Gravy
We have private schools in the UK, however Public Schools is a term used to describe our long established 'ivy league' version (ie. Top ranking and or most prestigious) of private schools (most many hundreds of years old) Your public schools are our "state schools".
Tea for dinner is a regional variation here in the south where I live it was an informal word for dinner which we used as kids but I don’t really use anymore as an adult.
Most UK tv series are 6 episodes in length also the system of tv production is different to the US, as I understand it there is a seasonal basis for the production of tv shows in the US and then a dry period with little output hence why in the US they are called seasons.
Air conditioning has historically been too expensive for Uk residents and businesses to invest in when we only typically have a few weeks in the summer that are uncomfortably hot. However as the summers have been getting warmer here and there are cheaper air con systems they are becoming more common.
In the UK, the very elite private schools are called ‘public schools.’ The confusing name dates from a time when most aristocrats hired private tutors. The most famous are Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, and are attended by royalty and future prime ministers.
It's more of a northern England saying. Our meal times are usually Breakfast, Dinner and Tea, rather than Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I’m a Southerner. It’s breakfast, lunch & dinner in my neck of the woods. Occasionally supper if having a light, late evening snack.
I think that calling supper tea comes from when high tea was a thing ( high tea was a posh meal where cakes or sandwiches including sausage rolls and other hot savoury’s are served with the tea usually around 4 o’clock though high-end tea houses will serve it anytime of day
Bout time you found some new subjects to be confused about
😂
about the sparkling water, you can also order the one with mini bubbles
We don't typically have air conditioning because the temperature is typically alot colder here compared to overseas
Tea is a light meal not just a cup of actual tea. It can surprisingly be the main meal of your day usually fairly early evening as later evening would become supper.possibly less involved than a more formal dinner.
It's a bit of a regional thing. In the north, the evening meal would often be called tea and would be eaten between say 5.30 and 6.30pm. Later than that and it's probably dinner/supper, but also in the north lunch is called dinner. Down south, the evening meal is more likely to be called dinner
Hobnob are a cookie anb bisto is a powder gravy mix...both of which you can get in Canada too
Lol, some people in the UK call lunch "Dinner" and Dinner "Tea". Quirk of the language.
Hell growing up we go to the freezer part in tesco to cool off in heat waves. Most places dont have ac. Only in cars do you find ac
We don't need air con for the majority of the time, but when we do occasionally get hot weather I wish we had it. But shops,hotles,restaurants have air con
Not when I lived in the UK 10 years ago. Things must have changed. Waitrose had it. But when it was over 90 degrees, you felt it! It is not like Florida where you can basically ignore hot and humid weather.
I use breakfast, dinner, tea and sometimes supper
Courtroom wigs are just like a bit of a uniform. The wig indicates the role of the individual in the courtroom.
Because our UK beans are NOT the same as those sickly sweet, molasses based ones sold in the US... 🤔
Funny thing is they were an American import sold by Fortnum & Masons. This is how the tomato sauce was added allegedly
There are videos on Chav subculture, and the difference between public private and state schools
Breakfast, dinner/lunch, teatime/evening meal around 4 or 5, then supper
Aye ,up north , Yorkshire... its Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Supper .
But supper is dependant on if hungry .. or tea has been skipped ,because you went to pub... and probably ,got a Chinese on way home
We have breakfast dinner tea and supper. We are now getting a bit more up to date with everyone else. We now say breakfast lunch dinner and supper. Just seem to have lost tea from the meal list, except for our precious drink of course.
Now a days if its time for the beverage tea, we say its time for a brew or cuppa or some other variation, but never tea - we don't ask if a person wants tea - that would be asking them to stay for dinner
Tea = the drink
High tea = evening meal long ago often involving tea and sandwiches, now shortened to just "tea"
So when someone says tea time, or uses it as a singular noun("have my tea") they usually mean what American's call dinner.
5:40 - RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION AKA 'RP'
The term 'received pronunciation' was coined by phonetician A.J. Ellis in 1869. This is the recognised 'accent'' of the Royal Family'. However, most inhabitants of the UK speak in a regional accent.
Teatime yep same here in Australia
Tyler misinterpreted the public/private school comment as coming from a British contributor: it was obviously from an American as it meant the exact opposite of what Tyler said! British public schools are US private schools.
The south and south-east of England are the least exposed to polar air masses from the north-west, and on occasion see continental tropical air masses from the south, which bring warm dry air in the summer. On average, the temperature ranges from 18 to 25 °C (64 to 77 °F). In the North the average summer temperature is between 15 and 22 °C. (56 to 69°F). So, AC is not really called for and would be an unnecessary expense.
18:12 - STILL WATER.
Still water isn't exclusively tap water, it could be water from a spring/well.
It's called 'Still' because it isn't moving, as opposed to 'Sparkling' water, which is effervescent (carbonated)..
"That Mitchell & Webb look" - was a british tv Sketch show series, hosted by two commedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
England doesn't get very hot so Aircon would only be needed a few weeks a year. Not many installers of AC in UK so prices are much higher.
im from yorkshire so i say breakfast dinner tea supper
Same mate
Yes, im in the uk, it's breakfast, dinner and then tea.
Would you like a cup of tea.? What time is tea? When’s tea ready?
The first refers to the hot beverage, the latter to dinner or supper.
Makes perfect sense 😀👍👌
All these are said and done throughout the uk and not just in England Tyler, we have tea that we drink and tea that we eat. We have breakfast, dinner(lunch), tea (what you refer to as dinner) and supper (snack before bed) in that order, so when America is having their dinner in the evening, the uk is having their tea (not the drink lol).
The term public schools in the uk you would know as a private school as you pay for the education, what you know as public school is what we call a state school as its owned and funded by the government.
Programmes that only have 3 episodes is because they are feature length, 90 - 120 minutes each not the regular 45 - 55 minutes without the adverts.
Biscuits and gravy not a thing in Australia either, your cookies are our biscuits
Gravox on Tim Tams ..*blechh*
9:00 - PARLIAMENT
The first known official use of the term 'Parliament' was in 1236. The word Parliament derives from the French word parler, meaning to talk and discuss things. Think 'Jack Sparrow' and his fave word 'parlay'.
BTW, UK has both a lower house of Parliament called the 'House of Commons' and an upper house of Parliament, the 'House of Lords'.
PS - Every week, every Wednesday at noon to be precise, the Prime Minister attends the House of Commons' to be subjected to lower minister's questions. This is known as 'Prime Minister's Questions' or Question Time.
This guy needs to start watching Coronation Street. Especially since he seems only to remember things from TV shows and movies.
Tea Time, another way to say "Suppertime" having equivalent of a l dinner, but early evening, shortened to just saying, "I am having tea" . The "other tea here, is the hot beverage. So the English writer was saying he is going for a cup of tea, rather than going for teatime.
We have 3 kids of water not 2... The 1st is tap water which is usually free in most restaurants and pubs etc. 2nd is bottled still water which is what you are given when you ask for water and don't ask for the tap water and this is bottled water from a spring, and it costs to have this water in a pub or restaurant. 3rd is sparkling water, this is carbonated/fizzy water also from a spring and that has a cost as well. Only the tap water is free.
We also have soda water, generally available in pubs and bars sometimes used with whisky, also normally free
Afternoon Tea is typically served around 4 pm (we imported this custom from the Portuguese), while High Tea tends to be served later in the afternoon (around 5- 7 pm). The meals Tea, Dinner and Supper mean different or the same thing at different times to different people based on region and also social class, same as Pudding, Desert and Afters! Tea 'can' be late afternoon, Dinner early evening, Supper late evening. State schools and public (private) schools. In the Commons the front benches are spaced more than two sword lengths apart... Biscuits and gravy isn't a thing afaik, but in the North chips (fries) and gravy is a thing... Prince Charles? Received Pronunciation or Queen's English was the 'educated' BBC English everyone aspired to at one time to appear posh and educated, especially in public office as regional accents were frowned upon. Tap (usually free), Still and Sparkling bottled water is normal. Baked beans which don't even grow in the UK (sweeter than Boston Beans) only became popular (1) in WWII as a replacement for tomatoes and don't belong on an English breakfast, just like hashbrowns don't and (2) after the 60s Beanz Meanz Heinz advertising campaign, eg beans on toast is a quick and inexpensive meal. We don't need A/C for the majority of the year, it's expensive and a lot of our buildings are old.
Tea is a meal formally had in afternoon...many brits use it for dinner.But,formally,this is early evening and some like me prefer to call it supper🎩
Brots do call tea dinner. When I was at school I even used to be confused when my friends called dinner tea ( my parents are not from UK so they didn't call tea dinner)
What are Brots?
Right... There are usually three main mealtimes in a day. Breakfast in the morning - everybody knows that one. Then there's the mid-day meal, commonly called 'lunch' - but if it happens to be your MAIN, big meal of the day, it's often called 'dinner' - even though it's in the middle of the day.
Then there's our evening meal - the one we come home to after school or work - when probably MOST people have their main meal of the day - and they probably call it 'dinner'. In the UK, this evening meal is also VERY often called 'tea'. As a child in the 1950s, I grew up having my main meals at school at midday - which we called 'School Dinners' - then we came home and had a lesser meal at around teatime - and we called it 'eating our tea' or 'having our tea'.
Two separate meanings for the word 'tea'. It is obviously the hot drink which we Brits especially love - but the same word can also mean our evening meal.
I've used those two meanings all of my seventy-four years, so it's quite normal to me and most of my fellow Brits!
Breakfast, dinner, tea. In school a dinner lady (not lunch) would look after you during dinner time and tea would be my evening meal, known as tea (not the drink). In the US is it breakfast, lunch then dinner? There is a mixture of this in the UK but for me it's the first list.
We don't mainly need air conditioning - may be 2 weeks of the year only
its not as hot here as it is in uk but i have ceiling fan to cool me down i hate beans but my kids loved them growing up you can have beans with anything
From what I have seen. What you call the gravy in biscuits and gravy. We would call white sauce not gravy.
Hob Nobs are biscuits, what you would call cookies. Bisto is gravy powder, that you mix with meat juices to make the brown liquid you pour over your meal. In the UK, we would never put gravy on biscuits. But I think biscuits and gravy are something different in the states.
I think the biscuits in question are similar to plain scones, and the gravy is a white sauce like you get on mac and cheese but without cheese in it.
As children, we had dinner, mid-day and tea time sandwiches and cake at 5pm
Baked beans probably became a thing during rationing during WW2, in Australia baked beans are common for breakfast, lunch and tea
Breakfast, dinner, tea then supper. The four meals in a day
Also we pronounce garage as "ga-ridge"
I’m glad we don’t have air-conditioning in the UK it is so bad for the environment
ANYONE in the whole of the UK accepts the terminology of breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper as some type of a meal time. Although, slight regional differences may apply as the norm. 😊
😂😂 yes crown/high court judges still wear wigs
I believe that in the North of England, dinner is called tea.
Sometimes we use tea as another way of saying dinner, as the main meal of the day, or any evening meal. When I was child the first meal of the day was breakfast, at mid-day we had Dinner, & in the evening we had Dinner. Some times mid day meals are Lunch, & evening meals can be Dinner. Later evening meals can be supper. Courtroom wigs are leftover from the days when most men wore wigs. From the 17th century heads were shaved to prevent lice, & so wigs were worn. These are retained in British courts to indicate the seriousness of the Law & it's officials. Gentry & rich people used to have their children mostly home schooled with private tutors. Some schools were set up for larger groups of children, but were still restricted to those who could pay. These were 'public' because in private houses.
When compulsory schooling was brought in some of these private 'public' schools remained. The general schools for everybody else are state schools.
Snog just means 'making out' in American terms, close cuddling & kissing between boy & girl friends. Biscuits & Gravy sound & look disgusting, neither biscuits or gravy are the real thing.
But 'the customer is always right' is an in complete quote. The quote continues ' to search for what he wants, the seller is right to question him'. We don't go in for pushy salespeople, but like to shop for ourselves & only go to the salesperson if we need some help. Americans mostly drink bottled water, here in the UK we would just use 'still' tap water. Sparkling water is only available in bottles. Baked beans for breakfast, don't knock it till you've tried it. We don't need AC in Britain. It's not that hot often, & we can always open a door & window. America cannot have had AC forever, only in the last 50? years. An awful expensive way to regulate temperature. Get a fan, or a heater.
Dinner time is midday if your working class like me!
Wigs are worn in Crown Court,not the lower Magistrates Court.Also,our judges don't use gavels (hammers)...though uk-set tv dramas/films,mistakenly,occasionally portray them doing so🎩
It would always be Still water for me i don't like Sparkling water. When i was in Liverpool uk at a relatives house on holiday i asked where the toaster was and they said a what? they toasted bread in their oven broiler.
In the UK, Public schools are like Eaton and Harrow. They're called public, but they're private, fee paying schools. We also have state or Government schools, as you do in America. But in America, you call the fee paying schools private schools and the general schools, (for the plebs), state school.
No need for air conditioning in a country that very rarely get over 25 in the summer. In cars yes as that's different as they heat up very quickly in direct sun, but not in buildings. Yes it would be useful of course as it does get hot some weeks but would it justify huge installations just for those few weeks in the year? No it would not. Still some places has AC but it's not really normal. Some places still has this though, some hospitals, restaurants and shops. It's usually limited to computer rooms etc that needs to be cool, also some machinery needs to be kept cool.
The Tea thing is a bit regional and a somewhat class-based term. Typically northern working class meals are Dinner = cooked midday meal. Never Lunch. When you come home from work/school you have your 'Tea', which may or may not include the drink 'tea'. A snack before you go to bed is Supper. Only 'Posh' middle class people or southerners say Lunch and Dinner(evening meal). That's my philosophy anyway....