AMERICAN vs BRITISH English **50 DIFFERENCES**

American English vs British English: 50 differences! How many did you know? Can you think of any others? Our American friends have different names for things than us in England. If you are learning English as a 2nd language it can get confusing. If you want to learn the British accent it's useful to know some of these differences.

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[colmcille]

"What game is that"
"Tic tac toe"
"Noughts and crosses"
Me:"Xs and Os"

[Wipplez]

"Dont wanna assume"

"What's he pulling?"

[Fierynightcore]

Yes it's definitely Monday to Sunday here in the UK

[VolaraNyghte]

Twofer: Great Lakes Regions (She pronounced Notre Dame in the University way.. Which when we talk about the Cathedral we pronounce it quite different)

[Trainspotting_Trips]

Even I know Postman Pat, beingdeom Switzerland. Because we had that children's show here dubbed into German.

Greetings!

[raphaeldemo]

In America you can also say a Half past 8. And in NY, we called our water heater a boiler.

[LearnPolishwithEvaKam]

When you speak a mixture of British-American English … Bricanglish I call it hahahaha

[Saberguy]

I'm an American who speaks German. I find the half eight really interesting because in German, halb acht is half an hour before 8, not after. So halb acht is 7:30.

[lavabeast]

In the US, Sunday is the first day of the week and in pretty much the rest of the world Monday is the first day of the week

[Nat-ccvb]

im british and holy shit i have too much american vocab

[arnoldlieberson]

Cheers for this mate ☺️ please make more videos like this. Finally!

[Fierynightcore]

Monday is definitely the first day of the week, because you have the weekends Saturday and Sunday, then it's a new week from Monday

[TsarFrancisDrake]

I've always pronounces Notre Dame (the cathedral) and Notre Dame (the university) differently.

[rachelcookie]

My answers as a British kiwi:

1. Note
2. Sled
3. Sand pit
4. Lollipop lady
5. Weed whacker
6. White out
7. Postman
8. Pointer finger (I’ve never heard someone call it a first finger)
9. Shovel (spade is a type of shovel, the small one handed one)
10. Bucket and shovel I guess.
11. Seed
12. Pit
13. Ground floor
14. Second hand store, charity shop, thrift shop, I use all of them
15. Zip tie
16. Duffel bag
17. Cling film
18. Two for one, no special word
19. Monday
20. Jag-yuh-ar
21. I say both
22. Rubbish truck
23. British pronunciation
24. Hose
25. Alimony
26. Boxing Day (that’s when you get all your Boxing Day sales and the mall is packed)
27. I would call the top american universities Ivy Leagues, I didn’t know there was a British equivalent and there’s definitely not an NZ equivalent because we don’t have enough universities for that.
28. With honours
29. Car boot sale
30. Don’t have that
31. Heater
32. Pan-teen
33. I thought corn and maize were two separate things that look similar. I eat corn, I go in a maize maze.
34. Don’t have a name
35. Spring onion
36. Hood
37. Manual
38. Totalled
39. Paramedic
40. Jury duty
41. Face cloth or flannel
42. The great British bake off
43. Wrench
44. Bin bag
45. Principal or head teacher
46. Toilet
47. Zebra crossing
48. Counter clockwise
49. Laundromat
50. Idk, they both sound right to me

[desertdeb]

Never heard of roast dinner, I call it a buffet

[Gaons.hair_]

4:13 Well obviously Monday is first. If it started at Sunday, why is it still called a weekend?

[billyr]

Biologically that's your 2 finger

[sincerely_evelyn]

American here. I've always pronounced Notre Dame the British way and didn't even realize it until recently. What she called scallions I call green onions and I always call EMTs paramedics. The picture she called a "roast dinner" looks like what I would call a buffet, I've never heard of roast dinner.

[ryuto]

11:38 Why is it a pelican
I didn't name it

[desertdeb]

A lollipop lady should be handing out lollipops to everyone!