Mistakes I made as an American Tourist in ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I recently took my two daughters and my older daughter's fiance' to England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 for a friends' wedding and posted a Vlog about our five days there. In response, I received a TON of comments about all the errors I committed in my video. I enjoyed learning from and laughing at all the comments and thought you might enjoy them too.

If you are traveling to England, don't make the same mistakes I did! Join my light-hearted review of all the errors I made in my video (that viewers like YOU pointed out) as an American Tourist.

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[ChurchyXo]

As a Londoner, I can confidently say we all call it Big Ben. Thank you for coming and appreciating our country, ignore the fault pickers.

[paulypops]

Don't let peoples negative comments get you down. The important thing is that you enjoyed your visit.

[bgfd]

Born and bred in London and technically we all know the bell is Big Ben but we still commonly refer to the tower as Big Ben. If you showed me a picture of the Tower (The Elizabeth Tower) I would call it Big Ben. Lived in London for 65 years.

[forthedisenfranchised]

I hope you had a wonderful time. I wouldn't worry about pronunciation and people picking faults, the main thing is, you came and you explored. You invested your hard earned money and time.

[TesLUCKY]

I think it's very cool that so many people are paying attention to each and every detail of your initial England video (which was such a fun video!) and that you turned all this constructive feedback into a new video for your channel that has more than 10K views in about 2 days. GOOD FOR YOU!!! Loving your channel and rooting for your continued success here on YouTube!!!

[bisonjones]

Bless ur heart ❤. Honestly, pay very little attention to the comment section. The Vlog was brilliant and your contagious and enthusiastic energy was what made it very enjoyable to watch 🎉🎉

[JaydnKearsarge]

Don't be so hard on yourself, I enjoyed your video, and was glad to see you and your family had a great time here in the UK.

[ceesjanmol]

Good save! Smooth, genuine, truthful.

[brigidsingleton]

I admire your good humour and willingness to correct prior errors. Also, that you admitted to having been told of your mistakes, and hope not too many people were aggressive in their corrections... Well done for trying the words you dont normally say as we say them. I think its easier to remember the right way to do or say something, if youve got it wrong first, because we all make mistakes, but we try our best to learn, just as your are. Thankyou for taking the time to share your experiences with us and being so kind as to let us share your learning processes too.

[eatyourwordsUK]

Love it! We can be a bit tricky with a few of our quirks, but we love it when people from overseas try to understand our eccentricities. Looking forward to more!

[markjones]

Hot Cross Buns are just a seasonal variant of what we call a teacake really, if you go into a traditional tearoom in the UK and order a teacake and a cup of tea you'll be served a teacake which is simply a fruited bread bun, sliced in two and toasted, and they'll give you some butter to spread on it too, and we eat hot cross buns exactly the same way, personally I've never seen anyone eat a toasted hot cross bun or teacake without butter, lots of butter! ...and forget jam or any other spread, just butter.

[VincentComet-le]

I don't thinnk 'Elizabeth Tower' is a common name for that clock tower.
Everybody just calls it 'Big Ben'.

[MarkmanOTW]

Oh bless you - don't take the comments to heart, Sierra. People just care and want to help you (and fellow Americans) understand and get a true perspective, therefore enriching your experiencing of the UK. 🙏😉🤗. BTW hot-cross buns should be sliced (like a burger bun), lightly toasted and spread with butter + served with a hot mug of tea 😋

[geoffmelvin]

I think most of these were just people being anally retentaive tbh....
The only one would be the hot cross bun... Should absolutely be buttered, ambient or warm, doesn't matter.

[markcutmore]

I come from a small medieval wool town called lavenham in Suffolk (check it out on YouTube) we love going to London for concerts ect But we are always glad to get back to our sleepy town.

[davidbarnes-iz]

I have noticed a fair number of American's put "the" before landmark names when referring to them, which sounds so strange to the British ear. Examples are "The Big Ben", "The Buckingham Palace", "The London Bridge" and "The Nelson's Column". If we wanted to include "the", we might say "The market at Borough" rather than "The Borough market". But we are so lazy it will almost always be "Borough Market".

[potholer]

Kudos to you for wanting to learn. Not everyone American comes to the UK wanting to learn and understand the differences, they either find them quaint or annoying. So in that spirit, a few tips:
1) Whenever the -ham is at the end of a word (Buckingham, Wokingham etc.) it's nearly always silent (Bucking'am, Woking'am.) Nothing says 'newbie American' like the mispronunciation of these words! So just don't pronounce the 'H'. If it's at the beginning, then of course it's pronounced (unless your a Cockney, but that's another story.)
2) The King's standard is never described as 'a flag.' The standard denotes the presence of the King, originally on the battlefield as a kind of rallying point. When Charles fled from London, the start of the civil war is noted in history books as 'The King raised his standard at Oxford.'
3) The British flag is often called the Union Jack, but that's a misnoma. It's officially the Union flag (comprising a union of three flags -- Scotland, England and Ireland), and it's nickname (started in the Royal Navy, I think) is 'the Jack.'
4) I'm a Londoner, and I always referred to the HP Clock Tower as 'Big Ben Tower.' I think most Londoners know Big ben is just the bell, but still shorten the whole tower to 'Big Ben.'

[br]

I think that most Americans' pronunciation of New Hampshire (hampsher) in the US is exactly how we pronounce all of the 'shire' counties in England

[grampstin]

Some people are so anal, I’m a born & bred Londoner & have no problem with the tower being called Big Ben, amber lights being called yellow or any of the other perceived mistakes, I challenge those people to travel to another country & get everything right, we’re just happy to see tourists from around the world coming here to appreciate our beautiful country, I would say that people that say to go up north too are so correct, the Lake District or the villages in Yorkshire will blow your minds, go to Wales, go to Scotland, you’ll be amazed, thank you for visiting us & hope to see you again 💙

[ianz]

I've seen a lot of comments on here telling you hot cross buns must be buttered or toasted or never with margarine or other spreads. Absolute load of cobblers, by all means try them buttered or toasted or with or without a cuppa, but it's totally subjective. If you like them best on their own, that's fine.