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🇬🇧 BRITISH ENGLISH vs INDIAN ENGLISH 🇮🇳 How much difference?
🇬🇧 BRITISH ENGLISH vs INDIAN ENGLISH 🇮🇳 How much difference?
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hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy
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today I've got a very special guest it is Anu
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from conquer British English
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hello everyone it's a pleasure to be here
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so this is the first
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part of a two-part
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video the second part of the lesson
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is on anu's channel
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the link is in the description box
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today we're going to be looking at the differences
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between British English and Indian English
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I grew up in bedfordshire
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in England but I live in Cambridge Shire
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and I speak with a modern RP
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accent sometimes with a bit of estery
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as well and yeah I actually speak with a similar accent to Lucy's
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um but during the course of this video I'm sure you'll be able to
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hear the differences there because I actually grew up in London
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and I also have hints of Multicultural
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London English um shortened down to Emily
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in my in my in my accent too
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and um just to let you know I'm of Tamil ethnicity
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and we just wanted to also mention you know India
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is such a diverse
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country and the population
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is is huge there's over 1
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billion people living in India
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and just to put that in perspective if you kind of compare India to
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Europe um just the number of nations in Europe and and the languages that
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they speak you will notice
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some differences in in the Indian English that you use
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um so we'd love to hear um whether you use any
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word slightly differently and we'd love to hear your thoughts on that in the
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comment section yes definitely this is all about learning and sharing so please do
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use that comment section to tell us how you speak and the words that
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you use what I'd love to do is um give you a taste of
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what one form of the Indian accent sounds like in when we discussing these
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words so yes please do so if you give some of the examples
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in that accent I'd love to do that that would be really cool cool
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another important thing to note is that Anu has created a PDF
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for this lesson with all of the vocabulary
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differences and some extra quizzes and interesting
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things um so you can click on the link in the description box to
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download that for both
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videos okay so the first one
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is this one it's a vegetable
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is it um I would call this
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okra we would call it
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lady fingers that's so funny because lady fingers
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is actually the name of a spongy
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biscuit oh really yes it's kind of the bottom layer of a tiasu
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sometimes do you like do you like the taste of uh
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lady fingers in teracy
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I mean the vegetable
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yeah I love it
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um honestly I think it's quite a boring
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biscuit yeah um I think that's really funny
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I mean you can see why it's called that can't you but I've um
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grown up eating okra
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lady fingers and it's got a very slimy texture to it
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um but yeah it's using a lot of our dishes
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yeah it's not something
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that we cook with a lot here
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but we absolutely love
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curries um I think we've actually named
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the chicken Tik masala
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as our national dish it was voted as the British national dish
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so that's how much we love it
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yeah so the next word we've got for you
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is this one bringel
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you call it bringel bringel
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that's so funny I wonder where that comes from
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um we call this obene
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but this is quite a controversial
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world yes that too yes that
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too no this is quite a controversial
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word um because in American English
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they call it eggplant
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because eggplantegg eggplant because the flower Bud looks like an egg have you ever
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seen oh I didn't I've never seen it
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I was that why
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cool we call it oine
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bringel and bringel I'm going to start calling it bringel
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I'm going to start calling it eggplant
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eggplant I love the accent
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all right the next one
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is this it's the ingredient that makes up a lot of curries
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and I eat it for breakfast
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a lot um we call it
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yogurt in Indian English it's often called kurd
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which is really interesting because kurd actually has a different meaning I guess in
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British English when we imagine kurd
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yes do we imagine different
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consistency yeah isn't kurd like the creamy part of milk exactly yeah in Indian
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English you would often hear phrases like could you add some C to my
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dish or I'm just going to pop out and buy some CD
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not pop out cuz I guess pop out is a
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is a British saying
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I'm going to go to to the shops and buy some CD
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interesting but like a dessert
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yogurt so strawberry flavored yogurt
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you wouldn't say a pot of CD
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no I don't think he would no okay
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interesting the next one we've got is a really interesting one because I've grown
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up hearing it all the time
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um and it's often being a source of argument
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in the household this one
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is L or lack
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okay yeah so we don't have a picture for this one because I need
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to guess what it is
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l L like a lar but it's not it's not spelled with a r
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it's spelled l a k h
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okay L something to do with luck
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nope something to do with the bird
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it it kind of sounds like it right so one lack
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is a unit in the Indian numbering
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system it actually represents
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a 100,000 in conversation
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you might hear someone say I bought that house for 10 ls
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so that would be a million pound yeah exactly CU 10 * 100,000
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is million right I just think also it's amazing the way you can switch
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between those two actors
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that's so cool um so does that is that maybe because
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rupees are a smaller
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value so you're more likely to have something
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perhaps because we would
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100,000 is a lot absolutely
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yeah that could be that could be a viable
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um reason I think there might be a difference in the numbering systems
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as well across across
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the different nations so that will
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influence um how we
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think about numbers and then the term that we attribute to a particular
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sum of of money or a particular number
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amazing cuz I just would have no idea
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if someone told me 10 lck in my household
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when we're talking about numbers
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um my parents always use
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LA and my siblings and I we use
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a 100,000 or a million
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and we often have
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miscommunication when we're when we're talking about numbers it leads to a lot of
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confusion in the household
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even within your own household
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yeah all right this next one
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I wonder if you can tell what it is from the picture
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in British English we would refer to this as marriage
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mhm now you would often hear this being referred to as an
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alliance um sounds really formal doesn't it
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forming in an ey it does
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um but yeah that's often a term
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that would you also use marriage as well yeah for sure
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um but in terms of an example sentence
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someone could say that these two people are seeking an alliance
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or they're looking for an alliance
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that's so funny cuz I would think that would be a business person
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looking to join forces with someone else
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um when actually it describes an emotional
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connection and an official one as well
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let us know if um marriage is often referred to in a different
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way in from the part of India that you're from
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so uh the next one is you know when it's a rainy day and
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you you just want to catch that bus you're going to be waiting at
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a bus how would you say it a bus stop bus stop
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in Indian English you often hear it as bus
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stand or a bus halt
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it makes sense yeah halt is kind of a more formal word
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yeah like a more oldfashioned
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word for stop um in British English
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and then a stand well you stand there don't you
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so yeah and I guess they've maybe referring to the actual stand of the
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the poll of the the bus signs on the top
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the signage if I heard bus stand I'd know exactly
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what is meant by it absolutely
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but we definitely tend to say bus stop yeah
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okay this next one is the word we use to address
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a man in a position
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of Authority for example a teacher
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or your boss I mean
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in British English we would just say
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first name terms for the boss
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or mister and then their surname
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for a teacher I remember
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Mr purum was my favorite teacher at school so I would just call him
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Mr purum or Mr
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yeah that's absolutely right in in London I've you know grown up calling
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my teachers mister Mr Smith for example
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in India you would refer to your male teacher as sir
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and that's that's quite common place and your boss as Sir as well
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um so with the accent it sounds something like this sir
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so you would hear
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an Indian person saying s can you please help me with the homework
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please sorry I was just so in love with what you were saying
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I really really like the accent
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it is just so gentle
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is it like it's
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like caressing the sound
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we do use the word sir we do don't we
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but I would say for a boss
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it's too formal that's almost showing too much inequality
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I would think um
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but in SCH some schools
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it depends on the school's regulations
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maybe some private schools
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places like that would insist on a more formal code yeah that's true uh
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but I never had to call my teachers sir at school
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um what about female teachers
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females um so we so in British English we would say Madam wouldn't in
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a really formal setting I'm just wondering whether sir and madam
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is used in India because
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in an email you would say dear sir Madam
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in Indian English we would refer to a male teacher
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as Sir how do you guys refer to your female teachers at school or
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your female boss yeah that would be really interesting to know because we say
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miss or misses depending if they're depending on if they're married or not
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yeah I'd like to know that the next one
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is all about how we refer to members of our family so Lucy if
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I was to say that I met up with my brother
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yesterday what how would you
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understand that that you met up with your male sibling
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my male sibling who is my immediate
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my immediate sibling right yes has the same parents mhm
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in Indian English brother could also mean
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my male cousin interesting so you do you use the word cousin still
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no so this is why when we speak to
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a person who's speaking with British English
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we would have to clarify
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that and say cousin
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brother even though it means cousin
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um you would often hear in Indian English someone referring to their cousin
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as their cousin brother
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interesting well we would just say cousin
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MH yeah or cousin sister
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if it was a female
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okay yeah yeah it's just the same for us
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cousin okay the next one
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is this in British English
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we say boot or car boot
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yeah in Indian English
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we say Dicky so
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could you put the luggage in the dicky
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or could you could you lend me a hand and uh put the luggage
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in there Dicky please
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awesome and we've also seen a couple of other spellings for it like DIY
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as well I guess it just depends on the pronunciation
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I guess so as we mentioned earlier lots of different Indian accents so I
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guess that's what influences
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the spelling then yeah
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and um again this is another word that is also different in American English
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they call it a trunk
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they do don't they I've always imagined an elephant trunk when I right here
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trunk so don't want to put any luggage up there yeah
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oh God ever so the next one that I wanted to introduce you to
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is how we use the word current
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in our day-to-day life
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okay if I said current what would you understand that as
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current is in in the moment
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o that is a good homophone isn't it um yes
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the current for it it is current in the current moment
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in the current moment Lucy and I are
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filming but this version of current is used in day-to-day
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life for something else do you want to take take a guess
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current as in like an ocean current or electricity
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current yes so we use the word current
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to replace electricity I could advise you be careful of the current Lucy
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when you are plugging in the plugin to the the socket
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be careful of the electricity
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yes perfect awesome I never knew that the next one is a word used
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to describe an illness
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yeah um in British English we say
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diabetes and in Indian English you could hear this being referred to as
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sugar and this is commonly used in the state of
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tamaru interesting and is this because
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diabetes or some forms of diabetes
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are brought on by excess consumption of suar absolutely
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absolutely very interesting and how do you pronounce it again so I would pronounce
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this as sugar so
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um do not eat too many sweets
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because you could develop sugar
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interesting the next one we've got on the screen
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in Indian English it could be referred to as the washroom
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but could also be referred to as the toilet
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too um but what about British English
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well we also say
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toilet um I know that's something that in American English
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they find a bit disgusting
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because it's too specific
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to the actual toilet
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but we say the toilet
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or the L that's slang
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I always say the L
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I think I heard you call it the L I call it the L
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as well um yeah
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yes I don't think washroom
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is that common but that's not to say it's never used in British English
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that's right yeah the next next one is this one
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in British English we call it
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crisps mhm I know that's quite a hard sound the SPs
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sound crisps what's what do you call it in Indian English
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chips it's commonly referred to as chips chips
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and what about fried potatoes
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that are served warm
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ah also chips yeah I guess so
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everything so the next one we've got here
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is referred to as
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capsicum now how would you refer to it we would call this Peppers
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or red pepper green pepper
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yellow pepper um but then surely that gets confusing
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the kind of the pepper that you put on your fish and chips
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yes but then the pepper we put on
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like as a seasoning
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is an uncountable noun
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so I'd say can I have some pepper
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that would be the the spice or it's not necessarily a spice the seasoning
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if I ask for a pepper
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I'm asking for a capsicum
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that is a fantastic tip
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so that's the end of the first part of this video we have got
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the next part which is so interesting
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over on anu's channel you can click the link in the description box
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or just go straight
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to his channel again please share any other differences
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that you know of Down Below in the comment section
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and also if you are from another english- speaking country
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and you would like to see another
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episode please tell us
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which variation of English you'd like us to feature next
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don't forget to download your free p PDF
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