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ONE language, THREE accents - UK vs. USA vs. AUS English! (+ Free PDF)
ONE language, THREE accents - UK vs. USA vs. AUS English! (+ Free PDF)
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(upbeat music) - Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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I have got such a treat for you today!
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I've been excited about this for such a long time.
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I am shortly going to welcome two lovely guests who have generously given their
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time to help teach you the differences between Australian English,
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American English, and British English.
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This is going to be a two-part series, today,
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we are going to focus on vocabulary
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and then in the next part of the video,
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we are focusing on pronunciation.
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We may all speak the same language: English,
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but we have very different accents and we speak with different vocabularies.
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So this video is perfect for improving your vocabulary
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but if you want to improve your pronunciation
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and your listening skills even further,
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then I highly recommend the special method of combining reading books whilst listening to
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their audiobook counterpart on Audible.
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This is how you use the method.
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Take a book that you have already read in English
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or a book that you would like to read in English,
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I've got plenty of recommendations down below in the description box,
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and read that book whilst listening to the audiobook version on Audible.
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Reading alone will not help you with your pronunciation
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because English isn't a strictly phonetic language.
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The way a word is written in English may not give you much indication
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at all as to how it's pronounced in English.
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But if you listen to a word at the same time as reading it,
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your brain will start making connections.
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And the next time you hear that word, you'll know exactly how it's spelt,
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and the next time you see that word written down,
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you'll know exactly how it's pronounced.
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It is such an effective method
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and the best part is you can get one free audiobook,
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that's a 30-day free trial on Audible,
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all you've got to do is on the link in the description box
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and sign up.
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I've got loads of recommendations down there for you.
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Right, let's get on with the lesson and welcome our guests.
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Firstly, I would like to welcome Emma to the channel. - Hey there,
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I'm Emma from the mmmEnglish YouTube channel,
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coming at you from Perth in Western Australia. -
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And we also have Vanessa. - Hi I'm Vanessa
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and I live in North Carolina in the U.S..
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I run the YouTube channel Speak English With Vanessa. - It's
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so lovely to have Emma
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and Vanessa on the channel.
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I've known Emma for a very, very long time,
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four years now and I've recently got to know Vanessa.
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Both of them have fantastic YouTube channels
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and all of their information is in the description box
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if you want to follow them.
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So I have got some pictures and Vanessa,
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Emma and I are going to tell you how we would say what's in
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these pictures in our own country.
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You might be surprised at some of the answers.
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Okay so let's start with this one. - In the U.S. these are chips,
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100% just chips. - I can't believe you started with this one.
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These are chips. - We call these crisps, crisps. - The other word that you used,
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Lucy, is the most complicated word in the English language to say.
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So let's just call them chips and move along. - Yeah,
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I'll give you that one.
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Crisps is a notoriously difficult word for learners of English.
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It's the sps sound at the end, crisps.
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You'll find a lot of people mispronouncing them as crips, crips,
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when they should be crisps.
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So here is the next one
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and it gets even more complicated
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because in the UK we call these chips.
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So in the U.S.,
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the cold version is chips and in the UK the hot version is chips.
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Let's see it what Vanessa has to say about this.
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What does she call them? - These are French fries.
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I know that they're not really French
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but we still call them French fries
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or you can just say fries by themselves. - The next one's chips
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as well,
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right?
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They're hot chips. - Hot chips, oh my god!
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Hot chips, Australians just call everything chips then.
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It is worth noting
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that if you go to England
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and you order fries
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or French fries,
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we know exactly what you mean.
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Okay, next we have this one. - We call these cookies
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or chocolate chip cookies specifically. - Okay they are biscuits.
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Don't really hear people saying cookie. - Yes, two against one!
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These for us are biscuits
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as well and we would use cookie to refer to an American style,
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normally, chocolate chip cookie.
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However if you use the word biscuit in the United States,
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you might get something that you are not expecting.
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Vanessa has more on this. - If you ask someone, "Do you have any biscuits?"
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or, "I want a biscuit," they would not give you this,
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instead they'd give you a savoury kind of fluffy type piece of bread.
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A biscuit is savoury and a cookie is sweet. - So there we have it.
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If you fancy something sweet with your coffee in America,
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don't ask for a biscuit. (chuckles) You will be bitterly disappointed.
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Okay, Vanessa got very passionate about this next one.
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Very passionate.
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Here is the picture.
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Vanessa seems to think
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that she knows the absolute correct answer
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and she's even done research.
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I did not expect Emma
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and Vanessa to get books out for this video. - I have the proof
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that my answer is the most correct
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because you can see my two-year-old son is obsessed with trucks,
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we have so many truck books.
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Let me read to you.
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What truck do you need?
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A tractor trailer. (chuckles)
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So this is also what I would call it a tractor trailer.
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I might call it a semi. - Alright
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that yellow thing is a truck. -
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So Vanessa thinks it's a tractor trailer
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and she's very,
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very sure about it. - In all of these books,
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they call it a tractor trailer
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so we're gonna go with
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that one. - That really tickled me. - Emma thinks it's a truck.
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In the UK we would call this a lorry,
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a lorry. - It's a truck. - Whatever Emma, it's a lorry.
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Okay, what about this next one?
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What have the women got up here? - These girls all have bangs. -
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We would definitely say fringe.
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Bangs is probably becoming more popular, especially colloquially. - So in the UK,
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we definitely call this a fringe
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and when I started hearing the word bangs in movies
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and things like that,
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I was really genuinely confused.
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Okay what about this next one? - This is candy. - They are lollies, lollies. - Lollies,
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that is so cute!
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So in British English these are sweets.
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Or sometimes if you're talking to a child, they might call them sweeties.
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Lollies for us are sweets on a stick.
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Right, what about this next one? - This is a swimsuit.
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Some people might call it a bathing suit,
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you can also call this a one-piece. - Okay, this one's really funny.
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In Melbourne where I'm from,
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it's really common to call them togs
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but no one else in Australia really calls them togs,
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they call it swimmers.
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In Sydney they call them cozzies or costumes but generally it's swimmers or bathers.
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Oh gosh, that's another one, bathers or swimmers. - Oh my word,
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I did not expect to receive so many different ways of saying swimming costume.
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This for us is a swimming costume.
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We can also say one-piece
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and we can also shorten it down to cozzy.
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I remember my mum saying,
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"get your cosy on," before my swimming lessons
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when I was a child
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but that's quite a childish thing.
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Okay what about this next one? - This is the forest. -
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That is definitely a forest. - No!
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It's the woods, woods, plural.
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This is definitely the woods.
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I mean in general we say the woods.
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Forest implies a huge, huge area of trees,
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of woodland. - The woods sounds kind of like something you might hear in
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an old-fashioned fairy tale. - Yeah well,
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Vanessa, sometimes life in England is like an old-fashioned fairy tale.
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I think a lot of Americans have this vision of England
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as a place with
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so much culture and history,
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like a fairy tale,
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and then they come over and they are just so disappointed.
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Okay what about this next one? - This is a bathroom.
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You might say it's a restroom
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but it would be really unusual to call a place
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that actually has a bathtub a restroom.
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Usually we use the term restroom for public places. - That room is a bathroom.
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Yeah, it's a bathroom. - Okay so Vanessa touched on restroom and bathroom.
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Now we would never use the word restroom in British English.
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If we were in a public place and we are looking for a bathroom,
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we would say toilet.
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However if there is a bath there, like a bathtub, then yes,
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we might say bathroom as well.
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But we would ask where's the toilet. - If you say where's the toilet,
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most people in the US would just say,
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"It's in the bathroom." - I mean she is not wrong.
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The toilet is in the bathroom.
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There is also a slang word
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which I use a lot
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which is the loo,
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where's the loo.
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I went to the States for a business trip
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and I asked people where the loo was
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and they were utterly confused.
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"The loo, what's the loo?"
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All right let's move on to the next. - This is an apartment.
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This is mostly called an apartment. - We would never say flat. - Okay
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so in British English this is a flat.
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We have a block of flats; I've lived in many flats in my life.
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We don't use the word apartment.
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Okay the next one.
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Maybe the picture wasn't clear enough for this one
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because Emma did get a bit confused
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but she gave us all of the options,
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good old Emma. - This is a grocery store. - I'm not exactly sure
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what I'm looking at in
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that image but it could be a trolley,
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it could be an aisle, or it could be a supermarket. - A bingo,
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it's a supermarket for us as well, or we call it the shops.
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I'm going to the supermarket; I'm going to the shops.
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The shops is more general, it could mean any type of shop.
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We would never say grocery store.
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We might however say grocers, the grocers.
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This is a shop that just sells fruits and vegetables.
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All right, next one. - This is a comforter. - Oh my god,
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how weird is the word comforter?
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That's weird.
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In Australia that's called a doona. - (laughs) I love
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that Emma is saying
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that the word comforter is weird
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and then she goes to say
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that in Australia it's a doona.
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That's weirder, Emma.
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So in British English this is a duvet, a duvet,
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which apparently Vanessa finds weird.
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See we will find each other weird.
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I didn't know what a duvet was, maybe I'm very sheltered,
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but I didn't know what a duvet was until I visited Europe.
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We just do not have those in the U.S. - Okay I feel there's
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gonna be a lot of conflict about this next one. - These are bell
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peppers. - Okay they're capsicums;
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red, green, yellow capsicums. - No!
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They're just plain old peppers.
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Red peppers, green peppers, and yellow peppers.
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Capsicum, what?
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This isn't Latin, this is English.
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Okay another one that's gonna cause a bit of conflict. - These are rain
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boots and also the jacket
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that goes with it is a raincoat
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or a rain jacket.
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I guess in the U.S. we like really clear,
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straightforward names for items like this.
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Rain boots, what's it for?
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It's for the rain, it's very clear,
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boots for the rain. - I mean she's not wrong, is she?
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American English is sometimes more simplified than British English
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and this is no bad thing,
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really.
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Let's see what Emma has to say. - When it's muddy and rainy,
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I would put my gumboots on to walk around in the wet. - Yeah,
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I mean we would we never say gumboots.
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I think I've heard my grandma say it
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so it might be quite an old-fashioned thing.
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In British English we say wellies or wellie boots.
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Are you ready for this next one, are you ready?
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Because what Australians call these is frankly shocking.
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Let's hear from Vanessa first. - These are flip-flops. - Yeah, these are flip-flops,
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Emma.
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What do you call them?
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When we go to the beach in Australia we wear our thongs.
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Our thongs, it's plural and we're talking about the shoes on our feet,
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they are thongs. (laughing) - So I have to explain to you what thongs,
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what a thong is in British English and American English.
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A song is like a G-string.
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It's a type of underwear where there is just one string at the back
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instead of more fabric.
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If Emma said to me, "Can I borrow some thongs?"
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I would probably lend her some but I'd be a bit concerned.
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Okay, next one, where would you go to fill up your car? - This
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is a gas station where you put gas into your car. -
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So when I fill up my car,
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I fill it up at the petrol station. - Ah, good,
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I am with Emma again on this one.
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She's redeeming herself after the thong situation.
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Yes, we also call this a petrol station.
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The fuel that we put into our car is petrol.
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I spent much of my childhood confused
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but I was especially confused by the fact
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that Americans put gas into their car 'cause I thought well petrols are liquid.
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Turns out it's just short for gasoline.
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Now the next one's quite interesting,
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I want to know what they call a shop that only sells alcohol,
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and this is interesting because in America, their attitude towards alcohol is slightly different.
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We're very open, maybe too open to alcohol in the UK and Australia.
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The alcohol is more controlled by the government in the States,
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in the United States. - This is an ABC store
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which I just learned 'cause I just looked it up,
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it stands for alcohol beverage controlled state.
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So this is a story
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that sells only alcohol
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and that last word state is
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because it is run by the state
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or run by the government. - Now let's see what Emma calls it
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because I have heard
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that Australians have some fun names for places like these. -
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When I go and get a bottle of wine,
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I go to the bottle shop,
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which in Australia we also call the bottle-o. - Bottle-o, love it!
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It would sound so stupid in a British accent.
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I'm just going to the bottle-o, do you need anything?
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Bottle-o, yeah it only works really when you pronounce your Ts as duh,
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bottle-o.
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In British English, we call this an off licence, an off licence.
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Okay what about this next one?
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I feel like I'm going to get ganged up on here. - These are
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pants. - Pants,
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pants.
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Old people might call them trousers. - Well excuse me,
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I must be very old then because these are hands down trousers,
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they are trousers.
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We do use the word pants to refer to underpants.
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Oh, 'cause they go under your pants, yeah maybe they are right.
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My whole life has been a lie.
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Underpants 'cause they go under your pants.
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Ugh, undertrousers, doesn't work, does it?
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Well anyway, these are trousers and I'm not old Emma, yet.
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Now what do we call this?
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The little walking space beside a road. - This is a sidewalk. - The
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concrete beside the road where people walk in Australia is called a footpath. -
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Interesting,
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we don't say either of these, we say pavement, pavement.
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Now we would never say sidewalk, we do say footpath,
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but a footpath is normally not beside a road.
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A pavement is just beside a road and a footpath is anywhere else.
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Okay another car related one,
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what do we call this? - This is a highway
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or you could call it an interstate. - A highway
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or maybe a freeway in Australia. - Ooh,
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we don't say either of these either.
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We never say highway in British English.
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Interstate, well we don't have states so that doesn't work either.
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Freeway, no.
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Freeway sounds dangerous, it sounds like you can do whatever you want.
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As I said before, I've left all of their information in the description box.
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Make sure you watch the other video in this two-part series on pronunciation.
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So we're going to be focusing on the same words
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that are pronounced differently in each accent.
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Don't forget to check out Audible, you can get your free audiobook,
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that's a 30-day free trial,
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all you've got to do is click on the link in the description box
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to sign up.
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And don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media.
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I've got my Facebook, my Instagram, and my Twitter.
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And I shall see you soon for another video. (lips smack) (upbeat music)
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