12 Britishisms YOU NEED TO KNOW | British English Expressions

welcome to my brand new miniseries all about British English expressions will you look at the words and phrases that are commonly used in British English so if you want to sound more British these are the words for you today I'm gonna show you twelve British words that are shortened to sound really informal now I know so many of you guys are living in Britain so this is going to be super useful for you guys and anyone else who wants to visit Britain this is going to be fantastic stuff for you because it's real natural English this is the English that we actually use on the streets in our everyday conversations I'm excited to teach you this guys so let's get going alright so instead of saying a cup of tea a cup of tea because we Brits love tea we just say a cuppa cuppa so if you want a cup of tea you could say I love a cup of please I'd love a cup of please and that means a cup of tea now remember all these phrases are very informal so a cuppa is really informal just means a cup of tea for any of you that have ever been to Britain you know that it rains quite a lot so we need an umbrella it's one of the most important things that we can have and instead of just saying I'm brother we can shorten it to brawny Brawley so let's put that into a practice sentence oh no I forgot my brawny oh no I forgot my brawny this happens way too much with me okay so one more time Ronnie the main broadcaster in Britain is the BBC the BBC the British Broadcasting Corporation now we affectionately term it the beep the beep so if you hear someone saying I love the beep I love the beep that means I love the BBC the British Broadcasting Corporation a classically British term uni this is short for university I use uni all the time where did you go to uni where did you go to uni or I'm just gonna go see my uni mates I'm just gonna see my uni mates my mates my friends from universe so uni is a really common shortening of University another really classically British term Tenny this is short for television tele so are there's nothing on the telly there's nothing on the telly there's nothing on the television this is a fun one so obviously in Britain we celebrate Christmas but we've shortened it to Crimbo Crimbo that's right so are you going away for Crimbo are you going going for Crimbo and that means are you going away for Christmas interesting when that one Christmas shortens down to Crimbo obviously our national sport is football and we show them that were down to 40 40 so for example did you see the 40 last night did you see the footy last night did you see the football last night all right we're going to get a really British now so we have something called an off reisen's an off reisen's and that's a shop that sells alcohol now instead of saying I'm going to the off-licence we shorten that down to I'm going to the offing the offi I know it's a strange one right I'm going to the off e so if you want to go and buy a bottle of wine you could say I'm just gonna go and get some wine from the off e I'm just gonna get some wine from the offing alright now this is a fun one and one that perhaps isn't that widespread I don't know if that many people use this I have used it before but I'm gonna teach it anyway because I think it's a fun one so it says a tomato ketchup of course you could say ketchup but you can also say Tommy Kay Tommy Kay tomato ketchup Tommy Kay I've seen it used I said it myself again I don't know how widespread it's used but anyway worth 9 Tommy Kay it's a bit like with mayonnaise we shorten that down to Mayo Mayo that's not a specifically British thing but it's definitely a really useful way to shorten a word so from mayonnaise to Mayo from Samantha ketchup you know ketchup or Tommy Kay or you could have red sauce some people like to call it red sauce hey you choose what you want people very opinionated about what's the right word for tomato ketchup use the one you want I don't know Tommy Cade ketchup red sauce tomato ketchup it's up to you here's an example of how we're making English easier for ourselves take the word vegetables vegetables shorten that down and you've got veg veg ve G now it looks like vegg but because it's part of vegetables it's the germ cells so veg so an example sentence I need to buy some fruit and veg I need to buy some fruit and veg means I need to buy it so fruit and vegetables ok take the word biscuit shorten that down you've got Vicky example would you like a Vicky would you like your Vicky that means would you like a biscuit so yeah yeah absolutely I love to piggies it sounds kind of similar but breakfast you can shorten down to brekkie brekkie so where should we go for brekkie where should we go for brekkie all right those were all our words now remember guys these are all very informal words because they're shortening of longer words so think about when you're going to use them I would say that if you are living in Britain and you've got British friends then that's the perfect opportunity to use these words and you'll definitely hear them I wouldn't use them in a formal work context okay that would be that'd be very silly but yet in informal situations but with friends in Britain absolutely I would use them and of course if you're not living in Britain but you're watching a lot of British TV or you're following British instagramers or youtubers like zoella for example these are the kinds of words that you're going to hear so really useful for you tonight guys did you find this first in the mini series of British English expressions useful if you did please let me know in the comments below give me a big thumbs up and share this with anyone that you know that's trying to learn English especially British English okay because I am from London I teach British English and I want to help anyone that would love to learn British English so yeah let me know if you've enjoyed this video I'll bring out my next one in the mini series very soon but until then guys thanks so much for hanging out new videos every Tuesday and every Friday helping you take your English to the next level this is Tom the chief dreamer saying goodbye

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Length: 6min 44sec (404 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 24 2017