BRITISH vs AMERICAN vs Australian ENGLISH Differences!

hello hi i'm christina and i'm from the usa hello i'm lauren and i'm from the uk hi i'm grace and i'm from australia [Music] i think so definitely yeah yeah at least for australia we tend to really shorten our work so what would be a regular word in perhaps british english or american english australians just cut half of it off that's quite lazy i think maybe some of us might eat similar compared to american but definitely like garbage and rubbish is the immediate one that comes from my brain definitely i think the us will be a little bit different than you guys maybe you guys will have some other uh similar vocabulary but i've heard like it australian words some are just like totally different right yeah i've heard some australian words i'm like i never heard that before but there's some words in the uk i've i've heard before but i'm always learning new australian words though but to be fair we do take a lot of american words because we watch a lot of american tv in australia yeah yeah maybe we'll be more similar maybe let's find out again in the us we would call that french fries in the uk we say chips in australia we also call them chips but hot chips hot chips yeah hot chips because we have chips and chips you've got to be specific okay okay what about like potato chips do you just call it chips chips and then that's hot chips but if you want to be specific they're hot chips oh okay but what if what if it's like in the fridge from like the night before and it's cold chips i didn't think about that chips that would soon be hot like once more yeah yeah in the us we call this cotton candy oh sorry my accent's coming out cotton cotton cotton candy yeah in the uk we say candy floss in australia we call this fairy floss so cute this sounds so cute because it looks like it's made by fairies that's so sweet actually when i saw the picture that was the first word that came into my brain was cotton candy and then i was like wait no really what do we say yeah yeah where am i from again you hear cotton candy like yeah no we just use fairy floss so this is so cute i've never heard that before but i've heard of uh candy floss but very very floss is so cute okay in the u.s we would call that like flip-flops flippy floppies no not flipping fluffy it's like from that song you know i got my flippy floppies in the uk we also say flip flops in australia we call these thongs because you know it's like the thumb for your foot thumb for your butt it's the same how would you like oh sorry i gotta grab my phone really quick well what would you think would you think those thongs or the other thoughts well we would say thongs is the plural is for your feet because you never wear more than one what if you were like on the beach and then you lost like we lost my i mean we like to live life on the edge in australia so in our country the thong is a type of underwear with the same shape as the flip-flop string so yeah yeah it makes sense it does it could be confusing if we came to australia i'm just gonna go buy some thumbs like oh just put my thumbs on yeah yeah if you said that in the us then it would definitely mean like the underwear yeah songs maybe it means fire [Music] you never know [Music] so in the us we would call it sneakers um in the uk we would say trainers or we have like a million words for it but trainers i would say if they're more like a branded like a fancy pair we would say sneakers but for general running shoes we just call them joggers because you train in them and you jog in them yeah exactly what about or you sneak in there what about these though like not kids sneakers joggers dogging bosses oh you guys call we call them joggers everything's pants in the u.s gas station um in the uk petrol station in australia we call this a server oh but nobody has time to say service station so we just call it a server you like to keep things short yeah okay i knew she was gonna say something like weird it's cool i like it i like it i love us i love australian words they're pretty cool you know make it short gas station is such a mouthful right okay in the us we would call it a movie theater um in the uk we would call it cinema in australia we call it movies sometimes sometimes in the us i would also say oh me and my friends are going to the movies yeah usually we would say like yeah the movie theater it's really fancy going to watch a film i watch a film but like that could be like on your computer when i think of film i think of like black and white film me too it sounds like yeah no we never call it film no it's film sounds like proper english that's the thing it's because we do our own thing like we know that you guys you guys say the proper words for things we're just like rebels [Laughter] in the u.s we would call this cell phone um in the uk we would call it mobile or mobile phone in australia we just call it a phone just a phone yeah everything is shown like i said but what about like your home phone phone phone how do you tell the difference i suppose if you wanted to be specific you have your phone and then your mobile phone in recent times people only really use a mobile phone they don't really use a landline that's what we call it to landline a landline which is the phone that's in your house so i mean my house back in australia we don't have a landline so everyone just has their phone which would be their mobile phone in the us we would call this like shopping cart or just cart in the uk we will call it trolley in australia we also call it a trolley trolley probably like reminds me of like those above ground trains like in the us if we we hear trolley like it would be like the you know those trails yeah yeah like those those two yeah we wouldn't think of a cart or trolling sorry [Music] in the u.s we would call it a sandwich in the uk we would say sandwich or sani in australia we would say sandwich or to shorten it [Music] go to the store and buy a single thing if it's toasted it's a toasty or a toasted sandwich i don't know we have so many words for sandwich like we have sani we have back we have bread roll we have what was the second one bap bap yeah or butty i would say butty butty b-u-t-t-y he actually would say more than sarni now ham and cheese butty or like an egg butty but it depends on each region and the uk has their [Music] oh man that picture girl that was a bad mistake in the u.s we would call that bangs um in the uk we would call that fringe in australia we call it a fringe i've heard fringe too but we would usually just call it things yeah my german friend calls it a pony a pony a pony well not in that case in the u.s we would call it a drugstore in the uk we would call it a chemist in australia we call this a pharmacy it's just me but when i think of the drugstore because in australia drugs equals like drugs i'm thinking of like you know methamphetamine marijuana being sold in a store gotta edit that out us we call it medicine drugs is like drugs yeah i think we in the us we call it medicine or drugs yeah but when i hear chemists i think of like a scientist in the lab like making some you know that's what i think of with chemists this actually it depends on where in the us because there are also slang for this but we would call it mcdonald's in the us or my parents my friends we would call it like mickey d's mickey mickey d's i don't know if that's like an east coast thing but yeah mickey d's um in the uk we would say mcdonald's or mcdonald's but also like america we have different slangs like i personally would say mackies because i come from the north of england but i guess some other people call it like i don't know i forgot the words [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] um i think i think yes but i think it's like kind of like trolling a little you know like like people know what they're doing it's like ironic dicks okay all right all right yeah like i know like in the east coast i remember my parents we would say mickey d's oh we would also say mackie d's that was that's the word that i was thinking of monkey d's [Music] in the u.s we would call this candy um in the uk we would call these sweets in australia we call these lollies lollies well lollies for me is more like the jelly type and then if it's like a hard candy we would call it candy but just in general they're all lollies the chewy ones are the lollies chewy lollies i mean i call everything lollies lolly if i hear lolly i just think i'm like a lolly lollipop yeah maybe that's all we have would confuse me if i went to if i went to australia give you like a jelly snake it's like have a loli where's my lollipop i learned some new words today i'm like i learned some new words yeah for sandwich and yeah some some different mcdonald's mcdonald's for mcdonald's yeah that was fun i always i always like hearing new words i'm especially learning new words for australia definitely yeah of course i was actually surprised how almost in between there were some similarities with the uk some similarities with the us and then some things we've just obviously crossed over completely made up so we're just making our own rules yeah i was surprised how little uk vocabulary i knew like there were things we were pulling out really never heard about before i thought i would be more similar with the uk but i'm more familiar with us well we all know like american words for everything from tv and like moving here i always use american english for vocabulary um but it was interesting the australian the flip-flops have still got me the thumbs thumbs up um whip it out sometime maybe it'll be yeah your thumbs yeah yeah yeah you can surprise some people so today we compared some vocabulary from the us the uk and australia and if you like this video don't forget to like and subscribe to this channel bye [Music] you

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Published: Fri Jul 02 2021