Ultimate American English vs British English Word Comparison (FEAT. Koreanenglishman JOLLY)

and the rest of south east asia

@@brikev lol true

Korean as well

Lol true

OMG YES😂😂

True, than confuse how to apply the words. Even the grammar could be messy for people who try to learn english from two country. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I was studying in a course, they taught me about British English...
But one of my friends said that we were not learning British or america sparatedly. But it was mixed...
Yeah I thought i learnt British, and a little bit shock after know it.
CMIIW

Me and my friends argue all the time about British English and American English lmao

I once taught a few elementary students (they were probably around 8 years old) in an 'additional course'. When I was explaining pronounciation of a couple English words, one of them said, "I speak American English, not British."
And I replied that we can't choose one of them. Most of the time, a test and a speaker just use a word and a pronunciation they know.
Also, there are so many things to explain but I didn't have much time back then. He probably didn't know there are more differences. 😂

then uses mixture of American and British English

Antibiotics will clear that up thx

I totally lost it when he said that 😂😂

@@soraisseoyo same lol

Omg poor Ollie :(

came here looking for this very comment. Yep... poor Ollie. I knew someone else had to have caught it.

ㅎ

A fellow Jihoon stan 🤩

@@MadamDum oh hiii!!!

Croper? Cooper? Pooper? Prool? Pool? Coper?

Soooooooo true

Don't generalise lol, not all of us are 'proper'.

Canadian: ?!

@@starlike._ *not real*

I mean... we're pretty much *the* weird amalgam - for instance, our "shopping mall"
(also just look at cookies vs biscuits lmfao both British and American meanings are valid here ASDFGHJKL)

Im an early childhood educator in Singapore and watching this video just shows how confusing it can be to teach young children the English language because the Singapore English is a complete mash up of American and British English. Although we were supposed to follow the British English, the American media has globalised so much. To the point where our teachers gave up trying to standardise words such as "globalization" and "globalisation" the z and the s, and just tells us that we should standardise it on our own in our own essays we write.
Also, I'd like to add that in my profession, in Singapore, pre-schools are essentially schools for children below the age of 7 (thats the age where we start Primary School). Pre-schools are optional but its becoming more popular due to the increase in dual-income families in Singapore and the children have no one to be looked after. So parents in Singapore send them to pre-schools. They can enter at any age, from 2 months to 6 years old.
Now comes the confusing bit: there are several types of pre-schools in Singapore. Mainly, childcare centres and Kindergartens.
Childcare centres are full day programmes from 7am to 7pm for parents to drop their children off before they head to work, and pick them up after work. But recently, many childcare centres provide half-day services as well. So parents can have the option of that. The age of children in the childcare centres range from 2 months to 6 years old. From 2 months to 18 months, its infant care. Educators in infant care are called Educarers. We require a separate certification to teach this age group.
18 months to 2 years, some centres call this age group toddlers.
After the children turn 2, they will be classified into classes based on their age that year, regardless of the month they were born in. So if they are 3 in the year 2020, they will be in the class called either Pre-nursery or Nursery 1 or Playgroup. Some schools dont have the segregation for 18 months to 2 years (as it is just 6 months) so they call this age group Toddlers.
After that, depending on what the centre calls the previous level, when the child is 4, they either go to Nursery (if called Pre-nursery or Playgroup previously) or Nursery 2 (if called Nursery 1 previously)
Then when the child is 5, the class is called Kindergarten 1. And when the child is 6, the class is called Kindergarten 2.
Afterwhich, they will graduate to go to Primary school.
The above is for pre-schools that are childcares in Singapore.
We also have another type of pre-school called Kindergarten. Kindergartens are mostly half day programmes and caters mainly to 4 to 6 year olds. However, some Kindergartens do cater to 2s and 3s as well, but these are all half day programmes.
So in Singapore it is really complicated.
When i watched the video, the way to pronounce the letter 'Z' in the alphabet is also confusing not only for the children but for us adults as well. Because of my profession, we need to teach children phonics and phonetics and it isn't easy.. haha.

I'm from Germany and my path was/would be: Nursery -> Kindergarten -> Pre-school -> Elementary School -> Secondary School -> Vocational College -> University
My nursery was a private "babysitting" place for 0 - 2 year olds.
Kindergarten is a voluntary right, for children starting from 3 years old.
Pre-school was a period of some months before the potential enlrollment into elementary school. It was basically a time to test if a child was ready for school, based on their level of understanding. If they weren't they would enroll a year later. Typical enrollment age was 6 - 7 years old. Elementary School went from 1st - 4th grade.
Back then my town only had the " 3 secondary school forms". A comprehensive school was built much later. I got into "Realschule" which is 5th - 10th grade. Same for "Hauptschule". The 3rd school form "Gymnasium" is 5th - 12th grade.
Due to the rule of "mandatory 12 years of school", I went to a vocational college which is a place where you mainly learn the theory of your choosen major. It's also a place where you could get a higher degree. By also taking extra courses it would be possible to gain a degree that allows you to go to a university. But because these are very specific, it restricts your university choices. For example I studied "Business Communication: Focus Foreign Languages" + extra courses + half year internship (for praxis experience), so I am able choose economy, commerce or languages.
Note: This is my personal path.

I have been in Singapore for 3 years now...my mind just got blown again.

Preschool comes before kindergarten in the States. They’re two different things.

저만 본넷이라고 하나유ㅜㅜ

@@user-ko3tl7yl3k 본넷은 콩글리쉬인것 같습니다
bonnet을 중간 n사이 기점으로 끊어서 읽는것 같습니다

@@user-ko3tl7yl3k 일본식 발음입니다 일본애들 보네뜨 라고 함

여름이 썸머가 아니라 '써머'라고 발음해야 하는 것과 같은 것이죠... 영어는 자음이 두개 연결되어 있어도 한번만 발음하죠...

차가 처음 들어올 땐 앞만 튀어나와 일본애들한테 물어보니 본네트라네? 근데 해방하고 나니 뒤가 튀어나온 차가 생겼네? 미국애들한테 물어보니 트렁크라네? 그렇게 된 듯?

@@shinjeesoo The Australians got it right then (from the French). It's an "entry" to the meal, aka a starter. Americans, once again, make their own shit up.
O___o

@@Jumpoable whoaaaa!! That's so interesting!

@@shinjeesoo REALLY?? Woah...

Meanwhile Swedes say förrätt (pre-dish or before-dish) and dessert is efterrätt (after-dish)

@@AnotherEmi fancy man~

It depends where you are in the UK. I've heard trainers, runners and even tennies (for tennis shoes)

Don't forget "crepps".

Or joggers

Or ‘running shoes’

Yea you'll definitely be needing them from all the fire you're running from

Josh is a wonderful courgette player!
Did you hear his aubergine solo? It's exquisite!
😂😂😂😂

@@karina9684 lmao "aubergine solo" sounds like an euphemism

Courgette sounds like a really fancy brand of woodwinds. "I bought my sax from Courgette"

Agreed 😂😂

As a french that part sounded like a dirty joke...

Makes things easier, I suppose. lol XD But, do people get confused on what you mean if you call all 3 the same thing?

InSomniaArmyCheshire MooMooReveluvMeU well i usually call ‘crisps’ a packet of chips and ‘fries’ hot chips or just chips

InSomniaArmyCheshire MooMooReveluvMeU people normally know what you mean by what you’ve got with you. Or we just say hot chips/packet of chips etc ☺️ haha

Me Yu true!

Alex Gossip I’m sorry! Hahah everything is spelt the same but with so many meanings.

i know which is which but i just automatically speak with a mix of both lol

Same

Same, I mostly use British words but courgette just sounds wrong 😂

sameee

Yep me too

OMG XD

@@fab8490 our languages lmao

Me: sweats in Dutch : vlieg(fly)tuig(craft?, something you can use?) Lol

In Arabic it's flyer ( female form) طائرة

literally just called fly in norwegian

And the LRT (light rapid transit) in some places too

and in hong kong it's called the MTR~

Or we just call then trains since there are no railway trains in Singapore unless you are planning to travel to Malaysia 🤷

In the Philippines, we also call them MRT, but it means Metro Rail Transitm

In Australia we used just have trains until recently we got a metro(the train underground)
*this is in sydney btw, idk if other states in australia are the same

Totally agree with you. Haha

It is like we understand both British and American and at times it is a matter of personal choice which one we use lol

I'm Singaporean too but have lived abroad for the past 10 years and interestingly I've learnt we say some words the American way despite having heavy British influences:
- privacy: 'pry'-vacy, not 'pree'
- vitamin: 'vye'-tamin, not 'vee'
- schedule: 'ske'-dule, not 'sheh'
- resources: re-'sor'-ces, not 'zor'
Thanks for mentioning Singapore, Dave. It's nice to be remembered XD

agreed! sometimes i get into tiny arguments with my mum (a teacher) regarding the way we pronounce and spell words 🤣 so yes, we use both languages interchangebly ✌

Same is the case with India except that we call bins as "Dustbin" or "Waste bin"

omg i grew up in the US and now I live in New Zealand. i was so confused about the whole rubber thing though. and jandals????!!!!

@O. R. Lol, not a 'rubber' rubber, but a rubber eraser.

My poor little brother got punished by his American exchange primary teacher for asking for a rubber.

Hahahaha yeah!!! We use rubber for eraser here in NZ and I believe in the States they use rubber for condoms. 😂😂😂

@@veev8885 Jandals - originated from the fact that they imported them from Japan. So the words "Japan + Sandals = Jandals"

is it something different then?

@@petraweewoo805 It's what the UK calls flashlights. Lmao

i was so confused when they used the word "fancy" like "do you fancy her?" i only knew fancy as in fancy clothes or something lol

But that probably were sticks with fire on them - I mean, it is Harry Potter, I don't think they had flashlights at Hogwarts
Edit: just had to correct my spelling :D

It’s like the flashlight I think?

🤣🤣same man

But also the highstreet they show at 9:00 is southall in the UK !

LMAO

@@jaskiransidhu7503 I was just looking for the Magic Masala Corn and Pani Puri stand in that Southall gif.

Also "cinema"

몇몇 한국인들은 그냥 영어로 댓글달며 놈

@@songdoj1653 그게 접니다.(진지)

@@user-sr8ns2gj5c 역시 너같은 찐만 그러고 놀구나

@@user-oo4ou2wt1t 찐이 찐에게 ㄷㄷ 진귀한 광경이네

이치키 치히루 킹니갓사는 과학이다

Mine
English textbook: British based
School Teachers: Not-Native but certified
Me as student: Lost

For me it was
English textbook: British based
School teachers: Speaks some weird broken English
Classmates: All trying to speak some American English
English listening tests: Speaks some damn Irish or Indian accent

Same in Korea lol

I had an American teacher teach British English and an arabic teacher teach British English in Arabic.

Me too!! My book was in British but my teacher was Korean who had American passport.

We Arabs say X O as well

Same XO in India.

@@tanyaexo2638 ooh cool

But if you were to say XO in America, they would think you were saying hugs and kisses. X for kiss, O for hugs

Same in Thailand: XO

1960s-1970s British tv comedy is essentially 90% of Ollie imagination.

그러니까요 이영상 보고 알았어요 ㅋㅋㅋ 걍 앞이나 뒤나 아무나라 단어 막 갖다쓰는 한국 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ineyes 가져다 쓰는 것에다가 변형까지 했다죠. 본네트에 제트ㅋㅋㅋ

@@naracho5289 제트는 일본이 그렇게 발음해서... 우리나라도 영향을 받은겁니다 제또 제또 그러는걸 제트라고 하는거죠..

자동차가 특히 일본식영어발음에서 온게많죠
머플러=> 마후라, 쇼크옵서버=>쇽업쇼바, 대시보드=> 다시방 등등

it actually helped me too bc I'm american and I've never heard those before!

Ollie was actually wrong about the US version 😂😂😂 trunk as in luggage trunk, not swimming shorts 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Emilie Coats - I think he was referring to what men wear ie swimming trunks (just covering lower body) vs. what women wear which is a swimsuit (covering top and bottom).

@@MrMmitch32 Yeah but that's not why they were called that haha. We call it a trunk because back in the early days of the automobile, they'd just tie a big ol luggage trunk to the back, until they were finally like, hey let's just build it in to the car. I think boot is what they called the luggage compartment on a horse drawn stagecoach.

Abraham Im - I wasn’t trying to explain the term Trunk. If you watch the video and also notice that I was replying to a specific persons comment, at 3:15, Ollie refers to the word trunk as an article of clothing. I was explained how swimming trunks is what he was talking about at that moment in the video.

In holland we use only metro everyone knows here

in the north east of England we call it the metro we would never say the underground or whatever its always the metro (I'm from Newcastle)

Lizzie Smith eyy big up the north

@@eve8429 oi oi

@@lizziesmith5835 Moved to the North of UK not a long time ago and I thought I was being smart using "underground" and "tube" but turned out everyone else was saying metro (which is how I also call it in my native language) lol

미국과 국경 닿아있고 예전에 영국 식민지였어서 그런가봐유

그러게요. Elementary. Middle. Secondary
Metrotown. :)
Centre. ..

@@fjdkehfldjdlxhdid 식민지였다는건 단순한 역사적 사실일뿐인데 굳이 미안하다고 하는게 더 이상해보이네요

@@GBDSJD 그런가요 죄송합니ㅏㄷ

호주도 그렇긴 한데 영국영어가 더 많은듯요...물론 호주영어도 있고요ㅋㅋㅋ

Same as in malaysia.

Same as in Indonesia

But we always say taking a train instead of the subway/tube

Despite english being our first language, we mix up alot of english stuff not just from america and british but also non english country like japan or korea that uses english loan words.

Just to be more clear, Mrt isn’t the name of the company running it. Mrt is basically the name of the service. The name of the companies are SMRT AND SBS

LabyrinthX let’s not even get Jaffa cakes involved!

Same in the philippines we also call our trains MRT and LRT 😊

and now also available in Jakarta Indonesia
LRT coming soon....

And in Norwegian et fly is a plane and å fly is to fly. So they just call it a fly like we do the insect.

And in Finland we say lentokone (fly machine)

In german you also say ,play thing' for toy XD

In dutch you say "vliegtuig" roughly translates too "flying savage" lmao

In Chinese, we say 'feiji' which means Flying Machine.

No. They say "Zetto"

@@qv2955 thats literally what they said but with added romaji

I'm gessing the to at the end is too quiet to hear lol

That's more German, lol.

In France we also say ZED

Same here, in New Zealand. I thought ours is more British English than American English though.

I say that too! I never thought about it, hm.

Yeah no one says the whole name. Unless, you're describing it to someone. So like if you were describing buildings to someone new in town you'd be like ,"...and that's the movie theater...".

My mum says "Picture house"... She's Scottish 😋

That a more casual way in Australia.

my country is a dutch colonialism so we called bioscop or cinemas sometime

I was about to comment that lol

lol ich hab noch nieee darüber nachgedacht.. damn

@@beene_ gibt viele Wörter die einfach auf "Zeug" enden lol

@@beene_ Deutsch ist schon ne komische Sprache, wenn man drüber nachdenkt, auch wegen der ganzen zusammengesetzten Nomen hahahah

Lagena Nasira stimmt, klingt schon weird wenn man darüber nachdenkt hahhaa

혼돈그자체

쓰까묵자이거야!

미국영어로 할까 영국영어로 할까? 반씩 쓰자 이거야!

반반~!

Araceli Pastoriza Fernandez me too was thinking abt tht. please jolly do it

eh... second wife ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

La façon de prononcer Z aussi 😆

30% of English comes from French 🙃
That’s why in the UK we say things like cinema because we spoke French for 326 years. That’s why English people say things like raison d’être and we write RSVP on invitations meaning Répondez S’il Vous Plaît

@@RobertHeslop Wow that's interesting

Depends, I've actually never heard someone say that in Aus. I always say and hear 'shopping centre'

Target ㅋㅋㅋ

Actually we use shopping centre and I'm from Melbourne.

nomm me yh im from sydney, we say shopping centre or just the shops lol

To add to ever other aussie here lol
I’ve only ever heard shopping centre or just shops

veggietales

👏 THANK 👏YOU 👏

Not in the US. In the US, it's spelled "center".

No! It's center. And theater. And color. And everything you non Americans spell wrong.

Tathrennor I obviously know that. Since they were talking about British terms, I just thought it’d be nice to actually follow the British spelling too. And like I’ve said, my British/English brain was not registering that spelling. It just felt wrong :) 😂😂
Just one of the many differences we have that makes this world wonderful, and learning about different cultures fun. :)

so in the UK is it also a craTRE? or a boulDRE? is it also a meTRE? or a siNGRE?

same in singapore!

Same in Malaysia too yupp

bella020895 Haha so true we just go “Oh im taking the train”

Not gonna lie but some British people say "let's get the train" as well 😂

Then is there are word for actual train? :D or is it also a train?

Otakun In Canada, colleges are post-secondary schools that issue diplomas and certificates (community college or trade school).

What??? I'm Australian, and that is stupid 😂
I guess it makes sense tho. I've never heard it, but I've never been to Melbourne, either

That's not the name for the underground per se, it's just because it's literally a loop around the city. It's more the line name if I'm not mistaken

Yeah I guess that makes sense
I'm Australian and never been to Melbourne either 😅
Is it nice there?

Yeah. There’s a loop around Sydney as well but I don’t think the underground part of the trains have a specific name. I’d just call it ‘the train’.

@@012345678910233 lol yeh, it's just 'the train' 😄

Avrupalı Asya favoUrite(ok I am British)