American Words That Completely Confuse Brits!

In French, we called this "aubergine" 🍆

They don't change colour while growing, but there are different cultivars (varieties) of eggplant that are white rather than purple/black, hence the name.

@@luca6821 Brinjal is better

I didn't know what eggplant was until I saw some vdos of it lately. We use the word "brinjal" and in our place brinjals don't look like egg so we won't figure out why is it called eggplant if we use this word😂

@@rishabhkhatri it's an Indian word, not English

I thought that was a "onesie"?

omg, i was literally going to comment this. when i hear jumper i think of a one piece dress

When I was a kid a jumper was like a pinafore or smock, like something you’d wear over a dress to make sure it didn’t get dirty when painting. I’m American and I’m in my 50s.

I thought of like a car jumper

Same here. Jumper was an overall dress.

hell

I thought she was Canadian when she first started to appear on KRplus.

Yeah because the british girl bullied her

I'm surprise cause most of people that i saw on this chanel were nice !
Please can you post the link ?

@@riwan5322 The guy who commented is a fraud. The last american girl was even nicer than this one, he's saying this because the british girl in the video bullied her.
Here: krplus.net/bidio/o8WMjGaGhIrDeXY
I hate that british girl

Also In construction it’s where the clumsy builder hits their head at

So US women think of their fringe as a horsetail, interesting.

Wemm if it were Dutch words then the obvious reaction would be: G E K O L O N I S E E R D.
But since it's English, let's just say: C O L O N I S E D?

Same

I'm English and I'd heard all of these words, I knew most of them, but things like station wagon I was completely lost. I knew it was a vehicle of some kind but that's all...

@@marktaylor2087 did you never watch Ghostbusters!

That’s exactly what I was thinking of when she said jumper too! (They used to be my uniform.) Our jumpers are pinafores.

I can remember that. It seems like that word fell out of favor very quickly in the US, in the 70s maybe?

@@davidhines68 That's interesting because we referred to the dresses as jumpers in the mid to late 2000s at my school. I guess it depends on region, or my school uniforms were labeled with old terms. 🤷‍♀

It can also be something a child where that’s like a full body onsie. I wore them when I was a kid.

@@anonnnymousthegreat yes I wore jumpers as a kid.

Realtors are real estate agents, but they are part of a part of the National Real Estate Organization. My brother is a Realtor and constantly reminded me of this. Like they are the real estate elitists lol

yet for some unknown reason, we all just call it brinjal in India instead of eggplant or aubergine

"Americans" are all people who live in the American Continent, not just in the United States

The eggplant that we have now also looks like an egg before it matures.

@@revolucion-socialista but America is both continents with America in the name, yet when people say America they usually mean the united states. Kinda the same concept with Americans.

interesting :0

In India we call it Brinjal! Eggplant is unknown to majority of the population!

@galaxy gal Exactly.

@@prabith100 The word 'aubergine' in British English is originally from India (Sanskrit).
Sanskrit (vātimgana) -> Persian (bādìngâmān) -> Arabic (al-bādinjān) -> Catalan (alberginia) -> French (aubergine) -> English (aubergine)

Also, there is a certain variety of eggplant that is White in color (colour uk) like an American Chicken Bleached Egg vs Purple or Aubergine

That makes sense - I was wondering why a video about language had spelling mistakes - though I also wondered why the subtitles were in Korean and English! All is clear now!

What part of the US?

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Which country do you live in now? 🤔

In the UK, vacuum cleaning is often called hoovering after the 'Hoover' brand of vacuums.

I've got a similar one, Sarah. A good friend of mine who didn't have a lot of foreign language experience pronounced it that way the first time she saw the Thai word Phuket.

I was trying to figure out which part of the US she's from. I was thinking maybe like Midwest?

ya i say cilaaaaantro

@@nightingale1080 same i say, (si-LAH-n-troh)

@Joseph Norm Ok, well then by your logic, why do we say it with an S sound when it's spelled with a C? 🙄 Besides, I never said I said it with an o, I say it with an "ah" sound not an "oh" sound. (si-LAH-n-troh)

@Joseph Norm By your logic, we could argue on a heck ton of english words

That's ok..

hello

We’re are you from?

How did she confuse Xerox which is a photocopier with a printer?

@@NotMykl That's because for her generation, Xerox machine is more like a laser printer with scanner. It's completely different from the Xerox copier back in the 80s and early 90s.

Thank you so much for this. 🙏🏾I get kind of sick of seeing these types of videos and the American doesn’t know, and therefore can’t explain, anything and just goes “oh American English is so weird, I like yours better”🙄🙄🙄😑

THANK YOU!!!! Why she didn't know about suffixes? I blame it on our public school system!

logical but the suffix is -or in actor and director. Not -tor. Here "t" is maybe the combiner

Realtor, meaning "real estate agent" was made up by Charles N. Chadbourne in 1916, based on the Latin agent nouns actor, director and creator. What I think he failed to notice was that act, direct and create are all verbs ending in a "t" sound while there is no such verb "to realt".

@@saulnine7786 yeah that's why it was confusing to her, the word just doesn't fit any pattern that makes sense. Just gonna do some realing

Actually if you look up “unripened eggplant” they are small, round, and white

Coriander is the name of the plant in English, cilantro is the name of the plant in Spanish. If you were talking about the seeds, you'd say coriander seeds (ground or whole). If you were talking about the leaves you'd say fresh coriander and there's also dried coriander.

As an American, I legit thought cilantro and coriander were two different things

I had NO idea that was a trademark. Who came up with it? What I can't stand is "realliter".

But unlike what she said sneakers it was never a trademark name. It was a used as a marketing term to allude to how quiet the rubber soled shoes were.

She messed up the definition of xerox. It is a photocopy vs. just a printout.

@@magma7935 I noticed that but I just sort of blamed it on the youth of the speaker. I don’t think younger generations understand the difference between printing and photocopying. For the general public printing is sort of something that’s lost to time. Of course the printing industry still exists but I don’t think many younger people are aware of it given that large scale photocopying is so accessible

@@pjschmid2251 agreed. I don’t know how much photocopying occurs now. Much easier to use the scanning features on the phone.

She is from Liverpool so would be used to blagging a lot with friends and pushing past things don’t know. Then learn later.

@@TristanBailey She's not from Liverpool. She said she's from near Liverpool, but I doubt it, as calling pants pants and underpants underpants (rather than calling all types of pants trousers and calling underpants pants) is perfectly normal in Liverpool, Manchester, and many Northern areas. She doesn't sound Scouse at all. I suspect she's from Chester, as she's got a slightly posh accent but it's too slow to be from Southport. But regardless, she's definitely from somewhere further than Liverpool.

@@rogueuniversities6866 What are you on about 🤣I'm from Yorkshire and have many mates from Liverpool, Manny, Newcastle etc and all of us say pants for underwear. You're literally chatting out your arse mate just making stuff up

@@rogueuniversities6866 Also she's said before she partly grew up in Lancaster and went to uni in Nottingham so that's why she doesn't sound like she's from Merseyside

lol....... maybe next time they'll ask you out for ''High Tea'' which is something different again.

Me and my mum are Scottish but my dad is english. It used to annoy me so much as a kid because he called lunch as dinner and called dinner as tea. It was confusing and made no sense. I kept correcting him and after years of work, by the time I was about 10 years old he called it lunch and dinner.

@@rachelcookie321 But there are places in England where it's breakfast, dinner, and tea. I think the simplest is to say breakfast, lunch, and tea.

@@rogueuniversities6866 but that’s confusing still because tea is a drink and you also have a morning tea break. Too much things called tea.

@@rachelcookie321 True, but if you refer to it in a food context, people should understand.

What is a fake estate then?

@@fionagregory9376
The “real” refers to real property, such as land and buildings on that land.
That differentiates from other types of property such as vehicles, disposables, clothing, etc.

I always call them tennis shoes, but I also played tennis where I had to get specialized shoes for playing tennis. So those were my "tennis" tennis shoes.

Running shoes

Yea I call em tennis shoes

The whole rhetoric thing is wierd like mirror. I pronounce all the R's

@@rebeccabarnet6746 😂 My “tennis” tennis shoes. I grew up saying tennis shoes and some friends’ parents called them tennies. My gym shoes were only for PE class. 🤔

In the UK, we use the word "Hoover" as a verb - "I'll hoover the carpet later".

Photo copier or for short just copier.

@@zargonthemagnificent330 We say vacuum cleaner and Hoover is the brand name. Although some people say coke for soda when they don't even want coke name brand or even a cola. So ask if the mean coca cola to be sure that is what they want.

Do people really say Xerox to refer to printing? I always thought it was for copying.

Kleenex is another one we often say in place of tissue.

And xeroxing is not printing it's copying. Printing is printing.

Or a jumper in American slang is "someone who attempts or commits suicide by jumping off a building or any tall point"

@@yellowrose0910 true

I think a lot of americans would assume thats what it means, but I think the more common word for that type of outfit, at least recently, would be a romper.

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!

You're right. When I was a kid in the "60s, a lot of girls wore them to school. It's become a little bit outdated now, but that's ok. Language is always changing and this is just another example of that.

It's still used quite a bit, and I still see a lot of women wearing them. They've been making a comeback the last few years. The term is also often used interchangeably with "romper," which is similar, as they are both types of top-and-bottoms onesies, though are technically different things (a romper has a full blouse top, which may be sleeved or sleeveless; whereas a jumper usually has an overall-style top with suspender-like straps and an open back. Both are attached to a skirt, shorts or long pants) .

Right, it was a marketing ploy.

Isn't it like some brand names become generic names

Phil Dunphy would be proud of ylour discription Lmao

@@dutchgamer842 such as segway

I don't know why this would be an issue.
Klaxon is also a trademark. Japanese language uses it to refer to all automobile horns to this day.
Same story for Hotchkiss (a French company), meaning "stapler" in Japanese.

I love that guy!!!!

He is very informative and gives unbiased views because he has lived in both countries .
We say SKIM milk ,Brits say SKIMMED when in fact ,William Shakespeare first used the term SKIM milk.
I don't get why Brits call that thing on top of a pencil a rubber .Americans call it exactly what it is - eraser

@@lindaeasley5606 I wonder if It's because you "rub" it back and forth to remove the error.

@@Talius10 still is not descriptive enough . Rubber could easily be confused with the material rubber .
In the US a " rubber " is slang for a condom because it's rubbery like material it's made from

@@lindaeasley5606 I was simply speculating a possible reason (certainly not stating it as fact).

No. She doesn't. Got quite a bit wrong. But maybe last girl was worse

She wasn't too bad, but she got a few things wrong:
-We do have jumpers in the US. They are one piece outfits that usually are worn by children and sometimes have suspender like straps to hold them up.-
EDIT: I was mixing up rompers and jumpers. Rompers are for kids. A jumper in the US is a type of dress for adult women (usually worn over a blouse).
Eggplant comes from the fact that some eggplant varieties are small, white, and oval shaped.
Cilantro in the US refers to the leaves of the plant (a common use is chopped up and used in dishes like guacamole). Coriander in the US refers to the seeds of the plant (usually ground into powder and used to flavor meat dishes).

@@eklectiktoni - I think you were close with the jumpers in the US. They’re a kind of sleeveless dress you wear over a shirt. Think Oshkosh corduroy overalls but with a skirt lower half. I can think of 60s versions that adult women wore in the “mod” style, but now I’d more associate jumpers with children’s wear.

@@ebick77 That takes me back. Wow I completely forgot about Oshkosh!

@@eklectiktoni I have always heard rompers were one piece shorts outfits and jumpers were dresses worn over a shirt. Both can be worn by children or adults.

I think that must be a Yankee thing bc it's always been cilantro in Texas for leaves, coriander is the seeds

It makes sense because most of the cilantro in the us is used in Mexican/texmex food. And even up north the seed is called coriander

im from ny and i say cilantro for the plant and coriander for the seed, ive never met someone who calls the plant coriander

@@TheoMurpse Same in Illinois.

I only say calimari for tiny or diced squid, because when fried you call it fried calimari. If it’s just a squid steak or on a squid roll, we call it squid. It’s like how potatoes are potatoes until you slice em and fry em, then they are French fries

As someone living in the south in London, she most definitely has a mild Northern accent to our ears. It’s pretty obvious - just listening to the pronunciation of plant and that for example.

@@juliusklugi7430 I noticed a small amount of US dialect (yes I'm generalising here) in her accent too as she's been in the US for a couple of years.

She has no Liverpool accent as she's from nowhere near Liverpool, or she wouldn't have done the East Midlands and Southern thing of calling pants "trousers" and underpants "pants". Scousers, Mancs, and people from Yorkshire would know exactly what an American meant if they said they a pair of pants, as they use the same words.

She has a definite northern accent to me as a southener.

That first one actually makes sense, because when I think of a station wagon, I think of a subaru outback?

I thought maybe they were called bags because they bang into your forehead when you walk or run...lol. We are pretty literal here in america...like we call autumn fall, because the leaves fall. 😁

I'm an Aussie living in England who worked most of my life for a US company. Growing up in outback Australia we drove around in station wagons a lot and I'd agree that that was the connotation of a 'station wagon' - a cargo carrier suitable for a families on very dispersed and empty farms.

I always thought "bangs" was just another reference to guns. It is America after all.
But bangs makes absolutely no sense to me being Australian.
We say fringe.

No. The first "station wagons" were actually horse drawn wagons used to transport passengers and luggage between railroad stations and their hotels. They were long wagons with two or three benches (think of a buckboard) and cargo space behind them. They often had an oil cloth cover to protect from the rain. The name and general format stuck when we started putting engines in cars (aka CARriages). Most of what we now call SUVs are nothing more than updated modern station wagons.

Australia used to use the same system until about the 1970s. So in NSW I went from First Form in 1974 to Year 8 in 1975.

thanks!!

It's a hangover from when secondary school were number 1 to 5 instead of Year 7 - 11, hence '6th' form is the 6th year.

The UK secondary school system was originally organised into "forms", five forms were required to get your O-levels/GCSC, and that was the legal minimum you had to do for education. However, if you are University bound, you would take the upper and lower sixth forms which prepared you to sit for your A-levels to go to University.

@@hippokisser And they were called "forms" instead of years. Five was the legal minimum you had to go to school, so you could sit the O-levels and finish education at 16.

The white ones. And the english actually brought those variety in US. And mind it English were not the only people in US. There were other Europeans too and the population included Africans also.

Not like real eggs.. But there is a type of White Brinjal ...just searched Google after watching ur comment.

I thought eggplants really look round first before they elongate

@@neilkamalseal3413 “...other Europeans too including Africans?” Africans were not a subset of Europeans, they were brought over from an entirely different continent than Europe.

@@fordhouse8b By including Africans, I meant the american population included other Europeans and Africans.

I didn't know that cool :)

I first heard that term on a British show I was watching and had to playback several times before I understood what in the world he was saying!

I have a friend who does her dysoning because she has a Dyson. And of course 'Powerpoint' is a trade name - if you use Open Office its 'Impress'.

@@chutalotr Your friend sounds like an awful person :D

I say hoover. Vacuum sounds posh to my ears to be honest

Ouu. We still say form in Guyana and 6th form isnt mandatory here either.

Interesting, in Australia, well the school I went to at least, we use form to delineate classes for roll call. So 8.1 is year 8 form 1, 10.4 is year 10 form 4, etc. I do remember my parents calling high school 1st form 2nd form etc., but 1st form was year 8 because that's when high school started. It wasn't until 2015 that we had year 7 as part of high school in Western Australia.

I'm glad someone has already explained this so I don't have to.

Stoker was a regular visitor to America before he wrote Dracula. Its much more likely he encountered it for the first time there..London and Dublin not being reknowned for their Mediterranean cooking at the time

Interesting!

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That is wrong actually. Coriander is the name of the plant, leaves and everything. It’s actual name in English and most other places. The powdered coriander comes from the seeds of the coriander plant. Cilantro is just the Spanish word for the same thing there already is an English name for.. Coriander. So Americans have somehow ended up believing that they are two different things.
And the eggplant thing.. Eggplant is the original English word for the plant. Aubergine is borrowed from french.. So Brits should also be using the word eggplant instead of the french aubergine.
It is the same with squash (the original English name).. Squash.. Not zucchini (italian) or courgette (french)
Sorry for the rant.. You may carry on.

@@swedishmetalbear Not quite. American here. In the US, we CALL the leaves cilantro. We know they are from the coriander plant, but no one says 'coriander leaves'. Basically:
Coriander = ground/whole seeds from the plant Coriandrum sativum
Cilantro = fresh/dried/frozen leaves from the plant Coriandrum sativum
A similar phenomenon would be:
Liquid H2O = water
Frozen H2O = ice

@@eklectiktoni Yes. You've borrowed a word from another language that means the same thing that there already was a word for in english and you've given it a specific meaning. Similar thing would be.. Potato (the root) potato..
Potato (the plant) batata..

@@swedishmetalbear in American English, squash generally refers to a whole host of produce of the type that includes pumpkins.

Don't understand the flashlight one as a torch doesn't flash

"Xerox" also means "photocopy" or just "copy" in the American Midwest. Hearing it used as slang for "print" (as in the above video) was news to me.

America - pants and sweater. I don't know why she said jacket.

Yeah, a jumper is not a jacket in the US. She def made that up.

Ive never heard the phrase xeroxing

@@thebeartubechannel7022 Back in the 50s and 60s, Xerox was a company that made business machines, including copiers. Xeroxing became a word meaning copying. She was right in that we do that in American society a lot. Xerox, frigidaire, kleenex, and many other words were all brand names originally, before becoming both nouns and verbs describing something.

India: Pants and Jacket
Never heard people ever using the words Jumper and trousers.

Wow, in Russia, we also say Xerox for any copymachine, we even say xerox for a copy and have verb "to xerox" :D Also we say pampers for any diapers and really have a lot of such words! Salut din Rusia! (I hope, it's correct, I used to learn Romanian a little :D

@@Kakaokletocka holly lord, yes, your romanian is good! Yeah so do we with pampers, we litteraly don't have anyother word bc before the comunism falled my grandma told me she used a fabric pamper on my mom, and she would just was the stuff of and then put it back

@@Kakaokletocka Priviet, (idk if i spelled right using my charcaters, my brother taught me this bc his favorite character in a show was Russian :D)

I guess this happens in all languages like using a famous brand name for some things

@@curiousmind_ Yeah! Of course

In Spain we borrowed the word "water", but we use it with the meaning of "toilet" and we pronounce it "bater' báh-teh-rrr

@@joseamategarcia9276 probably from "water closet (WC)" which English speakers ironically don't use any more.

Yeah, In New Zealand, the old system was that Form 1 started with the First Year of Intermediate School (Middle School) was Form 1, High School was Form 3 to Form 7. Primary School Years were referenced to as either Primmer or Standard 1-4. But it has been changed now and every Year of School is now just simply referenced from Year 1 - Year 13

Malaysia's official education still maintains the old British(?) system.. it's Forms 1-3 for lower secondary school (middle school) and Forms 4-5 for upper sec (high school) where we get our O-levels equivalent then 6th forms (lower and upper) for pre-U/ A-levels equivalent... Mandatory education is only until form 3..

@@glenbe4026 *would be interested to know why we bothered to change from an accepted system to an americanised one.

@@SiliconBong Probably because the Australians use it. Though New Zealand has an extra year of schooling vs the Australians

@@glenbe4026 We had a 'world leading school system' up to the mid nineties.

Canada... runners, joggers, sneakers, trainers. now also kicks. We also call them by the sport they are used for. Basketball shoes, running shoes, football cleats, etc.

Joggers always confused me because in the UK, at least where I live, joggers are what Americans call sweatpants xD

@@nataliamidzio You beat me to it mate

@@jaykim416 ....and south of the border, all those, and tennies (tennis shoes), athletic shoes, workout shoes, etc, etc.

@@peterharrison5833 I suppose North America has people from just about everywhere in the world, so we pick up words from all those countries. Television, and now KRplus makes it even more universal. Mukbang is a good word for this example. A made-up word no one should have known, if not for the Internet. Lol!

u r also pretty

@@topubaksh8316 u r so kind!

True. We hear bad what they say.

what a wholesome lil' thread :D have a nice day everyone!

Yeah we all use hoover haha, I didn't even think about that!

You’re totally right! Another example is Q-tip when the generic name is cotton swab

Here in germany Kleenex is a brand of these coarse, larger handkerchiefs for the kitchen on rolls.
I just don't know what they are actually called.
For us, pocket cloths are also called Tempo and the Tempo brand has therefore lost its trademark rights because it has become a synonym for pocket cloths in normal usage. What Lego is trying to prevent in Germany, and it was only through this news about the Lego process that people first learned the term "Klemmbaustein",
at least I did not know it before.

The most recent example would be Zoom.

@@dr0pthebeat oh yeah, forgot about that one!

I've always wondered the world thinks of English becoming a bit of a lingua franca. Maybe the Germans are actually happy about it because English is Germanic language? (I am Chinese, and English and German seem very similar to me.)

zio in Italian...

I’m also a Spanish speaker from Latin America but honestly, sometimes I don't understand Spaniards at all, like every time I watch a Spanish European series or movie. I always put subtitles in Latin American Spanish. I also know many Latin Americans who don’t understand Spaniards as well haha

We say the same in italian so when I was in Spain it looked completely normal to me.

Tito in Philippines

@@itsme-so4em tiyo is another word for uncle in PH probably the tagalized spelling for "tio".

Also, young eggplant fruit looks like eggs. Once you see it, you'll understand.

Call me by your name teached me smt

Finnish: munakoiso that is to say muna egg koiso plant

What is an "alberchigo" ??????

Eggplant doesn’t come from that, the rest is a few right
Aubergine come from French were the are also others words all of them evolved from Spanish alberenjena, nowadays just berenjena both also evolved from Arabic al-badinjan that also evolved from a family languages of India
The Latin name (solanum melongena) evolved from Italian and that from greek
Eggplant was coined in USA because the plant resemble an egg and is only country with Australia tha call that way

Dungarees are the things you mean when you say overalls. Jumpers are what we wear when we're a little cold
Overalls are garments that have legs and arms that you put on over your own clothes so they don't get dirty

@@corriehingston6744 uhhh but everyone I know calls it my way. Just because you call it something else doesn’t make your way more right.

A romper?

@@chatboulon743 jumpers & rompers are 2 different things. All one piece items, but still different cuts.

I've never heard a native born American use the word "jumper" if they weren't talking about skydiving or someone comitting suicide.

@@jwb52z9 if you're younger than a certain young age you probably haven't, but it is definitely a real fashion term used even in the US.

Yeah I’ve definitely heard my mom say jumper but idk what the difference is between the two

Dunno, but people still say kleenex

I'd say it's because they grew up when copying could only be done on a dedicated machine, of which Xerox was the first and most popular brand. Younger people are accustomed to multifunction devices and therefore refer to the particular function being performed.

I've never heard any English person saying bangs. It makes no sense.
Fringe is much better

Why is rubber for kondom crazy? It is made of a rubber-like material. Even in my language, gummi (meaning rubber) is slang for kondom. We actually use the same word as slang for eraser (although there are many other words for eraser).

@@herrbonk3635 I've always said rubber to run things out with and condom to mean the other

@Blue Moan They still are, I belive. Latex is a form of natural rubber.

@@herrbonk3635 Unless you have a latex allergy. But yes, the vast majority of condoms are made from latex rubber.

Aubergine arrived in French from Catalan, where it arrived from Arabic al-badinjan (al = the, badinjan = eggplant).

think that's probably the most accurate version for everyone as I think cilantro is the mexican word for corriander, and they probably were the ones to mostly use it fresh

As far as I know, cilantro is usually the leaves (the herb), and coriander is the name for the seeds (the spice). In the UK we usually say "coriander seed" if we're talking about the spice (and it's not obvious from context)

@@rachelsavard851 Spanish word*

Yes. I'm from the south as well and I agree.

I'm from the north, and you're still correct

"Petrol" = gasoline
"The boot" = the trunk (of a car)
Trainers to me is a type of sneaker as in cross trainers.

Yes. I'm a northern Englander and I say pants instead of trousers. (And underpants for underpants)

@@Lancastrian501 Cool. You guys also call that thing with a belt and purse-like pouch a "bum bag", right? Happen to know what Americans call it? (LOL!)

Depends where you are - my mate from Sheffield is ~adamant~ that pants are underwear, and Lauren's from the north west and she thinks that too... they're both wrong of course

@@cactustactics I'm from the north west (Lancashire) and if somebody mentioned pants I would immediately think of trousers. Shorts can be also short pants and underwear is underpants never pants. Same as the US I think.

I'm from Stockport, northwest England about 8 miles from Manchester and I say pants instead of trousers

It's also used to refer to a type of dress, typically worn by school girls.

@@wschart
True. Although I have not heard it used in a while.

It really depends where you grow up. Personally I didn’t use jumper growing up.

I never heard anyone saying jumper in this country. When I hear jumper I think of someone who about to commit suicide

@@l.t.1305 why

@@chels_1078 Because that's the term for someone attempting to complete suicide by jumping off of a tall structure. They're planning on jumping, they are the jumper.

@@SlavicCelery ok... i was just trying to film a video for my sis

Don't simp they are just average looking girls

But longer and more in depth, please.

I wouldn't say that's true. I suspect it might be geographically specific, I grew up saying sneakers and only heard the term tennis shoes when I got older. I'd guess it's a lot like sub versus hoagie. I grew up saying sub and now I live in an area where everyone calls them hoagies.

@@jack_brooks my mom was from Philadelphia & my dad from small town North Carolina. Both taught me tennis shoes & everyone I know always said tennis shoes.

There are many examples of this in Britain too. Like instead of saying “vacuum” in Britain it’s called a “hoover” which is actually a vacuum brand. That’s the most common one I can think of but there’s definitely other examples of it too.

I'm American and I have never heard of Xeroxing in my life. It's always just been printing.

It's a longer version of a saloon car, which is sort of a hatchback in the US.