AMERICAN vs BRITISH vs AUSTRALIAN | Common English Dialect Differences #spon

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British versus American and versus Australian. We all speak English and yet
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there are so many differences. Did you know that in the UK when a man and woman
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get married just before their wedding day they will both have a party.
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The woman has a party with her female friends and that is called a 'hen do' and
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the man has a party with his male friends and this is called a 'stag do'. In
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British English - a stag do. In American English 'a bachelor party' and down under
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in Australian English 'a buck's night' or bucks party. Isn't it fascinating. So I
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decided to do a little bit more investigating and find out some more of
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the differences between British, American and Australian English. And in order to
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keep this lesson authentic I wanted to make sure I had some natives here so
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that you guys get the truth and not some stuff that I've just looked up on Google.
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Now do I have access to an Australian or an American. Cambly, yes why didn't I
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think of this before. Cambly provides English lessons with
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native teachers because we all understand the importance of working
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with natives when learning a language. Now their teachers are based in the USA
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Canada New Zealand the UK and Australia. That's exactly what we need: the United
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States and Australia. Perfect now the other good thing about Cambly is
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that you can connect to a teacher one-on-one 24/7. You just go on whenever
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you're ready and look who's online connect like that so I don't have to
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wait around. So let's see who we've got for America. Hi my name is Ruby and I'm
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from Texas. And who do we have for Australia? Hi my name is Marcus. Hi Anna
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my name is Debra. I how can I help you today. Fantastic so let's get
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started. By the way if you would like a 15-minute free called with a native
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English teacher then all you have to do is click on that link down below. There's
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no commitment it's 15 minutes. A free call, try it out and see what you think,
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but not until you've finished this lesson. So we've had number one - a stag do
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in America is a bachelor party and in Australia is a Buck's night but what do
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you guys call a pair of flip-flops?
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Sandals or thongs. A thong but to us a thong is a very skinny pair of knickers.
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So what would you call a thong in America? Oh a thong. And what would you call a thong
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in Australia? G-string. oh okay okay sticking with clothing what would you
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call trousers? Pants. In the area I'm from we do say trousers and we say slacks so
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we use both. Do you ever say pants? We can say pants but pants just refers to something a
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little bit more casual. All right let's move on to food this is what we call
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candy floss but what do you call it? Fairy floss. Cotton candy. Amazing. What about a
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good old aubergine? Either an aubergine or an eggplant it just depends
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where you go. All right let's try a courgette. A zucchini. How about a pepper?
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Capsicum. We either go by the full name bell pepper or we call it a pepper.
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Okay let's move on to a food type that confuses everyone and that is the cold
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potato snack that I would refer to as crisps. Okay for me potato chips or chips.
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So you call them chips but for us chips are still a potato snack but they're hot
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and they're like chunky so what would you call that?
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Hot chips. French fries. Okay let's move on. After eating you might eat some chewing
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gum what would you call chewing gum? If it's something you can make a bubble
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with we call it bubble gum. If not then we just call it gum. Chewie we say chewie. Okay so if I'm not snacking on crisps I might be
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snacking on sweets. Lollies. Okay for me candy. Interesting because we
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call a lolly only the sweet that you have on a stick a lollipop or a lolly.
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How about beers? Beers. Tinnies. Okay how about something that we don't really need that
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often in the UK but that we call air conditioning. Air con.
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Some people shorten it to AC. And something we do experience even though
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it's not that hot here in the UK are mosquitoes. Mosquito. Mozzies. Yeah
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sometimes we call them mozzies as well. If you're going for a swim in the pool
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in the UK you might wear a swimming costume. If it's a one-piece it's just a
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bathing suit, some children refer to it as a bade-ing suit you'll hear that a lot. Cozzies or swimmers.
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When driving down the street you'll often see lights that tell you when to
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go and when to stop we call them traffic lights how about you? Stop lights or just
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lights. Stop lights or traffic lights. And while waiting at the traffic lights you
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realise you're running out of petrol and you must head to the petrol station to
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fill up. Servo. A gas station. And just a few more before we finish up: in the UK
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and in the US the time between midday and the evening we refer to as the afternoon
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but in Australia you often refer to it as 'arvo'. When you're waiting in a line
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for something in Australia and the UK we all this Queuing, you're standing in a
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queue you are queuing but in America they don't use queue you use .......so there
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you go twenty really interesting differences between British English
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American English and Australian English now if you know any differences that I
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haven't mentioned please do let me know in the comment section below I want to
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say a quick goodbye to everyone that helped me out from Cambly and
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remind you that if you would like to take 15 minutes for free one-on-one with
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a native English tutor then why not to go and click on the link below and try
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it out. I really have enjoyed using Cambly to make this particular lesson.
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Alright guys until next time take care and goodbye.
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