British vs. New Zealand vs. Australian English Accents (+ Free PDF & Quiz)

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- Hello everyone and welcome back to "English With Lucy".

I have got to such an exciting video for you today.

We are going to be comparing New Zealand,

Australian and British English slang.

And I've got two fantastic collaborators

on board with me today, representing Australian English

we have got Pete

- Get a you mob I'm Pete,

the host of "Aussie English", a YouTube channel

and podcast aimed at teaching people Australian English,

culture and history.

I am from the Southeast of Australia

- And we also have it Rosie from "Not Even French".

- (speaks in foreign language) English with Lucy fans.

My name is Rosie from the YouTube channel, "Not Even French"

where we jam on all things

French culture and language and Kiwi culture or New Zealand

culture and language as well.

- It's such a pleasure to have them both on the channel.

I have left all of their details

in the description box down below.

This is a two-part video

this week we'll be looking at the slang, the vocabulary

and in the next video, we'll be comparing pronunciation.

I know for a lot of you,

New Zealand English and Australian English

sounds extremely similar but there are some differences

so we'll be listening out for that.

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Okay, let's begin with the comparison.

I am going to show some images

to Pete and Rosie and they are going to tell us

what they would call the images in their own dialect.

Please let me know in the comments section

if you say something completely different

let me know where you're from as well

it'd be really nice to share vocabulary.

Let's get started with number one.

I forgot to tell you where I'm from

I I'm Lucy I'm from the UK specifically Cambridge Share.

- All right, so the first image here is clearly an esky.

This is something in Australia

that I think we call it an esky from the word Eskimo.

- Okay, so this item for me is a chilli bin.

- Okay, this for me is a cool box

but I much prefer their words.

It's amazing how these countries can be

so close together relatively.

They also sound to somebody who isn't

from that part of the world, quite similar to one another.

So it's really cool to see that they have such different

slang words for things.

Okay, number two, what would you call this?

- All right so this is clearly chewing gum

but the Australian slang term for chewing gum

would be chewy.

And I know you guys are gonna think about

the character from "Star Wars".

Yes that joke gets made a little bit

but we also use the slang term chewy

for chewing gum, chewy.

- So this is of course chewing gum,

but in New Zealand slang we would say chuddy,

hey can I have a piece of your chuddy?

- Interesting this for us is just gum.

Kinda have some gum, I like chuddy though.

All right number three.

- This is a milk bar, a milk bar.

I guess you could probably say corner shop

if it were on a corner.

- In New Zealand English, this is a dairy, a dairy.

- It's so interesting that both

of them are related to dairy product.

A milk bar to me sounds very similar to a milky bar

which is a brand of white chocolate.

This for us is a corner shop, a corner shop.

They're not always on a corner only sometimes.

Onto number four.

- All right so what do you call someone who is stupid

in Australian English we use all the standard ones

but we would call someone a drongo.

A drongo and another good one is an ningbat, an ningbat.

But yeah, drongo is a ripper I use that one drongo.

- We would call someone like this an egg.

Oh my gosh, what an egg.

- I love it.

And I love the pronunciation of which I would say egg, egg.

We'll talk about that in the next video.

So much to take in here, ningbat what a word,

drongo I love that sound 'ng sound in both of these.

Yeah if someone called me an egg,

I would be pretty sure it wasn't a compliment.

In British English there's one word that we love to use,

and that is twit.

So many people are going to be watching this and thinking

no we don't say that it's quite an old fashioned word, twit.

It's also similar to a swear word.

So it's quite a nice way to catch someone off guard.

I also really like thicko.

If someone's thick, it means they're stupid.

So if you say,

oh he's such a thicko that that's quite good.

In British English we like to use idioms

to describe stupid people.

Like he's one sandwich short of a picnic

or he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, for example,

I in fact have a whole video on British polite

really ways to call somebody a total idiot

I will link that down below as well.

Okay onto the next.

- When you really agree with someone, you say bloody oath

bloody oath, that's a great Australian slang term

that you can use for agreeing with someone, bloody oath.

- In New Zealand we would say hard out.

Yes, hard out that's so true.

- Okay, for me it would absolutely, absolutely,

absolutely bloody exactly.

I just can't even fathom how ridiculous I would sound

saying hard out, bloody oath

actually that sounds quite good

but hard out, just doesn't work with my accent, does it?

Onto the next before I embarrass myself even more.

- All right, I'm sick of always doing this one.

These are thongs, we call them thongs.

I don't why call we them thongs but these are thongs.

- These are so obviously jandals, Japanese sandals, jandals.

- Okay I put this one on purpose because I know

that in Australia they call flip-flops for me thongs

and in the UK, a thong refers to a very minimal item

of underwear for women, knickers with just a bit of string

at the back at g-string, for example.

So I always find it so hilarious to hear

people talking about their thongs so openly.

Jandals I haven't heard that before

quite clever, actually jandals Japanese sandals.

It makes sense for us flip flops onto the next.

- There's about five different ways of saying this

in Australian English slang.

Okay, so I would say bathers from the South East

of Australia, you could also say cozzies, togs swimmers.

I'm probably missing some more.

- Togs, you got to get your togs out for summer.

- Interesting that they both say togs.

We also use cozzie in the UK short for swimming costume.

I think togs might've come from a brand name.

I wonder, which came first, the brand togs

or the word togs for swimming costumes.

I wonder, but yes for us swimming costume cozzie

it's now popular to call it a one piece as well

a one piece, but we say one piece.

And that means as opposed to a two piece, which is a bikini.

Okay next one.

- All right how do you tell someone not to worry?

So obviously you can say no worries.

That's a typical one that I think we probably

all use, Americans don't tend to use that.

You could also say in Australia English no dramas

no dramas mate oh, no dramas, no dramas

don't worry about it.

But the funny one is no wuckas.

- Oh, no worries cuz.

- I like the cuz some people in the UK

do you use the word cuz short for cousin.

I'm with Pete on no worries.

We also sometimes say no problem as well,

which is it seems to be slightly more US English.

One I really like is no biggie, no biggie.

It's not big deal no biggie don't worry, next.

- Festy that is something that I used to say

when I was a young nipper back at primary school

when I was a young kid, I would say something is festy

but adults don't tend to use that they'll say gross.

- Right, you could say something was rank

or sick or gross like oh, that's rank or oh sick

or yuck that's gross.

- Interesting, interesting because sick in the UK

has now turned into a slang positive term.

If something's really cool you're like that's sick.

That's amazing.

I remember that slang term coming in

because at first I misinterpreted it

and thought they meant gross as well.

We also use rank in the UK I've never heard festy before,

but it's very expressive one that I love is horrendous

that's absolutely horrendous I just think

it just says exactly what you wanted to say onto the next.

- We call them the salvos typically

and it's based on the salvation army,

a Christian group in Australia

that is renowned for having these stores

that you can buy secondhand things at, the salvos.

So I'm gonna go to the salvos and get some new jeans.

well secondhand jeans.

- We would say op shop.

- Ooh op shop that sounds great.

We're gonna be a bit boring here.

I can't really think of any slang terms that we have

for charity shops in the UK in British English.

I wonder if any of my fellow Brits can help me out.

Do we say anything else?

Nope, the charity shop.

It'd be cool if we shortened it down something like the,

the chaz or shaza but we don't keeping it formal.

Okay, next one.

- Yeah so I guess if you're taking the excessively

long routes somewhere, I would say to take the scenic route

taking the scenic route.

Yeah that's I don't if that's slang or not

but that's what we would say

we're taking the scenic route

- To take a tiki tour, a tiki tour.

- Oh, I love that a tiki tour amazing.

Now we're with Australia on this one

we say to take the scenic route as well onto the next.

- Okay, this one is clearly bush walking.

The bush in Australian slang or Australian English

is anywhere that is effectively forested

where there's a vegetation

and you're away from civilization.

There's no suburbia, there's no city you're in the bush.

If you're walking in the bush you're bush walking, right.

Makes sense, you could also be hiking,

but yes, bush walking is typically

what we would use when you go for walks,

whilst camping or out in the bush.

- Tramping, you definitely go on a tramp through the bush.

- Interesting, very interesting we definitely don't say bush

a bush refers to a small low tree.

If we're talking about something that isn't suburbia

we might say in the wilderness

but we're more likely to say countryside in the country.

If there are lots of trees

we're in a forest or the woods.

We do use the word hiking.

We also just choose the word walking or rambling as well.

Rambling, trumping sounds interesting

because trump is a derogatory term

for a homeless person or somebody who lives on the street.

So if I heard that somebody was tramping

I might think maybe they're living on the street.

So it's interesting that they use that word

but it does make sense

because you can tramp along and walk slowly.

Yeah, it makes sense, next one.

- So, if someone is getting very upset is crying

you could say that they're having a teary.

- To pack a sad, I'll go on and pack a sad.

- To pack a sad I love it and to have a teary.

In British English it's to throw a tantrum

or to throw a fit as well, next one.

- Yeah, so if you're kissing someone, your pashing them

and we would say, I remember being a teenager

when you would be making out with someone

and if you were doing it so much that you ended up with,

a bit of a rash, what do we call that pash rash.

- To pash oh, did you say them a pashing in the movies?

- Oh, my word

I have never heard that word before to pash.

If someone said fancier pash

I'd think it's like a pastry or something

and probably agree to it, which is worrying.

For us it's a snog or it is to get with

to get with someone is to kiss or to make out as well.

Which I think comes from us English.

I'm glad that I now have to pass in my vocabulary

to prevent future embarrassing situations, next one.

- How do you say to organise something?

So if I'm going to organise something

like a party and event, maybe we're gonna go out,

we're gonna go camping, I tee something up.

I tee something up I organise it.

- So this, we would say to tee something up

to tee something up.

- Oh cool that maybe say that we would never say that.

Oh, so they both say the same thing.

I can't say I've heard that used too much in the UK.

We would say to get something organised

I'll get something organised.

I'll get something sorted as well onto the next

- In Austria English

we have another heap of slang terms for the toilet.

Typically, if I was out and about

and I wanted to ask someone where their toilet was

I would probably avoid saying the word toilet

and instead say loo.

But if I was really wanting to be informal

I would say the word dunny.

I don't know where that comes from

but we say dunny quite a lot.

- So these aren't the prettiest words for obvious reasons.

We could say either the dunny (beep) or te reo

Māori we would say whare paku and whare paku

also means (beep)

- Thank you Rosie I will get some bleeps on that.

Interesting, yes we can say that shit house as well.

I've never heard of dunny before

and also faripaku we don't have that language in the UK

so that's really interesting to hear.

I think that's the Mali language.

We have various slag terms the loo is good

it's not rude at all.

We also have the bog, which is a kind of dirty word.

You wouldn't go to someone's house and say

can I use your bog?

Because it would imply that their toilet is dirty.

Another one we have is the lav

which is short for the laboratory, which is a very formal

and old fashioned word for the toilet.

One more is the WC, which is short for water closet.

No one says water closet anymore, but WC is quite common.

All right, last one.

Let's see what they have to say.

- Cactus oh man, I am cactus.

I am wrecked, I'm so tired.

- I'm stuffed.

- Interesting so I'm stuffed for me would mean

I'm so full of food I've eaten too much.

Cactus means nothing to me.

If someone says I'm cactus

I might think they haven't shaved or waxed in a while.

So they have spiky arms, legs

anywhere that you might want to wax.

Yeah I would be confused for us we say I'm knackered

or I'm shattered as well,

I'm knackered or I'm shattered.

Knackered is quite impolite

shattered is a little bit less impolite.

Right, that is it for today's video.

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