What are the TOP 5 Most Useless English Verbs! (Region Specific!)

These verbs are only useful if you speak to someone from or visit

the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, otherwise

they're completely useless.

Imagine you go on holiday.

Your hotel room is on the fourth floor of the hotel,

but you have a big heavy suitcase that you can't carry easily

and the lift is broken or sorry, the elevator is broken.

So you have to carry this heavy thing up the stairs.

In British English, we have a great verb for this situation

to lug

Oh, I'm so tired.

I just had to lug this up four flights of stairs.

Oh, Oh, I'm on the eighth floor.

Lug is a very British thing to say.

But the American word is so much more fun to schlep.

I love this word.

I think it comes from German or something and I think it's Yiddish.

I don't know.

But this is a very fun word in America.

They love this word.

I love this word.

It's very fun to say to schlep in the UK.

Most people don't know it.

I use it because it's really fun.

I slept in my bag all the way from the airport.

And now the lift is broken. Brilliant!

do you have really loud neighbors?

You're trying to be chill and quiet and watch TV

and your neighbors are like,

so annoying.

Hey, stop shouting or stop yelling

well in the US say they have a really cool word Holla.

Hey, stop hollering.

This sounds like it comes from the Southern US states.

That's why I did the accent.

But it's not just from the southern US states.

This comes from all over, but in the UK.

In Australia,

maybe Canada too. I'm not sure.

We don't use this word.

That's a lie.

I have used this verb and I do use it

when I want to sound funny, Hey, would you guys stop hollering?

This is my American voice. I'm hilarious.

so yes, I have used this with friends when I want to be funny,

like if you're going out later, holler at me.

Remember, it means shout, shout at me.

Not literally, but you get the idea.

Now in a British accent, this sounds very silly.

So unless you have an American sounding accent,

maybe don't use this word, or at least don't use it seriously.

Again, you can use it to be funny because it's a funny word.

This is a very British word.

Do you have someone at school or work who's never there?

They're not sick. They're just never there.

Where's Becky today?

Oh Becky's “sick” today.

She's always skiving

when you miss school, when you miss work or any responsibility,

we say you “skive” or you “Skive off *”

skive off work, skive off school.

You don't have a good reason.

You’re not sick or anything.

You just don't want to work.

You just don't want to go. for example.

is 4 a.m.

and I'm drunk.

I might just skive off work tomorrow.

If you include the thing that you're avoiding, you need the preposition off.

I'm going to skive off work.

but be careful outside of the UK

they don't know what this word means inside the UK.

We all know what it means.

Australians are very similar to us, so they would probably understand it.

But Americans, you know, they're not (smart), they don't understand

anything we say

So did you used to skive off school?

What did you do, Where did you go?

Have you ever skived off work?

Was it for something fun?

Let me know in the comments and practice this vocabulary.

Important to remember these verbs are region specific.

So if you use them outside of their region,

or if you say them to someone who is not from that region,

they might understand.

But the majority won't.

So if you sound more American when you speak English,

it might sound strange if you use words like

lug and skive because those are more British words.

“lug”, “skive”.

Are you being British today?

Do you want to snog?

Snog means kiss in British English,

but like a romantic kiss, Not just like a kiss you give to your dog.

Next is sus with two S's.

Remember that Becky is skiving off work.

That's because she's on holiday in Spain.

She doesn't speak Spanish, so she sees this sign on the wall. Hmm.

I can't figure out what this says.

I don't speak Spanish.

she can use suss with two S's.

I can't suss out what this means.

I don't speak Spanish to suss or to suss out something means to figure out.

Now I understand what's happening.

What's the meaning of this situation?

Oh, Peligro.

It means breakfast.

that suss with two S's.

Very common in British and Australian English.

However sus with just one s has a different meaning.

For example, when something seems untrustworthy or not safe.

You can say “this looks sus!”

This is an adjective

Why does my cat look so sus?

What are you planning?

Yeah, you could describe people or things or places as sus.

Remember?

It means

I don't trust this thing.

Very common for buying stuff online

when something doesn't feel right.

You're like,

£100 for a gaming laptop.

I don't know. That seems sus.

So question for you.

Have you ever bought something from a website that you thought was sus?

Did you actually get the item or did they just scam you?

Did you lose your money?

Let me know in the comments.

this next word bung this feels so British and Australian

It literally means to throw, but it has more feeling to it.

It's that type of throw when you're tired or you don't care about the thing.

It's the

It's that throw like you don't care about the objects

or you're just too tired to care Don't just bung my bag on the floor.

My laptop's in there. Be careful.

Cost me £100.

we most commonly use this

when we're finished with something and we throw it in the bin.

so for example, if you go to a British or Australian person's house

and you have some rubbish What should I do with this?

They will tell you

Just bung it in the bin.

and finally knackered.

I got in trouble with my teacher in school for saying this

this is a very British term, which means “extremely tired”

like I worked 14 hours today.

I'm knackered.

very useful when you're tired. Right.

But it also can mean I'm

so tired, I'm broken, I'm destroyed, I can't work anymore.

So you can use this when a thing like a phone,

a laptop or anything doesn't work anymore.

It's broken. It's destroyed.

For example.

Wow. My phone doesn't even turn on.

I think it's knackered.

Yeah. Just bung it in the bin then.

Knackered, completely broken just like me.

so why did I get in trouble for saying this in school?

Well, this word used to mean

you're very tired from having too much sex.

It doesn't mean that now.

So if you have a very old fashioned old person,

they might think that if you say knackered.

But anyone else. They won't care.

They'll just be like, Oh, you're knackered, you're very tired.

Then Yeah, my teacher was just an idiot.

if you somehow watching me, I still remember your stanky coffee breath.

Okay. Yes.

So these verbs are not exactly useless.

In fact, they're very, very useful if you're in a specific area

or talking to someone from the US, Canada,

Australia, UK, South Africa,

anywhere that speaks English really.

just be careful.

Not everyone understands all of these words

because they are region specific.

So if you're talking to someone from the UK,

of course they will know “Lug”, “Skive”. “sus”

and even if they understand the word “holler”

they might not use it because the style is American.

So keep that in mind.

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I'll see you in the next class! bye!

Shut up, you twat,

Knackered, completely broken just like me.

Gosh, I'm so sorry.

My baby keeps hollering, Oh is your baby sick.

Just bung it in the bin.

Get another one

You want

to go?

We do have a working at this level of access.

No. One on one side of the room.

So you're on one side.

That's what

I want to play.

Whatever you want.

Yeah,

yeah, whatever, though. One,

I'll try to play on all my work

with. But what about your great.

You wanted me to talk to him to go to break you.

You better not do that. You do that.

I go in there for now.

I'm not quitting my quest to get to a shelter because this is cool.

So it happens to

not happening.

Well, you guys are growing up.

You do what you're doing.

What am I doing?

Everybody is telling you

that you should probably quit and go now.

Oh, things you probably don't want to keep working,

first of all.

So I don't I mean, not everybody is telling me to quit my job.

You only one telling me that you know

your dad thinks you should do

because we're going to be homeless

with nowhere to go.

And I'll only pay 15 days in a hotel.

April, I have a really

lovely

quality of life

for you last year.

You cool? How lazy.

But I think you got.