25 British and American word differences

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When you buy your food for the night, you get...
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Oh, I get takeout.
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OK and I'd call it a takeaway.
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A takeaway.
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Isn't like takeaway like somebody taking away your stuff?
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Like stealing?
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Takeout.
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Takeaway.
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Hello everyone, today's lesson's about British and American words.
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And luckily, I have Super Agent Awesome to help me.
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Thank you so much Vicki.
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I am so glad to have you here.
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And are you British, or are you American?
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I am American.
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And I'm British, so together we should be quite good.
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Yeah!
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Now, where is this baby sleeping?
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In the crib.
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And I'd call it, in British English, a cot.
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That's a crib.
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This is what we'd call a crib.
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What?
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Now, what's this baby wearing?
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It's wearing a onesie.
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And I'd say it's wearing a babygro.
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Crib.
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Cot.
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Crib.
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Crib.
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Onesie.
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Babygro.
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That's a rowboat.
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And I'd say a rowing boat.
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A jump rope.
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We'd call that a skipping rope.
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This is a slingshot.
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Ah, and I'd call it a catapult.
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Huh.
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Rowboat.
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Rowing boat.
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Jump rope.
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Skipping rope.
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Slingshot.
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Catapult.
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And, what are they?
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Oh yeah, they're cookies.
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And I'd call them biscuits.
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She's using the stove.
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Uhuh, and I'd say she was cooking on a cooker.
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That sounds like a tongue twister.
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A cook, cooking on a cooker.
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Cookies.
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Biscuits.
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Stove.
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Cooker.
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So, what building is this?
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I would call this a movie theater.
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And I'd call it a cinema.
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On the top, what's that thing outside?
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A marquee?
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We might call that an awning in British English.
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For me, this is a marquee.
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It's an outside tent.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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It's a tent to have parties in.
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A movie theater.
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Cinema.
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Marquee.
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Marquee.
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Party tent.
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What's this guy wearing?
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He's wearing a watch.
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And what else is he wearing.
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He's also wearing suspenders.
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He's not wearing suspenders in British English.
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He's wearing braces.
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Braces?
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Aren't these the metal things that go on your teeth?
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Ah, we do call those braces as well.
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And so do you.
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Let me show you what suspenders are in British English.
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See the red things.
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They're suspenders.
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Suspenders.
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Braces.
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Braces.
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Braces.
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Suspenders.
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Oh, we got garbage bins.
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OK, I'd call them dustbins.
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So, what's their job?
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Trash collectors.
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And I'd say they're dustmen.
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A trash can.
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And I'd call it the rubbish bin.
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Trash or garbage bins.
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Dustbins.
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Trash collectors.
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Dustmen.
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Trash can.
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Rubbish bin.
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My favorite.
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Candy apples.
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And we'd call them toffee apples.
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Candy apples.
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Toffee apples.
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Math.
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Ok, and I say it in a similar way but I say it with an S a the end.
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Maths?
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Yes.
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What are those blue marks?
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Oh, they're call the check marks.
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We'd call them ticks.
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Wow.
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Math.
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Maths.
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Check marks.
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Ticks.
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We call that beets.
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They're beet roots.
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They're called herbs.
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And we'd call them herbs with a "h" at the start.
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And this one we call oreGAno.
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Oh, we call this oREGano.
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Beets.
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Beetroots.
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Herbs.
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Herbs.
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Oregano.
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Oregano.
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They're called sneakers.
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Normally we call them trainers.
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And I don't know if you have these, but in schools in England a lot of kids do their
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gym practice in these shoes.
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What?
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They're called plimsolls.
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Sneakers.
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Trainers.
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Plimsolls.
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You've got an American one and a British one.
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Oh, wow.
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I call that a mailbox.
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In British English it's a post box.
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At the bottom of a letter there are some numbers.
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What are they?
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We call them a zip code.
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We have post codes.
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Mail box.
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Post box.
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zip code.
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Post code.
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Ok so, we've finished.
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That's it.
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Bye, Oh, Whoa.
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