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