British vs American vs Canadian ENGLISH Differences! (very different!) (+ Free PDF & Quiz)

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This was so much fun! Thanks Lucy for inviting me to participate in this awesome English lesson!

Being a western Canadian I can tell that Bob is somewhere from eastern Canada. In the west we tend to have more American speech influence and less French influence. For example, I rarely ever hear the word serviette. It is always a napkin. I also know from experience that Canadians on the east coast have a large number of variations on their speech that differ from anywhere else in Canada. East coast dialect is where a number of Canadian stereotypes originate from.

American here, originally from Long Island, New York.
I did some research into why we pronounce the letter Z as "zee," rather than "zed" and where the pronunciation originated. Believe it or not, we actually inherited it from England.
At one point in history, "zee" was used as an alternative pronunciation for the letter Z in England. When the English first colonized what is now the United States, the alternative pronunciation made its way over to the colonies, so for a long time, both "zed" and "zee" were used in the U.S., depending on what area a person was from, or if the person inherited the pronunciation from their parents.
"Zed" began to fall out of use in the U.S. when Noah Webster, an American lexicographer, wrote "An American Dictionary of the English Language." In it, he listed the correct pronunciation for the letter Z as "zee." In addition, American music publisher Charles Bradlee, who wrote the A.B.C. (alphabet) song, chose the pronunciation of "zee" because it rhymed with the rest of the song.
Q-R-S
T-U "VEE"
W-X
Y and "ZEE"
These things helped to popularize "zee" to the point that it just became the proper way to pronounce the letter Z in the U.S. and what was taught in every school. There's your history lesson for the day. Now the question remains, why did "zee" fall out of use in British English?

I love Bob. He really is the epitome of Canadian politeness

Bob, you did such a great job representing us Canadians. ❤️❤️🇨🇦

I like how Bob tries to explain or give contexts to his answers.

I love how the Canadian guy had a full story for every word and also offered up the US equivalent lol

It would be cool if Australia had been included as well 😄

Regarding the soft drink word options, Rachel missed one. Oftentimes in southern states, people will refer to it as a Coke, no matter what type of drink it is. I grew up in the Midwest and then moved South. Most Midwesterners do say pop, but when you head South, you'll find that people will either say soda or Coke.

A few points to build on Bob's great answers (as someone who has lived all over Ontario, but only in Ontario).
- a stag and doe is usually a party for the broader friends and family and often used to raise a bit of money, whereas a bachelor or bachelorette party is generally peers only and the aim is to be a bit more wild. I think Bob took the question in a particular direction different to Rachel.
- we use the word popsicle for ice-based treats on a stick, whereas freezie is used specifically for the plastic tube ice treat in the picture.
- we do say hydro (Bob's explanation is correct) when it doesn't make any real sense. We also say power, and definitely understand when someone says electricity.
- I learned the word serviette first, but as a millennial I have been made fun of regularly for this use. Saying 'napkin' seems to be more common in my experience. Also, I don't think I've ever heard a cloth napkin called a serviette, so serviette seems to be reserved for cheaper paper options.
Thanks for the great content!

I'm Puerto Rican and you're not alone concerning the mixed use of miles and kilometers. We measure speed in mph, but distance between towns is in kilometers. Also, weather is measured in F but body temperature is measured in either C or F. Milk is sold in liters, half-gallons and gallons. Fuel is sold in liters. We definiteily need to sort this out, hahaha!

Glad I stumbled across this video. I am a Canadian but I went to school in Engand for a year when I was 12-13. We lived on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border in the delightfully named town of Leighton-Buzzard, which of course, my Canadian friends immediately referred to as Buzzard, England. It took me three months to get used to British English and actually, I soon realized that there were SO MANY different accents in England. This is also when I first became aware of the fact that as a Canadian, I had an accent! Canadians always think we don't have accents (except for Newfoundland - but that was part of the UK until 1949) although we think most Americans have strong accents, and spell certain words incorrectly, like colour or flavour or centre. However I soon learned that our retail giant Canadian Tire was an affront to the English language, at least in England! I also couldn't understand what my classmates were saying when they greeted me every morning. Oi! Watcha' Mate! Well, is that a question or a statement and what the hell does it mean? Watch my what?! My back?! Haha, eventually I figured it out. Fascinating though. The following year when I returned to Canada I had actually picked up a slight English accent and the first week of school I got the nickname Limey! Anyways, as fate would have it, I ended up becoming an English teacher abroad for many years in Japan and later China and Vietnam. I like to think the curiosity that led to that started with my experiences in England. Language is fascinating! Keep up the great work!

Actually, in Canada, though distance is officially measured in kilometers, we more often give distances in time (Montreal is five hours from Toronto, rather than Montreal is 540 kilometers from Toronto).

I'm Canadian (from Ontario) and I essentially never say 'eh'. I think it's more of a rural thing. I have heard Americans use 'huh' the same way.
Yes, when I was feeding a family, I'd buy 4l of milk at a time, and that came in bags -- three bags make 4l. However, you can also get smaller quantities in cartons, as well, and I understand that in some parts of the country (the prairies?) milk comes in plastic jugs.
I've never called it a washroom, for me it's always 'bathroom'. And it's been so many years that I've called it 'whole wheat' bread that I'd totally forgotten that when I was younger, it was 'brown bread'!! Thanks for the bit of nostalgia, Bob!

As a Minnesotan I loved this. A very common stereotype/joke we make around here is that we're the Canadians of America. I like calling our state "Canadia." We definitely lean more American with the words themselves, however, I felt like how the Canadian and our dialect have more in common than the American. Which is funny.
Also, it's a pretty even split between bagged and galloned milk

This is kind of crazy. I'm from Finland and I've spoken english every day for the last 10 years at work. I've almost never heard anyone speaking Canadian accent but for some reason from these three it feels like the most natural :D No idea what's that all about.

Albertan Canadian here. I'm guessing that Bob is from Ontario or somewhere else in eastern Canada based on his accent (hullo instead of hello) and vocabulary. Just thought I'd share my answers for how we talk out west:
Zed
Cheque (NOT check) or Bill
Running shoes
Couch or Sofa
Loonie (specifically dollar coin) or Buck (like dollar, not specific to a bill or coin)
Pop (although I say Soda, a habit I caught from living in the U.S. for a few years)
Kilometer or the less common Click (but often if someone asks for the distance somewhere we just give the answer in time)
Stag or Stagette or Bachelor/ Bachelorette Party (I have never heard of a 'Jack and Jill' party, that would confuse me at first)
Eh
Cigarette or Smoke (dart is not unheard of but not as common)
Freezies
Homo milk (milk does still come in bags in the eastern provinces but hasn't here out west for decades)
Parkade
Washroom or bathroom (although bathroom is sort of more like a private home or private room, not public washroom with a bunch of stalls)
Fire station
Power or Electricity (we don't call it hydro in all provinces, only regions where their power is actually from hydroelectricity)
Brown bread or Whole wheat bread
Napkin (no one uses serviette where I live)
Case of beer (maybe two-four if it's actually 24)
And most Canadians say the stereotypical "aboot", I think it's more like "aboat", especially in the eastern half of Canada. Where I live we pretty much say "about" like the word "out".

I'm French Canadian and we call the «serviette» which is French for napkin, napkin most of the time. Seeing that the english canadians say the french word instead of the english word for napkin and we do the opposite is really funny

I love how Bob smiles everytime he's done speaking.
(Edited:Wow so many likes thank you guys)

Canada is so diverse with accents and slang, I’m from the east coast and I would say we have more in common with Rachel’s english than with Bob’s.
Where I’m from:
-It’s probably 50/50 with zee vs zed
-Definitely sneakers not runners
-For KMs we would say 5k, 5 clicks, or 5 miles (yes even though we mean kms)
-Definitely say bachelor or bachelorette party. Never heard of stag and doe or jack & jill
-Rarely ever hear “eh” here, I think it’s an Ontario thing
-Never heard of homo milk, we’d say whole milk
-Washroom or bathroom, never restroom.
-Never heard electricity referred to as “hydro” but we would say “power bill” or “electricity bill”
-Napkin, I think maybe older folks say serviette? I haven’t heard it in years
Hopefully that sheds a little more light on Canada being even more diverse than some might suspect. 🙂

Growing up I didn’t exactly know which English we were taught at school. I only realized after coming to the US that my previous school taught British English (sans the accent lol). I learned to replace my vocabs from rubber to eraser, trousers to pants, rubbish to trash… and spell certain words differently like color instead of colour. I was also shocked to learn the American way of reading time was a lot simpler than the British, such as instead of half past four, it’s just four-thirty or instead of five past six, it’s six-oh-five (btw, the number 0 is usually read as oh, such as when referring to room numbers you would say room three-oh-four to refer to room 304). The American way of reading time was a relief for me since I sucked at the British way back then. But I love British accent while still appreciating the simplicity of American English and hopefully I’ll learn more about Canadian English.

This is very interesting I live in United States and I grew up in South but I've lived most of my adult life in the North and we often have conversations about the two regions and how the language is different with some words

In America, we usually distinguish "soda" as what you would call "fizzy drinks," whereas "soda water" exclusively refers to carbonated water. I quite enjoyed this video, and am looking forward to seeing what else is on your channel.
Though I was raised to use the Imperial system of measurement, I adopted using Metric in my everyday after living abroad for a number of years. For measuring length and volume it is just so much easier!
In the military, we call cigarettes "cancer sticks" and it's almost a badge of honor amongst smokers.

In Central Europe, we use soda I think in almost every language (like German, Polish...) in the same meaning as in the UK. I have never thought that it has slightly different meaning in America. If I was offered soda anywhere in the world, I would wait a mineral water.

Love this video. American and Canadian accents have so many similarities. You better invite Australian speaking person next time! :)

in the Philippines 🇵🇭
We call this
2:35 zee
6:16 soft drinks
13:10 C.R. (Short for comfort room)
16:36 tissue (napkin is for female monthly period a.k.a pad)

Just want to say I live in Western Canada and I swear I never use 'eh?' or very very rarely. The Canadian vocabulary is very different depending on area and what socio economic level you grow up in.

I'm a Chinese American from California. While I visited Syndey, Australia it was so interesting (and funny) seeing Chinese Australians speaking with an Aussie accent and vice versa. Our Cantonese was the same though. Same thing in London, England and Montreal. Bob's Canadian accent seems not so different than my own. I thought it would have been more interesting to compare say... an Australian, Scottish or Welsh accent. I never heard of a serviette, and I thought chesterfield is a brand of cigarettes.

In my region of the US, we call the "popsicles" that come in bags "freeze pops" or "freezer pops." To qualify as a popsicle, it has to have a stick.

I'm American, and like Rachel have lived in several regions (NYC, New Orleans, SE Virginia and Minnesota). I call a multi-level parking structure a "ramp". A single-level indoor parking structure is a "garage". An outdoor parking area is a "lot". I think most folks use the same terminology where I currently live (Minneapolis/St Paul area).

As someone from Canada, and presumably close to where Bob is from as he used Niagara Falls in his example, I can honestly say I’ve never heard someone call the last thing a serviette. It’s always been a napkin.

Many years ago we used to get 4 litres of milk in a big bag. The big bag contained 3 bags. So the contents were 1.3 litres. Bags have not been availably west of Ontario in many years, but it is still available in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes.

#11 - I've lived in the UK my whole life and never called it a "popsicle".
An "ice pop" maybe, but growing up it was called a "tiptop". I also wouldn't consider something a "lolly" unless it was on a stick.
#20 - A 24 pack of cans is also commonly referred to as a "slab", though that's definitely more informal.

Many different terms for most of these items in America, depending on the region. I grew up in Massachusetts, and a carbonated beverage was called a tonic. Later I moved to Georgia, where it was a soda or a coke. To most of the midwest and northern plains, it's a pop.

I would enjoy seeing these 3 along side Australian, Kiwi and South African English for comparison of all 6 at once.

I’m a Jamaican now living in Canada. I grew up saying ZED but now say Zee. I remember when Jamaica switched to the metric system in the 80s. So even though we use metric here in Canada, I understand measurements better in imperial so I’m always converting to get a better image in my mind.

I like Bob giving everything a very interesting explanation!

I'm also Canadian(from Newfoundland), we use most of the same terms as Bob. I think it's more a generational thing though. My mother would use serviette, but I just call them napkins. Hydro can be used but for more common to hear power or electricity. Never ever heard of brown bread though.

Clip-Share algorithm has brought me here and I absolutely love the video! As a non native English speaker (from Korea) it's very interesting to watch. I have been to all of the 3 countries. If there was Aussie English it would've been more interesting though. Anyway I really enjoyed it. Thank you! :)

I always enjoy these, but I have to say there is so much regional and/or generational difference in the US that frankly you could do an entire series just on those.

You should do a video on the variety of Canadian, American and English (and its dialects) for example, Atlantic Canada has several different varieties (Newfoundland, Cape Breton and South Shore Nova Scotia to name three)

That was quite interesting! I know it's been out for a while, but still I liked it!
I obviously liked to learn the difference in all countries, but as a French Canadian, I really liked to see from which country the French version of those words comes from!

Ive learned that eastern and western canada also have our differences… example… a “case of beer” in western canada is a 12pack. A 24 pack is a “two four”. As in, “Im going for a beer-run. Should I grab a case and a half or a two four?”
In the east, a two four is a case. In the west, a two four is two cases. In saskatchewan, a case is a farm tractor 🤣

Can really tell that Bob is from eastern Canada (likely Ontario?). Canada is such a large, widespread country that we have so many regional terms that sometimes people from different provinces won’t totally understand each other! (Do you know what a bunnyhug is? How about Skookum, or getting Screeched in?) I’d love to see you have a chat like this with a Newfie!

I like this. It clearly demonstrates that Canadian English is neither American, nor British., but a ittle of both, but many unique expressions, Curious - how do you pronounce 'Khaki'? As an older Canadian, I still say 'car-key', whereas most Americans and younger Canadians (influenced by American media) say 'ka-ki'. And I still describe a 3-cushion sofa as a 'Chesterfield' (named after the Earl of Chesterfield), which distiguishes it from the 2-cushion variety. (BC, Canada)

Bob is from Southern Ontario. All of Bob's sayings were Ontario-centric (including his southern ontario accent).

Interesting differences could probably watch stuff like this all day.
Random thought about the milk bags ... I grew up in various parts of the U.S. in the 90's and I remember going from the milk cartons at school to the plastic bags after moving to California and boy was it a mess. Kids were using em like water balloons and all kinds of gags. Sometimes just trying to poke the straw became a mess and it came to where we just chewed off one corner instead of trying to get the damn straw in. It was certainly not as easy as just opening the carton and drinking it, we had fun with them but we definitely weren't more inclined to drink them like all the "studies" claimed that helped convince the public's approval to switch from cartons. At least that's how it was at the TWO different public elementary schools I went to in California, the two I went to in Florida had cartons and the one in Virginia was cartons

As a Canadian, I was in my mid to late 20s before I ever heard of brown bread or whole wheat. But western and eastern Canada does have some differences.

Cool video. It was fascinating to hear the difference of words

Interesting because in French Canada, you get a «serviette» or «serviette de table» in a fancy restaurant (=fabric), and a «napkin» in fast-foods (=paper).

Great video! I grew up near Boston, and can tell you that it used to be most common for us to refer to “soda” as “tonic.” I still do, but it has mostly fallen out of use.

I think Bob needs to explain that he speaks more for Ontario than he does for Canada, I've lived on both sides of the country and rarely hear some of his stated choice words. Other than that, great video.

In central Appalachian English I was surprised to have so many similarities with the British English than with either the mainstream American or Canadian.
The central Appalachian region was settled by Northern English and Scottish populations for several hundred years, so I wonder how much that affects the modern situation since the American representative here said that she had only lived in other parts of the country. Very interesting video. I subscribed.

Did I hear Bob call the bird on the Canadian one dollar coin a loonie? He might have made a mistake. The bird is a loon. I always believed it was called a loonie because that is slang for a crazy and many people thought the idea of replacing our paper bill with a coin was loonie...and it fit well with the bird being a loon. Also, I grew up in western Canada and never saw bagged milk until I took a trip to eastern Canada in high school, so it isn't all of Canada.

This is soo cool & fun.😍
Hope yo see more accents in coming videos ✌️

As a person from another country than the US UK AND CANADA…..I put the British accent as the classiest of them all 100% 🇬🇧

That lady is so right about bathrooms . One of my old stepmoms told me her British ex husband got confused in the American airport because he thought restrooms were rooms for rest, he expected couches and chairs . 😂😂

We mix both vocabularies in Nigeria, we call an item both British and American names eg, "short knicker" 😀

Interesting. Half of the stuff Bob says is so different than what I'm used to hear for almost 3 decades living here.

This is hilarious. I subscribed. Thanks for this fascinating series.

In Canada the KM is a Kilometer. We used the term click or clicks to let people know how many miles it is which came about before we went metric and refers to how many clicks on the odometer.

I have lived all over the US. Visited 46 of 50 states. Some parts of the US refer to all soda as coke, even if it is not coke. I have also heard the tube Popsicles referred to as ice pops. Most of the country also says power. The power goes out during a storm.

Here in the Philippines, when you say 1k like that, we might get confused because in our English, it means like 1 thousand 😅
We also call this "🥤" soda but its common to say "Softdrinks" and I've never heard pop before

In most parts of the U.S., you'd hear carbonated drinks called soda, but in the upper midwest, it's "pop." And in New England, you might hear it called "tonic." My New England born and bred parents asked for "tonics" when we moved to California at a restaurant there, and they got tonic water instead of Cokes.

As a Canadian, the only time I’ve ever heard someone say serviette is if they were speaking in French. I’ve always heard napkin in English. I live in Northern Ontario for reference.

As a Puerto Rican who speaks both Spanish and English, I can't deny the American influence of our English

Being from Quebec, Canada, and having french as my first language, I realise we use a mix of the terms from all three countries in english. For example we would use either the term toilet or bathroom,. For us a serviette would be made of fabric and be reusable. If it is disposable we would use napkin. I honestly thought Hydro was particular to Quebec. A popcicle would be on a stick. Beer would come in a six pack or cases if there is 12 or 24. We use Zed but only because it is the same in french. And yes we do get our milk in bags (commonly three bags of 1 liter) or in a carton (1 or 2 liters).

While I am English to the core (having been born and bred in Hampshire), I spent a significant portion of my childhood in Canada (Nova Scotia & Toronto). I still have a hybrid accent - RP with an overlay of Eastern Canadian.

Hello ! Lucy ! Your channel is awesome , I’m Japanese , I’ve studied abroad in US and lived in Australia , and English major . How interesting western English speakers can be so different . Like a dialect. In Japan , we learn American English from young age . But I met British, Canadian , all over mostly because of my study and work .

As for long distances, in Quebec, we tend to swap length for time…
I guess it is based on the assumption you travel at 100 km/h.
So we tend to say: « Montreal-Quebec City ride is about 2.5 hours »

I'm a native Spanish speaker and I lived in England for twelve years. Then I moved to the US and sometimes it felt like learning a new language. Some people would correct my pronunciation sometimes and I often thought I had mispronounced the word because English is not my first language, but after double checking the pronunciation in a dictionary, I would realise that I had pronounced it with an English accent (herb, nauseous, water, etc)

In regards to "clicks" as a word for kilometers, I think it's primarily seen as military lingo here.
For the question tag, I think I would use "-huh?" more often than "-right?"
I would call those icy treats in the tube an "otter pop" after the brand name.
I might still call it a bathroom, but I tend to say restroom if it's public. Toilet is specifically the fixture rather than the room as a whole.
Firehouse sounds more old fashioned to me, but I'd still know what it meant.
(California)

I live in BC, And as most people say, majority of people around the world give directions in time. However, I have heard the term "clicks", and its almost always used in the backcountry, usually in the middle of nowhere (Canada has ALOT of middles of nowheres ;)) You would hear something like "The campsite is about 20 clicks up this logging road".

Hi, I was searching for the difference between Canadian and American English and found your video. Pretty cool. I learned in English books that pop or soda should be Soft Drink. It seems nobody uses that besides English books. :) could you comment on this?

I am Canadian and I call them sneakers 👟. Canada is a very big country with a variety of accents and dialects so I guess it would depend
where in Canada you grew up.

All of Bob's answers were very accurate. And yes Lucy, we can get milk in bags. We used to have jugs too! Now it's mostly just cartons like everywhere else.

I am Canadian born and raised (Ontario). I have now lived over half my life in various parts of the US, both North and South and have traveled East and West. I believe Bob's accent/vocabulary is typical of Ontario. One of my sisters has spent the majority of her adult life in northern Newfoundland. I could not understand my nephews over the telephone LOL. Their accent, vocabulary and idioms were very regional.
So there can be some very distinct differences in the English language in Canada as you see in the US.

9:19 I had a friend from Ontario explain Canadian _eh?_ PERFECTLY. It turns a statement into a very specific question. "Don't you agree?"
"Nice weather." Statement.
"Nice weather, eh?" = "It's nice weather, _don't you agree?_ "

Amazing to hear how British Canadians still sound (like the Aussies but they don’t have the USA next door)the one thing I can pick a Canadian accent by is how they pronounce “about” , “out” etc which in their pronunciation has more of an o sound than an a sound in British English

Lucy, when I was in the US Army, in 1968, I heard the Marines call any distance CLICKS. The term "clicks" originated within the artillery units, for setting the distance that a round/shell needed to travel, to hit its target, was physically set by turning a dial on the gun, which made a clicking sound.

I’m loving this as I’m Canadian, but “me mam” is British, so I’ve felt I walk a weird line in my language choices. I think Hydro is a very Ontario thing, because their electricity is largely generated from water, so abbreviated from hydro-electricity. Where I am in Western Canada I think it would commonly be referred to as just electricity, but I’m wondering if this is some of my mother’s influence because I’ve often referred to it as the “power bill,” “power lines,” or “power failure/power’s out”… also, there may be a tendency to refer to the bills by the names of the service provider, which can get confusing since there’s some variety between electricity providers and natural gas providers, etc. and, some companies provide both, thus offering joint billing for what I would call “power and gas”.

I liked the differences for each words between US, Canadian and UK .. Greetings!

11:11 whaaaat? 😮 I'm Canadian and those have always been "freezies" to me. Just thinking about them fills me with nostalgia. Every summer here growing up, us kids would take a break from playing outside in the heat and go inside for a bit to have some freezies. I actually had no idea Brits and Americans call them popsicles. In Canada, the word "popsicle" only refers to a frozen flavoured and sugary treat with a stick in it. Hence the term "popsicle sticks". But freezies don't have sticks in them, they're literally just plastic tubes filled with sweet, frozen, artificially flavoured and coloured syrup 🤣🤣

That was fun to watch- I am British, married to a Canadian, and living in Canada, my husband calls the sofa a 'Chesterfield ' I was confused about 'Parkades' too, and the 'Hydro ' I thought that too meant water and my husband doesn't say "eh" too often! but being from Yorkshire, I say "eh" too in my Yorkshire accent 😄

I can relate to the British woman's story about soda. When I first moved to London I was in a restaurant and ordered a lemonade, thinking I would get delicious glass of sweetened lemon juice and water, like I would in North America. Imagine my confusion and dismay when I received a glass of Sprite! "I asked for lemonade" I said "This IS lemonade" he said. 🙃

Candian terms for 24 beers: 2-4, A flat, A box of beer, it's very regional. Milk does come in bags but only in a couple of regions, it is not a national thing and yes it's awesome. Had fun watching, keep it up eh!

Fun thing a popsicle in Italian is common called Polaretto or Polaretti if multiple , coming from a very famous ‘80 brand name of those. You also can call them Calippo for very same reason, as the correct term “ghiacciolo” has a completely different shape from those cylinders. It’s flat!😂

I’m neither British nor American nor Canadian but I thought parkade was universal in North America apparently not wow. I have lived in Canada and the US for a while and I like how simple the word parkade is and can’t stop using it.

I love the fact that we in Canada use British spelling which can actually save money. For example, in my province of New Brunswick ( the one officially bilingual one), we use the British spelling of "centre" which is also the French spelling so rather than make 2 signs for "City Center" and then "Centre Ville" we simply put "City Centre Ville". Saves space and money.

We have washrooms labeled WC here in Canada as well, but I always assumed it stood for Wash Closet! Hahaha. Also, in Western Canada we usually say power, not hydro. From what I understand hydro is more of an eastern/Ontario thing but I could be wrong

I will also say that in addition to using “case of beer,” we will also call a pack of beer a “30 rack” if it is a large package with 30 bottles or cans inside it. It may just be limited to the New England region where I am from, though. American English is as diverse as the people that live here.

Up in the north of England, we might call beers a crate. If we want to specify that its a 24 pack, we would say "a 24 crate". We also just say the name of the name of the beer "24 Budweiser". Also we would often just say "multi storey" without the car park on the end. Another common one for electricity is "leccy".

'Trainers' used to be called plimsoles in the UK. Admittedly a different construction that I think has largely been replaced but this was the shoe used for sports generally.

I joined the Navy in 1963. While in bootcamp everyone wanted me to say "out and about the house", but I didn't know why until they told me how I was saying it! There is a piedmont district in Maryland where I grew up and I just talked like everyone else. I wonder why we sound Canadian.

Bob the Canadian is a rockstar! 🇨🇦

9:25 those were 3 examples of it being used in the exact same way lol. My grandfather was a man of few words, but 90% of them were the word 'eh'. If he wanted something, he'd point and say "Eh!" If he was mad, "EH!" If he asked a question or didn't hear you, "Eh?" Eh could mean yes, it could mean no, it could be a maybe ... it is one of the most versatile words I know, along with the F-Word lol

Perhaps you should include the midwestern and southern US dialects as we have different words or colloquialisms. Someone from Iowa told me he moved the Davenport... I had no idea what he was talking about. He was describing a couch. Then he asked where is the spigot... I was clueless. He was referring to the water fountain for a drink.

Well this is very interesting, I’m learning new things from other countries I’m Cuban American thanks for the the video I was looking for accents because ,my accent is like European when I talking English . But my natural language is cuban Spanish but I learned English at USA 🇺🇸

I love your accent, diction, clarity, and most of all articulation.