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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
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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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