British vs. New Zealand vs. Australian English Accents

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hello everyone and welcome back

to english with lucy i have got 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

g’day 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 rosie from

not even french

kia ora english with lucy fans my name

is rosie from the youtube channel not

even french

when 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

in the description box down below this

is a two-part video

this week we’ll be looking at the slang

the vocabulary

and in the next video we will 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 something else

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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 all from

i am 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 chili bin chili bin

okay this for me is a cool box uh 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 going to

think about the character from star wars

yes that joke gets made a little bit

but we also use the slang term chewie

for chewing

gum chewy so this is of course

chewing gum but in new zealand slang we

would say

chatty hey can i have a piece of your

chatty

interesting this for us is just gum

can i have some gum i like chubby 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 that is so interesting that both

of them are related to

dairy products 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 on to number four all

right so what do you call someone who

is stupid in australian english we use

all the stand ones but we would call

someone a drongo

a drongo and another good one is a

ningbat

a ningbat but yeah drongo’s a ripper 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 what i would say

egg egg we’ll talk about that in the

next video

uh so much to take in here ningbat

what a word drongo i love that um

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 you

twit it’s also similar to

a swear word um so it’s quite a nice way

to

catch someone off guard i also really

like fico

if someone’s thick it means they’re

stupid so if you say oh he’s such a

thicko 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 not really ways to call somebody

a total idiot i will link that down

below as well

okay on to the next uh 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 be

absolutely absolutely

abso 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

on to 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 know why we

call them thongs but these are thongs

these are so obviously jandals

japanese sandals jandles

okay i put this one in 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 a 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 which makes

sense

for us flip flops on to 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 tox

you’ve got to get your togs out for

summer

interesting that they both say toggs we

we also use quasi in the uk short for

swimming costume

i think togs might have 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 cozy 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 australian english no

dramas no dramas mate oh no dramas

no dramas don’t worry about it but the

funny one is

no wakas oh no worries cuz

i like because some people in the uk do

use the word cuz short for cousin

i’m with pete on no worries we also

sometimes say no problem

as well which is seems to be slightly

more u.s english

one that i really like is no biggie no

biggie it’s not a 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 oh 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

it just says exactly what you want it to

say

on to 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 i’m gonna go to the salvos

and get some new jeans

well secondhand jeans we would say op

shop

oh op shop that sounds great uh

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

no the charity shop it would be cool if

we shortened it down something like the

the chaser uh but we don’t

keeping it formal okay next one

yeah so i guess if you’re taking the

excessively long route somewhere i would

say to take the scenic route

taking the scenic route yeah that’s

i don’t know 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

i love that a tiki tour amazing no we’re

with australia on this one

we say to take the scenic route as well

on to the next

okay okay this one is clearly bush

walking

the bush in australian slang or

australian english

is anywhere that is effectively forested

where there’s

vegetation and you’re away from

civilization you know 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 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 um we also

just use the word walking or rambling as

well

rambling tramping sounds interesting

because

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 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

to a teary sad i’ll go on then pack a

sad

tupac assad 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 you’re

passing them

and we would say i remember being a

teenager when you would you know be

making out with someone

and if you were doing it so much that

you ended up with you know

a bit of a rash what do we call that

pash rash

to pesh ah did you see they were passing

in the movies

oh my word i have never heard that word

before to pash

if someone said fancy a 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 passion my vocabulary to

prevent

future embarrassing situations next one

how do you say to organize something so

if i’m gonna

organize something like a party an event

maybe we’re gonna go out we’re gonna go

camping i tease something

up i tease something up i organize it

for this we would say to tee something

up to tee

something up oh cool that they both 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 organized

i’ll get something organized i’ll get

something sorted

as well onto the next in australian

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 lou 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

the sh or in today or maori we would say

and faripaku also means

thank you rosie i will get some bleeps

on that

um interesting yes we can say the

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 maori language

we have various slang terms the lou is

good it’s not rude at all we also have

the bog which is a kind of dirty word

uh you wouldn’t go to someone’s house

and say can i use your bog

because it would imply that the toilet

is dirty

another one we have is the lav which is

short for the lavatory 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 arms legs anywhere that you might

want to wax

um yeah i would be confused for us we

say i’m

knackered i’m or i’m shattered as well

i’m

knackered or i’m shattered knackered is

quite impolite

uh shattered is a little bit less

implied

right that is it for today’s video i

really hope you enjoyed it

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australia and the uk when our

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