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
quite interesting
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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
17 slang terms from new zealand
australia and the uk when our
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