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Channel: English with Lucy
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hello everyone and welcome back to
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english with lucy i've got a great video
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planned for you today
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we are going to be comparing british
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english with american english
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and canadian english and i have two
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fabulous guests on my channel
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and i think you might recognize them hey
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my name is rachel i'm from the us and i
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have a channel here on youtube where i
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focus on all things spoken english with
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an american accent my accent is what i
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would call a standard american accent i
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grew up in florida i went to school in
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the midwest and since then i've lived in
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boston new york and philadelphia so we
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have rachel representing the us and
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representing canada we have bob the
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canadian
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well hello lucy and hello rachel and
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hello to all of lucy's viewers i'm bob
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the canadian from the youtube channel
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learn english with bob the canadian
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where you'll often find me out somewhere
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on my farm teaching a short english
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if you haven't met me before my name's
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lucy i run this channel english with
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lucy and i am from cambridgeshire in the
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united kingdom and i speak with a modern
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rp accent i'd just like to remind you
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video today we are looking at vocabulary
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and in the future there will be a part
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two with pronunciation where we will
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definitively find out if canadians say a
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boot
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or not
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okay so i have sent bob and rachel a
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list of pictures and they are going to
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tell us how they say it where they're
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from because there are going to be some
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differences let's get started with this
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first one
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this first one is definitely the letter
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z although as a child we watched the
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american version of sesame street and
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they tried to get me to learn it as the
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letter z but this in canada is
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definitely the letter z x y zed
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i would definitely call this letter z
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interesting for me in the uk in british
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english it is the letter zed as well
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i really relate to bob on that one
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because we used to watch loads of tv
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shows and cartoons that were produced in
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the us and they always used to say z as
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well and i remember finding it quite
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confusing but yeah xyz over here
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okay let's take a look at this next one
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what would they call this
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so this is definitely a bill in canadian
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english when you're at a restaurant and
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when you're done eating you ask your
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server if you can have the bill
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the check is the most common but i would
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also call this the bill
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in the uk this is
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always the bill
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and funny story i worked as a waitress
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when i was a teenager and someone once
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said to me
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but i misread their lips and i thought
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they said can i have some milk and i
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brought them a glass of milk and they
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were just so confused
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okay on to the third what
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would you call this and remember that
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you can write in the comments section
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below what you would call these as well
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if you say something different
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so we call these either running shoes or
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runners in canadian english if you're
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going to go out for a walk or a run you
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put on your running shoes or you put on
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your runners
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there are lots of different terms i
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might use for this tennis shoes or
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running shoes even though they might not
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specifically be for tennis or running
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also sneakers
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interesting we don't use any of those
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words in the uk we understand them
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sneakers
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running shoes tennis shoes but i would
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say that running shoes would be
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specifically for running in general we
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call these shoes trainers
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trainers
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okay on to the next
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a long time ago in canadian english we
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called this a chesterfield but now we
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just call it a couch sometimes we might
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say sofa but usually when we see
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something like this we say i'm gonna go
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sit on the couch
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i would call this either a couch or a
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sofa
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funny okay so we would hardly ever call
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this a couch that sounds very american
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and canadian to me
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we would almost always call this a sofa
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or sometimes a seti
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a chesterfield to me seems like an
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old-fashioned leather sofa it's a
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specific design we do have a lot of
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americanisms in british english and we
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would say a couch potato not a sofa
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potato that
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doesn't work
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if someone's lazy they're a couch potato
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so we have adopted that
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okay on to the next one
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the one dollar coin in canada has a
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loonie on it that's a bird that lives in
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northern canada so we decided we would
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just call this the looney then when we
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decided to have a two dollar coin we
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thought we would call it a toonie
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because it's worth two dollars and it
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rhymes with looney
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slang for one dollar a buck
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i love the looney and then the toonie i
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think that's absolutely hilarious yeah
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i've heard of buck before so we don't
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have dollars in the uk we have pounds
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and our slang term for one pound is a
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quid and we haven't thought of a cool
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name for two we call it two quit one
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quid two quid another thing to note is
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when we have five pounds or five quid
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we'll call it a fiver and for ten a
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tenner
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in canada we would call this pop i think
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it's the second half of the word sodapop
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i think my american cousins use the
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first part of the word i think they call
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it soda but we just call it pot
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actually in the u.s we use either soda
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or pop depending on the region i
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personally use soda
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interesting okay
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so there are definitely some clear
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similarities between those two
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unsurprisingly uh in the uk it's very
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different you will find some people i
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think more up north saying pop
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um but in general we call it fizzy
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drinks which doesn't sound as cool now
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the word soda to us is quite confusing
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because a soda for us is fizzy water so
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i remember going over to the us and i
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was offered a soda and i thought oh i'm
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boring
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no i'll have something more interesting
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like a coke please
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okay on to the next one
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in canada we use the metric system so we
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measure distance in kilometers but that
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seems like a really big word so
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sometimes we just say clicks if you ask
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someone how do i get to niagara falls
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they might say oh it's about 40 clicks
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from here sometimes it's spelled with a
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c
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sometimes with a k
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i would call that one kilometer but of
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course in the u.s we're much more
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familiar with miles
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so we're quite boring here we would just
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call it a kilometer but sometimes when
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we're running or doing sport we would
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just shorten that down to k
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so i love running and i like to run 5k
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and 10k five kilometers 10 kilometers
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i've never heard of click before that's
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quite cool for driving we do still tend
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to use miles our speed is in miles per
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hour how weird is that i go running in
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kilometers but i drive in miles
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we need to sort that out
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all right let's talk about this one this
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is what i actually celebrated uh this
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weekend that's just gone past
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in canadian english we would call this
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either a stag and dough or a jack and
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jill it's a party that a couple has
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about a month or two before their actual
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wedding where they just invite friends
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and family over just to have a good time
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to celebrate the fact that they're
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getting married
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that would be a bachelor party for a man
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a bachelorette party for a woman
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ah it's completely different in the uk
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we say
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hendu a do is a party
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or a stag do now it's more common for
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them to be more than one night people
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like to go away for weekends
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but if it's just one night you can say
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hen night or stag night as well
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also it's not so common to celebrate
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them together as bob explained but it is
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becoming more more common and we put
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stag and hen together and we call it a
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sten
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hag didn't sound so good
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ah okay this next one is an interesting
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one and i kind of just put it in for bob
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let's see what he says
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canadians often add the word a to the
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end of a sentence to turn it into a
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question so i can't really explain how
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it works but i'll give you a few
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examples i could say it's a nice day out
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here eh or i could say it's getting hot
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out here eh or if it was getting a bit
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windy i could say it's getting windy out
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here eh all of those would be examples
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of how canadians use the word a
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a common question tag in the us would be
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right
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yes i just wanted to hear bob say a i
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know it's a common stereotype that um
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well there's two that i've heard of
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canada that they say aboot
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in british english we do use a sometimes
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a
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a
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or
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isn't it or doesn't it we do say a lot
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it's hot isn't it
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sometimes we can shorten this down to in
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it it's hot in it oh my god in it
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doesn't it can go to done it it hurts
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done it
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i've heard them say write a lot in
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american english that's definitely
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creeping into british english because we
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just consume so much american media
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so canada is a pretty big country and in
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different parts i think they have
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different words for this we call them
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smokes in some parts of canada they
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might call them darts but most people i
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think just call them cigarettes
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i don't smoke so i'm not super familiar
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here but i would say cigarettes or
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for shorter or for slang ciggies or
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smokes
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so smokes sounds very very
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like american gangster film to me in
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british english cigarettes or sigis we
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also use the word which if you use
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it to describe a person it's a really
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offensive word but it's a common slang
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term for cigarettes okay on to the next
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what do you call this
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so these are what we call freezies you
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buy them in the store and they're not
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frozen when you come home you put them
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in the freezer and in a couple days
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they're frozen and then on a hot day
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kids can take them out snip the end off
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with a pair of scissors and eat it to
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cool off
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i'd call this a popsicle
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okay so yeah we're definitely cool in
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british english this a popsicle um but
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we would also call it a lolly
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any kind of frozen treat that isn't
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creamy we'd call a lolly if it's creamy
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it's an ice cream so in canada we would
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call this homo milk or whole milk homo
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is short for homogenized i think they
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mix the milk and the cream together so
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it won't separate anymore so this in
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canada would be either homo milk or
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whole milk
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that would be whole milk
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ah okay so
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if someone asked me for homo milk i
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would not know what they're talking
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about
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i would understand whole milk but in the
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uk we tend to call it full fat milk or
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full cream milk
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anything with the fat removed is skimmed
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or semi-skimmed which is half and half
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also i forgot to ask bob
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if it's true that his milk comes in bags
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i've heard that in canada
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milk comes in bags okay next one what
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are they going to call this
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so we would call this either a parking
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garage or a parkade when you go to see a
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show in a city like toronto you park
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your car in a parking garage or in a
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parkade
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i would call this a parking garage
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for me this is a multi-storey car park
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we do have a habit of over complicating
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things yeah um
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one thing i've noticed is that in the us
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they call it a parking lot we always
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call this a car park and if it has
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multiple levels it's a multi-story car
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park
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i would definitely understand parking
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garage or garage as we would call it
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but if someone said parkade i would
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think that might be like a mix between a
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park and an arcade which sounds so fun
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and i would be so bitterly disappointed
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when i get there and it's a multi-story
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car park all right on to the next one
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what do you call this
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so we would call this a washroom in
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canada i still remember one of my first
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visits to the u.s when i asked someone
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if i could use their washroom and they
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looked at me funny because i think they
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call it a bathroom there but in canada
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this is definitely a washroom i would
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call this a bathroom or we would also
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say restroom
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interesting in british english we'd
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understand washroom and restroom
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and bathroom of course but we tend to
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call it the loo or just simply the
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toilet
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bathroom to me implies that it has a
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bath and a shower
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so a public bathroom
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well i don't want to have a shower or a
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bath in a public bath you will often see
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toilets or public restrooms in the uk
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marked with wc
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this is short for water closet but no
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one ever says water closet
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we always say the loo or the toilets
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where are the toilets where's the toilet
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some of my friends from across the pond
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have said that they find saying the word
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toilet directly quite vulgar and i do
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understand that but it's just so
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ingrained into our everyday speech
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right let's take a look at this next one
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what do they say
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we would call this either a fire hall or
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a fire station the fire hall is the
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place where you would find firefighters
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and fire trucks and if there's a fire
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the alarm goes off and they jump in
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their trucks and they go to put out the
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fire so we would call it a fire hall or
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a fire station
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fire station but also fire house
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interesting for us this is just a fire
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station we never ever say fire hall or
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what was the other one firehouse no we
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never say that fire station
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actually i've just thought there's a bar
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in london called the chilton firehouse
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which is meant to be very nice actually
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it is very nice i've been there and
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yeah i never even thought twice about
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that maybe we do say firehouse every now
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and again all right on to the next one
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what do they say for this
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in canada we often refer to electricity
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as hydro sometimes there's a storm and
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the hydro goes out the poles along the
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road are called hydro pools so i think
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this is because a lot of our electricity
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comes from hydroelectric power plants
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but in canada you call electricity hydro
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we call that electricity
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interesting
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because if you said the hydra wasn't
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working i would presume that was your
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water supply in british english we call
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this electricity the electric we also
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say the power so we have a power cut or
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the power's gone out or energy you know
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my energy bill's gone up so much this is
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because we use
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lots of different sources as gas in many
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houses
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oil is what we use here it depends if
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you're on the mains supply or not
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okay what do they call this
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so we would call this either brown bread
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or whole wheat bread it's more common
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for me as an older canadian to call it
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brown bread i think for my kids they
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would call this whole wheat bread but
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definitely when i was growing up we had
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white bread and we had brown bread
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i would call that whole wheat bread
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i'm definitely seeing more similarities
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between canadian english and british
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english than american english and
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british english we also call this brown
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bread
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uh multi-grain and whole wheat is also
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creeping in but in general we have brown
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bread white bread
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okay
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what do they say for this one
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sometimes when you're at a restaurant
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you get a little bit of food on your
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mouth and you use a serviette to wipe it
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off so this is what we in canada would
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call a serviette
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that's a paper napkin
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ah interesting in british english we use
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both
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serviette and napkin for me a serviette
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seems like a kind of
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cheaper white one that's disposable and
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a napkin is either decorated or made of
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material
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right let's see what they say for this
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one
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we call a case of beer with 24 bottles
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in it a 2-4 in canada do you get it
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there's 24 bottles of beer in it 2-4 so
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we call a case of beer with 24 bottles
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of beer in it a 2-4
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we would call that a case of beer
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in british english we would call this a
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24 pack
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if someone asked me for a 2-4
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i don't know i don't think i'd know what
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they're talking about but i like that
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that's very efficient
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right that is it for today's video thank
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you so much to bob and rachel for their
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fantastic explanations
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and for generously participating in this
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video i've left all of their information
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down below in the description box you
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can also click on the link there to get
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your free pdf for today's lesson don't
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forget to connect with me on all of my
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the phonemes and hear how words are
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air
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if you're looking for more listening
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practice and to expand your vocabulary
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then i also have my vlogging channel
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