5 American words that were actually coined in Britain!
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Published 2024-05-02
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All Comments (21)
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Which of these words surprised you the most?
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As a 75 year old Englishman, I have never heard anybody, nor tv weather forecaster say fall instead of autumn.
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The phrase ' I'll gotten gains' is still common here I think . The aluminium / aluminium is always contentious as is math / maths . It doesn't really matter as long as we understand each other .
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As you mentioned, the word nappy originally came from the 'nap' of cloth, it's also a shortened version of baby napkin
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I said to an American colleague the other day...talking about a third person's ability to cope with a task...I think she's got the knack.....They looked at me blank as tho I were describing an ailment of some sort
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The term "gotten" is the past participle of the verb "to get"; neither it nor the past tense "got" are considered "good" English, at least in formal writing. However, both are retained and acceptable in the verb "to forget", namely "forgot" and "forgotten".
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"Fall" is really useful in one context - "Spring forward, Fall back" tells us how the clocks change (being from the UK I always say "Autumn" of course but the mnemonic's still handy :). Anyone using "Fall" here is, i'd suspect, under 40 ish (i.e. they're just influenced by US media and may also even say e.g. 'zee', 'math' etc.). Could be wrong of course, maybe it's common usage in some parts of the country.
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I like the way Kalyn still pronounces the British way of saying "aluminium" with an American twang. I don't think I have heard an American accent saying "aluminium" the British way before.
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Your new videos are so much more work! Many Thanks! I am enjoying them :)
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71 year old Brit here. I grew up knowing football as soccer then it disappeared from use. Don't forget, there are two main types of rugby; union aka rugger with a 15 strong team and league, with a 13 strong team and the far superior game.
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I've always known American football as "Grid Iron"
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I say that was absolutely spiffing!
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you are a very informative young lady, l enjoy you vids thank you x
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As a child 60 years and more ago, the common term amongst my peers for association football (which was the prime interest sport for most of them) was "soccer". I realised that the term had fallen out of favour here when I heard it from an American recently and noticed that in recent years I had only heard it from that side of the pond!
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So funny that you've just posted this because we've been talking about this exact thing the last few days! I'm waiting to see if you mention fall for autumn 🍂
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I have to say, I knew most of these with the exception of autumn/fall and diapers - they do say you learn something new every day.
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I can never understand people getting up set about the word Soccer in reference to football, growing up in the 50/60s we called it Soccer especially at shool.
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Two things: Firstly, I don't agree that Shakespeare "used" gotten. It was his characters who used it. Shakespeare might not have approved❗ Secondly, at my school in the 1950s we played both rugby and what we definitely called "soccer".
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In Australia, we use "Gotten" and call the round ball football game "Soccer" to differentiate from our main codes of Australian Rules Football (Footy or Aussie Rules), Rugby League, and Rugby Union. And we follow the English pronunciation for "Aluminium," "Autumn," and "Nappy."
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Fall was an Old English Name used to describe Autumn.
