Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "America vs Germany 1941 - The Forgotten Conflict" video.
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I am an American but I watch lots of British TV shows and movies, as well as subscribe to several British Youtubers such as Mark Felton, Techmoan, and Drachinifel, so as a result I enjoy the differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary. Potato chips vs. crisps, french fries vs. chips, trucks vs. lorries, trash can vs. skip, color vs. colour, aluminum vs. aluminium, etc. I also like the way Brits often end a sentence with "yeah", as in, "We've got to get this job finished, yeah?", whereas an American might use the word "right" or something. Some British slang took me a while to decipher; in one TV show a woman says a teapot is "minging" and that they might get "minginitus". I paused it and looked it up, took me a while to figure out that "mingy" is British slang for "nasty" or "dirty" or "crusty", and thus she was saying the teapot was old and rusty or dirty. Watching Canadian TV is a bit weird, because Canadian English is just North American English with a regional accent, but they use a lot of British words and spelling and so on.
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