and I know there's a lot of differences in... every country has their own language,

and even like English-speaking languages have their own takes on particular words and phrases.

But it wasn't till my friend and I were discussing them,

and you know, comparing different words and stuff that I realized just how many there are.

Yes, technically we speak the same language, but there are so many differences.

You could be forgiven for thinking it is another language.

So here are a few that we were talking about yesterday.

When it comes to cars, you pop the hood.

We don't call it a hood. We call it a bonnet.

And we don't pop the trunk at the back.

We don't call it a trunk. We call it a boot.

No idea why. What you call a truck, we call a ute, which is short for utility.

And with a baby, you know you put the diaper on a baby.

Yeah, we don't call them diapers here, we call them nappies.

And what do you put in a baby's mouth? A pacifier right?

Yeah, I think if you said pacifier in Australia, most people would be like, "What the fuck is that?"

We actually call it a dummy, and I'm not kidding, that's what, that's what we call it.

You go to the gas station. We go to the service station, which is odd,

because people don't really get their cars serviced there anymore anyway.

And then because Australians are so big on slang, we don't even call it a service station,

we just call it a servo.

You go to the grocery store. We go to the supermarket.

You walk down the sidewalk. We walk down the foot path.

You park in the parking lot. We park in a carpark. You wear a sweater. We call it a jumper.

You call it a soda. We call it a soft drink, which I think originated from like liquor being a hard drink, and then your mixers being soft?

I guess that's where that came from.

But we don't really call it soda. Oh, and then there's the shopping cart, which we call a trolley.

Oh there are so many! Oh, and what you call a cookie, we call a biscuit,

and that's even more confusing, because what you call a biscuit is what we call a scone,

except we don't pronounce it "scone," we pronounce it "scon,"

but we actually spell it the same, s c o n e,

but it sounds like s c o n, think Tron.

Hmm scones while watching Tron.

I'm sure there are millions of others, and then there's England,

and they've got a whole other set of words and phrases and stuff altogether, which I don't know about.

But it's fun, I like the differences and stuff, but what I think's funny is like, you know,

in Australia, our media is all American

really, like we get a lot of American TV, and all the movies are here

and the music and everything,

so we fully understand the American English language, you know, what I was talking about before,

you talk about cookies and diapers and pacifiers, and you know

all that stuff, and we know exactly what you're talking about.

Yet I think if we went over to like New York and started talking our regular Australian English language,

talking about dummies in a baby wearing a nappy after you put all the junk in the boot of the car,

you'd be like looking at us like

"What planet are you from?!"

Oh and wouldn't you know it the camera died right there, but that's ok I was pretty much done anyway.

So what I want to do is I want to tag

a couple of people,

but I don't know how to do that or what that really means.

The first person is Roland in England,

I want you to make a video like this one

sort of like

giving a few examples of

unique phrases or words from your region or what you find different about

the way that people speak in your part of the world

compared to like other parts of the English-speaking world.

(If that makes sense) And the other person is Charles, Tender Charles who is in Canada.

I'd be interested to hear the differences between like your language...

I'm not talking about... Okay, that sounds so weird because Charles actually speaks French and English.

But I'm talking about the English part of

you know what I mean.

So I don't know how to tag you,

but if you want to make a video then make it like a response to this one

and that will be a fun little game we can play. So, yeah.

Ok, that will do.

Ok bye.