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  • I'm in search for the most British words or phrases ever and I need your help.

  • I'm putting together a guide to British English for you guys and I want to feature the most

  • British sounding vocabulary there is. For example take the word 'blimey'. Is there a

  • more British word than blimey? It's an expression we use to show surprise, excitement maybe

  • you are a bit scared. For example you go outside, you open the door and you go 'blimey it's

  • cold!' You are showing surprise that it is cold. Blimey. Ok or maybe the word muppet.

  • Muppet just means idiot, it's kind of a slightly silly way to call someone an idiot. Maybe

  • you forgot your keys and you lock yourself out of your house 'I'm such a muppet.' Like

  • I'm such an idiot. But we have loads of phrases to talk about idiot. We've got muppet, plonker,

  • wally, pillock we've got a lot. Ok, how about the word one to refer to yourself in the third

  • person. It's very posh you know, it's very polite. Just like the Queen. 'One is displeased

  • at the moment with the weather. It is rather gloomy.' So instead of saying I am displeased

  • you are saying one, you are talking about yourself in the third person. Hmmm very posh.

  • Ok, or going the other way, very informal word pissed. To mean drunk. 'Last night I

  • got really pissed.' It means last night I got really drunk. Ok, that's pretty British

  • but what about this word 'knackered'. It means very tired. I played football last night and

  • I was knackered meaning I was very very tired. Blimey, we've got a lot of great words here.

  • Ok, how about this word 'local' or it's more like a concept to have a local. It means like

  • the pub that's closest to you or the pub that you visit most that is close to you. So my

  • local is just down the road, it's about five minutes away and yeah you can say I'm going

  • to the pub or you can say 'I'm going to my local.' It used to be that almost everyone

  • had a local. So you'd say 'what's your local?' 'It's the Bell and Hare.' or 'it's the Three

  • Kings' or whatever it might be. So yeah that idea that you go to a pub frequently that's

  • close to you. Alright, ok that' pretty British but what about this word? A quid. It means,

  • one pound. It's an informal slang word for one British pound. 'How much is a coffee?'

  • 'It's two quid.' 'Oh two pounds, not bad.' Ok what about this word. If you watch the

  • reality TV programme Love Island then you will have heard the word 'mug' every episode.

  • It's an informal rude way to say someone is an idiot. In fact we are just calling people

  • idiots all the time here. So if you see someone doing something stupid you might say 'he's

  • such a mug.' Like he's such an idiot. It's a bit rude but it's a word I hear so often

  • and so so British. Alright what about this one. Another word for a party is a knees up.

  • Yeah, your knees going up, I guess because you are dancing, is a party. 'We had a knees

  • up last night at my local.' We had a party last night at my nearest pub. My God, how

  • British are these phrases? Blimey! Alright guys so what I want you guys to do is in the

  • comments below I want you to vote for your most British word or phrase. Maybe it's the

  • one that you like the most or the it's the one that you just think wow that is the most

  • British word ever. No one else says that word. Put that in the comments below. I'm going

  • to compile all these words and put them into my guide to British English for you guys.

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これが一番のBRITISH WORDSなのか????? (Are these the most BRITISH WORDS EVER?????)

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