4 Ways American English is Pretty Weird | PART 2

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"The buck stops here" alludes to the saying "passing the buck" ie. handing off responsibility for making onerous decisions.

An unusual bit of trivia about Martin van Buren: He is the only US President for whom English was NOT his first language. His first language was Dutch.

A bit of information I learned while studying dentistry is that those anatomical folds we feel as little bumps and valleys in our palate right behind our front teeth (rugae) are what your tongue uses to form certain letters and sounds. They serve as markers for tongue placement. Think about the word attachment and pay attention to the different places your tongue touches when forming the word and how the tongue actually curves or lifts to create those sounds. When people get dental appliances such as retainers or dentures, they often have difficulty speaking until they train their tongue to make those sounds without the ability to use the rugae. Rugae are like fingerprints and are different on each person. So there is your lesson for today, Lawrence. I hope you find it interesting.

"Normalcy" existed before that, but it was exclusively a mathematical term describing figures at right angles to each other.

My favorite acronym is FUBAR: f---ed up beyond all recognition

my favorite anacronym is captcha. it originally stood for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

bro your wife has an excellent advert voice ngl

AWOL is actually an acronym for Away Without OFFICIAL Leave. It's been incorrectly passed down for years. I learned this from my teacher in 8th grade. She pointed out that 'without' is one word, which of course it is, and people just got lazy with it over the years. This was over 40 years ago and she was fairly old then so I've no reason to doubt her.

The "ooh" sound is not used in "boogie-woogie." It always sounds funny to hear Brits pronounce it that way.

The US is legitimately obsessed with acronyms. Especially the military. If you need more than three words to describe a thing in the military, it gets an acronym.

When I was in the US Air Force (1978-1982), we pronounced almost every acronym. For instance, in Korea we had the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, AFRTS - A-farts.

Good heavens! The Mrs. has an amazing voice and she is great fun to listen to. Please don't waste such boundless magnificence on cheesy sponsor ads. She has so much more to offer the channel.

And the British word for a cars rear trunk, the BOOT. We in the US call it a TRUNK because early on stage coaches has trunks strapped on top and also on the back, but then very early cars in the US would have steamer trunks strapped on the back for storage - so when cars developed a rear storage compartment with a lid we called it a TRUNK.

lol I was just mentioning this but. I'm from the south in the US and I once told someone up north. "I was fixing to go to the store" They couldn't understand what I was fixing or what was broken. When it just means I am about to go to the store down here in the south.

Lawrence: Makes video. Devotes the first two-and-a-half minutes to self-promotion and commercialism. Me: He has fully acclimated to the American way. I'm so proud of him.

As an American, i adore these types of videos, but absolutely fear the comments section. The creative ways strangers find to hate each other really tends to ruin every great joke.

You know, as an american.. your exploration of our culture has taught me mour about being an american and our language, history, and culture than you realize.

A good example of s backing in British English is when you guys pronounce assume as "ashume" which I've noticed a lot with Brits and Aussies.

The mention of "I am shook" reminded me of the way my older Irish relatives speak. When something upsets a great aunt to a certain extent she'll go on "OOOH I AM SHOOK! THAT HE WOULD DO SUCH A DREADFUL THING! He was always so sweet." or some variation thereof. Or they might refer to a friend who's getting on a bit and say "Aw, she's lookin' awful shook, so she is."