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Both of these actresses have an excellent pronunciation.  I have a feeling that many of our students would be surprised at the lack of vocabulary that both continents share.

The truth is, slang, or even everyday sayings are quite particular to specific areas.  so – no – I didn’t know ANY of these expressions!  Now – my question for you – did you get any of them from either the American version or the British version?  HA – let’s see what you have to comment!

 

Below is the transcript – but if I were you, I wouldn’t look the first couple of times around.

 

I’m Emma Stone and I’m Rachel Weisz and
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Emma’s here to teach me some British
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slang yeah well I mean she’s really
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gonna teach me that British thing please
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tell me what is happening here
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Bob’s your uncle I never really know
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what this one means Bob’s your uncle
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means like I thought it was gonna rain
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on my wedding day and it rains it bumps
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your uncle it rained it means like like
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of course it did yeah of course it did
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yeah whoops your uncle’s okay I don’t
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get it it’s a slippery time this is
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slippery turn it’s a little it’s a
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fully-charged yeah throw a spanner in
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the works that’s like when something
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gets messed up like a throw spanner in
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the word exactly okay you would say in
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America a wrench a wrench in the works
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winch okay yeah you would kind of you’re
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British at this point thank you there’s
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no idea a scouser
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is somebody from Liverpool yeah a
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Liverpudlian and Liverpudlian so the
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beetles are scousers my husband is a
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scouser
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and that’s not offensive no no it’s it
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weird to be sounds like it could no no
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no one is discussing with great pride
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okay right right yeah roll you know that
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one no I don’t you know toy ways a bong
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yeah yeah cuz the toilets the bog the
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toilets the boggy bog world is the
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toilet paper right okay great yeah we
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run our book roll oh okay
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lost the plot oh you know that one
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that’s like you’ve you’ve kind of gone
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off like I really lost the plot I have
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no idea what’s going on yeah exactly
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yeah yeah yeah one point dog Center oh
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that great or bad I would say bad yeah I
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make she made a dog’s dinner out of that
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painting she was doing oh she ruined it
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it’s not like really tight it’s like
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joke it’s like she messed that up I made
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it right ah
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total dog center of the center view
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thank you go up the Duff oh yeah no
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rather lovely thing it means to be great
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with child to get pregnant yeah she’s up
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though yeah he’s up the dog yeah she’s
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up the Duff her Majesty’s pleasure
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making light of being in prison because
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you’re in the jail’s of her majesty
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so it’s a kind of ironic I guess
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pleasure to lock you up
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exactly horses for courses so who says
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for courses would be like you say to me
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I only like wearing
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jeans and I say well I need like wearing
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skirts and we go yeah horses for courses
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it means like everyone likes different
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things there’s many different courses oh
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I did Oh like that or this of course
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this is that’s like cheapest chips I did
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that one you don’t know cheap as chips
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no likes cheapest chips like this is not
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expensive cheapest I think that’s like
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an old-fashioned kind of dumb Blighty
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oh isn’t that cloudy no just means
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England I’ve no idea why but you just
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said I’d love to go back to Blighty I
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wish was in Blighty like that I thought
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it meant cloudy which basically is
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synonymous with England thank you guys
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great yeah chock-a-block
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wait I feel like I’ve heard this one
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before um it just means yeah there was a
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lot of traffic it was chock-a-block
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well that party was there’s so many
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people that was just cha like a mother
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custard a wrap exactly
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total right yeah yeah ours is so much
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more eloquent American one a wrap or a
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chocolate block okay
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tickety-boo no idea everything’s
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tickety-boo means everything’s wonderful
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that’s so cute bagsy IG means like if
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you’re a kid and there were two presents
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and two kids you go you got white bags
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you that one oh my cute dibs what does a
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man dip is that tips yeah just like um
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there’s two things right there it’s like
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dibs on that one that’s why I get that
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one we say oh I see that
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oh okay so if a guy’s let’s try this at
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home
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as in Judy as in she’s great wait a
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second the modern-day youth say Dench as
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in Judy Dench and it means something’s
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really great that is so cool that’s like
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people in our country being like that’s
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pretty straight we say youth youth the
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youth yeah you say Dench
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for you that’s Dutch budge up scoot over
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I know there’s a family that one is it
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confusing for a while and then when you
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get used to it you just went over
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cack-handed can’t caring to me is like
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clumsy got it yeah okay oh that’s good
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cat camp yeah cack-handed cons fall up
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is that just like a dope no logical has
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a loaded load of rubbish
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load nonsense oh that is such a load of
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codswallop I just absolutely not true
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not true or false
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yeah and like he made it up it was just
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codswallop I’m using
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we use that a lot Curtin Twitter yeah I
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can’t which means like if you live in
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the suburbs and you have some cartons
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often made of net you might twitch or
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cut-ins and have a peek out see what the
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neighbors are doing it’s not a kind
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thing sale she’s a real Curtin twitch of
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that she’s like I mean oh yeah woman who
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sits at home yeah like yeah checking out
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what the neighbors do faff oh it was
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such a faff to get here like it was hard
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it was a struggle it was a struggle so
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that was a fast it was a fact yeah has
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this been a faff this has been not a
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path what is this here this has been
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plain sailing it’s hot a bit a dog’s
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dinner no no it’s pretty dense