Zipper? Sherbet? Realtor? One Brit’s Battle With American English

To mark 10 years on YouTube, Laurence Brown, British by birth and baffled by “realty” signs ever since he moved to America, decided to celebrate the best way he knows: by getting hilariously confused by American English.

Why do Americans say “gotten,” and why does “sherbet” involve dairy over here? From “zipper” to “jaywalking,” “grifter” to “oftentimes,” it’s a whirlwind tour of linguistic WTFs with historical twists that reveal many so-called Americanisms are actually English throwbacks that never got the memo to leave.

Watch now and laugh your aluminum off!

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