On the 21st day of Vlogmas, here's everything I love about Christmas in America.
Finding America
Me and Tarah
A few of you have asked me recently where I stock up on British Christmas stuff, such as mince pies, Christmas crackers, and Chr...
Shortly after moving to America, it came to my attention that even the language of Christmas presented its fair share of differe...
On the tenth day of Vlogmas, I bring to you my attempt at finding the fifty United States on a blank map of America.
It's easy to make sweeping generalizations about a country's culture, history, and language use. But sometimes - as outs...
Many British YouTubers, myself included in the past, have been guilty of generalizing particular elements of American English. B...
On the fourth day of Vlogmas, I decided the time was right to do what many YouTubers before me had done and subject myself to th...
Welcome to day 2 of Vlogmas! It's funny, the things you take for granted. Before I moved to America, it never occurred to me...
Yesterday marked the first day of Vlogmas, a period in which YouTubers upload a video everyday from December 1 to 25. To thing...
Having lived in the United States now for a decade, I figured this would be a good time to publish a video listing some of the t...
This past Thanksgiving, the wife and I sat down to watch the British Christmas film Love Actually on American TV network TBS—th...
This is Volume #55 of Ask A Brit, a feature in which I answer your questions on a different theme each episode. This week's ...
As Fantastic Beasts hits cinemas around the United States, I sat down with American YouTuber and all-round Harry Potter fanatic,...
Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I. Despite it being one of the deadliest wars in human history, it was nonet...
Since leaving the British Isles 10 years ago, I've come to realize that—no matter what happens—particular British words and ...
After I posted a video called " 5 Differences Between British and American Autumn " on October 21, many of you pointed out some ot...
Bonkers. If you hadn’t heard, bonkers is a much-loved British slang term meaning crazy, nuts, zanier than two alpacas… boxing. But unlike ot...
Autumn has to be my favo(u)rite season. So I was surprised to find I'd not yet produced a video looking at the specific diff...
Not all of the words on the internet’s 400 billion lists of quaint British words are, in fact, British. Sure, they might sound l...
In North America, there is one particularly seasonal word that continues to raise the curiosity eyebrow of my British compatriot...
It is often noted that Americans drop the H in the word "herb", something that can seem quite odd to us H-faring Brits...
My videos have been regrettably infrequent recently. Here's why.
Just as Britain and America don’t always agree on pronunciation, spelling, or even words themselves, they are sometimes just as ...
Did you know, there are countless common words used in all corners of the English-speaking world that originated in the United S...
In the many years since my American fascination began, there have been various people who helped it to burgeon - people that I k...
After reading Buzzfeed's article, 21 Things British People Hate About Americans , I sought to add a little history to one of...
Recently, as part of my Finding America series, I visited Salt Lake City, Utah, where I stayed with the lovely Poulson family ...
This is Volume #53 of Ask A Brit, a feature in which I answer your questions on a different theme each episode! Watch the video ...
America — a nation that, to this very day, bears the fingerprints of the very people and cultures who helped to build it. Someti...
With a summit 900 feet above the city, hiking to the top of Table Rock in the Boise Range of the Rockies seemed an unimaginable ...
This month, Tarah and I touched down in San Francisco for the very first time, our expectations wide open, not to mention our wa...
Recently, I conducted a study into regional pronunciation patterns across all 50 states regarding the American English word &q...
Nearly three years ago, I posted the above image to Facebook. The distinctly British tee-shirt—so often a feature of my channel&...
This is Volume 50 of Ask A Brit , a feature in which I answer your questions on a different theme each episode! Watch the video ...
In honor of the fact that today is Memorial Day in the United States, here are 7 British and/or American English words that were...
Most of what I thought I knew about America came from either film or television. Here are 5 TV shows that turned me on to Americ...
This weekend, Prince Harry marries his American fiance, Meghan Markle, in the second-most important wedding of the decade. Amid ...
Beautiful but misunderstood, English has endured quite the roller-coaster ride on its long journey around the world. New passeng...
Contrary to popular belief, American English is replete with words so satisfying on the tongue you’d be mistaken for thinking th...
This is Volume #45 of Ask A Brit, a weekly Tuesday feature in which I answer your questions on a different theme each week! Watc...
The Atlantic Ocean: an enormous stretch of blue that has played host to some of history’s greatest hits; Christopher Columbus’ n...
This is Volume #44 of Ask A Brit, a weekly Tuesday feature in which I answer your questions on a different theme each week. Watc...
The wedding of Prince Harry and American-born Meghan Markle has been placed at the center of an extraordinary breaking story—t...
America. So often the linguistic punching bag of my British compatriots. So often the nation “where everyone don’t talk proper”...
Throughout the United States’ history, many cultures have stamped their legacies across America, from the Native Americans to th...
This month, it’ll be ten whole years since I bid farewell to Britain and set off for a new life here in the US. The last seven...
When I launched this blog in 2013, one of my chief ambitions was to help foster a community in which we addressed some of the my...
This is Volume #35 of Ask A Brit, a weekly Sunday feature in which I answer your questions! Post a question in the comments sect...
I finally convinced Tarah to make a sustained appearance on the show! In this episode, we test each other on the definitions of British and ...