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And today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 things americans say that the rest of the world doesn't.

I plead the fifth for this list will be going over some of the idioms in turns of phrase unique to the United States of America.

If there's an Americanism we failed to mention don't have a cow tell us in the comments.

Number 10 John Hancock Mr Callahan, I need your John Hancock on these reports, John Hancock, it's Herbie Hancock when visitors to the USa get asked for their john Hancock at a bank or during a business deal, chances are they'll look at the questioner of sideways and even if they are from the country they'll probably do the same thing I'm here for my test.

Where do I sign in?

Or should I say, where do I put my john Hancock wow!

Actually I will sign my name.

That's just a common expression.

I know so much history.

I just drop it into everyday conversation although it sounds like a euphemism or proposition.

It's another term for one signature as well as a reference to an american historical figure.

Hancock john Hancock was one of America's founding fathers and one of the signers of the Declaration of independence.

While everyone else signed their names to it.

Normally john Hancock signature was so extravagant yet legible that his name has become synonymous with signatures in America number nine college courage, he was shielding his eyes from the sun when most of the world's english speakers want to say they're attending post high school secondary education, they'll say they're attending university.

Although americans do have universities too and will sometimes use the term to refer to a specific institution.

The general term for higher education tends to be college instead.

Fun fact.

A magazine no one reads actually rated us the number two best midsize liberal arts college in the Northeast excluding Vermont who I went here.

I can tell this is often inverted elsewhere though there are exceptions to both cases depending on the speaker, the region and so on.

But chances are if someone says that they or someone they know is in college, it's an american saying it is false.

That's the local idiot.

Can you believe it?

I got to go to college to number eight plead the 5th 5,123,450.

Anything you say?

Go ahead, ask me a question.

Did you.

Foreign fans of american courtroom procedurals and legal dramas may wonder what this phrase is all about.

It refers to the Fifth Amendment of the U.

S.

Constitution, which explains why the rest of the world doesn't get it.

The amendment states that while giving testimony in court someone can abstain from doing so.

If it could cause them to incriminate themselves of a crime, how would you respond to his allegations?

My client exercises his right to plead the Fifth Amendment.

It's a bit of a catch 22 since pleading the fifth sometimes seems as an admission of guilt rather than a way to avoid revealing it.

That I what inseminate myself For this reason.

It's often used in conversation to admit blame without going into specifics.

No seven.

Ride shotgun Kenny.

I called shotgun, get in the bag when piling into a car or other vehicle.

Americans often referred to riding in the passenger seat as riding shotgun.

They even make a game out of it, calling out shotgun to determine who gets to sit there and why don't you go with Ron and help him?

I really don't need shotgun shotgun.

Where are we going?

Doesn't matter shotgun, shotgun on all rides for the rest of the day for the rest of my life in any car.

While the idea certainly conjures the image of someone holding a weapon in the car.

The expression predates the automobile.

Like many bits of Americana, this idiom has its roots in the Wild west.

Stage coaches were often robbed in transit and so one of the people riding up front would carry a weapon frequently.

A shotgun for protection.

I didn't know it was gonna be this easy Ringo.

Drop the Winchester.

I only have figured on the stage coach curly, I didn't figure on you at all.

Drop the rifle kids.

The roads are safer these days, but the expression stuck number six Bachelor slash Bachelorette parties.

Oh, hey, I just had some thoughts about the bachelorette party.

Okay, here we go.

Easy peasy Vegas.

It is Helen called you, didn't she?

Yeah, she got the jump on the english speaking world has a surprisingly wide variety of names for pre wedding parties usually divided by gender.

There are stag nights, hen nights and buck nights and these are sometimes called parties or weekends, depending on how long the festivities last.

However, it's only in the United States, well and parts of Canada that people refer to these celebrations as bachelor or bachelorette parties, regardless of what you call them though, these parties can range from tame to infamously wild.

This is the bachelor party.

What are you talking about?

Yeah, it's my bachelor brunch.

Go crazy.

Get some chocolate chip pancakes.

A lap dance from the waitress.

The idea is to have one last hurrah before marriage when you're still technically a bachelor or bachelorette depending on how crazy the party gets, you may want to stay one.

Well now this looks like a good place for a bachelorette party.

Number five grade level names.

Nice try freshmen.

Tell you what, For being such a brave little kids, I'm only gonna give you five throughout much of the world.

Each year of education is referred to by year, for example, year seven, but education in the United States, beginning in high school has specific names for each year of both secondary school and university, you know?

Samantha Baker sophomore, right?

Yeah.

What do you think of her?

I don't, freshman year is year one, sophomore year is year two.

Junior year is year three and senior year is the final year.

You're in luck luscious.

You've got an armed escort home.

The students in those years are also referred to by these names, although high schoolers are sometimes called ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th graders too.

Before you go blaming americans for being confusing.

You should know that the terminology originated in England at Cambridge and was spread the U.

S.

By Harvard benefactor john harvard Number four Appetizer.

Dad, can we get an appetizer appetizer honey?

Good news.

Haley has been made the queen of Denmark multicourse meals have a lot of terminology for what each part of the meal is called.

Often derived from french cuisine.

Small dishes served before the main course are referred to throughout most of the world as entrees starters or sometimes hors d'oeuvres, it's only in America and again some parts of Canada that these many meals are called appetizers probably because they serve to wet the appetite before the meal gets started in earnest.

Run for your lives.

Everyone it's the appetizer more confusing is the fact that americans refer to the main dish as the entree.

So if you're expecting little finger food for your entree, prepare for a surprise.

Number three ground floor equals first floor Europeans visiting the U.

S.

Or again.

Canada may find themselves confused when getting directions about which floor to visit in France.

First the ground floor, then the first floor, then the second floor and so on.

That's weird.

North americans frequently use the term ground floor and first floor interchangeably.

This can cause some confusion for visitors when trying to find the right floors and elevators.

Thank you much of the world refers to the first floor above ground level as the first floor or story, essentially treating the ground floor as floor zero.

Although some american buildings will keep an international naming format, the majority don't.

So make sure you're keeping the correct count looks like a christmas tree.

Number two sneakers slash tennis shoes.

These shoes are so uncomfortable there.

Red sneakers, you're not supposed to run in them the world as a plethora of words for athletic footwear.

The UK, Canada and some other english speaking countries call them trainers, runners, running shoes or sometimes basketball shoes.

There's plenty more to watch the new kicks, but you have another pair of new sneakers.

The United States meanwhile, tends to refer to these specialized shoes as either sneakers, a term more popular on the East Coast or tennis shoes or even Tenis tennis shoes.

I crack myself up again, there are a ton of variations are alternatives, but these labels are most common in the USA compared to elsewhere.

This is another instance where americans can thank Britain, at least for the term tennis shoes, as british aristocrats wore the rubber soled footwear to play their favorite sport.

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Number one soccer to most human beings.

The sport where you hit the ball with your foot is naturally referred to as football.

Okay.

Yeah.

However, the british came up with the name soccer as a nickname for association football to differentiate it from rugby football.

When the sports crossed the pond, americans develop their own spin on rugby called gridiron football, which they just keep calling football.

The name soccer stuck to.

Since of the two gridiron was far more popular open wide for some soccer candidate of soccer association is coming to Springfield.

It's all here fast kicking, low scoring and ties.

You bet.

Soccer is also used in other countries with their own spins on rugby football such as Australia and Canada jeez, you're big for a lady.

You could play for the 40 niners.

Well, I was a fullback, but that's european football.

Soccer.

Yes, you play soccer too.

Yeah, we do understand why people are frustrated about american football's name though.

Only a few players even touch the ball with their feet.

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