Vin's US-or-UK English quiz needs an Australian option
The fast-starting vocabulary Short has British viewers correcting the quiz, especially when a gelatin dessert gets labeled "jam."
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 581,978 views a day, 6.2 times a normal first day on this channel (93,232).
What TYPE Of English Do You Speak US Or UK?
"Principal" or "Headteacher"? Vin chooses principal, then supplies the complication in this supposedly two-way English quiz: "I live in Australia."
His Short, "What TYPE Of English Do You Speak US Or UK?", has drawn about 400,000 views in twelve hours, already well beyond his usual full-day audience for the format. The comments have also passed three times their usual first-day total, with viewers doing some vocabulary checking of their own.
Vin's answers refuse to settle neatly into either column. He says eggplant rather than aubergine, uses both pharmacy and chemist, and prefers mobile phone to cell phone. His reaction to aubergine gets its own mentions in the comments, but the dessert question produces the clearest correction.
Shown a gelatin dessert with the choices "Jelly" and "Jam," Vin asks, "The hell? How is that jam?" British viewers make the same distinction: that dessert is jelly; jam is the spread that comes in a jar. Others point out that pharmacy and chemist aren't mutually exclusive choices in Britain, either.
For the pictured storage device, Vin simply declines both offered answers, flash drive and memory stick: "I call this a USB stick."
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What viewers say
As someone from England
Most people say both pharmacy and chemist
And we do not call that jam
We call the one you get in a jar and spread on sandwiches jam@Jasperboy67See it on YouTubeAuBerGine got me rollin
@elaineogorman5320See it on YouTubeI live in America but I don’t say cell phone I just say phone
@LayAGaming55See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Vin
- Subscribers
- 5,740,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 12,237,636
- Channel views, pace per day
- 3,272,980 (on a normal day: 1,779,758)
- Video published
- October 18, 2026
- Video views so far
- 401,445 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 581,978
The numbers
Vin's English quiz has already exceeded his usual first-day Short views, with the comment section unusually busy too.
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