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American server can’t understand way British woman says ‘water’ at McDonald’s drive-thru
They may speak the same language, but people in America and the UK talk entirely differently, and it can sometimes cause a bit of confusion.
A British woman learnt that the hard way after going to a McDonald’s drive-thru in Orlando and struggling to get the server to understand her.
McDonald’s server can’t understand British accent
In the video which has gone viral on TikTok, a woman from the north of England called Jade pulls up at McDonald’s and asks for a Diet Coke, which the server understands perfectly fine and replies: “Small, medium or large?”
She adds that to the order and asks if the lady wants anything else, to which says she would like a bottle of water, please. That’s where things go downhill.
“A what?” the McDonald’s employee replies in confusion, and the woman repeats loudly from inside her car: “A bottle of water.”
The worker grows more and more confused as she has no idea what she’s talking about, and Jade keeps repeating “a bottle of water” while laughing. After multiple attempts, the server politely says: “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
She tries repeating “bottle of water” one last time before taking a new approach and saying the word “aqua” instead. Finally, the server replies “Water? A water bottle?” and the British woman screams “Yes!” in relief that she finally understood.
After that, she says the word in more of an American accent and the server understands perfectly fine.
“Don’t ask for water in McDonald’s, unless it’s in an American accent,” she wrote on the screen.
Americans can’t understand how British say ‘water’
In the comments, other British people are saying the same thing happened to them in the States.
One person wrote: “I had exactly the same reaction in a diner. It was only when I pronounced it ‘wa-dd-er’ that they understood me.”
“Oh my god this happens to me every time and I just say aqua too,” said another.
A third person added: “Once I said H2O because they didn’t understand when I said water.”
“You have to ask for wadder in America,” someone else said.
Another agreed: “Americans never understand when I ask for water even if they dont have an American accent, it’s insane.”
The accent makes the simple word sound different, and water now joins squirrel, aluminium and brewery as words Brits and Americans pronounce differently.
