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Videos made for Mental Floss (mentalfloss.com/) from Arika Okrent ( arikaokrent) and Sean O'Neill (rocketrobinson.com/).
Shoulda Woulda Coulda. Where does that L come from?
Many other stories about the weirdness of English are in our new book, Highly Irregular. Get it from Bookshop bookshop.org/books/highly-irregular-why-tough-through-and-dough-don-t-rhymeand-other-oddities-of-the-english-language/9780197539408, Amazon www.amazon.com/Highly-Irregular-RhymeAnd-Oddities-Language/dp/0197539408, or OUP global.oup.com/academic/product/highly-irregular-9780197539408?cc=us&lang=en&
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities...
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Highly Irregular is a new book by Arika Okrent, illustrated by Sean O'Neill. Available for pre-order now at: Bookshop: bookshop.org/books/highly-irregular-why-tough-through-and-dough-don-t-rhymeand-other-oddities-of-the-english-language/9780197539408 Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/product/highly-irregular-9780197539408?cc=us&lang=en& Amazon: www.amazon.com/Highly-Irregular-Rhy...
Things Labeled 'American' in Other Countries
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America is certainly iconic, and a worldwide brand of sorts, but it doesn’t carry the same connotations everywhere. Here are some things described with “American” in other countries. Produced for Mental Floss
Number Words and the Human Body
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There are many possible ways to organize a number system for counting. Our number words reflect a base-10 or “decimal” system but there’s no reason we couldn’t just as well have ended up with a different kind of system. Or is there? Produced for Mental Floss
Secrets Given Away By Silent Letters
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Silent letters can make English frustrating, but they can also give away connections between related words that you might not realize share a history. Produced for Mental Floss
What is a Word
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Why even ask this question? A word is a word, what could be simpler? But it's not as simple as it seems. And it's something linguists don't have a fully satisfying answer for. Produced for Mental Floss
Why Isn't There A Word For That?
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There are a lot of things it seems we should have a word for, but don't. Why do we have these lexical gaps? Produced for Mental Floss
Common Words That Mean Something More Specific To Experts
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"Hearsay," "passive," "significant," "toxin," "work," "evolution," these are words that we're familiar with through their common meanings, but to experts, they have slightly different, more specific meanings.
The Story of 'Cool'
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It’s hep, it’s groovy, it’s outta sight. It’s the word “cool.” Unlike those other words, it doesn’t sound dated at all. Slang hardly ever manages that trick. How did “cool” stay cool? Produced for Mental Floss
Why Is It 'My Lord' But 'Your Highness'?
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English has many ways of enshrining social relationships and relative status in its forms of address. Some of the older, most formal forms like My Lord and Your Highness use pronouns that express the concept of possession, but why is it that sometimes the person with the higher status gets a MY and sometimes a YOUR? How can opposite concepts both be used for the same kind of status relationship...
What Causes a Foreign Accent?
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The human vocal tract can produce thousands of different sounds but languages use only a tiny subset of them. What happens when you try to speak a language that uses a different subset from your own? Produced for Mental Floss
Fancy Words for Mundane Health Problems
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Want to generate a little more sympathy for your totally mundane health problems? Use these fancy medical terms instead. Produced for Mental Floss
Interesting Holiday Word Origins
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Where do these holiday words come from? Produced for Mental Floss
Tricky Grammar in Christmas Songs
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While you’re caroling this season, here’s a few grammar points to watch out for. Produced for Mental Floss
The Story of Figurative "Literally"
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Does the popular use of "literally" literally make you sick? Or does it just annoy you, in which case it only figuratively makes you sick. Here's the story of how it came to be. Produced for Mental Floss
Hidden Metaphors in Anatomical Terms
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Hidden Metaphors in Anatomical Terms
Spot the Words Hidden in These Words
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Spot the Words Hidden in These Words
Weird Syntax III: The More The Merrier
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Weird Syntax III: The More The Merrier
Weird Syntax: Part I. "How Dare You"
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Weird Syntax: Part I. "How Dare You"
How Do We Know How Languages Are Related?
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How Do We Know How Languages Are Related?
5 Comma Types That Can Make Or Break a Sentence
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5 Comma Types That Can Make Or Break a Sentence
Whole Phrases Hidden in English Words
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Whole Phrases Hidden in English Words
Negative Words That Turned Into Positive Words
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Negative Words That Turned Into Positive Words
Classy Insults from Latin and Greek
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Classy Insults from Latin and Greek
I am a fellow deaf person who uses ASL as my native language. Even still today, some parents hesitate to learn/teach their Deaf and HoH (Hard-of-Hearing) kids the sign language because it would simply delay their speech skills while they actually do not. I use both speech and ASL but used it separately. And ASL and English are equal languages just like any other languages, either spoken or in signs.
I loved the simple explanation ❤ Thank you so much ❤❤
This is the original! We miss you Arika! I just saw a video uploaded by a TED Talk channel or something, that had your name on it. But was disappointed when I watched it and didn't hear your voice. Hopefully we'll get to hear/see more from you in the future!
I can explain that in German, French and Portuguese using examples: German: lauten = to sound, to be läuten = to ring zahlen= to pay zählen = to count rosten = to rust rösten = to roast die Masse = the mass die Maße = the dimensions French: ou = or où = where mais = but le maïs = the corn l'élève = the student élevé/élevée = high a = has à = at, to du (de + le) = of/from the (masculine) dû (devoir) = had to Portuguese: a caça = the hunting a caca = the poop a maçã = the apple a maca = the stretcher o cocó = the poop o coco = the coconut é = is e = and o bebé = the baby ele/ela bebe = he/she/it drinks
I'm kind of convinced the 'um' is not 'um' as in 'around', but rather as the prefix meaning 'changing'. Um-Laut - a changing sound. As in "sich umziehen" - to change clothes (whereas "sich anziehen" is to put on clothes).
In Germany weve got: Montag (Tag = day in German so thats equivalent to English) Dienstag (Diens apparently going back to Thingus) Mittwoch (Mitte = middle and woche = week which makes sense because wednesday is the middle of the week) Donnerstag (Donner = Thunder so we are even closer to Thor) Freitag (Frei = free but its actually named after Freya) Samstag (Because thats when the Sams comes. Just joking, apparently it comes from Sabbat) And Sonntag (Sonne = Sun)
How did we get the past tense for ... a vulger synonym for "defecate"? Hit stayed hit . Why didnt it become hat?
The letter E in the english language only makes 2 sounds. Short e sound is "Ehh" like "Elephant". And the long E sound is "EEh" like "Eclipse". At no point does the letter E ever sound like "Uhh". Pecan, not puhcan.
This is a good example for why language is not worth respecting. Just make up your own definitions for things on a whim. The change in meaning is idiocracy on full display.
Informative and interesting. Thank you.
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i pronounce it peekin
I love English! ❤ Such a rich & beautiful language. It's never boring when you use English.
Vas a querer o se los aviento a los inu?
My family book of SURYA SIDDHAANT states everything the Shani, guru, Mangal, Ravi, sukra, buddh and som....is the direction of arrangement ......tell them you theft these things from ANCIENT HINDUS.
BRO PLS STOP YOUR STUPIDITY . EVERY COUNTRY OR CONTINENT IF DO SOME RESEARCH MEANING THEY STOLE FROM HINDUS - PLEASE STOP THESE NONSENSE WHEN DID ROMANS CAME TO INDIA FIRST RESEARCH ABOUT THAT
INDIA WASN'T ENVADED 2000 YEARS AGO
this was not given by romans or greeks but by hindus and western culture has taken the false credit like always, we hindus has given the exact calculation from forming of the universe to the names of the days
STOP TAKING FALSE CREDIT . YOU HAVEN'T SAW PAST. INDIA WASN'T ENVADED 2000 YEARS AGO
I’m here because of the Dutch variants: MAANdag, DINSdag, WOENSdag, DONDERdag, VRIJdag, ZATERdag and ZONdag.
Read Surya Sidhanta, Hora Shastra, Vedic astrologers were meticulous and originator of principles of calculation of time
BRO IF ONE COUNTRY RESEARCH SOMETHING IT DOESNOT MEAN OTHERS CANT . IF THEY DO SOME RESEARCH APPRECIATE THEM OR DONT VISIT THERE CHANNEL . INDIA WASN'T ENVADED 2000 YEARS AGO
There Are Eight Wanderers In Both The Planíticentric & Heliocentric Models Planíticentric Model (A Planet, Not Earth) Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Heliocentric Model Vulcan, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Weekdays In Both Models Planíticentric Model Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sæterday, Jorday, Uranday Heliocentric Model Vidarday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sæterday, Jorday, Uranday The Hours Of A Day For Each Wanderer 1st Hour = Uranus 2nd Hour = Saturn 3rd Hour = Jupiter 4th Hour = Mars 5th Hour = Earth 6th Hour = Venus 7th Hour = Mercury 8th Hour = Moon / Vulcan (Hypothetical) Tuesday-First (Planíticentric) Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sæterday, Jorday, Uranday, Monday Tuesday-First (Heliocentric) Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sæterday, Jorday, Uranday, Vidarday Uranus = 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th Days Earth = 2nd, 4th, 6th & 8th Days Eight Brightest Objects In The Night Sky The Sun The Moon Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Jupiter Saturn Weekdays 1. Sunday (Sun’s Day) 2. Monday (Moon’s Day) 3. Tuesday (Tiu’s Day) 4. Wednesday (Woden’s Day) 5. Thursday (Thor’s Day) 6. Friday (Frigg’s Day) 7. Sæterday (Sætere’s Day) 8. Jorday (Jörð’s Day) ISO 8601 1. Monday 2. Tuesday 3. Wednesday 4. Thursday 5. Friday 6. Sæterday 7. Jorday 8. Sunday There Are Eight Planets In The Solar System (Our Stellar System) 1 = Mercury 2 = Venus 3 = Earth 4 = Mars 5 = Jupiter 6 = Saturn 7 = Uranus 8 = Neptune 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 (Order Of The Planets) 1 - 5 - 2 - 6 - 3 - 7 - 4 - 8 (Order Of The Weekdays) Planetary Week 1 | 1. Wednesday 2 | 5. Thursday 3 | 2. Friday 4 | 6. Sæterday 5 | 3. Jorday 6 | 7. Uranday 7 | 4. Tuesday 8 | 8. Neptunday Planetary Weekdays In The Order Of The Planets 1 | 1 = Wednesday 2 | 3 = Friday 3 | 5 = Jorday 4 | 7 = Tuesday 5 | 2 = Thursday 6 | 4 = Sæterday 7 | 6 = Uranday 8 | 8 = Neptunday Hours Of The Day For Each Planet 1st Hour = Neptune 2nd Hour = Uranus 3rd Hour = Saturn 4th Hour = Jupiter 5th Hour = Mars 6th Hour = Earth 7th Hour = Venus 8th Hour = Mercury Back To The Weekdays Of Both Planíticentric & Heliocentric Models 1 - 4 - 7 - 2 - 5 - 8 - 3 - 6 Uranus, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Earth, Moon, Jupiter, Venus (Planíticentric) Uranus, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Earth, Vulcan, Jupiter, Venus (Heliocentric) Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Earth, Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus (Planíticentric) Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Earth, Vulcan, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus (Heliocentric) 1. Tuesday 2. Wednesday 3. Sæterday 4. Jorday 5. Monday / Vidarday 6. Thursday 7. Friday 8. Uranday
If you want some fun linguistic irony, imagine being ignorant of the root-word, concerning the word 'ignorant'. So many people don't grasp this part of the definition. They IGNORE the root word in 'ignorant'.
And then you get to know the names of the days in Greek which are like the number of the day. Monday --> Δευτέρα = Second Tuesday --> Τρίτη = Third Wednesday --> Τετάρτη = Fourth Thursday --> Πέμπτη = Fifth Friday --> Παρασκευή = Production Saturday --> Σάββατο = (idk) Sunday --> Κυριακή = (the day) of the lord Yeah, Im not kidding, the word for Friday, literally means "Production" Saturday being Σάββατο, sounds the same with spanish, which is el sàbado.
I searched for Σάββατο. It seems that this one is a jewish word (sabāt) that translates into "rest". It is the day that God stopped creating the world in order to rest.
English has to many borrowed words by far it. Makes the language inconsistent and messy if we must borrow words why not at least stick to the Germanic languages
In Welsh, Y is always a vowel
0:34: And it's still spelled that way in Welsh (ex: cwilt)
Can you please explain about the origins of how St. Valentine's Day 💘 came to be celebrated on February 14th and who was Saint Valentine? Please reply to me ASAP‼️
teenagers for ruining? pakyu mabetch karen.
In (2:01) How come Woden/Odin is paired with Mercury? They don't share any similarities with each other. Can you please explain to us. Thanks!!!
ではなぜ人類の指は片手で5本なのか。人の手が魚のヒレから進化したためであると考えられている。流体内(地球上では主に水)を移動するとき左右一対のヒレがあると便利。このヒレの構造が5本の支柱とそのあいだの「水かき」の部分からできていることが重要。4本の支柱と3枚の水かきでは足りず、6本の支柱と5枚の水かきで多すぎた、そういった生物も存在したかもしれないが淘汰されてしまった(んじゃないかな)。海から陸に上がって生物が進化したと考えると仕方のない仕様。水以外の流体の海を持つ他の惑星でも「海」から「陸」に上がって進化したタイプの生命は5本指になる(はず)。つまり未だ見ぬ宇宙人も2本の腕を持ち5本指で一対の移動用の足を持ち脳と感覚器官を統合した頭を持っている可能性が高いんじゃないかな!!
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Because no reform & too many drunks!
Except what you're calling irregular verbs do follow predictable patterns. They're strong verbs. Ride-rode-ridden is perfectly regular within the class of strong verbs it's descended from. The patterns are not always absolutely predictable in Old English either. That doesn't make them irregular. The truly irregular verbs like go, do, and is were already irregular in Old English (and in Proto-Germanic). Have is a weak verb descended from "habban," whose conjugation is predictable. The theory about frequency of use is supported by the strong verbs resisting change, but it's change into weak verbs not "regular verbs." There's more than one kind of regular verb.
Onestly, eye still don't no.
okie here and have a small grove on 40 acres. we've always pronounced it puh can
So they are pagans pretending to be Christians
who else is here for Ms Wilson’s asl course
This is my proposed new English orthography: (nu iňglish orthogrəfie) a/æ/ ai/ei/ b c/k/ ch/tʃ/ d e/ɛ/ ie/i/ ə/ʌ~ə/ f g h i/ɪ/ ei /ai/ j/dʒ/ l m n ň/ŋ/ o/a/ oh/oʊ/ p r s t th/θ~ð/ u/u/ oo/ʊ/ v w sh/ʃ/ ch/tʃ/ y/j/ z zh/ʒ/ ar /ar/ or /ɔr/
this is why Arabic language is the best, 💯❤
A "caveat emptor" is a person who removes caveats from the arsenal of his opponents until it is empty.
So ai gonna calculate all this for us right?
Language was created by our creator God. The first school was 4,000 years ago. Humans been on Earth according to science 2 million plus years. There are hundreds of languages around the world the word god is in every single one of them. That's because God wanted us to recognize that there is a god and he created language along with humans. If you isolate a human or humans from birth, whether it's one or 100 they will never be able to speak. If humans came up with the language they would have not put the word god in every language
Ah, isn't it exciting to talk about things we don't know. "We don't know much about this, so let's talk more about how much we don't know, so we can not know even more, and then talk about how people for centuries debated how much we don't know, but despite all those years of discussing, we still don't know."
PAW! 😊 (A good story of how it all started. Good job. )
THank you very much!
No such thing as days of the week.
Did Newton check out the single syllable Sanskrit dhatus in Ashtadhyayi? He too wanted a very finite number of root words from which all the words of the language can be created, right?
And wonderful, don't forget that. Are you sure it's the past tense and not one of the subjunctives?
So in a cross word between germanic and romance that makes romance morality and germenic...
I like kids
English is written like chinese, with ideograms. You do not have to pronounce the ideogram "although" like the ideogram "enough". You have to learn all the ideograms by heart.
SANGAM TALKS VIDEO… you will get full explanations with proof