For collective nouns you should have covered giraffes. As in "there was a tower of giraffes by the pond until you scared them and now a journey of giraffes are running away." With giraffes, the collective noun changes depending on whether or not the group is moving.
In the UK a 'barm cake' was originally a bread bun made using the froth on beer to provide the yeast starter. A ferrule is also the iron, plastic or rubber thing at the end of a walking stick or umbrella. (Actually, it's a word for a whole lot of rings wrapped around a whole lot of things for a whole lot of purposes.)
how can you sleep at night knowing you mentioned so many little known collective terms and DIDN'T MENTION UNICORNS!!! a group of unicorns is called a blessing. you're welcome.
So if someone has a unibrow, are they missing a glabella or is it just hairy? As in, is the glabella defined by one's nose (being right above it) or by one's eyebrows (being between them)?
it is defined by your skull bone which always has the raised surface and that raised surface is called glabella,not the condition of the skin over it.being a doctor here.you are welcome.
He's pronouncing a foreign word in your case so he can be forgiven. To hear how many Americans choose to enunciate my beautiful native English, considering it's their first language, is just heartbreaking.
wazzmastermax it's just a different dialect. They exist in all languages. Also there are a lot of dialects here in the US, pretty much every region has its own slang and own accent lol. But I have to agree, some people here don't know how to pronounce words. If we can pronounce things in less syllables we will though lol.
Yes - mine, too! So I looked up how to explain the pronounciation of the german letter "z" to english native speakers: The German consonant 'z' is pronounced in the same manner as the English 'ts' sound that is found at the end of words such as 'cats', 'lots' or 'sits'. The temptation to pronounce the sound like an English letter 'z' must be resisted - the German'z' is only ever pronounced as an English letter 'z'in a few imported words such as 'das Quiz'. Also the "googlegänger" made me laugh! Yes, there is such a thing like "Doppelgänger" in german (literal translation btw is doublewalker), but googlegänger just sounds extremely silly to my german ears! Anyway - this was entertaining - no need to gain kummerspeck ;-)
Yes - mine, too! So I looked up how to explain the pronounciation of the german letter "z" to english native speakers: The German consonant 'z' is pronounced in the same manner as the English 'ts' sound that is found at the end of words such as 'cats', 'lots' or 'sits'. The temptation to pronounce the sound like an English letter 'z' must be resisted - the German'z' is only ever pronounced as an English letter 'z'in a few imported words such as 'das Quiz'. Also the "googlegänger" made me laugh! Yes, there is such a thing like "Doppelgänger" in german (literal translation btw is doublewalker), but googlegänger just sounds extremely silly to my german ears! Anyway - this was entertaining - no need to gain kummerspeck ;-)
In France, we use "trip" as a slang word for the fun use of "délire", which itself is a very common way of expressing the situation of being semi-obcessed by something that makes us laugh. "J'suis en trip sur les Goat Remix" means "I've spent my whole afternoon watching Goat Remixes", and now I know we can have trips on trips ! :D
For more examples (254 of them) of contronyms (a.k.a. Autoantonyms) see the book "Autoantonyms" by A. J. Mittendorf, now in its 3rd edition, available in June 2020 from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Indigo. 2nd edition is still available.
I learned the word petrichor from that episode of Doctor Who ("The Doctor's Wife") and had no idea it was so recently invented. It's meaning was part of a secret pass code and was defined as "the smell of dust after rain."
I knew that word already, and heard it used on an episode of Law & Order (SVU I think). A young character who had been taking pills to keep herself awake was being interrupted by one of the detectives while she was working on a chess match, practicing for a competition, and complained about being in zugzwang and working hard to figure out a solution.
Honestly started watching the video because I was curious whether you would put aglet in, and then if you'd mention Fineas & Ferb, and both didn't disappoint. As soon as you mentioned smell of rain/ petrichore I was like, please mention Doc- and you did it! Triple win! Btw cool collection in the background 👍👍
I'd like to submit to the list of collective nouns a few modern additions: A 'torrent' of pirates, a 'collective' of nouns, a 'wunch' of bankers, a 'fistful' of wankers, a 'handful' of muppets, a 'fraid' of spiders, a 'heard' of homonyms, an 'epic' of fail, a 'shamble' of zombies, a 'round' of robins, a 'lack' of principles, a 'conspiracy' of theorists, a 'jam' of tarts, a 'pie' of fish, a 'muff' of divers, a 'rhapsody' of bohemians, a 'crow' of murderers, a 'shitload' of toilets, a 'shortage' of dwarves, a 'tinkle' of euphemisms, and a 'bunch' of florists.
A YAAAAARRRRRRR of pirates. And personally, since Crow was often considered a trickster on earth oriented mythologies, I have been actively utilizing trick of crows instead of murder of crows.
The bottom of a wine bottle is called the "punt" because that is where the punty is attached. The punty is, of course, a steel rod used by glassblowers for holding hot glass while it is worked. The word "punty", according to Google, is ultimately derived from a Latin word meaning "point". And now you know.
"Punt" in Dutch means point. it means point as in a pointy object as used in the pointy bottom of a wine bottle. It also means dot as well aswell as making a statement in an argument (lit. transl. making a point). Edit, it cannot be used as "to point at ..."
I wanted to make a low intelligence priest in an RPG once who used the word "Cleave" (and different forms of it) when talking to people; "You will cleave to my words and cleave to my god or I will cleave you in twain with my cleaver!"
i actually had to look up what a box tent/pizza saver DOES apparently it prevents the top of the box from collapsing and touching the food (which produces greasy box lids)
Ryukachoo Who cares about greasy box lids? Without them, one little squish, and all the cheese is stuck to the box, and suddenly the pizza isn't fun anymore.
I love lists like this because I hate having to stop in the middle of a sentence and say, "I don't know the word for the thing I'm trying to describe."
That is something that frustrates me to no end. Everyone goes out of their way to properly pronounce French words and names and at least admit mispronunciations of things languages like Dutch or Swedish, but they never acknowledge the German mistakes :( Bitte lernt Deutsch Aussprache!
So if a group of ponies is called a string, and a group of wild horses is called a band, does that mean a mixed group of wild horses and ponies is called... a strand? =P
zugzwang is also a german word and either you are (slightly) wrong about its meaning, or it has a different meaning in german and english. in german, translated word-by-word it means move(zug) enforcement(zwang). you have that situation when you have no other option but to make a move (like in chess when you queen gets threatened all the time - it's also used in "real"-life situations)
Thomas Wildrabbit You confused me for a while there, as I recently wrote a comment where I ensured myself I had it right. Then I realised that you were just some weirdo, correcting a complete stranger in an old post, assuming they hadn't changed at all. I could have been a kid, a dyslexic, or as is the actual case here, a Norwegian. Think about just how much effort you've spent in your life trying to learn English. You might discover that it doesn't match quite a lot of people, and that you really have no right to correct anybody unless they specifically ask for it.
I knew Aglet was going to be on this; it just so happens that that's one of the only Phineas and Ferb episodes I remember. I wasn't a big fan but I watched a few episodes.
"The Doctor's Wife." It's one of the passwords Amy and Rory have to use to get into a backup console room to escape this entity called House that tries to steal the TARDIS (and eventually succeeds). Though that episode defines it as "the smell of dust after rain."
Apparently I'm a biblioklept, thank you, John, for letting me know what it is I am called. Also I LOVE petrichor. Also, I already knew that a group of crows was called a murder but I didn't know a group of ravens is called an unkindness or that a group of owls is called a parliament. Fascinating.
Oh my god, I was literally just thinking that! I was going to write my own comment, but then I saw yours and didn't want to repeat. Thank you, sir or ma'am
Great video! I just love how you spelled all those German words because here in Germany we say them totally different and I wouldn't have known what you were talking about if it didn't stand in the video. But still good job on describing them because now more people know about our awesome word creations! :)
Clearly, Candace works at Mental Floss because she’s the only one left who knew or cared what the metal tip of your shoelace is called. Thanks a lot, Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
Tittle is the dot over lowercase I and J... I discovered this some 15? years ago now when my Brother received a Live Pig (Named Tittle) as a Christmas Present... he made the mistake of putting 'surprise me' on his suggested gift list... and thus ended our Family's Gift Exchange - being confused/curious about why someone named a pig Tittle, I looked it up
scandiknavery...like many so great twentieth century words- we have james joyce to thank for that, as well as the deceitful scandinavians hahahaha I love you John Green!
Many years ago, a columnist suggested "borrow" as a measure word for columnists; that is, "a borrow of columnists." You can imagine why. P.S. the circular pieces of metal through which you run your shoe laces are called grommets.
I think that a group of kittens should be referred to as a _chaos_. A _kindle_ just makes me think of the thing I read books on when I can't have the physical version, and an _intrigue_ made more sense when we still used it as a synonym for entanglement.
I knew of Petrichor through Doctor Who as you mentioned and Zugzwang was part of a plot and the title of an episode of Criminal Minds. And people say you can't learn from TV
The term "Zarf" has been around long before it referred to the cardboard sleeve. There was a time when water-cooler paper cups were cone shaped and (obviously) inverted. Well, if you wanted to put that paper cup on your desk or not drink the water right away, you put the cup into a Zarf. Hard plastic bottom half of a coffee mug. With a flat bottom and a coffee mug style finger-hole. The paper cup fit perfectly into it. The old version of the Zarf was featured on an old episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not, with Jack palance demonstrating its use
Actually in that context "off" is being used the same way each time. When an alarm is set and silent it is considered "on" and when it is triggered the alarm gets tripped off or deactivated and a 'siren' goes on. Just thought I'd help.
the bacon part from "kummerspeck" is very literally translated, we use the word "speck" (bacon) to refer in a nicer/funnier way to fat usually around the stomach area :3
I did know about aglets, and yes, it was from Phineas and Ferb.
tiff0795 i learned it from zack n cody
A-G-L-E-T don't forget it!
+tiff0795 Their true purpose is sinister.
I learned it from Repossessed. Hah! I'm old. 😢
I had learned from the film Cocktail that it's called a flugelbinder. However, that's completely made up. :-)
Why isn't a group of squids called a squad?
At least we have the comfort in knowing a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance - as well it should.
I always thought a group of whales was a pod.
An Idea Guy Now it it with splatoon
An Idea Guy any group of four animals is called a squad
I dunno, call oxford
For collective nouns you should have covered giraffes.
As in "there was a tower of giraffes by the pond until you scared them and now a journey of giraffes are running away." With giraffes, the collective noun changes depending on whether or not the group is moving.
In the UK a 'barm cake' was originally a bread bun made using the froth on beer to provide the yeast starter. A ferrule is also the iron, plastic or rubber thing at the end of a walking stick or umbrella. (Actually, it's a word for a whole lot of rings wrapped around a whole lot of things for a whole lot of purposes.)
how can you sleep at night knowing you mentioned so many little known collective terms and DIDN'T MENTION UNICORNS!!!
a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
you're welcome.
Because they aren't real?
+oncemoreuntothebreach How do you know?
+Horsey0Luver I ate the last one for dinner last week.
oncemoreuntothebreach that would mean there extinct. Not fictional.
+maxie fuqua never said fictional.
Cauldron of bats, tower of giraffes, thunder of hippos, clash of rhinos, and a convocation of eagle. Those are some of my favorites.
So if someone has a unibrow, are they missing a glabella or is it just hairy?
As in, is the glabella defined by one's nose (being right above it) or by one's eyebrows (being between them)?
it is defined by your skull bone which always has the raised surface and that raised surface is called glabella,not the condition of the skin over it.being a doctor here.you are welcome.
Farzana Nusrat So unibrowed people have hairy glabellas. Or would it be “glabellae?” My spell checker says both are incorrect.
PockASqueeno if they have a hairy bone, I doubt the name is a concern at all.
Call them Frida Kahlo
6:25 "thanks for watching menopause here on youtube"
lolwut
You are one of the best hosts on the net. You're fun to listen to and watch. Thanks for the smiles!
*phandom laughs in the background*
I was looking for this.
John: "glabbella"
The Phandom: "AAAAAA!!!!!!!! OMG"
The pronounciation of "Zugzwang" killed my German ears :DD
Came here to say that...
And the other ones aren't better :P
He's pronouncing a foreign word in your case so he can be forgiven. To hear how many Americans choose to enunciate my beautiful native English, considering it's their first language, is just heartbreaking.
wazzmastermax it's just a different dialect. They exist in all languages. Also there are a lot of dialects here in the US, pretty much every region has its own slang and own accent lol. But I have to agree, some people here don't know how to pronounce words. If we can pronounce things in less syllables we will though lol.
Yes - mine, too! So I looked up how to explain the pronounciation of the german letter "z" to english native speakers:
The German consonant 'z' is pronounced in the same manner as the English 'ts' sound that is found at the end of words such as 'cats', 'lots' or 'sits'. The temptation to pronounce the sound like an English letter 'z' must be resisted - the German'z' is only ever pronounced as an English letter 'z'in a few imported words such as 'das Quiz'.
Also the "googlegänger" made me laugh! Yes, there is such a thing like "Doppelgänger" in german (literal translation btw is doublewalker), but googlegänger just sounds extremely silly to my german ears!
Anyway - this was entertaining - no need to gain kummerspeck ;-)
Yes - mine, too! So I looked up how to explain the pronounciation of the german letter "z" to english native speakers:
The German consonant 'z' is pronounced in the same manner as the English 'ts' sound that is found at the end of words such as 'cats', 'lots' or 'sits'. The temptation to pronounce the sound like an English letter 'z' must be resisted - the German'z' is only ever pronounced as an English letter 'z'in a few imported words such as 'das Quiz'.
Also the "googlegänger" made me laugh! Yes, there is such a thing like "Doppelgänger" in german (literal translation btw is doublewalker), but googlegänger just sounds extremely silly to my german ears!
Anyway - this was entertaining - no need to gain kummerspeck ;-)
It's not just Madonna, It's Madonna Louise Ciccone, according to wikipedia.
Benn Chisholm Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Cher
MsLegenza Her full name is Cherilynn Sarkisian.
I'm watching this to find a name for a band
Here is one that will get you some attention, as well as a visual that will never leave your mind. CACTUS DILDO
Waterblonk and the Jelly Pods?
Quincrux
Ichor is a good one.
Pass of Asses
In France, we use "trip" as a slang word for the fun use of "délire", which itself is a very common way of expressing the situation of being semi-obcessed by something that makes us laugh. "J'suis en trip sur les Goat Remix" means "I've spent my whole afternoon watching Goat Remixes", and now I know we can have trips on trips ! :D
For more examples (254 of them) of contronyms (a.k.a. Autoantonyms) see the book "Autoantonyms" by A. J. Mittendorf, now in its 3rd edition, available in June 2020 from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Indigo. 2nd edition is still available.
Myodesopsia: seeing those squiggly eye floaters in your eye
Gletches
I learned the word petrichor from that episode of Doctor Who ("The Doctor's Wife") and had no idea it was so recently invented. It's meaning was part of a secret pass code and was defined as "the smell of dust after rain."
"Zugzwang" made me giggle. It's pronounced in the worst way possible, but nobody is gonna use it anyway xD
Remember, mispronunciation is John Green's thing!
I knew that word already, and heard it used on an episode of Law & Order (SVU I think). A young character who had been taking pills to keep herself awake was being interrupted by one of the detectives while she was working on a chess match, practicing for a competition, and complained about being in zugzwang and working hard to figure out a solution.
I think there isn't really a comparable sound that the German "Z" would be comparable to, so I can forgive him. For now >:3 (maybe "ts"?)
Don't forget the cutest name for a group of animals there is. A group of pugs can be a grumble.
Yet the cutest word for a single animal is the baby platypus, which is known as a puggle.
Honestly started watching the video because I was curious whether you would put aglet in, and then if you'd mention Fineas & Ferb, and both didn't disappoint. As soon as you mentioned smell of rain/ petrichore I was like, please mention Doc- and you did it! Triple win! Btw cool collection in the background 👍👍
I'd like to submit to the list of collective nouns a few modern additions: A 'torrent' of pirates, a 'collective' of nouns, a 'wunch' of bankers, a 'fistful' of wankers, a 'handful' of muppets, a 'fraid' of spiders, a 'heard' of homonyms, an 'epic' of fail, a 'shamble' of zombies, a 'round' of robins, a 'lack' of principles, a 'conspiracy' of theorists, a 'jam' of tarts, a 'pie' of fish, a 'muff' of divers, a 'rhapsody' of bohemians, a 'crow' of murderers, a 'shitload' of toilets, a 'shortage' of dwarves, a 'tinkle' of euphemisms, and a 'bunch' of florists.
You say that, but I don't see any cake. Put your cake where your mouth is - or more accurately, where my mouth is.
Lol a-fraid of spiders 😝
I love them.
A YAAAAARRRRRRR of pirates.
And personally, since Crow was often considered a trickster on earth oriented mythologies, I have been actively utilizing trick of crows instead of murder of crows.
@@MiskyWilkshake But the cake is a lie.
Watching this video 8 years ago is the origin story for my Online name; games, RUclips, etc.
Thank you John Green of Mental Floss (not the realtor!)
“we call that Monday - or other days.” LOL😾 just love your sense of humor and delivery. :)
When I google myself, all that comes up is my uncle's divorce case that had everybody in South Dakota glued to their television screens.
I love your name
The bottom of a wine bottle is called the "punt" because that is where the punty is attached. The punty is, of course, a steel rod used by glassblowers for holding hot glass while it is worked. The word "punty", according to Google, is ultimately derived from a Latin word meaning "point".
And now you know.
Which is why the punty is also called a "Pontil", and now YOU know.
Thanks for pointing that out! (Pun not intended.)
"Punt" in Dutch means point. it means point as in a pointy object as used in the pointy bottom of a wine bottle.
It also means dot as well aswell as making a statement in an argument (lit. transl. making a point).
Edit, it cannot be used as "to point at ..."
A punt is also called a kick.
And knowing is half the battle
GI JOE!
I wanted to make a low intelligence priest in an RPG once who used the word "Cleave" (and different forms of it) when talking to people; "You will cleave to my words and cleave to my god or I will cleave you in twain with my cleaver!"
i actually had to look up what a box tent/pizza saver DOES
apparently it prevents the top of the box from collapsing and touching the food (which produces greasy box lids)
My kids call them tables.
...and it prevents squashed pizza!
Ryukachoo Who cares about greasy box lids? Without them, one little squish, and all the cheese is stuck to the box, and suddenly the pizza isn't fun anymore.
did anyone else know about the glabella from dan and phil?
+Abigail Cote Yep!
PROTIP
I love lists like this because I hate having to stop in the middle of a sentence and say, "I don't know the word for the thing I'm trying to describe."
0:05 I would like to thank Dan and Phil for teaching me what your glabella is
Leenie same. And Yesung from Super Junior for teaching me the word philtrum (if you don’t know who this is, search “what is a Yesung”)
I knew the zugzwang one from criminal minds
Yes, me too. I feel like they just BS theyr way through.
+Courtney Ann I hope you don't pronounce it like Mental Floss did :P
Experiencing a MIND BLOW when finally understanding the meaning of Lucas' book in ONE TREE HILL.
thank you John.
An open letter to John Green:
Dear Mr. Green,
I like you very much, but your German pronunciation is horrible.
Best wishes
That is something that frustrates me to no end. Everyone goes out of their way to properly pronounce French words and names and at least admit mispronunciations of things languages like Dutch or Swedish, but they never acknowledge the German mistakes :( Bitte lernt Deutsch Aussprache!
Megan K. F. At least I’m willing to admit that I can’t seem to pronounce anything the correct way.
@@megank.f.6857 - If this is still monitored I have thoughts as to an explanation.
Sam M please share!
dochkatochka his pronunciation is bag in general.
I just found out that this guy wrote The Fault in our Stars
well shit
wow..thats cool!
He also wrote Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns.
One of my favorite Mental Floss videos.
I feel sorry for people who haven't seen this video it's amazing!
Hi
Oh those poor over 7247256468 people....
are you talking about china? lol (this is a joke about china banning RUclips don't take me seriously).
So if a group of ponies is called a string, and a group of wild horses is called a band, does that mean a mixed group of wild horses and ponies is called... a strand? =P
If you've got four different groups of ponies, you have found a string quartet which can act like a band ;-)
Portal 2 is my favorite game, and thus you have cemented yourself once again as my favorite person ever John Green.
Weird Al has a song about palindromes called "Bob", definitely worth a listen if you're into that kind of thing.
+Tom Sawyer Yeah, it's one of his "style parodies" in the style of Dylan, and every line is a palindrome. Genius.
zugzwang is also a german word and either you are (slightly) wrong about its meaning, or it has a different meaning in german and english.
in german, translated word-by-word it means move(zug) enforcement(zwang).
you have that situation when you have no other option but to make a move (like in chess when you queen gets threatened all the time - it's also used in "real"-life situations)
idk why but the fact that a group of ravens is called an unkindness is too funny lol
Could you please put the list in the description so we don't need to go searching back through the video?
PLEASE I NEED THESE FOR MY 2ND GRADERS!!
it will keep then in stiches when I'm trying to explain English in all its horror to them.
The name of "semordnilap" was really, really genious.
Thomas Wildrabbit You confused me for a while there, as I recently wrote a comment where I ensured myself I had it right. Then I realised that you were just some weirdo, correcting a complete stranger in an old post, assuming they hadn't changed at all. I could have been a kid, a dyslexic, or as is the actual case here, a Norwegian.
Think about just how much effort you've spent in your life trying to learn English. You might discover that it doesn't match quite a lot of people, and that you really have no right to correct anybody unless they specifically ask for it.
*genius
I knew Aglet was going to be on this; it just so happens that that's one of the only Phineas and Ferb episodes I remember. I wasn't a big fan but I watched a few episodes.
3:36 - She must be awesome, if she comes all the way from the Himalayas to visit.
The glabella is *not* the patch of skin between your eyebrows, it is merely the bone pertrusion of the skull that lies beneath that patch of skin.
John Green teaches me more in seven minutes than my parents taught me in 50 years!
2:13
Criminal Minds taught me this one.
same!
I was looking for a comment like this. That's where I heard it.
When will the staff pork chop party actually happen?
Good question. I would love to see that! Perhaps they need to have an episode entirely about pigs! Haha
On January 3rd, 2045
Gotta say, loving the portal decorations!
i knew about the glabella because of *****
same!!!
Sometimes I like to make my own words up.
Madonna’s full name is actually Madonna Louise Ciccone in case you were wondering, but awesome video!
So, I basically have no googlegangers. I am as unique as a snowflake.
Same, we can be unique together!
Jon Barnes-Nunn me, too
John says glabella. I immediately think of Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil.
DANIEL HOWEL
umbreonXGrowlithe 7995
This is three years old
THE AGE OF THE COMMENT DOES NOT KEEP ME FROM MAKING JOKES
this might've been my first mental floss video and the first time I saw John Greene. R.I.P. this decade, we will remember you.
What episode of Doctor Who? I'm so curious
"The Doctor's Wife." It's one of the passwords Amy and Rory have to use to get into a backup console room to escape this entity called House that tries to steal the TARDIS (and eventually succeeds). Though that episode defines it as "the smell of dust after rain."
So semordnilap is palindromes backwards. Clever.
I'm so including petrichor into my vocabulary... What a beautiful word
We always called the box savers “Barbie tables”.
Me too!!!
How is Barbie gonna sit at such a low table?
Even a name has a name
🧟♀️..died without a name? Damn..🧟♀️
Apparently I'm a biblioklept, thank you, John, for letting me know what it is I am called. Also I LOVE petrichor. Also, I already knew that a group of crows was called a murder but I didn't know a group of ravens is called an unkindness or that a group of owls is called a parliament. Fascinating.
I AM MY OWN GOOGLEGANGER!!! SUCCESS!!!!
I'm going to remember ALL of these! :)
Wait, what was the first one again? :/
Sensei Aki PROTIP
3 or more goats and you got yourself a trip. 3 or more goats yelling like humans, you got yourself an acid trip
What happens if you have a unibrow? Do I still have a glabella?
Yes, you do. And you also have synophyrs.
When he says mental floss it sounds like menopause.
literally every time I watch one of his videos.
I never once thought he was saying that... Until now! Thanks a lot! All I'm gonna hear now is MENOPAUSE! I officially hate you :D
Liam Merlyn no problem!
Oh my god, I was literally just thinking that! I was going to write my own comment, but then I saw yours and didn't want to repeat. Thank you, sir or ma'am
Great video! I just love how you spelled all those German words because here in Germany we say them totally different and I wouldn't have known what you were talking about if it didn't stand in the video. But still good job on describing them because now more people know about our awesome word creations! :)
Hide the zugzwang Harold
5:12 Is he a Sim?
loved it. it was a riot with some of the entries especially the final entry. this guy's a wonderful NUT!
He sounds like CaptainSparklez
How does he sound like captain sparkelz??
cause he does
yukyuk5799 Umm, are you using auto captions?
Whats that
Best video to enhance vocabulary..
Must post many more like this
I KNEW THE FIRST FOUR FROM RHETT AND LINK!!
also number 13
and 16 >.
CalicoUnknown and 32 okay I'll stop now... watch rhett and link tho
Do you really think we care?
gamewatcher37 stfu
A ramikan is the little condement cup you use at fast food reduraunts.
Epic Maniac... Ramekin.
Wondering how many of these words i can remember to shoehorn into every day conversations to appear smarter.
haha, Zugzwang is also German, and you pronounced it horribly (it's pronounced something like tsoogtswahng), but never mind
yea haha same thought
As you heard, correct pronunciation is definitely not his thing. It's amazing that no one in his whole staff corrects him.
+ Vorfreude is pronounced as Forfreude
i'm getting criminal minds flashbacks now...
Mononymous..... and you didn't use Teller.... for shame..
To add on to that, a group of pandas is called an embarrassment.
I was gonna be bummed if you didn't put tittle in this list. Glad you didn't disappoint this typophile! :D
This was surprisingly entertaining and my reason for subscribing.
Clearly, Candace works at Mental Floss because she’s the only one left who knew or cared what the metal tip of your shoelace is called. Thanks a lot, Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
#16 John, I believe the "tittle" is the cross-stroke on a lower-case "t", whereas the dot over a lower-case "i" is actually a "jot".
Tittle is the dot over lowercase I and J... I discovered this some 15? years ago now when my Brother received a Live Pig (Named Tittle) as a Christmas Present... he made the mistake of putting 'surprise me' on his suggested gift list... and thus ended our Family's Gift Exchange
- being confused/curious about why someone named a pig Tittle, I looked it up
scandiknavery...like many so great twentieth century words- we have james joyce to thank for that, as well as the deceitful scandinavians hahahaha I love you John Green!
Many years ago, a columnist suggested "borrow" as a measure word for columnists; that is, "a borrow of columnists." You can imagine why. P.S. the circular pieces of metal through which you run your shoe laces are called grommets.
I think that a group of kittens should be referred to as a _chaos_. A _kindle_ just makes me think of the thing I read books on when I can't have the physical version, and an _intrigue_ made more sense when we still used it as a synonym for entanglement.
Great video.I love learning new things everyday,subscribed.
Well I already knew what a glabella was…thanks Dan and Phil.
A group of pugs is called a Grumble
Is there a word for the area on your arm opposite your elbow? All I can think of is "elbow pit".
Or for that matter, the area behind your knees?
antecubital fossa
Well that's not gonna be very gracefully inserted into conversation.
The very tip of tour elbow is called your weenis
I already knew about the word glabella... because of AmazingPhil and Danisnotonfire!
everytime he says "Thank you for watching mental floss" I hear "Thank you for watching menopause" :)
I knew of Petrichor through Doctor Who as you mentioned and Zugzwang was part of a plot and the title of an episode of Criminal Minds. And people say you can't learn from TV
Interesting facts! 6:19 The Donkey part is hilarious XD
The term "Zarf" has been around long before it referred to the cardboard sleeve. There was a time when water-cooler paper cups were cone shaped and (obviously) inverted. Well, if you wanted to put that paper cup on your desk or not drink the water right away, you put the cup into a Zarf. Hard plastic bottom half of a coffee mug. With a flat bottom and a coffee mug style finger-hole. The paper cup fit perfectly into it.
The old version of the Zarf was featured on an old episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not, with Jack palance demonstrating its use
Help I can't stop watching these!
Actually in that context "off" is being used the same way each time. When an alarm is set and silent it is considered "on" and when it is triggered the alarm gets tripped off or deactivated and a 'siren' goes on. Just thought I'd help.
the bacon part from "kummerspeck" is very literally translated, we use the word "speck" (bacon) to refer in a nicer/funnier way to fat usually around the stomach area :3
As a slang term, sure, but it does mean bacon