This Man Can Pronounce Every Word in the Dictionary
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2024
- Pop quiz. Try pronouncing the following. Ready? Go. Elucubrate. Smaragdine. Scherenschnitte. Head scratchers, huh? Not for Jacques Bailly. As the official pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, he can tackle any word thrown at him. He started his wordsmith career as the 1980 spelling bee champion. These days, Jacques feels the heat of etymological battle from the other side of the mic.
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GIF or JIF?
Spelling carrer: GEE EYE EF
late
hey
Sorry is it JEE or GEE
Oooh cool. A verified user!
Wait what are you doing here
Phonetically consistent languages be like: _yeah, cool._
Is that word yeah pronounced yee or yay or ya?
MC
Lol
@@HogRidaaa it would be pronounced "yea-ahgh" in quite a few languages
No language is completely consistant
Adora Basil Winterpock unless it is a artificial language, like esperanto
Just as I thought he would stop this war beteeen the JIF’ers and GIF’ers he said GEE EYE EF
eu man learns how to pronounce english to talk shit better
@FURIOUSSS Is DM the only way to git gud at CS?
Beteeen?
Because both are correct.
@@frazerman1 the creator specifically said it's jif.
As a native speaker of the Serbian language, I never think about how words are pronounced because our language is entirely phonetic.
Bulgarian too.
Macedonian too
I'm sure most languages are phonetic. English is just a very hard and complicated language.
@@neetlikereallyneet9103 English is one of the easiest languages out there
same with hindi
This guy must be a nightmare to play in scrabble
not necessarily. He may know how to pronounce them, but not a lexicolog. Lexicology is science of (making) dictionary. One of my friends here in Indonesia, a Prof Denny Arnold Kwary is a lexicolog hired by Oxford English to build the Indonesian English Dictionary. Now he's a pain in Scrabble.
Wait,are the likes is 666??😱
@Nico hes just telling facts, probably gets the joke.
@Nico kids just whooshing things
@@pactumexcello9308 okay
Spelling GIF is like being neutral country in a world war.
People from Switzwerland: 👁👄👁
Thatz Jxde lmao
Pronouncing*
GIF I am now officially Switzerland
GIF of Sweden
I like how the narrator finishes by saying "liberry"
Was looking for this comment, thought I was alone lol
@@darianshaffer Yep, good to know I'm not alone either. I'm not a word pro, but I know a "liberry" when I hear one. What do you think, was it intentional, are they just trying to provoke us?
Had Dr. Bailey for Intro to Etymology at UVM. Incredible guy and great professor. One of the best classes I've taken, definitely life-changing
narrator sounds like the badass from every beer comercial
Thanks Brandon. Having a kegger for Labor Day weekend, you are invited....:).....THE NARRATOR!
Brandon Barnes his name is Redd Pepper
I liked the comment because you look kind hearted
Thank you so much. That is very kind of you to say!....:).....THE NARRATOR!
Keen, sorry, Redd is not the narrator. I narrated this video. But Redd is a great talent!!.....:)....THE NARRATOR!
Me: what's the wifi password
Friend: it's at the back of the router
The back of the router: 2:20
LMAO
Password: Itsatthebackoftherouter
I grew up in Hawaii, so to us it's not such a crazy word.
Evon Goodman same it’s really not that hard to pronounce
Yaas
I really respect this guy's opinion on
Pronunciation. Every time I try and tell people but there's not a wrong way say things in the dialects cannot be wrong they don't get it
I've watched this video years ago.
Watching it today in a completely different perspective all but proves it.
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Nice.
Ok
Clicked on this thinking he was going to read every word in the dictionary.. lmao
That’s exactly why I’m here
Yep in 3 minutes, because thats possible
John John she probably didn't look the time....
Same lol
Omg same 😂
I love how he just says "G I F" instead of saying gif or jif
I mean GIF is an abbreviation so he isn't wrong but if you were to pronounce it , you would pronounce it with a G because it stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
@@dani_phantom1701 we cleared it up boys
I mean he is right it’s the same a a pdf isn’t a peduf they are acronyms for files
Ma namea jif
Its a gijif
As a Scripps National Spelling Bee semifinalist, I take pride in being able to pronounce nearly every word an unabridged English dictionary if I know its origin. Dr. Bailly is an amazing person, and I'd love to learn from him.
I've been pronuncing GIF the same way he did all my life (as I also do with PNG). I feel so validated now, lol.
Same, I remember watching the Tom Scott video on where it is gif or jif and I was always reading it as G I F before.
Pung
them: *show the word **_gif_*
me: *sweats uncontrollably*
him: *GEE AI EF*
NOT FUNNY
@@albi-xn7bi like u
thx
@@albi-xn7bi ur welcome :D
Niti I am not an American can someone tell me what it is funny about Spelling Gif that word???????????"??🤨🤨🤨
"pronounce GIF."
"oh im not brave enough for politics"
LMFAOOO
But it’s obviously hard G
@@bobrob7407 no its jif
@@astraios69420 Bro do you know what it stands for? I don’t even have to explain myself due to the fact that the acronym is with a hard g
@@astraios69420 *G* raphics Interchange Format. It’s like aruging the I in gif is GEEF not gIHf
Man gets it right, says "let's go"
I love him
As a Spanish speaker I can't be more thankful that we can pronounce any word in our dictionary even if we've never seen it before. Isn't that what reading was made for? wtf English
I'm in Spanish 1 in school and I am so utterly grateful that y'all's pronunciation makes sense
Absolutely I love the Spanish pronunciation
Most of the words provided are not of English origin and some are even of Latin origin.
English is German, Latin, and all the Romance languages pretending to be one language.
@@thelad5 Yep. We have words from everywhere; that's why English is so hard to learn and perfect
Competitor: o-n-o-n-a-s-i-a
JUDGE: *Correct*
Competitor: "LEZZ GOO!"
2:31
Haha
I thought he said ‘score’
T- REKT Fortnite HAHAHA
He said "m" not "n"
@@fatoumfatoumeh nani he said lezz go
He could've ended the whole gif debate right there, but he didn't, what a guy
There shouldn't be a debate, it's so simple.
People are so stupid they misread G with a J.
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format.
@@Bar2o2a the creator pronounces it like the peanut butter....
@@Bar2o2a then NASA is pronounced naysa? this isn't how abbreviations work
@@reduxdev well there is no letter to confuse the A with, so no mot Naysa, also they take the first letter only, so it would be naysa if it was written like this NAeSA, because the E is what gives the A that sound, without the E it would sound like a normal A.
Besides we're talking about two different letter G and J in gif, not the same letter but different voules or something.
@@Bar2o2a this isn't the only example. the point is that, this isn't how abbreviations work. you pronounce them as if it's another word, or by the first letter of every word, how the guy did in the video
He didnt want both "gif and jif" peeps get triggered so he spelled it out as
Gee-eye-eff
The outro: Thanks Jock, I reckon you got more wisdom than all the books in the
*liberry*
[hands him GALA]
Oh, this is easy, it's gah-lah
"Gay-la."
My life is a lie
hhahahahahaah
Soooo The Met Gala is The Met Gay-la now?
Only in America is it gay-la.
@@h4vehart I'm American
@@h4vehart Im Italian and Spanish I aint american.
*G-I-F*
*Gif and jif people:* are we a joke to you?
Hahah
I'm a G-I-F and I found gif's and jif's awkward
Matters what the first letter is. And it’s G!
@@kylo7907 Well, g has two major ways to be spoken. It's like how you pronounce g in "gorgeous".
yes theyre joke hahaha
When this man speaks, speech input updates itself.
this guy can pronounce the whole dictionary and i just realised how ‘womb’ is pronounced just now.
like tomb? or have i been living in a lie too? lol
@@rg78w54 maybe idk
Is it GIF or JIF?
Doc. Bailly: No, GEE AI EF
JEE-AY-EF
Well the creator says jif but the urban dictionary says it’s gif
I say that too
*JA AI EEF*
I though it was GA EIF
*JEE- EH- AFF* **spits everywhere**
This guys smart. He doesn’t want to upset anyone so instead of saying gif or jif, he says g.i.f
Yeah I guess that is a good Idea, I think it is spelled gift but I'm not going to get in a comment fight today
@@brthdygrl6 Pepega
@@brthdygrl6 are u joking or...?
Tiffany Kozak I think it’s pronounced juice
He didn’t say j.i.f
The subtitles helped alot, thanks.
Love the narrator saying LIBARY, vs LIBRARY.
Why wouldn’t you ask him to say “Worcestershire sauce”
I would ask him to say "daddy chill"
“Hey can you pronounce Hkideflokiplowipmayoklap?”
Woo shti shire
@@McYeroc yes I live in Worcestershire and god how cant people say it
This man can pronounce every name in dictionary
X-Æ A-12 : hold my name
I believe that's pronounced as Larry
@@impeter245 It's Kyle
Its actually pronounced axe ae ee ae - toowellvee
Heheh robot funny
@@brady.widlake its not a robot lmao
Did anyone catch the end? (3:17) He’s got more wisdom than all the books in the liberry. 😎
I never focused so hard when I saw the GIF card, but never been so disappointed when he pronounced every letter
Urban Dictionary: *"I'm going to end this man's whole career."*
I suspect the guy who knows the entire urban dictionary looks VERY different to the guy in this video.
a culture of man definitely 😂
@@_sadgirl_8730 a man of culture* 😂
big trenta it's the person above me ^ username 😂
🔥 🔥 🔥
Plot twist: no one else knows how to pronounce this words so he just pronounces the word in his own way. No offence btw
Needs more likes
JAJDHAJ damn, deserves more likes
Thanks XD
underrated
Yeah it's actually true. He pronounced scherenschnitte completely wrong
When not even the guy that can pronounce every word can say “GIF”
as a German this was hilarious: "He can pronounce this thing (Scherenschnitte)" *proceeds to pronounce it wrong* :D
Gif and Jif people: HE’S GONNA SAY IT!
Jaques: G. I. F.
I swear
jif
What about Yif people?
@@sentient5 Yiff? As in Anthropomorphic Animal Pornography?
Guys, the G in Gif is pronounced like the g in GaraGe.
Everyone: Gala
Him: GAY
That's American pronunciation.
😂😂🤣🤣
@@bozhang412 不对。我不说这样
@@bozhang412 Not anywhere I've lived
L
I even didn’t know that there is a spelling competition. I heard Japanese learners struggle with memorizing many kanji characters. However, the number of Kanji characters is limited, while that of English spellings is quite a lot.
He’s like my opposite. I can spell any word perfectly after hearing it even just once but won’t be able to even remotely sound correct pronouncing it.
Subtitles: "Is it pronounced cache or cache?" "Cache."
Deaf people: *confused screaming*
Well they fucked up, then because he said "cache or cachet"
Well it didnt have an accent over the e so of course it was pronounced cache.
Can dear people scream?
Oinite Oderfla i shouldnt be laughing 💀💀
Oinite Oderfla I'm the 1000th like
He broke the theory its Not Jif or Gif Its G-I-F
I mean it is an acronym
Technically it is, people just want to read it as a word to make it single syllable, a short cut so to speak.
Anna Baby I was about to piss if he said jif but he spelled it and I was like good choice
Cause it’s a acronym not a word
If u go on Google and type in gif it pronounces it giff. Stands for graphics interchange format. How did we not see this smh
Brilliant man!!
0:53 "Giro"
Gyro zeppeli: Are you sure you just mispronounced my name or if thats not the case you need to face my steel balls.
Him: pronuncing Scherenschnitte
me: *laughs in german*
Genau und dafür noch heftig herum prahlen! 😂
Jup, hab ich auch gedacht😂
jaaa haha
U Nazi
Yulls what’s wrong with you?
Narrator : ***hands him GIF***
Him : "G-I-F"
Me : "listen here you piece of-"
Him: c-r-a-p pronounced. “Kr a P”
I don’t understand why people say it with a soft G, I mean the G in GIF stands for graphics so it would only make sense to use a normal G
@Fy. A yes
@Fy. A no
He just didn’t want to add fuel to the fire. Even though literally every dictionary accepts both a soft g or hard g as a correct pronunciation.
Thanks to that smart man for helping us pronouncing th words right
I’m more impressed by the voice of the narrator
Thanks Froggy.....THE NARRATOR!
Me at 0:57: Yay I can finally learn whether it’s pronounced “JIF” or “GIF”!
**says G.I.F.**
Me: ☹️
Ikr😂
is it a joke?
McVic226 It’s an acronym, not meant to be pronounced as a word, but rather spelled.
its gif the g stands for graphic
FreshSquezedJuice it’s an acronym so just spell it out.
2:32 “lets go!” 😂
..?
MusheMellow soooooooooooooooo
How’s that funny?
That hood came out real good
Let's gooooooo
Bahahhaha 2020 kids xd
We’ve all seen this guy. Glad we now know his story.
This fucking speaker is such a delight to listen to.
Rusty texas accent with a slight smirk.
Gotta love it.
And i'm from Europe lol
Thanks Faxi. Funny thing is I am from Texas and I do smirk a lot…..THE NARRATOR!!!
*i have one question. can he pronounce all the words in rap god*
*ASUMALIMANSNZNMSMZMSMSMSMSNSNMDNNDMDMNDNDNDNDNDJDJSNDNDNDNDNNFNFNFNFNDNCKDKDNDJSKFNDNDMDNNDNDNDNDNDNFNFNNFNFNDNDNNSSNDNNDNSNDNDNDMSNSN*
нεηтαι *You. I like you.*
Suma Luma duma looma you assuming I’m a human what i got to do to you to make it prove to you I’m super human
Innovative and I’m made of rubber do that anything you say is ricocheting over me and it will glue to you
I’m never stating more than ever demonstrating how to give a mother f*cking audience feeling like it’s never fading levitating and I know the haters are forever waiting to the day that they can see I fell of and they be celebrating
I make elevating music
You make elevated music
Omg this literally took me ages lmao 😂
Obviously it’s not perfect
Lily Forrest you missed a lot
Tutorial:
*SABALALASCHIZSHNINIANEGAHSBRINININININIAJEHJABSJSMSNSKSHEJSJSHWKHERGJWJSBEHHBSSBK*
"hubbbhubbbahakkkapuapapa'ua" - this is an easy word.
But "freedom"? Now thats hard.
Swank Master god damn freedom hating liberals
It was an 1/3 of those examples, words we are really familiar with so we can remember easily. So when the narrator says some vowels sound the same in those words we can easily call back to it.
its humuhumunukunukuapua’a
its our state fish
(fish of hawaii)
Humuhumhnukunukuapua'a
But he pronounced it wrong at first so it was not so easy even for him.
I'm surprised not everybody can pronounce or read at least 50% as well as this guy can.
How cool is his career, if I didn't already have career goals I'd want to aspire to be working in that job!
What if he’s just making up random pronunciations and no one knows
whoa that smart
How dare you
Lmao I had the same thoughts
Zulxy he actually pronounced Scherenschnitte wrong
Ikr
Guy: Is this pronounced Cache or Cache?
CSGO Players: Pathetic.
Hahaha was lookin for that one
Lmao
Why is your name Bizon, you silver? 🤮
@@Nicholas-cr6lq awp chose kenny, pp bizon chose me.
BiZoN Good point
I had the opportunity to have BBQ once with Dr. Bailly. It was awesome!
Love this narrator
Thanks Savage....:)....THE NARRATOR!
0:55
Me: "Finally. What is the correct pronunciation of gif?"
Him: "Gee Eye Eff"
Me: "What the hell?"
Mujahid Syed don’t r/wooosh me but he was spelling it out. G I F.
@@val-di3bv r/woosh
@@user-xg3bf1dz1n r/itsawooooshwith4os
@@user-xg3bf1dz1n r/madlad
h thank you for correctly naming the sub reddit, I am glad I did not have to correct you
I think I had a stroke after hearing the way he said “gala” and “gyro”.
yes, I pronounce them, gah-lah and jai-row, not gay-lah and gee-row. English words are pronounced many different ways around the world.
English should have accents on the vowels tbh because we have neutral vowels and long vowels, neutrals can be like :a and long vowels like: ā
Also Roquefort or Jacques? 😉
I’m Greek, that’s no where near how he says “gyro”
lmao right
i appreciate the G I F spelling, humble man
Lye-berry lmao I feel like the narrator said it like that to trigger all the pronunciation whizzes watching this video.
Welllllllllll, actually the script writer did that, but yeah, it did trigger people.......:).......THE NARRATOR!
3:18 He said libary instead of library.
LOL
I think that was intended, the way he says it
yeah it was intentional
No shit, the guy said the dog gets to decide the way it wants to bark, and the narrator literally went off of that to make an intentional mistake. It was pretty obvious.
r/woooosh
I really did thought he was gonna break the "gif" debate... G-I-F
*look ma I'm famous*
Flellopop *think* sorry if dis is an annoyance
He saved himself from conflict
200th like
Flellopop it is already broken lol the inventor of gif, Steve Wilhite, stated that it’s pronounced as J I F
It's 901 now mate
Love the “liberry” at the end
Aw....you're the sweetest.......:)......THE NARRATOR!
I love the smile after he says G.I.F.
"This man can pronounce every word in the dictionary"
Because he can read the fucking phonetic alphabet that's provided.
Salty
Haha yeah that’s what I’m saying
I was just about to comment on that when I saw yours first! Yes, that’s what IPA/any phonetic alphabet is for!
And has memorized it.
I was going to say this
You decide
Like: *GIF*
comment: *GIF*
Jif!!!!
Gif
Emiliano Velazquez I just commented this but looks like you said it before me
Well i think gif...or maybe gif......ok I decide on gif
It's clearly gif
"'preciate it, dawg"
This man is the opposite of my elementary school principal, which scored me second place in my spelling bee due to spelling "picture" as "picture. Exactly the same.
anyone else here who didn't know how to pronounce GIF??? 😂😂😂
"GIF" stands for "Graphics Interchange Format". Pronounce the letters the same way you do when you say "Graphics Interchange Format", i.e. GIF with a hard G-sound and not a soft J-sound.
Except that the creators of the format themselves pronounced the word as "jif" with a soft "G" /dʒɪf/ as in "gin", deliberately echoing the American peanut butter brand Jif. And it's a logical choice, no better or worse then yours, just different. Like the video says, it's really down to the majority to choose.
The fuck,, suren
Its GIF not GIF
Suren
Shouldn't you be playing chess Suren?
Someone: "Don't eat anything you can't pronounce in the ingredients label"
Jacques: hold my dictionary
Actually no. He will hold his own dictionary.
@Anonymous User Blind people be like
Bro I did not say that...
*eats dictionary*
His accent/pronunciation is so pleasant to hear
I love watching Spelling Bee competition.
'if people pronounce a word a certain way, then thats how its pronounced'
I'm yet to hear anyone pronounce gala, as gayla...
YES!Also gyro i thought it was pronounced "Ge-ro"
2:54 you are totally right
@@squidew0 0:53 it IS pronounced "Ge-ro" tho, u r right
I thot it was pronounced
"Jai-ro"
@@SabsWithR Same sometimes i call it Ge-ro sometimes i call is Jai-ro
Aleksia B I believe the Greeks say it as “Yee-roh”.
Narrator sounds like he is from a wild west movie!
I do live in Texas Pranav. 'Nuff said........THE NARRATOR!
2:06 lol this really completes it
Lmao
I think he is Johnny cash
It's the music
This felt like my highschool English class got paired with a Chevy truck month commercial
“English words are not always spelled as they sound” yeah no, as a foreigner, English words are *never* spelled or pronounced as they sound.
Why does the narrator sound like he's advertising a family friendly product.
Describe family friendly??.....:).....THE NARRATOR!
@@chriskoudouris2216
Why r u almost replying everyone?
He is the voice actor from a previous video. He voices movie trailers.
Even I thought that..😂
Come home to simple ricks
*G-ay-l-ah G-ey-r-oh*
English people: are we a joke to you?
i thought it was
gal-ah and guy-roh
@@TheXavball exactly
now i'm weirded out because i read Steel Ball Run
@@user-sw1qw9yi5e tell them to go eat shit, johnny!
@@user-sw1qw9yi5e no one cares about jojo
I like the casual "let's go" after doing something that no one who acts like him could even dream of doing
And what’s difficult about that? I can pronounce every word in the dictionary as well, the only difficulty is having to pronounce it right
When this guy makes a spelling error the whole dictionary updates for him
Ok
@@cyrusplayz4966 ok?
Ok
@@f1shyspace ok...
@@elielsolares8695 Ok
I can too with Google translate 😎
Ur not funny
Ok....
That do be fax doe
Hey you again
Google Translate cringe
Finally someone who pronounces GIF the way I do!
His pronunciation of gyro is the only one I dont know a definition of - yirow for the greek taco, jyrow for the spinny bit
Plot twist: he made up the pronunciation and people went with it
I don’t think anybody else cause that. I got to the ending and I was like so we’re going by how he thinks it’s said.
@@dannyrios1280 r/whoosh
@@thomasmadman383 And Gyro
I'm 599 likes.
Like wtf
@@dannyrios1280 r/woooosh
2:32 "LETS GOOOOOO"
@jose rubious dafuq? If it was literally the most average human being, i would have said the same exact thing because i say it myself
@jose rubious you're the racist..
*gets disqualified*
Kav Linn he’s just trolling
I know that was cool he wasn’t a nerd like the rest
i like how this is about pronunciation, and at around 3:16 the narrator says " libary"
You can do it as well. You know what... You have to feel this language and have to delve into the art of individual sound of each letter.
when he pronounced “gala” the way he did, i had a stroke
bcbi bcxr same
i say both
I know I thought he could pronounce every word in the dictionary, obviously not.
I replayed that part and was like wtf
Doggymisfit that’s not how I pronounce it either, but I’m pretty sure that’s the correct way
Spelling bee: **spells an extremely complex word correctly**
Also the spelling bee: yeah bros lessgo
666 likes
@@bla7806
actually it's
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
reap_datutorialist I know you were curious of that word and looked it up and saw that it was incorrect and there for thought you would be super fly and cool to correct
Lt WetFlipFlops I have no desire to do that my friend I just typed up a fact and as you said so what if he did so what if I did just typed something cause its obvious but besides that Im glad you could notice after doing a thorough reread
That pop off though. So genuine you know that kid worked for it.
"This Man Can Pronounce Every Word in the Dictionary"
0:20 proceeds to pronounce a long 'e' as a short 'e'
3:18 libary.. that killed me
You should try reading it.....:).....THE NARRATOR!