Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  3 года назад +1475

    Do you want to try out some fake words? Well boy do I have something for you: the HAI topic suggestions form! Submit your topic idea, using any words in the dictionary (fake or real), and if we use your topic, we'll eventually send you a free HAI t-shirt! I know this word doesn't always have the right definition in the dictionary, but the HAI t-shirt is what's sometimes apparently known by the kids as "drip." So submit your topic idea here to get your very own HAI "drip"!!!!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

    • @Lusonice
      @Lusonice 3 года назад +3

      oki dokie

    • @DylanDynamic522
      @DylanDynamic522 3 года назад +3

      HI SAM

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 года назад +2

      Hi SAM

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 года назад +2

      Ok...bye then SAM

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 года назад +2

      Lol if u werent this funny I wont be watching u despite of the great facts. Plz always focus on quantity over quality

  • @JabbaWokkey88
    @JabbaWokkey88 3 года назад +7175

    "Every dictionary has one mistake" was, in my humble opinion, the best joke so far this year

    • @mk_mason
      @mk_mason 3 года назад +152

      yup, it’s spelled m-e

    • @nascentspace
      @nascentspace 3 года назад +55

      Took me a minute to get it lol

    • @Angelica-cj5wf
      @Angelica-cj5wf 3 года назад +36

      I don't get it 😐

    • @kyleangelocastro9460
      @kyleangelocastro9460 3 года назад +13

      It’s still january bro

    • @colton.421
      @colton.421 3 года назад +76

      @@kyleangelocastro9460 That’s why he said ‘so far’...

  • @ArtStoneUS
    @ArtStoneUS 3 года назад +3589

    I was expecting it to be a mechanism to detect copyright violations, in the same way that map creators add fictitious places

  • @EonityLuna
    @EonityLuna 3 года назад +3529

    Legit tho “dord” would sound like a great way to call someone dense i.e. stupid. 👀
    “You are such a dord!”

    • @seanwilkinson8696
      @seanwilkinson8696 3 года назад +255

      "Omigawd, fer shure, like, gag me with a spoon! "Dord" is a totally tubular new word. Like, next time I'm at the Galleria for some bitchin' new leg warmers and a cup of berry fro-yo, and, y'know, some melvin or waldo or whatevarr tries to, like, pick me up, hit on me, or acts all spazzy and barf-o-rama, y'know, like, I'm totally calling him a "dord". Like, it'll be the raddest mega-burn!"
      What a cringe way to talk.

    • @sealdew5348
      @sealdew5348 3 года назад +209

      @@seanwilkinson8696
      The way u typed that- i cant even

    • @oumardiop1
      @oumardiop1 3 года назад +65

      @@sealdew5348 yeah im not reading all of that lol

    • @kyrier9827
      @kyrier9827 3 года назад +34

      Yeah like r/dord

    • @zacharytang3840
      @zacharytang3840 3 года назад +21

      dord = turd

  • @theclashingcrafter5354
    @theclashingcrafter5354 3 года назад +2540

    "Can you guess which one it is?"
    _Me who just watched dord from Vsauce_
    *Oh you have no idea the amount of knowledge I'm carrying*

    • @waqarsarfraz4205
      @waqarsarfraz4205 3 года назад +57

      God, thank you.
      I knew I had heard about it before a long time ago, now I know where from.

    • @hjj9269
      @hjj9269 2 года назад +1

      Sameeeeee.

    • @chairger
      @chairger 2 года назад +4

      ohhh, so thats why i already knew it

    • @nope69q
      @nope69q 2 года назад +17

      or is it?

    • @laurelelasselin
      @laurelelasselin 2 года назад +14

      Me who actually looked at the thumbnail for this video:

  • @TheCheck999
    @TheCheck999 3 года назад +2965

    Dumb dictionary people: Um..uh we made a mistake we are sorry.
    Me, a smart man: It was a completely intentional copyright trap so other publishers don't rip-off our dictionary.

    • @runeedmondlloyd
      @runeedmondlloyd 3 года назад +99

      TheCheck999
      Lemme tell you a little something, it's not copy-write, it's copyright

    • @vioooarora
      @vioooarora 3 года назад +20

      You are totally a smart man
      r/facepalm time

    • @TheCheck999
      @TheCheck999 3 года назад +44

      @@runeedmondlloyd Thanks it has been corrected.

    • @ClarinoI
      @ClarinoI 3 года назад +90

      That's because you know about maps.

    • @hoodzzeee
      @hoodzzeee 3 года назад +3

      @@ClarinoI the algorithm works in mysterious ways.

  • @OhThatEdit
    @OhThatEdit 3 года назад +3831

    Because they are the boss of their own language

    • @xBlueWolf
      @xBlueWolf 3 года назад +10

      No

    • @maeam
      @maeam 3 года назад +16

      Wowzers

    • @trexmike222
      @trexmike222 3 года назад +3

      Lol

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 года назад +17

      Vsauce music plays: OR ARE THEY???
      Michael raises an eyebrow, of course.
      Edit: WOW 12 LIKES

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 года назад +11

      Michael next second : Actually since it is people who, if use a word enough, can add a new word, it is people who are the boss of their own language.
      Also, dont say that there are some words in dictionaries which people dont use, since that's why nerds exist.
      Edit: WOW 12 LIKES

  • @vincentquinn3577
    @vincentquinn3577 2 года назад +404

    Imagine waking up in a parallel universe where everyone says "fneeze" and looks at you like your crazy when you say "sneeze"

    • @glowstonelovepad9294
      @glowstonelovepad9294 2 года назад +1

      No, it's fnese

    • @ericemmons3040
      @ericemmons3040 2 года назад +4

      And if that's the parallel universe in which Mr. Spock has a beard, you might get sent to the agonizer booth for saying that. . .

    • @JaharNarishma
      @JaharNarishma 2 года назад +4

      There is a lot of overlap between Scandinavian words and English words. Sneeze having had an F instead of an S fits well. Fnys (pronounced almost the same as fneeze) is a sharp exhale through the nose. The two words have almost the same meaning.

    • @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
      @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker 2 года назад

      Bunch a doords.

    • @WullNar
      @WullNar Год назад

      Rick & Morty actually have an episode where they go to an universe that almost the same, the only different thing is they pronounce Parmesan as parmesian

  • @NotNonamelol
    @NotNonamelol 3 года назад +155

    „If you read the dictionary any other book is a remix.“ - someone somewhen

  • @dippy2k839
    @dippy2k839 3 года назад +297

    HAI: "Full of fake words like... ...bricks"
    CIA: We finally got him

    • @Secret_Moon
      @Secret_Moon 3 года назад +1

      oh so that's what it means

  • @Winasaurus
    @Winasaurus 3 года назад +565

    Okay, so when I misspell something in my essay, and the teachers act like I've committed a war crime. Edwin Sandys does it and they just make it into a brand new word so that it doesn't count as misspelling in the first place. This is some extreme favouritism honestly.

    • @syweb2
      @syweb2 2 года назад +23

      It's based on context.
      In this case, nobody realized Edwin made a typo in the first place.

    • @eshbena
      @eshbena 2 года назад +54

      So true. I used to tell my English teachers that if Shakespeare could just pull words out of his butt, so could I. They were strangely unsympathetic to that argument. XD

    • @tuckergary1516
      @tuckergary1516 2 года назад +3

      when i was small i'd put the accent on the wrong sillabul

  • @dansamuelb1231
    @dansamuelb1231 3 года назад +50

    I kept telling my friends “irregardless” was not a word but dictionaries added it.

    • @ericemmons3040
      @ericemmons3040 2 года назад +9

      I still think it's not a real word. . .

    • @BishjamIC
      @BishjamIC 2 года назад +2

      Right! Though the definition describes it as an irregular word, so in a way it's still not a word.

  • @bryanlane7208
    @bryanlane7208 3 года назад +146

    Just wanna say I love this channel. No filler, good jokes, fast sponser plugging, and actually fully as interesting. Nice.

    • @bryanlane7208
      @bryanlane7208 3 года назад +27

      I didn't mispell sponsor, I was just adding a new word to the dictionary.

    • @figgynewton5664
      @figgynewton5664 2 года назад +6

      @@bryanlane7208 No wonder you love this channel

    • @samsungtestuserguest4742
      @samsungtestuserguest4742 2 года назад +3

      @@bryanlane7208 well honestly with the jokes I can barely understand the video

    • @jdjrhejrjrjejrj7921
      @jdjrhejrjrjejrj7921 2 года назад +5

      @@samsungtestuserguest4742 bad comprehension skills on your part

    • @insomniagobrrr5542
      @insomniagobrrr5542 Год назад

      However, due to the length of the video, the sponsor segments are about one fifth of the video

  • @ChengTeoh
    @ChengTeoh 3 года назад +2317

    Now I definitely know what I'm calling all those Institutional traders who continue to short GME ... a dirty SNOLLYGOSTER! ;)

    • @malikes4591
      @malikes4591 3 года назад +51

      Damn you snollygosters....

    • @richraichu4068
      @richraichu4068 3 года назад +33

      💎🙌

    • @flameepidemic4839
      @flameepidemic4839 3 года назад +12

      Sounds like an old word fron the 60s 😂

    • @TheSam1902
      @TheSam1902 3 года назад +3

      Stuff from r/wallstreetbets

    • @wrash
      @wrash 3 года назад +10

      RobinHood is the real Bendover

  • @georgf9279
    @georgf9279 3 года назад +282

    I thought this would be about the fake words they mix in to catch copycats.

    • @g-man3785
      @g-man3785 3 года назад +19

      You and I both. Like the phantom cities from atlas publications.

    • @gnochhuos645
      @gnochhuos645 3 года назад +14

      A fellow Map Men enthusiast?

    • @khensiapco3336
      @khensiapco3336 3 года назад

      esquivalence

    • @yaltschuler
      @yaltschuler 3 года назад

      @@gnochhuos645 Hell yeah brother

    • @Cassandria
      @Cassandria 3 года назад

      @@gnochhuos645 BLANK

  • @Pixelcraftian
    @Pixelcraftian 2 года назад +153

    After that "Every dictionary has one mistake" joke I'm really hoping the next dictionary I read has a typo in the definetion for typo lol, cool video!

  • @weijiafang1298
    @weijiafang1298 3 года назад +37

    Similar thing happens in Chinese character sets. One legend is as follows:
    Somebody working for JIS X 0208 (a pre-Unicode Japanese standard) needed 𡚴 (山 above 女), a character that could not be typed on his Japanes typewriter. Instead, he typed something beginning with 山 (like 峯) and something ending with 女 (like 姿), cut the respective parts out, and pasted them together. However, the slit between two pieces of paper was mistaken as one more stroke after being faxed, and so we have 妛 (ㄓ above 女), a "fake" character that went into Unicode through JIS X 0208.

    • @zzz7903
      @zzz7903 11 месяцев назад

      How did you type these?!

    • @w0rlds-end_
      @w0rlds-end_ 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@zzz7903 they're probably using a chinese keyboard on their phone or they're using one of those websites that has a bunch of unicode characters.

    • @silvermeasuringspoons6462
      @silvermeasuringspoons6462 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@zzz7903 search "Pinyin", it's basically English alphabet represent sounds in Chinese.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 3 года назад +2182

    Hai: *Makes a video about dord*
    Vsauce Fans: *There’s something wrong I can feel it*

  • @farhan4
    @farhan4 3 года назад +361

    everybody gangsta till dictionaries start producing words of their own

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 года назад +1

      It's weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my videos. Sometimes it is annoying. But right now it would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear fata

    • @hpsmash77
      @hpsmash77 3 года назад +2

      @@AxxLAfriku I have never seen you before 👍

    • @DeerJerky
      @DeerJerky 3 года назад +9

      @@hpsmash77 No no do not fall into his trap

    • @Ninjaznexx
      @Ninjaznexx 3 года назад

      Then everyone will be slarfst instead

    • @hpsmash77
      @hpsmash77 3 года назад

      @@DeerJerky I chose to fall into his trap

  • @georgemakarri7004
    @georgemakarri7004 3 года назад +34

    I laughed for way too long at the word “gla”

  • @derschattenpoet
    @derschattenpoet 3 года назад +499

    "Can I have a gla of wine please?"
    "You mean glas?"
    "No, one is just fine."
    "..."
    "..."
    xD

    • @christianstarke1117
      @christianstarke1117 3 года назад +24

      That is like the ancient Roman who walked into a bar and ordered a martinis. The bartender said, "you mean a martini". The ancient Roman said "No, if I want more than one I will ask for it".

    • @revenant6371
      @revenant6371 3 года назад +4

      @@christianstarke1117 originally thought urs was good until i realized that the only time the “i” ending is used in 3rd declension is also singular (along with -is)

    • @valakarhtelgrem5210
      @valakarhtelgrem5210 2 года назад +5

      This is so silly that it makes it so funny. Especially the xD hahaha

  • @60secondfinance81
    @60secondfinance81 3 года назад +699

    Next video on Wendover:
    The logistics of dictionaries

    • @satakrionkryptomortis
      @satakrionkryptomortis 3 года назад +4

      i'd like summary about word wars first. would make the logistics more compelling.

    • @Michael_Chater
      @Michael_Chater 3 года назад +41

      I think you mean *Bendover Production*

    • @JakeLikesTech
      @JakeLikesTech 3 года назад +11

      Nah, it's going to be the logistics of transporting dictionaries. Always gotta have a plane in there somehow.

    • @ciqme
      @ciqme 3 года назад

      Well first...

    • @alveolate
      @alveolate 3 года назад +1

      @@JakeLikesTech first, a little neuron has to spontaneously fire in the exact right way to produce the ideation of a word...

  • @Bairdicus89
    @Bairdicus89 3 года назад +853

    Misread as “Why real dictators have fake words”. Only realised at the end when no Kim. Still waiting for Kim.

  • @duddledeedo
    @duddledeedo 2 года назад +41

    Btw, "cherise" is taken directly from the French word for cherry "cerise".

    • @mbdg6810
      @mbdg6810 2 года назад +2

      i knew that right away.

    • @syweb2
      @syweb2 2 года назад

      As were a lot of other English words.

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 года назад

      No, it is the French word for cherise. Cherry is not a word.

    • @duddledeedo
      @duddledeedo 2 года назад

      @@dannypipewrench533 wut

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 года назад

      @@duddledeedo Cherry was adapted from cherise.

  • @sauffle
    @sauffle 3 года назад +15

    3:33 lmao

  • @12kenbutsuri
    @12kenbutsuri 3 года назад +551

    I was so sure it was so people can't copy, darn.

    • @TomasPetrik
      @TomasPetrik 3 года назад +122

      Like the fake places in maps? Yeah, I thought that would be the reason too.

    • @hussey4826
      @hussey4826 3 года назад +41

      I thought the same when I clicked the video. I thought I will click on this video for Sam's terrible jokes but I ended up learning how new words are added to a dictionary.

    • @pierreabbat6157
      @pierreabbat6157 3 года назад +11

      That's "esquivalience". "Dord" and "kime" are ghost words, not copyright traps.

    • @noahdeng9401
      @noahdeng9401 3 года назад +1

      Same with me

    • @ssxxxss
      @ssxxxss 3 года назад +2

      Same

  • @pillai9587
    @pillai9587 3 года назад +722

    Honestly that Bendover Productions joke was the best joke yall have made throughout the entirety of your channel

    • @reda29100
      @reda29100 2 года назад +7

      This comment is about to be flooded by Pleasant Green fans, and literally the previous vid I watched was him!

    • @figgynewton5664
      @figgynewton5664 2 года назад +7

      After 2 videos, not a big achievement since nothing but cringe dad jokes

    • @nermosh
      @nermosh 2 года назад +3

      Russian letter B reads as W/V

    • @RogbodgeVideo
      @RogbodgeVideo 2 года назад +2

      @@nermosh Is that how it happened? Because on an English keyboard, W and B are nowhere near each other!

    • @tezzla6358
      @tezzla6358 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@figgynewton5664dad jokes aren't cringe

  • @FewVidsJustComments
    @FewVidsJustComments 3 года назад +9

    0:56
    *dord is the impostor. 3 among us players remains*

  • @arcadiaberger9204
    @arcadiaberger9204 Год назад +6

    I love the list of rejected words at the back of the comprehensive OED, such as herebote (a military messenger) and compearer (a person not a party to a lawsuit who is permitted by the judge to speak upon the matter in a Scottish court, only there's no such rule), and guay (an unbridled horse).
    I try to work those words into my writing, sneaking them into common use in the hope that one day they may make their way into the *_FRONT_* of the dictionary . . . .

  • @DylanWebb101
    @DylanWebb101 3 года назад +580

    Bendover productions sounds like a great channel

  • @gabeevans10
    @gabeevans10 3 года назад +173

    So now he have Wendover Productions, Half As Interesting, Bendover Productions, Hall As Interesting, Quarter As Interesting Four Times As Interesting, Half As Airworthy, and probably many other random channels I’m forgetting...

    • @metadragon7500
      @metadragon7500 3 года назад +2

      Travel as Interesting, if I remember.

    • @calebyao.
      @calebyao. 3 года назад +3

      And Sam from Wendover

    • @YLCCOfficial
      @YLCCOfficial 2 года назад +1

      @@calebyao. S A M F R O M 🅱 E N D O V E R

  • @flux202
    @flux202 3 года назад +10

    "Every dictionary has atleast 1 mistake"
    Well, yeah true.

  • @ashwikraj8166
    @ashwikraj8166 2 года назад

    The bendover and mistake joke made my day!! Keep up the good work man......

  • @Trolligarch
    @Trolligarch 3 года назад +356

    I thought this video was just going to be a dictionary equivalent of trap streets (to detect copyright infringement) but its actually about etymology and am pleasantly surprised I learnt something

    • @jakerussell135
      @jakerussell135 3 года назад

      yeah same

    • @izziebon
      @izziebon 3 года назад

      Yes I thought same: we call it ‘seeding’ so that you can compare your saved and dated original with an infringement copy from somebody else who has ripped off your original material.

    • @XnoobSpeakable
      @XnoobSpeakable 3 года назад

      I think he made a TWL on that

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol 3 года назад

      Oh ditto lol. Now I don't have to write out this comment :p

    • @martinjost5637
      @martinjost5637 2 года назад

      Me as well...

  • @spidercollector9636
    @spidercollector9636 3 года назад +372

    “eke” in nickname actually was pronounced closer to “ekeh” and meant “also” Therefore nickname means also-name

    • @L83467
      @L83467 3 года назад

      ++

    • @gunnarallgottsmann
      @gunnarallgottsmann 3 года назад +1

      Isn’t it “ aka “ = also known as. Enjoy the weekend. Stay safe, healthy, happy and be blessed ✌️🍀❣️

    • @spidercollector9636
      @spidercollector9636 3 года назад +38

      @@gunnarallgottsmann aka is an acronym which is unrelated

    • @gunnarallgottsmann
      @gunnarallgottsmann 3 года назад +3

      @@spidercollector9636 Ok 👌, I didn’t know that, brother, thank you for the info. Take care ✌️🍀❣️

    • @luvvkitties
      @luvvkitties 3 года назад +2

      Dude i had to read this five times to understand this..

  • @artistwithouttalent
    @artistwithouttalent Год назад +6

    It fascinates me that you can track the change of some of these words through different languages. For instance, in Spanish cherry is still _cereza_ (i.e. it's still formatted with a trailing _s_ sound) and orange is _naranja,_ still having the _n_ at the beginning.

  • @aotoda486
    @aotoda486 2 года назад +1

    Regardless + Irrespective + Confusion = "Irregardless"

  • @GeoffJop
    @GeoffJop 3 года назад +149

    Expediate: Mission Failed Successfully

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl 3 года назад +7

      This shows some real esquivalience on the part of the dictionary people.

    • @Havron
      @Havron 3 года назад +4

      @@Attaxalotl It's a perfectly cromulent way to embiggen the lexicon.

    • @LittleWhole
      @LittleWhole 3 года назад +5

      @@Havron Ironically, the word cromulent is not cromulent.

    • @ericpode6095
      @ericpode6095 3 года назад +1

      Damn, beat me to it!

    • @dedr4m
      @dedr4m 3 года назад

      I'm glad I'm scrolling down to read on a whim, LMFAO, this was funny

  • @sergioml497
    @sergioml497 3 года назад +117

    I love it how in Spanish there's an organization that discusses the evolution of the language, "Real Academia de la lengua Española" to avoid expediating new words.

    • @camila_lt
      @camila_lt 2 года назад +10

      I love that due to typos English people had a naranj instead of an orange, but turned it into an orange so Spanish speakers struggled on it at first

    • @remu6841
      @remu6841 2 года назад +9

      mfw the RAE accepted "amigovio"

    • @maximedurante7574
      @maximedurante7574 2 года назад

      France has that too

    • @joannamysluk8623
      @joannamysluk8623 2 года назад +3

      I see what you did there.

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 года назад

      You, yourself, just ticked off everyone who speaks Spanish as a first language. I do not speak Spanish at all, but I know what you did.

  • @guigui70051
    @guigui70051 3 года назад +12

    I love how he educates while being so funny 😂😂 👍

  • @KelsaRavenlock
    @KelsaRavenlock Год назад +4

    So basically all old dictionaries started out as a version of urban dictionary.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 3 года назад +223

    Fun fact: in the French dictionary, they call a quarter pounder “a royal with cheese” because they don’t know what a quarter pounder is

    • @underwatermonkey3443
      @underwatermonkey3443 3 года назад +1

      Wow

    • @tommmicron
      @tommmicron 3 года назад +28

      Could've just called it the eighth kilogramer

    • @Ncaron531
      @Ncaron531 3 года назад +14

      I mean we don't use pounds in french so it makes no sense for most people

    • @litete2512
      @litete2512 3 года назад

      Oh. OH.

    • @bracco23
      @bracco23 3 года назад +2

      r/whoosh I guess.

  • @lukam8815
    @lukam8815 3 года назад +240

    Bendover Productions

  • @cerealssbu7545
    @cerealssbu7545 2 года назад

    I was expecting it to be something like the mistakes purposefully placed on maps to prevent copying, but I was surprised with some new, more than half as interesting knowledge.

  • @erikaguilar8677
    @erikaguilar8677 2 года назад

    This video made me smile such genius writing and wordplay

  • @logangotlost6571
    @logangotlost6571 3 года назад +95

    It’s also the reason the British say “Leftenant” and not “Lieutenant”. The “u” got mistaken for a “v” and they just ran with it.

    • @tomkruger5859
      @tomkruger5859 3 года назад +28

      And there i was wondering where als the rightenants went

    • @azuregriffin1116
      @azuregriffin1116 3 года назад +5

      I would have thought it comes from Greek, as in modern Greek, αυ is 'af' but a u sound is made with ου, so I was thinking the U thing shifted to F. Still cool.

    • @67alora
      @67alora 3 года назад +6

      I'm English and I've never pronounced it like "leftenant", nor have I ever heard anyone else say it like that. That's interesting.

    • @romaios1609
      @romaios1609 3 года назад +5

      @@67alora where do you live in England where they don't pronounce it leftenant?

    • @romaios1609
      @romaios1609 3 года назад +26

      @logan it wasn't that they confused the letters, it was the fact they weren't different letters. U and V were essentially just different 'fonts' of the same letter, with the meaning either being a vowel or consonant, and you only knew through context. So a word like 'us' could be written with the rounded form of the letter 'U', or it could be written 'vs' with the sharpened form 'V' (like in the 1611 King James Bible). The best example of this are older buildings like the American Museum of Natural History, which actually says 'MVSEVM OF NATVRAL HISTORY' on the building itself. You can also see this in the letter W, which is called 'double U', but is actually two Vs placed together, because V and U were the same letter.
      So lieutenant was also written lievtenant (with there being no different letters or difference in pronunciation, only in font), and you had no way of knowing how to pronounce it unless you had already heard it pronounced (which wasn't likely, as it was a French word), so people just had to guess.
      By the time it was generally agreed and standard that 'U' should only be used for the vowel, and 'V' for the consonant, it was already too late and most of the English speaking world had been using the pronunciation 'lievtenant' for many generations.
      The reason for all of this is that the ancestor of our alphabet, the Phoenician alphabet, used the same symbol for both 'W' and 'U', since they were not considered very distinct. This was continued by the Romans who used the same symbols for both the vowel U and the consonant W without any distinction.
      But during the course of Latin (and in some cases in Greek), the W sound evolved into a V sound. So instead of the letter applying to two similar sounds (W and U), it now applied to the completely different sounds of V and U.

  • @Gyroglle
    @Gyroglle 3 года назад +23

    the 'not wanting to seem like you stutter when trying to communicate what just poisoned you' thing is impressively strong

  • @herculejoestar5809
    @herculejoestar5809 2 года назад

    This is my favorite one so far

  • @bxdanny
    @bxdanny 3 года назад +35

    The way I heard it, "pease" was a collective name for a bunch of peas. A single pea would have been called something like "a grain of pease" rather than "a pease". (And if I have upset you by pointing this out, I hope i can "appease" your anger.)

  • @holdenleeb2312
    @holdenleeb2312 3 года назад +385

    I’m guessing like paper towns
    Edit: I’m wrong

    • @fleshreap
      @fleshreap 3 года назад +24

      Was thinking the same!

    • @TheCheck999
      @TheCheck999 3 года назад +13

      TBF Webster should have just claimed it to be a copyright trap.

    • @daniloh8113
      @daniloh8113 3 года назад +6

      my guess as well

    • @kavyavijay4953
      @kavyavijay4953 3 года назад +5

      Yeah I was thinking the same

    • @joshuajoe1419
      @joshuajoe1419 3 года назад +5

      Before watching, that what I thought

  • @joebleasdale5557
    @joebleasdale5557 3 года назад +172

    “Gubbins” is still in common use in the North of England! It means “random paraphernalia”.

    • @clickrick
      @clickrick 3 года назад +14

      Understood and even used in southern England, too.

    • @DarkMephiles
      @DarkMephiles 3 года назад +11

      As usual I can't tell what's English English and what's weird shit Gavin Free says.

    • @emperorleachicus2199
      @emperorleachicus2199 3 года назад +16

      I’ve heard it plenty of times in the South West too. Not sure why he pronounced it goo-bins in the video though, I’ve always known it as gubb-ins

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 года назад +5

      Plausible. The north of England is crammed with random paraphernalia. Like Durham.

    • @y_fam_goeglyd
      @y_fam_goeglyd 3 года назад +2

      I've used it in many parts of the UK, it's very common. I'm trying to remember his list, now because there was at least one other that's in regular use. And he got the adder one wrong (I am 99% sure anyway). It was "a nadder"; naturally that became an adder.

  • @thejimimiespelaa3982
    @thejimimiespelaa3982 3 года назад

    That feeling, when you already had curiosity stream, and got to see this video before hand on nebula.

  • @zozzy4630
    @zozzy4630 3 года назад +2

    There are a number of other examples where misheard phrases that nonetheless make sense (known as eggcorns) become the accepted or even prevailing term for something. "Planter's wart" (from plantar wart) and "garden snake" (from garter snake) are nice ones, but my favorite is the fact that "card shark" was originally "card sharp," but that ' mistake ' may have happened twice: it's believed that "shark" itself might come from a Germanic root something like "skarpaz."

  • @holasoyalejandro9822
    @holasoyalejandro9822 3 года назад +227

    next video: why real words have fake dictionaries

    • @_mysticdemon_9821
      @_mysticdemon_9821 3 года назад +1

      Can a dictionary be fake?

    • @zappyapp
      @zappyapp 3 года назад +2

      That's possible if you name and make a fake dictionary and say it out loud

  • @sietsedegrande213
    @sietsedegrande213 3 года назад +34

    I thought he would say because makers of dictionaries want to protect their work and so, every few pages they slip in an intentional fake word so that, if someone copied their dictionary, they could prove that.

    • @kimarna
      @kimarna 3 года назад +6

      Yeah like how maps have intention errors to act as copy protection

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 3 года назад

      that map episode

  • @jmtholmbo
    @jmtholmbo 2 года назад

    Keep it up. You do a good job at making videos.

  • @smallpupper
    @smallpupper 3 года назад +5

    6:21 funnily enough, “orange” in spanish is “naranja”

  • @AidanRatnage
    @AidanRatnage 3 года назад +47

    Fun fact: widdershins means anticlockwise or counterclockwise.

    • @MentalJargon
      @MentalJargon 3 года назад +4

      Seasoned travellers have learnt to navigate solely by the sensations that they feel. If it gets warmer, you are headed rimwards. If it gets colder, you are headed hubwards. If you get dizzy, you are headed widdershins.

    • @AidanRatnage
      @AidanRatnage 3 года назад

      @@MentalJargon they don't get dizzy turning the other way?

    • @thebeltcameback1553
      @thebeltcameback1553 3 года назад

      I learned this from my smartie friends

    • @AidanRatnage
      @AidanRatnage 3 года назад

      @@thebeltcameback1553 I prefer skittles.

    • @thebeltcameback1553
      @thebeltcameback1553 3 года назад

      Aidan Or
      okay then but I don't think vi hart can do much math with skittles

  • @braidenb3973
    @braidenb3973 2 года назад +1

    I agree with blahman rockets where kinda forced into a trade & 4 1st & 4 pick swaps is pretty good only problem is that other then the 2026 pick these picks will all be 20+. So it’s up to the scouting department now

  • @estebanmoreno250
    @estebanmoreno250 3 года назад +3

    “And bricks, what does that mean” makes so much sense when you see their newest video

    • @guessig
      @guessig 2 года назад

      I thought bricks is a common word

    • @theunknowman12
      @theunknowman12 2 года назад +1

      @@guessig its an inside joke about how this channel refused to make video about bricks

  • @JxsonKing
    @JxsonKing 3 года назад +170

    My guess is that it’s to prevent copying (like the time you made a video about fake neighborhoods in google maps)
    Edit: no

    • @floridaboz1
      @floridaboz1 3 года назад +20

      I thought the same thing

    • @ApuwiAubrey
      @ApuwiAubrey 3 года назад +1

      like the vsauce video

    • @sq7238
      @sq7238 3 года назад +1

      Why not watch the video first ?

    • @JxsonKing
      @JxsonKing 3 года назад +4

      @@sq7238 because it’s a guess

    • @whafflete6721
      @whafflete6721 3 года назад +1

      Great mind thinks alike,and we're both wrong.

  • @Egged15
    @Egged15 3 года назад +15

    I love HAI’s rise in confidence over the years, it’s genuinely inspiring

  • @communitycollegegenius9684
    @communitycollegegenius9684 2 года назад +1

    2:26 Bonnie Parker was soooo beautiful, that picture just made my day.

  • @jrc90
    @jrc90 3 года назад

    Rubbing a chalkboard clean with a hand should be illegal. I felt that in my spine

  • @Sabagegah
    @Sabagegah 3 года назад +49

    “Irregardless” is being added to the dictionary.

    • @gaylewayland9628
      @gaylewayland9628 3 года назад +9

      It sounds ignorant, and has its roots in ignorance. But we can't say it's not a word. It has a meaning that's understood by most people, even if they don't use it and/or think only people with low intelligence use it.

    • @orangeguy5374
      @orangeguy5374 3 года назад

      @@gaylewayland9628
      Where’d it come from?

    • @dbergerac9632
      @dbergerac9632 3 года назад +20

      When can we expect "nonirregardless"

    • @dapperbrick7516
      @dapperbrick7516 3 года назад +17

      @@gaylewayland9628 dictionaries exist to define how language is used at the time of publication, not the other way around.
      Words are made by people, not books - and they always have been.

    • @redapol5678
      @redapol5678 3 года назад +1

      @@dbergerac9632 as explained in the video and by other people above, when enough people start using it in a way that has meaning and is understood by others

  • @TheSlavChef
    @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +51

    When you have finished reading the dictionary
    Every other book is just a remix.

  • @robertwilloughby8050
    @robertwilloughby8050 3 года назад +1

    Pease is still used in the words "Pease Pudding", a much loved accompaniment to other foods in the North-East and Cumbria in the UK.

  • @shrimplysuperior
    @shrimplysuperior 11 месяцев назад +3

    It's still really mind-boggling how that there was a period of time where you could publish a literature work, make your own word up and include it inside, and it would become a part of the English langauge.

    • @drafezard7315
      @drafezard7315 9 месяцев назад +1

      You can still do that. Tones of novels make up new words, the hard part is getting enough people to start using it in everyday speech.

  • @kaymish6178
    @kaymish6178 3 года назад +16

    Ha take that Wendover, I love the little rivalry you guys have.

  • @andrasfogarasi5014
    @andrasfogarasi5014 3 года назад +49

    "Other times though, big mistakes can have a little impact on the world."
    Gee, no need to call me out like that.

    • @hiraikyoto7064
      @hiraikyoto7064 2 года назад

      Oh my .....but if feel the same tho....🙃🙃🙃

  • @thevinmeister5015
    @thevinmeister5015 9 месяцев назад

    When the people at Oxford play Scrabble.

  • @mrjukerino4424
    @mrjukerino4424 3 года назад

    I love your scripts!

  • @Plons0Nard
    @Plons0Nard 3 года назад +9

    6:14
    "She changed me into a newt"
    "What ?"
    "Well, ... it got better"
    MP, THG

  • @luuketaylor
    @luuketaylor 3 года назад +10

    Between the line about every dictionary having one mistake and the Bendover productions joke I'm absolutely loving this episode of Sam makes bad puns.

  • @xeldon
    @xeldon 9 месяцев назад

    I feel like 'dord' would be a great word to use for fake words in dictionaries or maybe even in general, especially given its history

  • @Astrochronic
    @Astrochronic 2 года назад

    There is a minor distinction between expedite and expediate. Expedite has a greater general application where as expediate has a more local singular application, as in the project manager needed to expedite the request, so I made sure the courier expediated his delivery.

  • @sean8190
    @sean8190 3 года назад +7

    That ‘mistake’ joke made my soul leave my body

  • @zach_c
    @zach_c 3 года назад +126

    Me who’s watched Jay Foreman’s series Map Men: hmmmm anti-plagiarism?

    • @Secret_Moon
      @Secret_Moon 3 года назад +11

      glad I am not the only one XD

    • @mayajoy7248
      @mayajoy7248 3 года назад +1

      yessss exactly

    • @isaweesaw
      @isaweesaw 3 года назад +4

      Literally what I thought. Trap words!
      Alas, they're not. Although surely they must have an anti-plagiarism method...

    • @clomino3
      @clomino3 3 года назад

      I thought the same thing...

    • @ludekfierlinger4156
      @ludekfierlinger4156 3 года назад +1

      have defenenetly read somewhere on net that most online dictionaries have fake words to trap plagerist. online text entries being so much easier to clone

  • @braydent0821
    @braydent0821 Год назад

    This would have been the perfect opportunity for a grammarly ad

  • @NoisyPixels
    @NoisyPixels 2 года назад +1

    I thought this would be a papertowns-type deal, where dictionarys included fake words to spot copycats, but this was equally interesting :)

  • @hiimcubes
    @hiimcubes 3 года назад +31

    He'll always do the brick joke, and will always love it.

    • @davidrubio.24
      @davidrubio.24 3 года назад +5

      One day they'll make a video about them...

    • @bracco23
      @bracco23 3 года назад

      @@davidrubio.24 the special about bricks on nebula is pretty dope.

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 3 года назад

      @@davidrubio.24 wanna bet?

    • @hsdg48
      @hsdg48 3 года назад

      I remember the video of jokes origin vividly only. Can someone tell me what the joke was

    • @davidrubio.24
      @davidrubio.24 3 года назад +1

      @@hsdg48 They started a video explaining bricks to make the FBI think that it was a harmless boring video, and then changed topic.

  • @GazilionPT
    @GazilionPT 3 года назад +110

    Actually, there is at least another "real" word whose origin is a typo:
    In Optics/Physics, the word "collimator" comes from fake Latin "collimare", a non-existent word originated from the misreading of the word "collineare".
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collimated_beam#Etymology

    • @Serena-or7sl
      @Serena-or7sl 3 года назад +1

      We use "collimare" in Italian too

    • @GazilionPT
      @GazilionPT 3 года назад +4

      @@Serena-or7sl I think it is used in every language (with the appropriate spelling adaptations, of course) because it's a technical term, although one born of a mistake.
      In Portuguese is "colimar" (and "collimator" is "colimador"); in French it's "collimer" and "collimateur"; etc.

    • @lovedeath9075
      @lovedeath9075 2 года назад +2

      Zenith as well!!!!

  • @InceyWincey
    @InceyWincey 9 месяцев назад

    The reason for the mixup with pease is because there is a thing called pease pudding, and also pease soup. It would be very odd for people to talk about eating a singular pease.
    Like most puddings, pies, and other similar concoctions, it is given the singular form of its defining ingredient; pease. In much the same way as we don’t say “Lemons Tart” or “Raspberries Pudding” or “Tomatoes Soup.”

  • @austinbeattie2694
    @austinbeattie2694 2 года назад +1

    "Don't feel bad if you were fooled."
    Laughs in original Vsauce fan

  • @philippine2240
    @philippine2240 3 года назад +24

    Great video ! Except for one small detail : noone ever said "fneeze", it's just that there used to be two possible writing for the letter s : a short s resembling the one we still use and an elongated s which, to the untrained modern eye, looks like an f. But it still definitely was an s ! (around the 5:58 mark)
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

    • @Yusuf-ke5iu
      @Yusuf-ke5iu 2 года назад

      hmmmm... BUT it is Wikipeadia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @Hugh7777
      @Hugh7777 Год назад +1

      And the long s was not doubled, the second s was always short, hence the German ß corresponding to ss, nothing to do with B.

  • @jazzmaskguy5290
    @jazzmaskguy5290 3 года назад +26

    You should do a 20 min video called “twice as interesting”

  • @TicoKamisaki
    @TicoKamisaki 2 года назад

    Hahahahah this video is genius! I've had lots of fun watching it and finding out about all of these fun facts about all the words.

  • @coyoteartist
    @coyoteartist 2 года назад

    I have this image now of a a snollygoster being lunch for my beloved Snoligoster (legless crocodile like beast with a spike on it's back for carrying bodies and a propeller for a tail)

  • @merlang7
    @merlang7 3 года назад +32

    I love that the brick joke of this channel is literal bricks.

  • @Pandacalifornia
    @Pandacalifornia 3 года назад +7

    I knew “bumbershoot” ahead of time.

  • @Kaiasky
    @Kaiasky 2 года назад

    I was hoping for the equivalent of paper towns but this was still neat

  • @sporkafife
    @sporkafife 2 года назад +1

    Gubbins is actually quite regularly used over here in the UK. It's usually used to describe the complicated insides of something, like "I don't understand all the gubbins inside a computer!"

  • @krisinsaigon
    @krisinsaigon 3 года назад +82

    Eke means “also” or “other”, not lengthen, so an eke name means your alternative name

    • @mydearfriend007
      @mydearfriend007 3 года назад +1

      Vsauce also said the same

    • @ericpode6095
      @ericpode6095 3 года назад +3

      You can eke something out, meaning make it last longer, or a least it does 'round 'ere. Often used in the London Evening Standard crossword.

    • @slashtiger1
      @slashtiger1 3 года назад +6

      Eke = eak = auch... Eke --> Auch (german word for _also_ ), which, in turn, is a cognate of the Dutch _ook_ (pronounced similarly to the English word _oak_ )
      Yeah, I know... Language is fascinating, but can be really confusing at times...

    • @xeon39688
      @xeon39688 3 года назад

      @@slashtiger1 isn't Dutch a drunk version of German

    • @slashtiger1
      @slashtiger1 3 года назад

      @@xeon39688 ​ @A. I wouldn't call either a drunk version of the other. That's quite an insulting way of putting it, if you ask me.
      If you'd _insist_ upon using these words to compare the two, I'd put the languages the other way around. Not so much because German is in any way inferior, because it is NOT, but simply because Dutch _might just be older_ than German. As you may know, Martin Luther standardised the German language during he Reformation, which played out in the 1500s.
      At the time, Dutch was already very much standardised in The Netherlands, and was similar to how we know it today, particularly when it came to speech.
      In writing, the languages were similar. But because German wasn't (as) standardised yet, this may have varied throughout the German Empire.

  • @Snoborder95
    @Snoborder95 3 года назад +25

    Bendover productions, I love it 😂

    • @override7486
      @override7486 3 года назад

      Hope he don't get scammed so often.

  • @rrrr2150
    @rrrr2150 Год назад

    I can only imagine the research for this video, I wouldn't even know where to start

  • @potatopewpew4719
    @potatopewpew4719 3 года назад

    i imagine it has to do with preventing other people from just copying and reprinting the same thing and trying to resell it as their own.

  • @ycohui
    @ycohui 3 года назад +6

    4:03 Tai Po?
    Well that’s a real district name in Hong Kong.
    Seems not a typo lol

  • @Sharma-xw6ml
    @Sharma-xw6ml 3 года назад +80

    When the dictionary lies you know the world is just matrix

    • @aquaneutral
      @aquaneutral 3 года назад +1

      tHe cOviD iS a mAdE-uP THINg maDe bY tHe gOverNmEnt!!!!!!11!!!1!

    • @InnerEagle
      @InnerEagle 3 года назад

      @@aquaneutral I'm a made up mistake by my parents

    • @superpork1superboy771
      @superpork1superboy771 3 года назад +1

      @@InnerEagle omg you didn't have to murder yourself like that

    • @bonithechubbypotato5100
      @bonithechubbypotato5100 3 года назад

      @@InnerEagle dude you ok?

    • @InnerEagle
      @InnerEagle 3 года назад

      @@bonithechubbypotato5100 Don't worry, I'm breathing...I think

  • @Drhiranyatyagi
    @Drhiranyatyagi 3 года назад

    Whoa dude is smooth ,i didn't realised when the sponsered words started

  • @vinrico6704
    @vinrico6704 3 года назад

    Excellent video.... I love english, its so fluid, its history is so diverse and even comical sometimes, the an anadler is pretty funny...