4 Ways American English is Pretty Weird | PART 2
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Through most of the USA marry, merry and Mary are pronounced the same way.
"The buck stops here" alludes to the saying "passing the buck" ie. handing off responsibility for making onerous decisions.
Started in the deer trade.
Harry Truman was a poker player. At the time the dealer would have a buck knife next to him so that the buck stopped here.
Never even thought about that. Thank you
Onerous was a new one for me. I initally assumed it must be the opposite of numerous. But a quick Google search reminded me that I shouldn't be trying to find reason in words lol
@@cuttwice3905 At least that is what I said in my book on Texas Hold'em.
The US is legitimately obsessed with acronyms. Especially the military. If you need more than three words to describe a thing in the military, it gets an acronym.
That's FUBAR
Doesn't even have to be 3 words, a common one I'd hear was 'Charlie Foxtrot' for cluster fuck. It's an initialism as you'd use C.F. when written, but when said aloud it's ironically longer than the phrase it's replacing.
Honestly, the business world is obsessed with them too. It honestly irritates me because every new program gets and acronym, and half the time no one defines the acronym.
@@kcStrangerYup. Alphabet Soup is a real problem. My previous employer had an internal app you could install your desktop to translate corporate-speak, Urban Dictionary style. They called it *SLURP* (which might have been an acronym, but was _definitely_ a soup pun).
@@adamperdue3178 WWW for World Wide Web is another one where the initials are more syllables than the words they stand for...
A bit of information I learned while studying dentistry is that those anatomical folds we feel as little bumps and valleys in our palate right behind our front teeth (rugae) are what your tongue uses to form certain letters and sounds. They serve as markers for tongue placement. Think about the word attachment and pay attention to the different places your tongue touches when forming the word and how the tongue actually curves or lifts to create those sounds. When people get dental appliances such as retainers or dentures, they often have difficulty speaking until they train their tongue to make those sounds without the ability to use the rugae. Rugae are like fingerprints and are different on each person. So there is your lesson for today, Lawrence. I hope you find it interesting.
it also makes life interesting when the four upper incisors are removed and not replaced in an expeditions manner because ... pandemic, dentists fleeing the state one is in.
I recall a consultation with a dentist who offered me options, including an appliance. He warned me that if I chose to have extractions and get the appliance, I would have to learn to talk all over again. What he didn't mention was that making _any_ changes to the structure of my teeth would require me to learn to talk again. I was startled by the feel of the reconstruction.
My particular favorite word is “Uvula”- more so because mine is heart shaped instead of like a droplet- also “SOS” which is fun to say as well as great ro eat!
@@kimberlypatton205 I have always thought that Uvula sounded like it should be a female body part instead of a part of the palate/throat. It is a very funny word.
My tongue doesn’t change position when saying attachment. Am I doing it wrong?
As an American, i adore these types of videos, but absolutely fear the comments section. The creative ways strangers find to hate each other really tends to ruin every great joke.
Ditto!❤
Don’t let it get to you, that is what they want.
Understand... I regularly curse myself for showing weakness and checking out the comments irregardless of the video I'm viewing/about to view.
My favorite acronym is FUBAR: f---ed up beyond all recognition
Is (SNAFU) up there on your list ?
@@StevenLubick absolutely; but he said that one
Origin of the two most common placeholder variables in computer programming. “Foo” and “bar”.
Or "beyond all repair." I believe it originated in the military, along with SNAFU (Situation normal, all fucked up) and JANFU (joint Army-Navy fuck-up).
Military slang is the best slang
SNAFU
FUBAR
BOHICA
FYIGMO
KMA-YOYO
SOS
The "ooh" sound is not used in "boogie-woogie." It always sounds funny to hear Brits pronounce it that way.
Right. That uses the double o sound from book.
Or in "booger"
That reminds me of Bob Hoskins in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." He did a good American accent, but when he mocked the cartoon gorilla doorman, he said "Ooga-booga" with the "oo" sound as in "cool."
@@scotpens I have heard Americans pronounce it that way, too, though the "book" pronunciation is far more common.
@@scotpensI pronounce it the same way Bob did, think that one varies in the US.
lol I was just mentioning this but. I'm from the south in the US and I once told someone up north. "I was fixing to go to the store" They couldn't understand what I was fixing or what was broken. When it just means I am about to go to the store down here in the south.
In the northeast of England, it's not unusual to hear the idiom 'I'm going for to get ...' instead of 'I'm going to...'.
I heard kids of a certain demographic say "finna" so I googled it. Apparently an acceptable form of "I'm fixing to". Works in the US but I'm in Scotland and it just sounded stupid (pronounced as schewpid)
Do you reckon things too? 😅
@@JamesSmith-uc8tk We use reckon to mean think, as in I reckon I'll do something...
@@Lily_The_Pink972 I know, I just wanted to give OP a hard time. 😁
"Normalcy" existed before that, but it was exclusively a mathematical term describing figures at right angles to each other.
This was going to count as another point to why I think he was the worst US President in history. Dont take this away from me.
I assume that's where the 3d graphics term "normal" comes from then since in 3d graphics a "normal vector" is a facing direction of an object or triangle and naturally it's perpendicular (aka at a right angle) to the surface
@@jlewwis1995 Exactly, or at least one comes from the other or both come from the same roots. It's semantics at that point, but yeah, geometry. Also see: orthogonal.
An unusual bit of trivia about Martin van Buren: He is the only US President for whom English was NOT his first language. His first language was Dutch.
😮
And one of only two with no English ancestry, the other being Eisenhower.
Trivia is fun!!
Also the shortest president, if I remember correctly.
@@julietardos5044 Actually, Eisenhower did have English ancestry. Van Buren is also the only US president known to have NOT been descended from a particular English king. Even Obama was descended from that same king.
@@julietardos5044 Wrong! Trump has no English ancestry. Scottish German. I think!
my favorite anacronym is captcha. it originally stood for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
I genuinely thought it was CATCHPA. I have learned a new thing today.
That reminds me of PEBCAK -- Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
Did not know that! Thanks for that tidbit!
Another thing is the website already knows you're human by the time you see the Captcha.
@@McCammalot It's like capture but instead of an "r" use an "uh"
I really appreciate your content. When my ESL students start to quibble about British English being superior to American English, I send them links to your videos and remind them that English has many dialects and none are superior.
I’d be interested in hearing more about those conversations, but I don’t suppose you have a blog or RUclips channel? Still, the prestige of a dialect spoken only by a minority of people even in the UK interests me.
American dialect is superior.
You know, as an american.. your exploration of our culture has taught me mour about being an american and our language, history, and culture than you realize.
Or realise.... Lololol
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And the British word for a cars rear trunk, the BOOT. We in the US call it a TRUNK because early on stage coaches has trunks strapped on top and also on the back, but then very early cars in the US would have steamer trunks strapped on the back for storage - so when cars developed a rear storage compartment with a lid we called it a TRUNK.
More car-related variations on opposite sides of the pond: Americans say "fender, turn signal, windshield", Brits call these "wing, indicator, windscreen". Words are normal, speech is strange 😁
Now why on earth do the Brits call it a boot?
@@TheGreatAtarioBecause the coachmen put their boots in there, calling it the bootlocker.
@@TheGreatAtario I believe the boot was originally a step on the outside of carriages where you could stand (with your boots presumably?). It then became a place where trunks were placed (presumably without change in terminology). And then carriages were replaced by cars.
@@jefffixesit60I thought fender was the bumper, not the wing. Come to think about it, I watch a lot of US car content creators and I'm not aware of them talking about wings. I wonder if I'm so accustomed to them saying Fender that it doesn't register. I've heard them talk of removing the "front clip" which seems to include inner and outer wings and front valance.
Pronouncing "st" as "Sht" is also something done in German. It may be from our heavy German immigration before the 20th Century.
Came in here to say that 😉
It is also regional.
I was thinking the same. I speak German, which I think is why I try harder not to make that sound in English.
In the southern states, many pronounce the ST sound as SK. Straight-skraight, strawberry-skrawberry, street-skreet.
@@w.e.b.8719No?? Wtf? Nobody does that. I think that's just you. Putting a k sound in those words is extremely unusual and weird. And I'm from the south.
bro your wife has an excellent advert voice ngl
Agreed.
When I was in the US Air Force (1978-1982), we pronounced almost every acronym. For instance, in Korea we had the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, AFRTS - A-farts.
TTF that can't be done with the British service BFBS, British Forces Broadcasting Service.
@@tonys1636 Biff-biss
@@ChristianityOntheBottomShelf or beef-bees
Lol, we called it A-Farts in the mid-80s stationed at Clark AB, too.
It's a test of fortitude, being able to say a ridiculous acronym with a straight face.
And in the military, one must often be gormless in one's duties.
Laughing is for down time.
A good example of s backing in British English is when you guys pronounce assume as "ashume" which I've noticed a lot with Brits and Aussies.
Yeap, it's also basically the same phenomenon that turns "Tuesday" into "Chewsday". The jod in the British/Aussie pronunciation pulls the 't' backwards into a 'ch' sound. In fact, it's harder to tell apart, but most young English speakers also pull back 'tr' sounds into "chr" for the exact same reason. So it's not just s-backing, it happens with most consonants up by the teeth.
I know that Dr. Geoff Lindsay did a pretty comprehensive video on this specific trend.
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@@WGGplantmy dad says
Sun-dy Mundy Toos-dy 😂
@@chronic_payne5669 So do I :D lol. I grew up in a pretty rural place in the southern US.
I say "as-youm". I'm also a German.
1) I'm heard from people who've travelled the world that the one English word it seems everybody knows is "okay."
2) I read somewhere about an older teacher who was heartbroken that her students considered her a "goat," until she learned it's no longer a bad thing.
3) Here in New England, people do not say "shtrong," in my experience.
What does "goat" mean, aside from the horned animal?
@@stevenmathers6661it’s an acronym now. Goat = Greatest of all Time
Up until recently, "goat" meant the player in a sporting event who committed a blunder, especially one which cost his team a victory.
I was surprised to learn that the "Greatest Of All Time" acronym has been used concurrently.
@@stevenmathers6661 Years ago, if an athlete made a mistake that cost his team the game, sports writers might say he "wore the goat horns." I don't know why.
Yeah, we don't say "shtrong" and we don't say "chree."
AWOL is actually an acronym for Away Without OFFICIAL Leave. It's been incorrectly passed down for years. I learned this from my teacher in 8th grade. She pointed out that 'without' is one word, which of course it is, and people just got lazy with it over the years. This was over 40 years ago and she was fairly old then so I've no reason to doubt her.
Absent, not away, but otherwise correct.
My 8th grade teacher probably did say absent. As I say, it was a long time ago.
Good heavens! The Mrs. has an amazing voice and she is great fun to listen to. Please don't waste such boundless magnificence on cheesy sponsor ads. She has so much more to offer the channel.
Same! She should have a channel or podcast. Very charismatic.
I think you mean "the Mishes"
You have me constantly thinking about how I say words now....and saying them over and over again until they no longer register as real words in my brain.
I hate that… when common words sound strange on my lips.❤️🤗🐝
Having learned English as a 2nd language I am acutely aware of all these pronunciation idiosyncrasies and now I find them quite irritating at times.
Tho eventually I try to adapt and imitate how people say it here. "Lincoln" was one I pronounced like it was spelled for years until I realized, no native does that 😅
iron, colonel, February, Wednesday, opossum, plethora, Worcestershire, acclimate, plumber, acumen, cumin, perspicacity, baroque, vase, aunt, malapropism, promenade, balustrade, Van Gogh, nieuwezijds voorburgwal
i know that sentiment all too well!
@@onetruetroy
w8 a lot of these I pronounce like their spelled 😅
Tho I follow various rules, like if the word is French like baroque, I use French rules.
My mother tongue has tons of French words but they're all pronounced with French rules so we kinda just know those.
It's like that in many European languages. I speak German.
opossum, plethora, acclimate, plumber,
How else would you pronounce these?
You mean like 'opo'sa'm', 'pl'ee'thora', 'aklaimate' ''ploomer'
I have a German bias, when words follow rules I like I don't bat an eye 😅
In the midwest an R has been introduced in some words; most famously "warsh" for wash.
I spent my first 12 years in northern Ohio, and we didn't say that. What we said was more like wahsh (as in "say ah").
Rural or southern, same places they say "melk" instead of "milk"
I mean warsh is the correct pronunciation. Everyone who doesn't pronounce the implied R is just wrong.
@@OriginalCaliKitty I’m originally from Northwest Ohio. I pronounce “wash” like this as well.
I thought that was more a southerner thing. That seems to be going away tho. Mostly the old people talk that way.
6:53 you are actually correct. Franklin D. Roosevelt originated the "only thing to fear" quote and NOT JFK
I had always thought Churchill was most famous for, but I now must rethink.
@@lilolmecj I thought it was well known re: FDR.
He attributed that line to JFK...WRONG
I could be wrong but I thought he was attributing the pronunciaton of fear to JFK, not the quote itself.
i cannot stress enough, how Laurance is both a British AND US cultural Treasure..
i know how tight the path you walk, to make your point, WITHOUT upsetting political and cultural
vultures on both sides of the "the Pond" is. I applaud you sir.
Cheers Mate!
Glad to have you in the US
Glad youre proud of being British as well!
OOH, Laurence! You forgot to mention how the OO sound has deviated into two distinctive pronunciations: the longer sound as in "spook", "raccoon" and "boondoggle", and a sound that leans more towards the "schwa" sound, as in "look", "book" and "nook."
Yup! The oo/"uu" dichotomy!
All those double oo sound the same to me. No schwa sound
Interestingly, in yorkshire (certainly in Leeds and Huddersfield) they pronouce cook/book/etc with the 'oo' where the rest of us use a 'u' sound. buck and book are pronounced the same.
The sound leaning towards 'schwa' is called the 'strut' vowel. The person who claims 'buck' and 'book' are pronounced the same is probably using /ʊ/ known (at least in the UK) as the 'foot' vowel. The north of England and some of the midlands never underwent what's known as the foot-strut split so the strut vowel pretty much isn't used there at all (in speech in the regional style). In the south of England, 'buck' and 'book' are pronounced differently, with 'book' using the foot vowel and 'buck' using the strut vowel.
The schwa sound? Lschwak, bschwak and nschwak? I'm sorry, I really don't have a clue here. No matter how you'd pronounce these words, how could there be a schwa in there?
In all honesty I didn't even realize there was a difference in pronunciation until very recently when I saw a remark about why spook and book apparently don't rhyme
It was nice to see Tarah in this video!
"Snickerdoodle" is another -oo- word. The Joy of Cooking says it's a corruption of the German word "Schneckennudel."
The meaning of "goat" is almost opposite to what it used to be. It was a shortened form of "scapegoat," and was used in sports to mean someone whose critical mistake led to a loss.
No, sports and bad luck with goats is from the Chicago Cubs and the lore that some idiot fan brought a goat to the game (way back when you could do such a thing) and then they lost every year for nearly 100 years, which was clearly the goat's fault.
To scapegoat is to blame the person that no one likes, that actually had nothing to do with the loss or mistake.
Lawrence: *Makes video. Devotes the first two-and-a-half minutes to self-promotion and commercialism.*
Me: He has fully acclimated to the American way. I'm so proud of him.
"O.K." originated in Boston in the 1830s as a slang term for "all correct". At the time, it was a fad to abbreviate misspellings. So "O.K." stood for "oll korrect". Vox did a great piece on it.
Many linguists hotly dispute the etymology of 'O.K.' There are several plausible 'origin' stories, and parallel development, where different sources effectively came up with the same idea at the same time, is possible.
My father taught speech in our community college system here in Massachusetts for 40 years. My speech, and the speech of my two brothers was constantly corrected. Hence, although I grew up near Boston, no trace of a Boston accent exists in my family. Fascinating right? LOL perhaps not. Enjoyed the video.
You still have an accent, it goes away from your hearing, but it’s still there. If you went to UK we would know you have an American accent.
@@NicholasJH96 actually you're right. You would hear that I'm American, but you would not be able to tell where I am from in America. That's what I meant. My father taught us to speak standard American English. It's what our news casters speak on TV.
I had a customer who was a Australian Veterinarian and she moved her family to California to work at the UCD veterinary college and i commented that she didn't have a Australian accent and she told me her father was from England, a college teacher, and spoke queen's English at home and expected everyone in the house to also speak that way .
There's also a mid Atlantic style of speech, many actors and actress's use that speech pattern
Most people in Boston don’t have a boston accent
I did very much enjoy your 1940s mid-Atlantic accented American news announcer. That's a tough accent to nail for Americans, let alone Brits.
its called transatlantic.
@@aredub1847 "Mid-Atlantic" is also used for this particular learned accent.
@@aredub1847 Wrong. Pipe down, you.
@@aredub1847Nope. Mid-Atlantic is the accent that most media/ announcers are trained to use in the US.
Just about the best program so far. Thank you.
I live in the Southern Appalachians where some people say 'Schtrong' and any time I hear somebody speak with intrusive letters it always gives me a giggle (another common one in the area is 'Warsh' for 'Wash', though that one is mostly among the older generation now). I have a lot of friends from Britain and Australia, and after hearing 'Chiner' (instead of 'China') for the hundredth time I can tell you that it's not exclusive to the U.S. (Boston does it too, I should note). I don't believe I have any intrusive letters in any of my pronunciations, BUT in some words I'll change letters, often exchanging in a 'K' for words that end in 'G'. For example, I would say 'Stronk' (I thought the video was going to be on that, actually, based on the thumbnail!) as well as 'Thinkink' 'Waitink', etc... And my online friends often rib me on it.
I like your new glasses, by the way, they complement your face.
Lawrence is probably the only product promoter that I bother to watch. He's a gem.
My dad's favorites: "SWAG" & "FUBAR"
Scientific wild-ass guess.
F'd up beyond all recognition.
😂
Or... SWAG - stuff we all get 😂
Wysiwyg wiifm
@@mpmitton8377 except that that interpretation was assigned to the word later, so it isn't really an acronym.
9:18 Another one from the Navy is sonar - which originally stood for SOund Navigation And Ranging, but now is just... the noun "sonar".
I wonder how many tech terms were coined by Bell Labs combining syllables from two words -- modem, transistor, etc.
@@miketroy4558 The Japanese are continuing the tradition - taking word pairs and glomming them into one. "Sekkuhara" is the English "Sexual Harassment".
You covered SNAFU, but skipped the follow-up: BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. 😂
The mention of "I am shook" reminded me of the way my older Irish relatives speak. When something upsets a great aunt to a certain extent she'll go on "OOOH I AM SHOOK! THAT HE WOULD DO SUCH A DREADFUL THING! He was always so sweet." or some variation thereof. Or they might refer to a friend who's getting on a bit and say "Aw, she's lookin' awful shook, so she is."
The song “Meet me in St. Louis, Louis” has several oo-ey moments: hoochy-coochy, tootsie-wootsie, and, of course, Louis, Louis properly pronounced.😉 Oo is forever!
and that song is the only time it is acceptable for a St Louisan speaking English to say the city's name as Looie.
@@geoffroi-le-Hook But call it The Lou all you want! Being exposed to "Que in The Lou" not long after moving to the area, I question whether people realize what that sounds like to everyone not from St Louis.
I was waiting for him to say "cool" too which is a super common word people probably use every day and is a slang term.
@@jspihlman I highly doubt "cool" originated in the USA.
Meet me in Saint Louie Louie! Meet me at the faire
Hurtling ever closer towards your eventual collaboration with Geoff Lindsey
Yes, please!
When north and south align.
@@glazdarklee1683Lindsey is originally from Liverpool, though he does almost sound Southern admittedly.
As a scholar with a background in phonetics, I'm happy that Lawrence is giving us this lesson in place assimilation from articulatory phonetics. P.S. I'm also a [sh]trong pronouncer!
Love Tara's cat eye glasses frames 👍
Mrs. Laurence - LOVE your new glasses! Cat-eye is always a great choice!
Yes, she does have a nice pair.
@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq Please leave the comedy to a professional.
@@mantroid comedy?
@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq 👍
Ooh, Lawrence! I didn't even realize I pronounced the "sh" till I saw this video in my feed and now I can't unhear it.
@3:55 - They're gonna romp and tromp 'till midnite
They're gonna fuss and fight 'till daylight
We're gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long - Willy Dixon
My favorite acronym is from the show Futurama.
*ACRONYM: A Criminal Regiment Of Nasty Young Men*
My friend if you havent seen Gallager's word play comedy bit, you're missing humor gold
"we're talking about _GO_ and _DO_ here, people" 😂
What gets me is a lot of people in the UK pronounce th as F. Three=Free, Third=Fird, Thought=Fought
The 'th' sound is complex to form and so young children from all countries will experiment with 'f' initially. It then depends upon whether or not the child is corrected as to if that goes on into later life. For some accents, cockney for example, the 'f' is fairly acceptable and so goes much less corrected than, say, a child brought up in the home counties.
You will get some expressions such as "Forty Founsand Feathers on a Frushes Froat" being perfect English in one area whilst being frowned upon a few miles away. 😁
I'm from the north of England, so I will take the effort of using the 'th' sound, but my 'oo's are all long: "Take a look at the cook book." contains no cucks, lucks or bucks for me. 🤣
I love these language videos! Between Laurence and Dr Geoff Lindsey, I'm learning a lot of things about my own language that I had no idea about!
OMG--- I use the s-backing. Lived in the Midwest most of my life. Jumpin' Joeshaphats.
Video idea: How Americans are so much more direct in communications. e.g. I have worked with and also had family members in England that I have communicated with. The opening conversation is always about how are you, what is the weather like and other time consuming trivia. All I want to do, as an American, is to get to the business at hand. I'm sure they think I am rude.
I wonder if this is due to the fact that long-distance calls were relatively expensive.
@@WarpigA23 For sure, phone costs in the past were prohibitive. But if my UK relatives were concerned about cost, they wouldn’t carry on about weather. So, do you think Americans are rude in phone calls to the UK?
It's funny how direct we think we are, and then we go talk to a Dutch person and realize we beat around the bush like crazy.
There's a difference between the eastern states as well as generations. I grew up in the western states, and called my boss one day at work and just got into the business at hand. He said you guys that grew up out west just dive into things without saying who you are or breaking the ice. The business at hand is what matters, who I am really is beside the point, so we tend not to engage in niceties.
@@Anon54387 I encountered the opposite. Grew up in Arizona, then moved to NYC, where people not only don't bother with the niceties, they often bark orders at you if you're not doing things they way they expect/want you to. My co-workers there said I wasn't direct enough and to just get to the point.
President Teddy Roosevelt used the term "bully pulpit". Bully at the time meant great.
Petition to henceforth call Benjamin Franklin "The America's Grandfather"
I read medical records all day for work. My favorite acronym is FOOSH - fall on outstretched hands.
Harding also gave us "bloviate"
Lol. Why does that sound like a Bill O'Reilly word of the day? 🙄
I love that word. It fits every meeting and conference.
Owl loo men yum: a metal
Shed jewel: event plan
Pay tent: protect intellectual property
Gare radj: fix your car
Al-you-min-e-um
Scedge-jewel
Pat-tent
Gar-raj
My cousin, in her best Upstate NY accent, parks her car in the gradge.
@@miketroy4558As a native of Southern California, garage usually just has one syllable.
@@talonarayan
/ə'lu'mə'nəm/
/skɛ'dʒəl/
/pæt̚'nt/
/gə'rɑ'dʒ/
You’ve been listening to Bert the chimney sweep one too many times!
OHIO was an acronym for "over the hill in October." It lasted only for the few months before America joined World War 2. The US army, knowing it would join the war, was training its recruits very hard during the summer of 1941. The young enlisted men weren't happy the hard work. Graffiti of OHIO began appearing and the officer corp were afraid of mass desertion (over the hill) in October. The bombing of Pearl Harbor ended this. The OHIO acronym, though very popular, lasted only a few months.
Nice to see another language lover with good taste in women. Well done sir
I love Kafka! And, Tarah's new glasses are wonderful. Yours are OK, too, Laurence (see what I did there?).
Love you kids! From an old lady in SoCal.
Hearing Lawrence say Gen Z slang is so satisfying
I greatly enjoy your work, sir, and have done for no small time now. I am delighted by the manner in which you seem to fear or be concerned about the last word or two of half your sentences. Cracks me up, best RUclips vocal affectation ever.
13:16 I learned so much from Lawrence and it’s nice to see your wife in the videos🎉
reminds me of the youngest Gibb brother song lyric..."like some puppet on a shtring..."
Good to know MY anglomania is still alive and well and I feed it with this channel 🙂
OMG Fish, I see you on Dr. Kirk's channel all the time, I love that you watch Lawrence too!
I adore English history! Especially the ancient pronunciation of many towns , names and cities like “Beauchamp”( said as “beach- ham) etc and many others! I adore language!
8:53 Love how, if you stare at the word RADAR, it turns green after the video moves to the next picture. Fun optical/brain thing. 😊
LMBO I have never realized I say "shtrength" and now I can't unhear it. Thanks! 😂
Where are you at? I've never heard strength pronounced that way
Right? Maybe it’s a Midwest thing.
He currently lives in Chicago. But was in 4 towns across Indiana for several years prior
It doesn't surprise me to hear Midwest. I lived in Wisconsin for 10 years and between Wisconsin and Minnesota, I got very used to hearing words that start with s and another consonant pronounced as an s c h. A Canadian has commented that he hears meteorologists on TV say shnow. In German, the word for snow is schnee. And I remember we used to joke about the town of Shtoughton, near Madison, where there were tons of people with Norwegian ancestry.
You also get midwesterners pronouncing "wash" as "warsh." I'm from Illinois, but my Indiana relatives say "warsh" all the time.
Out of curiosity, Jason, are you in the Chicago area? "Where are you at?" is a very common Chicago locution. Lots of the rest of the world just says: Where are you?
BRILLIANT work, Laurence & wife!
Benjamin Franklin coining the name of the harmonica was a fun fact that caught me WAY off-guard, lol
The way Hermione Gingold pronounced strength in "Bell, Book and Candle" has stayed with me all of these years. "Drink it before it loses its strength!"
Boonie Stomping was a time honored pastime when I lived on Guam.
Dear Lawrence, have you considered that since German regularly pronounces st as sht as in strasse, and as there are more people of German heritage than British in the US, it might be carryover from the immigrant language. This is also why the inhabitants of the NYC area are known for pronouncing th as d, as in dis, dat, dese and dose. English is one of the small number of languages that produces th, and two ð and θ.
I grew up pronouncing th as d, but I figured it was because of the heavy French and German immigrant population in my hometown. My kids and their generation dropped the habit.
There’s an entire language based on turning sibolent S into the soft “sh” or ʃ sound: European Portuguese. I’m currently learning Portuguese and one turns any “s” before an un-voiced consonant into an “sh”. It is just an evolution from proto-iberian.
Still one of ,if not the, most entertaining and informative channels on RUclips! Tanx Larry
Ben Franklin did not coin the term 'Harmonica'. Ben Franklin completed his glass 'Armonica' in 1761, which was an instrument of concentric glass half spheres rotated in water and played similarly like wetted wine glasses.
The glass harmonica (as I saw it) does have a beautiful sound.
One of my friends made FORD an acronym. I once own a Ford car that turned out to be a lemon:
FORD: Fix or repair daily
I always heard "Found On Road Dead"
That's an old one.
Fans of Ford, however, say: First On Race Day
Around here, it is "fix, or risk death."
Also: Found on road, dead.
edit: Hmmm WGG already commented this. Must not have been updated, when I was posting.
I was born is Wales then came to the Northwest of America to land in Cornwall England and the Southwest of America, moved every couple of years in the States until I was 14, and I still give myself away routinely with my enunciation of the word leisure..... it is different depending on which language is in play.......
Thank you for reminding me I'm technically not wrong.
I'm in my 20s living in the American Midwest and am only just now learning that I say "shtrong." I didn't need this on my Friday. Thanks for ruining my life, keep it up. 5/5
I prefer fubar over snafu.
I worked as a RN.... completely agree !!
Snafu is typical, Fubar is exceptional.
@@WarpigA23 🤣 truth!
I always think of snafu as an event and fubar as an object. As in, my vacation would get snafued and my blender would get fubared ❤️🤗🐝
@@deborahdanhauer8525 I can see that.
When is somebody going to address Brits not pronouncing t when it's in the middle of a word? Butter, water, better, writer. What happened to make people quit pronouncing t, when it occurs in the middle of a word?
There are at least 17 different Regional dialects in england. Only some of them do it. Like cockneys and people from I think Essex and possibly Yorkshire
@@LindaC616you answered a question that nobody asked
They're Bri''ish, let them pronounce the words with the way they're used to. Language is descriptive not prescriptive.
It’s called t-glottalization, where the t sound softens and moves to the throat (glottis). You can hear it in some American pronunciations before an n sound like mountain, curtain, button, Latin, etc. or between words like right knee and not good.
Some mid-atlantic accents in the US do it too. In maryland some people dont pronounce the t in things like Baltimore or Wootton
Thank you and your wife Tara for putting Soo much effort into this video. It must take days of research to find all of these facts. And it must take days to decide what to use in the video; then there’s filming and editing that. 😮 I’m exhausted just thinking about how much effort is required to make these incredible videos. Thank you for being…. who you are. I Love this channel.
Normalcy is also used in a movie acronym. The 1987 film Dragnet features the group P.A.G.A.N., whose name stood for People Against Goodness and Normalcy.
Great episode, really enjoyed it
I totally do the “shtr” pronunciation and never knew it until now. Thanks for the coming years of self-doubt! 😂
Where are you from? I have never heard this before and was totally confused by it. Do the English or some Americans do this? He didn't provide an example of this and it makes no sense to me. I have a midwestern drawl and am familiar with many American accents, but I have never heard of this sh thing.
@@KeithMickunas Interesting! I'm from the southeast, I'd say I have a "medium" southern accent. The SH isn't super-pronounced like in the word "SHARP" or something, but there's more than a whisper of it in things like "strong", "strap", etc. Maybe akin to the "sh" sound in the "-tion" suffix (which for me is somewhere between "sun" and "shun"). You may not even notice unless you're listening for it. I'll just add it to the list of words we pronounce a little differently (like UM-brella, IN-surance, or one-syllable "oil"/"boil"/etc.) :)
@@RickyWallace Thanks for this explanation. Not a Southerner, but I've lived in coastal NC for over 25 years. I hear the sh you describe quite often, but couldn't think of any examples other than the "shtrong" that Laurence mentioned. Yes to the umbrella and insurance examples, and add THANKS-giving. Would you say oil and boil are pronounced to rhyme with coal? That's how I heard them from my Kentucky grandmother.
@@lizlee6290 haha I never thought about THANKSgiving, that's how I say it too. I've been made fun of for my pronunciation of "TV" before (apparently I say "TEE-vee"). I guess we like to stress the first syllable on a lot of words. And now you have me saying "oil" and "coal" over and over :) They are close, but not quite rhyming. The best I can come up with is imagine a deep midwestern or Canadian accent saying the word "Oh", and add an L at the end.
Love seeing Tara in your videos! ❤
Lawrence: “America is responsible for most of the OOs”
Australia: “Hold my stubby”
The 'harmonica' invented and named by Ben Franklin was a completely different musical instrument from the one also known as the mouth organ. It's generally called the 'glass harmonica' today because it consists of a series of tuned glass bowls attached to a spindle, and is played by rotating the spindle with a foot pedal and touching the glass bowls with your fingers. It makes a very strange, ethereal sound. It wasn't popular for very long, but there have been some attempts to revive it and you can watch and hear people playing it if you google 'glass harmonica'.
One reason Franklin's glass harmonica isn't popular is that the bowls sometimes shatter and the explosion of glass has terrible consequences.
@@BrBillis why you need good quartz glass. Can withstand the vibrations.
Alan Alda did a video on it some years ago.
@@BrBill I can see how that would put people off. At least modern players can wear safety goggles...
TASER is the weirdest acronym I can think of; since it's not only an obscure reference to a book most people haven't read or heard of, and secondly, it's got a bit of fan-fiction in its acronym by giving the main character of that story, a middle initial that didn't exist but was added to force an acronym. Thomas A (Where did this come from?) Swift's Electric Rifle.
Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the first Taser in 1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named TASER, using a loose acronym of the title of the book Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, a book written by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Victor Appleton and featuring Cover's childhood hero, Tom Swift. The name made sense, given that the Taser delivers an electric shock. This was also done on the pattern of laser, as both a Taser and a laser fire a beam at an object.
@@TheTakato122 Stratemeyer also gave us Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Bobbsey Twins.
Very cool! Thanks for the awesome video, Lawrence and Tarah.
Born and raised in Texas… never knew I was pronouncing my S any way other than what I’d call “normal”. But now that you point it out, everyone I know in my local social circles pronounce str as shtr, and when they don’t, we are abundantly aware that they’re from up north… and we charge them extra for everything…
Why brits pronounce schedule that way? How do brits pronounce school?
British pronunciation seems to be with a k (greek) and not sch (germanic) , I was taught the Germanic pronunciation .
How do Americans pronounce ‘schist’?
Let's ask someone from Schenectady.
Don't forget my fav, FLEA market (Found, Lost ,Earned or Aquired) We did a unit in college about 42 😮 years ago and learned many of the acronyms you showed us today. Still love learning them!! ❤❤❤
Ohhh, haha, I always thought it was called a FLEA market because they’re outdoors … where the fleas are 😆
I’m looking it up and seeing nothing at all saying that, it looks like it was either a direct translation of a French term used because clothes sold there has fleas in them or that it came from a specific marked called the Fly Market. That definitely feels like a fun catchy backronym someone came up with long after the term existed a la Spam.
@@eggshellfan406Agreed. Most references seem to point to the French market “marché aux puces”, translated word for word (called a “calque”) into English.
In the UK we call it a "car boot sale" because people are selling stuff from the boot of their cars. Not very imaginative, I know.
I'm from the UK and thought that it was called FLEA because people flee there to buy stuff.
Great video Lawrence! The production quality is the best so far! Keep it up 👍
Acronyminization: 1. the act of converting a series of words into an acronym. 2. An acronym spoken as a word 3. Recursive acronym; where a letter appearing in an acronym is the first letter of an embedded acronym (see macronym).
There are multi dialects and accents across this great nation and there is love for each and every one of them. I have heard many but not all words that have traveled througj time to arrive today and love these times when the known and unknown ones are focused upon. Thank you Lawrence for giving the opportunity for them to be highlighted.
POSH = Port outward, starboard home. Best cabins on a ship.
My submission for the next episode of this is the anacronym FUBAR (fu*ked up beyond all reason).
I like SNAFUBAR (situation normal all f**ked up beyond all reconization?)
I thought it was "beyond all repair "
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Thank you, that was the word I was trying for
Are you saying Americans pronounce str as shtr? I’ve never heard that but I’ll keep an eye out. I’m in Chicago as well. Though it did remind me of some Brits saying “Choosday” instead of “Tuesday”
My favourite American pronunciation of any word ending with "shire'
Worcestershire, Lancashire, Yorkshire etc 😂😂
Many of my countrymen pronounce every syllable of Worcestershire. It's hilarious
Sean Connery saying mish-isle in the hunt for Red October vs Americans saying mistle. English is just so good at adopting other words and accents.
Who in the world pronounces missile MISTLE? Certainly not the Americans I would and live and work with every day.
I have never heard anyone say shtrength unless they have a speech problem
I'm wondering if it's something done around Illinois, where he lives. Often he seems to think what he sees and hears in that area must be what all America is like.
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I've heard people pronounce it that way, but most of them were from the Midwest (although many others from the Midwest don't pronounce it that way).
Not a Chicago thing but could certainly be a rural Indiana thing.
We say it like that where I'm from. Central Florida and Alabama.