Except for the H (which is never pronounced if it's alone), it's rare to have a silent letter at the beginning of a word in French, they are usually at the end ^^
@@Epintus06 you're forgetting all the ''Ou-, On-, Au-, En-, Ph-, ...''. So yeah french has a looot of them but when french is your native language you forget that lol
Where does this rumor about french having a lot of silent letters come from ? I keep hearing about it recently and it doesn't make sense to me, especially coming from English speakers that have those at random in the middle of their words.
@@keerya4179 French ending consonants are hardly ever pronounced (mais, pas, etc). Different verb conjugations are spelled differently but pronounced the same (tu sais/il sait, tu vas/il va), and that’s not even counting the ones where you tack a bunch of letters on the end and then ignore them (ils donnaient, elles dormaient). It’s a well-founded rumour, the only thing I’d say is at least in French they follow rules most of the time. In English silent letters depend on the origin on the word and it’s often difficult to guess whether a letter is pronounced or not.
@@AriaHarmony Most of the time, there is clear rules about writing -> pronunciation (not the contrary tho), including silent letters. There is a LOT of rules tho, and still a few exceptions
Ikr., as a Serbian speaker, I sometimes wonder how the English manage to communicate with eachother enough to start an indistrial revolution, despite talking in mushed shambles of five different languages. They even managed to spread it! Hard to believe how resourceful they truly are... Respect.
@@getexplainedonebut then there's travaillé, travailler, travaillez, travaillaient, travaillais, travaillais. The first 3 are identical, the last 3 are identical. All 6 are very similar. Then you get travaillerai, travaillerais, travailleraient, travaillerez…
Yes and no. French has a lot of silent letters, I concur. BUT, they are 99% of the time at the end of words, and there are rules covering the use of silent letter. While English... you just have to know, there's no common denominator.
@@raznaak It's usually because of where the word originates since English used to rely on a lot of adopted words as a newer language with multiple roots. That being said, there's really not much difference between being at the beginning and being at the end of the word
Real story. I once had to do an English assignment in a group and we had to find words that start with an "S". One of the girls in the group immediately straight up said "Psychology"
Hope she had a mnemonic system, so she didn't forget the spelling, since :P (that's :P as in keyboard/text for pokey tongue emoji, not P as in all the words mentioned in prior comments)
The funny thing is that most of these words come directly from French or have a common origin in French and English... "English ? It is nothing but mispronounced French" Georges Clémenceau
silent letters in French are almost all at the end of words and never at the beginning apart from "man" where the "h" is not pronounced and there are rules to understand whereas in English it is just "it's like that because it's like that"
This is how all of us felt learning English. I love the language (it was my favourite subject in school), but some things about it make me cry in confusion. Damn you, silent letters!
English needs to be replaced by Spanish or some other major language because English is chaotic lol I don't envy L2 English learners at all. Not to mention the fact that there's a negative stigma associated with English, especially when it comes to native speakers who are entitled and expect the whole world to accommodate them. The world would be a lot better Anglophones were more open-minded and learned other languages. Just my opinion...I'm not trying to offend anyone.
@@johnathangoncalo4971you say you aren't trying to offend anyone... but go out of your way to cause offence. I don't think you mean what you say you mean. Besides, English is the blunt force trauma of languages. You only need to get kind of close and it's good enough to be understood. If you're speaking French and you use the wrong tense on a single word they will throw down their baguettes. Tell you that you are hurting their language and storm off.
Spanish, German, Italian, French... All have male/female and even neutral articles, with declinations and so many situations and exceptions. They also have far more words than English, I don't see any other lenguaje friendlier than this one to be able to communicate with the world in such a simple way
Seriously. Bird in french looks NOTHING like how it's said(It's said like 'Wazo' or 'Wazoo' I believe) And has EVERY french vowel. Side note: I only know this because of Tumblr, so this may not be completely accurate
What's even funnier is that some of these words are written pretty much the same as in english, but without the p ! phantom -> fantôme receipt -> recette (the others the p is still there, but you have to pronounce it)
I love how French is always trying to learn english, while English has never even bothered to try french. The closest he got was not being able to pronounce the R when French was choking on cheese. It's pretty realistic.
Because of the Norman invasion in 1066 where the entire "English" nobility spoke French and the peasants spoke Old English, and then it all combined into Middle English
@@poycixyz4614 Sorry that doesn't really even make sense even for a fictional English-speaking character. You can't speak English without speaking a bit of french. Can't go to a cafe, order a la carte, live on a cul-de-sac. You know this already.
@@gunngg908 i meant that he said "where" in such a way that it looked as if he was genuinely confused as to where the R was, therefore making it iconic
@@AjarTadpole7202 P as in pee and in urine. A friend of mine had this sign growing up: "Welcome to our ool. Notice there is no P in it? Let's keep it that way!"
@@katentu no, it's prounced ressuppy, But it's written with only half of the letters. You don't pronounce the e at the end of other words, why does this one not only get pronounced but emphasis placed on it? Like scissors has an s at the start that's completely redundent, Yet recipe has an ss sound and only has a single c, Despite the fact that logically speaking that would make the re sound the same as in redo rather than words like resting where there's 2 consonants making it res sound instead of a re-s.
You are brilliant mind blowing!! The best part about your skits are - the two opposite characters that you portray are always so distinct, convincing and bang on precise to every phonetic sounds and expressions that I always forget that you are actually the same person just playing characters! (every single time)
The funny yet impressive thing about French is that you can have "eaux" and "hauts" be pronounced the exact same way, by a single sound ("o") and yet have both words strictly follow the rules of the language, which means the pronunciation of both words is regular and perfectly logical to anyone who knows the rules. To those who don't, it obviously looks like a mystery. (Explanation for those who are interested: h is always silent, "au" and "eau" are always pronounced "o", -s/-x are plural endings and always silent, -t is silent as a final consonant (the base form of the adjective above is "haut", the -s is just the plural added, therefore both the t and the s are silent in that word). Also, both "eaux" and "hauts" can have their final -s pronounced if the word that follows starts with a vowel. This is a thing you often do with silent consonants at the end of words: you "unsilence" them by linking them to the word after it. The more you do that, the fancier (and maybe more snobbish) you will be perceived. If you do it all the time, you're coming off as a real show-off.
Like the one in herb? Edit: I honestly can't remember if I'm supposed to say the h in that anymore. Is it the Americans or Brits who drop the letter? I always use native pronunciations, but I'll steal ones not from my native accent if it rolls off the tongue better
@@chestersnap iirc, the Brits pronounce initial 'h' while Americans drop it. Even in the name of the letter, you'll often hear Americans say "aych" while Brits say "heytch".
Well, we have a lot of those too. Like temps, beaucoup, and all words beginning with ph. Though I don't think we ever have the first letter silent when it's not a combined sound with the second letter
English copied the word receipt from French anyway. As for the p in psychology, it is sounded in the original Greek word. We just approximate the Greek pitchfork letter psi as an S, because the original sound doesn't exist in English.
I didn't know what French for tire was until I started watching Loic. And he made it explosive! Pneu! P'neu!! P'neu!!! (And yet I've played hundreds of games of Mille Bornes)
@@carultchI guess it's because it was transcribed into Latin that way, as the equivalent aspirated sound in Latin is written as ph. But over time, the sound evolved into what is represented in English with the letter F.
My first language has a couple of silent letters but they do change the sound of the letters before or after them, so it doesn't work the same way for every language buuut you have a point here if you're talking about the "spelled but not pronounced" silent letters
In my first language we don't have silent letters. Of course some people speak casually and they are skipping some letters (because it's easier and faster to spell). But you can also say that with same speed without skip any letter. if you just skip letters you are sounds like peasant or something.
In French, silent letters actually serve a function, they tell you how the non-silent letters are pronounced. In English, however, psilent letters rarely pserve such a phunction.
I can’t explain it. I’m obv subbed to you for over a year now. However I don’t go looking for you.. It’s just… when you pop up it’s like a ray of sunshine. You just cheer me up
Best thing is, most of the words starting with P that english mentionned are essentially spelt the same way in french, except we pronounce the Ps hahaha "pterodactyle, pneumatique, psychotique"
I appreciate more of Indonesian language which doesn't have silent letters. The only thing you need to know is N before B is read M in many dialects or erasing some letters so it make it easier to write for example Batu(ꦧꦠꦸ) came from the words Mbah Tu'( ꦩ꧀ꦧꦃꦠꦸ) and pronounce as Mbatu
Greek has contributed a few, like "ph" for an "f" sound in phantom and the silent "p" in pneumatic (or the prefix pneumo- in general). Those are both preserved from the pronunciation of the Greek words they're derived from.
@@jackb3822 The French are hyperconsistent with what letters are silent, They genuinely got it down to a science, Meanwhile English decides Psychology has a silent letter, Despite all surrounding countries and the country of origin placing emphasis on the supposed silent letter.
The ps like psychology is similar to the ts in tsunami. The T in tsunami ultimately is sounded in the original word from Japanese, and likewise, the ps in psychology is its own sound in the original Greek. We just approximate these both as the sound of the letter s, when adapting the words to English.
The PH one surprises me. Greek has a dedicated single letter that is equivalent to F. Why we had to transliterate phi as a ph instead of F, doesn't make sense.
It’s not like French is new to silent letters lol
Except for the H (which is never pronounced if it's alone), it's rare to have a silent letter at the beginning of a word in French, they are usually at the end ^^
P in french can be f with a h too
French is just not used to those being used against him.
It‘s always harder to be on the receiving end. 😋
That's why these videos should be with ITALIAN and not French!!
@@Epintus06 you're forgetting all the ''Ou-, On-, Au-, En-, Ph-, ...''. So yeah french has a looot of them but when french is your native language you forget that lol
And from that moment onwards, French became obsessed with silent letters
A competition insued fr
Where does this rumor about french having a lot of silent letters come from ?
I keep hearing about it recently and it doesn't make sense to me, especially coming from English speakers that have those at random in the middle of their words.
@@keerya4179 French ending consonants are hardly ever pronounced (mais, pas, etc). Different verb conjugations are spelled differently but pronounced the same (tu sais/il sait, tu vas/il va), and that’s not even counting the ones where you tack a bunch of letters on the end and then ignore them (ils donnaient, elles dormaient). It’s a well-founded rumour, the only thing I’d say is at least in French they follow rules most of the time. In English silent letters depend on the origin on the word and it’s often difficult to guess whether a letter is pronounced or not.
BEAUCOU(P) ALL THE WAY
Best villain origin story. 🤣
" there's a p in psychotic?
i feel psychotic"
i feel you french😂
have you ever noticed you change teh way you pronounce the s when its ps than when its just s?
have fun with that thought.
@@TheDenialist if u ask me personally....i do feel it...but i think that's just me being weird
야
Don't you mean phrench?
I feel you Phillipines
When English pulls the uno reverse card
"Why are you like this?!"
"I learned it from you!"
Ikr
P as in pull
Kkkkkk put a hat on top of Ô hospital kkkkk to confuse the Americans
English pulls the "my origins are in multiple languages" card
The master of silent letters getting confused by English
It's probably the master 'cause its silent letters have rules T-T
@@smith6903Their our know rules. MUAHAHAHAHA
@@smith6903oh do the silent letters have proper rules in French? after learning English as a 2nd language, I'm afraid of learning French lol
@@AriaHarmony Most of the time, there is clear rules about writing -> pronunciation (not the contrary tho), including silent letters. There is a LOT of rules tho, and still a few exceptions
It was the French language’s fault we have stuff like this.
As an Italian I swear silent letters in other languages kill me.
True... Just why?!
Ikr., as a Serbian speaker, I sometimes wonder how the English manage to communicate with eachother enough to start an indistrial revolution, despite talking in mushed shambles of five different languages. They even managed to spread it!
Hard to believe how resourceful they truly are... Respect.
Pterodactyl
You all are psychos lol
German, it does kill me as well.
I just love how French is getting a taste of his own medicine!!
although I don't speak French but 🤣🤣🤣
absolutely 😂😂😂
This aged well
Nah yall english people get a taste of your medecine when we talk french
In Ghana we will say *he has met his meeter *
Frenchman:
- Silent letters? Never heard of it.
Your comment is underrated 😅
Travailler do pronouns ll in this word
Ba dum tss! 🥁
@@getexplainedonebut then there's travaillé, travailler, travaillez, travaillaient, travaillais, travaillais. The first 3 are identical, the last 3 are identical. All 6 are very similar. Then you get travaillerai, travaillerais, travailleraient, travaillerez…
Nice pun lol
All this talk of P is making me feel unwell, I should visit the Pharmacy
😂😂😂... Classic
Nailed it
Maybe it is not something physical and you can see a psychologist...
i need to pee with all these Ps
@@amybluesky007 to P or not to pee. That's the question
I don’t think French has the right to be upset about silent letters
I don’t think French has silent Ps at the beginnings of words though
That's why these kind of videos should be done with ITALIAN instead of French!!!
Yes and no.
French has a lot of silent letters, I concur.
BUT, they are 99% of the time at the end of words, and there are rules covering the use of silent letter.
While English... you just have to know, there's no common denominator.
@@raznaak It's usually because of where the word originates since English used to rely on a lot of adopted words as a newer language with multiple roots. That being said, there's really not much difference between being at the beginning and being at the end of the word
@@abelarmstrong8054 Pharmacie is the only one I can think of rn. But we just learn that "ph" makes a "f" sound
He is so good at this that I now think of these people as legitimately separate people
Same here. Plus I subscribe to another channel that has one dude playing all the characters, so my brain has firmly settled into the idea.
It's not just our thoughts... he just found a way let all his personalities have their fair share of the day w/o being "weird" about it
I do too!!
It blows my mind every time I realize there isn’t even a wardrobe change between characters
YUS
"As in Psychotic"
"I feel Psychotic" 😂
When french said
"I dont... pee?" that hit me right in the feels
GUYS WE JUST FOUND OUT THE FRENCH DONT PEE‼️‼️‼️‼️💯🗿🗿💀🗿💀🤑🤑🗿🗿🎉💯🗿💯🗿
@@Blopp1878AYOooo
Why r u being sentimental? 😭😭
@@Sebastian_Stan_Stan D o u b y a n y c h a n c e k n o w w h a t a j o k e i s ?
😂😂😂😂
casually scares the french guy with a word of french origin
« Rural » 😰
@@patalo299le français après: faisons une petite chose....voilà "ruraux"!
Also several Greek words, English is barely involved.
@@flamingblood8447
[kur nell]
@@TexaSurvival😂
This whole time French has just though English was just “Sycho” 😂😂😂
nono remember theres a silent H as well... Syco.
sāiko
Syko
English is Siko
@@eff9266this is the correct pronunciation. But english is dumb the spelling go haywire
I love how the p is silent but my brain registers it in a weird way, like it's a sound that just has no noise
I agree
except when it does like in: pattern, post, parcel etc
@@embreis2257 Yes, P sometimes makes a sound
Real story. I once had to do an English assignment in a group and we had to find words that start with an "S". One of the girls in the group immediately straight up said "Psychology"
Hope she had a mnemonic system, so she didn't forget the spelling, since :P
(that's :P as in keyboard/text for pokey tongue emoji, not P as in all the words mentioned in prior comments)
@@profonde3460the only mnemonic device I have is a joke...
Q: why can't you hear a psychologist go to the bathroom?
A: because the P is silent.
is this a canonical event or is this a natural occurence
@@ShadowFoxSFtake my like and get out
ornhub has low qualifications if it comes to language as long as you properly use the D in it.
"I don't.... pee?"
-French
I was searching for this 😂
LoL 😂
LOL
You're good😂👏
Weird... everyone does though...
English casually bringing up all silent cases of “P” just to confuse French even more 😭💀
Pp
English is probably just getting him back for something or other.
The funny thing is that most of these words come directly from French or have a common origin in French and English...
"English ? It is nothing but mispronounced French" Georges Clémenceau
I wish all cases of P were silent.
@@samiraperi467 Just put some toilet paper in the bowl first.
French being surprised by silent letters is the funniest thing
That felt personal after all those silent letters in French
silent letters in French are almost all at the end of words and never at the beginning apart from "man" where the "h" is not pronounced and there are rules to understand whereas in English it is just "it's like that because it's like that"
he's going to get pneumonia at this rate
The funnier part is that in french, you actually pronounce the P on ptérodactyle and psychologie! 😂
english speaker now confused
As you should - these are greek words where the p is pronounced
@@maczajsci7080 Phantasma, the Greek origin word for phantom, starts with an "f" sound.
@@KamiNoBaka1 Sorry for the ambiguity - I should have said that ''ph'' is used instead of 'f' to indicate words of greek origin
Their Germanic neighbours the Dutch and Germans also always pronounce the p's.
So have fun with those pf sounds English exchange students.
That was *phenomenal* acting french
This is how all of us felt learning English. I love the language (it was my favourite subject in school), but some things about it make me cry in confusion. Damn you, silent letters!
dam u, langwij !
English needs to be replaced by Spanish or some other major language because English is chaotic lol I don't envy L2 English learners at all. Not to mention the fact that there's a negative stigma associated with English, especially when it comes to native speakers who are entitled and expect the whole world to accommodate them. The world would be a lot better Anglophones were more open-minded and learned other languages. Just my opinion...I'm not trying to offend anyone.
blame the Greeks. we simply copied them lol
@@johnathangoncalo4971you say you aren't trying to offend anyone... but go out of your way to cause offence. I don't think you mean what you say you mean.
Besides, English is the blunt force trauma of languages. You only need to get kind of close and it's good enough to be understood. If you're speaking French and you use the wrong tense on a single word they will throw down their baguettes. Tell you that you are hurting their language and storm off.
Spanish, German, Italian, French... All have male/female and even neutral articles, with declinations and so many situations and exceptions. They also have far more words than English, I don't see any other lenguaje friendlier than this one to be able to communicate with the world in such a simple way
As an english speaker (second language but fluent), we don't learn rules. We memorise every single word in the dictionary 😃
This.
Rules?! Each word IS its own rule!
I am flunet as well
Exactly, the rules are irrelevant. Just memorize the words.
As a native English speaker I just make up the rules as I go. They've decided that english is a required course every year through hs
When half of french letters are silent but you still complain
Seriously. Bird in french looks NOTHING like how it's said(It's said like 'Wazo' or 'Wazoo' I believe) And has EVERY french vowel.
Side note: I only know this because of Tumblr, so this may not be completely accurate
@thoughtspeaker8705 Oiseau is bird. Pronounced like wazoo
@@jadkins624 Thank you for the reminder. I appreciate that you took the time to tell me
@@thoughtspeaker8705 You're welcome
Nope it's pronounced Wazo !@@jadkins624
As in "phonetic" ironically enough
French should be written PHRENCH after learning this lesson!
What's even funnier is that some of these words are written pretty much the same as in english, but without the p !
phantom -> fantôme
receipt -> recette
(the others the p is still there, but you have to pronounce it)
PHREPNCH
Umm, no? Phrench is not a Greek word...
I love how French is always trying to learn english, while English has never even bothered to try french. The closest he got was not being able to pronounce the R when French was choking on cheese.
It's pretty realistic.
It's because English already learned French a long time ago.
@@evancombs5159Um... no? What? Why are you saying this?
Because of the Norman invasion in 1066 where the entire "English" nobility spoke French and the peasants spoke Old English, and then it all combined into Middle English
@@ystacalden ...you realize I'm talking about Loïc's fictional characters, right?
@@poycixyz4614 Sorry that doesn't really even make sense even for a fictional English-speaking character.
You can't speak English without speaking a bit of french.
Can't go to a cafe, order a la carte, live on a cul-de-sac. You know this already.
That's the villain arc for french to add up a ton of silient letters to their words
I mean the French can’t complain. They have waaaaayyy more “silent” letters than we do.
To be fair, in French, "phantom" is spelled "fantôme" so French has good reason to ask why there's a p in phantom 😂
But we do have many words with ph instead of f
Why the e? 😂
@@Scymet latin adaptations of greek.
everybody knows that @@janTesika
not nessecarily. but I will admit I misread it as "WHY do we have so many." I was tired.@@Scymet
I have watched too many of these videos because I feel NO remorse for French's suffering anymore 😂
U just made the king of silent letters cry. Jesus u deserve a medal
“I feel psychotic”🤣🤣🤣
This is how kindergarteners feel😂
that ''WHERE?'' was iconic💀💀💀💀💀
how tf is that iconic?
I related, I was born and still live in England 😂
@@gunngg908 bruh u wont understand just leave it
@@aarinibhagat8271 ??? what are you on about
@@gunngg908 i meant that he said "where" in such a way that it looked as if he was genuinely confused as to where the R was, therefore making it iconic
The P is definitely not silent in "pool". In fact, a lot of people tend to scream and run away when they find it.
i love this.
I dont get it
@@AjarTadpole7202 P as in pee and in urine. A friend of mine had this sign growing up:
"Welcome to our ool. Notice there is no P in it? Let's keep it that way!"
Ool
Pee
Ah, but "P" is definitely silent in "bath"
And there's me who was always pronouncing the "p" in English 😂
I was raised by a native English speaker and it took me waaay to long to get the difference between "recipe" and "receipt" 😂
Bro was asking the waiter for the recipe and the cook for the reciept
I still struggle to spell recipe,
Just because of how extremely unintuitive the pronunciation is.
@@BramLastnameAs french for me receipt is way more problematic with the silent P
@@katentu no, it's prounced ressuppy,
But it's written with only half of the letters.
You don't pronounce the e at the end of other words, why does this one not only get pronounced but emphasis placed on it?
Like scissors has an s at the start that's completely redundent,
Yet recipe has an ss sound and only has a single c,
Despite the fact that logically speaking that would make the re sound the same as in redo rather than words like resting where there's 2 consonants making it res sound instead of a re-s.
@@georgegkoumas5026 I should have clarified that I was only referring to the spelling.
French got a taste of his own medicine
Actualy, those world come from French, so it doesn't really difficult for us.
English is juste badly pronounce French.
You are brilliant mind blowing!! The best part about your skits are - the two opposite characters that you portray are always so distinct, convincing and bang on precise to every phonetic sounds and expressions that I always forget that you are actually the same person just playing characters! (every single time)
The accents are so spot on, too! Love these shorts!
The funny yet impressive thing about French is that you can have "eaux" and "hauts" be pronounced the exact same way, by a single sound ("o") and yet have both words strictly follow the rules of the language, which means the pronunciation of both words is regular and perfectly logical to anyone who knows the rules. To those who don't, it obviously looks like a mystery.
(Explanation for those who are interested: h is always silent, "au" and "eau" are always pronounced "o", -s/-x are plural endings and always silent, -t is silent as a final consonant (the base form of the adjective above is "haut", the -s is just the plural added, therefore both the t and the s are silent in that word).
Also, both "eaux" and "hauts" can have their final -s pronounced if the word that follows starts with a vowel. This is a thing you often do with silent consonants at the end of words: you "unsilence" them by linking them to the word after it. The more you do that, the fancier (and maybe more snobbish) you will be perceived. If you do it all the time, you're coming off as a real show-off.
The look of absolute helplessness on french you're so good dude
We all know that French damn well deserved that sequence
He truly does not understand why he deserves it, but we all know that he does
Meanwhile H:
Like the one in herb?
Edit: I honestly can't remember if I'm supposed to say the h in that anymore. Is it the Americans or Brits who drop the letter? I always use native pronunciations, but I'll steal ones not from my native accent if it rolls off the tongue better
@@chestersnap Brits say Herb today unless they're one of the ones that drop all leading H's.
So both?
@@chestersnapAmerican here. I drop the h. Good ol' erbs to add flavor to my food.
@@chestersnap iirc, the Brits pronounce initial 'h' while Americans drop it. Even in the name of the letter, you'll often hear Americans say "aych" while Brits say "heytch".
Who?😂
That’s the weirdest way I’ve heard someone say pneumatic..I’ve only heard it like “new-matic”
I have a feeling this is a personal hell for French
Exactly
Well, we have a lot of those too. Like temps, beaucoup, and all words beginning with ph. Though I don't think we ever have the first letter silent when it's not a combined sound with the second letter
En tant que française je suis d'accord. lol
Phrench
20 bucks English did this just to get back at all the silent letters in French.
English copied the word receipt from French anyway.
As for the p in psychology, it is sounded in the original Greek word. We just approximate the Greek pitchfork letter psi as an S, because the original sound doesn't exist in English.
As an English man the fact that this sends a Frenchman to the hospital with an incurable migraine makes me smile.
The fact that french is baffled by a silent letter is so funny to me
I honestly wanted to hug French because he looked so sad!😅
he's adorable 😭
Universal is loving every second of it
The most hilarious bit about French's confusion at the end is that in French, the 'p' in pneumatic is pronounced 😂
I didn't know what French for tire was until I started watching Loic. And he made it explosive! Pneu! P'neu!! P'neu!!! (And yet I've played hundreds of games of Mille Bornes)
@@BrianLuxe While the default pronunciation might not be a bomb,
The P is just inherently a bit explosive.
Puh-new-mat-ick?
Or is it pew-mat-ick?
@@danielknapp3141 its kinda like the first one,
Except it's more like the P is half a syllable followed by the start of the next syllable.
"What do you not get?"
"I dont... PEE?"
🤡💀
*when you see someone already wrote what you were thinking of😭*
5 year old me learning english with my mom:
Most of those words are from Greek, using φ, π, οr ψ. Gotta keep the spelling, even though the pronunciation has changed.
Why is φ transliterated as a ph, instead of a single letter F?
@@carultch Great question! Because originally it was pronounced like P but with a little burst of air behind it.
@@carultch In many words/languages it is, i.e fantasma, farmacia, falo
@@carultchI guess it's because it was transcribed into Latin that way, as the equivalent aspirated sound in Latin is written as ph. But over time, the sound evolved into what is represented in English with the letter F.
French needs a hug.
They go straight to the point 😂
Phrench
French has no business being this confused by silent letters
We don't have silent letters in the beginning tho ☠️
@@Lostouille except "h" in the beginning 😂
I know my name start with a H. But H has to shut up it's like that ☠️🤫
I’ve watched it 10 times and it just gets more hilarious 😂
Psychotic... I feel psychotic! 🤣
Whenever you feel useless remember silent letters exist.
😂😂😂
My first language has a couple of silent letters but they do change the sound of the letters before or after them, so it doesn't work the same way for every language buuut you have a point here if you're talking about the "spelled but not pronounced" silent letters
In my first language we don't have silent letters. Of course some people speak casually and they are skipping some letters (because it's easier and faster to spell). But you can also say that with same speed without skip any letter. if you just skip letters you are sounds like peasant or something.
In French, silent letters actually serve a function, they tell you how the non-silent letters are pronounced.
In English, however, psilent letters rarely pserve such a phunction.
u 2 can be an unnecessary annoyance. remember that
" I feel psychotic! " HAHAHA 😂
Half of the process in learning English is the insults you learn from the voices in your head berating you for not understanding silent letters.
“PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS” has left the chat
Edit: y’all have been blowing this comment up
thank god it did
I was about to say that 😭😭😭😣😣😣😭😭😭😖😖😖😭😭😭
💨💨💨
@@AllTheButtons87 You pronounce it as (nu-me-nu-ultra-micro-scopic-silica-volcano-co-ne-o-sis)
@@Chicken-Princethank you 😅😅😅
Poor French. He's so adorable
"I don't pee" :-D hahahaha
The last three words 💀💀
“I Don’t- Pee” 😂
Might need to see a doctor.
I always forget that the P in "Receipt" is silent I always say the word with the p sound
English: You forgot the P.
French: No... it's running down my leg. :(
Taste of their own pmedicine
But tire in French is pneu. The p is pronounced.
@@themamasquirrel7274yes in Greek which most of these words originate all of the letters (even vowels, each individually) are pronounced
I felt that "Where" in my soul lol
I can’t explain it. I’m obv subbed to you for over a year now.
However I don’t go looking for you..
It’s just… when you pop up it’s like a ray of sunshine. You just cheer me up
As a Hindi Speaker, I feel proud of my language not containing any silent letters 😂
Litterally Bhai 😂😂
P as in loup 😂
French: *confused about a silent letter*
Meanwhile French having a silent letter in almost every word
Also french… has a word that has all of the letters silent but the first, with queue
@@NAcHO-wx5vgWell you’re not totally wrong except for queue
@@NAcHO-wx5vg In French queue is not pronounce as the letter q so it's more an English problem than a French one
Iam frenh lemme find à words with no silence lettres
Table moustique mouche chaise...
Ugh uk what nevermind
Best thing is, most of the words starting with P that english mentionned are essentially spelt the same way in french, except we pronounce the Ps hahaha
"pterodactyle, pneumatique, psychotique"
The “I feel psychotic” is amazing
When French learns about "Queue", it will have a mental breakdown
He propably knows it well because queue is a french word
French sees its own karma😂😂😂😂
Seriously dude..I need to get inside your head.. You're so funny and creative.. you're awesome... Amazing.. I love you.. keep it coming..😂😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
I appreciate more of Indonesian language which doesn't have silent letters. The only thing you need to know is N before B is read M in many dialects or erasing some letters so it make it easier to write for example Batu(ꦧꦠꦸ) came from the words Mbah Tu'( ꦩ꧀ꦧꦃꦠꦸ) and pronounce as Mbatu
I’ve never heard someone say “P” so devastated before 💀
Poor French
When you get a taste of your own medicine 😂
This is why I like to make silent letters loud
Go ahead and make the P loud in those words and hear for yourself why I like to do that
I think French would be last language to be confused by silent letters 😂
Didn’t French give us like half of our weird spellings? 😂
These are perfect spellings. You guys just give them weird pronunciations.
@@Tyranastrasza French is literally known for excessive silent letters so idk about that perfect spelling bit
Greek has contributed a few, like "ph" for an "f" sound in phantom and the silent "p" in pneumatic (or the prefix pneumo- in general). Those are both preserved from the pronunciation of the Greek words they're derived from.
@@jackb3822 The French are hyperconsistent with what letters are silent,
They genuinely got it down to a science,
Meanwhile English decides Psychology has a silent letter,
Despite all surrounding countries and the country of origin placing emphasis on the supposed silent letter.
@@BramLastname Even if they are consistent spellings, they aren’t really perfect if many of the letters are not necessary.
French is experiencing three types of emotions rn.
"French, the P, like in "Coup" or in "Champs"
"Haaa, ok."
corps
Bro is on mission to roast the whole English 👑💀
French, it's really simple. It's like the letter p in pneumonia
I was going to say that
Psychotic and pneumatic are spelled with a "p" in French.
@@corynicolas3175Yes, but they're pronounced.
...at least pneu is pronounced with the p.
Yaknow, I've spent decades studying language. Never underestimate the power of p
That "where?😢" Was genuine 😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a foreigner studying English , I understand feelings of French😭😭😭
Thing is english will just use greek and latin words with out changing them . Psychology, pneumatic are not english words
Although we know a few things about silent P/silent letters in French :)
Imagine rephrasing a phrase to phase a letter into a phase
Part in french is Art
Awe poor french, he's too pure
I would like to say that a lot of our silent P’s come from Greek roots, it wasn’t our idea 😂
The ps like psychology is similar to the ts in tsunami. The T in tsunami ultimately is sounded in the original word from Japanese, and likewise, the ps in psychology is its own sound in the original Greek. We just approximate these both as the sound of the letter s, when adapting the words to English.
The PH one surprises me. Greek has a dedicated single letter that is equivalent to F. Why we had to transliterate phi as a ph instead of F, doesn't make sense.
I mean, in French, you pronounce the "P" in those words: Psychotique, Pneumatique, Ptérodactyle
This video reminds me of how much I love P
Your videos are hilarious! 😂😂😂😂😂