10 Letters We Dropped From The Alphabet
Think you know the English language? Here are 10 letters folks used to use, but didn't quite stand the test of time. Elemenopee, my homies.
Think you know the English language? Here are 10 letters folks used to use, but didn't quite stand the test of time. Elemenopee, my homies.
Пікірлер: 25 000
My friend: Who is your favourite Pokemon trainer? Me: Æ.
@drewteknipp1711
4 жыл бұрын
Dororoszyk Œ
@togtu1336
4 жыл бұрын
Hoajasa
@helloandihaveclinicaldepre1430
4 жыл бұрын
Ketchum
@fuckyou69uwuL
4 жыл бұрын
@@helloandihaveclinicaldepre1430 from pallet town
@thejimmysofgatsby
4 жыл бұрын
That's some advanced humor right there.
Teacher: How many letters are in alphabet? Me: 36....
@norky6197
4 жыл бұрын
@@Vini-km4dh if you press ´ and s you can get long ś
@shiikae7787
4 жыл бұрын
Norky ß
@norky6197
4 жыл бұрын
@@shiikae7787 wot
@shiikae7787
4 жыл бұрын
Norky ^_^¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@gidyyy5261
4 жыл бұрын
@@Vini-km4dh in germany it looks like ß
Interesting fact no one seems to remember: W is pronounced as “Doubleyoo” making it the only letter with more than one syllable, because it has three
@DeathDealer_1021
11 ай бұрын
It's also the only letter to not have the sound it makes in its name back in ancient times, w's predecessor (which actually looked like a Y) was called Wau, and honestly I think we should bring the name back
@GuyllianVanRixtel
11 ай бұрын
If & were to be a letter, it should just be called and. & could also sound like and.
@ianjellison6688
10 ай бұрын
We should just call it Wynn
@GuyllianVanRixtel
10 ай бұрын
@@ianjellison6688 The letter Wynn as in win. Perfect.
@Therealhhgregg
5 ай бұрын
@/+$3&*(8)’”:;9014#57=2-6%
Fun fact: æ, ð, þ, ö, ä, ø and å are still used in nordic languages. (Of course in other languages too like german, same goes for œ in French)
@giacomoswift8919
Жыл бұрын
soeur = daughter (in french) (but the 'o' and 'e' are together)
@GCoHDC
Жыл бұрын
@@giacomoswift8919 sœur
@pingpong3311
Жыл бұрын
@@giacomoswift8919 sœur is sister in French. Fille is girl/daughter
@Animation-memeslol
Жыл бұрын
Æ
@robloxuniverses9912
2 ай бұрын
Ö and Ä are in the German alphabet too.
Person: W X Y and Z People trying to be smart: “and” isn’t a letter. Me, an intellectual: actually,
@osama_tee9674
4 жыл бұрын
Lime Diamond I’m not an intellectual. Help me understand this joke
@Z3R0F1V3
4 жыл бұрын
@@osama_tee9674 no i dont think i will. also: aw man #8264
@1x2cheeseslope43
4 жыл бұрын
Idk why but to me it sounds like it should be w y x and z
@rashisingh2303
4 жыл бұрын
Creeper #8264 I think they mean that the ampersand was considered a letter and it means and. Don’t know if this helps
@osama_tee9674
4 жыл бұрын
Rashi Singh uh. Wtf’s an ampersand😂
Replacing “thing” with “þiŋ” sounds really satisfying though
@thisisa
2 жыл бұрын
bin
@defaultdan7923
2 жыл бұрын
@@MCLooyverse i see a lack of my boy þorn in ðere
@MCLooyverse
2 жыл бұрын
@@defaultdan7923 Unfortunately, my comment didn't call for þorn.
@firecatanimated2525
2 жыл бұрын
ye
@Elutai
2 жыл бұрын
honestly we need to bring back the thorn "þ" instead of "th" its just easier and cooler, and easier for people learning english to understand
'Đ' is now an actual letter in the Vietnamese alphabet, and it is used to make the "TH" sound lowercase 'đ'
@ObjcetSohwRael
2 ай бұрын
That's not ð. That's a different letter, d with stroke. Note that its lowercase is different. That's how you distinguish between them.
i personally like having thorn and eth both. a way to distinguish between voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives would be cool, in my opinion. a lot of people talk about english spelling reforms but they're always too large of a difference. a spelling reform would have to be minor enough that those who spell things using the spelling reform to understand pre spelling reform writing. i think that a small spelling reform we could do could be using the same principles as thorn and eth, but not actually bringing the letters back. the voiceless dental fricative should still stay TH, but the voiced could become DH. dhat doesn't change things too much, right?
@tomasbeltran04050
Жыл бұрын
nice
@Liggliluff
Жыл бұрын
This is why I suggest spelling all /k/ sounds with K karakter, Pacifik Ocean, Irak, kan, kloud, ... double-k can still be ck, like klock, back, ... and the /kw/ sound kan also remain as qu, like question, queen. It's a simple reform, words are still rekognisable, but there will no loner be a C or Ch that makes a /k/ sound.
@tomasbeltran04050
Жыл бұрын
@@Liggliluff could be, especially for ðe ch part
@Designed1
Күн бұрын
except for the fact that eth never contrasted with thorn in what sounds they represented. both letters were used interchangably until both got dropped and were replaced with the th digraph.
“It’s just a D with a line through it!” Q: *sweats nervously*
@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456
3 жыл бұрын
Ø you mean?
@nikocob1228
3 жыл бұрын
@@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456 i don't think so since q is just o with a small line. But i guess that works too.
@RomanSimkins
3 жыл бұрын
Ðicc
@RedTheLava
3 жыл бұрын
Đamn
@orbitervehicle102
3 жыл бұрын
Ðð
English: *Stops using old letter* Icelanders: “Come, you have a new home now.”
@joselopez3990
3 жыл бұрын
æ
@joselopez3990
3 жыл бұрын
ß
@SandiSaydak
3 жыл бұрын
how did u get chinese in ur name
@SandiSaydak
3 жыл бұрын
@Anya Aliffa i also have chinese keyboard 你好
@Robbie-pc1dl
3 жыл бұрын
ſ go brrrr
"&" was probably dropped from the alphabet because unlike most other letters on this list, you can't use it in words. You can use it to _represent_ one specific word, but you can't actually use it _in_ words. Fun fact: the ampersand is a corruption of "et", the Latin word for "and", and in some fonts, it does kind of look like a capital E and lowercase t smushed together.
Þis video has informed me in so many ways. Fr, imaginiŋ trying to use these in ye modern day is pretty surreal & it gets me imagining. It must have been an æon since anyone probably have ðhought to use þhese. Þis video is amazing!
“10 letters we dropped from the alphabet” Me: ok so something like z” *ok so t h o r n*
@bluesdealer
4 жыл бұрын
Blame the industrial revolution. “Þ” goes back all the way to the Elder Futhark “ᚦ” rune. English evolved with that sound built-in, so I wish we still had a letter for it.
@Lunarcreeper
4 жыл бұрын
bluesdealer Do you understand humor?
@kato3415
4 жыл бұрын
@Lil Sizzurp corona
@kato3415
4 жыл бұрын
@Lil Sizzurp uuuhan
@kato3415
4 жыл бұрын
@Lil Sizzurp roast
"The long s" Germans: hold my ßeer
@minecraftsteve7342
4 жыл бұрын
Ok ßoomer
@wizzlelobomon3274
4 жыл бұрын
Gurshaan Lamba Ok ssoomer
@arthur_p_dent
4 жыл бұрын
The German ß ("Eszett") is a different letter. German once had the "long s" as well and it disappeared for pretty much the same reasons as in English, if much later (only in the 1st half of the 20th century).
@annymous-bz2xx
4 жыл бұрын
Sseer
@minecraftsteve7342
4 жыл бұрын
@@arthur_p_dent that was joke I already know about the eszett
In Russian, there is also a letter that looks exactly like the number 3. It makes the sound “z”. There is just a slight difference between them though. З 3. The first one is the letter, and the second one is the number.
@Labyrinth6000
Жыл бұрын
Plus third letter in the cyrillic alphabet looks like it uses a similar rule to thorn, but pronounced like a v.
@Sarp1sthebest
Жыл бұрын
@@Labyrinth6000 В B they look the same
@russianyoutube
11 ай бұрын
@@Labyrinth6000 there is also Ж and Щ. The first one is zh iirc, but about the second one idk
@cc10higa
8 ай бұрын
@@russianyoutubeщ "sch"
@hmkrjax
10 күн бұрын
щ is a soft sh
Ah yes, my favourite pokemon trainer Æ
"putting two Us together" W Double...U? Scribes: *_perfection_*
@astronix2000
5 жыл бұрын
Double "U" UU VV. I think is should be double v
@MegaMGstudios
5 жыл бұрын
@@astronix2000 in French it is actually called "double V"
@FinalFoxFeistyFox
4 жыл бұрын
U+U = UU V+V =W
@frank_calvert
4 жыл бұрын
@@astronix2000 Well v and u used to be opposites. For example - loue and vse
@iacintha
4 жыл бұрын
@DIVIDE ET IMPERA same in Danish. Pronounced like "dobbelt-ve"
“Æ is unused” X Æ A-Xii: *that’s offensive*
@condude2464
2 жыл бұрын
X Æ A-XII is Elon musks child name, thank you!
@tyuuzolodj4182
2 жыл бұрын
œ???
@Kimi_Mimi
2 жыл бұрын
@@tyuuzolodj4182 it's used by french people
@aruekai
2 жыл бұрын
@@tyuuzolodj4182 Used by Baguette people
@Sturniolo_SnC_reposts
2 жыл бұрын
Ø å and æ
I legit want Thorn and Wynn to come back. The three syllable Dou-ble U can be a tad large, especially when saying WWW when World Wide Web is three times more convenient when it comes to syllable count. And TH is just absurd, really. Two whole letters used to make one sound?! This is outrageous! English sucks, too bad it’s my first language and I don’t know any other ones well!
@UrLocalGabe
6 ай бұрын
Maybe create a new letter... idk use an "ŭ"
I still use ampersand when writing by hand, though not when typing. Ampersand simply makes writing quicker and easier, plus everybody understands it!
English: *drops þ, æ, ð* Icelandic: OURS NOW
@yasnimatyasit3316
3 жыл бұрын
OUR LETTER
@Matthew-nv2wy
3 жыл бұрын
OKKAR NÚNA
@Matthew-nv2wy
3 жыл бұрын
Yasni Mat Yasit S
@girioola
3 жыл бұрын
cri cat all of those r phonics symbols eueueu
@vanyasketches5154
3 жыл бұрын
Oh yes.
The cæt ate a fœtus. That fœtus was my dauȝter Heh. These are hard to use
@frank_calvert
4 жыл бұрын
yogh isnt a 3
@sarahbergmann1162
4 жыл бұрын
Squishy Boi it’s the closest we have
@olegtarasovrodionov
4 жыл бұрын
I found it Ȝȝ
@hecko-ck6kh
4 жыл бұрын
œ
@lightningstudios113
4 жыл бұрын
❸
English:I Gotta Drop Þ, æ, ð Icelandic:ITS MINE NOW Ampersand is the only the alphabet Became a symbol & it is pronounced as "And"
Chapter suggestions, because this is exactly the kind of video for which it doesn't make sense in the slightest to not have them: 0:00 - Intro 1:14 - ʃ (Long S) 2:27 - & (Ampersand) 3:15 - Þþ (Thorn) 4:11 - That [This one appears to not have any Unicode symbol] 4:33 - Ðð (Eth) 5:07 - Ææ (Ash) 5:42 - Œœ (Ethel) 6:10 - Ƿƿ (Wynn) 7:00 - Ȝȝ (Yogh) 7:37 - Ŋŋ (Eng) 8:24 - Outro
interestiŋ
@joper3338
5 жыл бұрын
please make this a thiŋ
@poppy3879
5 жыл бұрын
η not the same but close What keyboard?
@GhostOfAMachine
5 жыл бұрын
Used commonly in Kazakh (cyrillic counterpart be ң)
@derpdrawz4541
5 жыл бұрын
I’m likin’ this thing
@alleriastormborn8089
5 жыл бұрын
they see me rolliŋ..
other people: æon me, an intellectual: hA, gæ
@BitterJoyXx
4 жыл бұрын
Cicada Aesi lmaooo
@eyemoisturizer
4 жыл бұрын
mÿ tęxt įs głįtćhèd
@user-pw6wq5nq2h
4 жыл бұрын
@@eyemoisturizer śàmë
@deadchannneldontclick3544
4 жыл бұрын
@@user-pw6wq5nq2h σαμε ΣΑΜΕ ςΑΜe ßæme
@Oliver-fw6rc
4 жыл бұрын
@༆༼ッツ MaichoYunixx༽༆ Śæm
I think the letters X and V are rarely used in Indonesia. X is often replaced with KS V sounds almost the same as F. Taxi -- Taksi Aktivitas -- Aktifitas (Activity) Even at the age of 17, I still don't know which one is right between AktiVitas & AktiFitas. Even autocorrect thinks both of them are correct. Lol
@a_Playerwastaken
10 ай бұрын
I know this is a 7 month old comment, but what's the point for Q? It's only most commonly used in the word "Quran", I haven't seen it in any other words. It's almost like they just added Q in the alphabet to make the Indonesian Alphabet more similar to the Latin Alphabet
@RadenYohanesGunawan
2 ай бұрын
We use v actually
@RadenYohanesGunawan
2 ай бұрын
@@a_Playerwastakenwe use it for Arabic words
man i watched this video years ago and have just now gotten it recommended to me
i met someone named “Ræ” and some nerd emoji came over and said, “æ means ash, so your name is rash.”
@FenceAKAGlasnost
2 жыл бұрын
Hand me some cash
@DoctorMoko
2 жыл бұрын
Might need to dash
@axywrll6015
2 жыл бұрын
Spongebob's big birthday bash
@internetduck7348
2 жыл бұрын
I have a severe rash
@-ik
2 жыл бұрын
I hate ræ’s
Sees the "Ye Olde" is actually "The Old" Everyone: *watches on KZread* Me: *watches on ThouTube*
@mintiistrqwberri5483
3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@jochannan7379
3 жыл бұрын
I was kind of expecting him to mention that Þ still lives on in the Icelandic (and Faroese?!?) alphabet, just as ð and æ.
@YLCCOfficial_Cowboyism
3 жыл бұрын
The Old=Ye Olde=Þe Olde
@user-jp3ax9iu2p
3 жыл бұрын
@@YLCCOfficial_Cowboyism that's what we established bitch
@servantofaeie1569
3 жыл бұрын
@@oytismand that is not true.
Could you please talk about the letter "a"? The letter "a" that we use in our keypads is not the same as we use when we write on papers. Thanks a lot. Very useful video.
@SEBithehiper945
9 ай бұрын
The "α" you write on paper isn't A, it's Latin Alpha. The A you use on keypads is normal A.
@amyramm9394
2 ай бұрын
Huh
Wow! I really liked þis video. I watched this the twentieð time
Letters that survived by hiding in different languages: Æ Œ З & Ð Þ ŋ ƿ
@SirMathBoi
4 жыл бұрын
Flux Carbs In which language?
@e_e_eli
4 жыл бұрын
James Urizar Well. I speak faroese, and we use Æ and Ð, and people from Iceland use thorn.
@SirMathBoi
4 жыл бұрын
BeingElian UUOUU
@apolloturtle1211
4 жыл бұрын
@@SirMathBoi Russian still uses З з and Ю ю looks like thorn considering they come from greek this makes sense.
@lightningstudios113
4 жыл бұрын
BeingElian ☭
Ethel: hi Me: hi œ Ethel: what is œ Me: its ethel
@amal-_-8360
4 жыл бұрын
uuuu (by that i mean uwu)
@simpleanigamer1433
4 жыл бұрын
@@amal-_-8360 nah its WW
@amal-_-8360
4 жыл бұрын
@@simpleanigamer1433 nauu
@yourlocalprincess1690
4 жыл бұрын
Riverdale? frk. Ethel
@josee-annejoly6896
4 жыл бұрын
Actually œ is still used in french, like in sœur, cœur, fœtus, etc. But it's not a letter of the alphabet, just the way to write it, even though I think soeur, coeur and foetus are equally accepted
This video became my favorite removed letters video
I went searching for a video like this because I wanted to know where Xi went lol, got no answer but still worth it is the long s related to the eszett? They seem similar in usage what exactly does "and per se and" mean. Like are they saying something like "x, y, z, and, like the letter and" as in to clarify that they mean to end the sentence with "and" by saying referring to and "itself"? Thats really interesting that it was considered a letter. Did they have the other common language symbols back then like pound and at? Math and money symbols notwithstanding Lol I love that the spoken "ye old" is just a misinterpretation. Why did they choose "ye" to replace "þ"? Why not like "lp" or something thats more reminiscent of the thing theyre replacing? Wynn looks too much like something between D and P it's really not a clear symbol to jam into the language. I'm all for adopting stupid anachronistic charactersets just because I can, but that is one I will sadly be leaving out lol lol if you try to pronounce the "gh" in daughter it basically just turns into the german "Tochter". I would like to see that weird 3 come back too, but it needs a new symbol and name. I think that sound is still alive in Bach, because its a name
@javierlatorre480
Жыл бұрын
Long s is indeed related to the eszett; in fact eszett was created from a ligature of long s with short s (or z in some cases) Pretty much, yes, along the lines of "x, y, z, and "and" itself" They chose y to replace þ because by that point þ had changed its shape somewhat and lost its ascender, so it legitimately looked a lot like the y. The modern þ is based on the Icelandic iteration of the letter Wynn was ripped from the old Runic alphabet much like þ was, but it clearly hadn't lasted as long as the letter combo that would ultimately become W. And as cool as wynn looks, it's harder to parse, harder to type, and incredibly redundant Yogh stood for a significantly bigger number of sounds than just the gh, often used instead of y at the beginning of syllables and even occasionally for w within a word. And no, the sound is pretty much dead in standard English; note that Austin simply could not pronounce it, instead pronouncing it as a hard k.
Here in Norway, the alphabet ends like this: x y z æ ø å.
@megalifts
3 жыл бұрын
@@Karphya あ、い、う、え or ア、イ、ウ、エ
@megalifts
3 жыл бұрын
@@Karphya Oops, I wrote the beginning of hiragana and katakana.
@casualposters
3 жыл бұрын
Where I live is W,X,Y,Z
@L1M.L4M
3 жыл бұрын
iN aMeRiCAiN, iT gOeS "wXyZ¹2³"
@L1M.L4M
3 жыл бұрын
It's a joke, and the 123 us a reference to the alphabet song past Z, because they fill up space, because other language use other letters, the numbers fill up empty space
I remember as a kid I used to take "W, X, Y & Z" literally and I actually thought "&" came after Y and before Z. It's funny to know that I was actually close to right lmao
@pringle-man
4 жыл бұрын
Nope, you weren’t right, Austin was wrong in that ampersand was never a letter
@IloveRumania
4 жыл бұрын
xD
@IDKWhattop66t
2 жыл бұрын
Æ Œ
@tejasgeetran5224
2 жыл бұрын
Fl you know what is the full form of IMHO is? Ans laughing my ass(your bum) out.
@ProfessionalBugLover
2 жыл бұрын
@@IDKWhattop66t Œ
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As a teacher of grades one and two, trying to teach kids to read, having a single letter for a sound rather than various combinations would be MUCH easier! I think English has terrible spelling. I would love to revamp it and make it totally simple like Spanish. It wouldn't be very practical now though as if it were like that then people with different accents would spell words entirely differently. Ah well.... If it had been done in the first place we probably wouldn't have all these different accents because the way things are written would tell us how to say them.
@stephenfennell
7 ай бұрын
I agree. A more phonetic spelling system would make it so much easier for English-speaking children to learn to read and write. Italian children learn to read and write in much less time - less than a year, I think I've heard - compared to English-speaking children because Italian is pronounced almost exactly as it is written, and written almost exactly as it is pronounced. Likewise with other phonetically-written languages including Finnish, and probably even languages that are semi-phonetically written like French. But as you also say, it is probably now far too late to reform our spelling, and the vast geographical spread of its speakers around the world has introduced so many different accents that it would be a fool's game to try to decide which accent to represent phonetically in which word.
well at least Spanish Has something that you guys don't have *_Ñ_* Also: ÁÉÍÓÚ ÏÖÜ
@cheerio.9429
5 жыл бұрын
Ñ.
@Istoeumapemba
5 жыл бұрын
And portuguese has something Spanish doesn't have: *Ç*
@yasmin-ts8so
5 жыл бұрын
Istoeumapemba There is a language in Spain (Catalán, which is spoken in Barcelona) in which the ç is used
@totalanarchy-yt
5 жыл бұрын
Filipino also has that.
@dasbanhammer
5 жыл бұрын
Now behold this: Ë.
Me who speaks German & Icelandic: cries in ß Æ/æ Ð/ð Þ/þ
@turbobrickslego
3 жыл бұрын
i thought Ð meant dogecoin
@hexaltheninjawow9531
3 жыл бұрын
@@turbobrickslego nah, but then again, the dollar sign is just an S with a line $
@AnAlbanianDude
3 жыл бұрын
how to get Đ low case
@ASMRJey
3 жыл бұрын
@MoolsDogTwo Uppercase ß doesn’t exist in the German alphabet since there is no use for it. The uppercase ß you posted here is just there to complete the Unicode font but is not in use anywhere.
@ASMRJey
3 жыл бұрын
@@AnAlbanianDude I only have it on the Icelandic keyboard so just paste it I guess.
I love þ, It makes so much sense and should honestly be used more.
Fun fact: When Arabs started using latin keyboards, many of the sounds from Arabic were not possible with the limited latin alphabet, so they started using the digits.
@Thenormalguy101
4 жыл бұрын
ع غ ح خ ط ظ which numbers are for which sounds as these are the ones that you cant really type with the latin alphabet
@aabbdduu
3 жыл бұрын
I'm an Arab and I didn't know that
@carladoumit2222
3 жыл бұрын
@@Thenormalguy101here in lebanon we use ع=3 غ=gh both use h since you can usually guess from context and not many words that differ only because of these lettersهand ح خ=kh And ط andظ use t and th respectively for the same reason as ه andح In addition the ء=2
@jaffermahdi628
3 жыл бұрын
It’s still a thing nowadays. We use digits which look similar to the Arabic exclusive letters ع=3 خ=5 ح=7 ص=6 ء=2
@nadeen6968
3 жыл бұрын
@@jaffermahdi628 yeah pretty much, there's also 8 for غ and even 4 for ش for some reason. But sometimes we just use letters like dh for ظ Instead
5:35 the “Æ” is actually an “Ä” in German and its used very often.
@jiripoduska3785
4 жыл бұрын
And in Icelandic it sounds like [ ai ]
@Dark_Zacian
4 жыл бұрын
and in danish, “æ” is still a letter. “æ” and “Æ” is just pronounced “A + E” (danish)
@jun-hs4eo
4 жыл бұрын
Dark_Umbreon æ os still a letter in Norwegian was well. It is pronounced like a long a here though (ex: ærlig
@gregorywasingerjr8084
4 жыл бұрын
Okäy boomer
@NagromVoice
4 жыл бұрын
Elon Musk loves it apparently
The long S: there’s a great joke surrounding that in episode two of Them Vicar of Dibley.’ 😆
So basically, there are 2 kinds of THs in this world: Those that sound like a D, and those that sound like an F
I knew a girl named Aeden and she told me that her name was illegal because it was actually spelled Æden and that letter can’t be used on a birth certificate
@EilonwyWanderer
5 жыл бұрын
My niece has that name!
@cherubblu
5 жыл бұрын
how is the name Æden illegal jeez people these dæs yes i said dæs
@user-do1oe5uh6z
5 жыл бұрын
blueberries are fruit daes is pronounced closer to despacito than days
@feynmanwasagenius3482
5 жыл бұрын
+maipe tallis Some countries like Iceland still use that though so are we saying an Icelandic name would be illegal? I am not sure thats correct.
@Tinfoil_Hardhat
5 жыл бұрын
Well, if that letter can't be used on a birth certificate, then it isn't spelled that way. Simply.
I'd like to bring Þorn back, though it comes with certain complications , like confusing it for some other words..
@pqbdwmnu
5 жыл бұрын
8 ßit
@iampie1989
5 жыл бұрын
*hœ*
@hreniucandrei3702
5 жыл бұрын
Diamond hœ
@SoNextJenn
4 жыл бұрын
Coffee Mapping Diamond Ðick
@intelchip_x86
4 жыл бұрын
Çøčķ
Tell me please, what app or aps do you use for making such nice animations and transforms and transitions?
People in 2018: ok letters that were dropped from the alphabet Cool People in 2022:LETTER DROPPED FROM THE ALPHABET LORE
Elon Musk: *watches this video* Elon Musk: names son “X Æ A-12”
@RekRakJat
4 жыл бұрын
Juan Carlos Dau Actually it’s “Archangel 12”. So not only does it not look like a name, it also looks nothing like how it should be pronounced.
@MartinJohnZ
3 жыл бұрын
Father-son-conversation between Elon Musk and his son: "Son, if your classmates are making fun of your name, it's not because your name is weird, it's just because your classmates are not smart enough."
@SlySonic-xo6gz
3 жыл бұрын
Isn't that just Kyle
@dalbled8534
3 жыл бұрын
Yes my thoughts
@hellothere8268
3 жыл бұрын
last I heard, he could not register the birth certificate with letters outside of the 26 or use numbers unless it is an ordinal such as II, III, IV,... for a family name
So “You” Can now represent “You” and “Thou”? Neat!
@circumplex9552
3 жыл бұрын
Wait, does that mean that "you" is a byproduct of þ becoming y, with the old "thou"?
@nameless2996
3 жыл бұрын
@@circumplex9552 Not necessarily, "you" and "thou" were always separate ("you" was meant for formal greetings and such while "thou" was informal) but the shift from thorn to "y" made it a little bit harder to differentiate between the two so people just stopped caring about the difference, which is why we only have one second person pronoun in English.
@redapol5678
3 жыл бұрын
@@nameless2996 I thought it was also used to distinguish singular you (thou) from plural you (you all/y’all/youse)
@ericbarlow6772
3 жыл бұрын
@@redapol5678 y'all is likely a contraction of ye all from Scotland that was carried over to North America.
@redapol5678
3 жыл бұрын
@@ericbarlow6772 fair enough. I’m Australian so our go to term for plural you is ‘youse’. We never say ‘y’all’, but ‘you all’ is possible.
English: **stops using ð, æ, and þ** Iceland: Don't Worry ð, æ, and þ, You Have A New Home
4:42 it’s still use in Vietnam just the shape of the capital
nobody: English: let's take out yogh so we can't pronounce Arabic and Hebrew names
@fennviktorvich
4 жыл бұрын
Like Jonah yoghanna
@marsac_
4 жыл бұрын
*Cries In Egyptian*
@grimTales1
4 жыл бұрын
Is the 'yogh' why Menzies should really be pronounced Mingis?
@Phantom-es4et
4 жыл бұрын
M N A Studio *hi fives in egyptian*
@proconqueror
4 жыл бұрын
יונה
Did you know: ß (German "eszett" or sharp S) is the combination of long "s" and normal "s" into one letter. & (ampersand) was originally a combination of the letters "et", spelling out the Latin word for "and". In the past, "&c" was a common spelling of "etc".
@Sp1tz1fy
2 жыл бұрын
I actully agree þouȝ ƿið you if it ƿas a ðhiŋ
@seanluo8369
2 жыл бұрын
ß comes in many designs. ſ+s, ſ+z, ſ+ʒ, ſ+3, etc. And capitalized ẞ exists.
@isabellach
2 жыл бұрын
oh wow the eszet one's really cool
@dannypipewrench533
2 жыл бұрын
I like the eszett. i believe its name is a combination of "ess" and "zett." Duh. "Ess" for "S," and "zett" (or really tsett) being the German pronunciation of "zed," which is "Z." Since those are the sounds represented by "S," logically if you make a symbol for the combination of the two, you would combine the names.
@steamhappyemoji
2 жыл бұрын
ẞ
Great video, it is quite intresting
Moment of "lowing pitch" 1:05 "My entire life was a lie" 2:40 "Au contraire, mon frère!" 6:57 "uuouu!"
Ƿrittiŋ only uſiŋ old letterſ lookſ like ðiſ.
@craftah
4 жыл бұрын
Its cool
@joseaguirre2356
4 жыл бұрын
'w'riti'ng' only u's'i'ng' old letter's' look's' like 'th'i's' as I Can translate letters
@EstEsreil
4 жыл бұрын
@@joseaguirre2356 *transliterate
@AkumaDayo
4 жыл бұрын
shouldn't it be "þis"
@mezoahmedii
4 жыл бұрын
so hard to read man
"You don' mess up, Ææron"
@staticslender2531
6 жыл бұрын
CheesecakeLasagna i’m a noob i know but how do you do that?
@cliek6451
6 жыл бұрын
It is used quite a lot in french
@nikolaiblm1255
6 жыл бұрын
æøå
@andrecarpy6890
6 жыл бұрын
Æ
@slimshady5902
6 жыл бұрын
Ææ
Timestamps 1:16 "ſ" The Long S 2:28 "&" Ampersand 3:16 "Þ" Thorn 4:11 "Ꝥ" That 4:33 "Ð" Eth 5:07 "Æ" Ash 5:42 "Œ" Ethel 6:10 "Ƿ" Wynn 7:00 "Ȝ" Yogh 7:38 "Ŋ" Eng
@Peppino26
Жыл бұрын
Eng is on unifon now
@proonstrongmansimulatorbru9379
Жыл бұрын
@@Peppino26 yeah
Imagine alphabet lore if these weren’t dropped from the alphabet
"Thorn, eth and ash are all dead letters!" The Icelandic language: Am I a joke to you?
@grottomatic
4 жыл бұрын
We need to reintroduce ðese letters into ðe længuage. Æt least I þink so.
@callmevbuck4054
4 жыл бұрын
The Capital version of Eth is used in Vietnamese.
@legalvampire8136
4 жыл бұрын
What sort of keyboards are used in Iceland? Do they include keys for these letters, which I don't know how to write on the mobile phone I am using to write this?
@icelandgaming
4 жыл бұрын
@@legalvampire8136 No, the Icelandic keyboard basically just combines two keys to make these letters Á É Í Ó Ú Ý But there are some that are just for one key Ð Þ Æ Ö On a mobile phone keyboard, you have to hold in the letter A to type in the letters Á or Æ, E for the letter É and etc. For Þ, you have to hold in T, for Ð you hold in D and for Ö you hold in O
@legalvampire8136
4 жыл бұрын
Þanks for explaining đat. I find it works on my mobilæ phone if I hold the keys down.
Even just bringing back the "ŋ" would be cool, useful, and it kinda looks modern too. Look: Somethiŋ
@nesyboi9421
2 жыл бұрын
But again the same problems come up If I didn't watch this video I would probably think you wrote Somethin' instead of Something
@Errrhhho
2 жыл бұрын
How did you get "eng"!?
@hunnidmusic
2 жыл бұрын
How did ya write it
@farenvyld
2 жыл бұрын
in the way... mmmmmmmmm
@Random_.
2 жыл бұрын
Ñ
Fun fact: ß is also a long s but its only used in German and still exists today like in words like straße or shiße
Yogh: I was dropped out of the alphabet cuz I look like a three The letter O that looks like a zero: I don't have such weaknesses
@Pavanrajr2008
3 жыл бұрын
5,S/1,I : did you miss me
@gigithespiderantnostalgiaa1689
3 жыл бұрын
б: You Fool
@debkalpapal2682
2 жыл бұрын
@You can eat in class!! lmao
@debkalpapal2682
2 жыл бұрын
@You can eat in class!! зззз
@cycrothelargeplanet
2 жыл бұрын
Ø?
The French still use "œ" occasionally, in example the word "sœur" meaning sister
@kevinmarshall5431
3 жыл бұрын
Un autre example es œuf, as in egg
@lemonade4181
2 жыл бұрын
Yes and Google has to autocorrect sœur for me during virtual school.
@landonrichards4434
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, a lot of my schoolwork was done on computers when I took French and we had no easy way of using “œ”. My teachers knew that, but I always found it ever-so-slightly annoying
@cdemr
2 жыл бұрын
@@landonrichards4434 Basically everyone just write it "oe" and computers correct it back to "œ" automatically, don't worry to much about it it's not important, really
@Mel0nMel
2 жыл бұрын
God I love french
3:29, well if it’s out of context, it will be “released by which of year”.
1:15 Long S (ſ) 2:27 Ampersand (&) 3:15 Thorn (Þ þ) 4:11 That (Ꝥ ꝥ) 4:33 Eth (Ð ð) 5:07 Ash (Æ æ) 5:42 Ethel (Œ œ) 6:10 Wynn (Ƿ ƿ) 7:00 Yogh (Ȝ ȝ) 7:37 Eng (Ŋ ŋ)
I always kinda wished sounds like "sh", "th", or "ch", had their own letters. I'd also love to see yog and eng make a comeback.
@magentas6467
5 жыл бұрын
Oh, and I really dislike the letter c. It makes sounds that s and k already make.
@myrsinelachanaris4016
5 жыл бұрын
th is the thorn and eth letters.
@jackandy1736
5 жыл бұрын
Lithuanians use Š š instead of sh
@ilovegdragon
5 жыл бұрын
Look at the Esperanto alphabet.
@NimonoSolenze
5 жыл бұрын
yeah C's pretty useless, there's no sound it "makes" that isn't taken by other letters by default the only thing it has "unique" is "Ch" for a unique sound...but it's a combo. Could easily be its own letter.
Me: *_Clicks Video_* Me: _This seems fishy_ Also Me: _But he sounds smart so is should believe every word that comes outta his mouth_
@joseh.749
5 жыл бұрын
You do know this is copied from an article? Even the jokes
@joytothemarshmellows5330
4 жыл бұрын
Tamarius Online *but how do you know they came out of his mouth*
@slayerslayer7623
4 жыл бұрын
He does get quite a few facts wrong, but he gets þe basic gist of þe letters history.
@adainsantana3928
4 жыл бұрын
This is real so yeah
The low pitch "oh contrere mon frére" cracks me up
I have seen a couple articles that some orthographers & lexicographers want to add the schwa ǝ as the 27th letter of the American English alphabet, as it is one of the most common vowel sounds in the USA ....
1:15 The Long S 2:29 Ampersand 3:16 Thorn 4:11 That 4:35 Eth 5:07 Ash 5:44 Ethel 6:10 Wynn 7:01 Yogh 7:30 Eng
@jodyceslok1913
4 жыл бұрын
Ok &?
@needleboy17
4 жыл бұрын
That one
@needleboy17
4 жыл бұрын
Can someone write "thot"?
@CloveryNature
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I'm making a powerpoint on this and your comment is going to be VERY useful! 😀
@user-pw6wq5nq2h
4 жыл бұрын
"Đ" I 👏 Just used something interesting 🤬🤬🤦
In Germany we still have the long s. It looks like this: ß/ẞ
@soha786sajju
3 жыл бұрын
Yes I know
@soha786sajju
3 жыл бұрын
Diego Negrete no both are same
@ph1l69
3 жыл бұрын
@Diego Negrete No, ẞ is capital and ß ist lowercase.
@fettegurke2447
3 жыл бұрын
Not still its pretty new it was added Like 25 years ago.
@ph1l69
3 жыл бұрын
@@fettegurke2447 Ich mag deinen Namen
EVERYONE JOIN THE THORNVOLUTION WE NEED THORN BACK
One lil’ extra about ampersand. I’ve made up a tiny lil’ rule when it comes to the full-word wannabe. Basically, you’d use ampersnad whenever you use more than one “and” in a sentence with ampersand being used for every “and after the first one, or if an “and” is used in the name of a tv show or a business or something like that. An example would be Tom *&* Jerry.
"Æ in the English language is dead" Elon Musk "that's funny"
@Matthew-nv2wy
3 жыл бұрын
Ælon Musk
@astxrism6822
3 жыл бұрын
Ælon Musk
@madmasseur6422
3 жыл бұрын
Ælon Musk
@airiphonic
3 жыл бұрын
Ælon Musk
@Eman-ud6tg
3 жыл бұрын
Ælon musk
Fun fact: the order of the alphabet is completely arbitrary, and yet so many things depend on the order never changing, like lists numbered with letters instead of numbers.
@alfiej.armstrong4450
11 ай бұрын
Wrong- it’s in alphabetical order.
@insertcreativenamehere492
11 ай бұрын
@@alfiej.armstrong4450 Wrong- it's in reverse reverse alphabetical order
@craiglungren8703
8 ай бұрын
If it has to do with the order of a Base System, it would be the 10 single numbers first and then the 26 letters last for the counting lists! 🙂 For fun, here is what each of the Base Systems look like … Base 2: 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 1010, 1011, 1100, 1101, 1110, 1111, 10000, 10001, 10010, 10011, 10100, 10101, 10110, 10111, 11000, 11001, 11010, 11011, 11100, 11101, 11110, 11111, 100000, etc. Base 3: 0, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 100, 101, 102, 110, 111, 112, 120, 121, 122, 200, 201, 202, 210, 211, 212, 220, 221, 222, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1010, 1011, 1012, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1110, 1111, 1112, etc. Base 4: 0, 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 100, 101, 102, 103, 110, 111, 112, 113, 120, 121, 122, 123, 130, 131, 132, 133, 200, 201, 202, 203, 210, 211, 212, 213, 220, 221, 222, 223, 230, 231, 232, etc. Base 5: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 140, 141, 142, etc. Base 6: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120, 121, 122, 123, etc. (I may get back to this soon)!
@stephenfennell
7 ай бұрын
Actually it is not completely random. The order of the Roman alphabet is very similar to that of the Greek alphabet, and not dissimilar to that of Hebrew. The vowels are placed approximately every four letters. Remove letters added after the Romans and you have: Abcd Efgh I(jk)lmn Opqrst (u)V(wxyz) The Roman V was not the consonant we use it as today but the vowel sound "oo", so Roman V was a vowel. During the Dark Ages or Middle Ages people began to round the shape of the V when writing quickly, and eventually decided to treat rounded U and angular V as two different letters with two different sounds. They gave the vowel sound "oo" to U and made the angular V a consonant. Possibly the reason why the last vowel, V, was placed at the end of the alphabet instead of 4 letters after O is that people felt it was satisfying to have one vowel at the beginning (A) and one at the end (V); but I'm only speculating there. And as to who decided to arrange the vowels like that, and where to put the other letters, and how this very brainy person managed to get other people to agree with this order, I'm at a loss to know. Hebrew already had an alphabetical order in about 1000 BC when someone wrote Psalm 119, which works through the Hebrew alphabet letter by letter (you will see what I mean if you look it up - it's easier to see than to describe it here). The Greeks also had the concept that alpha was their first letter and omega the last (both of them vowels, interestingly), as we know from the fact that Jesus called himself "the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending" in Revelation 1:8.
@lanceuppercut_
6 ай бұрын
@@stephenfennell Actualy V was a semivowel (in the IPA system, /w/)
fonts can use the different kind of 3 so that there wont be any confusion for yogh.
Ðat was actually interestiŋ video topic. Þank you. I'll start usiŋ same of ðem rn
I took notes on this vid. I can imagine it already Parent/teacher: I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH PLS Me: *i am*
@larkeyyy4942
4 жыл бұрын
Hezekiah Rodriguez r/iamverysmart
@movedaccountcheckinchannel8404
4 жыл бұрын
I shall
@krise209
4 жыл бұрын
Mr.Coolguy I want to do this now
*"W, X, Y, Z, AND PER SE AND"* Those poor Latin kids...
@virtal7348
6 жыл бұрын
Jay Infinity And they say saying zed at the end is akward sounding.
@blankspace1853
6 жыл бұрын
I'm still wondering why they didn't just say W X Y & Z. It sounds so much better.
@virtal7348
6 жыл бұрын
If they say W, X, &, Z sounds like you aren't saying & and rather saying and.
@rojokalawakan
6 жыл бұрын
Virtal well you said and as an and still an and so it might be great i think
@virtal7348
6 жыл бұрын
Esco Royale Ok cool... I think.
Number 9 looks like the arabic letter ع and even makes a simlaer sound.
I loved þis video so much and I want to briŋ back all of þese letters!
“It’s just a D with a line through it!” *laughs nervously in Vietnamese*
@flurpy789
4 жыл бұрын
@J Kindness Yes
@d1rect
4 жыл бұрын
bruh
@Banshee_Null
4 жыл бұрын
Đ
@deadchannneldontclick3544
4 жыл бұрын
*laughs in Icelandic keyboard* ð is not đ
@amvymavy
4 жыл бұрын
You mean this ----> "Ð"?
Au contraire, *mon frère* It gets me EVERY TIME
@hanako6125
5 жыл бұрын
Yup.
@legrandluan
5 жыл бұрын
Omelette au fromage OwO
@mahikannakiham2477
5 жыл бұрын
@@legrandluan Salut ananas
@legrandluan
5 жыл бұрын
@@mahikannakiham2477 Bonjour ^^
@bat-
5 жыл бұрын
hi.pineapple // gacha bonjour
If the “GH” in Daughter wasn’t silent, it would be pronounced Doctor
In Germany we still have these letters in addition to the 26 alphabet letters like the sharp s "ẞ", Ä, Ö and Ü Ä, Ö and Ü are basically an in between of Ae, Oe and Ue.
I'd actually be fine with 'Thorn' and 'That' coming back
@rubabaazfar
4 жыл бұрын
But then it'll be spelled yorn and yat. and i also dont want to buy another keyboard.........
@servantofaeie1569
4 жыл бұрын
@@rubabaazfar no ðey ƿill be spelled þorn and ꝥ.
@servantofaeie1569
4 жыл бұрын
@@rubabaazfar ƿhy cant ƿe briŋ all of ðem bacc
@dragonking322
4 жыл бұрын
Þ is probably the easiest one to bring back really but it'd be hard teaching people to tell it's lower and upercase versions apart Þ þ i mean the lower case looks bigger to boot
@bothenumberblockslogoedito1339
4 жыл бұрын
That is a thorn.
I þink we should bring it back
@user-yg7iw3kb1m
3 жыл бұрын
i þink so too. ð is dumb. þ is better. why even boþer use ð
@lwkitty414
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@Atlas-yh6vg
3 жыл бұрын
@@user-yg7iw3kb1m Yeah, ꝥ's really cool!
@user-yg7iw3kb1m
3 жыл бұрын
@@Atlas-yh6vg þis is surprisingly fun
@Atlas-yh6vg
3 жыл бұрын
@@user-yg7iw3kb1m &, what other interestiŋ letters do ye like?
I would like to bring back Þ because he looked nothing like Y, Þ and Y both don't match to each other, so let's all champion ourselves for Þ. and he's also the first forgotten letter that I ever saw in a random video about him... he's my legend...
“Sadly, the confusion that it cause with the LETTER 3 😂
In Deutsch, "W" is called "vee" and "V" is called "fau", which helps if you want to fake a German accent. It also explains why "Volk" is just "folk" and pronounced the same as in English.
@eyb0ss313
3 жыл бұрын
That's why Father is spelt Vater in German
@genius6084
3 жыл бұрын
@Santiago Sosa no, Volkswagen = Folksvagen, and "Vater" could just literally be spelled "Fata" and nothing in the pronunciation would be changed lmao
@user-vo9cv5lr1y
3 жыл бұрын
Vladhorn waldhorn
@hav431
3 жыл бұрын
Y = U P S I L O N
@petrichorrs
3 жыл бұрын
Ηαrrу ατ ЯоБloх I wonder if that’s an actual word lmao
You miſſed the long s (ſ). For a long time, it had been the form of the lowercaſe 's' whenever it's not a connective s, or at the end of a word or a compound. It's equivalent to the 2 forms of ſigma (σ and ς) which is ſtill being uſed to this day in Greek.
@austinmcconnell
Жыл бұрын
That's literally the first letter on the list? 👀
@DanielHazenStewart
Жыл бұрын
Are you using the long-S?!
@Liggliluff
Жыл бұрын
it would be "miſsed"
þ, ð and æ are used in modern Icelandic today!!! þ, ð og æ eru notað á ísland í dag!!!
@halfdanmatt
5 жыл бұрын
Konráð Arthúrsson það er hárétt
@xwtek3505
5 жыл бұрын
This video is about letter dropped in ENGLISH language.
@RanmaruRei
5 жыл бұрын
@@xwtek3505, his comment still make sense, IMHO, because English and Icelandic are both Germanic languages.
@xwtek3505
5 жыл бұрын
@@RanmaruRei Isn't English and Icelandic related only (by orhography) because they both use Latin? In fact English and French is closer to each other (again orthographically). The fact that English and Icelandic are both Germanic is irrelevant as vocabulary, grammar, and phoneme similiarity is relevant here.
@RanmaruRei
5 жыл бұрын
These letters was in use long-long before French influence on English. English in those days was a lot different. It even had cases and genders. Just look there (Beowulf on Old English): www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-english-version. Yes it's English and I can't understand even a word. But English is not my native anyway.
4:32 congrats! You single-handedly managed to insult every single letter with a diacritic!
We need to give þ and wynn and all these other lost letters another chance
I love this channel it just keeps getting better.
@waddlemarco
6 жыл бұрын
more like it *keepſ gettiŋ* better
@FRN2013
6 жыл бұрын
Great video! I expected to see ñ, but I guess that was always only a Spanish letter. I use & many times every day, BTW.
@MrQuatroPL
6 жыл бұрын
ikr i remember when i subed for the kfc video
@AdityaSharma-zx5vl
6 жыл бұрын
It's amazing. You never know what kind of video you're going to get!
@osearthesp
6 жыл бұрын
i subbed !!