I've always found the "oo" to be particularly tricky. "Pool", "door", "blood", all different pronunciations.

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, good one.

@multiz0rak

Жыл бұрын

moor, ootheca - here's two more for your collection :)

@AndreiBerezin

Жыл бұрын

I wonder why they dont Regulate the spelling to meet the pronunciation. Pool, dore and blud, for example.

Best teacher of English on KZread. Fact!

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

You are too kind

@quoileternite

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV ❤

@mykolakanyuk

3 жыл бұрын

LetThemTalkTV Nah, I lived in London, and I know what I'am saying.

@MicheleOngaro

2 жыл бұрын

True fact, I always wonder why he never appears in those top5-10-whatever, where, instead, you can find very low quality channels.

It is very interesting to see that you have the two words hyperbole (speech) and hyperbola (maths) in English. In many languages those two are the same.

@no1basser

Жыл бұрын

The adjective, Hyperbolic, is the same for both though😄

I hope the Queen watched this episode too.

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure she does

@Neldidellavittoria

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV Yeah, but you tore up the invitation to Buckingham Palace at 06:40. So that's perhaps why you don't get the knighthood, hahah.

@freddiemercury8700

3 жыл бұрын

You make us LAUGH Gideon! Thanks for your time.

@lazybaby525

3 жыл бұрын

What for? She knows English

@horrormovielover6725

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV Sir I wish you notice my request. I posted it in the comment section of this video.

"House of rising Sun" quote was terrific!!! The one of my favorite song! Thanks for reminding 👌🏻 Cheers 🖖🏻

Thank you, Gideon! Your lessons are very helpful and brilliant! I'd like to notice that it's not only compound words like "knighthood", "adulthood", "pothole" and others, in which "th" is pronounced not as /θ/ or /ð/, but also a few words in which "h" following "t" is silent: "thyme", Thames, Thailand, and "apartheid".

As an American, I'm probably weird, but the way I pronounce "route" depends upon the context. When I'm talking about a highway it's said like "root" but when talking about planning a course it's the "out" sound. So to me in a sentence like "I'll route you down route 66 to avoid traffic" I would pronounce the word two different ways. Like I said I'm probably weird.

@aram5642

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, in web dev, where you define URLs for your web app, you define routing, router, routes. But since the term 'root' also applies to webdev, I prefer to disambiguate it and pronounce 'route' with the 'out' sound. However when I talk about a wifi router, I go with the 'root' sound.

@robertahlen4199

3 жыл бұрын

Same also and I notice it when others play loose with that “rule”.

@UlIxes1

3 жыл бұрын

As an Italian who spent first ten years of life in London speaking nothing but English I personally use root in all cases but since I watch online tutorials it is now quite natural for me to think that the router for cutting wood is with out pronounciation rather than the root pronounciation I originally used. In any case Americans, besides few things like this pronounciation and writing plurals with Saxon genitive and Saxon genitive with s only, use a rather standard English... Canadians you come across messed up the English language more than Americans and Italians put together. Ciao!

@dmitripogosian5084

Жыл бұрын

And if you think of this networking device "router", it is with 'out'

I can't stop smiling, thank you. I ve said to wind and laughed.

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

@frankgradus9474

3 жыл бұрын

What have you said to the wind ?! I've been here and I've been there and I've been in between and, take it from me, I talk to the wind too ...but my words are all carried away ... the wind won't listen to me ... Lucky old you !

@abuzarov

3 жыл бұрын

I said "to wind" incorrectly too :) I thought it was another way to save "give some wind" :)

Your videos have helped me so much in my work as an English teacher. I´m from Panama and I´m so glad that people like you contribute with good material. Nice, fun and very interesting videos. Many thanks.

Not only the Queen, i hope the teacher who mocked you when you were 15 pronuncing hyperbole Will watch this video too. I am pretty sure they Will give standing applause. 😇

I am an English teacher and I didn’t know many of these. Thanks a lot! As always, well done 👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you, Gideon! You are very generous sharing your time and knowledge. 😀

15 Inglish Wârds with Sârprízinglé Iregúlâr Prânunséáshân | Rúlbrákârz

¡excelente como siempre!

I can hardly believe how great as a English teacher you are.

Insightful as always, amazing work Gideon !

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

you are amazing. Thanks

As an ESL English teacher , I am really grateful for your videos . Thank you

Excellent lesson! Please can we have more like this? It was fun trying to get the pronunciation right and to see how well you guess my English pronunciation level

Long, long time ago when I was 14 years old I used to have a job delivering newspapers in Queens, New York,. I had a "paper route" which was pronounced to rhyme with "Out" However I was a music lover and I loved the Bobby Troup song "Route 66" as sung by Perry Como who pronounced it the way we pronounce the word "Root". In addition to that the announcer of the American t.v. series "Route 66" pronounced it the same as the word "Root" as well.I live in Houston, Texas now where I hear both pronunciations with the pronunciation rhyming with "Out" predominating . I myself pronounce it "Root".

Wow, I'm a fan of Rod Stewart and because of his song "You're in My Heart", I've always thought Celtic is pronounced with S. You're an essay in glamor Please, pardon the grammar But you're every schoolboy's dream You're Celtic, United, but baby, I've decided You're the best team I've ever seen Then, when I heard number of times Celtic with K, I thought that it may be pronounced in either way. Now it's clear at last! The team is an exception! Thanks!

English lenguage doesn't make sense sometimes. Lol. Love your videos more than I love english. 😍 Greetings from Argentina.

@Neldidellavittoria

3 жыл бұрын

He unwinds reading a financial paper. ¡Cómo se ve que no es de por acá, jajá!

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

Love you comments thanks

@GaboG85

3 жыл бұрын

@@Neldidellavittoria jajaja claramente.

You're a great teacher you know that! 🌼💛

😀 you are always a unique and an outstanding teacher. No one can beat you. I always learn not only something new but also something important and interesting from you. I never get bored during watching your videos.😀

More grammar and more pronunciation! My respect, Sir! I'm a french speaking Swiss and I love your way to conduct your easy to understand lessons.

Hello, Gedion! I 'd like both types of your lessons! They are as helpful as pleasant to watch. Take care and see you soon!

English is so complicated!!Thank you for all your great lessons!!!

thank you for a great video!! you're a perfect teacher

"my mother was a taylor....." House of Rising sun. Great Professor !!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Thank you, TEACHER!!! It would be great to watch some more videos on this vocab.

Very useful for me, thank you.

You teacher very well. Slowly and clearly with a dash of humour. Not keen on the swearing but you do a great job. Many thanks.

Hi Gideon, i really like thoses videos, and yes i would appreciate others on prononciation.Great job!

Thank you so much, I didn’t count the examples of words I did mispronounce before watching this episode. Probably over 50%! In our first years of learning English the irregular pronunciation of some words with a 'u' followed by a consonant, like bush or butcher, seemed funny to us. They would have made it at least to #16 and #17 in the list, if you had asked me and my fellow pupils then.

Hi Gideon! Would you address a question I've always had? What is the grammatical structure of the following sentence? "What I'm going to do is (,) I'm going to ...". If there were a "that" I would understand. By the way, it seems that in Indian English they drop the "is", too.

This episode is good fun, thank you🙂

Thank you, Gideon

I bloody love the pronuntiation videos ,,! It was super duper

For me the thing with irregular words is like this: if some words are breaking a rule that the majority of the words follow, I need to know for each word whether it matches the rule or not. Therefore it is almost as if there is no rule at all. I love your videos. Thank you a lot.

"Wind" as a verb CAN rhyme with "binned" as in, "I often have to wind my wee boy after a feed." or "I punched him in the stomach and I winded him."

I learned new things todays from this video. 🙏

Great video, thanks! I want more pronunciation and more grammar lessons, or both at the same time! 😉

Hi Gideon! This was quite helpful, keep up the great work 👏🏻 I’d love to see more of both grammar and pronunciation tips. In fact, I genuinely enjoy everything you release 🤍 Grammar wise, conditionals have piqued my interest lately. I believe a large number of people struggle to work out a simple system when it comes to conditional sentences and tend to rely solely on their gut feeling with all these ‘ifs’ and ‘woulds’ 🙂 I think you might have something to say on the matter, considering that you really are a great teacher :) Cheers Katy

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion. I've already done one video on conditionals but it was a long time ago.

Thank you for another educational video. It's good to see CoVid pandemic hasn't affected you! Hope you and your friends are in good health.

Oh my God...!!! Thanks for the lesson. Sir can we have more lessons like this one... It is a worth watching video.

Wow, wow, wow. This video was a bit difficult for me. Pronunciation here breaks all the rules! However, it was fun and I really loved to learn new things. Ty. 👍🏻🥴

Well, Gideon, this was a fun one! My favourite is "hough" which is pronounced as "hock". It is not used nowadays but I still find it as a fascinating old word.

Perfect tips...loved the class

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

perfect comment. Thanks

The best teacher!!!!

Thanks!

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip it's very kind. Glad you liked the video

Thanks Gideon for another great lesson 😘😘

This video is great! I'd like to see more pronunciation videos, please :)

Thanks for making this video.

Excellent.. the word Wind reminds me of a wonderful jazz - Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder.

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

nice

Thanks a lot it Is really interesting as usual

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

my pleasure

This video totally wound me up but in a positive way😁❤️

respectable gentleman, I have discovered your extraordinary channel. I have already seen five videos and it has been a pleasure. English is my second language, I live in Texas but of course the knowledge is infinite. I have learned new things in your videos, but I want to highlight the elegance and clarity of your pedagogy to teach. infinite thanks. Is there a possibility to study with you?

Not only do I learn how to pronounce some words but also the reason and the difference lying under it. Such as Pureé, mash, co-operate, cooperate, wind wound pp, and wind but wound hurt/injured It became a video I benefited a lot. Thanks so much.

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear that

Where I come from route is pronounced both ways, they are exchangeable, route 66 = root 66, route 7 = row:te 7, you get the same with router (the thing that connects computers to the network.

7:00 This is tearable.

Hello, born in the US here. To answer your question about our pronunciate of "Route", I realized after thinking about it I way "Rouwte" (like "Loud".) I'm from the NW. I'm not sure it it's typical for this area though.

American English speaker here. I say route both ways, but I probably say it like root more if I'm tired b/c it's less work for my mouth to do. I also am from the south in an area where there's no differentiation between pin and pen. They're both just pin.

Very useful lesson, Gedeon! I didn't expect I would find any unfamiliar cases of these rogue words. But now I realize, I had too high a self-assessment. The word 'epitome' along with its pronunciation was totally unknown to me, and, besides, I was caught unawares with the pronunciation of 'hyperbole'. One thing, maybe, would have been worth mentioning: the past form of the verb 'to wind' (the opposite of 'to unwind'), which is 'wound', has the same spelling, as the noun 'wound' has (the latter meaning a cut), but has a different pronunciation. Apart from that, I always recall the word 'bosom(-friend)'. That's it. I wish you success!

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't mention the past of wind and wound. Did you skip?

@constantingioev6223

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV I'm sorry and ashamed: I've found the moment (6:09). You forgot nothing.

I have laugh a lot when you trick me with that "wind", sir :D Thanks for the lesson and good mood. Have a great day!

Sir, excellent 👍

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

yes you are.

My favourite words with "th": warthog and of course Smithwick's. Back in the olden days when pints were cheap: The german tourist in Ireland bought drinks at the bar --- practising what he had learned in school: "Two pints of Guinness and a small Smith Wick" The publican: "Two pints and a glass of smitticks. That's tree tirty Sir!"

Gauge is a NEW word for me... you live and learn

@ilghiz

3 жыл бұрын

You use _gauge_ quite often if you work in construction and other industries. In construction _gauge_ usually means _hardware to mark a point on land or structure_ or, to put it simpler, _a marker._ E.g., they nail two gauges in land and measure the distance in between every now and then to check whether they have moved after some types of heavy construction work. In other industries _gauge_ often stands for _a measuring device._ A pressure gauge measures pressure, for example.

You totally deserve the knighthood for all that great work for the English language !

@edgarrodriguez8973

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Sir Gideon rather well-deserved

I watched several videos of yours so as to GAUGE your knowledge of English. I usually watch them when I want to UNWIND, and, by the SCARCITY of dislikes, I think you really deserve a KNIGHTHOOD from her majesty. Read this if you want an EPITOME of the video.

Epitome (επιτομή) and hyperbole ( υπερβολή) are Greek words I knew all of them except to row = to argue. Thanhs for the video!

Slough is my favorite. No fewer than three different pronunciations.

But by and large😉(cheers to Gideon) my school gave me a proper English, thank it every time.

Thanks for this video! Personally, I 'm rather interested in lessons about pronunciation ;) we want more!!

Uovo/uova, pesca(Peach) pesca(fishing), botte/botte, dato(data)/data(date),dato (given).

Nice quote from "The House of the Rising Sun" by Animals, a classical American folk song from the 60's !

1:34 Of course not! This stuff just comes to me naturally. Typing…now, THAT is another matter.

Thanks for the great vid! Come to the Netherlands, we pronounce hyperbole to your liking: "heaperbowl"

You are the English teaching knight of our hearts, Sir Gideon von Zeitgeist.

Have a row with a cow! :-D Thank for this! It'll help my students.

thank you Gideon, I mispronounced more than half of these words

As a USA American, I pronounce Route both ways. Depends on how I first heard it pronounced. I have lived in several different states, so that has influenced how I say it - depends on the context (i.e. Route (root) 66 or Route (rout) 7). One I offer up is AUNT. At least in the USA I have heard it pronounced 2 different ways (and I use both, again depending on what version I heard first). One version is like the insect "ant" and the rhymes with "haunt".

In America gauge is usualy used for the size of cables but you gage something. But this may be regional

Beyond the monstrous "iron", "bass " like in "drum & bass" always strikes me. How can it sound like "base"?!? And not like "pass", "class" or "mass"???

There are more words which are mispronounced unknowingly.. I would love you to unveil them😍

I live near Route 66 (noun is the ooo sound), but I may need to route the pipe around some obstacle. (verb is the ow sound).

Hiiiiii Gideon. How are you doing? You know we are lockdown again. Awful. At least I have got your videos. Thanks a lot. I always make wrong to say " sew" and mix with saw, sew and saw the tool. Now it is clear how to say it. "Hyperbole" . I liked its sound, tough it caused to make a teenage sad. Sorry. By the way you know we love you teacher. Thanks for this perfect lesson.

I love you, Sir.

I was mispronouncing "scarce", "hyperbole", "epitome" (basically because I didn't even know that word but still I didn't guess the right pronunciation) and "Celtic". On the other hand, "wind" was easy because the verb "to rewind" is very common when we talk about TV and the words "gauge" and "wounds" are also used a lot in videogames so I knew the pronunciation. Another words that I've seen people mispronouncing are "weapon" (many people say we-pon like the personal pronoun "we"), "quay" (Ofc I couldn't guess it was pronounced "key" when I first tried either) and some brands like "Nike" (at least in my country everyone but good English students say "nah-eek" instead of "nah-e-key") or "Disney" (they pronounce "dis-name" but without the M sound of "name" instead of "dis-knee")

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

you're right about weapon and quay. I'm going to stay away from brand names I think other KZreadrs have covered that topic well

As a child, when I first came across the word "depot" I used to pronounce it with the final "T" sounded. Only to be corrected by my teacher at school. Same when I first saw the word "discotheque", I pronounced it with the "TH" sound as in "theatre". Corrected by teacher again. How was I to know at the time that the reason why these two words are pronounced in that way is because they were originally borrowed from French, where final "T"s are not pronounced (except in liaison) and "TH" is always a "T" followed by a silent "H.

You took me by surprise! 😮😂

The word "pervert" is also a tricky one. As noun it's /ˈpɜː.vɜːt/, but as verb it's /pəˈvɜːt/.

Oh, and mouth is mâth when part of a place name eg Plymouth. (but plee-MOWT when spoken by a train driver from India. I heard it myself on a train in Brum).

I've heard that roughly 30 percent stat before in regards to English spelling rules. But I'm curious if this accounts for the allophones in English however. This is most distinct in the plural S, third person present singular S , possessive S and the ED past tense. These can change rather significantly depending on the word. Anyway make English great again!

Well, now it's my turn. I'm gonna teach you some rule breakers in Polish lmao. Anyway, amazing videos

I need more pronounciation videos, sir.

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

Noted

Wonderful video sir 9 th slide we couldn't see correct pronunciation Please make more videos for non- native speakers like us

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

sorry for the mistake. More videos coming soon

Ola-la...It turns out thing have changed a bit since my last year at school. We had been taught to pronounce "tear" in the meaning of "rip" like the liquid that outflows from eyes. Another remark, Maestro: "to sue" can be used as a general matter of filing a case, not only the one claiming money back, isn't it?

Quadratic, quadrant, quadrilateral, quasi (US pron.), but... quay (as in the names of various locations around the London Docklands)

Blowing my mind). How to explain all these "bad guys" to your learners?

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

They must be warned

One of my "favorite" irregularities is the pronunciation of infinite vs finite.

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

You are right! That's for a future video

@aram5642

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV and on a related note: derive vs derivative

@aram5642

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV fought, naughty, sought, and... draught (beer)!

@aram5642

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV Quite similar to "famous" vs "infamous". The in- prefix seems to have a significant gravity.

Good Good!! Gideon, I love pronunciation classes, I am always surprised by my mistakes, our Brasilenglish way is a horror, we have to know that there are rules and learn to use, and practice. Very very cool your tips ..have a nice weekend 🤩🍝🍩☕☕thanks teacher!! ❣️

@LetThemTalkTV

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it thanks