Jimmy Carr’s let himself go

@mrkrunch4340

3 жыл бұрын

At least he stopped dyeing his hair.

@ILoveMaths07

Жыл бұрын

Roflmao

Like the 'f' in tea. "There's no f in tea"! "Ok, I'll have coffee"!!

@archadiun8360

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment!

@italotter

2 жыл бұрын

There is no f in juice, either!

@simontay4851

2 жыл бұрын

ok, i'll just have water then.

It is encouraging to know that there is a place where a daily TV show includes learning, and where game shows can exist without elusive million dollar prizes.

@thombruce

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to break it to you, but Countdown contestants are just as incentivised by an elusive prize as any other set of gameshow contestants. Winners can receive the Countdown teapot and a leather-bound Oxford English Dictionary. One vegan contestant did decline the dictionary, however, instead opting for a CD-ROM version and to donate the monetary difference to charity. ...which is actually to say, you're right. I can't imagine there's anything quite like that on American TV.

@JasperJanssen

3 жыл бұрын

@@thombruce it’s definitely all about the teapot, and not at all about it being fun to be on TV. Most quiz shows on Dutch public TV do have non-nominal prizes, often a few thousand per episode. The commercial stations have shows like who wants to be a millionaire, with a much higher average prize count.

@dellavie4319

Жыл бұрын

@@thombruce Maybe Tom was referring to Cats' Coundown, where the most prestigious prize is a carrot that may or may not exist in a box.

It is so nice to see someone who has a passion! I believe she is also aware that not many people would be interested in something like this, which makes her passion even more encouraging

@elleeme9451

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree! It's a wonderful thing. Make me wonder what my passion is!

@avatr7109

Жыл бұрын

@@elleeme9451 Holy shiet, did you find your passion...

That was some interesting k'nowledge, thanks.

@Ludifant

3 жыл бұрын

I guess knowledge has the greek Stem from gnoti As in gnoti se auton.

@marvelstark3797

3 жыл бұрын

its k'now'ledge

Learn a lot more from her when she’s not being bashed for how boring she is, gotta admit

@letsgoBrandon204

3 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown

@jugular911

3 жыл бұрын

It's a comedy show. If you don't want to watch comedy, watch the regular countdown. Pretty simple really.

@sozeytozey

3 жыл бұрын

@@jugular911 Im well aware

I would love to have had her as a teacher in Uni, language is so interesting.

@Milamberinx

3 жыл бұрын

Did you study language in uni?

She went from this to glory hole jokes. She seems so much happier on cats

@zyaicob

3 жыл бұрын

She looks just as happy talking about her linguistics wdym

@Phurzt

3 жыл бұрын

Why not both?

@jaywinner328

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure she enjoys both. If you compare somebody enjoying a book to somebody enjoying a ride on a jet ski, it won't look the same but it doesn't mean they aren't equally enjoying themselves.

@phily8093

3 жыл бұрын

Disagree Strongly

@esquilax5563

3 жыл бұрын

She hasn't gone from one to the other, she never stopped doing regular countdown

As someone that speaks german this is doubly fascinating. I had never made a connection between Knecht and Knight for example, but now it seems so clear.

Susie has a delightful podcast called Something Rhymes with Purple.

@spudtaater602

3 жыл бұрын

Wurple?

@Eisenwulf666

3 жыл бұрын

Blurple , of course

@letsgoBrandon204

3 жыл бұрын

Thraaple

@barbarajoseph-adam8337

3 жыл бұрын

Nurple.

In Swedish we, like in German, pronounce all those K's still.

@Ludifant

3 жыл бұрын

I'm called Hjalmar.. Swedish had silent letters. I've been spelling my name, my whole life.

@ZarkowsWorld

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ludifant Where in the post does it say we doesn't have 'silent' letters?

@ZarkowsWorld

3 жыл бұрын

@@59jalex The nickname is neither Swedish or German, it is a stylized pronunciation and re-spelling version of Flash Gordon's friend's name (that spelled it with a 'v', so it was switched to 'w' for uniqueness and symmetry).

Silent letters, like P in bath.

@TonyHavenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Should never have p in a bath, p is for shower

@Eisenwulf666

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated joke

@jonathanfraser321

3 жыл бұрын

or P in Psmith as explained by PG Wodehouse

@letsgoBrandon204

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanfraser321 Awww, I wish I knew what you are referring to. I love Jeeves and Wooster

@tonyackers5145

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanfraser321 Ronald Eustace Psmith, as he is called in the last of the four books in which he appears) is a recurring fictional character in several novels by British author P. G. Wodehouse, being one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters. The P in his surname is silent ("as in pshrimp", in his own words) and was added by himself, in order to distinguish him from other Smiths

Suzi Dent and Susannah Lipscomb's on one show I'm in heaven

Interesting and brilliant video thanks for the upload

There's a mountain in Wales called Cnicht because it looks like a knight's helmet, and must be derived from the earlier version of knight.

My partner is of Greek heritage and one of our favourite examples is "pneumonia" or "pneumatic". In Greek, the "p" actually is pronounced and it has simply been dropped from English because that "pn" combination is alien to us and thus hard to pronounce so we don't. Not only that though, we've bastardised the Greek even further because the "u" in those English words actually corresponds to a Greek letter that looks like an English "u" but sounds like and English "v". We've actually created an English word from the way the Greek word looks, rather than how it sounds.

@gruweldaad

3 жыл бұрын

Upsilon doesn't always make a /v/ sound. It only does, I believe, when following an epsilon. In Ancient Greek however, it did make a tight "u" sound which would be represented by a /y/ symbol in IPA. I don't know what sound upsilon followed by an epsilon made in Ancient Greek.

@werdsmyth

3 жыл бұрын

Was going to say exactly the same thing (also married to a Greek). She's been on the phone recently to medical professionals, talking about "p-neumonia". Some of them have no idea what she's talking about! And the U sound replacing the V ruined my trip with her to the Natural History Museum. NEVER go to the dinosaur exhibition with a Greek if you want to come out agreeing the names of any of the creatures!

@werdsmyth

3 жыл бұрын

"Tea-ran-no-savras" "The-plod-thos-cos" "Stay-gas-savras" Whaaaat?!?!?

@nahuelma97

Жыл бұрын

@@werdsmyth your second comment made my night lmao thanks

I so admire this lady...

For mine, Suzannah Lipscomb makes every other woman vanish in her presence. Perfection.

@SirReptitious

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!, Finally someone acknowledging Dr. Lipscomb! Don't get me wrong, I adore Susie Dent. She is smart, attractive, and very classy. And everyone's favorite, Rachael, is both a literal genius and goddess. I just don't get the impression that Rachael has the same depth of personality that Susie and Suzannah have. I admit that the first time I watched a history show with Dr. Lipscomb the first thing I was drawn to was her incredible hair. But over time I realized there was much more to her, and I loved every single thing about her. I really wish I could see this entire episode, but it seems only the 8OOTC version of Countdown get posted.

@BertGrink

3 жыл бұрын

@@SirReptitious I love the _Absolute History_ channel too :)

@SirReptitious

3 жыл бұрын

@Tinky Winky That won't stop me from finding them attractive for even one second. ;-). Let's just say I hope all their husbands appreciate who they have...

The word with silent letters I like is Queue, five letters four of which are silent.

@BaldMancTwat

3 жыл бұрын

Well what about "Are" and "Oh"? Surely we should just spell them "R" and "O". You have to admit that would be strange if we did that.

@rsbjim

3 жыл бұрын

Or the city in Northern Ireland with six silent letters "Londonderry"

@jenniferpearce1052

3 жыл бұрын

@@rsbjim Does it get pronounced Lorry? (An American just taking a stab at it!)

@brutalbeard9441

3 жыл бұрын

@@BaldMancTwat **I** would say it's not that strange, since we already do it.

@rsbjim

3 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferpearce1052 its a joke Jennifer, the Catholics call it Derry, so there are 6 letters they don't pronounce, the Protestants call it Londonderry

Brilliant explanation!

Thanks I enjoyed it a lot

something about her being so intelligent makes her so much sexier

a lovely tv program for those on the countdown

I want to read Susie’s books. I’m sure it would make her happy to make her first ever sale.

@linrob1312

2 жыл бұрын

They actually sell quite well knobend..

@chimpinaneckbrace

2 жыл бұрын

@@linrob1312 Sorry to offend you, Susie. Also zzzzzzzzzzzz…….

@Mojo16011973

2 жыл бұрын

@@linrob1312 Indeed. I also like the use of the silent k here.

Susie is hot to start with and then she adds brain to it all and becomes even hotter.

@Miblive

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap! She´s smart, explains things very well, seems to be a very nice person but NO. If you think she is hot, you need to get out more. That being said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

@peterclarke7240

3 жыл бұрын

Oi! Never question Dent's attractiveness when I'm reading these comments. Any more digs about Suzie not being hot, and someone's gonna get f***ing hurt! 😂😂😂 (This is a reference to Greg Davis on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, and not intended to be taken seriously).

@fatherofdragons4880

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterclarke7240 😂😂😂😂

I love Susie

Back when Susie Dent used to be the star of the show 😁 Before they realized that there are about 30 regional accents in the UK

@RatelHBadger

3 жыл бұрын

And then had to find someone who spoke one to be a guest every week. Because you can't have Middle-class white folks from Ox-bridge on TV.

@BaldMancTwat

3 жыл бұрын

There's quite a bit more than that, I'm sure.

@RatelHBadger

3 жыл бұрын

@@BaldMancTwat 33?

I wish Suzi would do a similar explanation of invisible letters, it's really hard to pronounce what you can't see.

I see Susannah Lipscomb and I upvote 👍🏼❤

She seems so nervous here. She is much more relaxed on the cats version.

Brilliant

K, now I know.

She better be glad she did this on Countdown and not 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown!! Jimmy woulda been like, "Silents letters are all fine and dandy Susie, but you don't have to be an UNT about it!!"

She should write some books about the origins of words or something. I dunno. I wonder if the sleepy-go-bye-bye section of my local bookstore would have any...

Did you record this of an old tube TV? 🤭

Try to pronounce this word: ghotip. Now scroll down to see how it should be pronounced. Fish. The gh of enough. The o of women. The ti of station. And the silent p of psychology.

@iz723

3 жыл бұрын

Damn

@Ludifant

3 жыл бұрын

What lamguage is that?

@bubbaguy4411

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ludifant Just that....a lamguage that isn't real.

@johngibbard8792

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ludifant It's from George Bernard Shaw's introduction to Pygmalion.

Love the yanks. The "L" is silent in "Soldering". Yes, the poor buggers "Sodder the electrical wire".

We drop the pronunciation of the letters, then proceed to have a go at the Yanks for dropping them entirely.

Basil would be proud, blame the Germans.

Wow Rachel was wearing normal clothes, that's got to be a first.

I fought the silent L battle for years. Gave up realizing how annoying I was being. Am now going to pronounce the silent K (just to maintain my reputation). Can't understand why someone who puts the T in often, leaves it out of soften. I could go on and on (and usually do), but instead will find something else "on which" to obsess.

Susie my language goddess! I love you!

The letter W was really spelled like uu a Double u. I before E, except after C except in science.

Now THIS is educational....

So this is what Susie does when she's not looking into glory holes

Wow!

@fyodorseriencha6538

3 жыл бұрын

Political troll. Bit too late to reorganize sht now isn't?? I want to know what the fk you lot are doing if I may ask. (Also I doubt more than a handful of peeps believe F1's Lewis is helped for ratings/ political narrative purposes - so who is this trolling really gonna work on)

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhymes with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough? Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is give it up!

Very interesting, she explains this so very well. What is disappointing though is how little interaction there is with what she says, it does not feel like she really is listened to!

Where's the sexual innuendo? Susie's broken.

Those glory holes clearly contain a lot of information.

I'm from the USA and I've been binge watching WILTY and 8 out of 10 Cats clips. Can't get enough. This looks like 8/10 cats, but pre Jimmy? Can someone explain?

@Kytabu

3 жыл бұрын

This is Countdown, a genuine gameshow. You have been watcing 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, which is the cast from another show (8 out of 10 Cats) playing Countdown.

@terrib6028

2 жыл бұрын

But JIMMY does host plain Countdown sometimes too

Brains and beauty - a lovely woman.

Queue ...... the letter Q, followed by a bunch of silent letters behind it in a row

Why is there a g in night? I can hear Ser Davos asking it

@xaero1971

3 жыл бұрын

from the German Nacht, the ch went to gh in English, then the gh became silent after the Normal invasion as the French influence made some sounds difficult to say. Same with eight, which is Acht in German.

@whatyousaidbud

3 жыл бұрын

@@xaero1971 fair enough but who was the first person to write gh instead of ch? And why did they do it? Also why did they get away with it, if you spell something ''incorrectly'' in a comment on here for instance, you get dragged through the metaphorical coals for it??

@xaero1971

3 жыл бұрын

You can look up The Great Consonant Shift on wikipedia for more details on that.

@BaldMancTwat

3 жыл бұрын

@@whatyousaidbud Well to be fair, you have to remember that back then, hardly anyone could even write in the first place. Not to mention you had to be educated and therefore rich. I'm certain the scholars would be happy to inquire about the use of different spelling, and as long as they had a good enough reason would probably be intrigued by it.

@esquilax5563

3 жыл бұрын

@@whatyousaidbud spelling used to be a lot more flexible. Shakespeare had multiple ways of spelling his own name. The idea of words having a single correct spelling is a relatively recent invention (19th C, I think)

Why am I recommended this then

Answarian is not German. It's protoGerman. Now it is antworten, so the ancient form has developed in German as well.

Jimmy Carr's wrong - this was fascinating.

As much as I enjoyed this, it's not the same without the dogging jokes

I think it was very interesting,although I would slightly quibble about the use of the word absorbed,English didn't absorb these words,they were how the language was spoken by these tribes that eventually became "the English".The Norman's then imposed french as the language of the court,law and church,only changing it to English when they finally lost their French possessions.Tbey tried to create a grammar for what had (in their eyes) been a "common tongue" used the grammar they knew,French ,Latin and Greek and shoehorned it together to create English grammar.Ask people who have learnt English formally and they will say one of the first words they learn to hate in English is"except" as it appears in almost every grammar rule.

Blonde is Suzannah Lipscomb, you're welcome

So before the Germanic tribes invaded England, what language did the natives speak?

@dzfz2100

3 жыл бұрын

Common britonic

@TonyHavenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Some parts celtic

Why is there no F in haddock?

@simontay4851

2 жыл бұрын

because there is only Cod.

Psychology. The p is silent as in bath. Think about it literally.

@Phurzt

3 жыл бұрын

Only half literal. Well, atleast I hope you aren't urinating letters out.

@kevinchappell3694

3 жыл бұрын

Much like the “p” in swimming. 😮😑🇨🇦

@kevinchappell3694

3 жыл бұрын

Rachel wears grownup clothes during the day.

So why haven't we changed it to phonetic based spelling ?

@CharlieFlemingOriginal

3 жыл бұрын

Well the Americans tried but realised how difficult it was to change and gave up pretty quickly, hence the irritating differences we ended up with.

@brianhaygood183

3 жыл бұрын

Merriam Webster, when creating Webster's Dictionary, eliminated many unspoken letters, such as the "u" in colour, but we still have many, many psilent tricky ghost letters knocking about.

@simontay4851

2 жыл бұрын

but the U in colour is not unspoken. Its changes the sound from OR to OUR. OW-WER.

So the English are all Germans? Does that include Geordies?

I read the title as "Unsent letters love letters by Susie Dent" for some reason. Imagine my disappointment.

I am Kurdish and my language is entirely phonetic

Who's the silent lady beside Susie?!

@georgeridewood9503

Жыл бұрын

That my friend is the lovely historian Suzanna Lipscomb. Someone I’ve only become aware of myself this week when she appeared on Richard Osmans’ House of Games all week. I’ve been catching up with a few of her KZread posts, which shows that not only is she quite beautiful but also extremely intelligent. However, she did not win the cup on House of Games (2nd).

Who is that dozy woman nodding in the next to Susie?

I'll give her a silent letter, rawr...know what i mean?wink wink know what i mean? No? Well neither do i.

@bumbaaclaaat2866

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

Not to be an ass...but I just LooOOOve how it is NO LONGER spelled with an F, but the Brits still pronounce lieutenant as..... leftenant

Well I'll never get these 3 minutes of my life back.

The L in Salmon is silent?

@esquilax5563

3 жыл бұрын

Yep! It's pronounced sammon

@simontay4851

2 жыл бұрын

The L is not completely silent, its just very short and subtle when pronounced properly. Well thats how I say Salmon anyway.

The main reason why you have silent letters is because you are Bri'ish.

So, basically, centuries were spent getting rid of the true, native language of Britain, the Cumbric language now represented by Welsh.

Wow Jimmy Carr looks a lot older here

You set up your camera in front of the TV to record this. Don't do that.

@jenniferpearce1052

3 жыл бұрын

If it means I get posts of Dent linguistics, I'm happy to get it this way!

F in the chats come on drop some F's

DON'T TAPE OFF A TV AND POST IT!

@jenniferpearce1052

3 жыл бұрын

Please tape off tv and post it if that's the only way you have available to you! No one else is posting this content!

Like "phlegm"

@simontay4851

2 жыл бұрын

No, phl is slightly different to fl. The ph is a soft P or hard F sound. Keep your lips together and try to say Fl

Nice to see she's been looking into something other than glory holes

The blonde is smoking hot

@TonyHavenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Suzannah Lipscomb, you're welcome 🙋😂

Is knob Germanic?, come on admit it you thought that too ?.

How Boring You cant even learn to upload a decent recording, but a webcam video

Lots of languages borrow words from other cultures, every language does this in one way or another, but those languages are still spelt better. This is no excuse for English's cock bolox spelling system.

Hmmm yes and no. It explains why they USED to be there. Doesn't explain why they are still there. If you look at written language even 100 years ago (but further back too), so many words that we still use today are spelled completely differently. The written language has always changed and developped but now there is so much snobbery over spelling and keeping everything the same. We don't EVER pronounce the k in knives, so why can't it become nives? It doesn't mean anything else, there's no other word that it could be confused with. Let English grow and change as it always has. Silly silent letters need to be allowed to die or our language will become increasingly absurd as more pronunciations change.

@bubbaguy4411

3 жыл бұрын

Knot.

How can something be so interesting yet so boring?

Sent me to sleep

@monocledmutineer3340

3 жыл бұрын

`But you came back to write your comment... Interesting

Brilliant