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@_aworldthatspoke950

3 жыл бұрын

My frog is named Leroy

@_aworldthatspoke950

3 жыл бұрын

@Connecticut Ball thinking of killing myself

The Name Leroy Defies Expectations That's why it's the name behind LEROOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEENKINS

@forregom

3 жыл бұрын

King Jenkins the Brave

@angeladaley

3 жыл бұрын

I just came here to say this! This is probably why it's had a resurgence.

*Jenkins likes this video*

@hoaxshow3514

3 жыл бұрын

This comment made me realise how old I am... Xd

There's a guy whose name is Leroy King, a professional basketball player, So basically, he's Leroy Leroy or Leroy Roy or something like that. He played for the Rochester Royals.

@baronvg

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao the last sentence was just the cherry on top.

@kenaikuskokwim9694

3 жыл бұрын

The Rochester Royals are today the Sacramento Kings. Think about that-- the capital city of the California REPUBLIC. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway naturally call their currencies "crowns". But Iceland and the Czech Republic? Huh? Slovakia, Estonia, and even Austria also minted crowns while republics, but use the Euro now.

@vinny9868

3 жыл бұрын

Theking King plays basketball for the Most-holy Kings in the republic of Caliphland. (Leroy King plays basketball for the Sacremento Kings in California. The double irony is that caliphs are islamic kings, and yet, despite all the insistant on kings, here in the sentence, it is ultimately a republic).

@tnk4me4

3 жыл бұрын

Lol the Royals turned into the Sacramento Kings. That's funny.

@ytxdthe2344

2 жыл бұрын

Hold up I’m from Rochester and I didn’t even know they had a bb team

The resurgence in the U.S. was because of the "LEROY JENKINS!!!" Meme. I knew someone who named their child after that, believe it or not.

I was hoping the L name was Lance. Today Lance is an uncommon name. In medieval times people were named Lancelot. I'll see myself out. 🤪

@kirabowie

3 жыл бұрын

It's really weird you brought up the name Lance. My late uncle's name was Lance & ever weirder, my late grandpa's name was Leroy. XD

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirabowie so, I am really weird, eh 😆 thanks 😊

@kirabowie

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 XD Nope! Just weirdness that you happened to mention it, that's all. XD

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirabowie 😆 X-D thx, Kira u r very kind

@kirabowie

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 You're welcome & thank you! :D

“Roi” is actually roughly pronounced “ro-AH”. The French R and diphthongization still apply.

@daddyleon

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, like so many things from the French language: it doesn't really make sense.

"...And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damn town Badder than old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog..."😆

For all my education, learning, and love of cultural history (and Anglo-Canadian exposure to French), I never made the connection between the AAVE names with the Cajuns or Acadians (also in spite of having an understanding of the source of Leroy for several decades). Thanks for that connection.

This got me wondering if there's anyone famous named Leroy King, just because I thought "the king king" would be a funny name. Found a guy, not sure if he counts as famous, but he's the subject of several news articles. Got 10 years for doing $7 billion worth of investment fraud :P

There’s a Shakespeare pun about the name Leroy in the play Henry V. The king introduces himself as Henry Leroy to hide his identity.

I’m loving the videos on people’s names! I’ve been wanting more of these!

If the "le" in Lebron, I see it as a French~Welsh hybrid meaning "the breast".

@jonathanwilliams1065

3 жыл бұрын

Well he is sucking up to China

@karlijnlike4lane

3 жыл бұрын

or "le brun" would be "the brown/brunette."

Until now i knew only the french pronunciation because of Leroy Merlin

Bring back, bring back, bring back that Leroy Brownnn

The Disney character Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy; is this name related to Leroy? Or maybe to the Celtic Roy, or something totally different?

@dorderre

3 жыл бұрын

Since his uncle Scrooge McDuck has scottish origins, that celtic connection doesn't seem too far fetched.

@aaronodonoghue1791

3 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, Fauntleroy comes from "enfant le roi", which literally means "child the king" so maybe a child of a king, or a king who is a child

@mikeoxsmal8022

3 жыл бұрын

Roy isn't a celtic name. ,King is Rí is irish and Brennin in welsh .the king would be someting like An Rí in irish and Y Brennin in welsh(?) .the closet celtic name to leroy would be Rian meaning little king

@andrewsuryali8540

3 жыл бұрын

​@@aaronodonoghue1791 Donald's name came from the children's book Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This book written in the mid-1880s was wildly popular in the early 20th century and spawned many movie and TV adaptations. Walt Disney was a fan of Frances Hodgson Burnett's writings and took some inspiration from these for his works. So, if you're familiar with how the Disney Princess movies like Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty should really end, the reason why they all have similar plot points and happy endings today is because Disney based them on Frances Hodgson Burnett's works like The Making of a Marchioness, The Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. The Making of a Marchioness is basically the quintessential Disney Cinderella template. But yes, the name Fauntleroy itself came from those roots.

@aaronodonoghue1791

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewsuryali8540 I never knew that, I just thought they were fairytales that he put his own spin on. It's interesting to find out the origins of such well-known classics as the Disney stories. I'm not surprised that Donald Duck and Little Lord Fauntleroy are linked, as how often do you hear the name "Fauntleroy"?

ALRIGHT CHUMS, TIMES UP. LETS DO THIS LEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENNNNNNKIIIIIIINS.

@kerianhalcon3557

3 жыл бұрын

LEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENNNNNNKIIIIIIINS should have saved this one for Leroy Jenkins day! LEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENNNNNNKIIIIIIINS

@Emperor_Oshron

3 жыл бұрын

"...oh my God, he just ran in." "Oh, jeez! Stick to the plan!"

not to forget Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't he the baddest man in the whole dang town?

@karlijnlike4lane

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 Sir Treetop apparently was also known to be meaner than a junkyard dog ...

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

@@karlijnlike4lane badder thanks Ole King Kong?

@karlijnlike4lane

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 did you hear that Friday, about a week ago, Leroy was shooting dice?

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

@@karlijnlike4lane yup. I also heard that he once looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone. 😄

Have you heard of the fictional villain character Leroy from Disney's "Lilo and Stitch" franchise? I didn't know Leroy was associated with African-Americans because I always associated the name with red and villainy due to the Disney character.

My uncle's name is Leroy and his son is named Elroy 🤣

JJJJJJEEEEEEEENKIIINS!!!

LEROYYYYYYYYYYYY JENKINSSSSSSSS

In addition to the baddest man in the whole damn town, Leroy Brown is also Encyclopedia Brown's real name.

I always thought Leroy was a Scandinavian name because my great uncle, who was born in the 1940's to Norwegian Americans, has that name. I never expected it to have such cool origins!

@kenaikuskokwim9694

3 жыл бұрын

Leroy was once quite popular among Scandinavian-Americans. Notably there was Leroy Anderson, who composed "Sleigh Ride". He stressed the second syllable. Leigh Harline, also of Swedish heritage and the composer of "When You Wish Upon a Star", had a brother named Leroy.

@brianmiller1077

3 жыл бұрын

I think they used non-Norwegian names to blend in. My wife's aunts and uncles paternal side are Norwegian and most of the kids were non-Nordic names (Keith, Kathleen, Grant, Rosie, Marcia all born in 1910-45). where as my Dad's German side more than half went with German names Emil, Ewald, Helmuth, Elsie born 1900-1930)

@Musketeer009

3 жыл бұрын

Leroy is a family name from Normandy in Northern France. The Normans were from Scandinavia (Vikings).

Its my middle name, repeated from my father's middle name. He was born in 1922, so back when the name was more popular. I never loved the name or hated it. Just sort of weird.

@vincenttt8289

3 жыл бұрын

You have a relic of the past in your name

"Roi" in French is pronounced similarly to the English word "Raw". Keep in mind to pronounce that gutteral french R. Generally all French words with "oi" is pronounced as "aw" sounds. When pronouncing "e" for French, it is more of a "uh" sound, while the "é" with the accent (aigu) is the "eh" sound. So say it with me: LuhRaw. Leroy.

In the Netherlands there are people called Leroy de Koning so literally "Theking the King".

Now I want to see the Liam video...

Bad bad Leroy Brown!

I have an older relative named Leroy but we always called him “Trevor”. I know, weird

The King!

I had an uncle Leroy & an uncle Elroy. Guess I'm just lucky LOL

Leroy was here. Wait... no... that's Kilroy. That was a weird and very very old meme. Back when memes were spread via grafiti.

@LuinTathren

3 жыл бұрын

I remember Kilroy. He was cute.

I can't be the only one who giggled when they saw the title of this one.

The only Elroy I have come across was in the Jetsons! I kind of assumed it was made up to sound futuristic! 😅

As soon as you said it was of French origins I thought "Surely people weren't calling themselves The King", but apparently they were...

In an alternate National Hockey League where the teams exist, but not the players, one of the greatest players is Leroy Foote, who lived from 1929 until 2011, and played in the league from 1949 all the way until 1972.

7:47 there is condition called "synesthesia" where people can see sound and letters in color

Don’t forget the epic Bruce Leroy. Last Dragon fans, you know what I’m talking about.

Roi would be pronounced the same as French Canadian hockey goaltender Patrick Roy which we pronounce as waa or wah.

@paranoidrodent

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the oi vowel pairing are normally sounded "wa" in French (a short clipped "wah" in English approximates it well) both in Europe and Canada, at least in standard French and most accents. The more archaic sounding of oi, which persisted in some regional accents was "wè" (closer to the E at the start of the word "effort" preceded by a W sound). One of my grandmothers had the maiden name Roy and pronounced it Rwè (with a fully rolled R) in her strong regional accent from northern Quebec. That phonetic rendering resembles late Middle French and is increasingly rare. If we're talking about a name produced in French several centuries old, a sounding of Leroy closer to Lerwè or Lerway might have been the starting point but once you apply English phonetics to Leroy, it would sound like the American given name.

I don't want to be a downer so I will try to frame this in a good way. I work for a timber mill and the guy running the show was named Leroy. Just over a month ago he was killed in a freak accident and it devastated the entire community. Everyone who knew him had so much respect for him and loved him. He was an awesome guy. He was the only man I ever knew with the name Leroy and he was in his 50s so from that generation still. Anway, the title of the video caught my attention because I cannot and will not ever think of the name Leroy again without missing the greatest man I ever knew of to bear that name.

I had to think of the series NCIS with the boss being called Leroi Jeffrow Gibbs. I found it sweet when they found out that he was named after a Veteran from the same unit as his father.

@LuinTathren

3 жыл бұрын

His middle name is actually Jethro. It's a common Southern name.

Me: "Oh, so cool, everybody here seems to remember Leroy Jenkins" Me again: "Wait, this channel is taylor-made for youtube nerds like me..."

I've known a few Leroys throughout my lifetime. I think I had a classmate named Leroy in high school, and probably others along the way. No specific impressions, clearly, but that's not surprising, considering my memory (or lack thereof).

My male parent was called LeRoi and he was a junior with the surname Ray. Both US Southerners. The joke was he thought he was the Sun King.

@avantelvsitania3359

3 жыл бұрын

“Male parent”? You mean father?

Him: a lot of English names start with la Me: L A R R Y

Yes! I guessed it what it meant correctly at the beginning of the video

Leroy Jenkins

One fictional Leroy is the main antagonist and nemesis of Riff-Raff of The Carillac Cats from the 1984 series of Heathcliff. A lesser known fictional Leroy is Lenny Loosejocks' decendant in the E-Zone webgame Lenny Loosejocks in Space, who takes his decendant to 200 years into the future to make him save Earth from being destroyed by aliens.

My granduncle was names Leroy. My grandma was Lorraine and their sister was Cloteen (which please please do Cloteen as a name explained). Their mother was Minnie. Her mother was Minerva. They come from white coal mining folk from West Virginia

My grandfather's name was Leroy, but he was always known as Roy, and thoroughly of the Caucasian persuasion, and brown-haired. I honestly don't know where his name came from. His father was a Scot named Alec. And I had a great-aunt named QUeenie Regina Lastname (she was Leroy's sister).

Look at your Shakespear, used by a king walking amongst the troops before a battle.

@This channel's host (Keith?): Re. The pronunciation of the French version of the name "Roy", back in the '90s and into the 2000s, there was a goalie in the NHL named Patric[k] Roy -- that surname being commonly pronounced "Wä" (roughly rhyming with "ha") Now, I dunno if this is how Roy is pronounced in mainland Europe France or if this may be the Americanization of the Québécois French pronunciation (if I had to hazard a guess, I'd lean towards the latter more than the former)

Interestingly almost five years ago I heard of the name La-a which related... its pronounced "la DASH ah" actually. (I heard of it at the same time as the name Abcde ["Ab-see-dee"] so there's a lot of variety in the LA/LE names that exist.

Leeroy Jenkins (the name of the character in the SCRIPTED video which became a meme), is actually spelled with a double E.

Frank in the US is very much a red color. Some red hot dogs and sausages are called Franks, a lot of historic baseball players (including Frank Robinson) were on teams that wore red, and there is "Frank's RedHot" sauce and spice brand.

Alright time’s up let’s do this

I knew someone with surname Leroy. When he got married his wife insisted Leroy should be pronounced l'Roy.

In the Canadian sit com Conner Gas, one of main character is call Leroy. He is an old guy, but is probably the funniest character in the show.

The Roy!

That's my name leeroy

Le Roi "The King", is pronounced /Luh Ruah/ in French

No, as a matter of fact, you did not pronounce "roi" right. "Roi" is pronounced "rwah". And FYI: the e in "le" is pronounced as the e in words as "baker", not as the e in words like "remix" (which is how you pronounced it) "Le roi" is pronounced "luh rwah", not "lee rœ"

@____-pb1lg

3 жыл бұрын

bro you be passif agressif af 😭😭😭

@christopherdieudonne

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the "e" in "le" is pronounced like the "u" in the word, "put" or like the double "o" in the word, "book" .

@Jan_Koopman

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherdieudonne, not at all. It's a schwa [ə]. U in put and oo in book are [u:]

@christopherdieudonne

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jan_Koopman Nope. It's definitely not a schwa. There's no schwa sound in French. In French, the "e" in "le" is pronounced like the "u" in "put" (in American English) which is also same sound as the double "o" in the words "book" and "look" . Maybe you're from a place where "put" is pronounced as "poot". Not in American English.

@christopherdieudonne

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, there is a slight schwa sound in French (in words like "bonne" and "telephone" , it's the "o" ) but the "e" in "le" is most definitely not one.

Dammnit Leeroy

For anyone interested, the Korean surname "Kim" is the same as the Chinese surname "Jin" 金 meaning Gold. So Kim Jong-un's name read in Chinese is Jin Zheng'en (金正恩)

«Roi» and «Roy» are pronounced as «Rwa». In French, «Leroy» is pronounced «Le Roi», meaning «the king». «Roy» is the old, or medieval, spelling of «Roi». It changed to the modern spelling toward the end of the Renaissance.

LEEROY JEEEEEEEENKINS!!!!

@MrBenjigee

3 жыл бұрын

You spelled it correctly :)

The name my have a resurgence do to the fictional character Leroy Gibbs on the American show NCIS played by Mark Harmon

Id like to see a video on how Carole is different from Carol, in that its the feminine version of Charles and not Carol as in the Xmas song

i know a leroy. his mother and brother call him leroy and elroy interchageably.

Color association is an interesting thing, we know there are names that there are colors or even reference colors in some way. But at the same time, certain colors in different cultures have connotations and associations with them. For example, the color red in Western cultures, like English, associate the color red with aggression, power, and death, just take look at the Redcap (a kind of goblin) in English lore, but in Eastern cultures, like China and Japan, Red is seen as the color to drive away evil, it's why most ceremonial Chinese fireworks explode in a cascade of red and the like. And Power Rangers actually started as an American adaptation of Super Sentai, and it still works with converting Super Sentai footage into something with English-speaking actors, so a lot of Japanese cultural elements are still very much present, even if what we usually get is watered down a bit.

I've always linked the name David with Blue have no idea why

The French "roi" is pronounced somewhere between "wah" and "rah"... "wrah". It's a light trill.

he's been asking for 1000 for fucking years now 😂😂😂😂

The diphthong “oi” in French is pronounced “wah,” as in “mwah?,” Miss Piggy’s favorite pronoun.

You forgot Leroy Jethro Gibbs from NCIS.

it does come from roy since roy comes from french for king

Roy isn't a bastardized form of roi in that case but an abbreviation of Royal.

You can pronounce ROI as RRWA.

well I am a Leroy and in my twenties. also I know 2 dudes who share the same name and surname.

Being born, raised, and still living in south Louisiana LeRoy (or LeeRoy) is very much a common name in the African American community here, but unlike Latasha, LeBron, L'shawn, etc, the former is associated with the (currently) >55 generations and isn't isolated to one race/community; where the latter is associated more with the under 40 generations and is closely associated with the African American community (finding someone outside of that community with a Le-, La-, L'- name is almost like finding an albino alligator in the wild, it isn't impossible but extremely rare)

While France kind of attempted America, all they every really got was a bit of Canada, and a chunk of land that Napoleon sold to the U.S. to finance Napoleon's war efforts. Meanwhile, England, Spain, and Portugal ran rampant over both (or is it just one?) continents, they eventually wound up mostly colonizing Africa, and bits of Southeast Asia. So, to this day, French is the official language in a lot of African countries and, of course, Vietnam was dominated by the French until they had to bugger off right before the U.S. entered the Vietnam war. So it makes total sense that very French names like Leroi would wind up being very connected to Africans, especially those who eventually wound up being kidnapped and sold to Americans.

Roy means redhead? Well, that explains why Fire Emblem's red-haired lord.

@user-mg1pj2vt9l

2 жыл бұрын

Same thought! Lol

Does this mean Lamar means the sea? At least in Spanish/Latin mar(e) is sea so it might be the same in French

My husband's middle name is Leroy and it just reminds me of Big Bad LeRoy Brown.

Leeeeroooooy breeaakiiiin’s all the rules

Not to be that person, but "Roi" is basically pronounced like "rwah" in French.

Le Roy = the king

I am curious about the German name Maria, which is and always was clearly a girls-name. But there are some famous German people with a double-name and the second name is Maria. One example is the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).

@edi9892

3 жыл бұрын

German? How about Jose Maria Aznar... It's one of the few girl names that made it to second names in men...

@HalfEye79

3 жыл бұрын

@@edi9892 German I mean, because the English version is Mary and its used in German.

@marcgauthier6894

3 жыл бұрын

It used to be fairly common in some Catholic countries to have men’s names like Jose Maria, Jean-Marie, etc. I’ve known several of the latter.

@edi9892

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcgauthier6894 agreed. Though, I don't get why they name men after a woman, especially considering how low catholics think of women... I'm Austrian BTW: and my relatives still refer to women as either Weiber or Menscha. The latter is a freaking diminutive of the word human!

Leroy is a common surname in France, so it made its way to America, and then it started being used as a given name. I don't have any data to back this up, it's just my intuition.

My cat’s name is Leroy 😂 that’s the name he had when I adopted him and it stuck

My French isn't great but that "Roi" pronunciation hurt me.

His sister name is Kimberly Joiner

I dunno.. I expected it meant the king.... Though I like the surname Fitzroy. A name given to illegitimate sons of kings, but at least partially recognized in court.

My parents had a german shepherd named Leroy.

In Spanish we have the name Eloy, from Elijah, but not Elroy

when i saw this i though of LEROY JENKINS!!!

Very interesting. I’ve known of a few people with the name Leroy, (usually as a middle name), and they are/were all white, so I never associated it with being an African American name. If anything, I thought of it as somewhat of a white country name. My maternal grandfather had the middle name Leroy, named for his father’s half-brother who supposedly paid the hospital bill when my grandfather was born. This uncle also gave one of his own sons the middle name Leroy. Finally, a friend of our family that my mom used to date had the middle name Leroy. This guy was named after his father, and he named his oldest son after himself, so possibly all three have/had the middle name of Leroy.

@heartoftherepresentativere6101

3 жыл бұрын

You must be a little french

isn't roi pronounced rrrwah? (rrr for rolling r)

I thought Elroy might be from the Hebrew. "El" God, like in DaniEL or ELijah, Ro-eh is shephard and Ro-ee is my-shephard. Ro-ee is also a somewhat popular name in Israel So Elroy in Hebrew (Elro-ee) is 'god is my shephard'

@lowlsqwid

3 жыл бұрын

elroy is just a variant of leroy