That's how you pronounce forecastle?!

@Vsauce

Жыл бұрын

Yep 😁 I also love that a common spelling of it is fo'c's'le

@ItsHonski

Жыл бұрын

ive been enlightened

@sussurus

Жыл бұрын

The pronunciation stems from it being a long word that needed to be said by a large number of uneducated sailors and communicated quickly. You can, however, pronounce it as you'd expect it to be pronounced and you wouldn't technically be wrong.

@jctoad

Жыл бұрын

Nautical terms are really strange. When you had ships sailing around the world and picking up crew members that spoke different languages and each had their own name for things, it was confusing. Often new words were created by mashing up words from different languages. In this case, it seems like English and French. "c. 1400 (mid-14c. as Anglo-French forechasteil), "short raised deck in the fore part of the ship used in warfare," from Middle English fore- "before" + Anglo-French castel "fortified tower" (see castle (n.)). In broader reference to the part of a vessel forward of the fore rigging, late 15c.; hence, generally, "section of a ship where the sailors live" (by 1840). Spelling fo'c'sle reflects sailors' pronunciation. If at the aft part of a ship, it was an afcastle."

@WailFin

Жыл бұрын

Sailors, man. Topsail is "tops'l", boatswain is "bosun", bowline is "bo-lin".

Good thing V is never silent, otherwise Vsauce would be yelling "Hey! Sauce! Michael here"

@MITUK

Жыл бұрын

That would of been a great intro for this video, I bet he's kicking himself

@CosPlaywright

Жыл бұрын

Hey! I need some sauce here!

@konchu5221

Жыл бұрын

@@MITUK hahaha truee

@Gvozd111

Жыл бұрын

Hey Sauce! Mim heh

@richardc5100

Жыл бұрын

That’s the joke…

so thats why Vsauce cant be silenced

@Orangecatty

Жыл бұрын

U win the comment section 👏

@withyouxxx

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@ro-ok

Жыл бұрын

​@@Orangecatty agree

@coral5523

Жыл бұрын

Gold

@Augisticc

Жыл бұрын

Worth a like

imagine how the guy making that book must've felt when he tried to look for a word with a silent V

@cole_cain

Ай бұрын

fr

@DeadSpacedOut

Ай бұрын

he was probably feeling like how you feel when you're writing a thousand word essay and you're a few words off but your mind has become mush and you cannot concentrate enough to add ANYTHING to it.

@AverageDonger

29 күн бұрын

he probably felt similair to "x" and started looking for french words

@vreikezen8268

21 күн бұрын

@@DeadSpacedOutSo specific, yet so relatable.

@DeadSpacedOut

21 күн бұрын

@@vreikezen8268 Yes, and I also somehow misspelled writing... I think my brain was still mush when I wrote that comment lol.

S in Aisle: 🗿

@slimeboy2048

25 күн бұрын

The E: 🗿

@philipweber9545

24 күн бұрын

Aisle? More like, I'll

@nsshah25

23 күн бұрын

E A in Tea: 🗿

@Claugustus

22 күн бұрын

@@nsshah25 ueue in Queue: 🗿

@evilshadowshadow1249

22 күн бұрын

@@nsshah25EA in tea is silent until you pay the monthly subscription 🌚.

I like how the pterodactyl is also a psychic

@sinistrality

Ай бұрын

WHOA that's genius, thanks I would have never noticed that

@james.lambert

Ай бұрын

And the ewe is giving a eulogy

@RVNmax

Ай бұрын

And the Knight is kneeling!

@SnailSnail-lo4pm

Ай бұрын

The aisle wasn't cleaned in aeons.

@Pixal_Dragon

Ай бұрын

@@SnailSnail-lo4pmBritish eon smh

That's why Michael chose "V" for "Vsauce"; it's the most stable, reliable letter in the English alphabet.

@dabbabyy

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@priyanshusonkar5381

Жыл бұрын

Lol By the way, vsauce is short for 'video game sauce' since he started with that kind of content Edit: Yeah, I forgot that he once said in his video that Vsauce was a randomly generated name. Oh god *face palms*

@lepperkin

Жыл бұрын

​@@priyanshusonkar5381 no. It was created by a random name generator.

@dabbabyy

Жыл бұрын

@@priyanshusonkar5381 I'm sorry WHAT

@q404

Жыл бұрын

Because Michael learns from his mistakes.

the f in fifth is always pronounced lol

@Testiculitis

Ай бұрын

The only person I know that pronounces the second F is my Grandmother, who also pronounces salsa as "Saltsa", and pronounces the t in softener

@alex88goode

Ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment lol wtf. People don't use the 2nd F? 🙃

@impendio

Ай бұрын

Same, I’m so confused. In any case the th is silent.

@galinneall

Ай бұрын

That's what I came here to say too. I've never heard anybody say "fith".

@theawsomnessdude

Ай бұрын

​​@@galinneallclearly you haven't heard Mike Tyson speak.

It was probably unintentional, but the implication of the suggestion that ewe starts with a silent E is that "we" makes the same sound as "you"

@NXTangl

Ай бұрын

Yes, very odd. Clearly it's long E (which is an "i" sound) followed by a u (which makes more sense since w was developed to notate the consonant form of u/v after the shift of "wuh" sounds to "vuh" sounds)

@whuspr

Ай бұрын

ewe make a good point

@jsbaldo5556

Ай бұрын

The books intentions is to be a terrible start for the letter, Not that it's all silent, they just happen to be silent , So Ewe Literrally saying, E IS for U is hilarious, E is for You , it stays in line with the books intentions, it was V sauce who purposed it was all about silence, in reality, the only stand out was V for silence, and all that proves is that the book couldn't find a good word that V would be bad for since it just HAPPENS to always say it's name

@blackmber

23 күн бұрын

I guess they didn’t want to go with “E is for Eugenics”

@zyaicob

22 күн бұрын

@@blackmber huh. Technically the eu diphthong is being represented by both of the letters, not exactly making the e silent. BUT by the rules of English phonics they'd sound the same without the e- so ulogy, uthanasia, uphemism! Excellent you cracked it!

“V is for five” is honestly an incredibly clever workaround

@_eIIiot

7 ай бұрын

can you explain it please?

@ufukgundogar41

7 ай бұрын

@@_eIIiot V is 5 in roman numerals.

@_eIIiot

7 ай бұрын

@@ufukgundogar41 ohh okay thank u

@Floofypan

7 ай бұрын

Oooh that _is_ clever! I didn't even realise

@SL-vv3xy

7 ай бұрын

also V is actually kinda silent in five

“Business, marijuana, knife, talk” Something is adding up here

@successfulusername

6 ай бұрын

Ya- snitches get stitches. Best remain silent

@khjrwbhkl

6 ай бұрын

heeheeheehaw

@khjrwbhkl

6 ай бұрын

@@successfulusername and snitches dont get b1tches

@StrykerEXE

6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@user-bf2kf1dm4w

6 ай бұрын

dont forget pneumonia

You definitely pronounce the Y in prayer!’ 😅😭 I do lol

@gr.4380

Ай бұрын

pray your?

@tmmaster6904

23 күн бұрын

​@@gr.4380obviously not, pronouncing the y doesn't change the e into an o, it's prayer not prær

@benjisaac

20 күн бұрын

You both pronounce a consonant when saying prayer, and pronounce the y in the vowel as it turns the letter a into the sound [ei] in both the word pray and prayer, so it’s just not silent either way lol

@NerdyMystic09

4 күн бұрын

​@@gr.4380 no, it's literally pray-er.

Proceeds to us french words

@thespiritualgangsta

3 күн бұрын

And a Spanish word. 💯💯

@clown-cat

3 күн бұрын

@@thespiritualgangsta where the j isnt even silent!

@slitheen3

2 күн бұрын

I was thinking about that as he went through the list. Half the modern english language is just a messy conglomerate of words from other languages 😅 its also why spelling and pronunciation "rules" always have so many exceptions

@thespiritualgangsta

2 күн бұрын

@@clown-cat Exactly!💯💯

@RealDSY

2 күн бұрын

English is a weird concoction of german, latin, french and even a sprinkle of spanish in there. And its still easier to learn than any of these languages. Makes you think.

Bro really just revived “covfefe”

@ptrkmr

Жыл бұрын

It never died. It is eternal

@lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ

Жыл бұрын

@@ptrkmr *h*

@ArabForce

Жыл бұрын

@@lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ *h*

@iyusony8196

Жыл бұрын

​@@ArabForce h

@Sebstian208

Жыл бұрын

Vsauce brought it back and never explained it to us

"Djibouti" 💀

@krishnapillaijanardanannai9897

3 сағат бұрын

What?

For the one year anniversary, I'll just point out that Vsauce actually pronounced the y in prayer.

The fact that half of those words are French just shows how much the French people care

@TheZapan99

Жыл бұрын

Ironically, the P in Pterodactyl is pronounced in French.

@gl1tched142

Жыл бұрын

@@TheZapan99 they just want to be cool I guess

@LemonMeIon

Жыл бұрын

@@TheZapan99 How estupid!

@zectalyx930

Жыл бұрын

​@@gl1tched142 well I mean, there's a letter so they pronounce it 😆

@doyouknowkeplertwentytwob4032

Жыл бұрын

@@zectalyx930 bro are you good?

I accidentally watched this with the audio muted and thought the video was intentionally silent

@kasra4134

2 ай бұрын

Lmao

@AyushSingh-be2yi

Ай бұрын

"Vsauce Effect"

@frenchtoast4491

Ай бұрын

thats something vsauce would do and I'd just go with it

@js8qp2pwisos

Ай бұрын

My dad and brother watched half of A Quiet Place before they realized it was supposed to have sound lmao

@cole_cain

Ай бұрын

@@js8qp2pwisos took it too seriously

A for aisle seems right to my Finnish brain bruh

@XXXkazeXXX

Ай бұрын

yep yep

In "aisle" there is the sound "A". Same for Djabouti, there is a "D" sound. English only have letters for what is called a diphtongued vowel and fricative consonant. Those letters actually express two sounds. In "u" there is the sound "ee" and the sound "oo."

@tedros6917

Ай бұрын

I think they count them as silent because if u removed the a from isle it would still be pronounced the same. Same with Djibouti

@hugobourgon198

Ай бұрын

@@tedros6917 Only because the letter "i" is sometimes a diphtongue. Without the sound "a" in "aisle" you would have the "i" sound you can hear the the words "is" and "in." Even though some diphtongues are written with only one letter, they are still two sounds within one syllable.

@cosmos1487

Ай бұрын

​@@hugobourgon198than why is there 'a' sound in island, without "a" in the beginning? as per you island should sound like "is-land"

@dursty3226

Ай бұрын

​@@cosmos1487 well an island *is* land... 😏

@DeadSpacedOut

Ай бұрын

That's not true, everyone i've ever known has pronounced Aisle the same as Isle, despite the latter not having any A at all. Both Aisle and Isle are pronounced the exact same way, at least in America (i'd assume the UK as well) meaning the A is never pronounced in Aisle. Also, S is silent is both Aisle and Isle as well. Come to think of it, the only 2 letters that ARE pronounced in Aisle are I and L, if we're being technical. The best way to think of the English Language imo, is like Fight Club... the only rule is there are no rules. The English Language is just lawless, really.

V stood up for itself to not be silenced, well done V, vhat a fantastic example!

@irrespondible

Жыл бұрын

Like the V for Vendetta

@Gonna-Cry

Жыл бұрын

Bravo Vince!

@Luna-xb9zn

Жыл бұрын

It is why V is for Vendetta

@devkapadia4796

Жыл бұрын

Be like V guys.

@Your_random_babymonster_fan

Жыл бұрын

My mind instantly went for v(taehyung) from bts

“V is for five” has got to be the smartest solution they could’ve made. Literally impressive

@lilly4617

Жыл бұрын

I dont get it 😭😂 can you explain?

@lilly4617

Жыл бұрын

@@jumblejumbo aaaaah took me a little 😂 thx lol

@Lillylafrog

Жыл бұрын

@@lilly4617:o another Lilly! Hiiiii

@kiruyuu

Жыл бұрын

A fellow enstarrie, I was not expecting this but we are everywhere

@kellybraille

Жыл бұрын

​@@jumblejumbo I.... still don't get it. Yeah, V is five in Roman numbers...,But what does that have to do with this exactly? Do they mean that "v, meaning five, starts with the f sound?" I mean, x doesn't start with the t sound for ten either - I just don't get why its funny?

and here i am, always pronouncing the second f in fifth

You CANNOT just break my understanding of english words like that

Hence the name "Vsauce": Michael refuses to stay silent and actively searches for knowledge to pass down to us

@JmKrokY

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@IgnitionP

Жыл бұрын

sauce

@cumber3631

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it was randomly generated but ok

@domhamai

Жыл бұрын

Very nice

@jong7100

Жыл бұрын

It's sad Vsauce2 and Vsauce3 got left behind because a numbering scheme.

Can't believe Vsauce finally solved the covfefe mystery!

@41-Haiku

Жыл бұрын

"coverage"

@LinguaPhiliax

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe his channel gained a following by just calling it "sauce"

@patrickm1

Жыл бұрын

@@41-HaikuNo no you see he was actually tweeting an Arabic phrase that means "I will stand up," and it was so intentional that he deleted the tweet 2 minutes later and then denied that he posted it (don't Google what "I will stand up" in Arabic actually is because that's fake news or whatever).

@p-__

Жыл бұрын

My farts are better than Vsauce’s farts

@zapper_345

Жыл бұрын

​@@p-__ This is the kind of bot we need

My humour is so trash, I lost it when he says “D for Djabouti”, I heard it like its “Djabooty” 😭

@kittie594

Ай бұрын

DJ Khaled's nemesis

@DonutMaster56

Ай бұрын

Djibouti* not Djabouti

Aisle doesn't have a silent A, it has a properly pronounced ai dipthong.

@gr.4380

Ай бұрын

🤓☝️

@user-rw2lt7kv4o

16 күн бұрын

Then why is isle pronounced the same?

@YoghurtOrYogurt

11 күн бұрын

why are isle and island pronounced similarly though?

@NXTangl

9 күн бұрын

@@YoghurtOrYogurt Blame the English vowel shift. Once upon a time, long vowels were just vowels that were long. Then we started pronouncing them differently depending on whether they were long...

"Business" okay "Marijuana" what

@drama_queen3010

Ай бұрын

Marijuana is a spanish word in which the “j” is pronounced “h” so he’s also wrong

@Lemon_crochet_frog

Ай бұрын

i was talking abt the difference between buisness and Marijuana, tho you are right

@charadr33murr

Ай бұрын

@@drama_queen3010In English “marijuana” doesn’t make an h sound either

@folx2733

Ай бұрын

​@@drama_queen3010 it's pronounced as mari'uana in English so he's not

@TheAutobotPower

Ай бұрын

@@drama_queen3010 except in spanish isn't spelled like that, it's spelled "mariHuana" and "H" in spanish is silent (most of the time). I've no idea where that "J" in english came from.

From now on we should just call vsauce as ,,sauce’’ so its the only word in english language where v is scilent.

@FewVidsJustComments

Жыл бұрын

@donut man Of doesnt have a ve in it, its just that it sounds like a ve at the end

@DamonDraven

Жыл бұрын

​@@FewVidsJustComments Naive?

@OhioStudiosOG

Жыл бұрын

​@@DamonDraven that's pronounced with the v

@FewVidsJustComments

Жыл бұрын

@@DamonDraven Nope, the v is pronounced in that word too

@DamonDraven

Жыл бұрын

@@FewVidsJustComments Yeah, but isn't it pronounced as an F, like "naïf"? English isn't my first language though, so I'm not sure.

I had this book when I was younger 😅

So I kept watching this short until I saw the answer. And when I saw it, I started thinking about Murder Drones.

“V is for Five” is actually brilliant

@SPYROSTSABOURIS

7 ай бұрын

​@Addison-ne2bn, it might be referencing the Roman numeral V

@Duenschissdoktor

6 ай бұрын

@@SPYROSTSABOURIS🤔🤔🤔🤔

@oceanbeach150

6 ай бұрын

​@@Duenschissdoktor😂😢😮😅

@GreatValueMapleSyrup

6 ай бұрын

​@@SPYROSTSABOURISI think you might be right

@d4rriutz4_0

6 ай бұрын

@@Addison-ne2bnno, it's not, and five doesn't start with a v either, so that still make it the "worst" alphabet ever, v is in five but it isn't in the beginning

"Please use Djibouti in a sentence" "dayum girl Djibouti is thicc"

@SaladDongs

Жыл бұрын

Djibouti is relatively small

@Dubdsy

Жыл бұрын

This D is for Djibouti

@Sunflower_SM64

Жыл бұрын

I… was thinking the same

@noobslayer6915

Жыл бұрын

​@@Dubdsy Lol, nice one 😂

@trunestor

Жыл бұрын

make you djibouti a slave trade for me😫

This is basically just the song Crazy ABCs from that Barenaked Ladies 2007 album Snacktime

Bro thought he could skip V and thought we wouldn't notice 😂😂😂😂

Makes V for Vendetta even more poetic. The one letter that can never be silenced.

@yamikagevg7841

9 ай бұрын

Same for Vsauce lol

@Very.not.gay.at.all.totally

9 ай бұрын

🌽

@LuciusLucius

9 ай бұрын

I love V for Vendetta It got me so fucked up

@truthseeker7815

8 ай бұрын

Damn

@travisdingolaite6184

8 ай бұрын

@@LuciusLucius such a good movie.

Covfefe being the legitimate closest we've ever gotten to a silent V is hilarious.

@afj810

Жыл бұрын

*Fie* Foe Three Too Won

@jostensimons

Жыл бұрын

vraisemblance

@cinthiarosasromero5239

Жыл бұрын

Rendezvous /randiou/

@helloxonsfan

11 ай бұрын

Don't forget, that's from the same clown who tried to convince us that Thailand is pronounced like the English word for thighs.

@unstoppablegamer69420

11 ай бұрын

no at the end of the video it showed five which can be pronounced two ways, faive and fie

I can't stop thinking every line this guy says is an elaborate bit

"mom what's marijuana?" 💀

@user-jm5sz3to7q

Ай бұрын

💀💀💀 #savechandra

@PsRohrbaugh

Ай бұрын

The reason you're here

@xxdeathrayxx4946

22 күн бұрын

The cure of cancer?

@user-jm5sz3to7q

22 күн бұрын

@@xxdeathrayxx4946 you know what marijuana is right?

@xxdeathrayxx4946

22 күн бұрын

@@user-jm5sz3to7q Marijuana is a plant/medicine that if you PH Balance it can kill cancer and rebuild your cells

Vsauce has a talent for making me mildly anxious about something that’s usually non-consequential

@Byryles

Жыл бұрын

The music, the tone of voice,,, it truly is an anxious person's worst nightmare

@Random_UserName4269

Жыл бұрын

@@Byryles The upclose odd angles on his facial expressions.

@Ducky69247

Жыл бұрын

Inconsequential?

@Sugarglidergirl101

Жыл бұрын

Definitely the music. I remember having a creepy backrooms-ish dream one time with the music playing down the halls lol

@thetimebinder

Жыл бұрын

"Or does he?"

V is simply just so loud it can't be silenced

@Stup1d...r

7 ай бұрын

as i person whose name starts with v, i feel appreciated

@bunnzy5179

7 ай бұрын

​@@Stup1d...rsame

@chih_le

7 ай бұрын

Double-v

@Fanbter

7 ай бұрын

thank you 🥶

@legacy5gd

7 ай бұрын

No way GD player

I feel like "everything" is usually just pronounced "errything". So even V is not completely innocent

A for Aisle still has an A sound at the beginning... It's the same sound that's used in "Ah" or "Far" Aisle is pronounced: /aɪ̯l/ ... that's pronounced like "ah-eel" ... The english "i" just happens to be phonetically pronounced /aɪ̯/ ... Aisle, Isle, and I'll are all pronounced the same way

@A._Meroy

Ай бұрын

If Aisle and Isle are pronounced the same then it's clearly the A that is silent, since omitting it doesn't change the pronunciation at all...

@NXTangl

Ай бұрын

​@@A._MeroyJust because English did bizarre things to long vowels during the great vowel shift, doesn't mean that dipthongs are incorrect.

@Red-jl1qr

Ай бұрын

The A is redundant. It doesn't need to be there at all to make the same sound. Therefore it's not really doing anything.

"V" is silent when V knows what's good for it and doesn't want it's knees broken.

@ROCKYPLAYA

Жыл бұрын

"Hey V, wanna know how a w is made?"

@Loading-lg6hs

Жыл бұрын

lmaoooo

@thischannel1743

Жыл бұрын

Cuh-nees

@link_team3855

Жыл бұрын

Great news: V doesnt have legs.

@Civilmonkey1

Жыл бұрын

If you can use words from other languages like rendez-vous, faux-pas, and marijuana then bvlgaria would be the closest thing

I love how Michael is making bite sized versions of his videos.

@masterpaine9161

Жыл бұрын

You the new guy They're called shorts

@imrustyokay

Жыл бұрын

@@masterpaine9161 yeah well that name sucks, i call them bite-sized

@limerumpus3589

Жыл бұрын

@@masterpaine9161 You can fit your entire fist in your mouth, while I can fit an entire KZread short into mine. We are not the same.

@lethabozitha7692

Жыл бұрын

​@@imrustyokaytrue that

@WhiskeyNixon

Жыл бұрын

so you're the kinda person KZread did this for, eh? these things are garbage and good channels are doing them only to satisfy the KZread algorithms. It's YT trying to be TikTok, trying to hook the no-attention-span, can't-be-bothered-to-roatate-their-phone kids.

I’d argue the y in prayer isn’t silent in all accents, but I’m sure there’s another word where it is silent

"E is for U" aw thank you Michael I appreciate your little gift

Maybe we should start pretending the V is silent in Vsauce.

@Leafs832

Жыл бұрын

lol

@user-jn7bq8wh1e

Жыл бұрын

Yup..nice catch! Do u watch Sauce?!

@jagraj7015

Жыл бұрын

Undeterred comment

@billyism

Жыл бұрын

​@@jagraj7015bros doing meth instead of math

@nuridenizdurucu1249

Жыл бұрын

​@@billyism Michael white

V is never silent because he likes to monologue too much.

@nubbs4753

Жыл бұрын

Him and his God damn book of V

@CourtneyCoulson

Жыл бұрын

Very verbal, verbose, voluminous verbiage.

@ash2marie

Жыл бұрын

A+ comment you caught me so off guard

@p-__

Жыл бұрын

My farts are better than Vsauce’s farts

@freesk8

Жыл бұрын

Remember, remember the Vth of November...

That's actually one of the *BEST* alphabet books ever

Bois we gotta cook up a new word

The writers really said "we do a bit of trolling"

In fifth grade, I had an argument with a classmate over whether Pterodactyl started with a silent P To settle it, as I walked into the classroom, I asked my teacher to confirm that pterodactyl started with a P. To my everlasting bitterness, she gave me a baffled look and said "no, it obviously starts with T", then waved me on. Naturally my friend took this as a victory. As I said, I am still bitter.

@LucasDanielSantoro

10 ай бұрын

This is the saddest story ever encapsulating all authorities that have disappointed us collectively

@JayEyedWolf

10 ай бұрын

@@LucasDanielSantoro I'm so glad someone understands my pain. :'(

@adityarocky

10 ай бұрын

I need a written apology letter from the teacher as well as an apology video from your friend with tears!

@HowardBaileyMusic

10 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKZrpLuIk9qpdJs.htmlsi=CYKbL3eThvnKntZ0

@MagicianStevey

10 ай бұрын

I’ve never been more angry reading a comment

M "marijuana" got me rolling on the floor 💀💀💀

I though Vsauce was gonna put pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis for P knowing how he’s like😅😅😅

Being half Djiboutian, it feels rather strange but satisfying to see my tiny nation being mentioned.

@salakast

Жыл бұрын

Funnily, the book could've also used djinn.

@extazy9944

Жыл бұрын

some random ass military power: can we build a base here? djibouti: ¥€$

@thediaxd3747

Жыл бұрын

​@@salakast or djent

@_P2M_

Жыл бұрын

Don't feel bad. Djibouti is a favorite among 7th grade geography classes. You can always hear a chuckle...

@anarchistathena

Жыл бұрын

Do Djiboutians make jokes about living in ja booty? Joking about butts is a universal constant.

"D is for your booty" Man i need to clean my brain

@davidproduction6245

Жыл бұрын

AY DJIBOUTI IS A OK COUNTRY

@Static_Star

Жыл бұрын

I do too 😶

@rattler.stoopeed

11 ай бұрын

​@@davidproduction6245 dj booty 💀

@Jw87563

11 ай бұрын

"I came looking for booty." -a wise man, probably

@weird_planecrazy_er

11 ай бұрын

@@rattler.stoopeednaw 💀💀

All these years I spent trying to pronounce the second f in "fifth" and realizing I wasted so much energy on it

I’m just seeing this short again and I just realized my teacher helped make that book

Oddly enough, whenever the letter V is silent in a word it gets dropped completely. "O'er the land of the free" and "ne'er-do-well" are good examples.

@Vorock16

Жыл бұрын

That could be a case for it being silently actually. Nothing is stopping us from dropping silents in other words.

@vyor8837

Жыл бұрын

... the v isn't silent in either of those two words

@beaver_warrior

Жыл бұрын

@@vyor8837 Hate to break it to you but it most certainly is silent.

@Reulorics

Жыл бұрын

@@beaver_warrior No lol, those words don't have a silent V. Those words have a spoken v that can sometimes be spoken without it. It's like you wouldn't say "British" has a silent T just because some people pronounce it as "Bri-ish"

@beaver_warrior

Жыл бұрын

@@Reulorics You do realize that a letter in a word can be silent in one accent and pronounced in another, right? Some accents pronounce the "h" in "herbs", while others say "erbs"

Maybe it's a dialect thing, but I have always pronounced both Fs in "fifth".

@biggringus5499

Жыл бұрын

No u r totally right

@limpydan5850

Жыл бұрын

"fith" What's a fith?

@steebie7775

Жыл бұрын

It's not a dialect thing, you're right, and this dude is wrong. I used to love his videos, but I can't take him seriously anymore.

@happymack6605

Жыл бұрын

💯 correct. Do these same people not pronounce the f in twelfth? 🤷🏽‍♀️. I’m from the Northeast US; I’ve never heard anyone not pronounce an f

@biggringus5499

Жыл бұрын

@@steebie7775 ??? I mean idk bout taking it that seriously. Language always shifts and complex sounds are simplified. I wouldn't be surprised to discover I had mad the f in fifth silent without thinking about it, it is kind of a tough tongue move.

learned about forecastle last year when this vid came out

I actually took a moment to think about what letter it might be and guessed it. I guess Sauce makes me big brain.

I could have sworn the V in Vsauce was silent...

@mngbb11

Жыл бұрын

Then you must be on the (V)sauce

@andreaspatsalides1914

Жыл бұрын

You call it Esauce?

@KernelLeak

Жыл бұрын

@@andreaspatsalides1914 What vlse?

@goatsfluff

Жыл бұрын

@@KernelLeak YVSSSSS XD

@SakhotGamer

Жыл бұрын

In literally every video he says "Hey! Vsauce, Michael here" The V was never silent.

For every second you are not running, Michael gets closer

@sebbo128

Жыл бұрын

But Michael only gets half as close as he was before. So does he ever reach you?

@muel1565

Жыл бұрын

@@sebbo128 *moonman starts playing*

@OmarHyari2009

Жыл бұрын

Remember to state your velocity after you hug him and run.

Tell that to Cesar. 😂 Wini widi wicci

“For each letter, the example word is pteroble.”

V is very vocal.

@pontustve1thegoldendragon483

9 ай бұрын

👍

@Berzerker17

9 ай бұрын

@@pontustve1thegoldendragon483 kzread.infoON63yOtgkvk?feature=shareb

@mallikadasgupta6308

9 ай бұрын

👍

@ddm1912

9 ай бұрын

👍

I showed this to my 5 year old (he can read well) and the look of horror when he saw "a is for Aisle"was unforgettable! He declined when I offered to get him the book.

@ldmtag

Жыл бұрын

But... A is not silent in [ail]😟😰

@ekuu8918

Жыл бұрын

​@@ldmtag In terms of vowels, there is an /a/ in the diphthong /ai/, but the problem is that that diphthong is usually associated with the letter "i" in English. So the word "aisle" is pronounced exactly the same as the word "isle", and most English speakers would see the A as redundant.

@alosialee

Жыл бұрын

Can I just say as a parent I would have and did in fact cackle at this. 😂😂😂

@sskhussaini

Жыл бұрын

@@alosialee as a non parent, I too cackled like an old lady at this.

@aparnarai3708

Жыл бұрын

​@@ekuu8918but isn't aisle pronounced as aile

Bro had to put Marijuana there

he be telling a whole story

"D is for Djibouti" is my new favourite chat-up line. 😂😂

@Srikchik

8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@EpicGammingCrew

8 ай бұрын

_It’s good to be D_

@Monkayvr251

8 ай бұрын

If someone takes over Djibouti, I hope they say, “I GOT DJIBOUTI!”

@kenzo3344

8 ай бұрын

Im from Djibouti 😂

@andymcpandy2128

8 ай бұрын

@@kenzo3344 I'm not sure how I feel about that 😂

Bros about to activate a super soldier with all these words.

@sarahdavis3805

Жыл бұрын

Lolololol

@MrTeddy12397

Жыл бұрын

Spiral staircase Rhinoceros beetle Desolation Row Fig tart Rhinoceros beetle Via Dolorosa Rhinoceros beetle Singularity point Giotto Angel Hydrangea Rhinoceros beetle Singularity point Secret emperor

@astrofield6359

Жыл бұрын

@@MrTeddy12397 NO

@dead.inside.585

Жыл бұрын

I understood that reference

@Kilovotis

Жыл бұрын

Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exist, but the ones who do call him the Silent Soldier. He is credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last 50 years.

the fac that even the example sentences use words with the silent letter cool

YES WE FINALLY HAVE A VOICE CLIP OF VSAUCE SAYING MARIJUANA let the memes commence

@hwaansswaanh3511

Жыл бұрын

Que les memes commence 😈

@asheep7797

Жыл бұрын

Because you didn't want to use ayahuasca.

@autisticpseud2655

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@rybread9563

Жыл бұрын

🤓

@MrGlobule

Жыл бұрын

holy band kid

The fact that everyone somehow agreed on a way to pronounce Covfefe is hilarious

@Aceburn5

5 ай бұрын

I always thought it was pronounced kah-FEEF

@Goomba456

5 ай бұрын

Trump actually says the word in a video, it's on the Wikipedia page for covfefe.

@WanderTheNomad

5 ай бұрын

I pronounce it coh fee fee

@bumbleberryshortcake6099

4 ай бұрын

Tbh i thought it was co-vef-ee

@foxwhistle

4 ай бұрын

Coh-Feh-fay. Like Pepe the Frog.

“The example word is pterrible”

The second f in fifth is not silent, there is simply a rampant issue with proper enunciation.

I was expecting "This is the worst alphabet book ever" "OR IS IT??"

@endertrade4893

3 ай бұрын

music starts playing

@GuyWithNoBalls_E

3 ай бұрын

"Hey! Vsauce, Micheal here."​@@endertrade4893

@myonlylooveee

2 ай бұрын

LOL

Whoever decided to spell the word "ne'er-do-well" didn't realise the consequences of their actions

@blondemaverick

Жыл бұрын

Yooooooooooo! English major here - I'm stealing that word for class covering this! You're a genius! I forgot about ne'er!

@theanonymousmrgrape5911

Жыл бұрын

Ne’er, e’er and o’er all follow that convention.

@MichiganFresh

Жыл бұрын

This isn't the same as silent, it's a contraction

@siyacer

Жыл бұрын

the missing letter is g

@bobross4616

Жыл бұрын

I love it tho.

I am always reading them loudly, not silently, lol

I bought that book for my nieces just to mess with them lol

Damn...Trump was making history with covfefe and we didn't even know it. Dude was ahead of his time.

@Zika42

Жыл бұрын

Truly one of the presidents of all time.

@ThBlueSalamander

Жыл бұрын

​@@Zika42 somehow xd

@johns.8220

Жыл бұрын

I know many terrific beautiful American-made words, everyone agrees.

@bosssnurp5912

Жыл бұрын

@@ThBlueSalamander here before a political argument happens lol

@nuntius1

Жыл бұрын

@@bosssnurp5912 lol me too

“Business Marijuana knife talk” sounds like what your ‘big brother’ does

@Candela-100

2 ай бұрын

💀

@40hzLMAO

2 ай бұрын

i can confirm this is what my little sister thinks i do

@elfishmoss1457

2 ай бұрын

But the question is, is she right​@@40hzLMAO

@cart4092

2 ай бұрын

@@elfishmoss1457lol definitely not dude look at his profile

@40hzLMAO

2 ай бұрын

@@elfishmoss1457 without the business part yea pretty much

“Marijauna” my man

In danish we have havde were the v is silent

"D is for ya booty" - Michael Vsauce

@grizz865

Жыл бұрын

djibouti is a country

@sunilzala3909

Жыл бұрын

@@grizz865 I got a D for your bootay.

@assininecomment1630

Жыл бұрын

*Michael*

@kiveonn

Жыл бұрын

@@assininecomment1630 thanks for noticing, can't be having a typo on a comment that's getting this many likes lol

@gilbertolcx

Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

Vsauce: v is never silent My friend who calls him “sauce”:

@maxweinman03

9 ай бұрын

Underrated comment 😂

@blueboy3990

9 ай бұрын

"white sauce"

@vanboy_vanboy

9 ай бұрын

Sauce?

@sussydogelikesplanes

8 ай бұрын

hey sauce, mich here

@gametime4804

8 ай бұрын

Who is your favourite KZreadr? *Sauce*

This book gives me How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers energy

Oh I have a copy of this book; a very clever, funny and informative one. The illustration is beautiful. Topgallant is pronounced as to'ge'ln, midshipman traditionally as mijipmn.

Rendezvous is a direct loan from French, wich gets absolutely crazy when it comes to not pronounce letters

@samyuel.

6 ай бұрын

same as faux pas but yeah, i think they have more words with at least one silent letter than not

@JoeyCakes2008

6 ай бұрын

@@samyuel.same with English, 60% of words have at least 1 silent letter

@samyuel.

6 ай бұрын

@@JoeyCakes2008 yeah, wanted to write something like that too but noticed they don't, they just pronounce letters weird so it makes it seem that way. basically none of the words i used in that longer sentence had a silent letter in them.

@Natural_Power

6 ай бұрын

The French word for goose is "oie" and is pronounced something like "ua"

@chillkillisded

5 ай бұрын

@@Natural_Powerlol i speak french and did you know that rubber in french is ‘caoutchouc’? It’s pronounced ‘cawoochoo’

Ah yes, my favourite English words, faux pas and rendezvous 😅

@Boss_Tanaka

Жыл бұрын

🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷

@cakecheese2895

Жыл бұрын

Rendezvous is English... And french.

@Boss_Tanaka

Жыл бұрын

It’s rendez-vous

@luckyinky7849

Жыл бұрын

🥖🥖

@danidejaneiro8378

Жыл бұрын

50% of English vocabulary comes diretly from French.

I pronounce your Channel as Sauce, So V is silent 😂😂😂😂

My elementary teacher used a book similar to this because we needed to learn about silent letters

As a non native speaker those silent letters usually are what get me.

@demo2823

Жыл бұрын

Blame the French.

@brmbkl

Жыл бұрын

@@demo2823 and the Greek. Mostly the Greek.

@flyse1858

Жыл бұрын

i’m a non native speaker but my first language is french… there are still some words that are weirdly pronounced in english

@hellodolly7989

Жыл бұрын

English would be a lot easier if we just stayed Germanic lol.

@sadbravesfan

Жыл бұрын

I don't think there's any logic to them. In this case you can only know by seeing the word and then just memorizing it.

I remember my 5th grade English teacher gave all the words from this book to us as an April fools day spelling test and I almost cried. Best alphabet book ever 10/10 would recommend to make children cry.

@AllisonChains64

9 ай бұрын

"10/10 to make children cry" lmaoooooo😅😭

@Egg0-

9 ай бұрын

I NEED this if I ever become a teacher.

Hahaha LOVE IT!!! I love how complicated English is ❤

I've never said "fith" nor have I ever heard someone say it that way. I was shocked and came to the comments where I found out people are claiming the second f IS silent! You people are crazy.

The fun part is that most "silent" letters were originally pronounced. We just got lazy with out mouths and started slurring the sounds together to the point where certain letters got glossed over or cut out altogether because it had better or faster mouth feel.

@Kyra-fe6do

Жыл бұрын

I had a feeling that’s what happened with Jeopardy

@DembaiVT

11 ай бұрын

That's only sometimes! occasionally, such as the word Castle, they were just injected by French Scholars who assumed that it had something to do with a Latin root that it actually didn't. And yes, the FRENCH were responsible for a ton of awful things in our language, because spelling used to be pretty phonetic and they didn't like that at all.

@benjtg

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@DembaiVTas always it’s the French’s fault

@Mercure250

11 ай бұрын

@@DembaiVT Actually, "castle" does come from the Latin "castellum", and the "t" is still pronounced in French to this day (it's the "s" that stopped being pronounced in French, and for once, we don't even write it anymore : château). You can blame the French for some things, but not this one! I'd say "debt" would be a better example. Also, it's not so much that they made mistakes about the Latin root, but rather, these letters didn't exist in the common language anymore, but they decided to bring them back. There are reasons for that, one of which being that only scholars who knew Latin knew how to write, but it has nothing to do with mistakes. There are cases of letters that, from a purely etymological perspective, shouldn't have been there, but were introduced as a way to link related words together in a more visible way. The real issue is that, now, we are stuck with decisions that more or less made sense at the time, but don't anymore, and for some reason, we haven't changed things since then. Well, we have in some cases, just not all cases.

@ortherner

11 ай бұрын

and also the second f in fifth isn't silent.