w

[@squishgod9094]

I think "so that's Y..." might be my favorite joke of all time

[@infinemyself5604]

11:47

[@DarrionTheIdiot]

AND great. you just spoiled it for me! just what i need! you spoiling the punchline to a very funny joke! (sarcasm)

[@cashm5455]

The One Above all you went in the comments before you finished the video

[@DarrionTheIdiot]

@@cashm5455 Yeah. So what?

[@cashm5455]

The One Above all umm you can’t argue with stupid

[@trewe0413]

I got reverse clickbaited. I clicked expecting a shitpost and got a quality vid.

[@eddydrouet1888]

We should come up with a term for reverse clickbait...

[@ewan_mclean]

Eddy Drouet shitbait?

[@witheredbonnie9434]

m a s t e r b a i t

[@katrinahoward9762]

J a i l b a i t

[@AlgyCuber]

master bait lol

[@dumbsville]

B lore: “it sounds like bee lol” W lore:

[@hierkommtdi3s0nne]

hello verified human , how are you today ? have you eaten ?

[@ps1hagrid268]

In Dutch it’s also just wee so I was really confused when I learned it’s double U in English

[@Manienormae]

you didn't have to cut me off

[@shoelicker]

W

[@shoelicker]

W lore

[@nobreakingthepickle3452]

16:46 my mans just heard of writing and decided to invent it for his own language. What a legend

[@kahorere]

And he was really good at it! I heard a lecture about that script, and it was so approachable that for a while literacy rates were higher in his tribe than among the Europeans!

[@TheBird..]

@nathanwaterser8218yo, Cherokee person here, that’s about right yea

[@goldenjay6936]

me scrolling my recommends: "There's no way I'm going to watch an 18 minute video titled 'w'" 18 minutes later: "oh... wau"

[@CasualMitosisCollective]

Get out

[@excelvalentino6972]

ʘ̃ħ ɯ̰̤̪̽̆̆̃̈̈˞̘̯̯̹̹̹̯̟̟̹̘̰̰̃̃̃̚ʘ̬̰̰̪̟̝̩̘̹̝̯̆̃̃̈̚˞̘̩̹̟̘̪̰̰̰̤̈̃̃̈̚͡ɯ̘̰̆̏̌᷄᷈̃̃˞̰̪̘̘̃͜

[@mworld2611]

*"OwO"

[@جونرقيمر]

@@CasualMitosisCollective and

[@kameronkaye]

@@excelvalentino6972 ipa 😏

[@badlydrawnmedievallion6832]

V: "You're weak." U: "I'm U"

[@TimBagels]

I'm uwu

[@ElMondiola]

Ok that was a good one

[@Alwljdbdbkd]

Good one

[@GhaniKeSawah]

@@TimBagels quadruple u

[@depufull2]

centuple u

[@datoneguy506]

Fun drinking game: take a shot every time one of W’s ancestors is threatened to be cut from its alphabet

[@mightypurplelicious3209]

**blub blub blub**

[@nqrtzy8765]

Now now we don’t want anyone to die of alcohol poisoning here

[@joda7697]

@@nqrtzy8765 aw c'mon you won't die from those, it could be worse

[@epingchris]

Take a shot every time one of W's ancestors is used in the video (talk about quick alcohol poisoning)

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

ahem take a shot every time you forgot the letter q and x

[@TaIathar]

Adding to the Japanese segment, the when you type the letter w a lot like so (wwwwww) it looks like grass, so sometimes when something is very funny, instead of using many "w" you can use "草" (kusa) which means grass. 草 is more like "lmao" though so please note that it is not usable in place of "w" (lol). Just some bonus history for anyone scrolling the comments.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

grass.

[@kiricappuchin]

hololive taught me something new

[@TaIathar]

@Nathan Waterser Since the meaning of the phrase is "go outside" they would probably write that instead.

[@TaIathar]

@Nathan Waterser That's because Touch Grass is an American meme. It doesn't exist in other cultures as far as I'm aware. If I'm wrong, I'll happily stand corrected.

[@maxlimit9129]

w, 草

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

"And that's how a bird from a place somewhere between Egypt and Babylon means 'laugh' in a country on the other side of the world"

[@hey_its_autumnb2380]

lmaooo the fact that he liked this comment has me dying🤣🤣

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

Wait what What

[@hey_its_autumnb2380]

@@randomguy-tg7ok very nice joke random guy

[@shaunseymour1595]

Japan

[@radhikarao8052]

@@randomguy-tg7ok in japan they often use wwww as smth so say laugh in like text messages cause in japanese laugh is 笑い or warai n people didn’t wanna type the kanji out so they just started using wwww kay thanks for coming to my ted talk 😫

[@Jetsaturn0210]

W stands for: Why the hell is this so well done

[@cyannanima2505]

No no, thast the DOUBLE W

[@shadowsuzuki5445]

@@cyannanima2505 Double double you? /j

[@cyannanima2505]

@@shadowsuzuki5445 why yes ×2

[@Wereboypiko]

I just ruined the 500 *I’m sorry*

[@locomotivetrainstation6053]

Should be HWĪ

[@Scruffy3870]

I thought this was a shitpost but instead I ended up learning the history of W

[@sillyfegart5455]

This video is so good even Jesus is learning the letter w

[@thecourier7964]

Watch your mouth Jesus

[@lenny7785]

Same tho

[@CarterHerrigstad]

Same, lol

[@dongletron69]

It's not safe to mock Jesus

[@creepersam3340]

This is quite literally the best way to trash talk if you get a win instead of just saying “W”

[@AthesielIcosiel]

"so thats y" this joke made me laugh so much i had to explain to 4 people why im watching a video about the history of the letter w. thanks

[@SunroseStudios]

same

[@anselmschueler]

"had to" be honest

[@brennangray8712]

though you might say "Y"

[@Invizive]

I thiught the wire of my headphones broke at that specific point. Had to rewind to understand it's a joke. Bravo.

[@mayadouglas7358]

It made me cry tears of laughter omg

[@Something2X7]

I just typed "w" into the search bar to see what would come up and I stumbled upon this video, which has taught me more than my previous week of school

[@wren5962]

Week? This is more than I’ve learned all semester

[@jaylyn9524]

SAMEE

[@jmn8498]

For me it was the opposite. I was looking specifically for this video, but searching for _W_ didn't bring it up. Had to type _History of W_ instead. Curse thee, KZbin!

[@JarGoobs]

@@wren5962 you must be young, maybe just high school when you sent that

[@KaneYork]

Check out the c-quel y'all

[@lupito6185]

This whole video is an excuse to make the "so that's Y" joke

[@Cloiss_]

the madlad made another video just to make this joke again

[@BoatsAndHos]

11:44

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

everyone talking about the Y joke but not the stigma joke

[@theredone1785]

so that's upsilon

[@lucy-qe3jv]

@@SamiTheAnxiousBean what stigma joke

[@plushdragonteddy]

i am repeating this video immediately after watching it for the first time because i feel there is more to be crammed into my brain than what i managed on the first watch. this video is genuinely so funny and informative. if i was a substitute teacher, i’d just put jan misali videos on for the whole class

[@tj4y48]

This is exactly why I will never hesitate to click on a video with normally unappealing thumbnail and title. It might just be a masterpiece worth spending time on.

[@jasonvoorhees6957]

*cough* the history of the entire world i guess *cough*

[@heiceonmycreamtillicone]

Amazing profile picture

[@tj4y48]

@@heiceonmycreamtillicone thanks. Cropped it myself.

[@adethesimp]

I just look at how long it is, usually if it’s long it will be something completely irrelevant but amazing

[@nebb.]

Ok

[@bonithechubbypotato5100]

Wait I though that this would just be a picture of the letter “W” in darkness for 18 minutes

[@plushcentric]

Same tho, I expected a shitpost

[@anna_banana414]

im glad i wasn’t the only one 😭

[@Opulscent]

I didn't see the duration so I thought it would be a couple seconds of W in darkness

[@adilacma]

tbh it would probally get more views if it was that

[@sakibhadzic]

@@plushcentric me too

[@lukasdreemurr109]

I clicked on this expecting a meme and got a whole ass backstory for the letter W. How intriguing.

[@snivyboy168]

Yeah. And I thought there would just be some loud memey jumpscare in the middle of his calm speech, so I always kept my sound down, lol

[@deltaboi9014]

Same

[@elpibearmando007]

Ñ

[@chupetesuazo2815]

Ñ

[@venezuelaanimations3732]

Ñ

[@hopesndreams5033]

I'm such a linguistics nerd. this video is so hard to find, with its title just being "w", but I come back to it every once in a while and sob with happiness

[@rainbowlack]

here's your reminder to re-watch it for the bajillionth time (like i just did lol)

[@Glatier]

just remember the channel name, that's how I'm able to look up that one mario kart video at any time

[@internet_userr]

Or you can simply like the video and it will appear in your liked videos playlist

[@maxonator3913]

​​@@internet_userreah but there's an issue if you have 5000 videos in that one, as I've had since 2020. (it caps at 5k) Edit: Besides, if you have even over 1k, I'm pretty sure every video in there is gonna be hard to find lol

[@BinglesP]

@@Glatier What "one Mario Kart video"? Or, I guess in this case, who's?

[@theletterh9781]

Happy first birthday to the most epic sentence ever: "F, Y, U, V and W all directly descended from a bird that looked like a lollypop"

[@RENO_K]

Fuck i exhaled so fast my nasal hurts

[@selenemoon2832]

You were just born?

[@theletterh9781]

@@selenemoon2832 Huh? No that comment was posted on June 30th which is the date when this video got premiered.

[@kornsuwin]

your username is very r/theletterh

[@theletterh9781]

@@kornsuwin :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO A high level cultured person on KZbin?! Impossible! You have my respect

[@soup6482]

Video title: w Video length: eighteen minutes and twenty eight seconds

[@HBMmaster]

video topic: w

[@medhachattopadhyay9486]

@@HBMmaster WY??

[@ignacioariasrivas4474]

I didn’t understand

[@lemmy9682]

What?

[@primordial345]

I dont get it pls explain

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

This is like, what if a Bill Wurtz vid didn’t have the music

[@ckv954]

Good description

[@thenixaless7493]

He wouldn't be known that well

[@audreywong7494]

Or, Vsauce but saucier

[@agentofchaos2901]

@@audreywong7494 lol what?

[@gus8509]

No one is saucier than vsauce

[@viktorflorianschantz4084]

FUN FACT: The Polish language is one of the very few Slavic languages to use a natural W sound - they use the letter "Ł" to make that sound. However, the letter W does exist in the Polish alphabet, and it makes a "V" sound, similarly to that in the German language. In other Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet, such as Czech, the letter W is very rare, and is only used in foreign loanwords, such as those from the English language. That also makes the "V" sound.

[@shelookstome8727]

Always found that interesting about Polish :)

[@JohnDiGrizUkraine]

To add to that: the reason why Polish uses that letter is because Polish /w/ sound is from the vocalisation of L sound in some positions. Another slavic language with /w/ sound is Belarusian, it uses Cyrrillic alphabet and a special letter y̆ for it. Ukrainian also had a /w/ sound at one point, but it has since merged with /v/, and I afaik it was never spelt in a distinct way

[@biscuit715]

You can hear L turning into W in some London accents in the UK. Think a roadman saying "pull/pool" for example. Iirc it tends to come after an "oo" sound. ​@@JohnDiGrizUkraine

[@zari_phone1811]

I’m French, W is called “double v” because that IS WHAT IS LOOKS LIKE.

[@ideasonek3374]

Same in Italy

[@entei8569]

Lol

[@smooch985]

same for swedes

[@abdoonyt9049]

I noticed that too lol

[@add852]

This is what I thought as well but unfortunately it's not implemented in my country.

[@TimeturnerJ]

In German, we actually make a w-sound as the letter's name, so whenever I'm spelling out loud in English, I still sometimes forget to call it "double-u". It's just so counter-intuitive.

[@ps1hagrid268]

As a Dutch person I do the same

[@zet6549]

As a fellow German I make that mistake a lot

[@forellenfisch1775]

But we call the Y Ypsilon

[@scorpion-nl9xu]

@@zet6549 same

[@babylola1739]

Did this at the start of learning english too. Now i don't do it anymore tho

[@mooseears9849]

I applaud this guy for making the KZbin masterpiece *w* and it’s equally magnificent sequel, *c* .I’ve always felt like these letters were slept on in the alphabet community

[@marivicespinosa5860]

thought it was supposed to be a funny thing, but this is way better “I came looking for copper, and found gold”

[@mcmonkey26]

well if you would like some copper ive got some high quality stuff right here, you can even take a look at my fine reviews on these stone tablets over here

[@Bahapanty]

W

[@dallaStar.]

Right

[@hiimemily]

@@mcmonkey26 High quality? My buddy Nanni begs to differ, Ea-nasir.

[@blurned4221]

Yuh

[@MegaPhester]

"So that's Y..." *angry muttering*

[@mohammedislam5121]

"You've got it set to M for mini, when it should be set to W for Wumbo. I wumbo, you wumbo. He, she, me wumbo. Wumbology, the study of wumbo!" - Patrick Star and the lore for W

[@Xnoob545]

mumbo jumbo

[@JustAPerson64]

Wumbo pumbo

[@torimackenzie6673]

wumbo kumbo

[@Levi-ie5oz]

Mumbo Wumbo

[@dylanherron6262]

How did you manage to spell wombology right and mess up wombo... Wumbo... Smh

[@1a2b]

I really appreciate the "where are they now?' bit at 17:47.

[@grundall1818]

*Me sees video with the title "w"* *Expects a 3 second video someone *saying "w"* *Clicks on video* "Wait what th-"

[@igaja9161]

Dbhdhdsh that's funny because it's true

[@jcfiggy]

“iait ihat þe”

[@madelinecook8696]

this isn’t the chumbucket

[@spingleboygle]

@@madelinecook8696 Sir this is a wendy’s

[@wren5962]

I saw the title ‘w’, looked at the video length, then decided why not

[@jellorobot]

"And that's (Y)" followed by dead silence sent me into orbit. This is fantastic

[@todddollasign5635]

He prob waited the whole video to make that joke and it was delivered perfectly

[@lino1407]

@@todddollasign5635 the ‘Thats Why’ line had me thinking for like 10sec. and then skip back

[@enniftea]

I thought my phone glitched

[@syd799]

Time stamp??

[@marcelineraber]

Letters: Finally, we're living stable lives in this well-made alphabet. Languages: Y'all mind if I sound shift?

[@sponge1234ify]

Other languages borrowing the latin script: _Mike Wazowski face_

[@alizztwt]

Jesus christ i never thought a video on a topic im interested in could make me so tired. Im fascinated. Im enamoured. Im so angry. I just wanna go to bed. This is so convoluted im absolutely in love.

[@Arctic_Jungle4]

Most people's flexes: cars, having a gf/bf, being rich My flex: knowing the origin of W

[@blackswan8219]

beans

[@baller_]

Beans

[@javiartem]

beans

[@motifity3416]

beans

[@shadow_da_bagel8177]

beans

[@pnuemicking7347]

In Spanish, “y” said aloud is pronounced “i griega”. When you got to the part explaining “ī Graeca” it blew my mind

[@Ubsje]

in dutch too, "griekse ij", literally meaning "greek 'ij'". (use google translate if you want to know how to pronounce ij)

[@batata2531]

French too

[@k-techpl7222]

In Polish, it's called "igrek" so I also saw a resemblance when I watched the video.

[@Ubsje]

igrek is another name for it in dutch as well

[@grafvollkorn]

in german its called ypsilon like the even older version

[@pricex3]

"W?" - Dumbledore calmly asked

[@Utars]

a man of culture

[@Melecie]

general kenobi! also, why is dumbledore laughing

[@pawffice...]

This scares me because I don't know how to pronounce it

[@stillhuman6708]

Nononono it's ""W?!?!?!??!?!?" Dumbledore asked calmly"

[@hiimemily]

"I've been jan Misali, and /w/" is still a great signoff.

[@gogovish]

hi emily

[@superminingcraftmc3227]

When he said “Italicized”, then showed a picture of Italy, my mind literally unlocked. I’ve never put the two together.

[@qwertyTRiG]

The history of the names italic and roman for typefaces goes back to the early days of printing in Europe.

[@CrowdedMinds]

Lol you must be from USA?

[@carsonianthegreat4672]

@@CrowdedMinds that assumption makes no sense. Stop being so prejudiced

[@Deadflower019]

@@CrowdedMinds I'm from the USA, and I put it together.

[@WindowsDrawer]

​@@CrowdedMinds That makes no sense

[@OfficialThatOneGuy]

So basically, people have always been simplifying logos since forever.

[@WyvernRex2099]

Yea, language and alphabets are all shaped by laziness

[@ArturioBardi]

The N is a snake So yeah

[@coolcj20062000]

Going off topic: I love your PFP I play Spelunky 2

[@JuanPablo-pg3vx]

Absolute W

[@robotmummyking1329]

Your name is my friends old username on here

[@toganium4175]

These are the types of video titles that I like: simple and to the point.

[@purpsosa]

@knight i am in your closet

[@flybid301]

@knight i am in your walls

[@chupetesuazo2815]

Ñ

[@SevensMarkedSeven]

Yup

[@omoliemi]

Can't believe I watched this video two years ago and now I'm majoring in linguistics

[@stoopidapples1596]

The Y joke was cut horrendously short by an ad...

[@littlefox_100]

Noooooo

[@kryptoid2568]

sad

[@asheep7797]

Y?

[@bballss]

Time stamp?

[@J4ap0on3es]

Everytime a ad appears I close the video and open by history tab in android app, it's faster than waiting for ad to end *and* you don't see ads, making them useless. My point of view: if I watch an advertisement of your product in the middle of a video, I'm gonna hate your product. In my case I unninstalled ifood because of this and never bought on amazon because of this

[@2712animefreak]

There is additional interesting development of the usage of w in Japanese internet slang. When you write several w's in a row: wwwww they start resembling blades of grass. Therefore Japanese started using their word for grass: kusa(草) to express laughter.

[@salierisneighbor9736]

2712animefreak 😂wwwwwwwwwwwww😂

[@kathvg]

2712animefreak some Japanese Internet slang is wild because it snatches letters and words from English to represent words in Japanese then simplifies it back into Japanese somehow

[@eurotrash4970]

I dont get it

[@slavicblin8155]

Euro Trash Me neither dude

[@塩山マヴィ]

I think it because of the katakana ハ (ha) and when you put them together it looks like this: ハハハハハハハ

[@scarlett285]

Look at this man answering questions I've always asked but was too lazy to look up

[@Aflyonthemoon]

самая интересная история одной буквы которую я слышала. Даже интересно стало узнать историю нашей В /w/

[@aislingbones1854]

That "You might say "why"" pun at 4:19 gets me every time. You're too powerful and need to be stopped.

[@TheOGPlatypus]

Since we're talking about intellectual things, let me explain mitosis. V U Ш W V V

[@vitaurea]

thanks i understand now

[@cozycowboy]

Don’t forget ш before the cleavage furrow begins to split

[@TheOGPlatypus]

Fixed

[@ZiRR0]

What's the opposite of mitosis? Urfingerbro

[@swig8792]

VV

[@buyes44]

I respect this guy, he researched so much stuff and it lasted about 20 minutes just for one letter and that letter is “w”

[@Epsa_]

Huge W

[@bigmoestudios]

Give the thumbnail designer a raise

[@animanya394]

“Where are they now” segment was what finally killed me

[@duckmaneuvers]

me: makes a funny joke in Japanese my Japanese friends: wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[@forestofsecrets7273]

not finished video yet so idk if how w as a single constinant is used in japanese or why its used like that wa smentioned in the video, but if it wasnt n ur curious, its from warau/笑う (to laugh). verb ending was taken off, and now wara/笑 it was shortened to w in writing (tho is sometimes written as (笑) for reasons i dunno, maybe bc kanji is more familiar?). so thats why w is the japanese version of lol i believe w is pronounced as wara, but im not 100% sure

[@v0689]

Grass

[@onebennyboi5257]

@@v0689 ee

[@iopvixens]

@@v0689 草

[@2k5dcr]

草

[@jamesjohnson8279]

Multiple Letters: * die * Phoenicians and Greeks: That is a major wau

[@FiSH-iSH]

heh, nice pun.

[@bruh-zn8ju]

wau in the chat

[@Notorietypulp]

Big oof, wait, big... UW, no no, big WW. I tried

[@kshitijvids]

i got goosebumps when he brought up how Maori used "wh" as an "F", truly poetic.

[@earlyowlYT]

i might be dense, but how is that poetic? genuine question.

[@kshitijvids]

@@earlyowlYT i was exaggerating, it was a joke.

[@earlyowlYT]

@@kshitijvids oh, hehe. thanks for clarifying!

[@qwertyTRiG]

​@@earlyowlYT I'm not sure about poetic, but it truly is neat that they hit on the same solution as the Etruscians.

[@discursion]

丫 literally means "branch" or "fork". Gotta love that Chinese pragmatism.

[@epingchris]

And based on that character, ㄚ in bopomofo represents the /a/ sound... (and it just dawned to me that bopomofo was created from Chinese characters much in the same way as the first alphabet was created from hieroglyphs, damn the historical parallel)

[@jeffreyau9751]

@@epingchris similar to hiragana and kanji

[@epingchris]

@Ng John Oh yeah that; though in the variety that I speak (Taiwan) it's pronounced "iā", as in 丫頭 (iātóu) - not that it's really a commonly used character anyway :p (I think you meant Lamma Island 南丫島? To be honest, if I had seen this name for the first time without knowing the pronunciation, I don't know if I would have guessed "iā" based on the hanzi pronunciation that I had learned, or "ā" based on the bopomofo lol)

[@excelvalentino6972]

ע

[@excelvalentino6972]

ץ

[@talkingpuppy4963]

I literally haven’t laughed so hard in 3 years until I heard “so that’s Y...”

[@yuvalne]

Such a great joke

[@kryptoid2568]

waw,great job 😀😀😀 heh? wow more like waw i am pretending that no one is laughing

[@rainbowbun8716]

I actually thought my iPad glitched 😂

[@Ap1hw]

wwww

[@leafyeaveeey]

here's the timestamp: 11:57

[@TheNerdySkier]

⚲, I didn't kno⚲ ⚲hat to expect first ⚲atching this video, but I ⚲as blo⚲n a⚲ay by the research and all the goddamn puns. A⚲esome video dude! Subscribed

[@jiffylou98]

⚲o⚲

[@scrolly9038]

Where do u get that emoji

[@moltenhydrogen2218]

50 subs with no videos by mastering the art of unicode.

[@TheNerdySkier]

Got it through copy and paste my dude

[@mayaithegg]

Made me laugh

[@firebla2e]

W gameplay: “Let’s get this W(win).” W lore:

[@chupetesuazo2815]

Ñ

[@R3t4rdmf]

@@chupetesuazo2815 grande chupete suazo

[@shely_D7vil]

@@chupetesuazo2815 you really told them dude. Now give us french! Give us a *Û* !!

[@dogeball2628]

@@shely_D7vil û ok here you go

[@joshgaming1585]

People say dub now. They don’t say W anymore.

[@crowsfate2535]

I was just ranting to myself about this then I got recomended this video, the algorithm knows my thoughts.

[@purryforn42]

"To grow as a civilisation, we must understand W lore" -William Shakespeare

[@plazolaferreyro3416]

Ñ

[@Jaydeig]

“if there’s a hole there’s a way” -Master Oogway

[@justanobody8010]

he did say that

[@purryforn42]

@@justanobody8010 of course he did

[@bossaurayt3567]

Well mr Shakespeare could spell

[@Monody512]

My biggest gripe with the name "double-U" is that it's the only letter name in the alphabet to be more than one syllable.

[@serglian8558]

Dlu could serve as another name

[@nutmegthefae]

In German it's Y funnily enough as our W us just 'wey' in pronunciation, while our Y is the old 'upsilon' :D

[@chemicalfuzzy]

in French, the letter Y is literally called "greek i". so yeah. no judging

[@speccysquaregolike9629]

What about "elemeno"? That's got a few syllables

[@2350CST]

Speccy SquareGoLike ikr? I think that is the best letter.

[@Reluxthelegend]

For a moment I thought it would be about a conlang called W

[@GibusWearingMann]

To borrow a term from programming, maybe such a language should be called a "esoconlang"

[@stopusingthisavatar56]

@@GibusWearingMann I'd love to see someone create a new programming language and call it that!

[@eden7010]

OMG SAME

[@fluorpotas]

sound inventory consonants ɸ β f v j ɥ w vowels i y u can someone complete it for me?

[@aidenmcubing]

Same

[@mrcherry6314]

My man made a whole 18 min video about a letter Dats some serious dedication 💀

[@bochen1079]

3:50 my mind just squinted a little when he said “JavaScript”

[@RizalBudiLeksono]

ꦮ

[@FiSH-iSH]

indeed.

[@RizalBudiLeksono]

This is Java(nese) script ꧊ꦱꦲꦶꦏꦶꦏꦸꦭꦔꦁꦒꦺꦴ ꦲꦏ꧀ꦱꦫꦗꦮ꧈ꦲꦶꦁꦱꦶꦱ꧀ꦠꦼꦩ꧀ꦱꦿꦶꦮꦼꦢꦫꦶ꧉꧊

[@Tetrisboyz]

@@RizalBudiLeksono yup makes more sense to me than JS

[@FullaEels]

I really just spent 18 minutes watching a video describing the origin of the letter W. Wow. Congrats at keepin me hooked.

[@HealyHQ]

wau

[@tococat6065]

Kolvencia *uuouu

[@schnoz2372]

That pun tho

[@brandonvistan7444]

I watched it on 2x speed.

[@Ardorstorm]

Kolvencia wau

[@kryptico2240]

You might say “why?” Absolute gold.

[@pashamarki1370]

On what must be my 10th rewatch of this video I finally noticed the "Where are they now" section at the end and I'm crying.

[@tomaskapalko6555]

The combination of this thumbnail, this video title and the fact it's 18 minutes without any knowledge of what this channel is about is so weirdly ominous and borderline unnerving it's actually hillarious

[@Calloffish15]

i thought it was just about some sort of win. you know how people spam “w w w w w w” after stuff? i assumed that’s what this was.

[@plazolaferreyro3416]

Pronounce Ñ

[@ytdude2935]

Did you know that there is no W in the Irish language

[@plazolaferreyro3416]

@@ytdude2935 Did you know there is no Ñ in the english language

[@arneshpal7702]

Yup 😂

[@dylancao7131]

Not gonna lie, that Between the Lions throwback to “W Trouble” at the end was so nostalgic.

[@scottyc5116]

Honestly tho

[@plazolaferreyro3416]

Ñ

[@enriquenunez7031]

Ñ

[@Kabanosz058]

Never in my life I would have thought a video about a damn letter would be so interesting that I stopped gaming just to focus in this video, not only this video, others from this channel too.

[@MichaelTurner856]

Ikr

[@Supertimegamingify]

I know, I never imagined I could stop _gaming_ because of some nerd talking about letters. I guess I'm not a real gamer.

[@alexanderboulton2123]

I feel like that has something to do with why the Scots say "fit is it?" instead of "what is it?" I think the thing we can all learn from this is that all vowels and most consonants are basically the same.

[@icarus9981]

wh to pay respects

[@jamiee7367]

wh

[@annaabrams8738]

wh

[@ShrekOwO]

Φ

[@unflexian]

ו

[@ShirubaGin]

w

[@whitedinosaur45]

Egyptians: imma make this weird ass bird that looks like a funny stick be a letter *Millenia of letter development later* 2019: UWU

[@jiffylou98]

o⚲o u⚲u

[@pujeetjha8265]

Underrated comment right there

[@luisamarales6209]

It's supposed to mean a curtain hook. It looks like a birds foot which in turn looks like curtain hook. It's meant to connect things which in Hebrew/Arabic means "and" which connects two ideas in a sentence

[@eveblossomed]

VVVV

[@ros9764]

@@eveblossomed the long-awaited prequel of VVVVV

[@rakirizki6671]

"you might say why?" that's an underrated line

[@hamira1696]

in germany i always felt like the V is so unnessecary, however now i know that we only missuse the W for a different pronunciation of the original V, which is admittedly real necessary in German. all those years of V hatred without knowing it was the OG all along. ill never judge a letter like that again.

[@delcaprascalar1860]

"W" has been the most useful letter for me to walk foward Is great to know it's lore

[@datawave_gd]

Ah, a man of culture I see

[@personontheintergroogles6911]

Everyone else: *uses keywords for views* Vsauce: dord Jan Misali: w The c h o s e n ones

[@tammy-0]

in french "double u" is called "double v" ("double vé") and y is called "greek i" ("i grec")

[@nodezsh]

in spanish it's whatever you feel like [double u (doble u) or double v (doble vé, doble uve)]

[@dvrocha]

@BatJoker more known as "duplo vê" and for y "ípsilon or i grego"

[@epicstimulus282]

Well, yes, ypsilon is an /i:/ sound in greek

[@wodzimierzabramow1544]

This is actually really eye-opening and interesting. The russian letter y is also called игрек ( igrek) and i've never really thought why is this a thing. Turns out the name was probably borrowed from french much like many other root words in Russian.

[@The_Green_Ghost]

In Italian "w" is also called "double v" (Doppia Vu) "y" is called "Ipsilon"

[@aljaslenc]

Amazing linguistics video! It's really interesting to see the modern day names of the letters... in Slovenian, W is called "double V", but also, Y is called "ipsilon" (pronounced eepsilon)!

[@d9zirable]

17:24 Further elaboration: "wwwww" spammed over and over looks like patches of grass, which is why over time "草" (Japanese for grass) is used instead

[@-weiss-7971]

Kusa

[@KhezuOnYourScreen]

@@OtterSou BIG KUSA

[@no_idea0537]

Big kusa

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

*the Chinese Hanzi for grass, Japan copied their writing system from China

[@d9zirable]

@@alphaundpinsel2431 Kanji hanzi, tomato tomato. To discuss this is out of scope for this comment

[@benplus1503]

11:52 “So that’s Y.” I burst out laughing! Every time he breaks the professionalism for a joke like that it gets me rolling.

[@divad5271]

I had to rewind twice to get it I thought my speaker cut out. Physically face palmed when I did. Brilliant

[@joethebrospeedruns]

@@divad5271 lol same here

[@rublie1426]

You are easily entertained

[@madkirk7431]

@John Doe not how that word works

[@Ja_mm]

I can't with this-

[@ea_sports__]

"it's not pronounced wee or wuh" Dutch people: yes, yes it is.

[@mimi-tw4gr]

Weewuh 🚨🚨🚨

[@thaDjMauz]

But in dutch we dont have a logical sound for y, its just greek y in dutch or french :(

[@mariafe7050]

@Grab That Free Stuff EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E E E E E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E E E E E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E EEEEE E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E E E E E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E E E E E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E EEEEE E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E E E E E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE E E E E E EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE

[@KarlaO711]

@@thaDjMauz in German its we (pronounced likebthe ea from bread) and Ypsilon

[@cuteyfox3479]

@@mariafe7050 you made letter E by Es

[@__8120]

"so that's Y..." You clever bastard

[@XxMomoBallxX]

Fun fact: double-you (W) in French is pronounced “double vay” (double V”

[@saamajama]

Dooblah vay

[@panconjasminris]

In Sweden too you say dubbel v

[@jankec]

In croatia you say "duplo v" (double v)

[@BiggMacJames]

In Spanish it’s doobla vay

[@squecly]

Spanish is dobleh veh

[@SukacitaYeremia]

And the Japanese use of w became full circle because when you wanna say you laugh a lot, you write wwwwwwww, which looks like grass, whose japanese kanji character is 草, which is now used as a substitute.

[@edgarallanpoelagusmarjorita]

oh I expected this to be a 5 second shitpost but god it's a great video that taught me a lot!! I love it!!

[@dannydevito4184]

In Dutch w is pronounced /w/ as in 'what' except for when it's at the beginning of a word and is immediately followed up by an r, then it's pronounced as a /v/.

[@falondonahue8457]

Remember everybody the next time you wine, scream, cry and complain about how companies are simplifying their logos remember that the letters of the alphabet have to simplify slowly as time goes on... think about it.

[@HirxiesMusicalThoughts]

Just saw “W” lore. What a night.

[@sambt123]

you might even say, that it was a W night

[@thedorkeytree]

“So that’s Y” killed me dude 😂

[@Cwjespersen]

W

[@8.joella]

W

[@aicy5170]

w

[@Levi-ri4ki]

UU

[@nottaserialkiller7238]

VV

[@InumiDarkness]

In french, "V" is pronouced like "v-ay" while "W" is pronouced like "double v-ay"

[@mysryuza]

My French class blew my mind back in high school 😂

[@ja4309]

Well in Spanish, V is pronounced as "ve" while W is "doble ve" so brothers till the end huh

[@lunedouce18]

@@ja4309 French and Spanish are soooo similar tbh being a francophone helped me learn Spanish easier

[@a.j.sgarage9637]

Dooble vay

[@mariuster]

@@ja4309 It's the same in Romanian. 'Ve' and 'dublu ve'

[@Icyy4406]

I saw this video a month ago and pretty much forgot about it. Then about 2 weeks later I heard about toki pona and decided to learn it (I learned it btw) and used your videos to help, not knowing it was the same guy until just now. Just a weird coincidence I wanted to share

[@daisybrain9423]

*what:* Normal English speaker: *wat* My friend, trying to sound cool: *hwat* Me, an intellectual: *fat*

[@oscarguzman3017]

Pretty good tbh

[@moo8866]

Wait your fat?!

[@daisybrain9423]

​@@moo8866 No, I'm really skinny.

[@moo8866]

@@daisybrain9423 that’s not what I meant

[@daisybrain9423]

@@moo8866 Then fat did you mean?

[@deedee_audie7461]

Me: the title is supposed to be “double-u” Also me: “wuh”

[@FiSH-iSH]

honestly, that’s how it _should_ be.

[@morzathoth919]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who reads the letter W as "wuh"

[@epochthekid]

11:50 I just now noticed Y is called "i griega" in Spanish literally meaning "Greek i." This whole time I just lumped it into one word in my mind and figured it had no real meaning.

[@TakadoGaming]

It’s the same thing in French, and even though I knew that I still felt like a dumbass when I realized it literally was a Greek “i”

[@alessandrocavicchioli7557]

It used to be called that in Italian too, historically. Not currently, tho. Italian has completely lost that letter a long time ago, and now refers to it as "Ipsilon".

[@meta04]

@@alessandrocavicchioli7557 German also has Ypsilon, and often makes the sound /y/ which is better known as that of .

[@krisdoesart9643]

Oh my god

[@jlle5289]

Same goes for Dutch for the y we say Greek y for some reason

[@eddykidplayzyt]

W video

[@thatguysotchi3135]

11:57 god damn it, I thought my connection was lagging and then I got the joke... so bad yet so good.

[@eeli2284]

@@gvonc33 it is

[@Rachel-zm9up]

In French we actually refer to its shape more accurately, literally “double v”

[@sponsoredmessage201]

And this video finally lifted the "igrec" mystery from my French classes. (Though I'd have to watch again to get the whole story straight...)

[@virrig6923]

Swedish too xD

[@Hydraina]

I believe I recall that Spanish also does that

[@FuraFaolox]

a lot of languages tend to do that

[@stabb]

Dubleh veh

[@lightknightgames]

Now France comes out of nowhere with a Haymaker screaming "DOOBLE VAY".

[@louisaaliceyoung927]

y in French is pronounced like ee-greg which is basically Greek i

[@amugglewatchingmugglething6585]

*laughs in Arabic*

[@apollo6662]

Come to think about it, double vé sounds better cuz w looks like double v

[@Silails]

I'm sure it's just because w is two v, but also "double /v/" sounds better and is easier to say than "double /y/", I personnaly think this is because e(prounounced /ə/) and u(pronounced /y/) pronunciations starts the same and it's odd to pronounce them one after the other anyway (my lips hurt ouin)

[@thamyris8953]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6Kuqa14YrqhmNU

[@isadoramuller5590]

In Portuguese 'Y' is said "Ipsilon", and while most people say "Dabliu" for W, my grandma says "Dobre o V" with means "Double V" from her Brazilian-German ancestry. The most interesting fact is that because of globalization and immigration, we have a good bit amount of person names that have K, Y and W, and while they technically are part of the alphabet, there is no Portuguese word that uses them, so a lot of people don't consider they a part of our alphabet. They are only used in names or words or unit measurement symbols that come from other languages, like Whinderson, Kg, Disney, etc..

[@kamota8523]

There are Portuguese words with K, W and Y

[@isadoramuller5590]

@@kamota8523 there are several that were borrowed from other languages. I can't think of any that weren't. Which words do you refer to?

[@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo6414]

​@@kamota8523k maybe the other two i dont really see