If english sounded like it was spelled

[@MattColbo]

Sorry I didn't post for 3 months guys my mom took my channel away after I didn't clean my room

[@zock_zock9147]

omg

[@finleyrichardson569]

That’s ok Matt glad to have you back

[@birb822]

go wash the dishes so you don't get it taken away again

[@KrasBadan]

rip

[@John73John]

I was afraid Ryan George had killed you

[@anonymousbrother218]

As someone who teaches English to non-native speakers, this is so true.

[@maybach6536]

Yeah my mom was an ESL teacher for 35 years and some of the stuff she told me over the years was nuts. I totally get it, English fucking BLOWS

[@GraveUypo]

@@maybach6536 english has no rules. it's a case-by-case thing. you have to learn words, not the language. it indeed fucking blows.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

That is the fascinating thing about english compared to french: It is so much easier to start, but at some point there is no way but learning each and every word in conversation to learn how it is pronounced, whereas in french it is hard to get to the first self-constructed sentence, but once you know how words are pronounced, there are few words which deviate from that, which allows you to blend in with the natives much easier in a more complicated language. Of course for a german this is both hypothetical, because we end up with our accent ruining it either way.

[@cyan_oxy6734]

@@Schmidtelpunkt As a German you need to proudly beat on your chest while giving people sas about how here everything is pronounced as its written. There are like three rules and off you go.

[@agent-sz2qj]

@@GraveUypo and french is on a whole other level

[@aharonmoyal4905]

the fact that in most skits its just two random people who come upon each other having the interaction is so funny

[@Nehu_22]

Who come upon each other, in the forest, which makes it even funnier

[@electron8262]

As you do

[@DeathnoteBB]

And always have a wholesome interaction and neither get murdered

[@necropresent]

@@DeathnoteBB well, if it's a tomska skit...

[@rat2316]

Nice cog bro

[@Ankerush]

I'm just here wondering how long it took him to get the wrong pronunciations correctly because he said them so smoothly throughout the dialogue...with himself. [Edit] Just thought to rewatch this video, and I come to find my comment has so many likes a year later. Never gotten this many likes on a comment before. Even Mr. Colbo himself liked it. Feels pretty cool. Glad you guys...liked it...

[@shanewex]

That's what he's been doing for the last 3 months. Practicing pronunciation profusely.

[@linkedwinters]

probably one try, he's a professional tongue twister at this point

[@ginge641]

@@linkedwinters Yeah but that's only when he spends time with our mothers.

[@bagpussmacfarlan9008]

Yep, all the way throffout

[@deleted-something]

Ye

[@jayleclerc1759]

The gaslighting ending is brilliant man glad you’re back

[@cody7888]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter Jay Leclerc didn’t say he’s back. What are you talking about?

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@@cody7888 What are you talking to me for? I never said anything.

[@necromice_cream]

you mean gasligggting

[@zperk13]

Gaslighting ending? Gaslighting wasn't even mentioned

[@rraaiin]

@@zperk13 why is my dog in your profile picture? you dont even have a dog

[@loganwortman564]

1:06 a very relatable way to cope with frustration

[@666-d5y]

IKR Outta nowhere

[@mrSargi7]

What does he say ?

[@Cat-lb3eo]

@@mrSargi7 i hear “i’m gonna fucking cum” 💀i need to know what he actually says though..

[@unreal727]

@@mrSargi7 If you don’t understand what he said you’re probably too young to know what it is

[@mrSargi7]

@@unreal727 i know what that means literally, but i fail to find an expression that he would mispronounce and end up saying the thing he ultimately does

[@33niboR]

Imagine Tony being spelt like: Toughkneigh

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

Toeknee

[@Limonsi2o]

*Ptoughkneigh

[@xXJ4FARGAMERXx]

That doesn't work because the k in kn is only silent if it's in the beginning of a word, and if you silence it you're basically admitting that this is a compound word made up of Tough & Kneigh, which means the gh is pronounced like /f/ because we're following English rules. If you want an actual spelling that would actually be pronounced standardly like [townɪj] then you need to spell it like "ptoughkneigh" so that it looks like ptough-kneigh and ptough is clearly pronounced [tow] and not like [tɐf]

[@cherilynsarts8845]

Tonee

[@33niboR]

@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx 🗿

[@TheZer0wtf]

There he is!! The man! the legend! The meme! Great to have you back sir

[@MattColbo]

thank you Indigo, I'd be lying if I said I didn't just feel great joy pressing publish again :)

[@james_crawford]

@@MattColbo These skits are so refreshing matt...keep it up mate

[@fatbgmanbg975]

@@MattColbo next upload, when?? ( jk btw! 😆 💕 )

[@Tekkerue]

That's pronounce mee-mee.

[@prod.german]

I remember when learning English as a kid, I saw the word 'island' and pronounced it IS-LAND, then was disappointed when the teacher corrected me

[@magicmulder]

Funny enough, “Island” (pronounced EES-lund) is what German calls Iceland.

[@AlexiCult]

Actually, that's probably how the word "island" appeared. It IS LAND in a sea.

[@billy-the-butcher]

Don't forget vegetable. I was so mad when we were taught that the -table part isn't pronounced like the furniture

[@fernandobanda5734]

@@AlexiCult That is not true at all, though. The world "island" existed long before and had an S added to resemble other languages (probably Latin or French).

[@Warlord_Megatron]

Pretty sure everyone of us pronounced island wrong the very first time.

[@finleyrichardson569]

The random France joke killed me 😂

[@LincolnDWard]

To be fair, a _lot_ of the issues with English pronunciation have to do with things we've taken from the French over time.

[@smoothjazz2143]

French is the OG of shitty spellings

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

Damn French, sabotaging English one word at a time.

[@slimyduck2140]

@@georgeoldsterd8994 I'd say it's more the English not smart enough to even copy things right -me, a french person Just to be clear I'm joking

[@geegeezlouis86]

My dad blames the state of the English language on the battle of Hastings lol

[@KhoaLe-uc2ny]

Why _have_ you taken it from the French then?

[@Lozoot2]

My favorite example of this is "Ghoti", which is pronounced like "fish". You take: "Gh" from _enou _*_gh_* "o" from _w _*_o_*_ men_ "ti" from _mo _*_ti_*_ on_ English is fun!

[@Mike-rp1zt]

But this word was created to criticize the English pronunciation so it makes sense that ghoti this word is goofy

[@phoenixair11]

What

[@phamminhquan5054]

I like this

[@KyleBrownIsALoser]

If you spell Ghost with: The G in Feign The H in Herb The O in Subpoena The S in Island And The T in Whistle, It will still be Ghost, but every letter will be silent.

[@regularly_priced]

@@KyleBrownIsALoser unless you’re British, in which case, to my understanding, it would just be pronounced “H”

[@MyAmazingUsername]

This video made me a pissicologyst too. Really good job mispronouncing all these words. You're a genius.

[@lechatrelou6393]

At first I though you studied fish

[@MyAmazingUsername]

@@lechatrelou6393 Nono, my brother in Christ, I study the art of pissing, sir.

[@Warlord_Megatron]

@@MyAmazingUsernamelmfao

[@doge9693]

@@MyAmazingUsername Jesus isn't God.

[@bananasmatter1321]

As an English teacher, it would be nice if you could've written the words on the screen, but I'm sharing this in class lol

[@farhanfakhriza6149]

As someone whose native language is totally phonetic i can relate to this. I sometimes wonder who decided for the first time how every English words spelled.

[@CosmicOdeum]

Nobody. English pronunciation is the result of natural language evolution. It happens a few ways: 1: Phonemes get simplified. Some combinations of sounds are hard to say one after another, so they often get turned into a single sound in between. 2: Loanwords. Some words originate in completely different languages, which means they often have different pronunciations. These words also often go through number 1 too. 3: Children make mistakes. Children sometimes mishear phonemes and use similar-sounding but slightly different phonemes instead. This gets worse when numbers 1 and 2 are in play as well. 4: Hypercorrections. People notice inconsistencies in the language caused by earlier points, and try to correct for them, but guess wrong and end up with a completely new pronunciation. 5: Influence from other languages and between dialects. Sometimes people imitate each other, and end up pronouncing a word like a speaker of another language would, or even a different dialect in the same language. For example, the "ough" sound may change in one way in one dialect, and in a different way in another, and then the dialects merge together, and the different dialect variations end up being used in different words. There's probably more ways as well. Hope you found this interesting!

[@EebstertheGreat]

It's called etymological spelling and is very common. All phonetic spellings eventually become etymological over time as pronunciation shifts. Some languages get periodic spelling reforms to let spellings change with pronunciation, but the last partial spelling reform in English was around 500 years ago, and the last significant spelling reform was around the 12th century. So our spelling mostly reflects the way words were pronounced when they were first introduced to the language (except for words from Old English, whose spellings resemble the way they were pronounced in Middle English), not the way they are pronounced today. I don't think English pronunciation has changed that much more than the pronunciation of most other European languages, but our spelling has changed less. But look at 19th century Ukrainian literature for instance, before their latest spelling reform. The spelling didn't match pronunciation at all. English lies somewhere between Serbian, with its largely phonetic spelling, and Tibetan, with its fossilized 8th century spellings.

[@vlazik]

Have you tried French?

[@Sonilotos]

It's all because 80% of the English language is made up by loanwords of different languages

[@mecky1989]

@@Sonilotosmost indonesian words are loandwords but our language is still completely phonetically consistent lol

[@Liggliluff]

Every language has some aspect that makes it hard. Finnish has all its cases, Spanish has its grammatical genders, English has its insane spelling ...

[@bananafreyr3968]

French has all of the spanish problems plus it s non sens for half of the words

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Chinese has THOUSANDS OF CHARACTERS, of which you need to know THREE OR FOUR THOUSAND just to be considered literate.

[@Liggliluff]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter Chinese characters are actually composed of multiple smaller elements put into one square. For example, you can find 女 appear in these characters: 珞㒈㖫㗠 But as far as I know, each individual element carries no real meaning in these combinations, so you'll still have to learn a meaning and pronunciation separate of what it's composed of. It's basically just like how it works in English with the letters. Elements that carries no meaning, put together into a word with meanings and pronunciations you'll have to learn word by word. It's just cranked to the max for Chinese.

[@ihuvvvcuncur2617]

@@Liggliluff does it have a way to read it? Like for japanese each character is pretty much a syllable if i remember correctly.

[@ConcerninglyWiseAlligator]

@@ihuvvvcuncur2617 You are wrong. Unless you are referring to Katakana and Hiragana. Those two writing systems use one character for each syllable or vocals. Or two characters to represent syllables that exist in words the Japanese have adopted, but that do not exist natively in Japanese. Now, Kanji, the 3rd writing system japanese uses, works exactly like Chinese. Characters correspond to a thing or a concept. So their pronunciation depends entirely on context and can have many syllables. For example, 日, the character for Sun, is pronounced hi when referring to the noun Day. But it's pronounced nichi in 日曜 which refers to the days of the week.

[@9ipalvin858]

I love how when he is angry he speaks near perfect english

[@danielkim3525]

i could feel the malicious intent oozing out of that French joke 💀

[@Violet-do1nx]

As someone who had to learn english as a second language this just proves that english needs furigana at all times

[@elinakangas571]

What is furigana? :)

[@PedroSilva-ie1ov]

@@elinakangas571 moon runes

[@elinakangas571]

@@PedroSilva-ie1ov and what are moon runes?

[@PedroSilva-ie1ov]

@@elinakangas571 Derogatory term referring to Japanese or any asian language in general. Furigana, in this case, is a "subtitle" for Japanese Kanji characters showing its pronunciation, much like the IPA. English would benefit from it quite much, since its orthography is very irregular, as shown in the video. Like, the word "thought", its furigana would be /θɔt/.

[@GlodelaniaChannel]

@@elinakangas571 It's the thing you see above the lyrics of an anime song.

[@chamansw]

As someone who's always hated the weird spellings & their pronounciations, This is so satisfying to watch

[@staslk2819]

I am Russian and I can confirm that every English lesson is like that.

[@Golololololo]

As an English learner, this is how I pronounce words when I have a writing exam

[@NFSl0]

So English speakers also pronounce words as they are written! At least like that.

[@inkless533]

I know, right Words like Wednesday and Island

[@eier5472]

I like how _Prague_ needs a silent U *and* E, because _prag_ would be /præg/, lengthening it with an E would /preɪdʒ/ because the Romance influence on C and G pronunciation, and that's why there must be a silent U so the silent E doesn't change the pronunciation of the original G and make /prɑːg/. Sam goes for _morgue_ which could also just be spelled _morg_ and nothing would change.

[@nate_storm]

why not just Prog

[@eier5472]

@@nate_storm Because that's [prɔg] in some dialects. AE is literally the only major language that mistakes an O for an A

[@MasonGreenWeed]

Why not just use Praha?

[@cheekysod3123]

Prague doesn’t need a silent u and e. It doesn’t have to be pronounced like “prog” english just took the French spelling of this city and butchered that pronunciation. In czech it’s literally Praha and in my language it’s Prag which is pronounced like “Prau” if it was German spelling

[@xXJ4FARGAMERXx]

Wait Prague is _not_ pronounced /pɹejg/??? Then what about the popular "political" channel PragerU, isn't that pronounced /pɹejgəɹ//jʊw/?

[@samgyeopsal569]

2:23 when you remember that 60% of English vocabulary comes from Latin and French

[@treeaboo]

True, but that's mostly for technical words or compound word nouns for objects that have been invented, whose names were purposefully derived from Latin, rather than being loan words. English has an unusually large vocabulary, but most of its regularly used words are still Germanic. The top 100 words used in the English language are from Old English (West Germanic) in origin, except for 2 (because and people).

[@wrightexe1]

Thought this was gonna be a cut and paste satirical commentary on the inconsistencies of English but I was very pleasantly surprised. Perfection.

[@gumbosupreme]

Great skit as usual, Matthew

[@jamesq279]

I'm legit gonna show this to my English professor

[@Sovic91]

How did it go?

[@fantasticbirdblue]

DO. IT.

[@Imertdane]

It’s teacher

[@DanNguyen-oc3xr]

This video needs captions for the "wrong" and the "right" hahha

[@6.28]

actually, "hiccough" is a hypercorrect spelling. the proper spelling is "hiccup", then "hiccough" came after because some people figured "a hiccup is like a cough" + "ough has a lot of pronunciations" = "hiccup is probably a misspelling of hiccough", but it's not

[@smoothjazz2143]

language myth that people made up to correct others and act like a smartass

[@kala_asi]

yay, someone in this comment section actually trying to educate others!

[@AlexiCult]

Dang, as a non-native speaker, I had hard time understanding what those words actually were when Chris was saying them.

[@matthewhowenbrink1770]

My first time seeing "seconds ago" on the KZbin front page. Nice

[@goofy23._.....]

"what are you, a pisseyecholojist?"

[@calvinbouroughproductions8321]

Wait until he learns French

[@Kannpass]

This is actually very organically put together. Nice.

[@oosha2000]

As a non-native English student who has been learning English for more than 10 years, I find this accurate. Sure learning English can be challenging especially when it comes to spelling vs pronunciation but it doesn't necessarily mean it's difficult, following the correct learning approach is a key. Spelling shouldn't be a big deal but when it comes to accents or dialects depending on the region, it can be pretty intimidating as you have to change the accent and the way you pronounce something otherwise people may stare from Hindi English accent to Pakistani English accent and so on. My dad is good at speaking English but he has hard time dealing with the English accents no matter who he's talking to.

[@charlessiegfriedlevy6973]

as an person who learn English this video makes me laugh sarcastically with tears in my eyes

[@Piggyboy37]

im glad in my language everything is said how its spelled so you dont need to think about complicated things like silencing certain letters

[@miewwcubing2570]

its probably not

[@Piggyboy37]

@@miewwcubing2570 its Slovakian. you can check if you dont believe

[@bruhmoment3478]

@@miewwcubing2570 Literally can confirm even tho I don't know Slovakian but I'm Polish and we say things they way it's spelled and always the same and I know Slovakian is similar to Polish so he's saying the truth. Still cannot imagine why the guys who made the English language thought to pronounce every word differently

[@Kamtar34]

​@@bruhmoment3478 nobody made it. There used to be letters for all the different sounds and at one point english was phonetic language. But there wasn't any attempt at keeping the spelling consistent with how people pronounce stuff (and due to english spreading all around the world it become impossible) so it just drifted too far away and people gave up.

[@Kamtar34]

​@@bruhmoment3478 For slovak your ministry of culture actually regulates slovak and changes the language based on how people pronounce it and use it. There wasn't any such authority for english and that's why it ended up how it ended up. (+ I think that slovak was actually codified around 18-19th century?) so its codification is kinda youg.

[@alvise450]

"How many mistakes?" "Five. At least"

[@Gabrielgrassmayr]

2:12 got me dead😂

[@dalemcleod3439]

Voiceless uvular fricative: What am I, a joke to you ?

[@PY11235]

Best punchline ever. I love the 'english pronunciation is weird ' skits. just amazing how you managed to put a twist on it I've never seen.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

That's just two native English speakers from two different timelines meeting.

[@justthomas2488]

Glad you and ur buddy is back in the woods having good ol conversations

[@marcelosantos5683]

Having captions for this would be awesome

[@rwnmrr]

this is just expanding your vocabulary by reading, but never hearing the words said out loud 😭

[@nothanks9174]

I love how your pronunciation of breath wasn’t correct regardless of whether you were trying to say breath or breathe lol

[@shivia118]

As a non-English person, this is relatable, yet confusing at the same time.

[@gamersplanet8053]

1:07 whats he gonna do?

[@РоманДубровин-л9м]

English writing rules are the messiest. You definitely can not predict how words are spoken until you hear them from a native speaker. Floor, blood, bloom. You change just one letter in the word and it changes it completely.

[@santiagomoralesgarcia1802]

Pronunciation word in english is hell, for example, the rules say double "oo" in a word sounds like a long "u", but you have words like "door" and "blood"

[@h4egeum]

as non-native english speaker, this is accurate.

[@Me-wx1mt]

"I'm home from work today because I am kooging"

[@md.zimamahmed9584]

I am more astonished by why Chris didn't assert he is the one who is pronouncing the words correctly

[@umbrellacorp.]

The yellow shirt dude accidentally summoned the devil by pronouncing the words wrong. 😑

[@mouseyender]

English used to be pronounced how it was spelled, but since the pronunciation has changed no one has bothered to change the spelling

[@fantasticbirdblue]

That explains everything

[@NFSl0]

Similar with French.

[@so_dumbshu]

how many mistakes? -five...atleast this got me rolling 😂

[@xXJAng3lXxx]

I feel like I gotta watch these videos like three times to even attempt to catch most of the jokes

[@FishinaBirdcage]

Nice work Matt and Chris! hilarious.

[@wilcdav]

Unparalleled punchline well done

[@Spxrk0300]

“i’m home from work today, because I am cooging.”

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

Kids who ask these questions are potential linguistic geniuses. It's only the grind of life that kills curiosity in some of them and they grow up to be dum. Never let your curiosity die, never let children's curiosity die

[@naonzz5942]

That's what happened when I tried to speak to native English speaker

[@semmu93]

this just became an instant classic next to "What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?"

[@fantasticbirdblue]

I was born into the English language and I STILL have trouble spelling, in kindergarten and first grade my teacher was always like "oh just sound out the words" no no THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS YOU DUMB DUMMY!

[@AdemolaVictorTv]

Tis his outstand din

[@ToshMatsum]

Matt! 🤝

[@Boba_Fett_Bounty_Hunter]

1:45 Y: "how many mistakes?" R: "1" Y: "oh ok not that bad" R: "sentence. Was that simlish?"

[@ZpeedTube]

I imagine it would be something like this for someone that has been deaf their whole life and suddenly was able to hear. 🙈

[@KaiCyreus]

when you have to build an entire three minute joke around that one hell of a punchline you thought of

[@GrzegorzSobkowicz]

Image what he would think of pronunciation of "Sean".

[@Mamasprincess-i9s]

Cooking rolling on the floor laughing 😂😂😂

[@AndrewPonti]

It is a coincidence that both Matt AND Julie Nolke come out with English pronunciation videos on the same day? ALSO both Canadian??? Conspiracy???

[@worldeater2414]

Canadian conspiracy hours

[@wj35651]

"I guies I am guiety as kar-get." Not my first language, and took me a second, but this is oura-geously fawnny, Matthew my friend keep it up!

[@Slaydrik]

english _is_ my first language and I still don't know what that sentence is

[@izzaazzurri]

This is why im glad that im born in a mostly phonetic language country. (Eventhough learning English is mandatory and it sure make me confused af)

[@robertolanzone]

Well, it's the other way around. Now learning English is hard, while if you were born someplace where English was the first language, you'd know it first and could learn easier languages now 🤔

[@regularly_priced]

*even though It’s two words

[@Warlord_Megatron]

@@robertolanzone it isn't really hard. U just need two things: Grip over grammar and day to day sentences with a little exposure to new words overtime. English isn't my first language either and the aforementioned things helped me a lot in learning English.

[@Chestyfriend]

English is pretty difficult, it can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

[@fabianatrindade56]

What word did he mean when he said fisting? 🤣 We need subtitles asap.

[@TwoThousandStu]

Fighting I believe.

[@ManuelRiccobono]

The french joke was so unexpected it crached me

[@NotRyan.]

0:44 what fisting is supposed to be something else?👀

[@FelixEA]

i don't get it either

[@Slaydrik]

fighting? maybe

[@SUPERELIASK]

Italian: It's time to introduce myself (In Italian it is written practically as it is read. Probably like most Romance languages, I don't know)

[@Inspirator_AG112]

As a native English speaker, I can say Italian spelling and Spanish spelling are way easier.

[@francoisdaureville323]

But grammar is way harder and my langauge french has both problems insane grammar and hard spelling

[@Inspirator_AG112]

@@francoisdaureville323: French doesn't necessarily have a spelling problem of consistency, but instead, an exhaustive amount of rules.

[@francoisdaureville323]

@@Inspirator_AG112 spelling because a lot of words arent pronounce the way they are written

[@Inspirator_AG112]

@@francoisdaureville323 : I am mainly referring to [oi] being /wa/ and the silent letters at the end.

[@Just_A_Banana]

​@@Inspirator_AG112like -ent not being pronounced? It confused the hell out of me when I found out about it

[@Ben-rz9cf]

I love how all of matts videos start with 2 random people just coming out of the forest at the same time and saying hey whats up

[@annetbraet7255]

When I started learning English I was so confused about the pronounciation of words like: are, make, done. Because why is there an e if you don’t pronounce it?

[@kala_asi]

Languages are not static. Every generation speaks slightly differently than the previous. These changes accumulate, and over many hundreds of years become very noticeable meanwhile, spelling doesn't change as much - because change has to be done explicitly, not subtly like in speech. So English is using spelling that (for the most part) made sense around 500 years ago. For the -e, it used to be pronounced like a short, unstressed vowel at the end of a word (linguists call such a vowel schwa), but eventually got lost in pronunciation. But no one changed the spelling.

[@treeaboo]

Often words that have silent letters, especially at the ends of words, indicate how other letters are pronounced. This is especially common with e, but is also the case with colour/honour/valour, which is why American English dropping the u makes very little sense.

[@Fanro3]

I like how he looks at his fist when fisting passes by

[@gobelin1807]

As a non english guy, I can tell that this video can't be more true Edit: as a french guy, the joke at 2:15 very hurts :'(

[@hishamalaker491]

I was neutral but when i knew your french i just had to dislike.

[@gobelin1807]

@@hishamalaker491 lmao everybody hates us

[@TheAmericanCatholic]

@@gobelin1807 I’m American and I don’t :) France help us with independence,literally allowed my country to be formed and I’m grateful!

[@samgyeopsal569]

It’s ok, 60% of words in English come from Latin and French

[@PotatoToon]

@@TheAmericanCatholic Don't forget that the statue of liberty is a gift from France as well. But it seems like it is not what is taught in school. The France of 80 years ago is completely different and it's a superpower now, also nobody could do anything against the blitz attack. Nobody is talking about Denmark surrendering in 6 hours in fact France was actually the fallen country that lasted the longest.

[@GretgorPooper]

I don't know what the "fisting" one was supposed to be. I have the dumb.

[@luxeproultimate360]

Holy moly, gaslighting AND the French? Two unfortunate topics in one video

[@theaidanator]

It’s not even a ‘thanks for watching’ at the end, it’s just ‘thanks’ in general. You’re welcome Matt

[@zebybez]

I need a list of all mispronounced words because i'm trying to follow the dialog and am lost in the sauce.

[@jeancarlocastro7455]

So glad you are back! Spend three months refreshing non-stop until this video appeared! Best 3 minutes of the quarter. Anyhow, now I can start looking for a job again. Thanks Matt :)

[@waifyandrogyne]

Between this and Julie Nolke’s latest video, if I had a nickel for every time a Canadian KZbinr posted a video about the inconsistencies of English language sounds, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. Julie’s vid - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIWuhKOnYqp3rpI

[@calscaddy]

In the span of 5 hours no less

[@notme222]

Someone call Ryan George and tell him what he has to do now.

[@davidnabbit]

I just watched this after Julie’s video.

[@eaterdrinker000]

Which one of them looks best in makeup?

[@LalitoTV]

No amount of "ough" nonsense is as PREPOSTEROUS as the P in cupboard being silent, I'm still having nightmares about it

[@taechuK]

Wait it is?

[@Millstone1985]

Wait, what? ... Oh wow, it gets worse. "Kuh bird", seriously? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIu7nZxqh7x7hLs

[@tadee_angh]

Absolutely loved it! Clean your room so we can get these videos more often please

[@theo_is_drawing4974]

You Have Some Kind Of Talent

[@mrraimundo130]

Look who's back! Feels like I've seen this forest spot before when adult Red and the Wolf had thah conversation (my 2nd favourite video from you).

[@LeeFav.]

This is so true since English my 3rd language

[@uriasbrian]

...what was fisting SUPPOSED to be? 😂

[@gljames24]

This is why I support spelling reform from -ough to -o, -u, -off, -uff, etc. This does mean we have to change 'do' to 'due' for consistency, but that is a pretty fair trade off as we already reformed doughnut into donut in the same way.

[@treeaboo]

Changing 'do' to 'due' wouldn't make any sense, as they are not pronounced the same (at least not in most accents and dialects of English both British, American, and others). Also "donut" is the American English spelling and doesn't make etymological sense as a doughnut is made from a 'nut' of 'dough'. An interesting titbit, 'duff' was a real pronunciation and spelling for 'dough' in some places, it only (almost) fell out of complete use around the 1500s during spelling reforms and attempts to standardise the language's spelling, which is part of where so many '-ough' words come from, yet their regional pronunciations stayed the same in many cases, eventually each finding their way into the 'standard' version of the language once people were able to easily transit around the country and to the major cities, bringing their regional accents with them until they got adopted piecemeal. There are still dialects and accents that pronounce certain '-ough' words different from Standard English, changing the spelling is only going to make it more messy.

[@Sabagegah]

Begone, THOUGHT!

[@melk2950]

KZbin algorithm hates you now, I watch every video as soon as it comes out normally and the algorithm still took 10 days to tell me this one existed.

[@Kazuyuki33]

This is the audio-visual representation of if present me had a conversation with early 2020 me in english

[@Lampe2020]

This confusingness is probably caused by the origin of thye English language, it's a wild mixture of many languages.