Some Odd Words with ISMO: "The One-derful Won" - Merriam-Webster

[@Chris.Davies]

English is a deeply acquisitive language! It is the kind of language which chases other languages down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets looking for good words it can "borrow".

[@hithere_1967]

Ismo is an absolutely One-derful comedian!

[@adelmuheljic4382]

I think so 2

[@persimonsen8792]

Wun of the best

[@daitos1955]

And why not "cumedian"...ahh English.

[@ferdiwesso6438]

Currently my favourite comedian!Sharp and very clever...

[@Greghouse]

Merriam-Webster feat. Ismo - oh wow, didn't see that coming but I love it!

[@intercitty]

I cant picture a better sponsor for this wun. Excellent collaboration

[@timomastosalo]

I feel like after finding the video like - Well, of course Ismo, who else? :) Not that I did anticipate this.

[@TheSanien]

Netflix should absolutely give him a special so we can see all his jokes and hopefully some new wuns too😅

[@anaabendroth3460]

If Ismo's career as a comedian ever fails (not likely), he'd be a great English teacher!

[@Originalacousticmusic]

This man will be a legendary comic one day !

[@pauldowner1]

Just discovered Ismo.. Pure joy of a comedian who doesn't talk about Brexit/trump/politics...

[@r3leasethekraken]

But he's American...💁🏻‍♂️

[@ruma9687]

@@r3leasethekraken who's american? Ismo at least is finnish, or was it a joke that I missed?

[@sausagefinger12]

@@r3leasethekraken NOOOOO IN blody hell, He is FINNISH

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@r3leasethekraken Ismo is a Finn that just happens to own a home in the United States. His mother tongue is Finnish.

[@pepperkilldevelopment9069]

@@r3leasethekraken what’s your point ….?

[@Jabawongky88]

Ive been using merriam webster for...6 years, now i will use it for ever

[@trainsonplanes709]

Pun is my favourite too :) This was fun! Different, but fun! Glad to see new videos

[@arphykenery9219]

We need more like this!

[@PockASqueeno]

Ismo is a onederful comedian.

[@akirasdad]

I love it!!!! putting fun in words! Ismo is the best.

[@typhoonfpv]

😂 they stole the W from number 1 & put it in number 2, just to confuse everybody 😂😂

[@briantreadwell2206]

He takes the simple, and makes it hilarious . . . Dave Allen was a master at that

[@snehalquest]

You nailed it perfectly. :)

[@J_Lag]

I'm bilingual and growing up I thought like him about the English language lol. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's notices all the irregularities.

[@Nakkiteline]

all finns thinks this way about english 'cos we pronounce all the letters in a word and the word just like it's written so english pronounciation is very weird :D

[@iandawson3171]

Hu's. Hope that's easier for yu.

[@mikanyyssis]

Brilliant!!! Ismo ”the genius” Leikola

[@stefanjr1250]

Each one better than the last, MOAR ISMO

[@VagabondTE]

LOL, I love it. Hopefully if this gets an audience they'll bring back Ask the Editor.

[@MikaHalonen1974]

Obi One Kenobi

[@Tapio86]

0 B 1 🧍O 🐝

[@timomastosalo]

Married to Barbieobi?

[@timomastosalo]

Ompi on ken ompi

[@fabioaconi]

This is great!!! please do more! I teach ESL and this is lots of fun

[@AAJ01]

"who came up with this" hahaha

[@timomastosalo]

This one won.

[@sarcasm-83]

The other one won two

[@timomastosalo]

@@sarcasm-83 Two true

[@MikaHalonen1974]

Eye won this thing is four sure. I one this hole thing bye saying I'm the wiener. Because Ismo knows moore (Roger) than u think.

[@kervasti]

Uh please dont break me.

[@timomastosalo]

@@kervasti Aye woan't brake yoo.

[@dahutful]

Ismo I have been laffing with your comedy all day. Thank you!

[@timomastosalo]

Laughing - there's a silent u. And the gh said like ff, or one(?) f - uh, mm.

[@ataraxigrace822]

@@timomastosalo 😂

[@txmacartist]

He just cracks me up.

[@mnbdysl]

Genius move by Merriam-Webster to recruit this guy.

[@BatTaz19]

Tank ewe Ismo for learning mee to talk proper like wot youse does. Everee day I am getting higher in my languages.

[@tylsimys67]

Yup. Can't escape the fact that Finnish - possibly along with some African - accent is the most UNPLEASANT TO THE EAR in the world. And believe me I wish it wasn't.

[@Bluetaill]

What a one-derful skit!

[@MrT1o9P9i2]

He's brilliant

[@baggieboo7944]

Two just stole one's w. That all

[@PaleGhost69]

This joke had the potential to be top comment. Disappointing it's so far down.

[@timomastosalo]

Or if they were first said closer to how they are written - like German and Swedish do, for example - so then the one stole the two's w :)

[@MikaHalonen1974]

@@timomastosalo In finland it's easy to say every word starting with.... let's say letter K. "Katso, Kutsuin Kissan Katsomaan Kettua". It means "Look, I invited a cat to look the fox". Interesting, Isn't it?

[@MikaHalonen1974]

vaikkakin varmasti osaat suomeakin :D

[@vainovahanieni5340]

That's a poerful image

[@drfix2020]

Ismo is hilarious & so true! Also why is there as S in Island? The list goes on & on! The PH's, GH's, X. etc. The list goes on!.......

[@Corca]

Indeed. And the word "island" gets even more funky when mixed with country "Iceland". Now why the heck Iceland is not written as Island as it sure would be a perfect fit for it when spoken (if all letters are counted/visible). Greetings from the northern oddball country Finland where we speak exactly how we write ^^

[@keithhanley7796]

W - a weapon of math destruction. (Sorry. I'll show myself out now.)

[@maxim9280]

It actually is a funny observaion that the letter "W" appears where it shouldn't and is missing when it would be expected already in such simple English words.

[@fellow7091]

In English headquarter (London, New York) they have to consider seriously what Ismo just said. English is way too complicated language and we need a reformation for simplifying it now. Maybe Ismo is the activist the whole non-american world has long time waited for. 🐎The revolution is needed firstly erasing all the silent letters form english. This is just the beginning! 🤠

[@j-a.s]

A genuine genius!!

[@andreaashburn76]

Hahahahaha 😂 this is fantastic! I love all of your comedy involving the English language 😂😂😂 when I was a child growing up I struggled because it’s all so confusing. I always wondered why the word “OF” wasn’t spelled “UV” 😂 Hilarious 🤣

[@timomastosalo]

Even ov, or ove would be better than the f ending - the off could settle for 'of' :) But, English is a language that mostly shows its history. But the history of (w)one would be interesting, where the w sound came, maybe some effect of the French un, une of old. Scandinavia has en, ein, eins ('ines, ince').

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@timomastosalo It seems that the pronounciation has been "wun" since around 14th century but the spelling has not *yet* been fixed: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/one#Etymology

[@UltraCasualPenguin]

You onedered

[@aliciab6193]

I watch these videos and wonder how I ever learned all this stuff when I was 6 years old...

[@satanihelvetet]

You mean oneder!?

[@timomastosalo]

Children don't question, they just take it how it is, like sponges. But they do squirm in the spelling tests, which English needs.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@timomastosalo Exactly. As a Finn, even children around 8 years old literally LOL when they're told that even adults cannot spell properly in the USA. Here in Finland, the only hard cases are some words such as "sydämessä" (meaning "in your heart") which is often pronounced so that it could also be spelled "sydämmessä" because it's easier to pronounce that way.

[@HistoryPhilologistDude]

@ismo ISMO for president!

[@viljamtheninja]

I urge anyone who finds stuff like this amusing to check out the poem The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité. To give you an idea, this is how it begins: Dearest creature in creation Study English pronunciation I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse I will keep you, Suzy, busy Make your head with heat grow dizzy Tear in eye, your dress will tear So shall I! Oh hear my prayer Just compare heart, beard, and heard Dies and diet, lord and word Sword and sward retain and Britain (Mind the latter, how it’s written.)

[@dunruden9720]

After teaching in an Asian country for ten years, I have often thought how lucky I am to have been born into and brought up with English as my first language. I always felt for the poor students who were trying to learn it.

[@oysteinsoreide4323]

There are some things that is easier to learn as a non native speaker. As a native, then you always learn to speak a word before you learn to spell it. If you always learn both at the same time, then you have a stronger association with the pronunciation and the spelling. So native English speakers will have different problems than foreigners when it comes to spelling.

[@fellow7091]

@@oysteinsoreide4323 how does "pronunciation" differ from "spelling" I supposed them to be same thing..🤔

[@vierdo]

@@fellow7091 Spelling and talking languages is 2 different things. What you write is not how you pronouce it.. SIMPLE as . DELICIOUS. If you never knew the pronounciation of it and just read it, you prolly pronounce it DEL IKI US

[@Ed-ts4bj]

I’ve missed the comedy of Gallagher, but Ismo is great!

[@Brokefootchuck]

Why do we have"w" if we don't use them. 1:06. This dude is a cunning linguist.

[@sapu13]

It comes to him quite naturally. In Finnish language every word is said as it is written. Literally. Just the way he found out "Wun" and "To"

[@TheWolvesCurse]

cunning linguist... i see what you did there. i hate pones though.

[@timomastosalo]

That linguist joke I heard in the 90's - and English isn't even my mother tongue. Oneder how old that joke really is. But sex, if fun, YEAH. Now, what were we talkng about? ...

[@timomastosalo]

I don't know how much I can take w, even that one u is sometimes more than I can handle.

[@MikaHalonen1974]

He's the best. I love his jokes and brains. ... mmm.. I'm not zombie. Just love.. his... brains.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

That's how people actually type in online games. I'm always lost what they actually say. I do it only accidentally, sometimes I notice I accidentally wrote how it it sounds to me. Which is different from correct spelling.

[@peaceforever8755]

Dis iz greit. Ai layk it a lot. Letz all vrite properly.

[@jakholly2]

I literally was slapping my leg with how hard I was laughing

[@andreasfahlen4936]

Just realized that if the ”w” in two was pronounced it would sound like swedish two (två)

[@Traderjoe]

Won One was a racehorse. Won Two was one too. Won One won one race, and Won Two won one too!

[@palatina6626]

Won for was a racehorse tu. But never won one.

[@timomastosalo]

In these one and two there are two w's, but in different use: - one is said, the other Written, in the speech hidden.

[@wprns12]

the title, literally a shoutout to me

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

This joke is simply onederful!!!

[@alberteinsteinthejew]

You’re perfect to be an English teacher

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

With regard to "oneder", you ought to see the Tom Hanks movie "That Thing You Do".

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

The Oh-need-erz 🤣😂

[@Marcocarronda]

The "W" in the word"Two" it's silent, in the word "One",it" .... Invisible ....

[@hugostiglitz6914]

He could have carried on with three and four!😁

[@timomastosalo]

Three is as should be in English - but four is one more headache for the forehead. And don't mix any flour there, that flower won't smell good.

[@DanPavelDoghi]

lovely!

[@arooseafrigha]

Hilarious and too cute :D

[@MikaHalonen1974]

Absolutely. Two cute.

[@xpqr12345]

Question: Why was the 6 nervous? Answer: Because 7 8 9!

[@timomastosalo]

And then 7 8 1 2!

[@FinBoyXD]

@@timomastosalo It should be 7 8 5 2. 6 is scared because the numbers he's next to are either being eaten or are themselves eating other numbers. I would be nervous too.

[@JoshSpiegler]

Ismo needs to be a guest on Sesame Street

[@usmcgrunt3754]

Ismo is THE shit! Just onederful! Maybe he can explain why our nose runs … but our feet smell !! I guarantee you he is the only human with the answer (or “anser”?!? … what’s the W doing there?).

[@jeffrey8885]

Why is the Building called building when it is already built?

[@richieoftampa994]

ISMO stole my job.

[@krishanu-d1k]

Onederful 😂😂

[@yaroslavmiroshnikov]

Oh, so you would be suprised by russian version of number 1. It's - odin [o:din] "один - rus. ver." "robber - Are you alone? some russian - Yep, I'm absolutely odin (wha-ha-ha-ha, welcome to Valhalla, piece of a saatana!) robber - Perkele!"

[@RaffeRider]

But the O is A in pronounce, so it should be "Adin"

[@timomastosalo]

Not [o:din], but [a'din]. And that's not all - there can be odna, odno and was there a plural for it too? Plus the declention: each of them have 6 forms (or partly 5, in some cases).

[@maxim9280]

@@timomastosalo plural is "odni". (like ones).

[@ruma9687]

@@maxim9280 as our yksi (one) and plural yhdet (ones) But that is more about grammar, tons of ways the word is used, depending on the sentence

[@milademjayyy]

*dude you do the same jokes every time in every gig!*

[@McQueenRLZ]

7000 views by finnish people. This has been advertised so much here.

[@MikaHalonen1974]

Thank God!

[@bassoonlim8628]

You are definitely wun comedian I onet to watch

[@jthepickle7]

"Myth" - first usage 1850 quintessence - 'fifth element'

[@XaeeD]

That's because the numbers are from the Dutch language. English absorbed a lot of Dutch words in the past. one = een two = twee You don't pronounce "een" with a w in Dutch, which is why it lacks a "w" in the written form in English. You do, however, pronounce the "w" in "twee", and English still retains the letter, even though it's no longer pronounced. Not sure why the "ee" sound is changed in English. It's been replaced by other vowels. It's not pronounced as "deep", but more like "ae" as in "day". nee = no zee = sea It becomes rather inconsistent. Yankee = Jan Kees (two names, abbreviated forms of Johannes and Cornelius) day = dag So here, the "j" in Dutch becomes "y" in English, while in the case of "day", the "g" becomes a "y" as well. But then ga = go groei = grow groet = greet groen = green grijs = grey koud = cold (compare to the German kalt) woud = woods straat = street dood = dead melk = milk school = school pen = pen shit = shit Honestly, if you're fluent in English, learning Dutch shouldn't be that difficult. There's a huge overlap, especially in old/simple language. De jonge bakker bakt brood in de oude oven= The young baker bakes bread in the old oven It's almost the same language, same syntax, just different pronunciation. Even "bakes" used to be "baketh", right? So you see the connection. Dutch is probably the closest foreign language to English, although English also took a lot from the French language, so English really is a mixture of Germanic and Latin.

[@alexandermckay8594]

If you think Dutch is close, try Frielander. It's English until it's not. Very, very weird and confusing!

[@Kintabl]

English still uses words that are written in the way they were pronounced a long time ago. They never updated the new spelling which would better reflect the current pronunciation of the words. I don't understand English people, they had experts on so many fields but no one give a shit about grammar.

[@pepperkilldevelopment9069]

That’s not true at all , Dutch , English , danish , Norwegian and Swedish languages they all developed from old German . So yes many words have the same roots . So no English didn’t”absorb” Dutch words , they both developed from an ancient language

[@RadicalCaveman]

@@Kintabl Spelling ain't grammar!

[@RadicalCaveman]

@@pepperkilldevelopment9069 You're mostly right -- the languages you name all came from Common Germanic (not German). But English DID absorb quite a few Dutch words, but "one" and "two" are not among them. Those words come straight from Anglo-Saxon. "One" used to be rhyme with "cone" and the "w" in "two" was pronounced.

[@strumdynasty3050]

Eye one two sea mower!

[@fikshun1326]

Looool ONETED... 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@gulzhantursalieva2552]

That's what i think everyday 🤭

[@timomastosalo]

Number One and Number Two were walking at the docks, returning to their ship. Number one had two buns in his pockets, the large ones. He gave one bun to Number Two, and Number One kept the other one. But then he found another one, and yet another one too! So Number one got another one, and he gave two to Number Two too. So Number Two won too!

[@ralphkjb]

“I wonder whatever happened to The Oneders.”

[@Gavriel-og6jv]

I oneT to say Ismo is gr8.

[@danielaldridge5951]

Word Smatter!

[@DOUGLAS55ish]

English is the only language I speak but even as a child , it didn't make sense to me as I learned it.

[@timomastosalo]

It has the most complicated spelling in the world. That's why you have spelling contests for the school kids

[@aidball8845]

Onesie lol

[@ImranMt.]

You could be from any one of the Schengen Treaty countries…or, not. Courtly jests a thoughtly conversation. Another pint for my merry comrades, on me. Argh! Spit…toon. Plink! That’s the stuff between my cheek and gums, indeed. And, thx! for wearing the shirt. Do they come in more colours than white? No bother. No. Don’t do bother. Am on eBay & Amazon before Etsy as we spake, now talk! Why, what do we ever mean? Please accept my slander as compliment, alround. A good show. Definitely!

[@mongoosevsgt]

who took the w!

[@georgecorea7314]

He should do an English course for people. Will be a great way to learn proficiency

[@theaussieninja8176]

112112 1112112 one one was a race horse two one was one two one one won one race two one won one two this is why I love words

[@sarcasm-83]

1 1 was a race horse 2 1 was 1 2. 1 1 1 1 race 2 1 1 1 2. Y D'd I re-wry Tit lie ktat? B cows I 1 Ted 2 O N I'M Board.

[@MikaHalonen1974]

Thats not gonna help me when I call help :D

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Now can we talk about 11 and 12? There's some weird shit happening there. And not just in English, either.

[@timomastosalo]

Maybe the ancient ones counted the palms too, to get the dozen full? Btw. in Finnish, Ismo's language and mine, 11 & 12 are formed as if 'oneteen' & 'twoteen' (lit. oneofsecond, twoofsecond ... nineofsecond).

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@timomastosalo Actually, in Finnish, the 11 and 12 are being formed as if they were "one of second [deci]", "two of second [deci]". Historically 42 used to be pronounced logically as "2 of 5th [deci]" but nowadays is pronounced logically as "four of tens, two". In Finnish, 42 is written as "neljäkymmentäkaksi". And yes, Finnish does have pretty long words sometimes. The older style in Finnish is similar to calling years 1900-1999 as "20th century".

[@hencytjoe]

Why is it like this? It's because English is three languages disguised as just one.

[@timomastosalo]

Norman French + Anglo-Saxon - and what's the third?

[@SAIMRIAZ]

It rhymes with another very famous Urdu word LUN. Try searching the meaning of it. You're gonna love it. 😈😈

[@csabaszucs1688]

However, the first number should be 0 (zero), the second number should be 1 (one), the third 2 (two) and so on ... :)

[@martinjoyful2000]

Adorable Nordic Girls. Just like a Goddess :) My only plan this summer is to fall in love in Northern Europe.

[@CRyan71]

Is this Sesame Street 🤣

[@notwithouttext]

one is pronounced own in alONE and atONE and ONly

[@regaltoilet7247]

What's the definition of objectivity?

[@envermuhtarevic2778]

ISMOOOOO, if you say double you so suppose to see UU NOT W?

[@timomastosalo]

Yes, uu is double you, but w is double you too - in KZbin or elsewhere, of course.

[@elderscrollsswimmer4833]

​@@timomastosalo Though, as you know, in Finnish w is more of a vv than uu; it doesn't really differ from single v either so we have almost dumped it. W just gets to hang out if it's in a name, in an old or pretending-to-be-old text or it's simply not Finnish. Then again, we let Å hang out too, and that one has never been part of Finnish language.

[@viljamtheninja]

@@elderscrollsswimmer4833 A note on W; in Swedish we call it "dubbel v" or "double v" so here it functions I suppose as vv. Although it's pretty much never used in modern language aside from (usually foreign) names such as William. It was often used in older Swedish, though, but usually in places that are now just replaced with v. Weirdly enough it didn't actually have an official place in our alphabet until 2006 I think it was.

[@ruma9687]

@@viljamtheninja huh, live and learn. As a finn I have always just presumed it would be used in swedish quite often. And yes, I suck at swedish, jag talar inte svenska.... and even that was propably a failed attempt :)

[@timomastosalo]

@@viljamtheninja He meant the same dounle v, just shortened it to vv, based on the uu. But i's not doubled as a sound, used pretty much just as in Swedish.

[@caravb5906]

Welsh name Iwan which said as uwon lol

[@10nov80]

the first number is in fact zero!

[@Latexi_LMX]

Also.. W is morelike double V, not a U. Double U, would be like UU, not W. So double V? But brits stll drive a wrong side of the road and measure them with stones and grains of seed, so who are we to question? We euros? Greetings from Europe! Well Brits are soon leaving Europe, maybe they will sail to USA who knows? You still use fahrenheit and pounds and inches. Perfect match!

[@nyyminuolivaara]

It kind of doesn't have the letter " O " either...? " One " is not pronounced " oh-nee" or " Oh-n-i ". It's WAN. Hmmm... 🤔😀

[@timomastosalo]

It's not like wan in English - remember how the English a behaves, wacky as it may sound, but yeah, there was this other option. Just it's more like the verb form won from win is how the number should also be spelled. Google translate gives them the same pronunciation advice.

[@hrbekdesign]

And what about the word BUSINESS

[@MrMedmechanic]

Never knew W was so icked

[@andraslibal]

Wait. Finnish people use their fingers to count like the Americans or did Ismo learn how to count on fingers in the American way? Why not use the thumb if it is there?

[@headphone_]

Magic oneNd

[@manofmartin]

I'm subbing to a dictionary channel... wtf...

[@hey.hombre]

Oneder is also o-neder.