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the history of the letter w
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the song in this video is W Trouble, from Between the Lions [ • Video ]

[@badlydrawnmedievallion6832]

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

[@TimBagels]

I'm uwu

[@ElMondiola]

Ok that was a good one

[@TrillMuzicUSA]

Good one

[@ghaniKSW2]

@@TimBagels quadruple u

[@depufull2]

centuple u

[@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

[@nobreakingthepickle3452]

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

[@nathanwaterser8218]

The man was probably like: "I don't have any idea of how this works but I love it" *proceeds to assign the phonemes of his language to it, making a new script in the process*

[@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

[@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

[@nathanwaterser8218]

So how'd you write "Touch Grass" in Japanese?

[@TaIathar]

@@nathanwaterser8218 Since the meaning of the phrase is "go outside" they would probably write that instead.

[@nathanwaterser8218]

@@TaIathar It's not as iconic as "Touch Grass" though...

[@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"

[@user-it2ob7iy9d]

@@CasualMitosisCollective and

[@kameronkaye]

@@excelvalentino6972 ipa 😏

[@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

[@mrbigdickthefirst1858]

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

[@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?

[@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 :)

[@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

[@Howtard]

Every "wau" sounds progressively more like a sarcastic "wow"

[@thelukesternater]

Howtard Not to mention that the wau symbol looks a lot like F

[@hummingbirdspark3998]

Wau you can really dance

[@thefork4416]

Uau

[@uhChainsaws]

"That's a letter. Wow."

[@sossololpipi9633]

wāw

[@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

[@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

[@dumbsville]

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

[@popsiclelatte092]

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

[@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

[@vojta4413]

In Czech the letter W is called "dvojté vé" (double v), it was originally used to make /v/ sound, but it was replaced by V around 1850s. Today it is only used for writing foreign names

[@creepersam3340]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Aflyonthemoon]

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

[@omoliemi]

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

[@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

[@spungboy]

@@madelinecook8696 Sir this is a wendy’s

[@wren5962]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@TheOGPlatypus]

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

[@aureavita8653]

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

[@1a2b]

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

[@hiimemily]

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

[@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

[@eddykidplayzyt]

W video

[@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.

[@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 😫

[@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

[@iwaru_iopfox]

@@v0689 草

[@2k5dcr]

草

[@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)!

[@xtrabit05]

I remember watching this full a couple months ago best video ive ever watched

[@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

[@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

[@bea95]

I used to watch this channel years ago but never subscribed. Yesterday I thought about it but couldn't remember the name... Tonight this video randomly popped up in my home feed. I'm glad but scared. Subscribed.

[@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

[@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

[@icarus9981]

wh to pay respects

[@jamiee7367]

wh

[@annaabrams8738]

wh

[@shrekuwu259]

Φ

[@unflexian]

ו

[@ShirubaGin]

w

[@nymph1e589]

This was so satisfying to watch thank you!

[@mrcherry6314]

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

[@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

[@ayaanoki]

VVVV

[@ros9764]

@@ayaanoki the long-awaited prequel of VVVVV

[@jamiee7367]

You: UwU Me, an Intellectual: WW

[@enricobianchi4499]

You mean vuuu?

[@wug6175]

Do you mean fvuuvuwuwuwyyuyyfv

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

VvvU?

[@NotSoProishNoob]

Do you mean "Ooo wooo"?

[@sprousprou]

UVW

[@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

[@ZipDoomTide]

bro this actually helped me in typography class thank u sm

[@ChrisLeeW00]

I would like to thank the greeks for making "uwu" possible.

[@kyle-silver]

Excuse me it's spelled "vvvv"

[@kaziro]

Kyle Silver underrated reply

[@zetanull9631]

@@kaziro はい、もちろん WWWWWWW

[@KuraIthys]

Wait, what does that say about the game called 'VVVVVV'?

[@Kadanyix]

@@kyle-silver bitch please, it's YYYY

[@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

[@untitled4579]

With the C video the first video I watched from the channel I like many others thought it was going to be a shit post but after watching it I was almost excited to see this in my FYP

[@bigmoestudio]

Give the thumbnail designer a raise

[@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

[@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!

[@irishjade03]

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

[@KaneYork]

Check out the c-quel y'all

[@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.

[@enriquevega8693]

best video name ever

[@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

[@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

[@geloakagbaby4348]

W

[@dallaStar.]

Right

[@hiimemily]

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

[@blurned4221]

Yuh

[@Erik_Danley]

Wow very cool info. I love learning about the history aspect of things. Oh, this is interesting in regards to pronunciation. So in German, “volkswagen” is pronounced “FolksVagen”. Pretty wild

[@KlamityZoo]

This is my favourite video.

[@MegaPhester]

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

[@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

[@ultimatesentinel]

The song at the end was beautiful

[@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_

[@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

[@theallseeingtoaster5541]

Personally I find it very amusing to watch the video upside down and learn about the letter M

[@Ethyro]

💀

[@valley-artifact]

the "where are they now" was my favorite part

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@__8120]

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

[@otalactea]

AMAZING VIDEO

[@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

[@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

[@Max_Rocket]

i have watched this 7 times in the lst 3 months

[@TheHighSpaceWizard]

This is exactly what I expected when I clicked this video. Subscribed.

[@pricex3]

"W?" - Dumbledore calmly asked

[@Utars]

a man of culture

[@Melecie]

general kenobi! also, why is dumbledore laughing

[@pawffice8236]

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

[@stillhuman6708]

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

[@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

[@user-qg2uk9ji8q]

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

[@koduflower2000]

I can't believe there is a REAL documentation about the letter W. Anyways, nice explanations Jan!

[@davecgriffith]

The humour in this video is top notch.

[@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.

[@BrenzyYT]

KZbin: recommend any thing he’ll watch it

[@MasterKohga90]

I was just expecting a twenty minute video with a picture of a *W*

[@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??

[@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

[@grafvollkorn2800]

in german its called ypsilon like the even older version

[@annabelmb]

honestly i always just thought that it was because some people write the letter as more curved and not pointed but i have to say this is far more interesting

[@Angel1n0]

I learned more here than what I’ve learned at school.

[@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

[@timosullivan9099]

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

[@plazolaferreyro3416]

Ñ

[@Bigpdiddy]

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

[@justanobody8010]

he did say that

[@timosullivan9099]

@@justanobody8010 of course he did

[@bossaurayt3567]

Well mr Shakespeare could spell

[@jbmarianne88]

W: I have the most weirdest name British & Australian Z: am I a joke to u?

[@mercurieslocker]

the letter wow... i'm obsessed

[@e.9874]

as a greek person i cant tell you how much i laughed at "oops all i!" like really we have like 6 i's whats the goddamn point. masculine i's feminine i's... *i* simply do not care

[@maisonadwin2161]

I’m using “I simply do not care” from now on

[@xuly3129]

ούψ! άλλ ί

[@googleimgsearchfirmwaredownloa]

ы haha funne

[@connorconnor2421]

@@googleimgsearchfirmwaredownloa маёнез

[@connorconnor2421]

I thought that was some sorta pun οn υ

[@thesushi1947]

smh not enough lollipop birds in today's alphabet

[@Drogon7102]

Q is a bent lollipop bird. Does that make you feel any better?

[@Shrek_es_mi_pastor]

@@Drogon7102 Yes

[@ferudunatakan]

I can not listen to the video and still get it

[@yeyeyeyeyeyeyyeyey]

people change like the tides of the ocean - My favorite person Dream and best person ever!

[@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

[@PoisonFlower765]

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

[@WindowsDrawer]

​@@CrowdedMinds That makes no sense

[@electricnezumi]

3:51 never not gonna laugh at "the java script"

[@alexwang982]

while (2=2) { printIn( “java should be replaced with python”); if 1=1: print(what language is this) elif 2=2: print(does JavaScript have elif?) else: print(java+python=jython?) }

[@jacobgasser3093]

@@alexwang982 js has else if which is better than elif imo and make sure you dont mix up java and js ;)

[@jacobgasser3093]

I am going to learn "java script" and then ask for help with the language in stack overflow haha

[@olbluelips]

Pi You’ve mixed up your assignment and equality 😤

[@xirensixseo]

i learned both C and python, URAAA

[@sherbertshortkake6649]

People keep only telling half of the Japanese story so here's the actual synapse of "w" in Japanese internet culture. 笑う (warau) is the verb "to laugh" and sometime they'll even just use the kanji as a shorthand to show that someone laughed a little. You'll often see (笑) on its own in stuff like interviews to show one of the speakers chuckled (like writing "Haha" or "Laughs"). Since English is pretty prevalent in Japanese culture, the kool kids started to shorten 笑う (warau) down to just "w". (Not unlike how "haha" was replaced with "LOL" among English internet culture). You can even place multiple w's at the end of your sentences to show the level of laughterwwww Then they took it one step further and re-shortened "wwww" into the kanji for grass 草 (kusa), because the abundance of w's resembled grass. This is like how English internet culture moved from the tacky "LOL" to the more sophisticated "lmao". tl;dr, 笑う (warau) = to laugh 笑 (wara) = laughs; haha wwww = much laughing; LOL; ROFL; lollll 草 (kusa) = grass; lmao

[@SushiElemental]

草!

[@WW-bw3we]

This is a great video

[@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

[@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?