w

[@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 😏

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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 😫

[@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

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@creepersam3340]

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

[@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

[@Justshutup098]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@1a2b]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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_

[@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

[@MegaPhester]

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

[@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

[@omoliemi]

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

[@scarlett285]

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

[@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 😂

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@crowsfate2535]

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

[@aislingbones1854]

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

[@animanya394]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@Aflyonthemoon]

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

[@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

[@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"

[@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.

[@stophel_en_blick7612]

late to the party: but in Dutch there is in fact a “triple” u: in medieval times w (uu) was pronounced /w/ this, like in german, shifted to /v~ʋ/, but only in onsets. To indicate the sound /w~u̯/ modern dutch adds an extra ‘u’, giving such beautiful monstrosities as: nieuw (new) leeuw (lion) jouw (your) miauw (meow) etc

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@mrcherry6314]

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

[@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"

[@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

[@rakirizki6671]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@thepersonwhocomentz]

Considering that I've seen Japanese individuals use grass emojis to represent laughter specifically because it resembles "W," does that technically represent a thousands-of-years-long journey of a heiroglyph into another type of pictograph?

[@talvezxolas]

yez.

[@Weebyrruu]

yez.

[@Mournstarr]

Funny 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

[@houssam6249]

yez.

[@sole_thunder7109]

yez

[@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

[@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.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

One of my favorite aspects of English is the remnants of runes, especially "ye" in older English, which we insist on mispronouncing, despite it basically being "the."

[@nathankurtz8045]

Well it's being mispronounced because it's usually written with a y rather than with a þ. Which is no longer a letter in our language so most people still wouldn't know how to pronounce it.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

@@nathankurtz8045 True. It's one of the reasons I like it, because we replace almost everything else with that pronunciation with "th," but somehow don't with that.

[@xFluing]

@@nathankurtz8045 Thorn also looked just like Y, too.

[@nero7469]

@@nathankurtz8045 We should bring back ƿ ȝ þ ð ċ æ ǣ ā ē ī ō ū

[@ninjacell2999]

There is a "ye" word that isn't "the" and was never spelt with a thorn

[@kryptico2240]

You might say “why?” Absolute gold.

[@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.

[@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)!

[@Wiebejamin]

I find it fascinating that f and v with their very similar sounds descended from the same letter, but at entirely different points in time

[@JC_Cali]

And on entirely different parts of the alphabet - which is mind blowing to think the alphabet coulda been organized in any way

[@travisheyoka6333]

@@JC_Cali Check out how Sanskrit is organised. All alphabets should be organised that way imo

[@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

[@timosullivan9099]

"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

[@timosullivan9099]

@@justanobody8010 of course he did

[@bossaurayt3567]

Well mr Shakespeare could spell

[@bigmoestudios]

Give the thumbnail designer a raise

[@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

[@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/.

[@HirxiesMusicalThoughts]

Just saw “W” lore. What a night.

[@sambt123]

you might even say, that it was a W night

[@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

[@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

[@GmNdWtchr96]

Funnily enough, in French, w is pronounced "duubla-vay," as in "double-v."

[@emiil54]

it’s more “ duublu-vé “

[@lukyluk_py]

@@emiil54 yes

[@Carrie2085]

Isn't y "Greek I" in French? ("Y grec" or smth idk lol)

[@lukyluk_py]

@@Carrie2085 oui

[@strange4107]

So is in Spanish. But it makes since romance language are more phoentic and make more sense to Latin then germanic/Nordic languages

[@personontheintergroogles6911]

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

[@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.

[@icarus9981]

wh to pay respects

[@jamiee7367]

wh

[@annaabrams8738]

wh

[@ShrekOwO]

Φ

[@unflexian]

ו

[@ShirubaGin]

w

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

Even funnier to me is that in Japanese, "w" can sometimes be replaced with the kanji 草 meaning "grass". How? 笑 -> w -> wwwww -> "oh the pointy bits look like blades of grass" -> 草 Which means in Japanese you can say "lol" as (w) (www) or (草) and the usage all links back to an odd use-case for w mixed with 笑.

[@TheLegend2T]

Fully grass

[@genybr]

in russian word "grass" is also used for some crazy-funny stuff (name of the grass is "Mareewanna", I bet you can recognize it). Completely different origin of same symbol.

[@dukkha_chan]

@@genybr it's not grass, it's weed))

[@genybr]

@@dukkha_chan here we're have some agressive word control from government. So we're able to use freely almost any conversations, but without some tabued words. So, we're have [roskomnadzor] for case of self life-freenig, [grass] for weed, [situation] for war, etc. This derives from dirty language handling, so it's ok and a limit for form, not for meaning

[@Dexycd]

then why don't you go tuch some wwwww /s

[@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

[@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.

[@ianpriest4431]

I just chugged a monster, realized it’s gonna keep me up all night, watched a video on the letter “thorn” and now this, what the hell

[@gg1k]

next up: reviewing ‘&’ & it’s usage throughout history

[@ferno68]

huh.

[@WyvernRex2099]

E

[@sillyman2]

Thorn is my favourite letter.

[@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'

[@Pinkie2054]

WAIT SO THATS WHY GERMAN PEOPLE HAVE THAT ACCENT THAT PRONOUNCES W’s LIKE V’s??

[@anonymousbloke1]

Same with Russians. Firstly, because learning German was once quite widespread in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Secondly, because there's no /w/ sound in Russian, so for them it sounds more like a V rather than a 'u' (cause both /v/ and /w/ are consonants, unlike /u/ which is a vowel), hence why it's also colloquially known as 'dabl ve' there

[@caprikosero]

Yeah we say V as 'fau' we mostly use it like f believe me i tried to make sense of it but i think they juzt wanted to make it as complicated to learn as possible *german isn't my first language but i grew up in austria where everyone speaks german so i had to learn it at a very young age still don't understand why they overcomplicate everything

[@raiza3363]

In brazil we do that as well, im shocked

[@Weebusaurus]

it's not an "accent" lmao. it's how the language works.

[@Senerski]

in Poland we say "vu" for w, and for v we say "fau"

[@bluerare]

Coming back here after 3 years. This was the video that got me into linguistics. Tysm jan Misali!