Which Letter Is Never Silent?

www.merriam-webster.com/words...

[@Renjiabarailover]

That's how you pronounce forecastle?!

[@Vsauce]

Yep 😁 I also love that a common spelling of it is fo'c's'le

[@ItsHonski]

ive been enlightened

[@sussurus]

The pronunciation stems from it being a long word that needed to be said by a large number of uneducated sailors and communicated quickly. You can, however, pronounce it as you'd expect it to be pronounced and you wouldn't technically be wrong.

[@jctoad]

Nautical terms are really strange. When you had ships sailing around the world and picking up crew members that spoke different languages and each had their own name for things, it was confusing. Often new words were created by mashing up words from different languages. In this case, it seems like English and French. "c. 1400 (mid-14c. as Anglo-French forechasteil), "short raised deck in the fore part of the ship used in warfare," from Middle English fore- "before" + Anglo-French castel "fortified tower" (see castle (n.)). In broader reference to the part of a vessel forward of the fore rigging, late 15c.; hence, generally, "section of a ship where the sailors live" (by 1840). Spelling fo'c'sle reflects sailors' pronunciation. If at the aft part of a ship, it was an afcastle."

[@WailFin]

Sailors, man. Topsail is "tops'l", boatswain is "bosun", bowline is "bo-lin".

[@BINACmini]

Good thing V is never silent, otherwise Vsauce would be yelling "Hey! Sauce! Michael here"

[@MITUK]

That would of been a great intro for this video, I bet he's kicking himself

[@CosPlaywright]

Hey! I need some sauce here!

[@konchu5221]

@@MITUK hahaha truee

[@Gvozd111]

Hey Sauce! Mim heh

[@richardc5100]

That’s the joke…

[@KrishnaTejasVoruganti]

so thats why Vsauce cant be silenced

[@Orangecatty]

U win the comment section 👏

[@withyouxxx]

Lmao

[@ro-ok]

​@@Orangecatty agree

[@coral5523]

Gold

[@augoostery2612]

Worth a like

[@Larree17]

I accidentally watched this with the audio muted and thought the video was intentionally silent

[@kasra4134]

Lmao

[@AyushSingh-be2yi]

"Vsauce Effect"

[@frenchtoast4491]

thats something vsauce would do and I'd just go with it

[@js8qp2pwisos]

My dad and brother watched half of A Quiet Place before they realized it was supposed to have sound lmao

[@cole_cain]

@@js8qp2pwisos took it too seriously

[@eliasujashvili7113]

S in Aisle: 🗿

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

That's why Michael chose "V" for "Vsauce"; it's the most stable, reliable letter in the English alphabet.

[@dabbabyy]

Lol

[@priyanshusonkar5381]

Lol By the way, vsauce is short for 'video game sauce' since he started with that kind of content Edit: Yeah, I forgot that he once said in his video that Vsauce was a randomly generated name. Oh god *face palms*

[@lepperkin]

​@@priyanshusonkar5381 no. It was created by a random name generator.

[@dabbabyy]

@@priyanshusonkar5381 I'm sorry WHAT

[@q404]

Because Michael learns from his mistakes.

[@josephisherelol5302]

I like how the pterodactyl is also a psychic

[@sinistrality]

WHOA that's genius, thanks I would have never noticed that

[@james.lambert]

And the ewe is giving a eulogy

[@RVNmax]

And the Knight is kneeling!

[@SnailSnail-lo4pm]

The aisle wasn't cleaned in aeons.

[@Pixal_Dragon]

@@SnailSnail-lo4pmBritish eon smh

[@CygnusLaboratorys2056]

imagine how the guy making that book must've felt when he tried to look for a word with a silent V

[@cole_cain]

fr

[@DeadSpacedOut]

he was probably feeling like how you feel when you're righting a thousand word essay and you're a few words off but your mind has become mush and you cannot concentrate enough to add ANYTHING to it.

[@DerpyScrub]

the f in fifth is always pronounced lol

[@Testiculitis]

The only person I know that pronounces the second F is my Grandmother, who also pronounces salsa as "Saltsa", and pronounces the t in softener

[@alex88goode]

I was looking for this comment lol wtf. People don't use the 2nd F? 🙃

[@impendio]

Same, I’m so confused. In any case the th is silent.

[@galinneall]

That's what I came here to say too. I've never heard anybody say "fith".

[@theawsomnessdude]

​​@@galinneallclearly you haven't heard Mike Tyson speak.

[@markjrcolin1210]

“V is for five” is honestly an incredibly clever workaround

[@_eIIiot]

can you explain it please?

[@ufukgundogar41]

@@_eIIiot V is 5 in roman numerals.

[@_eIIiot]

@@ufukgundogar41 ohh okay thank u

[@Floofypan]

Oooh that _is_ clever! I didn't even realise

[@SL-vv3xy]

also V is actually kinda silent in five

[@zyaicob]

It was probably unintentional, but the implication of the suggestion that ewe starts with a silent E is that "we" makes the same sound as "you"

[@NXTangl]

Yes, very odd. Clearly it's long E (which is an "i" sound) followed by a u (which makes more sense since w was developed to notate the consonant form of u/v after the shift of "wuh" sounds to "vuh" sounds)

[@whuspr]

ewe make a good point

[@jsbaldo5556]

The books intentions is to be a terrible start for the letter, Not that it's all silent, they just happen to be silent , So Ewe Literrally saying, E IS for U is hilarious, E is for You , it stays in line with the books intentions, it was V sauce who purposed it was all about silence, in reality, the only stand out was V for silence, and all that proves is that the book couldn't find a good word that V would be bad for since it just HAPPENS to always say it's name

[@NXTangl]

Aisle doesn't have a silent A, it has a properly pronounced ai dipthong.

[@gl1tched142]

The fact that half of those words are French just shows how much the French people care

[@TheZapan99]

Ironically, the P in Pterodactyl is pronounced in French.

[@gl1tched142]

@@TheZapan99 they just want to be cool I guess

[@LemonMeIon]

@@TheZapan99 How estupid!

[@zectalyx930]

​@@gl1tched142 well I mean, there's a letter so they pronounce it 😆

[@doyouknowkeplertwentytwob4032]

@@zectalyx930 bro are you good?

[@u238productions]

“Business, marijuana, knife, talk” Something is adding up here

[@successfulusername]

Ya- snitches get stitches. Best remain silent

[@khjrwbhkl]

heeheeheehaw

[@khjrwbhkl]

@@successfulusername and snitches dont get b1tches

[@StrykerEXE]

🤣🤣🤣

[@user-bf2kf1dm4w]

dont forget pneumonia

[@hugobourgon198]

In "aisle" there is the sound "A". Same for Djabouti, there is a "D" sound. English only have letters for what is called a diphtongued vowel and fricative consonant. Those letters actually express two sounds. In "u" there is the sound "ee" and the sound "oo."

[@tedros6917]

I think they count them as silent because if u removed the a from isle it would still be pronounced the same. Same with Djibouti

[@hugobourgon198]

@@tedros6917 Only because the letter "i" is sometimes a diphtongue. Without the sound "a" in "aisle" you would have the "i" sound you can hear the the words "is" and "in." Even though some diphtongues are written with only one letter, they are still two sounds within one syllable.

[@cosmos1487]

​@@hugobourgon198than why is there 'a' sound in island, without "a" in the beginning? as per you island should sound like "is-land"

[@dursty3226]

​@@cosmos1487 well an island *is* land... 😏

[@DeadSpacedOut]

That's not true, everyone i've ever known has pronounced Aisle the same as Isle, despite the latter not having any A at all. Both Aisle and Isle are pronounced the exact same way, at least in America (i'd assume the UK as well) meaning the A is never pronounced in Aisle. Also, S is silent is both Aisle and Isle as well. Come to think of it, the only 2 letters that ARE pronounced in Aisle are I and L, if we're being technical. The best way to think of the English Language imo, is like Fight Club... the only rule is there are no rules. The English Language is just lawless, really.

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

For the one year anniversary, I'll just point out that Vsauce actually pronounced the y in prayer.

[@MountainMan1204]

Bro really just revived “covfefe”

[@ptrkmr]

It never died. It is eternal

[@lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ]

@@ptrkmr *h*

[@ArabForce]

@@lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ *h*

[@iyusony8196]

​@@ArabForce h

[@Sebstian208]

Vsauce brought it back and never explained it to us

[@yuuki2ki691]

“V is for five” has got to be the smartest solution they could’ve made. Literally impressive

[@lilly4617]

I dont get it 😭😂 can you explain?

[@lilly4617]

@@jumblejumbo aaaaah took me a little 😂 thx lol

[@Lillylafrog]

@@lilly4617:o another Lilly! Hiiiii

[@kiruyuu]

A fellow enstarrie, I was not expecting this but we are everywhere

[@kellybraille]

​@@jumblejumbo I.... still don't get it. Yeah, V is five in Roman numbers...,But what does that have to do with this exactly? Do they mean that "v, meaning five, starts with the f sound?" I mean, x doesn't start with the t sound for ten either - I just don't get why its funny?

[@_Checkmate-rz3eq]

"mom what's marijuana?" 💀

[@user-jm5sz3to7q]

💀💀💀 #savechandra

[@PsRohrbaugh]

The reason you're here

[@jzmskzm]

i love how faux pas and rendezvous are used as examples but they are so clearly french words 😂

[@nadhconesmm2150]

They're also English words

[@heatherkuhn6559]

I would argue that "faux pas" isn't a word.... It's two words. "Faux" is used by itself as a synonym for "fake" often in reference to gemstones.

[@jeffjones3145]

well i mean... they're french but english has a lot of words that come from french. That doesnt make them any less a part of the language. Even the word "language" has french origins

[@drnanard9605]

Yeah but it doesn't change much, since they still use silent letters.

[@PlayshotKalo]

A lot of these English words came from French so

[@verynice9814]

Hence the name "Vsauce": Michael refuses to stay silent and actively searches for knowledge to pass down to us

[@JmKrokY]

Yes

[@IgnitionP]

sauce

[@cumber3631]

Pretty sure it was randomly generated but ok

[@domhamai]

Very nice

[@jong7100]

It's sad Vsauce2 and Vsauce3 got left behind because a numbering scheme.

[@Lemon_crochet_frog]

"Business" okay "Marijuana" what

[@drama_queen3010]

Marijuana is a spanish word in which the “j” is pronounced “h” so he’s also wrong

[@Lemon_crochet_frog]

i was talking abt the difference between buisness and Marijuana, tho you are right

[@charadr33murr]

@@drama_queen3010In English “marijuana” doesn’t make an h sound either

[@folx2733]

​@@drama_queen3010 it's pronounced as mari'uana in English so he's not

[@TheAutobotPower]

@@drama_queen3010 except in spanish isn't spelled like that, it's spelled "mariHuana" and "H" in spanish is silent (most of the time). I've no idea where that "J" in english came from.

[@starmc26]

"Boy you are nuts...NVTS nuts" - History of the world

[@themayonnaiseman12]

If you call Vsauce "Sauce", then the V is silent.

[@QuarterLifeCrises]

Can't believe Vsauce finally solved the covfefe mystery!

[@41-Haiku]

"coverage"

[@LinguaPhiliax]

I can't believe his channel gained a following by just calling it "sauce"

[@patrickm1]

@@41-HaikuNo no you see he was actually tweeting an Arabic phrase that means "I will stand up," and it was so intentional that he deleted the tweet 2 minutes later and then denied that he posted it (don't Google what "I will stand up" in Arabic actually is because that's fake news or whatever).

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Vsauce’s farts

[@zapper_345]

​@@p-__ This is the kind of bot we need

[@vincelengyel3683]

From now on we should just call vsauce as ,,sauce’’ so its the only word in english language where v is scilent.

[@FewVidsJustComments]

@donut man Of doesnt have a ve in it, its just that it sounds like a ve at the end

[@DamonDraven]

​@@FewVidsJustComments Naive?

[@OhioStudiosOG]

​@@DamonDraven that's pronounced with the v

[@FewVidsJustComments]

@@DamonDraven Nope, the v is pronounced in that word too

[@DamonDraven]

@@FewVidsJustComments Yeah, but isn't it pronounced as an F, like "naïf"? English isn't my first language though, so I'm not sure.

[@nomasan]

A for Aisle still has an A sound at the beginning... It's the same sound that's used in "Ah" or "Far" Aisle is pronounced: /aɪ̯l/ ... that's pronounced like "ah-eel" ... The english "i" just happens to be phonetically pronounced /aɪ̯/ ... Aisle, Isle, and I'll are all pronounced the same way

[@A._Meroy]

If Aisle and Isle are pronounced the same then it's clearly the A that is silent, since omitting it doesn't change the pronunciation at all...

[@NXTangl]

​@@A._MeroyJust because English did bizarre things to long vowels during the great vowel shift, doesn't mean that dipthongs are incorrect.

[@Red-jl1qr]

The A is redundant. It doesn't need to be there at all to make the same sound. Therefore it's not really doing anything.

[@jgray2718]

To be fair, rendezvous isn't English so much as directly lifted from French, and they'll make _anything_ silent.

[@YoBoyRona]

V stood up for itself to not be silenced, well done V, vhat a fantastic example!

[@irrespondible]

Like the V for Vendetta

[@Gonna-Cry]

Bravo Vince!

[@Luna-xb9zn]

It is why V is for Vendetta

[@devkapadia4796]

Be like V guys.

[@Your_random_babymonster_fan]

My mind instantly went for v(taehyung) from bts

[@Kragatar]

Makes V for Vendetta even more poetic. The one letter that can never be silenced.

[@yamikagevg7841]

Same for Vsauce lol

[@Very.not.gay.at.all.totally]

🌽

[@LuciusLucius]

I love V for Vendetta It got me so fucked up

[@truthseeker7815]

Damn

[@travisdingolaite6184]

@@LuciusLucius such a good movie.

[@sparklespartan935]

You definitely pronounce the Y in prayer!’ 😅😭 I do lol

[@CheffyDXP]

My humour is so trash, I lost it when he says “D for Djabouti”, I heard it like its “Djabooty” 😭

[@kittie594]

DJ Khaled's nemesis

[@themalicous1]

"Please use Djibouti in a sentence" "dayum girl Djibouti is thicc"

[@SaladDongs]

Djibouti is relatively small

[@Dubdsy]

This D is for Djibouti

[@Sunflower_SM64]

I… was thinking the same

[@noobslayer6915]

​@@Dubdsy Lol, nice one 😂

[@trunestor]

make you djibouti a slave trade for me😫

[@jaypaint4855]

“V is for Five” is actually brilliant

[@SPYROSTSABOURIS]

​@Addison-ne2bn, it might be referencing the Roman numeral V

[@Duenschissdoktor]

@@SPYROSTSABOURIS🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@oceanbeach150]

​@@Duenschissdoktor😂😢😮😅

[@gabcats4673]

​@@SPYROSTSABOURISI think you might be right

[@d4rriutz4_0]

@@Addison-ne2bnno, it's not, and five doesn't start with a v either, so that still make it the "worst" alphabet ever, v is in five but it isn't in the beginning

[@melinacat5958]

You CANNOT just break my understanding of english words like that

[@Iterial_Katalina]

Proceeds to us french words

[@cautionhazardous2236]

Vsauce has a talent for making me mildly anxious about something that’s usually non-consequential

[@Byryles]

The music, the tone of voice,,, it truly is an anxious person's worst nightmare

[@Random_UserName4269]

@@Byryles The upclose odd angles on his facial expressions.

[@Ducky69247]

Inconsequential?

[@Sugarglidergirl101]

Definitely the music. I remember having a creepy backrooms-ish dream one time with the music playing down the halls lol

[@thetimebinder]

"Or does he?"

[@Spubbily01]

Covfefe being the legitimate closest we've ever gotten to a silent V is hilarious.

[@afj810]

*Fie* Foe Three Too Won

[@jostensimons]

vraisemblance

[@cinthiarosasromero5239]

Rendezvous /randiou/

[@helloxonsfan]

Don't forget, that's from the same clown who tried to convince us that Thailand is pronounced like the English word for thighs.

[@unstoppablegamer69420]

no at the end of the video it showed five which can be pronounced two ways, faive and fie

[@philosyche]

as a non native english speaker this video is feels like its laughing at my pronunciation

[@dimmydoodles]

This is basically just the song Crazy ABCs from that Barenaked Ladies 2007 album Snacktime

[@inorite4553]

"V" is silent when V knows what's good for it and doesn't want it's knees broken.

[@ROCKYPLAYA]

"Hey V, wanna know how a w is made?"

[@Loading-lg6hs]

lmaoooo

[@thischannel1743]

Cuh-nees

[@link_team3855]

Great news: V doesnt have legs.

[@Whiteblack2527]

Version?

[@CloutmasterPhluphyy]

V is simply just so loud it can't be silenced

[@Stup1d...r]

as i person whose name starts with v, i feel appreciated

[@bunnzy5179]

​@@Stup1d...rsame

[@chih_le]

Double-v

[@Fanbter]

thank you 🥶

[@legacy5gd]

No way GD player

[@juliabuonincontro8617]

I’d argue the y in prayer isn’t silent in all accents, but I’m sure there’s another word where it is silent

[@samurexatlas7373]

>English >Faux Pas >Rendezvous Those are just the French words

[@KernelLeak]

I could have sworn the V in Vsauce was silent...

[@mngbb11]

Then you must be on the (V)sauce

[@andreaspatsalides1914]

You call it Esauce?

[@KernelLeak]

@@andreaspatsalides1914 What vlse?

[@goatsfluff]

@@KernelLeak YVSSSSS XD

[@SakhotGamer]

In literally every video he says "Hey! Vsauce, Michael here" The V was never silent.

[@imrustyokay]

I love how Michael is making bite sized versions of his videos.

[@masterpaine9161]

You the new guy They're called shorts

[@imrustyokay]

@@masterpaine9161 yeah well that name sucks, i call them bite-sized

[@limerumpus3589]

@@masterpaine9161 You can fit your entire fist in your mouth, while I can fit an entire KZbin short into mine. We are not the same.

[@lethabozitha7692]

​@@imrustyokaytrue that

[@WhiskeyNixon]

so you're the kinda person KZbin did this for, eh? these things are garbage and good channels are doing them only to satisfy the KZbin algorithms. It's YT trying to be TikTok, trying to hook the no-attention-span, can't-be-bothered-to-roatate-their-phone kids.

[@imati7319]

A for aisle seems right to my Finnish brain bruh

[@XXXkazeXXX]

yep yep

[@teddycuteface3137]

That's actually one of the *BEST* alphabet books ever

[@mRahman92]

Maybe we should start pretending the V is silent in Vsauce.

[@Leafs432]

lol

[@user-jn7bq8wh1e]

Yup..nice catch! Do u watch Sauce?!

[@jagraj7015]

Undeterred comment

[@billyism]

​@@jagraj7015bros doing meth instead of math

[@nuridenizdurucu1249]

​@@billyism Michael white

[@MichaelWmBruce]

Maybe it's a dialect thing, but I have always pronounced both Fs in "fifth".

[@biggringus5499]

No u r totally right

[@limpydan5850]

"fith" What's a fith?

[@steebie7775]

It's not a dialect thing, you're right, and this dude is wrong. I used to love his videos, but I can't take him seriously anymore.

[@happymack6605]

💯 correct. Do these same people not pronounce the f in twelfth? 🤷🏽‍♀️. I’m from the Northeast US; I’ve never heard anyone not pronounce an f

[@biggringus5499]

@@steebie7775 ??? I mean idk bout taking it that seriously. Language always shifts and complex sounds are simplified. I wouldn't be surprised to discover I had mad the f in fifth silent without thinking about it, it is kind of a tough tongue move.

[@keane4464]

From now on, i'll call vsauce "sauce*

[@MarcinDolkowski]

I actually took a moment to think about what letter it might be and guessed it. I guess Sauce makes me big brain.

[@bryancrain88]

V is never silent because he likes to monologue too much.

[@nubbs4753]

Him and his God damn book of V

[@CourtneyCoulson]

Very verbal, verbose, voluminous verbiage.

[@ash2marie]

A+ comment you caught me so off guard

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Vsauce’s farts

[@freesk8]

Remember, remember the Vth of November...

[@TONY-uk7ps]

"D is for your booty" Man i need to clean my brain

[@davidproduction6245]

AY DJIBOUTI IS A OK COUNTRY

[@Static_Star]

I do too 😶

[@averageracistperson525]

Nah man he meant that shit

[@rattler.stoopeed]

​@@davidproduction6245 dj booty 💀

[@Jw87563]

"I came looking for booty." -a wise man, probably

[@electrophysician]

djibouti got me laughing like mad

[@whattheconhe]

p is for "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" 💀

[@beaver_warrior]

Oddly enough, whenever the letter V is silent in a word it gets dropped completely. "O'er the land of the free" and "ne'er-do-well" are good examples.

[@Vorock16]

That could be a case for it being silently actually. Nothing is stopping us from dropping silents in other words.

[@vyor8837]

... the v isn't silent in either of those two words

[@beaver_warrior]

@@vyor8837 Hate to break it to you but it most certainly is silent.

[@Reulorics]

@@beaver_warrior No lol, those words don't have a silent V. Those words have a spoken v that can sometimes be spoken without it. It's like you wouldn't say "British" has a silent T just because some people pronounce it as "Bri-ish"

[@beaver_warrior]

@@Reulorics You do realize that a letter in a word can be silent in one accent and pronounced in another, right? Some accents pronounce the "h" in "herbs", while others say "erbs"

[@JayEyedWolf]

In fifth grade, I had an argument with a classmate over whether Pterodactyl started with a silent P To settle it, as I walked into the classroom, I asked my teacher to confirm that pterodactyl started with a P. To my everlasting bitterness, she gave me a baffled look and said "no, it obviously starts with T", then waved me on. Naturally my friend took this as a victory. As I said, I am still bitter.

[@LucasDanielSantoro]

This is the saddest story ever encapsulating all authorities that have disappointed us collectively

[@JayEyedWolf]

@@LucasDanielSantoro I'm so glad someone understands my pain. :'(

[@adityarocky]

I need a written apology letter from the teacher as well as an apology video from your friend with tears!

[@HowardBaileyMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKOac4yFmNx2eposi=CYKbL3eThvnKntZ0

[@MagicianStevey]

I’ve never been more angry reading a comment

[@botdfbvb]

This is actually a great way to teach children that there are exceptions to the rule in language.

[@nito8066]

he be telling a whole story

[@mad576wastaken]

The writers really said "we do a bit of trolling"

[@delt19]

Damn...Trump was making history with covfefe and we didn't even know it. Dude was ahead of his time.

[@Zika42]

Truly one of the presidents of all time.

[@ThBlueSalamander]

​@@Zika42 somehow xd

[@johns.8220]

I know many terrific beautiful American-made words, everyone agrees.

[@bosssnurp5912]

@@ThBlueSalamander here before a political argument happens lol

[@nuntius1]

@@bosssnurp5912 lol me too

[@chronosoul1837]

I thought everyone says the word "fifth", with the 2nd f. Because fifth (5th) isn't that much different from saying "fiftieth" (50th). Thinking back on times with I've heard other people saying "fifth", I don't remember anyone saying it as "fith", except for maybe other kids, back in elementary school. Ok, maybe other people are saying it as "fith", but at this point, I feel like I'm just making up memories that don't exist, and can't tell how other people have actually said it.

[@adamcolbertmusic]

I agree, I've always said and heard it with both "f"s. I got to your comment while I was scrolling and scrolling and wondering "are we not going to taLk about how the L is pronounced in the word taLk?" Same with "waLk" or "chaLk", I've never known for them to have a silent letter.

[@wampirek8199]

A is for Aisle is not that bad actually as in most Indoeuropean languages letter A is pronounced Ah, which is the sound starting word Aisle

[@6xXx_Jack_xXx9]

V is very vocal.

[@pontustve1thegoldendragon483]

👍

[@Berzerker17]

@@pontustve1thegoldendragon483 kzbin.infoON63yOtgkvk?feature=shareb

[@mallikadasgupta6308]

👍

[@ddm1912]

👍

[@quantum_psi]

For every second you are not running, Michael gets closer

[@sebbo128]

But Michael only gets half as close as he was before. So does he ever reach you?

[@muel1565]

@@sebbo128 *moonman starts playing*

[@GuitarRaccoon]

Or does he? *dramatic music*

[@OmarHyari2009]

Remember to state your velocity after you hug him and run.

[@communist750]

4:45 50 year and still can do backflips, respect for Corey

[@stevenfagaly3810]

I've never said "fith" nor have I ever heard someone say it that way. I was shocked and came to the comments where I found out people are claiming the second f IS silent! You people are crazy.

[@kiveonn]

"D is for ya booty" - Michael Vsauce

[@grizz865]

djibouti is a country

[@sunilzala3909]

@@grizz865 I got a D for your bootay.

[@assininecomment1630]

*Michael*

[@kiveonn]

@@assininecomment1630 thanks for noticing, can't be having a typo on a comment that's getting this many likes lol

[@gilbertolcx]

💀💀💀

[@johnnye87]

Whoever decided to spell the word "ne'er-do-well" didn't realise the consequences of their actions

[@blondemaverick]

Yooooooooooo! English major here - I'm stealing that word for class covering this! You're a genius! I forgot about ne'er!

[@theanonymousmrgrape5911]

Ne’er, e’er and o’er all follow that convention.

[@MichiganFresh]

This isn't the same as silent, it's a contraction

[@siyacer]

the missing letter is g

[@bobross4616]

I love it tho.

[@pikazuma3592]

the best short video content creator ever

[@marcinkusiak9273]

"Vsauce" becomes "V". The V is so stable, it actually survived and still stands.

[@zantonio1310]

I was expecting "This is the worst alphabet book ever" "OR IS IT??"

[@endertrade4893]

music starts playing

[@edwardczarnecki7052]

"Hey! Vsauce, Micheal here."​@@endertrade4893

[@myonlylooveee]

LOL

[@user-gl4fk8dk9w]

I showed this to my 5 year old (he can read well) and the look of horror when he saw "a is for Aisle"was unforgettable! He declined when I offered to get him the book.

[@ldmtag]

But... A is not silent in [ail]😟😰

[@ekuu8918]

​@@ldmtag In terms of vowels, there is an /a/ in the diphthong /ai/, but the problem is that that diphthong is usually associated with the letter "i" in English. So the word "aisle" is pronounced exactly the same as the word "isle", and most English speakers would see the A as redundant.

[@alosialee]

Can I just say as a parent I would have and did in fact cackle at this. 😂😂😂

[@sskhussaini]

@@alosialee as a non parent, I too cackled like an old lady at this.

[@aparnarai3708]

​@@ekuu8918but isn't aisle pronounced as aile

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

"V is for five" is actually really clever.

[@HeyatleastImnotdrinkingBrian]

I can confirm because I pronounce the number like fie.

[@marshyhard]

that time Vsauce looked like Walter White 💀

[@Ocean-blvd.]

Bros about to activate a super soldier with all these words.

[@sarahdavis3805]

Lolololol

[@MrTeddy12397]

Spiral staircase Rhinoceros beetle Desolation Row Fig tart Rhinoceros beetle Via Dolorosa Rhinoceros beetle Singularity point Giotto Angel Hydrangea Rhinoceros beetle Singularity point Secret emperor

[@astrofield6359]

@@MrTeddy12397 NO

[@naimulislamrumi3028]

I understood that reference

[@Kilovotis]

Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exist, but the ones who do call him the Silent Soldier. He is credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last 50 years.

[@omar9788]

Being half Djiboutian, it feels rather strange but satisfying to see my tiny nation being mentioned.

[@salakast]

Funnily, the book could've also used djinn.

[@extazy9944]

some random ass military power: can we build a base here? djibouti: ¥€$

[@thediaxd3747]

​@@salakast or djent

[@_P2M_]

Don't feel bad. Djibouti is a favorite among 7th grade geography classes. You can always hear a chuckle...

[@anarchistathena]

Do Djiboutians make jokes about living in ja booty? Joking about butts is a universal constant.

[@prisonmike9673]

How about Volkswagen? It's pronounced "Folkswagen". I know it's German, not English. But its a noun. And if that book can pass off Djibouti (also a noun), then I think Volkswagen fits as well. No?

[@urgay1992]

The v isn't silent, it's just pronounced as /f/ in that word.

[@prisonmike9673]

@@urgay1992 Okay so one of the words in that book was 'Ewe' which is pronounced "Yew". Here the first E isn't silent, it's just pronounced as "Ye" in that word. So if Ewe is allowed, why isn't Volkswagen?

[@lynnodonnell4764]

Hahaha LOVE IT!!! I love how complicated English is ❤

[@rattyeely]

The fact that everyone somehow agreed on a way to pronounce Covfefe is hilarious

[@Aceburn5]

I always thought it was pronounced kah-FEEF

[@Goomba456]

Trump actually says the word in a video, it's on the Wikipedia page for covfefe.

[@WanderTheNomad]

I pronounce it coh fee fee

[@bumbleberryshortcake6099]

Tbh i thought it was co-vef-ee

[@foxwhistle]

Coh-Feh-fay. Like Pepe the Frog.

[@andymcpandy2128]

"D is for Djibouti" is my new favourite chat-up line. 😂😂

[@Srikchik]

🤣🤣

[@EpicGammingCrew]

_It’s good to be D_

[@Monkayvr251]

If someone takes over Djibouti, I hope they say, “I GOT DJIBOUTI!”

[@kenzo3344]

Im from Djibouti 😂

[@andymcpandy2128]

@@kenzo3344 I'm not sure how I feel about that 😂

[@firasdarwiche5430]

The author of this book is also a great Musician and goes by Lushlife! Check out his albums Plateau Vision and Ritualize. Really underrated!

[@LIAM_PCK0L]

New word Vlum (Pronounced Lum) use: "Somebody who puts too much work into minor problems." For example: "The vlum made a word so V would be silent in a word."

[@oceanman4166]

YES WE FINALLY HAVE A VOICE CLIP OF VSAUCE SAYING MARIJUANA let the memes commence

[@hwaansswaanh3511]

Que les memes commence 😈

[@asheep7797]

Because you didn't want to use ayahuasca.

[@autisticpseud2655]

Lmao

[@rybread9563]

🤓

[@MrGlobule]

holy band kid

[@TheEmolano]

As a non native speaker those silent letters usually are what get me.

[@demo2823]

Blame the French.

[@brmbkl]

@@demo2823 and the Greek. Mostly the Greek.

[@flyse1858]

i’m a non native speaker but my first language is french… there are still some words that are weirdly pronounced in english

[@hellodolly7989]

English would be a lot easier if we just stayed Germanic lol.

[@sadbravesfan]

I don't think there's any logic to them. In this case you can only know by seeing the word and then just memorizing it.

[@bradenhenry4867]

Some of those words have arguably not silent letters

[@Quacksterthe2nd]

Literally everyone after finishing this short: *"What word has a silent v"*

[@n.alejandror.linares]

Rendezvous is a direct loan from French, wich gets absolutely crazy when it comes to not pronounce letters

[@samyuel.]

same as faux pas but yeah, i think they have more words with at least one silent letter than not

[@JoeyCakes2008]

@@samyuel.same with English, 60% of words have at least 1 silent letter

[@samyuel.]

@@JoeyCakes2008 yeah, wanted to write something like that too but noticed they don't, they just pronounce letters weird so it makes it seem that way. basically none of the words i used in that longer sentence had a silent letter in them.

[@Natural_Power]

The French word for goose is "oie" and is pronounced something like "ua"

[@chillkillisded]

@@Natural_Powerlol i speak french and did you know that rubber in french is ‘caoutchouc’? It’s pronounced ‘cawoochoo’

[@tilmanchan283]

“Business Marijuana knife talk” sounds like what your ‘big brother’ does

[@Candela-100]

💀

[@40hzLMAO]

i can confirm this is what my little sister thinks i do

[@elfishmoss1457]

But the question is, is she right​@@40hzLMAO

[@cart4092]

@@elfishmoss1457lol definitely not dude look at his profile

[@40hzLMAO]

@@elfishmoss1457 without the business part yea pretty much

[@Night_Hawk_475]

EDIT: Voila!! The correct pronunciation is something closer to "wahlah", which I think you could legitimately argue would be pronounced the same if it were written as just "oila" in english, dropping the V entirely. I stand by my statement that Q is the only correct answer and they attempted to separate out part of a digraph/trigraph that shares sounds. you literally pronounced fifth with the second f sound!! I know some people pronounce it "fith" - and yeah yeah language should be descriptive not prescriptive.... but they're still just wrong, lol. Also... does lacquer really count for q? That's like saying the K is silent is "lack" because the 'c' is solely responsible for making the hard-C sound, no? Q was my guess, just because I knew it /always/ is followed by a u, minus a couple foreign words (generally proper nouns, like 'Iraq', which still also keep the same hard sound).

[@Nemisionn]

Voila isn't actually an English word though.

[@Night_Hawk_475]

@@Nemisionn it is though. It's in the dictionary. It's technically a loan-word, which is a word we took straight from another language, but that doesn't make it not an english word. Plenty of common english words were also loan words, like "gift", "lemon", and "patio"

[@echognomecal6742]

*forecastle* the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters. Related to the latter meaning is the phrase "before the mast" which denotes anything related to ordinary sailors, as opposed to a ship's officers.-Wiki

[@TukeTheShark]

Not even Vsauce is silent about this mysterious problem

[@ObtuseWaffle_]

If he were silent it would have just been sauce

[@Greyn9999]

Vsauce: v is never silent My friend who calls him “sauce”:

[@maxweinman03]

Underrated comment 😂

[@blueboy3990]

"white sauce"

[@vanboy_vanboy]

Sauce?

[@sussydogelikesplanes]

hey sauce, mich here

[@gametime4804]

Who is your favourite KZbinr? *Sauce*

[@User_and_atmohd]

If it was silent imagine how funny his intros would be "Hey! Sauce, micheal here."

[@djob131]

I think you could make the argument that the j in marijuna isn’t silent. It’s just not an English word, and is most like Spanish slang. So the j takes an h sound.

[@mrsqueaksrules]

Wait, I've never heard anyone pronounce "fifth" as "fith". Maybe it's a geographic accent thing, but at least here in west coast US, I've always heard "fi-f-th".

[@paulreilly2304]

You are correct. I'm from the east coast. Everyone pronounces the second f.

[@Skysword455]

I’m also from east coast (philadelphia) and i grew up hearing both Fith and Fifth.

[@Skysword455]

like people might say “plead the fith”

[@effbar2400]

Mid wester and say it fith

[@af6462]

I was raised in the midwest and have lived in 6 states and both coasts. In casual speech it's almost always pronounced "fith" in quick casual speech unless you're overly emphasizing the word. Same goes for "twelfth". This is because the "fth" is a very rare combination in English. We do the same to foreign words where sounds may be common there but not in English, like the "tz" in tzatziki, which I've heard pronounced a number of ways like "taziki", but rarely the "official" pronunciation of "tsah-tsee-kee". We're used to a "ts" sound in the middle or end of words but rarely at the beginning. Looping back, the same goes for a "fth" sound because it's so rare in English that people naturally omit the extraneous sound, especially in casual conversation. Hence the "f" being dropped and the word being pronounced as "fith". "Education" isn't a valid excuse here either because language is constantly evolving. The past tense of "dive" prefers "dived" over "dove" outside of North America over the last 50 years. We also don't say "thou" anymore, but I don't see people screaming to the heavens that we're uneducated in doing so. Where do we draw the line of what is "official" English? What's spoken now? 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 years ago? Shakespeare's accent would have been closer to an American accent than a modern RP British accent, despite people thinking that because England originated the language, it would be much more conservative. Quite the opposite, former colonies like America and Australia took the accent of the time, preserved some aspects and took others in a different direction, whereas England continued to morph with regional dialects (influenced by invaders of different origins over the last 1000 years), and today you basically hear a totally different accent if you drive an hour in any direction. Is there any way to determine which one of those is more "correct" than others? Hashtag wasn't a word even 30 years ago, does that make it not a real word? If I said "that's cool", the mutual agreed meaning between speaker and listener is that something is interesting, not start a fight because the original meaning of "cool" would be the opposite of "warm" and that I'm using it wrong.

[@shanshansan]

Vsauce bringing up covfefe is like the critic having a flashback from Ratatouille

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@Riomulen]

Just realized that "uill" is silent

[@Mystery_minder]

For a second I wondered, who's Vsauce before realising I was watching his video 😊

[@bherdilla8102]

how?

[@yetesko]

Yeah I know I can’t believe people actually voted for that guy

[@jurassssicmason1020]

I was not expecting him to bust out the “Marijuana” bro I’m dying here

[@DarkHorseSki]

I've always pronounced the "i" in business. The entymology of the word does come from "busy" and "ness" (state of). And the "i" is a short vowel, not a long or an E as in busy. I had to look it up to see that the default for that is 2 syllables and I would argue it is just that way in common use because people are lazy.