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- Ever wonder why we pronounce words differently than we did 100 years ago? Dialect coach Erik Singer breaks down four of the most mind-blowing facts we know about human language.
CORRECTION: The scan shown at 4:44 is an ultrasound image, not an MRI. We regret the error.
Check out more from Erik here: www.eriksinger.com/
Pirahã language footage courtesy of Daniel Everett
MRI recordings courtesy of the Seeing Speech project, University of Glasgow, Xhosa footage courtesy of Khaya Dlanga, & William Henry Egerton Tilley photo courtesy of the Tilley Family
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Erik Singer: Would anyone like to know ab-
World: Yes.
Ha! Love it!
Yep. I would like him to explain everything about anything ever
Exactly
Yes! I clicked the thumbs up before the video even started.
There will never be a time where I don’t want to watch a new Erik Singer video over and over again
when the disembodied female voice said "iɪeɛæaəɑɒɔʌoʊu" I felt that
Ahahah nice one
Hahahahaha
Same
Same though
Legend has it that's the sound you hear as your conciousness leaves your body when you die
Next episode: Erik Singer reads thirst comments...in 17 different accents.
YES
So much want
Omg, yes. I want him to read mine in my Bawlmere (Baltimore) accent. ^_^
trying to find money slot on monitor, please advise
Yes.
Erik Singers shoulders must hurt, single handedly carrying Wired like this.
Christian Vasbinder lol
When you had 999 likes and i switched it over to 1k
HAHAHAHAH
no
Look at those majestic shoulders, though. They can take it 😂.
I appreciate WIRED for paying attention to the fact that somehow his videos just clicked with the masses, we all love him, and continue to make videos with him.
So true
It must really tap into a pervasive curiousity or knowledge gap. We all speak without being able to question these details its lovely that we seek to understand
MOLLYDOLLIGHT Could be both...there’s a revolution on the horizon and I think people are possibly starting to realize the key to a well functioning society is knowledge.
And wow didn’t expect my comment to blow up 😜
$$$
Yess! I’m so happy that they listen to us , I love these so much
Can we please get a video of him doing accents?
YES! I saw him speak with a flawless english and welsh accent in another video very briefly and wanted to hear more ever since.
@@Jennyfisch Which video was this? Was it another Wired video?
@Erin Lee It’s “Why Americans Suck at British Accents” by INSIDER. :)
omg YESSSSS
Yessssssssssssss
since erik's last name is literally singer, a video about how languages or accents change when singing vs speaking would be fire
I second this
I've always wondered about that. A lot of those great old New Wave bands of the 80's were British, but a lot of them masked, whether intentionally or not.
As a New Zealander who just became aware of the fact I sing with a very American accent, this would be very useful 😂
@@petrathorsty3833 Hahaha, this would be a great discussion for Erik. Dude, when I heard Kimbra speak in an interview I was like "SHE'S A NEW ZEALANDER?" xD
A lot of vowel pronunciation in singing isn't usually about air control. Changing how you form a vowel with your mouth can let out a lot, or little, air. It can also make the difference between hitting a note or not if someone is at the high or low end of their range.
The fact that one dude just invented that "old hollywood" accent is crazy to me, I really thought that's how everyone spoke before. Thanks Erik!!!!!!!!
He didn’t invent it, it was the 18th and 19th century London upper class accent (also used by the royals). The “mid-Atlantic” version is when an American speaks it (Stewie griffin is a perfect example). He just promoted its use as a “standard” language for use in radio and then early film (so regional accents didn’t stick out to listeners/watchers).
william f buckley talks like that
Singer has it wrong. Tilly didn’t invent it. So much for the smug “expert”.
That's way I always thought that Cary Grant sounded Australian !! Because the bloke who invented the "Old Hollywood " "movie star" accent was an Australian, it all makes sense now. 😅
Official 80's Classics thank you
WIRED you know we need at least 40 mins of this guy. PAY THE MAN!
nice to be 1000th like
Thanks for all the likes! Y’all the real MVPs, hopefully their social media person relays the message ❤️
I just want him to have his own channel at this point
Oh gawd why doesn't he have his own channel?
@Raul Victor he does have a channel actually. It's more of a promotion for his business so you're right
@Raul Victor Considering how knowledgeable and reliable he is, it makes sense why he'd charge for his lessons.
He does have his own TH-cam channel.
He has a little Twitter account which might be worth following for you :) twitter.com/accentvoiceguy
@Raul Victor don't know if he gets paid or paid that much for these as these videos have made him very popular so it's good promotion
I wonder if he's constantly aware of his own accent when speaking
You can hear him purposefully putting emphasis on things like his T's.
He's definitely either been doing it so long it just happens or he's always aware.
I honestly hear the way I say words now because of Erik Singer
metatronatra you can be sure he is hahahah
I wonder if he's constantly aware of other people's accents. Imagine how many uncomfortable dinner parties he must have attended. Awkward silence has never been more silent.
Yes, linguistics will do that to you
As an American I find it so strange that our "R" is hard for other people, yet I can't roll an r in a Spanish word to save my life.
@Alexis Hickman for YEARS I've struggled with rolling my r's. For my native tongue I went to speech therapy but that taught me one way of saying it but not how to roll it.
You explained it perfectly and it just worked! Thank you! I'll keep practicing with that tip in mind!!
Coincidentally, Brazilian Portuguese (at least in my region) has this same R, guess I was a little bit lucky there lmao
It makes sense now. I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017. My trail name was 'Tatters'. I STRUGGLED to say it properly around other Americans with my Australian accent. I'd say 'taddas', and then immediately have to try to roll the r sound out so it made sense, like taa-dderrrrrrs, and REALLY slow down how i said it.
I'm Spanish native speaker, my very own name starts with a r (initial r sounds more stronger than an r in the middle of a word but less than a double r) and I can't say it quite properly unless paying attention to my tongue. I always had a 'lazy' tongue that did the r more akin to the English one that the proper Spanish one. It was more noticeable when I was a kid. There are people I know that just can say r at all, they used a 'ga' or 'gu' sound that make them appear as they were Frenchs trying to poorly perfom a Spanish r. So don't feel bad about it, it isn't something easy and given to some Spanish speakers either.
Try pronouncing the French _R_ .
Japanese speakers try to say _girl_ , _rhythm_ , _rock 'n' roll_ , and _curry_ into smart phone speech recognition with hilarious results. th-cam.com/video/FOEwO58a_w8/w-d-xo.html
When are we going to get a compilation of Erik Singer nailing 100 different accents?
Just because you know how, dosen't mean you can.
@@22lilbean He has done a few accents himself through the videos including some very uncommon ones so I'm sure he has a decent amount he could showcase in a video.
I need this.
Well like he often says, doing accents is a really difficult thing.
Like I noticed that he got a lot of flack for an english accent he did on one of the episodes but fact of the matter is it's an unfair criticism because what he was doing was both just on the spot and in an attempt to demonstrate a set of characteristics he was pointing out.
He knows quite a lot about all the characteristic sounds of a lot of common languages and accents but it's a difference of being able to identify all those and hit all them correctly and actually prepping enough and basically "breaking in" the accent to actually nail it.
If anything I'm sure given enough prep time he can do a full video in a different accent and make it sound completely natural but I don't think jumping between a bunch of different accents naturally is really an option unless he went for impressions which would defeat the purpose.
@@22lilbean He did a really solid african one at one point. So he's probably fairly credible.
I wouldn't be mad if y'all posted an Erik Singer dialect video EVERY DAY.
In fact, I'm pretty sure thst the world NEEDS an Erik Singer video every day...
Seconded!!! I would love how-to accent videos, like Scottish or Australian.
Yes
Please, yes, the world needs this.
Yes he needs his own channel
someone called him the dialect daddy, and that’s all i call him now lol
me: has taken multiple language and phonetics courses
also me: says wow every time erik says a basic fact about language
Abigail Drake same😂
SLP here. Same.
Now I'm curious what you studied all those language courses for 🤔
Can we have a video of him guessing what people's accents are?
I will add a like to make this 70 likes...... cause im a good person
Edit: but suddenly while typing this comment..... someone just liked.............there are more good people in this world than i thought
Forget it! He will not only tell you, what accent you have, but also that you do it wrong!
He'd get every single one right lol
Yes! I’ve always wanted to know if he would be able to tell what the person’s first language is just based on their accent when speaking English!
SocietyNeedsToCrumble I was literally thinking this exact thing on the same channel and everything! Lol
Y’all KNOW we love this man. Thank you.
@crazymiles14 the only christ i know is my lord n saviour gaga
Eric: "happens all the TIME"
Also Eric : *wheeze*
The end of Wired is when Erik starts his own TH-cam channel.
NERDTINGSS he already has one.
@@chocmilkshake24 SHUT UP LINK OR I DONT BELIEVE YOU WHAT
@@samaraisnt calm down bro: th-cam.com/channels/rl8MHQdaBOogYwf_Tbjfqw.html
You're welcome
Dang. It's a shorter version of his usual episodes. But this will do.
Go back to funhaus or Philly d... Why are you stalking me
but it feels like a bonus since the last episode came out recently
Lol true
Although bigger/longer may be better
It's really more about how well you do with what you got 🤣😉
*PLOT TWIST*
He's actually scottish, he's been doing an accent the whole time...
Not true. It is a simple matter of fact that it is impossible for a scottish man to speak in anything but a scottish accent.
@@cameronturnbow8004 Tell that to David Tennant & James McAvoy
Awesome
Tob1 Kadach1 And John barrowman
@@EngineMashups And Craig Ferguson.
5:48 I’m so impressed that _one_ guy could get everyone to speak the way he wanted. He probably could’ve made “Fetch” happen too 🤷🏼♀️
in time 😂
@@sluaghsidhe8384 So RP.
3:06 - Erik Singer giggling at some linguistic nerd joke.
Press replay in case of depression
Thank you love :')
I was your 69th like but then some eejit took their like back.
😔
its not a nerd lingustic joke is literally just a pun bro
I want this guy to have a million videos talking about language. I'd make the popcorn.
Airing House if this stuff interests you, check out NativLang’s channel. A lot of content to whet your appetite, and you’ll be a lot more well equipped to go into the next Singer vid. He has a great video on the vowel shift and how Shakespearean English is pronounced, actually.
Yes, but how do you SAY popcorn? :)
I want three seasons and a movie
@@choicebarrelscrotes2732 thanks for the suggestion! i'll check it out!
Nah I’ll skip the popcorn. It would get in the way of trying to imitate the sounds.
Two Erik Singer videos in the span of a couple of days? This is a greater gift than we deserve
Seriously. #blessed
My favorite example of the Trans-Atlantic language is when Phoebe on Friends meets Mike's family for the first time. "So, where does everyone summer..." Spot on Katherine Hepburn!
"I say, let's make an accent that both Brits and Yanks will understand, we'll make a million, ra-ta-ta!"
Omg yes and I love Friends
Omg yes I love Katharine Hepburn.
1:24 THEY SHOWED THE MAN WHO TAUGHT ME THE CLICKS OF ISIXHOSA, MY LIFE IS COMPLETE
If this became Erik's personal channel I think everyone would be okay with that
Make it the Erik channel, or honestly bust open something like a Masterclass with 5 commonly used accents. I'd pay for that.
Its what's stopping me subscribing... i don't want the rest of the stuff on my timeline, just these videos.
He does have his own channel. Its called dialect coach erik singer
please use a phase vocoder based stretch process next time shudder
why not use the word phoneme
the Fox true but he hasn’t updated it in 2 years.
That trans-Atlantic accent explanation is something I never knew I wanted but now am so happy I learned.
it's also quite sad and disgusting. accents are the best.
@@jjc5475 Get a grip.
It's basically Received Pronunciation for Americans. (And I'm very surprised he didn't mention received pronunciation, as the parallel is so obvious.) Now I'm wondering if Canadians, Australians, Kiwis, South Africans etc. have their own equivalents of received pronunciation too?
i legit thought it was some long lost american accent
@Costa Rica 411 Teddy Roosevelt wanted the Government Printing Office to use "simplified English"-- "foto" for "photo", "thru" for "through", etc, but Congress wouldn't let him. But Noah Webster created "American English" by simplifying "English English" -- "center" for "centre", "esophagus" for "oesophagus", for example. Spelling is arbitrary. Why not make it easier?
I love this man and I will only accept videos over 20 minutes with him in them
What I really like about the Great Vowel Shift is how not all parts of the UK were affected by it which is the main reason why Southern, Northern and Scottish UK English sound so different
Coming soon: "Accent Expert Just Speaks about How Awesome Linguistics Is In General, and the Audience Listens Completely Entrhralled, becuse This Accent Expert Is Erik Singer".
Yeah just keep him. This dude is great. Have him back as often as possible.
Love how Erik turns into Christopher Walken when he says “devised” just after 6mins.
LOL... actually pausing to find this comment...
Read this comment right when he said it lol, Christopher Walken is dead on
It sounds like the Trans-Atlantic accent is essentially the American version of received pronunciation.
Historically that just makes sense
It totally does! I thought it was a really cool parallel.
i was a member of a mostly british messageboard years ago - and one of them commented on the "posh american" accents heard in the old american movies - ("posh" being a descriptive for received pronunciation or standard English)
yeah pretty much
Great analogy. Broadcasters, radio announcers , etc. also learned a non-regional accent.
Parents with their kids: aw she’s learning to read!
Erik as a parent: aw she’s pronouncing her hard R’s!
V M you got that right
New jersey our her like RRRRRRERawr
I studied linguistics in university and no language nerd looked like this, it's not fair.
Become the hot language nerd you want to see in the world..! 😊
You might have gone to the wrong university I suppose. Tu deve avere andata en la università sbagliata! Acho que vc foi à universidade errada. 🤷
One of my ling professors did, so I paid a lot of attention to his classes, lol.
Would love to see him make more videos! I LOVE learning about “correct speech”.
The laugh after he explained ‘time’ 😍❤️
As a linguistics major I shed tears of joy knowing that so many people love these videos with Erik. Always great to see a fellow language nerd getting the bag 🤘
jomps spread the linguistic love ❤️🤘🏻
Have you always thought you were good at analysing language? Asking since I'm considering to major in linguistic
@@hazelstratum I wouldn't say I was good at analyzing language, but I was constantly fascinated with foreign languages since freshman year of high school. But yeah, linguistics is super cool! The department at U of I is amazing and the classes are (mostly) very interesting. Definitely check out the ling programs at your nearby unis if you're interested in the field :D
Guessing you also watch native lang then? Otherwise go have a look, its fascinating (not a linguistics major what so ever),
as a translation and linguistics master’s degree student, my heart is full
Ok. People at WIRED, you absolutely need to make more of these videos. We all need more Erik Singer in our lives...
I would be really interested if you could ever do something on how indigenous languages effect modern accents. For example, how/if Aboriginal language had an influence on modern day Australian accents.
It's hard to stress just how fascinating a subject this is and how well Singer does to explain the various aspects of it. I could easily watch these for hours, eternal thanks for making them. Also, Erik - beard game is strong.
Erik’s wheeze laugh when he made that reference to “Time” is why I’m here.
I didn't understand why he made it. Please help!
@@AntonAdelson I just watched that, its cause he said "time" lol!
th-cam.com/video/5aXmNle560k/w-d-xo.html&t=185
HitGirl20 omg this is amazing, thank you 👀
@@AntonAdelson In that segment, he talks about how the pronunciation of the word "time" changed over the years, and he repeatedly uses phrases that contain the word "time" in that short segment, e.g. "'Time' over time became to be 'time'".
I really wanna hear him speaking different accents now .
You know he can do them all.
This is so fascinating. I could listen to him talk about languages endlessly.
Finally! Been wondering for years why that accent in older movies but had a hard time finding anything on it.
This guy needs a podcast or something, linguistics through the lens of film and TV is endlessly fascinating and he’s got talent as a presenter and, obviously, as a speaker.
Exactly my thought!
While we wait for that to happen I heartily recommend y'all listen to Lexicon Valley.
jameseglavin4 check out allusionist podcast
I could watch a 10 hour video of him talking about language and still be waiting for part 2.
WIRED: How many Erik Singer videos do you want?
Internet: YES.
Boooooo.
Erik Singer is my favourite person on the internet. I could listen to him talk for hours.
The "r" data shown are not an MRI scan, but an ultrasound scan of the tongue.
Thumbnail: [contains Erik Singer]
Everyone: **CLICK!!!**
He protecc
He attacc
But most inportantly...
THE LANGUAGE DUDE IS BACC
Booooo.
Lol awesome :D
*a snacc
Hey remember when this was funny in 2016?
I know it's random but i really like your profile pic .
Love this guy. Straight to the point, he's not trying to be goofy or over the top. It would be amazing to have him as a teacher .
i love this series! I watch all of the accents and speech videos with this guy. I find it so fascinating
I will pay to have this channel taken over by Erik Singer
PETITION TIME
People in these comments talking about the video topic: 5%
People crushing on the dude in the video: 95%
Well, I mean... look at him. He's so hot 😍
They all sounding like: 0:40
@asdfj asdfjk He looks good but him knowing a lot about language and accents makes him hotter.
@asdfj asdfjk you don't
the Harvard Yard NGL I’m so uncomfortable rn
Love your stuff Mr. Singer. You have such a wealth of knowledge. Thank you.
I honestly just need all the videos with Erik, always
Hit like if you want Erik Singer's own Netflix show!
This can’t be entertaining though 😂
@@alicelu5691 Not everybody finds documentaries interesting, which are essentially the same idea, but they make plenty of those.
“I’m a tongue” -Erik Singer 2019
Erik Singer: "I'm a tongue"
Me: 0:40
😂
The worst R word is “rural”. Being southern in Arkansas, the best I can do is say “rool”
_Rural_ is difficult for many Americans all over, even professional broadcasters.
If you ever serve jury duty, you'd be a rural juror.
Luckily, things that are hard to say, usually disappear. Give it a few more decades and there might be a new word "townly", "grassly" or it might get simpler "roul"
😂 thank you for this comment 😂
For me it's 'brewery'...
These are my very favorite videos to watch on TH-cam. I get so excited when I see that a new one is uploaded 😁
Holy crap, Erik. Start a channel, everything about language and accent is cool af. I that channel by tomorrow, because so.
He does have one th-cam.com/channels/rl8MHQdaBOogYwf_Tbjfqw.html?view_as=public
He has a channel
try John McWhorter, he's not an accent coach, but he is a linguist and does talk about accent some times. Though I've found him less on youtube than on audible. But you can certainly find a number of interviews and talks he's done on the topic.
If my lecturer were him, I would go to every class.
You should say, If my lecturer were "he,"...
GoodLifeMedicine Reading back my previous comment, I think my tone was a bit too harsh. So I’ll end on a brighter note:
It brings me joy to know that you have taken your time to help someone communicate better. But I want to let you know that there’s a more efficient way to help. You can help more people and help them faster by picking the right environment. Places like www.reddit.com/r/Grammar and english.stackexchange.com are chock-full of those actively seeking advice. I assure that you‘ll obtain less bickering and more thanks by redirecting your effort to those websites.
I hope my advice is well received and that it helps you educate others.
Is it because you think he is hot or because he seems like a good teacher? I am a dude, but I get it either way. English is a living language and things change.............things like sleep/slept change into sleep/sleeped over time because we want to create simple rules of speech. English is by FAR the dumbest language.........we write things one way and pronounce them another way. Sadly we can't just come up with new rules and make them the standard. I feel that as time goes on there will be significant changes to American English................and in the near future American English and possibly English over all will change significantly...........(Then again, who knows.................nothing might change and English will remain sTuPiid).
Looks, Brains, and Entertaining.
Him: "I'm a tongue."
Me: "Yes."
This is awesome! Please give us more!
Erik Singer video lengths:
1st: 20m
2nd: 29m
3rd: 24m
4th: 27m
5th: 25m
*6th: 6m*
wth, WIRED
7th and onward: 1h-2h
My dumbass thought you were talking meters smh
@@sappy.3xe That got a real chuckle out of me
digestability
It's almost 7 minutes, though.
as someone who studies languages as a major i appreciate the heck out of these videos along with the translator/interpreter videos~
as someone who just did a test and scored on academic levels for English (while i'm dutch and only need to do high school levels for school) i appreciate the heck out of these videos.
I'm also doing a major in Linguistics and if i ever regret it, i'll just watch Eric to get my faith back in the decisions i make in life
Why is everyone writing "I" as "i"? Has it changed? Am I missing something? I'm not being sarcastic...
@@anandadaquino3604 - They are probably forgetting to press the shift key for uppercase letters. :)
Ananda D'Aquino i reckon it’s merely an aesthetic choice! i prefer to write in all lower caps because i find it looks prettier! but, to be frank, some people are just quite lazy :p
It would be interesting to hear more about why accents change when people move to different countries or spend a lot of time talking to people with different accents.
me to dialect daddy: "so what that tongue do?" 😏
dialect daddy: "we're speaking english, so I got 42-44 distinct moves for you, baby" 😉
OK clearly we all want to attend his lectures.
Would love to see a video on tonal languages like Mandarin or Cantonese, and the role tones play in supposedly non-tonal languages like English or Japanese.
Watch the NativLang channel. It has some good videos about exactly that.
those accent/ language videos are just gold !
i could watch these videos for days on end, this stuff is fascinating
Can this guy just make his own channel already
Centi - He already has one: th-cam.com/channels/rl8MHQdaBOogYwf_Tbjfqw.html
@@Andrea-xs4ny Well, he needs to put videos up so we can learn things.
Literally did a DOUBLE TAKE when this popped up on my list! Like an unexpected gift 🎁 😊
Same, wasn't expecting another one so soon. And as a rule I have to stop everything and watch the video immediatly.
As soon as I finish these videos I need to see another one. Gosh, they are fun and informative
These videos are amazing. Thank you!!
English writing before the vowel shift makes much more sense.
Peasant of Pontus yep. English is riddled with historical spellings.
English really picked up on historical words and other languages and it's a weird mix now
yup. when english pronounciation was corect
Yes at least it makes more sense for me as an Italian, we read vowels like that
@@enomis5257 English is 5 European languages thrown in a blender
How about an episode where Eric breaks down all the accents performed by one actor/actress. Example all the accents done by Gary Oldman.
Oooh! That'd be so cool!
Daniel Day Lewis would be my next pick
Also, Michael sheen and david tennant
Meryl Streep!
It would be a short episode if he did Michael Caine
Seriously, more of Erik please and thank you.
So “Proper English” was created by an Australian, huh yeah nah mate good one.
It was created by upper class Londonders of the 18th century, and codified as standard English by the royalty (turning it into the kings English). Australia being founded in 1788 meant the accent was what “Australian English” was based upon. Australians didn’t invent it though, and in general do a poor job of it...
@@anaussie213 You're mixing up Transatlantic with posh RP
transatlantic is not RP
@@girv98 you're**
petition for erik to make his own channel
⬇
He already has one. He just needs support and a good editor, I think. th-cam.com/channels/rl8MHQdaBOogYwf_Tbjfqw.html
This guy deserves a Netflix or HBO miniseries travelling the world and explaining different accents and languages.
I'd watch.
Here for this 💁🏾♀️
More please. I want to hear all about different languages because it's a super interesting topic for me. Also this dude is kinda eye candy so yeah keep it coming.
Good on ya bringing him back for more videos.
Give this man his own channel and documentary series! I find all of his insights into language so fascinating!
Would be great be he already has a job.
Can you do an entire episode breaking down everything about the transatlantic accent? I’ve been trying to learn it for some time
Dennis Caouki that would be a great video
It's easier to learn if you're English than if you're American
Ooooh. Sooo nice. Ilove this man. Please get him back here more often
I've always wondered about that old time movie accent. Thank you so much for clearing that up :)
Two Erik Singer videos in a week you're spoiling us, Wired.
Clown Town But we ain’t complain’, give us more! 🤪
0:50 *me when I stub my toe on a piece of furniture*
un petit chat OH BOY U MADE ME LAUGH
lmfao
aaaaaaahahaha Jesus same
I choked on my tea
I LOVE these videos, I just really wish there were more visual demonstrations of the tongue position. That one used here was wonderful. More please! Diagrams, etc. More visual elements for such an auditory subject.
Edit: I acknowledge that Erik Singer himself is the best visual element of all of his videos.
I can't get enough of this speech and dialect stuff! It's super fascinating to me.
The great vowel shift, or, that time English sounded like German.
- or Danish. Same base, I guess.
@@DejligeTico To me it sounded like first steps of learning English when i was 10 - basically most of the sounds before vowel shift sounds exactly the way we in Poland say them now.
lol yes I thought this too. I speak german. it makes sense because english is a germanic language
German, English, Danish and the northern european languages have the same ancestor language. They were one language at one point, you could say.
@@Tony-ke2fs That's because English is a language of AngloSaxons which are in fact Germanic tribes. Btw. i remember watching somewhere (i think it was metatron channel on YT) a vid about vowel shift and it kinda explained why it happened. It basically started when Henry VIII was a king and severed his ties with Papacy and basically continental Europe.
Okay beggars can’t be choosers, but...
can we give Erik his chair back?
This one is way too formal
Plus I like a good close up of this handsome man
I honestly can't believe how interesting I find Erik Singers videos. He's very endearing, and classy. I like it.
I NEED MORE OF THIS GUY