Ohmygod, Stephen saying that Dan has the keys to the channel, so if this came out it was because of him. Bless you, Dan, for sharing this. Bless you. 🤣
This is exactly the same with people from New Zealanders, but it's the other way around. I knew twins and we all looked at them when they asked for a "pin" to borrow and we all looked at them confused, "a pen?" "Yeah, a pin." They would repeat just the word "pin" several times to each other before realizing how it was coming across to us.
3:12 "Bubbler" is a Wisconsin thing but it's also a Massachusetts thing. My sophomore year of college a girl from there who'd just moved onto my dorm floor asked where the "bubbla" was. I'd never heard that word before, so I was like "huh?" Then she explained what she was looking for. (It's a water fountain, by the way.)
Yes! Something wild is that it's exclusively a central and eastern Massachusetts thing. My friend who lives in central Mass asked me about where the bubbler was, and I (from the west) had no idea what he was talking about. We both live in the same state, only 45 minutes apart, totally different names.
Tbf, when Dan was asked "what do you write with" and "what do you stick on your shirt" the difference is clearer. Though before that when he was just talking it's really the same
As someone who's not a native English speaker, pretty much all the time it sounded like Dan was saying "pen". The only time where I could kinda hear the difference was when he purposefully tried to differentiate the two words as much as possible. And I thought that Alex was making shit up with the whole "pin-pen merger", but I just googled it and it is actually a thing!
I didn't know about the pin/pen merger until now, but I heard pellow all the time growing up, and I had one classmate who merged bull and bowl into the exact same word
As someone from Texas, I can hear the difference as well. I get it "Pen" tends to have a slightly softer "p" noise. "Pin" tends to have a sharper "p" noise at the start (no pun intended)
I don't think I say any words that sound the same but have different meanings like Dan but I do say things that have ag in them like dragon as dray gon. It's the same with bag for me; bayg.
I never understood that debate. The word is spelled with a "G", pronounce it like that. The guy who made the video format doesn't get to change what sounds letters make.
as a texan with family in south carolina, I didn't understand stephen's confusion. dan was perfectly clear the whole time. I'm just sad they didn't bring out the big guns on stephen, the thermodynamic ones
Reminds me of that girl in middle school who I definitely had some kind of unrecognized attraction to. She moved up from Texas, and the other kids got no end of amusement from asking her to pronounce "Sprite", which the Texan drawl turned into "spraht".
I’m a Midwesterner (IL/WI state line, now in northern IN). My pronunciation of “pin” and “pen” are definitely different. But to me, Dan clearly pronounced “pin” and “pen” differently. I can tell exactly what he means, even if his pronunciation of the short i vowel sound is similar to his short e vowel sound.
Tennessean here, I can hear the difference, but also, people around here will sometimes say pin like "pee-an" and pen like "pay-en", so those are words I can differentiate in many ways.
As a Grade 2 teacher, let me say this, I and E are so easily confused for my students still. So I'm not surprised that out of the vowels, its e and i that is confused
This video has me self conscious lol. I can clearly hear the difference to the point I'm wondering if the way I pronounce the words would sound similar to folks from the norther states.
It's totally not my field at all, but I think linguistics is interesting. I was looking up stuff on pronunciation and the IPA for something I was working on because of the father-bother merger. To me, those words rhyme.
I have never heard a difference between the two in my 35 years of life. I feel like people that try to point it out are just gaslighting. besides trying to give an inflexion to pen just makes it sound like your trying to say penis with saying it.
Ohmygod, Stephen saying that Dan has the keys to the channel, so if this came out it was because of him. Bless you, Dan, for sharing this. Bless you. 🤣
Let's not forget Stephen's "giraffe and draft" and "wolf and woof".
And “syrup and surp”
This is exactly the same with people from New Zealanders, but it's the other way around.
I knew twins and we all looked at them when they asked for a "pin" to borrow and we all looked at them confused, "a pen?" "Yeah, a pin." They would repeat just the word "pin" several times to each other before realizing how it was coming across to us.
3:12 "Bubbler" is a Wisconsin thing but it's also a Massachusetts thing. My sophomore year of college a girl from there who'd just moved onto my dorm floor asked where the "bubbla" was. I'd never heard that word before, so I was like "huh?" Then she explained what she was looking for. (It's a water fountain, by the way.)
Yes! Something wild is that it's exclusively a central and eastern Massachusetts thing. My friend who lives in central Mass asked me about where the bubbler was, and I (from the west) had no idea what he was talking about. We both live in the same state, only 45 minutes apart, totally different names.
Poor Dan. 😂
Came here to say this and only this 😅
As a Philadelphian, I’m just happy they didn’t ask what a long Italian sandwich is.
Is this the hoagie, hero, submarine, or grinder question?
Sub should be the most frequent. Large chains will put sub in the store name.
Tbf, when Dan was asked "what do you write with" and "what do you stick on your shirt" the difference is clearer. Though before that when he was just talking it's really the same
As someone who's not a native English speaker, pretty much all the time it sounded like Dan was saying "pen". The only time where I could kinda hear the difference was when he purposefully tried to differentiate the two words as much as possible. And I thought that Alex was making shit up with the whole "pin-pen merger", but I just googled it and it is actually a thing!
If you put a bagel in a bag it's a baggle.
But if you put a baggle in a beg it goes back to being a bagel.
I didn't know about the pin/pen merger until now, but I heard pellow all the time growing up, and I had one classmate who merged bull and bowl into the exact same word
I definetly heard the e in the "pillow" lol
As someone from Texas, I can hear the difference as well. I get it "Pen" tends to have a slightly softer "p" noise. "Pin" tends to have a sharper "p" noise at the start (no pun intended)
Yay linguistics! I love whenever topics like this pop up
This is a great Stephen & Friends episode! Lookin forward to the one next week
At the start of the video, I couldn’t tell the difference, but by the end I could
Tom's from Connecticut, right? Ask him about "merry", "Mary", and "marry".
those are all the same word
I don't think I say any words that sound the same but have different meanings like Dan but I do say things that have ag in them like dragon as dray gon. It's the same with bag for me; bayg.
"Are we recording?"
Watching this with youtube auto captions on is especially entertaining
As a born and raised North Carolinian, I can tell the difference in pin and pen in Dan's voice and was equally confused.
Maybe it’s a Gulf South thing because this Louisianaian could hear the difference in how Dan said it too.
GIF v GIF all over again
Inadvertently gaslighting Dan
I never understood that debate. The word is spelled with a "G", pronounce it like that. The guy who made the video format doesn't get to change what sounds letters make.
@@Belltower_Basementg can make a j sound though. Like in giraffe. Personally I say it with a g sound, but it can be pronounced both ways
as a texan with family in south carolina, I didn't understand stephen's confusion. dan was perfectly clear the whole time. I'm just sad they didn't bring out the big guns on stephen, the thermodynamic ones
hoping we can put a pin in this at some point
edit: in all seriousness when i was listening for it i could hear the difference, just took a second
Thank you Dan
Reminds me of that girl in middle school who I definitely had some kind of unrecognized attraction to. She moved up from Texas, and the other kids got no end of amusement from asking her to pronounce "Sprite", which the Texan drawl turned into "spraht".
Some people, including me, have have a caught-cot (aka dawn-don) merger! It's fun to learn about regional dialect stuff like this.
As a Texan, pen is the short sound and pin is a long ee sound.
For some reason.
Language differences are fascinating. Look up the Great Lakes Vowel Shift sometime.
1:07 Juliette! 😂😂😂
I’m a Midwesterner (IL/WI state line, now in northern IN). My pronunciation of “pin” and “pen” are definitely different. But to me, Dan clearly pronounced “pin” and “pen” differently. I can tell exactly what he means, even if his pronunciation of the short i vowel sound is similar to his short e vowel sound.
This is great
Tennessean here, I can hear the difference, but also, people around here will sometimes say pin like "pee-an" and pen like "pay-en", so those are words I can differentiate in many ways.
As a Grade 2 teacher, let me say this, I and E are so easily confused for my students still. So I'm not surprised that out of the vowels, its e and i that is confused
my sisters boyfriend says drawer as draw, but I think that's a conscious choice on his part
This video has me self conscious lol. I can clearly hear the difference to the point I'm wondering if the way I pronounce the words would sound similar to folks from the norther states.
This is a learning experience
That's wild. I've noticed that Northwesterners say "while" as "whall."
I also have trouble pronouncing different things due to my accent plus hearing issues. Pin/Pen, C/Z, Face/Vase, I could go on.
I can hear a clear difference between Dan's pin and pen. And I'm not a nativ English speaker.
I'm guilty of this as well. I'm a from FL as well. Poor Dan
It's totally not my field at all, but I think linguistics is interesting. I was looking up stuff on pronunciation and the IPA for something I was working on because of the father-bother merger. To me, those words rhyme.
As a New Yorker I heard Dan saying pin and pen. 🤷♂️ No idea what that means about me
Wait, when did Emmy change her name to Juliette?
A year or two ago.
I heard the difference, I'm #TeamDan
I love linguistics!
I have never heard a difference between the two in my 35 years of life. I feel like people that try to point it out are just gaslighting. besides trying to give an inflexion to pen just makes it sound like your trying to say penis with saying it.
Will you play pikmin 4?????
They are! Stay tuned!
They plan to play it once the full game is out. They don't plan on playing the demo
They are not playing the demo, they are waiting for the game to come out.
Pick Men 4
@@runningoncylinders3829 what 😂
Who’s on first :V
What's on second :)
I don't know's on third 🙃