10 Words AMERICANS say WRONG! (That make IRISH Girl MAD!)
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Hey Diane 110%
With on ask, literally, over exaggerate, 110%, presentation. Lever I could go either (and not ether... hate people.here who day that.. ugh) way. Aluminum you simply say that wrong. Adidas... care less. Cuss is a different word and meaning than curse
I litrally agree with you 110% on these, and not over exaggerating at all j/k But Axe instead of ask might be income class related. Growing up it was more commonly heard from black classmates who moved from the city, and my cousins, who are white, would say it too but grew up in the city and not the suburbss. Lever is pronounced Lehver because that's how we also pronounce leverage because LEEverage just sounds wrong. This does go both ways like with the words"patents" and "adversary".Took me way longer than it should have when I watched Knights Tale wtf "patents of nobility" was, because it always sounded like he was saying paintings. (which is possibly why we say it differently)
Diane Jennings no its eebeetha you didnt say it correctly
Ok great video as usual Editor Diane my favorite ; game looks cool but one query ( Oh did I as an American say that correctly lol ? ) Why does the monster lair have 1970s’ era paneling on the walls?
Should "lever" rhyme with "beaver" "weaver" and "cleaver"?
Or rhyme with "ever" "never" and "sever"? Fight me, Diane!
"Leaver" sounds so British and proper to me, lol. I say "lehver".
In reality, I never had reason to say that word at all, unless I pick it up in a game like Resident Evil, but I 'assume' I would say "lehver" lol. It's not...really a word that ever shows up in my day to day.
Look a bird 🐦
Diane Jennings No, it’s a plane. ✈️
@@DianeJennings Just lever alone!
We use a level. Do they use a leevel?
“You can’t give 110%”
Well, not with that attitude.
%110 would just be, 100% haha
Lol smart ass
LOL
People say 110% to the people doing the work. It's just said to piss people off by those not doing anything.
Wesley Novak 🤣🤣
The reason Americans pronounce Adidas the way we do is because that is how it is marketed to us. Commercials pronounce it wrong, thus we do as well.😬
That makes her wrong. I use to work in the same store. And she lied. We pronounced Adidas the same way it is pronounced in American commercials. Infact who does this Irish twit think made her an English language expert?? Americans pronounce these words like us Brits. And just like us Brits different parts of England also pronounces these words differently.
Then you must listen to Diane and pronounce it: Ad-di-das not Add-i-das...okay!
Adidas is a german company and Germans pronounce it Add-dee-das.
Now please tell me... how do you pronounce pizza.
Is it pete-zah... or is it pizz- zah?
@@donsmith4833 pete-zah!
Diane literally 110% over-exaggerated this whole thing. LOL
@@b.calvinsaul1909 lol
😹 send booze!
Haha ...and then some 😆
Literally
But it was such a lovely prEsentation! Dont you just wish you could wrap it up in aluminum and send it to Ibiza!?
Axe is ghetto for ask. Most Americans do not pronounce it that way.
Ebonics
Or children, in some accents at least.
@@OllamhDrab You mean chillin.
@@DerScheisse No.
Actually, you Americans probably do!
Why can't we have 110%? The Beatles had 8 days a week.
😂
Night Ranger had 25 hours a day.
And the Space Shuttle throttled up to 110 percent for about a minute during launch. The engineers built the system to reach a certain amount of thrust during long duration burns, and that was considered 100 percent. But there was extra capacity available, and at one stage of the launch they had to use the extra ten percent. Maybe the phrase caught on with motivational speakers giving pep talks and spread to the general public.
Good one, Tom! 😂
Love it! 🤭
Diane, when the element was first discovered, it was named "Aluminum." The British decided it would be better if it sounded more like a "metal" so the "-ium" was added. This was done when the British Empire was all over the world, so it caught on everywhere that didn't revolt against them.
Platinum and aluminum don't end with ium is plutonium a metal or radium a metal both of those are radioactive the other two are not.
The discoverer of element 13, who was British, named it “aluminum.”
The other three elements cited are all metals also. Being radioactive has nothing to do with being a metal. The only nonmetallic elements with “-um” names are helium and the individual isotopes of hydrogen: protium, deuterium, and tritium (to distinguish one isotope from the others).
Helium was discovered in spectral lines in sunlight, assumed to be a metal, and named for Ήλιος (Helios), the Greek word for “sun,” before it was found on Earth and found to be a gas.
The discoverer of aluminum wrote it as aluminum at first. Then years later changed it to the British spelling to match the other elements aka -ium. At the time in the USA, with the advent of dictionaries being a big thing, the aluminum spelling became “official” and it’s been different ever since.
scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2009/04/08/aluminum-versus-aluminium-wher
Edit: There’s a link for you.
Edit2: The time it took to change the name from one to the other was 1807 to 1812. Think after 5 years, it’s hard to put that genie back in the bottle.
You are afraid you will get backlash on how you pronounce lever?
Neever! You're too cleever for that to eever happen.
This made me lol! 😂
Whateever.
Ooooo...I LOVE it!
And in the 50s TV show, "Leave to Beaver," June Cleaver famously never said to her husband, "Ward, weren't you a little hard on the lever last night?"
Actually, that was quite funny.😁
Saying “Ax” instead of “ask” is something that can be found in many inner cities and amongst some African Americans. My father was raised in the south and does sometimes say “warsh” or add R’s to words. Honestly, Ibiza is not a word many Americans use frequently.
I agree.
I'm 57 years old, with a Bachelor's degree, and I have no freakin' idea what "Ibiza" even is.
It's like they say, "The 'r' fell out of the cah in the warsh."
"A hundred and ten percent is not a thing!" Well, no, it's over exaggerating. Eh. You say tomato, I say ketchup.
The one that makes me tear my hair out is 'heinous'.
I'm a bit of an anus on how to say 'heinous'.
When pronouncing it hay-nee-us, you've a vowel that's extraneous.
Same with mischievous, If you're saying mis-cheev-ee-us, you're doing it a michief. It's in the spelling, people need to get their 'i's checked.
Chewie looks like he's wondering why his Mommy has turned into a cat.
I'm glad you brought the 'Editor' back for a bigger role.
I was raised thinking that "Cussing" means using fowl language and "Cursing" is taking the Lord's name in vain.
the word you're looking for is "foul", given that "fowl" are chicken and such.
The word "cock" is fowl language. :-D
Clucking is using fowl language.
When I was in school, in ancient times, I would be hauled to the principal's office for "cursing." Outside of school, it was swearing, cussing, or profanity.
Annoying things You Tubers say. "literally," "I'm not going to lie," "smash that like button," and "hey You Tube it's your boy"
The first two were fairly common in most young people at either side of the Atlantic for at least 15 years.
Don’t forget “what’s up guys”!
When TH-camrs say "anyways" it simply sickens me. What is wrong with "anyway"? Does everything need an s on the end of it?
When I smashed the like button, it cost $350 to have it repaired!
@@angelaricks5379 I wish I could explain it but I can't.
All the C's in "pacific ocean" are pronounced differently :)
That's where I learned to play the cello, on a yacht!
@@alanr4447a Were you boating to Mackinac Island?
Whoa. Mind blown 🤯
"British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments aimed to isolate the metal, is credited as the person who named the element." ..."the Royal Society proposed the name aluminium [100]-this is the earliest known published writing to use either of the modern spellings. However, the following year, Davy published a chemistry textbook in which he settled on the spelling aluminum.[101] Both spellings have coexisted since..."
“I did find this interesting. I’m pretty sure the story gets shuffled a bit after a long time. But we’re stuck with both 😁. At least its not deciding where to break the egg from the round end or the pointy end! Cheers!
The metal was named by the English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (who, you may recall, “abominated gravy, and lived in the odium of having discovered sodium”), even though he was unable to isolate it: that took another two decades’ work by others. He derived the name from the mineral called alumina, which itself had only been named in English by the chemist Joseph Black in 1790. Black took it from the French, who had based it on alum, a white mineral that had been used since ancient times for dyeing and tanning, among other things. Chemically, this is potassium aluminium sulphate (a name which gives me two further opportunities to parade my British spellings of chemical names).
Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in -ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had been named by Davy.“ from Word Origins
What I have read is in 1809 Davy named the element "Alumium". Later, he published a book in 1812 where he changed the name to "Aluminum". Later, "Aluminium" was proposed to standardize the name to the "ium" suffix used with many elements. In 1825 Webster's dictionary used the "Aluminum" spelling and has maintained that spelling. In 1925, the American Chemical Society reverted back to the original spelling of "Aluminum". In general Canada and the U.S. use "Aluminum" and everywhere else uses "Aluminium". Both are considered correct.
I came to the comments to say this. I'm glad i didn't have to.
I bet he wasn't wearing LED cat ears at the same time.
Yes... but we also get the ium from someone else... But the previous year another scientist, in a review of another Davy lecture, had coined aluminium, with the nice -ium that was so familiar in potassium and sodium (which, incidentally, Davy had also coined). Canada also uses the term aluminum.
The Brit that discovered Aluminum called it Aluminum. It was later asked why many called it Aluminium. The answer... apparently some uppity people thought Aluminium sounded higher class. So, basically, it is Aluminum, unless you're a snob.
Toot toot! 😂
@@DianeJennings Here is an article written by another TH-camr, a Brit, that looked into it. www.lostinthepond.com/2013/02/why-do-americans-pronounce-it-aluminum.html#:~:text=%22Aluminum%22%20would%20later%20be%20accepted,is%20accepted%20as%20an%20alternative.
Unfortunately accurate
@@otakumagnet8106 Yep you are correct. Americans say it correctly.
Here is the full story of aluminum vs aluminium
www.thoughtco.com/aluminum-or-aluminium-3980635#:~:text=Aluminum%20and%20aluminium%20are%20two,spelling%20and%20pronunciation%20of%20aluminium.
Most of the words that annoy you actually annoy me, as well. Americans are annoyed by the way other Americans mispronounce words.
Mark, It's not only the way that Americans mispronounce words, it is also the abuse, misuse , and over use of some words. the prefix "pre" , and "literally " are two examples. Those two should be struck from the language. There are more examples, but I don't want to come across as a grammer cop.
It bugs me when my fellow Americans say "warsh"... As in " I will warsh my clothes. "
Grrrrrrr!
Thing is America is so big and so many cultures that we tend to pronounce stuff different. I said I find californians always take out the middle consonent or something like pronouncing button as bu-en or ... Well button is all I can think of right now. Anyway the reply said this is called a glotal stop or something I felt bad like I was teasing a learning impaired disability or something lol I still hate that though eheh
@@joebalusikiii5811 most of these ppl come from Warshington state
@@joebalusikiii5811 I never heard warsh til I moved south (originally from north dakota). It makes me twitchy.
Someone told me that "the British added an "i" into aluminum that doesn't belong there."
(I'm aware the British & Irish are different).
But the majority of Irish speak British English so, in that sense, they are British. In Irish, the word "aluminum" is "alúmanam". So the Irish have managed to feck it all completely up.
@Chris Travers That's why some people changed it from the original aluminum to aluminium.
www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium#:~:text=The%20word%20was%20first%20proposed,of%20sodium%2C%20potassium%2C%20etc.&text=The%20form%20aluminum%20is%20in%20common%20use%20in%20the%20United,chemists%20in%20the%20United%20States.
And Americans invented/discovered it. So we say it correct.
I like giving 111% to irritate all the people who only want to give 110%.
I give 3,862%, just to make all those 110%ers look like lazy layabouts!
;-P
'Cause this one goes to 111, mate!
Me. I also use 4:19.
Lever / Leaver; Clever / Cleaver. Hmmm, Diane is wrong about the pronunciation of lever.
This was phonetically wrong-however I commiserated with Diane over this one because I get a similar reaction to mature....it is NOT mat toore. Even if that may be more correct...it just sounds ridiculous.
I'm with Jeff, (on lever at least...). Shes saying "leave-her". In our American dialect "lev" makes the sound for how we say levity, and levy. Neither word has the "leave" sound.
If you want the "leave" hard E sound you have to have another vowel like Liev Schriber's name.
The New Shorter Oxford, my source for resolving such disputes, gives only one pronunciation. It agrees with Diane, so I can’t fault her. We in the United States usually pronounce it like “ever,” but Mencken, curiously, has it the other way around. His book, The American Language, was first published in 1919 though. Language evolves.
Don't hurt Diane's feelings. That's Editor Diane's job.
Editor Diane is hilariously salty.
When people say ‘led’ for LED. 😤
It’s L.E.D!
El, ee, dee.
Light-Emitting Diode = LED
There - I’ve got it off my chest. 😊
What I want to know is, 'Why does that acronym have no periods?' Sure, 'scuba' has no periods, but scuba is not in all caps. Ditto for snafu.
You are asked to preasent to the class, but you won't be asked to present to the class.
Lol, these are funny. And Diane's annoyance makes them even funnier
I REALLY hate 110%, too! I get really annoyed by how the British say “vitamins”. Not sure if Irish people say it the same way. And I can’t STAND when British people call diapers “nappies”. I don’t know why, but it makes me want to punch a pillow.
Haha! This made me laugh
Diane Jennings to be fair, many Americans call diapers Pampers and that annoys me ALMOST as much as nappies.
Considering today is my birthday, I’m 40 and have no kids (don’t want, either), why this bothers me, I don’t know 🤷🏼♀️🤭😂
@@JennRighter Happy 😃 B-day 🎊
Nappie makes me think of nap which is a short period of sleep, such as an after noon nap, or napkin which is used to clean spills when you eat or can be used to carry a small snack instead of a saucer or paper plate.
@@JennRighter Dana asks- What about when people call passifiers 'passies' or 'Binkys'?
On aluminum/aluminium, the US is correct. Aluminum was discovered to be an element by removing oxygen from alumina (now referred to as aluminum oxide). The grammar of the word alumina is such that a derivative of it would be aluminum.
The British, however, looked at that and said, "But all the other elements on the table, like helium and titanium end in -ium not -um. We're going to add a letter!" And of course the Irish picked up the British pronunciation, because it was imposed at bayonet-point.
Watch their heads boil when you explain a football is called such as it is a foot long. As in 12 inches lol
@@Darkestdarkify that's not true, the reason why it's called just "football" is because there's several sports around the world in their perspective countries that are just called "football" i.e rugby(has football officially in the name),aussies rules football,gaelic football, american/canadian football. that's why in countries like ireland, australia and north america it is called soccer because it's a nickname for "association football" to differentiate it from their "football" in their respective countries
kylem1112 that’s cool. I will rephrase for you. American football is called a football as it is a foot long in length. I apologize that this was unclear from the context of what I was replying to.... a lot of non Americans question and treat this with derision as it has a minimal foot element and looks like a hand egg etc.
@@Darkestdarkify but that's still incorrect, It's not called football because it's a foot long.this is like a 5 minute video explaining why it's called differently in other countries if you want to watch i think it's pretty good /watch?v=PKCZoKfc2Kk
@@Darkestdarkify American football was called football because it was a derivative of rugby football and was more popular in the States than Association Football. The forward pass was illegal in the game for much of its original history. The ball is only approximately a foot long (~11 inches)
“and you can’t pronounce your oars”... that took me a sec to head-translate
I thought the same. I wanna here her pronounce "H" and "Z" too!
@@eringalin2075 Zed's Dead.
Only black Americans say "aks" instead of "ask". It's called Ebonics.
I have heard some deep South whites say it, too, but that's very rare. Typically, this is true
Hey if you check the PBS program "a way with words", you learn that aks did not start with Ebonics.
Or what about 'street' with a 'sh' sound in the beginning? 'shtreet' - grinds my gears
@@LucSchots or "skreet"? Across the skreet.
@@LucSchots That's annoying. I've heard that in others, not just Americans
I totally agree with you on the "Ax" for "ask" thing. Drives me bonkers!! But, the reason we pronounce Adidas the way we do, is because that is what Adidas calls themselves in their marketing, soooooo...............
The only ones I've heard pronounce "Literally" as "Litrally" are either Brittish or imitating the British. I blame the British for this one.
@@JohnFourtyTwo There's a number of accents that find 'er' sounds awkward, like some parts of Maine come to mind.
@@JohnFourtyTwo It's not just one accent, though. It's kind of like most of New England that way but there's isolated populations. Famously the Down East as in "Ya can't get theah.... From heah.' " :)
Meanwhile, I'm the token Bostonian down here where I am now and people sometimes pick out things that don't seem to fit, but it's the North Shore and Southern Maine among other things. :)
"By the way, do you like the cat ears ...?"
Yes. I do. That's not an over exaggeration. They make you look 110% adorable.
😮
Ha! I see what you did there! :)
@@DianeJennings The cat ears make you look adorable.
I can honestly say I've never seen her look not adorable.
How can one be more than 100% adorable?
If you don't think people can over exaggerate, you haven't met my wife.
Aluminum is the original spelling.
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary English chemist Sir Humphry Davy named the element alumium in 1808 and then changed it to aluminum in 1812. British editors changed it to aluminium to be more in keeping with other elements such as potassium and sodium, while the Americans retained the spelling as aluminum.
I had closed caption on while watching, and me being in America, when you said, "le-ver", it wrote "lever" on the screen, but when you said, "lee-ver", it wrote, "leave her" on the screen. LOLOLOLOL! So, you can say lee-ver all you want, but closed captioning in America says your wrong. Hahahahahahahahaha!
I’m American and “aks” hurts my soul, too.
I think the only one I do is aluminum but aluminium is more fun to say.
I hate the whole ask vs ax thing also. I actually have shamed friends and random people for it publicly before.
It's a Black way of saying it. Of course, these days anything "black" is the way to go.
Personally, I feel like it’s different when a black person uses “aks.” I was raised in a predominantly white community and heard “aks” most commonly from white people. When a black person uses “aks” it’s part of their vernacular, their culture. It’s totally fine. I don’t live in the south, though. So maybe I’d feel differently about white people saying “aks” if I did.
@@Kammey AND... you made my point for me. Thanks.
HemlockRidge what part of that was your “point”?
Pronouncing nuclear as "noo-kyoo-lur" grinds my gears. It's "nook-lee-ar."
Ooh, that one gets to me. Like, where does that "u" come from? The scary thing is, back when George W. Bush was president, I'd make fun of his odd speech patterns so much, that I started to call it "noo-kyoo-lur" by default. That's when I knew I had to stop joking around.
For what it's worth, I've since retrained myself to say it correctly. But damn, that was a strange time.
Or as Mad magazine once (correctly) put it, "It's a nuclear (new clear) day..."
Don't forget Jimmy Carter's version: NOOK-a-LER
@@104thDIVTimberwolf Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer.
@Christopher Tysen Henriksen Carter was an Annapolis grad (only way to get on a nuke in the Rickover days according to my submariner officer uncle), so if Hyman was cool with it...
Lever? Okay, so how do you pronounce "never"? They should rhyme.
Vapid, rapid?
Fever=lever? Never=lever? What an odd but interesting language.
Exactly WHY should they rhyme ? 🤔
@@peterfitzpatrick7032 They should rhyme because that is the way that they are pronounced here in the good old USA. Actually just having phun with words. English is crazy at times.
Look up some of the comedian Gallagher's routines on TH-cam. He loves to have fun with the oddities of the English language.
Can’t over exaggerate? My wife: Red dash light comes on in her car - it blew up. Anything on the floor near the laundry room - she almost killed herself. She tells me I always do things almost all the time.
She also seems to start every conversation with me by asking “Are you even listening to me?”
Giving 110% is giving 100% of yourself plus 10% from something else.
Chewy: "She's not ok. Send booze!"😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol, you missed another word entry when you mentioned Puma because I say it "Pooma" not "Pewma." I am from the Midwest so I don't know how others in the country say it but I have only heard people say it like "Pooma."
Pooma, not pyooma!
Its pooma. Puma is a Native American word for mountain lion.
I just call them mountain lions or cougars. I don't know anyone who calls them pumas. That must be what people who live where mountain lions don't call mountain lions.
@@briantevington1608 But...the sneakers...
@@briantevington1608 I always called them mountain lions. When I was referring to the clothing line she mentioned in passing.
Alright everyone lever alone she's literally just over exaggerating. Love editor Diane by the way.
She's giving 110%
Lol
😂
Oh, man! I love this PRECISELY 100%! There is nothing that suits me more than a good grammatical rant. It’s good to know that there are others out there that feel the same way. And I’m an American saying this! (Here’s another for you: my mum says “warsh” when she means “wash”. Unbearable!)
I notice her Irish is REALLY Irish when she gets worked up. [I love it!]
Don't blame us Americans for the pronunciation Presentation you don't like, They way you don't like is British and the way you like is how most American say it.
I would like to preesent you with a prehsent.
Editor Diane needs some light-up cat ears to cheer her up.
Maybe devil horns?
I like to imagine Editor Diane wearing cat ears an pushing things off the edge of a table. 😄
I want an all "Editor Diane" episode
@@deborahkelch1759 there is one.
The "word" aks drives me nuts!!! If you can say mask and desk, you can say ask... And English is my second language!
Cristina Bivins, I think when people say it they’re smushing asked into one sound.
@@JosephReneer ... and asterisk does not end with "ix"
Because aks was once correct but its usage never died. www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2014-jan-19-la-oe-mcwhorter-black-speech-ax-20140119-story.html
It's only okay if used in a pun. I'm going to ax the tree to fall over
Literally was used Diane to describe books so we all over use it. We use it everyday. It is used out of context and have mercy on you soul for using it that way.
I believe I am in full agreement with you on these , Diane.
“Irregardless” of having published this video “anyways” Diane, “for all intensive purposes” you could continue this rant to include annoying misused phrases and words that just “ain’t” real either! (Keyboard set to “uneducated” mode here).
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Ain’t is a real word.
@@sirdavidr6064 Yes it is in the OED as an abbreviation of is not
Tony S Ain’t that something??
Noneya Bidniz guess I ain’t up on things 😜
What about "Harass" and "Harrisment". The listening stops and the rage begins.
Diane: I enjoy this topic, i.e. word quirks.
Regarding "ask" versus "aks," my impression is that Black citizens of the U.S. tend to prefer the latter pronunciation, but I've also read that the "aks" version may be the older one of the two. Over time, sounds and the order of compound words sometimes switch their order. For instance, the style of facial whiskers worn by Union army general Ambrose Burnside were originally known as "burnsides," but later became "sideburns." What was once a "flutter-by" became a "butterfly." Pronunciations change, too. The name of the planet Uranus used to be pronounced like "your anus" ( The radioactive element uranium still has that pronunciation.) Now scientists pronounce the planet like "urine-us," preferring the urological form to the proctological-sounding version. Redundancy is very popular in phrases in the USA, too, such as "over-exaggerate." Some favorites of this sort include "future plans," "past history," and "false pretenses" or, perhaps, "false pretences." Of all pretenses, the worst are the false ones.
If you like this sort of discussion, I recommend to you a book by Bill Bryson, "Mother tongue, English and how it got that way."
Man.. Uranus just can't win, can it?
"Irregardless", I want to slap people when they say this.
That's an east coast thing, Boston in particular. So it should be pronounced IRREGAUDLESS. yuk yuk ho ho he he. Or perhaps lol
Drives me crazy! Also, people don’t believe me when I say it is NOT a word!!!
I know I am painting a target on my back by saying this, but the majority of people in America who say "ax" instead of ask, are black people. I am not sure why this is, but that has been my experience.
It's true, I'm black and growing up most young black people said axe instead of ask.
Liberry. That's one of my words. It's not a berry, you get books there. 🤦
My stepdaughter got sent to the principal for correcting her second grade teacher(excuse me miss it's pronounced library) and didn't get to go with the rest of the class to the liberry.lol.
*Homer Simpson has left the chat*
“ Liberry“ makes me want to throat punch somebody!
I worked with my stepson on this very word. I am happy to say that he is pronouncing it properly now.
Of course, it's lie-brie.
The comic, Ray Romano, had a bit about how he pronounces "ask" as "axe." Ray's from Queens, New York, but I hear a lot of Black Americans pronounce it that way, too.
Loving the cat ears Diane
I agree with several of these, but I find it funny that you have opposite pronunciations for the first e in "lever" and "presentation". How do you say "ever"? Great video, really enjoyed it, keep up the great work!
My grandfather explained over exaggeration Like this "We Irish are the most honest people on earth, we not only tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth we tell 125% of the truth.
Great 1st video (9/11 commemoration) by the way! Lots of love & appreciation from Texas.
I loved it. Also from Texas.
The British scientist Sir Walter Davy first described the metal Aluminum to the British public and spelled it that way. The scientists of the UK didn't like that though. He also first described the elements Calcium and Magnesium among others. So after a few years, he decided to change it to Aluminium to match the pronunciation of his other elements. For a while in the 1800s, we pronounced it both ways but just ended up with the first spelling in the end.🤷♂️
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@@DianeJennings Uh...I'm not up on my emojis. Is that Jimmy Durante's nose, or...? :-)
I’m going to apologize in advance for being annoying lol.
Davy’s first name was Humphry, and it was Thomas Young who specifically proposed the ‘-ium’ spelling, which the English scientists (the Royal Society) accepted. IUPAC uses the ‘-ium’ spelling as they are a Swiss institution, but acknowledge both spellings. They concede that the ‘-um’ spelling is consistent with the Latin naming conventions of metals, and that Davy used this spelling because it was consistent with the spelling of “alumina” (Al2O3). It isn’t the only element to use the ‘-um’ suffix: Ferrum (Iron), Molybdenum, Argentum (Silver), Stannum (Tin), Lanthanum, Tantalum, Platinum, Aurum (Gold), Hydrargyrum (Mercury), Plumbum (lead). Granted, the ones with their common names in parenthesis are a bit archaic, but this is why, for example, Gold’s atomic symbol is ‘Au’.
Interestingly, the Americans called it ‘Aluminium’ from the inception of the name until 1925 when the American Chemical Society officially recognized the ‘-um’ spelling. This was around the time the British started using the ‘-ium’ spelling.
@@bebbalex Well, at least I remembered his last name.😉
Aside from Aluminum (see others who point out the Brits started with Aluminum and then THEY changed to the "European Standards" (usually French) changing it to something else (ditto with the word SOCCER was British created too) so some of this changed on YOUR side of the Atlantic), back to the point, aside from Aluminum, I've always pronounced this list as you do. Oh, Adidas, as a brand, is pronounced in America the way the COMMERCIALS for the brand pronounced it.
The 110% and "over exaggerate" both seems to have started with Valley Talk; teenagers trying to talk posh and having NO THOUGHT behind their speech. Ditto with "reverse discrimination" means nothing. Discrimination is simply discrimination. And the only way to give 100% is to DIE. Humans rarely exceed 10-20% of their effort to anything, even professional sports. But logic and science score extremely low in American schools, but we follow anyone who proclaims they follow science even with rigged models and pre-selected data-points. Blame the schools, most of our teachers scored very poorly in the sciences too.
My worst English nightmare is today's putting oneself first: "Me and my friends are going to the store." The old "test" (drop the friends) fails "me going to the store"... rather than "My friends and I are going to the store." Or "I am (plural "are" replaced) going to the store."
Suggestions (again)... I would LOVE to see you VISIT parts of IRELAND during this lockdown (I'm in California). Go to Clonmel, Dungarvan, Cork/Queenstown, Waterford, the Cliffs of Moher, the Giant's Causeway (yes, I know, in the UK), Cahir Castle, and, if you must, Dublin. Your college. The town where you grew up. You did a bit of that with the Game of Thrones location. It's something you can take Chewy on for once! Go inside the castles (Cahir, Limerick, Dungarvan, etc.). I'm sure Ireland could use a boost for their tourism industry even if it's delayed a few months, and having been to all of the above, I'd love to see it again with your viewpoint/commentary!
My issue with “literally” isn’t the way people pronounce it. It’s the way people use it for things that “literally” make no sense.
You gave this video 100% and then some - greetings from Florida
Here's another thing you can add to the subscriber threat: All of your socks will have holes in them. Also, good luck trying to find a pair of socks that match. One sock longer than the other, etc.
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@@DianeJennings Next time you need to come up with a curse, you'll draw a blank. Just no ideas. At all.
Hole-y socks Batman; that's my problem.
If you buy socks in multipacks where they all look alike it is easier to match socks.
One of the old pronunciations for "ask" is "ax", in fact even being spelled as such in old documents.
Aks anyone
The Vikings killed the village first and axed questions later.
I hear the word Ask pronounced Ax in the west and south sides of Chicago
@@MissyM68 And used among Baltimore trash
It’s ok, when we Americans give it 110% we are just over exaggerating 🤷♂️🤣
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Literally!
The reason aluminum in America is spelled differently and is shorter is mainly because back in the day of the printing press they used to base the price on the amount of letters used, to save money we shortened and simplified many words such as color or shop
I actually know the reason why we Americans say aluminum instead of aluminium. When printing presses were thing they used to charge by the letter so basically we just took a few out to save some money. That is also why we don't spell color with a u.
Technically, Adi Dassler's real first name was Adolf. Probably why he went by "Adi."
Yeah, almost no one would wear anything called Adolfdas.
@@jacoboneill2494 Though for those who would, it's like voluntarily wearing a sign that says "stupid."
English and Spanish are funny since the largest English and Spanish speaking population are thousands of miles away from where the languages originated so it's the same language but at the same time not.
We are separated by a common language.
Spanglish is widely spoken in the Hispanic community in the US.
@@allanrichardson1468 that was the OPs point he meant people in Mexico/USA are thousands of miles from Spain and people in US/Canada are thousands of miles from England
I could not understand people speaking SPAIN Spanish. I couldn't recognize it, it sounded like Italian to me. I figure that's what people learning "Queen's" English feel like in the Americas.
@@eringalin2075 Spain's Spanish is spoken with a lisp. We Hispanics in the Americas speak it clearly.
I'm starting see why Diane needs therapy...she and ED don't get along well.
That moment at 10:24 - "because you can't pronounce your oars". As I used to tell my Irish colleague, it's "arrr, like a pirate"
Excellent Preesentation! You gave 110% of your feelings. :)
Thought I'd see Herbs versus Urbs or Irregardless versus plain old Regardless.
The total biggest pet peeve for me is when people use ideal for idea. I've actually heard educators use it that way. And are teaching our children. WTF. IE I have a good ideal, let's go mudding. 😅😅😅😅
I usually hear people say ID-er.
'Nuclear'.... a lot of people say it like "Nuke-you-ler" and it drives me crazy!! Like where did that extra U sound come from???
It might just be a Southern US thing cause I live in Georgia.
Yessss
George W Bush, a Connecticut Texan said "nuke-you-ler". And he had the nukeyouler codes.
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I was stationed in Kings Bay aboard a nu-clear submarine and was a professional baby sitter of nu-clear missiles.
Whenever I hear "nuke-you-ler" I always say, "Why are you talking about microwaves?"
Diane is totally insane in this video. Chewy is really concerned for Mommy. I laughed A LOT!!!
"Aks" as "ask" is African American Vernacular English.
I say "lever" like an American.. but it makes sense your way.. "library" is my thing.. arrggg!
You say it correct then! You have the rule that a single "e" wouldn't get a hard "E" sound though right? Wouldnt this follow that rule?
It would have to be "leaver" to say it her way. It would need a vowel before or after the "e" to make it the hard "E" sound.
Its like saying "liver" is "Lie-ver". the "i" is soft by itself, it doesn't get the hard "I" sound.
Pronunciation sites say that we do say it different on either side of the pond -- yet the word "levy" -- we both say it basically the same and like Americans say "lever". So I think the East got the lever one wrong. oh well. ha-ha
The one that bothers me is “across.” There’s no “t” or “ed” at the end of that word - ever. Also, “seen.” Again, there’s no “t” at the end of that word - and the sentences, “ I seen it,” or “I seent it,” are just grammatically and contextually so very, very wrong.
Instead of 110%, “maximum effort” is a good alternative. (Shout out to Irish Jesus!)
A couple of great videos today, Diane - one very heartfelt and the other lighthearted. Also, cat ear game is on point. 😆 Stay safe! 👍🏻
Thank you!
Oh, my gosh, THIS! And the words "drawLing" and "sawL". As in, "make a drawLing of the house you sawL yesterday" Ugh!
As a PC enthusiast, 110% makes total sense though. 100% is the normal setting, and then you overclock - going over 100%. I do understand the argument that 100% should /already/ be max, but we don't really use the word that way - especially in tech. For me, it's just an expression of "giving all you have - and then trying even more". Does it make sense? I don't know. But I can see both sides.
@@cristinabivins2240 which area of the US do they put the L on those words...I'm just curious?! 'Cause it shur. 'taint nowhar 'roun' chere?!
@@taramoonshadow363 I live in South Jersey, about an hour east of Philadelphia. People around here also say crowns for crayons and wudder instead of water 🙄. I'm an ESL teacher and it drives me nuts that I speak better English than native speakers 🤷🏻♀️🤔.
My skin crawls when people say eXpecially and fustrated. Ahhhhhh
Never heard fustrated, but I have heard expecially.
Shelly M Grinds mine when they say supposahblee. Very few pronounce it correctly.
Loved it! The best yet! :-)
Well, you can cuss up a storm to show annoyance, but to curse up a storm could be to call down an evil upon your target
Giving 110% just means going above and beyond what's required.
Yes exactly. I think of it like CPU's you can run at an optimal 100%, everything work just fine. But you can overclock your processor past 100% and have some real fun?
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Yes, but you die at 100% so it's poor science, not just poor English.
@@dking1836 your statement disproves your position. Ponder the subject more deeply, the answer shall come to you.
Oh Diane, when you hit on "over exaggerate" the biggest one of all was staring you in the face and you missed it:
Irregardless.
When people say irregardless, which isn't even a real world, they use it to mean REGARDLESS but they say irregardless instead because they're stupid! In fact, if you google the word, "irregardless," the only definition that comes back is: "regardless." When you speak of words that Americans use or say wrongly, saying irregardless to wrongly take the place of REGARDLESS is the biggest one of all!
AAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
Matthew Cafaro fun fact....although irregardless is not a word , Websters Dictionary has named it as one of 2020 new words to be added to the dictionary. Just another reason 2020 sucks.
@@dalemoore1308 NO, GOD! No, God, please, no! No! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Button pusher! I *hate* "irregardless" That and "I could care less" meaning they do care some, but what they are trying to say is "I count NOT care less".
Actually, "irregardless" has been in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary since 1934. So it is in fact a word and has been for almost a century.
@@wickideazy Sorry dog, it's not a word. It's something stupid people say that has no meaning. It literally means "regardless," because the people who use it are too stupid to simply say "regardless."
It's bothers me when people type out something like "I would of this, or I would of that." It's would HAVE!
My sentiments exactly!!
Someone may already have said this, but the pronunciation "ax" for "ask" (nowadays, almost exclusively heard in African-American Vernacular English) is the original form/pronunciation of that word. "Ask" is a later change, that happened to be adopted into the more prestigious dialects of English. There was a time when many dialects of English preserved "ax" as the pronunciation, but at some point it became associated with AAVE, which unfortunately prompted White/European-Americans to drop that usage and exclusively use "ask." So you can definitely claim that "ax" is a non-standard usage, but there's no justification to claim that it's wrong, because it's the even older form of the word.
"...and that you can't pronounce your ors" lolol
I just noticed you literally said litrally with no “e” on your episode about auditioning for GoT. 6:06 of the video. I feel so betrayed! (But I agree with you about how it should be said.)
I was transcribing a journeyman's written report from a construction project for a law firm - and I couldn't figure out the word 'suposta'. I thought it was Spanish, until I said it out loud and then I realized what it was "SUPPOSED TO" mean! 🤔
And to anyone who fails to subscribe, I suggest my favorite curse: "May your hair grow so long that you trip on it at night and break both your pinky fingers!" 😈
Well that’s 110 % evil 😈
Along those lines...”supposably” just drives me nuts! 🤪
You fiend.
@@mshaman86 Bwahahabhawhaha!
Your positions on "lever" and "presentation" seen contradictory, Diane.
I waa going to point that out...
The english language is riddled with contradictions... & that's even BEFORE you get into pronunciations.. 🙄😏
Absolutely contradictory.....or is it"contradictry? LOL!!
If you type in "lever pronunciation" in Google, it has an American pronunciation (leh-vr) and a British pronunciation (lee-vuh).
Does the American one change the 'e' sound? Yes. But unlike the Brits, we also actually pronounce the 'r'. So I'm sticking with the American one.
Dear Diane I agree with you about 110%. That aggravates me very very much. I love your videos also.
Why do people say (intresting )when the word is interesting , so annoying
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As with a lot of things, there's a whole linguistic thing about addition or removal of syllables.
Ain't nobody got time for four syllables!
It annoys me when people don't use proper punctuation.
Here's one I've noticed creeping into national ads: "A-mmediately" or "Uh-mmediately" instead of Immediately? When did those vowel shifts become a thing? They seem to be done for dramatic emphasis sometimes, but it immediately makes me question the actual education of the voice talent.
It's less uncommon than you think. English went through a significant vowel shift a bit over 300 years ago- significant enough that should you travel back in time to the late 1600s, it would be very difficult to communicate. And there were several more before that.
@@rylian21 Yes! The Great Vowel Shift. And there is a new vowel shift gradually being introduced in the London Cockney accent that is echoed in English dialects around the world (the English RP word "face" is pronounced more like "fice", for instance). There are also shifts going on elsewhere, even in the U.S.: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5220090
To each their own. Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer the word "immediately" to be pronounced with an "i" sound the way it is written. ;-)
Over exaggerate? meh, that's hyperbole and a half
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary English chemist Sir Humphry Davy named the element alumium in 1808 and then changed it to aluminum in 1812. British editors changed it to aluminium to be more in keeping with other elements such as potassium and sodium, while the Americans retained the spelling as aluminum.
I love editor Diane lol we need her input more often