@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Actually it's Latin. The countries were all dominated by Roman Latin before they went their seperate ways after the fall of the Empire. The Saxons then influenced Anglo language followed by the Normans and it evolved over a millennium. The similarities over Europe are purely Latin.
As they should, you can't just start removing letters from elements. Americans don't say Helum for Helium, or Lithum for Lithium, or Sodum for Sodium. It just sounds wrong, and is wrong.
Pronouncing a word in the UK not only often changes from north to south but also by social class. Someone of a higher class will pronounce a certain word totally different to a working class person like myself.
@@StormhavenGamingsacrilege! 😮 Cornish and Devon tin has been one of our greatest exports for thousands of years! There aren't any bauxite (aluminium) mines in the UK
@@deja-view1017 No disrespect intended to the hard-working Cornish tin miners (some disrespect to the Devonians though, simply for being from Devon). It was merely a joke based on the American habit of using Aluminum Can or Aluminum Foil, when everybody knows it should be Tin Can and Tin Foil.
Aluminium was proposed as an element by Humphrey Davy in his 1812 book "chemical philosophy" and was refined to a pure metal by a Dane in the 1830s. Davy named it and called it aluminium on every page except one that was clearly an error. The British press read the book and reported the correct name. The US press took a single quote which happened to be from the erroneous page and called it aluminum. Aluminum didn't even make sense, as metals discovered after the Roman period are suffixed "ium" to denote metal. Americans have made an error and embedded it into their language... Same as they did with phrases like "should of" instead of "should've" which is a contraction of "should have".
I don't know about Americans but certainly a lot of British people have been mis-hearing "should've" and incorrectly write "should of" also (perhaps that should be classed as an "eggcorn" ? I don't know).
@@TarfuLukeI am in my 70th year and can tell you categorically from my many years of "lived experience" that no native speaker of British English would ever say "po-tah-to" and none ever has. No English dictionary would cite it as an acceptable pronunciation for the word. Where are you getting your information to the contrary?
@@MrBulky992 For some reason I read po-tah-to out loud as as po-tay-to I don't know why. Yeah you are very much correct. Po-tah-to is wrong in every sense of the word. I'm from Manchester.
@@reactingtomyrootsyeah BUT WHY would you say it car mel ,when there is clearly an A in the middle. It only has one correct pronunciation, car A mel .
@@davidmellish3295 do you know of the 'schwa' sound in English? In case you don't, It's where certain vowel sounds are not really pronounced e.g. November pronounced as Novem- buh ( this , the 'er', is not applicable where pronunciation is rhotic such as in Scotland) or caramel said as car-uh-muhl (2nd 'a' and the 'e' aren't fully pronounced)etc. It's a more relaxed pronunciation of vowels in certain cases ( tongue drops back) . Very common. The car-mel is the result of the a vowel , which wasn't fully pronounced (schwa) anyway, becoming barely audible. A natural development with certain accents, perhaps.
@@camriley Middle aged Highlander here and I've never heard a fellow Scot say it as 'Novembruh', always as 'November', so I don't know where your idea came from but it is not correct.
One that puzzles me is the modern American trend of pronouncing the word "route" in the same way as "rout" (i.e., 'rowt'). A "rout" ('rowt') is what happens when soldiers flee in a disorganised panic. I've heard "route" being correctly pronounced as 'root' in old American newsreels (as in the French word for road, "La route"). Plus, whatever happened to the lyrics in Chuck Berry's song, "Get your kicks on Route 66" where "route" is pronounced 'root' there? Modern Americans, please explain. 😄
I just find it amusing! 😁Who’s to say who’s right or wrong! The only word that Americans use that I can’t bear,is “asked”They always pronounce as “axed”😬😂🏴❤️🌎🇺🇸
@@sallyannwheeler6327 I haven't notice that way of saying 'asked' by US Americans but I have noticed it a lot from those who originate from the West Indies.
Here's another list for you: You say "creg" for Craig "Squirl" for squirrel "Meeer" for mirror "Laboratory" has the stresses all wrong, as does "library" And for some reason, you say Carmel instead of caramel. 😂❤ One thing that also needs to be mentioned, is "toob" for tube, "toosday" for Tuesday "noo" new, "doody" duty etc, yet you actually pronounce the "u" correctly in "music", why don't you say "moosic"?
I thought ‘cregslist’ was an entirely different thing until I realised it was just pronunciation. Squirl is quite amusing but carmel is a no. Where has that ‘a’ got to..?!
To me when you say "ball" it sounds like "Boll" which is what he was trying to say. So Bald with an american accent does sound very similar to the UK style to Bowled.
*Spanish is an English word. *Española or español English wasn't created in the British Isles, it arrived in the British Isles, with different names for the language having different "names" depending on which country you're in.
@@hardywatkins7737 No, it didn't The germanic language used in the British Isles developed throughout the regions, not just "England." It has been used in the older nation, Scotland, as long as it has in the regions now called England. Mostly because it arrived there before England was created. Scots is a variation of the Germanic language, the vikings, saxons, normans etc introduced
Americans use the word “nothing” incorrectly which creates a double negative, which equates to a positive statement. E.g. American: “You haven’t given me ‘nothing’”. British: “You haven’t given me ‘anything’”. To say “you haven’t given me nothing”, means you have in fact given them something.
umm yeah ive never said this and dont encounter it much but thats just my experience. we're taught about double negatives in school. speaking "incorrectly" or "improperly" isnt exclusive to americans
@@CrazyInWeston This is the one that makes me shudder. If you "could care less" about something: you must care about it for there being a quantity that could be decreased! Just say it like we do in the East Midlands, England. "I cvnt care less" it really is that simple.
I'm going back 60+ years, but I was taught that the vowel 'e' at the end of a word changes the pronuciation of the previous vowel - EG 'past' and 'paste'. We were taught English pronunciation!
It doesn't come from England. It has different names depending on where in the British Isles you come from. Or do you think England (founded after Scotland) created a unique language and everyone else adopted that. 🤭
The English language we know today ( with some differences ) pretty much came about between 14th _ 16th century before that you would unlikely be able to understand what they were saying .
@@Mark-Haddow Err that's precisely what happened. English overwhelmed the indigenous languages of the other four countries and Cornwall almost, or actually, to extinction.
Don't we say "sledding"? I've not heard many people say sledging to be honest. Also, I am used to calling the item a sled, not a sledge. I suppose it changes with the area one comes from.
In the UK, we say "vital" to rhyme with the word "title" and "vitality" to same way. Well done, Steve's wife, for spotting the inconsistency in the UK with the word "vitamin"!
@@fordcorsair That's a word not much used these days in the UK unless you're going on an expedition to the Antarctic. It's spelt "victuals" here (I hope it is on the States too). We more often use the word "victualler", almost exclusively in the phrase "licensed victualler", the official title of one who is licensed by the local authority to sell alcoholic drinks (intoxicating liquor). The landlord of a pub would be one such. The spelling betrays the fact that the word has different roots from "vitamin" but I think you knew that already and are pulling my leg! Much happiness in the new year to you and your family!😊
Yes don’t be fooled into thinking there is any consistency in the way English stuff is pronounced 😂 it’s a mishmash of a variety of language influences!
@@jomc20It's rare but not unknown. As a British person, I have always said "vitt-amin" and not "vyte-amin": it's less effort to say, for one thing (no diphthong, shorter vowel) but it is inconsistent with every other word I can think of in English which derives directly from latin "vita" meaning "life". It is consistent with some words deriving from latin "vivo" (I live) such as "vivify" and "vivisection", but not others e.g. "revive", "survival".
Lovely to see your wife again. Love seeing how Lindsey's confidence is growing in front of the camera. Just about to put my Christmas tree up when I finish watching your video. Have a great week ❤
@@charlesjames799what a rude, weird reply to someone you don't know? I've had mine up for 2 weeks now, you get it girl!! Have a great time putting it up :) ignore this negative buffoon
@@charlesjames799 Bah Humbug to you too. We've had a really hard year and my kids could do with a bit of sparkle. We can't put it up at the weekend due to commitments... not that I owe you an explanation. It doesn't cost anything to be kind and respectful to others.
@@kdog4587 Exactly so, I've had mines up for two weeks now too, my first for November so why not! Funnily a Xmas movie came on TV at random shortly after I've sprung it up lol! 🎄
Route is another word that’s pronounced differently in the U.K. Here in the U.K. we pronunce it like the word ‘root’ whereas in the U.S. it sounds more like ‘rowt.’ I always notice this word when it’s used in American films or TV shows because it sounds so different to how we pronounce it here.
'Route' was definitely on my list - why is it pronounced 'rout'! Are they routing the enemy or the rodents!? Please add this to the American dictionary... Eye-Raq versus E-Raq (IRAQ)! Hai-maas instead of Hamas! 😅😁
While that's true, the woodworking tool, the "router" is the same as the American pronunciation. Yet the thing that sends our WiFi around the house, the "router" is pronounced the English way. What a crazy language.
In the UK we used S instead of Z in almost all cases. Randomised, customise, advise, disguise, supervise, revise, televise, franchise, exercise, clockwise...
Vital and vitality is said as you say it. Vittels is an old english word for food. We also say Caribbean differently to you putting the emphasis on 'be' rather than the 'rib'
Younger people seem to use the American pronunciation. Same with aristocrat, which for me will always have the emphasis on the first syllable but for a lot of younger people is on the second.
Aluminium is spelt and pronounced that way in all except American/CanadianEnglish. About 30 elements end in 'ium', whereas only a couple end in 'um'. It was the British that named it (originally as "Alumium", then changed to Aluminium). Americans got it wrong. - The one which annoys me the most though is 'buoy', pronounced like 'boy' but with a longer and rounder vowel sound in all but the USA. How Americans got "boo-ey" out of that is a a mystery, especially as they pronounce derivative words like 'buoyant' and 'buoyancy' like the British. - And don't get me started on 'ass' vs 'arse'.
🤣🤣You sound as angry as me when it comes to 'American English' which is an oxymoron as far as I'm concerned, perhaps we should pity them and allow the annoyances as they don't have a language of their own 🤣👍
Lol good one it's def arse or should be, didnt jesus ride on an ass easter sunday in the bible , some thing like that I'm not that good on the bible but there's a big difference riding an ass or an arse. Ass has always been a type of donkey or mule.
No, it was a Dane who first named it Alumium then changed it a few times before settling on Aluminum. It was a British council that renamed it Aluminium. Americans and Canadians adopted the Danish discoverer's term while the Brits changed it to fit their sensibilities. Both are considered correct.
You're right about the different accents we have here in the UK. Taking a selection from my neighbourhood there are 6 different accents from the same number of houses close by. RP (Received Pronounciation), Cockney, Estuary English, Welsh, Irish, West Indian Patois. That's London for you. They say that you only have to go a few miles until you hear a completely different accent & even London accents differ from each other.
A lot of the variations between English and American English occurred partly as a result of the invention of the telegraph system and partly as a way of the USA showing cultural independence from its mother country. The original telecommunications companies used to charge per letter for messages sent, so the practice grew up of missing out letters to make it cheaper. When Webster created his dictionary these changes became the norm in the USA even though in the UK the correct spellings continued to be used. So aluminium dropped a U, as did words like colour, honour, mould and so on. English words like anaemic lost the A, and many words that had a double letter lost one ( cancelled, jeweller etc), words ending in -ogue such as analogue lost the UE to become analog. Funnily enough, one of the most mangled UK words is "burgled" with Americans using "burglarized".
@@captvimes No, it wasn't between the US and Europe, as the discoverer himself was British and wanted it to be known as Aluminum but other scientists from both Britain and countries within and without Europe wanted it to be spelt Aluminium, to fall into line with an existing group of metals. There was no 'US argument' here.
@@Thurgosh_OG Yes it was only one page of Davvys document had it spelt that way Webster basically went against Europe with the whole dictionary fallout any excuse to spell a word differently the scientists including US went with the british spelling originally
In Ireland, it's spelt and pronounced Aluminium with 2 i's. And that's what's written on the box when you get buy it in the supermarket....Aluminium Foil. But we all call it "Tin Foil" in Ireland.
I live in the West Midlands England and find it amusing that I can understand you two much easier than I can understand people who live only a few hundred miles north of here. I mean the American pronunciation of tomato for instance is easy to follow and is obvious. When the word changes completely its more tricky and needs to be learnt.
As a Londoner I once had to ring up a farmer in Norfolk. He was an old-timer and spoke real old Norfolk accent. Three times I said "sorry can you say that again, I didn't quite catch it." To this day I still don't have a clue what he said!
Was once invited to a fancy dress party in Birmingham and the host told me over the phone that the theme was Spice - I was the only one who turned up dressed as an astronaut....
It's nice to see both of you in your video again. I can thoroughly empathise with Lindsey'slove love of words and their etymology. I do hope your little girl, Sophia is well again very soon
Nice video guys, I am always amused by our different uses of the language. Many Americanisms used to be common in the UK, centuries ago. But your use of the French pronunciations of _herb_ and _fillet_ still crack me up. Speak English, dammit 😂!
Yes, when most of their English is influenced by Spanish from Mexico, why are they hanging onto French pronunciations? That's our prerogative 😂. What annoys me is when they come up against a word containing a prefix, usually, which has the same few letters and don't do what we do. If it comes to us from a different language it is going to be pronounced differently, probably e.g. "schedule". Every other word in English is said with a "sk" sound, like scheme (skeem) but schedule is shedyule. It is my most hated difference of pronunciation. Friend is pronounced frend, so why is leisure pronounced leezure? If it followed a rule is should be lizure; also ceiling which is sealing comes from French "ciel" meaning sky. I could go on but I'd be here all night 😂. ❤ from UK 🇬🇧
@@aodhanmonaghan1268 they don't rhyme, but probably their roots come from different languages which pronounce combinations of letters differently than others. As many times England/Britain invaded other countries we were invaded many times by our closest neighbours hence the English language contains many contradictory "rules" for pronunciation, being derived from many other languages.
@jenniferfox301 ceiling is from the Latin celo (keh-loh) meaning "to hide", as a ceiling hides the roof. Celo is the same origin of conceal. Middle English had celing pronounced like say-leeng and meant wooden panels to cover the walls (and the roof). Leisure is from Latin licet (lee-ket) meaning "to be allowed", via the intermediary Old French loisir (lwah-zeer) meaning "permission, respite, free time". Middle English leisir was pronounced like lie-seer. Not the modern leh-zhur. Friend is from the Old English frēond and was pronounced like freh-ond. Middle English frend was pronounced as frend. Just like the modern word that has an unnecessary i added in. The language has gone through a number of vowel shifts over the centuries, each covering most but not all of the dialects on the island. I'm confused why you think 2 graphemes, i.e. two clusters of letters that are spelt differently, would rhyme/be homophones. It's far more understandable to think the same grapheme would rhyme in instances it doesn't, like friend and science (again, the late addition of the letter i to frend is helping nobody). The Americans use French pronunciations for a lot of words because they more often than not came from England or its conquered lands, and the English were using French pronunciations. After all, from 1066 to the 1400s, the Kingdom of England was ruled by nobles in what's now France who merely saw England as an overseas territory. It's only after the conclusion of the Hundred Years War when most continental lands are lost that the monarchs start to see England as their primary land, and shift from using French to English as the language of governance within England. This is why we say literature instead of bookcraft, amorous instead of lovesome, port instead of haven, dictionary instead of wordbook, and cause instead of ground/sake (we do still say on what grounds, but most other usage has been replaced). As for schedule, both pronunciations are as right and wrong as each other. For most of English history, the word was pronounced sejuul or sedyuul. Until the 1700s it referred to a piece of paper. It's from the Old French cedule pronounced sedyuul. In turn it's from the Latin scheda pronounced skeda, which is in turn from Ancient Greek skhédē which is pronounced with a combination of S and the CH of Loch. The current shedyuul and skedyuul pronunciations are pretty new and both influenced by the spelling and the etymology. It's why you pronounce Greek ch words with a k today, like chiropractor and psyche, even when we often had an intermediate time of pronouncing those as ch. This is why the Americans still retain the Middle English fall, as Britain changed from using harvest to fall and later to autumn, the colonists just kept using fall and didn't make subsequent change to autumn as much. A lot of so-called Americanisms are actually features of Old English and Middle English that the UK has moved away from but other parts of the former empire retained.
You mention the variation across Britain. I live in the City of Bristol and there are so many differences in the city alone that is possible to guess what district they are from.
Interested to see a video about why many Americans replace 'T's in words with a 'D' when they say the word. And adding random 'Y's ("And" becoming "Aynd" for example).
T and D is interchangable in many languages over time for instance Deutschland in some old texts is spelt Teutschland. Same for Tag and Dag (day) Danke Thanks. A lot of Americans originate from german and low german countries too. Then it starts to make sense. Its speaking english with an accent in a way, same as how a lot of our regional accents originated.
Its not the S that changes, it is the A. In the two cases you cite, it is said with a short vowel sound in English (var-se, ba-sil) as in the word ham, but with a long vowel in American (vay-se, bay-sil).
@@mrfill9999 There's no R in vase though. Why English people insert Rs where there are none ( draw-ring ! ) and mostly miss them out elsewhere ( doctor , harm ) defeats me.
@@auldfouter8661 No one pronounces drawing with an R in it, what are you talking about? As for the dropping of R, most English accents are non-rhotic, like the American Boston accent. As for Vase, we got it from the French so we pronounce it closer to their word for it, simple as that.
As someone who used to visit the US a lot for work, it amazed me how often I wasn't understood. I'm English, so its my first language, and I don't have a strong regional accent! So, tomato could genuinely not be understood, even in context, and they weren't even being awkward!! Add to the list of differences, semi, US sem-eye vs UK sem-ee. Iran (and Iraq), US eye-ran, UK ee-rahn.
Even in England we pronounce words differently from one side of the country to the other. In the east of England we pronounce castle as “carsel” where as in the north they say “caasel”. There are a lot more words we pronounce differently here to other brits.
Hi Steve and Lindsay, I'm a wee bit late. I think one difference of our languages is that , as you said, when you became independent our words went different ways. We pronounce ' Lieutenant ' as Lewtenant because we took it from the French language. When the word later entered American English it is pronounced differently. The same for ' Ballet ', pronounced ' Ballay '. Two words missed are ' Caribbean' . English is ' Cari beun ' American is ' Car ribeaun ' with 2 'r' . The home of the Carib people. Then we 'rout' and 'route'. English 'rout' is a verb . Like to 'rout' you enemy. 'Route' is a path to somewhere. In American english, the word is pronounced without an 'e'. With 'route', the 'e' is ignored by American english.
i remember in year 8 our food tech teacher going “you wouldn’t pronounce stone as ston, so it’s SCONE” and me silently thinking “yes but you wouldn’t pronounce gone as gOHn, so you may want to rethink that logic” - the way i see it, who cares how it’s pronounced as long as the message is communicated lol
@@charlienerd idk i think it varies person to person - i mean the whole reason there was a debate in our class was because we were split in how we pronounced it - like we all lived in the same town, but we pronounced it differently
The way Americans pronounce and use words doesn't (generally speaking) bother me, but it does bother me when British people use American pronunciation or variants. Lever and leverage, privacy, oriented instead of orientated and many other things. Btw, I do object to the term British English. The French speak French, the Portuguese speak Portuguese, the Spanish speak Spanish. I'm English and I speak English.
Right, but you're missing the context that all 3 of the countries you named also exported their language through colonization, and your languages have continued to evolve in your prior colonies. British English is a phrase intended to differentiate it from American English, Jamaican English, Australian English, etcetera.
@@eddiehawkins7049 I'm sorry but y'all don't control the world anymore my dude. You speak British English, according to the other 400 million people who speak English as their first language across the planet.
First of all, I would just like to say how much I like your channel. The one word I struggle with on how the USA pronounces is 'solder'. To me, it sounds like they are saying sod her.
Two Irishmen commented on two separate occasions : Oscar Wilde wrote: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." As George Bernard Shaw said: "England and America are two countries separated by a common language"
As part of teaching English, I've had to teach pronunciation to very many students and find it fascinating. Apart from trying get the sounds about right, there's no point in getting prissy about it. The first thing to remember is that you cannot take the pronunciation of a group of letters in one word to enforce the same set in another word (your 'vitamin' vs 'vital' is a good example). Consistency is a rare commodity in English. Also, there _is_ such a thing as American English. There are lots of varieties of English, including British English. Some people argue that there is only 'English', but that is incorrect, even in England. Fun tip: If you want to annoy a boiled frog, rhyme Farage with the BrEng way of saying 'garage'. With a lot of these, there are several acceptable pronunciations in British English. 'Scone' is an example of this. I say 'scon', my wife says 'skone'. There's no point in arguing about it. What is difficult is the current trend in American English to rhyme 'shone' with 'tone'. A lot of British people pronounce 'bald' as 'bold'. The same goes for 'salt', which can be either 'sawt' (put a faint 'l' sound in there but not everyone does that) or 'solt'. Generally, an 'l' after a single 'a' is a silent letter that serves to change the sound of the 'a'. 'Walk and 'always' are examples of this. Not everyone makes it silent though. Consistency? What's that?
Agreed. English is a language with many, many varieties. I have a soft RP/"Southern Educated" accent and taught English in a working class area of Birmingham for several years. Pronunciation was always a point of discussion! Unfortunately, in the UK, pronunciation is often deeply connected to perceptions of class and education level. People often assume that I am more upper class, or richer, or smarter than I am based entirely on my accent.
There's a rule coming from an origin in every single one, it's just that compared to some languages we have countless examples of separate rules for the same thing across the language. But you can take the pronunciation of a group of letters in one word to enforce the same set in another word, just only for all examples where the same origin rule set can be applied.
Languages change over time, and it's perfectly legitimate for Americans to have changed pronunciation. But it pisses me off when Americans say we, who have been speaking English longer than you, are pronouncing it wrong.
One issue with US pronunciatuon is the dropping of the "ae" and "oe" vowel combinations from Greek-derived words in favour of just "e". This has changed the US pronunciation of some words where they now say "e" (as in "bed") instead of "ee". e.g. (o)esophagus, (o)estrogen, (a)esthete. Inconsistently, you say "ee" in the words "encyclop(a)edia", "p(a)ediatrics" and "h(a)emophilia".
It is recognized that in some parts of the US American English is closer to 17th century English especially in the Appalachian mountains. Great video guys. Thanks.
lol no. There are some completely unconnected parts that sound close, but they sound close because they are obviously not American having being so disconnected to not sound American. So to call that American English is a level of mental gymnastics that is beyond silly. Not only that, but those areas actually sound like some accents in Britain right now - so all you are really saying is that some areas that don't really speak American English sound a bit like some areas of Britain today, and as a result even those areas are not closer.
@@GavinRegnartThe lingua Franca of the world is English, but the origins comes from the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Jutes and Saxons. Poet Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to write his works in English whereas the Kings courts at the time all spoke French, he basically stuck two fingers up at the Norman tongue being spoken since the invasion and chose to write them in English ( although it was a very different dialect of English that we have today ), we borrowed a few words from India such as Tiffin, Bungalow and Pyjamas and they are part of our language now too. Our language and spellings were altered by Webster, the American English comes from British English only with spellings and pronunciations changed by Webster because he didn’t like the French inflection within it.
When you say ball or bald it sounds the same as UK but when you said football it did sound more like footboll to my ears. Also you can't see the z in vase, but you yanks often replace the s with a z we spell realise you spell it with a zed but you call zed zee.
No it wasn`t technically it was, English is the language which originated in England, clue is in the name England, English, Anglo. this is why we are closer to it i guess. Yes there are different forms, accents, dialects all over the world, English allows this as a language and which makes it so wonderful.
It did not originate in England. The language was introduced to the whole of the British Isles, with the *English referencing its use in the lower parts of the Isles. In the Northern regions it is called Scots. It was used for centuries prior to the creation of England. The Anglo-Saxons - created the language to communicate throughout Western Europe.
None of that has to to with modern pronunciations. Middle English and Old English were totally different. Many of the modern pronunciations (there are at least two ways to pronounce 'pronunciation'') and spellings in British English are actually newer then many American versions. Not everything, but many of the common "gripes" in British English are actual Victorian affectations and the American version was once valid including the -ize suffix.
English is a Germanic language...Anglo comes from Germany. The original Germanic tribes who came here named our country after their home town....Angles. They named it Angleland...which in time became England. Angles and Saxons (from Saxony) are both German places of origin.
The one word that these comparison channels always miss & is IMO the most different sounding from either side of the pond is the pronunciation of the word "inquiry".
One Americanism I don't like is a culinary one. Carmelise. Carmel is a town in California and I'd love to know how they carmelise something. Caramelisation is a process where over gentle heat sugar is melted and taken to a point where it caramelises and developes a toffee like taste!
English in itself is an amalgamation of several languages from the island's long history. First, native languages from the tribes in the various areas/countries, (including the variations of Welsh and Gaelic) then there is Latin from the Romans, Norse languages from the Vikings, French from the numerous interactions with France, and even Shakespeare literally making up words that have become everyday words due to his popularity, and so on. As a result English is a very strange language comprised of many other languages and helps explain why different pronunciations happen, not just in different areas, but also why similar spelling "rules" for different words actually sound different.
@@britsticher8889 YES and, karma, curry, and Cherokee or “Cher” ooops I got the wrong Indian. But there’s also bamboo, yoga, Yogi as in Bera. And GURU, and my favorite: Houdini.
Depends, you should certainly lead with the name but you wouldn't say "Mary says that Mary doesn't like spicy food so Mary will just have the soup". Instead you would say "Mary says that she doesn't like spicy food so she will just have the soup".
Hey Steve, I don't know why "bald" is even on the list because I pronounce it exactly as you and your wife do and I've never heard anybody say it any differently, English or American.
It was poorly explained in the video but: In the USA, "bold" and "bald" can sound very similar. In the UK in RP, "bold" and "bald" sound completely and utterly distinct from each other. In both the UK and the US, the pronunciations of "bald" sound similar.
On the subject of regional variations of accents, there is also variations within those regions. There is often clear differences between neighbouring towns such as mine and the next which is only 5miles away.
As a software developer in the UK, coding is in American english due to Microsoft and other US companies while everything else we do is in British english. So we have to fix code by changing S to Z in lots of words, while some words like grey and gray still catches me out. I dont have to pronounce the words but I do need to fix all the spelling differences.
Many years ago, in the US with (all) American friends and looking out to sea, watching dolphins, one said something like "Oh! just there by the BOO-ee..." - Being the ONLY Brit there I said "by the WHAT???" And she said (paraphrasing) "to the left of the BOO-ee", while pointing at a BUOY! Now everyone in the UK and Ireland knows what a _(our pronunciation)_ 'BOY' is. As in a 'nautical' float or an object moored to the bottom of a sea or river, to mark a sailing channel or something _(such as a danger)_ lying under the water; or you might say someone 'swam out toward the buoy'. Pronounced 'BOY' because it comes from the word BUOYANT! I got into a whole conversation about WHY do Americans say BOO-EE, from the word BUOYant!? Not one could tell me. Then watching _(I think?)_ 'Deep Space Nine' or 'ST Voyager' - they said "...I have launched a BOO-EE to warn others..." _(or something very similar!)._ 😅 😂 🤣
Me and my husband both come from the Northwest of the UK but different areas. I say scone/gone he says scone/bone 😅 If your doing regional accents soon I can’t wait till you hear the scousers say book, look and cook. My mums family are from the south west coast of Ireland and my dads are from Liverpool so I have an interesting scouse/Irish twang 🥴
Garage isn’t really pronounced differently in the south of England. GarAge (the American pronunciation) sounds posh or pretentious to the British ear, and those attributes are stereotypically associated with the south of England. It’s only a stereotype
I can suggest two more words that could have appeared in the video Jaguar - jag-you-ar in English and jag-wah in American But the two that always set my teeth on edge are buoy and route In English buoy sounds like boy while in American it sounds like boo-ee Route, (how you go from point a to point b when travelling), is correctly pronounced to sound like root, not as Americans say it, 'rowt' to sound like rout which is actually an overwhelming military defeat and thus a completely different word. I also find the American habit of turning nouns into verbs rather confusing especially where a perfectly good verb already exists. A prime example: verb; to burgle, noun; burglar - the person who does the action (verb) so WHY do Americans find it necessary to turn burglar into buglarise creating a wholly unnecessary new verb?. I also agree with Steve & Lindsey in that I couldn't hear any difference between the English & American pronunciation of bald.
As an American ,I can answer for math vs maths question, from what I heard it’s maths in other countries because you learn different types of math in one school year, in the US, we have one type of math for the whole school year, for example, in 5 th grade ,we would have basic math for a full year and the next year, we will have algebra for the whole year etc…
Most English has a Germanic or French, root, with a good dash of Latin and Greek. US and American English also tend to have slightly different spelling.
The "closer to its origins" is a curious one when you consider words like "gotten" - a word used by Shakespeare - disappeared from British English but was retained in the US (and is now making its way back into the UK).
Yes, language grows and mutates over time. Also, America had migrants from all over Europe and elsewhere early in its history, which would impact the language. I think the word "skillet" is still in common use in America, but rarely used in the UK. Two nations separated by a common language. Not sure how "could care less" and "couldn't care less" happened.
"Gotten" never disappeared. It was retained in many regional dialects, but it dropped out of usage in the fashionable South-East. Another, similar, example would be "Fall" for Autumn. Originally English (also used by Shakespeare and his contemporaries) but fell out of usage here whiule continuing in the US.
@@StormhavenGaming Fall just failed to take over more than anything, there are written records of Autumn a long time before Fall was used. Fall came, wasn't really popular, and went away.
The pronunciation of these words is a real non-issue. It’s all to do with how vowels are sounded. How you guys say it isn’t wrong, just different 😊 the area I’m from, we say ‘carriage’ to rhyme with ‘garage’, and the ‘vi’ in ‘vital’ would rhyme with ‘cry’, so we pronounce that the same as you. What does drive us nuts is the amount of North Americans who say “I could care less” because that does not mean what you think it does 😂 I also hear a lot of Americans say “on accident”. I’m not saying that’s wrong but it’s bizarre to me. I’m pretty sure most British people say “by accident”.
@@StormhavenGaming well yeah, each region has different ways. I’m from South West/Bristol area and people I know say ‘carriage’ the same as ‘garage’. So I’m just speaking from my experience.
@@DeviousWeaselUK Absolutely. I wasn't meaning to argue. Just pointing out the massive variation that exists even in small geographical areas. I'm originally from Hampshire, so not that far from you.
@@StormhavenGaming no no, it’s all good! No arguments here, you were right, I shouldn’t have made it so generalised :) As Steve said, there are so many accents on this small island lol.
I love that Apple MacBook Unibody 2008 keynote or whatever, where the British English-speaking Jony Ive says *_aluminium_* a load of times, and then after he goes off stage, one of the American English-speaking employees ruins it straight away with "so, the beautiful new *_aluminum_* unibody enclosure on the new MacBook Pro" or whatever 😂
In the Musical My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins says in a song, In some places English completely disappears , in America they haven't used it for years 😃
I've only heard 'vital' pronounced the same as in the US. I think everyone here always says 'vitality' the same as the US too but I may have heard it pronounced as 'vittality' once or twice? Not sure and it's very rare if it happens. There's also a rare word 'victuals' meaning 'food or provisions' which is pronounced like 'vittles' 😂 'Potato' is always pronounced the same as in the US, I think they just made up that other pronunciation (to rhyme with British 'tomato') for the song. I'd rather we rhymed 'tomato' with 'potato' like in the US but what can you do 😂 'Aluminium' is the international scientific standard word just as convention but they went with the American spelling of 'Sulfur' as the standard rather than the British 'Sulphur'. I always rhyme 'scone' with 'gone'. 'Garage' is almost always stressed on the first syllable here, even for people who pronounce it in the more American way, but I think many younger people have adopted the American pronunciation with the stress on the second syllable. Awesome video! I love anything language, phonetics, linguistics, grammar... 😍 Cheers! xx
The UK has more accents than any other country. So much so that it's sometimes difficult for a person from one part of the country to understand a person from another part of the country.
It took us nearly 1000 years to develop our language, which is four times as long as the US has exisited, so they way we pronounce things is correct. One of the things which really really really annoys English people, is the way that instead of using the correct word, which already exists you create a new cumbersome version. For instance recently I heard that HM the KIng was coronated, by which I presume they actually mean crowned, a word which has existed or at least 600 years. I also recently heard americans using the expression coversating, which they were using instead of the word coversing, it does mostly seem to be black americans, and I wonder if they have less acess to higher levels of education. Cashimir Funk coined the word vitamine while working at the Lister Insititute in London, he combined the word VITAL with the word AMINE and came up with the name VITAMINE, which was later shortened to Vitamin, when it was discoved that not all vitamins contain an amine, an example being vitamin C, which does not have one.
A silent ‘e’ at the end of a one or two syllable word tells you to use a long vowel sound for the earlier vowel(s) in the word. A long vowel sound is the sound a vowel makes when you say its name, like when you are reciting the alphabet, a-b-c-d-e-f-g…; that is saying a letter’s name. For example: Say the word ‘wine’ and listen to how the ‘i’ sounds. Now say the word ‘win’ and listen to how the ‘i’ sounds. The ‘i’ in ‘wine’ is a long vowel sound and the ‘i’ in ‘win’ is a short vowel sound. So, one of the things the silent ‘e’ at the end of a word does is indicate long vowel sounds for preceding vowels. The silent ‘e’ also indicates when to us softer sounding consonants in some words. For example: Say the words ‘grace’ and ‘age,’ the consonants ‘c’ and ‘g’ have a softer sound than they do in words like ‘cat’ and ‘go.’ The silent ‘e’ is an indication to you to use these softer sounding consonants in words.
"English did technically come from England". Sorry but there is no technically about it, English came from England.
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Well yes but it's mostly a mix of French and German and other languages. It just all evolved into the mess we call English.
Yes, I giggled at that one too. LOL.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Actually it's Latin. The countries were all dominated by Roman Latin before they went their seperate ways after the fall of the Empire. The Saxons then influenced Anglo language followed by the Normans and it evolved over a millennium. The similarities over Europe are purely Latin.
"There's a clue in the name".
We in the Netherlands also say Aluminium, because thats the way to pronounce it and how the stuff is called 😂
Rest of the globe does.
I am a Chemistry teacher..... all our textbooks and Periodic tables have Aluminium on them.
As they should, you can't just start removing letters from elements. Americans don't say Helum for Helium, or Lithum for Lithium, or Sodum for Sodium. It just sounds wrong, and is wrong.
Another good one is "Solder" for electronics.
I found this video; apparently, it's more related to the French.
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How about ‘Vehicle’. Surprised that wasn’t on the list
That's the 1 word that when any American says it I feel like screaming they well and truly over pronounce the h and say it it V Hicle
And Roof 😢
Pronouncing a word in the UK not only often changes from north to south but also by social class. Someone of a higher class will pronounce a certain word totally different to a working class person like myself.
I'm in Scotland. What is this "class" system?
@lifesbutastumble
I've never sat in a cold classroom. I did however sit in a few cauld rooms, at school.
scone is the apocryphal example
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So, how would you pronounce the Stone Of Scone?
That Scottish stone the regent sits above as they are crowned?
Stone of Scone? You mean that stone that Scottish nationalists broke, rendering any British monarchs' title illegitimate?
In the UK, cilantro is pronounced "coriander".
lol. It is CALLED coriander. Like we have turnips or swedes, and they have rutabagas. We have marrows or courgettes and they have zucchini.
And Aluminum is pronounced "Tin".
@@StormhavenGamingsacrilege! 😮 Cornish and Devon tin has been one of our greatest exports for thousands of years! There aren't any bauxite (aluminium) mines in the UK
@@deja-view1017 No disrespect intended to the hard-working Cornish tin miners (some disrespect to the Devonians though, simply for being from Devon). It was merely a joke based on the American habit of using Aluminum Can or Aluminum Foil, when everybody knows it should be Tin Can and Tin Foil.
@@Ollybus Oh I know. Hence the 'lol' in my response.
Aluminium was proposed as an element by Humphrey Davy in his 1812 book "chemical philosophy" and was refined to a pure metal by a Dane in the 1830s. Davy named it and called it aluminium on every page except one that was clearly an error. The British press read the book and reported the correct name. The US press took a single quote which happened to be from the erroneous page and called it aluminum. Aluminum didn't even make sense, as metals discovered after the Roman period are suffixed "ium" to denote metal. Americans have made an error and embedded it into their language... Same as they did with phrases like "should of" instead of "should've" which is a contraction of "should have".
The UK used the aluminum pronunciation first, then changed it. The original pronunciation is the version the USA uses now.
I don't know about Americans but certainly a lot of British people have been mis-hearing "should've" and incorrectly write "should of" also (perhaps that should be classed as an "eggcorn" ? I don't know).
@@DH.2016No, "should have" is correct and is what "should've" is a contraction of. "Should of" is the common but incorrect version.
this is also the story i have heard of how the confusion began, a simple typo that caught on stateside.
@@Mark-Haddow From what i'd heard Humphrey first used Aluminium, then Aluminum and then again went back to Aluminium.
😊potasium, sodium, zirconium, uranium, calcium, duterium, plutonium, titanium and aluminium are metalic elements.
No one on the UK (or anywhere?) says "po-tah-to" except in the song.
They definitely do.
@@TarfuLukeI am in my 70th year and can tell you categorically from my many years of "lived experience" that no native speaker of British English would ever say "po-tah-to" and none ever has. No English dictionary would cite it as an acceptable pronunciation for the word.
Where are you getting your information to the contrary?
@@MrBulky992 For some reason I read po-tah-to out loud as as po-tay-to I don't know why. Yeah you are very much correct. Po-tah-to is wrong in every sense of the word. I'm from Manchester.
Of all the words Americans pronounce incorrectly all they could come up with in that song was tomato, potato and pyjama!
@@B-A-L Shame on Ira Gershwin for missing so many more!
Caramel - In the Uk we say Car-a-mel whilst in the US you say Car-mel seemingly ignoring the a in the middle.
Depends on the region and who you ask...we say it both ways in the US.
@@reactingtomyrootsyeah BUT WHY would you say it car mel ,when there is clearly an A in the middle. It only has one correct pronunciation, car A mel .
I say Bald the same as you guys do
@@davidmellish3295 do you know of the 'schwa' sound in English? In case you don't, It's where certain vowel sounds are not really pronounced e.g. November pronounced as Novem- buh ( this , the 'er', is not applicable where pronunciation is rhotic such as in Scotland) or caramel said as car-uh-muhl (2nd 'a' and the 'e' aren't fully pronounced)etc. It's a more relaxed pronunciation of vowels in certain cases ( tongue drops back) . Very common. The car-mel is the result of the a vowel , which wasn't fully pronounced (schwa) anyway, becoming barely audible. A natural development with certain accents, perhaps.
@@camriley Middle aged Highlander here and I've never heard a fellow Scot say it as 'Novembruh', always as 'November', so I don't know where your idea came from but it is not correct.
One that puzzles me is the modern American trend of pronouncing the word "route" in the same way as "rout" (i.e., 'rowt'). A "rout" ('rowt') is what happens when soldiers flee in a disorganised panic. I've heard "route" being correctly pronounced as 'root' in old American newsreels (as in the French word for road, "La route"). Plus, whatever happened to the lyrics in Chuck Berry's song, "Get your kicks on Route 66" where "route" is pronounced 'root' there? Modern Americans, please explain. 😄
Just depends on the region you're from in the US and what you grew up hearing... :)
Australia also use the “rowt” pronunciation.
I just find it amusing! 😁Who’s to say who’s right or wrong! The only word that Americans use that I can’t bear,is “asked”They always pronounce as “axed”😬😂🏴❤️🌎🇺🇸
@@sallyannwheeler6327 I haven't notice that way of saying 'asked' by US Americans but I have noticed it a lot from those who originate from the West Indies.
@@sallyannwheeler6327 That is only said by Black Americans, some Hispanic and also some poorly educated, gang wannabees!
Here's another list for you:
You say "creg" for Craig
"Squirl" for squirrel
"Meeer" for mirror
"Laboratory" has the stresses all wrong, as does "library"
And for some reason, you say Carmel instead of caramel. 😂❤ One thing that also needs to be mentioned, is "toob" for tube, "toosday" for Tuesday "noo" new, "doody" duty etc, yet you actually pronounce the "u" correctly in "music", why don't you say "moosic"?
The 'squirl' for 'squirrel' always makes me laugh for some reason.
I thought ‘cregslist’ was an entirely different thing until I realised it was just pronunciation. Squirl is quite amusing but carmel is a no. Where has that ‘a’ got to..?!
all of those make me giggle the moosic thing is so true why do americans say music correctly but not any of the others
Gram for Graham. Mobil for mobile. Semeye for semi. Neesan for Nissan. Turban for turbine, the list goes on.
Don't forget Graham Crackers being pronounced Gram Crackers.
I’m surprised that “Premier” wasn’t in that list? Much Love & hope little’un feels better soon!🇬🇧
To me when you say "ball" it sounds like "Boll" which is what he was trying to say. So Bald with an american accent does sound very similar to the UK style to Bowled.
English technically came from England 😂that’s like saying Spanish technically came from Spain. You guys.
*Spanish is an English word. *Española or español
English wasn't created in the British Isles, it arrived in the British Isles, with different names for the language having different "names" depending on which country you're in.
When we settled America Mark it would have been english as it is today so suck it up snp boy
@@Mark-Haddow The English language developed in England.
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No, it didn't
The germanic language used in the British Isles developed throughout the regions, not just "England." It has been used in the older nation, Scotland, as long as it has in the regions now called England. Mostly because it arrived there before England was created. Scots is a variation of the Germanic language, the vikings, saxons, normans etc introduced
@@Mark-Haddow You said above it wasn't created in the British Isles, and now you're saying it was developed in the 'regions', not England.
Americans use the word “nothing” incorrectly which creates a double negative, which equates to a positive statement.
E.g. American: “You haven’t given me ‘nothing’”.
British: “You haven’t given me ‘anything’”.
To say “you haven’t given me nothing”, means you have in fact given them something.
umm yeah ive never said this and dont encounter it much but thats just my experience. we're taught about double negatives in school. speaking "incorrectly" or "improperly" isnt exclusive to americans
There is also 'I could care less' for when they mean couldn't. Saying could care means that they did care about it.
@@CrazyInWestonYou beat me to it!! 🤣
Some do, I suppose. We don't.
@@CrazyInWeston This is the one that makes me shudder. If you "could care less" about something: you must care about it for there being a quantity that could be decreased!
Just say it like we do in the East Midlands, England. "I cvnt care less" it really is that simple.
The trouble is, this is a Mojo video and they nearly always get it wrong.
@lifesbutastumbleI guess getting it right would take some effort.
I swear these mojo videos are made to wind peoe up as opposed to educate and inform 🤣
Devonshire here and I was taught scon.@@stevey5151
i live in hampshire and we've always said it like 'gone'. they were wrong on 'garage' as well. we all say 'garridge' in the south. @@stevey5151
My fave is Buoy the kinda floating water thing.
I'm going back 60+ years, but I was taught that the vowel 'e' at the end of a word changes the pronuciation of the previous vowel - EG 'past' and 'paste'. We were taught English pronunciation!
I've noticed on American cooking shows they say herb like Erb and in Britain we pronounce the her in herb. And lever vs American sounds like leather.
Don't tell the Erbivores.
Unless you come from Northern England where H's don't exist in our pronunciation.....
@@ScratchySlideIn parts of northern England but not all.
@@MrBulky992 Yes, there are some exceptions. But we never mention them...🤣
Herb is French is origin .
i love how much it pains americans to say english came from england
It doesn't come from England. It has different names depending on where in the British Isles you come from. Or do you think England (founded after Scotland) created a unique language and everyone else adopted that. 🤭
Many of them don't even know, they think it's their language 😂
The English language we know today ( with some differences ) pretty much came about between 14th _ 16th century before that you would unlikely be able to understand what they were saying .
@@Mark-Haddow Err that's precisely what happened. English overwhelmed the indigenous languages of the other four countries and Cornwall almost, or actually, to extinction.
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Nobody speaks English in Scotland. We speak Scots. Also, Scots Gaelic...
A Tobogan is a kids sledge in the uk for playing in the snow , i think ive heard us people say they go tubeing ,we say sledging.
We also say toboganning
The hat is called a toboggan (two g's) and is a woollen cloche-like hat, whereas a beanie can be made of any material.
Sledging can also mean abusive comments made tot a batsman when playing cricket, for some reason.
Don't we say "sledding"? I've not heard many people say sledging to be honest. Also, I am used to calling the item a sled, not a sledge. I suppose it changes with the area one comes from.
@@sharonmartin4036 well they say it where i come from
I like hearing you start by saying Proberly when the word is Probably. So that's 9 more required.
In the UK, we say "vital" to rhyme with the word "title" and "vitality" to same way. Well done, Steve's wife, for spotting the inconsistency in the UK with the word "vitamin"!
Yes, but vittles are vital - imagine pronouncing those two words the same....
@@fordcorsair That's a word not much used these days in the UK unless you're going on an expedition to the Antarctic. It's spelt "victuals" here (I hope it is on the States too). We more often use the word "victualler", almost exclusively in the phrase "licensed victualler", the official title of one who is licensed by the local authority to sell alcoholic drinks (intoxicating liquor). The landlord of a pub would be one such.
The spelling betrays the fact that the word has different roots from "vitamin" but I think you knew that already and are pulling my leg!
Much happiness in the new year to you and your family!😊
Yes don’t be fooled into thinking there is any consistency in the way English stuff is pronounced 😂 it’s a mishmash of a variety of language influences!
I've never heard an English person say 'vYtamin' - its always "Vit-a-min" ( note: with a 'T' not a 'D'!
@@jomc20It's rare but not unknown. As a British person, I have always said "vitt-amin" and not "vyte-amin": it's less effort to say, for one thing (no diphthong, shorter vowel) but it is inconsistent with every other word I can think of in English which derives directly from latin "vita" meaning "life".
It is consistent with some words deriving from latin "vivo" (I live) such as "vivify" and "vivisection", but not others e.g. "revive", "survival".
Lovely to see your wife again. Love seeing how Lindsey's confidence is growing in front of the camera.
Just about to put my Christmas tree up when I finish watching your video. Have a great week ❤
@@charlesjames799what a rude, weird reply to someone you don't know? I've had mine up for 2 weeks now, you get it girl!! Have a great time putting it up :) ignore this negative buffoon
@@charlesjames799 Bah Humbug to you too. We've had a really hard year and my kids could do with a bit of sparkle. We can't put it up at the weekend due to commitments... not that I owe you an explanation. It doesn't cost anything to be kind and respectful to others.
@@kdog4587 Thank you 🙂 Some people just get a kick out of being nasty. Maybe they need a hug.
@@kdog4587 Exactly so, I've had mines up for two weeks now too, my first for November so why not! Funnily a Xmas movie came on TV at random shortly after I've sprung it up lol! 🎄
@@kdog4587...p.s I'm unusually away right after Christmas Day for a whole week so it works out best having a festive cheer just a little earlier.
Route is another word that’s pronounced differently in the U.K. Here in the U.K. we pronunce it like the word ‘root’ whereas in the U.S. it sounds more like ‘rowt.’ I always notice this word when it’s used in American films or TV shows because it sounds so different to how we pronounce it here.
Except with Route 66 for some reason, even Americans seem to pronounce it the British way in this case.
'Route' was definitely on my list - why is it pronounced 'rout'! Are they routing the enemy or the rodents!? Please add this to the American dictionary... Eye-Raq versus E-Raq (IRAQ)! Hai-maas instead of Hamas! 😅😁
While that's true, the woodworking tool, the "router" is the same as the American pronunciation.
Yet the thing that sends our WiFi around the house, the "router" is pronounced the English way.
What a crazy language.
In the UK we used S instead of Z in almost all cases.
Randomised, customise, advise, disguise, supervise, revise, televise, franchise, exercise, clockwise...
Laser
Westernised.
half of these dont have a Z spelling in the US either^
@@strawberrydialectics Well, I'm not American so I wouldn't know...
@@user-gx9xr4mw7eSpelling "laser" with a Z would be plain wrong, as it's an acronym - Light Amplification by the Stimulation of Emitted Radiation.
Thanks for the video both, enjoyable as always and I love your enthusiasm for the UK 🍅
Vital and vitality is said as you say it. Vittels is an old english word for food. We also say Caribbean differently to you putting the emphasis on 'be' rather than the 'rib'
Younger people seem to use the American pronunciation. Same with aristocrat, which for me will always have the emphasis on the first syllable but for a lot of younger people is on the second.
Aluminium is spelt and pronounced that way in all except American/CanadianEnglish. About 30 elements end in 'ium', whereas only a couple end in 'um'. It was the British that named it (originally as "Alumium", then changed to Aluminium). Americans got it wrong. - The one which annoys me the most though is 'buoy', pronounced like 'boy' but with a longer and rounder vowel sound in all but the USA. How Americans got "boo-ey" out of that is a a mystery, especially as they pronounce derivative words like 'buoyant' and 'buoyancy' like the British. - And don't get me started on 'ass' vs 'arse'.
Have to agree about _buoy,_ it's a Spanish derived word from _boyar,_ - to float.
Especially as a major historical figure was Jim Bowie who the late David Bowie had as his rebel hero hence taking his name.
🤣🤣You sound as angry as me when it comes to 'American English' which is an oxymoron as far as I'm concerned, perhaps we should pity them and allow the annoyances as they don't have a language of their own 🤣👍
Lol good one it's def arse or should be, didnt jesus ride on an ass easter sunday in the bible , some thing like that I'm not that good on the bible but there's a big difference riding an ass or an arse. Ass has always been a type of donkey or mule.
No, it was a Dane who first named it Alumium then changed it a few times before settling on Aluminum. It was a British council that renamed it Aluminium. Americans and Canadians adopted the Danish discoverer's term while the Brits changed it to fit their sensibilities. Both are considered correct.
You're right about the different accents we have here in the UK. Taking a selection from my neighbourhood there are 6 different accents from the same number of houses close by. RP (Received Pronounciation), Cockney, Estuary English, Welsh, Irish, West Indian Patois. That's London for you. They say that you only have to go a few miles until you hear a completely different accent & even London accents differ from each other.
A lot of the variations between English and American English occurred partly as a result of the invention of the telegraph system and partly as a way of the USA showing cultural independence from its mother country.
The original telecommunications companies used to charge per letter for messages sent, so the practice grew up of missing out letters to make it cheaper. When Webster created his dictionary these changes became the norm in the USA even though in the UK the correct spellings continued to be used. So aluminium dropped a U, as did words like colour, honour, mould and so on. English words like anaemic lost the A, and many words that had a double letter lost one ( cancelled, jeweller etc), words ending in -ogue such as analogue lost the UE to become analog.
Funnily enough, one of the most mangled UK words is "burgled" with Americans using "burglarized".
The first time I heard an American speak I thought everyone in America was a butcher.
Aluminium was a scientist argument between the US and Europe as to what name to use noting to do with that
@@captvimes No, it wasn't between the US and Europe, as the discoverer himself was British and wanted it to be known as Aluminum but other scientists from both Britain and countries within and without Europe wanted it to be spelt Aluminium, to fall into line with an existing group of metals. There was no 'US argument' here.
@@Thurgosh_OG Yes it was only one page of Davvys document had it spelt that way Webster basically went against Europe with the whole dictionary fallout any excuse to spell a word differently the scientists including US went with the british spelling originally
@@Thurgosh_OG to add it was a typo on one page which a newspaper repeated that webster went with for some reason
Route and vehicle always gets me you seem to add in letters lol
In Ireland, it's spelt and pronounced Aluminium with 2 i's. And that's what's written on the box when you get buy it in the supermarket....Aluminium Foil. But we all call it "Tin Foil" in Ireland.
Same in UK
I live in the West Midlands England and find it amusing that I can understand you two much easier than I can understand people who live only a few hundred miles north of here. I mean the American pronunciation of tomato for instance is easy to follow and is obvious. When the word changes completely its more tricky and needs to be learnt.
That is very interesting! :)
As a Londoner I once had to ring up a farmer in Norfolk. He was an old-timer and spoke real old Norfolk accent. Three times I said "sorry can you say that again, I didn't quite catch it." To this day I still don't have a clue what he said!
As you live in the West Mids, you may know that Cannock is less than 10 miles from Stafford but the difference in the accent is huge!
Was once invited to a fancy dress party in Birmingham and the host told me over the phone that the theme was Spice - I was the only one who turned up dressed as an astronaut....
Yeah I'm I'm from the West Midlands too and Southern US uses so many of our sayings and pronunciations
The word that always gets me is Oregano. You say O-rag-en-oh. We say O-ree-gah-no
I am a Brit and I say
O rig gano not O ree gano.
@@DebraElias-uc6yz ... I'm also a Brit and I say O-ree-gah-no.
reh gano not ree gano
In northern england we say Spuds instead of patatoes 😊
Totties in Fife, Scotland. Tatties elsewhere😂
In East Anglia we also say Spuds.
i mean down south i hear spuds too
My girlfriend stuffed her mouth with spud😂.... No, no that just sounds wrong. 😂
I always find it funny how Americans pronounce compost with 2x different o sounds.
It's nice to see both of you in your video again. I can thoroughly empathise with Lindsey'slove love of words and their etymology.
I do hope your little girl, Sophia is well again very soon
Nice video guys, I am always amused by our different uses of the language. Many Americanisms used to be common in the UK, centuries ago. But your use of the French pronunciations of _herb_ and _fillet_ still crack me up. Speak English, dammit 😂!
Yes, when most of their English is influenced by Spanish from Mexico, why are they hanging onto French pronunciations? That's our prerogative 😂. What annoys me is when they come up against a word containing a prefix, usually, which has the same few letters and don't do what we do. If it comes to us from a different language it is going to be pronounced differently, probably e.g. "schedule". Every other word in English is said with a "sk" sound, like scheme (skeem) but schedule is shedyule. It is my most hated difference of pronunciation.
Friend is pronounced frend, so why is leisure pronounced leezure? If it followed a rule is should be lizure; also ceiling which is sealing comes from French "ciel" meaning sky. I could go on but I'd be here all night 😂. ❤ from UK 🇬🇧
@jenniferfox301 why would an ie word and an ei word need to rhyme?
@@aodhanmonaghan1268 they don't rhyme, but probably their roots come from different languages which pronounce combinations of letters differently than others. As many times England/Britain invaded other countries we were invaded many times by our closest neighbours hence the English language contains many contradictory "rules" for pronunciation, being derived from many other languages.
@jenniferfox301
ceiling is from the Latin celo (keh-loh) meaning "to hide", as a ceiling hides the roof. Celo is the same origin of conceal. Middle English had celing pronounced like say-leeng and meant wooden panels to cover the walls (and the roof).
Leisure is from Latin licet (lee-ket) meaning "to be allowed", via the intermediary Old French loisir (lwah-zeer) meaning "permission, respite, free time". Middle English leisir was pronounced like lie-seer. Not the modern leh-zhur.
Friend is from the Old English frēond and was pronounced like freh-ond. Middle English frend was pronounced as frend. Just like the modern word that has an unnecessary i added in.
The language has gone through a number of vowel shifts over the centuries, each covering most but not all of the dialects on the island.
I'm confused why you think 2 graphemes, i.e. two clusters of letters that are spelt differently, would rhyme/be homophones. It's far more understandable to think the same grapheme would rhyme in instances it doesn't, like friend and science (again, the late addition of the letter i to frend is helping nobody).
The Americans use French pronunciations for a lot of words because they more often than not came from England or its conquered lands, and the English were using French pronunciations. After all, from 1066 to the 1400s, the Kingdom of England was ruled by nobles in what's now France who merely saw England as an overseas territory. It's only after the conclusion of the Hundred Years War when most continental lands are lost that the monarchs start to see England as their primary land, and shift from using French to English as the language of governance within England.
This is why we say literature instead of bookcraft, amorous instead of lovesome, port instead of haven, dictionary instead of wordbook, and cause instead of ground/sake (we do still say on what grounds, but most other usage has been replaced).
As for schedule, both pronunciations are as right and wrong as each other. For most of English history, the word was pronounced sejuul or sedyuul. Until the 1700s it referred to a piece of paper. It's from the Old French cedule pronounced sedyuul. In turn it's from the Latin scheda pronounced skeda, which is in turn from Ancient Greek skhédē which is pronounced with a combination of S and the CH of Loch. The current shedyuul and skedyuul pronunciations are pretty new and both influenced by the spelling and the etymology. It's why you pronounce Greek ch words with a k today, like chiropractor and psyche, even when we often had an intermediate time of pronouncing those as ch.
This is why the Americans still retain the Middle English fall, as Britain changed from using harvest to fall and later to autumn, the colonists just kept using fall and didn't make subsequent change to autumn as much. A lot of so-called Americanisms are actually features of Old English and Middle English that the UK has moved away from but other parts of the former empire retained.
@@jenniferfox301 Don't get me started on 'quinoa'
I can 100% confirm we in the UK say Bald with an A (like Balled)...wtf is Mojo taking about?
The quality of the a in bald is subtly different... In England it's BAWld whereas in the U.S. it's BAHld
American is officially known as simplified English.
Good to know!
So like Chinese? English (Traditional) and english(simplified)? And what about your Former prisoner colony?
@keit99 Which one .we had to send the thieving Little Bastards all over the World.
@@keit99🫣
American is NOT a language.
You mention the variation across Britain. I live in the City of Bristol and there are so many differences in the city alone that is possible to guess what district they are from.
in the UK we say "Yorkshire" as "York Sher" or Lancashire as Lanca sher"
Interested to see a video about why many Americans replace 'T's in words with a 'D' when they say the word. And adding random 'Y's ("And" becoming "Aynd" for example).
I'm sure it's just a regional accent thing, depending on where you grew up.
T and D is interchangable in many languages over time for instance Deutschland in some old texts is spelt Teutschland. Same for Tag and Dag (day) Danke Thanks. A lot of Americans originate from german and low german countries too. Then it starts to make sense. Its speaking english with an accent in a way, same as how a lot of our regional accents originated.
Vase is pronounced with a z in the same way basil is pronounced with a z. S makes that sound in many words.
Its not the S that changes, it is the A. In the two cases you cite, it is said with a short vowel sound in English (var-se, ba-sil) as in the word ham, but with a long vowel in American (vay-se, bay-sil).
Yes, that was nonsense about Americans pronouncing words as they are written. Solder is a typical word they pronounce differently to the spelling.
@@Ollybus 'a' as in ham or 'a' as in way?
@@mrfill9999 There's no R in vase though. Why English people insert Rs where there are none ( draw-ring ! ) and mostly miss them out elsewhere ( doctor , harm ) defeats me.
@@auldfouter8661 No one pronounces drawing with an R in it, what are you talking about? As for the dropping of R, most English accents are non-rhotic, like the American Boston accent. As for Vase, we got it from the French so we pronounce it closer to their word for it, simple as that.
Hope Sophia feels better soon 🤧 poor girl bless her 🤗 sending a hug to her from across the pond 🏴 🦄✨🦄✨🦄
pee-can nut vs P'kaaaaahn nut always surprises me
Yep it sounds like you're saying bold when you're saying bald. 😂
As someone who used to visit the US a lot for work, it amazed me how often I wasn't understood. I'm English, so its my first language, and I don't have a strong regional accent! So, tomato could genuinely not be understood, even in context, and they weren't even being awkward!!
Add to the list of differences, semi, US sem-eye vs UK sem-ee. Iran (and Iraq), US eye-ran, UK ee-rahn.
Had the same problem here. Kiwi living in Oz, sigh.
Even in England we pronounce words differently from one side of the country to the other. In the east of England we pronounce castle as “carsel” where as in the north they say “caasel”. There are a lot more words we pronounce differently here to other brits.
To add to the pot, there's Uranium, Radium , Rubidium, osmium , plutonium all with IUM endings just like Aluminium.
and... platinum :)
Hi Steve and Lindsay, I'm a wee bit late. I think one difference of our languages is that , as you said, when you became independent our words went different ways. We pronounce ' Lieutenant ' as Lewtenant because we took it from the French language. When the word later entered American English it is pronounced differently. The same for ' Ballet ', pronounced ' Ballay '. Two words missed are ' Caribbean' . English is ' Cari beun ' American is ' Car ribeaun ' with 2 'r' . The home of the Carib people. Then we 'rout' and 'route'. English 'rout' is a verb . Like to 'rout' you enemy. 'Route' is a path to somewhere. In American english, the word is pronounced without an 'e'. With 'route', the 'e' is ignored by American english.
Sorry oops. We pronounce 'Lieutenant ' as 'Left tenant' because we took it the French.
In Scotland we say bald the way you do. I’ve never heard it pronounced the way the guy in the video did.
i remember in year 8 our food tech teacher going “you wouldn’t pronounce stone as ston, so it’s SCONE” and me silently thinking “yes but you wouldn’t pronounce gone as gOHn, so you may want to rethink that logic” - the way i see it, who cares how it’s pronounced as long as the message is communicated lol
Scone is also pronounced differently depending on where in uk ur from
@@charlienerd idk i think it varies person to person - i mean the whole reason there was a debate in our class was because we were split in how we pronounced it - like we all lived in the same town, but we pronounced it differently
In the UK we barely use the letter "z" at all. All "z" sounds are generally spelt with an "s".
All of our "ize" ending words are spelled "ise".
There is no such thing as "American English", it all just spelling mistakes.
Indeed the only words I know to use with "z" tend to be Brazil and Bizzare! 😄
@@jettser17UK ... Zoo, Zulu, Zesty, Bazooka, Blazer, Blizzard, Fizzy, Whizz, Zoom, Crazy. Hazy, Lozenge. .... Come on now you're just being LAZY.
Prize!
The way Americans pronounce and use words doesn't (generally speaking) bother me, but it does bother me when British people use American pronunciation or variants. Lever and leverage, privacy, oriented instead of orientated and many other things.
Btw, I do object to the term British English. The French speak French, the Portuguese speak Portuguese, the Spanish speak Spanish. I'm English and I speak English.
Right, but you're missing the context that all 3 of the countries you named also exported their language through colonization, and your languages have continued to evolve in your prior colonies. British English is a phrase intended to differentiate it from American English, Jamaican English, Australian English, etcetera.
@@deannamcmurtrey5794 So there is English, American English, Jamaican English, Australian English, etcetera.
@@eddiehawkins7049 I'm sorry but y'all don't control the world anymore my dude. You speak British English, according to the other 400 million people who speak English as their first language across the planet.
First of all, I would just like to say how much I like your channel. The one word I struggle with on how the USA pronounces is 'solder'. To me, it sounds like they are saying sod her.
Two Irishmen commented on two separate occasions : Oscar Wilde wrote: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." As George Bernard Shaw said: "England and America are two countries separated by a common language"
Would love to see you both react to accents in the uk it would be amazing. So many different sounds.
They'll need subtitles
He's done a video on West Country English before
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 it’s his wife’s opinion I would like to see though as well
They'll definitely need subtitles listening to a Scottish person, heck even I do half the time
Awe come oan we're no that difficult to unnerston
As part of teaching English, I've had to teach pronunciation to very many students and find it fascinating. Apart from trying get the sounds about right, there's no point in getting prissy about it. The first thing to remember is that you cannot take the pronunciation of a group of letters in one word to enforce the same set in another word (your 'vitamin' vs 'vital' is a good example). Consistency is a rare commodity in English. Also, there _is_ such a thing as American English. There are lots of varieties of English, including British English. Some people argue that there is only 'English', but that is incorrect, even in England.
Fun tip: If you want to annoy a boiled frog, rhyme Farage with the BrEng way of saying 'garage'.
With a lot of these, there are several acceptable pronunciations in British English. 'Scone' is an example of this. I say 'scon', my wife says 'skone'. There's no point in arguing about it. What is difficult is the current trend in American English to rhyme 'shone' with 'tone'.
A lot of British people pronounce 'bald' as 'bold'. The same goes for 'salt', which can be either 'sawt' (put a faint 'l' sound in there but not everyone does that) or 'solt'. Generally, an 'l' after a single 'a' is a silent letter that serves to change the sound of the 'a'. 'Walk and 'always' are examples of this. Not everyone makes it silent though. Consistency? What's that?
Agreed. English is a language with many, many varieties. I have a soft RP/"Southern Educated" accent and taught English in a working class area of Birmingham for several years. Pronunciation was always a point of discussion! Unfortunately, in the UK, pronunciation is often deeply connected to perceptions of class and education level. People often assume that I am more upper class, or richer, or smarter than I am based entirely on my accent.
All great points! Appreciate you providing your insight :)
We say carridge
@@christopherwatts1833 Yep, rhymes with garage and Farage. 😜
There's a rule coming from an origin in every single one, it's just that compared to some languages we have countless examples of separate rules for the same thing across the language.
But you can take the pronunciation of a group of letters in one word to enforce the same set in another word, just only for all examples where the same origin rule set can be applied.
Languages change over time, and it's perfectly legitimate for Americans to have changed pronunciation. But it pisses me off when Americans say we, who have been speaking English longer than you, are pronouncing it wrong.
Same here. We say things differently and I don't care. Its being told I'm saying it wrong that bugs me 😂
I think for me was the discussion between myself and an American Business person who spelt Night, Nite
One issue with US pronunciatuon is the dropping of the "ae" and "oe" vowel combinations from Greek-derived words in favour of just "e". This has changed the US pronunciation of some words where they now say "e" (as in "bed") instead of "ee". e.g. (o)esophagus, (o)estrogen, (a)esthete.
Inconsistently, you say "ee" in the words "encyclop(a)edia", "p(a)ediatrics" and "h(a)emophilia".
I like these reactions with your wife. It's nice to get another perspective/reaction.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it :)
@@reactingtomyroots I think you should do it this way on every video where she is available!!!
It is recognized that in some parts of the US American English is closer to 17th century English especially in the Appalachian mountains. Great video guys. Thanks.
lol no.
There are some completely unconnected parts that sound close, but they sound close because they are obviously not American having being so disconnected to not sound American. So to call that American English is a level of mental gymnastics that is beyond silly. Not only that, but those areas actually sound like some accents in Britain right now - so all you are really saying is that some areas that don't really speak American English sound a bit like some areas of Britain today, and as a result even those areas are not closer.
😂 sure, recognised by Americans. It’s not, it couldn’t possibly be. There was no standard 17th century English for it to be “closer to”.
@@danielriley7380recognized* get rid of that reta-r-ded S
@@danielriley7380you on an American channel, spell things American
English isn't "close" to the origin of english language. It is the origin!
I think the French, Germans, Turks, Italians, Spanish, Indians and several others may disagree with you in many cases!
@@GavinRegnartThe lingua Franca of the world is English, but the origins comes from the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Jutes and Saxons. Poet Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to write his works in English whereas the Kings courts at the time all spoke French, he basically stuck two fingers up at the Norman tongue being spoken since the invasion and chose to write them in English ( although it was a very different dialect of English that we have today ), we borrowed a few words from India such as Tiffin, Bungalow and Pyjamas and they are part of our language now too. Our language and spellings were altered by Webster, the American English comes from British English only with spellings and pronunciations changed by Webster because he didn’t like the French inflection within it.
When you say ball or bald it sounds the same as UK but when you said football it did sound more like footboll to my ears.
Also you can't see the z in vase, but you yanks often replace the s with a z we spell realise you spell it with a zed but you call zed zee.
I'm Australian, and l pronounce it 'vi-ta-min'; although, I have heard others say 'vit-a-min'.
No it wasn`t technically it was, English is the language which originated in England, clue is in the name England, English, Anglo. this is why we are closer to it i guess. Yes there are different forms, accents, dialects all over the world, English allows this as a language and which makes it so wonderful.
It did not originate in England. The language was introduced to the whole of the British Isles, with the *English referencing its use in the lower parts of the Isles. In the Northern regions it is called Scots. It was used for centuries prior to the creation of England. The Anglo-Saxons - created the language to communicate throughout Western Europe.
None of that has to to with modern pronunciations. Middle English and Old English were totally different. Many of the modern pronunciations (there are at least two ways to pronounce 'pronunciation'') and spellings in British English are actually newer then many American versions. Not everything, but many of the common "gripes" in British English are actual Victorian affectations and the American version was once valid including the -ize suffix.
@@paulthomas8262 well said! Many Americans speak "proper" English on account of their settler ancestors.
Webster also didn't change American English he chose form variants. Color being logical from the Latin root.
English is a Germanic language...Anglo comes from Germany. The original Germanic tribes who came here named our country after their home town....Angles. They named it Angleland...which in time became England. Angles and Saxons (from Saxony) are both German places of origin.
The one i love Americans saying is the word vehicle.
There's so many letters in their pronunciation.
The one word that these comparison channels always miss & is IMO the most different sounding from either side of the pond is the pronunciation of the word "inquiry".
One Americanism I don't like is a culinary one. Carmelise. Carmel is a town in California and I'd love to know how they carmelise something. Caramelisation is a process where over gentle heat sugar is melted and taken to a point where it caramelises and developes a toffee like taste!
English in itself is an amalgamation of several languages from the island's long history. First, native languages from the tribes in the various areas/countries, (including the variations of Welsh and Gaelic) then there is Latin from the Romans, Norse languages from the Vikings, French from the numerous interactions with France, and even Shakespeare literally making up words that have become everyday words due to his popularity, and so on. As a result English is a very strange language comprised of many other languages and helps explain why different pronunciations happen, not just in different areas, but also why similar spelling "rules" for different words actually sound different.
Well said.
@@ed.z. Thank you 😁
Greek's in their too.
Don't forget the odd Indian word. Eg. pajamas
@@britsticher8889 YES and, karma, curry, and Cherokee or “Cher” ooops I got the wrong Indian. But there’s also bamboo, yoga, Yogi as in Bera. And GURU, and my favorite: Houdini.
If a person is not in your room "she" can be said, but if the person is beside you, you call them by their name ...
Depends, you should certainly lead with the name but you wouldn't say "Mary says that Mary doesn't like spicy food so Mary will just have the soup". Instead you would say "Mary says that she doesn't like spicy food so she will just have the soup".
As I heard as a child. "Who's She? The cats mother?"
Hey Steve, I don't know why "bald" is even on the list because I pronounce it exactly as you and your wife do and I've never heard anybody say it any differently, English or American.
I'm sure it's a more regional thing!
Same here in North Wales too. No difference whatsoever.
This is balld not bold !
It was poorly explained in the video but:
In the USA, "bold" and "bald" can sound very similar.
In the UK in RP, "bold" and "bald" sound completely and utterly distinct from each other.
In both the UK and the US, the pronunciations of "bald" sound similar.
I would pronounce it Al-U-min-yum. Phonetically. Although if it was aluminium foil we Brits would of course call it tin foil
On the subject of regional variations of accents, there is also variations within those regions. There is often clear differences between neighbouring towns such as mine and the next which is only 5miles away.
When Americans say Z they pronounce it Zee. So Zebra vs Zeebra… So how do you say the Zulu’s are coming! The Zeelu’s are coming! 😂
No. I personally would say Zoo-loo
As a software developer in the UK, coding is in American english due to Microsoft and other US companies while everything else we do is in British english. So we have to fix code by changing S to Z in lots of words, while some words like grey and gray still catches me out. I dont have to pronounce the words but I do need to fix all the spelling differences.
Don't Gray and Grey both work in most coding languages? It took me a while to get used to dropping the U in 'color' though I'll admit.
@@MrVisualHigh authorize is the one that always gets me still
GrEy= European. GrAy=American. That's how I remember it.
Many years ago, in the US with (all) American friends and looking out to sea, watching dolphins, one said something like "Oh! just there by the BOO-ee..." - Being the ONLY Brit there I said "by the WHAT???" And she said (paraphrasing) "to the left of the BOO-ee", while pointing at a BUOY! Now everyone in the UK and Ireland knows what a _(our pronunciation)_ 'BOY' is. As in a 'nautical' float or an object moored to the bottom of a sea or river, to mark a sailing channel or something _(such as a danger)_ lying under the water; or you might say someone 'swam out toward the buoy'. Pronounced 'BOY' because it comes from the word BUOYANT! I got into a whole conversation about WHY do Americans say BOO-EE, from the word BUOYant!? Not one could tell me. Then watching _(I think?)_ 'Deep Space Nine' or 'ST Voyager' - they said "...I have launched a BOO-EE to warn others..." _(or something very similar!)._ 😅 😂 🤣
Yeah that one gets under my skin too. They don’t say boo_ee_ant.
Vase comes from the middle french vase pronounced vaz, so while the uk pronunciation is slightly different, it's closer to the original pronunciation
Australia uses a mix of both though usually follows the British pronunciation
I'm confused by the "bald" one, too...
The quality of the a in bald is subtly different... In England it's BAWld whereas in the U.S. it's BAHld
Me and my husband both come from the Northwest of the UK but different areas. I say scone/gone he says scone/bone 😅
If your doing regional accents soon I can’t wait till you hear the scousers say book, look and cook.
My mums family are from the south west coast of Ireland and my dads are from Liverpool so I have an interesting scouse/Irish twang 🥴
Love it! :)
Garage isn’t really pronounced differently in the south of England. GarAge (the American pronunciation) sounds posh or pretentious to the British ear, and those attributes are stereotypically associated with the south of England. It’s only a stereotype
I can suggest two more words that could have appeared in the video
Jaguar - jag-you-ar in English and jag-wah in American
But the two that always set my teeth on edge are buoy and route
In English buoy sounds like boy while in American it sounds like boo-ee
Route, (how you go from point a to point b when travelling), is correctly pronounced to sound like root, not as Americans say it, 'rowt' to sound like rout which is actually an overwhelming military defeat and thus a completely different word.
I also find the American habit of turning nouns into verbs rather confusing especially where a perfectly good verb already exists.
A prime example: verb; to burgle, noun; burglar - the person who does the action (verb) so WHY do Americans find it necessary to turn burglar into buglarise creating a wholly unnecessary new verb?.
I also agree with Steve & Lindsey in that I couldn't hear any difference between the English & American pronunciation of bald.
The short form of mathematics intrigues me. In US English it's math but in British English it's maths because the original word ends with 's'.
As an American ,I can answer for math vs maths question, from what I heard it’s maths in other countries because you learn different types of math in one school year, in the US, we have one type of math for the whole school year, for example, in 5 th grade ,we would have basic math for a full year and the next year, we will have algebra for the whole year etc…
Most English has a Germanic or French, root, with a good dash of Latin and Greek.
US and American English also tend to have slightly different spelling.
And a splash of Danish, given we were invaded and settled by the Danes. Kind of a big one.
I mean something like 60% of the English language comes from Latin as it stands today.
The "closer to its origins" is a curious one when you consider words like "gotten" - a word used by Shakespeare - disappeared from British English but was retained in the US (and is now making its way back into the UK).
Yes, language grows and mutates over time. Also, America had migrants from all over Europe and elsewhere early in its history, which would impact the language. I think the word "skillet" is still in common use in America, but rarely used in the UK. Two nations separated by a common language. Not sure how "could care less" and "couldn't care less" happened.
"Gotten" never disappeared. It was retained in many regional dialects, but it dropped out of usage in the fashionable South-East. Another, similar, example would be "Fall" for Autumn. Originally English (also used by Shakespeare and his contemporaries) but fell out of usage here whiule continuing in the US.
Same with tardy, I've never heard it used in England. Don't know about the other home nations
@@StormhavenGaming Fall just failed to take over more than anything, there are written records of Autumn a long time before Fall was used. Fall came, wasn't really popular, and went away.
I was well into my forties before I discovered that gotten (a word used all the time where I live in Scotland) isn't used all over the UK...
The pronunciation of these words is a real non-issue. It’s all to do with how vowels are sounded. How you guys say it isn’t wrong, just different 😊 the area I’m from, we say ‘carriage’ to rhyme with ‘garage’, and the ‘vi’ in ‘vital’ would rhyme with ‘cry’, so we pronounce that the same as you.
What does drive us nuts is the amount of North Americans who say “I could care less” because that does not mean what you think it does 😂
I also hear a lot of Americans say “on accident”. I’m not saying that’s wrong but it’s bizarre to me. I’m pretty sure most British people say “by accident”.
Several Southern English accents wouldn't rhyme "carriage" with "garage". They use a long a sound and a soft g in the "French style".
@@StormhavenGaming well yeah, each region has different ways. I’m from South West/Bristol area and people I know say ‘carriage’ the same as ‘garage’. So I’m just speaking from my experience.
@@DeviousWeaselUK Absolutely. I wasn't meaning to argue. Just pointing out the massive variation that exists even in small geographical areas. I'm originally from Hampshire, so not that far from you.
@@StormhavenGaming no no, it’s all good! No arguments here, you were right, I shouldn’t have made it so generalised :) As Steve said, there are so many accents on this small island lol.
On accident is actually grammatically incorrect even in American English.
I love that Apple MacBook Unibody 2008 keynote or whatever, where the British English-speaking Jony Ive says *_aluminium_* a load of times, and then after he goes off stage, one of the American English-speaking employees ruins it straight away with "so, the beautiful new *_aluminum_* unibody enclosure on the new MacBook Pro" or whatever 😂
In the Musical My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins says in a song, In some places English completely disappears , in America they haven't used it for years 😃
I've only heard 'vital' pronounced the same as in the US. I think everyone here always says 'vitality' the same as the US too but I may have heard it pronounced as 'vittality' once or twice? Not sure and it's very rare if it happens. There's also a rare word 'victuals' meaning 'food or provisions' which is pronounced like 'vittles' 😂 'Potato' is always pronounced the same as in the US, I think they just made up that other pronunciation (to rhyme with British 'tomato') for the song. I'd rather we rhymed 'tomato' with 'potato' like in the US but what can you do 😂 'Aluminium' is the international scientific standard word just as convention but they went with the American spelling of 'Sulfur' as the standard rather than the British 'Sulphur'. I always rhyme 'scone' with 'gone'. 'Garage' is almost always stressed on the first syllable here, even for people who pronounce it in the more American way, but I think many younger people have adopted the American pronunciation with the stress on the second syllable. Awesome video! I love anything language, phonetics, linguistics, grammar... 😍 Cheers! xx
I've never heard vital pronounced with a short i, however old English Vittal meaning food is pronounced with a short i
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The UK has more accents than any other country. So much so that it's sometimes difficult for a person from one part of the country to understand a person from another part of the country.
Sorry, what did you say?🤔
It took us nearly 1000 years to develop our language, which is four times as long as the US has exisited, so they way we pronounce things is correct. One of the things which really really really annoys English people, is the way that instead of using the correct word, which already exists you create a new cumbersome version. For instance recently I heard that HM the KIng was coronated, by which I presume they actually mean crowned, a word which has existed or at least 600 years. I also recently heard americans using the expression coversating, which they were using instead of the word coversing, it does mostly seem to be black americans, and I wonder if they have less acess to higher levels of education.
Cashimir Funk coined the word vitamine while working at the Lister Insititute in London, he combined the word VITAL with the word AMINE and came up with the name VITAMINE, which was later shortened to Vitamin, when it was discoved that not all vitamins contain an amine, an example being vitamin C, which does not have one.
A silent ‘e’ at the end of a one or two syllable word tells you to use a long vowel sound for the earlier vowel(s) in the word. A long vowel sound is the sound a vowel makes when you say its name, like when you are reciting the alphabet, a-b-c-d-e-f-g…; that is saying a letter’s name. For example: Say the word ‘wine’ and listen to how the ‘i’ sounds. Now say the word ‘win’ and listen to how the ‘i’ sounds. The ‘i’ in ‘wine’ is a long vowel sound and the ‘i’ in ‘win’ is a short vowel sound. So, one of the things the silent ‘e’ at the end of a word does is indicate long vowel sounds for preceding vowels.
The silent ‘e’ also indicates when to us softer sounding consonants in some words. For example: Say the words ‘grace’ and ‘age,’ the consonants ‘c’ and ‘g’ have a softer sound than they do in words like ‘cat’ and ‘go.’ The silent ‘e’ is an indication to you to use these softer sounding consonants in words.
I remember being taught that "e on the end changes (short vowel) into (long vowel)"
There is also "anti". In America pronounced "ant eye" and it UK nearly rhymes with "aunty".
In our house aluminium is called tin foil
Yes Nigel or foil for short.