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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  28 วันที่ผ่านมา +69

    What's you fun idea for a shortened form of a word? I'd love the idea of elephants becoming just known as phants lol.

    • @eroditjakupi1016
      @eroditjakupi1016 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      To call the alphabet just albet, or everything efthing

    • @DrFerno727
      @DrFerno727 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Umbrella → Umbie

    • @_AstaLily
      @_AstaLily 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      As a Brit, calling a chocolate biscuit a choccie biccie will never not make me happy
      I think we should refer to more types of biscuits as biccies. Imagine oat biccies!

    • @kandipiatkowski8589
      @kandipiatkowski8589 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      One new one I like is TLDR (too long, didn't read). As a gen X person, I'm guilty of typing long messages, most without shortened words. Another one I use regularly is Tho (though). Sometimes I even use a single letter/number to replace a word (U, 4, 8, etc).

    • @zackatwood2867
      @zackatwood2867 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Vic is victim
      Cell is cellular telephone
      Car is sport utility vehicle

  • @NorthernTigress
    @NorthernTigress 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +262

    As a Canadian, who grew up learning both English and French, I still see bus as a shortening of "autobus" rather than "omnibus".

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      autobus distinguished from Trolleybus . (strictly they should be Trolleyomnibuses - though often original known as trackless trams)

    • @Bye_girl
      @Bye_girl 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      This is similar to my experience! I grew up in romanian and and I see bus as a shortening of both autobus and microbus!

    • @AdrianRP1995
      @AdrianRP1995 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      If I understand correctly, autobus also comes from omnibus, with the shortening to "bus" happening before, right?

    • @PNate_KTrainVer.
      @PNate_KTrainVer. 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Same

    • @MaximusLongus
      @MaximusLongus 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      ​@@highpath4776I'll just throw in some conjecture here since I don't really have the time to research this properly right now. But iirc omnibuses existed before self propelled vehicles became a thing - in the form of large, horse drawn carriages.
      So in the same way the horseless carriage became known as an automobile, a horseless omnibus may have become known as an autobus.

  • @kallelellacevej2234
    @kallelellacevej2234 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +208

    My favourite is how automobile is shortened to “Auto” in German, but “Bil” in the Scandinavian languages.

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

      And both of them are meant to mean "car". Also, the word "car" is derived from "automobile cart", as carts came before cars and are defined as an object that runs on wheels that is pulled or pushed by an external force, whether it is a human, an animal, or a machine. When the automobile was invented, it basically represented a cart that is pulled by itself, as its engine is an integral part of the vehicle, which is why, it was called an "automobile cart", which was then shortened to "car".

    • @kallelellacevej2234
      @kallelellacevej2234 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Very interesting! I never knew that

    • @Redhotsmasher
      @Redhotsmasher 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      ​​@@AlbertTheGamer-gk7snI always thought "car" was a clipping of "horseless carriage" or something, but I could be wrong.

    • @excancerpoik
      @excancerpoik 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn does this mean the words car bil and auto are all realated

    • @annabelholland
      @annabelholland 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@Redhotsmasher with regarding railways, that might be the case. I hear that car(s)s and carriage(s) are interchangable.

  • @frenchfriar
    @frenchfriar 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +134

    I love how we got taxi & cab from taximeter + cabriolet > taximeter + cab > taxicab > either taxi, or cab.

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I always thought taxicab had something to do with taxation, which makes no sense considering cabs are usually not funded by tax.

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +394

    All Correct -> Oll Korrect -> OK

    • @HalfEye79
      @HalfEye79 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +114

      OK -> Okay

    • @ace2731
      @ace2731 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      Yeah, both of you are right.

    • @MatthewConnellan-xc3oj
      @MatthewConnellan-xc3oj 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +133

      All Correct -> Oll Korrect -> Okay -> OK -> Oklahoma

    • @magnusmcgee993
      @magnusmcgee993 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      OK comes from someone running in an election (at least that was the version I heard)

    • @mingfanzhang8927
      @mingfanzhang8927 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      ❤😊❤😊❤

  • @dmrmkw
    @dmrmkw 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +108

    scuba=self-contained underwater breathing apparatus; radar=radio detection and ranging

    • @nickbob2003
      @nickbob2003 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Doesn’t that mean scuba suit is redundant? Or maybe not since the apparatus could just be referring to the face mask

    • @walrusmaximus
      @walrusmaximus 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      It is not redundant. As you said, the mask (breathing apparatus) is the scuba. The suit does not help you breathe.
      Also, bonus, there are also SCBA's (self contained breathing apparatus). Used by people like firefighters.

    • @christiansebastianlauritse2404
      @christiansebastianlauritse2404 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation = Laser.
      So US Americans, unless you spell "stimulated" with a Z, laser isn't with a Z either. ;)

    • @DanDaFreakinMan
      @DanDaFreakinMan 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      A bit cheating since those are more like abbreviation / acronym no?

    • @CATel_
      @CATel_ 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​Acronym, yes ​@@DanDaFreakinMan

  • @susanvaughan4210
    @susanvaughan4210 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +67

    Within the community of people who love elephants and support elephant rescue organizations, elephants are nearly always referred to as "ellies."

    • @ezeke959
      @ezeke959 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Oh that makes it cuter

  • @SiqueScarface
    @SiqueScarface 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +47

    An interesting shortening, now loathed in Europe, is "Soccer", which was coined in England after the Football Association published their Association Rules in 1863. When a team was playing "Football according to Association rules" (and not for instance "Rugby rules" or "American Football rules"), they were playing "Association Football" or "Soc" for short - and in the fashion of the time, slightly expanded to "Soccer".

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      not to be confused with SOCO - Scene Of Crime Officer

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Association Football >> association >> assoccer >> soccer. I've never heard of 'soc' as a shortening...

    • @SiqueScarface
      @SiqueScarface 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@InventorZahran It didn‘t really exist. But if you want to explain how to get to it, it‘s an intermediate step.

    • @bountyjedi
      @bountyjedi 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ah, I love it when Americans spell Britain as ”Europe"😂
      Where I'm from nobody has strong opinions on whether you say "soccer" or "football". The former might even be more common due to American influence. This despite the native word being "fotboll"

    • @SiqueScarface
      @SiqueScarface 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@bountyjedi There is quite a difference between Europe the continent and the European Union. And I've experienced the same rebuffal of the "Soccer" word in Germany or in France.

  • @alanr4447a
    @alanr4447a 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    6:50 "Mrs." has come to be pronounced as the word "missus", but the abbreviation itself is based on "mistress". Other clippings include: "zoo" for "zoological garden", "info" for "information"; "advertisement" just partly shortened to "advert"; anything that holds a "convention", or "con", but not a "con" (confidence) artist, or a "con" (-vict). Plus some based on names of muscles: "abs" for "abdominals", "lats" for "laterals", "pecs" for "pectorals", "glutes" for "gluteals"... Elsewhere, "television" is just "TV", "et cetera" etc...

  • @sdspivey
    @sdspivey 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    A taxi is also called a cab. Both came from the term "taximeter cabriolet."
    Mrs. comes from "mistress" not "missus". "Care package" was around long before the acronym, meaning it is a backronym.

  • @grantbmilburn
    @grantbmilburn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +42

    When i was taking piano(forte) lessons as a teen(ager) in the (19)70's we had books issued by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for their pianoforte examinations. It's now the ABRSM piano exams. And as for the violoncello examinations...

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Is ABRSM pronounced "Abrosum"?

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      If piano is short for pianoforte, then why isn't harp short for harpsichord?

    • @randomlightstand
      @randomlightstand 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@InventorZahranNo, short for Harpsichord would be Harpsi

    • @randomlightstand
      @randomlightstand 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@InventorZahranWhy does my reply keep getting deleted?

  • @pedromenchik1961
    @pedromenchik1961 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +59

    Fun fact: in Portuguese, we still call bus “ônibus”

    • @sujirokimimami00
      @sujirokimimami00 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Em espanhol eles chamam de buseta kkkkkkkkkkkk

    • @derkommissar4986
      @derkommissar4986 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      ​@@sujirokimimami00talvez en españa porq nunca escuche eso xd

    • @AdrianRP1995
      @AdrianRP1995 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@derkommissar4986No, en España tampoco, se lo ha sacado del culo

    • @TheDinisPT
      @TheDinisPT 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      *In Brazilian Portuguese. Every portuguese speaking country has it's own word. Autocarro in Portugal, São Tomé and Guinea-Bissau, Machimbombo in Angola and Mozambique, toca-toca in Cape Verde and microlete in Timor

    • @MarcoAntonio-hw7si
      @MarcoAntonio-hw7si 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ​​​​@@sujirokimimami00buseta em espanhol (espanhol colombiano se não me engano) quer dizer micrônibus em português. Ônibus em espanhol geralmente é ómnibus, colectivo, autobús ou bus msm

  • @grantbmilburn
    @grantbmilburn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    Some of my favourite contractions:
    Loaf-ward> Lord
    Fanatic> Fan
    Mobile> Mob
    Boatswain> Bosun
    Australia> Oz
    And my own country NZ (where The Loaf-ward of the Rings was made into a moving picture.)

    • @everestyt266
      @everestyt266 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      my favorite contraction is "y'ain't", which is a contraction of the 2 contractions "y'all" and "ain't", which are the contractions of "you all" and "are not" respectively.

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Mobile Phone in Liverpool is Moby

    • @Raadicality
      @Raadicality 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Loaf Ward???
      Guess I learned a new word

    • @byeguyssry
      @byeguyssry 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@@everestyt266 I thought y'ain't is just You are not?

    • @everestyt266
      @everestyt266 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@byeguyssry the "you" there is plural, so you can also use the exclusively plural "y'all,"which I prefer because it makes "y'ain't" a double contraction.

  • @theGypsyViking
    @theGypsyViking 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

    I went to the zoological garden and saw a hippopotamus lying upon the grasses by the riverbank of her enclosure.

    • @londonalicante
      @londonalicante 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      The clipping "zoo" was popularised by the song "walking in the zoo" by Alfred Vance

    • @lbgamer6166
      @lbgamer6166 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was sitting in the omnibus stop, I saw a zoological garden nearby.

  • @zekel.h.17
    @zekel.h.17 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    9:49 an individual with both autism and ADHD may have their condition referred to as AuDHD, where the "Au-" is sounded out since it comes from "autism," while the "-DHD" is read out as an initialism.

    • @Fasteroid
      @Fasteroid 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And just like that, you've created an abbreviation that does not strictly match any one type from this video! Language is kind of amazing.

    • @DefinitelyNotYT
      @DefinitelyNotYT 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Audi HD

    • @angeldude101
      @angeldude101 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Clipping an initialism... why does that sound so wrong, but the result when contracted somehow works? (Probably has something to do with the clipping of "autism" standing in for the initial A.)
      Also I don't know how common it is, but I generally type AutDHD rather than AuDHD.

  • @sharky98
    @sharky98 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +81

    3:52 My brain cannot comprehend how the numbers are not aligned either vertically or horizontally 😂

    • @hrayz
      @hrayz 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I took a moment, but came to the conclusion that the names that would be filled in would then fit the spacing.

    • @ellotheearthling
      @ellotheearthling 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Aligning the numbers like that should be illegal

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      As someone whose cans in the pantry all have labels facing outwards, I feel your pain.

  • @RayKremer78
    @RayKremer78 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

    Careful with the acronym examples. The dictionary gives an etymology for "care" going back to German and Norse. "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere" is clearly a backronym.

    • @nlpnt
      @nlpnt 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      It's a bacronym on multiple levels as when the organization started just after WW2 it was "Coordinated American Relief for Europe".

  • @disneytriviabuff8188
    @disneytriviabuff8188 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    One I immediately thought of at the start that you didn't mention is "bra" for "brassiere". That one has become so common that I had no idea "bra" was a clipping until my mom told me.

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    One of my favorites is 3M -- originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. Always thought that was a cool way of handling that mouthful of a name.

  • @FoggyD
    @FoggyD 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +38

    Yo bro, saw some dope 'fantz at the zoo last week!
    (Having typed that, it occurs to me that "zoo" is a massive shortening of "zoological park" too.)

    • @aramisortsbottcher8201
      @aramisortsbottcher8201 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      bro is a shortening too.

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@aramisortsbottcher8201And "yo" is short for 'hello'

    • @drivernjax
      @drivernjax 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      And "zoo" in zoological park isn't pronounced zoo.

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@drivernjax it's zo-ological

    • @drivernjax
      @drivernjax 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@DragonTheOneDZA Oh, yes. I learned that pronunciation over 30 years ago.

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +48

    I'll say it once more: When you do initial AND final clipping, I call that word a medonym. Med for middle, Nym for name. I coined that word last year, and I hope you use it in your vocab!

    • @strawberryutopia
      @strawberryutopia 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I use it so often it’s morphed into “don” over time 🙃

    • @rossjennings4755
      @rossjennings4755 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      The pedantic part of my brain wants to say that it should be called a "mesonym" instead, by analogy with words like "Mesozoic", "Mesopotamia", "mesothelioma". When we do get "med" it's usually followed by an "i": "median", "medium", "Mediterranean".

    • @EJJunkill
      @EJJunkill 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I will use it now!

    • @me0101001000
      @me0101001000 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@rossjennings4755 I see what you're saying, but I said medonym purely because mesonym doesn't feel as nice when I say it. That's all.

    • @KristopherBel
      @KristopherBel 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@rossjennings4755medinyn would work too

  • @lorraineliggera4229
    @lorraineliggera4229 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    Isn't Mrs. an abbreviation for "mistress" and we just use a corrupted oral for of the word?

    • @-originalLemon-
      @-originalLemon- 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "a corrupted oral" some words need to be shortened.

  • @ProfessorAlbert-de9sc
    @ProfessorAlbert-de9sc 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    What!? The longest word in english is just 45 letters long!!!! In Norwegian it is said to be "minoritets­ladningsbærer­diffusjons­koeffisient­målings­apparatur", a word that is 60 letters long. In second place we have "fylkes­trafikk­sikkerhetsutvalgs­sekretariatsleder­funksjon", made up of 55 letters.

    • @djw7141
      @djw7141 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      What’s the translations?

    • @qazw5414
      @qazw5414 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      60?! pathetic.

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wales:

    • @djw7141
      @djw7141 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@DragonTheOneDZA the final boss

    • @BiGCheese009
      @BiGCheese009 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      If you forget the space anything is long.
      Hiragana has entered the chat.

  • @karabearcomics
    @karabearcomics 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    I can't help but think of how contractions can go even further than mentioned. People often think of them as contracting two words, but we often go even further. I mean, the "they'd" example can be extended if you want to say "they would have" to they'd've, but I also know there are instances like when one wants to say "do you want to" and shortens it to "d'yunna".

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      u wanna bet ?

    • @CatulusVT-yy3vj
      @CatulusVT-yy3vj 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      There's always the whom'st'd've copypasta as an example of an extreme contraction

    • @Greyhawksci
      @Greyhawksci 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      They'dn't've missed that if only y'all'd've spoken up sooner.

    • @ShowierData9978
      @ShowierData9978 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      bruh my ADHD mind cant deal with multiple contractions :/

  • @KryptikM3
    @KryptikM3 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    Using Captain Charisma himself as an example of the word makes this entire video worth it

  • @LiamNoblet95
    @LiamNoblet95 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    “I luv da ida of lang n words so much” this is kinda like that

  • @glenngraham5859
    @glenngraham5859 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Missed one category. Australian isms, where we clip a word, but add an "o" or an "ie". For example, arvo for afternoon, servo for service station or tradie for tradesmen.

    • @phygs
      @phygs 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      would that fall under diminutives?

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Also, "tog" for swimsuit as well.

  • @martinschlegel1823
    @martinschlegel1823 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I really like how you can take shortened words and use their long forms to make something sound formal, important or oldfashioned depending on the context. It is a great writing tool.

  • @Pining_for_the_fjords
    @Pining_for_the_fjords 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    An interesting thing about the word "automobile" is it gave us the English prefix "auto-", which refers to things related to cars, and auto is the word for car in several languages. However Danish and Norwegian took the "bil" part of the word and made bil the word for car.

    • @modmaker7617
      @modmaker7617 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      In Polish, we use "auto" for car and "autobus" for bus.

    • @Furienna
      @Furienna 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      It is actually "bil" in Swedish too.

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      The word "car" is derived from "automobile cart", as carts came before cars and are defined as an object that runs on wheels that is pulled or pushed by an external force, whether it is a human, an animal, or a machine. When the automobile was invented, it basically represented a cart that is pulled by itself, as its engine is an integral part of the vehicle, which is why, it was called an "automobile cart", which was then shortened to "car".

    • @Pining_for_the_fjords
      @Pining_for_the_fjords 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Interesting, I didn't know that.

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      autogyro is a form of helicopter generally for one or two people

  • @de-fault_de-fault
    @de-fault_de-fault 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    A fun mix and match example that came to mind: "Soccer" clips the "socc" part from "association football" but since that's not enough it's also got an "-er" tacked on as a kind of diminutive. Ironically the term is most popular in the US, where we don't really use -er diminutives otherwise.

  • @tomhalla426
    @tomhalla426 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +26

    In “Guests of the Ayatollah”, the American hostages said CIA as an intitialism, see eye aye, while the Iranian “students” said it as an acronym, seeah.

    • @RogerRamos1993
      @RogerRamos1993 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Seeah in Portuguese, as well.

    • @MrRhombus
      @MrRhombus 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Saying CIA as see eye ay is an acronym? What?

    • @tomhalla426
      @tomhalla426 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@MrRhombus It is an initialism, like saying FBI as eff bee eye

    • @Grievous_Nix
      @Grievous_Nix 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@MrRhombus initialisms are pronounced letter by letter: CIA, FBI, USA
      Acronyms are pronounced as words: NASA, NATO, radar, laser

  • @ellotheearthling
    @ellotheearthling 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    I have never in my life heard someone call a helicopter a copter

    • @EJJunkill
      @EJJunkill 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      It was reasonably common waaaay back in the day, as I recall. I think most people say "chopper" now.

    • @ellotheearthling
      @ellotheearthling 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @EJJunkill I’ve have occasionally heard people say chopper, but I’ve mostly only heard helicopter

    • @pynchon9
      @pynchon9 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Roflcopter

    • @Lexivor
      @Lexivor 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      My favorite vehicle in all of Marvel comics is the Thanos-Copter.

    • @ShawnRavenfire
      @ShawnRavenfire 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      "I thought we called them 'choppers.'"
      "Well, now we call them 'hueys.'"
      (Yeah, that's an obscure "Short Circuit" quote.)

  • @RabidJohn
    @RabidJohn 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One of my favourites is perambulator becoming pram, which I only know from reading 'Peter Pan' as a kid.
    Also 'goodbye' starting out as 'God be with ye' becoming a written abbreviation 'Godbwye', then vowel shifting and losing the awkward 'w' to be spoken.
    Back when I was playing CoD4 in 2007 a Swedish kid on TeamSpeak said "Lol" when the rest of us were laughing at something, which just made us laugh even more.

  • @Benni777
    @Benni777 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Ohhhh god, this vid takes me back to last year in Linguistics class when we learned about clipping. The professor gave wayyy too many examples, and she went way too fast. Actually going to your channel for topics that she didn’t make sense, helped so much, and I still watch u today (I was subbed to u before that class, but I really watched you during that class) that’s why I’m so excited that people are still invested in this channel just as much as I am. Keep going with the hard work Patrick! 🙏🏼☺️

  • @fjolliff6308
    @fjolliff6308 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    "They'd've" is my favorite weird contraction that might not even be in the dictionary.
    "They would have"

    • @TheSkyGuy77
      @TheSkyGuy77 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Whom'st've
      Who(m) must have

    • @angeldude101
      @angeldude101 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Multi-contractions are fun.
      "would, should, could?"
      "wouldn't've, shouldn't've, couldn't've."

  • @grantbmilburn
    @grantbmilburn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Congrats to the French for shortening some of the longer Larin words. So parabolare became parler. That means it's a parliament and not a parabolament. Also compute became count and fragile became frail. However, top prize for turning aqua into the sound "o".

  • @SamWal
    @SamWal 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Fun fact: in Polish language omnibus means person who know a lot about everything

  • @Cassandra_Johnson
    @Cassandra_Johnson 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I enjoy how wrong the complex contractions feel in writing... Shouldn't've for example.

  • @Scratchydoesmusic
    @Scratchydoesmusic 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    we need a name explain on why you sometimes end sentences with a voweluh

  • @themarsalien
    @themarsalien 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I love how he says uh after every word ending in consonants

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    So the short bus is *really* the SHORT 'bus'! ;-)
    Most of these shortenings don't bother me, but for some reason, changing refrigerator to fridge does bother me.
    I also don't care for "rizz" but I guess I'll get used to it.

    • @gcb345
      @gcb345 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I see that I'm not the only one who thought of 'short bus'.

  • @stephenbenner4353
    @stephenbenner4353 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My favorite example of writing using no contractions is the Cohn brothers’ remake of True Grit. The actors do not use contractions either.

  • @jerrybiv1441
    @jerrybiv1441 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm only 32 & have ALWAYS been a proud Charismatic young man, who has an undeniable Charisma, with the way I speak, I simply REFUSE to say that I've got the RIZZ & HOW DARE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY DECLARE RIZZ as the word of the year for 2023!!!!!!!! JUST WTF!?!?!?!?!?!

  • @blakdeth
    @blakdeth 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The longest word gets a LOT longer if you're allowed chemical compounds.

  • @aaron9797
    @aaron9797 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    the all terrain armored transport from star wars is shortened to AT-AT but some use it as an acronym others use it as an initialism

  • @mrham443
    @mrham443 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    In Uruguay we actually use "ómnibus" quite a lot. However we do often shorten it to "bondi". I thought it was a local thing.

  • @SketchyTigers
    @SketchyTigers 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    nice argument, however i have already portrayed you as a sad tedious long word vehicle while i have portrayed myself as a happy brilliant short word vehicle

  • @astral_haze
    @astral_haze 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    can'o would probably be redundant often because usually people can just say "can" and drop the object and any other attached verbs like "do"

  • @bluntizard4481
    @bluntizard4481 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    2:31 Omnibus is still used, just now it refers to spending bills in Congress "omnibus bill"

  • @iamthedogtor
    @iamthedogtor 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    One of my favourite clippings is "dude", which is believed to have come from "dudesman" (a dated word for scarecrow)

  • @AutoReport1
    @AutoReport1 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Elephant was already shortened to elp in old English. It only dropped out of use because the Normans got it confused with help. "What is dis invoice? I asked you to give me 'elp, not an elefant!"

    • @angeldude101
      @angeldude101 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Those poor h-dropping people...

  • @egegur7130
    @egegur7130 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I think one of the main reasons as to how some shortened versions stick and some dont is distungishabiliy. Like the shortened version should be unique enough to not be confused with anything else.
    for example someone in the comments have mentioned how in elephant rescue organizations elephants are actually called "ellies". If that's the case I think it is because then you would know that they are talking about elephants and not your friend Ellie.

  • @-S.F.K.
    @-S.F.K. 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What would you call something like “gonna” which is two words, “going” and “to”, pushed together without an apostrophe and having the spelling changed. This happens quite a bit with (something)-to, like gonna or gotta.

  • @jmer3536
    @jmer3536 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is an excellent topic you covered

  • @doodleblockwell2610
    @doodleblockwell2610 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I was in my 50s before I learned that 'TARP' was short for 'TARPAULIN' I only hear the full word when watching British TV shows.

  • @Werevampiwolf
    @Werevampiwolf 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I've said "I'm waiting for an omnibus", but it was a comic omnibus, aka a book compiled from every issue of a comic book (if it's several issues but not all of them, it's a TPB/trade paperback)

  • @anniestumpy9918
    @anniestumpy9918 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    oh how I hate it when people use "copter". Helicopter = "helico-" spiral + "pteron" wing
    There is no prefix "heli" and there is no suffix "copter".
    It's like shortening "doctor" to "octer", what a moron would do that? 😢😂

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    We shortened a whole ton of words

  • @mitchelmodine9197
    @mitchelmodine9197 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    As an American English speaker I have always shortened refrigerator to fridge, but my Filipino English speaker wife shortens the same word to ref.

  • @stevencoghill4323
    @stevencoghill4323 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My fave is I18N = Internationalization. I18N started in the computer programming world. It's the process of making a program's output understandable in multiple languages.

  • @binaryglitch64
    @binaryglitch64 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    My mom's nickname is a complex clipping:
    Her name is September but she goes by Temmie from the 'tem' in Sep-tem-ber.
    EDIT: I guess my mom's nickname also qualifies as a diminutive.

  • @TamChu2K
    @TamChu2K 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Aussies have so many shortened words we literally shorten everything - this should be the norm 😂

  • @InventorZahran
    @InventorZahran 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Helicopter has been clipped as both 'copter' and 'heli', as well as the modified form 'helo' (pronounced "hee-lo").

  • @jacoanimationstudio-di7hi
    @jacoanimationstudio-di7hi 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I refuse to believe a “bus” was originally called an “omnibus”

  • @Dethneko
    @Dethneko 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I've called an elephant an "ele" a time or two.
    But what I'm really waiting for is the wide-spread acceptance of compound contractions.
    They'd've
    Sholdn't've
    It'sn't
    And, apparently, my autocorrect is registering "they'd've" as a correctly spelled and acceptable word. o.o

  • @williamblake3965
    @williamblake3965 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    OK. Is the finest usage of shortened words ever.

  • @jacobthompson1209
    @jacobthompson1209 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    God be with you -> goodbye

  • @mallardtheduck1
    @mallardtheduck1 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    "LOL" is often pronouced as a word, so would be an acronym in those cases... While "can'o" as "can do" isn't a thing, "canno' " as an alternative contraction of "cannot" is a thing particularly in Northern England and Scotland.

    • @KryptikM3
      @KryptikM3 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      "LOL" being pronounced as a word unto itself came after it being used as an initialism, which is probably why it was used with that in mind here, but it's probably one of the few that became an acronym in its own right afterwards too.

    • @Raadicality
      @Raadicality 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ROFL is an old version of LOL
      It was also pronounced like that

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      LOL literally became a new word and is used for making sentences positive and soft instead of laughing lol

  • @thefareplayer2254
    @thefareplayer2254 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    As a teen learning the Latin ablative and dative cases, I noticed the “-ibus” ending and thought “I wonder if that’s where the word bus comes from”, but chalked it up as a puerile idea. And then when I got older, I realized “wait I was right!”
    I hadn’t felt that much satisfaction over a correct etymology since the time when I told my mom, at age 4, that “Fig Newtons” must be named after Newton, Massachusetts, only for her to tell me they weren’t. Then, about 20 years later, I realized they *were* in fact named after Newton, Massachusetts, and I felt extremely vindicated.

  • @user-yu8jg4lu2u
    @user-yu8jg4lu2u 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Phobia words tend to become extremely long, imho.

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And of course the fear of long words is a long word. Because the person who made it is a sociopath
      Hippopotamonsterousquippedillaphobia (i think I spelled it right)

  • @RobCamp-rmc_0
    @RobCamp-rmc_0 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    National Biscuit Company: Nabisco
    North American Electric Company: Norelco
    Rocket Mortgage Field House: RoMoFiHo [okay, that’s more local and obscure even on that level]

  • @biophile2
    @biophile2 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Noah Webster brilliantly shortened spellings of many words for American English.

  • @divano1014
    @divano1014 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In french they use "verlan" which is used in slang that shortens some words (usually in syllable count) just by flipping the word around (although there are some rules to its that im not too sure of)

  • @draig2614
    @draig2614 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In Northern Ontario, there is a community called Nolalu. There is a very large Finnish population in this area, and a lot of communities have Fin names, and most people assume that Nolalu is another Fin name. It isn't - it is a shortening of Northern Land and Lumber.
    Likewise, Kenora (also in Northern Ontario) is a shortening of the names of the three communities that amalgamated to form the town: Keewatin, Norman, and Rat Portage.

  • @thatliquidthing1903
    @thatliquidthing1903 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    "two-for-the-price-of-one" into "twofer" will never not be funny to me

  • @glorifiedtoaster5061
    @glorifiedtoaster5061 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Personally, I would love to see y'all'd've (you all would have) become more mainstream

  • @lightlingzooma-69
    @lightlingzooma-69 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    “With the single s replaced by two Zeds” 😂

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      How tf is that funny

  • @karaqakkzl
    @karaqakkzl 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    Tele (far) + phone (sound) = Telephone
    American: call it phone
    Futa (two) + nari (thing) = Futanari
    American: futa for short
    To many languages, shortening is very misunderstood

    • @Astra27idk
      @Astra27idk 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      dont google futanari

    • @ottovonbismarck2191
      @ottovonbismarck2191 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ​@Astra27idk rip did you find out the hard way?

    • @LeReubzRic
      @LeReubzRic 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ​@@ottovonbismarck2191I did

    • @I_Hate_YouTube.
      @I_Hate_YouTube. 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Very...interesting choice of an example

    • @scurly0792
      @scurly0792 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@LeReubzRic tragic

  • @mescalero_3309
    @mescalero_3309 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What about instances where we replace parts of a word, or ab entire word with letters or short phrases, that spund alike, like using r u instead of are you for example, or how in german n8 is often used instead of Nacht

  • @be7th
    @be7th 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Come on, we all know El Phy is how we refer to what used to be said as Elephant. It's just so elgy.

  • @michaelsegal3558
    @michaelsegal3558 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Actually with refrigerator the shorten version “fridge” actually has a “d” in it which isn’t present in the full long version of the word so is it still a clipping if the spelling of the shortened version spelled slightly different?

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    as a regular user of the radio I hear a collection of repeats of radio plays as an omnibus

  • @James2210
    @James2210 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I don't know if you go over this but there's also a difference between initialisms and acronyms: acronyms can be pronounced, initialisms cannot. Take for example NASA (acronym) and CIA (initialism)

  • @mescalero_3309
    @mescalero_3309 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What about when we replace long parts of a word, or even a whole entire word with letters or numbers, that they sound alike, like using u instead of you, or in german, where they use n8 istead of Nacht?

  • @francenkovcan5211
    @francenkovcan5211 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    when a name shortens, it sticking depends on how well it sounds when said, a shortened for of a word won't stick if saying it feels wrong

  • @binaryglitch64
    @binaryglitch64 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I sometimes use double contractions both in writting and in speach. For example I'd've for I would have...
    I'm not sure it qualifies as proper English but in casual settings it seems to go mostly unnoticed.

  • @WilliametcCook
    @WilliametcCook 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I am -> I’m
    going to -> gonna
    I’m gonna -> Imma

  • @c.jishnu378
    @c.jishnu378 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Honesty the Can'o for Can do is a really good idea and i will use it everywhere around my school and freinds an\s much as i can.

    • @_Sami__
      @_Sami__ 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What is an/s

  • @56independent42
    @56independent42 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    they'd've'ad used more contractions if they were more daring

  • @michaelsegal3558
    @michaelsegal3558 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When he was talking about contractions he forgot cannot becoming can’t

  • @maximos905
    @maximos905 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Renege came from renegotiate and recap is short for recapitulate

  • @emiliocespedes3685
    @emiliocespedes3685 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We still sometimes call it omnibus in Uruguay, most people say bondi for short, idk how we ended up with bondi though

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    World Wide Web ->
    Double yoo double yoo double yoo
    How to shorten a phrase from 3 syllables to 9.

  • @gkid64
    @gkid64 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My favourite type of a contraction is a contraction made from 2 contractions for example they'd've (they would have) i try to use them when i can

  • @drewmclean163
    @drewmclean163 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Would you consider a portmanteau to be an 8th category?

  • @bearinmind50
    @bearinmind50 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Instead of elephant try ‘leph’

  • @joycelinlgbtq
    @joycelinlgbtq 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Whoa, I had no idea that the Care in care package even was an acronym.

  • @the711devin4
    @the711devin4 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    New York State School Music Association -> NYSSMA (pronounced "Nissmuh")

  • @Mike-kw5xv
    @Mike-kw5xv 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    People pronouncing an abbreviation out loud is one of my favorite fallout jokes. How people keep calling big mountain the big empty.

  • @leolund1309
    @leolund1309 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I got the "captain charisima" reference