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ความคิดเห็น • 538

  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      To call the alphabet just albet, or everything efthing

    • @DrFerno727
      @DrFerno727 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Umbrella → Umbie

    • @_AstaLily
      @_AstaLily หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @NorthernTigress
    @NorthernTigress หลายเดือนก่อน +275

    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 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

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

    • @Bye_girl
      @Bye_girl หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @PNate_KTrainVer.
      @PNate_KTrainVer. หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same

    • @MaximusLongus
      @MaximusLongus หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@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 หลายเดือนก่อน +216

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

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      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 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @Redhotsmasher
      @Redhotsmasher หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @excancerpoik
      @excancerpoik หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @annabelholland
      @annabelholland หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @frenchfriar
    @frenchfriar หลายเดือนก่อน +139

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

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @dmrmkw
    @dmrmkw หลายเดือนก่อน +111

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

    • @nickbob2003
      @nickbob2003 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @CATel_
      @CATel_ หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​Acronym, yes ​@@DanDaFreakinMan

  • @susanvaughan4210
    @susanvaughan4210 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

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

    • @ezeke959
      @ezeke959 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oh that makes it cuter

  • @sdspivey
    @sdspivey หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    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.

  • @SiqueScarface
    @SiqueScarface หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    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 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      not to be confused with SOCO - Scene Of Crime Officer

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @SiqueScarface
      @SiqueScarface หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @bountyjedi
      @bountyjedi หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@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 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    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...

  • @theGypsyViking
    @theGypsyViking หลายเดือนก่อน +32

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

    • @londonalicante
      @londonalicante หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @lbgamer6166
      @lbgamer6166 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 หลายเดือนก่อน +410

    All Correct -> Oll Korrect -> OK

    • @HalfEye79
      @HalfEye79 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

      OK -> Okay

    • @ace2731
      @ace2731 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Yeah, both of you are right.

    • @MatthewConnellan-xc3oj
      @MatthewConnellan-xc3oj หลายเดือนก่อน +138

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

    • @magnusmcgee993
      @magnusmcgee993 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @mingfanzhang8927
      @mingfanzhang8927 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ❤😊❤😊❤

  • @grantbmilburn
    @grantbmilburn หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    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 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is ABRSM pronounced "Abrosum"?

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @randomlightstand
      @randomlightstand หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@InventorZahranNo, short for Harpsichord would be Harpsi

    • @randomlightstand
      @randomlightstand หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@InventorZahranWhy does my reply keep getting deleted?

  • @pedromenchik1961
    @pedromenchik1961 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

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

    • @sujirokimimami00
      @sujirokimimami00 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Em espanhol eles chamam de buseta kkkkkkkkkkkk

    • @derkommissar4986
      @derkommissar4986 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@sujirokimimami00talvez en españa porq nunca escuche eso xd

    • @AdrianRP1995
      @AdrianRP1995 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @TheDinisPT
      @TheDinisPT หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​​​​@@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 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Mobile Phone in Liverpool is Moby

    • @Raadicality
      @Raadicality หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Loaf Ward???
      Guess I learned a new word

    • @byeguyssry
      @byeguyssry หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @everestyt266
      @everestyt266 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @zekel.h.17
    @zekel.h.17 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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 29 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 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Audi HD

    • @angeldude101
      @angeldude101 20 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 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

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

    • @hrayz
      @hrayz หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Aligning the numbers like that should be illegal

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @RayKremer78
    @RayKremer78 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    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 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

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

  • @FoggyD
    @FoggyD หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      bro is a shortening too.

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @drivernjax
      @drivernjax หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@drivernjax it's zo-ological

    • @drivernjax
      @drivernjax หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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.

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @rossjennings4755
      @rossjennings4755 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I will use it now!

    • @me0101001000
      @me0101001000 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rossjennings4755medinyn would work too

  • @ProfessorAlbert-de9sc
    @ProfessorAlbert-de9sc หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What’s the translations?

    • @qazw5414
      @qazw5414 หลายเดือนก่อน

      60?! pathetic.

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wales:

    • @djw7141
      @djw7141 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DragonTheOneDZA the final boss

    • @BiGCheese009
      @BiGCheese009 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @disneytriviabuff8188
    @disneytriviabuff8188 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @KryptikM3
    @KryptikM3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

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

  • @lorraineliggera4229
    @lorraineliggera4229 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

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

    • @-originalLemon-
      @-originalLemon- หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @karabearcomics
    @karabearcomics หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน

      u wanna bet ?

    • @CatulusVT-yy3vj
      @CatulusVT-yy3vj หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @Greyhawksci
      @Greyhawksci หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @ShowierData9978
      @ShowierData9978 หลายเดือนก่อน

      bruh my ADHD mind cant deal with multiple contractions :/

  • @Pining_for_the_fjords
    @Pining_for_the_fjords หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @Furienna
      @Furienna หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It is actually "bil" in Swedish too.

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @fjolliff6308
    @fjolliff6308 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @TheSkyGuy77
      @TheSkyGuy77 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Whom'st've
      Who(m) must have

    • @angeldude101
      @angeldude101 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

    • @gregariosity
      @gregariosity 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I’dn’t’ve stopped there

  • @glenngraham5859
    @glenngraham5859 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      would that fall under diminutives?

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also, "tog" for swimsuit as well.

  • @ellotheearthling
    @ellotheearthling หลายเดือนก่อน +20

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

    • @EJJunkill
      @EJJunkill หลายเดือนก่อน +10

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

    • @ellotheearthling
      @ellotheearthling หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @pynchon9
      @pynchon9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Roflcopter

    • @Lexivor
      @Lexivor หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @ShawnRavenfire
      @ShawnRavenfire หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @SamWal
    @SamWal หลายเดือนก่อน +7

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

  • @grantbmilburn
    @grantbmilburn หลายเดือนก่อน +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".

  • @tomhalla426
    @tomhalla426 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Seeah in Portuguese, as well.

    • @MrRhombus
      @MrRhombus หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @tomhalla426
      @tomhalla426 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @Grievous_Nix
      @Grievous_Nix หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @LiamNoblet95
    @LiamNoblet95 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @Benni777
    @Benni777 หลายเดือนก่อน +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! 🙏🏼☺️

  • @martinschlegel1823
    @martinschlegel1823 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @RabidJohn
    @RabidJohn หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @Cassandra_Johnson
    @Cassandra_Johnson หลายเดือนก่อน +7

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

  • @de-fault_de-fault
    @de-fault_de-fault หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @Scratchydoesmusic
    @Scratchydoesmusic หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @binaryglitch64
    @binaryglitch64 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @jerrybiv1441
    @jerrybiv1441 หลายเดือนก่อน +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!?!?!?!?!?!

  • @anniestumpy9918
    @anniestumpy9918 หลายเดือนก่อน +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? 😢😂

  • @SketchyTigers
    @SketchyTigers หลายเดือนก่อน +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

  • @themarsalien
    @themarsalien 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

  • @blakdeth
    @blakdeth หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @stephenbenner4353
    @stephenbenner4353 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @iamthedogtor
    @iamthedogtor หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @jmer3536
    @jmer3536 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is an excellent topic you covered

  • @mrham443
    @mrham443 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @egegur7130
    @egegur7130 หลายเดือนก่อน +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. หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @mallardtheduck1
    @mallardtheduck1 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @AutoReport1
    @AutoReport1 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Those poor h-dropping people...

  • @doodleblockwell2610
    @doodleblockwell2610 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @TamChu2K
    @TamChu2K หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @stevencoghill4323
    @stevencoghill4323 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @Dethneko
    @Dethneko หลายเดือนก่อน +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

  • @jacoanimationstudio-di7hi
    @jacoanimationstudio-di7hi หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @InventorZahran
    @InventorZahran หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We shortened a whole ton of words

  • @astral_haze
    @astral_haze หลายเดือนก่อน +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"

  • @RobCamp-rmc_0
    @RobCamp-rmc_0 หลายเดือนก่อน +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]

  • @bluntizard4481
    @bluntizard4481 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @jacobthompson1209
    @jacobthompson1209 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    God be with you -> goodbye

  • @thatliquidthing1903
    @thatliquidthing1903 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @mitchelmodine9197
    @mitchelmodine9197 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @biophile2
    @biophile2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @glorifiedtoaster5061
    @glorifiedtoaster5061 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Werevampiwolf
    @Werevampiwolf หลายเดือนก่อน +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)

  • @user-yu8jg4lu2u
    @user-yu8jg4lu2u หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Phobia words tend to become extremely long, imho.

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA หลายเดือนก่อน

      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)

    • @AthanasiosJapan
      @AthanasiosJapan 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Macrolexophobia.

  • @williamblake3965
    @williamblake3965 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    OK. Is the finest usage of shortened words ever.

  • @bearinmind50
    @bearinmind50 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Instead of elephant try ‘leph’

  • @be7th
    @be7th หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @aaron9797
    @aaron9797 หลายเดือนก่อน +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

  • @katsuruno
    @katsuruno 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm reading a very sad scene of a character dying so I have to keep pausing that so I don't sob and I come here and watch this in between to calm down.
    oh no, there's a god willing to resurrect him in place for another dude's soul. Oh no, this is gonna be some crazy romeo juliet type bs right about now

  • @lightlingzooma-69
    @lightlingzooma-69 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “With the single s replaced by two Zeds” 😂

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How tf is that funny

  • @WilliametcCook
    @WilliametcCook หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Arjibi
    @Arjibi หลายเดือนก่อน +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 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      dont google futanari

    • @ottovonbismarck2191
      @ottovonbismarck2191 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @LeReubzRic
      @LeReubzRic หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@ottovonbismarck2191I did

    • @I_Hate_YouTube.
      @I_Hate_YouTube. หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very...interesting choice of an example

    • @scurly0792
      @scurly0792 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LeReubzRic tragic

  • @c.jishnu378
    @c.jishnu378 29 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__ 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What is an/s

  • @the711devin4
    @the711devin4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @jonntischnabel
    @jonntischnabel หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Piano - pianoforte.
    Pram- perambulator.

  • @56independent42
    @56independent42 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @maximos905
    @maximos905 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Renege came from renegotiate and recap is short for recapitulate

  • @michellegiacalone1079
    @michellegiacalone1079 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "I don't want to waste time saying unnecessarily long words."
    u-n-n-e-c-e-s-s-a-r-i-l-y Thirteen!

  • @draig2614
    @draig2614 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @James2210
    @James2210 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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)

  • @TheRagingPlatypus
    @TheRagingPlatypus หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ironic we have no abbreviation we have no abbreviation for abbreviation.

    • @TheSkyGuy77
      @TheSkyGuy77 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      abbrev. would be one

  • @divano1014
    @divano1014 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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)

  • @paxeey
    @paxeey หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You keep misspelling INITIAL, still a great vid though!

  • @grry02
    @grry02 วันที่ผ่านมา

    3:27 hate how I immediately understood Christian as Captain Charisma😭

  • @Mike-kw5xv
    @Mike-kw5xv หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @IzaaKaazI
    @IzaaKaazI หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WON'T for WILL NOT is an interesting one.

    • @scmtuk3662
      @scmtuk3662 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But _why_ is it "won't" and not "willn't"?
      Well, "won't" literally comes from "woll not", in which "woll" was a obsolete form of "will".

  • @lourias
    @lourias หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I asked my 9 year old grandson what "Rizz" meant. He had no clue... now I know

    • @aramisortsbottcher8201
      @aramisortsbottcher8201 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Does he know what charisma means? I think I did not when I was 9.

  • @speedcubesolver1195
    @speedcubesolver1195 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good video❤

  • @michaelsegal3558
    @michaelsegal3558 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @shellder_gaming
    @shellder_gaming หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    hippopotomonstrosesquipedalliaphobia

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @o_s-24
    @o_s-24 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Care is an old word. That organization created the name based on the word

  • @astridlenore
    @astridlenore 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fascinating as always. I risk being pedantic here but given the source I suppose it's welcome: you're missing an "i" in initial. 😊