How A Jiffy Became A Real Unit Of Time
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Is there a word like jiffy, meaning a short undetermined amount of time, in your language? And if so what is it?
Dutch = ogenblikje (diminutive of ogenblik), meaning blink of an eye, is most common to say when you'll be right back
“now in a minute” is the welsh-english equivalent. basically means that you intend to do something, but not in the near future. i.e. “i’ll do the washing up now in a minute.”
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In Polish diminutives of both minute and second (minutka, sekundka) both mean undetermined short amount of time. But what most remind me word jiffy is word "blyskawiczny" - it doesn't mean amount of time but is adjective meaning "instant" or "done on spot" and similarly to "jiffy" is connected to lightning - "blyskawica" in Polish. There is also word for determined amount of time that I never seen equivalent in English - kwadrans - from Latin "quadra" - one-fourth - meaning 1/4 of hour - 15 minutes. When comes to unspecified time - also word "zaraz" I interesting as it means "soon - but in short period of time" - so you can say that something will happen "zaraz" - it mean it will happen in few minutes maximum.
@@josh-gt9fm Thats slightly different , and dont recall it being in use when I was in wales but I like it. Jiffy to me implies the length of time to achieve the task, not the time before the task is started.
This reminds me of George Carlin. "Whats quicker? A jiffy or a flash? I think there 2 flashes in a jiffy, myself. But who knows how many Jiffies there are in 2 shakes of a lambs tail."
The man who asked the real questions: “how often are you truly fine _and_ dandy?”
@@GamingGardevoir one time, but no one asked me how I was
@@GamingGardevoir I prefer to interpret "fine" as "sensitive and discriminating" and "dandy" as "characteristic of a fashionable man." So I can still be fine and dandy even though I'm miserable and hate everything.
That reminds me of the scene in "White Christmas", when Bing Crosby is asking someone over the phone how much something will cost, then says "Wow". Another character asks him "How much is Wow?" and he answers, "Somewhere between "Ouch!" and "Boing!".
More often use "a minute" or "a second", or just "a sec", for the unspecified short amount of time, even though those are actually very well defined amounts of time.
Yea, in My language also,
We use "a minute" or "a moment"
Yes I barely hear the word "jiffy" but I hear and say "A second" "A minute" " A sec " quite a lot
I always use 'a sec'
If this was requested, I need to know if they are a fan of a certain Australian snake
If so, are they able to tie their shoes?
@@NevermindHDx Yes, but they can't afford sleeves
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@@NevermindHDx do they know something about something?
@@omegaO_O An important question yet to be answered.
The smallest unit of time I know of is a light-Ångström. The time it takes light to go across one Ångström.
Plank time light path is smaller.
@@Bacopa68 Plank time is the smallest possible unit of time, the time it takes light to cross a plank length (which is the smallest possible length)
My favorite unit of time is a New York Minute. The definition I've heard as the amount of time between when the traffic light turned green and when then the guy behind you honked his horn.
Is this real or a joke? I really can't tell...
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finally, I've scrolled this far to find a chatto 😂
Jiffy Pop popcorn has existed since before microwaves. It comes ready to pop on the stovetop or campfire in an aluminum foil pan with a pleated foil cover that can expand as the corn pops, ending up looking like a chef's hat.
Yeah, you put it on a gas stove, and the pleated foil cover expanded into a serviceable bowl in the shape of a chef's hat.
We have a Jiffy Lube downunder. We also have the infamous jiffy pot: a compressed peat pellet with a fine textile covering. By placing it in water it will swell into a germination pot a bit bigger than a golf ball so that, for example a teenage boy (or girl) could germinate seeds on their windowsill very easily. The whole thing is planted out at the second pair of true leaves.
Jiffy seems the sort of word Bertie Wooster would use.
The use of a jiffy as a specific unit of time reminds me of other unusual units of measure, such as a "barn" (as in 'you couldn't hit the broadside of a barn") and closely related units of "outhouse" and "shed" used in nuclear physics.
Large amount of personal things (or a haul of monetary loot) a Shedful.
Pretty sure "ticks" referred to ticks of a clock way before computers existed
And possibly before that, two verification marks, maybe on wages for stone masons - the cutter and the finisher or similar trades or tasks,
A Jiffy is a word that I use from time to time. I like this video. Keep up the good work. "Jiff" is the name of a brand of peanut butter here in the USA. I use that brand of peanut butter a lot.
Peanut butter brand is spelled Jif, not Jiff.
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I looked it up and you are right, I did spell it wrong. But I do use the peanut butter.
did you know that a jiffy is a real unit of time!???
UTC Coordinated Universal Time is since 1960 the underlying world standard time for most modern metric times, splitting a day and a night into 24 hours, each of 60 minutes with 60 seconds in each, and adjusted once in a while with leap seconds.
Loved this! Thanks for another curious and greatly amusing video 🥰
Just to tease - 7:49 "astromoner" misnomer 🤣
Less of a word, but more of a regional idiom popular in the southern US, is "two shakes of a lamb's tail". Similar idioms like 'before you can say [a word or phrase]' are neat, ie 'I'll be back before you can say Jack Robinson'. But that can divert into a discussion of tons of interesting phrases, while your focus seems to be on single words.
Those of us of a certain vintage will recall that Jiffy was a brand of condoms, bringing a whole new meaning to "see you in a jiffy"...
Which makes me wonder that was where the phrase became more popular from ? (I'll have it done in a Jiffy). But why call those padded envelopes Jiffy Bags (what was the company thinking of !)
Choosy moms choose...JIF-fy
Did you know a jiffy is an actual measurement of time?
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I absolutely love the Jiffy character you drew.
I’ve also heard the phrase, “be back in a jiff” being used before. Must be a faster way of saying, “be back in a jiffy.” ☺️
Speaking of “jif,” you also forgot the brains “Jif,” the peanut butter brand. ☺️
In Dutch you have the expression "bliksemsnel" which means as fast as lightning and used in the same way as jiffy.
my favorite unit of time is the roman time divided the time from sun rise to sunset in 12 hours, so the length varied over year locally, and with the latitude, and the night was split into 4 watches.
As a foreign learner of English I didn't actually hear about this word until it started appearing all over the place in ads in London. It's the name of another "within 10 minutes" grocery delivery company, of which there are many right now.
This might just be a family thing from one outback town in NSW but “directly” is one that I favour
this is such an interesting topic time keeping is a really important peat of our life especially in the modern world it is also very to learn about some lesser know unites of time becuase it have us batter understand how we got how we hot to this point
plus i really like the art style great video man
Well, my understanding was that the old Analogs had Roman numerals. The number 4 in numerals is IV. The I use to be both a J and Y. So JV > Jivvy > Jiffy.
The 4 on the clock is 4 seconds or 20 minutes. So to me a jiffy was ⅓ an hour. With multiple jiffies referring to a multiple of 4 seconds.
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"two ticks" comes from actual clocks, not computer clocks, actual clocks "tick" once per second" so "two ticks" is the same as "two seconds", whcih is actually a "short unspecified amount of time" as no one who says that LITERALLY means "two seconds" they just mean, "quickly"
Normal people: It'll be done in a jiffy!
*5 mins later*. Done
Gilbert Lewis: Done
It will be done in a jiffy.
my physics teacher once said i'll be back in a minute and I timed him. he was about one minute 30 seconds. surely a moment would have been a better term for him to use.
I thought a “jiffy” meant “one half frame of video, or one sixtieth of a second”.
Which is what I heard in this old video about computer animation (at 42:35): th-cam.com/video/fYAf1V0ZFCU/w-d-xo.html
In Commodore 64 BASIC, a Jiffy is 1/60th of a second, the smallest interval that BASIC can resolve.
Some time references in my language
With some special situations,
"He forgets it by the time his tail reaches the place of his head" (goldfish memory)
"He won't be done until the female cat says meow" (long time)
"He doesn't wake up until sun hits his bum" (very late)
"It won't be done until the zodiac transition after tomorrow comes" (never)
A dude from Australia that can't afford sleeves, owns a Lexus, also states that "Cougars were never in mission" as well as have purchased a $702 Burger from McDonald's in the past, should have watched this
Jiffy is also a brand of boxed, multiflavored muffin mix , most popular, cornbread mix in the US. We also have Jiffy Lube oil change places stateside.
My favorite video yet
It's probably because of my background as a physics major, but personally I don't find zeptoseconds and other short units of time of the same ilk to be that unusual. The second is an SI unit, after all, and yocto-, zepto-, atto-, femto-, pico-, nano-, micro-, and mili- are all metric prefixes. It's actually probably less common for people to use large prefixes for time. You don't really hear people talking about kiloseconds or megaseconds.
In the northern Thai Lanna language "gam diew" would mean jiffy. It refers to a single handful.
So, thieve's cant is like the "Gaunersprache".
From this language, one word is widely known. The word is "Kohldampf", which literally means "cabbage-steam". When my information is correct it is a compound of the word "Kohler", which means "hunger", and "Dampf" which also means "hunger". So "Kohldampf" means "hunger-hunger". That fits the usage. Because you say, that you have "Kohldampf", when you are very hungry.
It's rather like Cockney Rhyming Slang, another language from England designed to confound the authorities. For example 'apples and pairs' means 'stairs'.
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There are multiple examples of cryptolects. Rhyming slang of London is well known. The Polari spoken by gay men over a larger area of SE England is probably the most developed English cryptolect. "Jive" variants of AAVE in the US were cryptic to white folks up north, but fairly understandable to Southern white people who speak an informal dialect not that different from AAVE.
10:56 shouldn't it be "I used to be somebody"?
If the word jiffy means the time light travels in vacuum for a specific distance (1 cm or the distance equal to the length of a proton) that is a reference back to its origin.
my favorite is that a moment is technically 90 seconds meaning there are 45 moments in a minute
When I was a little boy, I invented a unit of time. I insisted that 100mulacows= 1 second! I don't how I came up with that, but I remember telling my parents that I would take out the garbage in 30 mulacows!
Wow, all of this is to technical for my overloaded brain! Thank you for your exhaustive research!
Most people say "I'm going for a slash, or a piss" where I live.
"Hot minute" is the longer standing phrase over "hot second".
I was thinking about Jiffy Lube or Jif peanut butter. Heard about "In a jiffy" a very long time ago.
Jiffy Park and Jiffy Dump on Seinfeld.
In the USA, Jiffy, is also the name of a brand peanut butter.
okay, "thieves cant" is a "rhyming slang" .....so....my question is HWAT friggin synonym of lightning are they using, that rhymes with jiffy?
In Austrian German: "A Oitzerl". It's like a jiffy
Jiffy is just a old phrase
That Simpsons clip made me laugh an unreasonable amount
I think your speaking definitely about maths and science gets you into all sorts of problems ....
And actually different fields often use the same term for varying things or various terms for the same one...
The symbol for imaginary numbers for example... "I" or "j"
This will take a loooooooooong time.
When you showed the Simpsons clip at the start, i thought the word Abe used for time was just some nonsenceisal word he for he came up with.
I thought a Jiffy was specifically 1/60th of a second.
How many Jiffies can you carry in a Jiffy Bag then?
At 07:50 did the narrator say, "astromoner" ??? Funny.
honestly i prefer the ~33.3picosec definition as it lines up with the etymology of a jiffy, but the doesn't matter
I’d heard that quarantine came from French “quarantaine” or “forty-ish,” which itself referred to the forty days Jesus spent in the desert resisting the temptation of sin
I use the term I'll be back in a jiffy all the time 🤣
So why was Jif ( Cream cleaner for kitchen and bathroom surfaces) renamed Cif ?
That clock ticking in the background...
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I use moment to mean a minute and a half... usually as "a couple of moments" or 3 minutes
So wait, "Pig Latin" is sometimes used by parents to try to hide certain pieces of language from young kids that are already learning basic english... so would that put it in the "cant" family of slang????
I would assume that "Pig Latin" would be some sort of a cipher or code since, if you know the cipher, it can be decoded without a dictionary
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Who else was being driven insane with the ticking of the clock in the background?
I didnt even notice it. What i hate is NativLang vids where every five seconds they say "shshsh". This made me unsub
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I've heard jiffy can refer to 1/60th of a second, no clue if that is actually a thing though.
Wait! Jiffy is an actual unit for time? So it's not just an IFV driver's lingo?
Jiffy character is like Popeyes Jeep character.
Why are I & II and V & VI so spaced out on the clock
In South Africa we have a jiffy bag. It's a black plastic garbage bag
its a brown padded envelope in the UK
it's miLLisecond (two l's)
Cant = as in InCantation, or (Jewish mainly music leader Cantor).
I always thought that a fortnight was 12 days.
Huh... I was taught that "jiffy" meant a centisecond (i.e. one-hundredth of a second).
Jiffy was the name my aunt's orange cat that I always assumed was named after Jiffy peanut butter until my cousin told me it never existed. Eventually, I found out about the Mandella Effect and my aunt confirmed she doesn't remeber the peanut butter ever existing.
There's a brand of peanut butter called Jif
Edit: spelt there's as they're
@@player17wastaken Thank you, Captain Obvious.
@@FluffyEmmy1116 based on your comment it seemed that you didn't know that
@@player17wastaken Yeah, I've know about Jif for a long time, but I've known about Jiffy for longer, so 🤷
- 1:15 What's a "milisecond" [sic]?
- The connection between "jiffy" and lightning might be from Cockney rhyming slang. 🤔
- Jiffies are the unit of time between frames in animated GIFs in the GIF89a format, denoting 1/10th of a second. (It's also more proof of the correct pronunciation of GIF.)
It should be spelt 'giffy' to hammer home how GIF is pronounced.
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Please don't ever put a ticking clock audio track in another video again
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I hate the background music
tick tick water torture
**Sigh** ..."Classrooms all _around_ the globe," not "Across." The Earth is NOT flat, nor does it have only two classrooms across from each other...
In Australia we have a cleaning product called Jif. It is made by Unilever however it looks like it called Cif in other countries. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cif
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