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user4519027477
user4519027477 :
my favorite...polish is the only word that when capitalized, changes not only the pronunciation, but the meaning as well
2025-03-25 04:27:15
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shotglass2276
Shotglass227 :
Can you also use que?
2025-03-27 03:17:21
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manulal555
Manulal555 :
Nymphly ! I guess is the longest word without a vowel …..(not counting Y as a vowel)
2025-03-26 03:10:33
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staceyp1106
staceyp1106 🧿 🇨🇦 :
Facetious… a e i o u… all the vowels in order
2025-03-26 02:19:01
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audible.headache
DanielJ - GenX 70 :
I love the mortgage one
2025-03-28 00:44:32
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dianebabeu
dianebabeu :
DORD???
2025-03-27 16:15:18
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gallantish
gallantish :
Love your chaotic facts for teaching
2025-03-25 12:26:45
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1azmama
ᢉ𐭩 𝐊𝟎𝐃𝐀 ❤️ 🤍 💙 :
It’s not technically part of the English language, but my creative mom spelled my name without vowels back in the 70’s, when it wasn’t popular. It does, however, contain the “Y”. Khrystl. 💓
2025-03-25 15:30:08
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pinkpawsandnose
pinkpawsandnose :
The alternate uses of “use” & “have”… I used to use a typewriter. I have to have that thing!
2025-03-26 11:19:06
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user474923331
Siantar Lake Toba :
All of it....but beautiful for businesses...
2025-03-26 16:44:07
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aeijingbufoon
Buf foon :
Rest takes up a big chunk of the dictionary too.
2025-03-25 11:19:42
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sandrarobson446
sandrarobson446 :
Dord is not in the O.E.D. Is this a word from the U.S.A?
2025-03-27 15:03:02
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samoaeasttamaki
Samoa Tamaki :
able was I ere I saw Elba 🙏🏿
2025-03-27 12:21:58
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first_impression00
Taabia :
I recently learned a word ( sponger ) meaning someone who doesn’t like spending their own money.
2025-03-25 04:22:11
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user50985644
user1478751322843 :
the words here, hair, hare and hear are all pronounced the same
2025-03-25 08:27:50
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jmschur
John Schur :
And then there’s cleave… a contronym.
2025-03-25 23:07:05
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sparkzam.com
chimwemwe :
Give her her ball is correct, while give him him ball is wrong
2025-03-27 19:56:24
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mrbradles
◾️MIKE◾️ :
My dord is blown
2025-03-25 23:32:03
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cat.mandu
Sniffles McGruder :
Here's a question that'll blow your mind... Why is the word ABBREVIATION so long???😁
2025-03-25 03:58:52
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insignificant12
Spiderman&Pansy :
Y is a consonant only when it is pronounced as in "yule". Y is a vowel when it is pronounced as in "synchronous" or "rusty". Therefore, "rhythm" has 1 vowel.
2025-03-25 07:12:12
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not_a_firefighter
Not a Firefighter :
The "Y" in Ye Olde is actually the lost English letter "thorn" and it has a "th" sound. So "Ye Olde" is literally pronounced "the old"
2025-03-25 05:02:52
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mkiafar
Mehran Kiafar :
Why boxing ring is square? If geese is the plural of goose, cheese is plural of choose??!!
2025-03-25 17:51:42
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noxzag
Volta :
"Bookkeeper" is the Only Word with Three Double Letters in a Row. "Dreamt" is the Only English Word Ending in "-mt". "Almost" is the Longest Common Word in abc Order.. But "Aegilops" is Longer.
2025-03-25 06:07:56
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chrisp6137
chrisp6137 :
Yes, English is chock-full of Latin, but much of it is by way of French, thanks to that whole 1066 thing.
2025-03-25 07:04:36
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neo_languages
Neo Language Institute :
A VOWEL is a SOUND. It is NOT a LETTER. The word RHYTHM definitely has a VOWEL. 😉👌🏼
2025-03-25 04:50:28
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anthonylester3
Anthony Lester :
In English you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. What about what Chomsky said " Colorless green ideas sleep furiosly" ?
2025-03-25 04:38:44
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alpha2zed
letsgo :
hymn
2025-03-25 03:47:50
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gwenmaxey5757
Gwen :
fun!!!
2025-03-25 03:46:57
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jim63291
jim :
Dry, cry, wry, fry, by, my,
2025-04-02 12:49:08
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an_mi_to_fu
Dao Si Thui :
wow
2025-03-30 04:52:52
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mrs.fanfashions
Mrs. Fan Fashions :
wry
2025-04-01 18:50:14
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ahmedkamaleldi
Ahmed K Mokhtar :
Great content, engaging delivery and lovely charisma .
2025-04-05 17:16:33
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kellykat18
Kelly :
Facetious is the only words with all the vowels, and they’re in the right order
2025-04-06 07:32:10
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jethropike
jethropike :
bookkeeping has three double letters in a row.
2025-04-08 06:08:42
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holst_victorian_house
Holst_Victorian_House :
‘I before e, except after c, or when sounding as a as in neighbour or weigh, and weirds just weird’ is what I was taught.
2025-04-08 06:35:33
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gabywright_
Gaby The Insider :
I recently learned that the word "soccer" was first used in England, then the US adopted it and England stopped using it.
2025-04-09 03:01:14
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demettalusan
DAT's Me :
subcontinental is the only word wth all 5 vowels in reverse order
2025-04-10 11:55:41
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poueanna44
poueanna44 :
Jane Austen books say “it doesn’t signify”, meaning it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t mean that at all anymore.
2025-04-10 14:23:26
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angel.beato.kikok
Angel Beato kikokabesa :
it laso has another word (CRWTH)and WHY
2025-04-13 00:33:02
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doc.makwela
Doc Makwela :
😂
2025-04-13 15:47:39
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leonnainaar
Leon Nainaar :
Hi watching from Durban, South Africa Love yr videos A lover of the English language Keep posting
2025-05-31 17:06:11
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candicesangiovanni
Candice SanGiovanni :
I never understood why “queue” is spelled that way it
2025-04-13 20:32:10
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candicesangiovanni
Candice SanGiovanni :
Whoops I put my comment before u said it :p
2025-04-13 20:35:11
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the_jaberwoky
The Jaberwoky :
Type Writer depends on what type of keyboard before QWERTY
2025-04-19 10:38:03
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kingdom3man
kingdom3man :
"boda boda" borrowed from my village🤣🤣
2025-04-20 10:47:23
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oxfordavid
oxfordavid :
Floccinaucinihilipilification is supposedly a neologism thought up by pupils at Eton College. Don’t know if that’s true. Going to look it up now………
2025-04-25 18:07:13
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kateaustinsa
KateAustinSA :
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2025-04-26 12:25:03
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themadcyclist
TheMadCyclist :
English is a language rich in culture and history, bring bastardised by influences from USA, particularly by way of technology and media
2025-04-27 05:43:28
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dmbradley._
DMBradley._ :
A man,a plan, a canal, Panama, is a whole sentence that spells the same backwards.
2025-04-28 06:14:34
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rinadraoi
TheHugeElephantInTheTinyRoom :
weird has a w, not a c
2025-05-01 01:12:42
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sandlamaseko
Ncamane :
Rythms and hymns.
2025-05-05 19:20:09
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minnaluna
Lumina :
Fascinating indeed! Thank you for this video.
2025-05-11 10:41:13
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minnaluna
Lumina :
The only interesting thing I can remember right now is that "butterfly" changed its spelling from "flutterby".
2025-05-11 10:50:51
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lars.watson
Lars :
Fly has only consonants.
2025-05-16 03:58:43
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the.oldest.millenial
Jaime :
oh I have so many... but my mind seems to have been erased, because I now remember none of them.
2025-03-25 04:24:21
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scottearle42
scottearle42 :
🥰🥰🥰
2025-03-25 04:39:25
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wheelchair_architect
Wheelchair Architect :
I always heard that robot was coined by Isaac Asimov. In English
2025-03-25 05:37:36
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thedance332
thedance332 :
If you ask someone to say rotator backward, they just say rotator and smile. If you ask them to say rotator cuff backwards, it sounds pretty offensive
2025-03-25 06:07:39
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elaanbader
elaan :
my favorite: the phrase “i get you” was a thing before get was used like: i get milk, i get a tatoo… basically get meant “to understand” before todays meaning
2025-03-25 07:48:08
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vincentbusuttil1
vincentbusuttil1 :
very informative, thank you.
2025-03-25 09:09:15
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tin.man215
Tinman :
There are more words with each before I then follow the rule
2025-03-25 09:13:27
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catdude1980s
Brad Jones :
what's the proper way to write the sentence: There are three (2's) in the English language.
2025-03-25 10:48:30
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vicor0909
vicor0909 :
Hymn
2025-03-25 11:10:54
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