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@eriksinger513: English spelling is a cluster*#$% Let's get into this a little deeper, shall we? "But it's not spelled that way" is one of the most common complaints about certain widespread native-speaker pronunciations (like nucular, expresso, and axe) that some people just really love to hate, in spite of the fact that the "correct" pronunciations of nearly every word in the language resulted from the very same processes. But English is the very worst language in which to make this argument! #accents #dialects #spelling #linguistics #sociolinguistics

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connortarter
Connor :
IT’S BECAUSE THAT’S WHY
2026-06-10 12:21:05
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cateyefairy
Nat Cat Eye :
I'm so glad English is my first language 🙏🏻😅 I'm learning Spanish and the spelling and sounds are so consistent it's amazing 🥰🥰🥰
2026-06-10 12:13:08
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adamcyounis
Adam Younis :
"Nucular" is bad not just because it's not spelled that way, but because spelling it that way would remove it from the root "Nucleus". We don't just observe and describe language, we also prescribe it to children, test them on it, and correct them. So to that extent, and your earlier point, why wouldn't we make an effort to align the spelling and pronunciation?
2026-06-10 13:51:01
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boundlessboreal
boundlessboreal :
I believe you mispronounced “brooch” 😂
2026-06-10 13:46:55
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sirspectraflame
sirspectraflame :
I hear you and understand. But the idea that we must accept mispronunciations when enough people say it that way just doesn’t jibe with my brain. I cannot — will not — say Febuary or comftrble.
2026-06-10 22:05:26
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gingrninja123
Brianna :
Moral of the story as long as you understand what they’re trying to say thats all that matters
2026-06-10 12:22:32
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user44728851390774
user44728851390774 :
I prefer to say lieutenant, not lieutenant.
2026-06-11 01:22:42
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glassrose3
glassrose3 :
My only question is why the HELL can’t we fix it!??
2026-06-11 12:27:39
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greatjobjimmy
Jimmy :
your last point is interesting because when i was growing up, i had a friend whose parents were from south africa. they had south african accents, but he didn’t, and i always wondered why
2026-06-10 12:50:55
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versipellous
Nick :
Wait…hough is hock?!
2026-06-10 12:32:59
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supermobileman
DamirJ :
I'm very happy for the hiccough to hiccup change. That one was too far.
2026-06-10 13:17:26
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jennifercaglisauthor
Author Jennifer Caglis 📚 :
I loved that my kids' teachers both had them just spell words as they thought they sounded as they learned to write in kindergarten. Of course, they did sight words, but it was endearing to see them learn how they thought words were spelled. As someone who's learned two languages and is currently working on a third, English is one of the toughest languages to learn if you're not native or immersed. And that is because our language is such a melting pot. It's not simple with all of our borrowed sounds and words from all over.
2026-06-11 00:30:54
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jasonengler858
jasonengler858 :
When my 8-year-old learns new words or has reading and writing school work, I often help him make sense of the difficult phonetics by mentioning briefly the foreign origin of most of the words and how spoken language changes over time and leaves the spelling behind.
2026-06-10 15:31:53
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ericathesuckup
erica (the suckup) 🇨🇦 :
Thank you hot man in my phone who tells me about linguistics
2026-06-15 23:52:34
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astronautobrien
Stephanie :
This and French. But I guess Spanish (my native language) must have its difficulties too.
2026-07-01 11:26:25
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cpiccerilli
Cara Piccerilli :
When I taught fourth grade, I would have my students read The Chaos and for extra credit try to read parts without error. It helped them really understand empathy for English language learners
2026-06-11 12:06:15
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morgueshadows
🆘🕸️Morgue Shadows🕸️🍉 :
have you done any video on macabre? learning that one by reading it made me very confused for a long time about never seeing macawb or something for when people spoke macabre
2026-06-10 18:45:21
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thelongbox
Mike H :
One things I’ve come to kind of love about learning Spanish is that the spelling is like 95% how it sounds.
2026-06-10 23:01:22
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dejablonde
Sister Sydney :
I'm definitely guilty of throwing the "because it's spelled that way" at people, but it might be at least a little because as a hyperlexic child I think I picked up on various patterns of things like root languages very early on 😅
2026-06-10 12:34:40
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ajollynerd
Leland Jory VO 🇨🇦 :
It’s funny how none of this addresses nuclear.
2026-06-10 18:59:14
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kyle66777999
Kyle :
As a Hungarian….. why is brush and bush are prounounced so differently 😭
2026-06-18 23:22:18
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jdcnosse
James 🆘🇺🇸 :
is that why we got the "I before E except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor or weigh?"
2026-06-11 05:07:19
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favoritesin0
DeeEmEm :
I love your content
2026-06-15 04:31:38
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evilmagicjello
Lew :
I actually like English's defective orthography. Harder to learn and spell, but allows for better communication and understanding overall. I will be dying on this hill.
2026-06-10 16:46:45
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zan_yon
Zanyon :
Non-native speaker here. Could you explain the use of words like ”could’ve” being both written and spoken as ”could of” by some English speakers?
2026-06-10 20:23:14
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