Dialect coach Erik Singer
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Wednesday 10 June 2026 12:01:00 GMT
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Connor :
IT’S BECAUSE THAT’S WHY
2026-06-10 12:21:05
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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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undercovercremebrulee :
A great read about this - the book Enough is Enuf
2026-06-14 16:27:46
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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 :
I believe you mispronounced “brooch” 😂
2026-06-10 13:46:55
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glassrose3 :
My only question is why the HELL can’t we fix it!??
2026-06-11 12:27:39
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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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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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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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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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Leland Jory VO 🇨🇦 :
It’s funny how none of this addresses nuclear.
2026-06-10 18:59:14
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Nick :
Wait…hough is hock?!
2026-06-10 12:32:59
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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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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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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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malatesting :
we teach spelling wrong. in all languages, words have families of meaning. in english these families are bound together by spelling. why is there a g in sign? because while we no longer pronounce it in sign, we do in signal and designate. learning the families and the affixes handles most of the challenges with spelling while also opening up a world of easily decoding unknown words and generating sensible new ones when necessary.
2026-06-13 19:38:38
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🆘🕸️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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SearchingForStevi :
I’ve been trying to figure out for years who your voice reminds me of and only because a lord of the rings video came up right before this I finally figured out that it’s Viggo Mortensen!
2026-06-12 03:59:10
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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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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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Sanguine Goose :
I've been opposed to "comfterble" since I learned how to read. It will always be "comfortable" to me.
2026-06-11 13:04:03
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malcolmlawrence :
I can still hear my teacher saying with exasperation “Sound it out, sound it out.” Phonics or Fawnicks sucks!
2026-06-11 13:41:15
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earth_wind_and_ire :
You can say Charlie Foxtrot to indicate CF- instead of bleeping 🥰
2026-06-10 16:16:25
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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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Jacob Boe :
Is it not the purview of a speech community to establish norms though? You as a linguist shouldn’t say whether ‘nuclear’ or ‘nucular’ is correct, yes, but an appeal to descriptivism doesn’t hold true for mere speakers of a language. Internal prescriptivism is a practicality necessary for any language. Without standards, it becomes incoherent, and thus communication breaks down. Even if you yourself do not engage so, why is it not sensible for the language’s speakers to determine what is and isn’t a mispronunciation?
2026-06-12 20:12:33
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