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French is the bad form of latin ))

As we used to say in Dutch: "wat wals, is vals is", that which is walloon ( french) is false ( wrong). Speak Dutch! (Clear).

Shakespeare reshaped english or formed it again , english is a mixture of latin germanic and dutch

It's incredible how many German words I find in the comment sections that seem completely natural to me but have no direct English equivalent. That's why I simply love the German language. As someone with a migrant background, whose native language is of Latin origin, my family could never understand why on earth I prefer the harsh, cold German language over my mother tongue.

You still can speak English, and not choose to take the french words, and instead just take English, Dutch, or Norse words, I takes some time but it is doable. Just choose the clean English words.

English was invented by a drunk Frisian trying to speak French.

What about Sow and Swine but not Cow and Kine ( though I think it used to be that).

Amber

It's now heading towards being the land of islam.

Say whip......... Now say Cool Whip......

How did Dutch do compared to German (Deutsch) and Flat German (Platt Dutch)

I always wondered why God was referred to informally in the KJV.

Thank you very much for this program! :-) I am one of those people who believe that English should be protected, especially in times when people don’t seem to care which way they speak. I believe that one of the words that you might’ve forgotten is explicit. Most people believe that explicit means vulgar or Has some sort of sexual connotation. What do you think? I’ll keep doing my part to protect one of the best languages I learned to speak.

“Bucket naked!” Bernie Mac

On a similar note, aren't we seeing a "leveling" out of accents across the English speakers now with the internet? A funny note (and I may be repeating myself)... English is the 3rd language for a woman I work with. She fed her son breakfast one morning. She was recounting how she put his cereal in his bowl. Now, "so what" you might think. She rhymed 'bowl' with 'owl'. I mean, it makes perfect sense. Given the role that E plays in making a vowel sound long like in 'rat' and 'rate', why wouldn't we put cereal in a bowel? I rarely correct a non-native speaker's English, but in this case I let her know.

You remind me Ross from Friends. Love your show. “There’s nothing with speaking correctly.” “Indeed there isn’t”

before the great vowel shift, English words sound more germanic, as English is, than they sound now. Which is interesting.

The whispering sweet nothings was funny and now I cannot unsee it either. 😆

I feel you, man. Born and raised in Jamaica. Took 4 years of Spanish in US Middle-High School. Went to college, took 2 more years of Spanish. One day, at my office, 6 years after college, at the age of 27, sitting at my desk. I SCREAMED out very loudly, "Oh my God! 'Ocho Rios', meant 8 Rivers"!! A co-worker ran over from his cubicle to see what was the matter. I told him my random realization. He said, WHAT, REALLY? I said yeah, in Jamaica we just know it as "Ochie". We dont correlate it as Spanish words. Literally not until that moment, 12 years after my first Spanish class...D'oh!!

I would love to see english before vowel change, it would be more easy to pronounce for us who speak Portuguese.

Scarlet, vermilion, and crimson were once commonly known colors which I always took to simply mean intense red. I think that may be because, before the modern invention of thousands of synthetic pigments, colors had been identified by how they were derived. Tubes of artists pigments often reference old-fashioned names. Mars black is from the alchemist substance "mars," the black oxide of iron. (Alchemists had iron being derived from what we now know as the naturally occuring oxides, though.) Titanium white, cobalt blue, aquamarine (a gemstone), chrome yellow, yellow ochre, sienna, burnt sienna, raw umber, burnt umber, etc. Ochre, sienna, and umber are distinctive dirts found in particular places in Italy, and burning them (or not) derives different colors. These would also be called earth-tones. Alchemists had many (wacky?) theories, and some that related substances to the ancient gods, so the name mars is not an accident. According to the ancient Romans, the god Mars was also the planet.

Damp titenfish

Four score and seven years ago...

It is my conſidered opinion that you have gueſſed right about the cauſe of the long S's falling out of uſe ſince the 18th century. Without doubt it was ſcandalously miſread in one ſpecific word. It was a ſilly letter anyway. Why was it ever neceſſary to write an S in two ſuch diſſimilar ways, baſed on whether it found itſelf in final poſition or elſewhere? There was never any more needleſs letter in Engliſh typography.

Very interesting, I am French and I did not know everything that is covered in this subject, but did you know that the British national anthem was also French (Que Dieu sauve le Roi, a prayer for Louis XIV before his operation)? It would also have been interesting to point that out :)

I remember encountering the term flesh monger as an insult and assumed it was something like a slave seller. Thanks for the correction.

The letter Ŋŋ ("eng") is used in some languanges around the world, notably in the South Pacific (anybody in Haŋa Roa on Easter Island could tell you that) and in parts of Africa, _always_ to represent the [ŋ] sound.

Backpfeifengesicht: You are pronouncing ‘ back’ the english way but you need to pronounce the vowel ‘a’ the german way. You made the same mistake with the ‘a’ in Zugzwang’ PS love the content of this video.

I use to call Mechagodzilla "Mega-Godzilla"

Btw, yes, i remember that song

The dots look ugly and there'd be too many in the end for the silents, shwa, accents. Just horrible if you added those things..

Badly pronounced French with senseless spelling. :)

English is German/Danish in origin, some French as well… Why? The Norsemen… they traveled all around NW Europe. Why else is Normandy called this name? It is where the Norse men settled when they began to do more than raid.

Technically Brittany’s language is a british language too and not sure if any pictish survived.

I just discovered your channel Rob, and I have to say it's amazing. I'm slowly going through all your videos. It's great work. Keep it up.

I find myself beplussed by the nonmused changes in English.

Well, never going to say "buck naked" again.

I always thought it was “play it by ear” 😅 and yes… I’m very patient!

I'm on board

This would be great for learning texts. Same normal Arabic uses all the standard letters but in text for learners who might not know the pronunciation they use Tashkil. (Mainly religious text)

Fantastic - thank you!

How about a new spelling reform?

There was a scene at the beginning of "Gone with the Wind" where "Feierabend" was featured pretty prominently in the german translation. When one slave called "FEIERABEND!" and another spoke up that he's in charge and it is his call to make, subsequently also shouting "FEIERABEND!". Don't know what term was used in the english original. Edit: I looked it up in the script: He shouted "Quittin' time!". Which is easy to lip sync with "Feierabend".

There's probably a simple answer to this, but I'm too lazy to research it. Why are the Persian words for Father, Mother, Brother and Daughter Pedar, Madar, Baradar and Dokhtar? Who borrowed from whom?

England =Angel land. In the early centuries, there was a pop his name was Constantine if I am not mistaken, boys were brought to him from a far land as slaves. He met them and asked them about their land etc. People were amazed by the way they looked quote "They look like angels". That's why their land became known as England meaning Angel land. I read that 15 years ago when I was in college, from a book called " A history of the English language", chapter " christianizing of England, Christian words entering into the English language...etc

En realidad es código morse

Here’s one I coined in North America; a whine of truck (lorry) drivers. Don’t swarm me for it, as the late, great George Carlin said, you’re allowed to hit your own group.

I will never hear "Kiss the Sky" the same again, thanks.

On the matter of "sounding more impressive," there appears to be a tendency today to adopt the French, uninflected more/most construction for mono-syllabic words, as you did here with "grim."

So alphabet means ox hut