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- www.iwtle.com There are various ways to pronounce "O-U-G-H" in the English language. This was hilariously demonstrated on the "I Love Lucy" television program by Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) and his wife, Lucy. This funny clip sums up a challenging piece of the English language.
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The writers of the show had some absolute insight to this chaotic language we call English. It doesn't even follow its own rules.
This is a favorite scene from the show. English is a bastard language. Every other word is an exception to some nonexistent rule.
Yes. Spanish grammar is far more complex than English. But English pronunciation is insane, it just doesn't make any sense a lot of times, which makes it difficult. Spanish is very phonetic so pretty easy to read. You can learn to read and write English perfectly, and not that hard. But to speak it is a tough challenge. How do you pronounce tough?
What are those rules you mention? There aren't any rules in English. Only patterns, which don't always apply.
bruny wants her regular tube not paying thirty five dollar please
Iwant my regular show lucy
Severely underrated episode!! Okay with the grape stomping and Vitameatavegamin, but this doesn’t get ‘enoo’ credit! 😂
Grape stomping was hilarious 🤣 😆 😂 you are so right
Those are my two favorites!
What about the one where she wants to be part of Ricky's show and Ricky gets mad at her and starts rambling incoherently in Spanish.
Bahahahaha!
I got a terrible hacking coo
I agree with Ricky on the Spanish language. I like how when you read Spanish you actually pronounce every letter.
unless it's an "H"
@@willmcgill5742 exactly, J=H? V=B? But I mean no matter what opinions on languages are mostly subjective.
@@wingedhussarswiss4703 and H=nothing at all
@@willmcgill5742 But again, the H is ALWAYS silent, except as ch, which is another letter altogether.
Sorry,but I totally agree with Ricky. The English language is hard for people who are born here to understand,never mind if you’re from another country!🤓
“Well I know it can’t be cow!” knocked me over.
Like you’d tip a cow.
Hold it Shakespeare.lol
she was fcking with him.
I completely agree with Ricky here. Spanish is easy, straightforward, and logical: what is written is exactly as you pronounce it over and over; it doesn't matter what word it is. There are a few exceptions to the rules, but it certainly isn't as crazy as English. No wonder many foreigners have a hard time learning it!
Well, that is a little subjective being it is written how you would pronounce it.
PhoenixFire221 The Spanish language is controlled by a royal academy created in the 1600s. Therefore, all the schools and media have to follow those rules. So the only exceptions are differences between nations.
Except for preterit vs. imperfect, prepositions and the subjunctive, Spanish is a breeze. 😅 That’s why so many Americans who claims it’s so easy are not fluent. LOL
Actually English is pretty easy to learn. For Spanish and a bunch of other languages, even germanic ones related to English it matters very much what gender a noun is ,for example, because it changes the sentence. English doesn't care about that. Plural is also very easy in English just add s (for the most part). Spanish is similar, but take German for example which is related to English ,is crazy.
😂😂😂 yeah ahu if you remember where and how to put the accents... Mi Papa tiene 70 Anos? For example (My potato has 70 anuses) and how do you ever know what objects to refer to as feminine and masculine is beyond me.
That episode was so funny!😂😂. It’s true though. The “ OUGH” in English sounds different almost every time.
Little Ricky: "Daddy, read me a goodnight story."Ricky: "Go ask Mommy, Partner "
Little Ricky: On second thought, you can read it to me in Spanish, you're not getting out of reading to me.
@@xemnas9098 clever little munchkin.
This is ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. My teacher showed the video in AP Human Geography to make a point on how different cultures have different dialects, which causes a "pronunciation variation", which results in different syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and cadence of words in different languages. When my teacher showed us this video, EVERYONE in the class was laughing out loud, and that is saying something because my class has 30 people. Thank you for sharing this video with youtube. I would share this on social media if I actually used social media.
+Bob Willson I also shared this with my colleagues at the ESL program I work at in Baltimore and their reaction was overwhelming. This clip really drives home the point that our language is very complex indeed. Thank you for the comment!
+Jv Myka It is not complex. It just has a difficult pronunciation, which is learned trough practice and memorization. That doesn't make it complex. English grammar is beautifully simple, practical, and easy to learn compared to most languages. I would say English is a simple (not complex) language, with a cumbersome pronunciation, and a highly non-phonetic writing. The mixing of latin (some words AND the latin alphabet) with an anglosaxon language makes a nice mess when it comes to reading English. Of course your students are going to be overwhelmed; they are learning a new language. Learning a new language is always overwhelming. This video happens to capture the most, if not only, difficult part of the English language.
My AP Human Geo teacher showed us this too
Bob Willson Technically speaking, CZcams is considered social media.
@@eda7875 Thanks for sharing your opinion of a highly subjective topic.
I'm going to show this to my Advanced ESL group. They're sure to get a good laugh from this!
For me, this is one of the ILL show's most brilliantly written episodes - also hilarious and wonderfully performed!! Terrific!!
As English speaking person I agree with Ricky. Learning English was really hard.
This is one of the most brilliant scenes in comedy history.
I think it was in this episode that Desi taught me the Spanish vowel sounds! I loved him as much as I loved Lucy!😍
My ex Wife is from Cuba and we would have times like this. It was trying to explain the workings of the English language that made me realize how inconsistent it is.
Well I know it can't be COW 😂😂😂😂😂
WHAT is this BOOGES...😂😂😂
A brilliant piece of writing & beautifully performed.
Classic clip. Every language has its quirks. Explaining that words have genders in Spanish to non-Spanish speakers creates the same frustration that poor Ricky had haha
Most Romance languages (if not all) have them. French Genders are even harder than Spanish ones.
German also has Genders (three of them actually), and it isn't even a Romance language at all.
I know. How can the word chair have a gender? It's a chair.
Christian Shelton i heard french is easy but german (the language i grew up with) seems to be pretty hard
Your name confuses me, Is it that your name is actually John doe or are you a unknown person... Or making a fake alias...? The world may never know.
There are 3 main categories of writing systems. Phonetic like Spanish, syllabic like Japanese, and pictorial like Chinese. The writing system of English is actually more similar to Chinese with the pictorial writing system because you have to remember the spelling of the word as a whole unit.
Absolutely brilliant skit! So far ahead of its time. And i remember learning all those words and their same spellings but different pronunciations in grade school in the late 50s, early 60s. It was known as Phonics, which isnt taught today. No wonder English is difficult to learn for foreigners!
I’m still teaching it to middle schoolers, high schoolers and even adults who are English learners. 😁
Phonics is still taught but it's not a requirement as it used to be
Ricky:”I’m pooped”
Lucy:”This is indeed distressing news, to what do you attribute your plethora of fatigue?”😂😂😂😂
A lot of people think of many different I Love Lucy classics but this is also a favorite of mine because it rings so to to the craziness of the English language and so many people cn relate to that scene.
This is funny to me because usually Ricky is the one who is unimpressed this time is lucy😂❤
Who are here from the GTU or any other universities from india 😅
I'm from gtu 😅
"His hands were strong and 'row'. "
This is one with Hans Conreid as the tutor. His tippy tippy toe through the garden had me laughing so hard I almost got sick! And Fred got dressed up as a little schoolboy and came prancing in with a lollipop. Absolutely top notch writing and acting. Brilliant.
Loved this, I tell our second graders all the time- All the rules we learn get broken, its a crazy language!
Jerry Stover "for every rule there is an exception, and for every exception there is a rule."
"I before E except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh."
@@erikatamayo1925 "...and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May. And you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!" Brian Regan
@@benstephens34 lol that's great, and so so true.
What Ricky says in the end fits also Italian and Finnish. Systematic, semi-syllabic/syllabic languages where combination of letters (a syllable in a sense) is always pronounced the same way
Although, spanish is my first language, english is the more challenging and the most beautiful in the voice of the best poets and novelists. Even Gabriel Garcia Marquez loved his One Hundred Years of Solitude in english translation. So, there's something to that!
I used this clip when I was teaching Oral English in China, both at University level and Elementary level.
They are so funny. 😂 They had their Career many years before I was born. I missed them. They were too early for their time. But they are still relevant even in 2020 and so funny and loveable. 😀 💐 Efrat. Israel.
hahaha Love I Love Lucy and LOVE Ricky! 😂
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I had to share this with my daughter and her BF who is from PR. LOL So funny. Sounds just like them!!
I stand with Shakespeare on that one 👌🏼
Anyone from LD,sitting in English lab, listening this masterpiece?
I am here bro😂
Go and watch anime only😅
This is so true. My husband is from Central America and this happens to him all the time
By the way, why the plural of "Goose" is "Geese" and the plural of "Moose" is not "Meese"?
Plural of house? Of mouse?
The guy is somewhat similar to Joey(Friends)....I can very well imagine Joey in the same situation saying the same thing in the same way😂😂😂
I think in a hundred years this will still be the best example of the goofiness of English 👍👍
This is WAY HYSTERICAL!
I forget where I read it, and I'm paraphrasing, but I've always loved the comparison that English is like several languages stuffed together like little kids in a trench coat pretending to be a single adult.
This is my first time enjoying your CZcams channel. Great content! Looking forward to hearing more from you! Your video was so informative. Thank you so much!
Sounds like a conversation hubby and I would have 🤣🤣
The look on Lucy’s face when he says, “booges” Lol she’s thinking, “.....what the fuck?!” Lol
Lol I totally understand Ricky lol hahaha
I use this for many of my ESL groups!
My Spanish teacher showed this to us to show how easy Spanish was, I was the only one who know where the clip came from.
The ones who came up with the English language clearly were drunk. 😂😂😂
Think my favorite English-word mispronunciation of Ricky's is "Psychiatrist", as he pronounces it, "pissykiatrist".
Ha ha ha, "pissykiatrist", now that'll always be one for the books to better remember Ricky by. Ha ha:)
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@SwarthySkinnedOne--Do you have a link to that clip? I want to show it to a friend learning English as a second language. She loved this video of Ricky saying "ough" words.
English is two different languages mashed together: German (Anglo-Saxon) and French (Norman), with some other language bits tossed in: Latin, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, etc.
29% Latin 29 French 9% Greek. No Spanish. Or Japanese.
@@tonyvega7268 also 26 percent Germanic
@@tonyvega7268Spanish is related and descended from Latin so is French.
My second favorite lucy episode.
My mom's made the same complaints haha, this was perfect
Im with you Ricky Ricardo
The same thing I said
In Spanish we don’t have that sounds
Like we write same pronunciation
"Peasant" and "heart" didn't get him all confuse. I wonder why.
because he actually knows english and this is just a comedy show...
@@emillyyelen5169 I know
Fabulous!
I was first shown this in Spanish, and I watched it again in AP US History
This is so hilarious 😂
Now that's a crazy language... An English speaker said it himself 😂
Do you cough when you plough through tough dough?
Ugh. Enough. @.@
Nailed it! :D
@@redshirtveteran5688 Nice try but no go. Already taken (by "tough") :p
English is a language with many linguistic battle scars...
This made me die of laughing 😂😂😂😂😂
I know it can't be "cow."🤣🤣🤣
So true. Verissimo.
Very help full
i kinda wanna show this to my english club at my school here in japan but i dont think they will understand as they are junior high school kids. maybe only the high school kids might get it. would be fun to make a little activity with them about how some words spelled differently but sound the same or have same parts (like -ough) but sound different. kind of to show them how absurd it is at times
Yes Ricky, but at least our language has spelling bees! :-)
Many, if not most, languages have a defined standard which gets updated periodically in a "language reform". Such language reforms attempt to sync up the written language with the spoken language, including with regards to spelling. For example, as an English-speaking German student in the early 70's, I became interested in Dutch as a research topic but could not find any books on it since it was going through a language reform at the time. Every spoken language diverges from its written form over time, but languages which allow reforms are able to sync up the spoken and the written while the language that do not allow reforms result in the spoken and written forms drifting ever further apart. English has no standard and hence has had no language reform in centuries. English spelling is a treasure-trove for historical linguists, but a nightmare for language learners (and even a few native speakers).
One point was given by Robin Williams in his movie, "Moscow on the Hudson", in which he played a Russian who defects in NYC. In one scene with other restaurant dish washers, all non-English native speaking immigrants, he asks everybody else if their mouths also hurt after speaking English all day. In the early 70's we had a fellow student from Yugoslavia who remembered her one hour of English class as them coming out of class with all their mouths hurting from trying to pronounce English (it is tortuously different from most other European languages, especially in the vowels).
The other point is a half-remembered quote from somewhere. It was from a student of English to the effect: "Why is English spelling so hard? To make us look stupid?"
Believe it or not American English is reported as the most difficult language in the world to learn and the most challenging version of the English language worldwide. This video even explains why.
It really isnt. By anyone.
@@sarahriddel1410 mostly because you, like me, grew up with it.
right.....try learning Mandarin
I agree with you.
I am Italian. English grammar is very easy, and it takes a little effort to learn. All its difficulty lies in pronunciation (ok , you have to learn words and idioms like "it rains cats and dogs", but that's true for every language): understanding what word English-speaking people actually uttered isn't so easy for us foreigner, since the spoken sound does not map consistently to a written syllable. In Italy, we never need to spell our family name, and spelling is not a common practice at school: I've never done it, in fact. English people talking Italian sound funny to us, because they tend to distort vocals as they use to do with their language; of course, "Italian-English" is funny to native-English because our vocals have a flat, constant sound, without inflections.
2:42 one for the Spanish language... 😛
This is what I'm always trying to explain about d/Deaf learning English. English is fricking bonkers
I always crack up at 'booges'!
How the hell can this classic have 81 thumbs down?🙃
Barbara Nelson lots of haters I suppose 😂
So funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Rock a bye baby"
ough ough ough ough ough
I'm studying to become an english teacher and I plan on showing this to my students to show how phonetically inconsistent this crazy language is
LOL THIS IS FUNNY
please, where can I find it without subtitles? I want it for a language class. Any help, please! Thank you
Classic episode.
Ricky was right about the Spanish language
“You mean to tell me that I could’ve gotten out of all this just by taking you to a movie?”😂😂😂😂
By the way... why the plural of "Hoof" is "Hooves" but the plural of "Roof" is "Roofs" instead of "Rooves"?
I'm a native English speaker, and even I think o-u-g-h words just need to go straight to the boiler room of Hell.
many people say i have same accent as ricky
English is uff to learn.
Yeah,,, that's what I was talking about Ricky Ricardo said it clearly... Spanish pronunciation is just simple, not matter what it's always pronounced exactly the same (with so few exceptions, obviously like any rules out there) ... not that crazy OUGH pronunciation... pretty weird!!
I love *I love Lucy*
Thanks for sharing, +Jv Mika. Do you mind if I use it in class? My ESL students will get a kick out of it!
what book is that ?
Which movie is this clip from?
Can't get enu with this.
Haugh haugh haugh. At least I got it!!!
What book is used to make Lucy's point?
any old B/W movies??
Is there a funnier show of all time than I love Lucy?!
RICKY KNOWS HOW TO PRONOUNCE THOSE WORDS "THROUGH" WEEK TALKING WITH FRIENDS BUT CAN'T PRONOUNCE THEM WHEN HE READS???😅😂
"OH THAT'S IT I HAD ENOUGH OR
SHOULD I SAY "ENU"😂😂😂
What is the name of this episode?
Silvana de Jesus “Lucy Hires a Tutor”
Yes. LOL
Like his accent anyway