@@eveakane6563 Bae's acacia is a valid regional pronunciation of acacia, and one that's more in line with the language that word was borrowed from. I don't think there's any region where the majority of English speakers pronounce epitome like Gura did
A recent one for me was the word "row" as a synonym for quarrel. I'm American and I've seen it in writing a lot, but not heard it very many times because apparently it's a British word.
Tbf I've noticed a lot of younger people don't pronounce words how I and people even older than me do. I think this just reflects that their vocabularies contain a lot more words that they have seen in text but never heard spoken. For example, the t of 'debut' is being unsilenced (though that tends to eventually happen to most French loan words in English anyway), and I'm now often hearing the a in 'scarce' rhyming with 'scar' instead of 'scare'.
English really *could* use more consistency -- words' pronunciation drifting to match the spelling more closely is a very natural phenomenon and has always been happening in every language. I for one welcome those changes. ... using a "of + " in place of a "have + " on the other hand should be punished with 5 years of forced labour in the mines. Just my personal, although undeniably correct, opinion.
The impact of only socially interacting online over text and never meeting in person to speak to one another. As well as the slang and lingo used by them today as well. Most of them can’t go one sentence without throwing one in there somewhere. Some only speak in phrases that wouldn’t be considered English, the phrases contain English words but the meaning and structure of the phrase has lost all of its original definition. Watching streamers as a main source of entertainment also plays a big role in this. When I was a kid, I learned many words and the pronunciations from movies, tv series, books, etc. Not many people seek those out for entertainment anymore (unfortunately).
i learned the difference one day then had a language arts teacher not correct it when an audio book used it incorrectly and was just confusion. to be honest until just now i still wasnt sure because i never googled how it sounded.
There's a stand-up comic named Brian Regan who had an hour long special called the Epitome of Hyperbole, and at one point he mentioned a heckler who told him he pronounced EVERY word wrong, so he replied with "well, if that isn't the epi-tome of hyper-bole"
I read a lot as a kid, and learnt that word from a book without hearing someone pronounce it. I pronounced it the same way gura did into my early 20's.
Mistakes book-smart people make. It works in reverse sometimes too. Like, you know a word, how to use it, how to pronounce it but when you see it for the first time, you revert to some grade 1 level reading and trying to sound it out and stuff.
I only know the pronunciation due to reading "Calvin and Hobbes". Apparently verse 7 of the tree fort password is "Tigers are perfect, the E-Pit-O-Me of good looks and grace and quiet dignity." Thanks to the way it's emphasized I never had to wonder how it was pronounced. 😅
You know that a language has messed-up pronunciation if native speakers suddenly find out that they have been mispronouncing a word for 20 or more years 😅 (and to be fair, as a non-native English speaker I would have pronounced it exactly the same) P.S.: Happy Birthday Gura!
Really cant fault her for this since it kinda makes sense with the normal rules english. But bcos english is a jumbled mishmash of multiple languages we get this kinda pronunciation every once in awhile...
The way she pronounces it is one of the accepted pronunciations though. Like how ok one is a verb and the other is the adjective version of the word but "cursed" is pronounced two ways; with one syllable, or with two like cur-sed.
I also didn't know that she was saying in the wrong way until the google star talking , i think this happen to her because she is learning japanese because this is how you read this word in ohter language. Like sakura miko with her : hide ( he the)
theres a Brian Regan special titled 'Epitome of Hyperbole' where he pronounces the words 'epi-tome of hyper-bowl' as a bit. whereas the correct pronunciation the two words rhyme. But i say 'epi-tome' too and 'hyper-bowl' because of it and people will call it out all the time lol
NOOOO LMAO!! So in one of the old Armored Core games there was a weapon a Machine gun that was called the epitome of etc etc. for YEARS my friend called it the Epitome and we all ended up call it the Epi Tome LOL. Ah this was precious!!
I will never understand how someone like me, who isn't social or well-read, knows and can pronounce far more words than seemingly a lot of people. There are some words I can't spell without auto-correct, though, but I just discovered now that I've learned the two most common ones I do.
this reminds me of a scammer bait vid I saw a few years back. guy claims to live near Yosemite, but doesn't say it yo-si-mi-tea. he said yo-si-might. took the guy who was talking to him a fair bit to realize what he said. he only realized what the scammer was talking about after googling landmarks for the area & saw Yosemite as the top result
That's the issue when you only ever read words but never hear them said out loud. The same works on the opposite too as I recently saw on an ebay auction where someone wrote Zede insted of CD, as I assume that person only ever heard the word but never read it. I, as an ESL, too thought it's pronounced epi-tome, lol.
I've been there, Gura. I actually got into an argument with a girl in my class in high school over the correct pronunciation of "cicada" only to find out I was in the wrong days later.
Ayo, this me fr. I remember one day I was writing something, and I needed to use the word 'epidemy' but i could not for the life of me figure out how to spell it. And because the word and its pronunciation are so different, I actually had to consult a real person for help. They didn't know how to spell it either. Apparently, its a word so rarely written by normal people that nobody actually knows how to spell it. I don't remember exactly how I figured it out, but I remember learning that 'epidemy' and 'epitome' were the same word, and I had trouble matching their definitions together. Because you don't learn new words by going and looking up the definition, you learn them through context clues, and these two words, the written and the spoken, are used in different contexts, writing and speaking. In the end, I couldn't do it. I now use both words in speech, only the single ' epitome' in writing. The difference being essentially formal vs informal, 'epidemy' vs 'epitome' respectively.
it’s one of those words you’re more likely to read than hear in conversation
ironically i growing up heard it more often than i read it
@@dead-claudia i guess the people around you are more erudite than most
Well you can always be more eloquent too
Sure, after you read/hear a word in context you can use it yourself at the risk of mispronouncing/misspelling it
@@IsshikiKotonashi another one! is erudite like crudite?
Epitome is the peak of "Words I've only used/seen in writing"
The epitome of them, even.
What about lingerie?
@@OhGeeGanksta obviously you pronounce lingerie as linger + rye
@@winterhell2002 Linger-ee, personally, until I was, like 13 when someone corrected me.
@@SeraphArmaros Why you using that word so often as a kid lol
Don't worry gura, you just pronounce like a good French person...
Can confirm xD
Epitome is a Greek word though and it’s even written as epitomē in the Greek version before it was brought over to Latin. Epi-tome is just wrong
well french has alot of influence throughout the midwest and south.. i pronounce it exactly the same way.
@@TheJjcczzwhat does 'just wrong' mean though?
J'approuve
Epi-Tome is the trademark name for the magic tome responsible for teaching magical healers how to deal with anaphylactic shock.
Genius
"Please help! She'll die without an Epi-Tome!"
"It's pronounced 'epitome'."
anaphylactic shork
It also costs 500 gold pieces and for some gods forsaken reason you have to buy a new one every year...
@@Radiodragonofdoom read the expiration date before you purchase a new Epi-tome
Epitome Gura vs Acacia Bae.
vs dis hes bae
Can't forget Kiara's thighs as 'ties' 💀
@@DekuStickGamer I mean that's more an accent thing than "didn't know how to pronounce it properly" thing
@@eveakane6563 Bae's acacia is a valid regional pronunciation of acacia, and one that's more in line with the language that word was borrowed from. I don't think there's any region where the majority of English speakers pronounce epitome like Gura did
Biome and iron kiara💀
The epi tome of hyper bole
The big yellow one is the sun!!!
A recent one for me was the word "row" as a synonym for quarrel. I'm American and I've seen it in writing a lot, but not heard it very many times because apparently it's a British word.
an epic tome vs a hyper bole.. humu humu
@@Top_Weeb pronounced RA-O, rhymes with "cow"
Since she is an 9000+ year old person from Atlantis I trust that her pronunciation of antique Greek is reliable enough.
She's actually holo at ala atalatis
bro what in the 7 heavens is "atalatis"
@@Real_MisterSir it's the epi-tome of bad speeling.
Am epi-tome. It's what you use an epi-pen to write in.
aaaaaw, makes sense. I always wondered what those epipens were for. Silly coworkers been stabbing people with it.
No, no. The epi-pen saves lives! The epi-tome takes them away!
I might be thinking of a different "tome."
@@Bloodstar6078 So the epi-tome is like the death note?
@@Raime69 oh yeah, I was thinking of the Death Note. 😉
It’s like the people who pronounce hyperbole as “hyper-bowl.”
superbowl aint got nothing on the hyperbole
Brian Ree-gan fan, spotted.
I think that's different. Everyone (at least in English-speaking countries) learns about hyperbole in school so they should know how to say it.
"I'll support it when it's correct. BIOME"
BEE-YO-MEE!!!!! xD
Gura: "The harder I lean into this, I am the epi tome of health"
Correction is needed, her pronunciation I mean
I believe an epi-tome is how mages treat anaphylaxis.
english is my only language, and im sure theres atleast a few words i 'misspronounce'
Gura the legend of the epi•tome 😅
Brain flashing back to all the times you might have said it and people silenty judged you and said nothing.
I also thought it was epi-tome rather than e-pi-to-me.
That's just the quirks of English
While I've always known the right pronunciation, I still say it wrong half the time.
I pronounce it epi-tome as well.
both are right, depending on where you are, tbh
@@shirothefish9688 No. It's not one of those words with multiple pronunciations.
@@youtubecensorpolice9112 That's not like a pronunciation choice "tomayto, tomahto" thing, that's just wrong.
Gawr Gura of Hololive EN sasuga
That's classic Gura right there and I love it.
A: what would we call something that is a perfect example?
B: how about "epi-tome"?
A: sounds epic to me!
A and B: *awkward staring + silence*
To be fair it's not a word one hears often 😂
I watched it happening, and epitome was a perfect word in the context, and it does indeed exist, chat just being stupid, Gura has a good lexicon 🔱💙
"I'm the epitome of health"
Girl, you infamously jump out of bed soon as you wake up, then not five minutes later, you pass out.
In fairness, epitome is Latin, barely even English.
Apparently you are right that comes to English through Latin, but it's ultimately Greek.
If it comes from latin, then both pronunciations would be wrong, lol
Such a term would only be uttered by the more loquacious of those among us
"Oh good lord"
That reaction... XD
Never change, Gura.
The "oh good lord" moment, it wasnt even close😂
Epi-Tome is the comprehensive manual that comes with every Epi-Pen.
It's the book containing ancient spells that countered allergic reactions before we had epipen.
Oh how the bi-O-ME tables turn.
Tbf I've noticed a lot of younger people don't pronounce words how I and people even older than me do. I think this just reflects that their vocabularies contain a lot more words that they have seen in text but never heard spoken. For example, the t of 'debut' is being unsilenced (though that tends to eventually happen to most French loan words in English anyway), and I'm now often hearing the a in 'scarce' rhyming with 'scar' instead of 'scare'.
English really *could* use more consistency -- words' pronunciation drifting to match the spelling more closely is a very natural phenomenon and has always been happening in every language. I for one welcome those changes.
... using a "of + " in place of a "have + " on the other hand should be punished with 5 years of forced labour in the mines. Just my personal, although undeniably correct, opinion.
@@magpiesarebestbirbs8958 "English really could use more consistency"
Lol, good luck with that.
@@DrD0000M Give it time. In about 300 years it will be better.
This has always been true and is just an indication of being well-read more than being socialised around the given word
The impact of only socially interacting online over text and never meeting in person to speak to one another. As well as the slang and lingo used by them today as well. Most of them can’t go one sentence without throwing one in there somewhere. Some only speak in phrases that wouldn’t be considered English, the phrases contain English words but the meaning and structure of the phrase has lost all of its original definition. Watching streamers as a main source of entertainment also plays a big role in this. When I was a kid, I learned many words and the pronunciations from movies, tv series, books, etc. Not many people seek those out for entertainment anymore (unfortunately).
Honestly, honestly, she could’ve saved it by saying “it’s the Atlantis pronunciation”
Gura being the best is the epi tome of hyper bowl.
that "oh good lord" was too adorable 😂
"What's an epitome? Is it a book or something?......It doesn't exist...."
An Epi-Tome is probably like, I dunno, a book jacket or something for mages to hide the naughty, naughty spells they're learning in secret.
i learned the difference one day then had a language arts teacher not correct it when an audio book used it incorrectly and was just confusion.
to be honest until just now i still wasnt sure because i never googled how it sounded.
She pronounces it the same way Scott the Woz does
It's like how Arkansas is pronounced ArkanSAW, some words make their own rules
"I am Health" Thanks Gura. I will borrow that.
This clip reminds me that I used to think that Atlantis and Atlanta were the same place, so Atlantis was part of USA in my head for a long time
Gura can make new words, she's just that intelligent
There's a stand-up comic named Brian Regan who had an hour long special called the Epitome of Hyperbole, and at one point he mentioned a heckler who told him he pronounced EVERY word wrong, so he replied with "well, if that isn't the epi-tome of hyper-bole"
I read a lot as a kid, and learnt that word from a book without hearing someone pronounce it. I pronounced it the same way gura did into my early 20's.
it's a perfectly cromulent word
The lord of the rings books are epitomes.
She had an epiphany of epitome
Gura would be the person to order Filet Mignon (Fill-et Mig-non)
00:46 ❤️🙏❤️
An epitome is that injection women get before they give birth.
If you don't know how to pronounce a word that means you learned it from reading so you're automatically a superior human being
DEATH, THE EPITOME OF ALL OF OUR DAYS
Points at least for using it in the correct context and usage
An epi-tome is something you write using an epi-pen.
Epi-tome is what is written with an epi-pen
If epi-pens exist, epi-tomes should too. - Gura probably
I want to laugh, but then I remembered something similar happened to me with the word affidavit
Oi oi, someone owes Kiwawa an apology for how she says Bio-mee, hmm?
This word is pronounced exactly how you would NOT expect it to be pronounced. Can’t even make fun of her for this one. English is a trolling language.
Well... no... It has its roots in Greek and was then adopted by English. The Greeks are the trolls.
Mistakes book-smart people make.
It works in reverse sometimes too. Like, you know a word, how to use it, how to pronounce it but when you see it for the first time, you revert to some grade 1 level reading and trying to sound it out and stuff.
Gura never really integrated into hololive, she's still a very unique character
That one brain cell is trying it’s very best lol
The first time I ever pronounced the word spatula, it came out "spuh-too-la"
This just reminds me of the time shes confused by the word mining🤣
I too have been pronouncing it the same way my whole life
I only know the pronunciation due to reading "Calvin and Hobbes".
Apparently verse 7 of the tree fort password is "Tigers are perfect, the E-Pit-O-Me of good looks and grace and quiet dignity." Thanks to the way it's emphasized I never had to wonder how it was pronounced. 😅
You know that a language has messed-up pronunciation if native speakers suddenly find out that they have been mispronouncing a word for 20 or more years 😅
(and to be fair, as a non-native English speaker I would have pronounced it exactly the same)
P.S.: Happy Birthday Gura!
Really cant fault her for this since it kinda makes sense with the normal rules english. But bcos english is a jumbled mishmash of multiple languages we get this kinda pronunciation every once in awhile...
If Brian Regan knew about Gura, he would be so proud.
Guras right the robot was wrong and i will die on this hill
that was wholesome AF lol
0:46 No Gura, an "epic tome" would be a book
Gura is literally me because that's how I've been pronouncing that word😂
I'm using it now. Epitome, to confidentiality embody something. (Regardless of the facts XD)
The same person who saw the word mining and said meeeniing
The way she pronounces it is one of the accepted pronunciations though. Like how ok one is a verb and the other is the adjective version of the word but "cursed" is pronounced two ways; with one syllable, or with two like cur-sed.
Is it like an epic book?
The epitome of hyperbole.
I also didn't know that she was saying in the wrong way until the google star talking , i think this happen to her because she is learning japanese because this is how you read this word in ohter language.
Like sakura miko with her : hide ( he the)
theres a Brian Regan special titled 'Epitome of Hyperbole' where he pronounces the words 'epi-tome of hyper-bowl' as a bit. whereas the correct pronunciation the two words rhyme.
But i say 'epi-tome' too and 'hyper-bowl' because of it and people will call it out all the time lol
NOOOO LMAO!! So in one of the old Armored Core games there was a weapon a Machine gun that was called the epitome of etc etc. for YEARS my friend called it the Epitome and we all ended up call it the Epi Tome LOL. Ah this was precious!!
the epi-tome of hyper-bowl
epi-tome is like epi-pen, but when you get stung by a bee, you read the stung place ancient forbidden knowledge
IVE BEEN SAYING IT WRONG THIS WHOLE TIME TOO APPARENTLY
I will never understand how someone like me, who isn't social or well-read, knows and can pronounce far more words than seemingly a lot of people. There are some words I can't spell without auto-correct, though, but I just discovered now that I've learned the two most common ones I do.
this reminds me of a scammer bait vid I saw a few years back. guy claims to live near Yosemite, but doesn't say it yo-si-mi-tea. he said yo-si-might. took the guy who was talking to him a fair bit to realize what he said. he only realized what the scammer was talking about after googling landmarks for the area & saw Yosemite as the top result
That's the issue when you only ever read words but never hear them said out loud. The same works on the opposite too as I recently saw on an ebay auction where someone wrote Zede insted of CD, as I assume that person only ever heard the word but never read it. I, as an ESL, too thought it's pronounced epi-tome, lol.
Don't worry, it's one of those words that just has different rules for pronunciation for no reason.
I've been there, Gura. I actually got into an argument with a girl in my class in high school over the correct pronunciation of "cicada" only to find out I was in the wrong days later.
tbf, there's an English pronunciation and an American one. So, you can still be right
A book about fans of Gura would be an ... Ebi Tome.
An Epi-tome is an Epic Book! XP
Awww
This skit is an epitome of comedy.
Epitome means perfect
I noticed she does this *years* ago and it's funny chat only picked up on it now
epi-tome. you write in it with an epi-pen.
0:08 great maybe she can stream now
Thanks, Gura. Now I have no idea if I've been pronouncing that word correctly or not.
Ayo, this me fr. I remember one day I was writing something, and I needed to use the word 'epidemy' but i could not for the life of me figure out how to spell it. And because the word and its pronunciation are so different, I actually had to consult a real person for help. They didn't know how to spell it either. Apparently, its a word so rarely written by normal people that nobody actually knows how to spell it. I don't remember exactly how I figured it out, but I remember learning that 'epidemy' and 'epitome' were the same word, and I had trouble matching their definitions together. Because you don't learn new words by going and looking up the definition, you learn them through context clues, and these two words, the written and the spoken, are used in different contexts, writing and speaking.
In the end, I couldn't do it. I now use both words in speech, only the single ' epitome' in writing. The difference being essentially formal vs informal, 'epidemy' vs 'epitome' respectively.
That's how it's read now
A tome is a big book for scholarly things and is pronounced like how she said it.
I've caught myself reading "epitome" that way before too.