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@NameExplain 4 месяца назад

What's you fun idea for a shortened form of a word? I'd love the idea of elephants becoming just known as phants lol.

@eroditjakupi1016 4 месяца назад

To call the alphabet just albet, or everything efthing

@DrFerno727 4 месяца назад

Umbrella → Umbie

@_AstaLily 4 месяца назад

As a Brit, calling a chocolate biscuit a choccie biccie will never not make me happy I think we should refer to more types of biscuits as biccies. Imagine oat biccies!

@kandipiatkowski8589 4 месяца назад

One new one I like is TLDR (too long, didn't read). As a gen X person, I'm guilty of typing long messages, most without shortened words. Another one I use regularly is Tho (though). Sometimes I even use a single letter/number to replace a word (U, 4, 8, etc).

@zackatwood2867 4 месяца назад

Vic is victim Cell is cellular telephone Car is sport utility vehicle

@NorthernTigress 4 месяца назад

As a Canadian, who grew up learning both English and French, I still see bus as a shortening of "autobus" rather than "omnibus".

@highpath4776 4 месяца назад

autobus distinguished from Trolleybus . (strictly they should be Trolleyomnibuses - though often original known as trackless trams)

@Bye_girl 4 месяца назад

This is similar to my experience! I grew up in romanian and and I see bus as a shortening of both autobus and microbus!

@AdrianRP1995 4 месяца назад

If I understand correctly, autobus also comes from omnibus, with the shortening to "bus" happening before, right?

@PNate_KTrainVer. 4 месяца назад

Same

@MaximusLongus 4 месяца назад

@@highpath4776I'll just throw in some conjecture here since I don't really have the time to research this properly right now. But iirc omnibuses existed before self propelled vehicles became a thing - in the form of large, horse drawn carriages. So in the same way the horseless carriage became known as an automobile, a horseless omnibus may have become known as an autobus.

@kallelellacevej2234 4 месяца назад

My favourite is how automobile is shortened to “Auto” in German, but “Bil” in the Scandinavian languages.

@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 4 месяца назад

And both of them are meant to mean "car". Also, the word "car" is derived from "automobile cart", as carts came before cars and are defined as an object that runs on wheels that is pulled or pushed by an external force, whether it is a human, an animal, or a machine. When the automobile was invented, it basically represented a cart that is pulled by itself, as its engine is an integral part of the vehicle, which is why, it was called an "automobile cart", which was then shortened to "car".

@kallelellacevej2234 4 месяца назад

@@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Very interesting! I never knew that

@Redhotsmasher 4 месяца назад

@@AlbertTheGamer-gk7snI always thought "car" was a clipping of "horseless carriage" or something, but I could be wrong.

@excancerpoik 4 месяца назад

@@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn does this mean the words car bil and auto are all realated

@annabelholland 4 месяца назад

@@Redhotsmasher with regarding railways, that might be the case. I hear that car(s)s and carriage(s) are interchangable.

@frenchfriar 4 месяца назад

I love how we got taxi & cab from taximeter + cabriolet > taximeter + cab > taxicab > either taxi, or cab.

@InventorZahran 4 месяца назад

I always thought taxicab had something to do with taxation, which makes no sense considering cabs are usually not funded by tax.

@dmrmkw 4 месяца назад

scuba=self-contained underwater breathing apparatus; radar=radio detection and ranging

@nickbob2003 4 месяца назад

Doesn’t that mean scuba suit is redundant? Or maybe not since the apparatus could just be referring to the face mask

@walrusmaximus 4 месяца назад

It is not redundant. As you said, the mask (breathing apparatus) is the scuba. The suit does not help you breathe. Also, bonus, there are also SCBA's (self contained breathing apparatus). Used by people like firefighters.

@christiansebastianlauritse2404 4 месяца назад

Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation = Laser. So US Americans, unless you spell "stimulated" with a Z, laser isn't with a Z either. ;)

@DanDaFreakinMan 4 месяца назад

A bit cheating since those are more like abbreviation / acronym no?

@CATel_ 4 месяца назад

Acronym, yes @@DanDaFreakinMan

@susanvaughan4210 4 месяца назад

Within the community of people who love elephants and support elephant rescue organizations, elephants are nearly always referred to as "ellies."

@ezeke959 4 месяца назад

Oh that makes it cuter

@SiqueScarface 4 месяца назад

An interesting shortening, now loathed in Europe, is "Soccer", which was coined in England after the Football Association published their Association Rules in 1863. When a team was playing "Football according to Association rules" (and not for instance "Rugby rules" or "American Football rules"), they were playing "Association Football" or "Soc" for short - and in the fashion of the time, slightly expanded to "Soccer".

@highpath4776 4 месяца назад

not to be confused with SOCO - Scene Of Crime Officer

@InventorZahran 4 месяца назад

Association Football >> association >> assoccer >> soccer. I've never heard of 'soc' as a shortening...

@SiqueScarface 4 месяца назад

@@InventorZahran It didn‘t really exist. But if you want to explain how to get to it, it‘s an intermediate step.

@bountyjedi 4 месяца назад

Ah, I love it when Americans spell Britain as ”Europe"😂 Where I'm from nobody has strong opinions on whether you say "soccer" or "football". The former might even be more common due to American influence. This despite the native word being "fotboll"

@SiqueScarface 4 месяца назад

@@bountyjedi There is quite a difference between Europe the continent and the European Union. And I've experienced the same rebuffal of the "Soccer" word in Germany or in France.

@sdspivey 4 месяца назад

A taxi is also called a cab. Both came from the term "taximeter cabriolet." Mrs. comes from "mistress" not "missus". "Care package" was around long before the acronym, meaning it is a backronym.

@alanr4447a 4 месяца назад

6:50 "Mrs." has come to be pronounced as the word "missus", but the abbreviation itself is based on "mistress". Other clippings include: "zoo" for "zoological garden", "info" for "information"; "advertisement" just partly shortened to "advert"; anything that holds a "convention", or "con", but not a "con" (confidence) artist, or a "con" (-vict). Plus some based on names of muscles: "abs" for "abdominals", "lats" for "laterals", "pecs" for "pectorals", "glutes" for "gluteals"... Elsewhere, "television" is just "TV", "et cetera" etc...

@grantbmilburn 4 месяца назад

When i was taking piano(forte) lessons as a teen(ager) in the (19)70's we had books issued by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for their pianoforte examinations. It's now the ABRSM piano exams. And as for the violoncello examinations...

@InventorZahran 4 месяца назад

Is ABRSM pronounced "Abrosum"?

@InventorZahran 4 месяца назад

If piano is short for pianoforte, then why isn't harp short for harpsichord?

@randomlightstand 4 месяца назад

@@InventorZahranNo, short for Harpsichord would be Harpsi

@randomlightstand 4 месяца назад

@@InventorZahranWhy does my reply keep getting deleted?

@theGypsyViking 4 месяца назад

I went to the zoological garden and saw a hippopotamus lying upon the grasses by the riverbank of her enclosure.

@londonalicante 4 месяца назад

The clipping "zoo" was popularised by the song "walking in the zoo" by Alfred Vance

@lbgamer6166 3 месяца назад

I was sitting in the omnibus stop, I saw a zoological garden nearby.

@grantbmilburn 4 месяца назад

Some of my favourite contractions: Loaf-ward> Lord Fanatic> Fan Mobile> Mob Boatswain> Bosun Australia> Oz And my own country NZ (where The Loaf-ward of the Rings was made into a moving picture.)

@everestyt266 4 месяца назад

my favorite contraction is "y'ain't", which is a contraction of the 2 contractions "y'all" and "ain't", which are the contractions of "you all" and "are not" respectively.

@highpath4776 4 месяца назад

Mobile Phone in Liverpool is Moby

@Raadicality 4 месяца назад

Loaf Ward??? Guess I learned a new word

@byeguyssry 4 месяца назад

@@everestyt266 I thought y'ain't is just You are not?

@everestyt266 4 месяца назад

@@byeguyssry the "you" there is plural, so you can also use the exclusively plural "y'all,"which I prefer because it makes "y'ain't" a double contraction.

@me0101001000 4 месяца назад

All Correct -> Oll Korrect -> OK

@HalfEye79 4 месяца назад

OK -> Okay

@ace2731 4 месяца назад

Yeah, both of you are right.

@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj 4 месяца назад

All Correct -> Oll Korrect -> Okay -> OK -> Oklahoma

@magnusmcgee993 4 месяца назад

OK comes from someone running in an election (at least that was the version I heard)

@mingfanzhang8927 4 месяца назад

❤😊❤😊❤

@pedromenchik1961 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: in Portuguese, we still call bus “ônibus”

@Dirty09 4 месяца назад

Em espanhol eles chamam de buseta kkkkkkkkkkkk

@derkommissar4986 4 месяца назад

@@Dirty09talvez en españa porq nunca escuche eso xd

@AdrianRP1995 4 месяца назад

@@derkommissar4986No, en España tampoco, se lo ha sacado del culo

@TheDinisPT 4 месяца назад

*In Brazilian Portuguese. Every portuguese speaking country has it's own word. Autocarro in Portugal, São Tomé and Guinea-Bissau, Machimbombo in Angola and Mozambique, toca-toca in Cape Verde and microlete in Timor

@MarcoAntonio-hw7si 4 месяца назад

@@Dirty09buseta em espanhol (espanhol colombiano se não me engano) quer dizer micrônibus em português. Ônibus em espanhol geralmente é ómnibus, colectivo, autobús ou bus msm

@zekel.h.17 4 месяца назад

9:49 an individual with both autism and ADHD may have their condition referred to as AuDHD, where the "Au-" is sounded out since it comes from "autism," while the "-DHD" is read out as an initialism.

@Fasteroid 3 месяца назад

And just like that, you've created an abbreviation that does not strictly match any one type from this video! Language is kind of amazing.

@DefinitelyNotYT 3 месяца назад

Audi HD

@angeldude101 3 месяца назад

Clipping an initialism... why does that sound so wrong, but the result when contracted somehow works? (Probably has something to do with the clipping of "autism" standing in for the initial A.) Also I don't know how common it is, but I generally type AutDHD rather than AuDHD.

@disneytriviabuff8188 4 месяца назад

One I immediately thought of at the start that you didn't mention is "bra" for "brassiere". That one has become so common that I had no idea "bra" was a clipping until my mom told me.

@sharky98 4 месяца назад

3:52 My brain cannot comprehend how the numbers are not aligned either vertically or horizontally 😂

@hrayz 4 месяца назад

I took a moment, but came to the conclusion that the names that would be filled in would then fit the spacing.

@ellotheearthling 4 месяца назад

Aligning the numbers like that should be illegal

@flamencoprof 4 месяца назад

As someone whose cans in the pantry all have labels facing outwards, I feel your pain.

@HayTatsuko 4 месяца назад

One of my favorites is 3M -- originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. Always thought that was a cool way of handling that mouthful of a name.

@RayKremer78 4 месяца назад

Careful with the acronym examples. The dictionary gives an etymology for "care" going back to German and Norse. "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere" is clearly a backronym.

@nlpnt 4 месяца назад

It's a bacronym on multiple levels as when the organization started just after WW2 it was "Coordinated American Relief for Europe".

@FoggyD 4 месяца назад

Yo bro, saw some dope 'fantz at the zoo last week! (Having typed that, it occurs to me that "zoo" is a massive shortening of "zoological park" too.)

@aramisortsbottcher8201 4 месяца назад

bro is a shortening too.

@InventorZahran 4 месяца назад

@@aramisortsbottcher8201And "yo" is short for 'hello'

@drivernjax 4 месяца назад

And "zoo" in zoological park isn't pronounced zoo.

@DragonTheOneDZA 4 месяца назад

@@drivernjax it's zo-ological

@drivernjax 4 месяца назад

@@DragonTheOneDZA Oh, yes. I learned that pronunciation over 30 years ago.

@me0101001000 4 месяца назад

I'll say it once more: When you do initial AND final clipping, I call that word a medonym. Med for middle, Nym for name. I coined that word last year, and I hope you use it in your vocab!

@strawberryutopia 4 месяца назад

I use it so often it’s morphed into “don” over time 🙃

@rossjennings4755 4 месяца назад

The pedantic part of my brain wants to say that it should be called a "mesonym" instead, by analogy with words like "Mesozoic", "Mesopotamia", "mesothelioma". When we do get "med" it's usually followed by an "i": "median", "medium", "Mediterranean".

@EJJunkill 4 месяца назад

I will use it now!

@me0101001000 4 месяца назад

@@rossjennings4755 I see what you're saying, but I said medonym purely because mesonym doesn't feel as nice when I say it. That's all.

@KristopherBel 4 месяца назад

@@rossjennings4755medinyn would work too

@ProfessorAlbert-de9sc 4 месяца назад

What!? The longest word in english is just 45 letters long!!!! In Norwegian it is said to be "minoritetsladningsbærerdiffusjonskoeffisientmålingsapparatur", a word that is 60 letters long. In second place we have "fylkestrafikksikkerhetsutvalgssekretariatslederfunksjon", made up of 55 letters.

@djw7141 4 месяца назад

What’s the translations?

@qazw5414 4 месяца назад

60?! pathetic.

@DragonTheOneDZA 4 месяца назад

Wales:

@djw7141 4 месяца назад

@@DragonTheOneDZA the final boss

@BiGCheese009 4 месяца назад

If you forget the space anything is long. Hiragana has entered the chat.

@KryptikM3 4 месяца назад

Using Captain Charisma himself as an example of the word makes this entire video worth it

@fjolliff6308 4 месяца назад

"They'd've" is my favorite weird contraction that might not even be in the dictionary. "They would have"

@TheSkyGuy77 4 месяца назад

Whom'st've Who(m) must have

@angeldude101 3 месяца назад

Multi-contractions are fun. "would, should, could?" "wouldn't've, shouldn't've, couldn't've."

@gregariosity 3 месяца назад

I’dn’t’ve stopped there

@lorraineliggera4229 4 месяца назад

Isn't Mrs. an abbreviation for "mistress" and we just use a corrupted oral for of the word?

@-originalLemon- 4 месяца назад

"a corrupted oral" some words need to be shortened.

@karabearcomics 4 месяца назад

I can't help but think of how contractions can go even further than mentioned. People often think of them as contracting two words, but we often go even further. I mean, the "they'd" example can be extended if you want to say "they would have" to they'd've, but I also know there are instances like when one wants to say "do you want to" and shortens it to "d'yunna".

@highpath4776 4 месяца назад

u wanna bet ?

@CatulusVT-yy3vj 4 месяца назад

There's always the whom'st'd've copypasta as an example of an extreme contraction

@Greyhawksci 4 месяца назад

They'dn't've missed that if only y'all'd've spoken up sooner.

@ShowierData9978 4 месяца назад

bruh my ADHD mind cant deal with multiple contractions :/

@Pining_for_the_fjords 4 месяца назад

An interesting thing about the word "automobile" is it gave us the English prefix "auto-", which refers to things related to cars, and auto is the word for car in several languages. However Danish and Norwegian took the "bil" part of the word and made bil the word for car.

@modmaker7617 4 месяца назад

In Polish, we use "auto" for car and "autobus" for bus.

@Furienna 4 месяца назад

It is actually "bil" in Swedish too.

@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 4 месяца назад

The word "car" is derived from "automobile cart", as carts came before cars and are defined as an object that runs on wheels that is pulled or pushed by an external force, whether it is a human, an animal, or a machine. When the automobile was invented, it basically represented a cart that is pulled by itself, as its engine is an integral part of the vehicle, which is why, it was called an "automobile cart", which was then shortened to "car".

@Pining_for_the_fjords 4 месяца назад

@@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Interesting, I didn't know that.

@highpath4776 4 месяца назад

autogyro is a form of helicopter generally for one or two people

@SamWal 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: in Polish language omnibus means person who know a lot about everything

@LiamNoblet95 4 месяца назад

“I luv da ida of lang n words so much” this is kinda like that

@martinschlegel1823 4 месяца назад

I really like how you can take shortened words and use their long forms to make something sound formal, important or oldfashioned depending on the context. It is a great writing tool.

@RabidJohn 4 месяца назад

One of my favourites is perambulator becoming pram, which I only know from reading 'Peter Pan' as a kid. Also 'goodbye' starting out as 'God be with ye' becoming a written abbreviation 'Godbwye', then vowel shifting and losing the awkward 'w' to be spoken. Back when I was playing CoD4 in 2007 a Swedish kid on TeamSpeak said "Lol" when the rest of us were laughing at something, which just made us laugh even more.

@tomhalla426 4 месяца назад

In “Guests of the Ayatollah”, the American hostages said CIA as an intitialism, see eye aye, while the Iranian “students” said it as an acronym, seeah.

@RogerRamos1993 4 месяца назад

Seeah in Portuguese, as well.

@MrRhombus 4 месяца назад

Saying CIA as see eye ay is an acronym? What?

@tomhalla426 4 месяца назад

@@MrRhombus It is an initialism, like saying FBI as eff bee eye

@Grievous_Nix 4 месяца назад

@@MrRhombus initialisms are pronounced letter by letter: CIA, FBI, USA Acronyms are pronounced as words: NASA, NATO, radar, laser

@ellotheearthling 4 месяца назад

I have never in my life heard someone call a helicopter a copter

@EJJunkill 4 месяца назад

It was reasonably common waaaay back in the day, as I recall. I think most people say "chopper" now.

@ellotheearthling 4 месяца назад

@EJJunkill I’ve have occasionally heard people say chopper, but I’ve mostly only heard helicopter

@pynchon9 4 месяца назад

Roflcopter

@Lexivor 4 месяца назад

My favorite vehicle in all of Marvel comics is the Thanos-Copter.

@ShawnRavenfire 4 месяца назад

"I thought we called them 'choppers.'" "Well, now we call them 'hueys.'" (Yeah, that's an obscure "Short Circuit" quote.)

@Benni777 4 месяца назад

Ohhhh god, this vid takes me back to last year in Linguistics class when we learned about clipping. The professor gave wayyy too many examples, and she went way too fast. Actually going to your channel for topics that she didn’t make sense, helped so much, and I still watch u today (I was subbed to u before that class, but I really watched you during that class) that’s why I’m so excited that people are still invested in this channel just as much as I am. Keep going with the hard work Patrick! 🙏🏼☺️

@de-fault_de-fault 4 месяца назад

A fun mix and match example that came to mind: "Soccer" clips the "socc" part from "association football" but since that's not enough it's also got an "-er" tacked on as a kind of diminutive. Ironically the term is most popular in the US, where we don't really use -er diminutives otherwise.

@anniestumpy9918 4 месяца назад

oh how I hate it when people use "copter". Helicopter = "helico-" spiral + "pteron" wing There is no prefix "heli" and there is no suffix "copter". It's like shortening "doctor" to "octer", what a moron would do that? 😢😂

@themarsalien 3 месяца назад

I love how he says uh after every word ending in consonants

@Cassandra_Johnson 4 месяца назад

I enjoy how wrong the complex contractions feel in writing... Shouldn't've for example.

@jerrybiv1441 4 месяца назад

I'm only 32 & have ALWAYS been a proud Charismatic young man, who has an undeniable Charisma, with the way I speak, I simply REFUSE to say that I've got the RIZZ & HOW DARE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY DECLARE RIZZ as the word of the year for 2023!!!!!!!! JUST WTF!?!?!?!?!?!

@macsnafu 4 месяца назад

So the short bus is *really* the SHORT 'bus'! ;-) Most of these shortenings don't bother me, but for some reason, changing refrigerator to fridge does bother me. I also don't care for "rizz" but I guess I'll get used to it.

@gcb345 4 месяца назад

I see that I'm not the only one who thought of 'short bus'.

@Scratchydoesmusic 4 месяца назад

we need a name explain on why you sometimes end sentences with a voweluh

@AutoReport1 4 месяца назад

Elephant was already shortened to elp in old English. It only dropped out of use because the Normans got it confused with help. "What is dis invoice? I asked you to give me 'elp, not an elefant!"

@angeldude101 3 месяца назад

Those poor h-dropping people...

@iamthedogtor 4 месяца назад

One of my favourite clippings is "dude", which is believed to have come from "dudesman" (a dated word for scarecrow)

@binaryglitch64 4 месяца назад

My mom's nickname is a complex clipping: Her name is September but she goes by Temmie from the 'tem' in Sep-tem-ber. EDIT: I guess my mom's nickname also qualifies as a diminutive.

@SketchyTigers 4 месяца назад

nice argument, however i have already portrayed you as a sad tedious long word vehicle while i have portrayed myself as a happy brilliant short word vehicle

@TamChu2K 4 месяца назад

Aussies have so many shortened words we literally shorten everything - this should be the norm 😂

@mrham443 4 месяца назад

In Uruguay we actually use "ómnibus" quite a lot. However we do often shorten it to "bondi". I thought it was a local thing.

@-S.F.K. 4 месяца назад

What would you call something like “gonna” which is two words, “going” and “to”, pushed together without an apostrophe and having the spelling changed. This happens quite a bit with (something)-to, like gonna or gotta.

@blakdeth 4 месяца назад

The longest word gets a LOT longer if you're allowed chemical compounds.

@doodleblockwell2610 4 месяца назад

I was in my 50s before I learned that 'TARP' was short for 'TARPAULIN' I only hear the full word when watching British TV shows.

@stevencoghill4323 4 месяца назад

My fave is I18N = Internationalization. I18N started in the computer programming world. It's the process of making a program's output understandable in multiple languages.

@egegur7130 4 месяца назад

I think one of the main reasons as to how some shortened versions stick and some dont is distungishabiliy. Like the shortened version should be unique enough to not be confused with anything else. for example someone in the comments have mentioned how in elephant rescue organizations elephants are actually called "ellies". If that's the case I think it is because then you would know that they are talking about elephants and not your friend Ellie.

@jacoanimationstudio-di7hi 4 месяца назад

I refuse to believe a “bus” was originally called an “omnibus”

@bluntizard4481 4 месяца назад

2:31 Omnibus is still used, just now it refers to spending bills in Congress "omnibus bill"

@grantbmilburn 4 месяца назад

Congrats to the French for shortening some of the longer Larin words. So parabolare became parler. That means it's a parliament and not a parabolament. Also compute became count and fragile became frail. However, top prize for turning aqua into the sound "o".

@astral_haze 4 месяца назад

can'o would probably be redundant often because usually people can just say "can" and drop the object and any other attached verbs like "do"

@Dethneko 4 месяца назад

I've called an elephant an "ele" a time or two. But what I'm really waiting for is the wide-spread acceptance of compound contractions. They'd've Sholdn't've It'sn't And, apparently, my autocorrect is registering "they'd've" as a correctly spelled and acceptable word. o.o

@mallardtheduck1 4 месяца назад

"LOL" is often pronouced as a word, so would be an acronym in those cases... While "can'o" as "can do" isn't a thing, "canno' " as an alternative contraction of "cannot" is a thing particularly in Northern England and Scotland.

@KryptikM3 4 месяца назад

"LOL" being pronounced as a word unto itself came after it being used as an initialism, which is probably why it was used with that in mind here, but it's probably one of the few that became an acronym in its own right afterwards too.

@Raadicality 4 месяца назад

ROFL is an old version of LOL It was also pronounced like that

@DragonTheOneDZA 4 месяца назад

LOL literally became a new word and is used for making sentences positive and soft instead of laughing lol

@RobCamp-rmc_0 4 месяца назад

National Biscuit Company: Nabisco North American Electric Company: Norelco Rocket Mortgage Field House: RoMoFiHo [okay, that’s more local and obscure even on that level]

@jacobthompson1209 4 месяца назад

God be with you -> goodbye

@lightlingzooma-69 4 месяца назад

“With the single s replaced by two Zeds” 😂

@DragonTheOneDZA 4 месяца назад

How tf is that funny

@mitchelmodine9197 4 месяца назад

As an American English speaker I have always shortened refrigerator to fridge, but my Filipino English speaker wife shortens the same word to ref.

@biophile2 4 месяца назад

Noah Webster brilliantly shortened spellings of many words for American English.

@michaelhaywood8262 8 дней назад

Advertisement is unusual in that it can be abbreviated twice. It can be shortened to advert, but that can be further shortened to ad.

@Invalid-user13k 4 месяца назад

We shortened a whole ton of words

@glorifiedtoaster5061 4 месяца назад

Personally, I would love to see y'all'd've (you all would have) become more mainstream

@katsuruno 3 месяца назад

I'm reading a very sad scene of a character dying so I have to keep pausing that so I don't sob and I come here and watch this in between to calm down. oh no, there's a god willing to resurrect him in place for another dude's soul. Oh no, this is gonna be some crazy romeo juliet type bs right about now

@Werevampiwolf 4 месяца назад

I've said "I'm waiting for an omnibus", but it was a comic omnibus, aka a book compiled from every issue of a comic book (if it's several issues but not all of them, it's a TPB/trade paperback)

@subrje5546 2 месяца назад

In Hebrew, we don't really use clippings because it would mess up the structure of the word. But our binyanim (verb form templates of vowels) and especially mishkalim (the noun equivalent to a binyan) mean that abbreviations based on initials are used quite a bit more (we don't write vowels either so we can insert the right ones between the letters in an abbreviation). Especially in military nomenclature, abbreviations are the name of the game.

@williamblake3965 4 месяца назад

OK. Is the finest usage of shortened words ever.

@be7th 4 месяца назад

Come on, we all know El Phy is how we refer to what used to be said as Elephant. It's just so elgy.

@PhilipODette 4 месяца назад

Phobia words tend to become extremely long, imho.

@DragonTheOneDZA 4 месяца назад

And of course the fear of long words is a long word. Because the person who made it is a sociopath Hippopotamonsterousquippedillaphobia (i think I spelled it right)

@AthanasiosJapan 3 месяца назад

Macrolexophobia.

@michaelsegal3558 4 месяца назад

When he was talking about contractions he forgot cannot becoming can’t

@James2210 4 месяца назад

I don't know if you go over this but there's also a difference between initialisms and acronyms: acronyms can be pronounced, initialisms cannot. Take for example NASA (acronym) and CIA (initialism)

@thefareplayer2254 4 месяца назад

As a teen learning the Latin ablative and dative cases, I noticed the “-ibus” ending and thought “I wonder if that’s where the word bus comes from”, but chalked it up as a puerile idea. And then when I got older, I realized “wait I was right!” I hadn’t felt that much satisfaction over a correct etymology since the time when I told my mom, at age 4, that “Fig Newtons” must be named after Newton, Massachusetts, only for her to tell me they weren’t. Then, about 20 years later, I realized they *were* in fact named after Newton, Massachusetts, and I felt extremely vindicated.

@IzaaKaazI 4 месяца назад

WON'T for WILL NOT is an interesting one.

@scmtuk3662 4 месяца назад

But _why_ is it "won't" and not "willn't"? Well, "won't" literally comes from "woll not", in which "woll" was a obsolete form of "will".

@56independent42 4 месяца назад

they'd've'ad used more contractions if they were more daring

@michellegiacalone1079 3 месяца назад

"I don't want to waste time saying unnecessarily long words." u-n-n-e-c-e-s-s-a-r-i-l-y Thirteen!

@WilliametcCook 4 месяца назад

I am -> I’m going to -> gonna I’m gonna -> Imma

@maximos905 4 месяца назад

Renege came from renegotiate and recap is short for recapitulate

@petersmythe6462 4 месяца назад

World Wide Web -> Double yoo double yoo double yoo How to shorten a phrase from 3 syllables to 9.

@TheRagingPlatypus 4 месяца назад

Ironic we have no abbreviation we have no abbreviation for abbreviation.

@TheSkyGuy77 4 месяца назад

abbrev. would be one

@the711devin4 4 месяца назад

New York State School Music Association -> NYSSMA (pronounced "Nissmuh")

@shellder_gaming 3 месяца назад

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalliaphobia

@divano1014 4 месяца назад

In french they use "verlan" which is used in slang that shortens some words (usually in syllable count) just by flipping the word around (although there are some rules to its that im not too sure of)

@draig2614 4 месяца назад

In Northern Ontario, there is a community called Nolalu. There is a very large Finnish population in this area, and a lot of communities have Fin names, and most people assume that Nolalu is another Fin name. It isn't - it is a shortening of Northern Land and Lumber. Likewise, Kenora (also in Northern Ontario) is a shortening of the names of the three communities that amalgamated to form the town: Keewatin, Norman, and Rat Portage.

@Grievous_Nix 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: automobile became "Auto" in German and "bil" in Swedish - same idea, different clipping!

@bearinmind50 4 месяца назад

Instead of elephant try ‘leph’

@Mike-kw5xv 4 месяца назад

People pronouncing an abbreviation out loud is one of my favorite fallout jokes. How people keep calling big mountain the big empty.

@KristenRowenPliske 4 месяца назад

Having raised my kids on Winnie the Pooh, elephants will always be heffalumps to me. 😄

@jonntischnabel 4 месяца назад

Piano - pianoforte. Pram- perambulator.

@lourias 4 месяца назад

I asked my 9 year old grandson what "Rizz" meant. He had no clue... now I know

@aramisortsbottcher8201 4 месяца назад

Does he know what charisma means? I think I did not when I was 9.

@glenmorrison8080 4 месяца назад

The common abbreviation for abbreviation, 'breve', is a complex clipping I suppose.

@leolund1309 4 месяца назад

I got the "captain charisima" reference

@grry02 3 месяца назад

3:27 hate how I immediately understood Christian as Captain Charisma😭

@StarlasAiko 2 месяца назад

Once upon a time, the human genders were "wereman" for male people and "wifman" for female people. One generation decided to drop the "were" to shorten it to "man" and "wifman" eventually became "wiman" and then "woman", with the "wif" seperated from "wifman" evolving into the modern "wife". I will never understand why the ancesters decided that route, when it would have made a lot more sense to drop the "man" and shorten both to "were" and "wif" respectively.