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@NameExplain 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

To call the alphabet just albet, or everything efthing

@DrFerno727 29 дней назад

Umbrella → Umbie

@_AstaLily 29 дней 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 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

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

@NorthernTigress 29 дней 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 28 дней назад

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

@Bye_girl 26 дней 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 26 дней назад

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

@PNate_KTrainVer. 23 дня назад

Same

@MaximusLongus 22 дня 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.

@me0101001000 29 дней назад

All Correct -> Oll Korrect -> OK

@HalfEye79 29 дней назад

OK -> Okay

@ace2731 29 дней назад

Yeah, both of you are right.

@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj 29 дней назад

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

@magnusmcgee993 29 дней назад

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

@mingfanzhang8927 29 дней назад

❤😊❤😊❤

@kallelellacevej2234 29 дней назад

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

@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

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

@Redhotsmasher 28 дней назад

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

@excancerpoik 28 дней назад

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

@annabelholland 27 дней назад

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

@frenchfriar 29 дней назад

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

@InventorZahran 23 дня назад

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

@dmrmkw 29 дней назад

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

@nickbob2003 23 дня назад

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

@walrusmaximus 22 дня 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 22 дня 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 20 дней назад

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

@CATel_ 16 дней назад

Acronym, yes @@DanDaFreakinMan

@susanvaughan4210 29 дней назад

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

@ezeke959 15 дней назад

Oh that makes it cuter

@SiqueScarface 28 дней 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 28 дней назад

not to be confused with SOCO - Scene Of Crime Officer

@InventorZahran 23 дня назад

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

@SiqueScarface 23 дня назад

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

@bountyjedi 20 дней 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 20 дней 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.

@alanr4447a 24 дня 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 29 дней 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 23 дня назад

Is ABRSM pronounced "Abrosum"?

@InventorZahran 23 дня назад

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

@randomlightstand 16 дней назад

@@InventorZahranNo, short for Harpsichord would be Harpsi

@randomlightstand 16 дней назад

@@InventorZahranWhy does my reply keep getting deleted?

@sdspivey 29 дней 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.

@pedromenchik1961 29 дней назад

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

@sujirokimimami00 28 дней назад

Em espanhol eles chamam de buseta kkkkkkkkkkkk

@derkommissar4986 27 дней назад

@@sujirokimimami00talvez en españa porq nunca escuche eso xd

@AdrianRP1995 26 дней назад

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

@TheDinisPT 25 дней 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 25 дней назад

@@sujirokimimami00buseta em espanhol (espanhol colombiano se não me engano) quer dizer micrônibus em português. Ônibus em espanhol geralmente é ómnibus, colectivo, autobús ou bus msm

@grantbmilburn 29 дней 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 28 дней 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 28 дней назад

Mobile Phone in Liverpool is Moby

@Raadicality 26 дней назад

Loaf Ward??? Guess I learned a new word

@byeguyssry 23 дня назад

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

@everestyt266 23 дня 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.

@theGypsyViking 29 дней назад

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

@londonalicante 29 дней назад

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

@lbgamer6166 4 дня назад

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

@sharky98 29 дней назад

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

@hrayz 29 дней назад

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

@ellotheearthling 29 дней назад

Aligning the numbers like that should be illegal

@flamencoprof 28 дней назад

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

@zekel.h.17 28 дней 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 14 дней 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 12 дней назад

Audi HD

@angeldude101 5 дней 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.

@RayKremer78 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

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

@HayTatsuko 29 дней 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.

@FoggyD 29 дней 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 28 дней назад

bro is a shortening too.

@InventorZahran 23 дня назад

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

@drivernjax 22 дня назад

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

@DragonTheOneDZA 20 дней назад

@@drivernjax it's zo-ological

@drivernjax 20 дней назад

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

@disneytriviabuff8188 16 дней 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.

@me0101001000 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

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

@rossjennings4755 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

I will use it now!

@me0101001000 29 дней 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 28 дней назад

@@rossjennings4755medinyn would work too

@lorraineliggera4229 29 дней назад

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

@-originalLemon- 15 дней назад

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

@ProfessorAlbert-de9sc 27 дней 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 23 дня назад

What’s the translations?

@qazw5414 22 дня назад

60?! pathetic.

@DragonTheOneDZA 20 дней назад

Wales:

@djw7141 20 дней назад

@@DragonTheOneDZA the final boss

@BiGCheese009 19 дней назад

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

@karabearcomics 29 дней 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 28 дней назад

u wanna bet ?

@CatulusVT-yy3vj 27 дней назад

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

@Greyhawksci 24 дня назад

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

@ShowierData9978 22 дня назад

bruh my ADHD mind cant deal with multiple contractions :/

@KryptikM3 29 дней назад

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

@martinschlegel1823 15 дней 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.

@glenngraham5859 29 дней назад

Missed one category. Australian isms, where we clip a word, but add an "o" or an "ie". For example, arvo for afternoon, servo for service station or tradie for tradesmen.

@phygs 29 дней назад

would that fall under diminutives?

@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 29 дней назад

Also, "tog" for swimsuit as well.

@LiamNoblet95 22 дня назад

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

@Pining_for_the_fjords 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

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

@Furienna 29 дней назад

It is actually "bil" in Swedish too.

@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

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

@highpath4776 28 дней назад

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

@tomhalla426 29 дней 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 27 дней назад

Seeah in Portuguese, as well.

@MrRhombus 27 дней назад

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

@tomhalla426 27 дней назад

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

@Grievous_Nix 25 дней назад

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

@de-fault_de-fault 24 дня 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.

@ellotheearthling 29 дней назад

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

@EJJunkill 29 дней назад

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

@ellotheearthling 29 дней назад

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

@pynchon9 29 дней назад

Roflcopter

@Lexivor 29 дней назад

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

@ShawnRavenfire 28 дней назад

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

@RabidJohn 14 дней 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.

@fjolliff6308 16 дней назад

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

@TheSkyGuy77 14 дней назад

Whom'st've Who(m) must have

@angeldude101 5 дней назад

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

@Benni777 28 дней 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! 🙏🏼☺️

@SamWal 29 дней назад

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

@grantbmilburn 29 дней 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".

@Cassandra_Johnson 29 дней назад

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

@Scratchydoesmusic 22 дня назад

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

@themarsalien 12 дней назад

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

@macsnafu 29 дней 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 29 дней назад

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

@stephenbenner4353 19 дней назад

My favorite example of writing using no contractions is the Cohn brothers’ remake of True Grit. The actors do not use contractions either.

@jerrybiv1441 15 дней 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!?!?!?!?!?!

@aaron9797 19 дней назад

the all terrain armored transport from star wars is shortened to AT-AT but some use it as an acronym others use it as an initialism

@blakdeth 21 день назад

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

@mrham443 21 день 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.

@SketchyTigers 23 дня 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

@astral_haze 18 дней 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"

@iamthedogtor 21 день назад

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

@bluntizard4481 27 дней назад

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

@AutoReport1 28 дней 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 5 дней назад

Those poor h-dropping people...

@egegur7130 21 день 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.

@-S.F.K. 16 дней 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.

@jmer3536 29 дней назад

This is an excellent topic you covered

@doodleblockwell2610 26 дней 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.

@Werevampiwolf 29 дней 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)

@anniestumpy9918 27 дней 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? 😢😂

@mitchelmodine9197 29 дней 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.

@binaryglitch64 25 дней 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.

@beargreen1 28 дней назад

We shortened a whole ton of words

@TamChu2K 16 дней назад

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

@stevencoghill4323 27 дней 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.

@InventorZahran 23 дня назад

Helicopter has been clipped as both 'copter' and 'heli', as well as the modified form 'helo' (pronounced "hee-lo").

@jacoanimationstudio-di7hi 16 дней назад

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

@Dethneko 21 день 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

@williamblake3965 29 дней назад

OK. Is the finest usage of shortened words ever.

@jacobthompson1209 20 дней назад

God be with you -> goodbye

@thefareplayer2254 28 дней 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.

@mallardtheduck1 29 дней 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 29 дней 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 26 дней назад

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

@DragonTheOneDZA 20 дней назад

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

@user-yu8jg4lu2u 29 дней назад

Phobia words tend to become extremely long, imho.

@DragonTheOneDZA 20 дней 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)

@RobCamp-rmc_0 27 дней 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]

@biophile2 28 дней назад

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

@draig2614 28 дней 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.

@divano1014 24 дня 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)

@thatliquidthing1903 24 дня назад

"two-for-the-price-of-one" into "twofer" will never not be funny to me

@glorifiedtoaster5061 21 день назад

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

@lightlingzooma-69 24 дня назад

“With the single s replaced by two Zeds” 😂

@DragonTheOneDZA 20 дней назад

How tf is that funny

@karaqakkzl 29 дней назад

Tele (far) + phone (sound) = Telephone American: call it phone Futa (two) + nari (thing) = Futanari American: futa for short To many languages, shortening is very misunderstood

@Astra27idk 29 дней назад

dont google futanari

@ottovonbismarck2191 29 дней назад

@Astra27idk rip did you find out the hard way?

@LeReubzRic 29 дней назад

@@ottovonbismarck2191I did

@I_Hate_YouTube. 29 дней назад

Very...interesting choice of an example

@scurly0792 29 дней назад

@@LeReubzRic tragic

@mescalero_3309 28 дней назад

What about instances where we replace parts of a word, or ab entire word with letters or short phrases, that spund alike, like using r u instead of are you for example, or how in german n8 is often used instead of Nacht

@aramisortsbottcher8201 28 дней назад

m8 mate

@michaelsegal3558 24 дня назад

Actually with refrigerator the shorten version “fridge” actually has a “d” in it which isn’t present in the full long version of the word so is it still a clipping if the spelling of the shortened version spelled slightly different?

@be7th 20 дней 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.

@mathieuleader8601 25 дней назад

as a regular user of the radio I hear a collection of repeats of radio plays as an omnibus

@James2210 24 дня 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)

@mescalero_3309 28 дней назад

What about when we replace long parts of a word, or even a whole entire word with letters or numbers, that they sound alike, like using u instead of you, or in german, where they use n8 istead of Nacht?

@francenkovcan5211 27 дней назад

when a name shortens, it sticking depends on how well it sounds when said, a shortened for of a word won't stick if saying it feels wrong

@binaryglitch64 25 дней назад

I sometimes use double contractions both in writting and in speach. For example I'd've for I would have... I'm not sure it qualifies as proper English but in casual settings it seems to go mostly unnoticed.