Meet the Brutal Killer Who Wrote the English Dictionary 

Dictionary was created in 1700s by Dr Samual Johnson

Feels good to be this early

When I think of Dr. Johnson and his 18th century dictionary, I immediately think of the actor who played Dr. Johnson in the comedy Blackadder. Never leave any important books around when Baldric is feeding a fire, especially Dr. Johnson's dictionary manuscript. Lol

I'm a bloody Yank. If you Limeys don't like all of the letter "u"s that we Yanks chopped out of words like color, harbor, flavor, and neighbor, then think of all of the German U boats that we Yanks sank in WW2 to save your Limey asses. All of those letter "U"s sank with the German U boats. We bloody Yanks will pop round to the Port of Whitehaven to finish the job that John Paul Jones started in 1778. We will spike your English cannons and drink all of your warm beer. Now go and eat your fish and chips and mushy peas and put milk in your tea like good Limeys. Cheerio, Ta-ta and all that Limey rot. From Dave the Bloody Yank 🤪 Lol

The ConnAisseur knows ! By 1890 and 1920, all french people used ConnAisseur as the word to be someone who is a pro at a subject. Connoisseur with an O is an old deprecated word not used, like Francois vs Français is now not a debate for the language/people. François is only a person's name. ConnAisseur is the word. Olden written form with an O is not the real thing mate

"why is the word 'potato' sound British, when it's actually Irish?"

@@jwalster9412 English* 😁

@@jwalster9412 the potato isn’t Irish. It’s is grown en masse in Ireland and historically Ireland has depended on it, but the potato doesn’t originate there, nor does it get its name from Gaelic (the language traditionally spoken in Ireland).

@@tposingjesus5491 I wasn't being entirely serious, but thanks for 'correcting' me.

@@jwalster9412 I merely attempted to share some information, I wasn’t trying to call you out. I’m sorry that your ego couldn’t handle someone sharing information even if you “weren’t being entirely serious” with your comment.

Oh wow, interesting...appreciate that bit of trivia. I'm happy to hear she forgave him, not everyone would be as understanding.

Thanks for this information buddy

Imagine what poor Merrett must be feeling when he sees that his wife became friends with his murdered.... (a joke btw)

Spooky how the brain can turn against you.

In a severe case like that, _hospitalized_ is a crueler fate than _euthanized._

Schizophrenia is treatable and their life matters. So no. That’s gross.

@@so9175 I wasn't speaking to, or asking anything of, you.

Schizophrenics nowadays can be treated with modern drugs. Hallucinations and delusions cannot be totally eliminated but at least minimized by the drugs.

I would say the incident itself was tragic. A man died at the hands of a good man because of poor mental health treatment at the time. Let's hope we've improved as a society, and there's no reason if he'd have lived now he couldn't have been given proper treatment sooner, and prevented that poor man from being killed and Minor could have still fully contributed to society. But sometimes, these things still happen when the service let's everyone down. I've seen estimates that increasing mental health budgets and available treatments could very easily save an incredible account in lost productivity, other areas of the haven service and in (thankfully now rare) tragedies like this.

I had pondered that idea bc it happend and been proven too but In his case and haveing that mental illness with nothing to help treat his symptoms I think it was all in his head

Considering he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and experienced bouts of delusion so severe that he felt compelled to murder an individual (presumably while in the midst of a psychotic episode) - yes, it is hard to believe.

@@jenjuice432 those were EXACTLY the people that were targeted

@@michaelmccarthy4077 The people doing stuff like that would go for people who are known for dilusions or people that are mute, things like that, I find it strange that people find it hard to believe. It's classic manipulation, like how predators find mentally ill or younger people to take advantage of because they're not taken as seriously.

That would have been gaslighting avant la lettre.

Can't believe a Sri Lankan had a major contribution to the Oxford english dictionary!

Of course you can! Some of the greatest poets, artists and greats suffered some of the same. Research things like 'famous people with..' or scholars with..' 'poets with..' and feel utterly unstoppable! 💪

@@hellion6737 Sri Lankan? Do you mean schizophrenic?

I'm in your walls

@Leandro Aude pff I get auditory hallucinations not visual

I've seen the last part of that movie. And I liked it

And a good movie at that! I loved it!

@@nataschavanzanen evidently it was a passion project for Mel Gibson, too. And you can tell. Not to mention his fantastic beard

It was hard to sell my wife on a movie about the guys that wrote the dictionary... but it was a good movie.

Gibson is a big fan of characters getting tortured and self harming 😨

same

Same

Same here

Holiday, no choice but to stay in my pyjamas 😂😂

At least am wearing pants.

Easy for you to say, cause it wasn't your father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, friend, or loved ones. If it were me, crazy or not he will pay with a life. And if my loved did this, as much as I loved them, they would have to pay the same way.

Listening to someone else speak, then regurgitating it in a trunkated manner, peppering it with a few obvious conclusions that were subtext to the main article, that the narrator, probably and skillfully, intended you draw from the article and that even a 6 year old could have drawn from what was said; is this the new way of making yourself seem intellectual being employed by gen z and millennials? Mere paraphrasing and restating the original creator's intended and obvious conclusions. Can you not have a thought or make an insightful conclusion of your own? Say, something like this: that, regardless of Minor's predicament or condition, or perhaps even because of them, he was probably the perfect man for the job. 'Obviously a genius' pretty much goes without saying, as it was strongly implied throughout the original post. And your idea that he was 'wonderful and kind'; where was that alluded to? Other than in the fact that providing 10,000 contributions was probably 'a wonder'. I mean, he did perform the branding that plagued his fragile psyche with guilt and delusions for the rest of his life when he could probably have point-blank refused. To me, it sounds like you are just jumping on to the modern bandwagon of fawning over and cannonising somebody as some kind of martyr or pioneering saint, just because they exhibited one of the fashionable afflictions or issues 'du jour', a cause célèbre of today: mental illness. Your worship and adoration, exhibited by the words you use 'wonderful' and 'kind' to describe him, when you have actually very little experience of him to base those statements on, proves that you're 'at it' and what you are all about here. P.S. I'm pretty sure that the guy he shot was a big bit more of victim than him, who went on to live out much of the rest of his life in a comfy 2 room cell with a servant and library, living an academic sort of life whilst practicing the flute until, unfortunately, having to live out his twighlight years minus a cock. The stoker, making his way to the brewery, lost a lot more than a cock. Proof, once again, that you are only trying to align yourself with the whole, modern, 'people with mental issues are actually very nice people, purely by virtue of the fact that they have mental health issues', type of vogue. I feel for anybody who is suffering from them but here is a news flash: they are usually, more often than not, a liability or a danger to themselves and to others and I would never try and make myself look like a goody-goody, nice guy by waxing all fantastical and lyrical, off of one of their afflicted backs, like you. You're capitalising on a historical character's mental health issues in order to virtue signal and make yourself look fashionable and 'nice'. People like that give me the boke!

@@LouisWinthorpe622 Ah yes spoken like a true genius

wtf r u saying man

Omg.. Minor that's not you 💀

Ha ha yes!

*SAUSAGE!!!*

I love that skit. 🤣

"C: Great big wobbly thing that mermaids live in." "And your definition of 'dog' is?" "Not a cat."

Less hirsute hyphen! (balderdash)

Even the Hubble needed work after it got to space when they realized the entire mirror's angle of reflection was off 😅😅

Well the quote "Knowledge is very expensive" is true after all

Or the Big Dig, in Boston. I think like 14-15 yrs over tim and Billions over budget. W/ lots of corruption. IE envelopes filled w/ cash.

It was so behind schedule and over budget that the project was shut down by the House in 2011, and only saved by an international outpouring of support from the astronomy community. Agreed, definitely a fantastic example!

How about the Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona that's still under construction 140yrs since breaking ground

i dont believe you

So true!

That’s one particular edition of it. Many copies have readable text but take up so much space

Based on the book I think, think that was the title. It's a quick read and excellent.

@@MikeTheD Read the book

Even better is the book written by Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, on which the movie is based.

@@jenniferlonnes7420 I believe the book was called `The Surgeon of Crowthorne'. I'm guessing you haven't read it

@@darkcrystal4498 Tame your self-righteousness! I'm presently looking at the hardback book and book on tape - both titled The Professor and the Madman. Unlike you, I'm sure you've read and so have I, the same book, simply titled differently.

*know

@MADONA 11 so true

@MADONA 11 what a wonderful virus, scam, spyware, IP grabber, whatever.. you really got everyone to click in that fake link.

@cindi so true

*know, I think you need a read of a dictionary my boy.

Have a happy birthday 🎂

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂🎉 !!

Mine too! Happy B-Day to us!!!

Happy birthday 🔥🔥 We celebrate with this

One of my most treasured things is a 1997 Websters Unabridged Dictionary, so I'm a bit nervous right now. I don't want even Thoughty besmirching this venerable tome.

I see

This is what I said too! He’s brilliant

Maybe he will do one on how to construct a sentence.

Once upon a time, storytelling was banned during certain seasons -- until the crops were planted or the harvest complete -- the people would not do their work if they could listen to a story. So, "THEY" took advantage of this, and pert-near everything you watch is designed to TEACH you. Every single one of us is born knowing NOTHING, and each one of us must learn EVERYTHING, mostly on our own, in just ONE lifetime. BUT . . . never before in the entire history of humanity, have so many educated people lived so freely and abundantly and CONNECTED to a SHARED Worldwide Experience with near-instant communication . . . it is GUARANTEED to Wake THIS Generation Up!

this is hopefully somewhat how school works in a few hundred years. People schooling for themselves using the broad worldwide web without some stupid ignorant mortal's agenda.

nah, I'm not going to help you reach 10k subs, I'd suggest most won't

Dude got 6 times the likes of the original comment

how about you reach 10k bitches

@blank theres a lot of those fake positive comments on youtube, especially when a youtuber posts a new video, it takes maybe atleast 1 day until they are mostly gone, be safe :D

*cough cough*

@@dcoing1907 While it may not be just a US thing, the US is the only developed country which still believes this. Also, it's still the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, at 629 prisoners per 100,000 people (as of 2022). And in total, 25% of the entire world's prisoners are in US prisons. So it's a stereotype, but one solidly backed up by statistics ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bring back hanging.

I think it rather is. If some dollard up and about murdered me friend, brother, sister or mum and dad I wouldnt like to find out they have comfy digs and are serving their sentence enjoying doing whatever the fuck they want free of any care. Id be right fucking fuming, couldnt care less about their contribution to society.

@@raerohan4241 First of all, the American penal system isn't just one single entity that "believes" something. The criminal justice system is a collection of agencies and institutions at the state, local, and federal level. The approach of a institution can vary greatly depending on a multitude of factors. Policies makers (judges, district attorneys, congress, etc) are elected positions so of course underlying policies / philosophies are going to differ according to the jurisdiction. There are some states that are much more lenient than others. There's some states that place more emphasis on rehabilitation and assimilation back into society, whereas other states choose to hold convicted criminals more accountable for their crimes and opt to cut them off from the free world for the protection of society. So given that, it's unfair and a blatant misrepresentation to say that the United States just locks people up in hoards and throws away the key. It's not that simple. And while the U.S. does have higher rates of incarnation, were certainly not the only developed country to have jail and prisons. Here in the United States, we have higher rates of drug use which leads to more criminal activity (theft, burglary, robbery). Those crimes obviously need to be dealt with. Recently, there has been a push for more emphasis on rehabilitation and providing addicts with increased resources for recovery - but these changes don't happen overnight. We're a massive country and change at this scale takes time, money, cooperation and coordination. It requires a complete overhaul of laws and policies.

Sausage!!! 😂😂 Love that episode haha

@@jamesmagennis9580 "Sausage time!" "I have a cunning plan." Never leave any important books around when Baldric is feeding a fire, especially Dr. Johnson's dictionary manuscript.

@@davea6314 It's the end of the episode when Baldrick shows Dr Johnson his story about a sausage, then Dr Johnson reads it out loud and shouts "SAUSAAAAGE!!!" because he hadn't included it in his dictionary hahahahah

@@davea6314 Also, how amazing is Robbie Coltrane as Dr Johnson hahaha

@@jamesmagennis9580 Oh yes, I remember those comedy lines. Lol

Pronounce me dead

It would have still had to have been collated somewhere first though, in order to have it imputed in the first place.

@@sonnybrisbane66 You could do both at the same time. If you're going to note, note it directly to the database.

All modern dictionaries are produced using special dictionary writing software. The OED third edition computer system is names PASADENA. The amazing thing is when they decided to update the first edition several decades ago it was possible to convert the Victorian/Edwardian text into XML tagged text very successfully because the original editors were so consistent in the structure of their work

@@molybdomancer195 Fantastic! 😃

Ikr. I was like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???

Here be Trolls

The way I was taught all my life to spell it was " honor " with no u in it. I've noticed some other words spelled differently now than what I was taught. Not sure why that is.

Americans spell "honour" without a U. Because THEY can't spell, lol

@@roberte.christian1741 it’s because American English is different than British English. Only in America do they spell it without the “u”. In the UK/Australia/New Zealand/Canada etc certain words contain the “u” - honour, neighbour, colour, armour, etc

Well let’s face it, there are millions of Americans who don’t even know how to pronounce their own names.