QI | Who Wrote The First English Dictionary? 

Why did I read that in the voice of Robbie Coltrane? Oh yes - Blackadder.

Is that true? {:o:O:}

That sounds a bit like Bierce.

A harmless drudge

When?

*Flying hussars intensifies *

What if you're blind?

I wonder how many other nouns were given similar treatment?

Simon It's the number everybody knows.

I mean what's the alternative, "A bloody massive dog"

Je ne sais quoi That’s from the blackadder episode where they thought they burnt the only dictionary

Dog - not a cat

It was B and C. B a thing that goes bzzzz.

B A Buzzing Thing

and whenever I hear of Dr Samuel Johnson, I instantly see Robbie Coltrane.

Ill probably sound the buzzer, but please stop Shakespeare

+firehazard I don't know why, it's a perfectly cromulent word. I suspect your dictionaries could use some embiggening.

You surely aren't leaving without your pendigestatery interludeteries?

I am frasmotic and anaspectic towards those who didn't know the answer.

This clearly calls for an outside expert to help resolve the matter. I will fetch one in. I will be back before you can say "antidisestablishmentarianism"

Get out more.

........... A very *bad* thing Now that would have sparked real interest.

That’s worse than Baldrick’s effort! ‘Not a cat.’ 🤣

Ashish Gupta Wibble

i mister blackadder

A cunning plan?

It might be back hopefully

@Grassy Knoll Well, if you're Scottish, you're British as well.

@@Chebab-Chebab britannia was England and Wales. Caledonia was scotland. Scotland being included in Britain is nothing but enlish propaganda. Scotland is not and never has been ‘Britain’

@@johnnyxrcfc Well, seeing as a Scottish king (and also king of England) joined England and Scotland, I'd say that he started it.

@@johnnyxrcfc You really care, don't you?

@@johnnyxrcfc actually the Romans called Scotland North Britain and the Scots are actually settlers from North East Ireland who settled in the area of what is today Argylleshire in tgd 5th century-these people were Scotia and became the first kings and gave their name eventually to the whole country .The also taught the locals how to make whisky but clearly not how to spell it .Read a history of Scotland from pre Roman times of the various groups which includes Picts Angles Britons and the Scots in Dalriada from whom the first kings of all Scotland came .

Ouch! Now THAT's a come back

@@Noah-wx7fm It is a quote from Sir Walter Scott as I recall, who did it as a comeback something like a hundred years after the first half of the statement. There is actually some science behind that, and the medieval Scottish military (such as it was) was unique for having better than average logistics. Every soldier would carry a supply of oats with them, and could make oatmeal and oatcakes whenever they wanted. Lots of medieval armies had no real logistical support and just had the food that they could scavenge, whereas the Scots could supplement their diet with scavenging instead of relying on it entirely. Lots of armies would get desperate and eat their horses. Even by the Napoleonic Wars scavenging was still common for most European armies as to how the army fed it self. In the 1905 Russo-Japanese War one of the advantages the Japanese had was a superior logistical support system (based on the British one as I recall, or at least similar) which including soldiers carrying their own rations in addition to having some supplied by the baggage system and scavenging, seems minor but things like that can make major differences. Medieval Japanese ashigaru (a peasant levy) had something similar to the Scots actually, they would have this sort of hose like bag that they would wrap around themselves (over one should, under the other, like a bandoleer) full of rice, their metal jinghasa helmets (military versions of the Asian, conical straw hats associated with farmers) made cook cooking pots. Of course medieval Japan generally fought medieval Japan, so it had little affect, everyone being equal. Not sure about the Koreans, who are the only people I can think of that the Japanese had a protracted war against.

@@Lowlandlord that is really interesting. All of that really. People like you who know stuff about stuff are the best, lol

That's a novel one: judging people by what their soldiers had as army rations.

@@Lowlandlord If you ever learn about how Romans did war its every bit as impressive, if not more so. They would show up somewhere, build a basic fort, they would carve steps in the mountainside to make it easier for horses, they would make friends with locals and find out their enemies. Lots of little things which havent changed in 1000s of years. Really what surprised me most is that the skills of carpentry seemed more important that the skills of war. Oh youre French and holding up in your castle. Fair enough, we will build everything we need to take your castle. Were not just going to sit around here and watch you starve. You might have called for reinforcments.

Really remarkable when you realize Atkinson was a stutterer.

I shall return interfrastically. Leaving so soon, sir? Not staying for your pendergestatory interluditive?

T'is a common word, down our way.

I agree, but sadly I am not equipped to satisfy her requirements, being a man and everything....

Sounds Damn Saucy!

Apparently it was meant to define the representation/variable for density, which is either D or d, but was accidentally squished together into one "word".

Don't forget the "WTF am I reading??" meme

Obviously looked at his definition for a sock

If you know what the French word dépuceler or puceau means.

I think Frigorífico is Portuguese for fridge as well

Because people are too drawn in by the video and are watching it instead of commenting

Not out.

Superfly Gaming people say frigging instead of saying "fucking"

I know that, but I only ever heard the word frigging when used to mention it was cold.

Superfly Gaming frigorifico is 'fridge' some parts of Spain

Superfly Gaming In Portuguese "fridge" is frigorífico.

Same experience in my life too but more southerly, London area. Admittedly, generations pass and new generations begin their own language as did my generation in younger years; for example, bad or wicked meant good. Friggin, as in friggin cold, was assumed that friggin had replaced the word f'ing and deemed as such by everyone known to me at that time. That doesn't mean that the theory of the origin of the word friggin isn't correct. Ammended: According to Etymology online; frigid; 1620s, "intensely cold," from Latin frigidus "cold, chill, cool," figuratively "indifferent," also "flat, dull, trivial," from stem of frigere "be cold;" related to noun frigus "cold, coldness, frost," from Proto-Italic *srigos-, from PIE root *srig- "cold" (source also of Greek rhigos "cold, frost"). The meaning "wanting in sexual heat" is attested from 1650s, originally of males. Related: Frigidly; frigidness Frigorific; "causing cold," 1660s, from French frigorifique, from Late Latin frigorificus "cooling," from frigor-, stem of Latin frigus "cold, cool, coolness" (see frigid) + -ficus "making, doing," from combining form of facere "to make, do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put").

Nah...she just made it sexy.

Oh. And aardvark.

Damn your eyes man ! ! ! Damn your eyes ! ! !

Definitely quite a looker in person, I can testify!

They're frigorifick and refrigerator are both derived from the Latin "frigus", meaning "frost". I've never heard anybody call a fridge a "frig"

Probably, because the boers, or boeren (Dutch for farmers) of South Africa named an animal not found in the UK aardvarken. Which translates as Earth pig. The name was adopted into English language at some later date.

johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/search-johnsons-dictionary/?SearchValue=aardvark

Alex Veldhuis It’s a Blackadder reference.

And aardvark

I wouldn't be too hopefull. That's what all the other ones will be used for.

Well the English word for that is refrigerator/refrigeration, so more a coincidence.

I believe they're all derived from the Latin "frigus", whence "frigid" and others.

To be an ancestor of Francis Barber, you'd have to be over 300 years old. You're a descendant. Maybe buy a dictionary........

dont worry we in the first world that speak english will keep english going

u fukin wot m8?

tim211292 You avin a larf?

i did mean Canada, Australia, NZ and the UK will be keeping English going properly :P

But they will know how to kill at 300 yards for 20 bucks. Not sure what else a family of mercenaries is qualified to teach kids.

Well, the wrong answer.

"Baldric, why have you turned into an Alsatian?"

@@rextheroyalist6389 "Oh God, I'm having a dream..."

Diction has several meanings, one of which is: "the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing"

Zac Pope He said “wrote”

He definitely said “wrote”.