The pronunciation stems from it being a long word that needed to be said by a large number of uneducated sailors and communicated quickly. You can, however, pronounce it as you'd expect it to be pronounced and you wouldn't technically be wrong.
Nautical terms are really strange. When you had ships sailing around the world and picking up crew members that spoke different languages and each had their own name for things, it was confusing. Often new words were created by mashing up words from different languages. In this case, it seems like English and French. "c. 1400 (mid-14c. as Anglo-French forechasteil), "short raised deck in the fore part of the ship used in warfare," from Middle English fore- "before" + Anglo-French castel "fortified tower" (see castle (n.)). In broader reference to the part of a vessel forward of the fore rigging, late 15c.; hence, generally, "section of a ship where the sailors live" (by 1840). Spelling fo'c'sle reflects sailors' pronunciation. If at the aft part of a ship, it was an afcastle."
Lol By the way, vsauce is short for 'video game sauce' since he started with that kind of content Edit: Yeah, I forgot that he once said in his video that Vsauce was a randomly generated name. Oh god *face palms*
The silent "f" in "fifth" is an American English thing. It's pronounced pretty much everywhere else in the English-speaking world, maybe sometimes with exceptions!
@@rustledjammies8769ive been relentlessly ridiculed for saying 5th as "fith" and 6th as "sikth" so i never slip up if i can help it but i still have to force my way around those double consonants
@@jumblejumbo I.... still don't get it. Yeah, V is five in Roman numbers...,But what does that have to do with this exactly? Do they mean that "v, meaning five, starts with the f sound?" I mean, x doesn't start with the t sound for ten either - I just don't get why its funny?
I'm 38 and I've never picked a favorite letter. I have a favorite color, a favorite number, but never thought of a letter. Not only have I wasted time but I now have to spend my day deciding.
As a foreigner I purposely pronounce all of these silent letter sounds. It took me years to memorized all those words... So I will utilize all the letters that came with them.
Honestly English sucks like why couldn't it have just looked like "Vu red fox jumpt ovr vu lazi dog" Instead of "The red fox jumped over the lazy dog" English makes no sense.
@@Addison-ne2bnno, it's not, and five doesn't start with a v either, so that still make it the "worst" alphabet ever, v is in five but it isn't in the beginning
he was probably feeling like how you feel when you're writing a thousand word essay and you're a few words off but your mind has become mush and you cannot concentrate enough to add ANYTHING to it.
@@Otacatapetl No, it is omitted which is why their is an apostrophe and not just a silent letter there. Never is never pronounced as ne'er except in prose that needs to limit the number of syllables, or by people quoting said prose.
@@drama_queen3010 except in spanish isn't spelled like that, it's spelled "mariHuana" and "H" in spanish is silent (most of the time). I've no idea where that "J" in english came from.
@@41-HaikuNo no you see he was actually tweeting an Arabic phrase that means "I will stand up," and it was so intentional that he deleted the tweet 2 minutes later and then denied that he posted it (don't Google what "I will stand up" in Arabic actually is because that's fake news or whatever).
The second f in fifth is only silence in connected speech depending on the accent. The standard pronunciation is /fɪfθ/ indicating both Fs should be pronounced.
LMAO this reminds me of the time my father in law called the auto parts store and he was spelling something for them and he's like "J as in Jose" OMG I lost it😂
so you're the kinda person RU-vid did this for, eh? these things are garbage and good channels are doing them only to satisfy the RU-vid algorithms. It's YT trying to be TikTok, trying to hook the no-attention-span, can't-be-bothered-to-roatate-their-phone kids.
In fifth grade, I had an argument with a classmate over whether Pterodactyl started with a silent P To settle it, as I walked into the classroom, I asked my teacher to confirm that pterodactyl started with a P. To my everlasting bitterness, she gave me a baffled look and said "no, it obviously starts with T", then waved me on. Naturally my friend took this as a victory. As I said, I am still bitter.
@Heath You do realize that a letter in a word can be silent in one accent and pronounced in another, right? Some accents pronounce the "h" in "herbs", while others say "erbs"
Ok comparatively speaking this is way better because silent letters are always harder to learn typically not not consistently but like this is a great book!
@@steebie7775 ??? I mean idk bout taking it that seriously. Language always shifts and complex sounds are simplified. I wouldn't be surprised to discover I had mad the f in fifth silent without thinking about it, it is kind of a tough tongue move.
I showed this to my 5 year old (he can read well) and the look of horror when he saw "a is for Aisle"was unforgettable! He declined when I offered to get him the book.
@@ldmtag In terms of vowels, there is an /a/ in the diphthong /ai/, but the problem is that that diphthong is usually associated with the letter "i" in English. So the word "aisle" is pronounced exactly the same as the word "isle", and most English speakers would see the A as redundant.
Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exist, but the ones who do call him the Silent Soldier. He is credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last 50 years.
I remember my 5th grade English teacher gave all the words from this book to us as an April fools day spelling test and I almost cried. Best alphabet book ever 10/10 would recommend to make children cry.
i always felt there is a difference between redundant letters and actually silent ones. for instance the t in hatch isn't exactly silent, it's just redundant bc there's already a t sound in the sound ch makes, whereas the k in knight is truely silent bc there is no audible k sound at all
> it's just redundant bc there's already a t sound in the sound ch makes Everyone who speaks mandarin is about to dunk on you, and NOT because you just said they live in "tChina".
@@QuintaFeira12 the "ch" is spelt "t͡ʃ" in the IPA, I'd also like to point out that German spells the same sound as "Tsch" as in the country of "Tschad".
Similarly, "Djibouti" doesn't have a silent "d"; it's just that it's using the "j" to represent the consonant sound that English generally uses a "y" for, as is the case with many languages. So think about what "dy" would sound like. Do you think it would sound like something else? D'ya think it might sound like an English "j"?
@@mishynaofficial read the previous comment about diphthongs. If you're going off the IPA pronunciations, the "ai" sound probably makes the I sound. Aaah-eee.
