Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words 

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HI SAM

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Ok...bye then SAM

Lol if u werent this funny I wont be watching u despite of the great facts. Plz always focus on quantity over quality

It is, it just wasn't mentioned.

exactly what i was thinking

Me too

same

Ah, the good old Mountweasel

yup, it’s spelled m-e

Took me a minute to get it lol

I don't get it 😐

It’s still january bro

@@kyleangelocastro9460 That’s why he said ‘so far’...

TheCheck999 Lemme tell you a little something, it's not copy-write, it's copyright

You are totally a smart man r/facepalm time

@@runeedmondlloyd Thanks it has been corrected.

That's because you know about maps.

@@ClarinoI the algorithm works in mysterious ways.

"Omigawd, fer shure, like, gag me with a spoon! "Dord" is a totally tubular new word. Like, next time I'm at the Galleria for some bitchin' new leg warmers and a cup of berry fro-yo, and, y'know, some melvin or waldo or whatevarr tries to, like, pick me up, hit on me, or acts all spazzy and barf-o-rama, y'know, like, I'm totally calling him a "dord". Like, it'll be the raddest mega-burn!" What a cringe way to talk.

@@seanwilkinson8696 The way u typed that- i cant even

@@sealdew5348 yeah im not reading all of that lol

Yeah like r/dord

dord = turd

No, it's fnese

And if that's the parallel universe in which Mr. Spock has a beard, you might get sent to the agonizer booth for saying that. . .

There is a lot of overlap between Scandinavian words and English words. Sneeze having had an F instead of an S fits well. Fnys (pronounced almost the same as fneeze) is a sharp exhale through the nose. The two words have almost the same meaning.

Bunch a doords.

Rick & Morty actually have an episode where they go to an universe that almost the same, the only different thing is they pronounce Parmesan as parmesian

No

Wowzers

Lol

Vsauce music plays: OR ARE THEY??? Michael raises an eyebrow, of course. Edit: WOW 12 LIKES

Michael next second : Actually since it is people who, if use a word enough, can add a new word, it is people who are the boss of their own language. Also, dont say that there are some words in dictionaries which people dont use, since that's why nerds exist. Edit: WOW 12 LIKES

Damn you snollygosters....

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Sounds like an old word fron the 60s 😂

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i'd like summary about word wars first. would make the logistics more compelling.

I think you mean *Bendover Production*

Nah, it's going to be the logistics of transporting dictionaries. Always gotta have a plane in there somehow.

Well first...

@@JakeLikesTech first, a little neuron has to spontaneously fire in the exact right way to produce the ideation of a word...

God, thank you. I knew I had heard about it before a long time ago, now I know where from.

Sameeeeee.

ohhh, so thats why i already knew it

or is it?

Me who actually looked at the thumbnail for this video:

You and I both. Like the phantom cities from atlas publications.

A fellow Map Men enthusiast?

esquivalence

@@gnochhuos645 Hell yeah brother

@@gnochhuos645 BLANK

Hmm

Definition is real life!

Too much confusion with Ben Dover, I guess.

Wrong platform...

Curious to see what type of content would've been made had it been named that 🤔

It's based on context. In this case, nobody realized Edwin made a typo in the first place.

So true. I used to tell my English teachers that if Shakespeare could just pull words out of his butt, so could I. They were strangely unsympathetic to that argument. XD

when i was small i'd put the accent on the wrong sillabul

I still think it's not a real word. . .

Right! Though the definition describes it as an irregular word, so in a way it's still not a word.

@mipmipmipmipmip I highly doubt it.

@mipmipmipmipmip he probably did

I see what you did there

Honestly I waited for it to tie into the video and then it was over.

Me 2 lol

Same lol

Same man

Lol I thought I was the only one

Like the fake places in maps? Yeah, I thought that would be the reason too.

I thought the same when I clicked the video. I thought I will click on this video for Sam's terrible jokes but I ended up learning how new words are added to a dictionary.

That's "esquivalience". "Dord" and "kime" are ghost words, not copyright traps.

Same with me

Same

It's weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my videos. Sometimes it is annoying. But right now it would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear fata

@@AxxLAfriku I have never seen you before 👍

@@hpsmash77 No no do not fall into his trap

Then everyone will be slarfst instead

@@DeerJerky I chose to fall into his trap

I didn't mispell sponsor, I was just adding a new word to the dictionary.

@@bryanlane7208 well honestly with the jokes I can barely understand the video

@@samsungtestuserguest4742 bad comprehension skills on your part

However, due to the length of the video, the sponsor segments are about one fifth of the video

How did you type these?!

@@zzz7903 they're probably using a chinese keyboard on their phone or they're using one of those websites that has a bunch of unicode characters.

​@@zzz7903 search "Pinyin", it's basically English alphabet represent sounds in Chinese.

Hey they just did a video on this a couple weeks ago

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@@gunnarallgottsmann aka is an acronym which is unrelated

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Dude i had to read this five times to understand this..

This shows some real esquivalience on the part of the dictionary people.

@@Attaxalotl It's a perfectly cromulent way to embiggen the lexicon.

@@Havron Ironically, the word cromulent is not cromulent.

Damn, beat me to it!

I'm glad I'm scrolling down to read on a whim, LMFAO, this was funny

That is like the ancient Roman who walked into a bar and ordered a martinis. The bartender said, "you mean a martini". The ancient Roman said "No, if I want more than one I will ask for it".

@@christianstarke1117 originally thought urs was good until i realized that the only time the “i” ending is used in 3rd declension is also singular (along with -is)

This is so silly that it makes it so funny. Especially the xD hahaha

i knew that right away.

As were a lot of other English words.

No, it is the French word for cherise. Cherry is not a word.

@@dannypipewrench533 wut

@@duddledeedo Cherry was adapted from cherise.

yeah same

Yes I thought same: we call it ‘seeding’ so that you can compare your saved and dated original with an infringement copy from somebody else who has ripped off your original material.

I think he made a TWL on that

Oh ditto lol. Now I don't have to write out this comment :p

Me as well...

Travel as Interesting, if I remember.

And Sam from Wendover

@@calebyao. S A M F R O M 🅱 E N D O V E R

And there i was wondering where als the rightenants went

I would have thought it comes from Greek, as in modern Greek, αυ is 'af' but a u sound is made with ου, so I was thinking the U thing shifted to F. Still cool.

I'm English and I've never pronounced it like "leftenant", nor have I ever heard anyone else say it like that. That's interesting.

@@67alora where do you live in England where they don't pronounce it leftenant?

@logan it wasn't that they confused the letters, it was the fact they weren't different letters. U and V were essentially just different 'fonts' of the same letter, with the meaning either being a vowel or consonant, and you only knew through context. So a word like 'us' could be written with the rounded form of the letter 'U', or it could be written 'vs' with the sharpened form 'V' (like in the 1611 King James Bible). The best example of this are older buildings like the American Museum of Natural History, which actually says 'MVSEVM OF NATVRAL HISTORY' on the building itself. You can also see this in the letter W, which is called 'double U', but is actually two Vs placed together, because V and U were the same letter. So lieutenant was also written lievtenant (with there being no different letters or difference in pronunciation, only in font), and you had no way of knowing how to pronounce it unless you had already heard it pronounced (which wasn't likely, as it was a French word), so people just had to guess. By the time it was generally agreed and standard that 'U' should only be used for the vowel, and 'V' for the consonant, it was already too late and most of the English speaking world had been using the pronunciation 'lievtenant' for many generations. The reason for all of this is that the ancestor of our alphabet, the Phoenician alphabet, used the same symbol for both 'W' and 'U', since they were not considered very distinct. This was continued by the Romans who used the same symbols for both the vowel U and the consonant W without any distinction. But during the course of Latin (and in some cases in Greek), the W sound evolved into a V sound. So instead of the letter applying to two similar sounds (W and U), it now applied to the completely different sounds of V and U.

Was thinking the same!

TBF Webster should have just claimed it to be a copyright trap.

my guess as well

Yeah I was thinking the same

Before watching, that what I thought

I love that due to typos English people had a naranj instead of an orange, but turned it into an orange so Spanish speakers struggled on it at first

mfw the RAE accepted "amigovio"

France has that too

I see what you did there.

You, yourself, just ticked off everyone who speaks Spanish as a first language. I do not speak Spanish at all, but I know what you did.

SUS

Sussy

Understood and even used in southern England, too.

As usual I can't tell what's English English and what's weird shit Gavin Free says.

I’ve heard it plenty of times in the South West too. Not sure why he pronounced it goo-bins in the video though, I’ve always known it as gubb-ins

Plausible. The north of England is crammed with random paraphernalia. Like Durham.

I've used it in many parts of the UK, it's very common. I'm trying to remember his list, now because there was at least one other that's in regular use. And he got the adder one wrong (I am 99% sure anyway). It was "a nadder"; naturally that became an adder.

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Well? You heard him right. Do it.

I laughed more than I should have at this lol

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Seasoned travellers have learnt to navigate solely by the sensations that they feel. If it gets warmer, you are headed rimwards. If it gets colder, you are headed hubwards. If you get dizzy, you are headed widdershins.

@@MentalJargon they don't get dizzy turning the other way?

I learned this from my smartie friends

@@thebeltcameback1553 I prefer skittles.

Aidan Or okay then but I don't think vi hart can do much math with skittles

I thought the same thing

like the vsauce video

Why not watch the video first ?

@@sq7238 because it’s a guess

Great mind thinks alike,and we're both wrong.

Can a dictionary be fake?

That's possible if you name and make a fake dictionary and say it out loud

It sounds ignorant, and has its roots in ignorance. But we can't say it's not a word. It has a meaning that's understood by most people, even if they don't use it and/or think only people with low intelligence use it.

@@gaylewayland9628 Where’d it come from?

When can we expect "nonirregardless"

@@gaylewayland9628 dictionaries exist to define how language is used at the time of publication, not the other way around. Words are made by people, not books - and they always have been.

@@dbergerac9632 as explained in the video and by other people above, when enough people start using it in a way that has meaning and is understood by others

You can still do that. Tones of novels make up new words, the hard part is getting enough people to start using it in everyday speech.

I came to the comment section to say the same thing. ... I think ultimately 'expediate' is modelled after other '-iate' words.

glad I am not the only one XD

yessss exactly

Literally what I thought. Trap words! Alas, they're not. Although surely they must have an anti-plagiarism method...

I thought the same thing...

have defenenetly read somewhere on net that most online dictionaries have fake words to trap plagerist. online text entries being so much easier to clone

We use "collimare" in Italian too

@@Serena-or7sl I think it is used in every language (with the appropriate spelling adaptations, of course) because it's a technical term, although one born of a mistake. In Portuguese is "colimar" (and "collimator" is "colimador"); in French it's "collimer" and "collimateur"; etc.

Zenith as well!!!!

Thank you

Thank you I will

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Vsauce also said the same

You can eke something out, meaning make it last longer, or a least it does 'round 'ere. Often used in the London Evening Standard crossword.

Eke = eak = auch... Eke --> Auch (german word for _also_ ), which, in turn, is a cognate of the Dutch _ook_ (pronounced similarly to the English word _oak_ ) Yeah, I know... Language is fascinating, but can be really confusing at times...

@@slashtiger1 isn't Dutch a drunk version of German

@@xeon39688 ​ @A. I wouldn't call either a drunk version of the other. That's quite an insulting way of putting it, if you ask me. If you'd _insist_ upon using these words to compare the two, I'd put the languages the other way around. Not so much because German is in any way inferior, because it is NOT, but simply because Dutch _might just be older_ than German. As you may know, Martin Luther standardised the German language during he Reformation, which played out in the 1500s. At the time, Dutch was already very much standardised in The Netherlands, and was similar to how we know it today, particularly when it came to speech. In writing, the languages were similar. But because German wasn't (as) standardised yet, this may have varied throughout the German Empire.

hmmmm... BUT it is Wikipeadia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And the long s was not doubled, the second s was always short, hence the German ß corresponding to ss, nothing to do with B.

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@@aquaneutral I'm a made up mistake by my parents

@@InnerEagle omg you didn't have to murder yourself like that

@@InnerEagle dude you ok?

@@bonithechubbypotato5100 Don't worry, I'm breathing...I think

FOOL

@@mgetommy no u

@@watermeloniumderechte9864 i also thought the same thing (maps). I also remembered a vsauce video about dord, but I didn't remember the conclusion

@@mgetommy well guess we all are FOOOLS.

No.

The examples are ghost words or words that were misspelt and were accepted as a norm.

I‘m pretty sure Tom Scott made a video about that. (The guy in the red shirt).

"Cromulent" must be perfect

How?

If you're a DM, there's something you can do. Rock falls everyone dice

"Dices" Sounds so dumb I assume this is an American thing since they seem to like adding an unnecessary S to every single plural that doesn't need it. Such as Lego, Samurai etc.

Bumbershoot is a regularly used word in Seattle Metro. So good lucky getting millions of people to stop saying it

I've been using bumbershoot since 1963. I heard the word as a kid, thought it sounded cool. Still use it today.

@@SBEBS11 It's occasionally used in advertising and other situations where you need punchy language, and there's a large festival named Bumbershoot. For conversations, most people in the greater Seattle area just say "umbrella".

*half as interesting

@@hofkingpin3216 lol

if enough people do then yeah, thats how words change over time

"Gretchen, stop trying to make 'fetch' happen! It's not going to happen!"

Hope he don't get scammed so often.

true, I learned it from watching Ashens.

You know, I’m not sure I like the gubbins of that comment

Yes, that whole episode was just mystifying. Why on earth wouldn’t he just admit that he mistyped the word coverage, when it was obvious from the context? Trump is such a profoundly weird man.

Not sure what "covfefe" has to with it though.

@@JohnSmithAnythingChannel Your not sure what fake words and a wannabe dictator has to do with Trump and the fake word covfefe?

@@fordhouse8b I didn't say anything about Trump unlike you did. I was only talking about "covfefe". Though now that you said that I think it put it all together for me. I assume now that "covfefe" means "covid".

@@JohnSmithAnythingChannel Ok, but when you said "

Where I live it already has, for example the phrase a whole nother

Yeah, makes me cringe.

Isn't everybody?

Perfectly on brand tho

I'm pretty sure it's still "cherise" in French, so that's interesting

@@Citylight-yq8dp no its , les cerises

This video also explains the origin of the poem Pease Porridge Hot

Cherry, cerise and the German "Kirsch" all come from Latin, "Cerasus". That was the Latin name of a Turkish city from which Lucullus, the first Western gourmet, brought the cherry tree back to Rome. The city's actual Turkish name at the time was Kerasous,. It gave its name to the word "cherry" in Turkish and other Middle Eastern languages: "kiraz".

Oof!