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So the consensus is that it's very subjective, as in what sounds you are used to in your own mother tongue (which I knew before the video even started). For me, I tend to rate other languages by how their accents sound when they speak English. Italian and French is beautiful, while Quebecois is not - and Tagalog (Philippines) and Chinese languages sound like they are literally in pain or holding their breath for dear life when they are speaking English. It depends where the tongue is used to sitting. What about other accents within the English language? Why does an Australian accent make me want to tear my ears off? And ever hear a Scot say the word 'murder'?

Fascinating video. ‘now’ i ‘know’ ‘how’ this happened. thanks mooch. (northern English - mooch like book :) 😋

Not to mention seance

Irgendwie nervt es dann doch, nach 80 Jahren immer noch diesen Deutschenhass aufgrund eines bestimmten Aspekts in unserer Landesgeschichte übergestülpt zu bekommen. Haben die Briten nie Kriege geführt? Was ist mit der Einäscherung Bagdads durch Churchill 1925? Komplett vergessen? Deutsch ist eine wundervolle und uralte Sprache.

Great video. I was reminded of Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, who in one of Dorothy Sayer's stories explains that, though many pronounced his second name to rhyme with "teeth", he preferred to rhyme it with "breath".

The vowel shift... Has it stopped?

I totally agree with many of the sentiments that learning these languages is on the up with the younger ones. I worked in the UK for a few months 5 or 6 years ago, and there were many younger folks from Ireland and Wales speaking the language with each other and taught me a few words! They really passionate about sharing the history of the language too

OK - how about ‘tear’ 😿 and ‘tier’ ? explain that one :) do you call one who ties shoes a tie-er or tier. English is definitely weird or is it weard?? LOL 😋

When I was teaching some English to a friend, I told her that some people pronounced Often as Offen. She looked at me and said "What? Why? Do they count the number like seven, eight, nine and en?"

For older people in northern England, 'look', 'cook', 'book' etc do rhyme with 'spook'.

I really thought this was going to be a video about how back in the day the roles of meat and veg were reversed. People telling each other to eat less kale and more beef.

I came across this video by accident (accidently?). I really enjoyed it and, perhaps, enjoyed the comments even more.

Umm... Just one, er... "major" issue (pun intended): A "major", and a "sergeant major" are NOT the same rank. They're not even the same type of personnel. At least in the US, a major is a commissioned officer rank, occurring between captain and lieutenant colonel. A sergeant major is an enlisted NCO (non-commissioned officer) rank, and is the highest enlisted rank.

Another excellent video from the channel. However, after reading through the (well educated, by the way) comments, I think this one specifically may require a revision.

The Great Vowel Movement huh! 🤔

Erm... Rob, where I come from, book, look, cook and hook all rhyme with fluke. On the other hand, buck is a male rabbit, luck is what I'm short of, cuck is probably a bit rude, and Huck was a character by Mark Twain. 😆

well i call the great vowel shift "the big oopsie daisy"

This video was a blessing in the skies

Fabulous! Rob, you are a fine teacher.

Him: Dog Wal(breve)ker Me: ITS DOG WALKER NOT WAKER /j

In 'Ulster Scots' accents, an 'O' is often pronounced 'A', 'Home', would be 'Hame', Many words have double-vowel sounds, absent from modern English. 'Road', 'Rowd' to you, 'Roe-ad' round home. All GVS malarkey?

racist ignores celts

Irregardless Cold slaw

All my life I was so confused as to why people all said French was "so beautiful and romantic," because I always found it to be so grating and ugly while its speakers are for some reason so pretentiously proud of it.

Merci, j'adore comment vous racontez les choses.

13:37 N ni ni ni!

13:18 I say sofTen with the T. Not soffen, thats wrong.

Am I the only one who feels that linguists using a three letter acronym to describe the Great vowel shift, ... ironic? (asking for a friend ... quizzaciously.)

I say soft-en.

10:30 Canadians pronounce pronounce it aboot. Also their heads jump up and down when they talk.

I mean for Middelerd, erd is German for Earth so it (is) Middleearth

Fascinating.

"there are reasons for all of it" excuses.....not reasons.... if they were using reason, then there would be one letter, for each sound the human voice can make. none of this any letter can be said multiple ways nonsense....then make it even more nonsensical by having other languages, use the same letters, but they have their own, randomly different pronunciations as well. .....thats not reasonable...nor logical.... one sound, one letter.... and thats why im trying to mkae my own language "humanji", which does exactly this, all letters, have one sound, even accents, so there is no confusion, no matter which language you speak.

I belive Welsh is the hardest because the grammar is very complicated with all the rules for mutations and saying plurals ect, for example a a feminine sigular word soft mutates after vowels which would be: a, e, i, o, u, y but h acts like one but isn't actually one. Another reason this is complicated is there are many ways to say 'the' in Welsh for example y which only goes behind of consonants which are b, c, ch, d, dd, f, ff, g, ng, l, ll, m, n, p, ph, r, rh, s, t and th, but there is also yr which only goes behind of vowels but then there is also 'r which is used if the previous letter was a vowel for example: a'r meaning and the. This is only 2 rules out of around 32 just for soft mutation, there are also nasal and aspirate. I barely see people saying deugain or trigain in Wales, instead it's pedwar deg and chwe deg wich means: four ten and six ten, but both are correct, it's just more common here in South Wales, I can't say the same for North Wales though because I'm just not sure, since it's a different dialect.

Ash can be white

2:09 Defintely IS hilarious! Oo eur ah...

You mentioned that the "T" sound has dropped from some English words. In some the "T" sounds are still there, but has turned into a glottal stop.

If you're from liverpool, book does rhyme with boot.

Incredible video. Well done.

You’re awesome Rob - luv ur energy n tone

You have missed a present: 1 present (gift), 2 present (tense), 3 present (to ...), 4 present (sent before), 5 present (to be ...) not absent

What would a single act of creative vandalism be called? A graffito?

The statement that the invention of the printing press helped people to see words written down for the first time is... well... interesting. :)

All (?) indian languages I know about share the long and short vowels which are written by very different letters in their respective scripts. Definitely Hindi, Punjabi and Bengali, which I can actually read. Those languages are pronounced EXACTLY as they are written (local accents aside)

Bring back the Thorn!

Spanish (Latin): "La republica es la forma de gobierno democraticamente electa preferida por las naciones en este planeta y constituye la base de una sociedad estable, normal y prospera.". English (Germanic): "The republic is the democratically elected form of government preferred by the nations on this planet and constitutes the basis of a stable, normal and prosperous society". I can write a whole book in any language derived from Latin using the right words and anyone in London or Manchester will understand.

The French thing is like people that pronounce envelope as omvalope.. do they get omvious or omvision 😪

AND WE ALL DO IT WITH BROWN. IT'S JUST DARK ORANGE. I've even already won bets over this.

Ack! These are so CRINGE! ...And easy to get right, but so many get them wrong

My grandmothers maiden name was Angles. Was able to trace her family back to the early 1500's.