The Age of the Dictionary - The History of English (7/10)

[BoogsterSU2]

And then, two more dictionaries came along: One is white and lavender, the other's bright yellow and deep red. Both were founded by a chicken.

[Germericanboi]

Snuffbumble :D

[SCIENCEisWISDOM]

If your small and someone offer you Yellow Pages, back then they offered you a Dictionary lol

[misssupernova]

Is the word gullible in the dictionary?

[1TheStuffChannel1]

@misssupernova Yes.

[GreenmeGo]

Nice to know the history behind dictionary

[NovaScotiaChick]

good series for a logophile :)

[DenEldenKrieg]

it's so crazy..that still today English words are still invented :P

[BigDogJang0]

Those dictionary writers really fucked English. Instead of making conventional, easy-to-understand spelling, because of them the written language has stuff like 'tion' to make the 'shun' sound, CK at the end of words, because just K isn't enough, GH and PH instead of just a simple F, and some words spelled completely different from how they actually sound, like 'colonel', which is probably the worst case. Ironic how one of the most spoken languages ever has some of the worst spelling conventions

[misssupernova]

@BigDogJang0 you mad bro?

[Germericanboi]

@BigDogJang0 The "gh" sound was actually pronounced differently before it's more conventional use in modern English. Words like cough, laugh, enough, and brought are all synonymous with their German and Dutch cognates where the spelling and etymology is very similar. Enough (Ger = Genug); Laugh (Ger = Lach); Brought; (Ger = Bracht); etc. ;) And words that use "ph" are generally words absorbed from Greek or Latin into the Germanic languages.

[gredangeo]

When are they going to add the word: Moopflops?

[katheryncruz24]

genius.

[jhamien920]

Kids would love to see this and learn new things.

[deweyta]

great video..it's so entertaining ;D

[TheJFKWahoo]

is snuffbumbble a word?

[sacricolist]

This has got to be my favorite one of these.

[Greg763]

Very fun way to learn ! Excellent.

[TheGefro]

lol there go them ''out of the world, fantasy words the brits have lol''

[THEHUNK8]

WTF ..