4 Ways American English is Pretty Weird

Hello, I'm Lawrence and I'm on a quest to discover all the memos that Britain and America lost in the pond and one of those memos concerns English, specifically the varieties of English that American humans and children have spoken since my first time. Poorly lit video. I've done several more in defense of American English and that's because, as I said in this video, the history of American English, like the history of language in general, is very compelling, but it's also completely and utterly a bit . Kinda crazy, how do I know? I've heard, read, and sometimes talked about it while living in the United States for the past 16 years, whether we're talking about words that have the same meaning or regional variations that are completely unknown in other parts of the world.

Country American English, like British English, is full of quirks and if you like quirky things and haven't subscribed to this channel, do so in the meantime, let's take a look at how American English is a strange variety of English, in case I just woke up and that transition slide didn't say cinnamon rolls. We just couldn't think of a better pun for the word synonym. What is a synonym? Lawrence, good question, Lawrence, a synonym is a word or phrase that has the same meaning as another word or phrase, for example, I remember 3 weeks ago when I said this: pumas, pumers, mountain lines, catamounts and panthers.

I'm told that they are different words for exactly the same animal, just as the British have 348 words for the United States, it has a significant number of its own synonyms, many of which depend on where you are in the country, e.g. In the north these curious crusts are often called crayfish; However, in the Deep South, where they are most commonly collected, they are known as crayfish, but try saying that. that for the people in the center or the west who may know them as oxfathers, Freud would have been amused by those people and would also have been amused by the people who have been looking for my address since last year, when I bought my first American house I received all sorts of

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stuff in the mail and at no point did I make my address public, so how could people get it?

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If your personal data appears on people search websites, incog can help you delete it, In fact, they are giving my subscribers a 60% discount on their annual plan. Head to incog docomo on the pond to get your discount and then protect your data. The link is in my description. Bel. Hello during that. deeply beautiful brand integration Max just told me that his family knew crabs as mod insects, which makes me think of mealybugs, what are woods, Li, it's what we Americans call Roly poliy, they're actually called Potato bugs, I don't even have a name for that. thing along the Ohio River my family called them woodlice mate these are scribble bugs Lawrence lies in England we actually call them cheesy bugs that's regional in Devon we call them chiggy pigs I'm Parson okay clearly English British is the crazy one, the point is like In a country with an area of ​​3.8 million square miles, you could say that the United States might be even more prone to cross-regional synonyms than Britain, but I remember that when I first moved time since my English hometown of Grimsby, no one at the University knew what the word miy was. meant and Mary just means that you're in a bad mood, yeah, and what I need you to do now is pay close attention to the transition slide above.

Are you serious? Seriously, it almost looks like a text message, except in that case my computer would have written like this, instead just the word r is texted because it's the letter r that I want you to pay close attention to. You see, one of the defining linguistic traits shared by most, though not all, Americans is the postvocalic R in words like good. Mii, aside from the fact that it sounds like the name Marty in American English, rhotic speakers in the US would roughly pronounce this regional English word as Mary; However, since moving to the United States, I have detected one or two exceptions to this rule number. one, there are still small pockets in the US that remain non-rhotic like most of England.

Number two, as I mentioned before, there are rare cases where Americans incorporate a postvocalic r in words that don't have one like kernel colel and C three and number three there are peculiar cases of words that do have one but for which the r often It is not pronounced, take for example the word forward. While most Americans pronounce the r forward, a phenomenon has emerged in recent decades in which some Americans abandon the first R in linguistic circles. This phenomenon is known as dissimilation, which is when speakers eliminate a vowel or consonant if it appears later within the same word and owes much to the equi horror principle which proposes that language users psychologically avoid the repetition of identical linguistic structures. some Americans can also assimilate the first R in words like Crazy Governor and in particular, going forward, Governor in particular will go completely crazy, Larry, yes, it's a free throw, while consecutive instances of the letter Zed inexplicably have come to denote the sound of snoring that they also display.

Surprisingly often found in words that were coined in the United States, perhaps the most famous is Jazz, a world-renowned form of music that emerged from the African-American communities of New Orleans in the late 19th century. It is widely believed that the word jazz evolved from jazm, which meant vitality or energy and not what you think of yourself. In fact, it went through several definitions before lending itself to an entire musical genre, something that first occurred here in Chicago in 1915 and in the jazz era. That followed spawned several heavy-duty Zed words such as the stylish Pizzaz Twizzlers and future astronaut BOS Aldren, so perhaps it's no surprise that one of the nation's favorite foods became so popular at the time.

Pizza; In fact, one has to wonder if it would have had staying power in the United States if the Italians had called it something Zed-less like bread pie, that certainly wouldn't have led to America also giving us the word Pizzeria from 1928 and I know what you're thinking ooh lence Z heavy words were just one of the many fads of the Jazz Age, an era, isn't it a set of data that lets us know this more than 20 years before jazz entered the lexicon ? American English also gave us Dazzle razmataz and almost certainly Blizzard, they have 10 Zeds between them and in The years since American English released bosot zzy top and, more recently, RZ, a slang form of the word charismatic that today It's appropriately popular with Generation Z these days, so what does all this tell us?

You could tell us that Americans have been guided by their senses for many years. Of the words I listed are fully or partially onomic, what does onomic mean? Lawrence's anomic words are words that sound like what they describe, whether it's a Razer or pepperoni sizzle, that or the American Scrabble Union he really wanted. to raise the stakes he said that there is at least one of those words for which the United States cannot take credit and that word is drizzle which arose in England many centuries ago and has not stopped arising since then as evidenced by the word "go ahead, the Americans can." I don't al

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agree on how a word should be pronounced and this is not unique to America in Britain we are still fighting wars over how to say this is a scar it is a bun but sometimes American English goes a step further sometimes a word is pronounced differently because it is subtly a different word.

There are members of my wife's family who describe her favorite vices as addictive and others who say addictive, a word I had not heard until I moved to the United States. Similarly, family lines are also drawn. whether one does something by accident or by accident, here you go I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that was that, that was on purpose. In reality, Americans are often ridiculed for saying I don't care because I don't care implies that they care a lot, in other words. So goes logic, I couldn't care less, it would be rather logical, but from what I've seen, half of the people who ridicule are Americans.

The real division in this country is not between right and left, but between them. Who could care less and those who couldn't could care less about this topic? The truth is that English is itself peculiar, whether we are talking about the British English of the United States or that of other countries that Great Britain invaded without this peculiarity. The English language probably wouldn't be half as interesting and I'd be stuck making videos only about animals. Actually, I have to run now because a certain little dog of mine is being groomed for a starring role in my next video, bye, Larry.

It was a little abrupt, well, I mean, the data shows that viewers click during those meandering goodbyes, so I thought we'd avoid it by not leaving them well, but you didn't tell them to continue watching why American English is so misunderstood. video max if our audience is as smart as you think they are then they will realize, you better be right. Sometimes I'm al

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