Is English vocabulary really "mostly French?"

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  • @theslamdancekid
    @theslamdancekid 6 днів тому +93

    Over 20% of words are from Norman but how many are from Derek???

    • @LinguaPhiliax
      @LinguaPhiliax 5 днів тому +4

      Derek is now both a singular point in space, and yet Derek also contains space itself. The nexus of Derek is without dimension. The moment of Derek's creation and the eventual heat-death of the universe are now inexorably the same.

  • @vampyricon7026
    @vampyricon7026 5 днів тому +84

    6:28
    >Words that start with a V *have* to be French
    Not true! 🤓
    There are around 3 native Germanic words descended from Old English starting with V ( _fyxen_ > vixen, _fæt_ > vat, _fana_ > vane ), but was reborrowed into the common dialect from one that voices word-initial fricatives.
    I mention this because I was working through Colin Gorrie's Old English reader Ōsweald Bera and couldn't figure out _fæt_ "container" had a modern descendant for way too long.

    • @zzineohp
      @zzineohp  5 днів тому +32

      well i pronounce those with an f in my dialect

    • @celtofcanaanesurix2245
      @celtofcanaanesurix2245 5 днів тому

      @@zzineohp Oh boy can't wait to get in the water of that fat, afterwards I'll wash my fixen, and fane

    • @torcoAaAa
      @torcoAaAa 5 днів тому

      ​@@zzineohp you pheequesen

    • @ExzaktVid
      @ExzaktVid 5 днів тому +5

      @@zzineohpthey still start with the letter v when spelled out though, and a lot of people (like me) pronounce them with v.

  • @chrysocyon7509
    @chrysocyon7509 5 днів тому +73

    Words that start with a V have to be French? I sure hope there's no vixens, vats, or vanes in the audience who could be offended by such assertions...

    • @tfan2222
      @tfan2222 4 дні тому +6

      All three of those are outliers and come from Southern Midland dialects that voiced word initial fricatives. Anywhere else and they’d have started with an f.

    • @gamespotlive3673
      @gamespotlive3673 17 годин тому

      Vanes comes from French "vaniteur" I would presume.

  • @orionbarnes1733
    @orionbarnes1733 5 днів тому +11

    Technoblade would've been honored I'm sure to take part in a study like this, even if that would've made you a "nerd" and therefore "stabbable for coins"

  • @zzineohp
    @zzineohp  6 днів тому +126

    Much Love from India! 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳❤❤❤

  • @wrenisprobablyb0red
    @wrenisprobablyb0red 5 днів тому +25

    This video was touching :)

  • @thelollykitty
    @thelollykitty 5 днів тому +10

    0:30 "The TV guy from Hazbin Hotel" 💀

    • @Hiljaa_
      @Hiljaa_ 4 дні тому +1

      Why do I keep seeing you everywhere ŋŋŋŋolly

  • @christianbutnotchristian2815
    @christianbutnotchristian2815 5 днів тому +36

    That technoblade video mention for the the informal dataset did more than catch me off guard.
    Why...that specific video? If I may inquire

  • @zephlodwick1009
    @zephlodwick1009 3 дні тому +2

    >wake up
    >England still neath the Norman yoke
    >Day wrecked

  • @pavlosurzhenko4048
    @pavlosurzhenko4048 5 днів тому +17

    6:01 "The letter W is a hallmark of native word, because it was spelled with a V in Latin and eventually made a /v/ sound". "Wine": hold my grapes.
    7:02 Caecum is a native Latin word, it doesn't come from Greek. In fact, "ae" and "oe" were common Latin digraphs, pronounced as diphthongs /äe̯/ and /oe̯/ respectively.

    • @Onestaythelast
      @Onestaythelast 5 днів тому +8

      *Cough* Proto-germanic loan to latin *cough*

  • @CristiChiri10
    @CristiChiri10 5 днів тому +20

    3:03 you know what else is MASSIVE?

    • @zzineohp
      @zzineohp  5 днів тому +22

      we talking about my penis

    • @ieatalgae
      @ieatalgae 5 днів тому +8

      MY MOM!

    • @mon5237
      @mon5237 5 днів тому +3

      low taper fade?

    • @Lemony123
      @Lemony123 День тому

      ​@@zzineohphuh, it seems to get stuck inside my mouth can you get it out

  • @ChefDzhugashvili
    @ChefDzhugashvili 5 днів тому +12

    Are you planning on going for a masters/PhD in linguistics? You REALLY should consider it. Linguistics is actually a really important field of study which has had immense impact on the modern world. People don't always appreciate the importance of the linguist, but you have a knack and passion for it. I'd love to hear your thoughts

    • @swyjix
      @swyjix 3 дні тому +1

      He could be quite the cunning linguist.

  • @RURK_
    @RURK_ 3 дні тому +1

    Ive been obsessed with this specific topic for like two years now. What I find that a lot of people don't bring up is how many everyday words come from either norman french or latin like people, just, use.

  • @nift36
    @nift36 4 дні тому +3

    6:56 sorry "school" was attested in Old English as _scōl_ which hails from Late Latin which borrowed it from Greek

  • @lilemont9302
    @lilemont9302 4 дні тому +2

    The common statistic peddled online is incorrect when detailed of course
    But I think the point was the spirit: English has a high proportion of loanwords from a different language (sub)family in everyday speech compared to most languages
    Up there with Korean, Japanese, Ottoman Turkish

  • @luminousherbs
    @luminousherbs 5 днів тому +41

    was going to subscribe but then i saw GIF listed as a J sound. how could you do this to me?

    • @ieatalgae
      @ieatalgae 5 днів тому +5

      Was gonna say something similar. We trusted you, Zzineohp 💔

    • @olivius8891
      @olivius8891 5 днів тому +1

      Cry about it

    • @DevinDTV
      @DevinDTV 5 днів тому

      ​@@olivius8891it's a joke

  • @thedinobros1218
    @thedinobros1218 5 днів тому +7

    How about words like Monolingual? Mono is Greek and Lingual is Latin.

    • @Hostefar
      @Hostefar 4 дні тому +4

      Ironic ain’t it?

    • @thedinobros1218
      @thedinobros1218 4 дні тому

      @ yeah

    • @thedinobros1218
      @thedinobros1218 4 дні тому +5

      @ it is even funnier that the words “Polyglot” and “Multilingual” are both entirely Greek and Latin respectively.

  • @slovakthrowback3738
    @slovakthrowback3738 5 днів тому +2

    Hi, cool video, I liked it. If you'd like some feedback, I think that clearer labeling of the charts would be really helpful, since especially with your pretty fast editing style it can be hard to know what means what, like at 3:39 for example

  • @arandomperson3948
    @arandomperson3948 5 днів тому +23

    𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂💜

  • @Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx
    @Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx 4 дні тому +1

    Thank you for putting GIF in the list to be pronounced gif, and not gif

  • @DevinDTV
    @DevinDTV 5 днів тому +1

    I think the most relevant way to measure would be checking every word used, including place names, and include repeats. The point is to know what % of speech is which language.
    Additionally, it's nice to have %s based on unique word counts, as a secondary chart.

  • @reubendaly827
    @reubendaly827 5 днів тому +5

    how does this connect to worms??

  • @Neopipas
    @Neopipas 6 днів тому +22

    Much Love from Indo-Europia ❤❤❤

    • @Sonilotos
      @Sonilotos 5 днів тому +2

      "Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"

  • @___________________________._
    @___________________________._ 5 днів тому +7

    Much love from the local insane asylum's rubber room ☺️

    • @ieatalgae
      @ieatalgae 5 днів тому +1

      They locked me in a room- a rubber room

    • @mildlymarvelous
      @mildlymarvelous 5 днів тому +2

      A rubber room with rats

  • @why9909
    @why9909 5 днів тому +3

    I've made the mistake of noticing your inhales in the audio
    And I can't stop getting distracted by it
    Pls halp

    • @why9909
      @why9909 5 днів тому +1

      Very good video as always tho

  • @mildlymarvelous
    @mildlymarvelous 5 днів тому +1

    IT’S ONLY 0:25 AND I AM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF ALREADY

  • @tonydai782
    @tonydai782 5 днів тому +10

    Technoblade never dies

  • @MausOfTheHouse
    @MausOfTheHouse 5 днів тому +3

    now analyse your own video and find out what kind of a vocabulary you use

  • @graydenhormes5829
    @graydenhormes5829 4 дні тому

    Pie charts were seriously abused in this video

  • @zagle1772
    @zagle1772 День тому

    i only made it 30 seconds before loosing it

  • @zephlodwick1009
    @zephlodwick1009 3 дні тому

    How did you count words that mix English and Latinate affixes, like "enlightenment" or "retake"?

  • @AzuSophie
    @AzuSophie 5 днів тому

    You keep making video ideas i have.... i gotta get off my ass and make videos before you unknowingly finish every single video idea written in my word pad document

  • @cristhomsonius6620
    @cristhomsonius6620 5 днів тому

    Based Technoblade content!

  • @currypuddin6902
    @currypuddin6902 5 днів тому +1

    Much love from japonia ❤❤❤

  • @idguy4rainbowpheonix
    @idguy4rainbowpheonix 4 дні тому

    No love from here

  • @5eyoshi
    @5eyoshi 5 днів тому +1

    God I hope not

  • @olivius8891
    @olivius8891 5 днів тому +3

    Much love from New Yakvbian Agarþa 🤍

  • @thelollykitty
    @thelollykitty 5 днів тому +1

    Today I learnt Zzineohp is pronounced /zɪnijɒp/, always thought it was /zajnowp/

  • @kidyomu89
    @kidyomu89 5 днів тому +2

    much love from the Proto-Indo-European sprachraum ❤️ɡ́ʰ❤️