King Boomer, I think you might just be my favourite American at this point. You now "get" us like few Americans ever do, and you're a good sport/humble Muppet, which is very endearing.
i thought his soap box was a serious thing so I hadn't even watched it at all, that was good AND also informative, not that i didn't already know that saying "I could care less" is completely mental and the complete opposite of the intended meaning. (I think the worm thing was a reference to a book-worm)
I watched this yesterday after you mentioned it when watching the one about baby’s names . Just watched it again to see your reaction . Most enjoyable .
That was great - and your reaction to it - so I am loving the combination of David Mitchell and King Boomer 😊👍 (I am definitely going to find some more Soapbox videos now) Quite right, of course, about 'couldn't care less' but I didn't realise that you say 'hold down the fort' 😅
😂😂 Yeah I can see why things like sidewalk and elevator are used, the rest of them are just sort of there but don’t bother me too much. I do find it funny when Americans try to correct us with our English though, with the exception of some like that aluminum /aluminium one. The restroom one always makes me laugh too, you can just visualise loads of people sleeping in the toilets lol Also I’m studying animation, so I can feel your pain/relate on that too!
I was looking at old house and ship plans, early 18th century I think, and came across very small rooms labelled as the "Room of Ease". Almost certainly the lavatory, could this be the source of "restroom"?
@@michaelmclachlan1650 I reckon you’re right. Although whenever someone says to me “take it easy” I certainly won’t be shitting my pants in front of them lol
I always wondered why Americans say Solder (as in electronics) as soder, without the L. But then DO pronounce the L in Soldier and not say Sodier. But then I don't I have much of life or am any good at sorting priorities from trivial things
It's a shame you didn't get to these sooner, he has one about naming your baby which would have been perfect to watch while QB was pregnant! There are plenty of great Soapbox rants though. A personal choice would be "Compliments"
@@davidz3879 I don't know what his kids names are but old fashioned names are very popular now so they may well be completely normal to their own age range as they grow up
@@clairec1267 Barbara & June, which are good names if you were born about 80 years ago. Ask people who have names that are far too old for them what they think think of them. They almost all dislike them. Elderly names aren't going to become fashionable.
It occurred the other day that 'I could care less' might come from a certain New York Jewish way of speaking. Imagine Jackie Mason asking the rhetorical question 'You think I could care less?' the answer to which is 'No'. Perhaps 'I could care less?' is a contraction of the full question. Anyway, that's my attempt at offering an excuse - I mean, an explanation.
I think of it as an abbreviation of "(as if) I could care less". Mind you, it's a bit rich for Englishman David Mitchell to complain about Americans saying the opposite of what they mean. We do little else. "Lovely weather" we say, when it's pissing down with rain.
Has to be in order though, starting with knowing me knowing you. Then the Christmas special knowing yule, then I'm alan partridge series 1 and 2. Mid morning matters, then scissored Isle, places of my life, the book reading one, then finally this time.
Possibly a bookworm? One of the things my American friends say a lot is tad bit, as in "I'm a tad bit hungry". Its like those morons who say ATM machine, but when I bring it up they could care less. A tad bit less
Another one that seems to rear its head every so often, is when people say "on accident" instead of "by accident". Am I nuts, or does that just make no sense at all? 😂
Whilst we are here, you can go horse riding, not horseback riding, we already know you are on the horses back, that the only place you can sit. Also, they are glasses, not eye glasses, that's the only place you can put glasses, you don't need to tell me
His wife is Victoria Coren, now Victoria Mitchell. She presented a programme (notice the spelling!) on the BBC called Balderdash and Piffle, a series over the etymology of words. Totally fascinating. Totally enlightening and, in one case, rather rude which is why they let Germaine Greer present it. I think parts are viewable on UA-cam so I suggest you give it a go.
I don't know if it was my recommendation that made you react to this but I'm really glad you did. Trust me every single one of his soapbox rants is superbly and articulately hilarious. Check out people being passionate about things.
One other word I have head being misused is 'bunch'. An example being, "Luckily I have a bunch of water with me". The word bunch is for countable objects though, so using it to describe how much water you have does not compute.
I'm kinda down with your thinking, albeit should you be in the implausible situation where you were carrying different waters, maybe; tap water, tepid water, heavy water, mineral water, just milked from a yuka plant water, water you just retrieved in a space probe from under the ice in the south pole of Mars water - this could be valid. However were it to be a bunch of water from a singe source, I feel like "a good quantity" would be a much more useful descriptive in where I could only imagine needing water would be of some importance.
On the subject of pronouncing the Letter H or not we (southern-ish) Brits are perplexed at you dropping the H when saying Herbs but then emphasise it in the word Vehicle. It's pronounced Vee-Akul or Vee-Ukul but 𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 Vee-Hikul !
Now THIS is a reaction!!!! lol Brilliant! :D David's stuff pretty much stands the test of time, these wonderful short but poignant videos being almost a decade old, Peep Show being closer to two decades old. Even the much more recent 'Back' with Mitchell & Webb is now getting on for 7 years old! Please take a peek one day! Oh and PS It was a 'Bookworm', perhaps David's little hidden joke that us Brits can have some strange mis-use of things also (considering technically it would ba a BookMaggot lol
Derek Fowlds was the partner/foil for Sir Basil Brush OBE then went on to Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister and decades in Heartbeat. Look up the RADIO version of "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy". I even left a Pub on a Saturday night to listen to the Radio thinking this was for me = The Dumb Peoples Guide to Astronomy. Instead one of the funniest Radio Series ever. Then went on to be a Book, TV Series, Film and Theatre Productions.
YOU MUST SEE DAVID MITCHELL AS NEUROTIC SHAKESPEARE IN "UPSTART CROW" AND HIS NEMESIS PLAYED BY "JIM" IN FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😃😆😄😅😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😃😆😄😅😂
Love your reactions and are the only ones I watch, I do have one suggestion to increase our enjoyment, any chance of playing the videos at the correct ratio so they aren't distorted?
Hold down the fort is a perfectly acceptable way to convey that sentiment. He's nitpicking there. But he's 1000% right about caring less. That has always driven me crazy.
I've seen a couple of these and yes they are worth watching , he did one on baby names . David is a great foil for Lee Mack on WILTY and you should watch him when Bob Mortimer is on the show .
When aluminium was discovered the convention of all metals ending with ‘ium’ was only just beginning to become accepted. This was also around the period when the language of ‘The United States’ was diverging from standard English due to the natural process of languages changing over time and the lack of instant communication over distances. By the time dictionaries were common place, we’d gone with one spelling and the US had gone with a different one but up until that point, both had been acceptable in scientific literature.
You shold watch That Mitchell & Webb Look, it launched his career & where the "Are we the baddies" meme/gif comes from. Plus the last ever scetch is funny and heartbreaking.
On a side note, there are words that both Amercans AND us English have undoubtedly got wrong. For example, wether you call it an ‘Elevator’ or a ‘Lift’, it doesn’t alter the fact that it spends just as much time transporting people DOWNWARDS as it does transporting people UPWARDS. It should be called a ‘Compact Vertical Suspension Train’. Or hopefully something much shorter and snappier than that which I just haven’t thought of… but at least more accurate.
Spot on pronunciation of aluminium!that,your new found love for tea,and the willingness to take things on board and make changes, we'll make a Brit out of you yet....!👊🏻🤷♂️👏👏😂😂 I'd not seen these before so I'm going to have to have a dig now👌🏼🤷♂️😂💜
An American friend recently told me he'd lucked out on a job he wanted. I commiserated with him. How is anyone to know that "luck OUT" means to be IN luck?
Incidentally Aaron Sorkin makes a joke of this subject in a West Wing episode. Toby says "I could care less", someone rebukes him with "Toby!", and his response is ".... More?"
The inch worm as you call it was crawling over a book and I believe it represents a book worm which is an English term for someone who is well read and therefore intelligent !
In a manner of speaking there is a manner in which you could imagine that you'd have to care [2 Times (2X) The Smallest Unit of Caring], since you might say that you could care less is then only a single unit of the amount of caring & that not caring is then 0. If you were so inclined - i.e. cared a sufficient amount, then you could argue against Mitchell on this point.
King Boomer : English chemist Sir Humphry Davy named the element ALUMINUM in 1808 and then changed it to ALUMINIUM in 1812. British editors changed it to aluminium to be more in keeping with other elements such as potassium and sodium, while the Americans retained the spelling as ALUMINUM
Sir Humphy Davy's first attempt in 1808 was actually ALUMIUM, which nobody has stuck with. An 1811 summary of his lectures at the Royal Society went with ALUMINIUM. In 1812 he published a textbook which used ALUMINUM. Apparently American scientists used ALUMINIUM from the start, but Noah Webster stuck his oar in and only included ALUMINUM in his dictionary. There's lots more about this on Wikipedia.
I note they are co-written by John Finnemore. I’d recommend looking him up. Very British gentle humour. See the Winnie the Pooh’s honey addiction sketch
As an English learner, I have no skin in the game, so I've always just imagined that "I could care less.." had an implied "...but not very much." at the end in order to sound more polite than "I couldn't care less."
Neither are really "polite" though. "I could care less" has the same expression as "I couldn't care less" which is "I really don't care", essentially. It's just "I could care less" makes one look stupid for reasons David says.
I love your videos Keep up the good work you should react on Bad drivers complation ik you did something like that before you should do more Keep up the fantastic work 😁😁😁😁
Using 'unique' incorrectly is common amongst our friends state-side, as is starting sentences with 'So' or 'OK' - these flies are increasingly appearing in the ointment of the English language. Welsh is my first language and I had to learn English but now I speak it better than my English and American friends. e.g. saying 'could of' instead of 'could have'. Saying 'they do do it' and I even heard recently 'haveting to' instead of 'having to'
There are actually a few dialects in the UK where we drop the "H" at the start of a word, we do in the West Country. It's even taken into account on school tests, so you don't get penalised for writing say "an historical event" instead of "a historical event"
The thing that chafes my bikini line is 'on accident', on can be used for either 'on top' and 'on purpose' in a nutshell, it means you 'meant' to do something, on accident is a an oxymoron because it means you meant to do the accident or the accident you meant to do. From what I understand, 'on accident' is a term created by kids who didn't know any better. Trouble is that Americanisms are bloody contagious, and the word axe is already replacing ask within the inner cities.
One of my pet hates, in discussing motor sport, American commentators say "he's trying to pass the leader on the STRAIGHT AWAY". When he should say "he's trying to pass on the straight". I'd like them to desist using this term straight away. Thanks ;-)
The spelling of Aluminium groups it with soft metals like Sodium and Potassium, that's how I remember it. Admittedly it was originally spelt as Aluminum but it changed to fit in when the Periodic Table was reorganised.
It was originally Aluminium but it was miss spelled on an American exhibition literature and it stuck. Incidently, if it was following the Sodium / Potassium naming pattern, it should be named Alumium as it was originally isolated from the mineral Alum. (Soda - Sodium, Potash - Potassium). I suppose that was a bit of a tongue twister. Better than if it was named after it's current commercial ore Bauxite, which would make it Bauxitium I guess.
The main reason for Aluminum and Aluminium is purely down to we spell the words differently. There is no other reason, both are accepted spellings in the scientific community for the same element. That's one of the simpler ones to explain. It's when we have a word spelled the same but pronounce it completely differently that we get confusion eg Herbs has a strong H in English but American's have chosen to drop the H in favour of a more French sounding pronunciation.
@@NJH01 Yes, alumium would have matched other elements more closely, but they went for aluminium instead. The US stuck with aluminum as previously agreed.
Always got the impression traditionally that cooking wise, there's more Italian influence in US language, eg Zucchini rather than courgette. 'Erb is one French adopted thing that didn't come from English English, as it were.
@@elemar5 Nothing imo. Road and footpath are fine! I'm just being fussy over their literalness with sidewalk and lack of consistency about literal naming.
Aluminium changed because some scientist thought it should No really ....thats it, thats the reason, some british scientist (yeah i think he was british) decided to propose changing the name Aluminium so that it matched other metals like Uranium and Sodium Some people agreed, some didnt
King Boomer, I think you might just be my favourite American at this point. You now "get" us like few Americans ever do, and you're a good sport/humble Muppet, which is very endearing.
That was not a muppet sound.. that was Woody Woodpecker!
What he said. Love the muppet.
David Mitchell is a national treasure.
David Mitchell in upstart crow as William Shakespeare was excellent.
Really? I thought that was the worst thing he's ever done
@@michaelb2388 I loved Upstart Crow
i thought his soap box was a serious thing so I hadn't even watched it at all, that was good AND also informative, not that i didn't already know that saying "I could care less" is completely mental and the complete opposite of the intended meaning. (I think the worm thing was a reference to a book-worm)
This was fantastic! Do more of these!
I watched this yesterday after you mentioned it when watching the one about baby’s names . Just watched it again to see your reaction . Most enjoyable .
Thank you! Herbs always gets me!
Basil was the Lord of the Manor
Rosemary, the Lady
Dill the Dog
Tarragon the Dragon
PARSLEY, a very friendly Lion
They can pretend to be French if they want...and give the Irish a break.
@@michaeldowson6988 Mind you, we say cwasson.
Yes but we use hours without the h!
@@helenag.9386 you got me there
“I feel like I’m being scolded and I like it.”
That’s David for you. I think he’d be pleased with this remark.
These are fantastic. You'll definitely dig them. They're so short though I would consider reacting to 2 or 3 of them at a time.
'erbs... That always gets me. I initially thought someone had a speech impediment when I heard an American say that.
Honestly?
These David Mitchell’s Soap Box videos are hilarious.
That was great - and your reaction to it - so I am loving the combination of David Mitchell and King Boomer 😊👍 (I am definitely going to find some more Soapbox videos now) Quite right, of course, about 'couldn't care less' but I didn't realise that you say 'hold down the fort' 😅
I couldn't give a s**t - its another way of saying I couldn't care less 🎉😂
I've also heard many Americans say how ridiculous & wrong that phrase is.
I have heard British people say it wrong haha.
😂😂 Yeah I can see why things like sidewalk and elevator are used, the rest of them are just sort of there but don’t bother me too much. I do find it funny when Americans try to correct us with our English though, with the exception of some like that aluminum /aluminium one. The restroom one always makes me laugh too, you can just visualise loads of people sleeping in the toilets lol
Also I’m studying animation, so I can feel your pain/relate on that too!
Or having a bath when at a restaurant.
I was looking at old house and ship plans, early 18th century I think, and came across very small rooms labelled as the "Room of Ease". Almost certainly the lavatory, could this be the source of "restroom"?
@@michaelmclachlan1650 I reckon you’re right. Although whenever someone says to me “take it easy” I certainly won’t be shitting my pants in front of them lol
I always wondered why Americans say Solder (as in electronics) as soder, without the L. But then DO pronounce the L in Soldier and not say Sodier. But then I don't I have much of life or am any good at sorting priorities from trivial things
I watched David Mitchell's Soap Box back when it was new. That was quite a long time ago. Dear America is one of my favourites.
It's a shame you didn't get to these sooner, he has one about naming your baby which would have been perfect to watch while QB was pregnant! There are plenty of great Soapbox rants though. A personal choice would be "Compliments"
DM burdening both his daughters with elderly names years later is baffling!
@@davidz3879Why? They are actual names, which is what his video was about. It's not like he took names out of the Indian takeaway menu!
@@ManlyStump He warned against giving bad/unsuitable names. Years later he gave his daughters elderly names, which is obviously a bad idea.
@@davidz3879 I don't know what his kids names are but old fashioned names are very popular now so they may well be completely normal to their own age range as they grow up
@@clairec1267 Barbara & June, which are good names if you were born about 80 years ago. Ask people who have names that are far too old for them what they think think of them. They almost all dislike them. Elderly names aren't going to become fashionable.
It occurred the other day that 'I could care less' might come from a certain New York Jewish way of speaking. Imagine Jackie Mason asking the rhetorical question 'You think I could care less?' the answer to which is 'No'. Perhaps 'I could care less?' is a contraction of the full question. Anyway, that's my attempt at offering an excuse - I mean, an explanation.
I think of it as an abbreviation of "(as if) I could care less". Mind you, it's a bit rich for Englishman David Mitchell to complain about Americans saying the opposite of what they mean. We do little else. "Lovely weather" we say, when it's pissing down with rain.
I heard Queen Boomer say "on accident" instead of "by accident" the other day.. you gotta put a stop to that, man!
What gets me is labratory when it's laboratory.
Indeed, it sounds like lavatory.
LOVED your reaction 😂 And yes, we do say ‘cocked it up’ ❤️
Off topic but i recommend reacting to the I'm Alan Partridge sitcom, best thing he's done in that character imo
Has to be in order though, starting with knowing me knowing you. Then the Christmas special knowing yule, then I'm alan partridge series 1 and 2. Mid morning matters, then scissored Isle, places of my life, the book reading one, then finally this time.
Yes, it's hilarious. KB has reacted to highlights, but full eps are much better.
@@aTiminCambodia Exactly this
It’s Steve Coogan who plays Alan Partridge btw, not David Mitchell.
@@mark_tolver no way
Possibly a bookworm? One of the things my American friends say a lot is tad bit, as in "I'm a tad bit hungry". Its like those morons who say ATM machine, but when I bring it up they could care less. A tad bit less
Another one that seems to rear its head every so often, is when people say "on accident" instead of "by accident". Am I nuts, or does that just make no sense at all? 😂
Oh good grief yes. It sounds like a 2 year old still learning to speak.
Love your reaction .🇬🇧🇺🇸
Whilst we are here, you can go horse riding, not horseback riding, we already know you are on the horses back, that the only place you can sit. Also, they are glasses, not eye glasses, that's the only place you can put glasses, you don't need to tell me
You can put glasses on the bar counter and give me a fresh pint please.
Thank you David!
The worm is a bookworm. On a dictionary. Loved it. :D
Another great video. Keep up the good work 👍
His wife is Victoria Coren, now Victoria Mitchell. She presented a programme (notice the spelling!) on the BBC called Balderdash and Piffle, a series over the etymology of words. Totally fascinating. Totally enlightening and, in one case, rather rude which is why they let Germaine Greer present it. I think parts are viewable on UA-cam so I suggest you give it a go.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
She’s also a master poker player
Balderdash And Piffle was great!
I forgot about that show. Yeah was really good
I don't know if it was my recommendation that made you react to this but I'm really glad you did. Trust me every single one of his soapbox rants is superbly and articulately hilarious. Check out people being passionate about things.
Why do Americans say " have a nice day ", when your cats just being run over ,and your best mates run away with your wife ,what's up with you 😂
Being or been?
He does one of these about passion which is a classic!
One other word I have head being misused is 'bunch'. An example being, "Luckily I have a bunch of water with me".
The word bunch is for countable objects though, so using it to describe how much water you have does not compute.
I'm kinda down with your thinking, albeit should you be in the implausible situation where you were carrying different waters, maybe; tap water, tepid water, heavy water, mineral water, just milked from a yuka plant water, water you just retrieved in a space probe from under the ice in the south pole of Mars water - this could be valid. However were it to be a bunch of water from a singe source, I feel like "a good quantity" would be a much more useful descriptive in where I could only imagine needing water would be of some importance.
A bunch of rain? Or a ton of rain? Or rain 6 bananas deep.@@davidb9036
I ABSOLUTELY HATE that! Everything is not in $%&* bunches! Bananas are in bunches, most other things aren't. Its SOME or A LOT of.
On the subject of pronouncing the Letter H or not we (southern-ish) Brits are perplexed at you dropping the H when saying Herbs but then emphasise it in the word Vehicle.
It's pronounced Vee-Akul or Vee-Ukul but 𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 Vee-Hikul !
That bugs me too!
I’m glad Americans over pronounce vehicle… it’s the only reason I can spell it.
@@RhJones Ha! So great.
Now THIS is a reaction!!!! lol
Brilliant!
:D
David's stuff pretty much stands the test of time, these wonderful short but poignant videos being almost a decade old, Peep Show being closer to two decades old. Even the much more recent 'Back' with Mitchell & Webb is now getting on for 7 years old! Please take a peek one day!
Oh and PS
It was a 'Bookworm', perhaps David's little hidden joke that us Brits can have some strange mis-use of things also (considering technically it would ba a BookMaggot lol
Someone in the kitchen just heard you laugh on my laptop and afterwards went "Boom boom!"
Look up Basil Brush. 😁
Derek Fowlds was the partner/foil for Sir Basil Brush OBE then went on to Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister and decades in Heartbeat.
Look up the RADIO version of "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy". I even left a Pub on a Saturday night to listen to the Radio thinking this was for me = The Dumb Peoples Guide to Astronomy. Instead one of the funniest Radio Series ever. Then went on to be a Book, TV Series, Film and Theatre Productions.
YOU MUST SEE DAVID MITCHELL AS NEUROTIC SHAKESPEARE IN "UPSTART CROW" AND HIS NEMESIS PLAYED BY "JIM" IN FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😃😆😄😅😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😃😆😄😅😂
DM’s Soapbox is a rich treasure-trove of mini-rants. Enjoy!
Also written by the genius of John Finnemore.
Love your reactions and are the only ones I watch, I do have one suggestion to increase our enjoyment, any chance of playing the videos at the correct ratio so they aren't distorted?
Something something yt copyright
Hold down the fort is a perfectly acceptable way to convey that sentiment. He's nitpicking there. But he's 1000% right about caring less. That has always driven me crazy.
I've seen a couple of these and yes they are worth watching , he did one on baby names . David is a great foil for Lee Mack on WILTY and you should watch him when Bob Mortimer is on the show .
Loved this and David is spot on. 'Neither' and 'either' are two words the USians mix up also. Grrr!
When aluminium was discovered the convention of all metals ending with ‘ium’ was only just beginning to become accepted. This was also around the period when the language of ‘The United States’ was diverging from standard English due to the natural process of languages changing over time and the lack of instant communication over distances. By the time dictionaries were common place, we’d gone with one spelling and the US had gone with a different one but up until that point, both had been acceptable in scientific literature.
The worm is a bookworm.
You shold watch That Mitchell & Webb Look, it launched his career & where the "Are we the baddies" meme/gif comes from.
Plus the last ever scetch is funny and heartbreaking.
I love his soapbox videos.
no no he was quite clear it was the queen that wanted you to sort it out :P
No no no… not David Mitchell… those are things that the QUEEN wants you to work on, otherwise she’ll haunt you! 😜
On a side note, there are words that both Amercans AND us English have undoubtedly got wrong. For example, wether you call it an ‘Elevator’ or a ‘Lift’, it doesn’t alter the fact that it spends just as much time transporting people DOWNWARDS as it does transporting people UPWARDS. It should be called a ‘Compact Vertical Suspension Train’. Or hopefully something much shorter and snappier than that which I just haven’t thought of… but at least more accurate.
Oh that’s brilliant 😂
'erbs, really, REALLY grinds my gears.
So does the pronunciation of many of the HERBS themselves.
Remember it’s Hold down your job, but hold the fort!
You didn't actually need to tell me you'd be guilty of saying both those things lol
Also "route" its roooot not rout, a rout is a decisive military victory!
Spot on pronunciation of aluminium!that,your new found love for tea,and the willingness to take things on board and make changes, we'll make a Brit out of you yet....!👊🏻🤷♂️👏👏😂😂
I'd not seen these before so I'm going to have to have a dig now👌🏼🤷♂️😂💜
I think the little creature is supposed to be a bookworm. I didn't know about David Mitchell's Soapbox, but I have to see more of it.
Do remember to watch David Mitchell’s comedy partner) doing his dance -Robert Webb does Flashdance -
There’s a funny one of these where he kicks off about “take each day as it comes” as if we have a choice.
We do say "to cock something up" and the related noun "a cock-up" meaning "a mistake" 😂 All the Soapboxes are great!
An American friend recently told me he'd lucked out on a job he wanted. I commiserated with him. How is anyone to know that "luck OUT" means to be IN luck?
Incidentally Aaron Sorkin makes a joke of this subject in a West Wing episode. Toby says "I could care less", someone rebukes him with "Toby!", and his response is ".... More?"
I love his final comment "I could care less".
Eddie Izzard also did a bit on the irritating thing with the US accent dropping the 'h' on 'herbs'.
Americans living in Tornado zones understand the meaning of Holding Down the Fort. It has meaning.
This soap box rant is my favourite, but unusually smart men is another.
The one I hate is "solder". There is an "L" in the middle, but Americans say "sodder". WHY?
That was brilliantly fun. 😆🇨🇦
i really like the "... & pillage" Soapbox because I absolutely agree with Mitchell.
The inch worm as you call it was crawling over a book and I believe it represents a book worm which is an English term for someone who is well read and therefore intelligent !
I always did wonder why 'solder' was never pronounced in the USA the way it looks.
Its because they're lazy. Sodder and carmel are easier to say. But as a brit, i hate it. It is soLder and carAmel. Say it properly.
spot on. that 'could care less' thing is a major irritant!!
He is true it makes no sense when people say they could care less 😂
"He is true" 😐
In a manner of speaking there is a manner in which you could imagine that you'd have to care [2 Times (2X) The Smallest Unit of Caring], since you might say that you could care less is then only a single unit of the amount of caring & that not caring is then 0.
If you were so inclined - i.e. cared a sufficient amount, then you could argue against Mitchell on this point.
King Boomer : English chemist Sir Humphry Davy named the element ALUMINUM in 1808 and then changed it to ALUMINIUM in 1812. British editors changed it to aluminium to be more in keeping with other elements such as potassium and sodium, while the Americans retained the spelling as ALUMINUM
Sir Humphy Davy's first attempt in 1808 was actually ALUMIUM, which nobody has stuck with. An 1811 summary of his lectures at the Royal Society went with ALUMINIUM. In 1812 he published a textbook which used ALUMINUM. Apparently American scientists used ALUMINIUM from the start, but Noah Webster stuck his oar in and only included ALUMINUM in his dictionary. There's lots more about this on Wikipedia.
Aluminum is the original name.
Aluminium is used by some countries as it is a better match for other elements in the table.
I note they are co-written by John Finnemore. I’d recommend looking him up. Very British gentle humour. See the Winnie the Pooh’s honey addiction sketch
This is good...but That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch show is where the real gold is.
2:13 also Lieutenant is pronounced as LEF-TENANT in the UK
My mother was 100% cockney, neighbors had a 'ell of a time understanding her.
Aluminum is actually correct. The Brits got it wrong in something like a dictionary entry. True. The Brits used to say aluminum.
G'day from WA
As an English learner, I have no skin in the game, so I've always just imagined that "I could care less.." had an implied "...but not very much." at the end in order to sound more polite than "I couldn't care less."
Neither are really "polite" though.
"I could care less" has the same expression as "I couldn't care less" which is "I really don't care", essentially. It's just "I could care less" makes one look stupid for reasons David says.
Math. Grinds my gears😬
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Using 'unique' incorrectly is common amongst our friends state-side, as is starting sentences with 'So' or 'OK' - these flies are increasingly appearing in the ointment of the English language. Welsh is my first language and I had to learn English but now I speak it better than my English and American friends. e.g. saying 'could of' instead of 'could have'. Saying 'they do do it' and I even heard recently 'haveting to' instead of 'having to'
There's a compilation of David M's rants on WILTY on UA-cam somewhere. Very funny.
A bookworm not an inch worm😂
There are actually a few dialects in the UK where we drop the "H" at the start of a word, we do in the West Country. It's even taken into account on school tests, so you don't get penalised for writing say "an historical event" instead of "a historical event"
Drop the "haitch" you say?
Don't know why Americans say the French ''erb', but don't spell words like 'theatre' the French way.
I don't even think Americans know the answer to that.
The thing that chafes my bikini line is 'on accident', on can be used for either 'on top' and 'on purpose' in a nutshell, it means you 'meant' to do something, on accident is a an oxymoron because it means you meant to do the accident or the accident you meant to do. From what I understand, 'on accident' is a term created by kids who didn't know any better. Trouble is that Americanisms are bloody contagious, and the word axe is already replacing ask within the inner cities.
What about on Christmas?
@elemar5 what? Do you mean on Christmas day? Or at Christmas? Or on the day as in on monday? And in what context?
Americans do things on Christmas, not at Christmas.@@Immortal-Headcase
One of my pet hates, in discussing motor sport, American commentators say "he's trying to pass the leader on the STRAIGHT AWAY". When he should say "he's trying to pass on the straight". I'd like them to desist using this term straight away. Thanks ;-)
I don’t know which two they are but he does a rant on this channel and then he had Robert Webb on to counter his argument.
I may be completely wrong, but that worm on the book at the start, may, in fact, have been meant to represent a 'bookworm'. I could be wrong though
American use both, hold the fort and hold down the fort.
The spelling of Aluminium groups it with soft metals like Sodium and Potassium, that's how I remember it. Admittedly it was originally spelt as Aluminum but it changed to fit in when the Periodic Table was reorganised.
It was originally Aluminium but it was miss spelled on an American exhibition literature and it stuck.
Incidently, if it was following the Sodium / Potassium naming pattern, it should be named Alumium as it was originally isolated from the mineral Alum. (Soda - Sodium, Potash - Potassium). I suppose that was a bit of a tongue twister. Better than if it was named after it's current commercial ore Bauxite, which would make it Bauxitium I guess.
miss spelT.
@@simontay4851 spelled
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of spell.
@@simontay4851 Spelt
Species of wheat
Spelt, also known as dinkel wheat or hulled wheat,
@@SoupDragonish Spelled and Spelt are both the past tense of the verb spell.
The main reason for Aluminum and Aluminium is purely down to we spell the words differently. There is no other reason, both are accepted spellings in the scientific community for the same element. That's one of the simpler ones to explain. It's when we have a word spelled the same but pronounce it completely differently that we get confusion eg Herbs has a strong H in English but American's have chosen to drop the H in favour of a more French sounding pronunciation.
More specifically the guy who named it changed it like 3 times so both spellings are technically correct
@@NJH01 Yes, alumium would have matched other elements more closely, but they went for aluminium instead. The US stuck with aluminum as previously agreed.
Always got the impression traditionally that cooking wise, there's more Italian influence in US language, eg Zucchini rather than courgette. 'Erb is one French adopted thing that didn't come from English English, as it were.
It transpires that Aluminum is ‘more’ correct than Aluminium, although neither are the original name.
Fair enough on sidewalk but why stop there? If it has to be a literal term then why isn’t the road called “middledrive” or “centerdrive”? 🤷🏻♂️
What's wrong with footpath?
@@elemar5 Nothing imo. Road and footpath are fine! I'm just being fussy over their literalness with sidewalk and lack of consistency about literal naming.
I know. Just throwing in a sensible alternative.@@seanjosephhayes
Aluminium changed because some scientist thought it should
No really ....thats it, thats the reason,
some british scientist (yeah i think he was british) decided to propose changing the name Aluminium so that it matched other metals like Uranium and Sodium
Some people agreed, some didnt