I'm an American. Worked with a bunch of Brits on a military project years ago here in the US. I was out drinking with them one night and one of the guys, Mike, commented on how we "... Americans have bastardized the Queen's english." I remarked back to him, "Mike, can you understand everything I'm saying?!" He replied, "Well, yeah!" My response back shut him down... "Well I can barely understand a ****ing thing you're saying, so whose wrong and whose right here!?" Ahh, simpler times! We're still friends to this day.
It's possible that the conflation of u and v is a post-hoc rationalization, because the English pronunciation seems to have arisen at a time when we hated the French even more than we do now and a lot of words of French origin were deliberately Anglicized to disguise them. Examples: Beauchamp = "Beecham", Beauvoir/Belvoir = "Beever", De Nîmes = "Denim", M'aidez = "Mayday". And of course the military mangling isn't limited to lieutenant because we also have Colonel = "ke(r)nel".
@@gappy10123 that's because whenever you see a movie in Canada that deals with the military, it's probably from the US. but "leftenant" pronunciation is "normal" in Canada
"... not many words with three vowels in a row like that..." Love it! My last name has seven letters and only one vowel. Spelling is an amazing thing, but you Brits are even better at not using phonics. Sounds like an insult but I mean it as a compliment. Seriously.
Really, its cause the French beat the English to the punch on most military language and the Brits are too proud to pronounce it correctly. A long martial history of passive (sometimes active) aggression.
Lmfao imagine thinking that pronouncing a word with an imaginary extra phoneme is "correct" simply because you've been totally cucked out by your imperial owners 😂 absolutely astounding level of pathetic 😅
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So would we pronounce the single word lieu as "loo" or "lef". It doesn't make sense. I think the commonwealth countries are mispronouncing it and the Americans have the correct pronunciation. After all, they were trained by the French from the revolutionary war.
I served two decades in the Royal Australian Navy and it's 'lef-tennant' there too.
I'm an American. Worked with a bunch of Brits on a military project years ago here in the US. I was out drinking with them one night and one of the guys, Mike, commented on how we "... Americans have bastardized the Queen's english." I remarked back to him, "Mike, can you understand everything I'm saying?!" He replied, "Well, yeah!" My response back shut him down... "Well I can barely understand a ****ing thing you're saying, so whose wrong and whose right here!?"
Ahh, simpler times! We're still friends to this day.
It's possible that the conflation of u and v is a post-hoc rationalization, because the English pronunciation seems to have arisen at a time when we hated the French even more than we do now and a lot of words of French origin were deliberately Anglicized to disguise them. Examples: Beauchamp = "Beecham", Beauvoir/Belvoir = "Beever", De Nîmes = "Denim", M'aidez = "Mayday". And of course the military mangling isn't limited to lieutenant because we also have Colonel = "ke(r)nel".
We pronounce it leftenant in Canada. Spent many years in the military.
Not for everyone outside of the military, never heard lefttenant in my life until this morning 🤣
@@gappy10123 that's because whenever you see a movie in Canada that deals with the military, it's probably from the US. but "leftenant" pronunciation is "normal" in Canada
@@ianism3 it's the pronunciation across the whole British commonwealth I believe
Yea I call my boss everyday Sir or Lefttenant
"... not many words with three vowels in a row like that..."
Love it!
My last name has seven letters and only one vowel. Spelling is an amazing thing, but you Brits are even better at not using phonics. Sounds like an insult but I mean it as a compliment. Seriously.
We pronounce it Left-tenant in Canada, both in the military and in government - each province has a Lieutenant Governor.
And you sound like an absolute fool every time you do 😂 but hey maybe if you supplicate to the crown enough they'll let you little nerds be free (jk)
I'm a simple man; I don't see an F, I don't pronounce an F.
I mean i dont get it either but laugh, cough and some other words dont have an F but pronounced with an F
This is the correct way to say this, we fucked it up back in the middle ages and so now that mean our way is right.
This was very helpful for understanding the pronunciation in the movie 1917. Can you do one for eavesdropping?
Damn that's very interesting- tho I am trying to figure out how you're writing backwards so fluently 😭💀
The magic of editing!
Mirrored image. He's right-handed but here it looks like hes left-handed
@@dariusus9870 But that would still require him to write backwards so that it looks correct when mirrored.
@@son_of_heaven1767 no it wouldn’t. The whole video is mirrored.
Really, its cause the French beat the English to the punch on most military language and the Brits are too proud to pronounce it correctly. A long martial history of passive (sometimes active) aggression.
Thank you for your quick explanation ! Was really interesting as a french speaker !!!
Huh that’s cool here in Northern Ireland I’ve only heard it as lu-tenent but I don’t speak for all as a dumb little bean
Love your videos!!
Yessir Keep these goin! I look forward to these
In Canada pronounced same as in England !
Is the middle ages split not backwards? Id always learned u and w split from v
Canada we still taught to pronounce Leftenant
No! Canadians don't say it the way Americans say it. We are a commonwealth country and pronounce it the same way you do.
So in other words your wrong
In Canada it's pronounced properly as leftenant, indeed for head of queen's provinc(es) are called Lieutenant (leftenant) Governor
Lmfao imagine thinking that pronouncing a word with an imaginary extra phoneme is "correct" simply because you've been totally cucked out by your imperial owners 😂 absolutely astounding level of pathetic 😅
Great video!
Wat???! WAT???! How do I not kno the basics of my language?! 😱 I didn't even kno that I didn't even kno this 🤪 Thank you
These are bhangar languages which requires to learn pronounciation
*Salute to Indian languages* which not required to learn any pronunciation
Read as it is what is written
There are almost double alphabet than English language so no need to learn pronounciation 🙏👍
Like Bulgarian!
Thanks Seth Rogen
I'm a Brit and say loo- tenant
We're not in the Middle Ages. It's "LOOtenant".
I suppose, in LIEU of telling you to go wrap yourself around a telephone pole, I should ALLEVIATE myself of you. Same root word.
could you guys just pronounce it like americans tho, please.
No, pronounced as leftenant is better in my personal (and many brits, Australians and Canadians) opinion
@@officialteaincorporated243 I second this notion, especially as an incredibly biased Brit 😂😂
@@gupstaa I prefer Lieu, as a French Englishman
So would we pronounce the single word lieu as "loo" or "lef". It doesn't make sense. I think the commonwealth countries are mispronouncing it and the Americans have the correct pronunciation. After all, they were trained by the French from the revolutionary war.
I don't care if you have a reason, it's wrong.
It'd be like if I pronounced your channel's name as gram-mar ton tongs. It wouldn't make any goddamn sense.
spelt?
spelled*
burnt?
Burned*
:)
Burnt is actually acceptable
Spelt is actually acceptable