When an average person joins the national spelling bee

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  • @dsanchack332
    @dsanchack332 Рік тому +6847

    "And did you burn the witch afterwards" had me dieing.

    • @anantrathi373
      @anantrathi373 Рік тому +405

      It's dy- I see what you did there

    • @dsanchack332
      @dsanchack332 Рік тому +377

      @@anantrathi373 No, I actually did not know that. I just suck at spelling. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt, though.

    • @Soundy777
      @Soundy777 Рік тому +18

      Me too xDDD

    • @penginguy2177
      @penginguy2177 Рік тому +11

      dying*

    • @AndresMagnone
      @AndresMagnone Рік тому +29

      It had me dieieieing too!

  • @AtrakKarta
    @AtrakKarta Рік тому +3122

    "Can you use it in a sentence?"
    "The opposing team fell for our guetapens."
    "...Can you use it in a sentence that's relevant to our century?"
    *Ahem* "You've activated my guetapens card."
    "..."
    "..."

  • @maodebo3301
    @maodebo3301 Рік тому +1615

    The funny thing is that everytime one english show aired dubbed in my country and there was a spelling bee it was always so weird because I was like "Can't they just hear the word and say the letters???" but then you learn english and you finally get it.
    Everytime I have to write the past tense of teaching, thinking or "even though" I just wing it

    • @RishabhSharma10225
      @RishabhSharma10225 Рік тому +156

      Yep. Spelling bee would be trivial in Hindi. It's written exactly as it's pronounced.

    • @daniloroganovic9359
      @daniloroganovic9359 Рік тому +124

      @@RishabhSharma10225 Same in pretty much all Slavic languages

    • @shivanshukantprasad
      @shivanshukantprasad Рік тому +40

      ​@@RishabhSharma10225it will be trivial as soon as I figure out how to differentiate between स श and ष or ‍‌harshi i and dirghi i

    • @Conta_Minated
      @Conta_Minated Рік тому +22

      @@RishabhSharma10225 So, basically fun for everyone at first grade, but super boring for anyone older than that?

    • @thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529
      @thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529 Рік тому

      hiragana.@anonl5877

  • @eternalcanadiandevyt
    @eternalcanadiandevyt Рік тому +1908

    I'm getting PTSD from my Grade 6 spelling bee.

    • @cheesyfromindonesia9969
      @cheesyfromindonesia9969 Рік тому +5

      Not the only one

    • @therealking6202
      @therealking6202 Рік тому +51

      My school was so poor we couldn't even afford any bees so we just had spellings.

    • @eternalcanadiandevyt
      @eternalcanadiandevyt Рік тому +6

      @@therealking6202 Lmao nice

    • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
      @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Рік тому +3

      I think I could do alright if I could have some paper and a pencil. I'm terrible at spelling when I can't physically see the word.

    • @RaneBoDasch
      @RaneBoDasch Рік тому +7

      I lost the final round of the 3rd grade spelling bee. I still can't spell "Scissors" correctly after 30 years.

  • @jason2mate
    @jason2mate Рік тому +6051

    This is why spelling bees are kind of nuts, because it literally becomes which kid has spent more time reading the dictionary, rather then anything useful.

    • @cheesyfromindonesia9969
      @cheesyfromindonesia9969 Рік тому +679

      All that learning and spelling from a dictionary for a medal/plastic throphy? Fuck that id rather do Steam Achievements

    • @niki8280
      @niki8280 Рік тому +260

      It's more of acknowledging the logic of each word's language source and identifying the logic of the word's construction.

    • @GeekNewz
      @GeekNewz Рік тому +370

      @@niki8280 Sometimes that's nice, but then you have words that come from French, where word construction was destroyed for the sake of getting money- They added random letters to the words because each letter cost money, and they received more money for longer words. (honestly, other languages also do that, but not nearly as much) How can you appreciate that?!

    • @irtur52
      @irtur52 Рік тому +84

      Well I doubt you can learn all possible words they can ask. It's rather about linguistic patterns and connections between different languages, I wouldn't say it's not useful. After all many things can be considered useless, chess for example is just basically board game. I think if someone thinks that something is ineresting then it's useful.

    • @toseltreps1101
      @toseltreps1101 Рік тому +20

      being proficient in orthography is very useful.

  • @Blue2x2x
    @Blue2x2x Рік тому +770

    Zach: "Whatever happened to sound it out?!"
    Silent letters: **laughing maniacally**

    • @OmniscientWarrior
      @OmniscientWarrior Рік тому +34

      They're just standing there, menacingly!

    • @determineddaaf3
      @determineddaaf3 Рік тому +10

      In Dutch we have a bunch of common tones that can be spelled in different ways. We are screwed badly.

    • @satansbarman
      @satansbarman Рік тому +6

      English also has silent letters, it's just less common

    • @syenous2454
      @syenous2454 11 місяців тому +1

      sunami

    • @chryssandermahinay5562
      @chryssandermahinay5562 10 місяців тому +2

      A is for Aisle

  • @themushroommonarch
    @themushroommonarch Рік тому +724

    I remember losing a spelling bee because the teacher pronounced decor as day-core and refused to use it in a sentence.

    • @zacharyrollick6169
      @zacharyrollick6169 Рік тому +78

      It IS a valid pronunciation, unfortunately.

    • @themushroommonarch
      @themushroommonarch Рік тому +153

      @@zacharyrollick6169 True, but she had a different accent so I couldn't recognize it. I was also, like, 8.

    • @belle_pomme
      @belle_pomme Рік тому +19

      ​@@themushroommonarchcouldn't you ask for definition?

    • @themushroommonarch
      @themushroommonarch Рік тому +88

      @@belle_pomme I did, she wouldn't do it.

    • @Noferrah
      @Noferrah Рік тому +63

      @@themushroommonarchisnt that like illegal or something

  • @KnightSlasher
    @KnightSlasher Рік тому +1844

    For real those kids have +10 intelligence in their SPECIAL stats while wearing an item that gives +2 more

    • @yamimounir3231
      @yamimounir3231 Рік тому +34

      Correction +99

    • @Batkudev
      @Batkudev Рік тому

      It also gives them a debuff of getting absolutely 0 hoes under any circumstances

    • @g3n3r1c6
      @g3n3r1c6 Рік тому +70

      according to every kid, that item with the intelligence stat bonus is called glasses

    • @WibleWobble
      @WibleWobble Рік тому +31

      picking the asian starter 💀

    • @Serhii_Diemientieiev
      @Serhii_Diemientieiev Рік тому

      ​@@g3n3r1c6Actually, those are just aesthetics(they either give +50 or -50, nothing in between). The real ones are "Encyclopaedia Stash", "Dictionary Tower", and "1000 and 1 UA-cam Educational Channels"

  • @jackadams3878
    @jackadams3878 Рік тому +309

    "If the next letter isn't T, somebody has to die." I feel you, man

    • @josephpostma1787
      @josephpostma1787 Рік тому +5

      But some kid still died.

    • @thekingscrown8931
      @thekingscrown8931 10 місяців тому +7

      @@josephpostma1787 That was for the s at the end.

    • @HyperX755
      @HyperX755 3 місяці тому +1

      Me when something isn't going the way I was hoping it would:

    • @mystey1
      @mystey1 3 місяці тому

      @@josephpostma1787 It was inevitable with a word like that

    • @f5673-t1h
      @f5673-t1h 2 місяці тому

      It's like David [Guet]ta, who is French.

  • @JackMadness91
    @JackMadness91 Рік тому +450

    G-wiz, they clearly make up words with complicated spellings just to screw with people. I can respect that.

    • @GeekNewz
      @GeekNewz Рік тому +18

      Even better. They did it for money. If no one knows how to write, then the guy who does know would get paid to write and would receive more money for more letters

    • @pollypockets508
      @pollypockets508 Рік тому +5

      We are French!

    • @mentosvagabond
      @mentosvagabond Рік тому +3

      Well I can't.

    • @duckymomo7935
      @duckymomo7935 6 місяців тому +1

      We have words like butyraceous and soubrette

  • @amyhouck7247
    @amyhouck7247 Рік тому +396

    I love the fallback to reciting the alphabet. You’ll get to the right letter eventually!
    “What’s the origin?” “French”- Looks at the word. Yeah that checks out.

  • @markgaumee
    @markgaumee 2 місяці тому +37

    3:00 "and did you burn the witch afterwards?" 🤣🤣

  • @OrigenalDarkMew
    @OrigenalDarkMew 11 місяців тому +30

    "Whatever happened to sound it out? You guys just said fuck that huh?"
    "Correct"
    😂

  • @swhite7929
    @swhite7929 Рік тому +10

    I'm French and it took me like a full minute to understand what the word even was because of how it's pronounced in English lmaooo

    • @ragequazar
      @ragequazar 10 місяців тому +2

      tbf he did straight up just pronounce it wrong, he didn't add the "en" sound in it, he just said it like aw.

  • @unpythonic
    @unpythonic Рік тому +200

    I, myself, have not once stepped through the alphabet trying to finish of the cross of two inconceivable clues in the nyt crossword. Definitely not once.

    • @SCP-173peanut
      @SCP-173peanut Рік тому +9

      How could your comment be made 9 hours ago if the video was posted just two minutes ago?

    • @BallisticMC
      @BallisticMC Рік тому +3

      I think youtubes drunk

    • @rat.cheese
      @rat.cheese Рік тому

      @@SCP-173peanutwas just about to comment this

    • @anoofhussain1895
      @anoofhussain1895 Рік тому +11

      @@SCP-173peanut members have early access

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann Рік тому

      I just go through my keyboard tbh.

  • @AByteofCode
    @AByteofCode Рік тому +41

    Even as a french who knows the word guetapens, i would not have guessed it was that from the english pronounciation

    • @MrSamwise25
      @MrSamwise25 Рік тому +8

      Yeah, I'm curious where he heard that pronunciation, because that sure isn't how I would pronounce it.

    • @OmniscientWarrior
      @OmniscientWarrior Рік тому +8

      As a person that knows bits of other languages but exclusively only knows English, he did say it wrong.

  • @HJM9x
    @HJM9x Рік тому +78

    "Did you burn the witch afterwards"

  • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
    @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Рік тому +193

    "Whatever happened to sounding it out? You guys juat said 'fuck that advice', right?"
    "That is correct."
    😂😂😂

  • @AmagiFaker
    @AmagiFaker Рік тому +257

    l lost entering a national spelling bee TWICE because of the word "Tuff" I didn't even know there WAS a word with similar pronunciation. To this day, I absolutely despise that word

  • @arjunharitas5068
    @arjunharitas5068 Рік тому +90

    Tbh i would have just killed everyone in the building and myself after hearing 'getapaw'. Also tiny Zach is a masterpiece.

  • @IronFistGamingCSGO
    @IronFistGamingCSGO 6 місяців тому +16

    0:59 that bwaaadabababa is pure GOLD

  • @satansbarman
    @satansbarman Рік тому +88

    "You're saying it wrong" as a Frenchman I have to agree there 😅

    • @headkraber
      @headkraber 5 місяців тому +6

      Yeah, like what were they thinking? Let's borrow a French word, butcher the pronunciation and blame the French for screwed up words? Your silent letters are still silly though.

    • @justinchase6666
      @justinchase6666 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@headkraberfrom a language where 99 is 4_20_10_9

    • @boptillyouflop
      @boptillyouflop 2 місяці тому +1

      @@headkraber Only the final s in guet-apens is silent in French tho. U is needed if you don't want to have Jet-apens, and "en" is a nasal vowel which is very much pronounced in French... of course English doesn't have nasal vowels though so the result is messed up.

    • @dragskcinnay3184
      @dragskcinnay3184 2 місяці тому

      ​@@headkraberyup, French silent letters are stupid. Although, to be fair, English has some pretty bad ones too

  • @nothinghere7694
    @nothinghere7694 Рік тому +38

    bro that “witch” line killed me 😂

  • @General-Z6
    @General-Z6 Рік тому +37

    "This is why nobody likes the fucking French!" Had me dying bro😂

  • @Hugo-kt8hm
    @Hugo-kt8hm Рік тому +226

    As a French person, I'm amazed that this word exists in English. By the way it's actually two words, guet-apens :)

    • @jazzy4830
      @jazzy4830 Рік тому +76

      Derived from French, but the resultant output is a single word in English that is apparently pronounced horribly in the US.

    • @OmniscientWarrior
      @OmniscientWarrior Рік тому

      Why would you be surprised? English is known to hack things from other languages and art one time the French did what they could to mess English up in attempts to keep the people stupid in hopes they could maintain control.

    • @zanido9073
      @zanido9073 Рік тому +49

      If they pronounced it properly it wouldn't be that hard to spell. Idk how you go from guet-apens to getapaw, it's like they didn't even try.

    • @ArjunTheRageGuy
      @ArjunTheRageGuy Рік тому +27

      @@zanido9073 Or how the word is spelled is how it should be pronounced as well, like how tf does this word "colonel" have the pronunciation of "kernel" and not "co-lo-nel"?

    • @jazzy4830
      @jazzy4830 Рік тому +21

      @@ArjunTheRageGuy Colonel's weird pronunciation is the fault of the French, (who got the word from the Italian for a column of soldiers) two L sounds was deemed harder to pronounce than one R and an L, so the word degenerated into it's current pronunciation. The English pronunciation of lieutenant as "leff-tenant" is also bemusing.

  • @AlienEditsMemes
    @AlienEditsMemes Рік тому +28

    Bro may have entered a spelling bee in English but he choose to speak facts

  • @ptolemyhenson6838
    @ptolemyhenson6838 3 місяці тому +42

    The subtitles literally spell it more reasonably. "Getapaw".

    • @Eric-xh9ee
      @Eric-xh9ee Місяць тому +3

      That's because it's not pronounced correctly

    • @andree9519
      @andree9519 Місяць тому +1

      For me it sometimes says "get a paw"

  • @musicLover-tj6ry
    @musicLover-tj6ry 10 місяців тому +12

    Lesson learned. Cannot watch your videos and put my son to bed at the same time 😂. Instead of sleeping, he laughed because I couldn't stop.

  • @giantWario
    @giantWario Рік тому +1220

    That's the problem with a language that has Germanic, French, Danish and even some Celtic influence. Every combination of letters in English can make three or four different sounds depending on which language that word comes from. Like you can laugh at us French but ''guetapens'' actually is spelled exactly how it's pronounced as far as we're concerned.

    • @xdeathcon
      @xdeathcon Рік тому +93

      I think at the national level, language origin is probably the most useful thing you can ask because of this. I was only good enough to get to regionals once, and even there, they ask you these ridiculous words you wouldn't possibly be able to just know unless you have a photographic memory.

    • @TheLobsterCopter5000
      @TheLobsterCopter5000 Рік тому +20

      Explain Mille Feuille then? Why does ille sometimes make an ill sound and sometimes an ee sound?

    • @docomega7862
      @docomega7862 Рік тому +50

      ​@@TheLobsterCopter5000as a french myself, the best way you can look at it is that french pronounciation is lazy. When several voyels follow each other, we fuse them into a into sound instead of pronouncing each one

    • @giantWario
      @giantWario Рік тому +40

      @@TheLobsterCopter5000 It's not about the ill, it's about the eu before it. Eu in French makes an ø sound but eui makes an œ sound. Yes I know it's weird but it is actually consistent.

    • @onedova2298
      @onedova2298 Рік тому +7

      ​@@giantWariowhat does ø and œ sound like

  • @jawz9455
    @jawz9455 Рік тому +30

    As a wise man once said "Igowallah!".

  • @guy4036
    @guy4036 Рік тому +11

    “Is the past tense got a paw” 😂

  • @TaurielTheElf
    @TaurielTheElf Рік тому +184

    And this is how I learn that spelling competitions are a thing that exists. Thanks, Zach!

    • @loafylovebit9964
      @loafylovebit9964 Рік тому +14

      …WHAT?! Theres only two ways you got this far in life without ever, EVER realizing this was a thing:
      -Number One, you had the most depressing childhood since you’ve never seen a cartoon in your life, cuz believe me a spelling bee was overly used as some dumb plot driver.
      -Number Two: Your clearly an alien and your home planet realized how stupid things like a spelling bee are and chose not to implement it into their society remotely.
      These are the only two possible explanations, any other reason is a blatant lie and will not be heard.

    • @TaurielTheElf
      @TaurielTheElf Рік тому +51

      @@loafylovebit9964 Or option 3: I'm from a country where words are spelled the way they sound and the cartoons I watched didn't involve American kids in school. Ice Age and Scooby Doo ain't got no spelling bees, son.

    • @methatis3013
      @methatis3013 Рік тому +40

      ​@@TaurielTheElfgive him a break. They don't learn other countries exist until they're 26

    • @someonerandom704
      @someonerandom704 Рік тому +7

      @@loafylovebit9964 Most other languages spell words how they are pronounced. They also change the spelling of loanwords to make them easy to pronounce. Spelling competitions are pretty rare outside of English-speaking countries. Imagine trying to do a spelling bee in Spanish, for example.

    • @axiezimmah
      @axiezimmah Рік тому +4

      Probably only in English because every other language is usually quite consistent in the spelling so it would be boring to watch

  • @Fokkas
    @Fokkas Рік тому +9

    I was waiting for "That is correct" after asking if they burned the witch

  • @reverseflashplays8615
    @reverseflashplays8615 Рік тому +11

    Him giving up and just saying the alphabet was too jokes

  • @CaptainDogFood
    @CaptainDogFood Рік тому +51

    "Can you spell it?"
    "No."
    "Exactly. Cuz it's not a word."
    Made me laugh.

  • @zan1971
    @zan1971 Рік тому +31

    The most accurate explanation of the spelling bee to any person ever lol

  • @brawlingjosh112
    @brawlingjosh112 2 місяці тому +3

    Its like forecastle being
    foe-cstl

  • @nevnoble7966
    @nevnoble7966 8 місяців тому +8

    “What he said”
    “That is correct”
    🤴🏻”first try”

  • @notsevens1
    @notsevens1 Рік тому +58

    im convinced zach star is a funny person (dude i love your skits soooooo much)

  • @purplenickname
    @purplenickname 11 місяців тому +4

    The one and only guy who unironically used that word once in his lifetime about 500 years ago is gonna be so happy now.

  • @Terminarch
    @Terminarch Рік тому +5

    No kidding. I did a spelling bee in middle school. The little girl before me got "schoolbus" or some shit. I got fucking PTERODACTYL!

  • @oilycheese4805
    @oilycheese4805 Рік тому +17

    this was truly a guetapens

  • @its_not_nate
    @its_not_nate Рік тому +15

    "And that's why nobody likes the fucking French" killed me 🤣🤣🤣

    • @luar_RVM
      @luar_RVM 10 місяців тому +1

      Rest in peace dude 🙏

  • @robbymounce5764
    @robbymounce5764 Рік тому +16

    “WhAt He SaId”
    “That’s CORRECT!”
    lol! 🤣

  • @metriacantho
    @metriacantho Рік тому +5

    i love how he asked what the past tense is even though it's a noun💀

  • @panda4247
    @panda4247 11 місяців тому +4

    apparently, it's
    An alteration of Middle French d'agais apensés, corresponding to aguet (“ambush”) + past participle of apenser (“conceive of”).

  • @rat.cheese
    @rat.cheese Рік тому +9

    ngl, love how everything just ends with being shot

  • @hkayakh
    @hkayakh Рік тому +5

    0:20 he’s not wrong. He said “U e” so he’s right

  • @icommitdie8756
    @icommitdie8756 Рік тому +3

    “what he said” is such a power move

  • @dbro1205
    @dbro1205 Рік тому +57

    3:00 was so funny, best moment in the video

  • @punchboxnet
    @punchboxnet Рік тому +3

    As a spelling bee champion from NYS this is painfully accurate for most people that get lucky in their spelling bees lmao

  • @CrispyParrot
    @CrispyParrot Рік тому +22

    Couldn't help but audibly laugh in the bathroom stall at work 😂

  • @bedro_0
    @bedro_0 10 місяців тому +2

    When you invest all your skill points in speech and none in bullet resistance

  • @2MeterLP
    @2MeterLP 11 місяців тому +1

    The worst part is that "get a paw" would make perfect sense for a trap/snare.

  • @Zxy_227
    @Zxy_227 4 місяці тому +1

    Of course he didn’t get it first try, bro didn’t use the Magic Foot technique

  • @chrisjackson1889
    @chrisjackson1889 Рік тому +10

    0:03 When I look at the world today

  • @abalakrishnan4152
    @abalakrishnan4152 Рік тому +45

    As someone who competed as finalist, this is too accurate! English is such a stupid language that I am part of a non-profit where you DONATE FOR ME TO TEACH SPELLING BEE COMPETITION STRATEGIES!!! However, studying for the spelling bee gave me more than just knowing how to spell. As a current high schooler, I now have a really strong work ethic and decisionmaking skills all thanks to the hours of spelling bee prep I did in middle school. Btw the donations go to ppl who cannot afford a college education, and the foundation is called NorthSouth Foundation if you wanna donate.

    • @jazzy4830
      @jazzy4830 Рік тому +5

      You could have learnt those skills by obsessing over something productive or useful instead. It also sickens me to learn that people would give to this charity when there are people starving on the streets and dying of cancer.

    • @abalakrishnan4152
      @abalakrishnan4152 Рік тому +15

      @@jazzy4830 It sickens you that more people from the slums of India (same ppl on the streets and dying of cancer) will get out of poverty, get a college education, and give back to the slums they came from?.You sicken me!

    • @jazzy4830
      @jazzy4830 Рік тому +1

      @@abalakrishnan4152 It would be more useful to teach them almost anything other than how to spell obscure and almost unused words which so few people know that using them will actually degrade the effectiveness of their communications.

  • @NastassiaEvans
    @NastassiaEvans Рік тому +64

    I won 2nd place in the spelling bee when I was in grade school. I misspelled banjo😂 After spelling all of these long complicated words I’d never heard of, I misspelled banjo with a g. As soon as g came out of my mouth, my mouth flung open in horror. Such is life😂

    • @horushyperion76
      @horushyperion76 Рік тому +3

      *banjo strumming*

    • @alexforce9
      @alexforce9 Рік тому +13

      I think your brain was in "hard words" mode so when it come to an easy one you relaxed for a bit and that was the moment of your brain fart lol.

    • @DageLV
      @DageLV Рік тому +1

      i just find these things weird. itd be so easy on our language. Did you guys have... dictates? Teacher reads a book chapter in front of the class and whole class has to write it as fast as they can as accurately they can, spotting the commas, the dots, new lines and so on, for about 40 mins straight, by just listening to how it sounds? Here everyone does them at school, no exceptions unless you're deaf probably. Then you get graded from 1-10 on how well you did.

    • @benmaiorella6296
      @benmaiorella6296 Рік тому +2

      I DID THE SAME THING AT MY SPELLING BEE but for me the word was "Lumberjack". but same deal of saying g instead of j

    • @amyhouck7247
      @amyhouck7247 Рік тому +1

      I got out on banana. I was secretly relieved.

  • @HeKenMars4Ever
    @HeKenMars4Ever Рік тому +6

    This is literally how it goes. Like the judge is so focused on this one person and making them spell the word and all the other people are there listening and when this dude gets ONE letter off, the other kids are like OOH OK and go off of what the first dude said, change a letter and boom, they win or they lose and then the next student takes a try. BUT little do they know that the kid at the very end, who is also a middle child so he/she NEVER is noticed, is googling these words as they are. handed out and when everyone else is out for some dumb word like guetapens (idk if i spelled it right) this dude has the answer RIGHT there cause he took advantage of the situation

  • @pewnit
    @pewnit Рік тому +1

    I love how it links back to the latest video

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen Рік тому +7

    Spelling bees would be so easy in the Netherlands. All native Dutch words are pronounced exactly as they are written.

    • @stratonikisporcia8630
      @stratonikisporcia8630 Рік тому +3

      True for all languages that are not French or English ngl

    • @gamerx3071
      @gamerx3071 Рік тому

      @@stratonikisporcia8630 Eastern languages: *laughs manically*
      (But seriously Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic are dumb AF)

  • @jatexgamerzvlogs1721
    @jatexgamerzvlogs1721 Рік тому +6

    He might legitimately be my spirit animal

  • @TheAlison1456
    @TheAlison1456 Рік тому +1

    3:17 "oh, in that case i'm gonna go kill myself" 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

  • @Goyam0_0
    @Goyam0_0 11 місяців тому +3

    G - obvious
    U - aeiou
    E - abcde
    T - obvious
    A - obvious
    P - Obvious
    E - abcde
    N - abcdefghijklmn
    S - Homicide

  • @lozzar1069
    @lozzar1069 Рік тому +2

    The english dictionary is basically 10 different people who got jealous of the first guy who coined a word so they just mashed some letters together and made up some stupid convoluted rules in its pronunciation and forced everyone to follow those rules

  • @mediaaccount8390
    @mediaaccount8390 11 місяців тому +2

    I guess that little guy fell for the getapaw, and it was all over.

  • @urrandomrandom9022
    @urrandomrandom9022 Рік тому +1

    It s impressive how the ending song has some attack on titan sounds in it and the last guy s name in the list is Jaegar.

  • @LaminPlays
    @LaminPlays 10 місяців тому +2

    HE THOUGHT
    GET A PAW

  • @yasininn76
    @yasininn76 Рік тому +6

    I wanna see the spelling Bee with either
    A a Scottish man with a HEAVY accent as the one who says the words to spell or
    B French

  • @Doomzdeh
    @Doomzdeh 7 місяців тому +1

    Reminds me of when I was asked to spell “Wednesday” when I was 7. How was I supposed to know that it’s spelled in such a different way than it’s pronounced? I almost rioted on that one

  • @Zombie-lx3sh
    @Zombie-lx3sh Рік тому +1

    As a native French speaker, it's a well known word but English butchered both the spelling and the pronunciation.

  • @blunttraumaairsoft1
    @blunttraumaairsoft1 Рік тому +3

    Your comedic timing has improved, great work as always

  • @9024tobi
    @9024tobi 11 місяців тому +1

    The 'pens' part would kill me i think, gueta is the same as the musician so that's kinda doable if u know him xd😅

  • @heybro345
    @heybro345 8 місяців тому +2

    1:50 this is a serious warning 😂

  • @timbuktu8069
    @timbuktu8069 Рік тому +79

    I hope I'm not the only one who googled this:
    Guetapens, a word that's almost never used, means "ambush" or "trap." It comes from the French word that means "to lie in wait for." It's pronounced as it would be in French, get-uh-PAHN.

    • @OmniscientWarrior
      @OmniscientWarrior Рік тому +4

      With a feint n sound.

    • @duckymomo7935
      @duckymomo7935 Рік тому +1

      Spelling be words are never used or extremely rare
      Like Smaragdine which just means yellow emerald colored

    • @Mythmasyer4728
      @Mythmasyer4728 Рік тому +1

      @@duckymomo7935 htf is that a word?

    • @narthex1681
      @narthex1681 Рік тому +3

      That's not how you pronounce it in French

    • @globalincident694
      @globalincident694 Рік тому

      also it is more commonly spelt guet-apens

  • @jerryokazaki8626
    @jerryokazaki8626 Рік тому +2

    When God doesn't help you win the spelling bee

  • @orangescalefishy1258
    @orangescalefishy1258 Рік тому +1

    I was not expecting that

  • @JosaxJaz
    @JosaxJaz Рік тому +6

    Haven't laughed at one of your vida this hard in a while

  • @infinitely_intuitive
    @infinitely_intuitive 2 місяці тому

    As a speller who competed in the national bee for three consecutive years, I can confirm this is accurate.

  • @estelian5959
    @estelian5959 Рік тому +7

    Fun fact : in the original french word, it's actually guet-apens, with a dash in the middle. So that was the easy mode we saw here.
    Also, what in the world did you english-speaking people do to this word for the pronunciation to end up like this?

    • @demonic_myst4503
      @demonic_myst4503 Рік тому +1

      The english who spoke french were rich nobles from normandy a people who while spoke french were priginaly vickings

  • @jasoncollins5504
    @jasoncollins5504 Рік тому +3

    There was a reason I never got in spelling bee, Now as far as I know there never were any spelling bee's in my schools, But if there were I know I would have thrown that microphone at the judge in anger, I had severe anger issues. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Zeta235-U
    @Zeta235-U 2 місяці тому +2

    2:24 "Correct" LMAOOO

  • @darktigersharkmax4432
    @darktigersharkmax4432 Рік тому +1

    "If the next letter isn't t, someone has to die" lol

  • @lowonskillz1605
    @lowonskillz1605 Рік тому +3

    It's funny how they use french words in the national spell bee of america

    • @OmniscientWarrior
      @OmniscientWarrior Рік тому

      We have a lot of French words. We actually have a bunch of of words that will mess people up or the stupid people will be offended by (sadly some of those words are mispronounced by the people giving the words), like cwm, Niger, nigah, moot, maude, slav, slaven, and slavin, to name a few.

  • @FaeTheMf
    @FaeTheMf Рік тому +1

    Damn that’s ending was really like America during the Industrial Revolution

  • @RickydickyG
    @RickydickyG 11 місяців тому +1

    Thought it would be shit but it was hilarious

  • @grumpylibrarian
    @grumpylibrarian Рік тому +5

    I gave this video a like for nailing it on the first try.

  • @ricardokojin7
    @ricardokojin7 9 місяців тому +2

    A yes, the famous street dogs gang... ghetto paws.

  • @chutspyro8087
    @chutspyro8087 4 місяці тому +1

    as a french person myself i would have gotten this one wrong...

  • @shiny_lock
    @shiny_lock Рік тому +1

    If all else fails, just recite the alphabet. Works like a charm.

  • @jigglypuffdude
    @jigglypuffdude 7 місяців тому

    Came back to this video, suddenly had the urge to search up the 2012 spelling bee, and found out that he was in fact being serious when he said a 14 year old spelled Guetapens to win the championship

  • @raven06010
    @raven06010 Рік тому

    I love how when zach's playing the little kid he has to look at the spelling irl because even zach couldn't memorize the spelling

  • @kyle-homa
    @kyle-homa Рік тому +1

    More like Zach Starring Himself

  • @wingnightbackwards
    @wingnightbackwards Рік тому +1

    I tried to predict what would be said after he gave the word and I was off I was thinking "guetapans, W-T-F, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"

  • @Odyssey1337x
    @Odyssey1337x 2 місяці тому

    As someone who won my public school spelling bee, and then won my regional bee from ONLY kids from public schools I can 100% relate. For those wondering I made it to round 3 and misspelled the word “rayonnant”.

  • @dragonbornofnerevar1661
    @dragonbornofnerevar1661 2 місяці тому +1

    3:40 Hail to the King, Baby - Ash Williams

  • @vulpinitemplar5036
    @vulpinitemplar5036 3 місяці тому

    Missed opportunity to have the sentance be entirely in french.

  • @Ckema
    @Ckema 10 місяців тому +1

    Even as a French speaker, I knew the word but had no idea it was spelled this way 🤣

  • @tbone9474
    @tbone9474 Рік тому +1

    Well technically he did pronounce it wrong

  • @zerodawn09
    @zerodawn09 Рік тому

    "did you burn the witch afterwords" epic line.