Philomena Cunk's Intentional Mispronunciations

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  • @koconnor1963
    @koconnor1963 Рік тому +1000

    The world's first single use submarine... Quality

  • @JasonWindsor88
    @JasonWindsor88 Рік тому +941

    The amount of confidence she had in the “web wide world” at the end really made me giggle

  • @leonmayne797
    @leonmayne797 Рік тому +205

    'Beethoven was profoundly dead.'
    I mean she's not wrong.

  • @ZebraOnYourNose
    @ZebraOnYourNose Рік тому +610

    How do the people around her not burst out laughing?!

    • @milesjolly6173
      @milesjolly6173 Рік тому +40

      They take themselves too seriously

    • @loveline119
      @loveline119 Рік тому +58

      Because they're mostly professors and know that when people make a mistake, laughing isn't appropriate. They don't know she's joking.

    • @cath4411
      @cath4411 Рік тому +118

      @@loveline119 not even that. in an interview Diane Morgan had said the professors are told before hand they are going to be on a comedy show, but not what will be said to them. She said sometimes they have to redo takes if they burst out laughing :D

    • @junbh2
      @junbh2 Рік тому +23

      They probably do. It's not live so they can try multiple times.

    • @JaneAustenAteMyCat
      @JaneAustenAteMyCat Рік тому +28

      @@loveline119 Of course they know. Sometimes you can even see the restraint in their faces because they're trying so hard not to laugh 😆

  • @ilonaparaveman609
    @ilonaparaveman609 Рік тому +140

    my favorite will always be "king arthur came a lot"

    • @junbh2
      @junbh2 Рік тому +23

      I love the expressions on the faces of the people she interviews. Trying so hard not to react.

  • @kxmode
    @kxmode Рік тому +218

    1:54 "for bigger vessels led to the invention of the Titan 1C, the world's first single-use submarine" too soon.

  • @klaxoncow
    @klaxoncow Рік тому +862

    0:55 She's not actually entirely wrong with "al jebra". Well, sort of.
    "Algebra" derives from "Al Jabr".
    This was the shortened name of Al Khwarizmi's work "al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb *al-Jabr* wal-Muqābalah" (Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة) where he laid out how algebra works. Which means, in English: "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing".
    Bit of a mouthful, that, though. So folks just called it "al-Jabr" and then, over time, "al-Jabr" becomes "algebra".
    So, actually, mispronouncing it "al jebra" is amusingly closer and more accurate than "algebra", really. She's, like, mispronouncing it back to being closer to how it was always supposed to be said.
    The Islamic scholar who came up with it all - Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī - is usually just called "Al Khwarizmi".
    Now say "Al Khwarizmi" without the "i" at the end - "Al Khwarizm" - and then say "algorithm". Al Khwarizm, algorithm. Al Khwarizm, algorithm.
    Yup, the word "algorithm" is just a distorted version of his name. It's really eponymous - named after him - but, over time and with folks not being able to speak other languages getting stuff wrong, it distorted into "algorithm".
    So it was probably like "I'm going to do an Al Khwarizmi" or "what was that Al Khwarizmi you were doing yesterday?" - mathematicians just using Al Khwarizmi's name as a shorthand for "doing that thing that Al Khwarizmi did in his book, you know?".
    Until it's called "an Al Khwarizm" and that English-ifies to "algorithm".
    Indeed, if there's a word in science or maths that starts "al" - like alcohol, alkali, the star called "Algol", etc. - then there's a good chance that the Muslims came up with it. Because "al" is the definitive article in Arabic - it's their word for "the" (and "al" can also mean "of the" - same as in French, where "mal de mer" is literally "illness the sea" but it's understood as "illness (of) the sea" and is French for seasickness).
    Diane Morgan was possibly trying to comically mispronounce it for the shits and giggles, but actually ironically landed on saying it more historically accurately and closer to where it really came from.

    • @fireemblem2770
      @fireemblem2770 Рік тому +40

      The fact that all of this was thought out is amazing

    • @chronikhiles
      @chronikhiles Рік тому +40

      Beat me to it. Algebra does have an Arabic etymology, not necessarily an Islamic one though.

    • @Seabreeze843
      @Seabreeze843 Рік тому +40

      This is such a sexy comment

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow Рік тому

      @@Seabreeze843 You like that, eh?
      Hmm, could I tempt you with a big long comment about Newton and Leibniz fighting over who invented calculus?
      Ooh, sexy.
      Come back to mine and we can do a bit of Bayesian analysis, if you know what I mean. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

    • @Dhanuhammer
      @Dhanuhammer Рік тому +3

      Hmmm this info is in the NCERT Class 8 math textbook

  • @Gizmonips
    @Gizmonips Рік тому +216

    “The average Russian was a pheasant.” That tickled me.

    • @planetofthegapes
      @planetofthegapes Рік тому +12

      But he dreamt of being a man...

    • @guywhocomments
      @guywhocomments Рік тому +3

      I didn't think that joke was going to fly.

    • @grantmelville263
      @grantmelville263 Рік тому +1

      This was remarkably prescient, since the average Russian soldier these days is doing the equivalent of flying blindly into the front of a fast-approaching vehicle in the form of the Ukranian resistance....

  • @Wiffernubbin
    @Wiffernubbin Рік тому +113

    Learning that these experts keep coming back years later is awesome.

  • @YodaZemunski
    @YodaZemunski Рік тому +72

    The sheer, Godlike patience of these men and women. I can bet they needed more than a dozen takes to nail that seriousness between skits.

  • @rosehalo8795
    @rosehalo8795 Рік тому +28

    the funniest thing isn't her mispronunciations but the experts' reactions to them

  • @mikefraser4513
    @mikefraser4513 Рік тому +79

    Launching spunk into orbit was the one that killed me.

    • @x2y3a1j5
      @x2y3a1j5 Рік тому +2

      It hit you hard so??

    • @richy69ify
      @richy69ify Рік тому

      What were you doing in orbit and where are you now?

    • @mr.annoying6009
      @mr.annoying6009 Рік тому

      Until I read the novel Money by Martin Amis (RIP), I had no idea that spunk is Brit slang for cum.

  • @Caitness1
    @Caitness1 Рік тому +56

    "You're labouring under a misapprehension" 🤣 that's for sure - very funny lady

  • @hughmungus1767
    @hughmungus1767 Рік тому +67

    I *love* the writing in all the Philomena Cunk things I've seen. Kudos to all the writers and to Morgan for her perfect deadpan delivery of them!

  • @PabloFlores-hs4wu
    @PabloFlores-hs4wu Рік тому +107

    The Crus-Aid really got me

    • @JaneAustenAteMyCat
      @JaneAustenAteMyCat Рік тому +8

      That was really clever because that's literally what they *were* trying to do - impose Christianity on people (or their version of it)

    • @bigtex4058
      @bigtex4058 Рік тому +3

      All that good work bringing Crucifixes to people who did not appreciate them.😭

  • @rmarshall7744
    @rmarshall7744 Рік тому +97

    I love the ones where she just exaggerates her accent like Blair/Blur, because as a northerner yupppp 😂 what an icon she is

    • @Armistead_MacSkye
      @Armistead_MacSkye Рік тому

      She's not a Manc or Scouse, is she? A Brummie?

    • @rmarshall7744
      @rmarshall7744 Рік тому +2

      @@Armistead_MacSkye Bolton, Greater Manchester

    • @idromano
      @idromano Рік тому +3

      "Muuury gave birth on the ground, like a crack addict"

  • @JS-yj7ow
    @JS-yj7ow Рік тому +34

    “Rat-shit”! I just spit my beer through my nose on that one!

    • @Rosie6857
      @Rosie6857 Рік тому

      Yeah, not bad. But as an oldie (80) I have to mention that when a mate and I were doing a little mechanical job over 60 years ago we joked about rat-shit screwdrivers. Very useful little tool.

  • @paulm5443
    @paulm5443 Рік тому +66

    I like Ron's poems 😂

  • @manon8600
    @manon8600 Рік тому +30

    I especially love "Cccp" 😂😂

  • @leahrose-yt
    @leahrose-yt Рік тому +34

    her sense of humor is INSANE

    • @neilaspin008
      @neilaspin008 Рік тому +1

      She English.

    • @leahrose-yt
      @leahrose-yt Рік тому +3

      @@neilaspin008 more proof I need to visit England. I'm American but my humor is British

  • @keithgottschalk682
    @keithgottschalk682 Рік тому +12

    This is like Philomena's Great Test Hits. I love it!

  • @funkydozer
    @funkydozer Рік тому +15

    E = McTwo and the Russians launching spunk into space are just plain genie arse.

  • @AbbasIdris
    @AbbasIdris Рік тому +13

    The "Henry Model T Ford" one got me real hard 😂😂😂😂

  • @theonesillyboy
    @theonesillyboy Рік тому +10

    Titan1C and Arthur that came-a-lot are my favourites

  • @Muffeyo
    @Muffeyo Рік тому +4

    One of my favourite videos on the Web Wide World

  • @brassrat88
    @brassrat88 Рік тому +12

    I literally spewed when she tried to pronounce "CCCP".

  • @JukesSB
    @JukesSB Рік тому +16

    Didn't expect to see Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons through history.

    • @redd3711
      @redd3711 Рік тому +1

      I was looking for this.

  • @seangrogan8307
    @seangrogan8307 Рік тому +6

    The Soviet onion was a key ingredient of borshch

  • @micwitaspud
    @micwitaspud Рік тому +28

    Algebra was actually super accurate

  • @Agg1E91
    @Agg1E91 Рік тому +3

    Had me in tears. Simply beautiful. I need more.

  • @neilpemberton5523
    @neilpemberton5523 Рік тому +12

    My favourite is Christopher Colombo

  • @artigotale
    @artigotale Рік тому +18

    She is an artist!!! I love!!!

  • @Bertie_Ahern
    @Bertie_Ahern Рік тому +9

    Crus-aid. That was probably my favorite there lol.

  • @thefurbeastunderyourbed5012
    @thefurbeastunderyourbed5012 Рік тому +11

    "What's wrong with the sewer?"
    Some Egyptians may actually be wondering on a daily basis😂.

  • @lazylank
    @lazylank Рік тому +2

    "King Arthur Came-A-Lot" ...... the look on the Ass. Professor's face! XD

  • @IAmSnuffles
    @IAmSnuffles Рік тому +3

    The Titan-1C, the world's first single use submarine 😂

  • @snubbyy
    @snubbyy Рік тому +8

    joint effort between her and the experts so funny every time

  • @pouetpouetdaddy5
    @pouetpouetdaddy5 Рік тому +2

    the "came a lot" and the smirk of the professor got me everytime

  • @vedantthanki745
    @vedantthanki745 Рік тому +8

    "Will I am Shakespeare"

    • @faisalmemon285
      @faisalmemon285 Рік тому

      To be fair, this joke was done before in Futurama, and it was damn funny then.

  • @carmenl163
    @carmenl163 Рік тому +2

    The Titan I C, I'll never be able to see this any different now.

  • @MrCash-lm1xz
    @MrCash-lm1xz Рік тому +9

    I mean his name was actually Cristoforo Colombo so she's partially right on that one.

  • @alvinjoseph9315
    @alvinjoseph9315 Рік тому +13

    First single use submarine😂 RIP

  • @peterkaplar1660
    @peterkaplar1660 Рік тому +2

    I absolutely lost my shit at the drug called "luzd" XDXD :D This whole thing is a treasure trove.

  • @crampoos
    @crampoos Рік тому +1

    I died completely at Vladimir Ilich John Lennon ROFLOL....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Artemitenx
    @Artemitenx Рік тому +1

    I read the title as Inspirational... was not disappointed

  • @AlbertM170
    @AlbertM170 Рік тому +3

    I wonder if she gave them a disclaimer before the interviews "At some point in our conversation, you will want to kill me."

  • @mulgamutt
    @mulgamutt Рік тому

    Can't wait to see an outtakes vid. How they managed composure, even when in on the joke.

  • @OktoberStorm
    @OktoberStorm Рік тому +14

    How is she able to keep a straight face when I'm literally, actually spitting out my beer! I have to be careful about when I take a sip

  • @Torpedex10
    @Torpedex10 Рік тому +20

    "bears don't have arms" floored me

    • @JaneAustenAteMyCat
      @JaneAustenAteMyCat Рік тому +2

      I thought it was going to be 'the right to bare arms' and she was going to talk about wearing t-shirts

    • @Torpedex10
      @Torpedex10 Рік тому

      @@JaneAustenAteMyCat She subverted a subversion by choosing the one interpretation that makes the least sense

  • @OryxTheMadGod3
    @OryxTheMadGod3 Рік тому +1

    1:57 "...led to the invention of the Titan 1C the worlds first single use submarine" that one aged like milk

  • @alex11943
    @alex11943 Рік тому +8

    he was faskinated by nature

  • @rogue2shadow
    @rogue2shadow Рік тому +1

    I died when she said "Lizzed" (LSD).

  • @AdamOsmianski
    @AdamOsmianski Рік тому +3

    0:06 Priceless

  • @jambr055
    @jambr055 Рік тому

    Didn’t expect to see Johnathan Ferguson Keeper of Arms at the Royal Armoury here

  • @knittedrachael
    @knittedrachael Рік тому +2

    "the average russian was a pheasant, but he dreamt of being a man"

  • @TheTibetyak
    @TheTibetyak Рік тому

    This is so much more sophisticated, but it has a touch of Key & Peele's Substitute Teacher episode. Score for A-A-Ron!!!

  • @fizwizzle1989
    @fizwizzle1989 Рік тому +6

    I was fine until E equals mctwo.

  • @abemcg3803
    @abemcg3803 Рік тому +43

    "They have the right to bear arms?"
    "Yes"
    *"But bears don't have arms"*
    Girl 🤦‍♂️😭

  • @truth-12345.
    @truth-12345. Рік тому +3

    I was so surprised why those Historians have a very serious face with those interviews 😂

    • @cerebrummaximus3762
      @cerebrummaximus3762 Рік тому +2

      Possible Explainations:
      • It's somebody acting stupid. Perhaps they simply don't find it funny.
      • Many of them are Professors or teachers, or simply just mature. They know that if they are teaching somebody and the student is struggling, they shouldn't laugh at them.
      • If they knew it was a comedy show, they are most likely told not to laugh. If they did laugh, the show isn't live, so it was probably cut out or redone.

  • @Ricardordz11
    @Ricardordz11 Рік тому +1

    The rat shit one caught me off guard 🤣🤣🤣

  • @giovanni_salvatore8
    @giovanni_salvatore8 Рік тому +1

    I lost it at TITAN 1C😭😭😭

  • @Paul5520
    @Paul5520 Рік тому +10

    She is so funny. Fair play 😂

  • @princecharon
    @princecharon Рік тому +2

    Really, though, nearly any boat or ship can be a single use submarine. The hard part is keepin' 'em from doin' tha'.

  • @peter4210
    @peter4210 Рік тому +1

    technicaly, she pronounced bible properly. at least before the vowel shift where i stoped being a "e" and "e" became "e" instead of a eh

  • @salohcin2444
    @salohcin2444 Рік тому

    "that book The Bibble", Cat Valentine bursts in "DID SOMEBODY SAY BIBBLE!?" xD

  • @staggabob
    @staggabob Рік тому +2

    Brilliant camera work @1:19 😂

  • @FookFish
    @FookFish Рік тому +1

    yooooooooooooooooo james ferguson, the keeper of arms at the museum of royal armouries is herrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @kahlbutomacfarland
    @kahlbutomacfarland Рік тому +3

    “John F’n Kennedy”

  • @pereza55
    @pereza55 Рік тому +11

    jajajajajaja i almost die when she said "lsd"! jajajajajajaja

  • @bigmaguire9714
    @bigmaguire9714 Рік тому

    Rat Shit?, E=McTwo and CCCP were the ones that got me the most 💀

  • @bucharestbiketraffic
    @bucharestbiketraffic Рік тому

    Titan 1C, single use submarine. Ahahahahaha!

  • @adrenaverse
    @adrenaverse Рік тому

    'the titan 1C, the first single use submarine' 😂

  • @maxscott698
    @maxscott698 Рік тому

    My favourite was the "Titan 1-C"

  • @lazylank
    @lazylank Рік тому +1

    Oh man, I have to go to McDonald's and order a McTwo.

  • @waretaSL
    @waretaSL Рік тому +1

    A drug called lusshhdd killed me

  • @Naveen-qf1nx
    @Naveen-qf1nx Рік тому +1

    1:34 shes not entirely wrong as his name in Italian is literally "Cristoforo Colombo"

  • @gabrielastie9806
    @gabrielastie9806 Рік тому

    1:20 best shot of the fountain

  • @DavidBonnie
    @DavidBonnie Рік тому

    dumbing down but perhaps also pricking egos

  • @retrogamerdave362
    @retrogamerdave362 Рік тому +1

    She is my favorite

  • @jeffbosch1697
    @jeffbosch1697 Рік тому +2

    Jen Barber meets James Burke. 😂

  • @garrettbradford4791
    @garrettbradford4791 Рік тому

    1:34 Interestingly enough, Chrstopher Columbo was his birth name! Popular men of his era often changed their latin names ending in, "o" to an, "us" to be more evocative of the late Roman Empire.

  • @johannesschmitz6370
    @johannesschmitz6370 Рік тому

    When I make puns at work I get beat up

  • @hextearex2449
    @hextearex2449 Рік тому

    THE TITAN 1 C GOT ME LMAO

  • @Krystal_kevin
    @Krystal_kevin Рік тому

    Putting Jonathan Ferguson and philomena chunk in a room and there would be chaos with gun control 😅

  • @KayAteChef
    @KayAteChef Рік тому +3

    0:56 Not actually far from the facts. Islamic scholars pulled info from all adjacent sources and came up with algebra and methods they called algorithms. They made zero less weird too, using ṣifr to keep rows.

  • @leonardothefabulous3490
    @leonardothefabulous3490 Рік тому

    The best are the reactions-and replies of the people she's talking to. They are completely clueless that she's f-ing with them!

  • @henryt169
    @henryt169 Рік тому +1

    Suez Canal one creased me

  • @Ratigan2
    @Ratigan2 Рік тому

    And there was the minor strike. Why was it considered a minor?
    It was a strike by miners

  • @MusicJunky3
    @MusicJunky3 Рік тому

    Love you darlin' ,I don't care what they say !

  • @juks23
    @juks23 Рік тому

    MS-DOS KILLED MEEE

  • @SamuelBendix
    @SamuelBendix Рік тому +1

    Why is no one talking about rat shit. I can't stop laughingaaaaaaaaaaa

  • @logansymmes2193
    @logansymmes2193 Рік тому

    The Al-Jebra one had me dying.

  • @salwaaj1356
    @salwaaj1356 Рік тому +1

    How come her guests don't laugh at all at her questions

  • @shirlski
    @shirlski Рік тому

    Always gets me Love ❤️

  • @kam0eb
    @kam0eb Рік тому

    You forgot Tony Blur

  • @cheydinal5401
    @cheydinal5401 Рік тому

    The funny thing is that al-gebra actually is straight up an Arabic word, الجبر (al-jabr), it was invented by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 800s (0:55)

  • @happyzinny
    @happyzinny Рік тому

    E equals McTwo got me

  • @afrog2666
    @afrog2666 Рік тому

    The Bibble 😂

  • @toasterstrooder8628
    @toasterstrooder8628 Рік тому +2

    The next time someone gets on my case for a wonky pronunciation of mine, I’m going to retaliate by quoting this entire video.
    Wish me luck.

    • @Somnogenesis
      @Somnogenesis Рік тому

      I wish you all the lick in the world.

  • @DiscoCokkroach
    @DiscoCokkroach Рік тому

    Algebra actually is derived from the Arabic word "al-jabr". We don't call zero through nine Arabic numerals for nothing!