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  • Опубліковано 11 сер 2014
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    SOURCES AND MORE BELOW!
    Jake from Vsauce3 and I on his show, "Talk-o Time": • Hairy Feet with Michae...
    Old Vsauce video on Déjà vu: • What is Déjà vu?
    Dord: www.merriam-webster.com/video/...
    collateral adjectives: www.wordnik.com/lists/b-colla...
    amazing collection of English word facts: www.questrel.com/records.html
    How many words rhyme? languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/...
    ThinkFact on rhymes [VIDEO]: • Breaking The Rhyming Myth
    gramograms:
    www.highlightpress.com.au/list...
    www.wordnik.com/lists/gramogr...
    phantonyms: www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/mag...
    hangman analysis (best words to fool people): blog.wolfram.com/2010/08/13/25...
    police:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_...
    Esquivalience:
    www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
    boingboing.net/2011/08/02/esqu...
    Trivial Pursuit story:
    www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/fi...
    a good article on Columbo’s actual name: frankcolumboswristwatch.tumblr...
    "The Pun Also Rises" book: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Also-Rise...
    The Oatmeal and irony: theoatmeal.com/comics/irony
    Digg and irony: digg.com/2014/irony-illustrated
    “Ironic” music video: • Video
    "Ironic" rewritten to be actually situationally ironic: www.collegehumor.com/post/2291...
    some other Alanis/irony perspectives:
    www.salon.com/2014/05/08/what_...
    www.copyblogger.com/did-alanis...
    Dog DNA study: mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content...
    Why do we say “um”?: mentalfloss.com/article/50173/...
    why do we all say “huh”?: www.smithsonianmag.com/science...
    Cool words English doesn’t have: www.openculture.com/2014/07/ts...
    Weird Words: people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/f...
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 24 тис.

  • @TheAshlovesu
    @TheAshlovesu 4 роки тому +22887

    UA-cam: use key words to reach a broader audience
    Vsauce: _Dord._

  • @vid4954
    @vid4954 7 років тому +2757

    " the first pun was literally 'corny' "
    MICHAEL I SWEAR TO GOD

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 7 років тому +92

      I know, right?! He made a pun about the first pun.

    • @rezox
      @rezox 7 років тому +35

      but the epic of gilgamesh was written by the sumerians.
      maize or corn wasn't introduced to the old world until the discovery of the americas.
      how could they have a word for corn when they didn't even know it

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 7 років тому +16

      rezox Damn, you're right. Now I'm curious too. Maybe it was a plant similar to corn and they simplified it when translating? Someone should answer this, please.

    • @bigredjanie
      @bigredjanie 7 років тому +57

      John Carvalho Here's your answer: It's fake and you found the holes in it. Michael put a deliberate fake fact in the video as a nod to the practise of putting fake facts or words in something as a way to trap copiers he mentioned in the video.

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 7 років тому +17

      Harryhenry Then it's even better than I expected.

  • @dragondg6412
    @dragondg6412 Рік тому +1211

    vsause:ill make a video on the word dord
    10 minutes later:i know who let the dogs out

  • @dwaynebow
    @dwaynebow Рік тому +191

    6:33
    it took me YEARS to realize that the definition was a direct callout to the dictionaries stealing their words 😭

    • @mud6760
      @mud6760 Рік тому +3

      I looking for someone else who noticed this.

    • @mohammedalmogalli3298
      @mohammedalmogalli3298 11 місяців тому +1

      Please explain more my brain can’t comprehend this

    • @ttyt4078
      @ttyt4078 11 місяців тому +6

      @@mohammedalmogalli3298 the definition basically means "not following the law pueposefully"

  • @peterwhiteley2729
    @peterwhiteley2729 3 роки тому +9562

    Ah, D or D, my favourite tabletop role playing game, Dungeons or Dragons.

  • @_fangs
    @_fangs 4 роки тому +4165

    Vsauce in 2014: Weird English things
    Vsauce in 2020: *eats donut from toilet*

    • @Fummy007
      @Fummy007 4 роки тому +121

      What the fuck happened lol.

    • @Shinransa
      @Shinransa 4 роки тому +185

      correction: *eats soggy wet toilet water donut from toilet*

    • @Damienn1776
      @Damienn1776 4 роки тому +107

      @@Shinransa we did not need that correction........god its so much worse

    • @overmountain
      @overmountain 4 роки тому +17

      Ah. Yes. Of course. Makes sense to me.

    • @organicno2351
      @organicno2351 4 роки тому +15

      @@Shinransa i feel like maybe it was a cup placed in the toilet

  • @ahuman32478
    @ahuman32478 Рік тому +236

    At 5:30 Michael shows a list of words which says that "v" is silent in "fivepence". But, in his latest short "Which Letter Is Never Silent", he says that "v" is never silent

    • @joyjam3375
      @joyjam3375 Рік тому +21

      YO THANK YOU I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG BUT I COULDN'T REMEMBER WHAT

    • @sikdarshams
      @sikdarshams Рік тому +11

      oh the irne

    • @zubetp
      @zubetp 10 місяців тому +15

      and isn't it ironic

    • @johnnyboi4694
      @johnnyboi4694 10 місяців тому +14

      At 5:24 pterodactyl is spelt wrong 😂

    • @Syndiate__
      @Syndiate__ 10 місяців тому +1

      @@johnnyboi4694 How did I not notice that...

  • @TheFox83333
    @TheFox83333 9 місяців тому +64

    It went from why the word Dord was accidentally introduced into the English language, to who actually let the dogs out.

  • @samblackett
    @samblackett 3 роки тому +7345

    This man has every rhyme in the English language at his disposal and he chooses tickle and pickle for his example

    • @smellthel
      @smellthel 2 роки тому +785

      dont question god

    • @bunju8990
      @bunju8990 2 роки тому +15

      @@trickyegg7043 it isn't

    • @haza6893
      @haza6893 2 роки тому +15

      @@trickyegg7043 not at all lmaoo

    • @diamondsinsight
      @diamondsinsight 2 роки тому +38

      @@haza6893 what did TrickyEgg say?

    • @haza6893
      @haza6893 2 роки тому +61

      @@diamondsinsight I completely forgot and now it’s bugging me 😂 i think it was just something ignorant and annoying

  • @48exa
    @48exa 4 роки тому +2573

    "The song Ironic has lyrics that are actually not situated irony"
    heh
    Ironic

    • @anupamajain8393
      @anupamajain8393 4 роки тому +17

      Woah...

    • @Ziegenhainy
      @Ziegenhainy 4 роки тому +73

      OH NO YOU CREATED A LOGICAL PARADOX OH NO ITS A BLACK HOLEA

    • @stoneminer4464
      @stoneminer4464 4 роки тому +66

      He saved others from death. He could not save himself.

    • @highguardian13
      @highguardian13 4 роки тому

      Lmao 🤣!!!! Ikr. Soooo ironic

    • @paniixa3890
      @paniixa3890 4 роки тому +1

      @@stoneminer4464 who?

  • @CaddebostanRdr
    @CaddebostanRdr 6 місяців тому +18

    Michael is the only guy that can get away with naming an educational video "dord." Lmao

  • @coldblooded5908
    @coldblooded5908 Рік тому +25

    when he said "fatherly" i though his next world would've been "and fatherless"

  • @gamingmaster_0472
    @gamingmaster_0472 3 роки тому +1797

    How did we go from “Dord was a mistake word” to “The Chinese let the dogs out”

  • @cornifer5261
    @cornifer5261 2 роки тому +2382

    RIP Dord
    1934 - 1947
    A dense word from a dense scientist

    • @vez3834
      @vez3834 Рік тому +106

      It's not the scientist's fault :(

    • @Worthy_Edge
      @Worthy_Edge Рік тому +94

      The dense ones are the dictionary editors

    • @leanna5733
      @leanna5733 Рік тому +22

      ​@@vez3834 this reply actually made me feel bad

    • @TheAnimatingSphereInSpace
      @TheAnimatingSphereInSpace Рік тому +5

      RIP Dord. _Dord._ -Dord.- D -or- _d._

    • @vinodnaik06
      @vinodnaik06 Рік тому +1

      Can I get a map

  • @Robinson_Entertainment
    @Robinson_Entertainment Рік тому +21

    “Comment rhymes with nothing” no it doesn’t Michael, stop lying to me

  • @michaelg1915
    @michaelg1915 Рік тому +37

    This is about the fourth or fifth time I've watched this video. I can never not watch a Vsauce video, they're just too good to not love.

  • @tibbletoons9785
    @tibbletoons9785 7 років тому +1464

    "mouth stuff is oral" Vsauce 2016

  • @randoiguess
    @randoiguess 3 роки тому +3828

    All the talk about irony reminded me of the time I won my elementary school's award for perfect attendance
    I wasn't there that day

    • @thechannelforyouandme9376
      @thechannelforyouandme9376 2 роки тому +106

      bruh

    • @steelmd
      @steelmd 2 роки тому +330

      I’m so confused by the part about irony that I have no idea whether your comment is actually ironic so I’m just gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and say: “Nice one”

    • @thechannelforyouandme9376
      @thechannelforyouandme9376 2 роки тому +11

      @@steelmd bbbbbbb

    • @ER3xW4ha7
      @ER3xW4ha7 2 роки тому +37

      Figures.

    • @kothen4994
      @kothen4994 2 роки тому +33

      That's kinda but not really situational irony, but that's still hilarious.

  • @mungelomwaangasikateyo376
    @mungelomwaangasikateyo376 Рік тому +8

    Lead: "Who let the dogs out..."
    Vsauce: "Ba ba ha man"

  • @joehollingsworth4502
    @joehollingsworth4502 6 місяців тому +6

    I always thought the fact the Ironic song not having situationally ironic events in it was on purpose and was meant to be the TRUE irony in the song.

  • @ShredHarmonic
    @ShredHarmonic 3 роки тому +1776

    Me: finds a video on language.
    Michael: "It was the Mesolithic southwestern Chinese who let the dogs out"

  • @stroberibuni
    @stroberibuni 4 роки тому +5578

    title: Dord.
    7 million people: interesting.

  • @sunnbeamz
    @sunnbeamz Рік тому +6

    actually, you can’t hear pterodactyls urinate because they’re dead

  • @BraveSoda
    @BraveSoda 7 місяців тому +14

    Petition to make the moon "Moonly"
    |
    V 1:24

    • @servantofaeie1569
      @servantofaeie1569 5 місяців тому +1

      The Anglish movement is on board with this.

  • @aditya007rockstar
    @aditya007rockstar 5 років тому +3281

    “Eminem wants to know your location”

  • @sayospecter6731
    @sayospecter6731 5 років тому +1220

    "Dord was an accidental word for thirteen years."
    ...
    (5 minutes later)
    ...
    "You can't hear a pterodactyl urinate because of its silent "P"."

    • @niriribururur7074
      @niriribururur7074 5 років тому +71

      That’s how vsauce works

    • @aidenr3310
      @aidenr3310 5 років тому +17

      @@niriribururur7074 *_ThaTs hOW mAFia WoRks_*

    • @aiden.117
      @aiden.117 4 роки тому +2

      Aiden R - Bold and alternating letters?

    • @theonebman7581
      @theonebman7581 4 роки тому +3

      @@niriribururur7074 *or is it?*

    • @daviduvaydov5498
      @daviduvaydov5498 4 роки тому +3

      Not all hero's wear cape 😆 lol

  • @joebidome425
    @joebidome425 6 місяців тому +4

    i call discord dord and so knowing it was technically a word warms my heart

  • @None-Trick_Pony
    @None-Trick_Pony 5 місяців тому +3

    Actually, while it's never been official, Columbo's badge did have a given name at some point - Frank. I don't remember when precisely as it's been a hot minute since I last watched it (incredible show, by the way), but I believe a screengrab can be found on Wikipedia.

  • @Name-fk8zk
    @Name-fk8zk 4 роки тому +1391

    “Nothing rhymes with nothing.”
    Yes. Yes it does.

    • @beatziegraham6928
      @beatziegraham6928 4 роки тому +26

      Clever.

    • @taylorlangley900
      @taylorlangley900 4 роки тому +50

      Nothing rhymes with something

    • @tibethatguy
      @tibethatguy 4 роки тому +32

      @@taylorlangley900 No, it doesn't.
      'Something''s rhyme is 'omething', while 'nothing''s rhyme is 'othing'.

    • @taylorlangley900
      @taylorlangley900 4 роки тому +14

      Tibe That Guy exactly... Othing is something though

    • @beagletobias8916
      @beagletobias8916 4 роки тому +8

      What about "frothing"?

  • @TaurielTheElf
    @TaurielTheElf 4 роки тому +1484

    Beginning of the video: dord is actually a typo for d or d
    End of the video: Dogs were domesticated in China
    That escalated quickly...

  • @Pogramista
    @Pogramista Рік тому +5

    i think that the song "ironic" is a brilliant example of situational irony since in the song where you except the irony there is none

  • @ron.mexico.
    @ron.mexico. Рік тому +5

    I can’t believe this is 8 years old. 2014 was fun.

  • @atomicfault3972
    @atomicfault3972 3 роки тому +2733

    “The word comment rhymes with nothing.”
    No it doesn’t.

    • @elgordobondiola
      @elgordobondiola 3 роки тому +108

      Comment torment atonement

    • @MrNateSPF
      @MrNateSPF 3 роки тому +153

      Nothing rhymes with everything.

    • @alfiealfie35
      @alfiealfie35 3 роки тому +135

      @@MrNateSPF both aren't perfect rhymes, because they aren't the exact same after the first syllable

    • @TrulySpeechless
      @TrulySpeechless 3 роки тому +65

      @@elgordobondiola They aren't perfect rhymes.

    • @elgordobondiola
      @elgordobondiola 3 роки тому +84

      @@TrulySpeechless nothing is truly perfect, except maybe Danny devito

  • @opNeptune
    @opNeptune 5 років тому +1487

    *Others : How The Oxford Dictionary Made Up A Word!!*
    *Vsauce : Dord*

  • @alf73
    @alf73 6 місяців тому +1

    I've watch this video once before and I'm sure I've watched it before that but for some reason it still feels new and entertaining watching Vsauce videos every few months, the videos are just that entertaining.

  • @impishlyit9780
    @impishlyit9780 10 місяців тому +6

    It's great looking back and remembering that Vsauce videos have *always* been an informational fever dream.

  • @jademonass2954
    @jademonass2954 4 роки тому +3157

    "dord was a fake word for 13 years"
    later
    "kukku is the sound corn makes when falling on the ground"

    • @hamaczech13
      @hamaczech13 4 роки тому +148

      Interesting, corn is in czech language "kukuřice".

    • @scarasluts
      @scarasluts 4 роки тому +78

      hamaczech13 ah yes, corn rice

    • @hamaczech13
      @hamaczech13 4 роки тому +79

      @@scarasluts R and Ř are pronounced very differently,so i never looked at the word like that. For the same reason I didn't get what do english speakers find so funny about the town of "Horní Police" ("the upper shelf" in english). :D

    • @scarasluts
      @scarasluts 4 роки тому +63

      hamaczech13 THERES A TOWN CALLED HORNÍ POLICE??? also that's interesting! i never knew

    • @hamaczech13
      @hamaczech13 4 роки тому +41

      @@scarasluts There is also an annual hike from the town Pičín to Řiťka, which translates from czech to english "Cunt town" to "Little ass"

  • @potatobob5781
    @potatobob5781 4 роки тому +586

    "so, what kind of job do you have?"
    "oh, I'm a police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police."
    "...ah."

    • @kidyomu89
      @kidyomu89 4 роки тому +8

      "ah... So uhm, what exactly does your job entail?"

    • @Somewhere50
      @Somewhere50 4 роки тому

      Why do you have this job?

    • @halzion
      @halzion 4 роки тому +11

      @@kidyomu89 "So in my job I police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police..."

    • @kidyomu89
      @kidyomu89 4 роки тому +5

      @@halzion “Oh, I see.”

    • @boredrb
      @boredrb 4 роки тому

      Kidyom. U police

  • @LendriMujina
    @LendriMujina Рік тому +5

    6:28 That particular instance could easily backfire even if copyright traps _were_ enforceable, for the simple fact that esquivalience is an actually-useful word describing a scenario that a lot of people relate to. Not some niche jargon that nobody outside of a very specific field would ever even think about using.

  • @TheCrazyAussie
    @TheCrazyAussie Рік тому +1

    I love how much of a roller coaster these videos are.

  • @etherraichu
    @etherraichu 9 років тому +174

    what makes orange a special word is that it was my first word. To this day my parents arent sure if I was talking about the fruit, or the color. This makes me happy.

    • @kapilbusawah7169
      @kapilbusawah7169 9 років тому +7

      ***** A rhyme so identical we don't even know it. Shit this rhymes and you didn't even catch it

    • @eugeneubwk3525
      @eugeneubwk3525 9 років тому +1

      etherraichu Not Really Ironic, But: VSauce thought he answered the question on the Baha Men's song. But he did not. The song, "Who Let the Dogs Out," references ugly women at a nightclub-not actual canines.

    • @Vitorruy1
      @Vitorruy1 9 років тому

      Eugene UBWK That`s so ironic... or is it?

    • @antdx316
      @antdx316 9 років тому

      etherraichu the Vsauce, no idea where he comes up with the kind of information he says
      it's so much and well-informed, descriptive, picturative

    • @andrijakovacevic3443
      @andrijakovacevic3443 8 років тому

      ***** in Serbia its the same case :)

  • @yeeet6129
    @yeeet6129 4 роки тому +891

    Vsauce: Is that ironic?
    Me: I guess, yeah
    Vsauce: No it isn't
    Me: oh

  • @MagicianStevey
    @MagicianStevey Рік тому +16

    Vsauce at 8:57: “so the oldest joke was corny”
    Vsauce at 9:06: “(explaining the meaning of irony)”

  • @sediment81
    @sediment81 Рік тому +7

    vsauce is the guy that explains the joke and makes it even funnier

  • @MrPerry435
    @MrPerry435 3 роки тому +989

    “You can’t hear a pterodactyl urinate because of its silent P”
    - Michael Stevens, 2014

    • @neillunavat
      @neillunavat 3 роки тому +14

      Why is this a comment? We heard what he said (。・ω・。)

    • @tenko4771
      @tenko4771 3 роки тому +4

      Maybe also because it is instinct

    • @everythingcoffee8901
      @everythingcoffee8901 3 роки тому +32

      @@neillunavat Often when people find a quote from a video particularly interesting for whatever reason, they will comment it. They aren't just saying that the quote was said, as that is information anyone who saw the video would know. They are saying that they found it important, insightful, funny, thought-provoking, etc.

    • @zdoh2548
      @zdoh2548 3 роки тому +1

      You forgot the ee

    • @Ano3110
      @Ano3110 3 роки тому +13

      Well the spelling of pterodactyl is wrong in the video...

  • @dorianmearns7407
    @dorianmearns7407 3 роки тому +625

    “What do you do?”
    “I’m a police police police police police police police”

    • @youraunt
      @youraunt 3 роки тому +7

      AAaa aaaAA AAAaaaaa AAAAaaaaa aaAaAAa aaa aaaa Aaaaaa.

    • @Foxy-ve1oh
      @Foxy-ve1oh 3 роки тому +2

      No one cares yeees!

    • @DaminRSW
      @DaminRSW 3 роки тому +12

      we can condense this simply, to pig!
      how efficient

    • @folbykleetwood7462
      @folbykleetwood7462 3 роки тому +4

      @@DaminRSW 😐

    • @Somewhere50
      @Somewhere50 3 роки тому +3

      @@DaminRSW huh?

  • @kaanggeng
    @kaanggeng 9 місяців тому +1

    A black hole is so much dord, even the light can't escape it.

  • @ImDuck42
    @ImDuck42 6 місяців тому +2

    Orange
    "sporange" (a rare type of fern) and "blorenge" (a hill in Wales)

  • @bloodrune329
    @bloodrune329 3 роки тому +758

    “Mouth stuff is oral”
    -Michael Stevens

    • @steinychickens9026
      @steinychickens9026 3 роки тому +26

      Ha, he said that and you quoted him. Brilliant.

    • @bloodrune329
      @bloodrune329 3 роки тому +52

      @@steinychickens9026 Ha, you replied to a 3 month old UA-cam comment that’s just a quote from the video.
      Brilliant.

    • @osku2290
      @osku2290 3 роки тому +11

      @@bloodrune329 Truly brilliant he deserves a nobel prize!

    • @pepperc.7975
      @pepperc.7975 3 роки тому +7

      @@osku2290 Brilliant!

    • @schevling
      @schevling 3 роки тому +4

      Brillo

  • @elongatedoval
    @elongatedoval 5 років тому +1838

    I have an ironic story...
    One time at my school someone was getting an award for 100% attendance but that day he wasn't in school

  • @michaelbrickieblock
    @michaelbrickieblock 9 місяців тому +3

    Vsause is the only channel that can go from dord to dog in 12 minutes.

  • @deeperssjsk
    @deeperssjsk 6 місяців тому +1

    Door hinge and orange have 2 syllables and end with "ge"
    For example "🎶Oragne door Hinge in the Room!🎶"

  • @3lhm4ch
    @3lhm4ch 2 роки тому +1309

    “You can’t hear a pterodactyl urinate because it’s silent p.”
    That made me laugh.

    • @achtsekundenfurz7876
      @achtsekundenfurz7876 2 роки тому +91

      3rd place: psychiatrist -- p is silent
      2nd place: rendezvous -- z and s are silent
      winner: eclipse -- all flat-earthers are silent

    • @requiem522
      @requiem522 2 роки тому +9

      @@achtsekundenfurz7876 10/10

    • @kuj2887
      @kuj2887 2 роки тому +31

      But how about a ptedoractyl?

    • @yinnakatomi509
      @yinnakatomi509 2 роки тому +9

      @@kuj2887 I was just thinking about if anybody commented about that

    • @kuj2887
      @kuj2887 2 роки тому +7

      @@yinnakatomi509 Statistically, there have to be a few of those who zero in on spelling errors, however small and to the average observer generally unnoticeable (and really immaterial). I'm like that. I'll notice the slightest mistake. It does help a lot in an editorial job. Shame I don't have one.

  • @gocacola8699
    @gocacola8699 3 роки тому +558

    1:03 thought he was gonna say “English loves collateral damage.”

  • @staceynainlab888
    @staceynainlab888 Рік тому +1

    "there's no such word as esquivalience, we made that up"
    "all words are made up, Dave"

  • @OneOfTheLoveless
    @OneOfTheLoveless Рік тому

    these videos are just one segue after another and I'm impressed.

  • @123Yellowberry123
    @123Yellowberry123 9 років тому +2194

    Shouldn't third be threeth?

    • @Alexaflohr
      @Alexaflohr 9 років тому +86

      That would make sense, but languages don't work that way. English decided to take a lot of suffixes from the vikings, but words used too often never got the change. This is why we have 'rabbitS', 'cowS', and 'oxEN', and why first, second, and third are all different, but everything after that ends with 'th'. English started out as one of those weird tribal languages with way too many rules, and has been fighting against the streamlining process ever since.

    • @123Yellowberry123
      @123Yellowberry123 9 років тому +7

      Alexander Abrams-Flohr Thanks! :D

    • @nps571
      @nps571 9 років тому +15

      i used to live in singapore and they called it thrice in the books and stuff

    • @ButzPunk
      @ButzPunk 9 років тому +18

      Though quite a few weird things in English have to do with Vikings, "third" probably isn't one of them.
      It comes from Old English _thridda_ (or _þridda_), which is roughly equivalent to "threeth", but along the way the _i_ and the _r_ got switched around (something linguists call "metathesis") making into "third". Interestingly (if you're the type to find historical linguistics interesting), the same thing happened with "bird", which was _bridd_ in Old English. (The same thing happened with "burn" and "burst" among other words.)
      Also interestingly (again, ymmv), these words are just part of a whole pattern of such metatheses which generally began in the Northumbrian dialect of Old English and worked their way south until they became part of the standard language. (So, it is possible that the metathesis was somehow related to Viking influences, taking us full circle...)

    • @masterbob46
      @masterbob46 9 років тому +3

      haha ironic

  • @pizzawonderer5024
    @pizzawonderer5024 3 роки тому +270

    "The moon is not moonly."
    -Michael Stevens

  • @HellOnWheel
    @HellOnWheel 6 місяців тому +1

    I'm sad that I'll never get to hear a pterodactyl urinate.

  • @barkspawn
    @barkspawn Рік тому +3

    Isn't it ironic that Alanis Morrissette's song Ironic doesn't contain any irony though? Which means it *does* contain irony, which means it's not ironic, which means... uh oh

    • @shaneharding7399
      @shaneharding7399 6 місяців тому

      Don't think too hard on it, it'll save you some sanity

  • @idbestshutup4424
    @idbestshutup4424 4 роки тому +354

    I can appreciate that you titled your video “Dord.” and still get six and a half mil views

    • @odochi7091
      @odochi7091 4 роки тому +3

      @@SaintAquinas1225 I thought we were the curious things

    • @proloycodes
      @proloycodes 2 роки тому

      9*

    • @homartorres6851
      @homartorres6851 Рік тому

      Almost 9 and a half now...

    • @plutoandpolaris
      @plutoandpolaris Рік тому +2

      He made a video on the concept of nothing that has no title, no tags and a white thumbnail and it still got millions of views. That’s the power of vsauce

  • @cannonfodderangry6517
    @cannonfodderangry6517 4 роки тому +264

    Michael: Irony
    Also Michael in the same video: Origin of dogs

    • @ME-fi1nj
      @ME-fi1nj 4 роки тому +3

      Mr.Pikachu and it all started with the Oxford dictionary accidentally inventing a word

  • @ahmadscientist6623
    @ahmadscientist6623 Рік тому +2

    “Orange doesn’t rhyme with anything “
    Courage : am I a joke to you?!

    • @circuit10
      @circuit10 Рік тому +1

      Those don't rhyme?

    • @ahmadscientist6623
      @ahmadscientist6623 Рік тому

      @@circuit10 ok , explain why?!

    • @circuit10
      @circuit10 Рік тому +1

      @@ahmadscientist6623 Orange ends with "ange" or "inge" but courage ends with "idge"
      Though like he said I guess it depends on pronunciation

    • @ahmadscientist6623
      @ahmadscientist6623 Рік тому

      @@circuit10 oh ok, so he was correct about that in a sort of way.

    • @timo4463
      @timo4463 Рік тому

      @@ahmadscientist6623 you can ryhm it in german diffrent pronouciation but in english it would sound terrible to twist it

  • @sparshgongale1943
    @sparshgongale1943 Рік тому +2

    I wanna hug this man. He is a good man.

  • @ARP2wefightforyou
    @ARP2wefightforyou 6 років тому +804

    "Mouth stuff is _oral"_ ~ Michael Stevens

    • @Levi-lr4vi
      @Levi-lr4vi 6 років тому +21

      stolen comment

    • @intea7778
      @intea7778 6 років тому +12

      sex

    • @lubostankosky736
      @lubostankosky736 6 років тому +4

      i like it

    • @eboone
      @eboone 6 років тому +3

      “Like tickle, and pickle“

    • @misteroof744
      @misteroof744 6 років тому

      Click Here To Win A Million Dollars!! Y u have to bring up sex?

  • @braydank13
    @braydank13 5 років тому +1359

    But I still don't know
    Why is a building called a building, when its already built?

  • @hesterclapp9717
    @hesterclapp9717 Рік тому +83

    "Every letter in the English alphabet is silent sometimes"
    Proceeds to show a load of French and Dutch words

    • @heyoyo10gaming4
      @heyoyo10gaming4 Рік тому +1

      You say that like the English stealing from other cultures is news

    • @paytontrueman8457
      @paytontrueman8457 Рік тому +2

      the alphabet is english, by 'english alphabet' he's talking bc about the actual characters :)

    • @immortalidiot5767
      @immortalidiot5767 Рік тому +3

      @@paytontrueman8457 Not really the english alphabet, more so the latin alphabet.

    • @paytontrueman8457
      @paytontrueman8457 Рік тому +1

      @@immortalidiot5767 yeah, that’s true

    • @canwegetashoutouttoworking2002
      @canwegetashoutouttoworking2002 Рік тому

      @@heyoyo10gaming4 Yeah, dipshit. Languages evolve and borrow words from each other.

  • @micahscott3895
    @micahscott3895 Рік тому +1

    Perfect rhymes can be 1 word with 2 words not in the case of orange and door hinge but something like sandwich and hand switch is a perfect rhyme

  • @fmujic89
    @fmujic89 6 років тому +553

    Is it ironic to die in the living room?

    • @fujianhehagedoorn9809
      @fujianhehagedoorn9809 6 років тому +8

      fmujic89 yes

    • @themythhunter8928
      @themythhunter8928 5 років тому +55

      yes
      Next day
      Account Terminated
      Our moderators have noticed that your behavior on ROBLOX is bad.
      Moderator Note: Don’t Swear On ROBLOX
      Abuse: Profanity
      Abusive Item:
      yes

    • @arik_dev
      @arik_dev 5 років тому +21

      Reminds me of Stanley Kubricks Dr. Strangleove, "Gentleman. You can't fight in here. This is the war room!"

    • @banishingwarden
      @banishingwarden 5 років тому

      fmujic89 I call it the den..

    • @kevnar
      @kevnar 5 років тому +10

      "What you doing in that room?"
      "I'm living, dude! You should stop dining and try it some time."
      -Demitri Martin

  • @anaya1524
    @anaya1524 5 років тому +1218

    Dord.

  • @TeamHusky
    @TeamHusky 4 місяці тому +1

    He knew what he was doing when he rhymed tickle with pickle 💀

  • @Albeit_Jordan
    @Albeit_Jordan Рік тому

    10:08 "a black fly in your Chardonnay that was poured in celebration of a successful fumigation of your recently purchased vineyard in southern France" is only actually situational irony if Chardonnay is known to attract flies, otherwise this is still just a bummer of a coincidence like Morrissette's original lyric.

  • @saintarkweather
    @saintarkweather 3 роки тому +603

    Chemistry class is like: "Water has a lower dord than stone"

    • @dankdisney7714
      @dankdisney7714 2 роки тому +5

      Physics*
      Gee, you're a bit dord yourself ain't you

    • @maucazalv903
      @maucazalv903 Рік тому +4

      That one kid: *vsausce music starts*

    • @rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven
      @rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven Рік тому +6

      I'm going to drop Dord in a casual conversation if I ever remember to do so.

    • @lampoilropebombs0640
      @lampoilropebombs0640 Рік тому +2

      Incorrect. Basalt with scoria has vesicles and can likely float on water.

    • @brrrrrr
      @brrrrrr Рік тому +1

      @@rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven did you rember or did you forgor

  • @rickb1973
    @rickb1973 4 роки тому +219

    I heard once: "She puts the "b" in subtle".

  • @galaxygaming1877
    @galaxygaming1877 Рік тому

    Dude, I straight up watched this and at the end realized I'd seen this one before. I was just so invested in what he was saying I didn't realize lol

  • @Offically_alive
    @Offically_alive 6 місяців тому +2

    3:44 what about “bluffing and nothing”

  • @thinkfact
    @thinkfact 9 років тому +2842

    Wow, it's a complete honor to be mentioned in this video!
    Thank you very much Michael! I think my life is now complete. Haha :)

    • @GibsonGamesChannel
      @GibsonGamesChannel 9 років тому +57

      Hello, UA-camr man.

    • @thinkfact
      @thinkfact 9 років тому +36

      Gibson Collett
      And hello to you!

    • @ReSubrose
      @ReSubrose 9 років тому +15

      DALE! I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU IN THE VIDEO! :DDDD Congrats man!

    • @thinkfact
      @thinkfact 9 років тому +77

      ReSubrose
      I started to get all these random comments on my video that is really old. I was like, "what's going on?"
      I noticed Vsauce also released a new video, so I was beginning to get extremely anxious all of a sudden.
      I clicked on it watched it to where I saw myself and I pretty much almost had a heart attack.
      But it's an extreme honor and privilege to actually have this happen!

    • @roneyandrade6287
      @roneyandrade6287 9 років тому +7

      it is cool too see you in Vsauce, Dale

  • @aidanthird
    @aidanthird 3 роки тому +280

    'nothing rhymes with nothing'
    me: of course they rhyme they are the same

  • @evanclemons8658
    @evanclemons8658 9 місяців тому +2

    How could they make puns about corn in the Epic of Gilgamesh if corn was a new world crop not known to the old world until the 16th century?

    • @xxxkueckxxx
      @xxxkueckxxx 8 місяців тому +1

      Exactly! Unless corn used to mean something else

  • @daanbos5918
    @daanbos5918 Рік тому +1

    Dord is a short nickname for the city I live in

  • @malikabraham3708
    @malikabraham3708 6 років тому +286

    Queue is just Q with 4 silent letters

  • @GarrettStelly
    @GarrettStelly 5 років тому +448

    Eat an orange,
    Travel to Blorenge.
    Hair is Silver,
    An elderly Chilver.

  • @john4501
    @john4501 Рік тому +2

    6:12 just want to point out that Harry Potter used this spell on Dumbledor when trying to revive him during their trip to the cave. Harry was panicking and this was the first thing he says as he pointed his wand at a dying Dumbledor.

  • @SoraZ2112
    @SoraZ2112 11 місяців тому +1

    So sad what happened to Dord.
    They were only 13 years old.

  • @EdElectra
    @EdElectra 3 роки тому +3636

    Fun fact: The word "short" is longer than the word "long".

  • @akhotaba7866
    @akhotaba7866 5 років тому +1607

    Eyelashes are supposed to prevent things from going into your eyes but whenever i have something in my eye its always an eyelash
    How EYEronic.

    • @zemoeagle593
      @zemoeagle593 5 років тому +22

      Im In love

    • @fitmedicos4238
      @fitmedicos4238 5 років тому +8

      Good one😂😂

    • @hardcorehammy7848
      @hardcorehammy7848 5 років тому +37

      i mean... i guess, but doesn’t that mean it’s doing its job?

    • @chrisj403
      @chrisj403 5 років тому +4

      Doesn't that mean they're doing their job?

    • @angelbear_og
      @angelbear_og 5 років тому +4

      I guess I'm done with the internet today. Nothing will top this comment. 😂😂😂

  • @jediwarrior1355
    @jediwarrior1355 Рік тому

    I find it amusing how off topic these videos can get yet we still leave here feeling like we learned about a specific topic when in reality we learned about 30 different things while 4 of which actually had to do with the topic of the video

  • @Golden_Official100
    @Golden_Official100 4 місяці тому

    D or d, truly a philosophical question.

  • @assman6054
    @assman6054 3 роки тому +532

    At the beginning Michael talks about a dictionary mistake.
    At the end: WE FOUND OUT WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!

    • @Hyperion4K
      @Hyperion4K 2 роки тому +24

      Finally we can find out what the dog was doing.

    • @spungbopscarepans
      @spungbopscarepans 2 роки тому +4

      @@Hyperion4K guys i know what the dog did! the dog did th-

    • @Hyperion4K
      @Hyperion4K 2 роки тому +4

      @@spungbopscarepans ...and he was never heard from again.

    • @itzpoizonn1177
      @itzpoizonn1177 2 роки тому +2

      @@Hyperion4K Ranch

  • @owenzinn4638
    @owenzinn4638 8 років тому +195

    Doesn't that mean that orange can rhyme with orange? The fruit and the color are different words, but still sound the same. Is there a term for this?

  • @tonydarko67
    @tonydarko67 5 місяців тому +2

    Anyone else notice how Michael says “situational”

  • @danielbarker5625
    @danielbarker5625 Рік тому +1

    vsauce: Dord.
    Me: I have no idea what you just said but I know I am in for a treat. Continue.

  • @Gamepro5
    @Gamepro5 5 років тому +158

    Orange the color rhymes with orange the fruit

  • @smitepeke7456
    @smitepeke7456 4 роки тому +257

    "You can't hear a pterodactyl urinate because of it's silent p"
    I wheezed

    • @an_annoying_cat
      @an_annoying_cat 4 роки тому +4

      Correction: ptedoractyl
      Also have you never heard that joke before? It was one that everyone knew when I was in elementary school

    • @smitepeke7456
      @smitepeke7456 4 роки тому

      An_Annoying_Cat i spelled it right wtf are you on about

    • @smitepeke7456
      @smitepeke7456 4 роки тому +1

      An_Annoying_Cat and no, I have not. I’m not a native English speaker so that joke wouldn’t make sense here

    • @an_annoying_cat
      @an_annoying_cat 4 роки тому +2

      It was a joke calling out that it was spelled wrong when he put it on screen.

    • @smitepeke7456
      @smitepeke7456 4 роки тому

      @@an_annoying_cat oh mb then

  • @palopatrol6010
    @palopatrol6010 Рік тому

    “First, what’s the deal with first?”
    is the most Vsauce sentence in existence

  • @vedantpatil1781
    @vedantpatil1781 8 місяців тому

    Bro just killed it in this video
    Imagine if in the end he said 'or is it'

  • @valdezmodesto
    @valdezmodesto 6 років тому +579

    3 years later, I still start every game of hangman off with the word "JAZZ". I have not lost a single game.

  • @santacruiser2214
    @santacruiser2214 6 років тому +205

    Start: Dictionary error.
    End: Types of irony.

  • @altuervo
    @altuervo 5 місяців тому +1

    smells also have both collateral and direct adjectives: smelly, but also pungent.
    Also, 5:25 , I love me some ptedoractyls, they're far greater than those lame pterodactyls.

    • @we-must-live
      @we-must-live 5 місяців тому

      doesn’t pungent mean a more general sense of something being strong - as in, a pungent mixture?

  • @lemonlemonlemonlemonlemonlemo
    @lemonlemonlemonlemonlemonlemo Рік тому +1

    “this song titled *Ironic* doesn’t have any situational irony in it” this is the ultimate form of comedy