He wanted King George to be able to see it

And it’s a beautiful signature too. Fantastic penmanship.

All US Navy ships have their name on the stern (back of the ship). The USS John Hancock has a facsimile of his signature on the back of the ship! Google it. It is very unique.

See it without his glasses on.@@johnscheunemann5630

She should be embarrassed not to know that.

And there is the Super Senior taking 5 years for a 4 year degree. May have changed majors part way through, just didn't take enough credits, or had to retake some class

congress also

I'd say the distinction is much more important to high school kids, too. 2-3 years makes a lot more difference at that age.

I don't want to scroll down to see if anyone answered this so I'll just say it here. None of the terms get shortened except for freshman. It's often shortened to frosh.

Fun Fact: Sophmore is a modern derivation of the Greek "sophos" (meaning wise) and moros (meaing "foolish"). So, a sophmore is a 'wise fool', having some education but not a lot of experience.

Exactly, Sunday Night football is usually the time so monday morning is like way after.

Yeah, she fails to fully explain this.

My understanding is that it goes farther back than TV football broadcasts and refers to the Friday night high school game being discussed when everyone returns to work on Monday.

mikeg, that's what she said.... She was explaining the meaning, not necessarily the etymology.

@@neutrino78x I understand that, but in this case, the etymology is kind of the inextricably intertwined point of the definition. She doesn't seem to understand that most NFL games are played on Sunday, which is the reason that the word "Monday" is part of the phrase.

No The phrase is older than both World Wars

@@ZedrikVonKatmahl I believed it originated from rural Indiana at the turn of the 20th Century. Supposedly a neighbor asked how large was his garden and he responded I used the whole nine yards in front of his house.

no one knows, but most likely went back to the days of sailing ships, but I've also heard the world war 2 story the mast full sail , give it the whole nine yards🤷‍♂️

Supposedly it’s because bolts of cloth are nine yards long.

Bolts of cloth.

Correction: _"and also the American sent to INADEQUATELY explain them!"_

@@theflyingfisherman7829 … or the changing/misunderstanding of the phrases like: “Much to do about nothing” instead of, “Much ado about nothing”. Or…. “For all intensive purposes” instead of, “For all intents and purposes”.

That's what we were taught.

Right! Not the Constitution!

Not just in court but with ANY interaction with govt. Police, etc

Basically you can't be forced to testify or make statements against yourself. A very important American right.

@@LauranCHB Boom! 👍🏼 In court, on the side of the road talking with the police or whatever. If the government asks then you don’t have to answer.

But it's also used as slang how the original video explained it. I've used in that sense many times, with friends or family, but I've never had the reason to use it in its literal, legal sense.

@@NathanMN 👍🏼 Absolutely. Great point. Most of these words or phrases are metaphors or colloquial language. I was a police officer for 37 years and never heard anyone say anything about the Fifth Amendment (they simply said that they refused to talk) except as a joke and that was usually from coworkers. It’s like “for the birds” doesn’t actually mean to give something to the birds.

It might actually be as far as over yonder.

​@@CharlesGriswold you are correct. It's over yonder across the holler

I thought the opposite of "new york minute" would be "island time".

It's also a good song by Don Henley.

@@CharlesGriswold Just passed where the red barn used to be.

I enjoy "all y'all" for the plural

Y’all is plural. If it’s one person then it’s simply “you”, even in the south. 😃

@tvc1848 it does not follow a strict grammatical interpretation. So y'all are incorrect.

@@billchmelik5697 Y’all isn’t singular. Maybe in today’s narrow world where a person was to be addressed as “them” and “they”. 🤣🤣🤣

@tvc1848 now that's funny! Thanks for the laugh! But I heard it used as singular (and plural) for over 60 years, and yes, it is very possible that the contraction has slightly different uses depending on local use. 😉

exactly right, heat from above anyway.

Barbecue from the side !

@@pwbeagles my bad you can also broil with electric range/coils

With a gas stove you broil from below. The flames are above your pan of food in the broiling drawer at the bottom of the stove.

that's true it's under but it's still above the food@@nyrockchicxx

Comes from the fact that a majority of NFL games are played on Sunday, and on Monday mornings all the guys at work are discussing the game and how their team could have won if this or that had happened

@@Jmac1962 I agree!

@@Jmac1962 Ding! Ding! Ding! 😎

I was thinking the same thing. Not a very educated American when it comes to our history and culture.

@jmrocks49 You win the thread!! 😎

It seems like the sort of thing you'd want to look up before making a video on it.

She didn’t really know what Monday morning quarterback was either

Yup. Not a good choice to explain the American euphemisms.

So high heat only from the top of the oven

Wrong. It's where extra pots and pans are stored lol

Didn't know broiling was cooking from the top down.

@@Cubs-Fan.10 lol I saw what you did there. Wait, that's probably another phrase that would confuse a Brit.

It's more direct vs indirect cooking. Broil/grilling is direct. Oven is indirect.

We are asking the spirits that live in the wood to give us luck. It comes from the Druid religion.

@@joeboucher2430 Exactly, which makes it a mystifying thing to ask about as an Americanism. As part of the Celt's druidic religion, it is a pre-Anglosaxon British reference.

Yeah, one that would probably make you go blind.

I always knock my head. It's mostly wood up there 😁

@@joeboucher2430 I always understood it to be from the idea that evil spirits inhabit the woods and can be malicious. The idea is that you "knock on wood" to scare the spirits away so they don't bring you any bad luck.

My mom used to word that idea as knowing "just enough to be dangerous".

I did not know that. Thanks.

Sophomore = "Sophisticated" + "Moron". Someone who THINKS they know everything, but actually still doesn't know very much.

An 'opposite' twist. In Marines, I was being processed for schooling. I wanted to end up a Flight Engineer (FE), but no one could tell me what the 'feeder' MOS was (it turned out nearly all of them). I was slated to be a jet mech but let them re-assign me to ground radar--not realizing I had just closed the FE door. When I sat down, a LCpl asked me what we were discussing. I told him, wherebye he said: they make a lot of FEs from that. For over 25 years, I never ignored a LCpl's opinion. Basically, they knew their way around but were too junior to escape the consequences of a dumb or corrupted order/scoop.

yes, calling someone or something sophomoric means not very sophisticated.

This is not correct

he is mostly correct, it was in reference to a vicker machine gun attached to a ww1 fighter plane the 400 round belt was 9 yards and thats where the term originated. most people think its a football term @@ZedrikVonKatmahl

@@toughbastard It predates the World Wars and the actual origin is unknown

There is another take on this. Many cement trucks carry 8 to 10 cubic yards of cement but many trucks were filled to 9 yards. So if you were getting a delivery you would say give me the whole 9 yards.

@@john-dm1rx That's worse than the plane BS

um, you mean "quacks" like a duck - as they don't talk...

yep!

Sounds like the origin of "shitbird"

Much better answer. I was taught it meant scraps for the chickens and nothing for people to eat, which means worthless as well.

an earlier use was sailors throwing unwanted scraps of food to the birds that follow their ships... it did morph into a more dire meaning as the birds ate dead bodies and excrement in WWI & II... for instance if a soldier's body was left behind it was "for the birds"... but it is more commonly used to mean Unwanted or Useless.

I wonder if it is specifically related to pro football. College games are of course generally played on Saturdays. Monday would be the first day back at the office to discuss the weekend's games, so a Monday morning quarterback could be second-guessing either pro or college.

@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 No clue about what it specifically relates to, but I'm happy to believe it's basically any game played on the weekend. It could just be that Monday is important for being the day people go back to work, and end up at the water cooler to discuss the big game.

Monday morning, I'm back to work, catching up on what happened over the weekend, and the home team lost. Tom knows the quarterback should have run the ball, I know he should have handed it off, we all know he shouldn't have passed it on that last play!!!

Yes. So King George could see it without his spectacles!

Also used figuratively to dodge a question that would get you in trouble.

Actually the Fifth Amendment does mean that you don’t have to answer questions whether they infer guilt or not. A person is not required to determine if the answer may or may not admit a guilt. A person simply does not have to talk to the government which is usually the police.

@@JustMe-dc6ks You certainly hit the nail on the head. While the origin of the Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination is in the US Constitution on not speaking with the government, it most commonly used as somewhat of a humorous situation. A - Who were you with last night? B - I am taking the Fifth! 😂

Plead the fifth is what you say so you don't have to testify where you might/would incriminate yourself.

@@sherylpond2557 Yes but testifying sounds like court and offering testimony. The Fifth Amendment isn’t only for court but maybe that’s what you meant.

Or head.

Or, if there isn't any wood around, whatever is nearest...knock on formica, or glass. etc.

From what I've seen, the brits call that grilling. Our grilling is their BBQ.

@@Dragoncurse4perhaps yet another case where the same words mean slightly different things across the pond. :P For me, broiling means simply "cooked from above, with intense heat". Most often in my kitchen stove - turn the settings to bake and a lower heating element turns on; flip to broil and a top coil turns on. Commercial restaurant gear a bit more specialized but same idea - intense heat from above. If that's "grilling" to the UK, so be it... of course to a USAican, "grilling" means using some form of charcoal, wood, or gas "grill" - and we cook a variety of foods (mostly meat, but lots more can go on there too) relatively quickly. If we have a modified setup, designed to cook "low and slow", we'd generally say we were "smoking some meat" or "I've got the smoker going".

I don’t know what English call the burner elements on the top of an oven that get red hot and can be controlled by the knob (or keypad) to go on independently. Those are broiler elements to rapidly encrust things or ‘broil’ them. Can be steaks - can be meringue on a lemon pie. I didn’t think Brits call that ‘grilling’, but I must be wrong.

@@chouseification It’s not just across the pond. Many Americans refer to cooking over charcoal in the back yard as barbecuing and absolutely believe that is correct. Words can certainly have different meanings in common usage and to many people barbecuing is cooking over an open fire or charcoal. I understand the low and slow stick burners or now pellets grills but to many, that is just smoking as opposed to barbecuing.

@@tvc1848notice how I didn't even mention the word you keep suggesting I misspoke on. Nope. That's a whole discussion in and of itself, which I intentionally avoided. I don't want to get in the middle of some Texas vs Virginia sauce war or similar, so was talking about the primary techniques. Yes, there are many many variants :P Also, stay on target - the subject word at hand is "broil".

when i went to school 7 8 9 was considered junior high then high school started at 10th grade

I thought being snookered was being drunk?

I don’t think all regions that use y’all necessarily use all y’all. But yes, where we do it’s more expansive and inclusive. Where y’all might be the specific people I’m directly interacting with and all y’all a larger group y’all are a part of (friends, family, housemates, traveling companions …) who are not necessarily all present at the moment.

Heard it growing up in Texas. We use it everywhere in Alabama. First time I heard someone say you'uns in Arkansas, I was completely lost.

When I lived in upper Michigan we say “yous” (plural you). Haha

@@drivers99 And from what I recall the Mid Atlantic uses Yinz

@@tallondarkfeather9728 I used to think it was Noo Yawk thing, but I've since learned that, or variations of it, are pretty common across the northern part of the country, particularly east of the Mississippi. And it's not nearly as common in New York as it was when I was growing up in the 1960s.

In California we say "DUUUUUDES!"

Near Pittsburgh we say "Yinz"

It refers to the length of the combat load of ammunition in a WW 2 plane

@@driver488 I'll buy that. And since Mr. Google says my reference to concrete is "inconsistent with the phrase's history", let's go with yours.

​@@nelsonhemstreet3568Yes, it's a reference to the ammunition in a WWII fighter plane. When laid out, the ammunition (usually .50 cal, that is, half inch diameter bullets [not the cases]) is twenty-seven feet long, which is nine yards.

I don't see anything saying Hancock signed first, it just referenced how much his signature stood out from the others

@@erikawilliams9558 You may be right. It just may be part of the "lore" that he signed it first. But according to this webpage, he was the first, since he was the President of the Congress. bensguide.gpo.gov/j-signing-delaration#:~:text=As%20President%20of%20the%20Second,the%20center%20of%20the%20page.

All y'all jeet yet? my people.🦊

Y'all has it roots from the Scot Irish that immigrated to the South. Y'all is the shortened term for Ye All. You will here Y'all for 1 or 2 people quite frequently but when addressing a crowd you will most likely hear All Y'all. I have a very large family of 14 sisters and I swear my mother never used just Y'all. It was always All Y'all better simmer down or I am getting the paddle out. You know the paddle was out when she started on the names Tracy Lee, Cathy Ann, Mary Beth, etc....

@@janefrost4267I always knew I was in trouble when my mother used my full, proper name.

It's the south. It's not "y'all" it's straight up one word: yall. If you're going full southern. If you got a little yank in ya, then you add the apostrophe to be proper.

@@mstayloronline Or you add the apostrophe if you understand the history of the word or a direct descendant of the Scots that colonized differing parts of the South. Apostrophe spellings of y'all and ya'll were in use in printed form as far back as the mid and late 1800's.

Ive lived in the Northwest my whole life, but once i had a few friends from the South, i just started saying y'all and all y'all, simply because i think it sounds pretty cool!

It’s often used as a euphemism that was commonly used by mafia type criminals. When caught by the law, they would say they were behind the eight ball. This meant they were in a difficult situation and had to do some creative maneuvering to get out of trouble. Eliminate witnesses, destroy or move evidence, what have you. So expanding from your eloquent depiction of the origin of the phrase, I thought I would just help complete the pathway to the vernacular as a “saying”.

You can hit the 8 ball but you must hit your target ball first.

I thought he was referring to "Knock on Wood" from 1979, by Amii Stewart.

He's right though! "You" is singular, "y'all" is plural, and "all y'all" is a group of groups. For example, you are at a reception and there are several tables with several people sitting at each. If you were talking to the people at one table, it's "y'all". If you are talking to the entire reception, many tables of people, then you would use "all y'all"

Yup, because he wanted the crown to know he turned against them for seizing his estate.

It comes from many types of fabric not only tartans. Many different types of woven fabric were sold 9 yards to the bolt. So if you needed a whole bolt, you would just say I’ll take the whole 9 yards. But my great grandfather also used it to describe his experiences as football captain for two years, because to complete a down you needed to go 10 yards. You had 4 opportunities to progress each 10 yards, and if you could not accomplish it in those four tries then you would lose control of the ball to the other team. Often on the first down someone might only progress one yard. So to be successful they needed to go nine more yards. Grandpa would often call this going the whole 9 yards, even though we knew there was actually 10 yards per down.

So they use yards instead of meters to measure fabric? 🤔

in the late 1700's and early 1800's i don't think they had meters yet

I thought the phrase refered to the length of a belt of aircraft ammunition in World War II.

@@colinwilson4609 I have also heard that one. Here in the US we still use yards to measure fabric and I think previously in the UK they did.

This is the most accurate definition I've ever read.

wrong, it means to bear witness against yourself, whether you ate guilty or not. if you are being charged with something, they should provide evidence not you

What is an artillery belt? That is not how that works

Not artillery, but .50 caliber machine gun belts, Browning M2, also known as the "Ma Deuce".

"Ammo" is what I meant. Not sure why I went with artillery. That would be quite a bit of weight to handle, lol.

I presume you are thinking of "dressing to the nines"

Remember a yard is part of the Imperial system of measurement that you folks do not use.

​@@GT-mq1dxwe folks? We absolutely do use imperial here in the uk.

@@juliaw151 Really? How might that be, the UK and Europe switched to metric decades ago, so can you name me an industry in which you folks use it on scale. Why would you use the Imperial scale of measurement when your industries are based on the metric system? If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, but I’ll wait for an answer.

@@GT-mq1dx Well, let's see, we use miles for speed signs, miles for distance, unless you're walking or jogging and then it's km. However if it's a short distance then metres are used such as my house is 80m². Both beer and milk are sold in pints [imperial, not us customary] but the latter legally must have litres displayed on it, unless we're talking milk that is not cow milk and then it's only in litres]. Some people weigh themselves in stone and pounds, while some of the younger gens use kg [like myself], and for babies its lbs and ounces. Feet and inches for height whilst, again, some of the younger gens like myself use cm/m. Some, admittedly, older folk use farenheit though I know of no one personally that does, I just know it's a thing, most people do use centigrade though. Petrol and diesel are sold in litres but fuel costs are measured in miles per gallon [again, imperial not us customary]. These are just a few examples, really we started "going metric" in the 70's but never finished due to cost, i would imagine, and now we live in this hodgepodge of an "officially" metric society but actually things are still quite imperial, annoyingly. The government actually did a poll after Brexshit and their expectation was the opposite of the actual result. They expected we would want to return to imperial completely, as a nation we said quite the opposite.

I grew up in the midwest and i have never heard of monday morning quarterback either. I was so confused on where that even came from.

One of my dad's favorite. hell in a handbasket.

Comes from the tradition/superstition of knocking on wood to avoid jinxing the plan or expectation you just said out loud.

@@JustMe-dc6ks they just say “touch wood” in the UK so it’s the same expression.