How do you pronounce these words?

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@miguel_aquatico Ай бұрын

"English words" gives me a french sentence 😂

@georginaevelyndevey5643 Ай бұрын

@JohnnyJakarta Ай бұрын

It goes back to the 12th century when kings would marry French princesses and kept speaking it, it crept into the English language a lot more, the higher class people would speak French and so a lot of words come from that time and still exist today. History is interesting and important but US only teaches American History so you only go back 200/300 years

@miguel_aquatico Ай бұрын

I speak french lmao. Im just saying that was not the assignement at all

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

He didn’t say English words. He said English pronunciations though. Your comment is hilariously ironic because it’s implying you don’t know the difference, on a video about misunderstanding words. 🤭😅 Would’ve loved to be in class with these 2, they types that pay no attention and make everyone else appear smarter.

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

@@miguel_aquatico aaaah so English is potentially not your first language and you understood the words he said? This thread was so dumb before you joined it. 🤭

@60_Degrees_North Ай бұрын

I'm British through and through and I still got them all wrong😂

@AreEnTee Ай бұрын

Maybe you're just from Liverpool /s

@englishrose5964 Ай бұрын

I am too, but I only got two of them right, because they’re the only two I had actually heard before

@Somnia07 Ай бұрын

I refuse to say Left Tenant, even as a Brit 😂.

@NeilMcAdam9 Ай бұрын

There’s me thinking lieutenant and leftenant were different ranks

@immortily1673 Ай бұрын

how…

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

@@immortily1673 because they’re never typically said together. 🤷‍♀️ You didn’t need to ask that. Was quite clear.

@mibouloppe Ай бұрын

Speaking french is a cheat code... but leftenant is a lie 😂

@OriginalBeardedHaggis Ай бұрын

Nope, it’s the correct British pronunciation

@mibouloppe Ай бұрын

@OriginalBeardedHaggis I believe y'all but I really ain't never heard that in my life 😂😂😂

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

@@mibouloppe it’s in every movie I’ve ever watched that features the British military. Have you never watched inglorious bastards? It’s in that about Archie Hickox (Michael fassbender) if you’re not in the British military and don’t watch movies about it, why would you hear it? US military movies are more commonly watched.

@mibouloppe Ай бұрын

@@kirstybrown1185 true 🤔 I don't really watch military stuff period, let alone British ones

@giblegabite929 Ай бұрын

6/6, i surprised myself

@t_aikutsu Ай бұрын

Studying french really helps here

@phil18751 Ай бұрын

If i could read properly, i would have got more than 2

@dikshakumari1796 Ай бұрын

I just got two! After listening to him I am doubting my speaking skills. Is it only me? 😵

@AD_Saffa_HD Ай бұрын

I've lived in Scotland for 20 years and 11 years in south africa before that and I've never heard Leftenent, it's always been lieutenant

@gavve7105 Ай бұрын

Not a Brit, and got 5/6. Result that!

@So_Harufied Ай бұрын

A lot of Americans say foy-yay as well, but people think they sound pretentious. 😂

@yvonnepalmquist8676 17 күн бұрын

I agree with this statement. I've been known to pronounce it both ways, knowing it's the same word and meaning, depending on the grandeur of the foyer. lol

@YourFavoriteGinger07 Ай бұрын

American and I got more right. The French one got me, but I was able to name both brit and merc for the foyer

@Bronquignol1 Ай бұрын

Which French one? except Hyperbole (that is still written exactly like in French) and Quinoa (same), all other words came from French

@YourFavoriteGinger07 Ай бұрын

@@Bronquignol1 coup de grace

@D3bs1109 Ай бұрын

I’m French so I perfectly pronounced most of them with French accent 😅

@sujatam3837 Ай бұрын

finn balor

@demrasnawla Ай бұрын

got em all right tbh

@doctorj6030 Ай бұрын

American, pronounced them all correctly, I watch a lot of British TV shows & movies

@paulgoddard7385 Ай бұрын

4/6, from an old British man. Try leverage, schedule and harass.

@magichands135 Ай бұрын

Schedooly?

@stixoimatizontas Ай бұрын

@@magichands135 Shedule, you just ignore the "c".

@magichands135 Ай бұрын

@@stixoimatizontas a yes that makes sense

@andraspongracz5996 Ай бұрын

Some of these are French, and the British tried to replicate the French pronunciation. Coup de grace was right, charcuterie was OK. (I would not press the vowel between t and r so hard, it's practically nonexistent: shar-küt-ri.) But foyer is actually not "foyé" but more like "foáyé". The "foá" in the beginning is pronounced similarly to the French word moi, except with an f rather than an m.

@alexanderweir2382 Ай бұрын

Naild it Of course i should do though as i am Scottish

@niffleheim5630 Ай бұрын

I was trying to put on a British accent for this one😂

@sparkypandamonkey Ай бұрын

What’s crazy is we don’t pronounce Lieutenant wrong on purpose. So it’s not common. I have heard the British way, but I thought they were separate. If you go to translate, they pronounce it as lieutenant as well. So it’s not our fault. Also we don’t say foyer, we say foye as well. Especially as a realtor I never pronounced it as Foyer.

@ruelegarridigan1411 Ай бұрын

"You don't put traps in the foyer, the foyer is a safe space" - Finn the human

@utdredack9 Ай бұрын

as a brit i got all of them wrong

@oz_jones Ай бұрын

Mate...

@harmonyhenry6400 Ай бұрын

Yay I got all of them right

@tarastreasure Ай бұрын

Pronouncing them in French allowed me to be correct. 🤣 Since I'm not from the US or the UK, not sure who pronounces how, I usually mix them up.

@grassj6002 Ай бұрын

4/6 of these are French or have French origin. Fym "English words" 🤨 maybe don't use words from a different language and then act suprised when English speakers confuse or bastardize the pronunciation (whether on purpose or accidentally). This always bugs me about these kinds of videos. We need to stop copying French's homework. Anyways I also got em all right, knowing that some crazy wrong people say "lef-tenant" which... I'm like 90% sure is not how you say it according to the original (French) pronunciation, but go off ig.

@Bronquignol1 Ай бұрын

Indeed, the French way to pronounce lieutenant is really different, no idea where the 'f' sound come from. The French prononciation use a phoneme that doesn't exist in UK English, /ø/ , but they could have done better since it's quite close from the /ɜ/, the sound of the 'i' in 'bird' for exemple.

@shanegill5091 Ай бұрын

Quinoa pronounced wrong. Not how they say it in Peru. Keen-no-ah.

@michaellee7313 Ай бұрын

He specifically said British pronunciation, so that implies not Peruvian pronunciation

@jeffreymcdowell7189 Ай бұрын

Most people in america know the correct pronunciation of foyer.. If you're classy enough to have one usually you know how to pronounce it properly. French make British pronounce origin words differently

@NoDirtUhh Ай бұрын

Hey I got em all!

@efjeK Ай бұрын

Super easy, I am not even a native. Give me an actual challenge

@CaioOleskovicz Ай бұрын

Being a latin-based language native speaker, I nailed most of them

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

I got the first one wrong, I don’t watch many military movies and the US ones are typically the ones you’ll see shorts from but as soon as you said it, inglorious bastards came to mind, it’s said in there by a British officer. The rest I’m proud of 🤭🤷‍♀️

@magichands135 Ай бұрын

Highpurbolee gave me brain damage

@stixoimatizontas Ай бұрын

I was surprised at how the English one is so closer to Greek. It makes sense though, since the word is originally Greek.

@ghadasater Ай бұрын

Apparently English English was pronounced close to French

@danekeary1068 Ай бұрын

Most of those are french and since I studied it I was chilllllin

@tobysavory4975 Ай бұрын

No one in the uk has ever pronounced Lieutenant like that

@philwill0123 Ай бұрын

Yes they do. It's the English military rank

@satazs6195 Ай бұрын

I don't even know what Foyer or Charcutelie is...

@MrZoolook Ай бұрын

I would argue most of those 'British' pronunciations were actually French.

@498charles Ай бұрын

I'm french and for once I won everything

@rachelturner9913 Ай бұрын

I think we say foyer both ways 😅

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

Not correctly though. If anyone says foy-er they’re just using American English. It’s not serious though. I say Buoy in the yank way and only found out last year I’m doing it wrong, not changing it now though, I don’t think I could. 🤷‍♀️😅

@user-hp2rp5vb6v Ай бұрын

The first one is just wrong no matter what you say.

@raphaellebrun2651 Ай бұрын

I only got these right cuz half the words are originaly in french and i am french

@chrissieedghill-crump9745 Ай бұрын

🌟 for my husband and i 👏

@le563 Ай бұрын

I'd get them right if I could spell them

@Nite-owl Ай бұрын

100% for a change 😁

@tinysounds1984 Ай бұрын

most of these are french.. and to be honest you weren't pronouncing them correctly either! :P

@craigmassey2973 Ай бұрын

Not to be confused with the hyper-bowl

@carolinejt3544 Ай бұрын

No😊

@bruhlewis9508 Ай бұрын

American English isn’t correct, don’t say “British” when you can just say “English”

@maxmarks3503 Ай бұрын

Most of these words are French

@thisminimallife Ай бұрын

6 :)

@dannybishop9179 Ай бұрын

Me as a British person wondering what words and the correct pronunciation are 2 seconds in, oh yeah extremely dyslexic can’t even read them and if I can it’s more American way lol

@saw6386 Ай бұрын

The first one is not pronounced leftenant. The word leftenant comes from the idea that a lower ranked officer would ealk on the left-hand side of a senior officer, protecting from swords.

@MilitaryRelics1944 Ай бұрын

Yes it is

@saw6386 Ай бұрын

@@MilitaryRelics1944 really, so were is the f in lieutenant? It is just military tradition yo change lieutenant to leftenant, not changing how you say the word.

@lik7953 Ай бұрын

In the UK lieutenant is pronounced leftenant

@saw6386 Ай бұрын

@@lik7953 in the army it is, outside the army for people who are actually allowed to pronounce words properly it's lieutenant,

@MilitaryRelics1944 Ай бұрын

@@saw6386 nope, the correct pronunciation in the UK is “leftenant,” not just in the Army and RAF, and the arguement “where is the F?” Is ridiculous, hundreds of words have silent letters. Do you pronounce the K in knife?

@ollielawrence3692 Ай бұрын

Number 4 is definitely Canoa, I don’t what you Keynoir guys are talking about

@josmyjoy5662 Ай бұрын

Niiiiiiiiiceee😂😂😂😂

@RayaAllen13 Ай бұрын

I’m a Brit and the first one sounds so wrong 😑

@horggroh Ай бұрын

no it’s not

@Sakovcatz Ай бұрын

In the UK it most certainly is pronounced 'Lef-tenant'

@antonherder1628 Ай бұрын

French words …

@viz8746 Ай бұрын

differ from

@grnpncke Ай бұрын

English is not even my native language yet I got these all correctly. Educate yourselves; it's not that hard.

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

🤭🤭🤭 yet you think people just believe you? That’s cute. Delusional isn’t that hard to participate in either.

@delinasium3520 Ай бұрын

Its not im british

@Vasilis_Rant. Ай бұрын

English trully are badly pronounced french

@lukeallen5714 Ай бұрын

Speak your own language properly for once British people I’m begging you

@lolyroyalty2316 Ай бұрын

I can't read any of them

@josephmanno4514 Ай бұрын

“Loo-tenant is the correct pronunciation. The obnoxious pronunciation is lef-tenant.”

@stixoimatizontas Ай бұрын

What does "correct" mean? Correct according to whom?

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

No, it’s the yank pronunciation that everyone just learned without realising they were wrong. 🤭🤭

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

@@stixoimatizontas correct according to people who won’t allow themselves to be wrong, even if they are. 😅

@Krolack10 Ай бұрын

Half the words were just straight up french :D

@stixoimatizontas Ай бұрын

And one Greek.

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

And? Did you understand the English words he said at the beginning. The simple concept was about pronunciation. If you don’t understand that word, you have other issues. You want to argue and that’s sad. He was right, you’re not even being relevant. If they were French words, they’d still be in their French form, with punctuation, they aren’t.

@jeffreymcdowell7189 Ай бұрын

The coup is very common, I never heard the correct pronunciation of that one. Aĺl others i knew. I'll stick to the American pronunciation of rank. It is standard for u s military.

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

And if you’re a yank it would be weird to use British terms. If you’re not, why are you so attached to using US military terms that you’re refusing to use anything correct? All your comments are hilariously wrong. You not ok buddy? Ask the grandkids to come visit you this month.

@jeffreymcdowell7189 Ай бұрын

@kirstybrown1185 You dont understand. A lot of french based words tend to be pronounced properly either regionally or by more educated people. I've never been taught Foy-yer regardless

@stevemichael8458 Ай бұрын

differ from not differ to.

@kirstybrown1185 Ай бұрын

How about a little irony. Both are grammatically correct, both are also used more commonly in American English. If you’re going to correct, in a relevant way, using English grammar, both are deemed incorrect and casual speech. It should be lengthened to (insert term)is different now than before they (insert term) a quick Google would’ve reminded you of your primary education.