Language Expert Answers Word Origin Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
University of Cambridge Research Fellow Dr. Stephen Turton joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the logic (and many quirks) of the English language. Why are so many English words not pronounced the way they're spelled? Why is the plural of 'child' not 'childs' but 'children?' 'Foot' becomes 'feet' but 'boot' does't pluralize to 'beet?' How do we know what Old English sounded like? Why is the letter R pronounced so different across languages? What does a pineapple have to do with either pines OR apples? Answers to these questions and many more await on Etymology Support.…
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English Etymology Support
0:14
Foot Feet but not Boot Beet? Why?
1:17
Whoops
1:52
Get a clue
2:18
Why Ghoti = Fish
3:48
Who What Where When Why
4:49
Salary
5:11
What's going on with the word "child?"
5:45
Deadline
6:11
Why are there multiple words that mean the same thing?
7:07
TUVWX…but Y?
7:58
Formal You
8:59
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs
9:34
Does language alter thinking?
11:40
Break a leg!
11:55
How do we know what old English sounds like?
13:01
Dictionary approved new words
13:45
Bring back sardine’s whiskers I say
14:16
Pineapples, man
14:49
Thou and hath
15:46
Funny collective nouns
16:20
Ok
16:53
"But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?"
17:36
Quarantine
17:57
How meanings change
19:08
Meet your meat words
19:58
English pronunciation
21:21
Common sayings between languages
22:00
💪
22:57
Homonyms
23:29
How etymologists do what they do
24:21
"Did youreet?"
25:00
Why is the letter R pronounced so differently in each language?
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