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How the English language would sound if silent letters weren’t silent - BBC

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All I can think about right now is German
Comment from : @samuelclugg9829

"we will celebratEEE" oops you missed one!
Comment from : @jdolew

now as a secend langwich its abut taym yu start to do somthing abaut it and not just lafbrits abaut taym english will writen the wey it saund
Comment from : @nirprizant4228

as you can see on this video, silent letters in english are one of the cutest things on this planet, and that’s what i like about english language i think i am the only one who thinks this way
Comment from : @shinishini2082

Who is this guy ? I wanna watch his show
Comment from : @warrioroflight6122

Eddie Izzard tribute act
Comment from : @jackjude

It's Germanic
Comment from : @VoiceOfTruthSpeaks

It would be so easier to learn such english) ru
Comment from : @romanbellic271

Brilliant Performance!
Comment from : @SamKhan-kb3kg

that's how every Russian reads your words!
Comment from : @Sayenkor

My dad would tease us s skids the a knife was pronounced con-if-ee
Comment from : @JAlex-ld2lh

The laugh tracks are so obnoxious on this I can't even focus on what he's saying 🙄
Comment from : @Kazh2474

since you would not be able to tell (h)our from our you would need to go back to the other word Stunde I bet there was a time when this was an english word seconds later: yep, stund or stond, was a thing, or a ding
Comment from : @uliwehner

The reason is French, believe it or not Or "Latin"
Comment from : @Bluesruse

I just realized I shouldn't have pronounce some letters I used to pronounce
Comment from : @andreygolovach8171

Have fun explaining someone from Italy the concept of a silent letter
Comment from : @tlow5766

I really needed this today!!
Comment from : @veronicastewart1112

любой русский говорит халф оф хаур
Comment from : @tsergal

My favorite one it P-terodactyl
Comment from : @Stevestwinbrother

Queue is the biggest offenders of this
Comment from : @TheAzorg

Don't let this man find out about the French
Comment from : @tbrand009

I know this is humor but my linguist brain won't shut up, so to spare you all lengthy explanations I shall just wish you all the joy of watching it unhampered!
Comment from : @thatcasualdragon2975

I can not stand this man BBC drop him
Comment from : @rossspenser8314

sounds like every indian lecturer on online courses🤣
Comment from : @shizoyd

In Polish there are letters that are silent AND invisible When you do that you end up with letters that have no business being next to each other which makes the written language look weird and confusing Example: "zbezczeszczenie" is a real word Look it up brbr "desecration"
Comment from : @fotticelli

Tbf, yogurt is spelled correctly here 😂
Comment from : @NB79032

Brilliant
Comment from : @colinayki2350

But the pronounciation in silent letter day is the way people in my country as beginner learner speak english, including me when i was a kid 😂
Comment from : @sallymoonce3976

For a lot of Indians its Silent Letter Day everyday 😂
Comment from : @sikanderkang9787

By far the best word for 'silent letter day': Worchestershiresauce
Comment from : @carstenfolsch5100

English is silly Haha
Comment from : @jasonyoon4910

"champagne" wouldn't be pronounced "sham-pag-nay" Should have been "kuh-ham-pag-nay"
Comment from : @eksentrysyti

I've always pronounced "February" as "February" I have been known to say "skissors" to be silly
Comment from : @garryferrington811

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Comment from : @martinsclovis33

The Silent Letter Day should be on a WeD-nesday
Comment from : @Skylar_St4r

My dialect sort of sounds english or have similar words, is that to do with what happened in 1066 in engeland? I dont want to be rude but its a history question, since i find others with a diffrent dialect speaks worse but often i recognize alot of the the words and the tone is the same, but we are thought to learn it as a 2 language though
Comment from : @oscaroscar7904

That sounds like German
Comment from : @robertovizzutti6545

genius
Comment from : @waschbaer6466

It does become confusing, though, when people lazily omit the "h" at the beginning of words You are best in 'ospital for an 'art attack (that strangely doesn't involve canvas, brushes or paint) You eat 'am, and you can say "I am what I am" You don't have to install things on your phone to be full of 'app-iness Are you electrically resistant when at 'ome (Ohm) Have you been to the 'airdressers to have the wide outdoors dressed in the 'ebrides? Or visited 'amstead 'eef in "norf" London? And the BBC wouldn't be the BBC without presenters, p*ss-poor comedians (there are so many of them infesting every BBC programme nowadays!!!!), continuity announcers, Rylan and the cast of EastEnders referring to Britain as "Brih-ann"
Comment from : @steddyeddyuk

That is kuhnifee
Comment from : @goatmealcookies7421

I was always wondering if english speakers know how to prounance silent letters, since you have differen prounanciation for each word
Comment from : @SolidSnake59

I'm feeling really sad for the forgotten 'e' in 'knife' The 'k' gets all the attention here 'k-nif-eeee' please! 😅
Comment from : @toaztelg

This is insanely hilarious to listen to The way it breaks your mind whilst simultaneously breaking you down into laughter is great! Man would this be hilarious to see truly exist 🤣brMan, though I seriously will always respect foreign speakers for their persistence English is insane! It's all I've ever truly spoke, and even I constantly mess up the spelling of several of these words - and don't even get me started on "bologna," which is incredibly ridiculous in and of itself! I mean, God! Who came up with half of these things? 🤣brNoticed some people talking about the historical context here, though That IS pretty cool to think about, honestly Puts an interesting new perspective on our collective pain - well, at least for history fans like myself and my mother
Comment from : @noahrice3362

Clever
Comment from : @lindasands1433

I remember as a child playing sonic and the other character's name (you know, the red one) was "kah-nuk-les"
Comment from : @caezoyd

How good is this man ! 🤣🤣
Comment from : @MJCF-d3w

Французы наверное в этот момент просто сидели и молчали, боясь, что что-то скажут про них 😅
Comment from : @Origen_Amethyst

No love for silent “e”!!
Comment from : @Landoverse

I didn't get the reference to sandwiches for several minutes, since Americans pronounce all the letters
Comment from : @TacticusPrime

Hahahaha omg so good
Comment from : @navstajay

As an ESL teacher, I totally appreciate this!! I laughed out loud watching this!! 😂😂
Comment from : @catherinetimmerman9107

he forgot about the silent E in knife
Comment from : @TicoTorres

Are the audience paid to laugh?
Comment from : @STU_the_accent_ARTist

The "d" in "sandwich" is pronounced by many people in many places
Comment from : @LeirozClassroom

Hilarious! Brilliant!😆
Comment from : @mariaknutsson779

Is the auditorium fille with laughing gas I can smile at some of these sayings, but not laugh out loud the whole damn time Some of this nonsense still gets imported verbatim without normalizaiton from French
Comment from : @j7ndominica051

Very funny Reminiscent of Voctor Borge giving sounds to punctuation marks and reading those sounds as he read a book
Comment from : @mase7557

Imagine being gaslit by a language
Comment from : @cmteh1

It's not THAT funny for the audience roar with laughter so much Just listen to any foreigner STARTING to learn english
Comment from : @m44684

It would be more hilarious if he said the most ridiculous one "Queue"
Comment from : @hafizulyunus443

TaLLking and WaLLking
Comment from : @NeHoMaRG

This was 4 minutes of pure stupidity
Comment from : @afrog2666

Most of those words used to be pronounced that way but people got lazy and for the ones that weren't its because the french are crazy
Comment from : @chitin122

As I was informed many years ago, 'fish' is spelled ghoti ('gh' as in enough, 'o' as in women, and 'ti' in nation)
Comment from : @WhitedSepulcher

English language doesn't make a lot sense brStill, as majority of the entertainment is in English, all the BS of that language has seeped in & become natural
Comment from : @LumenPsycho

Thats why German is a better language😂
Comment from : @NicE-yr2vx

Disastrous He forgot C"H"ristmas :(
Comment from : @sharky1213

Amazing :))
Comment from : @alexguraliuc1362

I actually really want this to be a thing🤣😁 Also was I the only one thinking he ended up sounding a bit German at the end there lol 😅
Comment from : @TsunamiJuri

This was very well done but not anything remotely funny enough to even produce a chuckle but man the audience was dying huh
Comment from : @nursegilbey

YogHurt
Comment from : @dawsonrose8489

At least buffet and champagne are directly taken from French so it makes perfect sense that have silent letters
Comment from : @tymianoxpromotion

He should invite Ismo
Comment from : @andreabartsch

I think this is the first great challenge to new english learners Listen "k-nife" it's pretty usual
Comment from : @matheusmoreira1871

Amazing! love your performance😊❤
Comment from : @TiagoFerguson920

lol celebrate it on an Island lol
Comment from : @davidsmith2842

What did he say in the end when he said "and at the end of the day when we are" ??
Comment from : @simooouhaddou7824

WowExcellent!
Comment from : @conniedecarolis3173

As an Italian, thank you 😂😂😂, that is just hilarious, and the funniest part is that “only the advanced educated Brits”, therefore the older generation will understand this parody, (for the most part)!😢
Comment from : @paximaxi

soooo hilarious 😂😂 and sooo correct😅
Comment from : @MemphisBrown-wy9es

Try French for silent and mispronounce letters
Comment from : @tvideo1189

Every day was a silent letter day when I first learned English as a second language :)
Comment from : @mitch4949

This is exactly how non-native English speakers feel while learning English, 😂 - Greek here
Comment from : @christiannachel2710

stellar!
Comment from : @TALKATIVE_CARTOON

Somiddle or old English returning to old Germanic roots?
Comment from : @senrho8513

Приблизительно так звучит у меня в голове, когда печатаю на английском 😂
Comment from : @Ozyress

love
Comment from : @sampathfletcher5687

Sounds perfectly owl ride to us Dutch
Comment from : @SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands

HA!!!
Comment from : @johnperryflyfishing

I once went to a Jimmy Carr standup It was trash Watching this makes me realise spending money to go to any comedian is a huge waste of money
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