English Is Confusing! #shorts

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The plural of English words can be confusing! in This short English lesson, let's see the plural form of some animals in English!

[mahneetaa]

Me trying to explain my life to my parents 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[mushtaquealam]

The writer, who wrote the grammar and rules of the English language really was very crazy 🤣

[Nandiniswami]

This is very funny but important also

. Thank you 😄

[kiki]

As a French, I used to think that the plural of "moose" was "meese"... Thank you so much !

[asmatipunavar]

The way that slapp is really ultimate 😄😄

[AbdurRehman-kend]

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[Yuri_mf]

"It's because moose...is moose"
Ah yes this floor is made out of floor

[someone-pizu]

my teacher when she's trying to explain math to me:

[FerozKhan-ssnn]

Best teacher on the YouTube channel for beginners and advanced students and English learners.

[magaara]

If anyone was wondering why the plural form of goose is geese (and same thing with foot - feet, tooth - teeth...), that's because of a certain linguistic phenomenon which occured in the transition from Old Germanic to Anglo-Saxon (Old English) called the "i-mutation", or the "i-umlaut".
*The short version:*
Basically, in Old Germanic, whenever there was an /i/ or a /j/ (keep in mind this is not a J, it represents the sound at the beginning of words like "yogurt") in the word ending, it affected the main vowel of the word root, changing the way it was pronounced. So there was probably a word like *fōt, which in the plural would become *fōt-iz (or smth like that). As you can see, in the ending (-iz) there is an /i/. The presence of that vowel changed the vowel in the root, from /ō/ to /ē/, thus *fōt - *fēt (all the way to the modern foot - feet).
*The long, linguistic (and boring) version:*
We are talking about a kind of "vowel harmony" phenomenon, whereby the presence of a certain type of vowel (or approximant) influences another vowel in the word, changing it to a version which is "more similar" to that vowel or approximant (/i/ or /j/).
Now, since /i/ and /j/ are both "palatal" sounds (meaning they are articulated by pressing the tongue against the hard palate, just behind your teeth), what they did is they caused a "palatalization" of the vowel in the root (meaning they made it become "more palatal" than it was). In the aforementioned example, the /i/ caused a palatalization of the /ō/. And what was the palatal sound corresponding to the /o/ in Old Germanic? You guessed it: the /e/!!


And there you have it! You probably didn't give a damn about this whole thing, but I just wanted to share this little fact 🙂

[sooberries]

"english is dangerous"
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[blackkittykat]

As an English speaker I never even thought of ox.

[veenanarwani]

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[lem]

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[DJNeonistPurple]

That sound effect at the end do be "hitting hard" 💀

[MonstrousCreatures]

I was literally expecting in fact waiting for that hard slap from beginning...😂

[jacintharodrigues]

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[yangalbert]

“It's moose, then moose.” Quote of the year.

[student]

These days I wait for the final hit more than expression... Thanks sir...😆😜✌🙏🏻🙏🏻

[ThenameisAnubhav]

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