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00:00 How do you pronounce these 4 words?
01:58 Trisyllabic laxing
04:05 Elsa Speak
06:21 Words with EA /i:/ sound
08:16 Words ending -ITY
10:07 French influence on English pronunciation
13:33 The Greek CH

In this video Expert level English pronunciation tips you probably don't know.

[baronderochemont]

Don't leave us alone for that long, Gideon!

[joshadams]

When I was a kid, I used to spend hours reading etymologies in the Oxford English Dictionary. Little did I know I was learning about spelling!

[volodymyr.brodskyi]

Your explanation was excellent. It addressed my questions about why English can be so peculiar at times.

[gaufrid]

You are good at what you do, Gideon. Having seen the video of Elton John singing "Sacrifice" earlier this evening, it reminds me that "rules ain't always rules". I pronounce the word "direction" as you suggested it would be, with the accent on the last syllable. Sir Elton accents the first syllable in the song. So, if I sing it in karaoke, I sing "die-rection" as he does. English is like that. I'm Aussie, living in Mindanao Philippines. The languages in the Philippines are phonetic, which makes them relatively easy to pronounce, although the grammar and vocabulary is completely alien to native English speakers. Filipinos learn English in school as their second (or maybe third language if their mother tongue is any apart from Tagalog). Somehow, they learn to speak quite good English. As far as "schedule" is concerned, I'm fully with the Americans. Hey, we never say that "school" is pronounced "shool". By the way, here in the Philippines, in both Tagalog and Cebuano, "school" is "eskwela", while the building itself is "eskwelahan". Derived from Spanish, and the suffix "-an" denotes a place.

[brolol]

There's no other way apart from Comprehensible Input ❤

[moisesszz]

You are a genius, your tips are incredibly good and super accurate, even though most of the tips are for english, i will love if you make another channel about tips or grammar situations, pronunciations, history etc etc, all that impressive good knowledge that you have but in other language, it would be really a game changing for me as im trying to learn other languages and you are the person that taught me the most.

[cavesalamander]

When Gideon looks at me so sternly, I want to jump up, stand tall, click my heels and scream 'Yes, sir!'

[ruxsky]

Thank you so much! Your channel has some of the most unique content. ❤️

[madamecoeurdemontespan]

Dear amazing Gideon, thank you for your magnum opus!

Best wishes, 🦋 M.

[marieparker]

As a native English speaker, I always learn something from you, Gideon.
BUT, just to say: people from North of Hadrian's Wall pronounce the 'h' in 'wh--' words, eg 'whales', and we get annoyed by people thinking that it is a homonym of 'Wales'; also, the 'intrusive "r" ', which is horrid.
Thanks, 🙂

[Daniula]

¡Este video es oro puro! ¡Gideon sos el maestro de los maestros! 👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏

[ericb]

you do learn something new everyday... i've never noticed that rule on 2-syllable verbs, with the stress being either on the first or second syllable based on the verb's origin

[sergeheute]

Thoroughly interesting and even instructive Giddeon, thank you for this lesson, i still have troubles with English pronunciation although i 've studied and practiced it for many years ( and thousand hours !).i hope you are doing well and will in the near future provide us with more quality content like this vidéo.I am modestly trying to write some good quality language, don t hesitate to correct me, it could be of some help to improve.Serge from France.

[isabelatence]

How cool! Your video makes me dance floss dance on Fridays, now I imagine your creative and crazy studio, Patreon is totally amazing to have access to reality, we follow many varieties of content, I really like this topic, pronunciation and origin of words, I'm growing up in English, you make my Friday😅 thanks! Always

[flaviaungureanu]

The English "Pronuncation" at 10:08 is, I bet, someone else's hand. Either way, great content, I did learn a great deal. Thank you.

[maya.]

Thank you very much for the video! It's really helpful to understand English better (which is my favourite thing).

I have a quick off topic question, I have no one around to tell me.
The other day I heard the phrase in a video on YT: "They used to not serve food in the morning" (that girl was talking about some restaurant. She is British).
As far as I understand this is a construction "used to" about regular actions in the past. If I'm right then she should've said "They didn't use to serve.." with this construction for negative sentenses (at least textbooks say it :)
So, why did she say like this? Is this some casual colloquial thing? Or does it put some emphasis? Please, kindly explain it to me, I'm wracking my brain on this riddle :)
Thank you!

[carloshortuvia]

I stick faithful to old ate (et) pronounciation. Semper fidelis to old clear RP.

[ccuxewr]

"Howbeit" is pronounced "hou-bee-it" and originated in Middle English between 1350 and 1400. It's thought to come from the contraction of "hough be hit" or "how be it", which means "be it as it may, notwithstanding, nevertheless, yet". 

A la prochaine Gideon.
🖐

[w-hisky]

Oh boy, this is so super interesting, I could watch you channel all day, but I have to behave myself and get sh*t done. 😅

[buonleo]

When you said that even in English there are rules, you destroyed all my certainties!