Dord.

SOURCES AND MORE BELOW!

gramograms:

police:

Esquivalience:

Trivial Pursuit story:

some other Alanis/irony perspectives:

[TheAshlovesu]

YouTube: use key words to reach a broader audience

Vsauce: _Dord._

[peterwhiteley]

Ah, D or D, my favourite tabletop role playing game, Dungeons or Dragons.

[cornifer]

RIP Dord
1934 - 1947
A dense word from a dense scientist

[dragondg]

vsause:ill make a video on the word dord
10 minutes later:i know who let the dogs out

[samblackett]

This man has every rhyme in the English language at his disposal and he chooses tickle and pickle for his example

[randoiguess]

All the talk about irony reminded me of the time I won my elementary school's award for perfect attendance
I wasn't there that day

[vid]

" the first pun was literally 'corny' "
MICHAEL I SWEAR TO GOD

[sunnbeamz]

actually, you can’t hear pterodactyls urinate because they’re dead

[_fangs]

Vsauce in 2014: Weird English things
Vsauce in 2020: *eats donut from toilet*

[ShredHarmonic]

Me: finds a video on language.

Michael: "It was the Mesolithic southwestern Chinese who let the dogs out"

[sayospecter]

"Dord was an accidental word for thirteen years."
...
(5 minutes later)
...
"You can't hear a pterodactyl urinate because of its silent "P"."

[ahuman]

At 5:30 Michael shows a list of words which says that "v" is silent in "fivepence". But, in his latest short "Which Letter Is Never Silent", he says that "v" is never silent

[exa]

"The song Ironic has lyrics that are actually not situated irony"


heh
Ironic

[thinkfact]

Wow, it's a complete honor to be mentioned in this video!
Thank you very much Michael!  I think my life is now complete.  Haha :)

[TaurielTheElf]

Beginning of the video: dord is actually a typo for d or d

End of the video: Dogs were domesticated in China

That escalated quickly...

[intellectualguacamole]

It went from why the word Dord was accidentally introduced into the English language, to who actually let the dogs out.

[MSTechCentral]

Vsauce is definitely the best channel on YouTube. Subscriber counts aside, Michael brings real educational videos that are entertaining and exciting to watch. He revitalizes the good in education. Keep it up Michael, you are the man!

[Name-fkzk]

“Nothing rhymes with nothing.”
Yes. Yes it does.

[jademonass]

"dord was a fake word for 13 years"

later

"kukku is the sound corn makes when falling on the ground"

[Robinson_Entertainment]

“Comment rhymes with nothing” no it doesn’t Michael, stop lying to me