Russian Guy Reacts to How Did Each U.S. State Get Its Name?

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[MyEnglishWorld]

In this video I was trying to understand little more about Names of the US states, and I happy what you are supporting me with likes and subscription 😊

[lloovvaallee]

"Aldough" rather than "although" is just the narrator's accent but it is not the standard pronunciation .Notice he also pronounces "the" like da". The plantations of Rhode Island likely originally grew tobacco.

[sashan]

To your question during the video, there are a few american accents that pronounce the 'th' sound as more of a 'd' or 't' sound. Personally I don't hear it much when I say 'although' but I do pronounce 'that' much closer to 'dat'. I really enjoyed the video, he seemed to put in more effort researching things than some other channels.

[catrgrl]

He got one thing wrong. New York was originally New Amsterdam, originally settled by the Dutch. The area was transferred to the English following The second Anglo-Dutch war in 1664. The dutch established the colony in 1624.

[shannon]

Plantations in the southern US grew cotton, tobacco, rice and various other crops. I am not familiar with Rhode Island since it is northeast. Perhaps vegetables like corn and potatoes or apple orchards.

[Dave-udut]

I was born and raised in the United States and consider myself somewhat educated but I'm learning things I never knew before.

[stevenwilgus]

Be encouraged, young Aleks. Your English has really improved since 10 Nov 2021. 😎

[defftony]

LOL what do you mean how can water be flattened? As someone who grew up seeing Niagara Falls every year, I know exactly what water that hasn't been flattened looks like.

[cannabotany]

The plantations typically grew cotton, tobacco or sugar depending on where they were. Plantations are heavily associated with slavery in the USA

[karinamauritia]

I believe I may be learning more history from your channel than I did in high school, lol.

[jonathany]

In the south the plantations farmed cotton, Rhodes island was a mix but originally lots of tobacco still many states still produce huge amounts of tobacco, KY, VA, NC, SC, TN. GA still produces lots of cotton and peaches. Stop criticizing yourself on your English, your doing great! We know how hard English is, we study it from kindergarten all the way through school and most of us are not that good at it, I’m just lazy with punctuation. Any decent American would be more than happy to let you take your time thinking of words we appreciate that you try.

[bethlemmon]

I'm American and didn't learn this in my education, so I learned it too.

[PerthTowne]

The US paid about $7 million to Russia for Alaska in 1867. The source you looked up was giving a modern-day equivalent of that amount of money.

[Flannel_Affinity]

The narrator pronounces words like 'although' as 'all-dough' because he is not a native English speaker. To my ear, he sounds vaguely western European. At first I thought he may be Swedish but the way he pronounced the name Ojibwe and sometimes switched between 'dee' and 'duh' for 'the' ruled that out. If you review the video you will notice that he routinely mispronounces Native American words and names, but has no problem with Spanish. Therefore, I would guess he is from either Spain or Portugal.

[lizzygraham]

Thehe second syllable in Nevada sounds like the "a" in pad or rad.

[nicolknappen]

“Although”. …the narrator has a regional accent. I can hear his accent in other words he speaks. It’s a very faint accent, so not easy to identify, but I would guess New Jersey or New York. You can hear that he will also sometimes say “da” instead of “the.” So, you heard correctly; he has trouble with the TH sound. Some Philadelphians and Chicagoans also say “da” for “the.”

For many decades, Alaska was nicknamed “Seward’s Folly, ” referring to the Secretary of State who negotiated the purchase from Russia. Politicians of the time thought Seward was crazy to buy a place that was mostly frozen. Seward was right, everybody else was wrong. 😉😊

Maybe Californians know about Queen Califa, but nobody else does. That’s an obscure bit of trivia that you do NOT have to remember….

Enjoyed your video, thanks for posting.

[davids]

To clarify Queen Califia was a fictional character from a Spanish novel. I am not sure if you picked up on that.

[jessedaniel]

you are saying " although " right he is not he is speaking with some kind of regional accent i can't tell where

[oliveyoil]

Plantations were places where people owned a lot of land and grew stuff on it, but the land was so big they could not do it themselves and used slavery, that is why plantations is seen as more negative, because lots of them had slaves.

[cinmarksx]

I am happy to see you NOT in jail after the protests.