<strong>10 weird things about English</strong>
"In this video, I run through 10 aspects of English that make it bizarre in comparison with other languages. These include its "meaningless do", dreadful spellings, odd use of tenses, missing pronouns and the strange array of sounds in English."
#Video length: twenty one minutes and thirty seven seconds.
@shaedrich @bibliolater @linguistics "ereyesterday"? That's funny, because in Dutch it's "eergisteren", so we have the same "eer" / "ere" there. In Dutch you have "eer" also in "eerder", which means "earlier". And now I come to think of it: the "ear" in "earlier" might also be related to the "ere" of "ereyesterday".
@PeterMotte @bibliolater @linguistics That might be due to the great vowel shift, though, that's a totally wild guess on my part
@shaedrich @bibliolater @linguistics It's a possibility.
@shaedrich @bibliolater @linguistics Overmorrow I can work with. Ereyesterday seems a bit much and I can see why it is now in the past.
@bibliolater @linguistics Well, English did have words for the day after tomorrow and before yesterday: overmorrow and ereyesterday