Name: This Man Can Pronounce Every Word in the Dictionary
Uploaded: 2018-08-22T09:02:19.000Z
Duration: 3 min 35 s
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Basic passive voice

You see, when Jacques Bailly pronounces a word,

- [Narrator] He can pronounce this thing.

- [Narrator] And when you're that damn good with words,

sooner or later, someone's gonna pay you to say 'em.

the official pronouncer of the National Spelling Bee.

as the world's foremost pronouncer of persnickety words,

and in 1980, he found himself in the finals

Twenty-three years later, Jacques had elucubrated

meticulous pronunciations don't tell the whole story.

- English words are not always spelled as they sound.

One thing that makes English words really hard to spell

the schwa is that uh, like in butter or unutterable.

take the state fish of Hawaii, the humuhumunuku, ah,

that's an easy word to spell, it's just long,

it's a weird word and weird things stand out

the most legitimate claim as the authority on pronunciation,

to the right and wrong ways to say things.

that I know how to pronounce all these words,

but I don't, I read them from the dictionary.

Well, how does the dictionary know how to pronounce a word?

Because they go out there and listen to native speakers,

that there's an incorrect way to pronounce a word,

but it's like saying that dog barked wrong,

that's not a bark, well, the dog gets to decide.

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This Man Can Pronounce Every Word in the Dictionary

weird

pronunciation

approach

bunch