the silencing of the h
this pesky letter the h or in british
english they say
h which i like i like that th um
sometimes in english we just don't say
it
and it's silent and that's really
confusing
because for an example a horse
we say the h but some words like honest
we don't say honest the h is silent so
let's get into this
the reason why we say the h in horse is
because horses from
uh germanic roots now the crazy thing
about english and why it's so difficult
for everyone
including me is that it's not from
one single language it's from germanic
old english norse uh latin
portuguese french italian
greek we just take all the languages mix
them up and
make you learn them good luck
but i'm here to help you with the silent
h so h shall be silent
in these letters um and
and cool cool i'm going to teach you
actually how to say these words
because some of them we change it to a
k
so this word if you look at it we think
it's
anger
but it's actually anchor an anchor
is usually found on a boat and
it's a thing that we put in the water to
stop the boat from going
so um we don't say and sure we say
anchor now if you look at the the red
letters here this is how i would say the
words and how i would write them
if i could write english let's start a
petition that ronnie
rewrites all of the english words give
me money donations
this is a terrible word for most people
let me break it down for you are
ca before you look to this word and you
go
r e k
i am an rtk do you want me to build your
house
but we say architect the ch
actually sounds like a k same with
anchor
next one we look at our chives oh chives
delicious
the spring onion but we say are
clives so again the ch the h is silent
and the c sounds like a k so oh
archives next one i
love this word i remember being in grade
8
and i said to my friend what is chaos
let's cause some chaos and then my
friend's like
what are you talking about chaos i'm
like chaos you know anarchy chaos and
they're like
you mean chaos oh
well why do they spell it with a ch and
i say chaos and they're like no it's
chaos
so it's k os like australia or austria
hello
hello there so we say chaos next one
you probably say character right you do
i know you do i've heard you you say
character hey you have a good character
ronnie but it's actually
character so again we're taking the
ch we're completely taking out the h
sound and we're making it like a k the c
might begin to make sense for you and
chemical we don't say chemical
we take out the h sound the h is silent
chem ah
don't even worry about the english just
repeat after me chemical
chorus yeah so taurus changes to chorus
chorus is
a group of people that sing together or
your favorite part of every song out
there
wait till it gets to the course you're
doing karaoke you have no idea what
they're singing
and of course comes damn you can sing
that song really well
of course is the rephrase in the song
that everybody knows
uh-oh we just said architect now we're
getting even longer but
texture texture architecture
so we've got the ch again and we've
added
texture architecture good wow this is
getting easier isn't it
ch again changes to a k we say we don't
say
try smith merry christmas everyone we
say christmas
okay so in english sometimes we have a
ch
the k is the h is completely silent and
we pronounce it like a k
are you ready to get just a little bit
crazier
this word echo we say echo
again the ch becomes a k
let's get to where we actually just
don't even say
the h and pretend it doesn't exist
because this is how homophones come into
play
so if we look at this word
the hour we want to say hauer
but we actually have our belonging to
us so this is a homophone our hour
what hour is it is it my hour
ours ghost
we don't say ghost i remember a child as
a child i said mom there's a go host
and i said you don't believe in go hosts
how is there a ghost
oh it's a ghost not a host and i almost
spell it g-o-s-t
but apparently that's wrong i'm going to
put the invisible h
the questions
when we can't say that what are we doing
when when take out the h to say the w
when where
where homophone for
the verb to do with clothes um
are you a witch like for real um
we don't say which homophone which
and which while
it's so hard to make this long
aspirated sound while i like this why
sometimes maybe you get a text message
and there's just a big y
and like why did somebody just put a y
oh guess what because that's
pronunciation of this word
the h is silent w silent and we just say
the
last letter y so why don't we write it
with a y
easier this is fun uh
honest oh honest we don't say
ho ho honest i'm the honiest person here
but we say honest so
this one's always crazy too air you look
at this and go
here are i'm the hair to the throne
but it's actually air and you think how
did that
even cross someone's mind
to make it sound like air but it doesn't
matter because it's a homophone
and it's probably from french thanks
french
if you've noticed french speakers they
have a trouble with the h
they don't say it they're just like
we're never gonna say the h okay
our rules are easier just don't say it
to be great but english goes
you know what we're gonna say it in some
words but not in other words
and in other words we're going to change
it to a k good luck english learners
brings us to grammar have you ever
studied the
terrible articles articles are
ah and and
i've done lessons on them check them out
articles
ronnie okay this will maybe make sense
to you now
so why do we have to say
an hour when
clearly this isn't a vowel it's an h but
because the h
is silent it makes a vowel sound so we
have to be careful
an hour and hour
an honest woman so again
we're not saying the h so because it
makes a vowel sound
we have to put the article and
and an honor it is an
honor for me to be here today check out
this spelling
i'm canadian so i like to put extra
letters and extra vowels
to make it easier now to make it more
difficult for you
we say honor now american
english they're going to put easier oh
americans english is better
honor so british english and canadian
english
we like to add the extra you
and american english may take out the
use thank you
thank you i like this better and we have
this word again
an air
and still i i'm still not comfortable
with this how is this
even like the thing that we breathe in
air
and what is an air anyways how what
what ronnie you so an air
is basically let me explain this
we have a king or a queen yay they die
by
their heir would be their
son usually daughters don't usually get
the kingdom ship
so the heir would be someone who
receives money or property
from a dead person yeah that's kind of
creepy now maybe it's creepy and it says
air and that's
the purpose of it but you can have an
heir to the throne and heir to the
kingdom
if somebody's parents die you know not
somebody's parents oh my god
if your parents die don't want them to
die but when they do they will
you would be an heir to their property
if they have it
and you should give it to me so here's a
new deal
if your parents have many properties and
you're just like oh i don't know what to
do with all these properties
please donate them to ronnie ingvid okay
you can hit me up at my website english
is ronnie.com
i accept all donations of anything
property cars
money artwork doesn't matter send it to
me i will be your heir
oh i'm so nice i know okay cool so
never mind the h just take it out
completely
change it to a k but use it in some
words
yeah i hope that confused you more and
i'm going to study a dictionary goodbye