Hi this is Tutor Nick p and this is Lesson 601. The title of today's lesson is the difference
between munch and chomp. Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot, do right now. Let's get right to
it. Both munch and chomp mean to eat noisily. So so there is a little bit of a crossover
and even some native speakers sometimes use them close to interchangeably,
but there is a slight difference between them and I'm going to give you hints when
you're more likely to use one than the other in certain situations. So let's continue.
If a person munches on food , he or she eats it by chewing it many times thoroughly often
making crunching sounds. So when you're munching you're chewing a lot more. (chewing motions)
Kind of like that. If someone chomps on something, it usually starts with a big bite. So you think
kind of like that. And then is to noisily if eaten usually swallowed more quickly and in bigger gulps
than munch. All right. Now I said if eaten, because sometimes with animals, an animal might
chomp off another piece of an animal or a human and they may not swallow it. It may
end up either getting spit out or perhaps it was torn and it falls you know, trying to fight off an
animal or something like that. So something could be chomped off and not definitely 100
actually eaten and swallowed. Even though most of the time when people do chomp they do swallow and
eat it as well. Let's continue . Both could be types of onomatopoeias. All right. Remember
that it has kind of the sound. Originally so munch is more like when you're
munch, munch, munch ... Even though the mouth is usually closed. Kind of like that. And that is
supposed to sound more like munching. It tends to be more with a closed mouth and tends to be chewed
longer in order to be swallowed more easily. So when we munch on things we're breaking it in our
mouth more so that when we swallow it, it will go down easier. All right. Let's continue. We often
munch on snacks you know, such as pretzels, potato chips.... Yeah. Anything that you could buy like
from a convenience store where you bite it and you hear a little crack and then you chew it more
and then you could swallow it down. This is ....we often use it for that. Hard fruit such as guava.
Yeah. Or apples this is another one too. Sometimes when I cover munch by itself. You know, because
sometimes students confuse munch and chew . If if for example I've seen sometimes writers say that
they're munching on a banana. And I think that's kind of improper because banana is very silent.
You're not really hearing a lot of noise. Where when you bite ....when you're biting guava you're
breaking it an apple so you're more likely to say munch with those. All right. Let's continue. Munch
is more focused on chewing again. Still you got to chew it. You got to break it down into
your mouth. So you can swallow it more easily. All right. Chomp is usually started with a large bite
as though one needs to use their teeth to bite something off. And it's often thought of as more
violent and swallowed more quickly. So so there is some difference between chomp
and munch. Let's continue. Thus, the wider one needs to open one's mouth,
the harder something is to bite off, the more likely one may use chomp instead of munch. Okay.
Chomping is often associated with animals such as sharks, crocodiles or even the animated video game
character , Pac-man. All right. Let's continue. All right. And we got six examples to show just
how it's used. I was munching on some peanuts as a snack. Yeah. We definitely say munch on things
like peanuts. And peanuts, peanuts generally are pretty small. So we're not usually saying chomping
because we don't have to bite it off. They're very small to begin with , but you do want to
break them down. You can't swallow those peanuts whole. They'll probably get caught in your throat.
They may make you start coughing and choking. So you really do have to bite them and break them up.
All right. Let's continue. Number two. That sheep was munching on some grass. Yeah.
Something like that. Again a lot of chewing. Number three here. I like to munch on some popcorn
in the movie theater. Yeah. So you still still hear some noise when they're chewing
on that. Okay good. Number four. That shark chomped off that diver's arm. So again this
is another example where you say somebody might chomp something off. Again, this is an example
where he may or he may or may not have eaten the arm. I don't know, but he definitely bit it off.
Number five. He chomped his way through that large Subway sandwich or submarine sandwich.
Yeah. Basically , Subway , that is the name of the food shop , but we say a submarine sandwich.
The long one. Yeah. So again the bigger the sandwich, the more likely you might use the
word chomp. You know, you have to open your mouth wider. If you remember, the old, and a
cartoon you know in the newspaper Dagwood he used to try to make those really big sandwiches.
So you definitely might use chomp for that. All right. And the last one here. Pac-man likes to
chomp on power pellets. Well if you ever played the video game Pac-man , you see Pac-man's mouth
opens really wide. So they usually do use the word chomp with Pac-man. Of course, Pac-man is a very
noisy game. Anyway , anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it is clear. I hope you got a better feel
of when you're more likely to use either munch or chop. Now thank you for your time. Bye-bye.