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Misnomers

Vsauce | March 23, 2025

NEW LEANBACK: http://goo.gl/fp5ued VISIT Singapore!!! http://www.yoursingapore.com/ TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants There are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1096663.There_Are_Two_Errors_in_the_the_Title_of_This_Book most hated baby names: http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2011/4/the-most-hated-baby-names-in-america Apple & Orange etymologies: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=orange http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=apple&allowed_in_frame=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word) Fruit vs vegetable: http://www.livescience.com/33991-difference-fruits-vegetables.html Stigler’s Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler’s_law misnomers: http://www.gunther.net.nz/category/words/ http://listverse.com/2014/08/03/10-things-you-didnt-know-were-completely-misnamed/ http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-English/misnomer-01.html http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/feb/23/features11.g21 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WDT19060209.2.4 http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~pjs1/others/miscon.html name format […]

SCIENCE

Is Cereal Soup?

Vsauce | March 22, 2025

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants ***EXTRA INFO AND SOURCES BELOW*** Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3 Great video about English spellings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYplM1QCv0Y soup etymology: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soup reduplication: http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/09/10/ikea_s_bookbook_soy_milk_vs_milk_milk_and_like_liking_contrastive_focus.html http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/redup-corpus.html https://solongasitswords.wordpress.com/tag/tmesis/ reduplication poem “After the Funeral”: http://www.boulevardmagazine.org/Collins.pdf retronyms: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07wwln_safire.t.html morse code translator: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html dog’s bollocks punctuation: http://pittmanlettersproject.com/2013/03/05/the-dogs-bollocks-you-say/ http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/frasers-phrases-the-dogs-bollocks/ emoticon history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History overwhelmed tweet: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/535424574880768000 USA’s […]

NEWS & CULTURE

5 smart and Informative YouTube Channels

92.9 The Torch | February 3, 2025

Some of my favorite YouTubers.This video was sponsored by Skillshare. The first 500 people to sign up via my link will get two FREE months of Skillshare: Premium https://skl.sh/jjmccullough10 CHANNELS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO (in order): Half-asleep Chris: https://www.youtube.com/halfasleepchris Name Explain: https://www.youtube.com/nameexplain Down the Rabbit Hole: https://www.youtube.com/FredrikKnudsen Big Joel: https://www.youtube.com/bigjoel […]

SCIENCE

RIDDLE CHALLENGE – 54321 #2

Vsauce | January 15, 2025

VSauce Facebook — http://www.facebook.com/VsauceGaming ***LINKS*** PROJECT Project #1: Super NES Mod http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-a-Super-NES-into-an-All-In-One-Classic-Video-/ WEIRD PRODUCTS Product #1: Blood Perfume http://www.fragrantica.com/news/BLOOD-Concept-perfumes-related-to-blood-types–2094.html Product #2: Elephant Poop Paper http://www.poopoopaper.com/ BRAND NAMES VS. PRODUCT NAMES http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/32-brands-youve-been-calling-the-wrong-name FACTS Fact #1: Honey http://www.sciensational.com/blog/2007/10/100-pure-honey-facts.html Fact #2:Aegilops http://www.rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml Fact #3: CD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc

SCIENCE

Names

Vsauce | October 20, 2024

FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS ON TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants Kevin is VSAUCE2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 music by: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Top 1000 US first names over time INTERACTIVE: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager surname geographical distribution INTERACTIVE: http://www.worldnames.publicprofiler.org Dolphins using names: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060508_dolphins.html Mental Floss VIDEO: things you didn’t know had names: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJQyj8dSCg US ratification of the Convention […]

MUSIC VIDEOS

Why Musicians Chose Their Stage Names (pt. 1)

92.9 The Torch | October 14, 2024

Build a site with Universe: https://get.onuniverse.com/UnpQ/alfomedia Get 25% Off Universe Pro: https://web.univer.se/promos?promo_code=alfomedia25 — https://alfo-media-shop.fourthwall.com/ https://www.twitch.tv/alfomedia https://www.patreon.com/AlfoMedia https://twitter.com/renshawhs https://www.instagram.com/renshawhs/ — Stage names for artists are always fascinating to me. Whether somebody chooses to use their real name, they come up with something kinda close but still different, or an entirely new […]

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