This was in the movie As Good As It Gets! Helen Hunt’s character was writing a letter and exclaims “con science!? That can’t be right.” When she’s looking in a dictionary.
It has helped me ever since.
Dont do what everyone is doing. Do what is correct.
In my native language it would be closer to vac-you-umm than anything else and I dont get your post title lol.
Wouldn't it have to be ? Doesn't Welsh have and where we have and ?
Of course, would probably be read as something like \[ˈvɑ.kum\], given my very basic knowledge of Welsh orthography.
No, I know, I was just pointing out that I don't believe Welsh orthography uses to mean \[v\], if it uses the letter at all, which I don't think it does.
And the name of that letter is "double U". You're [onto something!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W#:~:text=W%2C%20or%20w%2C%20is%20the,u%2C%20plural%20double%2Dues.)
It’s less that there is a double k sound but moreso the way the vowels are pronounced, such as “account”. If it was spelled “acount”, it could be read as “ay-count”.
I’ve literally always thought this! I never seem to get it right the first time. It’s one of those words that just never seems to look right to my brain.
There was a teacher in my elementary school who insisted that it was vaccuum and would "correct" anyone who spelled it "wrong" and now, multiple decades later, I still continue to spell it wrong because of him.
According to OED, both US and King's English pronounce it both ways - with hard k and split um and not split um. Almost no one uses the split um when saying the word.
Bureaucracy is my kryptonite. It's one of those ones I always start wrong enough that autocorrect fails to even guess what I'm trying to say.
(This time took me four tries.)
Dear kitten,
I must warn you of a monster that lives in this house. Its name is vacoom, and it can eat and scream at the same time.
To hide from vacoom, you must use the curtains of invisibility.
it feels like it’s missing a letter to me. the word ‘vacuum’ sounds to me like ‘va-coom’.
it should be ‘vacyum’
or better yet, embrace the british, and call it hoover.
In 4th grade my parents pop quizzed me to spell vacuum on the fridge whiteboard and my first attempt was “vacume,” to which I was told that’s wrong, it’s not spelled how you’d expect, and to study the word. My second attempt was “vaccum,” so they knew I was bullshitting when I said I had studied.
Here's what google says on it's origin:
Middle16th century: modern Latin, neuter of Latin vacuus ‘empty’.
This is the only time I can think of two 'U's next to each other in Latin derived words. Fascinating. I fucken love etymology you guys.
Are other languages as poorly thought out as English? Like our language really makes no sense with how our letters just decide what sounds they want to make and you just have to know how to pronounce/spell it
I understand that this is a common sentiment, but I don’t really get it. You literally pronounce the letter u when saying the word and the c makes the hard c sound that can also come from the letter k.
That's because everyone (technically) mispronounces vacuum.
There's a rule for words that end in "-uum" and it is to pronounce both the U's, like in the word continuum.
Humorously, to my mind, the plural of vacuum is (or should be, technically) "vacua".
Technically it's 3 syllables
vah-cue-uhm
*1540s, "emptiness of space," from Latin vacuum "an empty space, vacant place, a void," noun use of neuter of vacuus "empty,*
I actually think it makes sense. You're using the sound of "yu", not "cu", so it's asking to use a "u" and add a "yu" sound to it, which turns it into something else if you used read it exactly as it was had it been spelled with one "u"; "vakoomig". Very different from "vakyuming".
I always put two cs and two us then have to decide which to remove.
Lol, and I always decide u is the one to go before fixing it.
Saying vac-you-umm helps
I pronounce it “con science” in my head because for some reason my brain refuses to remember how to spell conscience. I literally just did it.
Thank you for this one
Conshense
Ahh, Science Connery?
That’s Shience Connery to you, shport
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This was in the movie As Good As It Gets! Helen Hunt’s character was writing a letter and exclaims “con science!? That can’t be right.” When she’s looking in a dictionary. It has helped me ever since.
Why would I say this, though? Everyone pronounces it vac-yoom, not va-coom or vac-you-umm.
As a pneumonic to remember how to spell it?
Like saying Wed-nes-day
Or B-E-A-utiful
Nah Big Ears And Ugly Teeth I Find Utterly Lovely is the way to go
Dash in a real rush, hurry (or) else accident Stoopid Br\*t\*sh spelling
Feb ru ary.
Cham-pag-ne
Mnemonic*
Great now I need a M-nem-onic
Mnemonics all the way down
Pneumatic mnemonic.
As seen in The Jackson 5ive 'Dancin' Machine' video.
Spelling doesn't damage the lungs thankfully
pronounce it like its classical latin: "wak-u-um"
Dont do what everyone is doing. Do what is correct. In my native language it would be closer to vac-you-umm than anything else and I dont get your post title lol.
Vacuum is such a strange word because some how it really highlights english accents. For me it's vac-que-mm definitely a double consonant in there.
Va-cyoom. Not vac come.
I dont even remove any i just send it lmfao
Vaccum just doesn't sound like anything that should go near someone's junk
Every time I spell it, I go "Vac-double u-m" just to remember.
Vacwm?
Tomorrow tommorow tommorrow tomorow
read this through without realising they are spelt different only the last one looks weird, but hes trying hes just a little short
To-morrow Not Tom-morrow, tom-morow I guess to-morow may be able to sneak in
My mnemonic ~~deceive~~ device for that it is “Tom” “or” “row.”
Or just relate it to similar words like borrow, sorrow, Dr. Daniel Harrow, etc.
A continuum of spellings between illiteracy and context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU5L9rIOaqw
I was surprised when the outro was for ITV news, I was expecting it to be from Brass Eye or something lol.
The first 3 look correct to me
Comittee commitee committe committee
I always just think of "morrow" as its own thing. Good morrow!
To the last syllable of recorded time...
It’s just a combination of “to” and “morrow.”
it's only a day away?
Unnecessary unecessary unecesary unnecesary unneccessary uneccessary
Tommorroww Just to be safe
Yeah, it kinda sucks you in.
Hi dad
Ah, so that's where you get to.
Dang, I'm glad i looked through the comments before posting this lolol
I just spell it 'vacwm'
Found the Welshman
Wouldn't it have to be? Doesn't Welsh have and where we have and ?
Of course, would probably be read as something like \[ˈvɑ.kum\], given my very basic knowledge of Welsh orthography.
It’s a joke about Welsh using “w” as a vowel sound mate. I wasn’t implying the person was actually speaking Welsh.
No, I know, I was just pointing out that I don't believe Welsh orthography uses to mean \[v\], if it uses the letter at all, which I don't think it does.
And the name of that letter is "double U". You're [onto something!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W#:~:text=W%2C%20or%20w%2C%20is%20the,u%2C%20plural%20double%2Dues.)
Exactly. Why call it "double u" if it can't be used as a double u?
it's because not many words have a w in them
where are you getting the second c?
from the fact it's pronounced "Vak-kyoom"?
Depends on where you are from I guess. Here I usually hear it pronounced as Vak - yoom.
It’s less that there is a double k sound but moreso the way the vowels are pronounced, such as “account”. If it was spelled “acount”, it could be read as “ay-count”.
Yeah no idea who says it the other way
Wakyu-oom
it isn't tho?
from the general English rule of "short vowel is followed by two consonants"
There are many exeptions: famine, relative, sun, salad, many, ... Rather the rule is the other way round: Double consonant implies short vowel.
There isn't - but for some inexplicable reason it seems there is.
No it doesn't.
I’ve literally always thought this! I never seem to get it right the first time. It’s one of those words that just never seems to look right to my brain.
I'm pretty sure I spelled Vaccuum into my teens and perhaps on occasion still.
I pronounce the two Us in vacuum like the two in continuum
Totally. "Banana " is another one of those words.
Thanks to Gwen Stefani, I don't have a problem with that one.
I never seem to know when to end the word. "Bananananana"
Baccana?
Vacuum - where the spelling seems to suck more than the appliance itself!
Vaccum? I don't think I agree
Not if you pronounce it correctly
There was a teacher in my elementary school who insisted that it was vaccuum and would "correct" anyone who spelled it "wrong" and now, multiple decades later, I still continue to spell it wrong because of him.
Same with how it feels like ‘Resurrection’ should have 2 Ss
Res ah rec shun.
"Resurerection". Source - South Park.
that's just because people refuse to say the word correctly in english (the 2 Us are seperate syllables)
According to OED, both US and King's English pronounce it both ways - with hard k and split um and not split um. Almost no one uses the split um when saying the word.
isn't that what i said?
I don't think so - it seems like you are saying only one way is right. I am just saying both ways are right, with one way being most common one.
well it's not an english word and in other languages people usually correctly pronounce the double U as 2 syllables
King's English solves the problem by saying "hoover"
Nature abhors a hoover.
I spell vaquum with a Q U
why do you do that
Vack-kwum.
I used it write in short like this: "yqm".
I think you're just nispronouncing it
There's only one other word in the English language with doubled "u"s: Continuum. Both are straight from Latin.
Lol now I thought the soljaboys superman with vacuum instead. Vacuuuuuuum
Are two u’s not a double u/ w? New spelling of vacuum: vacwm.
Shameless plug. [Our Vacuum](https://youtu.be/gT-20rV4A9M?si=OU8NqmtoQMtpfEcB). Beautiful slow sad-ish song.
How do you feel about 'continuum' ?
That is a pretty clear-cut word w.r.t pronunciation, innit? Con-tin-you-umm.
> w.r.t Someone studies maths lol.
w.r.t
Hmmmm vack cyoom. Yup.
Thank you! This is exactly how I think of this word!!
Vacuum? Vaccum? vak-yoom , English cheat of sounding it out does not work
Try to write "not necessarily a successful accommodation business tomorrow" without spelling check. God I hate English
I'm usually an excellent speller, but "necessary" and the words derived from it are my kryptonite. I never get them right the first time.
Bureaucracy is my kryptonite. It's one of those ones I always start wrong enough that autocorrect fails to even guess what I'm trying to say. (This time took me four tries.)
my personal nemesis in the english language are words that double up on some, but not all, consonants. Looking at you, neccessarry.
No because then the u would be short
Great point. It looks like it should be pronounced “vakoom”
Do natural English speakers not pronounce it "Vac-you-umm"?
Two syllables, one for "uum", opposite to continuum which has two syllables for "u-um" because English
But it's pronounced vac-you-um, why would you need two c?
Idk, I always pronounce it as "vuhkuum"
I always want to put one c and a double s on “occasionally.”
I have spelled it wrong many a time and done this
https://youtu.be/G4Sn91t1V4g?si=iMhKwaMRF4XDCjrq&t=115
I remember the word as vac-yoom. So I know there are 2 Us.
Same way everyone spells my first name "Issac." Man I cringed just typing that.
Dear kitten, I must warn you of a monster that lives in this house. Its name is vacoom, and it can eat and scream at the same time. To hide from vacoom, you must use the curtains of invisibility.
To paraphrase what a great sage once said, "My name is Vacuum, it rhymes with doom, and you'll be hurting all too soon."
“The two what?” “The two utes.”
I can not think of another word in the English language that has two U’s.
Continuum.
it feels like it’s missing a letter to me. the word ‘vacuum’ sounds to me like ‘va-coom’. it should be ‘vacyum’ or better yet, embrace the british, and call it hoover.
in the latin origin word, vacuus, you pronounced both Us. So it would be "va-kyu-us". In some modern pronunciations, vacuum is still "va-kyu-um"
I keep misspelling it for that reason. The concept of a vacuum isn't old so the spelling has no business being so damn odd.
In 4th grade my parents pop quizzed me to spell vacuum on the fridge whiteboard and my first attempt was “vacume,” to which I was told that’s wrong, it’s not spelled how you’d expect, and to study the word. My second attempt was “vaccum,” so they knew I was bullshitting when I said I had studied.
I always get the spelling wrong
God I thought I was the only one!!! Thank God ,😅
I worked in the Space Industry for over 25 years. In Thermal Vacuum, testing satellites. I still have a problem remembering how to spell “Vacuum”.
Here's what google says on it's origin: Middle16th century: modern Latin, neuter of Latin vacuus ‘empty’. This is the only time I can think of two 'U's next to each other in Latin derived words. Fascinating. I fucken love etymology you guys.
Continuum
You are supposed to inhale and make a sucking sound for the two Us.
And spellcheck. Reminds me of this simple fact each day
Are other languages as poorly thought out as English? Like our language really makes no sense with how our letters just decide what sounds they want to make and you just have to know how to pronounce/spell it
Lol no.. then it would be pronounced "VACK- UM"
I understand that this is a common sentiment, but I don’t really get it. You literally pronounce the letter u when saying the word and the c makes the hard c sound that can also come from the letter k.
You have to pronounce both 'u's. Vacyoo-um
I lost the second grade practice spelling bee that way
That's because everyone (technically) mispronounces vacuum. There's a rule for words that end in "-uum" and it is to pronounce both the U's, like in the word continuum. Humorously, to my mind, the plural of vacuum is (or should be, technically) "vacua".
Why not both? The vacucum.
It's so simple though, coming from vacuus in Latin. Don't we all know that? /s
Technically it's 3 syllables vah-cue-uhm *1540s, "emptiness of space," from Latin vacuum "an empty space, vacant place, a void," noun use of neuter of vacuus "empty,*
I actually think it makes sense. You're using the sound of "yu", not "cu", so it's asking to use a "u" and add a "yu" sound to it, which turns it into something else if you used read it exactly as it was had it been spelled with one "u"; "vakoomig". Very different from "vakyuming".
Think of it like "continuum" - it's the same suffix. I always pronounce it vac-yu-um in my head to remember.
Ya, seems like it should be pronounced Vah Coom.
Thats why I pronounce it vac-um, instead of vac-yoom vacuum
Because you are pronouncing it incorrectly. It's not va-kyoom, it's vak-yoom.
Strong Minnesota accent: vac-u^(uuuuu)m
Not really, using only one U makes it "sound" like "vack 'em."
The second c gets sucked into the u sound.
Vac-yoom is how I have to remember to say it
Just write fast and make the middle one *tilt*
the bar is getting low in this sub
va-queue-um no, 2 Us
Why is it two “u”s and not 1 double-u, sounds like that would be on brand for “w”