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Welcome to Name Explain! A channel all about the origin of names, as well as looking into words, language, and communication as a whole.

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11:38

A Hyphen Broke Czechoslovakia

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Shared 2 days ago

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11:28

Why Are These The Oldest Words?

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Shared 4 days ago

6.6K views

10:27

Why This Clock Is Called Drunk

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Shared 6 days ago

2.2K views

2:27

My Proudest Achievement

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Shared 1 week ago

2.8K views

10:32

The Tragic Origins Of Louisiana French

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Shared 1 week ago

4.8K views

33:06

A Weird & Sweaty Q&A

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Shared 1 week ago

1.5K views

8:08

Why Are There So Many Words For Hunger?

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Shared 1 week ago

2.3K views

10:42

How Transgender People Change Their Name

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Shared 2 weeks ago

7K views

11:19

Marvel & DC Characters With The Same Name

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Shared 2 weeks ago

29K views

9:19

The Many Names Of The Sub Sandwich

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Shared 2 weeks ago

3K views

11:01

The Lost & Secret Language Of Alchemy

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Shared 3 weeks ago

22K views

11:27

How Yiddish Shaped English

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Shared 3 weeks ago

9.1K views

8:01

Leopards & Cheetahs Had The Same Name?

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Shared 3 weeks ago

4.3K views

11:53

Every MLB Team Name Origin

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Shared 1 month ago

6K views

10:03

Why Do Chinese People Use English Names?

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Shared 1 month ago

28K views

8:24

How Nuclear War Gave Us The Bikini

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Shared 1 month ago

3.7K views

10:59

How Religions Got Their Names

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Shared 1 month ago

9.8K views

10:20

There's Words For Losing Other Senses?

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Shared 1 month ago

148K views

9:06

The Truth Behind The Longest City Name

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Shared 1 month ago

3.2K views

11:25

Why Is Eight Spelt Like That?

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Shared 1 month ago

16K views

10:40

Pasta Names Are Wild

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Shared 1 month ago

14K views

8:41

Overlook Is A Weird Word

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Shared 1 month ago

2.7K views

9:08

Do Croatia & Serbia Speak The Same Language?

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Shared 1 month ago

14K views

8:11

Last Names Around The World

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Shared 1 month ago

9.3K views

8:50

How We Name Nuts

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Shared 1 month ago

4.7K views

10:20

Why Does The UK Have So Many Accents?

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Shared 2 months ago

77K views

10:55

How Disney Name Their Theme Parks

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Shared 2 months ago

3.6K views

8:03

What’s Actually Called A Bug?

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Shared 2 months ago

4.1K views

10:36

Italy Is Called WHAT In Hungarian?!

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Shared 2 months ago

54K views

11:54

Why I & l Look The Same On Your Screen

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Shared 2 months ago

37K views

8:01

How We Named Time

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Shared 2 months ago

6.9K views

11:12

How Does The Pope Choose Their Name?

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Shared 2 months ago

129K views

8:17

History's Weirdest Titles

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Shared 2 months ago

5.3K views

10:48

The Nerdiest Animal Names

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Shared 2 months ago

3.7K views

13:56

Eating Candy Bars & Explaining Their Names

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Shared 2 months ago

4.3K views

8:59

Where Did The Scottish Accent Come From?

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Shared 3 months ago

16K views

10:04

The Prefix That's Secretly Everywhere

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Shared 3 months ago

63K views

8:25

Why Is Cricket The Name Of A Sport & Bug?

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Shared 3 months ago

6K views

10:32

The Worst Country Name

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Shared 3 months ago

62K views

9:35

Who Gets To Name Water?

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Shared 3 months ago

12K views

8:45

Why Is Squash The Name Of A Sport & Vegetable?

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Shared 3 months ago

3.4K views

10:28

UK City Names Explained

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Shared 3 months ago

11K views

10:05

How Numbers Became Letters

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Shared 3 months ago

7.4K views

10:16

How Alien Species Were Named

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Shared 3 months ago

4.8K views

10:28

Why Philippines Is Spelt PH & Filipino F

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Shared 3 months ago

25K views

12:06

Words That Sound Like EVERY Letter Of The Alphabet

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Shared 4 months ago

138K views

9:34

Weird British Idioms

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Shared 4 months ago

7.8K views

11:30

The Only Country That Speaks Japanese Isn't Japan

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Shared 4 months ago

171K views

8:52

The Pronunciation Rule You Don’t Know You Follow

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Shared 4 months ago

6K views

6:43

How The World Says Goodbye

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Shared 4 months ago

4.1K views

10:21

Wait, Simon Says Was A Real Guy?

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Shared 4 months ago

7.5K views

10:10

English's Native American Words

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Shared 4 months ago

12K views

9:35

Compound Words That Used To Make Sense

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Shared 4 months ago

54K views

11:47

What Age Are We In Now?

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Shared 4 months ago

10K views

12:13

Outdated Disease Names

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Shared 4 months ago

10K views

9:25

Potato Names Are Weird

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Shared 4 months ago

6K views

9:28

The Sexiest Language

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Shared 4 months ago

8.9K views

10:28

How Hindi Shaped English

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Shared 5 months ago

16K views

8:02

The Many Names Of Government

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Shared 5 months ago

5K views

10:03

Where Did The Infinity Symbol Come From?

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Shared 5 months ago

9.9K views

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