James Harkin

That's a really good point.

That's a really good point.

But she was at the age of 10, she did this test, which apparently gave her an IQ of 228.

She became extremely famous.

And for her work, she spent more than 20 years as an agony aunt answering people's dilemmas.

Emotional intelligence, you see.

So it must be something physical you can do in the room to quickly improve the blood flow to your brain, for example, like shaking your head really fast.

Mr. Harker and Mr. Murray were asked to leave the IQ seminar.

Put pencils up your nose.

My fact is, by the year 1600, everyone's tongues were slightly higher in their mouths than in the year 1400 and nobody knows why.

not that high split the difference oh so it's on that because when you said this I thought it was like in the palette but it's not that it's well okay this is a thing that is one of the most bizarre elements of the English language and it's really well established that it happened in our language you know other languages around the world may definitely have had it

But it's a thing that started in roughly the 15th century and lasted for roughly 200 years where everyone started saying a particular kind of letter, long vowels.

So that's things like the A in cake rather than the O in hot.

That's a short vowel.

Yeah.

So if it sounds like the vowel, A, cake, it's a long vowel.

Yeah, yeah.

which by the way is impossible to teach to kids like i'm teaching my daughter how to read right now and she keeps reading the words slightly wrong i'm like no that it is actually an eye this is exactly it if you're teaching anyone to read like a child you have to in english you have to keep saying no that's just one of these funny things because you can't talk about the great vowel shift which is what this is called but

Basically, Middle English, you would hold vowels for a long time, and then people started moving their tongues slightly differently while saying these long vowels, and it caught on.

And there is not a guaranteed explanation of why this happened.