Better Living Through Verner’s Law

"You see, Frankie, the more you know about the rules of early Germanic prosody, the more rewarding life can be.”

I never realized there was so much potential for humor in Verner’s Law, but fortunately Ari Hoptman did.

The next two parts after the jump.

This last video gets pretty dry, so unless you are really interested in the mechanisms of consonant shifts in early Germanic languages, you may want to skip ahead to the last two minutes.

Hat tip to Mr. Verb.