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VIDEO
SCRIPT, LISTENING TIPS, & GRAMMAR
So the next
time someone asks you to get married,
you can respond with, “No, I don’t like
to gamble!”
Hello, my dear students! Would
weddings and gambling have a common?
You’ll always loose? Nope!
People love (going) to Vegas, where there’s a lot of gambling? Uh… I guess, but that’s not it. How about // if I told you / that the words ‘to wed’ / and ‘gamble’ /
are closely related. That’ll make
sense, as all weddings // are gamble,
right? But that’s sounds weird. HotForWords // must investigate!
A wedding /
is a ceremony where two people // pledge to marry each other.
The verb ‘to wed’ // comes from old English / and in term
/ comes all the way back from Protegine Germanic, word ‘wadjojan’,
which also means a pledge, a wager, where also got the
words / wager, wage, and engage from. So a wedding
/ is pledge to marry to someone.
But it’s origin, which also means
to make a bet, makes sense now since /
of 50% of marriage end in divorce.
So the next time someone asks you to get married,
you can respond with, “No, I don’t like to gamble!”
There you go,
another mystery solved / by your
trustee, HotForWords. For your homework,
what would you think about the idea
/ of getting married? Please write your
answers // in the comments below. And I will see you all very soon. Bye,
bye my students…. Be good!
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