Getting married... Nooo!Show Video Details ↓ HotForWords: So the next time someone asks you to get married you can respond with, "No, I don't like to gamble." [music] [music] Hello my dear students. Class is in session so let's get started. Be good, be good. Go ahead and subscribe. I promise, I won't bite. [noise] Hello my dear students. What do weddings and gambling have in common? You always lose? Nope. People elope to Vegas where there is a lot of gambling? I guess, but that's not it. How about if I told you that the words "to wed" and "gamble", are closely related? That would make sense as all weddings are a gamble, right? But that still sounds weird. HotForWords must investigate. [music] [music] A wedding is a ceremony where two people pledge to marry each other. The verb to wed comes from old English and, in turn, comes all the way back from the proto-Germanic wadjojan which also means a pledge, a wager, where we also got the words wager, wage and engage from. So a wedding is a pledge to marry someone but its origin, which also means to make a bet, makes sense now since over 50% of marriages end in divorce. [noise] 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 trusty HotForWords. For your homework, what do 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. [music] Be good. [noise] [music] … … … … |