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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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03:27
We have 13 degrees today.
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13 Celsius.
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It is really starting to feel as if spring is in the air.
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Even the daffodils in the garden seem extra happy today.
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Yes, it is a nice warm England
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and you are welcome to join in on today's live chat.
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This is English addict.
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Coming to you live and direct from the birthplace of the English language
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which just happens to be England
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We are back together
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I hope you are feeling well.
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I hope you are feeling super duper today.
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Hi, everybody.
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This is Mr. Duncan.
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In England, you may have heard of me in the distant past.
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I started out on YouTube in 2006.
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And guess what? I'm still here doing it.
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Even though a lot of people don't seem to realise that I'm still here.
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Many people think I'm dead, but I'm not.
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I'm still here very much alive, very much
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well and very much
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teaching English here on YouTube.
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So that is what I do.
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I like to come on to the Internet to show my
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face.
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Some people say, Mr. Duncan, how dare you?
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How dare you show your face?
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I'm having my breakfast.
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You. You are putting me off my food.
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Sometimes that can happen.
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Hello, everyone. Yes, we are back together.
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It is Wednesday.
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We are having a super, super Wednesday.
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It is very nice to be here.
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And of course, as I always ask if you can give me a lovely like if you like this already.
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Maybe you've only been watching for the past 2 minutes and already
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you are madly in love with this.
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Please give me a like that would be ever so nice.
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So that is the introduction over.
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And yes, we have made it all the way to Wednesday.
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It is nice to see you here.
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For those learning English, for those
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who want to practice the English listening,
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it is a very good way of doing it.
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Listening to someone speaking English
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or any language for that matter, spontaneously.
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This is spontaneous.
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I don't know what's going to happen next.
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You don't know either.
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And I have to say, it does make it a little bit
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more exciting.
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Nice to see the live chat is always and already, as usual, busy.
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Hello to Vitesse.
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You are first on today's live chat
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again
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between
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we will have to give some sort of award to Vitesse.
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Maybe, maybe some sort of Oscar instead of an Oscar.
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It will be a finger clicking like this
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because Vitesse has a very fast finger.
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I think so.
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It is very nice to see you here. Vitesse.
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Also, we have we have Louis Mendez
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is here today.
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Hello, Louis.
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Nice to see you back as well.
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I hope you are feeling super duper.
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My friend is here as well, watching in India.
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Hello to India.
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It is nice to see you here today.
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Also, we have Ma wah
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ma wal.
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It's nice to see you back.
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It feels like a long time since I last saw you here on the live chat.
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So it is nice to have you back here as well.
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Who else is here, pal?
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Mira is here as well.
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Nice to see you back.
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Also, Beatriz is here.
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We also have Curitiba, October.
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Hello to you as well.
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Thank you very much for joining me.
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Your time is very precious.
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My time is also very precious.
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I give my time to you for free.
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So I hope you feel free to join today's live chat.
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We have a very interesting subject coming up today.
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Now, as you know, I love English words
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and the way in which they can be used sometimes words that start out
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as a certain type of word
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can become used in a different way
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or even have a completely different context.
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Today we are looking at brand names or trademarks.
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Sometimes names when you want to sell
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something that you created yourself, quite often
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you will create your own brand.
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For example, I like to think that this here
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is my little brand.
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So my brand is English addict.
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And of course it has a lovely smiley face as well.
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So you might say that this is a type of brand.
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It is something that is easily recognisable,
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but also something created individually,
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in this case by me.
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So brands appear everywhere.
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When you go shopping, you might look on the supermarket shelf,
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you might have your favourite brand,
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something you always buy, maybe
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a certain type of breakfast cereal,
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maybe a certain type of washing powder,
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a certain thing that you always buy your favourite brand.
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So quite often branding
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is a very good way of getting people to buy your product
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because it is easily recognised.
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However, over the years these trademarks
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or brands have slowly
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become used in different ways.
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So it is possible for some things that we see or use or buy,
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or maybe something we have contact with in our everyday life.
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It is possible to suddenly use that particular
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brand, the actual name in different ways.
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So we are looking at that today. I think
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it's an interesting subject and I hope you do too.
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Hello to everyone.
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The garden is looking nice, as I mentioned a few moments ago.
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We have lovely high temperatures today all over the country.
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And apparently next week it might be
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in the twenties
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already.
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So we are approaching halfway through March.
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So we might actually be getting high temperatures.
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So I couldn't resist going out into the garden this morning and filming
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a few video clips on my mobile phone.
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look at that. So this is this morning.
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And you will see now many of the daffodils in the garden are now coming out.
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A beautiful sight this time of year.
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The beautiful, easily recognisable
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yellow flowers of the daffodil.
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There are many different types of daffodil.
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Of course, there are some that are yellow and white,
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some that are large, and some that are very small.
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You can see there that some of the daffodils have not come out yet.
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They are starting to come out.
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So there you can see some daffodil bits
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and then eventually they will all open and look like this.
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Isn't that lovely?
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Not only that, I noticed also in the garden this morning,
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there were some bumble
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bees as well buzzing around.
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And there you can see a very
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early bumble bee
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buzzing around on the heather.
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So not only are the daffodils coming out, but also the bumblebees
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are starting to buzz around as well.
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So that is what I saw this morning.
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I couldn't resist going outside to show you that
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because it made me smile.
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I have to say, it did bring a big smile to my face if I was honest with you.
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Hello to
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Mahendra Rawat.
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Hello to you. Also, we have Claudia.
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Welcome back, Claudia.
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It is nice to see you here.
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I hope everything is all right.
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I know everything will not be perfect at the moment,
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but we are here to keep a smile on your face.
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Hopefully. By the way.
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Can I tell you something personal?
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Do you mind if I tell you something personal?
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I don't normally talk about my personal things,
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but I'm going to now my back to the tooth.
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At the top.
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At the back of my mouth is really annoying me.
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In fact, I had a very strange thought last night.
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I wanted to pull my back tooth out.
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I wanted it to come out.
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I was very tempted
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to take
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some tools, something to hold on to my tooth so I could
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pull it out.
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Is that a strange thing to want to do?
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But it does annoy me because it's a little bit loose and sometimes it's painful.
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Not all the time, but sometimes.
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So last night I had this crazy fantasy
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about pulling this tooth out,
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getting rid of it once and for all.
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Personally speaking,
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it's probably not a good idea.
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I'm sure Claudia will tell me that as well on the live chat
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that it is not a good idea
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to pull your own teeth out.
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But sometimes you just think, it annoys me so much.
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And last night I nearly did it.
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I nearly pulled my tooth out.
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Hello, Also.
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Who else is here today?
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I don't want to miss anyone else.
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Any of my lovely regulars.
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It is nice to see you all here today.
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The daffodils this year.
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Can I just say the garden is looking a little bit strange at the moment because the daffodils
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all look different.
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They look as if they don't actually want to come out.
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This year, they seem a little weak.
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And I think it is because we've had a very
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mild, wet winter.
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In fact, here in the UK, we have had the wettest
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February ever.
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So last month was the wettest February
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we've ever had in recorded history.
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Can you believe it?
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But it is true.
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Claudia says maybe you have a cavity.
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It isn't a cavity, but I know what you mean.
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It is actually the tooth itself.
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It is.
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It has become loose and it happens, you see, as you get older.
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Sometimes it happens.
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Maybe one or two of your teeth will start to become loose.
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So I have one at the back of my mouth, and it really annoys me.
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Sometimes at night I'm in bed and I can feel it moving around
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as I lying down and it's very annoying.
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So I kind of I tell you,
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last night I nearly pulled it out.
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It is probably not a good idea.
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I do not advise anyone
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to pull their own teeth out, so I haven't done it.
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I nearly did it.
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But I managed to stop myself in time
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because it may have been reckless of me to do it.
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Something that is reckless.
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If you do something reckless, it means you do something
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that might be dangerous or outrageous or something
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that might cause harm to yourself
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or someone around you, something reckless.
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So last night I nearly did something reckless.
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I nearly pulled one of my own teeth out.
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But I didn't.
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I managed not to. But they are annoying.
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You need your teeth.
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But they are so annoying.
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I think of all of the parts of my body.
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The most.
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The most annoying part of my body is my teeth.
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And I don't know why.
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I just find it so annoying.
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You have to clean them all the time
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and then sometimes they become painful.
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And if you are like me, if you enjoy drinking coffee,
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sometimes the coffee will stain your teeth.
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And then you have to go to the dentist.
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You have to have them cleaned.
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And there is always something going on with your teeth.
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So I do find teeth quite annoying.
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Am I?
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Am I the only one that feels like that?
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Am I being weird today?
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Please let me know if I am being a little bit weird.
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Claudia says you must go to the dentist.
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Well, I did go to the dentist, and the dentist said that they could
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put something around the tooth so it wasn't loose.
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But they wanted me to pay £180 to do it.
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And I asked, Will it stop the tooth from falling out?
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And she said, No.
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I thought, Well, I don't think
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I'm going to pay £180, to be honest,
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to have some work done
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on a tooth that will eventually fall out anyway.
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So I'm not criticising dentists,
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I'm not criticising dentists because here
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in the UK it is very expensive
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to go to the dentist, incredibly expensive.
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So that is all I'm saying for now.
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Hello everyone.
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It is nice to see so many people here on the live chat Wednesday.
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A lot of people do forget Wednesday.
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I am here with you every Wednesday from 2 p.m.
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UK time, so don't worry.
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Palmira says, Did you know that hundreds of emigres emigres I think you do.
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You mean immigrants or people who emigrated from East
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Europe had worked in fields of daffodils collecting.
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It's bulbs
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or flowers and that work was very hard,
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just like slaves would work.
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And apparently it happened in Cornwall and other places.
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I did not know that. I have to be honest with you.
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I never think of flowers as
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something being connected to slavery
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or some form of forced labour.
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I have to be honest with you.
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I always think the flowers are lovely and nice.
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It's strange, isn't it,
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how certain things have a certain image in your mind.
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But I don't doubt it.
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I'm sure it happened in my but still happening
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for all I know in this crazy world of ours.
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by the way, can I just mention something very quickly?
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Today is
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World Elephant Day.
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If you like elephants, I love them.
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I think they are one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet.
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They are so lovely.
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So kind and gentle, even though they are large.
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They are incredibly protective of their young.
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So if a person goes near a herd of elephants,
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if they have a young elephant with them,
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I believe a young elephant is called a calf.
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You will find that the other
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elephants will attack the danger.
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So you do have to be careful.
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And yes, it has happened in the past.
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Elephants have trampled
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or they stampeded over.
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Human beings.
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It can happen, but quite often they do it if they feel as if they are in danger.
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They don't normally do it.
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It's a little bit like clowns.
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Cows are the same, so lots
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of different types of cattle will do the same thing if they feel threatened,
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especially if they have young around them.
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They will attack and elephants will do the same thing.
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Apparently this particular
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day was was created in Thailand,
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where elephants are seen as as wonderful creatures.
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However, they are also sometimes used in tourism,
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so they will give people large,
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large elephants will give people rides
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on these rather crude looking baskets, which will sit on top of the elephant.
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And and I think maybe there is a little bit of animal cruelty taking place.
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So there are people who enjoy the wildlife
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and seeing animals in their natural surroundings.
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And I think that's one of the reasons why we have things
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like this, this particular day, World Elephant Day.
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So maybe sometimes it's easy to forget about these beautiful creatures and they are beautiful.
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They are lovely even though they are large.
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And, you know, I like animals very much.
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You see here in my studio next to me,
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I have my lovely giraffe that Mr.
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Steve bought for me.
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I love birds as well.
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And you can see over there, there are lots of birds.
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So I love animals very much.
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You can even see just behind me my where is it?
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There it is. My cockerel, my little cockerel.
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So I have.
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Well, in fact, it's quite a large one, but I don't like to boast,
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to be honest.
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Hello to the live chat.
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It's very nice to see you here on this special day, because it is World Elephant Day.
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I've never.
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I don't think I've ever been close to an elephant, ever.
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There are many, many animals on the planet that have never been near
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or close to
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elephants or one of them.
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I've never been near an elephant, and they are so
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gentle.
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They are so
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I always think they look a little bit sad,
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but their eyes always look a little bit sad.
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It always looks as if they are unhappy,
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but in fact they are lovely, gentle creatures.
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Very nice to see so many people here.
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we have turkey here.
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Hello, Turkey.
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Not the bird, but the country.
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Or should I say turkey?
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Turkey is what people like to say
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know, or how they like to pronounce turkey.
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Hello, Dilek.
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Hello, Dilek. Nice to see you here.
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Watching from Turkey, a country that I've been to in the past.
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I've actually been there twice.
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I've even made a video lesson in Turkey.
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You can find it on my YouTube channel
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because I'm still here doing this.
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17 years.
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Can you believe it? Am I crazy? Maybe.
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Maybe I am.
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Who knows?
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Fluffy cats.
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I think a lot of people do like cats.
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Before people started having dogs here in the UK,
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many people had cats as a pet,
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so they would keep one cat or maybe two
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or sometimes three or four cats as well.
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So growing up I used to have a cat, we had a family cat
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and we had a for many, many years.
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She was a very old cat.
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When she finally passed away, unfortunately.
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But yes, yes, a lot of people still keep cats, although I think it's fair to say here in the UK,
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more and more people now keep dogs rather than cats.
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They have become very popular indeed.
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Paul Mavis says, I had my cat called Tiger.
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That is a really good name for a cat, I have to say
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for over 18 years, 18 years.
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That's incredible.
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So you had a cat that lived for 18 years.
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That is a long time.
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That is one year old.
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Cats.
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I think so.
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And I don't mean that in a rude way.
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Take a break now. A little break.
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And then we are back and we will be looking at
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brand names, trademarks,
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common things that you might buy or something
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you might own, things you might see around you.
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We are looking at the way in
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which those particular brands can be used as both nouns
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in general English and also verbs as well.
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Don't go away.
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I'm a big boy now.
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We have a subject to talk about today.
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We are talking about it in a few seconds from now.
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English
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addict is with you today and I hope you are enjoying.
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If you like what you are seeing,
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then please give me a lovely like
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underneath this video and then maybe
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someone will get to see it.
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I always like to think that I am the best kept secret.
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The best kept secret on YouTube.
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Is this.
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And people are always surprised
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when they find that I'm still here making lessons.
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I'm doing live streams.
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I do get lots of messages from people who are surprised to find
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that I'm still here doing this after 17 years.
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It does seem strange. You are right.
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Hello to.
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Lewis.
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Lewis is talking about.
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I think Lewis is talking
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about different qualifications for certain jobs.
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Sometimes it happens.
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Sometimes there is a conversation taking place on the live chat,
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and I have no idea what it is about because I'm.
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I'm doing this.
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You see, sometimes I can't concentrate on everything.
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Here we go.
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Then. Let's have a look at today's topic.
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And I think this is an interesting topic to me.
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Anyway, and I hope it is to you.
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Also, we are looking at brand names.
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When we talk about brand names, we are talking
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about different types of companies
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that produce a certain thing, a certain item, and quite often
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they will have a brand or brand name.
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So that's what we're looking at today.
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And there are ways of using these particular
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brands or brand names
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as nouns in everyday English.
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So not only are these words naming a certain product,
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they've also become used generally,
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for example, and I will show you some examples right now.
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So first of all, these are brand names that have now become used
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as nouns in general English.
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So this one may be somewhere in your house.
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You have some of these boxes.
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They are used for storing food, keeping food fresh,
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and this particular type is called Tupperware.
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However, over time,
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people have started using the word Tupperware.
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So anything, any plastic box
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that is used for keeping food in.
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So it is possible to describe anything,
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any type of plastic food container as Tupperware,
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even if that particular product
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is not made by that company.
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So the original Tupperware, I think it was the late
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1960s, early 1960s when Tupperware started to be used.
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But now it is so popular people use
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that particular name in general terms.
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So a plastic food container,
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any plastic container will be referred to as Tupperware,
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even if that particular thing
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wasn't made by the company.
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So it is possible for many things to
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to become used in everyday English
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is another one.
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This is another one.
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Have you ever been in a Jacuzzi?
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Well,
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some people have them in their gardens now.
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They go out into the garden and they sit in their hot tub.
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So the general term for this particular thing is hot tub.
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We call it a hot tub.
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A hot tub is something that you get into.
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Originally, they were used as a means of therapy
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for people who had rheumatism or arthritis.
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Maybe they had joint pain.
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So originally the Jacuzzi
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was made by a company
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and they called this product Jacuzzi.
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But over time, many people started using the word Jacuzzi
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for any hot tub.
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So if you have a hot tub, even if it isn't made by that company,
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you will still refer to it as a Jacuzzi.
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Any type of hot
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tub might be called a Jacuzzi.
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You get in to the Jacuzzi, you get out of the Jacuzzi,
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you have a wee wee in the Jacuzzi.
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Well,
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so it is strange how brand names can slowly
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be used as general nouns.
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So even though this product is called Jacuzzi,
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even if it isn't
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that particular brand, people will still use the word.
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Here's another one.
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this is something that takes me back to my childhood
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because we had one of these cameras
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when I was a kid and they are slowly becoming popular again.
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So for many years, not many people used them, but they are becoming popular again.
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The word is Polaroid.
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Now, Polaroid is a brand name.
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It is a trade name.
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However, for any photograph that can be developed
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quickly, people will often say Polaroid,
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Show me your Polaroids,
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some pictures, maybe pictures
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that you've had developed very quickly.
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And these cameras, I remember growing up in the 1970s
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and the early 1980s, and many people
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had this type of camera.
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You could take a picture and then the photograph would come out
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and then you could wait for a few moments and magically
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the photograph would develop in front of you.
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It's amazing.
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Sometimes you could get black
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and white and other times you could get colour.
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So we used to have a black and white Polaroid camera,
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but over time, the word Polaroid has become a common noun
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for any photograph that can be developed quickly.
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We call it a Polaroid.
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Of course, Polaroid also is often used when we are talking about sunglasses.
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A certain type of protection
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that goes over the sunglasses.
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And I believe it was.
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I also believe it was created by the same company.
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Here's another one.
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If you have a cold, if you have a fever,
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or maybe you have hay fever sometimes like me,
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you will need some of these Kleenex.
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This is a brand of
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tissue paper,
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boxes of tissues.
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The most common brand or certainly the most
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well-known brand is Kleenex.
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But over time, people have started to call
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any type of paper tissue, any
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as Kleenex.
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Press me a Kleenex.
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Can you pass me a Kleenex?
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My nose is running.
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I need a clean.
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It's so I can wipe my nose.
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So any box of tissue paper
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is often referred to as Kleenex,
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even if that particular product
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is not made by the company.
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Here's an interesting one.
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This is just for the ladies.
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So, ladies, get ready.
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Speedo.
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If you go to the beach,
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if you go to one of these very exotic
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beaches, you might find lots of people lying around in the sun
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and quite often the man will wear a Speedo.
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It is a brand of swimwear.
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So there are many different types of swimwear made by Speedo.
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However, this particular type of swimwear,
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I'm very distracted by this, by the way.
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It's it's right next to me.
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It's been a while since I've been so close.
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You see a of swimwear now
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worn by men is generally referred to as Speedo.
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You are wearing some Speedo as he walked along the beach.
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Wearing Speedo is a brand of swimwear.
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Here is Speedo.
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I wore a Speedo on the beach.
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Can you imagine me wearing a Speedo? Ooh,
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by the way, that is not me.
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If anyone is thinking that, that is me, it isn't.
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I wish it was me, but it isn't.
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So any tight swimwear designed for men
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is generally referred to as a speedo.
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Speedo?
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I see. Yes.
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We are getting some interesting comments coming up on the live chat.
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Thank you very much.
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Keep them coming. Here's another one.
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This is a brand of permanent marker,
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something that is used as a pen quite often
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with very large point sharpie.
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So a lot of people will use this particular brand name
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even if they are not using that particular brand.
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They will talk about their pen as being a sharpie,
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a certain type of marker, a pen,
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normally a type of pen that you will write with
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that is large and is very clear to see.
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I wrote my name with a sharpie.
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Any type of marker pen
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will often be referred to as a Sharpie,
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even if you are not using that particular company's pen.
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It's very strange.
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Very interesting. Here we go. Here's another one.
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Another brand that can be used as a noun in English.
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do you ever hurt yourself?
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Do you ever enjoy yourself?
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Do you ever cut your skin accidentally
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and you have a little bit of blood coming out?
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Some people don't like that, by the way.
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Some people do not like the sight of blood.
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Some people will
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pass out if they see blood.
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So here is a way of preventing your friends from passing out
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or fainting at the sight of your bleeding arm.
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42:03
You can put a Band-Aid on it.
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Band-Aid.
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So this is a type of sticking plaster.
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So this particular brand of sticking plaster,
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it is put on wounds, cuts,
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42:19
any injury to keep it clean
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and to stop it from going septic or becoming infected
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Band-Aid, a brand of sticking plaster.
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You will need a Band-Aid on that cut.
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You will need a Band-Aid
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42:40
on that wound to keep it clean.
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42:45
So generally speaking, any type of sticking plaster,
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we will often say Band-Aid instead,
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even though that particular word is a brand name,
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it is a name of a particular type of sticking plaster,
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protecting you from from infection.
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Here's another one.
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If you are feeling hungry or maybe you want to have something to drink
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whilst out and about, maybe you are going for a walk in the countryside.
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You might want a cup of tea, but there is no way around where you can buy one.
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5372
43:30
So instead you will take one of these,
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a thermos thermos.
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43:36
So this particular word is a brand name.
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It is a name of a certain company that make
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bottles that you can seal.
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They are specially made.
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So if you put something hot inside the bottle, it will stay hot.
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43:56
And if you put something cold
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inside the bottle, it will stay cold.
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44:02
But there are many different companies that make this particular type of bottle.
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44:07
Many, although most people will refer to it
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as a thermos,
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I will bring a thermos of tea in case we get too cold.
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44:20
And so you can use that generally as a noun.
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So any type of sealed drink bottle
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44:28
that will keep the contents hot or cold
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44:33
can be described as a thermos.
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44:38
Here's another one.
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So these are all brand names that can also be used
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as general nouns in English.
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Here's another one.
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there it is.
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A very common thing.
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I'm sure somewhere in your house you have some of this somewhere.
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44:59
But did you know that Velcro is actually a brand name?
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4922
45:05
So the people who invented this particular thing
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45:09
called it Velcro and they used it as a brand.
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45:14
So over time, lots of people have decided
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to call this Velcro,
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45:20
even if it's not made by the company that invented it.
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45:25
So Velcro is a brand of fixing fabric.
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45:29
It is a very interesting thing. Did you know that Velcro
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was invented
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by accident when someone noticed that
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3154
45:39
certain types of flower had wood
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45:43
would attract things to it and they would stick
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45:46
to this particular type of flower head.
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45:51
And they had a closer look and they realised that the flower had
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45:55
had lots of little tiny hooks.
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46:00
And the thing that was sticking to it was being caught
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46:05
by all of the tiny hooks, and that is what Velcro is.
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46:11
So you might say that Velcro is actually mimicking
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46:15
something that occurs in nature.
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46:19
I will fix it to the wall with some velcro.
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So velcro is very useful.
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You can use it in all sorts of situations.
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46:28
I thought I had one.
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I thought I had some velcro on my hat, but I haven't.
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46:34
I have any velcro here to show you, unfortunately.
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46:39
But you know what it is?
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1735
46:41
It is a brand of fixing fabric.
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Any type of hooking fabric.
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So that means that you put two things together.
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46:51
One half will have lots of tiny hooks and the other half
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46:55
will be a very loose type of material,
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47:01
and they will attach themselves together.
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Very clever.
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Actually, I have to say one of the one of the most clever
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47:10
of all the inventions, and it comes straight from nature.
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47:15
Isn't that amazing?
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47:18
Here's another one, another brand name.
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47:21
So this, believe it or not, started out as a brand name.
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47:25
There was one company in the USA
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47:29
that made yo yos
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47:32
and that is the name that they gave this particular thing.
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47:37
It is a type of thing that you play with.
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47:39
Sometimes children play with it
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47:42
and also adults as well will play with a yo yo.
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47:47
So the original company, which by the way, was called or is called
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47:52
Duncan,
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47:54
is that strange?
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47:56
An American company, they make toys, lots of different types of toys.
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48:00
And one of their products is the yo yo.
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48:03
So they actually invented the yo
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48:06
yo and the company is called Duncan.
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48:10
Isn't that strange?
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So these days, yo yo
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48:15
is used generally for anything that looks like that.
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48:21
It is a type of toy for children.
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48:25
And of course many adults as well will also use
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48:31
yo yo ooze to play with
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48:34
and have fun.
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Here's another one.
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This is the final one of our nouns.
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48:41
In a few minutes we will look at verbs.
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48:45
So there are many brand names that have also become
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verbs as well.
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48:51
Finally, we have as a noun, we have this thing
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which we happen to have right here in the house.
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49:00
So we actually have one of these crockpot.
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49:03
It is called a crock pot, but that is in fact the brand name.
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49:09
It is the brand that makes that particular product.
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49:14
In fact, they, as I understand it,
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they created the first crockpot.
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49:21
It is a type of slow cooker, so it is something that you can cook
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food in over a very long period of time.
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49:30
So you can leave it for many hours
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49:33
and it will slowly cook the food inside.
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49:38
It is a type of slow cooker.
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49:40
So the brand is crockpot,
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49:43
but you will find that many people will refer to this particular item
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49:48
as a crock pot, even though
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49:53
that is the brand.
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49:55
I am making a nice stew in the crock pot.
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50:00
This is a type of slow cooker
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50:04
and that for now is
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50:08
that I will be with you in a few moments.
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50:11
Don't worry, I'm not going away. Don't panic.
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50:14
There will be some verbs connected
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50:16
to brand names and there are quite a few.
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So don't go away.
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Still plenty more to look at as we look at the interesting world of brand names
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50:29
and how they are used in the English language.
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51:08
So there is no snow outside.
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You will be pleased to hear that there is no snow anywhere.
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51:13
In fact,
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1802
51:15
because summer is on the way,
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51:17
everyone is in that nice.
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51:21
It's nice to know that summer is coming
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51:25
or at least spring.
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I get excited at this time of year, especially
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when the temperature starts to rise
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51:33
and everything starts to look more pleasant outside.
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51:37
And of course, the biggest difference of all is the long days.
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51:41
We have more sunshine to enjoy.
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51:46
So there are many reasons to enjoy this time of year as the days become longer,
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the temperatures start to increase slowly,
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51:57
even though we are still having lots and lots of rain,
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which is a little bit annoying, if I was honest with you, the live chat is very busy.
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Hello everyone on the live chat.
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Nice to see you here today we are looking at brand names,
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names of products we've looked at now.
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And now we are going to look verbs.
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So these are brand names
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that are used as verbs, something you won't doing,
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52:30
something you are going to do a way in which you are doing something
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52:35
or carrying something out, maybe an activity of some sort.
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We can use certain brand names as verbs.
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Here is one that I know very well.
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This is one that I remember from my childhood.
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My mother will always clean the carpet
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52:57
in the living room and she would use
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a Hoover.
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53:03
Hoover.
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So Hoover is actually a brand name.
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53:08
It is a name of a company that make vacuum cleaners.
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You might hoover the carpet.
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53:17
So there you can see we are using it as a verb.
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53:20
You hoover the carpet, you use one of these
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53:26
to clean your carpet.
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So we often use the verb hoover
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53:33
to mean cleaning the carpet.
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53:35
You are using a vacuum cleaner to clean the carpet.
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53:41
You hoover the carpet, you hoover the floor.
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53:48
Quite often in British English, people
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53:50
will use the word Hoover,
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53:54
even if the vacuum cleaner they have
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53:57
is not made by that particular company.
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54:01
So it is interesting how certain brand names
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54:04
have become verbs.
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54:07
Common nouns become verbs,
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54:12
and there is a very good example.
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54:13
In fact, I think that might be the most common one that we use in British English.
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54:19
Here's another one.
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54:21
If you've ever wanted to find out how old Mr.
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54:25
Duncan is or where he lives or how tall he is,
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54:31
that's me, by the way.
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54:33
You might you might go on to the Internet and Google.
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54:38
Google, you are looking
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1885
54:40
you are searching for information on the Internet.
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4054
54:45
You Google something.
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54:47
So a search engine brand.
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54:50
There are others, of course, even though most people don't really know
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54:54
what they are or where they are,
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54:58
a lot of people tell me these days, Mr.
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55:00
Duncan, you have to have DuckDuckGo.
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55:05
I don't know what they're talking about, to be honest.
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55:07
So if you are searching for something on the Internet, if you are looking for something on the Internet,
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55:13
you will Google that particular thing.
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55:18
Of course, Google is a big company,
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55:21
owns lots of different other things as well, including this.
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3003
55:24
The thing that I'm on now is owned by Google,
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55:29
a search engine brand.
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2569
55:31
You might Google it.
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55:34
You are looking for something.
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55:36
You are searching for a certain piece of information, some facts, maybe
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55:42
Google the information.
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55:45
You are searching for it so the actual brand becomes a verb.
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55:52
You are Googling something.
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55:56
You are looking for information on the Internet.
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56:02
Here's another one.
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56:03
Now, this is something that has been in the news
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56:06
this week here in England.
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56:09
Have you heard about it?
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56:11
There was a big scandal during the week
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56:16
involving this particular type of software with a member of the royal family
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5405
56:21
who decided that she was going to play around with Photoshop.
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56:27
The only problem was the photo that she was editing
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56:31
was then sent to all of the national newspapers
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56:36
and she didn't do a very good job
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56:39
of correcting or altering the photograph.
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56:43
Did you hear about that? It's very strange.
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56:47
So here we go.
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56:48
This is a brand that has become a verb.
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56:51
You Photoshop up something,
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56:54
you alter something digitally, maybe a photograph.
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56:58
Quite often a photograph will be altered in some way.
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57:02
Perhaps you have a photograph of me
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57:07
and you think, Mr.
845
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57:09
Duncan looks a bit old there.
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57:11
He looks a bit tired.
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1802
57:13
So you might make some changes to my face
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57:17
to make me look better.
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57:19
Although, to be honest with you,
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57:22
how can you improve on this?
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57:24
Really? How? How can you can't.
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57:27
You can't.
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57:28
Photoshop would never be able to make this better.
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57:31
I'm pretty sure of it.
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57:33
So Photoshop is often used as a verb.
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57:37
It is a noun, it is a trademark.
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57:39
But in this case you are using it as a verb,
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57:43
a photo editing software is Photoshop.
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57:48
You might photoshop your portrait.
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3353
57:52
You want to look a little better on the picture
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3003
57:55
so you will make some changes.
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2852
57:58
You photoshop it.
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2103
58:00
If you photoshop something, it means you are altering a photograph.
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58:06
You are making changes.
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58:08
Maybe you are adding something, maybe you are taking something away.
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58:13
Like all of the lines on your face,
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58:19
you photoshop something.
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58:26
I still can't believe that happened.
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58:27
By the way, I still find it very hard to believe that a member of the royal family
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58:32
would do some photoshopping
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2920
58:35
would alter a photograph, and then
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58:38
it was published in all of the newspapers,
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3003
58:41
and lots of people realised
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58:44
that it was very badly photoshopped.
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58:47
It wasn't very well done and to be honest with you,
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58:50
it became quite a scandal.
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58:54
So one thing you should know about the British
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and especially the English, we get very excited when there is ever a scandal.
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We love scandals, to be honest.
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If you like using your mobile phone or your smart device,
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you will probably be this from time to time.
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So this is another word that is a brand name.
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However, it has also become a verb.
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You might WhatsApp someone,
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you WhatsApp a person,
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you send them a message on your mobile phone.
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Quite often people will use this particular messaging service.
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It is very popular these days because it is secure, it is safe to use.
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People cannot hack into it
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WhatsApp.
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So it is a noun, it is a brand,
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but also it can be used as a verb.
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You will whatsapp your friend,
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you will WhatsApp your relatives,
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you will send a message to them,
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you might WhatsApp a photograph,
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you send a photograph to your friends,
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maybe one person or many people.
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So the word WhatsApp is a brand name,
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but also it can be used as a verb in day to day life.
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Here's another one.
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If you have to repair something, a certain type of stick, i.e.
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tape Sellotape.
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Sellotape is a brand.
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However, over the years it has also become
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the verb you might sellotape something
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you are using sticky tape to stick something together.
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You sell a tape something.
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So we are using the noun, the brand name, as a verb.
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You might sell a tape, a gift
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that means you are putting sellotape on the outside of a gift.
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Normally, whilst covering it with a wrapping paper.
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So you want to keep the wrapping paper on the gift so you will
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use sellotape.
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You might sellotape to a wall.
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So in that sense we are sticking something to the wall
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so you might sellotape a picture to the wall.
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You are using sellotape to stick that thing
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in a certain place,
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as it were.
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Here's another one.
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Super Glue.
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Super Glue is an amazing thing.
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But did you know it started out as a brand,
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a brand of glue called Super Glue
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and the reason why they called it that is because it dries very quickly.
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And I remember many years ago when this particular product came out,
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lots of people were sticking their fingers together by accident.
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Some people would be repairing an object
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and then they would realise that they were stuck to the object.
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They couldn't let go because the glue had dried
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and they were now stuck to it.
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Super Glue a strong glue brand.
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However, these days we often say we will super glue the pieces.
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It means you will repair something that is broken
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with super glue.
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Super glue it together We will super glue it together.
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It means we will stick that thing or repair that particular thing.
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Here's another one.
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If you are expecting a delivery or if you are sending
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a delivery, you might
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FedEx that particular thing.
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You FedEx something.
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It is a courier brand by courier
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I mean delivery, a delivery service.
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They take something from one place to another.
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They deliver something to an individual or a company.
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I will FedEx it to you later.
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So to FedEx, something is to send
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something out for delivery.
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Please FedEx it to me.
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Send it to me.
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You send it and I will receive it.
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And the person who will bring it will be a nice man
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or a nice lady from FedEx
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or of course, any other company as well.
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So it has become used more and more as a brand.
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Here's another one.
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I like this one
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because it's very popular all around the world.
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Uber, you might say Uber
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somewhere, you might Uber to your friend's house,
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you might Uber
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into town.
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So we are using the word Uber,
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which is a taxi service brand, a brand that has lots
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and lots of different people working for them privately
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as taxi drivers or drivers.
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They will take you to the place you want to be or want to go to.
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So a taxi service brand is called Uber,
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but these days a lot of people use this as a verb as well.
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I will Uber to your house,
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let's Uber to town.
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That means let's take a taxi.
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Let's go by cab.
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I will call for an Uber.
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Of course.
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Other taxi services are available.
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Don't forget I'm not advertising here
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before anyone accuses me of doing it.
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I'm not. Here's another one.
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Now, this is something that was around many years ago.
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It is still around and it caused a lot of controversy at the time because lots of pop singers,
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lots of musical artists were using
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this particular type of software.
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So this is a type of software that is used
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for altering the tone
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or pitch of something.
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So if you're a terrible singer, if your singing is awful,
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make me Nicole
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nine after 10:00.
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But I'll be there waiting for you.
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Please don't let me down
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so you could auto tune that and make it sound fantastic.
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I could sound like Rihanna or Lady Gaga.
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so it is possible.
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It is possible. A pitch altering software.
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I will auto tune your voice so you don't sound dreadful.
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Did you auto tune that?
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Did you change the sound of that
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person's voice using computer software
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66:52
so auto tune can be used as both a noun?
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Of course it is an actual brand name
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or it can be used as a verb as well.
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67:03
You can auto tune something, you can change the sound
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67:08
to make it more pleasant and not so horrible.
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67:13
Here's another one.
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We have two more, by the way.
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And then I'm going.
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Here's another one.
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If you make a mistake whilst writing or typing,
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I'm sure a lot of people don't use this anymore
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67:27
because most people use their computers
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67:30
or their word processors or their mobile phone.
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So you can't use this on your computer
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if you make a mistake on your word document,
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67:43
you don't have to use this.
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67:45
You can just delete it and correct it.
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67:48
So you don't have to put this on your computer monitor
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67:52
depicts a correction fluid brand.
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67:57
It is a type of fluid.
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It is white, and you will often put it
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on things that you want to correct.
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68:04
You want to cover the mistake.
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I will tip fix the mistake.
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You are erasing them by painting
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over them with this product.
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68:16
So this is not just a brand.
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This is also used as a verb quite.
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Often we will use this particular word as a verb as well.
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I will typically use the phone number,
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so that means you are going hide
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the phone number, you are going to cover it.
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I will tip the phone number, I will cover it.
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So you can't see it.
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Finally, one of my most favourite things in the world.
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I'm sure we've all had this in our hands at some
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I love this product.
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I do like it very much.
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Whenever you receive a package, maybe something fragile
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quite often inside there will be that plastic
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69:05
bubble wrap, bubble wrap and you can have lots of fun with it
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69:09
because you can make it go pop.
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69:16
You can spend hours and hours popping the bubble wrap.
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69:22
So this is a brand of protective packaging.
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It is a type of protective packaging.
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So bubble wrap originally the brand name.
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However, nowadays people will also use this as a verb.
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69:39
You will bubble wrap something, you will cover it
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69:44
in this particular product because it will
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protect your fragile objects.
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You might bubble wrap
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69:54
a vase to protect it if you are sending it.
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Maybe you are FedEx ing a vase to your friend
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so you will have to bubble wrap that particular thing.
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I will bubble wrap it.
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I will bubble wrap it.
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I will put bubble wrap around it.
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So it is interesting to note how many of these particular brand names
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slowly over time become part of the English language,
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generally used as verbs
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70:31
covering all
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types of the same thing.
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And of course, if you are doing something,
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you can also use as a verb as well.
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And that, as they say, is
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that it's almost time to say goodbye.
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And I'm sure there are many others as well,
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many others out there in the world.
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Now names, brand names that have slowly over time
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become common nouns or verbs as well.
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Thank you very much for your company today.
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It's been nice having you here.
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I've enjoyed being here as I always do.
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I always like being here.
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To be honest, it's
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so I'm happy to be with you
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and I will be back with you on Sunday.
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Next Sunday 2 p.m.
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UK Time is when I'm back with you twice a week.
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71:39
You can have me here with you.
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71:44
Is that enough?
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Some people say, Mr.
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Duncan, we hope you can do more than twice a week.
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71:51
We want you to do three times as well, four times a week,
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71:58
or maybe five or even every day.
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72:04
I'm not sure about that.
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Anyway, I will see you on Sunday. Mr.
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72:07
Steve also will be here as well on Sunday, so don't panic.
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Don't worry, I will be here on Sunday.
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72:16
Steve will be here on Sunday and we will do this all over again
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72:21
and we will be here for 2 hours on Sunday.
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72:25
So I hope you can join us then.
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Thank you for your company.
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72:30
See you soon.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan That's me, by the way, saying thank you for watching.
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If you like this, then please give me a lovely
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72:40
like underneath
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and maybe if I'm lucky, YouTube
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might let other people see this.
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That would be ever so nice.
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72:53
And of course, until the next time we meet, you know what's coming next.
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Stay happy. Stay safe.
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Keep that smile upon your face as you walk amongst the human race.
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And I will see you on Sunday.
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And of course,
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ta ta for now.
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See you on Sunday.
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