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Steve: Hello and welcome to mystery student of the week, my name is Steve and you have come to Privateenglishportal.com. And we have our mystery student skipping me in. Okay, I have got some music going in the back ground, very nice. Okay, hi mystery student.
Student: (Foreign Language)
Steve: Well hello mystery student. It is Steve Ford here from Privateenglishportal.com.
Student: Oh it is Zieno with the short brown hairs on his head.
Steve: Well actually mystery student you can call me Steve.
Student: Steve (Foreign Language)
Steve: Actually mystery student. Everything you are saying to me is Greek. Could we start we start with the class.
Student: Okay, it is all the same for me.
Steve: Okay great then (Foreign Language).
Student: You see you learn from me.
Steve: Yes, it is a great way for me about other cultures teaching students like your self.
Student: Now you are talking my language. You give me any word and I will show you the root meaning for that word is Greek.
Steve: Well that is a huge coincidence mystery student because our class today is in response to an email question from Kenji. From Osaka, Japan who writes me “Hi Steve, I love your last Youtube video. Could you tell me where the word DOUBT comes from and why we spell it DOUBT”, well Kenji. I can tell you that—
Student: (Foreign Language). I stop you right now to say you people say the word wrong. First and very important is that this word is a Greek word.
Steve: It is not and actually I have an entire explanation prepared for this video.
Student: (Foreign Language). Steve, teacher, whatever, listen to me, the word DOUBT comes from the Greek word “DOU” which means “BOOT” so what do we wear in the winter “BOOT” So boots of the winter doubt. There you go.
Steve: Mystery student, I am speechless.
Student: Of course, you are (Foreign Language) Steve’s teacher, but mystery student is not just any student.
Steve: Okay, well regardless of the spelling. The pronunciation of the word is doubt.
Student: That is what I say to you, doubt.
Steve: No doubt.
Student: I do not doubt that you have nice explanation, but
Steve: Aha! You see you said it, doubt. The B is silent and I am going to show you why okay. So I am just going to give you a small explanation.
Student: (Foreign Language).
Steve: Okay mystery student. Let us stick to English okay.
Student: Did not I say not to educate too much, but no, nobody listened to me. No, now we have a nice English teacher on the internet. Is he a nice Greek boy? No English teacher (Foreign Language) with short brown hairs on his head.
Steve: Okay mystery student. Can we go on?
Student: Yes, okay (Foreign Language) teacher Steve. You explain doubt.
Steve: Okay, thank you. Doubt comes from Middle English “Dutton”, Angle-French “Dute” and Latin “Dubetade” all around from the 13th century. So even though the pronunciation is --
Student: Doubt no come from Latin. Come from Greek.
Steve: Okay, just ignore him. We still live in the B in doubt because of the influence received from the Latin word “Dubetade”. So if we take French word “Dute” and combine it with the Latin word “Dubetade”. We get the modern English word doubt. So “Dute”, “Dubetade” doubt, there you go. So I hope that answers your question there Kenji from Osaka, Japan. I also hope that answers your question mystery student. What do you think?
Student: It is okay. You are good English and I have no doubt okay.
Steve: Okay, that is great and I am glad that I have not only answered our students question from Osaka, Japan, but also your question.
Student: Okay English teacher Steve. I have to go. We have a wedding for my daughter tonight. She get married to Ian (Foreign Language) Miller. (Foreign Language)
Steve: (Foreign Language). Okay, well mystery student. Have a great time in your daughters wedding and I will skype you out, what great music to skype him out with, click. Okay, so please let me know who you think the mystery student of the week is and you can email me your answer. Bye-bye.
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