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hello everyone

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and welcome back to english with lucy

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today

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i am going to teach you better

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alternative ways

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of wishing people happy birthday

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and happy anniversary

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right let's get started with the lesson

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let's

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start with happy birthday okay this is a

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very common phrase and we tend to repeat

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the same thing

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over and over again but today i'm going

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to show you

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14 interesting witty and funny ways

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of wishing somebody a happy birthday now

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the first one

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is mainly used jokingly

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via text message sometimes if we want to

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wish somebody a happy birthday

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but we don't want to act like we're

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putting in too much effort

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we just say hb hb

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and everybody knows what it means in

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these big

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whatsapp groups we have now it's very

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common in the uk to just have a page

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full of hb

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it's quite funny some people consider it

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rude but i think

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as long as the receiver knows that

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you're joking

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it's nice we have number two which is

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commonly found

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inside birthday cards it is

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many happy returns many happy returns

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now when i was a child i never

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understood this phrase when i saw it on

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birthday cards

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but it means many happy returns

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of the day as in i hope you have

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many more birthdays i hope you live a

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long life

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so many happy returns is a very nice one

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it's slightly more formal number three

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is

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have a great one have a great one this

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one is very

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informal sometimes we use the word one

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in place of something that is already

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known to the listener

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have a great one they know that i'm

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talking about their

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birthday have a great day have a great

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birthday

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have a great one in number four we have

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an

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alternative phrase for birthday it is

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special day

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on your birthday on your special day you

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more or less know that if it's

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somebody's special day

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it's their birthday unless it's their

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wedding or another celebration like that

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so you could say i wish you the best on

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your special day

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number five is slightly fancier it is

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wishing you a day that is as special as

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you are

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so fancy wishing you a day that is as

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special as you are

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now it should be i am wishing or

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we are wishing but sometimes we just

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shorten it down to

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wishing you were here i am wishing you

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were here

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wishing you a great day we are wishing

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you a great day

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another alternative wishing you many

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more candles to blow

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when we have a birthday we blow out a

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certain number of candles on our cake

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so we're implying that we hope the

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person lives for a long time this tends

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to be a theme

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a really nice alternative way of just

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saying happy birthday

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so much more interesting wishing you

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many more candles to blow

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number seven is a funny one it is happy

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21st

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happy 21st birthday

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now why do we use 21st in particular

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if somebody is quite a lot older than 21

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often we'll say happy 21st pretending

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that we don't think they look

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any older than 21 years old

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i wonder if you have this in your own

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and if it's the same number 21 or if

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it's a different number

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is there a dream age at which everyone

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wants to remain

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number eight is a really nice one may

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your day be filled with laughter

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and presence obviously the most

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birthdays apart from the cake is

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presents

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i get so excited about giving and

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receiving

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presents number nine

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this is something that you can say to

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people who really like

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beer happy beer day happy birthday

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because a birthday is a fantastic excuse

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to drink

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far more beer than usual number 10

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is a funny one it is hmm

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didn't we celebrate this just a year ago

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terrible i love it though i

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really like number 11. it is

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congratulations

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you survived another trip around the sun

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because obviously we go around the sun

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every 365 days i don't think i need to

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explain that to you i think i'm

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underestimating your intelligence

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but now you know what it means number 12

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is possibly my favorite in fact it is my

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favorite

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it is happy womb eviction day

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so obviously the womb is where you lived

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before you were born

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and you were evicted on your birthday

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number 13 is a lovely compliment it's a

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nice way

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of telling somebody that they are older

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you're aging like a fine wine because

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obviously

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fine wines get better with age

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so if you're aging like a fine wine

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you're aging beautifully you're getting

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better with age

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and let's end this section on a really

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cute one

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it is don't count the candles

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just enjoy the glow i really like that

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don't worry about how old you are just

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enjoy the celebration

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right let's move on to wishing people a

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happy anniversary

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i've split this into two sections

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the first is wishing happy anniversary

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another couple and the second section is

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wishing a happy anniversary

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to your partner so much more romantic in

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the second section

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number one the first one that you'll

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wish to another couple is

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wishing a perfect pair a perfect day

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together

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if two people are a perfect pair it

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they were made for each other they are

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perfect together

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number two is a lovely one it can be

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said as a toast

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cheers you can also say it to your

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romantic partner

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it is here's to another year of being

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great together

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of you two being great together

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number three is another year

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another reason to celebrate i've

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explained this a lot

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on my vlogging channel but my family

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like to celebrate

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anything anything on valentine's day

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my mother decorates the house and makes

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heart-shaped biscuits

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on halloween we had cobwebs all over the

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house and she dressed up as a witch

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normally

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so we love reasons to celebrate and an

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anniversary

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is definitely a reason to celebrate

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another year

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another reason to celebrate number four

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is

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so so cute it's i always knew you two

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had something special

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so if you have some friends that have

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always had a wonderful relationship

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you can say this to them i always knew

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you two had something special had a

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special chemistry or a special spark

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together and number five the last one

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that you can say to another couple

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is love and cheer to one of our favorite

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couples if that's coming from just you

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to one of my favorite couples it's a big

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honor to be told that you're one of

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someone's favorite couples

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and finally we have five more romantic

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to wish your partner a happy anniversary

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the first one is lovely it is i love you

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more and more

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every year my love just grows for you i

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love you more and more

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every year number two is a very common

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but it's actually one that i find really

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and i'll explain why it is thanks for

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putting up with me

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for another year now why does this annoy

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well to put up with someone is to

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tolerate

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or endure someone so this is

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jokingly saying thank you for tolerating

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or thank you for enduring me for another

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i just don't think it's very nice i

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don't think we should just tolerate each

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other we should adore each other

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i'm just joking i know it's a joke i

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just uh

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yes it's not something i'll be putting

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in my anniversary card to will

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number three is here's to five years

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and five million memories so you can

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replace

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the number as you wish here's to 10

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years but 10

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million memories that's really really

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nice because it's not about how long

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you've been together

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it's about the things you've done

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together and the memories you've made

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number four a really common phrase in

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anniversary cards and messages to each

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other

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is i can't believe it's been four years

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i can't believe it's been 20 years

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time flies when you're having fun unless

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putting up with someone sorry i need to

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let that go

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okay the last one number five is quite

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an interesting one

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it is happy ruby anniversary

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happy gold anniversary happy

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paper anniversary what am i talking

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about

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well for each year you're together there

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is an anniversary

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name and some people give gifts

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corresponding to this name so your first

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so someone might write a love letter

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third is leather and it goes all the way

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10 which is tin then you have 20 which

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silver which is 25th ruby

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age so that's a really nice thing to

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hope you enjoyed it and i hope you

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learned something

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don't forget to complete the quiz i've

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got everything we've spoken about today

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every video is fully subtitled so you

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an amazing

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interactive pronunciation tool so you

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on sounds and hear me pronounce them

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i will see you soon for another lesson

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