Name: 乾杯を言う理由 (Why We Say Cheers)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:18:08.000Z
Duration: 4 min 31 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

You're at a bar catching up with a friend

- [Director] The bartender brings you your drinks,

Do either of you know where this comes from?

- [Director] If you know it don't say it.

- [Director] Okay, you're right about that

but where does saying "cheers" come from?

(trumpet music) - [Director] The word "cheers"

comes from the old french word for "face",

But the exact timing of the origin of the word "cheers"

- I think I cracked the glass a little bit.

- [Director] According to Miriam Webster,

the first use of the word "cheers" as a toast

However, Oxford English Dictionary contends

that the phrase "cheers" came into use earlier

- [Director] Historians speculate that the origin

of the contemporary toast was the Greek practice

- [Director] Legend has it that the original purpose

of the glass clinking was to keep away evil spirits,

including the evil spirits thought to be responsible

- So they're like, "But why am I getting ...

the evil spirits! - Do my limbs feel weird?"

suggests that people clink their glasses together

people would attempt to murder their enemies

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乾杯を言う理由 (Why We Say Cheers)

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