Name: English Tutor Nick P Word Origin (72) Good Riddance
Uploaded: 2019-09-21T14:06:20.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P this is Word Origin 72. The  word origin today is good

riddance. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone says good riddance

or good riddance to somebody,  basically he or she is

expressing that one is very happy or pleased that someone unpleasant is gone.

Like good riddance to them.  Finally. Over.  He's out of here or something bad or

offensive or annoying is finally over.  Yeah. Good riddance to that. It's about

time it's gone. So let's continue. It has  the feeling that the situation will be

better with that person or thing gone. So without them ,it should be better. So good

riddance to them. Goodbye.  So long. Let's continue. The origin is

believed to come directly from a Shakespeare play "Troilus and Cressida. "

in 1606.  Shakespeare is credited with coining the term.  So they think that he

created it actually. However at the time you know,  when he was alive in his time.

There were some other adjectives connected with riddance. Now remember

rid even today like we get rid of something when we are  throwing it away or it's

gone. So,  so I guess it was a way of like saying goodbye back then to like a

riddance to someone. They're,  they're going away. They're leaving riddance. With riddance

in such as fair and they spelled it F-A- Y-R-E.  Today of course it's F-A-I-R.  Fair

happy or gentle etc.  riddance basically.  Now all those others have kind of

disappeared. We don't really say happy riddance or fair riddance or gentle

riddance anymore. However here in an earlier Shakespeare play "The Merchant of

Venice" the character Portia wishes the Prince of Morocco a gentle riddance . Like

when he's going or something like that.  So even Shakespeare himself had used

riddance in a different way a little bit earlier.

Anyway, so we got three examples of how we use this today. All right.  Here's example number

one. Good riddance.  Thank God that politician is finally out

of office. Yeah. So if somebody didn't like a particular one and they had to

wait a long time you know,  four years eight years whatever. Now they're finally

happy.  Gone now we got somebody else you know more to my liking.

And we're saying good riddance to that person. Or number two here. Good riddance

to that CEO. You know, maybe it's a  company you are invested in too. Maybe they

lost a lot of money during the time he was there. He nearly bankrupted the

company. Yeah Good riddance.  I mean hopefully the next guy will do better or

number three here.  I finally got rid of my old car it was costing me a fortune

in repairs. Good riddance to it.  Like goodbye and so long. Sayonara.

Anyway,  I hope you got it. I hope it was clear.  Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.