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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English word umpteenth. When you do something for the umpteenth time, it means that you've done it many, many times. You've done it so many times, you might not even remember how many times you have done it, so we use this word umpteenth. It doesn't represent an exact number. It simply means that you've done it many, many times. When I see the milk on the counter in the house, the milk's supposed to be in the fridge, I say to my kids, kids for the umpteenth time, put the milk away after you pour yourself a glass of milk. So, umpteenth is simply a word that is kind of like a number, but not an exact number. It just means a whole bunch, a whole bunch of times. It represents a really big number, but not an exact number. I hope I explained that well.

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The second phrase I wanted to help you learn today is the phrase to sleep like a baby. Now, this phrase has always been kind of funny to me, because to sleep like a baby means that you slept really well. If you say to someone, oh, last night I slept like a baby, it means that you had a very deep and restful sleep, but babies don't often sleep very well. Babies often cry in the night and don't sleep very well. But if you sleep like a baby, that means that you've slept well. If you work out, if you go for a run and you lift weights, you will probably sleep like a baby that night, because your body will be really tired and you'll have a nice deep and restful sleep.

So, to review when you do something for the umpteenth time, it just means you've done it a lot, and you're exaggerating a little bit, or just not giving an exact number. And then when you sleep like a baby, it means that you sleep really well. You just have a good, deep sleep and you wake up in the morning refreshed and ready to start your day.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ario, and Ario says, oh, sorry, my bad. This is from the video the other day about the phrase, my bad. Oh, sorry, my bad. I have used the word yupper, slang word, with my teacher. She says, are you ready? Me, yupper, and my response was this. My students have many ways of saying yes too. They say yup and yuppers and yeah and yepper and every version of the word yes that you could think of. They say yeah, they say okay, they say yoop, they say uh huh, they say, there are so many different ways that students respond in a positive way, saying yes. Usually I think it's yeah. That's probably the most common one. Did you do your homework? Yeah. Did you do your homework? Yup. Did you do your homework? Oh yeah. Yeah, sometimes they say no, though, of course. So, I should do a video someday on the variations on the word yes in the English language, because there are a ton of them. There are a ton of variations on that word.

So, thanks Ario for that comment, which it's actually laying on the ground over there. I let it go, so it's just laying down there now. Anyways, thanks for that comment, that was a good one. By the way, thank you to all of you who are regularly leaving comments.

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