If you happen to like our videos and→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why Do Some English Speaking Countries Pronounce Z as "Zed" and Others as "Zee"? https://youtu.be/0JTATv3mW1U?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt Why “Colonel” is Pronounced “Kernel” https://youtu.be/7opCZv6JqnU?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt In this video: The word so has been in English pretty much as long as there has been English (derived from the Old English swæ). It is alternately an adverb (it’s so hot), a conjunction (eat your dinner so you can have dessert), an adjective (Jim is dead, isn’t that so?) and an introductory particle (So, I heard gun shots last night). Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/09/start-introducing-sentences/ Sources: http://www.biography.com/people/geoffrey-chaucer-9245691#major-works http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22iht-currents.html http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/images/comprofiler/plug_profilegallery/84/pg_2103855866.pdf http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/7360278/its-so-annoying/ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10625/10625-h/dict1.html http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10625/10625-h/dict2.html http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10625/10625-h/dict3.html http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6124/6124-h/6124-h.htm http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/RapeOfLucrece.html http://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Richardson http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/so http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=so&searchmode=none http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-everyone-is-starting-sentences-with-the-word-so-2014-5 http://omacl.org/Troilus/troilus1.html http://www.etymo