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By: leonard

leonard — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:33:11 +0000

Hail to The Capital of the LEXICON Republic and the homies of Etymologia

By: foxbow

foxbow — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:07:10 +0000

By: allizard

allizard — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:26:27 +0000

How come I don’t have teachers like you when I was in highschool?!!

Great job, love your videos.

By: rockerlevine

rockerlevine — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:53:17 +0000

The Whole Nine Yards reefers to a ww11 ammunition belt pr-loaded onto aircraft. If you “gave” an enemy the whole belt, You gave hime the whole nine yards, Capish?????

By: Marina

Marina — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:58:18 +0000

I love the feedback and research ljublju_slova! Thanks so much!

Marina

By: ljublju_slova

ljublju_slova — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:26:03 +0000

Folk etymology (in response to An Unmarried Degree? What?):

“Crayfish”: in reality, this word comes from the same source as the French word “

By: ljublju_slova

ljublju_slova — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:40:26 +0000

As I was unable to post on YouTube; this is a response to Candidate:

A word that changed its meaning drastically over the years is “silly”.

Thomas Pyles in The Origins and Development of the English Language (1964) wrote that “silly” (Old English “(ge)s

By: ljublju_slova

ljublju_slova — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:34:16 +0000

I just found this site via YouTube.

“Awful” can be used today in a positive sense; Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (1999) gives the following phrase: “the awful majesty of alpine peaks”. “Awful” here means “solemnly impressive; inspiring awe”; in this sense, it is practically synonymous with “awesome”.

Oh, and the advent of “awful” or “awfully” as an adverbial intensifier isn’t an “awful” (bad) thing or an “awesome” (good) thing; it’s just a reflection of the fact that a living language is constantly changing, and words often lose old meanings and acquire new ones.

By: anwer

anwer — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:07:08 +0000

hi, i’m a new user in this site and i realy enjoyed , and i think you are the first one in his topic , good luck.

thank you

all best wishes

By: serpentine

serpentine — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:08:55 +0000

Marina I fell in love the first time I viewed one of your lessons. Anyway, I’m a Pisces and I was wondering where the term “Ides of March” originated and what it means.