Cockpit
Where does the word cockpit come from in regards to an airplane cockpit?
You’ll be amazed on where it comes from.
Posted on March 12, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
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Great random lesson. THE SUNFLOWERS are as pretty as you is. Russians are famous for sunflowers, are not they? More chickens. cuckoo?
what are those shoes you were waving around on the intro to the video they look just like my boa scarlet i hat animal skin for clothing what if some lunatic wanted to wear your skin when did people start wearing skin for fasion not nessecity
Hi Marina,
What does the word “BLOG” mean and where does it come from?
Just like the poopdeck.
Hello My Teacher,
i suppose that another smiling meaning of cockpit is …. a vagina!!!
So life goes. We are all laughing at the sound of …silence. NO NO NO
at the sound of the word …. COCK a smiling four letters word
Come on & tel me if i’m right. Am i not???
Bye Bye So long
Greetings Marina
Sorry to be a bother,but I would like to know if “Accune” was a word.If so,can you help me with the words meaning.This word appeared in a dream.
Marina,
I’ve read that the word copacetic, meaning “okay” or “satisfactory” is a slang word. How did such a formal sounding word come from a slang origins?
Dear Marina,
I reciently heard an interesting definition for the word “Lobbyist”, but not sure if it is legend or true. With it being a politically dirty word, I was wondering if you could investigate it’s meaning for us.
Cheers,
Greg
Hey Marina,
it would be a dream come true if you made a video on my request! 
Thanks for all your interesting videos! I love learning something new everyday. I’ve never thought I’d ask for a word request.. but, it’s about something that I’ve thought was quite funny for some time! The word “Congress”.. isn’t that the opposite of “Progress”? It seems to be a fitting word, since Congress keeps passing laws that don’t really preserve human rights (like banning the words “mom and dad” in schools, or banning “hugs”!). I was just curious of the origin of the word “Congress”, how did such a name come to be? Thanks!
A 2 for 1 suggestion: Violin and Fiddle
Different words, different or same instruments?
How did one become the other or did they?
Love your Show and your are correct:
Intelligence is Sexy
Oh and one other Word Request: “Bok globules” It’s a small dark cloud of gas and dust. These clouds are star formation regions for lower-mass stars.
I am wondering where the word “Bok globules” comes from, or atleast “Globules” because Bok was the last name of the american scientist who discovered this.
Word Request: I was wondering where the word “Googolplex” comes from. It’s a number that has ten thousand zeros in it. Why did they name it that? It’s like they ran out of names for numbers. There is also another name called “Googol” which has one hundred zeros in it.
Maria,
I have a questgion for you… What is the longest word?
Smiles because there is a mile between the S’s.
Where did smile come from? The world needs more smiles and you always put a smile on my face.
What is the origin of the word “boring”?
I have checked many dictionaries, no one seems to know. I’m a teacher, and kids use this word a LOT and I’m just wondering where it came from.
So I looked up Federation and Confederation and still can’t tell what is the difference. Please investigate this conundrum for me.
Word Request;
Why do sailors say ‘port’ and ’starboard’, for ‘left’ and ‘right’?
I know that at sea, an emergency can happen at any time, and it is vital that everything aboard can be clearly identified and described. Where ‘left’ and ‘right’ could lead to confusion, ‘port’ and ‘starboard’ are perfectly clear and unambiguous to a seafarer.
But where do these words come from and why was ‘port’ and ’starboard’ selected?
I need your help hot teacher!
TheShawnee
Teacher,
Thank you for cockpit.
Here’s a request: olive branch
(As in extending an “olive branch” to someone.)
Working on homework…
check out the bible! you dont have to adhere to a church to know where its from and the whole bible story is actually entertaining ……somewhat!
Marina, why do they call the pit of a theater a cockpit?
Because it refers to a small cramped area.
Small theatres would often have to cram a full auchestra into these small spaces to provide music for plays ect..
what can you tell me about the origin of the word “Fetish”, suitable as you seem to have a fetish for words
Marina, i would like to know where the word cemetery came from.
Marina,
I’m curious about the origin of the word “dude”. I’ve heard that in the cowboy days it was not a very flattering thing to say about someone, but I’m curious where it came from before that.
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Adam
Marina, can u find the origin of what pussycat came from
same thing for “boobs” in slang meaning a womans breast
pleeeeease dont think im pervert or anything but “cock” in slang also means a penis. pleeeeease people dont think im a pervert please
Where does the word Orangutan come from?
Indonesian.
Orang = person or man
Utang = Forest or Jungle
Literally, the man from the forest
Hey Marina, what does it really mean to be photogenic?
What is special about these two words: Uncopyrightable and Dermatoglyphics?
HI Marina,
I only recently found your wonderful informative website.
I have a word request for you.
Can you explain to me the origins of the word “Pugilist”
Many thanks,
Hugh G Rexshun
HELLO MARINA!HOW ARE YOU I’M RYOGERG,CAN YOU FIND THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD [DECAPITATION]?PLEASE?THANKS YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!
how about the word decapitALISation?
How did the word Pwned come from… i heard it on a game i was playing like as in someone got pwned. i have wondered this for a while. oh and by the way u are my favourite teacher ever.. your a hottie
thanx
this is leet speech. “pwned” (also: pwnd, pwnt, pwn3d …) means “owned” (also: ownd, ownt, own3ed, 0wn3d …). if you own3d someone you defeated him, often verbally.
here’s quote from bash.org:
k, d00d?
errr … “a quote” …
damnit! not “own3ed”, but “own3d”.
guess I just pwnd myself. :/
thanks dude i allways wanted to no what people where meaning when they said i got pwned
thnx m8
Hi Marina!
“jamboree” and “jam” - do these words have the same origin?
Did the “jam-bo-ree” come from the swe-et “jam” or from that “jam” as it had happened with my fingers?
Thank You
Hi marina!!
I have been wondered for a long time.
When you hit something precisely at a target, people often say “BULLSEYE!!”
Why is this?
Please, Help me
Best Regards
Yes, me too would love if you could explain the origin of this word
If I was going to guess, I would say maybe in old days, they used to shoot at the eye of the bull, or bulls-eye!
Maybe that’s it, but you can find out much better than me
-Kimer28
Chicks get high off my d*ck,
I take ‘em to my home, they call it the cockpit.
“heh heh”
there you go, Beavis
Child…
Please explain Bravo!
Hey Marina! I would love to request a word. Im wondering if you could do the holiday St. Patricks Day. Its coming soon and i would love to hear where it originated from. Thanks for reading.
Where does the term “gal Friday” come from?
My guess: Robinson Crusoe
first off, i just want to say i love the show.
now, can you tell me where the word “infinity” comes from. thx.
Marina, where does the word “love” come from?
Hello Marina, if you are up for the challenge. Here is the 3rd longest word in the Oxford Dictionary:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
I would like to know where does the word ”””””’tenacious”””” come from.
That little “hehe”, right after Marina said “What the hell is a cockpit” near the beginning, was hilarious.
I meant just after she said, “why the hell is it called a cockpit?”
Rus
Gritsai
Slavonic…..
I’d like to request the word: Deus.
Deus, if I’m not mistaken, is Latin in origin and means “God” or “deity.” Some languages use variations of this word. For example, the direct translation of “God” into Portugese is “Deus.”
correct
One more word
parallel - in a different world you would be a doctor.
Pretty cool website. Knowledge is power. lol
The word is:Infinity
I have a word to ask. Why ‘funny bone?’ We all know that when you get your funny bone hit, it’s not amusing. Love your site!
Was it used for that little hole in male genitals?
Anyway, where does the term “Frostbite” come from? Does it have anything to do with teeth?
gallows
Marina can u investigate the word “grenade” and “fragment” please…
but i understand that its a joke… or is it…
have a beer… Marina some of us r younger than 10 years of age, excluding me
I always wondered where the word “bra” came from…
So I would love if you could investigate the word for me
-Kimer28
bra…
Bra is Norwegian for Good and refers to the contents of the bra
Merriam-Webster says that cockpit also refers to the pit of a theater, but says that reference is no longer used today. (I guess it is now referred to as the orchestra pit)
Is that what you were referring to at the end of your video, or am I way off?
Marina,
With April just around the corner, I’m curious why in America we refer to April 1st as April Fool’s Day, and why we play jokes on each other that day.
Thank you, Shane
yo.
I would like to request the word “spirit”. It means so many different things but what was the first meaning and from where?
Marina,
I would like to suggest that you go through the etymology and origin of names of some of your students. Please start with mine: Eric.
Thanks,
Eric
Hey Marina,
I’m one of your latest students and I’ve got an interesting word request. You might have heard about it already. There’s a small town in Wales which has an extremely long name, it had once been the longest word in the world. You write it this way:
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch
At school we learned how to pronounce it, which was quite funny. But now I wonder… what does this word mean? If we would name this town in regular English, what would it be called?
And as a little extra, I would appreciate it if you tried to pronounce it as well, if you don’t already…
Love,
barreckvie
it is actually galic fro the church of saint mary in the crook of a nut tree near the wirlpool and the church of saint tysilio near the red cave
My hand is on the tiller while you’re pulling the sheetlines taut. And life is good whenever we’re in the cockpit of the sailboat.
Thank’s fo that little fantasy, Marina.
Hi Marina,
Beautiful as always…
For my homework, a “cockpit” can also be “a place where a contest is fought or which has been the scene of many contests or battles,” or “a space below the water line in a warship, occupied by the quarters of the junior officers and used as a dressing station for those wounded in action.”
Good thing you clarified your love of cocks. It warms the cockles of my heart. And, PETA, among others, might get upset if you harmed any cocks during the course of making your video. I’m not trying to sound cocky, but cock fighting can cause permanent damage to cocks, and cause them to become cock-eyed. You’d have to give them succor if they were hurt, so don’t cock-a-snook at this whole affair.
You’ve gotten me all cock-a-hoop now, because you were teasing those cockamamie cocks. Marina, that’s not nice and can be quite frustrating! I realize that this is coming at you hard and fast, and may sound like a cock-and-bull story, but I’m trying to not let this turn into a cock-up (or perhaps a succession of cocks-up).
Just wait till the punster Prospero gets his teeth into this!
The principle control in an airplane cockpit is called a joystick. (co-incidence?)
Is there an interesting history to that or is it just pilots and mechanics being little boys?
I want to request a simple word:
“butterfly”
(butter+fly?) What has butter to do with a fly?
Word Request…
Where did the term “pussy cat” come from?
can you do jackass
One word that I’ve come across before is “hubris”. I know what it means, but how did such a strange word come about?
Nikata
South Paw
Southpaw was originated in baseball, which is largely where the term is still used today.
Paw obviously is just a funny way of refering to a person’s hand, like an animal’s paw.
The South part is more interesting.
Most early baseball stadiums were built with home plate on the west side of the stadium, and center field to the east.
There are various theories as to why this was done, but most baseball historians agree that it was due to the sun setting in the west. Since all games back then were played in the afternoon, there would be less glare in the batter’s face if the sun was behind him, and the bleachers could even block the sun from the pitcher too. So it was adopted as the best configuration for ballparks.
Anyway, I digress. So when a pitcher stood on the mound facing home plate, his left arm faced south.
So a left handed pitcher took on the nickname of Southpaw. Eventually the term caught on and all left handed players were referred to this way.
Hey Marina, this is my first comment so please holla at me in one of your videos.
Ok i have an interesting word for you to teach the audience. It is the word “Masticate”. I was once asked if I knew what that word meant by an american who did not know what it was. I was funny because i started learning english a couple of months before he asked me that question and guess what, i answered it correctly.
I guess it was because of my hispanic descendant. Anyhow, i love your videos a lot and keep up the go0od work.
Yours Truly
Does any one know the origin of the word Malibu like the city of malibu. I was wondering this while I was driving by there the other day.
Hello my sexy teacher, the investigation on cockpit was really good. Now could you investigate another word for me - why a “pussycat” is called “pussycat”? Does it have anything to do with “pussy”?
Yes, I want to know about that term too. Who coined the phrase and when? Did the meaning ever change over time? Was it ever meant as a sexual connotation? Please investigate pussycat, Marina.
privetik, ‘paradoxical undressing’
Hi, i was watching your videos and was wondering where the word Discombobulate Came from. I think i spelled it right lol
very interesting…
Word Request: Could you explain why we have the word Germany in English (and maybe some other languages, like Russian), but in Romance languages such as Spanish and French, they call it something like Alemania, and yet still, Germans call their country Deutschland - What’s going on here? Why are there so many different roots? Where do they all come from?
edit - I mean the same root, Russian has the same root word (Germ-) as English
“deutsch” (”german”) comes from lat. “theodiscus”. “theodiscus” is a word “invented” by scholars to distinguish latin from, and refer to, the language that the “ordinary” people spoke. it comes from germanic ” *theod-” (”folk”, “people”) + “-isk(a)”. “-isk” is a suffix that “makes” adjektives. so, “theodisk” actually means “folkish”. but, it referred only to the langauge. old high german (about 700 — 1100 ad) knows the word “diutisk” or “diutisc”. that changed over time to “deutsch”.
as for “germany”. I’m not sure. only thing I recall is that it comes from latin “germanus”. “germanus” should be older than “theodiscus”.
a germanic tribe, the franks, settled in an area around what today is toulouse. they replaced the wisigoths who then went further west and settled in a region which is now spain. so, “france” maybe comes from the franks.
right next to franks, to the east, settled another tribe. the allemanni. so, the franks and the alemanni were neighbours. maybe this is where “allemagne” comes from.
Origin of the name of France:
The name “France” comes from Latin Francia, which literally means “land of the Franks” or “Frankland”. There are various theories as to the origin of the name of the Franks. One is that it is derived from the Proto-Germanic word frankon which translates as javelin or lance as the throwing axe of the Franks was known as a francisca.
Another proposed etymology is that in an ancient Germanic language, Frank means free as opposed to slave. This word still exists in French as franc, it is also used as the translation of “Frank” and to name the local money, until the use of the Euro in the 2000s.
However, rather than the ethnic name of the Franks coming from the word frank, it is also possible that the word is derived from the ethnic name of the Franks,[citation needed] the connection being that only the Franks, as the conquering class, had the status of freemen. In German, France is still called Frankreich, which literally means “Realm of the Franks”. In order to distinguish from the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne, Modern France is called Frankreich, while the Frankish Realm is called Frankenreich.
From Wikipedia
We call you Германия
I know.
The origin of France makes sence, but for centuries it was referred to as Gaul.
When and why was it changed?
the name for Germeny you refer to stems from many variations of allemani wich means “all men” created to name the union of gemanic tribes when they decided to rid europe of the romans a llllong time ago.
books can be quite amazing, even with no cartoons in them give em a try!!!
I read books. I don’t read books with cartoons. That has nothing to do with my question, or why I have it.
Here in the U.S. or as we like to call it, “us” we have simplified this confusing matter by referring to the rest of the world as, “them, they or you people”. This approach has saved us billions of dollars by significantly shortening the length of text books and time spent studying world affairs. In addition educational test scores are increasing tremendously. Us people are here to help you people!
Great video Marina!
I love what you wear in cockpit&cup of joe vidioes Email me pictures Pkease
chhhh ma fi knew dat it meant a plane drivin thing but na no roosta fightin ting or nuttin like dat…
but sayin i would like to know d meanin of “easy-peasy” ma fi ask dis in d 1 bfore d coffee 1 but i just makin sure i can get this in bfore 2 many comments pour in
That’s easy. It can also be a place from which a small vessel is steered.
Didn’t she refer to cockpits in ships in her video? I wonder if it’s something else.
I think the other use of cockpit was referring to the pit of a theater, although that use seems to be obsolete now.
That’s right shane