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Nonchalant… non means not.. and chalant means.. what?
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Posted on March 25, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Nonchalant… non means not.. and chalant means.. what?
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Posted on March 25, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
I am still waiting for my valentines</B. card please
Now I know why I didn’t see this video. It was near when I first decided to create an account at HFW in March 19th 2008. I had started teaching my classes and was very busy with that.
Prior to the website, I had been watching videos from time to time on YT but never went to the website.
I remember seeing my first lesson sometime in July last year. I was before my birthday Im sure. I wish I could find out the first time I seen my first lesson on YT. 
You know whats amazing? Is to watch this vid and at the same time look over to the right and see a picture of teacher now…wow, just, wow….what an absolutely stunning young lady shes become. Not that she wasn’t before, but now, wow
Thats funny! I did the exact same thing.
Yes she is. I think of her as like a fine wine that taste better with age.
Nice pictures at the end…can I have some ? Just for the archive…
Word:
Where did the name for the Sandpiper, Godwit(as in Bar-tailed Godwit or Hudsonian Godwit) come from?
Only the best exercise physiologists will tell you that a calorie is a unit of heat TRANSFER. As many above have similarly stated, one calorie is the amount of heat that gets transferred from a burning food to raise one milliliter (or cubic centimeter, or gram) of water by one degree Celsius at sea level. Nutritional labels use the kilocalorie (or Calorie, note the capital “C”), which is the amount of heat needed to raise one liter (or kilogram) of water by one full degree Celsius at sea level. A device known as a bomb calorimeter is used to actually burn these foods and determine the amount of degrees the foods raise water, after all, by transferring heat. One poster above wondered about the conversion from kcal to BTU. According to Wikipedia, 1 BTU is approximately equal to .252 to .253 kcal, or about 1/4 of a Calorie. For the physics nerds, that’s equal to 1,054 to 1,060 joules, the standard international unit of energy.
I’ve watched every episode released in the podcast, and enjoyed each one of them. Keep it up, Marina!
People don’t think of the homework in terms of cells. That is pretty far back. Let’s connect things here.
Hot is to burn
burn is to fire
In roasting something to see how many calories a food has you would light it on fire. The fire BURNING the food is so HOT that it’s burning the calories in the food. Simple right. Let’s do this again sometime.
How did we get the “pi” symbol, and are pi r squared. When everyone knows pi are round and cornbread r square.
Homework! I love Homework!
Calorie also is an SI unit for energy. It is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius.
That’s why its etymology is the Latin word for heat!
Dear Teacher,
And because it goes against my religious morals to be concupiscent I am having a crisis over here 
So then the likely solution to my problem would be to only listen to your show, without looking, so that’s what I shall have to try. 
I am So chalant for your calere lessons
Now for the homework, a calorie (aka gram-calorie) is a unit of energy, it is equal to 4.19 joules, a joule is just another unit of energy expressed in the metric system equal to the work done by a force of one newton acting through a distance of one meter. Now a newton is a unit of force and force = mass times acceleration. that’s like saying one is expressing both mass and acceleration at the same time. So what’s the mass and what’s the acceleration that make up a newton? the acceleration for a newton is equal to one meter per second squared, and the mass is one kilogram. acceleration is a measure of how the speed of an object is changing at any given moment, even if isn’t actually able to move. everything on the surface of the earth is accelerating at about 9.8 meters per second squared due to gravity. In order for a force to do any work, it must both accelerate and as a result of that acceleration, move a distance from it’s location. So then if an object is being acted on by a force, let’s call it gravity, and it rolls along the surface of an infinite frictionless table that is parallel to the ground, is it doing any work due to gravity? No. Now if it falls off the table to the ground, then Yes, it does work, due to gravity and it will have risen in temperature. So suppose something is sitting in place but increasing in temperature (i.e. kinetic energy), is it doing any work? Yes, some work is being done somewhere to increase it’s energy, it just may not be obvious to the human eye, little molecules are accelerating around in there. btw, another name for work is torque. There is also a unit of measure called a large calorie, it’s pretty much the same idea, only it’s one thousand gram calories. Another way to express a gram-calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius. Temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy of a sample of matter. Mass is a measure of how much matter, or stuff, exist in an object.
Sashay, eccentric &/or eccentricity. Thanks and love the webisodes! You are extremely hot and you deliver a very intelligent side to add to that hotness. Take care.
-Aragorn
So I have been trying to think of a good word to request and just about everyone I thought of in this short time you have already done…damnit. Wait there’s a good word “damnit”, what do you think?
Marina,
You are of course beautiful, but in this nonchalant segment, you are unbelievably out of this world beautiful. Oh My Goodness. My chin is still on the floor. Wow.
Calorie is a unit of measuring heat or energy. If there was a picture of a calorie beside the description in the dictionary, it would be of you wow are you calorie.
How about this, what is the origin of the word marina. It must have something to do with heat too eh.
hey miss sexy (you all know who i’m talking about)
I’ve been wondering what is the origin of the word interesting i mean isn’t that a really interesting question
Love Ben
P.S hot for words decided to investigate
Marina,
You are excellent. I don’t want to be too nonchalant, but how about taking on the word Epidemiology please Thanks
I mean
\:shock:/
I would love to know the origin of the word “MARTINI” its been a cause for great debate where im from.
Martinez, CA
ibway2cul, my latest video that I will be uploading in a few minutes is your word request! I hope you like it!
Thanks!
Marina
Hi there, Hottie. Please tell me why ‘AXE’ is slang for guitar. Thanks!
HI.Marina i love your site i was wondering about the word Priapism
if you use the word i will stay after class and clean the erasers.
M.L Chicago
Asking for a Word : Addicting
Im really a guy that gets addicted to things…Lately….
Even now Jayz - I know made a song about getting Addicting to thing’s
Ive Requested the word Marijuanna before but i just think Addicting will be more Respectful and more Enjoyable for someone to learn you know!
Thanks marina, Take care! Good work
Love you teacher XD.
I’d like to request the word “knight”. I understand that it started off meaning a young servant, but for some reason it escalated to the status of nobiity over time. Hoping you can give an insight into the word’s history.
I’d like you to discuss the phrase “tide over”, as in “I’m going to eat a snack to tide me over until dinner.”
Please discuss volunteer, thank you.
Mark G.
Louisville, KY
p.s. Are you coming for Derby?
Word request: Martial Art
Hi this is my first comment, I really enjoy your podcast.
Could you explain where Jon Doe and Jane Doe come from.
Thanks.
What is the origin of the word SLAVE
You and your site are fantastic!!!
Hi :),
The other day you did the word “Terminal”, which you said basically means “the end of something”. That got me thinking, though. And it’s actually a funny coincidence. About a week ago I said to my mom that I found the word “exterminate” to be peculiar because when an exterminator comes to exterminate something, they kill it. So shouldn’t they just be terminators that are terminating something? Wouldn’t the ex part of the word mean that they do the oposite and don’t kill or terminate the thing? So I guess I’m hoping you could help me out and investigate the word “exterminate” for me.
Another word that I use quite often is “peculiar” and I realized yesterday that the word in of itself is peculiar. I’ve used it thousands of times, yet I don’t know where it comes from! Shame on me. Any way you could shed some light on that word for me, too?
Love ya,
~Andy
Hey Marina, I heard once that every day of the week was named after some ancient god. I’m not sure how true that is but I thought you might be able to do something interesting with it.
Calories are used as a measure of energy - this can be the energy you store in your body when eating, but also the energy released in chemical reactions - Similar to Joule, really. And when chemical reactions release energy, this energy is released in the form of heat. Thus high-caloric chemical reactions become very hot.
And on a sidenote, I still want to know where the expression “double dutch” originates from. Certainly my native language isn’t quite that incomprehensible?
I’d like to know about the word “SPANIARD”.
A big and hot kiss!!!
During the middleages it was considered hot or sexy to be overweigh, to have to many calories. Maybe therefor the word calorie comes from the word chaler.
Hi Marina !
Niki 
I am a big fan of your show!
Until now, I just sat in front of my computer and looked at the Declaration of words.
But now it is as far as I also have a question that what the word “Sacrifice” mean.
I hope you can help me with my problem (help)!
Love greetings your
Hi Marina ! How are you ?
I like your show very much and i would like to ask you if you can tell me the origin for the word : worlock .
Hello Marina!! here comes a word request from Caracas, Venezuela.
The prefixes that indicate a power of ten. like kilo, mega, giga, tera (possitive power of ten) and mili, micro, pico, nano, femto (negative power of ten). I’ve read that the possitive come from the greek and the negative come from the latin, but i don’t know more.
And by the way, your show is very interesting and funny, my favorite combination. Not to mention you are so hot!!! jajajaja. And yes, intelligence is a beauty itself. bye
Calorie comes from a unit of energy that is generated when stuff is burned. There’s a machine called a calorimeter that measures the heat of burnt stuff. The same energy that makes heat also powers your body, (or gets stored as fat,) and that’s where calorie (from food,) comes from.
Also, calor is the medical term for heat coming from inflammation.
if pediatrist is one that cares for children
and philosophist is one that loves wisdom
pedophiles love childrens (all seems normal here)
aren’t pedosexuals the ones that cause this situation to be distressfull ? does the word even exist ?
just like homosexual - homophile ?
homo would mean one, which would refer to same sex…
why lesbian ?
they are still homosexuals…
les (those ) bi (two) an (have in) commun ?!
i kinda made out my own idea about it all, but i like to provide sustenance to speculation sometimes :p
just like, dentist, florist, radiologist, or even denturologist ?
all thos ists ? do they have any link with ‘Chr ist ?’
the way i see it, they all served the commun people…
la chaleur facilite la diffusion
chaleur is warmth
un chale or is it châle ? is like this piece of fabric you can place over your shoulders and back to keep them warmer
Requesting the origin of the word “Greed”
A Poem to Read…
Greed, greed is an evil seed
Plant it, water it, and watch it feed
Slowly growing on the hearts that bleed
Greed will plead; it needs you to lead its creed
So take heed, as this breed of weed is evil…:evil:…Indeed
Cede (withdraw or yield)the greed…This I have decreed (ordered)
At warp speed 
Guaranteed
You will succeed
(Please disregard any grammar mistakes or misuse of the words…
)
Why do you think I am here?….To admire the view?
Love you
Hey Marina ~
Do you Have any tattoos? If not, what would you get and where? Where does the word Tattoo originate from anyway?
Я люблю вашу работу!
word - non sequitur
Marina, could you explain ‘beggars belief’ I know what it means but where does the beggars bit come from??
Love your videos! great fun
Hi marina
I’m a new member and I like your lesson. I’m an candian french and those lesson helps me. I would like to know if you could tell me the origins of the words viola and violin. I hope you can. Thanks for all the video!!!!
Calory is in fact a heat unit of measure. I think it’s definition is: “the qty of heat needed to rise the temperature of a cube meter of water from 23,5 °C to 24,5 °C.”
Since heat is comparable to energy, this unit is also an energy unit of measure, measuring the enrgetic value of every food.
We literally “burn”, inside each cell, calories to get energy, the more we spend energies and the more calories we burn. The calories we’ve eaten and we haven’t used yet do not get lost, they turn into fat, to be better stored in the “storerooms” we have under our skin.
Thus fat is nothing but an energy reserve. It doesn’t sound that bad now uh…?
The bad news are that our body needs more “work” to re-transform fat into energy, and is more likely to use the “newly introduced” calories.
Starving is not a better idea though, because when you do not eat your body takes most of its energy by destroying muscular cells, so, if you starve, your fat will remain, and your muscles, as soon as you re-start eating, will turn to fat too!
hey can you define the word
demonstrate?
does it have anything to do with demons? or trate? is trate a word?
Hi! I request the word “slave”
now english ethymology dictionaries say that the word slave comes from slav, slavian, my people, and came accross during the 15-16th century when the slavian nations in south europe fell under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and were sold as slaves to Western Europe and all across the boarders of the empire. I need to ask if that is correct because if my people gave the word to the meaning.. well that changes a lot. I also know that it is the same case as in German, French and Spanish. I think it’s pretty unfair and depressing but on the other side it just comes to show that it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white.. empires need slaves.
Maybe calorie is an energy fuel which has to burn which I am sure relates to the hot thing. You are so great to wake up to and learn the educational origin of the words you make so hot. Thank you hotfor words!
hey marina I am new here and would love to know the meaning and origin of etymology
Teacher,
I know why Calorie is related to heat: Calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
I actually did recall that one from way back in HS.
Thanks for another great lesson!
hmm, i think i no longer need a high school english teacher, im learning a good amount from you, and you’re nvr hard on the eyes… neways.. i would also like to know the origin of “bullseye”
Marina Hot for Words,
the trusty one… how about quadruple?
Is this too easy? What is a ruple? or what?
Love the cute tiny yellow top! (nice view!) May I nonchalantly ask if you plan to have a calender printed this year or for next year? It’s bound to be a Hot(for words) seller!~!!!!
Love your email cards, too - I save them all. Thanks again!
Love ya!
I would like to know the origin of the word “bullseye”.
Chalant means extreme concern of an object.
I was wondering if u could tell the meaning of cracker/nigger. they’re racist words but how did they become like that. thanks for replying if u did. klasna shto ti ruskaya!!
Awesome video as always. I like the bloopers at the end of the videos, it’s funny seeing things like that and it says a lot about the person making the video, that they aren’t afraid of someone laughing at them.
Anyways, I would like to know the origin of the word “Gay”. This word used to be one of the regular words in my vocabulary when things that I thought sucked happened, or if I didn’t like someone. It wasn’t until the beginning of last year that I found out my cousin was “gay” or rather homosexual that I stopped using the word altogether. It’s a word that I’ve come to hate now and I’d like to know the origin of it. I mean, I know that it means “happy” as on the Fltintstones song it always said “And we’ll have a gay ol’ time!” but now days, it’s become a word used for hating things.
I think this would be an interesting word for the day.
Thanks for the great videos and the awesome origins of the words. You’ve really got something great going here. Know that it is very much appreciated.
Outstanding website and amazingly informative!
I want to know the origin of the word “Calico”.
Thank you!
-Calico66
Hi Marina, I like very much the music that have to sound in the end. Could you tell me how I can get it. Thanks you very much. muuuuuuac
dayerman, it’s by Ronald Jenkees.. he’s on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ronaldjenkees and you can buy his music on his website http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/music-store but he song you hear at the end is not out yet.. he’s working on that one for his next album. But his other music is awesome as well!
Not being into math equations or having knowledge about how many calories it takes to equal a BTU, although I do know that after consuming a few extra calories my body warms up. I never noticed this until I found myself living in minus 30 degree F. weather.
marina my piekna,i would love it if you could give me the origin of the word ditto,happy april.
xx
HELLO MARIA , I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE DOES THE MEANING (YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE) CAME FROM CRETIANLY MY EYE AND MY SON EYE DONT LOOK LIKE APPLE OR DO THEY? PLEASE INVESTIGATE !!!!!! THANKS.
The expression is found in the King James Bible and translates “ishon ha-ayin,” literally “the little man of my eye.” If you get extremely close to someone else and look directly at their eye, you’ll see a little man–yourself–in their pupil. So “the little man of my eye” is the pupil of it, or what, for some reason, medieval English called the “apple” of it. Probably because it was round. Maybe Marina knows, but she probabl doesn’t know about “the little man of my eye” because few Russians know any Hebrew. Of course, she could be Jewish, and then she would. Pardon me for the racist sentiment, but Jews are known for their intelligence, competence, rising to the top of their fields, and carving out a niche for themselves, especially in show business.
Jewish is a culture not a race, but I get your drift. Plus el Professor you are doing a good job here so thank you too. You sound a little one sided for the Jews so what are you married to one? Break a leg.
lol .
dvdpage is correct. What you are referring to is an ethnic group. Because of the research in genetics, anthropology and physiology the term “race” is inappropriate. Even when used to describe Caucasian, Asian, African, Native American, etc… Peoples grouped by phenotype are not different races. They are the same race but different ethnic groups. It is known that genetic variation between individuals of the same ethnic group are greater than those between ethnic groups.
I understand that it is common to use race to describe ethnic groups.
But your name conveys that you are an academic or a scholar. And you are participating as such. Because of these factors I cannot excuse your statement, it is offensive. I am bothered in part because your statement regarding the stereotype of jews has absolutely nothing to do with the your subject. There is little reason for it to be included. It fails to add any insight to anything discussed. Why did you include it? It functions only to perpetuate a stereotype.
It is rather annoying that you ask for a pardon. Your request for a pardon indicates that you are well aware of the inappropriate character of your addendum and the possibility that it will be insulting. Yet you posted it anyway. Why should you be pardoned?
Had you stated it in a different context or performance style, perhaps sarcasm or farce, I would have still been offended but inclined to accept it as bad humor. However combined with the manner in which you were writing it conveys a professional opinion. If this is your professional opinion then your really a fuckwit.
I must apologize, I have read your post again. I have read it more than several times. It has occurred to me that you are relating the stereotype of the jewish people to marina. Meaning that she shares those traits you incorrectly associate with jews. So, now I am merely offended by the bad humor. However, that technically makes me a fuckwit because I was unable to understand the intended humor. My fuckwit comment to you is hereby rescinded but the offensive quality remains.
Could you investigate the word mermaid please?
“mer” is French for “sea.” Sea maid.
Hi Marina,
Can you investigate the word MERCHANT, please…
1 calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise water 1 degree at sea level.
Hi, Marina
why don’t you tell about your name, and maybe some others words from spanish language, only if you know and want, saludos desde Chile a new fan
check out the word list, she has already done this.
Her name is not really Spanish. She was baptized Maria. Marina, and other words like Mariyka, Marinka, Marusya, and even Masha are short and affectionate forms of Maria which entered Greek and Latin from the Aramaic name Mariam, which comes directly from the Hebrew word Miriam, which is how the sister of Moses was renamed after her rebellion. The word “rebellion” itself, in Hebrew, comes from the word for bitterness, mara.
Most Russians and Ukrainians go by a shortened form of their name, far more often than Americans do. And far more Russian names can be shortened than English ones can. You can often tell a lot about the relationship between two Russians just by what name they call each other. If for example they use a quadruple diminutive like Masha they are probably very close indeed.
how do you know if she was baptized?
i saw that word in my book of long words there was alot!
So, why do you have a book of long words without any definitions?
um…
hi marina, this is my first time on here, and im sorry for the long word, but can you define “ACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOLEUCYLTHREO NYLSERYLPROLYLSERYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALA NYLVALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYLSERYLSERYL VALYLTRYPTOPHYLALANYLASPARTYLPROLYLISOLE UCYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLLEUCYLASPARAGINYLVALYL CYSTEINYLTHREONYLSERYLSERYLLEUCYLGLYCY LASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAM INYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLALANYLAR GINYLTHREONYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLVALYLGLUT AMINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLGLUTAMI NYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLLYSYLPROLYLPHENYLALA NYLPROLYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLTHREONYLVALYLA RGINYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLYCYLASPARTYL VALYLTYROSYLLYSYLVALYLTYROSYLARGINYLTY ROSYLASPARAGINYLALANYLVALYLLEUCYLASPARTY LPROLYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLALANYLLE UCYLLEUCYLGLYCYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANYLAS PARTYLTHREONYLARGINYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLI SOLEUCYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLVALYLGLUTAMYLAS PARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLPROLYL THREONYLTHREONYLALANYLGLUTAMYLTHREONYLLE UCYLASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLARGINYLARGINYL VALYLASPARTYLASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLVAL YLALANYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLSERYLALANYLASP ARAGINYLISOLEUCYLASPARAGINYLLEUCYLVALYLA SPARAGINYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLVALYLARGINYLGLYC YLTHREONYLGLYCYLLEUCYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYL GLUTAMINYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANY LGLUTAMYLSERYLMETHIONYLSERYLGLYCYLLEUC YLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLTHREONYLSERYLALANYLPR OLYLALANYLSERINE” Thank you! 
We’ll define it if you’ll promise to drink it!
is it a drink?
A van or truck used to move cows. The word, cow lorry is commonly used in the U.K.
Hola Marina…
The word SINCERE has an interesting etymology… you should investigate….
thanks, eddiervc
A calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise one gram of water one degree celcius in chemistry.
With a capital C the word Calorie is a kilo-calorie . . .1,000 calories and it is the unit in which we measure the heat-potential in the foods we eat. So, a candy bar that has 450 Calories, has the energy in it to raise 450,ooo grams of water 1 degreee Celcius. This tells us how much heat-energy we can get from the foods we eat!
Hi Marina,
could you please explain the word “sophisticated”.
I have absolutely no idea how it was formed,
Thanks.
The unit calorie is used to describe an amount of energy (e.g. the energy your food delivers to you or your hips
). The definition is something like: One calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gramm of water by one kelvin (equals degree celsius in this case). So the connection to the word calere is that you measure the change of temperature to determine the amount of energy.
soo many cuts in this video! that’s not calere
Could you please explain the origin of the word “kidnap”?
hi marina, could you check for the word “the”?
thanks.
Hi Marina
I’d like to request a word please. Actually there are two words; LEFT and RIGHT. I can imagine the story behind these words are quite interesting…
Thank you so much in advance! You are supergreat!
I WANT TO KNOW THE ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORD “GROSS”.
It’s supposed to mean total, but somehow it becomes …. we all know
Thnx. You rock my world, Marina
Gross is just the German word for big, large, or great. Big is often opposed in meaning to things that are fine (small) and therefore refined, delicate, small and therefore often precise, large and likelier to be crude. Since “big, large, great” are often used to express superlatives, it just happened that it was most often attached to words like “exaggeration” and “miscarriage of justice” and took on its own connotations of bad. And it kept permutating until the word today is really, uh, gross.
the german word would be “groß”.
(”groß” and “great” have the same root.)
“gross” comes to english via old french “gros” which comes from latin “grossus”.
“gross” seems unrelated to “groß”.
groß” has been spelled “gross” since the end of WWII when the Allies ordered Germans to stop using the old Gothic typeface and print in Latin letters. This had a number of functions. It made censorship (detection of Nazi propaganda) easier and it made it easier for our soldiers to read their signs and newspapers and thus to control the enemy country we were occupying. It seems obvious to me that the German word groß”, the French word “gros” and our word “gross” are all interrelated etymologically. We are, after all, closely related languages, as almost all countries with a European coastline are.
no. “groß” has been officially spelled “groß” since 1901. other spellings are not standard spellings. ( –> history of ß in wikipedia.)
what your soldiers could read or not read doesn’t play a role.
there is a standardized rule for the use of ß since 1901, which slightly changed in 1996/2006 (spelling reform). doesn’t have anything to do with the gothic typeface / antiqua (antiqua had been in use since the end of the 15th century). so, don’t give me that nazi crap.
GWB still knows the spelling with sz, of course.
“gross” (online etymology dictionary):
“[...] Said to be unrelated to [...] Ger. gross [...]” –> link.
“gross” (merriam webster):
“Etymology: Middle English grosse, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French gros large, thick, whole, from Late Latin grossus coarse”. –> link.
“great” (online etymology dictionary):
“O.E. great “big, coarse, stout,” from W.Gmc. *grautaz (cf. O.S. grot, O.Fris. grat, Du. groot, Ger. groß “great”).” –> link.
“great” (merriam webster):
“Etymology: Middle English grete, from Old English grēat; akin to Old High German grōz large”. –> link.
now, I’m not saying there was never a spelling “gross”. there was indeed. long time ago. you’ll find spellings with ss in the GWB’s article on “grosz”.
I’ve got a bible from 1952, printed in east germany. the religious part was printed in gothic type, other things in antiqua. antiqua used ß.
by the way, the allies did not order germans to stop writing in gothic style. it was the nazis themselves.
see here.
Hello Marina i left you a video response but to be safe i will post my word request here. where does the word candy come from and who came up with the word. thanks i love your show i have learned a lot. also i want to ask you where the word request come from as well
what about overwhelmed/underwhelmed. And y is there no whelmed??
Another great video!
Can you explain how ‘lingua franca’ came to mean a universal language and why it is in latin instead of French?
smart and amusing as always!
Can you explain to us the multitude of meanings that the word “score” has?
A calorie is a measure of an amount of heat (thermodynamics) or the fuel value of food. Basically, it’s the quantity of food necessary to generate heat value.
I would like you to do the word hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia my youtube is http://www.youtube.com/pelnied
where did the (R) go?
hello marina i was wondering if you could do the word jackass because it could mean a donley and it could mean somebody being mean so could you please investigate if you could thank you very much
I think the next word should be Diabolical. Loads of scope there
Oo I love this video Marina! One of my favorites so far!
I’m just waiting for that calender…
whoops… i mean calendar
Hey Marina,
Interesting lesson, chalant…. pretty cool. so i was gonna ask on the origins of sloppy joe and manwich. yes, they r foods but my friends tell me that sloppy joe and manwich came from gruesome origins. Sloppy joe, Manwich
Doesn’t calorie have to do with the amount of energy needed to burn something?.. Or the amount of energy required to raise an electron to the next energy level?.. hence Burning calories?
(sorry, I’ve repressed all mammories, I mean MEMORIES of horrible horrible chemistry).
Hey, when are you going on another fieldtrip? Like the racecar one and the one wherein you Snuck through the gate
daaaaaaaaaang…. impressive….
A calorie is the amount of heat it takes to raise 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade. This is so little it is of interest only to chemists.
Human beings deal in kilocalories, which is the amount of heat it takes to raise a kilogram (approx. 1 quart) of water by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or in more practical terms, the amount it takes to raise a glass of water by about ten degrees Fahrenheit. Since our bodies hae to be raised and kept about thirty degrees hotter than the environment all the time, you can see why we need calories all the time.
The word calorie comes from the Latin word “calor”, heat.
Woops! I spoke too soon. It’s working
YouTube is having serious issues these past few weeks.. videos remaining private and you have to keep tweaking the video info to get it to finally stick.. takes about 40 minutes of tweaking to get a video to stick and remain public! Really frustrating!
Well as always, you laced up the bootstraps and stomped through it. Thanks for the video, muey caliente!
Make YOUR mean face, I’ll make Mine.. and we’ll put the Fear in Youtube’s mouthpiece
Thanks again Marina Hot for Words!
Im glad you percevere at making things stick. In answer to your question, hot in the context if calories is based upon how much energy value it has. I didn’t go to the lexicon for this one, when I was a boy I had a horse and had to watch out how much hot grass I let him eat. Vetch has beautiful purple flowers and Bilbo used to go for it more than any other grasses in the area. I learned that he would founder if he got too much because there was so much energy in that kind of plant. I guess he knew it somehow instinctively. Anyway horsed cant burp or pass gass, so it would be cruel to let him get “too hot”. Horses can even founder and die from getting too hot.
Thanks again for all you do.
“Video is no longer available”?
Youtube said I could not watch the vid without having first accepted a Friend request, but I didn’t see any such request, or notification.
I’m sure you already know all of this.. you are the Teacher, of course.