How about an example of this robe lifting … sigh. I always love old world type phrases. Like to see hotforprofits or Marina recite some but I suppose that would be a bit creepy and asking a lot.
…Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, “father” of the rifles that bear his patronymic. Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947. With over 100 million of the AK series and their variants produced (RPK, SVD, Tygr, Saiga, shotguns, etc.), he has been twice named “Hero of Socialist Labor” (Герой работы социалиста) and awarded the Order of Saint Andrew the Protoclete (Заказ священнейшего Андрюа Protoclete). He even has a vodka named after him. I think at one time Russia even had a brand of Kalsahnikov or AK cigarettes. So with either with the rifles, vodka, or cigarettes he’s gonna get you!
For wordlovers i know where it come from But i just want you dear teacher to make a lessons about it that all
I not some asshole who learn martial arts to get chicks.
No i am the real deal and i have some homework for you
Look for Watanabe Kondo, Shidoshi-Ho
Marina, дорогой учитель, first, welcome back. Hope you had a good weekend. It was Mother’s Day Sunday. Does Russia celebrate Mother’s Day? Since we hear so much about “Mother Russia” it seems that you should. If so, how does it differ from Mother’s Day in the USA? Just curious…
спасибо
What is the origin of the word kiss kiss means to barely or lightly touch, kiss this means that your lips touch another person. for example: kissing in public & is illegal in the country of india based on laws that govern relationships kiss ass is slang meaning to be obsequious; fawn I think that means to be favor someone highly as a means of getting their way over others kiss off is slang meaning to reject, dismiss, ignore, give up, denounce kiss (a bite sized chocolate) kiss (a sugar cookie) kiss (a toffeelike confectionary) kiss in the game of billards, means the slight touch of one ball to another Also to blow a kiss to use eye contact & showing the significant other your lips while then blowing in their general direction (a “kiss”) kiss also means to make a smack sound with your lips as if they had touched another (this is only the case when you use eye contact with another person) KISS the heavy metal Band from early years kiss is the act of or instance of kissing your significant other
“16 results for kiss” You may find this reference to be very enlightening and interesting. a quick link to the dictionary result for kiss. HINT: At the top of the page look for the phrase in grey letters “16 results for kiss” levitate your mouse arrow over “Browse the related entries” to read: heres the link http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kiss
714 now. Are we going for a record?
Then here’s a worthy one; if we really have 68,238,545 + 1 soldiers in this army, why don’t we pick one of Marinas videos and all view it on YouTube?
If we all give Marina our Bleeding Love we could knock Leona Lewis off the “most viewed of all time” spot by this time tomorrow.
I suggest we do the “G4 TV Appearance” video as that already has 2.5 million views to give us a head start.
My word request is “stemcell”. The answer(s) to your homework question is a word derived from gird is girder. As in a steel girder that is used to bind up the loins of a building, so to speak. Also girdle, which has an obvious connection. Possible third derivation of gird could be guard. A guard is a form of binding up the perimeter of an area. You might even have a guard girdling girders. picture that as you may. School was never like this, teacher!
crazyfreakomaniac forgot to say “when” (literally) and so I added it, and as a bonus my comment could also be interpreted as meaning “when (do you want her to do these words)?”
Don’t worry, I won’t answer your Marina-directed questions, but I think I get it now: you’re just being sarcastic, aren’t you? You’re NOT really a pædophilic asshole, right?…
Lumme, I was starting to worry there for a moment…
Dear teacher,
I ‘ve read nearly hundreds of comments in your website. There is a lot of “declarations” (love oriented comments). I was wondering, how do you react? Do you feel flattered? Do you believe in these comments? Do they help you in hard moments? Well, how do you live all this?
Excuse me for my curiosity (perhaps interest?)
Amicalement,
Your devoted psychanalist euh…. student,
Don Felipe Gonzales Freud of the strange questions land.
Dear teacher,
OoOops I forgot something as usual, is it possible to request the origins of the word beyond?
Thank you
Don Felipe Gonzales of the forgettingmenland
Dear fellow student
I am sorry, m’sieur “Moi qui aime danser le Cha cha cha”, I won’t do that again, I promise. Please, don’t tell my mum….
Hey!!!! Why do I REACT LIKE THAT? YES I TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY!!!! Aren’t you too old to dance the cha cha cha!?????!!!!!
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
I cut my teeth on this one, popped my cherry.
A lot of request for this one. I liked getting the
link for you because it auto starts and there
she is all smilin’ and junk -If it isn’t love, it’s
mighty close…
“I made the bucket in Seattle one time for pooling; I asked a guy how much he was holding on a jug and he turned out to be a ragpicker and pinched me.”
Marina is getting so bombarded with word requests……how can she possibly keep up? If you look at you tube…same thing!! With so many members now…..she must need to get more assistants (real ones) to help.
MARINA—a suggestion… ….if you CONSOLIDATE all the requests onto one page listing…..members could go to this one page and scan for word submissions BEFORE they submit to you. This would severely cut down on the repeat submissions.
You could also have the names of members next to the word to give them credit.
Marina asks that word requests are left on this HFW website and I guess that if I were her I would not lower myself to ‘listen’ to the common abuse she tends to attract from many on youtube.
I can’t bear to ‘listen’
It is the more educated fellows like yourself (I know this because I enjoyed your letter and you got this far anyway ) with a vivacious appetite for literary knowledge (and also think that our hero is super tasty) that subscribe here
If you want people to think that you had a few dictionary pages for breakfast rather that Corn Flakes or just simply have the hots for Marina then this is the right place for you.
And an intelligent lady is much more stimulating.
So welcome to the feast of etymology (and the most painful pun (play with words) showdowns possible unfortunately).
There are many forums with fascinating or just hilarious threads so do have a good look round, SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US and most importantly HAVE GREAT FUN. Please remember that there are many different nationalities cultures and customs involved that may not understand yours so tread carefully initially (trust me I didn’t and I regret it….sorry proz and WL).
If Marina (toohotforwords I call her) reads any comments, (and I am certain that she does ) it will most likely be here, but she’s a very busy lady please don’t ever expect a reply but feel blessed with the divine privilege if she does , as I have never been that lucky. (so far )
I LOVE YOU MARINA xxx
As for the Teacher’s Pet we all dream of that one day.
Just to have your name mentioned for nominating that lesson’s word ….sigh dream on 2HFWFC
ANYONE…….who has received one of Marina’s cards….what are they like? I have signed up for them, but was after the last one (April 1 cards) went out. Is it just a photo? Just curious
Until the ’script has catapulted me to a multi-millionaire status, … once a week I will come to visit and to listen to our Marina.
… for a moment I toy with thoughts that some Grand Purpose didn’t design that “thing” Marina talking and moving on my computer screen right now, and while I watch her for the next few moments …, as if pondering upon a work of art I listen to my thoughts as I sit and stare at our Marina.
“There is no God?”
Ha! How silly a thought! Of course some thing made her like that …!~
Betsy is a horse in Michigan during the 1940’s, … and I just now changed the mother of Mergatroid from Betty to Betsy. Polishing and perfecting the ’script, I am …
melikadothechacha, I want to extend a cordial, heartfelt thank you for the “heavens to Betsy” line. Bringing that line to my attention was a good thing.
Now, … if I could somehow acquire ten words, two sentences of direct quote to use from our beloved Marina, I’d feel like a million bucks …!
…, hello?
(and these … damn … dots! I can’t seem to get rid of ‘em …! They follow me around … all the time …
she stops by to check things from time to time. you could get lucky.
You must be thinking all the time; hence the dots. they represent trailing thoughts….
I like to think of her in a white lab coat …, the words synaptical, Heirarchical Temporal Memory, … cognitive functions of the neocortex …, paradigm shifts …, juicy words to imagine heard with slavic inflections as I slip off into la-la land.
I tend to sleep very well at night. Thanks for reminding me …!
Five years from now, the reality? I dunno. For now Marina is my imaginary research partner, and the paper of Papers is the goal. That face and voice of hers is absolutely cool … to imagine.
Marina and I did the research and wrote the paper detailing biological cognition. Marina and I are within all future history books, with the titans … where ever we go, what ever we do, we are so cool.
At the news conference after picking up our Nobel Prize(s), a reporter asks either one of us, “How’d you two find each other?”
Pondering an answer, “Please …, please, … please!!!!” are the only words Marina can think of at the moment. I’m thinking of an answer to the question too, and all I can think of is that I knew we could do excellent research together, and that somehow I gotta get to know her better. Get to know her better by first acquiring a couple million dollars to myself, and then I can begin to talk “turkey” with her.
Nothing imaginary about her lessons, Mergatroi!
wordlover? in the old BBS days, repeat names
were numbered, as in: beefcake1, beefcake2,
and so on. If he had hit on your exact name,
the interface would have said “unavailable”.
Hm’kay? so figure it’s just another event
more cosmic than karmic, not to sweat.
Whoever uses her eyes for a gravatar…
well, let’s hope it works out.
…started another box – taking too long to scroll
umm oh yeah, wordlover vs wordslover
you were noticing my faux pas, er typo.. umm
Mergatroid, you are really jazzed! Turkey?
three strikes in baseball is an out.
three strikes in bowling is turkey.
turkey jerky ain’t bad, beats road kill
many sidebars, but
nobody took the bait?!!
- the phrase
“lost my train of thought”
how did this string come
to mean what it does today?
wordlover, yer slackin’ LOL
can’t just give it away, y’know.
It is considered profane to all God fearing people because it is referring to the blood of our dear Lord Jesus Christ which was spilt for the benefit of mankind
ok – that was a little murky and dark
let’s just sum it up this way:
“Bloody” has more of a pop cultural
aspect as it is used nowadays.
The connotations, as described by
2HFWFC and WL, have been lost.
Blame the cinema, I guess.
I keep waiting for our buxom blonde bombshell to cover this one also, and it keeps going unnoticed. Must be 20 requests for it over the last coouple months. I think I answered about three of them with the info I had, but I’d love to see Marina do the origin of BIKINI, myself. Let’s wait and see if she picks it up this time.
If not, d’ you want the long or the short version?
But all I covered in my definition was some natural history of the atoll itself and the reason why the bathing suit was named after it. I didn’t even touch on the Polynesian language roots of the 3 syllables that make up the word.
That’s a job for MARINA! Do the word BIKINI!
I’m tired of explaining it again and again! Help us out here, dear teacher.
Maybe she could even demonstrate how to put one on. Something I’ve always wondered about…..Then we can all go to the beach on a field trip! That’s what we need around here!
melikadothechacha,
Look in either the mayday answer or the Molotov Cocktail vid for my dissertation on the origin of the bathing suit. I’m pretty sure it’s re-posted somewhere in one of those. If not, it’s further back. Good luck, S.O.U.P.mate.
so you discovered the blockquote tag, huh?
yeah, you’re right, it now points to the golf lesson, that’s why I asked. actually, I wanted to take a look at the comments to that lesson on here so youtube doesn’t really help in this case. thanks, though.
Hi Marina,
Hows the GTA IV going, it must be fun, you’ve been awful quite for the last couple of days, not that you speak much anyway, but oh well.
Here is a guy,s take on the first time his wife played GTA IV and his thoughts on the experience. All us guys will find it funny, tell us what you think. http://theexplodingbarrel.com/?p=181
Hello marina can you tell me where the word NINJA come from
if not i will hunt you with my ninja skill lol
LOL is so great to be a real Ninja best word in the world heheheh
Dont try to search video of ninja on youtube is just crap because real ninja dont post video of your own training is forbiden !!!
Uh, yeah. I have an urgent situation here. A guy said something about a psychotic elephant sat on him or something, anyway, I don’t know if he’s suicidal or what he said he’s dying, and, so like, I decided to you know, make the call. There’s also an unconfirmed report of some gas, I dunno what’s up wit that, so can you send somebody quick? Jeez, I can smell it…
I have just registered and I did this only for you Marina. I want to know the origin of the word Lip’s. I really really hope that you will answer my question, and then make me your teachers pet.
Exceptionally good choice of phrases
I will second your nomination (but I bet someone else answers before I do so still I have to wait to be teachers pet Jeeh….Shucks as they say in the US)
Location, location, location! Where are your manners, wordlover? Now there’s no need to discuss personal pathology here, is there? After all, lots of us have things we don’t tell others.
For example, guess what John Wayne Bobbitt changed his name to after the failed reattachment surgery?
well, if my source is correct, it look like the last few comments may be leading in the right direction for two of the phrase origins. hmmm maybe… or then again maybe not
I’m sure there are some who’ll say they use the Webster’s unabridged or some other gargantuan tome, chacha. It was a reference to the compactness of the book.
Butt I still think titanous is subject Man Ray only covered part way, if’n ya catch my drift…
I m your Fan number one -(yes !! it’s me……………….. Not too much disappointed ??)
And your fan number 0ne would like to know the origine of the word… SEX ??
Can U Help me ?
OK, Guys, we have a quorum; we’re having a field trip.
2hfwfc, you get the steaks and some of those fat ASDA sausages.
Pencil (PT9), you get the beer.
WL, you get the barbie.
and I’ll get the charcoal, matches and condoms.
WHAT!?
Well, of course we need condoms; how are we going to keep the matches dry if it rains?
1. I was testing the condoms, not passing them; too chewy and the smell puts you off.
2. If it’s Rolling Rock there’ll be no fishing ‘cos a Rolling Rock gathers no Mossbanker.
ASDA is a supermarket chain headquartered in Yorkshire, England, which is why 2hfwfc was allotted the task. It used to be independant but is now owned by WalMart.
What was the Finnish translation? Was there more than one? “game” (»riista») can mean wild animals that are hunted and trapped for fur, etc.
As the equivalent of »peli» it can mean a fun activity, like a card game, etc.
Does that help?
Not meaning to queer the pitch or muddy the waters, but I’m wondering if ‘game’ (meaning hunted wildlife) derives from the same origins as ‘gamine’ meaning the sexy, boyish waif-look for a girl?
I should have asked in my last message, but I was wondering about something. Why when the word sex is taken on its own it means gender or copulation, but when used as a morpheme, such as in sexagenarian and sexcentenary, it means 6 or 60? I can only guess they have different origins hence different meanings. Am I correct in thinking this?
planet marklar is a South Park reference.
on planet marklar, the word marklar is
used to describe a person, place or
thing. It is a verb, adverb,etc. as well.
Are you kidding? Putin? Not……. It is Putan, Here a news article,; President Putan of Russia declares that if the United States builds a “Super Shield” net-centric “net” missile defense system for allied nations in Europe then Russia plans to point their missiles towards those nations? ……..Putin????????? And I’m a Dumbass?
Girdle >: something that encircles or confines: as a : an article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist b : a woman’s close-fitting undergarment often boned and usually elasticized that extends from the waist to below the hips
Word request: “decolletage” (accent aigu over the first “e”). I am reminded of this word whenever I see one of your videos. While I know the meaning, I suspect that it is not in the working vocabulary of many of your viewers, and you might be able to have some fun presenting an explanation.
I asked the renowned statistician, Marge Innovera (of “Click and Clack, the Tappett Brothers”) to conduct a survey of male YouTube viewers, aged 18 to 65. To the question, “Would you like to see HotForWords explain ‘decolletage?’”, 83.25% of those polled answered, “What, are you crazy? Of course!”. The rest were gay.
Well, it’s certainly in my working vocabulary. I try to keep abreast of common French words! Décolletage was first used in 1846 and was derived from décolleter, which originated in 1265. The verb décolleter stems from collet, which is the diminutive form of col (collar). My source: Le Petit Robert.
Oke, but what does it mean,
Get up someone’s nerve, or prepare for the worst
random…How Your Body Works 1, Overview of Nutrition & Wellness…[waste]
loins over all 
sleep time
Random good!
[hand-cuffs] or [horses]=tail…tale====poney-up…pony? 
[condems]
girder Irn Bru is made from girders.
How about an example of this robe lifting … sigh. I always love old world type phrases. Like to see hotforprofits or Marina recite some but I suppose that would be a bit creepy and asking a lot.
Gürtel (pronounced gertel with an “eyu” sound after the g)= belt in german.
Goosebumps
Funny one
IT’S A GIRDLE
To get that wasp waist it must be a girdle
It is baseball season. Where did the term “Texas League single” come from?
sure girdle, but how about girder
another well know word from gird would have to be girdle…
I’d like to request the word ‘Miscellaneous’, it drives me crazy.
I’d like to discuss the word spanner or wrench set as that turns me nuts (Ouch)
i registered just to ask you about the word ‘Kalashnikov’ it is Russian and i would like to know more about ‘Kalashnikov’.
Ask sniperskaya, he deals in them…
I thought a kalashnikov was an assault rifle, not a sniper rifle. never touched a gun, though, so I don’t really know what I’m talking about.
To quote sniperskaya:
…Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, “father” of the rifles that bear his patronymic. Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947. With over 100 million of the AK series and their variants produced (RPK, SVD, Tygr, Saiga, shotguns, etc.), he has been twice named “Hero of Socialist Labor” (Герой работы социалиста) and awarded the Order of Saint Andrew the Protoclete (Заказ священнейшего Андрюа Protoclete). He even has a vodka named after him. I think at one time Russia even had a brand of Kalsahnikov or AK cigarettes. So with either with the rifles, vodka, or cigarettes he’s gonna get you!
Me? I’ve only touched BB-guns and the like…
Alongside the M1 Garand, the Kalashnikov is one of the finest weapons ever made
I would like to know where the word “Boner” comes from. For example, I had a boner (erection) in the morning when I saw boobies.
For wordlovers i know where it come from But i just want you dear teacher to make a lessons about it that all
I not some asshole who learn martial arts to get chicks.
No i am the real deal and i have some homework for you
Look for Watanabe Kondo, Shidoshi-Ho
Marina, дорогой учитель, first, welcome back. Hope you had a good weekend. It was Mother’s Day Sunday. Does Russia celebrate Mother’s Day? Since we hear so much about “Mother Russia” it seems that you should. If so, how does it differ from Mother’s Day in the USA? Just curious…
спасибо
Hello!
I would like to request the word “Essorant”
hi i love ur lesson u doing and i will love it if u can can do word request on 201 that number very special to me if u can thank you
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kiss
My dear teacher,
Please enjoy the weekend off with pay, of course. You earned it after babysitting this crowd.
Peaceful dreams.
Wow! STILL no new video…
Wel’, mebby t’morry!
G’night, fo’ks, I’m outy!
0 Online Users? WTF?
Did anyone else notice that just a second ago?
sale @ walmart
[This reply box for rent.]
You must be the new squatter.
Come for the second sitting eh ?
Hvad?
Hello Marina,
I’d like to know where does the word voluptuous comes from?
’s ‘ matter, pennsyltucky9, cat got your tongue?
Don’t get me started, for I fear
“He is putting it blithely
when he says
quobble in the grass
Strab he down the soddieflays,
amo amat amass.
A monk, a mink, a minibus
amarmeladey moon.
a moss amiss a multiplus
A mighty midgey spoon.
And so we traddled onward,
Careing not a care
Onward, onward, onward.
Onward, my friends, to victory and glory
for the thirtyninth.”
Glad to see you back John! And your front too! Missed you both.
pennsyltucky9, is that yours? If not, who said it? ’s great!
Poem “Alec Speaking” by John Lennon from the book, “In His Own Write and A Spaniard In the Works.”
Quoted from memory. If I look hard enough, the book will turnip somewhere.
For those of you just joining us, the last thing you would’ve seen below the video up top is:
There Are 666 Comments for “Gird Your Loins (Answer)”
Have you ever hit the Digg Button?
714 now. Are we going for a record?
Then here’s a worthy one; if we really have 68,238,545 + 1 soldiers in this army, why don’t we pick one of Marinas videos and all view it on YouTube?
If we all give Marina our Bleeding Love we could knock Leona Lewis off the “most viewed of all time” spot by this time tomorrow.
I suggest we do the “G4 TV Appearance” video as that already has 2.5 million views to give us a head start.
My word request is “stemcell”. The answer(s) to your homework question is a word derived from gird is girder. As in a steel girder that is used to bind up the loins of a building, so to speak. Also girdle, which has an obvious connection. Possible third derivation of gird could be guard. A guard is a form of binding up the perimeter of an area. You might even have a guard girdling girders. picture that as you may. School was never like this, teacher!
is there rules for over requesting words?
Hell no! I’ve been over-requesting words since I got here!
more of a guideline, than a rule:
check the lessons list for words
she has already done.
Only 1 rule :-
Rule “36-24-36″ – You have to request the word “bikini” first, before requesting other words.
Thank you wordlover. i like yours to
¡Gracias!
can i request for the words who, what, where why and how?
When?
Huh?
No that a different unrealated word melika
What ? How do you mean ? I don’t know where you are coming from. Who ? Sorry …..either of the three of you LOL
crazyfreakomaniac forgot to say “when” (literally) and so I added it, and as a bonus my comment could also be interpreted as meaning “when (do you want her to do these words)?”
As always directed to the true Philologist, Marina
and not to the MENSA people here or the Robin Williams or
the George Carlins, and US NAVY SEALS and the devoted
Philology BLACK BELTS and the tiny Bob guy who has
a “morning problem” and could use some Viagra in here…LOL
LOL, I just love the pure entertainment of the brainy in here??
LOL
What is the origin of the words, “handicapped?”
LOL
referring to all “the Others” on this Lost type of forum island.
LOL
Vini Vidi Vici
Don’t worry, I won’t answer your Marina-directed questions, but I think I get it now: you’re just being sarcastic, aren’t you? You’re NOT really a pædophilic asshole, right?…
Lumme, I was starting to worry there for a moment…
Is viagra the “blue pill” i’ve heard about in here?
de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est
Cur? Et qui mortui?
Dear teacher,
I ‘ve read nearly hundreds of comments in your website. There is a lot of “declarations” (love oriented comments). I was wondering, how do you react? Do you feel flattered? Do you believe in these comments? Do they help you in hard moments? Well, how do you live all this?
Excuse me for my curiosity (perhaps interest?)
Amicalement,
Your devoted psychanalist euh…. student,
Don Felipe Gonzales Freud of the strange questions land.
Dear teacher,
OoOops I forgot something as usual, is it possible to request the origins of the word beyond?
Thank you
Don Felipe Gonzales of the forgettingmenland
aren’t you a little Jung to talk like that?
she does read your stuff, you know…
Don’t, melikadothechacha, he may take it the wrong way…
Marina reads the comments looking for things that “tickle her fancy”
Dear fellow student
I am sorry, m’sieur “Moi qui aime danser le Cha cha cha”, I won’t do that again, I promise. Please, don’t tell my mum….
Hey!!!! Why do I REACT LIKE THAT? YES I TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY!!!! Aren’t you too old to dance the cha cha cha!?????!!!!!
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
You should do the word, FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
I think that one’s been done already, fatedace.
Yeah. It’s been facedated…
here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMrk9ea1m0g
I cut my teeth on this one, popped my cherry.
A lot of request for this one. I liked getting the
link for you because it auto starts and there
she is all smilin’ and junk -If it isn’t love, it’s
mighty close…
Girdle!!!!!!!!
i have a word for ya, “crowbar” crow is a bird and a bar is a bar…
see if this is acualy something
crowbar hotel = jail
AKA “making the bucket” in 1960s-era trampspeak.
“I made the bucket in Seattle one time for pooling; I asked a guy how much he was holding on a jug and he turned out to be a ragpicker and pinched me.”
-James Spradley
Marina is getting so bombarded with word requests……how can she possibly keep up? If you look at you tube…same thing!! With so many members now…..she must need to get more assistants (real ones) to help.
MARINA—a suggestion…
….if you CONSOLIDATE all the requests onto one page listing…..members could go to this one page and scan for word submissions BEFORE they submit to you. This would severely cut down on the repeat submissions.
You could also have the names of members next to the word to give them credit.
What do you MEMBERS think?? How about it Marina??
BoArgMir
Marina asks that word requests are left on this HFW website and I guess that if I were her I would not lower myself to ‘listen’ to the common abuse she tends to attract from many on youtube.
I can’t bear to ‘listen’
It is the more educated fellows like yourself (I know this because I enjoyed your letter and you got this far anyway ) with a vivacious appetite for literary knowledge (and also think that our hero is super tasty) that subscribe here
If you want people to think that you had a few dictionary pages for breakfast rather that Corn Flakes or just simply have the hots for Marina then this is the right place for you.
And an intelligent lady is much more stimulating.
So welcome to the feast of etymology (and the most painful pun (play with words) showdowns possible unfortunately).
There are many forums with fascinating or just hilarious threads so do have a good look round, SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US and most importantly HAVE GREAT FUN. Please remember that there are many different nationalities cultures and customs involved that may not understand yours so tread carefully initially (trust me I didn’t and I regret it….sorry proz and WL).
If Marina (toohotforwords I call her) reads any comments, (and I am certain that she does ) it will most likely be here, but she’s a very busy lady please don’t ever expect a reply but feel blessed with the divine privilege if she does , as I have never been that lucky. (so far )
I LOVE YOU MARINA xxx
As for the Teacher’s Pet we all dream of that one day.
Just to have your name mentioned for nominating that lesson’s word ….sigh dream on 2HFWFC
Hear, hear! I concur!
Thank you, Father 2hotforwordsfanclub, that was a marvelous sermon!
I love Marina Triple X, TOO!
ANYONE…….who has received one of Marina’s cards….what are they like? I have signed up for them, but was after the last one (April 1 cards) went out. Is it just a photo? Just curious
don’t know if this violates protocol,
but what the hay! here’s a link:
http://www.hotforwords.com/surveythanks/
OMG , I missed those !!!!
Hey i’m going to see if i can buy one on ebay
— Marina: Fueling the Imaginations of Mankind
Until the ’script has catapulted me to a multi-millionaire status, … once a week I will come to visit and to listen to our Marina.
… for a moment I toy with thoughts that some Grand Purpose didn’t design that “thing” Marina talking and moving on my computer screen right now, and while I watch her for the next few moments …, as if pondering upon a work of art I listen to my thoughts as I sit and stare at our Marina.
“There is no God?”
Ha! How silly a thought! Of course some thing made her like that …!~
Bill? Bill Gates? Is that you, bro?
I am Mergatroidal.
Interesting, Mac World!
Snagglepuss had a tag line
“Heavens to mergatroid”
kinda like “heavens to Betsy”
I dunno who betsy is, either
Gee, thank you, Dr. Seuss!
Betsy is a horse in Michigan during the 1940’s, … and I just now changed the mother of Mergatroid from Betty to Betsy. Polishing and perfecting the ’script, I am …
melikadothechacha, I want to extend a cordial, heartfelt thank you for the “heavens to Betsy” line. Bringing that line to my attention was a good thing.
Now, … if I could somehow acquire ten words, two sentences of direct quote to use from our beloved Marina, I’d feel like a million bucks …!
…, hello?
(and these … damn … dots! I can’t seem to get rid of ‘em …! They follow me around … all the time …
LOL…
D’oh!…
…
she stops by to check things from time to time. you could get lucky.
You must be thinking all the time; hence the dots. they represent trailing thoughts….
What?…
Wait, hang on a sec’…
………
……
…
Aha! I see!
I persevere, steering an opportunity my way = luck …, until the goal is met.
and where do ya go to catch a
train of thought?
A neuro trainsmittion Station ?
Sorry my foot slipped
I meant to say a neuron trainsmittion station
I like to think of her in a white lab coat …, the words synaptical, Heirarchical Temporal Memory, … cognitive functions of the neocortex …, paradigm shifts …, juicy words to imagine heard with slavic inflections as I slip off into la-la land.
I tend to sleep very well at night. Thanks for reminding me …!
ocipetal cortex (lizard brain)
or bird brain, if you will.
wordslover – where you at?
(window of opportunity to
quip the train o’ thought)
(yeah yeah, I know it’s a lobe not a cortex)
Who the hell is wordslover and why is his/her screenname so damn similar to mine?
(which is to say, 
)
Five years from now, the reality? I dunno. For now Marina is my imaginary research partner, and the paper of Papers is the goal. That face and voice of hers is absolutely cool … to imagine.
…, …
Marina and I did the research and wrote the paper detailing biological cognition. Marina and I are within all future history books, with the titans … where ever we go, what ever we do, we are so cool.
At the news conference after picking up our Nobel Prize(s), a reporter asks either one of us, “How’d you two find each other?”
Pondering an answer, “Please …, please, … please!!!!” are the only words Marina can think of at the moment. I’m thinking of an answer to the question too, and all I can think of is that I knew we could do excellent research together, and that somehow I gotta get to know her better. Get to know her better by first acquiring a couple million dollars to myself, and then I can begin to talk “turkey” with her.
… to be continued.
Cool! Free comics! Can y’add pictures with ‘em, mergatroidal?
That second to the last sentence should have read, “… and then I can begin to talk some serious “turkey” with her.”
Nothing imaginary about her lessons, Mergatroi!
wordlover? in the old BBS days, repeat names
were numbered, as in: beefcake1, beefcake2,
and so on. If he had hit on your exact name,
the interface would have said “unavailable”.
Hm’kay? so figure it’s just another event
more cosmic than karmic, not to sweat.
Whoever uses her eyes for a gravatar…
well, let’s hope it works out.
¿ɥƎ
I have to read and ketchup with all the replies. I’m still replying to …, on catching the train of thought, how to.
Or like maddog1, maddog2, maddog3, everyone line up? Plurals, suffixes, prefixes, wordlover you have to separate from the pack, somehow, it seems.
Okay, I’ll type rightside up! There, is that better?
Melika is not passing the reefer again WL.
LOL! that made me think of another polysylablic word!
Decorum does not permit here.
Drugs are bad. Hm’kay?
Too many comments in box, chacha!
…start another box – takes too long to scroll
Thank you—Mgmt.
PS—And no reefs about the cracker…
…started another box – taking too long to scroll
umm oh yeah, wordlover vs wordslover
you were noticing my faux pas, er typo.. umm
Mergatroid, you are really jazzed! Turkey?
three strikes in baseball is an out.
three strikes in bowling is turkey.
turkey jerky ain’t bad, beats road kill
And speaking of baseball, I belive it is the 100th anniversary of “Take Me out to the Ballgame”.
I think.
I believe I think.
I think I believe.
I————’ll stop the joke right here…
Ten-twenty here in New York. Bedtime for Bonzo.
nobody took the bait?!!
- the phrase
“lost my train of thought”
how did this string come
to mean what it does today?
wordlover, yer slackin’ LOL
can’t just give it away, y’know.
Well, thanks to you and tiger-the-vicious, I’m having to answer two different posts in two different lessons AT THE SAME TIME…
it’s just a feeling, it’ll pass
i would like to know the origin of the word “bloody” the way people from the U.K. use it.example….it`s “bloody” cold outside”,there way of swearing?
your future teachers pet….ericou812
I use it when it’s not appropriate
to cuss, like at church and such.
(
)
Snickers®snickerThe word is bleeding stupid i say ! sorry
It is considered profane to all God fearing people because it is referring to the blood of our dear Lord Jesus Christ which was spilt for the benefit of mankind
Bloody clumsy I reckon.
No, it’s a contraction of “By our Lady” (i.e., Mother Mary). Leastways, that’s how I reckon it…
ok – lemme esplain mice elf
i was baptized, raised and confirmed Episcopalian. Acolyte, Crucifer the whole shebang. Now, read what I said befor.e
zat was zen, zis is now
ok – that was a little murky and dark
let’s just sum it up this way:
“Bloody” has more of a pop cultural
aspect as it is used nowadays.
The connotations, as described by
2HFWFC and WL, have been lost.
Blame the cinema, I guess.
I would like to know about the word POPPYCOCK .
actually i have a word request: “Soulmate”
Whoa! Neat gravatar, dude!
yeah, nobody has one
using marinas eyes….
THanks ya
word request: what is the origin of “bikini”?
Howi,
I keep waiting for our buxom blonde bombshell to cover this one also, and it keeps going unnoticed. Must be 20 requests for it over the last coouple months. I think I answered about three of them with the info I had, but I’d love to see Marina do the origin of BIKINI, myself. Let’s wait and see if she picks it up this time.
If not, d’ you want the long or the short version?
howbout you dont tell us and we let her tell us
Marina! tell us!
and it would be cute if you wore one of ur bikinis while you told us
Copy that, meehowik.
I think the “bikini request” is dead in the water.
Depends on who’s wearing it? Whose loin is it anyway?
after the bikini atoll islands?
this sounds right, so how did the french turn it into a swimsuit?
I’m holding out for the tube top lesson, myself
Affirmative, eric812.
But all I covered in my definition was some natural history of the atoll itself and the reason why the bathing suit was named after it. I didn’t even touch on the Polynesian language roots of the 3 syllables that make up the word.
That’s a job for MARINA! Do the word BIKINI!
I’m tired of explaining it again and again! Help us out here, dear teacher.
Maybe she could even demonstrate how to put one on. Something I’ve always wondered about…..Then we can all go to the beach on a field trip! That’s what we need around here!
melikadothechacha,
Look in either the mayday answer or the Molotov Cocktail vid for my dissertation on the origin of the bathing suit. I’m pretty sure it’s re-posted somewhere in one of those. If not, it’s further back. Good luck, S.O.U.P.mate.
Yeah. But how do we get Marina to do a lesson in a TUBE TOP???
(trying to focus on the important stuff)
Just get some new X-ray specks, Chacha!
These ARE Xray specs! LOL
She’s got great bones
Bleh! keyboard gremiln
…great bone structure
so where did the snafu lesson go?
Snafu
I think what aLx is getting at is that the Snafu link on “The Complete Lesson List” now points to “Golf Answer”.
hey, bob.
so you discovered the blockquote tag, huh?
yeah, you’re right, it now points to the golf lesson, that’s why I asked. actually, I wanted to take a look at the comments to that lesson on here so youtube doesn’t really help in this case. thanks, though.
snafu on this site
thx.
how the hell did you find it?
I’m a simple guy, so I simply typed “Snafu” into the search box at the top of the page.
Sorry…. had the wrong link in the lessons page. Fixed it.
Hi Marina,
Hows the GTA IV going, it must be fun, you’ve been awful quite for the last couple of days, not that you speak much anyway, but oh well.
Here is a guy,s take on the first time his wife played GTA IV and his thoughts on the experience. All us guys will find it funny, tell us what you think.
http://theexplodingbarrel.com/?p=181
worth a look – funny!
Maia Marina,
Where is our Tome Raider of Words hiding? We are all a famish of your voice and vision.
Hello marina can you tell me where the word NINJA come from
best word in the world heheheh
if not i will hunt you with my ninja skill lol
LOL is so great to be a real Ninja
Dont try to search video of ninja on youtube is just crap because real ninja dont post video of your own training is forbiden !!!
So, you’re a ninja and you don’t know where the word “ninja” comes from…?
could your next word please be pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
you will want to see this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMrk9ea1m0g
Excellent video Marina. How about the word juxtaposition?
Okay, I’m dying to be your pet….I meant teacher’s pet, of course…so here’s my request for a word: sycophant
Thank you
(Girding up his loins)
Yeah, after all those beans, I’m sycopharts, too…
thought he said sick-of-ants?
Hey, come on this guy said he’s dying, lividemerald. Something has to be done, and fast!
Hold on a sec…
“9-1-1 Emergecy response.”
Uh, yeah. I have an urgent situation here. A guy said something about a psychotic elephant sat on him or something, anyway, I don’t know if he’s suicidal or what he said he’s dying, and, so like, I decided to you know, make the call. There’s also an unconfirmed report of some gas, I dunno what’s up wit that, so can you send somebody quick? Jeez, I can smell it…
I want to call 9-1-1, too. What’s the number?
Hey, the 9 was no problem, but it sure took me awhile to find the 11 key on my phone!
(annoying child’s voice) Ih-hih-hih! There IS no 11 key! You simply press the 1 key twice! Ih-hih-hih!
68,238,545 + 1
I have just registered and I did this only for you Marina. I want to know the origin of the word Lip’s. I really really hope that you will answer my question, and then make me your teachers pet.
Look at Br’er pennsyltucky9 des’ sittin’ dere waitin’ fer de noo viddy-oh ter pop up so dat he ken be de fust wun fer ter ’spond!
Ah bes’ run, Ah hears Mars Sleepy-tymbe a-callin’…
Sinsilly,
Yo’ Uncle Remus
An’ doan you go on a dreamin’ boud de Bad Pipsisewah!
Dudes – sound like de Cajun gourmet dun used toooo much cayerne pepper, I-tell-you-what
Cajun? Naw, man, dis is Gullah, sho’ as you’ bawn!
Ya ya – BUT, didn’t Uncle Remus also hail from the bayou country?
Naw man, he wuz f’um Jawjuh. You ain’t knew dat?
You mean Mobile isn’t in Georgia? LOL
Just kidding, you’re right!
Good ol’ HOT-lanta!
Ain’ got de sense he was bawn wif.
You kin say day agin…
Also, a common pronunciation of Atlanta is “Retlanta”.
day pro dat
Sorry, cain’t type…
wordlover.. people think you are me in disguise! So hopefully you are representing me well!
They do? That’s bizarre!
But I’ll do my best!
That he does, ma’am, that he does.
I know he’s not Marina because the
only time she talks to herself is in
class (when her sister shows up).
Wordlover disguised as Marina?
If he is in the “bikini” that we have been requesting , I’m out of here.
Where is that [unsubscribe] button?
only some & I think its few
Don’t scare the Koalabear 
i registered just to ask you about the word ‘Kalashnikov’ it is Russian and i would like to know more about ‘Kalashnikov’.
ok, here’s requests regarding three phrases… “Mind your P’s and Q’s”, “Sleep tight”, and “Wet your whistle.”
My hand is up I say ‘please miss’
Exceptionally good choice of phrases
I will second your nomination (but I bet someone else answers before I do so still I have to wait to be teachers pet Jeeh….Shucks as they say in the US)
Mind your P’s and Q’s and sleep tight are good ones. Wet your whistle is an easy one, but these will be a great lessons nonetheless.
Sure, I know these but my silence can be bought for the price of a brief mention by the pulchritudinous one.
But be happy with a mention ’cause teacher’s pet is quite a longshot. Bloody hell, as they say in the UK.
Nazdorovye.
Where exactly is your hand up, 2hotforwordsfanclub?
Location, location, location! Where are your manners, wordlover? Now there’s no need to discuss personal pathology here, is there? After all, lots of us have things we don’t tell others.
For example, guess what John Wayne Bobbitt changed his name to after the failed reattachment surgery?
Uh oh… deadpan delivery!
Les Johnson!
I’ve gotta try some of this Rolling Rock.
Good thing! He could have been named Richard Proboscis
Rolling Rock – yuck! Dutch beir Heineken iss veddy good!
Hahahahaha!
Do they still make Frothing Slosh Beer once a year?
Old Frothingslosh? The pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom?
well, if my source is correct, it look like the last few comments may be leading in the right direction for two of the phrase origins. hmmm
maybe… or then again maybe not
what came first the color orange or the fruit named orange?
Q: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
A: Neither. The rooster came first.
You are punning to an exceptional standard tonight
Science finally decided the chicken came first. Roosters are chickens, just as are hens.
Yeah, but lividemerald didn’t get it…
You really wanted me to go for the OBVIOUS? Come now!!!
I come here to get my pun-ishment.
weren’t oranges called golden apples?
Orangutans can do some pretty mean golden showers!
If I should be punish’ed
for every little pun I shed,
then I’d hide my punnish head
inside a little puny shed!
Ferlinghetti, right?
Well it ain’t mine. It followed me home. Mom said I could keep it.
Yeah, right…
How about the origin of the word pissant?
au pissant?
or, …nevermind
How a canine views the world:
If you can’t eat it or hump it, piss on it.
Hello
–> For Marina
CAn you help me about word “Titanus” – ??
Is a latin world .
In english there are 2 words similar : Titans and Titanium.
English is a language with many latin words.
I dreams many times this word, I think that is many important.
The titanium is for eg. the metal + strong of the universe.
so the mean ot Titanus is at the base of the world ??
Can you help me ??
Ask me other details about this word.
Tanks,
Alex
nettitus,
“Titanous” is listed in my biggest dictionary (the Webster’s Illustrated Encyclopedic 1987).
But I want Marina to define it!
reduced to braggin’ about how big yer dictionary is??!
(it ain’t braggin’ if’n you kin do it!) LOL
I’m sure there are some who’ll say they use the Webster’s unabridged or some other gargantuan tome, chacha. It was a reference to the compactness of the book.
Butt I still think titanous is subject Man Ray only covered part way, if’n ya catch my drift…
Drift? check this out – views
shot from my corner (turn 4)
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/gdnimr0d-drifting-at-homestead-miami-speedway/991252052
garter, girdle,
girder
girld girdle gurdle.
Something like that.
Girddle…..too easy…
Hello Marina
I m your Fan number one -(yes !! it’s me……………….. Not too much disappointed ??)
And your fan number 0ne would like to know the origine of the word… SEX ??
Can U Help me ?
Yes, I want some help with sex as well.. … …. … .. .
Not me. I want some sex with the help. But it’s so hard to find good help these days!
How humble, pennsyltucky9. Or were you NOT talking about masturbation?
One man’s cup is another man’s thimble.
One man’s gong is another man’s cymbal.
One man’s alphabet is another man’s symbol.
One man’s surely another man’s temple.
One man’s tack is another man’s phallus
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor
One man’s shack is another man’s palace
One man’s window is another man’s door.
One man looks surly at another man’s pimple.
Didn’t Joe Walsh do a song like this?
No, these are my lyrics!!!! All mine!—actually PT9 and I cowrote them.
Joe Walsh, feel free to jump in anytime…
cha cha investigates…
Joe Walsh, Ordinary Average Guy
track 1, Two sides to every story
I love you fortune cookie-style logic, chacha!
I love your fortune cookie-style logic, chacha!
D’o!
D’oh!
Never heard that one.
Have heard of pretzel logic.
then there’s fuzzy logic <– go figger
Take a number and wait in line…
# 68,238,545 for suishiminamino
# 68,238,546 for roachmeistercom
You know why Smurfs are blue?
There’s only one Smurfette
Back in line, melikadothechacha!
Hi Marina ,my trusty teacher.Could you please do a video on the word ‘Juggernaut’.
OK, Guys, we have a quorum; we’re having a field trip.
2hfwfc, you get the steaks and some of those fat ASDA sausages.
Pencil (PT9), you get the beer.
WL, you get the barbie.
and I’ll get the charcoal, matches and condoms.
WHAT!?
Well, of course we need condoms; how are we going to keep the matches dry if it rains?
Why, you didn’t think …?
Well really!
Like any 2 of us could agree on a brand of beer!
That’s why I delegated.
Next trip we all do a different task.
I’m off to bed now to test the condoms.
“night.
What happens to the ones that pass?
Uh… I’ll pass on the passed condoms…
Okay, then it’s Rolling Rock.
I’d thought you’d've chosen King Cobra…
1. I was testing the condoms, not passing them; too chewy and the smell puts you off.
2. If it’s Rolling Rock there’ll be no fishing ‘cos a Rolling Rock gathers no Mossbanker.
Spaten Pils for everybody.
Spaten Optimator, tasty
Schoenlings, Hudepohl,
and Little Kings Cream Ale
aka Little killers
all tasty quaffs
Hey Bob,
What the heck are ASDA sausages? Not sure I really want to know, but break it to me gently.
ASDA is a supermarket chain headquartered in Yorkshire, England, which is why 2hfwfc was allotted the task. It used to be independant but is now owned by WalMart.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/asda-bosses-will-rue-dumping-coleen-for-glamorous-carla-816117.html “never try your luck with anyone hotter than you”
That puts us all in the S.O.U.P.
Phrase origin request for Marina.
To be “in the soup”.
What does soup, or even hot water, have to do with trouble?
the way to cook a live frog is to bring up the heat slowly.
by the time he realizes he’s in hot water, he’s about done.
You, of course, realize that
the best soup is stone soup.
do you know the story?
i umopap!sdn w,I
Am I brilliant now? Ih-hih-hih!
No, just disoriented.
Yeah, the penny’s dropped—finally!
See my comment below… Some jokes are just too arcane for me to get… 
cingular
Marina,
Why are certain shoes called ESPADRILLES? Do you know? What language is that word? And do you own a pair?
BoArgMir
Check here.
Marina,i would like to know why does conventionalized heart symbolize love? And where this form came from?
Thank you
Hey Marina! I was wondering where and how the term “bread-winner” came about? Thank you as always!
My Finland-England dictionary says that the word GAME means the same as prey is that a typing mistake or is it true that game means prey
What was the Finnish translation? Was there more than one? “game” (»riista») can mean wild animals that are hunted and trapped for fur, etc.
As the equivalent of »peli» it can mean a fun activity, like a card game, etc.
Does that help?
Not meaning to queer the pitch or muddy the waters, but I’m wondering if ‘game’ (meaning hunted wildlife) derives from the same origins as ‘gamine’ meaning the sexy, boyish waif-look for a girl?
Or does “gamine” derive from Ganymede, the
buggered choir boycupbearer to the gods of Greek mythology?My Finland-
Finland, Finland, Finland – the country where I quite want to be.
Pony-trekking or camping; or just watching TV.
with my tweezers gleamin’ in the moonlight …
Just me an’ the pygmy pony
over by the dental floss bush.
I’d have me a crop
and it’d be on top,
that’s why I’m movin’ to Montana!
I was wondering what does the word Rapscallion mean. And does it have anything to do with what we call rappers today?
I should have asked in my last message, but I was wondering about something. Why when the word sex is taken on its own it means gender or copulation, but when used as a morpheme, such as in sexagenarian and sexcentenary, it means 6 or 60? I can only guess they have different origins hence different meanings. Am I correct in thinking this?
For the Gird thing most have went for girdle, but being Scottish I have to go with girder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHFWq-YIOk
girder, a support used in building is derived from gird i think, teacher.
Hey Teach, Can You talk to Putan and tell Him to knock it off? His is making it really hard to keep Iran in check, without nuking them.
Thank you
Putan? as in Владимир Владимирович Путан?
Yeah but as of this week it isn’t Владимир Владимирович’s problem. He’s not running things any more…
I guess they’re know being handled by Сам Дам Санавабич…
(Erase the k in “know”. Sorry..)
you may want to direct your concerns to president medvedev.
dumbass.
So you think Putan is not in common? And you think I’m a dumbass?
Can you say puppet? But you still believe in the Tooth Fairy and Hilary Clinton.
hey marklar why the marklar don’t you marlars marklar my marklar?
(Oh, no! He’s speaking in Bork again…
)
planet marklar is a South Park reference.
on planet marklar, the word marklar is
used to describe a person, place or
thing. It is a verb, adverb,etc. as well.
I don’t watch South Park, I’m not an atheist/antichrist/Beelzebub/İblis/كافر/שטן/邪魔…
you learn how to spell “putin” first.
dumbass.
pst, aLx, maybe Putan isn’t Putin, but someone different… Whoknows?
(I’m guessing the avatar is from the Calvin & Hobbes strips; don’t know which one…)
that gravatar looks like some mister pukin’.
Some guys have a logo on their trucks of Calvin pissing… Never knew what THAT was about…
Are you kidding? Putin? Not……. It is Putan, Here a news article,; President Putan of Russia declares that if the United States builds a “Super Shield” net-centric “net” missile defense system for allied nations in Europe then Russia plans to point their missiles towards those nations? ……..Putin????????? And I’m a Dumbass?
some marklars really marklar my marklar.
(Oh, no! He’s STILL speaking in Bork…
(formerly known as 
))
@roadrunrnch
Then who the hell is this Putan character?
Poontang? where in Maylasia is that?
Near Thongcam or Phuket?
man, don’t be dissing phuket all the time. it’s not pronounced “fuckit”.
use it for cat shit or something. “your pussy is a poo cat” or whatever.
Girdle >: something that encircles or confines: as a : an article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist b : a woman’s close-fitting undergarment often boned and usually elasticized that extends from the waist to below the hips
MAESTRA, Is it ironic that your name in español [Marina] esta Navy? With thousands of men, Making war on ignorance.?????ha ja ja.
I was wrong again!? I need a tutor.Guess I’m too busy FIDDLE F_CKING AROUND!
sax and violins – Gabba Gabba Hey!
Wait, what’s the “Gabba Gabba Hey!” reference? Sorry, I’m a n00b—I mean I’m n00d…
Ye Olde – Ramones
Joey Ramone et al
OIC…
Word request: “decolletage” (accent aigu over the first “e”). I am reminded of this word whenever I see one of your videos. While I know the meaning, I suspect that it is not in the working vocabulary of many of your viewers, and you might be able to have some fun presenting an explanation.
duh. de’colletage, you need to be
gay of metro to even know this word.
I asked the renowned statistician, Marge Innovera (of “Click and Clack, the Tappett Brothers”) to conduct a survey of male YouTube viewers, aged 18 to 65. To the question, “Would you like to see HotForWords explain ‘decolletage?’”, 83.25% of those polled answered, “What, are you crazy? Of course!”. The rest were gay.
Hear, hear. Besides, there’s nothing wrong with inner-city bus and train operators being jubilant once in a while!
Especially during their jubilees, no?
sorry guys, My fingers can’t spell. GAY OR METRO. not…of…:>p
Well, it’s certainly in my working vocabulary. I try to keep abreast of common French words! Décolletage was first used in 1846 and was derived from décolleter, which originated in 1265. The verb décolleter stems from collet, which is the diminutive form of col (collar). My source: Le Petit Robert.
He didn’t get it from me!