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Telephone
Fatal Error 1053
Could you clear this up?
I notice random is now in order of abc’s
The Kinks School Boys In Disgrace The Hard Way
radio
Well, we use the top store as a store that is not in line with the facade. Because this way the building will seem lower (architectural trick
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So it looks like its added on later.
Also appendix is the part of the intestines witch seems added on later.
So its no 2 for me.
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5(5)FiveV & FIFTH…[PENT-a-Gram] “PentHouse” Green Acres – Oliver buys a farm (remake)
Hey guys and gals, I just have a real quick question: at the very end of the video, the electric guitar riff is from a rock song that I’ve heard before. I want to go buy it! Does anyone know what the full song is called?
Nvm, heh – I remembered. It definately sounds like Ronald Jenkees–I think the song “Messin with guitar sound” is what I was looking for. Not on his cd, but I found a video of him making it at http://remember.buzz.hu/archiv.....tar_sound/. Definitely awesome.
Hi Marina.
ThanX for making me TP for the day. Was a lovely suprise when I arrived home to my Penthouse. You made my week, so very kind of you. I looked like the cat who got the cream and felt like I was floating on air. Just the tonic needed after a balls to the wall kinda week.
HFW’s143always……….
Also, if you get time to investigate the word Osirian please. Causing much debate as to its original origin and meaning….
Be well
Hey Marina.
I was wondering what is the subject of your phD thesis?
It was about The Sis, you know, the evil twin sister.
I’d go for option 1……I could sight several examples
rate five stars…..how do I subscribe 
I wish you were my teacher. Life seems so sad all the time, but if you were around me everyday, I know I would be happier. I bet I never meet anyone like you ever.
lol billyb. pets….you gotta love them
i think the “digg” thingy you told me about might have worked. I will have to test it out if i get similar problems again in the future
The answer would be: append.
Oooh oooh teach! Is is #1
Thanks for the lessons.
I’d like to request the word Idiocracy.
Thanks.
penthouse, i vote for opt 1 as well
WOW so do you
man what a shock loads of people voted for 1
i don’t feel so left out anymore
Plase….Marina.
Can you find out more , from the word, PORTUGAL.
I know it’s a lovlie country….
Bye Marina
I think its answer no. 1
It must be
HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!! How can i get the hot cards?? I signed in for them but I dont know where to get them somebody help please!!
You should get them automatically in your email. Just be patient.
Hi Marina
! 
TongueTwister (me) thinks that the answer is origin 1
But my dad here thinks the answer is origin 2.
Please can you settle this argument
? 
Hope to hear from you soon ToungeTwister
Psst! Sshhh!
ahh……. ok then
.
thanks for the reply
hi Bob
? 
i was just wondering if you could tell me how to get a picture icon
please respond.
Kind regards TongueTwister
Hi Tongue Twister,
Check out the Help section where Marina tells you about this among other things. It’s the third item down. There you will find a link to go to the Gravatar web site where you can register and upload your own picture or use one of their standard ones.
Good luck and enjoy.
Thanks a bunch mate my reply’s look well good now
you are a very helpful freind
Your very welcome, mate.
Glad you added that last comment about changing your name – for a moment I thought I was going round the twist.
Rats!
You’re very welcome.
Is there anu chance to return to women’s dictionary ? That was really helpfull. I mean REALLY. I was also wondering if You could teach me something about the difference beetwen forward and foreward.
Forward is meant in positional relation, Forward movement of being in a forward position (in front).
Foreword is generally a beginning statement, a word at the Fore, of a book, usually by the author or someone whose opinion the author (or editor) respects.
I would like to know the meaning of the phrase “Charlie Don’t Surf”. I know Charlie referred to the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War and stands for “C” in the NATO phonetic alphabet, but I have no idea what the aforementioned phrase means.
Comes from the film “Apocalypse Now”.
Oh, I haven’t seen that. What’s the context in which it’s used?
Helicopter scene, Robert Duval
Alrighty. It’s been on my netflix queue for months. I guess I’ll have to watch it.
“Charlie Don’t Surf”
soundes cool i’ve ordered this from lovefilm
One of the best movies ever!
Hotforwords, do you know why the word “stock” has literally near 50 definitions? Thanks!
Must have been stocking up?
oh ever so helpfull Bob. pull your stockings up.
Lock, Stock and Barrel.
I’m going to have to go with origin # 1
p.s. way to make learning fun!
I think your next video should explain the origin of Elitist, The origin of Israel, and Trebuchet
First of all… You are beautiful! (Something that I’m sure you hear every day). Now, what about the meaning of “junior”. It is used often to refer to something small… but why? Anyways… You’re doing a great job as always!
orangen 1
Yes we all know that Marina should make a topless so all people who think the same say yes just leave another comment saying yes you should make a topless come on!!!!!! please people say YES!!!!!!
HELP ME!
ok proper question, im desperate for an answer
i cant remember a word/s for this thing.
its when you notice a certain thing more when it has happened to you.
for example you buy a red ford and you suddenly notice a lot more red fords around.
can remember the proper psychological term
You can afford a Ford?
remembered it,.
selective perception
hey Marina, your videos are great
I was wondering if you could look up the word origin of gesundheit or the reason people say God bless you
I look foreward to seeing the next video
Old superstition that the force of a sneeze was caused by “old Nick” and indicated a battle of a demon trying to possess your body and force your soul out. Saying “God Bless You” was to help you win that battle.
God….I feel like a know it all..I have a similar obsession with knowledge as Marina has with Words.
:LOL:
I have a word sugar. how about “SUGAR”
Marina
I would like to know the origin of 2 different terms for the baton that a police officer carries… they are night stick, and Billy club….
Thank you
Maal
Care to elaborate, BillyB?
Any club that would have me as a member, I don’t want to be a part of.
Who said that?
Wasn’t it Groucho Marx?
Yes it was, though I don’t think that was an exact quote.
i would like 2 know were the word “crystal” comes from?i am a 13 year old girl that like your show thanks.
Mr. Jones told me it comes from a kingdom of skulls.
The answer is number 2
“Penthouse” comes from the word pentis, which comes from apentis, which comes from apendere, which means to hang against or attach. A pentis was a shed with a sloping roof attached to a wall or building. At some point, people began referring to the structure’s roof as a “pentis,” and the actual shed became a “penthouse.”
I had to look twice to be sure you put the “t” in pentis. Whew!
Dear Marina, I would like to know the origin of the word ”word”….you’r so Hot for words thx… mouahhhhhh xxx
Please, please my curiosity by explaning me the origin and meaning of the word “Dionisiac”.
P.S. You look quite ravishing for a teacher… each time I see a new presentation with you, you always come up with something…
you get it.
Marina hey how are you??? Sexy i know im your biggest fan i have seen all the vídeos but please make a topless i think all your fans will like because you are the sexiest woman ive ever seen please make it for me and for all your fans!!!!
Actually you have a great Idea, would get lots of hits on you tube & still be something teach’ could pull off, as it were. a driving lesson.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.....nt9MQWPl_c Wearing appropriate footwear though. I own a convertible & the top’s coming off soon, first warm day today, ahhh. No speeding unless in alx’s backyard.
There is a way for Marina to do a topless video and still retain a certain amount of modesty. Sports Illustrated has done this recently with its “swimsuit” calendar. Marina could simply apply body paint so that she appears to have a top on. I think it would be a mistake for Marina to go any further than that.
I concur.
I Would also like to know the origin of Jazz!
Thank you in advance and keep up the great work you are already doing. I just joined recently, and I keep looking forward to the next video. j00, as we say il l33t, Pwn Grrrl!
where does Pwn come from…?
how about fetish i have a fetish for your words or???
I would like to know more about the word Booyah that gets thrown around allot. I think that this is a spanish word Bulla which is pronounced “Booyah” but Bulla means noise or to make a great noise. So if the phrase “Make a big noise because I made big money” makes sense then Bulla!! is equal as per the dictionary. But HotForWords should investigate and put this word question to rest. However there is a word Booyah and that is used on ESPN after a good play, but I think they have the word confused with Bulla. Booyah is a culinary term for something that is like a stew but it is pronounced just like Bulla which means to make a racket or create a ruckus. As you can see Bulla is the more appropriate word but we spell it Booyah which is an entirely different word that means to make a stew on a very large scale. Booyah is not exactly the in-your-face word as it is used. Please investigate.
First off Marina, i love this woman
.
I’m constantly amazed at what you’re able to do.
In this thread you’re talking about web design and i admit i don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
In your DVD thread you’re talking about DVD formats- again i’m lost.
Do you have a degree in computing as well or something?
Or is it just another one of your interests.
It really is bizarre that a stunningly beautiful woman knows this stuff-
BTW that is not meant to be patronising/sexist because let’s face it stunning glamourous women on the whole don’t bother with this stuff (unless they have a degree in computing of course)-
With Marina though it’s a different story.
I really wonder what other talents she is hiding (and no that’s not a pun).
Anyway Marina 2 words for you:
Spurious
Facetious
Did i mention that i love this woman.
Thanks fadeintoyou77, I am a fast learner.. I have people show me the stuff and I learn from what they are saying. Trust me, I don’t know all this stuff by heart.. I usually have to call someone who knows more.. but then I repeat what I hear from them here to get feedback.
For the DVDs… I can make them on my computer.. but then someone tells me I have to account for Europeans vs Americans (ntsc vs pal) and then I go into a frenzy to try to solve the problem. I’m sure I’ll forget most of this stuff in a couple weeks anyway!
Come to Texas, Molly says to tell your puppy HI!
PO Box. certified cheque or money order. I trust you to send it later
Do you accept Canadian coins, no one else does… Yeah worldwide distribution is fun. How’s ebay do it.
I ordered a hard to find CD from BMG music years ago & it got to Canada from the States easier than I thought (No fuss) So good luck with your plans, might be harder to do now.
Hows the book plans going?
Fair enough Marina.
I know what you mean though about encountering problems with technology.
Different formats etc for no good reason-
annoying but you get to learn stuff along the way i guess.
I think Marina is a brainiac stuck in a hottie’s body.
I choose answer #1.
Hello Marina,
I checked things out about this penthouse word with someone at the courthouse who was suing a guy over his shittily built outhouse.
He started to say,”the penthouse is like a lighthouse… you feel like you’re on top of your world and the skies the limit.”
Before I could get his answer… he was off to the jailhouse.
I guess I’ll try #1
Cheers!
hi marina,i know this might seem a silly question,but where does the word” computer” come from,i have a feeling its older than the computers as we know then
thanks for looking xx
regards martin
look into the word Compute.
And computation.
It’s from mathematics.
Bye Now, Got to go pay bills.
I know, You Know, God has enough mystery’s to last all eternity.
word request: Jazz
thanks for considerating it
Tony29
Testing lock down mode
seems to work
what’s a lock down mode?
In preparation for a spike in traffic… I enable Lock Down mode and it locks the pages (makes them static) and also makes it so that comments don’t refresh until after I turn it off.
I am going to be on TV again in a couple weeks and I want to be prepared. Last time my website crashed when I was on the O’Reilly show.. I don’t want that to happen again.
You can not log in sometimes? Are your cookies on? I never have to log in again ever.
I have had that problem. It hasn’t been an issue lately. I am not sure why it got cleared up. Sometimes I would be logged on and could post in one board, and yet if when to another I would be told I’d have to log in to comment. Hasn’t happened since last week though…
accept cookies from this site … until they’re not valid anymore … not just for the session …
Lockdown?? OMG!!! There isn’t going to be a body cavity search, is there??? I don’t have anything to wear!
I got vista, too.
try firefox or safari, though, instead of ie.
I’m not experiencing any difficulties.
oh…lockdown with Marina…
dream on, boys, dream on…
It just happrened to me, I hit the digg button up there, once in digg, hit the blue link, a new window opened up & I’m in. It’s easy & works every time. I’ve come in sometimes through a page I didn’t want to be in & the page I want works, not the one I came in on. Sometimes hard to leave though, so much fun.
Schools have lockdowns now and then. So it’s appropriate that our teacher would investigate the procedure.
Ei Marina.. ^_^ im an avid fan of you , saw you 1st at youtube..
for curiosity sake..and because your sizzling HOT..
i think everyone think of this word every time they see your SEXy body..
and i dont know if im the 1st one to ask you this, but ill give a try..
whats the origin of the word “SEX”?? ^_^
not to be rude or something, im just asking..
im hoping that youll greet me on one of your clips..
many thaks and as you always say..
mmmmmmmmmmwaH! ^_^
By the way marina.. my name is pronounced as B-I-Y-O
may thanks and good luck sexy teacher
Hello my Teacher!
I don’t know if it counts for a ‘word’ but I would like to know the origin of the word/phrase
yada yada yada
thank you so much for your lessons!
your humble student
r8zerex
yada yada yada
Hey Marina
For some odd reason (at the moment) I can’t log in when making a comment regarding the cosmo article you posted, so I post it here.
Congratz on being mentioned on cosmo magazine
that must be an awesome feeling to see that all your hard work is being recognized more now than before 
What happens kaibanator, you can’t make a comment on the Cosmo article? Thanks for the congratz
It’s nice when women can get beyond my appearance and appreciate what I am doing 
I feel ya, Marina. Women seem to just want me for my body, too. I want them to appreciate me for my mind, and my emotional maturity, but for some reason they always focus on my looks. Ah, but we all have our crosses to bear….
sorry for the late reply, as i needed some sleep (i’m an australian, so the times are different)
yeah i’m not sure what happened before with trying to post on the other page, however all seems well now and i have no problems with it
now i have a new problem, i have type te comments before my cat decides to walk all over my laptop (it’ been done before)
My bird jumps on the keyboard at the most inoppertune time too.
You have problems with the login too. I hit the digg button under vidd & hit the blue link, new window opens & life’s good again, hope it helps.
Where did Adams Apple come from?
its something with adam and eva and a snake
yeah, supposedly the bite that “Adam” took of the forbidden fruit was stuck in his throat.
Marina,
Whin I’m logged in I don’t see the reply comments andstuff anymore.
tried to refresh it. no luck. I’ll see if going back to l”ogged out” works.
I’ve never had this issue before so just a note to let you know.
Thanks for the guitar again.
I think it’s number two.
thanks again for the good work! +5
I’m going to the beach tomorrow. It’s
getting very hot here in Ca. Overall
we have it great so not whining.
Hi Marina!
I just discovered your ‘hot for words’ show on youtube and like it much!
I think the answer for penthouse should be #1.
Also, may I request the word “fashion,” because you’re very fashionable?
I have a stupid question. I know what the other faces mean now but what does
mean? Is it envy?
Mike
Green with envy I guess… though it doesn’t look like envy, right?
Thanks, your so sweet.
According to the “dictionary of emoticons” Mr. Green means…..Mr. Green….
http://www.traviscarden.com/re.....emoticons/
To me, it seems to signify that the writer has said something dirty and wants to convey a note of devilish humor.
Wow — it’s in the urban dictionary…
http://www.urbandictionary.com.....=Mr.+Green
yeah, mr. green looks pretty happy.
Wait – I have delved deeper into the historical etymology of the emoticon Mr. Green. I’m pretty sure it’s based on a real person; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....7SI5Ir8-YA
Marina, your comment begs the question – where do we get the saying “Green with envy” from? Why are certain colors associated with emotions or feelings? I.E.: Green with envy, red with anger/ alternately love, blue with sadness, black with death (although in Asia white is associated with death), etc.?
Marina, also when a comment is loading it says “New comment is loading, wait a comment…” Shouldn’t it be “…wait a moment…” or simply “please wait”?
i think 1 is the answer
Hey Marina, Pages are loading much faster now.
After one comments on page say like 3. Is there a way when it refreshes it stays on that page instead of returning to page 1?
And – when one clicks on a “recent comment,” unless it is on the most recent page, it won’t link straight to that comment (which might be somewhere on pages 1 through 4, or whatever).
Propero, I alerted the developer of this plugin to that problem. He is Chinese.. so if any of you know Chinese out there it would be a great help:
http://blog.2i2j.com/plugins/w.....d-comments
What dialect of Chinese?
Manderine is my fav. That click worked, gtg.
The writing is the same, it’s only the spoken words that differ from one dialect to another – so I believe.
OK.. I think I solved it. I told the developer (if he understands me).. to make an option to VIEW ALL comments.. then I can make the Recent Comments thing work as I can add the variable ?wp=all or something before the link and it will take you right to the comment.
PLUS we want to “view all” option anyway, right?
Sounds good, Marina.
With the rise of traffic in your message boards – maybe you want to start using a “discussion forum” structure, like this: http://www.richarddawkins.net/.....forum/
Or this: http://www.richarddawkins.net/.....8d951aee66
OK.. captainjack.. I just put back in the ajx thing where when you make a comment it DOESN’T refresh the page.. but inserts your comment where you are. You will have to hit refresh if you want to see other comments that have happened since you have been on the page though. Let me know if you like this better or not.
I don’t know if this site is any help, Marina.
I can’t pretend I understand it but it seems to mention the problem you are having.
I clicked Bob’s comment & it Hit. I clicked Pros811, no Hit either one.
Clicked Marina comment it woked too, No prospero
I guess I’m too late for this to be of any help, but here is the translated version of the link you posted in your reply to Prospero above.
we do? do we?
you hummin’ Hello Dolly yet Captian? Or do you get another tune http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
I just remembered something. When I was a little boy, I spent a summer at this old ladies house with some of my family. Most places had indoor plumbing but she didn’t. She had an outhouse that was a two seater. No wall to divide it up into 2 stalls. Yea figure that one out.
I remember her calling it a penthouse. I thought clearly that was the wrong name to call it. 
Capt. Your off the wall comment, reminded me that my middle name is slang for ‘outhouse’ in Mexico, or at least it use to be. I don’t know how common it is anymore. Do you know what it is?
Two holers weren’t that unusual a century ago. But you have to wonder under what circumstances they had double occupancy.
Usually only one was “open”, and the other was for when the first was “full”, after the second was full, the first could be dug out for fertilizer.
Wow, jesterzusmc, I gotta hand it to you. You definitely know your shit.
I really don’t care which answer is correct. It’s cool just to watch Marina talking. She could read a 1968 Москва phone book and have us enthralled.
Penthouse definition number one is corrext.
Marina,
Hello, I was wondering about the phrase “lime light” and where it came from. As in, living in the lime light, which is being famous and spot light on you. Thanks
Marina I’m having a little problem when I put my curser over the little smiley faces. They want tell me what they mean like razz or cool etc. Thanks for any help.
capman911, and when you post them, the show up as the smiley faces. Try it
Thanks
I think he meant that the computer won’t tell him what they are. It’s true on mine also. You have to click on it to see that it says razz or what ever. Not really a big deal since you can see the expressions.
Oh.. I need to make the ALT text thing show up.. let me see if I can do that.
Mine works now. I think after you did the ajax thing for captain Jack it fixed the problem I was having.
mine doesn’t. thank god.
OK.. I fixed it capman.. thanks for pointing it out.
“Force” is my WORD REQUEST
thank u if u thinking of doing it
im sure more of your million subscribers would like you to investigate that word too
We won the UEFA cup.I don’t know if is correct to write it here, but I am really happy.
Congratulations. The Zenith of your achievements.
Cute Bob
Wow! She thinks I’m cute. I think I’m going to blush.
This is cute
Important
Glorious
Awwww…. I’m cute! I’m cute! She said I’m cuuuuuuuutte! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....zimk7IUR3s
Shouldn’t that be “Zenit” ? Maybe we can chip in and get Marina a gold plated Zenit for all her efforts. Or maybe a FED or a Zorki…
Does Zenith still make television sets? Back in the old days, their TV sets were the standard by which others were measured.
Okay, then. It’s the SONY of your achievements.
Cool Mr. Hitman!
Now we are going for the Cup of Europe.
It’s difficult, but dreaming is free.
So says Blonde in their song ‘dreamin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....5AEzyWZX8I
—> Archivo no disponible
shut up.
(
We won against a german team (4-0)
In dreams of course.
Maybe we can beat Germany….
Congrats Hitman job well done.
Congrats’ Russia and fans!
Canada as a Soccer Nation still lacks a complete team But I think we will take The IIHF Hockey Worlds’ this year although Russia looks strong too.
http://www.iihf.com/channels/i...../home.html
Some of the best players can’t play in the tournament because the pro Stanley Cup still on.
BTW Canada killed Germany, sorry aLx.
Surely the final will be Canada vs Russia.But we must play firts against Suomi and you againt Sweden.
We will see.
yeah, we suck at hockey and shit. not at fucking soccer, though.
that was just because fucking lucio “scored” a fucking own goal. and he played in the rematch. wtf. plus, luca toni was yellow-card barred. damnit. oh well. we’ll meet again, hitman.
Surely we will.
Is that a SOCCER THING??? Sorry, but Americans view Soccer as a child’s sport. REAL MEN play women’s FAST PITCH SOFTBALL!!!
LOL!!
Congrats!!!
Peace,
Frog
Maia Marina,
Well, Yellow Pages, setting there in the penthouse keeping your legs\finger crossed will get a ring on that finger next too them. This is some of the best advertising you’ve ever done. Use not acting your really in the role,Is after the fact though and no turning back now. What happened?
You were sitting in your kitchen eating Ostrogoth when roger missed his invasion, leaving you sitting in the penthouse in your situation.
It’s answer II… And Marina, can’t we have class at the beach?? It’s nice out, and class at the beach would be great… Also, where did the word “Cop” come from??
ptm368, would LOVE a class at the beach! Already did the word cop.. http://www.hotforwords.com/wor.....ds/
Marina
Field Trip! I’ll bring the bus around…
I’ll bring the Sunblock cream.
Bags I get first go at doing Marina’s back.
Okay, Bob. Oh well, I guess I’ll settle for the front…
I’ll tell the General to send you there forthwith.
Marina, since I gather from your “Airplane” comments that you seem to like corny old American movies might I suggest you watch some of the old beach movies with Frankie and Annette like “Beach Blanket Bingo!” to prepare for a class at the beach…
Beach Blanket Bingo!
What is the origin of the term “in a pickle”? Why is being in a pickle a bad thing…couldn’t you just eat your way out?? hehe
Thank you so much if you use this one…
I think it’s number 2!
Dear HFW: GTW answer, it’s number 2! Ancient Rome, where the tallest building you could build was 5 stories tall, no. My memory doesn’t include pictures of that. I don’t think that you are a poker player, or one of whom knows what gestures/ tells, to indicate a truth/lie/oh wow, fullhouse. But you looked to the right when you were talking about answer number 1, indicating that you knew it is a lie, in your mind. I regard you as interactive/fluid/ in your body language, as opposed to reserved/concealed. Or, since I have never seen your handwriting, I would bet that you slant your letters about 55 degrees to the right. Number 3, pent comes from repent, prayer, no, re means to do again. No sense there. So that leaves us with number 2, to add a building to. Yeah, you tried to confuse the issue with the outhouse/antonym/penthouse, but it didn’t work. But nice try. I wonder how many policemen investigators, poker players, body language novices will agree? P.S. you do that (MTV, The Bangles, Walk Like An Egyptian) look to the left a lot, which is sexy. But I forgot what it means, other than searching for an answer.
# 2?
Hey Marina!
i think that origin number 1 is correct, i dnt kno y but it sounds the best one to me!
Faiz
xxxx
I flipped a coin and came up with #2.
Number Two
Número Dos
Numéro Deux
Номер два
Número dois
넘버 투
Numero due
Αριθμός δύο
Nummer zwei
Nummer Twee
第二
I agree with Numéro Deux. The rest are probably wrong!!
LMAO!!!
Hi Marina!
I think that correct origin is the number 2. I also read that origin maybe from the old French word “apentize” from ancient Latin derivation which signify “add to”, but also the English users unify this word to the house word.
Kisses,
Roger
WORD REQUEST
from me, madecapatin i am one of your many subscribers! and i wanna know why people say “say cheese” or just “CHEESE
” when they are about to take a picture. if you can help me that would be awsome
why do people say cheese when taking a photo????
ps. i think its number one
I have no clue what the answer may be, as the word ‘penthouse’ in and of itself is baffling to me.
For one, shouldn’t it be pronounced “pen-thouse”?
For two, it’s barely even a house. It’s a house on the top floor of a building full of apartments. Often it’s a glorified apartment, better than the others but still an apartment. It should be called a pentpartment, not a penthouse unless it is indeed a house. Otherwise, penthouse suite is probably the best term to describe a luxurious top floor apartment.
For three, the magazine Penthouse sucks and is not aptly named. It hardly represents the top floor, as it was always made to be a second-rate Playboy. Hugh Hefner and his Playboy mentality represents the tip top of that realm of publishing. And he lives in a mansion, not a penthouse.
So, to sum up, I have no clue what the answer is. I rarely do good at these games. Oh well… multiple choice never was my thing. Too few options. But I always have other games I can go play.
There is a Chinese saying, “Never give a man a choice; he will always choose the wrong option.”
I choose to disagree.
Wrong choice!
Ve haf vays of making you agree.
Im just following Chinese proverbs Bob!
Don’t get your feathers all ruffled up. 
Oh BTW. Good morning Bob!
Well Im off to work now. I get to inhale white board markers today.
It’s afternoon already here – has been for three hours – but you enjoy your day.
I say #2
Does write have anything to do with right
A unjust sterward, penthouse. I think those words in the dictionary are “pheasant stew” the other one “a word” would define a chuckars tenden or they would not call them chuckars. How many feathers went up the nose in a wiff of a penthouse. So I propose a beautiful penthouse? They would keep me hunting forever just for a taste of number four.
I am the one with the misguided babybottle of “one model place” dare the land there be jealous of milk divined music? Right to the marina source from darthsheen! Need the stone “betrove,” a bear? Can you tell which side is up from here!
I pick #2. It makes the most sense.
In ancient Rome the nobles and upper classes had their own abodes and didn’t reside with the lower classes. They lived in separate villas or other wealthy places. Besides the word in Spanish and Italian for house is “casa”. House comes from old English, “haus”, which is identical to mordern Germany. #1 is just a bad choice.
Regarding #3, when was the last time one visited a medieval church that had more than one floor on it. There were tall buildings and later castles and churches had more than one floor, but they didn’t refer to parts of the building as a penthouse.
I’ll go with #1
Detroit or Pittsburgh? in 5 or 6 games? I’ll wager $ on pittsburgh if I had enough to bet LOL.
In the mean time I’ll wager #2 is the right answer to Marina’s Game. its not #3 agree?
I would say the pens in 6. I think they are a more talented team than the wings. So you got #2? that might be good but I got #1. At least 1 of us would get it right. I think #3 is owt of bounds. Luckily for me I don’t have to work till Monday. I’m on vacation!I can’t wait to go to Wrigley this Saturday! Ciao!
It’s late here, it’s realy late there. Pens’ could surprise early but Detroit is deep. should be good though.
Who’s playing at the ball park saturday?
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Chicago Cubs. Well it’s getting late. I must hit the sack. I’ll ttyl
factory, how about that one?
how about OBSOLETE?
Answer number 2 is the correct one. For most it history “Penthouse” meant a crude shed or storage space. As you said from the old english word “pentis”, from the Latin “appendicium”, something added on. From the 1300′s to 1920′s that’s what it meant. After that to today, it took on the meaning of a fancy rooftop apartment.
mi dear Profesora Marinita beauty mmmuuuak
Just from listening to the video, I thought answer #1 sounded pretty good, coming from the roman point of view. Unfortunately I was incorrect. Here is the correct answer:
The word penthouse is a rather wonderful example of our old friend, the folk etymology.
Penthouse is found in a number of forms (as with many words based on folk etymology), but the earliest form was something like pentis, found since the fourteenth century.
This pentis is an aphetic shortening (one where the first syllable is dropped, like lone from alone) of Old French apentis ‘an attached building; appendage’, ultimately from Latin appendere ‘to hang against; attach’, also the source of English append and others.
The original meaning of this word was ‘a shed with a sloping roof attached to a wall or building’, and also ‘the sloping roof itself’. Semantically what matters is the attachment of the shed to the larger building.
By the early sixteenth century, the form penthouse arose by folk etymology, with the last element (-is) changed to house to better associate the word pentis with the dwelling-ness of the shed the word denoted. In the early period of the form (mostly the 1500s, less so later), a semantic distinction remained, where pentis was used to refer to the roof only, while penthouse was used for the shed.
The main current sense is ‘an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building’, and hence ‘any specially designed apartment on an upper floor, esp. the top floor, of a building’. This is first found in the 1920s, a date that seems recent, but which is not that long after large apartment buildings became common.
from:
http://www.randomhouse.com/wot.....e=19990602
retreived 5/15/2008
Thanks for the lesson Marina!
Here’s a possible word check, glastnost
Phrase check: Vaya con dios
Adios Amiga!!!
Gabe
God must be written with MAYUSCULAS my friend
a Dios Gabe
que mayusculas? maculine ?
From a grammatical standpoint, this is correct.
I beg to differ from a philosophical standpoint. dios, or god, should really be a gender neutral term. For is not god to be all things? Male and Female? so what then to write dios as ? dios/dias? or just plain di?
Makes you wonder.
sorry, meant masculine. too late here (1:29 am)
Where are you from buddy ?? here’s too late too
I meant God is a name, Like Gabe, cause your name is not written “gabe” with g… else with G
I’m in Michigan.
As for the other comment, I understand what you mean now, that the d in dios must be capitalized to denote the importance/naming of the word…? Dios, God, gabe, Gabe ? correct?
Again i beg to differ from a philosophical standpoint. Isnt it one of the big problems in this world the we all have a different GOD and only our GOD is the right GOD and therefore we (insert religion/nationality/etc here) are the chosen people, and only we (etc again) have the right to do as we please in this world and no one else should have any say in the matter?
just a thought.
i’ll stick with dios thanks, maybe if my god is more humble, i can be more humble and get along with everyone else……at least to try.
gracias por la leccion du espanol. tu habla?
I wanna be you pet, Well I also know I have to do many things to reach a teacher’s pet level
Send Marina a check for 7 million dollars and I bet she will let you be her pet for a least a week.
I think’s number one because is similar to its real meaning
Why we call URANIO = plantet …. and URANIO = chemical sustance ???
“You’re”.
Be philogrammarous.
Your my teacher! Your my teacher!
My son came in and saw you on my computer and thought I was watching something I shouldn’t.
how old is your son?
He’s 23.
Too funny. Did you say the classic line, ‘Its not what you think it is!’
Mine just turned 24, the other 18. What does he think of Marina? or does he say nothing like my boys, they just grin, I guess
its gotta be #1
You’re just entirely too cute when you do your bloopers and stuff.
I’m going with 2, though I appear to be 209 comments late.
Can I be teacher’s pet again? You can do a word study on blattidae… Ok, so it’s not TERRIBLY sexy…
What does the word “blase” mean? I assume it comes from French, but what is the meaning and how did it enter the lexicon of the English language?
seeing into someone’s heart is a better view than any penthouse window offers
ebony version original
ivory version
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs&feature=related
Loved the songs, only a few years ago was introduced to Nina Simone stuff great, great great, I like isabella too she so cute… Eva left us too soon Purest voice I ‘ve heard. My oldest tire guy & I can’t make it through this song with dry eyes. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
Can’t leave this one out http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bCW7Mz_oXDI&feature=related. I feel like I’m diggin holes in the basement… I mentioned an old girlfriend (from Alberta) back in Highschool days who turned me onto Miles Davis more than 30yrs ago. I had heard a few years ago that she’d passed away. Since I mentioned it here I decided to investigate & actualy found out how she died & although it was 1994 & she left behind a husband & a couple of kids, I grieved that I’d lost touch so much. She’d written a song for me to put music to… But miles & youth got in the way, as I live on an Island & she, a straight & couple of moutain ranges away. You young guys won’t understand yet… I love my wife dearly, but those young romances, altough now far away, leave their mark, like favorite scars.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
I was just listening to miles davis, kind of blue last night. great album. Thanks for the music links.
City of Angels is actually a remake of a German film, Wings of Desire. It is a wonderful movie, very different from City of Angels. Check it out.
Here are some quick links
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Hi Buzzword. An Indian and a BSA man can I remember the days on an old BSA and a Honda. How old is the Indian? See ya.
Mike
57 tomahawk and a 67 bsa
Hey could yo track down the origin of the word “Hallelujah.”
I almost can taste the spit (haha) that what my little darling daughter
just said (after made a face). Anywho I gonna with the idea of number
3,.. reasons being that something do with a preacher being on the
top floor. Oh btw you can view my little night walker (Apple Head killer)
at my Youtube channel under the name of “Is That The co-Founders Of Youtube?!?”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jX2.....xWJhAAkE
I choose Number One……just like my beautiful teacher is Number One!!!!
I like the 1st Theory.
Let’s go with the # 1 theory.
Sweetheart, I know I’m moving a little fast here, given that we’ve only known each other for a few weeks, and only been out on a few dates….but….
Marina….
Will you marry me….?
(by the way, I think it is answer number 2)
I also GREATLY want to submit the word Chesterfeild, which is like a couch or sofa.
The answer is definately number 2, coming from the word Pentis which also means lean to or slope, its an attachtment onto another thing, which is this case is a building.
Dig some of this hardcore shit.
I love that video.. I changed your link buzzword to link to a higher quality version.
No the answer is 3 with me looking up to you.
I’m down with that, word, peace out to my girl in cali.
Everyone loves a tea party! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....chKa8Ox3Hs
So i finally watched that video, your thinking lakes, when you should be thinking snakes, were not talking underlings, where, where talking walking talking, you know what I mean.
lol funny vid
Might have to host a tea partay 
I like chocolate Labradors too, but I couldn’t eat a whole one.
Bob I’ll help you with the left overs.
Your right Buzz that was hardcore! I was severely disgusted.
do the word lunatic
Where did the word “Boojakashaw” come from…..because, I use it when I would see a very fine looking woman….for example…you!
sbman!
(eddie)
Hi Marina! Could you give the origin of the word “eavesdrop”?
(And I vote for #1.)
The answer is # 1 – The origin is from the word “pent” meaning sloping, and it was a room under the sloping roof – which we might nowadays call a loft, or even a lean-to. It was not, in origin, a particularly good place, with the sloping-in walls:grin:
Its also #2 Middle English, giving us pentis (first recorded about 1300), which was applied to sheds or lean-tos added on to buildings. Because these structures often had sloping roofs, the word was connected with the French word pente, “slope,” and the second part of the word changed by folk-etymology to house, which could mean simply “a building for human use.
Why is the answer always #2?
Oh Its not always #2. It just seams that way.
Its still #3 but with the lower part of the number cut off to look like a #2. 
I think I already knew the answer to this game. I learned about it back when I used to live in a penthouse in Denver, CO. many years ago.
why thats the big 50
does this have anything to do with freemason conspiracies?
Suddenly, there was a pregnant silence…
Здравствуйте
I think number 1 is correct answer.
I would like to know the origin of the word ‘origin’.
Спасиьо,
Пока
it’s #2 fu shu
I think number 1 sounds a little more sensible. Although as the say “Truth is stranger than fiction.”
my guess is @2 mmmm
thanks for the lessons see people not every good looking russian woman on the internet is out there for your money but be careful anyway
I think number 2 is the correct answer! Love the website, Marina
Thanks mr dan
**WORD REQUEST** How about the word POPPYCOCK? Im gunna leave the title up to you on that one but i do think it would get some hits.And i would sill love to be the teachers pet for a day…Did you know I’m a master chalkboard eraserist?… eraserist? Is that even a word?, probably not i know
Word Request: Why is it called the Department of the “Interior” when they deal with things that are outdoors?
Why is it called the Department of “Defence” when they invade other countries?
Is there such a thing as a “government worker?”
How can there be a Department of Education when they don’t teach?
You can assume it’s a typo and it’s really supposed to be the Department of the Inferior. But they’re so sub-standard they spelled their own agency wrong. Or, they might be referring to the interior of the nation; the parts that aren’t bordering other countries. Either explanation works for me.
I like your first explanation. I hear the agency only hires out-of-work inferior decorators….
Where did the word “jimmy” come from, in the phrase “jimmy open a window”?
Or, jimmy hat?
hmmm…my appendix was removed, and the doc said it superfluous…just like a penthouse strikes my noggin…
so i’m voting for Origin #2…
oh…and to append:
word request: how did NOGGIN come to refer to a head?
Marina, you have one extremely attractive noggin…
and you sure know how to use it…
<<<—looks more geeky than shocked to me…
I thought “noggin” was what the verb for drinking a dairy-based alcoholic beverage around the holidays….
Stop egging him on. He already answered his own reply to his answer to his reply.
I hear you’re noggin’, but you cain’t come in….
Like PENTHOUSE pet? Top Pet? Top Floor. Any floor you are on is the Penthouse.
Man…….what a suckup.
Is Anna Marina’s evil twin? I she adrift on teh sea of dispair afterher plane crashed?
And Marina I have to know – are they fake? Your ponytails I mean. They seen to be a shade lighter than your bangs…
I’m still arguing for Bizarro Marina (Aniram).
I think it’s the first meaning. Top floor of a fire story building. I give this video 4 out of 5 stars.
Did you know that Hans christian Anderson House has more that 5 stories ? Please tell this fluffy little hamster why the are called stories Marina
S.O.U.P.
Society Of Unwanted Pets; those forlorn and tortured souls whose contributions to the blog, although manifold and voluminous, have as yet failed to result in the sought-after mention and momentary attention of She For Whom the Sun Rises, the Birds Sing the Pines Whisper, and the Flowers Bloom.
I’m pent up with anxiety awaiting the answer!
I choose door number 2!
(And my avatar is safe yet again!)
la bonne reponse c’est la numero 2 lol
lol
salut tout le monde pour ceux qui comprenne ma langue natale
AHAHHAHA
merci beacuoup pour la leccion du language. Je ne sais pais beaucoup francais maintenant. J’etudies francais a vingt annes ago.
What the hell. I got pretty far anyway. lol
I could kinda get the gist of the message.
Seeya
Gabe
I’m going with 2 on this one, just call it a sneaking suspicion.
well I think the right answer is nr.2
P.S. you rock Marina 
Heres one for you Marina. How about Inagodadavida an old Iron Butterfly song fron the sixties.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlIFpUuQY8&feature=related
Longest drum solo to that date. Might have been case of bad inunciation. Dick Clarke & Bart Simpson may be right though.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.....E&NR=1
They were probably loader than AC/DC. i was only a kid then
i thinks this op.: 1 is the correct answer.
It is an appendage to the original building. Many penthouses were build on top of existing buildings, utilizing the roof as a garden, but originally, it could have been a room added on to a house at ground level.
Marina,
The pages do seem to be loading faster now.
Thanks!
Hi marina, I think so the numer one is the correct answer, that sound rozanable.
I love your videos and your kisses.
i want to be a male pron star can you help get going in the direction i need to go in
Is that like a dyslexic porn star?
No, he clearly said PRAWN star. So I guess the real issue is, why would someone aspire to be called a shrimp? As long as we’re here, who the hell made up the phrase, “jumbo shrimp,” the net result being “I’m a bigger shrimp than you!” And that’s something to brag about?
I think it’s #2
the site is behaving strangely today. I’ve read enough comments from others to whom similar things have occurred to know that it should pass, but it’s frustrating nonetheless.
While i’m commenting, assuming my comment doesn’t vanish, what is the name for word like “nonetheless” and “whomsoever,” word that are just compressed phrases?
Thanks,
~Dave
Okay, while I can accept that I might have accidentally omitted the first pluralization of words, I think it’s more web chicanery that the ‘s’ is missing from both of my “words.” We’ll have to see if I lose my eses this time around too.
Marina, this has got me thinking you should investigate “gremlins” as I think a couple are at work here.
I had a problem logging in when the “SNAFU-Reload” was featured. The site wouldn’t recognize my “Login”. I tried several times and finally I started to look around and was able to post at the “TA/PET” area and at the “SNAFU” video and later it went back to normal.
I thought that it was our lovely Teacher sharpening her wit.
Also it seems that the site takes quite a while to load, but,
Marina is definately worth waiting for.
I’ll go with #2.
Where does the word ‘dollar’ comes from?
I’ll give 3 marks or 8 pieces to anyone who can tell me.
Hey you can’t give 3 of me away.
long as they’re gulden…
oh…i have talents…
I’ll tell you for a dollar.
Line from Robocop: “I’ll buy that for a dollar!”
Hey,
I’d like to know the origin of the word “Redneck”, I’v seen many possible origins but which is the real one
Thanks
ow and the naswer is #2 i think
Wait a minute Foxbowl15 u be talken about us southern folks. Some of us even have Redneck tattooed on the backs of our necks so we don’t forget. LoL I would like to know the answer myself since I live in the south. Good question. I hope the one and only will give us the answer.
Well this post makes me wonder what the origin of the term “playboy” is. On a different note, what is the origin of the phrase for good luck, “knock on wood”?
Probably goes back to old antique wood, I mean olden teakwood. Whatever.
I’ll go with #2.
I’ll go with #1.
I’m going to make a w.a.g. and go with Option #2.
I think the Romans were able to build higher than five stories…what about the Coliseum? (Could be wrong there, but it makes sense in my head.)
You’re not wrong. Look at the Roman Aquaduct at Pont du Gard near Nimes in France
I remember learning at school Jesus was born in a penthouse which meant out house. The buildings also at the time had a sloping roof, so pente also morphed to also mean slope.
ANSWER no 2
So why didn’t Hugh Hephner call it Stable magazine ?
Because seeing all the erogenous zones made one re-dick-ulously unstable and unpre-dick-table.
Stable Magazine sounds like a special breed of bestiality porn, a slightly larger variety than Cat House Magazine.
Because he couldn’t have found a byre for it when he came to sell it.
Nice, Bob.
Like “byre,” are you “chiefly British?”
As an aside, I wish someone with more time on their hands than me would make a reference page where one could quickly catch up on all the character backgrounds, running jokes, worst puns, technical FAQ, et cetera from this forum. Sure would help a newb’ like me.
Hugh Hefner created playboy, penthouse was created by Bob Guccione
Er….. Er …..Er ….Er ..
I knew that . You think that I am stupid Eh ? Eh ?
I was just testing you all !
Hey Geppetto why is my nose getting larger ?
’cause when you read those magazines…
no…no, i will not make the obligatory wood comment…
I think the right answer is #3
I know when i am in a Penthouse i like drinking a cocktail! What is the origin of ‘COCKTAIL’??
ps #1 is the correct answer
Can you tell us the origin of the word urgent or occasion?
Preeeeeze?
<3 Evelyn
how about “FORCE” ?!?!?!
1: pent means five and in rome they called it a penthouse for the fifth floor: I think of the roman numerals when i hear penthouse: Have you checked my requests Marina
Everyone knows that the word penthouse comes from Hugh Heffner!!!!
Seriously, I’d have to go with #2.
I think that it comes from #1
Teacher’s pet!!!
hmmm i`ll say #2
@Hey Marina, we are at 86 comments at the time of this message and the pages are loading very fast. I see your dividing up at a lower threshold. I think that might make a difference.
@Hey gang, I have to run to do some laundry, teach some High school students, and prepare my lesson plans for the adult captain’s class tomorrow. You reading this WL?
If I don’t respond to any of your future questions its because Im away from keyboard. AFK! 
I’ll be back late afternoon if that is acceptable to you? 
Im just kidding with you WL.
number 2 is the origin of penthouse
Well you learn something every day. I thought Penthouse originated from Hugh Hephner
Bob Guccione, not Hugh Hephner.
No charge. 
Now you’ve learned something else.
Hefner
Whatefner.
I think Bob the builder had a very constructive point there.
See pathetic excuse 2 pages up
Quit makin’ phun o’ my speech impediment!
Ok that was weird. Just a moment ago the webpage said “In Penthouse” now is just says “Penthouse”. I think I better get another cup of coffee. I must be seeing things.
In is now Out, Over.
Roger that capt’n Bob. I just looked up in the little navigation bar on my browser and its says:2008/05/14/in-penthouse/#comment-17867
So the page did say ‘In-Penthouse’. Marina must have just changed it a moment ago. Funny girl.
Funny girl
Bob you watch way to much Youtube. LOL…
Hi Marina, nice video !!!!!!!!!!
Ooooh I like the comment box at the top of all the comments so I don’t have to scroll down and see what everyone else is guessing.
I’m going to go with #2 Why you may ask? Its an old trick. When Marina looks to her left meaning she is fibbing. This only works when she first starts the answer. Through out the video she looks in both directions as she explains the 3 choices. #2 she start out staring right into the camera.
No, really I’m guessing #2 because #1 would mean the name would change every time a new taller or shorter building would be built. As for #3 sounds completely made up. Its the look in her eyes that gave that away.
Now that I have mention this, I have looked into the box and introduced Schrödinger’s Cat into the equation effecting the outcome of the next game.
Now your letting cats out of bags in a big way.
Anyone seen Tiger?
I seen one.
Funny aLx. Nice photo.
this German Tiger should take care of it.
Is it safe to come out again ?
Are all the bags tied up ? No cats now ?
Hey I am from ze Siberia not ze Germany, yet in ze German ze nine swantz (tails) could be referring to the absence of cats tailing me.)
Nine Katze ! Wunderbar.
I am going to a fantastic place so celebrate and get drunk.
I am rather cagy about alx’s photo
As for Bob it’s plane to see that no would runway from this tiger. i am much more scary than that. Ta Mac er sorry Bob are you floating in the sea ?
I’m just commenting to scare tiger-the-vicious
I think that he saw you coming. He heard the guy Russell opening the paper bag .
BTW, What was Schrödinger’s Cat doing in Pandora’s box, anyway?
When you buy cats they come in a blue and gold Pandora boxes.
I saw a sign – Wanted: Schroedinger’s Cat, Dead or Alive
Curiosity *may* have killed Schrödinger’s cat.
I’ve actually seen Schrödinger’s cat here and there.
Ooooer remind me to erase Pandora’s phone number from my little black book, if she has a cat in her flight recording equipment.
Oops, i meant #2.
I Agree Seem’s too make Sense
Ok so you meant 2 do what ?
Ok my first reaction was to go with #1 but that isn’t all that interesting and you said that it WAS interesting, so I am going with # 3.
homework, kind of a guess. never #3 “repent” simply means turn around or about face. So #2, as per trend & a penthouse usually, although lately is the most “fru fru”, is an add on. now on top.
And I am haveing trouble running the vid. on this computer at this time (only got part way through) then won’t run at all.
Sounded like a Canadian type intro…starting with an apology
Im confused about the intro. Apologizing for what?
I like her little laugh. She cracks me up.
I just now , finally got to see the vid all the way through & yes I could listen to a vid of Marina laughing only, but the blubbering only for a short time, (had to wipe off my screen). Funny while I was part way through… the foolish buggers started jumping into the pool at the right, lucky it is stocked with sharks. Cheers Captain
i am going with the deuce
I’ve been on the juice all night. But what’s what’s the answer ?
Yesh Oshiffer
What the Deuce?
The world penthouse come from the penthouse magazine ahahahha ;D its origin is 100% pure male magazine
ahahha ;D another mystery solved by your thrusty Non Hot Ninja french teacher ahahhaha ;D loll
Maybe a church should be called a repenthouse.
Appendix, appendage, hmmm…
#2 certainly seems right
#3? Marina’s eyes tell on her…
Another day in the soup…
Yeah, I noticed the eyes too.
Eyes noticed them also. It’s the German Wunderbra that makes them so distinctive and effects our instinctive urge to watch further
Her eyes are very captivating. I like the videos where at the end she gets real close to the camera and you can really see the shape and color as she acts silly.
she’s not acting , she’s in bliss
Hey, Marina! What about orgin of the word photography, autograph and other words that ends with “graph”.
Hi Marina:
Great video. I do not know the answer, but I guess is No. 1.
Bye
Alidor
Hey Marina!
Love the video
Like the hair too 
I think the answer is origin #2. As a penthouse (I believe) is normally an “extension” or “addition” to an already-made building. Which seems to fit the origin. I hope that made sense
#3
Marina, You have an outlandish imagination. Number one is the correct answer. Keep up the good work.
on youtube:
“This video may not be suitable for minors.”
huh? it’s flagged?
it’s a marketing gimmick, like:
This way to the Grand Egress —–>
next thing you know, you’re
outside paying another two
bits to get back in.
P.T. Barnum?
I think it is Origin number 1. If i may request a word I would like to know about the word Tacky
neither of the above mentioned ! TEACHER ,TEACHER,you are really trying to throw us for a loop, “penthouse” of course comes from a place where bob gucionne plays with all of his favorite pets of the month! haha,ja!
Hi Marina, I am going to go ahead and choose origin # 1
and i Got a request for the word GRUNDLE
hehe
Marina – I have a phrase I am curious to know the origin of…it’s “thank you”. The word “thank” has just a one letter difference from the word “think” – are the two somehow related?
Except in the south, thank is past tense
for think, as in think, thank, thunk.
Eg.. “I thank it’s gonna rain t’day”
Them’s fightin’ words!
DICTIONARY, n.
A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
(Ambrose Bierce)
nice.
In the TV show MASH Hawkeye said that’s all he ever reads since all the stories are in there.
I am pretty sure it’s number one.
Maybe third orgin sounds not so good, but im going to take that – Orgin Nr. 3
I have to go with #2
I have to go with the attachment answer. Romans were able to build taller than 5 stories, examples are too numberous to cite and repent is just too silly.
Also, 3 years of latin in high school helps.
#1
#1 sounds good
I am late as usual but it is number 2.
Love ya Marina
Well Marina,
Your title for this show got some people worried I guess.
I had to confirm my birthdate before I could watch it.
On YouTube I mean
I love you Marina.
What is the origin of the word “HobKnobbing?” as in socializing and rubbing elbows with people.
Jessie
Humans have boobs. Hobbits have knobs.
I’ll guess #2.
What does 5 by 5 mean?
I hear that in Sci-Fi and military movies.
Thanks marina
5 by 5, in the pipe
aviator lingo indicating
the vehicle is on the
proscribed glide path
and is centered up,
critical during descent.
Carrier pilots sight up
using a light system
that keeps them 5 x 5,
thus, they only “call the ball”
While I understand how
it’s used, I couldn’t tell
you the origin.
Excellent question!
Thanks melikadothechacha
Even if you don’t know the origin that’s explains alot.
I’ve met a few people that use it regularly and the don’t have a clue to the meaning. I think that they believe that it sound “cool”.
I hadn’t heard that version before.
Referring to yesterday’s lesson on Radiotelephony, 5 X 5 means “Strength 5″ and “Readability 5″ so it’s what Marina could have said to Anna in response to “How do you read me?”. Another way of saying “Loud and Clear”.
Thanks Bob
I’ve heard of both. Which is why English confuses me so much. Abbreviations freak me out the most.
I’ve always said that English is my second language and I’m fluent in Gibberish.
I’m not sure which is more correct. “5 by 5″ was the trademark phrase of a character named Faith in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so I looked it up online a long time ago. I came up with Bob’s answer of “Loud and Clear” with 5 being the top of Likert scales on signal strength and clarity. I know you’ll make fun of me for being a Buffy fan, but, as language appreciators, I’d think you would like anything by Joss Whedon. Buffy’s language was so distinct they came up with a dictionary called Slayer Slang, and his show Firefly has brilliant language.
I haven’t seen the Buffy series from the begining, maybe I’ll get the DVD’s.
But, I do have the Boxed set of Firefly and the dvd -Serenity.
Great show, too bad it was cancelled.
The origin of Penthouse comes from the word “pentis”, which is an appendage or appendix. A pentis would be a small building attached to a larger one. The pentis always had a sloping roof and this led folk etymological confusion with the french word pente (slope). This was then added to “house” to generate “penthouse”.
The use of penthouse as a posh appartment is modern American, the first example in 1921: “Two of the elevators were design to run to the roof, where a pent-house…. was being built”.
Number TWO
sry
typo
The answer is number
“Penthouse” comes from the word pentis, which comes from apentis, which comes from apendere, which means to hang against or attach. A pentis was a shed with a sloping roof attached to a wall or building. At some point, people began referring to the structure’s roof as a “pentis,” and the actual shed became a “penthouse.”
Dear Marina,
I am new to your website and have some interesting words/expressions that come to my mind for you to research:
Cold Shoulder
Cocktail
Head over Heals
I would be completely Head over Heals with you if you explain the origin of these words so please don’t give me the Cold Shoulder and I would have a cocktail on you !
Yours,
Alex
Welcome to the madhouse, Alex.
If you check The Complete Lesson List in the menu bar above you can see which words Marina has already dealt with. e.g. Head Over Heels
hey alex,
here is a “head over heels” lesson that the lovely marina has done for us some time ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ver-heels/
hope this helps
Thanks guys, I missed that one….
At first they give you the cold shoulder, but then you give them cocktails, until they fall head over heels for you. Beer goggles will do that.
Shouldda gone to Specsavers!
Marina,
The only two meanings of Penthouse that I know would be the #1 answer, and a magazine.
Word request: It’s a phrase, “All gussied up”.
“Dough – Bra – Ootra” !
Pure guess as this is a tough one without doing some research. I think the answer is number 2….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....2WlYgDe1Vs
Wow.. nice obscure reference there prospero811
I know…I know… it was weak…[sigh...]
that thread was pure silk, buddy.
thin, but strong enough to do
the job!
Did you see that ad at the end of that video? Teenage daughter? So funny.
Yeah – that ad is the best part. The mom , who looks to be about 35 at the most, has SEVEN
children….. but stays as slim as a teenage girl eating Post cereal. 
Hey Marina – fyi – when the comments break up into multiple pages you can’t click on a “recent” comment and go right to that comment, unless it is on the most current page. E.g. If I click on this comment on the “Recent Comments” list on the side of your homepage, it will take me to the most recent page of the Penthouse message board without moving directly to my comment.
of course you know this,
so i put this here for others.
the theme to Green Acres
has the exact pentameter
as Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
“keep Manhattan,
just give me that countryside…”
My Dad used to eat Grape Nuts all the freaking time. I hated that cereal!
Where do grapes keep there nuts?
Currantly no one has answered correctly . That’s mad
I subsisted on Grape Nuts and yogurt breakfasts for years.
Good times!
I think it’s answer number 2! Latin appendicium, etc.
Hey Marina,
I was wondering if you can do the word “guitar” for a video.
-PanicManga
The answer is #2
And a word request: the word ‘gas’ (also the russian газ). I’ve red that it comes from greek ‘chaos’, but it doesn’t seem to be the right explanation.
Dear teacher
Mmh… This one is difficult. It cannot be the first one because in latin you don’t use the word house (I laughed for this), but between the other two…. I don’t believe in the “Repent” oriented origin so let’s try the second one!
Thank you for this interesting game.
Your devoted student
Don Felipe Gonzales de Telo Martius
Dear teacher
OoOoOops, I forgot something is it possible to have the origin of the word “beyond” (sorry to repeat myself endlessly).
Amicalement,
Your devoted student,
Herr Philip Gonzag
I’m more interseted in this “pethouse”———is it like a “bunny ranch”???
Thats where some of us sleep when we are bad at home.
capman911, you ride?
Well apparently I haven’t been bad enough.
And if I did get sent over to there I wouldn’t be able to sleep. You kidding? 
Yea, motorcycle week is comming up this week at Myrtle Beach North Carolina. I live only 100 miles away.
I mean Myrtle Beach South Carolina. NC is where I live.
I ride, but not frequently. My father has an indian and a bsa.
Isn’t that a Cathouse?
Funny huh? A little snafu by me there!
Don’t be modest; you did it on purpose to amuse us.
Snafuperman to the rescue! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Has anyone else noticed that Marina seems to keep her pets in the Penthouse?
pethouse
Im outside in the rain also.
Meow!!
SOUP..
Sorry just won’t let soup die…
I notice….. I am getting hot and broth-ered about not understanding the reoccurring preference to make reference to soup. soup, soup. The Ox-tail English Dictionary can’t help me.
I get a feeling that if it was #1, the “house” part would have been replaced by something latin, too. So I’ll go with #2, a house appended on top of an existing building.
I think…. #2, but I’m really not sure!
Word request for you
Where did ‘gingerly’, meaning in the way that, if you walk gingerly, you’re a little unsteady, come from?
YAY I’m second! And origin no.2 sounds good because no1 is too easy and no.3 sounds stupid I guess. But who knows, I’ve been surprised before by the results.
Oh yeah and: I still love you Marina! You’re the best ever!
First again
It’s #2 again.
The added structures were usually lean-to additions with a sloping roof so I believe that we get Penthouse indirectly from the French, being an apartment on the top floor “sous les pentes” or under the sloping roof.
You just picked #2 because it was your second comment.
Ok here is a sad fact about my younger life. I had a collection of Penthouse magazines from every country I visited when I circumnavigated around the world. The centerfold always featured a woman from the country where I purchased the magazine from. Some of the mags I couldn’t read a word in them but that didn’t dampen my spirits.
Pray tell, captainjack, just what did it dampen? Oh, never mind.