At the end you say what’s your favourite koekje (you pronounced it Dutch and really well) so it’s no 3 for me.
I also noticed constant variable. It seems that 9 out of 10 times it is always the shortest answer.
Sometimes I feel like her vids are really stealth makeup lessons. hotforprofits should get a little more natural like that sometimes. Those intimate moments are what makes Marinas vids the best.
The best Cookie(s) I have ever tasted has to be at Waterloo Station in London. Utterly scrummy, very big, thick full of choco chips, crunchy nuts with strawberry fruit drops mixed in. Missed my train because of them too. Ever since, I do best to pop into Waterloo just for them whenever I’m visiting the city. Otherwise Merryland do just fine with a cuppa green tea.
Thank you for showing us Marina-ie
So.. you wanted to be a super model huh?
Well.. super-modeling is a tough job.. stick with us and we’ll stick with you. Remember, Geek pwns supermodel any day!
ayo, deswegen hab ich ja gefragt. ich kann mir halt unter “bo” sonst nix anderes vorstellen bzw. hab ich das damit assoziiert. ’s gibt ja viele, die ihn mögen … warum auch nicht. locker bleiben, hm?
Thanks for visiting MEATHEAD MANIA! We have been learning from you for a while now. Do you think you can find the origin of mania? A word with such unique uses has to have a good back story.
meatheadmania: hope you are having a bright day. I second your request, [mania]. Went to your MHM—site, best to you. Was not this a cool video? HotForWords is the best.*!*!*!*!*!* ….i like gingerbread cookies
I guess I am on a roll this morning. As my mentor Yoda would say, Feel good do I. Marina has to be the best multiculturalist ever. Look at how she has managed to bring together probably without realising it, all of us different people from all over the world to one spot and we all get along great. If only our governments could learn such a lesson. We are not only learning the etomology of words, but the back ground and lives of each other and cultures without really thinking about it. I have learned alot by just interacting with you. I would have never have met any of you and learned about Canada the Dutch or German or the Neitherlands or even Russia if it wasn’t for Marina. It was different in school this is first hand knowledge. Marina is not just another beautiful face which she is, but a true teacher. She lhas earned alot in Russia and now she is teaching it to us.
Mike
Come on voters where your spirit. Marina has 463 comments and only 68 votes for this video. I know we comment more than we vote but let your finger stumble on the stars awhile.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sartre+and+bad+faith, “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980″, or “don’t paint yourself into a corner” that is is a phrase we would all like to know the origin off.
Hi folks. While we have been cutting up in class while the teacher is out of the room has anyone been to the Wired Magazine site on the home page and voted for our sexiest geek lately. Lets not forget her. We got the 7 dollar man over the top so lets do it for our favorite cookie maker.
Mike
He has been giving lessons to his students, last time I checked. Maybe he got the call to captain a vessel at sea. I have no idea how an internet connection at various sea worthy boats works for his laptop/PC/bosses PC. I haven’t heard of any major storms at sea, and maybe carries a sidearm with him in case Ichy Ambers’ pet shark gets loose.
He has a new class to teach futher up North. He had to move his boats to there. It will probably take him a couple of days to get settled in and find a ip. He showed me in an e-mail the campus he will be teaching at but I forgot the name. I assure you a quote from the terminator : He’ll be back”.
Thanks for all the feedback folks. I’m going to blame my (Cindarellas) language on having grown up with two clipped haired, mean faced, heathenistic stepsisters …I’ll check it at the door next time
aLx replied on June 5th, 2008 8:24 pm:
then why the hell don’t you go fucking get it?
then why in hell don’t you go fucking and get it?
Then why in Hell don’t you go fucking or get it?
Then why in Hell don’t you fuck, then get it?
Then why not fuck in Hell and get it?
Then , Fuck go to Hell and get it
Then why not fuck in Hell so you get it. …….Get It?
Sorry, it’s a purely American word of Dutch orgin. Although the German “kuchen” is very similar. Likely many of the Indo-european languages have something sounding similar with a close meaning but it was Dutch immigrants who brought it to America.
I am going to have to call you Tiger the V. There is another member with the first name of Tiger but I don’t remember last part of his handle. Be my little furry friend.
my friends and i live in a town where weed is smoked almost daily by almost everyone . we were wondering how the nickname “pot” became slang for Marijuana. alos, how did the term “giberish” as in noncense, or, that makes no scence. came about.
new student and i love your movies
In the spirit of this game and your childhood photos, I’ll confess that my Mother told me that cookie was my first spoken word. It was a disappointment to her but, what can you do?
My choice is #3.
Favorite commercial cookie – Oreo.
Favorite homemade cookie – Oatmeal with raisins or chocolate chip. They’re both great cooked or as dough.
Oops, I’m sorry, you’ve already done that word haven’t you? Sorry! (I’ll figure this out eventually.) Well, since somebody beat me to that one I’ll request a different word for you to investigate. I want to know the origin of “the ‘f’ word”. Surely you know the word I’m talking about, right?
Morgan since you’r handle is dixiegurl I take it you’r from the south Go to http://www.gravatar.com and sign up and find you a good ole dixieland avatar for a picture. You can even down load one from your computer through this program or find one on the internet download it to your desk then upload to the gravatar program. Just trying to help out.
Hi, Marina, I’m a new student and I would like to know the origin of the word “oxymoron”. Please consider my request, I would really like to know where this odd word comes from.
Hi there, Morgan,
Welcome to the club.
If you go to the menu bar at the top of the page on the left side, you will see “Lessons” underneath “Home”. Hover your mouse over “Lessons” and a single item drop-down menu will appear, labelled “The Complete Lesson List”. Click on that and it will take you to a page of links to all of Marina’s past videos, among which you will find “Oxymoron”.
Well you have done a fine job
1) I know for sure that Al Gore invented the cookie.
2) I know for sure Al Gore invented the internet.
3) I know that every web site I go to gives me one or more cookies.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Now where’s that eye of newt?
Its name derives from the Dutch word koekje or (informal) koekie which means little cake, and arrived in the English language through the Dutch in North America. It spread from American English to British English where biscuit is still the more general term.
HI Marina,
I guess no. 3. The little Duch Koochen.
Yes you’d make a fine supermodel, I think you already do!
Thanks for sharing your pics. I hope you had a good childhood.
another +5 hugs and kisses
Hi, Marina. I’ve been thinking about the word “diet” and doesn’t it seem strange to say that word. I admit that I’m an overweight person and that I need to excercise and “diet” if I want to lose weight LOL. What was the first civilization that came up with this word? Or better yet, what is the origin of the word “diet”?
They are not apples at all, and don’t resemble apples in any way. I can almost understand the Pine part because of the pickly outside and green stalk on top. But apple?
I know that horseradish comes from the root named horseradish. But where does that name come from? It’s not even a type of radish according to some information I found. It’s a type of mustard. So who came up with this odd name for the root?
My guess would be that darn Equine Society! They are just like the cranberry guild, always trying to get their name on everything. ie: Cranapple, Crangrape, etc. The Equine Society has horsefly, charliehorse, horsing around, a horse of another color. They saw this root that taste like a radish and jumped all over it. Of course I’m no philologist, but that’s my guess.
Redundant? will yes……….”some cookies” is redundant. “some”, indicates a number of…, and “cookies” also indicants , a number of……cookie–>s. We all say it thou…….Bad grammar> I was home baking [some] cookies.
Yes cookies are like bacteria they are never alone.
Once we notice that nobody uses cooky, and noboby uses bacterium, I beg your clemence if I got some bacteria, or you got some cookies.
I choose #2. I have no idea what the answer is (just like in real life),
but I’m good on tests. My favorite cookie used to be chocolate chip
cookies…anything chocolate. But as the world turns and many moons
come & went, my cookie of choice has surprisingly morphed over to the fig newton… unless I can choose the ice cream cookie, an item that should be disqualified because it’s more of an ice cream treat than being in the strict cookie category.
Try doing a video on the word “cult” because it has different connotations both good (in art, fashion, film) and bad (political groups, religious groups) even though it started out as a neutral word (devotion to something).
Поздравляем Вас с успехом.
Существует поистине нет предела, как далеко вы можете пойти.
Я считаю, что Интернет является лишь началом прекрасным приключением для вас.
Будьте осторожны, не продавать себя слишком рано.
Если у вас ждать не будет цена, которую Вы не можете команда для Вашей работы.
По-моему ваши “самых красивых женщин, я когда-либо видел, и, судя по вашей интернет-трафика так делать другие.
Я знаю, успех будет пытаться вас покинуть “зачистке” ваших ног.
Надеюсь, вы найдете время для своего доктора.
Привет
Dave
I think it would be interesting if you explained the origins of the words “language” and “word”. Haha is it just me or is “word” not just a funny word?
I was wondering if you would be able to determine the origin of the word “intransigent”. I’ve used this describe a few people and would love to know where this fancy word came from.
I’m Going to say that it’s #1, my first instinct was it’s origin is dutch but in English we say things like doggy and birdy as a diminutive. which is what the je ending is in dutch.
hey hotforwords, me and my frends were wondering, where does the word “blow job” come from?
i mean, you dont blow, and you dont get paid unless youre a hooker, so like, we were all like really confused bout the words origins
Marina, I was wondering, what is the origin of the word “BABYSIT.” Obviously we don’t really sit on babies. Can you tell me where that word comes from? Thanks! ^^
It seems there is another trend developing here; to avoid getting Salmonella, you’d better cookie the tomatoes.
Check out the CoComment link over there,
Published By Food Safety Network:
Salmonella spreads in States; large and Roma tomatoes implicated.
and you’ll see that it wasn’t the tomatoes that got Pennsyltucky9, but the salad. (Picture half way down the page)
R.I.P. Lettuce Prey.
My secret is out, damn it Capman! But I should probably take this opportunity to recognize my blessings: at least I’m not a beanie baby like my little brother.
I would like to know the origin of a word “nap” since its something we all take. I would also like to add that you are the HOTTEST woman on the internet I can’t wait for your DVDs to come out
Answers 1 and 3, Nice to see the family photos. What type of ceremonial outfit you were wearing in first photo? The way you were putting on makeup at the beginning of this video, looks like makeup sex with a silent partner? I believe my favorite cookie is my mothers home baked, made from scratch, oatmeal cookie’s.
Hi Marina,
This morning I used the word “shindig” and realized I have no idea how it came to mean a party or other get-together. Can you enlighten me as to its origin?
Marina…I’m the new guy, and I happen to have a bit of an obsession.
I LOVE zombie movies…
“Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn of the Dead”, etc…
Will you please research the word “zombie” and let us know what it all means? I see you don’t have ANY “Z” words, so this would be the perfect opportunity to venture into virgin territory.
I like homemade chocolate chip cookies. I like to bake them myself since I find baking relaxing, let them cool a bit, and then eat several with a glass of chocolate milk.
I would love to feed you several warm, chewy cookies. Sigh! That probably will never happen.
my favorite cookie is semi-sweet or unsweetened chocolate chip with macadamia. at least until recently…..
i visited a French patisserie which had a “kouing aman” on the menu, touted as legendary. unfortunately i tried it and it was. since i recognized that “kouing aman” was in no way French i was a faithful etymological student and asked for the word origin. i was informed it was Breton dialect (related more to Gaelic than French) and that kouing means flour while aman, butter.
BTW i think your videos are simply getting better all the time.
Hmmmmm… do you think it could be choice 2? I mean it might be a longshot, but I’m going to stick with it. As for favorite cookie, chocolate ship is always my favorite.
I’m confussed.
Biweekly = every two weeks
Bimonthly = twice a month
Biannual = twice a year
Biennial = every two years
Bicentenial = every two centries.
Yet again there appears to be a profusion of confusion. But is that good or bad? What are the pros and cons? Is this argument baseless? And what happens when the bass stops? ConunDrum solo….
I always was wonderer’s the origin of the word fuck. My friend said that it comes from the 1600’s, when people had many wives, and would literally go out shouting FUCK! if they wanted another wife. He said it stood for “fornication under consent of the king”, but i still wonder
I suspect the answer is the dutch word as there were many dutch settlers in America’s early days. As a Brit we know these as biscuits (which I believe is of French origin for little cakes) and my favourite is a bourbon cream
A pleasure, as it always is, to see you.
Thanks for giving me Sth. to use in some of my classes, my students really enjoy discovering words, it’s good fun and they remember them easily.
I wanted to ask for the word ” Higgledy- piggledy” which has me really intrigued. Thanks.
PRIVET MARINA! ETO snova ya..izvini menya,mozhet byt’ ya tebe snova pomeshayu no ya zabyl skazat’ tebe 4to mne osobenno ponravilis’ tvoi fotki. ty prosto PRELEST’….uzhe togda vidno bylo 4to u tebya neoby4ajny talant…ciao!
You’r doing just fine with your English. It takes a while to learn our language because so many of our words are pronounced the same but have different meanings. I have heard it’s the hardest language to learn. Just keep on practicing. We’ll understand what you’r trying to say. Feel free to jump in on a conversation. That is how you make friends who will respond back to your comments. I have heard we speak American with all of our slang words and the way we say them. Be dude.
PRIVET,Suvorovegeniy! uspokoyshsya,tvoj angliskij zhe ne plohoj kak ty dumaesh! you don’t have to feel sorry,mne bylo o4en pryatno pro4itat’ tvoj otvet na moj kommentar ty otkuda?
I have always wondered what the origin of the word shit is. I have found many theroies only and from friends, but the one that I find to be most convenceing is that it started as S.H.I.T stamped on manuer crates being shiped over seas in the ealy centuries. It stood for Ship High In Transit. Because of the methane build up in the lower levels of the ship and the lanterns used, explosion were frequent. They had to put it on high levels to allow the mehtane to escape. Hence Ship High in Transit (S.H.I.T.) and how it got related to defication.
Is this at all true If not you could use it in one of your games.
Shit ….Sorry buddy you are too late. She has done that one already
The acronym has many applications for exclamation of disaster
Seagull High In Tower………Shoulder Hit In Time……….
Delay………Severely Heldup In Traffic
Awe……..Superbly High In Talent
Like most medical/anatomical words this one has Latin/Greek roots. Diabetes literally means to “pass through”. In this case it is reffering to water passing through the body as excessive urine. There are two types: Diabetes Melitus and Diabetes Insipidus. “Melitus” has an orgin meaning honey or sweet. “Insipidus” means bland or tasteless. Thus Diabetes Mellitus is excessive urine that is sweet (yes they used to taste it ages ago as a method of diagnosis); Diabetes Insipidus is excessive urine that is not sweet; ususally caused by hormonal imbalance.
Thank you, Bob; precisely what Bucky Fuller meant when he said “Spaceship Earth: please confirm attitude.” In other words, what the hell course is our spaceship on, and who is asleep at the controls?
In fact the indiginous language of this land is Ancient Celt which is closest to Welsh used today in Wales which is in Britain (UK) as is England .
Words stolen from French, Latin, Greek, German, Dutch, Danish, Finish, Swedish to name just a few
Hey, I’ve been seeing a bunch of people posting the word Get Sulky around on YouTube. Is this slang or is it the horse racing thing. Ill keep check to see if you do a thing on it. thanks
Normally, I’m one tough cookie, but not when it comes to these word origin games. Oh well, I guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles…
As for fave cookie, I like sugar cookies, the sweeter the better. With frosting on top. And sprinkles.
Speaking of sweet, how sweet of our trusty teacher to share her kiddie pix. What a cool person. It really makes me wonder if master philologists are made and not born, or vice versa. At what age does one realize they are fated to grow up and master all that is philological? I better go eat a cookie and chew on the possibilities…
I didn’t like the games at first Nick, but after awhile… I like them more now. Teach’ wants to make us think, I’m a lazy thinker, also get to see 2 vids. on one topic (word origin, phrase)
Trend is…#3 usually the best made up story so my quess is #’s 1 & 2 if I’m wrong “no cookie for me” Favorite cookie, homemade oatmeal chocolat chip w/brown sugar. mmmm :-{}
I got nothing against the games (even tho I suck at them), but I concur that the origin lessons are the more educational, entertaining videos. Too many two-part games can come off as padding, and, if overdone, may border on busywork (i.e. homework designed to keep a student busy rather than learning). Games are great in a classroom as long as you don’t turn that classroom into a game room, especially when you have students seeking information/education, not game play.
No worries… Marina will balance it out right. If there’s been a bunch of game videos lately, it’s probably because she is having fun with that format. The game videos are still word origin lessons, after all, just with a different spin. I don’t think I’ve gotten a single game right, but I’ve learned plenty along the way. I may prefer one type of video lesson to another, but they all have their place.
Indeed. Marina reads every comment on this website and adapts accordingly. She works hard to strike the proper balance all around when it comes to HotForWords.com, and it shows. It’ll work out fine.
If Marina really reads every comment on here, I’d like to know what speed reading program she’s using. I can’t keep up and I don’t have to produce videos to satisfy our insatiable demand.
Where does she find the time?
She’s obviously not stinting on her beauty sleep.
The comments section is where Marina gets feedback and word requests for her website. She is obviously a do-it-yourself type who takes the time to keep a watch on HotForWords.com. Look around… she doesn’t just make videos, she actively takes part in the online conversation here. Like most people of talent, she is her #1 fan and critic, and it really doesn’t take all that much time for her to thoroughly keep an eye on things here. Doesn’t seem that she has the most active offline social life and is mainly online most of the time for both professional and social reasons. Quite an interesting intellect, and wholly driven when it comes to HotForWords. Exceptional, even.
coming back late, with 170+comments, there’s no doubt anymore for #3
micheldiego + superdanilchik must be awarded for their comments !
Makes me think, Marina : your guess game + student’s comments = kind of ‘learning/entertaining unit’ for me…
would be less than half the fun without comments !
As always, your little drama/movie was sweet as a cookie. Thanks for sharing these photos, it gave a friendly feeling, draws your character to the buddy-friend side : for me, the ratio sexyness/friendlyness is becoming perfect !
for the cookie vote : my preffered is ‘une coque’ which is, in southern france a small brioche with a candied angelica stem inside
PS what was the ‘trend’ within previous ‘guess games’ ?
exploration of all possible logic patterns : 1 answer right, 2 answers right, 3, no answer right … ?
Your trustful student
And congratulations for your choice of cookie because it can produce in french a triple homonym with a triple etymology:
Le coq mange la coque du coq.
the rooster eats the cooker’s cookie
coq imitative of the bird’s song (cocorico)
coque from the greek koke because of the shape of the brioche
coq the chef from coquere what the chef does.
There is another trend look:
“Plate overlay assays indicated that the triclosan-incorporated plastic (TIP) inhibited the following organisms: Brochothrix thermosphacta ATCC 11509, Salmonella Typhimurium ATCC 14028, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 12598″
ever-wonder what the biocides infused in materials (woods, plastics, paints, what else?) were doing besides their jobs of killing or inhibiting living organisms?
i’m not eco-natic by any means, but how often do we have to be reminded that if a substance affects one organism, it affects the environment?
what happens when the last canary in to coal mine croaks?…
I have a request. Where does the word “ice” come from? Does it have the same origins as “off(ice)” “pol(ice)” “pract(ice)” and any other words containing “ice” ?
Wow those quotes messed up the whole sentence, and the brackets didn’t help..I just think it’s a little harder to read if I capitalized “ice”.
a la da Vinci code:
While the dominatrices watch from the pontifice he mortice a novice with vice and malice the prejudice is an injustice since the police thinks the cicatrices and orifices from the sevice are due to a silice no indice in the edifice no complice in the hospice.
People couldn’t tell what the picture was. Yes it was my Captains helmet when I was on the city fire department here for 33 years. It is a Cairns leather New Yorker without the bork shields. So I changed it back to the bike. If I could get to them they might be tasty, computer cookies that is.
No Warren sorry to let you down. It was Fayetteville,NC. We also had one of three state owned Hazardious Materials fully equipted Tractor trailor units and four other units that went to other towns and cities. Wilmington has one, and I think Charlotte has the other units. They split them up so we could cover the whole state. The state furnished all of our supplies and equipment. Plus I also worked for a Hazardious material clean up crew on my days off. It got old as you said earlier being away from home so I found other part time work.
ALLONS-Y! les jeux sont faits, number 3.I have also studied Dutch,joefrombradford is completely right,the pronounciation is identical to the English one!-The word cookie, derives from the diminutive form of ”koek”,koekje,from middle Dutch koeke anyway,even this term such as the word cake and the verb to cook trace their origin back to the Latin verb ”COQUERE”=to cook! esche raz,bravissima Marina!
capman911,
Riding that bike instead of the Firemans helmet, eh? (that was a firemans Helmet wasn’t it?). I was a member of a Hazardous Waste Emergency Response Team for four years. I got tired of being “On Call” so I changed to driving (1.5 years so far).
Yes, more of us really need to proofread our comments before we hit the “Submit Comment” button. I think that I’m a bit “lysdexic’ (dyslexic). Another problem most of us have is “Selective Hearing”.
Yes, I’ve always liked C.B. so I figured what the heck.
Take it easy.
At the end you say what’s your favourite koekje (you pronounced it Dutch and really well) so it’s no 3 for me.
I also noticed constant variable. It seems that 9 out of 10 times it is always the shortest answer.
Sometimes I feel like her vids are really stealth makeup lessons. hotforprofits should get a little more natural like that sometimes. Those intimate moments are what makes Marinas vids the best.
Stay Tuned? Oatmeal cookies with honey, just the groats.
Cool photos too. Is your brother still as serious?
The best Cookie(s) I have ever tasted has to be at Waterloo Station in London. Utterly scrummy, very big, thick full of choco chips, crunchy nuts with strawberry fruit drops mixed in. Missed my train because of them too. Ever since, I do best to pop into Waterloo just for them whenever I’m visiting the city. Otherwise Merryland do just fine with a cuppa green tea.
copycat. do we really copy the cat?
Thank you for showing us Marina-ie
So.. you wanted to be a super model huh?
Well.. super-modeling is a tough job.. stick with us and we’ll stick with you. Remember, Geek pwns supermodel any day!
what a long history for cookies in this countrt
I’m guessing it’s number 3
My favorite cookie is an oatmeal and raisin cookie.
I would love to know the origin of the japanese word “sushi”
& what it means?(of course as always my Questions are
ALWAYS directed to Marina please no answers from noone else.
thanks)
warmly,
Nelson
Suchi good question but I thing Marina is to busy to do them all bro
Hi Marina.
1. You are Awesome
2. Your show is Awesome
and 3. Can you pls tell me where the word “game” comes from?
bye and Greetings from Germany
lol. der tobi & das bo? fünf sterne deluxe?
Erstens: Ich grenz mich komplett von ‘Das Bo’ ab, mein Name hat nichts mit ihm zu tuen und darum bestehe ich auch auf die Englische Schreibweise ‘The’
Zweitstens: nenn mich dämlich , aber ich kapier nicht so genau worauf du hinaus willst
ayo, deswegen hab ich ja gefragt. ich kann mir halt unter “bo” sonst nix anderes vorstellen bzw. hab ich das damit assoziiert. ’s gibt ja viele, die ihn mögen … warum auch nicht. locker bleiben, hm?
I request -zooscopy
I love cookies stuffed with coconout cream
!!!
I imagine it’s taste tastes like you Marina
well i requested “festive”, but i vote for scorptilicus’ word “eavesdrop”
Here I am again. Does everyone know it’s national Donut Day here in America. Didn’t know there was such a thing.
http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7908573>1=24000
If cookies comes for a small kake..buiscuit should come for the French Biscuit, which commes from th eItalian biscotto that means baked twice…
So, a little quest for you, do you knw some cookies that are still baked twice?
Hi Marina,
Thanks for visiting MEATHEAD MANIA! We have been learning from you for a while now. Do you think you can find the origin of mania? A word with such unique uses has to have a good back story.
Thanks,
Your little devils at MHM
meatheadmania: hope you are having a bright day. I second your request, [mania]. Went to your MHM—site, best to you. Was not this a cool video? HotForWords is the best.*!*!*!*!*!*
….i like gingerbread cookies 
I guess I am on a roll this morning. As my mentor Yoda would say, Feel good do I. Marina has to be the best multiculturalist ever. Look at how she has managed to bring together probably without realising it, all of us different people from all over the world to one spot and we all get along great. If only our governments could learn such a lesson. We are not only learning the etomology of words, but the back ground and lives of each other and cultures without really thinking about it. I have learned alot by just interacting with you. I would have never have met any of you and learned about Canada the Dutch or German or the Neitherlands or even Russia if it wasn’t for Marina. It was different in school this is first hand knowledge. Marina is not just another beautiful face which she is, but a true teacher. She lhas earned alot in Russia and now she is teaching it to us.
Mike
Ditto.
hello all
finally in new flat with internet back on 
I have a strong feeling that the answer is #3, the dutch word koekje. Just feels like that there is a dutch influence with the origin of cookie
Welcome home kbn8r!
Now get back to work. SNAP
Anzacs
Well Marina I guess I’m not assistant material. I can’t even ralley the troops today.
Come on voters where your spirit. Marina has 463 comments and only 68 votes for this video. I know we comment more than we vote but let your finger
stumble on the stars awhile.
Knight all , got to go too work now.
Or i should say its morning here, Morning all I’m off to work now.
Maia Marina, Do You like old movies? Check out these search results.
http://www.google.com/search?q=seven+brides+for+seven+brothers+synopsis&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Marina,
What is the origin for John Doe?
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sartre+and+bad+faith, “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980″, or “don’t paint yourself into a corner” that is is a phrase we would all like to know the origin off.
Hi folks. While we have been cutting up in class while the teacher is out of the room has anyone been to the Wired Magazine site on the home page and voted for our sexiest geek lately. Lets not forget her. We got the 7 dollar man over the top so lets do it for our favorite cookie maker.
Mike
Maia Marina,
Another of my favorite cookies are macaroons, You should try them out they are good and good for you.
I know a Jerry Stokes here in NC any relation
none that I’m aware of
Could be though as our family migrated from the eastern United States to Texas.
Marina,
Why the heck is a leg cramp called a “charlie horse”? Was there a famous horse named Charlie!
If not who was Charlie? And was he a horse?
Hey Maria
I’ve got a big one,
I really big one.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
I have never Heard this word said out loud.
Could you tell me how it originated
It comes from New Zealand.
Here are some New Zealand Cookies.
Wow, those taste rather hostile.
Hiya Maria
? 
Could you do me a favor please
I’ve got a question for you.
Why are regular soldiers in the army nown as privates
Where the hell is captainjack?
He’ll be back soon, you can be sure of that.
Ya know what….
I have no idea
He has been giving lessons to his students, last time I checked. Maybe he got the call to captain a vessel at sea. I have no idea how an internet connection at various sea worthy boats works for his laptop/PC/bosses PC. I haven’t heard of any major storms at sea, and maybe carries a sidearm with him in case Ichy Ambers’ pet shark gets loose.
such language from a lady!…
I know and such a pretty picture.
He has a new class to teach futher up North. He had to move his boats to there. It will probably take him a couple of days to get settled in and find a ip. He showed me in an e-mail the campus he will be teaching at but I forgot the name. I assure you a quote from the terminator : He’ll be back”.
This is where he’s at I found his original comment on the salmanella page.
http://www.banquetevent.com/wedding/resume.asp?c=32&r=1&resumeID=165
Thanks for all the feedback folks.
I’m going to blame my (Cindarellas) language on having grown up with two clipped haired, mean faced, heathenistic 
stepsisters 
…I’ll check it at the door next time 
We miss you captainjack!!!
But your aim is getting better ?
I would like to request the word “eavesdrop”.
Thanks!
If you think about it? A Cookie is more like a little Muffin. Well, should we call them , Muffies……right?
I had a girlfriend once name Muffie, does that count. You nibble on her.
Can you tell me the meaning of the word hacker
I’m guessing number 3 the dutch’s ‘little cake’ though aleitch has a point kuchen even sounds like cookie. My fav.. probably chocolate chip
A girl friend and were talking, and the subject came up…. Mrs. Miss. Ms. Mz.??
I think there should be another. Bch..or Ct….?? What do you think?
[ and I ]
then why the hell don’t you go fucking get it?
Don’t mince your words, aLx. Tell him how you really feel…
aLx replied on June 5th, 2008 8:24 pm:
then why the hell don’t you go fucking get it?
then why in hell don’t you go fucking and get it?
Then why in Hell don’t you go fucking or get it?
Then why in Hell don’t you fuck, then get it?
Then why not fuck in Hell and get it?
Then , Fuck go to Hell and get it
Then why not fuck in Hell so you get it. …….Get It?
I’m gonna have to ask bob about this. meanwhile, go get yourself and smoke the white fuck. or something like that.
what are you 12 alx ? get out of my ass
roadrunrnch, don’t look now but there’s a pair of shoes sticking out of your … Oh. don’t worry, it’s only aLx.
what are you roadrunrch, a door-to-door salesman? how big is your ass anyway?
i think that’s meant to be funny, but…
BCH is beach, CT is court, or Connecticut…
Dutch cookie explanation. Your first pic looks just like you! The others don’t…
That’s weird! I think maybe your smile has been with you for a long time.
I have a word request: “Etcetera” (etc) or “et cetera”, whatever
grettings from Mexico
Daniel
With so many beautiful pictures of our favorite philologist showing up in the videos why such a paltry number of wallpapers available
?
I thought “Cookie” came from the german word “kuchen” which means “cake”. Closest choice in the game is #3. Could it be none of the above?
Sorry, it’s a purely American word of Dutch orgin. Although the German “kuchen” is very similar. Likely many of the Indo-european languages have something sounding similar with a close meaning but it was Dutch immigrants who brought it to America.
Can’t guess the origin of this word as it is not an English word
But you have computer cookies from the American word cookie.
Maybe we should call them computer biscuits ?
Ok Tiger no more hammie jokes. I respect your values. But I’ll find you a nice female gerbal. You know the story on gerbals don’t you?
I am going to have to call you Tiger the V. There is another member with the first name of Tiger but I don’t remember last part of his handle. Be
my little furry friend. 
Do you know it is not English? If you know it is not English you probably know the origin. If you don’t know then you can guess.
Hey man what do you mean
Sound fishy to me
its supposed to look like the dude is high
my friends and i live in a town where weed is smoked almost daily by almost everyone . we were wondering how the nickname “pot” became slang for Marijuana. alos, how did the term “giberish” as in noncense, or, that makes no scence. came about.
new student and i love your movies
Pass the reefer rastafari and we can discuss THC terms all night .
Did I read somewhere else that you live in Scotland ?
Some body bring us a pot of coffee and we’ll smoke the pot and drink the coffee
Any one got any cup cakes to go with the coffee ?
lol no i dont live in Scotland, i live in America.
however; Rastafarianism came from Jamaica,
Welcome aboard rastafari
Marina’s site is growing by leaps and bounds 
Mike
Yep As a Salmon it makes me leap towards that breeding homely place
In the spirit of this game and your childhood photos, I’ll confess that my Mother told me that cookie was my first spoken word. It was a disappointment to her but, what can you do?
My choice is #3.
Favorite commercial cookie – Oreo.
Favorite homemade cookie – Oatmeal with raisins or chocolate chip. They’re both great cooked or as dough.
Oops, I’m sorry, you’ve already done that word haven’t you? Sorry! (I’ll figure this out eventually.) Well, since somebody beat me to that one I’ll request a different word for you to investigate. I want to know the origin of “the ‘f’ word”. Surely you know the word I’m talking about, right?
Thanks (again),
Morgan
She’s done that too, as one of the Maxim Radio Shows.
Morgan since you’r handle is dixiegurl I take it you’r from the south
Go to http://www.gravatar.com and sign up and find you a good ole dixieland avatar for a picture. You can even down load one from your computer through this program or find one on the internet download it to your desk then upload to the gravatar program. Just trying to help out. 
Hi, Marina, I’m a new student and I would like to know the origin of the word “oxymoron”. Please consider my request, I would really like to know where this odd word comes from.
Thank You!
Morgan
Hi there, Morgan,
Welcome to the club.
If you go to the menu bar at the top of the page on the left side, you will see “Lessons” underneath “Home”. Hover your mouse over “Lessons” and a single item drop-down menu will appear, labelled “The Complete Lesson List”. Click on that and it will take you to a page of links to all of Marina’s past videos, among which you will find “Oxymoron”.
Hey guys! Now You all see, how pretty & clever can be a russian woman!//
Расскажи о поговорке “Делу – время, а потехе – час.”!
Well you have done a fine job
1) I know for sure that Al Gore invented the cookie.
2) I know for sure Al Gore invented the internet.
3) I know that every web site I go to gives me one or more cookies.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Now where’s that eye of newt?
73 and 88
N8ZU
Its name derives from the Dutch word koekje or (informal) koekie which means little cake, and arrived in the English language through the Dutch in North America. It spread from American English to British English where biscuit is still the more general term.
I live in England. Never heard of cookie as an item of food.
The word is not used here at all in the biscuit sense, only the computer sense.
well, bake some computers, then…
“how do you like your cookies?” “hidden and with a lil’ ad on the side”…
Like I said. “British English where biscuit is still the more general term.”
Sorry I didn’t underline it bro.
I like good ole buttermilk biscuits made with flour,lard,buttermilk and touch of salt and grandmas love.
Hey Jon you didn’t need to underline it.
I was passing the RSJ to re-enforce your comments.
Just ceiling your comments with my approval
man i got family in England, quick question…i’ve had scones, but what exactully is it?
HI Marina,
I guess no. 3. The little Duch Koochen.
Yes you’d make a fine supermodel, I think you already do!
Thanks for sharing your pics. I hope you had a good childhood.
another +5 hugs and kisses
Hi, Marina. I’ve been thinking about the word “diet” and doesn’t it seem strange to say that word. I admit that I’m an overweight person and that I need to excercise and “diet” if I want to lose weight LOL. What was the first civilization that came up with this word? Or better yet, what is the origin of the word “diet”?
Thank you.
I have another word request as well.
How did Pineapples get their name?
They are not apples at all, and don’t resemble apples in any way. I can almost understand the Pine part because of the pickly outside and green stalk on top. But apple?
Maybe the fruit’s resemblance to a pine cone was a factor in its naming. Just a guess, though. HotForWords must investigate.
I think that if Hotforwords does invest in a gate then Kobe won’t run off.
I’ll guess theory 3 also.
My favorite cookie is Peanut Butter.
Also, I have a word request…
I know that horseradish comes from the root named horseradish. But where does that name come from? It’s not even a type of radish according to some information I found. It’s a type of mustard. So who came up with this odd name for the root?
My guess would be that darn Equine Society! They are just like the cranberry guild, always trying to get their name on everything. ie: Cranapple, Crangrape, etc. The Equine Society has horsefly, charliehorse, horsing around, a horse of another color. They saw this root that taste like a radish and jumped all over it. Of course I’m no philologist, but that’s my guess.
I’m guessing #3, It sounds right. Also, my favorite cookies are crunchy chocolate chips and a glass of milk.
Also, hello! I’m a new student.
Welcome to our happy party. Marina is an excellent teacher and host. Sh’e the cookie of our eye.
She’s the cookie of our eye.
A nude student ? Put some clothes on at once !
Redundant? will yes……….”some cookies” is redundant. “some”, indicates a number of…, and “cookies” also indicants , a number of……cookie–>s. We all say it thou…….Bad grammar> I was home baking [some] cookies.
and how bad do you what a cookie when She says” cookie??
Yes cookies are like bacteria they are never alone.
Once we notice that nobody uses cooky, and noboby uses bacterium, I beg your clemence if I got some bacteria, or you got some cookies.
one word for you;
I think it´s number three.
I choose #2. I have no idea what the answer is (just like in real life),
but I’m good on tests. My favorite cookie used to be chocolate chip
cookies…anything chocolate. But as the world turns and many moons
come & went, my cookie of choice has surprisingly morphed over to the fig newton… unless I can choose the ice cream cookie, an item that should be disqualified because it’s more of an ice cream treat than being in the strict cookie category.
Fig Newtons! – I haven’t seen those in
yeadecades – I didn’t know they still made them.Google – Google – Google
Hmmm, Those raspberry ones sound nice, too.
good lawd, Bob…what godforsaken spot do you live in that keeps you FN-deprived?…
oh, wait…
i’m FN-deprived…if you say it right…
I’m deprived. There’s no F in Raspberry Newtons!
no problem givin’ u the raspberry…
I want to request the word: befuddle
Try doing a video on the word “cult” because it has different connotations both good (in art, fashion, film) and bad (political groups, religious groups) even though it started out as a neutral word (devotion to something).
Hi Marina:
I think # 1 is the correct answer.
Very nice pictures.
Alidor
I just got this from a book…uxorious. I’m sure this is one the ladies will like.
Terminal YesDear syndrome.
Can you do a video on the word rustylug ….lol lol try a google search on my name .
Cookie comes from the Dutch!!
Favorite Cookie is not even a cookie, I don’t think, but French Madelines are by far my favorite. Especially fresh, warm, out of the oven.
Здравствуйте, Марина Орлова
Поздравляем Вас с успехом.
Существует поистине нет предела, как далеко вы можете пойти.
Я считаю, что Интернет является лишь началом прекрасным приключением для вас.
Будьте осторожны, не продавать себя слишком рано.
Если у вас ждать не будет цена, которую Вы не можете команда для Вашей работы.
По-моему ваши “самых красивых женщин, я когда-либо видел, и, судя по вашей интернет-трафика так делать другие.
Я знаю, успех будет пытаться вас покинуть “зачистке” ваших ног.
Надеюсь, вы найдете время для своего доктора.
Привет
Dave
Не стоит пользоваться программой-переводчиком для перевода на русский язык,смысл теряется
It is not necessary to use a translation program for translation into Russian, sense it is lost
вы Евгений
Necessary or applicable
applicable
Yeh usually loses it’s meaning when translated
i’d like to know the origin of the word conundrum
Puzzling question
OR Alas , vexing
I don’t know this one but it sounds like it could be of Indian orgin (dot not feather). Like our words pajamas and veranda.
I think it would be interesting if you explained the origins of the words “language” and “word”. Haha is it just me or is “word” not just a funny word?
How about #1? Thanks Marina.
Dear Ms. Orlova,
I was wondering if you would be able to determine the origin of the word “intransigent”. I’ve used this describe a few people and would love to know where this fancy word came from.
-Trackguy22
I’m Going to say that it’s #1, my first instinct was it’s origin is dutch but in English we say things like doggy and birdy as a diminutive. which is what the je ending is in dutch.
I’m gonna guess #1
hey teach can you please explane the origin of the saying ” speake of the devil & there he is”
whats the meaning of this word
Obdurate?
hey hotforwords, me and my frends were wondering, where does the word “blow job” come from?
i mean, you dont blow, and you dont get paid unless youre a hooker, so like, we were all like really confused bout the words origins
I have a WORD REQUEST!
Marina, I was wondering, what is the origin of the word “BABYSIT.” Obviously we don’t really sit on babies. Can you tell me where that word comes from? Thanks! ^^
paige
I like your word request. This word is going to be interesting and good when Marina investigates this word…..Babysit….LOL
It seems there is another trend developing here; to avoid getting Salmonella, you’d better cookie the tomatoes.
there,
Check out the CoComment link over
and you’ll see that it wasn’t the tomatoes that got Pennsyltucky9, but the salad. (Picture half way down the page)
R.I.P. Lettuce Prey.
Huh? What’d I miss?
PT9 do like good ole home made buttermilk buscuits
If you do I’ll bake the biscuits and you make the coffee.yummmmy 
OMG, that’s one of my first baby pictures, from when I was found under a cabbage leaf! Don’t I look soo-oo cute?
So you’r a cabbage patch kid
My secret is out, damn it Capman! But I should probably take this opportunity to recognize my blessings: at least I’m not a beanie baby like my little brother.
Yes but you have beanie baby before him
Hey Marina,
I would like to know the origin of a word “nap” since its something we all take. I would also like to add that you are the HOTTEST woman on the internet
I can’t wait for your DVDs to come out 
Napping is Good for you / Bad for you
A case of Swings and Roundabouts.
Dale jr fan 88, you couldn’t of picked a better name for yorself. We are 3 and 8 or 88 now fans ourselves.
Anybody seen or heard from (Mesocricetus auratus) tiger today or yesterday. Hammie my hamster is looking for him.
Maybe the Kobe the dog thought he was a chew toy
I was in Markie’s pocket all weekend jive dancing and got dizzy. 58 hours dancing non stop……….. took 3 days to recover
Sorry nice that someone missed me
But Hammie is a man and I am hetro
Going to work now. bye everyone.
Answers 1 and 3, Nice to see the family photos. What type of ceremonial outfit you were wearing in first photo? The way you were putting on makeup at the beginning of this video, looks like makeup sex with a silent partner? I believe my favorite cookie is my mothers home baked, made from scratch, oatmeal cookie’s.
Another of my favorite cookies is macaroons.
Hi Marina,
This morning I used the word “shindig” and realized I have no idea how it came to mean a party or other get-together. Can you enlighten me as to its origin?
Thanks,
JoeC
I beleve No.1 Is Correct And I eat 2 many macadamin whight cholect chip Cookies Ahh!
Marina…I’m the new guy, and I happen to have a bit of an obsession.
I LOVE zombie movies…
“Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn of the Dead”, etc…
Will you please research the word “zombie” and let us know what it all means? I see you don’t have ANY “Z” words, so this would be the perfect opportunity to venture into virgin territory.
Thanks,
David Conway
IT’S ALL DUTCH TO ME
DOES KOBE GET A WALK ON NEXT VID?
Word request please. lonely.
I like homemade chocolate chip cookies. I like to bake them myself since I find baking relaxing, let them cool a bit, and then eat several with a glass of chocolate milk.
I would love to feed you several warm, chewy cookies. Sigh! That probably will never happen.
Hola Marina,
I bought all of the products you advertise and now I have no money left to buy food.
Bizooo…
i believe the Dutch word origin #3 is correct.
my favorite cookie is semi-sweet or unsweetened chocolate chip with macadamia. at least until recently…..
i visited a French patisserie which had a “kouing aman” on the menu, touted as legendary. unfortunately i tried it and it was. since i recognized that “kouing aman” was in no way French i was a faithful etymological student and asked for the word origin. i was informed it was Breton dialect (related more to Gaelic than French) and that kouing means flour while aman, butter.
BTW i think your videos are simply getting better all the time.
best,
Matt
Hey Marina, Tell us where the phrase Knock on Wood came from.
If she did this word wood it have a knock on effect elsewhere ?
I failed to Thank You for sharing Your photos when You were Younger Gorgeous one could see Your potential even then Marina.
An Admirer,
Billy
Your tongue is looking rather brown billyinc1 .
Seriously I agree
I will go for theory # 3 and my favorite cookie is a Chocolate Chip.
The Dutch will take the cookie for this one. And my favorite is snicker doodle.
What the hell is a snicker doodle ?
2 drops of olive oil in the water makes a slicker noodle as with spaghetti
I think #3. My favorite cookie is a pecan praline from Kate Latter’s in the French Quarter, New Orleans.
Marina, thank you for sharing the photos. Very cute. You’re a doll. Say, what’s the origin of “doll”?
Hmmmmm… do you think it could be choice 2? I mean it might be a longshot, but I’m going to stick with it.
As for favorite cookie, chocolate ship is always my favorite.
REQUEST:why are z’s used to depict sleep?
If you could hear my girlfriend right now, you’d know.
Must be all the Rocks Rolling around in her throat.
33, to be exact.
36 to go then.
“33″ is the number affiliated with the Latrobe Brewing Co. and Rolling Rock beer, Bob. It’s on every bottle. No mystery to it.
Word request… Biannual
Why does Biannual mean twice a year and not every two years?
Bicentenial = 200 years
Biweekly = 2 weeks
Biannual does mean every two years. Semi-annual means twice a year.
no, cybernak88 is correct…biannual means “occurs twice a year”; i.e., semi-annual…
perhaps you are thinking of biennial, which refers most frequently to plants that flower every two years…
it seems that is is recommended to avoid using biannual because of the confusion with its meaning, and use biennial & semiannual instead…
I’m confussed.
Biweekly = every two weeks
Bimonthly = twice a month
Biannual = twice a year
Biennial = every two years
Bicentenial = every two centries.
What gives?
Bi theway I am confused also
Yet again there appears to be a profusion of confusion. But is that good or bad? What are the pros and cons? Is this argument baseless? And what happens when the bass stops? ConunDrum solo….
i like “confussed” better…”fusse with”…
Marina, could you confuss me, please?..
oh, and bisexual is a stretch…both ways…
I thought prison was a stretch both ways
I sense another round of BAR JOKES impending. BTW, you’re in a bit of controlled habitrail yourself there, aren’t you, tiger-the-vicous?
Thats kind of electrifying AC DC
*board* If Hotforwords was a brand name. And She sold cookies, what kind of cookies would they be? What type of packaging? And the slogan.
OK I’ll start; Ginger spice / chewie , In a single serving,/ smart pack and name them ( THERE YOU GO ) another cookie from your Hotforwords, inc
“Marina is the smartest cookie on the baking sheet.” – Rule 3.14159265 ad infinitum in The Marina Sychophant Handbook”…
therefore, her shop would be The Smart Cookie…
annuddermale, wouldn’t that have to be a Pi shop?
2¶ r better’n one…but 2¶r also a good cookie…
but i suspect Marina could bake up a storm if she wanted…
and i’d be singin’ in the rain…
Try this 14 year old’s version of singong in the rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCVq7rHEvU
Sin gong? Is that something you bang with a big stick with a knob on the end?
#1 or #3 —-> maybe #1 —> I am taking my CAE exam on 11, then I am going for CPE ———-any stategies for full exam day?
PS: Marina —– How come you didn’t went for the movies?
There is a sindicat thing?—actors?
ya WHITE SMOKE
I always was wonderer’s the origin of the word fuck. My friend said that it comes from the 1600’s, when people had many wives, and would literally go out shouting FUCK! if they wanted another wife. He said it stood for “fornication under consent of the king”, but i still wonder
oh, and i like sugar cookies and thinks it number 1, i like to be different (and it makes sense)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fuck
Thanks for putting that one to rest, Mike.
The most versatile word in the English language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCcCzj_yRtk
sure enough i looked it up and i was right
marina i still hope you do a show on it
She did a Maxim show regarding this word.
Boo hooo
We don’t get Maxim in England
tiger, go to the Interviews
it might take some digging, but you can find ‘em there…
Hi Marina
I suspect the answer is the dutch word as there were many dutch settlers in America’s early days. As a Brit we know these as biscuits (which I believe is of French origin for little cakes) and my favourite is a bourbon cream
x for teacher x
As a Brit I’ll agree
why do we say? “it´s water under the bridge” when something of the past doesn´t matter anymore
Hey I was wondering about about the word pimple. Does it have anything to do with the word Pimp and what is the origin.
I would guess it to be number 3
Have a good day sweet blue eyes.
Trainspotting
They look better with stripes
A pleasure, as it always is, to see you.
Thanks for giving me Sth. to use in some of my classes, my students really enjoy discovering words, it’s good fun and they remember them easily.
I wanted to ask for the word ” Higgledy- piggledy” which has me really intrigued. Thanks.
OK this is the easy answer but I am going to go with it. I say # 3. Cookie comes from the Dutch word Koekje.
My favorite are mallow mars.
PRIVET MARINA! ETO snova ya..izvini menya,mozhet byt’ ya tebe snova pomeshayu no ya zabyl skazat’ tebe 4to mne osobenno ponravilis’ tvoi fotki. ty prosto PRELEST’….uzhe togda vidno bylo 4to u tebya neoby4ajny talant…ciao!
Про талант согласен.Чтобы учить американцев английскому он точно нужен
About talent it agree. To learn americans to english it it is precisely necessary
sorry for my english
You’r doing just fine with your English.
It takes a while to learn our language because so many of our words are pronounced the same but have different meanings. I have heard it’s the hardest language to learn. Just keep on practicing. We’ll understand what you’r trying to say. Feel free to jump in on a conversation. That is how you make friends who will respond back to your comments. I have heard we speak American 
with all of our slang words and the way we say them. Be 
dude.
PRIVET,Suvorovegeniy! uspokoyshsya,tvoj angliskij zhe ne plohoj kak ty dumaesh! you don’t have to feel sorry,mne bylo o4en pryatno pro4itat’ tvoj otvet na moj kommentar
ty otkuda?
Привет,Санкт-Петербург
St.-Petersburg,Russia
Is this at all true
If not you could use it in one of your games.
Shit ….Sorry buddy you are too late. She has done that one already
The acronym has many applications for exclamation of disaster
Seagull High In Tower………Shoulder Hit In Time……….
Delay………Severely Heldup In Traffic
Awe……..Superbly High In Talent
I always wondered where the word “Diabetes” came from.
Does it have anything to do with the word “Diet”
Please Reply.
I don’t know hatred but I wish I could get rid of mine then I could eat some COOKIES
Be 
Tools……Clear private data ……sorry I thought you said get rid of cookies
Like most medical/anatomical words this one has Latin/Greek roots. Diabetes literally means to “pass through”. In this case it is reffering to water passing through the body as excessive urine. There are two types: Diabetes Melitus and Diabetes Insipidus. “Melitus” has an orgin meaning honey or sweet. “Insipidus” means bland or tasteless. Thus Diabetes Mellitus is excessive urine that is sweet (yes they used to taste it ages ago as a method of diagnosis); Diabetes Insipidus is excessive urine that is not sweet; ususally caused by hormonal imbalance.
Does the word “latitudinarian” have anything to do with Latin or religion??
Or maybe something about latitude
Makes for a good word to investigate. 
I agree.
I would be in gratitude if you do the word latitude
Spaceship Earth: please confirm attitude
Attitude
Thank you, Bob; precisely what Bucky Fuller meant when he said “Spaceship Earth: please confirm attitude.” In other words, what the hell course is our spaceship on, and who is asleep at the controls?
I’m pretty sure it’s #3.
Chocolate Chip FTW!
I was wondering if you could tell me about the word austringer. It says keeper of goshawks but i dont know what a goshawk is either lol. Thanks!
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Just a quick word request.
Could you do the word ‘violence’? I think it would be interesting considering that the words sounds like a mix between ‘viola’ and ‘lance’.
Also, I think origin number 2 is correct, as we study Latin and at the beginning our teacher told us only like 9% of English is from other languages.
More like 99%
In fact the indiginous language of this land is Ancient Celt which is closest to Welsh used today in Wales which is in Britain (UK) as is England .
Words stolen from French, Latin, Greek, German, Dutch, Danish, Finish, Swedish to name just a few
Hey, I’ve been seeing a bunch of people posting the word Get Sulky around on YouTube. Is this slang or is it the horse racing thing. Ill keep check to see if you do a thing on it. thanks
What does this word mean ? I have never heard of it
Normally, I’m one tough cookie, but not when it comes to these word origin games. Oh well, I guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles…
As for fave cookie, I like sugar cookies, the sweeter the better. With frosting on top. And sprinkles.
Speaking of sweet, how sweet of our trusty teacher to share her kiddie pix. What a cool person. It really makes me wonder if master philologists are made and not born, or vice versa. At what age does one realize they are fated to grow up and master all that is philological? I better go eat a cookie and chew on the possibilities…
Peace, Errin : )
Origin number 3…my favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin. And enough with these games, let’s get on with the origins.
I didn’t like the games at first Nick, but after awhile… I like them more now. Teach’ wants to make us think, I’m a lazy thinker, also get to see 2 vids. on one topic (word origin, phrase)
Trend is…#3 usually the best made up story so my quess is #’s 1 & 2 if I’m wrong “no cookie for me” Favorite cookie, homemade oatmeal chocolat chip w/brown sugar. mmmm :-{}
Well said.
I got nothing against the games (even tho I suck at them), but I concur that the origin lessons are the more educational, entertaining videos. Too many two-part games can come off as padding, and, if overdone, may border on busywork (i.e. homework designed to keep a student busy rather than learning). Games are great in a classroom as long as you don’t turn that classroom into a game room, especially when you have students seeking information/education, not game play.
No worries… Marina will balance it out right. If there’s been a bunch of game videos lately, it’s probably because she is having fun with that format. The game videos are still word origin lessons, after all, just with a different spin. I don’t think I’ve gotten a single game right, but I’ve learned plenty along the way. I may prefer one type of video lesson to another, but they all have their place.
An occasional game is fine but there have been quite a few lately. But you’re right, Marina will balance it out.
Indeed. Marina reads every comment on this website and adapts accordingly. She works hard to strike the proper balance all around when it comes to HotForWords.com, and it shows. It’ll work out fine.
If Marina really reads every comment on here, I’d like to know what speed reading program she’s using. I can’t keep up and I don’t have to produce videos to satisfy our insatiable demand.
Where does she find the time?
She’s obviously not stinting on her beauty sleep.
The comments section is where Marina gets feedback and word requests for her website. She is obviously a do-it-yourself type who takes the time to keep a watch on HotForWords.com. Look around… she doesn’t just make videos, she actively takes part in the online conversation here. Like most people of talent, she is her #1 fan and critic, and it really doesn’t take all that much time for her to thoroughly keep an eye on things here. Doesn’t seem that she has the most active offline social life and is mainly online most of the time for both professional and social reasons. Quite an interesting intellect, and wholly driven when it comes to HotForWords. Exceptional, even.
I would consider errin’s “opinion” touching my head above to be more of a matter of fact than opinion.
Marina oversees all
It’s all fun and games until someone chips a tooth or pokes and eye.
Ouch
teacher Warren hit me. 
Yep. Then it’s just FUN.
Don’t hit each other. One of you will get a chip on his shoulder.
coming back late, with 170+comments, there’s no doubt anymore for #3
micheldiego + superdanilchik must be awarded for their comments !
Makes me think, Marina : your guess game + student’s comments = kind of ‘learning/entertaining unit’ for me…
would be less than half the fun without comments !
As always, your little drama/movie was sweet as a cookie. Thanks for sharing these photos, it gave a friendly feeling, draws your character to the buddy-friend side : for me, the ratio sexyness/friendlyness is becoming perfect !
for the cookie vote : my preffered is ‘une coque’ which is, in southern france a small brioche with a candied angelica stem inside
PS what was the ‘trend’ within previous ‘guess games’ ?
exploration of all possible logic patterns : 1 answer right, 2 answers right, 3, no answer right … ?
Your trustful student
Thank you for your vote.
And congratulations for your choice of cookie because it can produce in french a triple homonym with a triple etymology:
Le coq mange la coque du coq.
the rooster eats the cooker’s cookie
coq imitative of the bird’s song (cocorico)
coque from the greek koke because of the shape of the brioche
coq the chef from coquere what the chef does.
There is another trend look:
“Plate overlay assays indicated that the triclosan-incorporated plastic (TIP) inhibited the following organisms: Brochothrix thermosphacta ATCC 11509, Salmonella Typhimurium ATCC 14028, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 12598″
ever-wonder what the biocides infused in materials (woods, plastics, paints, what else?) were doing besides their jobs of killing or inhibiting living organisms?
i’m not eco-natic by any means, but how often do we have to be reminded that if a substance affects one organism, it affects the environment?
what happens when the last canary in to coal mine croaks?…
drat…”last canary in the coal mine croaks”…
gave myself the bird for that one…
or fudge, i quit…
Marina, Marina!
I mean, Teacher, Teacher!
I have a request. Where does the word “ice” come from? Does it have the same origins as “off(ice)” “pol(ice)” “pract(ice)” and any other words containing “ice” ?
Wow those quotes messed up the whole sentence, and the brackets didn’t help..I just think it’s a little harder to read if I capitalized “ice”.
does HTML work in this? Lets find out.
– ShAuN –
There’s novice, cornice, bodice, chalice, coppice, precipice, artifice, & edifice, to name a few.
Licorice.
Hospice, auspice, allspice, &
malice.
Ginger Spice, Baby Spice, Sporty Spice, Scary Spice and Posh Spice.
Splice, nice, service, advice, device, price of rice, dice, vice, twice, thrice, Beatrice, Chainsaw Spice, Herpes Spice, Janice, Felice, and Alice (Cooper).
Then, put a pumice poultice on ice, and sacrifice mice at least twice.
a la da Vinci code:
While the dominatrices watch from the pontifice he mortice a novice with vice and malice the prejudice is an injustice since the police thinks the cicatrices and orifices from the sevice are due to a silice no indice in the edifice no complice in the hospice.
Avarice, codices, indices, & cowardice!
Word Request:
Whats the origin of the word ”boobs”??
boobies here
Just like Bob, I was thinking something else.
Hey? What was I thinking? My mammory is getting bad in my old age.
number 3,
#3
Oatmeal-raisin or sugar cookie or pecan fingers.
I vote for number 3……
Marina I’ll go with number 3 but I can’t eat cookies. I’m a diabetic no sweets.
But if I could it would be soft batch chocolate chip. 
What about Computer Cookies?
People couldn’t tell what the picture was. Yes it was my Captains helmet when I was on the city fire department here for 33 years. It is a Cairns leather New Yorker without the bork shields. So I changed it back to the bike. If I could get to them they might be tasty, computer cookies that is.
Pennsyltucky9 thought it was a fish bowl on my head.
Every time that goldfish swam past the front, I tried to tell myself I was just imagining it, but then there it went again…
very impressive, capman911. NY?
No Warren sorry to let you down. It was Fayetteville,NC. We also had one of three state owned Hazardious Materials fully equipted Tractor trailor units and four other units that went to other towns and cities. Wilmington has one, and I think Charlotte has the other units. They split them up so we could cover the whole state. The state furnished all of our supplies and equipment. Plus I also worked for a Hazardious material clean up crew on my days off. It got old as you said earlier being away from home so I found other part time work.
Hat’s off to you capman911- 33 years! Many stories there both good and bad I’ll bet.
I asked NY since you mentioned the type of helmet your avatar is.
Hi Marina!
I think the word cookie came from the Dutch word ‘koekje’
please marina
do another naked vlog
preety please
I think this is a trick question and all three are right.
sorry i meant horny
erm..
i wan to request a word
wats the difference between hoeny and horn?!
i think 3 and choclate chip
I guess # 3. I like the oatmeal raisin cookies from the recipe on the Quaker Oats box. Old fashioned, not Quick!
Whats the origin of the word “word”?
If it ain’t Dutch it ain’t much – so I’m going with #3 for the answer.
My favorite cookie would have to be soft oatmeal raisin cookies, hot off the cookie sheet.
ALLONS-Y! les jeux sont faits, number 3.I have also studied Dutch,joefrombradford is completely right,the pronounciation is identical to the English one!-The word cookie, derives from the diminutive form of ”koek”,koekje,from middle Dutch koeke
anyway,even this term such as the word cake and the verb to cook trace their origin back to the Latin verb ”COQUERE”=to cook! esche raz,bravissima Marina! 
Word Request:
These two words might be fun to do together:
Exotic, and Erotic.
They obviously have different meanings, but they sound similar, are spelled similarly and even evoke a similar feeling.
Ginger and oat cookies are my favorite
mmm yummy
Like the ole snaps do ya TT.
ohh yea, you know it
capman911,
Riding that bike instead of the Firemans helmet, eh? (that was a firemans Helmet wasn’t it?). I was a member of a Hazardous Waste Emergency Response Team for four years. I got tired of being “On Call” so I changed to driving (1.5 years so far).
Yes, more of us really need to proofread our comments before we hit the “Submit Comment” button. I think that I’m a bit “lysdexic’ (dyslexic). Another problem most of us have is “Selective Hearing”.
Yes, I’ve always liked C.B. so I figured what the heck.
Take it easy.