Umbrella
Where does umbrella come from? And what’s a gamp and a brolly?
Oh.. and here is a funny video that combines this lesson with an earlier lesson of mine 
Thanks micheldiego!
Where does umbrella come from? And what’s a gamp and a brolly?
Oh.. and here is a funny video that combines this lesson with an earlier lesson of mine Thanks micheldiego!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gamp states gamp means umbrella ffter Sarah Gamp, a character who carried an umbrella in Charles Dicken’s Martin Chuzzlewit Brolly is another british nickname from umBRELLA. I’ve heard brolly but not gamp so thanks for teaching me something new! 5 stars to you!
I finally solved the mystery! You are imitating Rihanna in this video!
I like your voice. Sometimes we hear things only pronounced from a regions slang. And that can lead to stereo-typing or something like that. More power to your speech. words words words hip and hop like, she has working hips - bones WORDS
umbrella gamp and brolly has the same means.the chiniese is “伞”,but how to use them in the diffrence site?
Atchoo?
Gesundheit, sparky.
Hello!
I have a word request: “Joe Schmoe”. Probably someone just said it one day and and it stuck, but I’m curious when the term first became commonly used.
Marina you’r site is wao tonight.
I see you hovering over your computer to be first you dog!
It’s like the pot calling the kettle black
Yeah, soul brutha
It will come up first on You Tube want it
Really? I didn’t know that, or is this just a clever ploy to steer me away? If it is, it’s a good one.
how do you see the newest one on you tube?
Go to this site and keep hitting refresh or F5 It’s Marin’s utube home site. When you see the video come up on utube then switch back to HFWs. What I do is keep both site open and rotate back and fourth between the two.
http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords?ob=1
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!STALKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stalkers use coComments,
they’re just harmless devotees
a little obsessive, maybe?
No chacha
Teach is trying to push that crap on the great unwashed.
We shouldn’t put it down in front of them.
Thanks!!
Pushing CoComment Gman
Capman YOU’RE wao 2
If I was a stalker I would be standing outside her home. I’m just competitive.
Teach is trying to push what crap?
capman911,
I couldn’t find the one that I really wanted to show ( I need to start bookmarking these things. I also wanted to show a Stephen Hawking Video about his belief in God but I couldn’t remember where I saw it)you but check this out-
http://www.spike.com/video/i-want-to-work-in/29967 14
capman911,
or go to YouTube and type in- Kate Ryan Ella Elle L’a
hello beautiful. Please tell us the origin of poppycock. thank you.
frankly i agree with blue rose: what is the origin of the word frank or frankly….
Frankenfurter?
kismit origin plz, thank you for the site
*kismet origin plz
TEACHER,
Have you given thought to changing the link you give to Youtubers
to http://www.hotforwords.com/words/ .? It will land them on the list of all your work. This will help them to navigate the site too.
Maybe you could do a seminar on the difference of definition and origin.
Was genocide used before the holocaust?
genocide origin please
skid row origin please….
Hey teacher you lost your panties (game) video in the move.
There are few more missing also.
I hope she has them backed up so we can get them on her hot videos when they come out. 
I don’t mind if she lost her panties.
where does the saying “tongue in cheek” come from?
i hear it a lot but no one can really tell me where it came from D:
so i was hoping you could crack the code <33
thanks-
Guys;
Has anyone noticed that when the Teacher leaves the room, we just go off on all sorts of topics? She pops in and leaves a video and gets the hell out of the way. We are just brats or what? Out of control.
First of all i love your show.
And i would also very much like to know the origin of the phrase “It is raining cats and dogs”
/Me
click here for all the words Marina has already done
Please Please Please PLEASE Marina,
Can you find the origin of “frankly”????
PLEASE!
I have been asking on youtube comments a lot, and I would really like to know how and where frankly came to be. Does it relate to the name Frank?
Thank you!
‘xoxoxo
-BlueRose<3
Let’s be frank here 333blue_rose333, would you like me to do the word frankly?
yes please:)
P.S. I loved the visual effects in your “umbrella” video. they were very interesting. it was a funny video as well. keep posting those excellent and imformative videos!
thanks
Can I be Frank? I never get to be Frank.
You can be frank is I can be earnest.
IF i can be earnest… damn.
Would being frank also be like being blunt or terse?
With such subtle shades of nuance, I’m not sure
Frankly I don’t she gives a damn.. Just kidding
That would be an interesting word.
captain jack
Doing his King Canute act of making the waters go back and forth to his commands.
Hey cap, Did you see the answer of “OWNER OF THE FISHES”.???
Look at the table and you’ll see why the answer is Norwegian.
First off Im missing a word. “think” should be inserted between Don’t and She.
@ RR, Oh that was spot on! hehehe Loved it. The guy even looked like me. Tnks
@ Bob, Very funny. I had to look up King Canute. Interesting guy.
@ Gio, No I did not. You still have a link?
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Gamp stands for “good automated mamufacturiing practices” and brolly is a colloquial term for umbrella
ella ella
I’m wondering more about a phrase than just a word. Where did the phrase “Pushing the envelope” originate? And why?
marina,what is the origin of cooties?
Why? Do you think she has some? No wonder I haven’t asked her out yet. I don’t want to get any cooties.
i’d take the chance…
repeatedly - LOL
Could you please tell me about the word ‘bouy’.
The things that float in the water that mark locations.
Thanks,
Tom
Marina could have fun with that, combining with the concept of buoyancy and with a “show and tell” feature of buoyancy aids.
I am too old to remember, but is it fakes that float or vise verse?
They didn’t offer that experiment in my physics class.
I did exstencive research in the hot tube , Using a large cross section of the female sex. But alas, that was a lifetime ago.
Same guy that invented the knife.
Bowie? knife
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=FdsedY0foGc
tpcoz, Buoys came generally into use in European waters in the late 15th century. In Britain they were regulated under a charter given by Henry VIII to Trinity House in 1514. The word originally came from the Latin word ‘boia’, a halter (because the buoy is tethered), passing into English either through ‘boye’, which has become the modern French ‘bouee’, or Middle Dutch, in which ‘boeie’; meant both buoy and halter. Either derivation would explain both the apparently intrusive ‘u’ and the fact that some sticklers still pronounce the word to rhyme (more or less) with ‘hooey’. Although most speakers now make it a homophone of ‘boy’. The word buoy was first attested in 1466 in ‘Manners and Household Expenses’ 1841.
Today they serve for navigational purposes. They are to mark safe water or some other information for the mariner. Since we can not paint lines on the water we pretend they are like lines on the sides of the freeway. Simple hu?
Thanks, Hotforboatsandanythingassociatedwiththesea!
hehehe, I looked up buoy and didn’t see anything that Marina could use for a game in a video. So I thought I would just put it out there. I don’t think she have enough time to do every word in the OED and since I have a copy of ‘The Oxford Companion To Ships & Sea’ and a copy of ‘The Language of Sailing’ I could help out a tad bit.
I hope Marina didn’t mind and I hope it was not on her words to do list.
And yes I am hot for boats. I don’t know why to this day but I’m not looking back to living in a desert again.
buoys and gulls, they just go together
orphan
let’s play the umbrella game:
hft = umbrella
hft = brolly
hft = gamp
micheldiego = canopy
geronimo = bumbershoot
inspectorjury & melikadothechacha = parasol
micheldiego = sunshade
pennsyltucky9 = parapluie (french)
Bob =pajung (Indonesian/Malay), Rom (Thai), el Shamsaya (Arabic)
RRR = paraguas (spanish)
micheldiego = awning
Bob = Magnolia fraseri or M. tripetala
Hello Bob,
Was that you with your dog?
Want to see something? Look at the link I posted to capman911-
up above this.
That was my evil twin - twenty five years younger than me and with more hair.
Wow! Your mom was in labor 25 years? That must have hurt.
Bob you sly person you.
Gloating is allowed.
1st named in a video- before “TP” started.
1st seen in a video (2 times- Bob “Crane” and “Younger” Bob).
ps. What did you think about the link above?
Have a great day. I’m off to work.
If I got the right link, Nice helicopter, Average Russian girls.
Amusing though.
Yes, the Ella, Ella was what I meant- cute is right.
hey marina can u do the origen of transporter it is a word on star trek i wpuld really appreacate if u could do that word
let’s play the umbrella game:
hft = umbrella
hft = brolly
hft = gamp
micheldiego = canopy
geronimo = bumbershoot
inspectorjury & melikadothechacha = parasol
micheldiego = sunshade
pennsyltucky9 = parapluie (french)
Bob =pajung (Indonesian/Malay), Rom (Thai), el Shamsaya (Arabic)
RRR = paraguas (spanish)
micheldiego = awning
this comes from the Urban Dic. GAMP; An acronym that stands for Gay Asian Midget Porn
And then “Forest GUMP” is an oxymoron since it is a Gay URBAN Midget Porn in the WOODS.
Hi, sounds like you need to buy a new sister. tee-hee. What is the word orgin of: BAREFEET I have look into this a little its different.
Thanks
i remember that a gamp,chiefly in British slang is a large and baggy umbrella, this term is used humorously after Mrs Sarah GAMP, a nurse in CHARLES DICKENS’ Martin Chuzzlewitt 1844 or 1845( i don’t remember actually) who used such an umbrella!
BROLLY is another British informal word for umbrella,but i do not know the right etymology behind it….Marino4ka, i noticed that you particularly like Dickens’ literature..don’t you 
,it seems like you’re really an authority even in this field…
Hey M.
Where does <> and <> come from???
A five star preformance
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=7GM7LCPMA488
tayjim, I tried to fix your link, but wasn’t able to… what is the name of the video? I’ll see if I can find it that way.
Bus Stop by the Hollies
This should be the one. One too many 8s above
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=7GM7LCPMA48
Thanks
Thank
Umbrella=Young Love?
Hello Marina. You really encourage me to study English because you are so hot. You are the cat’s meow more than the cat can say.
And now I have a question for you about English grammer. What’s the plural of ‘Spiderman’? Spidermen? or Spidermans? Which is better? Can you answer it?
Marina, I’d like to know the meaning and origin of the phrase “to have someone over a barrel.”
That would be like shooting fish in a barrel, but it would be as fun as a barrel of monkeys. So, roll out the barrel and we’ll have a barrel of fun.
OMG thats funny. Singing “Roll out the barrel and we’ll have some fun!”
I think that’s on the flipside of “The Pennsylvania Polka!”
you are soooo hot!
please do the word “thong”
pleeeeeeeeeze
http://www.hotforwords.com/pantys/
I would be extremely grateful if you could research the origin of the word “ideation” for me. I look forward to your response
Hello. I was wondering if you could investigate the origin of the phrase “cup of joe” as it refers to coffee. There seem to be several competing theories floating around the net about this. Some friends and I were arguing about the origin. Maybe you can help us out? Thanks.
Is that two girls, one cup o’ Joe?
You nasty boy you!.
Oh I can see this joke is never going to end. LOL.
I don’t think that was Joe in that cup. Maybe Joe’s go.
Cup of Joe
that could make a person A sexual. welcome to reality
Instead of Joe that was one sweet dish
The picture looks like somewhere on Wailea. Oh, well, are you sitting under an umbrella or a parasol?
Marina can you do the word “Matrix” since It’s part of my youtube name and my show The Transformers Matrix. THANKS! I LOVE YOU!
http://www.thetransformersmatrix.com
http://www.youtube.com/Transformersmatrix
Such balls! Hope you send Marina
a royalty for that shameless plug!
He is assuming we have better things to do, then go to his site a cause trouble.
hehehehehe….
Since the topic of rain/umbrella had just been covered. I was wondering about the origin of the word ‘deluge’ meaning heavy downpour / a great flood.
Thanks to whoever, wishes to second this motion
You know the Rules of Order, kaibanator. First we have to have a quorum. Let’s see now: there’s you, me, capman911, tayljim, someuddermale, geronimo, and our lovely Marina presiding of course. Good enough then. I SECOND THE MOTION! Plus, I don’t have a ready answer for the possible origin of DELUGE (a worthy word indeed).
Hotforwords must investigate.
yeah, gamps and brollies are both british names for umbrellas. I think the main difference is that gamps are bigger and more baggy than the brolly.
I loved the Umbrella - ella -ella - eh eh eh
nicely done MaRhianna 
Gamps and brollies are umbrellas.
Hi, I love your podcasts and update them often. I was wondering where the origin of the words ass and jackass came from. I know what they are and the difference between them but why are they called that and why we refer it to humans? Thanks and keep up the good work
Hello there.
I would like to request a word as well. Where does “nostalgia” come from. By the Way nice effects in the Umbrella video. I like the Hat. And the Ella sound was a little bit irritating.
Marina, I loved the graphic visuals that went along with the word like umbra to enhance learning. Very nice!!!
Hello My Dear Teacher,
I was amused by musing over Marina being our favorite muse.
What is the origin of these words and how are they related?
And yes, you and your videos are very inspiring….
Marina, interestingly you didn’t mention the word bumbershoot. I don’t know if you are aware of this, but we have a festival every year called Bumbershoot. I guess its a good name for festival in a rainy city. Seattle has been putting on this festival for years. I remember going when I was little. Throughout the years, many artists such as B.B. King, The Ramones, Ray Charles, REM, Kanye West, De La Soul, Jerry Seinfeld, Chuck Palahniuk and many others have appeared. Its always a big thing on Labor Day which is 67 days away.
Which reminds me. You where in Seattle once. I seen one of your videos of you in the Pike place Market next to “The Bear” at the flying fish market stand. So what brought you to Seattle that day?
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Ahoy captainjack!
.anyway I just recieved it from “Joke of the Day”-
(that’s a word to look up-”ahoy”)
I’ve heard this joke years ago so maybe you have too so stop me if you have..
A Pirates Life for Me…
Captainjack meets a pirate in a bar, and they take turns telling their adventures on the sea.
Captainjack notes that the pirate has a peg-leg, a hook, and an eye patch.
Captainjack asks, “So, how did you end up with the peg-leg?”
The pirate replies, “We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. just as me men were pulling me out, a shark bit my leg off.”
“Wow!” said captainjack “What about your hook?”
“Well”, replied the pirate, we were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of them cut me hand off.”
“Incredible!” remarked captainjack. “How did you get the eye patch?”
“A seagull dropping fell into my eye”, replied the pirate.
“You lost you eye to a seagull dropping?” asked captainjack incredulously.
“Well”, said the pirate, “it was the first day with me hook.”
Ow! Ow, ow that was so freakin’ funny!!
ROFLMAO Warren!
You can drop a doubloon/duckett in the hat.
Ahoy Warren!
A hail to attract attention, as in “ship ahoy!” Its a combination of the interjection ‘a’ with that the OED calls the ‘natural exclamation ‘hoy’. It was first attested as a complete expression in …… Im going to stop there.
Why? Well this is a good one for our teacher to investigate. I found some references to Alexander Graham Bell using “ahoy!” There is even references to Dutch, German, and French using the word. Some people think it dates back to an ancient Viking battle cry. So with that said I think this one should be left to Marina to investigate. I also think Marina can make a good game out of this word. So even though I think I can answer this one I rather leave it up to the expert!
What do you say Marina? Would you like to take this one on?
Oh one more thing. I was a bit ancyouse to click on the submit button there. Anywho, Love the joke! Tnks.
What the heck is ‘ancyouse’? My gawd boy! Get a darn spell checker or something. Wait… you already have one. So you should used the darn thing once in a while! heheheh
It’s a very sad day when you rag on yourself about your screw ups…
Hey captainjack,You know how one thing leads to another-right.
Well I was looking at some of the links that have been used here as a reference and I came across a site that had Marina’s show- “Hello”. So..she did it already. I think I need to make a list for my own reference. Maybe re-watch a few shows every once in awhile.
Wow, that repeditive “ella” was REALLY annoying lol
MARINA! i would like you to investigate some internet slang words.
e.g. “Lol” “Rofl” “lmao” etc etc. They are some really commonly used ahh… abreviations/words these days and i would love to find out how they started… if its not too hard
It just evolved from people not wanted to type the same phase over and over again. Back in the early days of chat rooms is where it got started.
Hookah!
Hello Marina,
I was wondering if you could explain the origin of two things (they’re similar):
Where do we get the sayings “penny for your thought,” and “two cents”? Surely, someone’s opinion is worth more than that!
Sincerly, Bones
Sounds like there might be some good stories behind those phrases.
Kinda reminds you of the old wives tales. Storys that mom would tell to keep you inline
OH yea! Many stories like that. Some of them end up on Myth Busters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXiJgCRH4Y
“Mi sono innamorato di Marina, una ragazza mora assai carina,
ma lei non vuol saperne del mio amore,
cosa faro’ per conquistarle il cuor
Marina, Marina, Marina, ti voglio al piu’ presto sposar
O mia bella mora, no non mi lasciare
non mi devi rovinare, oh no, no, no, no, no!”
“I fell in love with Marina, a dark-haired (should rather say: blond-haired), amazingly beautiful girl,
but she does not want to know anything about my love,
what shall I do to conquer her heart?
Marina, Marina, Marina, I want to marry you as soon as possible
Oh my beautiful dark-haired girl, do not leave me,
please do not ruin me, oh no, no, no, no, no!”
You’re better looking than Ella Fitzgerald…
(She was as big as an ella-phant.)
scat…
I always thought elephants Gerald was one of Hannibal’s barbecue recipes.
Whaaaaasssssssuuuuuupppp
Haven’t talked to you in a while. WE need to go throw the pack one day and add Whaaaaasssssssuuuuuupppp to every reply. You think they would get pissed at us 
Uhhh, yeah. All the more reason, then, I guess? Then again maybe not.
No sweeter voice. Ella , Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered… sound familiar.
Ella, Ella, Ella.
Thanks Bob…one Ella Elle La’ way to start the day.
I left my umbrella in Cherbourg…
Debbie Reynolds says hello. She may have been “Singin’ in the Rain” back in the ’50s, but she lives in Las Vegas now. So I guess she’s using her umbrella for the sun…
Old, New, Sids by Side. Great stuff …unless you’re living in Iowa.
I watched the videos. Of course, I have the movie. In the beginning, Debbie Reynolds sings the title song with Donald O’Connor and Gene Kelly. And they have at least one yellow umbrella. Usher is good, but I have to say that Kelly still has more grace.
I think Kobey was trying to tell us to subscribe to HFW. If you have not subscribed then you better, before Kobey comes over to your yard and does her business on it.
Thanks for the news links the other day Jack. Shades of another recent incident in our waters. Robertson II last year.
Where they able to salvage the Robertson II?
I received many messages about my thought on the grounding of 133 foot Adventuress. Non of them where for a TV interview.
My thoughts are just like from my friend Tim Flanagan at Navagear.com. He did get a telephone interview.
BTW the videos you watch did you see the little bright red tugboat pulling on the ship? Thats my good friend Richard. The photos that King 5 TV showed was from his blackberry phone. He take photos of every tow he does and posts it on his website. Usually a comment of why the person is getting towed. Most of the tows are from stupid people thinking if they can manage a car they can manage a boat. You don’t see people renting an airplane in the spur of the moment and saying “Hey I can fly! How hard can it be?”
I was very happy that boat came out undamaged. They are very lucky. As you showed me things can get much worse. Heck even the dock can put a 8 foot by 3 inch gash in a boat. I have to get it repaired before it rains.
Here is a link for the King 5 news report of my friend Richard’s tugboat and his photos. Also the phone interview with Tim. You might have already seen this but here it is again in case you missed it.
Adventuress runs aground - King 5 coverage
Hey Bill, Are you able to get the co-comments to work. Sometime is shows Marina’s comment but most of the time it doesn’t. I even tried to fine your comments with it here on HFW and no luck.