I would like to have an explanationa of the word [ scholar] as it both can mean a student, a person who are in the process of learning and a person of knowledge, who already have studies in depth a particular subject.
Why do I kidnap my time? The snowbanks should be nationalize. Party for goats and no lions invited. Laudable love is laughable…there you go another ransomed word exploited …word request( kettle of fish)
so to nap is to take something away or to steal why do some people call the bag they are carrying a nap sac is the bag full of stuff that they have stolen so what is a nap sac.like matalexwolf from below would you put me me in your nap sac.
i dont like it when my G-sibs are napping as it means i get to hang round with their parents more, you know, adults talking about the norm.
Joseph says hi to you Marina and asks if you could kindly kidnap him!!!!!
Good day, Marina. Great site, fantastic word lessons. Now I know what to call myself when I’m feeling pompous enough to use big words to make others think I’m more intelligent.
hey marina, would love to know the derivation of cacophony. great word, but it can’t mean the sound of caca, or crap, lol. altho that basically is what it is
i would also love to know the true meaning of the word kiss and when and where it came about…would be a good one since you always blow kisses in your vids
The fourth of July holiday weekend server slow down is starting
i can get into yahoo, but i can’t get my mail as of 30 mins ago
tried restarting Firefox – no joy. same java, database errors…
let’s hope nobody melts down!
hey there ,before i get to tell you my word request..
i would just like to say you have te most amazing breasts i have ever seen,lol okay my word request is
…porn ….lol
its always bothered me
Hello, I would like to know the origins of the names of the 12 months(January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,and December)
The Charles Chessman case; indicted under the Lindberg Law,and executed in 1962.
Marina, great kidnapping in your video- “oh O.K.” as the ship takes you away…
I would like to know the origin of the word “felicity”. It has two different meanings, doesn’t it? According to my friend from Australia, the word doesn’t mean anything as an English word to Australian people except for a girl’s name, and she told it might make sense to Americans. I think the word is very interesting to you, Marina, as a linguist. Please do it.
Hi Marina
Where did “Jump the Shark” come from? I’ve lived in Florida all my life and have seen lots of sharks. I’ve never considered jumping over any of them. I could look it up but it would be more fun if you did…
I love your videos and I’m learning oh so much. I especially love when your outfits are on the skimpy side . Which made me think where does that word come from??
millsey, the words request place is actually here.. in the comments of the latest video.. I made it that way so that people could see what others are requesting. Thanks for being a good teacher’s assistant!
I just did this in the survey, but I’d like to hear about the word “fair.” It has two senses, or blondness or light-skinned and of honest and unbiased. Does the second sense derive from an association with the first, and, if so, why does this word get a pass from people objecting to bias in words–as in objections to seminar (ovinar?), to the use of neutral “he” (but “guys” gets a pass for some reason)?
Well – this is interesting :mrgreen
the emoitcons are gone! :roll
the gravatars are also,
missing in action?? ??
Elite_panda, Capman911,
Pennsyltucky9 and Roadrumch
are the only gravatars showing?
I checked my system – twice!
AOK – so whassup??? :roll <– simulation
That word is often brought up
by the new folks, no har – no foul
Just want you to know that Marina
has a “doppelganger” sister who
has a risque personality – Woo hoo!
Marino4ka confirmed i was right indeed,and my Swedish friend too.I’m happy because i did not prevent you from doing a nice video about this! By the way was also Charles Lindbergh of Swedish descent i ‘m not completely sure but i really think so…
YES!!! Woohoo!!! I know it may sound a bit childish but… YEEHAAA my name is up there
I am actually very surprised about the origin of this word, I thought my theory was partly correct but I was shocked when I saw that it was tottaly irrelevant!
Thanks HotForWords! You are my favourite teacher =D
Hi Marina, Would you be kind enough to make a video about the word “Cyborg”.
Homework:
I don’t quite know but i think the most famous kidnapping is “The Lindbergh Kidnapping”.
PS: I’m Norwegian and noticed that you had a norwegian word in the movie, something i like about you is that even if any word u say in other languages you don’t know isn’t pronounced excactly right (A), you atleast dare to try pronounce it. I would never do that and upload a movie about it on the internet where you get thousands of people watching your movie. I’m a pussy that way.
And, If you don’t want to find the origin of the word “Cyborg” would you maybe consider “pussy” (the “scared and don’t dare to do things, pussy”, not the “down there pussy”, nor the pussycat-pussy) as another word?
Thanks, Veldiz!
Sorry about my english if there’s something that’s spelled wrong.
It’s nothing to be sorry about if you can’t speak norwegian, I think I heard someone say it’s one of the thoughest languages to speak, but it can be I’ve heard wrong and, acctually “Norge-speak” as you call it, is in norwegian “Norsk”
Hej veldiz,
Det var et morsomt Norske uttrykk som jeg hadde aldrig hørte før.
But now i shall out and lick some sun.
It reminds me of the French expression for window-shopping – they say they are “going to lick windows.”
I didn’t find Norwegian difficult to learn, but that’s because I learned Danish first, and that is difficult because they mis-pronounce the first half of every word and swallow the second half.
If you want to have challenge, try learning Greenlandic.
Anyway, what language can be difficult when two-year-old children can speak it fluently?
Hyggelig å treffe noe Nordmenn igjen. Det er vel tyve år siden jeg forlatt landet.
That would be good sniperskaya but some pupils on here know Russian real well, plus there is a program called Babel Fish that will translate the word for you. Kinda like cheaten. Hey cheaten thats not a bad idea. Peace my friend.
Steve Groene after Joseph Edward Duncan III’s hearing Aug. 23. Duncan is charged with kidnapping and murdering some Groene family. And this is the famous kidnapping
i don’t think that bable fish has all the bugs worked out. sure am glad we have a linguistics expert here. glade that the big building went out of business, so i won’t ask them for directions anywhere Tower of Ziggurat
Umm… guys?
the babelfish enters through
the first small orifice it encounters.
Be sure you are facing the dispenser
before you push the button or you
won’t understand anything but ….
well, you know! :mregreen <-simulated emoticon
puzzling…well sir, Mr. flewwelilin, i don’t think that i comprehend. surely you were not addressing me,…..and i only speak for myself. since this is not a drive up menu/ take out, but internet, i don’t get it! well, welcome to HFW if you are new here. food to eat? hungry? maybe you got the wrong connection. and i just don’t get that b-word thing. scarcasm back at you, no. i talk to my cat and comprehension = 10%. i tell my crabgrass to die= 50%. i heard once that if you give respect= then you get it back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect
Is that like the little fish that enters up you penis when you pee in the water and can’t come out because of it’s fins. Only a doctor can remove it. Ouch that hurts just talking about it.
These are the biggest words IT can spell. Only a 12 year old would need these words explained. As to…….. he..it, or sh..it what ever it is. Check out the Lessons She has already done. Duh …ok?
I just found an old post of Marina’s.. “I’m 27 years old.. I’m sorry if I don’t look that good to you..” Now who would even think that way?! I always used to think that Marina would get her first pension next year.. and maybe loose some of her teeth, oh and some of her memory. You know, don’t blame her, it’s the age. Kidding Marina, you know you can trust me even with your bank account.
Key, this is my 3rd comment on this page and I skipped watching the video. That’s just not right.
if we start now, we could maybe get Marina
a nice Chia herb garden for her birthday – LOL
hmm.. Sagitarius or Capricorn, my brother’s
a Capricorn….. ….
In what came to be referred to sensationally by the press of the time as “The Crime of the Century,” on the evening of March 1, 1932, 20-month old Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was abducted by an intruder from his crib in the second story nursery of his family’s rural Hopewell, New Jersey, home. While a 10-week nationwide search for the child was being undertaken, ransom negotiations were also conducted simultaneously with a self-identified kidnapper by a volunteer intermediary, Dr. John F. Condon (aka “Jafsie”). These resulted in the payment on April 2 of $50,000 in cash, part of which was made in soon-to-be withdrawn (and thus more easily traceable) Gold certificates, in exchange for information — which proved to be false — about the child’s whereabouts. The search finally ended on May 12 when the remains of an infant were serendipitously discovered by truck driver William Allen about two miles from the Lindberghs’ home in woods near a road just north of the small village of Mount Rose, NJ. The child’s body was soon identified by Lindbergh as being that of his kidnapped son. A month later the Congress passed the so-called “Lindbergh Law” (18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)) on June 13, 1932, which made kidnapping a federal offense if the victim is taken across state lines or if the mails are used to demand ransom.
Assiduous tracing of many $10 and $20 Gold certificates passed in the New York City area over the next year-and-a-half eventually led police to Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a then 34-year old German emigrant carpenter, who was arrested near his home in the Bronx, NY, on September 19, 1934. A stash containing $13,760 of the ransom money was subsequently found hidden in his garage. Charged with kidnapping, extortion, and first degree murder, Hauptmann went on trial in a circus-like atmosphere in Flemington, New Jersey on January 2, 1935. Six weeks later he was convicted on all counts when, following just eleven hours of deliberation, the jury delivered its verdict late on the night of February 13 after which trial judge Thomas Trenchard immediately sentenced Hauptmann to death. Although he continued to adamantly maintain his innocence after his conviction, all of Hauptmann’s appeals and petitions for clemency were fairly quickly rejected. Despite a last minute attempt by New Jersey Governor Harold Hoffman (who had always expressed doubts that Hauptmann could have acted alone) to convince him to confess to the crimes in exchange for getting his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, the by then 36-year Hauptmann refused and was electrocuted at Trenton State Prison on April 3, 1936.
Ah… almost entierly a nordic word then .. We still use the word “kid” for the young roedeer, even though we pronounce it diffently, the word “nappa” as in taking something is not very much in use but still is around .. and the famous kidnapping was the kidnapping of swede Charles Lindbergs son…. so even though we are a little land high up in the north, we do make some mark here and there.
By the way, as a comment for an older video … the vikinghelmets never had horns! They were “invented” in an opera in the 1800´s ….
You know I often wondered how they got them things to stay on. With no duct tape or gorilla glue back then. I watched Baowolf on tv and all of them had horns on their helmets. Good movie.
Hey Marina,
It is kendraacolors and i was just wondering if you could help me understand where this word came from: bodacious. I have heard it a lot for some reason so I just wanted to see if you could the origin for it and what not.
thank you:)
hey marina. although I was a little disappointed to not get mentioned when you did the “eavesdrop” video (i had requested that word on the website a while ago), i will definitely keep watching, and I have another word request.
This time, I would like to request the word “pimp”, since it does appear in my username. Thanks!
Oh that sucks pimpbot5000!!! I am so sorry I missed your request! I have no idea how that happened! Pimp is a funny word.. I will def. have to do that one!!
With 32919 comments to date it probably isn’t hard to miss a few. I would hate to have to look back over that many and pick out who wrote what. I envy you on the fine job that you do now. You don’t miss many so congrats on a job well done.
Hey pimpbot5000 she is sorry she missed your name on the video. But when the TA’s sit down and do word requests we check through hundreds of comments about word requests. When try very hard to remember the members who requested the words and how many people asked for the same word. We overlook some, sorry. That’s what we are doing now is finding requests and how many people ask for the same word. We will probably miss a few on this go around. It’s not cause she doesn’t like your word or you it’s just an error on our or her part. Thanks for understanding.
Mike ATA.
The homework problem is too easy. Anyway, it was not of the best known kidnappings. It is the best known. Only the Patty Hearst kidnapping compares in the 20th century. The trial had newsreel reporters and was such a circus it led to the exclusion of cameras in the courtroom for decades. Also, although Bruno Hauptmann was almost certainly involved in the crime, he certainly did not get a free trial.
Hello my dear teacher!
I have been away for a while and are catching up on all your lessons… I want to connect to the AK-47 video and also the film “Blood diamond” that I just have seen. Not the most fun of subjects perhaps, but anyway – here goes.
Is there any truth in the statement they make in that film that the word “infantry” as in “foot soldiers” has anything to do with “infant” like in small children?? In the film they claim that it has something to do with childsoldiers, is that true and if so, from what war would that be??
Allways looking forward to your lessons!
Your dear student / Swedehunter
I think it is the charles linberg kids kidnapping. also do you accept personal emails where i can get a response from you just have a question. I asked here already but maybe not the place to ask but still curious.
Sorry I had no idea that I was giving out anything that was not available to anyone and everyone. My OP was the safest way I thought to give him what he wanted. But then you said to eMail you? So …. No matter, Sorry again. I’ll go set in the corner now and be good
Sorry roadrunrnch, I edited your comment.. my website takes email addresses and obfuscates (that’s a funny word!) them.. so that email harvesters can’t harvest them.. but it doesn’t seem to automatically do that in the comments. So I edited your comment to remove it. Hopefully the scanners didn’t get that email address yet. I put an email address for the dogs on YouTube for about 30 minutes the other time and that email address is already spam infested!
never! I’d whip out my AK-47 and mow down everyone xD Which I do not doubt this weapon could actually do.(in single shot, burst, or automated fire ) <— Guess what my vote was on this week’s pole.
Yea Labbatt, I would (and maybe other students and friends) go rescue her ( I have a feeling that Marina could almost rescue herself, at least out smart the abductors), then I would beat the heck out of the guy until he was nearly dead and turn him over to the police.
Chemikal, the hand is a much better weapon. First off your target will receive more pain than with a bullet. Second you can carry your hands anywhere and not have to have a weapons permit. Third, the satisfaction of using Kung Fu on the bad people.
On the lighter side, she can’t be kidnapped. One she’s not a little goat. Second she isn’t a kid anymore. So with those facts presented, Teach is very save from such a thing happening.
The only one I can think of was the case of John Joubert. In 1983 he kidnapped two boys in Bellevue Nebraska. He was caught and prosecuted for the boys murder. After his conviction he was put on death row. After years of appeals he was finally executed on July 17 1996, by the electric chair.
My family lived here in Bellevue at the time he was on the loose on Offutt Air force Base, and my brother was a toddler. I don’t have to tell you how freaked out my mother was until he was caught. After my father left the military in 93 and we moved back to NE, my parents were surprised that he was still able to go through the appeals system.
In 96 when he was executed, I actually watched the news coverage of his execution as it was happening live.
Heyy
I was wondering the other day, since I was working outside round back, where the word “weed” came from, and why it has a double meaning, weed as in drugs and weed as in thorney annoying plants. Please investigate!!
-Henry
The one that gets to me is “Month”. I understand that it’s supposed to come from moon, but a month is longer than a lunar cycle. Close enough, though, until I found out there used to only be ten months. This puts a month at over a week longer. Were months called something else back then?
Just chillin’ drinkin’ a coffee, watchin’ the wordnerds.
True, true.
Obfuscate: 1.) to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy 2.) to make obscure 3.) to darken. Synonyms: muddle, perplex, cloud
Something I learned as a proofreader is that in order to do the job well, you need many dictionaries from different times in history. At thrift shops, over the course of several months, I collected a good selection of old out-of-print ones for looking up those little-used words still in use by older people, etc.) AND different specialties or demographics like a law dictionary, a Scrabble dictionary, a dictionary of musical terms, etc. But the one place I always look first is the big fat one with a whole lot of entries. In this case, the Random House College Edition, 1973. It’s not the biggest in the house, just the most convenient to use. Usually, I don’t have to look further. In other words, it’s not the number of dictionaries you look in, it’s the size of the dictionary you find it in.
zareal, Your shit acronym of Store High In Transit is and internet myth. Its a good story but a false one. There are no documents supporting that acronym.
You both are wrong, and maybe even I.
The earliest cite I can find was in the OED dating from 1503
and Dictionary of Word Origins cites a proper name of ‘John le Fucker’ from 1250. ‘Fuck’ came to us the way most words sneak into the language, it jumped the fence from another language, was spelled and pronounced a bit differently in its new home and over time drifted into being a word recognized by everyone. It kind of takes all the fun out of it? Hu?
I did these words in my Maxim radio show… and would like to do them on YouTube.. but YouTube is getting rather cautious these days…but maybe I can do them in a creative manner
I think it would be challenging on YT, but it would get quite a few hits, but English swear words are tame compared to Russian ones. I know this from some exposure to Russians.
You don’t many American Truck Drivers do you. I would like to see you, ( Marina ) just do a video on all the 7 words yada, yada.
Give the XXXers a thrill and stop the need to ask anymore.
There I go being Pedy and Small again. I know go over to …lisanova’s
if I am not happy.
I just shot off another email to YouTube to prevent HotForWords’ videos from getting flagged.
The 200th dog video was flagged right after it crossed the million views point and third position for the week. This is an awesome milestone and was ruined by a malicious flagging of the video.
I courteously and kindly asked YT to permanently remove all flagging ability from HotForWords videos. Shouldn’t videos be innocent until proven guilty?
Maybe others could send letters to YouTube as well to stop this malicious flagging of HotForWords videos.
Oops sorry Teach, I guess I didn’t scroll down enough. Nor did I reference your radio show. My bad!
Yea, I think YouTube is very cautious in the past but I think now from the flack they received from the community they are a bit better about it.
Taken from their guidelines:
YouTube Community Guidelines
Respect the YouTube Community
We’re not asking for the kind of respect reserved for nuns, the elderly, and brain surgeons. We mean don’t abuse the site. Every cool new community feature on YouTube involves a certain level of trust. We trust you to be responsible, and millions of users respect that trust, so please be one of them.
With that stated and the way your present yourself as an instructor and not some low life. I am absolutely positive you can get away with it. Marina, don’t hold a thing back! Go for it! And if your not convinced then just type ‘fuck’ in the search window and you’ll find things like this music video. With 384,764 views if he where to get flagged he would have by now. Or this all time favorite classic video that I heard when I was in high school. Drum roll please…and in this corner weighting in at 2,903,970 views as of this post and still not flagged! Episode #12 “Using Proper Engish”!!!!
P.S. I still hope you use your creative skills. Its going to be a very well watch video that should put you threw the roof on hits. Make it a good one Marina. We know you can do it. Take your time if you have too. Just do what you do best.
pedantickarl ,
Unfortunately Marina is on top of the mountain. Now everyone is going to be gunning for her. Stabbing her in the back . Doing what ever it takes to bring her down. YT doesn’t care. They have no problem with the rabble destroying her. She is only one person and disposable. But making 75,000 viewers mad is another thing. Remember Susan Summers? Who?? Exactly, Google her. She was very big in the 70s
White flag = slow mover on the course
Standing yellow = caution on approach
Waving yellow = immediate danger
Red flag = stop immediately on the track
black flag = get off my racetrack, NOW!
red/yellow flag = debris on the track
checkered flag = race is over
blue flag w/ yellow diagonal stripe = passing flag
(move off the line and let others pass)
the one that applies here?
black flag w/ orange circle = meatball
(rider report to tech for a stop & go for bad start)
This is not NASCAR, not FIA, not Indy, not Kart…
I am not confused – these are what we are using
for Sportsline Tracktime, NASA, FARA, SCCA, etc.
Roadcourse, baby – not ovals!
Preevet, hello, sorry for my attempt at saying Russian hello in English but I’d like to request a word, well actually the name of a site, Youtube, and tuxedo
I’m exacerbated to the enth degree! Does the word exacerbate have any relation to the word extirpate due to the -ate suffix? Marina, I would be more than obliged if you did such a video on this and also a lesson on suffixes so as to gain a more clear understanding of some of them – Thank you!!!!
Your logic is flawed; masturbate also has the -ate ending – are you masturbated to the Nth degree? If so, you may not be smart enough to get a degree.
Words are related by their roots, not by their suffixes, aren’t they?
Physics , Right on, We should do …..Gravity , Really, something we can argue about. Kidnapping a little slow. She is really cute doing it. ( the video ) But.
Not to controversial. Not to many Pro-Kidnapping groups. Like a woman would be, Pro-Kidnapping.
The Right to Choose? Baby Setter or Stranger Lunatic Pedophile?
Gravity doesn’t exist. No one has shown me yet that the particle ( the graviton) is responsible for the existence of gravity. But hopefully when the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in France goes on line this year. That question might be soon answered after they find the Higgs boson.
Gravity certainly doesn’t exist in this classroom – quite the opposite, there is only Levity (except for when someone takes exception to another’s humour and wishes them an early grave).
As to a seed being an ornithopter, I doubt it. An Ornithopter is a flying machine that works by imitating the actions of a bird’s wings (same root as ornithology=the study of birds).
Homosexual Mens would flit and float about like Fairies, All Happy and GAY. People wanting to point out their oddness. Said; ” Look at the Happy and Gay looking Mens.”
Then it was shorted to ,” Look, Gays.”
The ” Happys” just did not work on so many levels.
There you go, Another lame attempt at humor. ( )
I saw your interview on the O’Reilly Factor and I was very impressed! I’m a substitute teacher in two different school districts here in SW Wisconsin. I have had a lot of fun with the word ‘Octothorpe’. I ask my kids if they know what it is. The only ones who know it are the ones I’ve had in class before. I first found in on the Merriam Webster web site(www.merriam-webster.com). It is the name of the symbol #.
Another word you may want to ‘do’ is a word that I use to ‘hang’ my students in hangman. The word is ’syzygy’, it means the alignment of celestial bodies, as in an eclipse. It’s fun watching their faces when they give up and I write the word on the board!
I’ve always been curious abiout the word “jones” used as a verb. It kind of works with the word “horny.” I have a raging “jones” for Marina. I recall hearing the term in my misspent youth 30 years ago, with people saying I have a Jones for some pot or I have a beer jones. Any clue? I’d LOVE to be the teacher’s pet some day. Thanks.
Now now!
He was a former President, sir.
We don’t have to resort to
the crudeness – the truth is
good enough without that!
Respect :shock
[emoticons went bye bye?]
The Lindberg baby kidnapping; the baby just happened to be the child of Charles Lindberg Who was the first person to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
WOW !!!!I can’t believe I was chosen to be the “Teachers Pet” . This is a great honor for me. The competition was fearse. There’s so many people to thank….I didn’t prepare a speach. I would first of all thank the Academy. Then of course Marina. ….My parents who believed in me and taught me to never give up hope!
Now If you will excuse me, I think teacher needs to talk with me.
Come on Geronimo. Teacher and I are having a private lesson. She is teaching me Russian and I am teaching her AMORE’. Do not make her feel awkward because of her “crush” on me.
I’ll have to agree with you’r brother. You have been on here for a short while and already picked as teacher’s pet. Pet what You must have what it takes DCD. Congrats my friend. And watch out for flying bullets
The answer to your question is – Lindberg Baby Kidnapping.
At the time the kidnapping of Charles Lindberg’s son was considerded to be the “crime of the century?. Public outrage was so great that many states enacted “Little Lindberg Laws” that mandated the death penalty for kidnapping, especially when great bodily harm or death occurred to the child.
I am not going to cheat and look on Google. I seriously do not get why swimming naked would be called skinny dipping. The “dipping” is obvious….but what about the “skinny” part?
If it has to do with body type (which would be dumb…..duh!) then why isn’t there a “fat dipping” for the overweight dippers.
Thanks in advance for solving this one. I got to thinking about that word after hearing about a story of two skinny dippers swimming in a city water resovoir last weekend.
Thats a good request BoArgMir. I myself has always wondered about that term. I tried just to shorten the word to Skin Dipping so I could understand it better. I would venture to guess that Skin was used first and skin’ny’ was added on later.
“Fat dripping” was what we got fed on as kids. It’s the congealed fat that drips into the tray when you roast a joint of meat, and thrifty Mums in wartime Britain used to spread it on toast for their kids, because other spreads were not available due to rationing.
The story goes that Mick Jagger is so skinny because his Mum took this economy too far, and fed him nothing but dripping on toast, leading to the well known English proverb, “Constant dripping wears away a Stone.”
Greeting ye lovely,
Well shiver me timbers lass.
I’se just noticed ye be wearin me pirates dress.
Arrr me patch got in dah way dah first time.
Me en dah lads done figurd out dah connection with the kidnapin.
But when we sweeps yah away, we be keepin yah for ourselves.
Two contemporary cases that resulted in the death penalty were Joseph Smith, who kidnapped and killed Carlie Brucia, and John Couey, who kidnapped and killed Jessica Lunsford. Both cases occurred in Florida. The latter case led to the introduction of Jessica’s Law, which has been passed in 42 states. On a night where Marina’s “O’Reilly Factor” interview is replayed, it’s worth noting that Bill has led the charge to get Jessica’s Law passed.
It just comes down to laziness. We use to say “Hey girls” also but then you would have mixed groups and you would have to address them both. What a pain in the butt. So now ‘Guys’ just addresses any group of people.
Just some of the fallout from women’s lib movement.
“don’t hold that door for me just because i’m a woman”
???
no, baby, i do that for everybody – just good manners
people are rude in Flori-duh. i can tell when they
come from where I lived, in Ohio – because they
will say “thanks” to which the polite response is…?
does anybody in the USA know this, besides ME??
clue: in italian, it’s “prego”
Mury, I have the exact same issue! I like to say Hey guys and hey gals. or Hey guys and gals.. Yea its weird. Like geronimo said, its a pain in the butt. I hear more and more women calling each other guys. Maybe is some kind of equality thing? Oh knows? I just try to adapt my language to the people who surround me.
sunnymale Diabetes has nothing to do with a “sugar problem.” It is a disease that has to do with the bodies ability to process the natural sugars in foods and give the body energy. Unless this is what you meant and then this rant was unneeded and i just mis understood what you ment by “sugar problem.”
I would actually like the to request the word combination of “banana republic”, it came up in a book a read recently and I was curious how it came about.
Hello Hotforwords,
I would be very happy if I could please request the word “Autism”.
My brother has it, and I want to have people understand what “Autism” is and what it means. Thank you so much,
Your #1 fan,
Jake (TheAutismSpectrum)
Miss M. did you get ajax fixed. The site seems very slow today. I tried it on both of my computers one running XP pro and the other Vista and both are slow and I have broadband.
Thanks,
Mike
I think it’s the connections to co-comment and gravatar that are slowing things down. On several occasions reloading the page has hung with a message in the status bar saying “waiting for …” and then one or other of those two sites.
Yes I agree Bob, co-comment and gravatar are slowing things down. I thought it was just me and my old computer. But to hear others having the same problem make me wonder.
I watch the bottom of my browser and seeing the same message as you ‘waiting for…’ and ‘Transferring’ etc. Its getting so slow now I like click on submit and I got and get something to eat. IT feels like the 56k modem days.
Adam Walsh I think… But, this is happens abundantly across the world. Time to reform Romanticism!
I would like to have an explanationa of the word [ scholar] as it both can mean a student, a person who are in the process of learning and a person of knowledge, who already have studies in depth a particular subject.
Why do I kidnap my time? The snowbanks should be nationalize. Party for goats and no lions invited. Laudable love is laughable…there you go another ransomed word exploited
…word request( kettle of fish)
Quote
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix
WHO EDITED THIS WIKI
AGAIN!! I am requesting this page be locked
Oh, it already has
so to nap is to take something away or to steal why do some people call the bag they are carrying a nap sac is the bag full of stuff that they have stolen so what is a nap sac.like matalexwolf from below would you put me me in your nap sac.
i dont like it when my G-sibs are napping as it means i get to hang round with their parents more, you know, adults talking about the norm.
Joseph says hi to you Marina and asks if you could kindly kidnap him!!!!!
hey there sexy u are fine marina how tall are u?
Marina,
I’d like to know where the phrase, knock on wood, originated.
Thanks
Good day, Marina. Great site, fantastic word lessons. Now I know what to call myself when I’m feeling pompous enough to use big words to make others think I’m more intelligent.
I do have a request…
The word is: be
Thank you. Goodnight.
hey marina, would love to know the derivation of cacophony. great word, but it can’t mean the sound of caca, or crap, lol. altho that basically is what it is
In early 1900 Charles Linberg baby boy was kidnaped and killed the
person who comited the crime was sentenced to death.
i would also love to know the true meaning of the word kiss and when and where it came about…would be a good one since you always blow kisses in your vids
I am very curious abut the word hiccup!! What the origin, meaning andso on:)
I’d like to know where and how the word “fireworks” came to be. I’ve always wondered about that…
The Lindberg baby kidnapping is the most famous American case. Bruno Richard Haupman was executed for the crime.
The Linberg bab kidnapping is th emost famous American case. Bruno Haupman was executed for the crime.
Good morning my teacher! I am once again going to request the phrase “get a leg up on the competition”, and the word dork.
test.. getting weird thing on bottom of page
The fourth of July holiday weekend server slow down is starting
i can get into yahoo, but i can’t get my mail as of 30 mins ago
tried restarting Firefox – no joy. same java, database errors…
let’s hope nobody melts down!
hey there ,before i get to tell you my word request..
i would just like to say you have te most amazing breasts i have ever seen,lol okay my word request is
…porn ….lol
its always bothered me
It comes from the greek word ‘pornia’ which means, to fornicate.
Normally I’d slap you around a little,
talkin’ to a lady like that…
since this is a holiday, I’ll go one
and grant you a boon – but you’ve
got to mend your ways!!!
check out the structural dynamic
loading characteristic of this bikini!
bet it barely passes the FEA*
*finite elemental analysis.
http://www.beautyqueentv.com/bill_lyons/images/models/european/marina/marina05.jpg
now you can’t say i wasn’t nice to you…
Quote
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” – Frank Lloyd Wright 1868-1959
Hello, I would like to know the origins of the names of the 12 months(January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,and December)
I have a word request Marina. I would like to know about the word “Mojo”. As used in the Austin Powers movies.
The Charles Chessman case; indicted under the Lindberg Law,and executed in 1962.
Marina, great kidnapping in your video- “oh O.K.” as the ship takes you away…
Can you please find the origin of the word “preacher bar”, the curved bar I use when weightlifting when I do curls.
it’s actually a portemaneau
word – corrupted
prestressed + chin bar
Stick around, She comes around.
I would like to know the origin of the word “felicity”. It has two different meanings, doesn’t it? According to my friend from Australia, the word doesn’t mean anything as an English word to Australian people except for a girl’s name, and she told it might make sense to Americans. I think the word is very interesting to you, Marina, as a linguist. Please do it.
Hi Marina
Where did “Jump the Shark” come from? I’ve lived in Florida all my life and have seen lots of sharks. I’ve never considered jumping over any of them. I could look it up but it would be more fun if you did…
Trying to find a definition for the word: cavlubritimous
Any suggestions?
Two questions, to be taken separately.
Where does the ’s’ in ‘iSland’ come from?
One, two… probably once pronounced as spealt – ‘one’ like ‘own’, two as t-woe. How did ‘one’ gain a ‘w’ sound, and how did ‘two’ lose it?
-adlamis
My bad guys and gals, I meant to put that in a different forum.
I love your videos and I’m learning oh so much. I especially love when your outfits are on the skimpy side
. Which made me think where does that word come from??
Please go to word request to request a word.
millsey, the words request place is actually here.. in the comments of the latest video.. I made it that way so that people could see what others are requesting. Thanks for being a good teacher’s assistant!
so much deja vu – dizzy…
how do you keep up???!!
I just did this in the survey, but I’d like to hear about the word “fair.” It has two senses, or blondness or light-skinned and of honest and unbiased. Does the second sense derive from an association with the first, and, if so, why does this word get a pass from people objecting to bias in words–as in objections to seminar (ovinar?), to the use of neutral “he” (but “guys” gets a pass for some reason)?
I think it was the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Time for Mongo, i guess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28khv-BydeY
allikazaam – poof!
My gravatar is back!
the nested comments
are still missing a few,
but I see my friends, again :smile <- simulated LOL!
Now they’re gone, again POOF!
[yer just messin' with my melon, aren't ya?]
melikadothechacha, I have to beef up my website server.. it seems to be having trouble keeping up with everything.. especially when the site is on tv!
So where’s the BEEF? Oh thats an oldie moldie.
I Knew this would happen, again!
you JUST upped it a week ago, yes?
success has a price, dunnit?
That’s a good word beef. Why does it mean meat and other meanings
Well – this is interesting :mrgreen
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the emoitcons are gone! :roll
the gravatars are also,
missing in action??
Elite_panda, Capman911,
Pennsyltucky9 and Roadrumch
are the only gravatars showing?
I checked my system – twice!
AOK – so whassup??? :roll <– simulation
this post didn’t even get a
chalk outline or placeholder
where the Gravatar goes
just a lil’ FYI, babe!
I guess we are her favorites Cha Cha
hey hot for words^^
i have a question to you.
why is the name of the london underground “tube”.
Tage schoene heute! Wie gehts?
Huh? how did this get here…?
sorry, dude – routing glitch?
Hi marina~ Ive a word for you~
Doppelganger.. whats the origin from that word?
yours B2k
That word is often brought up
by the new folks, no har – no foul
Just want you to know that Marina
has a “doppelganger” sister who
has a risque personality – Woo hoo!
Not really xD
Check out the library
on her YouTube for
lessons – think you
missed some…
Woo hoo!
Just for you – you can Google anything these days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZean7bjzY&feature=related
I remember the days the internet was very young and there was really nothing of use on the net.
you are referring to the Lindberg baby kidnapping
Software I would like to know were that came from.
Are you referring to the Lindberg baby kidnapping as the famous kidnapping that resulted in the death penalty?
There you Prospero. Hadn’t heard from you in a while or seen you red gravatar
The Kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby made it a Federal crime to abduct a child.
Lindbergh was the world famous aviator whom became the first to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean in flight.
Bruno Hauptmann, was found guilty of the abduction and electrocuted for the crime. Hauptmann proclaimed his innocence through the entire ordeal.
muse – music
icon – iconic
stoa – stoic
and so on
Flippin’ ancient Greeks….
YES!!! Woohoo!!! I know it may sound a bit childish but… YEEHAAA my name is up there
I am actually very surprised about the origin of this word, I thought my theory was partly correct but I was shocked when I saw that it was tottaly irrelevant!
Thanks HotForWords! You are my favourite teacher =D
maybe it was like this? Yippee Yay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ZDa0qFkM0
“Man ought not be able to sing that high” – Woody Paul
Hi Marina, Would you be kind enough to make a video about the word “Cyborg”.
Homework:
I don’t quite know but i think the most famous kidnapping is “The Lindbergh Kidnapping”.
PS: I’m Norwegian and noticed that you had a norwegian word in the movie, something i like about you is that even if any word u say in other languages you don’t know isn’t pronounced excactly right (A), you atleast dare to try pronounce it. I would never do that and upload a movie about it on the internet where you get thousands of people watching your movie. I’m a pussy that way.
And, If you don’t want to find the origin of the word “Cyborg” would you maybe consider “pussy” (the “scared and don’t dare to do things, pussy”, not the “down there pussy”, nor the pussycat-pussy) as another word?
Thanks, Veldiz!
Sorry about my english if there’s something that’s spelled wrong.
Alright! I can help a little.
cyborg is a portemaneau
word formed from combining
cybernetic + organism
Marina did do the word origin
pussilanious(sp?) Check out
the Words List for the lesson!
Your english is holding up well!
My Norge-speak sucks, sorry :mrgreen <-simulated emoticon
Thanks for that!
It’s nothing to be sorry about if you can’t speak norwegian, I think I heard someone say it’s one of the thoughest languages to speak, but it can be I’ve heard wrong
and, acctually “Norge-speak” as you call it, is in norwegian “Norsk” 
But now i shall out and lick some sun
I have a lovely red pencilbox!
Hej veldiz,
Det var et morsomt Norske uttrykk som jeg hadde aldrig hørte før.
It reminds me of the French expression for window-shopping – they say they are “going to lick windows.”
I didn’t find Norwegian difficult to learn, but that’s because I learned Danish first, and that is difficult because they mis-pronounce the first half of every word and swallow the second half.
If you want to have challenge, try learning Greenlandic.
Anyway, what language can be difficult when two-year-old children can speak it fluently?
Hyggelig å treffe noe Nordmenn igjen. Det er vel tyve år siden jeg forlatt landet.
The Lindbergh kidnapping
Marina, why not do some words in Russian with the English explanation and have us try and guess what the word is?
[best Pee Wee Herman] “Shut Up!”
LOL – just kiddin’
That would be good sniperskaya but some pupils on here know Russian real well, plus there is a program called Babel Fish that will translate the word for you. Kinda like cheaten. Hey cheaten thats not a bad idea.
Peace my friend. 
HAS ANYONE THOUGHT ABOUT WHY DONT WE SAY HEY GIRLS INSTEAD OF HEY GUYS?
YOU SEE..DOUBLE STANDARDS. WOMEN SHOULDNT ALLOW IT HAHA:)
Standards? Standards!!
We don’ need no stinking standards!
WOMEN WILL NEVER BE ON TOP IF THEY KEEP MEN LET THEM CALL GUYS…AHHAA…
I think if you are a woman you shouldnt agree with guys! Hey guys!
Anyone get what I am saying lol…
work on that sentence structure, dude
tone down ALL THE SHOUTING, too!
respect
Steve Groene after Joseph Edward Duncan III’s hearing Aug. 23. Duncan is charged with kidnapping and murdering some Groene family. And this is the famous kidnapping
Hi beautiful lady! How about the word “ventriloquist”?
hey -U R good!
didn’t see yer lips move once!
Nice word!
I will have to agree with O4N. That would be a good word to use. Ventriloquist
Here you go maynard.
My son in law has two cds on this guy and he is just hilarious. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIB_uqpfj2A
The word I would like is ‘DUDE’, as in ‘Whats up dude?’
Eactly what is a ‘DUDE’?
and why no dudettes?
again with the guy/gal thang…
It’s Chicklettes
Chicks can fly too.
billyb – Chicklettes sounds like background music
for a fight scene in a Tarantino-Rodriguez flick,
maybe – “The Machete”?
bob- hey bob, good things chickens (and cows)
cannot fly (and-you-know-why-so-there)
Word request: Bazooka. It’s just such a fun word to say.
isn’t that a traditional Russian folk dance?
nah!
how ’bout this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z7t-Ox3XvU
to Wind-up someone? why is it the same word as wind?
Damned YANKEES…YANKEE Doodle…YANKS,as they say in Brittan.
The word I am requesting is “yankee”.
I’m a big fan and I love what you do. Thank you for a job well done.
Respectfuly Terry Jones
Terry Jones?? THE Terry Jones???
DUDE! welcome, welcome – WELCOME
I thought you were dead!
Loved BBC – The Barbarians, by the way
Here in America a yankee is a person who moves to the south for a while. A damn yankee is one that moves here and stays.
Just kidding
I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I am SO sorry!
the whole dead thing was a bad rumor
oh man, i am sorry i said that….
thanks wikipedia – wish i looked
there, first
Marina, may I kidnap YOU? I would not give you back for any money, by the way. By the way, what’s the origin of “by the way”?
Charles Linberghs’ (младенец авиатора) был похищен. Я вспоминаю увидеть видео относительно трапа. Ist person @ 237!!!.
i don’t think that bable fish has all the bugs worked out. sure am glad we have a linguistics expert here. glade that the big building went out of business, so i won’t ask them for directions anywhere Tower of Ziggurat
Yea bable fish is very buggy. Now that they where bought out who knows what I will become? Maybe a lot worse.
Was that the prototype for the leaning Tower of Pizza?
Umm… guys?
the babelfish enters through
the first small orifice it encounters.
Be sure you are facing the dispenser
before you push the button or you
won’t understand anything but ….
well, you know! :mregreen <-simulated emoticon
Oh Mel! I got that reference right off the bat. Loved that book!
Hey Marina,
I’d like to know where the word “jeopardize” or “jeopardy” comes from.
Your student,
sevenpointsix
HI!
Can you explain the word “Couture” and how do i pronounce it?
Thank you
Reallynousername.
Wheres my dinner “bitch”.
puzzling…well sir, Mr. flewwelilin, i don’t think that i comprehend. surely you were not addressing me,…..and i only speak for myself. since this is not a drive up menu/ take out, but internet, i don’t get it! well, welcome to HFW if you are new here. food to eat? hungry? maybe you got the wrong connection. and i just don’t get that b-word thing. scarcasm back at you, no. i talk to my cat and comprehension = 10%. i tell my crabgrass to die= 50%. i heard once that if you give respect= then you get it back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect
You may have flown well in, but if you’re going to misbehave you’ll get thrown well out.
Got your back Bob, anytime
proof that it
<-
takes one to knw one?
simulatedIs that like the little fish that enters up you penis when you pee in the water and can’t come out because of it’s fins. Only a doctor can remove it. Ouch that hurts just talking about it.
Boobs,pussy,ass, naked,sexy and sex
obviously you didn’t read the word list.
Another new guy we can mess with for being such a dull tool?
Guess you only can get Hot women, right? LOL
These are the biggest words IT can spell. Only a 12 year old would need these words explained. As to…….. he..it, or sh..it what ever it is. Check out the Lessons She has already done. Duh …ok?
I just found an old post of Marina’s.. “I’m 27 years old.. I’m sorry if I don’t look that good to you..” Now who would even think that way?! I always used to think that Marina would get her first pension next year.. and maybe loose some of her teeth, oh and some of her memory. You know, don’t blame her, it’s the age.
Kidding Marina, you know you can trust me even with your bank account. 
Key, this is my 3rd comment on this page and I skipped watching the video. That’s just not right.
I agree. The self-effacing does not become her.
must be the doppelganger speaking…
I’d sharpen her pencils ANYTIME!
She’s been 27 for about two years now.
She must be like Jack Benny who stayed 39 until he died. Which doesn’t bother me a lady that doesn’t age cool. 
I Jyst figured the birthday thang out.
Feb. 29th… I’m even more impressed now
Nah, just checked this year was a leap year. Oh well. Still impressed.
I found a website somewhere that posted she was born in December 1980.
if we start now, we could maybe get Marina
a nice Chia herb garden for her birthday – LOL
hmm.. Sagitarius or Capricorn, my brother’s
a Capricorn….. ….
whoops! don’t use < and the opposite
to delimit your words or they disappear!
.. (it is a puzzler)
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
In what came to be referred to sensationally by the press of the time as “The Crime of the Century,” on the evening of March 1, 1932, 20-month old Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was abducted by an intruder from his crib in the second story nursery of his family’s rural Hopewell, New Jersey, home. While a 10-week nationwide search for the child was being undertaken, ransom negotiations were also conducted simultaneously with a self-identified kidnapper by a volunteer intermediary, Dr. John F. Condon (aka “Jafsie”). These resulted in the payment on April 2 of $50,000 in cash, part of which was made in soon-to-be withdrawn (and thus more easily traceable) Gold certificates, in exchange for information — which proved to be false — about the child’s whereabouts. The search finally ended on May 12 when the remains of an infant were serendipitously discovered by truck driver William Allen about two miles from the Lindberghs’ home in woods near a road just north of the small village of Mount Rose, NJ. The child’s body was soon identified by Lindbergh as being that of his kidnapped son. A month later the Congress passed the so-called “Lindbergh Law” (18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)) on June 13, 1932, which made kidnapping a federal offense if the victim is taken across state lines or if the mails are used to demand ransom.
Assiduous tracing of many $10 and $20 Gold certificates passed in the New York City area over the next year-and-a-half eventually led police to Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a then 34-year old German emigrant carpenter, who was arrested near his home in the Bronx, NY, on September 19, 1934. A stash containing $13,760 of the ransom money was subsequently found hidden in his garage. Charged with kidnapping, extortion, and first degree murder, Hauptmann went on trial in a circus-like atmosphere in Flemington, New Jersey on January 2, 1935. Six weeks later he was convicted on all counts when, following just eleven hours of deliberation, the jury delivered its verdict late on the night of February 13 after which trial judge Thomas Trenchard immediately sentenced Hauptmann to death. Although he continued to adamantly maintain his innocence after his conviction, all of Hauptmann’s appeals and petitions for clemency were fairly quickly rejected. Despite a last minute attempt by New Jersey Governor Harold Hoffman (who had always expressed doubts that Hauptmann could have acted alone) to convince him to confess to the crimes in exchange for getting his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, the by then 36-year Hauptmann refused and was electrocuted at Trenton State Prison on April 3, 1936.
(Source – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh )
Yessir you definitly did your home work.
Ah… almost entierly a nordic word then .. We still use the word “kid” for the young roedeer, even though we pronounce it diffently, the word “nappa” as in taking something is not very much in use but still is around .. and the famous kidnapping was the kidnapping of swede Charles Lindbergs son…. so even though we are a little land high up in the north, we do make some mark here and there.
By the way, as a comment for an older video … the vikinghelmets never had horns! They were “invented” in an opera in the 1800´s ….
Elmer Fudd did a good job
contributing to the viking
horn / hemlet myth
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/whats-opera-doc-chuck-jones-1957/167148694?icid=acvsv2
You know I often wondered how they got them things to stay on. With no duct tape or gorilla glue back then. I watched Baowolf on tv and all of them had horns on their helmets. Good movie.
i want to request the word “Dildo”…
you would, wouldn’t you?!
hehe, horny devil —> 
Fresh meat for the grinder
“don’t take it out – just change the batteries”
you have no imagination – none
Is that a pickled deer
Only if you live in New Mexico!
That is a great picture of you on the beach. Now all you need is a ukulele to strum. UKULELE… what a funny word. I wonder where it came from…
Don Ho would know
So did these guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8O6TKMkMzQ&feature=related
Hey Marina,
It is kendraacolors and i was just wondering if you could help me understand where this word came from: bodacious. I have heard it a lot for some reason so I just wanted to see if you could the origin for it and what not.
thank you:)
your student,
kendraacolors
word request: where does the word heirloom in heirloom tomatoes come from?
Love my Teacher!
I am a magician and have wondered about
the word
Shazam!??
Did I spell it right?
Your adoring Magician
Jim Hathy
hey marina. although I was a little disappointed to not get mentioned when you did the “eavesdrop” video (i had requested that word on the website a while ago), i will definitely keep watching, and I have another word request.
This time, I would like to request the word “pimp”, since it does appear in my username. Thanks!
Oh that sucks pimpbot5000!!! I am so sorry I missed your request! I have no idea how that happened! Pimp is a funny word.. I will def. have to do that one!!
With 32919 comments to date it probably isn’t hard to miss a few. I would hate to have to look back over that many and pick out who wrote what. I envy you on the fine job that you do now. You don’t miss many so congrats on a job well done.
Hey pimpbot5000 she is sorry she missed your name on the video. But when the TA’s sit down and do word requests we check through hundreds of comments about word requests. When try very hard to remember the members who requested the words and how many people asked for the same word. We overlook some, sorry. That’s what we are doing now is finding requests and how many people ask for the same word. We will probably miss a few on this go around. It’s not cause she doesn’t like your word or you it’s just an error on our or her part. Thanks for understanding.
Mike ATA.
The homework problem is too easy. Anyway, it was not of the best known kidnappings. It is the best known. Only the Patty Hearst kidnapping compares in the 20th century. The trial had newsreel reporters and was such a circus it led to the exclusion of cameras in the courtroom for decades. Also, although Bruno Hauptmann was almost certainly involved in the crime, he certainly did not get a free trial.
Hello my dear teacher!
I have been away for a while and are catching up on all your lessons… I want to connect to the AK-47 video and also the film “Blood diamond” that I just have seen. Not the most fun of subjects perhaps, but anyway – here goes.
Is there any truth in the statement they make in that film that the word “infantry” as in “foot soldiers” has anything to do with “infant” like in small children?? In the film they claim that it has something to do with childsoldiers, is that true and if so, from what war would that be??
Allways looking forward to your lessons!
Your dear student / Swedehunter
I think it is the charles linberg kids kidnapping. also do you accept personal emails where i can get a response from you just have a question. I asked here already but maybe not the place to ask but still curious.
If you sign up for her site, She will eMail you. (top right)
Go ahead and email me.. email is in the contact section.
Marina
Sorry I had no idea that I was giving out anything that was not available to anyone and everyone. My OP was the safest way I thought to give him what he wanted. But then you said to eMail you? So …. No matter, Sorry again. I’ll go set in the corner now and be good
rrr
smallrrrs
Here, I did not know about this one? http://www.hotforwords.com/contact/
I just hit the reply button on her emails.
RRRumpy
Sorry roadrunrnch, I edited your comment.. my website takes email addresses and obfuscates (that’s a funny word!) them.. so that email harvesters can’t harvest them.. but it doesn’t seem to automatically do that in the comments. So I edited your comment to remove it. Hopefully the scanners didn’t get that email address yet. I put an email address for the dogs on YouTube for about 30 minutes the other time and that email address is already spam infested!
Teach does tech-speak so sexy…
I know she likes to “put on the dog”
didn’t know she did – literally!!
did they take any animal-porn site hits? LOL!
Ok I give up . I looked through 3 dictionaries and could not find a definate description of obfuscates.
capman911.. it means to hide, obscure, darken.. from the Latin obfuscare
Capman, what dictionary did you use? I found that word in http://dictionary.reference.com
That is an interesting word. I think I should add it to my vocabulary and start using it more.
I would hate to see Marina get kidnapped by any bad person.
never! I’d whip out my AK-47 and mow down everyone xD Which I do not doubt this weapon could actually do.(in single shot, burst, or automated fire
) <— Guess what my vote was on this week’s pole. 
Thanks Chemikal and thanks labbatt78
Yea Labbatt, I would (and maybe other students and friends) go rescue her ( I have a feeling that Marina could almost rescue herself, at least out smart the abductors), then I would beat the heck out of the guy until he was nearly dead and turn him over to the police.
Chemikal, the hand is a much better weapon. First off your target will receive more pain than with a bullet. Second you can carry your hands anywhere and not have to have a weapons permit. Third, the satisfaction of using Kung Fu on the bad people.
On the lighter side, she can’t be kidnapped. One she’s not a little goat. Second she isn’t a kid anymore. So with those facts presented, Teach is very save from such a thing happening.
I’m not sure about Marina not being a kid anymore. Ingrid Bergman was a kid in Casablanca, right? Here’s lookin’ at you, CaptainJack!
The only one I can think of was the case of John Joubert. In 1983 he kidnapped two boys in Bellevue Nebraska. He was caught and prosecuted for the boys murder. After his conviction he was put on death row. After years of appeals he was finally executed on July 17 1996, by the electric chair.
My family lived here in Bellevue at the time he was on the loose on Offutt Air force Base, and my brother was a toddler. I don’t have to tell you how freaked out my mother was until he was caught. After my father left the military in 93 and we moved back to NE, my parents were surprised that he was still able to go through the appeals system.
In 96 when he was executed, I actually watched the news coverage of his execution as it was happening live.
You are “smart as a fox” (and you are foxy..hehe
) which is the phrase i would like the origin of PRETTY PLEASE!!! i am a brand new fan, . thanx
she can be “sly as a fox”, too
good call – keep ‘em coming!
Heyy
I was wondering the other day, since I was working outside round back, where the word “weed” came from, and why it has a double meaning, weed as in drugs and weed as in thorney annoying plants. Please investigate!!
-Henry
can you do a video on: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
plz?
Another dime for me
cha-ching!
two bit question time, again?
The one that gets to me is “Month”. I understand that it’s supposed to come from moon, but a month is longer than a lunar cycle. Close enough, though, until I found out there used to only be ten months. This puts a month at over a week longer. Were months called something else back then?
‘yello marina, i’d like to know where did the “blues” music genre got it’s name. thanks! see’ya.
watching your latest investigation brought me to another question…what might be the origin of the word “investigate”??
Cool site you have their Harry. All of my favorite actors and shows. Cool grafics. and music.
Whaaaaaasssssssssssuuuuuuuuuuppppppp, Mike?
Just chillin’ drinkin’ a coffee, watchin’ the wordnerds.
True, true.
Obfuscate: 1.) to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy 2.) to make obscure 3.) to darken. Synonyms: muddle, perplex, cloud
Something I learned as a proofreader is that in order to do the job well, you need many dictionaries from different times in history. At thrift shops, over the course of several months, I collected a good selection of old out-of-print ones for looking up those little-used words still in use by older people, etc.) AND different specialties or demographics like a law dictionary, a Scrabble dictionary, a dictionary of musical terms, etc. But the one place I always look first is the big fat one with a whole lot of entries. In this case, the Random House College Edition, 1973. It’s not the biggest in the house, just the most convenient to use. Usually, I don’t have to look further. In other words, it’s not the number of dictionaries you look in, it’s the size of the dictionary you find it in.
Can one be ‘Disgruntled’ if one has not previously been ‘Gruntled’?
I hate bringing this up but what are the origin of the words shit and fuck? I hope I don’t get flagged for this. I am curious.
Flagged? We are not in home room anymore.
Try a word worth her time, dude. cool,? totally gnarly,
peace out, dude.
It may not be worth her time, but I’m still curious…
Fuck is borrowed into english from the german work, “fricken” which means to strike.
Shit is an acronym for “Store High In Transit” from when they usedto ship dung in ocean frigets for fertilization.
hope that was correct…
Zareal
zareal, Your shit acronym of Store High In Transit is and internet myth. Its a good story but a false one. There are no documents supporting that acronym.
Is that you RRR that made that nice comment or has your wife finally gotten to you
Fornication Under Consent of the King
There you go It is an acronym
WRONG!!!
I always heard it was For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
You both are wrong, and maybe even I.
The earliest cite I can find was in the OED dating from 1503
and Dictionary of Word Origins cites a proper name of ‘John le Fucker’ from 1250. ‘Fuck’ came to us the way most words sneak into the language, it jumped the fence from another language, was spelled and pronounced a bit differently in its new home and over time drifted into being a word recognized by everyone. It kind of takes all the fun out of it? Hu?
I did these words in my Maxim radio show… and would like to do them on YouTube.. but YouTube is getting rather cautious these days…but maybe I can do them in a creative manner
Hi Marina:
Horosho.
I think it would be challenging on YT, but it would get quite a few hits, but English swear words are tame compared to Russian ones. I know this from some exposure to Russians.
Spasibo
Michael ( Misha )
You don’t many American Truck Drivers do you. I would like to see you, ( Marina ) just do a video on all the 7 words yada, yada.
Give the XXXers a thrill and stop the need to ask anymore.
There I go being Pedy and Small again. I know go over to …lisanova’s
if I am not happy.
RRRumpy
Hello Marina and Friends,
I just shot off another email to YouTube to prevent HotForWords’ videos from getting flagged.
The 200th dog video was flagged right after it crossed the million views point and third position for the week. This is an awesome milestone and was ruined by a malicious flagging of the video.
I courteously and kindly asked YT to permanently remove all flagging ability from HotForWords videos. Shouldn’t videos be innocent until proven guilty?
Maybe others could send letters to YouTube as well to stop this malicious flagging of HotForWords videos.
Oops sorry Teach, I guess I didn’t scroll down enough. Nor did I reference your radio show. My bad!
Yea, I think YouTube is very cautious in the past but I think now from the flack they received from the community they are a bit better about it.
Taken from their guidelines:
With that stated and the way your present yourself as an instructor and not some low life. I am absolutely positive you can get away with it. Marina, don’t hold a thing back! Go for it! And if your not convinced then just type ‘fuck’ in the search window and you’ll find things like this music video. With 384,764 views if he where to get flagged he would have by now. Or this all time favorite classic video that I heard when I was in high school. Drum roll please…and in this corner weighting in at 2,903,970 views as of this post and still not flagged! Episode #12 “Using Proper Engish”!!!!
Any questions?
P.S. I still hope you use your creative skills. Its going to be a very well watch video that should put you threw the roof on hits. Make it a good one Marina. We know you can do it. Take your time if you have too. Just do what you do best.
pedantickarl ,
Unfortunately Marina is on top of the mountain. Now everyone is going to be gunning for her. Stabbing her in the back . Doing what ever it takes to bring her down. YT doesn’t care. They have no problem with the rabble destroying her. She is only one person and disposable. But making 75,000 viewers mad is another thing. Remember Susan Summers? Who?? Exactly, Google her. She was very big in the 70s
See your lessions teaches us something and we learn by some of the words you put in your comments. You keep us on our toes. Great job.
pedantickarl, It looks as if the flag has been removed. I didn’t think the flag would last very long.
White flag = slow mover on the course
Standing yellow = caution on approach
Waving yellow = immediate danger
Red flag = stop immediately on the track
black flag = get off my racetrack, NOW!
red/yellow flag = debris on the track
checkered flag = race is over
blue flag w/ yellow diagonal stripe = passing flag
(move off the line and let others pass)
the one that applies here?
black flag w/ orange circle = meatball
(rider report to tech for a stop & go for bad start)
Mel, I think you have your flags mixed up. I think BillyB would agree. You have mixed up FIA rules with Nascar, Indy and a few others.
This is not NASCAR, not FIA, not Indy, not Kart…
I am not confused – these are what we are using
for Sportsline Tracktime, NASA, FARA, SCCA, etc.
Roadcourse, baby – not ovals!
Just wanted to let you know Marina that you have the bluest, most incredible eyes
I’ll let you have this one RRR.
Huuumm, Yah…… he’s hit right on top of the nail. … Blue Eyes.
Amen
Bluetiful
Preevet, hello, sorry for my attempt at saying Russian hello in English but I’d like to request a word, well actually the name of a site, Youtube, and tuxedo
I’m exacerbated to the enth degree! Does the word exacerbate have any relation to the word extirpate due to the -ate suffix? Marina, I would be more than obliged if you did such a video on this and also a lesson on suffixes so as to gain a more clear understanding of some of them – Thank you!!!!
-Shawn Norris
Your logic is flawed; masturbate also has the -ate ending – are you masturbated to the Nth degree? If so, you may not be smart enough to get a degree.
Words are related by their roots, not by their suffixes, aren’t they?
kidnapped?, perhaps teacher should ask Teacher about the word kidnabbed.
Kidnabbing sound more correct. To nab a kid? or to nap a kid.
Never realized it had a literal meaning
Maia Marina, Words request: clapper
And the phrase, “Going like the Clappers”.
Annected? like connected, yet annexed at the same time? Annected for the crime? hmmmm I’ve looked it up, but found no answer….
Hi shawn
Do you mean ‘enacted’?
Maia Marina, words request: ornithopter
a maple leaf is an ornithopter!
dude
’scuse me [kinda late, here]
not the leaf but the seeds,
the propellor thingee…
not what it is; where the word originated
ck its from Leo Nado De Narco
Physics , Right on, We should do …..Gravity , Really, something we can argue about. Kidnapping a little slow. She is really cute doing it. ( the video ) But.
Not to controversial. Not to many Pro-Kidnapping groups. Like a woman would be, Pro-Kidnapping.
The Right to Choose? Baby Setter or Stranger Lunatic Pedophile?
RRRshole
Gravity doesn’t exist. No one has shown me yet that the particle ( the graviton) is responsible for the existence of gravity. But hopefully when the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in France goes on line this year. That question might be soon answered after they find the Higgs boson.
Gravity certainly doesn’t exist in this classroom – quite the opposite, there is only Levity (except for when someone takes exception to another’s humour and wishes them an early grave).
As to a seed being an ornithopter, I doubt it. An Ornithopter is a flying machine that works by imitating the actions of a bird’s wings (same root as ornithology=the study of birds).
Watch close for the ornithopter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC0k_GhFEQk&feature=related
i’m on a roll, today – what can I say?
I have a word
Narcism. I beleive it’s derived from the greek god Narcissus, but would love to see you feature it in a lesson.
narcissism
Marina, where did the word “gay” originate from?
Roadrunmch?
i’ll hold ‘im,
you hit ‘im!
Leave my chickens ALONE
Marina, where did the word “gay” originate from?
[Reply] DO YOU REALLY WHAT TO KNOW? DO ya?
Homosexual Mens would flit and float about like Fairies, All Happy and GAY. People wanting to point out their oddness. Said; ” Look at the Happy and Gay looking Mens.”
)
Then it was shorted to ,” Look, Gays.”
The ” Happys” just did not work on so many levels.
There you go, Another lame attempt at humor. (
RRRshole
We just had another one step into the ring a few comments up,,,get ‘em!
Marina, how did the male member come to be referred to as a “Johnson”?
sniperskaya, one day Marina
is going to explain that and
all the other names, but,
you may have to wait until
you’re all grown up inside
I don’t know about everybody else but mine is name Johnson cuz it’s MAGIC !
I saw your interview on the O’Reilly Factor and I was very impressed! I’m a substitute teacher in two different school districts here in SW Wisconsin. I have had a lot of fun with the word ‘Octothorpe’. I ask my kids if they know what it is. The only ones who know it are the ones I’ve had in class before. I first found in on the Merriam Webster web site(www.merriam-webster.com). It is the name of the symbol #.
Another word you may want to ‘do’ is a word that I use to ‘hang’ my students in hangman. The word is ’syzygy’, it means the alignment of celestial bodies, as in an eclipse. It’s fun watching their faces when they give up and I write the word on the board!
Take care.
Steve
quijibo – Bart Simpson
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz……..
Homework is easy Marina. It’s the Lindberg baby kidnapping…
duh…
Marina – are you lowering the bar for the Maxim “readers” or what?
Y-you mean Maxim’s got words??
OOPS! Misspelled Lindbergh. Sorry.
The Lindburgh Kidnapping
I’ve always been curious abiout the word “jones” used as a verb. It kind of works with the word “horny.” I have a raging “jones” for Marina. I recall hearing the term in my misspent youth 30 years ago, with people saying I have a Jones for some pot or I have a beer jones. Any clue? I’d LOVE to be the teacher’s pet some day. Thanks.
Remedial Wordsmith
Up until now, I only had heard of a basketball jones…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbp5C-5WXM
SInce we Use this word every time and i dont even know if its a word,
What does the word THE mean?
Ask Bill Clinton – LMAO!
No, wait don’t …it
depends on what day
of the week you ask him
Like when he says,…. I never had sex with ” THE ” Bitch.!
Should I be poking fun of our first Black President. NO?
Ok ……..He said; ” Duh hoE ” sorry.
RRRshole
Now now!
He was a former President, sir.
We don’t have to resort to
the crudeness – the truth is
good enough without that!
Respect :shock
[emoticons went bye bye?]
Lindbergh baby kidnapping
Look at you being all hip with your little skully top on!…Loves it!
pissant
isn’t that a chess move?
Piss-ant When you kill them, they stink like piss.
Eww! not like au pissant at all!
Oops! au passant
Let me know if you need her address
The answer is Lindbergh child kidnapping.
That would have been when the Lindberg’s baby was taken!!!
The Lindberg baby kidnapping; the baby just happened to be the child of Charles Lindberg Who was the first person to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Could you do the origin of the word “kiss” or “lipstick”?
The Lindberg baby is the answer.
I was wondering the origin of the word Proposal?
Now If you will excuse me, I think teacher needs to talk with me.
Your a fag who can’t even use spell check correctly.
LOL!!!…Cheers DcD
Come on Geronimo. Teacher and I are having a private lesson. She is teaching me Russian and I am teaching her AMORE’. Do not make her feel awkward because of her “crush” on me.
I think he was so nervous that he forgot his spell checker.
It was an interesting Freudian slip, the last four letters indicating what was foremost on his mind when anticipating his meeting with teacher.
Congratulations davecodave on being randomly selected ass teachers pet. Well I hope you chock on it. LOL.
He isn’t nearly as cute as Kobe when he rolls over and begs for a treat!
Dude should stop licking himself so much….
I’ll have to agree with you’r brother. You have been on here for a short while and already picked as teacher’s pet. Pet what
You must have what it takes DCD. Congrats my friend. 
And watch out for flying bullets 
Wow! What color is the sky in your little world?
That would be the Lindberg kidnapping.
Maarina,
The answer to your question is – Lindberg Baby Kidnapping.
At the time the kidnapping of Charles Lindberg’s son was considerded to be the “crime of the century?. Public outrage was so great that many states enacted “Little Lindberg Laws” that mandated the death penalty for kidnapping, especially when great bodily harm or death occurred to the child.
Dear Marina,
Requesting “SKINNY DIPPING”
I am not going to cheat and look on Google. I seriously do not get why swimming naked would be called skinny dipping. The “dipping” is obvious….but what about the “skinny” part?
If it has to do with body type (which would be dumb…..duh!) then why isn’t there a “fat dipping” for the overweight dippers.
Thanks in advance for solving this one. I got to thinking about that word after hearing about a story of two skinny dippers swimming in a city water resovoir last weekend.
BoArgMir
There is fat dipping but no one wants to see or even hear about it.
My guess would be that it comes from ‘dipping’ one’s skin, sans clothes. Good request, Bo!
Thats funny you mention that term. There’s the link to the story for everyone else that didn’t hear about it. Pair caught skinny dipping in Portland reservoir
Thats a good request BoArgMir. I myself has always wondered about that term. I tried just to shorten the word to Skin Dipping so I could understand it better. I would venture to guess that Skin was used first and skin’ny’ was added on later.
OMG! that was fun-ny!!
Thanks for “the skinny” on that one!
Marina needed “the low down”, too
[ a little inuendo, huh?]
“Fat dripping” was what we got fed on as kids. It’s the congealed fat that drips into the tray when you roast a joint of meat, and thrifty Mums in wartime Britain used to spread it on toast for their kids, because other spreads were not available due to rationing.
The story goes that Mick Jagger is so skinny because his Mum took this economy too far, and fed him nothing but dripping on toast, leading to the well known English proverb, “Constant dripping wears away a Stone.”
Mick and K. Richards would do
impromptu appearances as
“the Glimmer Twins”
when a man is “just a glimmer”
of his former self, he is said to
be “skinnier” than before.
there’s some connecting tissue
here, somewhere…a common thread?
Greeting ye lovely,
Well shiver me timbers lass.
I’se just noticed ye be wearin me pirates dress.
Arrr me patch got in dah way dah first time.
Me en dah lads done figurd out dah connection with the kidnapin.
But when we sweeps yah away, we be keepin yah for ourselves.
Been hiiting the Captain Morgan’s again, eh?
I mean … Aaarr?
Two contemporary cases that resulted in the death penalty were Joseph Smith, who kidnapped and killed Carlie Brucia, and John Couey, who kidnapped and killed Jessica Lunsford. Both cases occurred in Florida. The latter case led to the introduction of Jessica’s Law, which has been passed in 42 states. On a night where Marina’s “O’Reilly Factor” interview is replayed, it’s worth noting that Bill has led the charge to get Jessica’s Law passed.
since you did kidnap i was wondering the word origin of babysit was. thanks so much!
’cause babies are hard to “stand” after awhile?
Hello, I was wondering if you could find out the origin of the word sweet.
This link rocks – says it all
…listen for the “sweet” part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDataIWgPrw
hey Marina, i always hear people use the words milf to hot moms but i dont really understand the word, can you give some help
You don’t?? :shock
(my emoticons are gone?)
Moms I’d Like to F@#k
milf…it does a hottie good!
lol
dude, let’s leave Mom out of this.
[best scat Russian accent]
“is buzzkeell to my horny”
[really accentuate the soft
"ch" sound in ch-orny]
I always wanted to know why Americans say for example HEY GUYS or YOU GUYS for male and females. I don`t understand where does this come from.
It just comes down to laziness. We use to say “Hey girls” also but then you would have mixed groups and you would have to address them both. What a pain in the butt. So now ‘Guys’ just addresses any group of people.
Sometimes you just can’t tell. “It’s time for Androgyny, here come Pat”.
Just some of the fallout from women’s lib movement.
“don’t hold that door for me just because i’m a woman”
???
no, baby, i do that for everybody – just good manners
people are rude in Flori-duh. i can tell when they
come from where I lived, in Ohio – because they
will say “thanks” to which the polite response is…?
does anybody in the USA know this, besides ME??
clue: in italian, it’s “prego”
- outside USA gets a pass – respect!
(no, not “preggo” 4 ewe perv-types)
Mury, I have the exact same issue! I like to say Hey guys and hey gals. or Hey guys and gals.. Yea its weird. Like geronimo said, its a pain in the butt. I hear more and more women calling each other guys. Maybe is some kind of equality thing? Oh knows? I just try to adapt my language to the people who surround me.
diabetes (suger problem)
sunnymale Diabetes has nothing to do with a “sugar problem.” It is a disease that has to do with the bodies ability to process the natural sugars in foods and give the body energy. Unless this is what you meant and then this rant was unneeded and i just mis understood what you ment by “sugar problem.”
Can I request the word Nil
Here I thought It meant to sleep with a goat ? And goats are liars.
RRRshole
Can anyone see the avatarsYes I can if you mean the skull and crossbones then yes
Yea, but not your link.
I was just faking with you, all blue with nothing to do
……………………………..No link………………………………
I would actually like the to request the word combination of “banana republic”, it came up in a book a read recently and I was curious how it came about.
Kid in English still means a ‘young’ goat.
Kid actors in America act precocious.
Until they become young adults…
Isn’t this how Hillary met Bill?
Hello Hotforwords,
I would be very happy if I could please request the word “Autism”.
My brother has it, and I want to have people understand what “Autism” is and what it means. Thank you so much,
Your #1 fan,
Jake (TheAutismSpectrum)
I have a friend of mine who has a son that has autism. He is so smart he got a full scholarship to Duke University.
I would like to know the origin of the word “bong” ?
Miss M. did you get ajax fixed. The site seems very slow today. I tried it on both of my computers one running XP pro and the other Vista and both are slow and I have broadband.
Thanks,
Mike
I think it’s the connections to co-comment and gravatar that are slowing things down. On several occasions reloading the page has hung with a message in the status bar saying “waiting for …” and then one or other of those two sites.
I get roughly about the same messages. One time it told me I commented twice on the same subject. Oh well
I said it below and elsewhere, but I agree, Bob, co-comment is ultraslow (and hard to fathom).
It’s getting worse and worse: slower and slower………….
Yes I agree Bob, co-comment and gravatar are slowing things down. I thought it was just me and my old computer. But to hear others having the same problem make me wonder.
I watch the bottom of my browser and seeing the same message as you ‘waiting for…’ and ‘Transferring’ etc. Its getting so slow now I like click on submit and I got and get something to eat. IT feels like the 56k modem days.