Killer Tomatoes
Tomatoes STARTED OUT deadly! Let me show you why.
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Posted on July 8, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Tomatoes STARTED OUT deadly! Let me show you why.
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Posted on July 8, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
first one didn’t work tomato
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Thomas Jefferson perhaps. he liked France.
You did a fantastic bit of investigation here very enjoyable.
moynf (milk out your nose funny)
thomas jefferson
Hi Marina:
Good to know that the origin is from the spanish word tomate. On the other hand I would like that you look for the spanish word GRINGO. Finally, you look gorgeous, lovely and pretty with your red dress. Also a final request.. Please let your hair grow longer. You look fantastioc with long hair.
Akiss for you and thanks for your efforts to educate us.
Peachy!
love the way you say tomato
TOMATOES ARE NOT GOLDEN APPLES
1
The expression golden apple comes from pomme d’or in french
2
Pomme d’or is traduction of pomodoro, italian evolved from latin
3
The latins took it from a legend of ancient greece
4
The legend said that far away crossing the seas (mediterranean sea)
existed some trees sent by the gods which fruit, similar to an apple, was made of gold
5
Because of the tree, the flowers and the fruits assembled to apples,
greeks called this fruits, the golden apples
6
Later, when they reached the east spanish coasts, in 5th-4th century B.C. found them, and realized that these fruits were not apples.
7
Tomatoes were brought to europe in the 16th century
So tomatoes couldn’t be that golden apples
Maybe the pomme d’amour
But that happened a lot of centuries later
¿¿COULD ANYONE GUESS WHAT FRUIT WAS THAT …
GOLDEN APPLE??
AND GREAT JOB MARINA
I ONLY TRIED TO HELP
YOU THE BEST
Thomas Jefferson
Hi Marina,
I saw your video on how people use to think that tomatoes were considered poisonous. When I was a kid, my mom use to say the same thing about potatoes. So it got me thinking that since potato rhymes with tomato, I was wondering if my mom misheard and told it to me wrong or if people ALSO use to consider potatoes poisonous? This may sound like a stupid question, but I am seriously confused. I don’t know how many people out there can relate or are asking for this word. But could you post a video to clear up any confusion. Thanks.
I guess this is a word request: POTATO
I would like to know the origins of the word “Potato” too also why here in England we also call them “Spuds”.
Sometimes on potato plants you get what is known as potato “bells”, They are seeds of some sort and look like small green tomatos, I have been told that they are poisonous, this may be what your Mum had heard about.
Hi Marina,
I heard that the word F.U.C.K. is coming from “Fornication Under Control of the King”, when in UK on past centuries couples need permission from the King to make children, and once received the permission the house door was red marked with F.U.C.K. something like a “do not disturb”. Could you confirm that and maybe better explain this funny story?
Thanks a lot and best wishes for all
Sorry for my English and greetings from Italy
Dario
I would like to know the origins of the word Sandwich.
http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smil ies/icon_rolleyes.gif
Marina how did the word big and small come from I ask because I have big boobs and my sister says I have big boobs and she has small boobs so she says no no no i have bigger breasts and you don’t so stop it and that makes me frustrated 
God damn Marina your acute.
By the way, whats the origin of the word “boobytrap” ? Sounds like a funny word, but no perversion intended. Ha.
Get at me
Matthew
Marina,
Can you please find the origin of “Extravaganza”
Thnx,
Famousxblayzez
Dear marina. (going bacj to lady lou)yes it was a show in england, and it was about 6 months ago i found some more info on it It’s short for “Lady Louisa,” Louisa being the unpopular wife of a 19th-century earl of Lichfield. In 1867 while the couple was visiting friends, two young wiseacres took the namecard off her bedroom door and stuck it on the door of the bathroom. The other guests thereafter began jocularly speaking of “going to Lady Louisa.” In shortened form this eventually spread to the masses. which i retreieved from http://www.kottke.org/05/02/loo-etymology .. James xxxx
its so nice to have 2 replies from u they really make brighten up my day especially as people used to give me bad looks in school because I told them to say “wrote” as “writ” is not correct , a bit odd as im 16! Every time i turn on my phone now it says “I am calling for all forks to be banned!” Love that line Take care x
No I havn’t been the teachers pet. I am still hoping. The new video is up and posted.
That was a cool article on the loo James. Very good reading. I have a palm pilot just like yours that I carry. Cheaper than the real version.
Mike
Is that a joke? sorry if i being slow but i dont have a palm pilot
ALSO Marina as you said forks should be banned and are now probably sick to death of me commenting I decided tomorrow i shall film myself eating but only thing that involve forks, which i won’t be using. so its tiramisu for breakfast (eaten with hands) and what ever is for tea (eaten with hands) if i send you the link i would be grateful for you to have a look and comment xx
Yes James the Palm Pilot was a joke. I use a piece of paper just like you to keep notes on. Forgive me if it didn’t sound like a joke. No Marina isn’t sick of you commenting. The more comments the better. I would be happy to view your video and so would Marina.
ok then i will post an address when i make it.. My nan was telling me not to end sentences with prepositions when i was 9 then i started telling people not to do it last year then everybody thought i was weird.. lol. Have you been teachers pet before?
Shame marina did not bite into a Big juicy Ripe tomato….and as she bites into it ….some of the juice dripps down her front……..oh man…..my dreams………maybe the next fruit or vegtable she talks about we acn see her eat it……
the word i would like marina to talk about is Effect…..like Special Effect. Stan winston was like a hero to me and he died on the 15th june his work goe’s into terminator, aliens , preditor ect……great special effects man .
So……the word effect would be great ……oxoxoxoxoxox
Marina is this what you are going to do to us if we join your spy club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOARWX3OjFc
Hi, I was wondering if you have ever heard the Southern Slang… Ya’ll, Where did it come from? Was it a shortened version of you all, and why is it that just Southeners say it?
I’ve asked this before: what the f**k is up with AtheneWins. What is that? Have he, it or them just figured out how to jack subscriptions with bots or something? I mean who wants to watch that, those……..? You can fill it in
I ask that question myself everyday:P and i have totaly no idea, he supposedly is the best palladin in Worl Of Warcraft, other than that I can’t think of any reason wy anyone would subscribe to him..
Who’s P foxbow15?
do I need to respond to that…
no obligation…..I guess I’m having a duh moment….
Yea his videos are crap! But I have to say Wow is a very popular game and he is just riding the wave…
Marina, my sweet, please do “by and large.”
Thank you!
I went to your UTube site and there were 90,182 subscribers. Ten minutes later its up to 90,191. What are you going to feed all of these people.
That’s a lot of Peach and Strawberry Crepe’s
MMMM yummmy
Heard Marina and the staff of HotForWords LLC are putting on aprons.
I have MY FORK ready
Humm, wouldn’t want to be Evil
and insult the Lady. 
How would you eat a Freshly Cooked Crepe with your Hands?
How about we Let Teacher Feed Us by Her Hand.
Remember back in the old movies how the star would lay his head in her lap and she would feed him grapes or crepes.
What if we want to bringing something to class for our teacher?
Should it be an apple or a love apple,,, or something Candy Apple Red?
I think she would love about anything from a member of her class.
I wonder if the deadly reputation of tomatoes is why they are considered part of the night shade family, along with eggplants. Some people still avoid them because of that but I don’t see why they’d be any harder on the system than any other food, except for the acid in them (heartburn, maybe?)
My daughter can’t ear them. It makes her break out in hives and her lips swell up.
that should be eat not ear.
capman - No problem. I wasn’t sure if night shade was two words or should look like this: nightshade. I just winged it
Your typo was far more interesting than mine (if I made one) though.
Yes it was rather funny her sticking them in her ear
Hey my teacher!
A word request. Can you help with the word Widget?
Huf, Huf, my dear teacher…
Pete from the FrequencyCast podcast
I want to know origin of word Wannabe.
Thx!
yeah……., could you do toothbrush to…. -.-
pfffff
Yea Foxbow you are right on the chicken feet (ie) fingers. I didn’t think of it that way.
I guess it all tastes like chicken 
Can you tell me, Why it it that I find the Spabish word for tomato differently from yours? The English word tomato comes from the Spanish tomatl, first appearing in print in 1595. I found this on about.com!!
Hello Marina, first time on here. You caught my eyes on Youtube and I share your interest in words and languages. You do a great job and it is all very interesting. Now, to get to the point.
The word I would like to contribute with would be “threshold”. It could be, at least in my opinion, one of the most beautiful words of the English language.
Another word I would like to know more about is “tranquility”, also a word I find very beautiful.
(Advance could also be a word I would like to know more about)
Thanks in advance
Patric
Patric - I like the words you’ve chosen, having always found threshold to sound lovely and also wondered about it.
Okay here’s a tricky one, Marina.
Why does anti-Semitism mean a dislike or hatred of Jews when, in fact, The semites, as a category of peoples, includes both Arabs and Jews. If so anti-Semitism is misapplied most of the time today.
Thomas Jefferson was the president.
They served tomatoes at Monticello?
hello Marina,
how about the phrase, tin foil hat.
thank you
caligynephobia / venustraphobia FearHotWomen.com
I have Venustrapaphobia - fear of being eaten by a giant flesh-eating plant.
But I want to die like a rat
he he real nice…
i was just thinking about Mary-Go-Round, does it have any connection to Mary going round somewhere?
No, because it’s MERRY-go-round.
Presumably, you would need to be quite merry to contemplate going on such a ride. Another name for the same thing is a roundabout.
No tomatoes at this party but I believe Dougal was Kobe’s Great Great Great Grandfather.
Hey where the Captain, his avatar has been MIA for a while. Did he put to sea broken-hearted, or just go down with his ship? We all same boat there
He’s either on a charter or teaching a class some where. Don’t worry, he’s like Arnold HE’LL BE BACK
Good to know
Capitain Sensible
I was thinking about the expression “Gardez l’eau.” As it is, it means “Keep the water” (imperative). The French verb “se garder”, not garder (to keep, to conserve) means to be careful of something. So, I believe that that expression may be anglicized like “entrée” which in France is not the main course of a meal, but the appetizer! Of course, right, it is the entry course. So like this example, “Gardez l’eau” should be “Gardez-vous d’eau!”: Watch out for the water!
eau well…
how about chicken fingers? i don’t think chickens have fingers
If they did I would put hot suace on them and eat them
lol, they do have feet
you can buy them at like every toko lol, seems to me they’re kinda boney
man i hate the word “lol” and still I use it so often …
lol is not a word
Picnic …. in the spirit of the summer!
much love
Where did the word/s sadism and/or masochism come from? I believe masochism is an eponym, named after a Count or something like that.
I have been watching the Kill Bill movies, and both those words are used.
Sadism comes from the French 18th century writer the Marquis de Sade. Masochism was first employed by a psychiatrist Krafft-Ebbing who look it from the name of the Austrian writer Sacher-Masoch.
Thanks.
I am glad you answered that on LFWs. I looked up the word masochistic and didn’t care to much for it’s meaning.
my mum put tomatoes in a sandwich of mine today THE NUMBER OF TIMES I HAVE TOLD MY PARENTS I HATE TOMATOES!!
Now you can tell her they’re deadly, along with that darn fork!!
How does fingernail polish taste with your food if you don’t use a fork? I have seen some nicely done and costly fingernails polished to nines.( one lesson learned “9s”) It would be shame to find one lying in your shrimp cocktail.
they’re supposed to be real capman911
I don’t like tomatoes in sandowiches, either! Bread wettted by water of them really makes me feel sick! Why do they have to combine the 2 things that are not compatible with???
Here America especially the south we eat a lot of tomato sandwiches. There is nothing like a home grown tomato thickly sliced with mayonase between two pieces of bread. I know it’s not everyones most etible food, but it is ours. I love tomatoes diced up on scrambled eggs and no taco would be the same without cut up tomatoes on it. Sorry if this isn’t to your likeing, I guess it’s what you are raised up on.
I like tomatoes, but not in sanwiches, it makes it all wet and mushy :S yuk
felicity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
“Its fruit is classified, botanically, as a berry.”
No arguing with the Wikipedia
Why does they call male and female beautiful and great bodies, SEXY? And why did they call it SEXY?
Is that because it arouses your sexual urges from the words sex when they see a “Sexy” body male or female?
Marina if you can, can you investigate it please.
Hello, again. Is ‘tomato’ considered a fruit in the US and Russia? Isn’t it one of vegetables?
Hi felicity how are you, here in America it is considered a fruit. Why I don’t know. It is grown in a garden with other vegetables and supposed to be kin to a potato. Maybe some one else can add some more information for you.
Oldpossium up about three or four comments has added this site maybe it will help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
Tomato is considered a fruit, a berry to be more exact, i tought it was because it grows on a woody plant.
I want to request the word “roulette”, and by he way about the Russian Roulette, which is really deadly not like the tomatoes….
Great, Hitman! i also requested this already twice
i really hope that with your help Marina will be convinced to make us gift of an awesome video about it 
спасибо тебе огромное,всего доброго 
HOTFORWORDS!! Regarding your lesson on the word loo, nobody knows its origin i saw them on tv trying to find the origin so it could go in the oxford dictionary. the 2nd origin was on there but another one was something about a lady called lady louise. she was always going to the loo and i think that around the house the servants called it the lady lou and the name got more popular until its adaptaion now of loo. i think its like that anyway cant quite remember. but i dont think they solved the origin.
James
jamesington, was it a show in England that you saw?
I saw this too (in America) but I can’t remember the show. It was about 6 months ago.
Was the show called “Balderdash and Piffle” presented by Victoria Coren, where they invite members of the public to find the earliest recorded use of certain words for the OED?
Balderdash and Piffle! Where the “Fork” do those words come from and what do they mean?
How about the word “remember”?
REMEMBER is taken from the old French REMEMBRER = to take back together the members, the limbs, the elements of your memory.
The root is latin MEM-BRUM “limb”. Certainly connected to Slavic *MEM-SO “meat” but with another suffix. Modern Russian МЯСО.
And se souvenir–prefix sous is like dessous? Like the under in under-stand? So, to come under literally? Se rappeller is obvious to call back to onself.
Privet Marina
I don’t have a word request as much as a language request.
I am busy learning Russian… it’s early days yet, but I’m getting there. I enjoyed your Russian AK-47 video very much… especially since I could compare the English and Russian versions and learn a bit more about the Russian language in an engaging way.
My request is for you to pretty pretty please do some more Russian-language videos. I am sure we will see an upsurge in interest in Mother Russia’s tongue when you are the teacher…
With bated breath I await the reply to and result of this diminutive missive.
A.
Greetings,
How did the phrase “hood-winked” get started?! And where does it come from?
Fascinating - I need more lycopene!!
Hello, everyone. Here is felicity. Apparently I am a person who still has used a tomato as a decoration plant, bacause I have totally forgotten it staying in the fridge for many days. It looked like decking the cool space hotly. The color indefinable…… anyway, it’s still deadly at least in my world. Be careful, Marina.
why is a “blow job” called like this it is more a “sucking job”. thank you to explain and give any demonstration needed
I think the president was thomas jefferson
Why do we add “es” to make a word like tomato plural but for most words we simply add an “s” ?
Hey..id like to know the origin of “Indeed”
i say it all the time to agree with someone…but it would be nice to know where it comes from
Hey Marina, can you do the word “chopsticks” ?
I’ve no idea where it came from!
Thanks!
-seanimal
Can you talk about how some odd plural forms of words came to be, such as child and children or alumnus and alumni
thanks,
Jay
alumni is just its Latin plural. Alumnus is a plain Latin word.
Dearest Teach,
My fork stabbing a luscious killer tomato (however pronounced) accompanied by a dry martini (with soccer-ball sized olives) is enough to kidnap my taste buds (and my heart)! But I’m no phony so as I contemplate life on the throne where all men do their best thinking (i.e. the loo) I asked myself who is truly making a difference in this crazed world? You are! Thanks so much for inspiring us to embrace language in a fun and exciting and intellectually challenging new way. So I offer you this most exuberant encomium (now that would be a good word for you to research!) and ask would you consider something frivolous and light and with a background unknown to me? I was thinking of the word canoodle!
Your student, Quiggles
Origin of the word “zit”, please!!!!!!! Thanks Marina!!!!!!!!
Origin of the word “blond” please
Thanks !
Origin of the word sauna, please.
I think the president was Thomas Jefferson.
Про помидоры все ясно;-) Яблоко любви)))
следующий: слово чикса или chick откуда пошло 
если есть возможность рассказать, было бы очень интересно. Также хотелось бы узнать, кто или что сделало это слово популярным.
Дорогая Марина! У меня вопрос
it’s hot for word, isn’t it?
Thanks for the insight, ya hot little tomato….
I had this weird dream. Have you ever said that? I have and I know other who have also. Dreams are strange of course, they are limitless imagination playing out our desires and fears. So why do we say Weird? OK, this is what i found. Weird come from old English and before that from the German ‘wyrd’, which means fate or destiny.
So, are we really saying I had a destiny dream? Has the real meaning of weird been taken from us? To be replaced with a weird that means strange or queer. Would you please explain the origins of those two words as well.
thank you,
you are CHARMING
pierre
Dear Marina,
I have always been wondering what is the difference between the words paradise and heaven?
Thank you
Keep up the good work!
Request word “Banner”
Hotforwords must discuss it 
Dear Marina,
does “trainer” (or “to train”) have anything to do with trains?
I am going to help Marina because she must be overwhelmed with questions.
TO TRAIN is completely connected to RAILWAY TRAIN : the words are French. TRAIN comes from TRAINER “to drag”. A railway train is “dragged”. TO TRAIN somebody is TO DRAG a man, to pull him, to stretch him. But of course French is the descent of Latin and the root of the French TRAIN is TRAG-MEN in Latin where TRAG- is the stem “dragging” and -MEN the suffix meaning “thing being”. TRAMEN is then logically “the dragged thing” or “the dragging thing”. You find the same root in TRACTION. It’s really an endless story but so interesting.
Aren’t the Latin verbs traho and tracto? I can’t think of a verb root meaning to pull or drag with a t r a g…
Thank you! I think “traho” is the verb, which does not prevent “tragmen” to be the substantive, possibly. I confess I prefer Marina´s explanations
BUT I am really curious about many words! I used to be so before I found out about Marina noe week ago.
She’s like crack, one hit and your addicted…and lostforwords
Marina, I think it would be interesting to explain the tomato, tomahto and stuff is….
psst 
…movies
Also can you explain the difference in meaning between to connote and to denote; or connotation and denotation? It seems that they might mean the same thing; so why two words?
lostforwords
hey, u should talk about the origin of the saying “the hang of it” such as “now you’ve got the hang of it!”. thanks
Firstly, you’re awesome
second, i have a non-word suggestion: teach us about the history of languages; how greek and latin spawned german/english and the romance languages and why russian doesn’t seem to completely resemble either, yet uses a permutation of greek for its alphabet.
that sort of thing.
if that seems like its a bit off topic, then i suppose maybe something as simple as the word “question” could be interesting. I mean, was the inclusion of the word Quest intended or just coincidence?
also, thanks for the intro to cocomments - seems like it could be very handy
Hi gr1pp, I asked for something similar a few weeks back such as the meaning of Slavic languages, Indo / European roots, Latin roots and so forth. It’s a fascinating field with lots of intrigue and controversy whereby Marina could make many videos covering this topic or a themed series.
i used to work in a college english center with a few professors that would always tell me about these things. you right, a very interesting and deep topic
Marina !
You forgot to say that TOMATOE is a Nahuatl word belonging to the Aztecan language TOMATL. For further etymology mission impossible because TOMATL is to Aztecan what APPLE is to English, maybe a root by itself ?
Get over it I am Bringing it back to earth
You mean POMME DE TERRE I presume :->
How did the evil city of POMPEII get it name?
Where did the word “Noob” come from? seriously!!!
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!
It’s short for nubile.
No, it is short for newbee which is slang for someone who is new to something. Online gamers seem to be the ones who shortened it to ‘noobs’
I wrote an article called ‘the noobs’
http://www.huntingclub.com/Projects/Project.aspx?i d=117660
Lets throw a pig on the barbie. Very nice article. My cousan hunts out in the west. He is or used to be a guide for hunting parties. He also wrote articles in different magazines as you have. I have never met him, but have read some of his articles. His name is Dick Idol. Good hunting Geronimo.
It might be time for a name change…..but thats just me.
what is the origin of the word zucchini ????????
steve dawson
Not sure what president and I know my history pretty well….could you do the origin of the word cat? Not sure if you only like dogs but figured I could ask. Also I love that you argue with yourself its pretty funny
Marina,
GONZO is my word request.
GONZO is a Germanic word. GONZALES is Hispanic but the Goths occupied Spain during many centuries and gave the word GUNDAZ “fighter”.
In French we had the word GO