Strawberry
Strawberry… where’s the straw in the berry?
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I love all berries equally! No [discrimination] whatsoever. They taste good in [yogurt]
My favorite berry is- cranberry
Hay, straw is cheaper. An old farmer joke and my random lesson. Strewn about like quackgrass roots[rhizomes]. I like all edible berries and you make me smart.
xbox wrote this in a previous lesson that I thought rather interesting:-
‘I found this very interesting and learned a lot. Hope you do too.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
In the Spring they;
the towns people would get their berries sprouting, sometimes to early. the Winter, as we all know in the early months of April, especially in England, are very unstable, it could all of a sudden ice out of nowhere. So, People would have to throw straw over the tops of the berries to insulate them, and keep them from spoiling from over exposure to the weather. Hence the name (Strawberries)’
Oh, and my favorite berry is the . . . cranberry!
In French, “fraise” (strawberry) is a slang term that refers to one’s face. Example: “J’aime pas sa fraise !”
On a highly related issue, when I was a kid, we used to have lunch on a nice marble slab in Barry Cemetery. Just off 69 Hwy north of the river in what used to be a one-horse town named Barry, but is now a part of Kansas City, Missouri. We enjoyed spending time with the silent majority.
Last April, I visited the town of Strawberry, Arizona. The state’s first schoolhouse is located there. I guess the kids who attendd school there grew up to be smart. Berry smart.
strawberry are great with cream and a beautiful woman like you…
Soy = 1679, saio “sauce for fish, made from soybeans,” from Du. soya, from Japanese soyu, variant of shoyu “soy,” from Chinese shi-yu, from shi “fermented soy beans” + yu “oil.” Etymology reflects Dutch presence in Japan long before English merchants began to trade there.
How about we do the definition of “give them the raspberry” LOL
Play it again, tareq6000…it works today and is soul cool and pretty
…hope your day is fine 
[happenstance]
Strawberries for me. Gosh Marina, your lucky to be living in L.A where its sunny and happy every day of the week.
God I hate fog.
My Favorite Berry is….. Marion Berry. Or maybe it’s Chuck Berry…..of course there is always Barry Williams (brady bunch). Then I am quite fond of the New York Razz Berry.
MARINA-strawberries are good.what about mayberry ?
милашка et al.,
Which berries? Depends on the purpose
For dessert: strawberries & raspberries
For cereal: blueberries.
For drinks: cranberries (for vodka), cherries (for other liquors)
I gotta go with strawberries, if only because it’s fun watching Marina eat them
ANyway, I would like to request a video on the word ghoul
My favorite berry is the tomato. My second favorite is the sea buckthorn and my third favorite is the barberry. And, yes, Bob is right: the banana is a true berry. I took a botany course in college.
hot for words! please solve my poker card game mystery and why poker called poker? your not poking anybody, its a card game!
pretty please help me put my mind to rest on this one, thank!
Shawn ooo
Guys,
Don’t miss Marinas appearance on the Bill O’reilly Show on the 31th.
Here is his email address, yip it up. oreilly@foxnews.com.
Marina,
Did Bill ask for any special word ie, Hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pharisee. Just kidding, I like Bill.
I like his tantrums when someone disagrees with Him.
He’s a little supercilious but ……….?
Why are Fingers called phylanes instead of just fingers
The bones of the fingers are called the phalanges.
Oh!
I know what I wanted to ask you Marina, I want my videos to say watch in high quality (like yours do.. ) How do you make them do that.. What camera do you have? James
xx
I tought you needed a bitrate of at least 600kbps and uploud the vid in xvid or divx, not sure. Do a search on it, “how to get high quality on youtube” on yt im sure you’ll find the answer.
Just hope marina replies.. I wanna know what type of camera it is etc. I think if you just have the right camera it will do it anyway
James, make sure you upload your videos with a size of 640×480 and I use H.264 encoding at a 3000 kbps encoding rate… My older videos where I uploaded them at 320×240 I don’t think they do a high quality version of them.
How did you get so smart with computer technology?
Experience Capman… I’ve been doing this for over a year now
How do you do a 3000kbp rate?
I can do everything else.. Just not the 3000kbps bit..
When you compress your videos… where do you tell it the bit rate? it would be 3 Mbps or 3000 kbps.. I don’t think that rate is that important though as long as it’s 600 kbps I think minimum
Somtimes I just upload them straight from movie maker.. I just tried to convert a video like you said and now its saying windows explorer has stopped working and rundll32 doesnt work.. Its getting better now. But when it fixes itself… I will try again… Thanks
Any more Ideas on the putting of different colored squares around our comments? If you do may I have a red one
Don’t Fence Me In
Well, now that I got that excitement out of the way, I like cherries, strawberries, blackberries, and sometimes raspberries. Especially as preserve spread or syrup.
I also read somewhere that the strawberry was a member of the rose family.
Ha
http://www.math.metu.edu.tr/~dpierce/photos/from_others/jerry-mj.jpg
Good one James.
Another installment of James eating without a fork.. added to his page:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/10/eating-with-no-fork/
Thanks Marina
X
what does destiny mean? i’ve always wanted to know x
Hey could you talk about the word wedgie
strawberry cheesecake.. Handsfree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNMLKR8nP0
I hate cheesecake. I can’t stand cheesecake
and again …
I’m beginning to see that his utterances are a strategy to attract a girlfriend
He’ll have to grow some hair first, though.
huh? hair? what?
Thanks 4 that one bob.. Lets hope he noticed I am in fact, male.
i did.
maybe i’m gay?
Maybe you’re not.. And even if you are.. I am too young for you
You’re skating on thin ice, James.
I thought older Gays were into young boys.
Keep your back to the wall.
Home alone.
See what I mean? 
Really aLx, MAYBE?
why you asking, rrr? wanna date me?
I hear the makings of a slumber party.
Capman,
She is the Brightest Youtube Star in the Sky.
Remember Russia is where a lot of the true intellect in the world came from.
The Continent in which Russia lies. True to form Marina is proof. At 21-ish,
Don’t let that sweet looking demeanor deceive you. Inside Her beats the heart of an Catherine the Great.
Shit…………………………………………………………………
| |
| o | <<—- DOOR ………….. RUN(rnch)
Good morning,
The word I would like to know more about is :Schaduenfreude.
Thanks
Larry
SCHADEN FREUDE is German : SCHADEN = DESTRUCTION + FREUDE = JOY.
The joy of destroying things like in APOCALYPSE NOW for instance.
i beg to differ.
it’s more like the pleasure or joy you feel when something bad happened to someone else.
where did the term foo fighters come from?
Hi Marina, can you please explain etymology of expression
“catch 22″. Heard it has something to do with some stupid army rule but i’m not shure. Would you investigate?
Spasibo
Thanks mrglv for requesting that word. I too requested in an earlier post. Hope she picks our expression “Catch 22″.
Funny bluetooth video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtKxrYp0pC0
How are they drive their cars?
Driving hands free before Bluetooth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb2D8wX1fa8
ha good one marina
Martin Cashman, OMG! I think I broke my gut.
That was just hilarious! I love Mr. Bean original sketches.
Hi Marina!
I was reading PerezHilton today and it said something about Miley Cyrus’ new record. And I though: Which record did she break? But then I realized he meant record as in CD. How come the two are the same? Could you explain why?
Hi Marina,
I didn’t miss even one lesson but I would like it better to watch directly from your website.
Somehow I can’t watch your lessons anymore from this site but only from youtube. Any idea what might be causing this?
As a amitious student
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Wouter from the Netherlands
wouter, can you go to this page and tell me which versions you CAN play and which you CAN’T?
http://www.hotforwords.com/video-test-page/
Hi Marina,
Only the upper 2 worked wel, the 2 below didn’t, the lower video’s appear to get hung up at the begining and don’t continue.
Wouter
Do the videos play for you now? There was some code missing and I found the problem and fixed it.
Let me know.
Thanks!
Marina
Hi Marina,
and I promise to keep on doing my best with the lessons in the future 
All work for me now, thanks for fixing the issue!
I wish my dear teacher a nice weekend
Wouter
I would like to know what was the first word to come into the English language from Sanskrit, Hindi, or the other languages of India.
Hello, everyone. I didn’t know that foreign people call that kanji ‘tycoon’. That’s interesting, because no Japanese people read it that way. We say ‘Okimi’ when reading it. Are there any other Japanese people on this site and how do you read ‘大君’ if there are?
It’s because Japanese People use the Chinese keys as hieroglyphs :
In Chinese 大君 is read as DAI JUN “high lord”.
In Japanese you use the Chinese 大 but pronounce it in Japanese word おお =OO = “great” + 君 = きみ = KIMI “lord” so OO + KIMI = OOKIMI.
In fact Japanese uses Chinese like English or French uses Greek for making scholastical words.
Example : MEGALOS KURIOS “great lord” could become MEGALOKYRE in English or in French. It’s only a question of civilization.
I think dictionaricdotcom is right, and that Tycoon was only a loan word from Chinese, when westerners borrowed it from Japanese.
It’s amusing to try using the various on-line translators to see how they translate 大君.
Chinese to English –> Father (in Yahoo Babelfish)
In another it gives Maharaja.
For Japanese to English, Babelfish gives “Large you”
OK, maybe they are trying to emulate the British predilection for understatement.
However one can see the connections; Ty or Tai in Chinese can mean Great or Supreme as in Typhoon (Supreme Wind).
In Thai, Indonesian and some Indian languages Maha also means Great or Supreme as in Maharaja (Great Prince or King in Indian and Indonesian) and Phra Maha Nakhon (Honourable Great City or Capital City in Thai) (As an aside, Raja not only means Prince or King in Indonesian but also Great, so Maharaja is literally Great Great One.)
I believe 君 in Chinese can mean Mister; I don’t know how the Chinese pronounce it, but Khun is also used for You and Mister in Thai.
Is there a word in Japanese, that sounds like Khun or Coon and if so, what does it mean?
Hi M, could you help us out here please? When catching up with an old freind of mine, he claims he has noble ansestory dateing back
ages. A Baron. According to my dictionary, Baron, is the lowest order of British Nobility however, it also relates to a double Sirloin! A Baron of Beef! Is this where ‘Sir’-loin comes from in some way or why whould a knight be named after a cows loins? Could HFW’s please investigate? Thank you once again
Strawberries and Cream, it’s the only way to be……….
Have always grown Stawberries with a bed of straw then chase after a cow to get the cream
We put straw around the plants for two reasons: 1.) it helps retain soil moisture because the straw is light-reflective to protect it from the heat of the noonday sun while slowing the evaporative effects of wind over bare soil, and 2.) the straw provides a soft, clean mattress for the actual berries so they are less likely to sit directly in the dirt (or mud, which results from daily watering) as well as protecting them from contact with ground-dwelling insects, molds, fungus, etc.
I saw this in a previous post by xbox and thought of you pennsyltucky9. Quite interesting
‘I found this very interesting and learned a lot. Hope you do too.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
In the Spring they;
the towns people would get their berries sprouting, sometimes to early. the Winter, as we all know in the early months of April, especially in England, are very unstable, it could all of a sudden ice out of nowhere. So, People would have to throw straw over the tops of the berries to insulate them, and keep them from spoiling from over exposure to the weather. Hence the name (Strawberries)’
darn it , i wanted to ask strawberry but tought it was because of the straw they lay on the ground .
Favorite berry ….blueberry’s!!!! In Finland we have loads of them in the woods, I love picking them. Comming home with a few gallons of blueberrys
awsome!!, they’re even better with some sugar and milk.
My favorite is a mixture of sliced cantalope, with strawberries ( also sliced ), and blueberries ( not sliced ) mixed in.
Someone else mentioned boysenberries; try some boysenberry syrup on peanutbutter waffles!
A WORD REQUEST
WIDOW!! which means that you were married but your husband died days,weeks,months,years after you were married but i still don’tget why they called the womens husbands widowed!!
My word requests:
gay meaning homosexual
one night stand
http://www.hotforwords.com/index.php?s=gay
Cool. I’ll have to check it out!
nice
Dear Marina, can You explain what mean (or how explanation is about) Rendl, respectively Randall or Rondel? Have they any shackled-origin?
I came from Czech Republic.
Drahá Marino. Můžeš mi, prosím Tě, vysvětlit, odkud pochází slovo Rendl, respektive Randall nebo jinak Rondel? Souvisejí tato slova mezi sebou nějakým způsobem?
I have no proof but I feel that my explanation is the correct one :
RENDL Czech = RONDEL Polish = RUNDEL Deutsch “etwas round” = “something round”.
In French RONDELLE = SLICE.
The Germanic ROUND/RUND is taken from the Latin ROTUNDUS “having the shape of a wheel”. ROTA = WHEEL.
Blueberries for sure! Yum.
Hello Marina
I was wondering where the phrase “to hell in a handbasket” originated from. You don’t hear it now as much as you used to, so it makes you wonder even more when you do
Privet Marina,
Ya gavado parusky neochen harasaho.
Maybe you will have a section of your website to teach Americans to speak Russian?
Hi, for a word request; I’d like to know where the word ‘bonfire’ comes from. I’ve seen it in quite some American movies and series; but where does it originate from?
Cheers!
HAHAHA some one posted on marinas youtube channel
ha
that guy is posting 24/7 about his islam thingy -.- it’s redicoulus, I see his comments everywhere
grr
So is some lady and it turns out to be a porno site.
Hi James,
There’s a reason I don’t read YT comments. This is a prime example.
Why did you decide to bring this person’s lack of good judgment to our attention in our word etymology forum? It gives even more exposure to that which deserves none in the first place. In my opinion, there’s no sense in even reading YT comments, so do me a favor and try not to drag them in here for all to smell. Let’s transcend (read: ignore) off-subject chatter, especially about topics that are normally considered taboo for dinner-table conversation (like politics and religion). Nobody is likely to agree with anyone else on such personal-choice issues anyway. The mere mention of these subjects only ignite long and fruitless flame wars which waste a lot of time, generate enemies, and accomplish nothing. Thanks in advance for understanding.
Perhaps you misunderstood me PT9, I only wrote it because it was funny like saying “buy double glazing and get a can of baked beans” It was just some humour
Well done eating strawberries with your hands.. !
I like strawberries
and halle berry
and Chuck Berry
huckleberry fin.
Berry White ?
yogi ber…rry
robertmagee92 has a good request what is heads or tails
WORD REQUEST !!! what does it mean when some one tells you to stop pestering people or with some things
straw is placed under the berries to keep them high and dry from rotting on the wet ground after a rain and also to prevent to many bugs from ruining the crop
where does the expression, pop the cherry come from
a cherry’s got red juice in it? hehe.
Cherry Pop
Hi hotforwords, nice video as always..i was wondering where the term “Heads & tails” comes from. I can understand the head part but the tails is bugging me. Can you investigate?
Thanks xx
My favorite berry is boysenberry.
The strawberries from my garden are nice and ripe right now. As for a favorite, I have to go with wild blueberries and huckleberries, although blackberries and raspberries are definitely right in there as well.
There’s also a close relative of the blackberry that grows on a thorny vine which trails very low across the ground and is commonly called a dewberry around the area where I grew up. These look just like blackberries and can sometimes grow to twice the size of the largest blackberries. They are much sweeter than a blackberry when fully ripe. Dewberries are best in the early morning when the ground is still cold and wet with heavy dew, hence the name. They also deserve a place of honor among my favorite berries. Yum!
also is cherry my favorite a berry even if it does not have berry in the name
marina i would like you to tell us the history of the coco bean and how it became sweet and traveled the world PLEASE
Straw in strawberries? I don’t think there is a straw in that fruit. Anyway, I like strawberries dipped in chocolate. Every year at any x-mas party I attend to they have a chocolate fountain to dip the strawberries in. I think anybody should try it. it’s good!
Blueberries seem to keep fresh longer than other berries… they are awesome with grainy cereals. It’s a close call with strawberries, but I’d have to go with the blue for my favorite.
Oh, and I forgot to say please! …So, please!
much love!
Heyyyy…
I was leaning back in my chair yesterday with some friends, and we began to discuss the meaning of ‘reclining.’ There is also the word incline… sooo… can you investigate?
RECLINING
much love!
I just wanted to know if you could give us the origin of the word ‘kindergarten’. I believe ‘kinder’ is German for children. But where does ‘garten’ come from?
German GARTEN = English GARDEN. English and German are two germanic languages like Dutch, Danish, Norvegian, Swedish and Icelandic. Sometimes all these languages use the same or almost the same words. But sometimes you have surprises : GIFT means POISON in German
and KIND means CHILD.
I forgot to say : ERDE = EARTH + BEERE = BERRY.
ERDBEERE “earthberry” = STRAWBERRY.
STROH = STRAW
That explains why the name of Strawberries in Sweden are Jordgubbar, that trans lated are EarthMen…. kinda weird name really.
So today at work a co worker of mine said he had to go to a Funeral, and he said why is the word fun in funeral, so i thought i would turn to my trustie Hotforwords, to see why does the word funeral have the word fun in it? But you havent done the word yet
so then i must request the word Funeral
and how about the “Wake” after the funeral? The wake is more fun than the funeral.
yeah, an anagram to “funeral” is “real fun”. i noticed that when watching “death at a funeral”. great movie, btw.
[funeral] for the dried fruit-berry…razzed…cackle berries is what my dad called chicken eggs…fun to run and gun a pun; shun my sun, know to burn bun, with hun from of stun(G)…Bees R Goode…done and a ton of [nuns]
I ate a dingleberry when I was a small child. I haven’t eaten another berry since.
HaHa who fooled you
Hi Marina,
As a retired journalist, I, too, love words, but more specifically idiomatic expressions. What about this one?
“catch as catch can”
Both my mom and grandmother used this to mean “you’re on your own.” When my kids were growing up we shortened it to just “catch” which meant everybody had to get their own dinner because nothing special had been prepared. For example:
“hey Dad, what’s for supper?” “I don’t know, you’ll have to catch.”
So where did “catch as catch can” come from?
Oh, by the way, I’m partial to Marionberries!
Fresh berries when there in season and frozen berries when there not………
Fresh berries when there in season and frozen berries when there not………
coy might be an interesting word. Guff first though
All of them.
Hm Acai berries perhaps… hmm… blackberries i think.
My favorite berry is probably blueberries.
I would have to say boysenberries.
Марина, the клубника is not a true berry, neither is the черница. My favorites are the малина and ежевика (which are almost the same, and are not true berries, either!)
not true berries then what are they
малина <— Looks like marina to me.
hello marina the most common word in the world is OK how about the word ouch
its got to be number two
Only in English. I’m pretty sure the Italian, French and Spanish-speakers all use “ai” instead of ow or ouch when in sudden pain. Not sure about other languages though. And there are quite a lot of other languages out there.
Hello,
In France, we use to say “Aïe!” or “Ouille!” for sudden pain.
Especially it is used when you’re a child, ’cause when you’re a grown up, you tend to say cuss words.
But that is another story
Do you know the origin of the word phrase “Xfold” like to “increase seven-fold” or “ten-fold”?
Is it just me, or has there been a disturbingly sharp decline in cleavage the last few weeks? Does it have anything to do with the Youtube partner program, I wonder? Does Youtube withhold payment on videos they deem overly sexual?
I don’t know for sure, but I can’t help but notice that the tata to video ratio dove at around the same time the little red triangle started to appear on the corner of her videos. I hope this isn’t the case, but I can’t think of any other reasons for why Marina seemed so happy to oblige the hooter-lovin’ masses by displaying her masses one minute, then suddenly shelve the flesh-shelves the next.
I miss the boobs
They’re still there – just use your imagination.
Could you tell us the origin of the word “Intelligent”?
Marina!!! ur videos are great!!!
plz makea video about “right” and “left”
How did the word silk blouse come about. please send an email of you wearing a silk blouse
hugs and kisses to the teacher.
lol. that’s funny. we had this russian teacher (from russia) back in … uh … must’ve been around 1989, i remember her wearing silk blouses.
makes me think of something else — many people on here say that they would’ve learned so much more with “a sexy / hot / whatever teacher like marina”. well, ms. tarasova was hot, indeed. young … long, blond, curly hair etc. we didn’t learn shit. well, not about russian, that is, but we learned a lot about bras and … stuff.
Hello Marina,
Where does the term “looney bird” come from?
Thanks,
Mark
i was just going ask you where does the word evil and good come from ?
Blackberry texting in the dead of night.
Oh… real berries, yeah, I like Raspberries, honest they go all the way.
hi i was wondering the origin of the word “zippo” as in the lighter brand and if it had anything to do with zippers
thank you
Hey Marina,
How are you after the earthquake??? Was it as bad as the news let on. First I heard it was a 5.8 later they dropped it down to a 5.4. I hope you are all (you and Kobe) okay
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. We didn’t feel anything here around Sonoma and San Francisco, but it shook things around L.A.
Tycoon!?! Dictionary.com and etymonline.com give 1855-1860 and 1857 for its origin in english. They say Sake came in 1680-1690 or 1687. Hmmm. A mystery yet to be solved.
HotForWords,
You have an awful lot of yellow in your bedroom.
Must be your favorite color.
Those strawberries make a good contrast for you.
Red must be a good color for you to wear.
Hope they tasted as good as they looked.
Wonder if there are any yellow eddible berries?
Yellow raspberries and tastie Golden Yellow Crabapples related to the roseHIP
Bananas, Golden Tomatoes, Yellow Capsicum, and Cloudberries.
Picture
i have always wanted to know why the ladybug was given the name
lady?
All over the word this insect is famous for beeing useful because it eats tonns of tiny bugs that destroys harvests.
LADY means MARY mother of JESUS.
So the LADY BUG is the DIVINE BUG, sent by the heavens for the salvation of men.
Hi,
I have a ord I would like to know how it came about.
“Gooseberry”
I love your accent, I wish you would teach us Amercans some Russian.
Hi, Marina! I would like to know the origin of the word Mayonnaise.
You’re awesome!
Bye. =)
hey does anyone know what time bill oreilly comes on what is it 6.oo west cost 9.00 east cost
mistletoe berrys
Smart thinking, Stoker. They can lead to all kinds of forbidden fruits.
hi marina nice video5*
hey i am glad to hear that you had no problems in the earthquake you good looking strawberry’s 
Word Request: Tit For Tat
what about the word “mummy” as in the egyptian sense
Good night all
uh oh… the video is not on todays mostviewed at all!!!
Select the country flag called Global, go to page 4, it is the 7th vid
called Fruity Tootie and moving quickly.
Within a few minutes, the vid is now on page 3, 6th vid.
Would Marina be as hot , or not, with out the accent?
marina is hot becouse she is hot no matter what accent or language she speaks even samoan
This is a Youtube type comment..
Marina is hot with everything, her accent is great. Keep her the way she are.
this is a youtube type reply …
Your a youtube type reply
oooh, what a comeback. come on …
meow.. Your a come on
wanna play?
why yes
okay.
Well alx.. You hit me where it hurts there.. Seeing as I don’t watch sport lol.
It would have hurt you more if you were a footie fanatic. As it is it went wide of the goal.
heres a challenge it said THIS is the longest word in the english language
neumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
My favorite is a raspberry. Mmmmm
What is the origin of “Apple”?
OK Marina … but I have another question regarding strawberries. A strawberry is also a scrape that you get on your thigh and/or butt cheek from sliding (as in sliding in a a base in baseball or softball or Ass Football). So, how does a work that is used to describe a luscious, sweet and sexy fruit also come to describe a painful sore on your thigh or cheek?
J Fred
Where does the origin of Bastard come from?
I know it is a slang word and also is said to mean a child born out of wedlock. Is this the true origin
BASTARD is a French word : a BASTARD is an unlegitimate child born out of marriage but especially the child of a noble man with a churl woman. This child was considered has conceived UNDER THE YOKE = IN SLAVERY.
YOKE in old French = BAST (modern French = BÂT).
You can consider that BASTARD is a kind of YOKARD. The ending -ARD in French is rather very negative.
Blackberries are my favorite since I used to pick them with my grandparents and get homemade blackberry cobbler with ice cream for the effort!
Talk about the strawberry that broke the camelon’s back!
My favorite berry is Chuck Berry. He’s only a rock n roller, but I like him. And then there’s my friend Badly Drawn Boysenberry…
Oh wait, you mean fruit… I give it up to the strawberry. It’s one of the sweetest, tastiest fruits there is. Pass that plate over this way, teach!
Peace, Errin : )
Hi Errin, How did you like the joke I sent you.
Strawberries are my favorite. I would still like to know the origin of the word “condom”. My girlfriend wants to know where “peeping tom” comes from.
Yeah ! I’d like to know the origins of “peeping tom” too and it reminds me
about that sad Placebo’s song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_m_cjDAUg
hey, gonna request a word. or rather a phrase.
oly oly oxen free.
Dear Marina, I hope you are OK from that earthquake this morning. I’m surprised that no one else has asked you about it, yet. Perhaps you posted your video just before the earthquake took place. (Once, I asked if there were earthquakes in Russia. The reply I got was: “No, Russia has no faults.”) Again, I rated your video five stars. You certainly looked nice eating that single strawberry. For your homework, I also like the blueberry best. They are more expensive than strawberries, so I treat myself to strawberries more often. I think California strawberries are the best! (I hope you will choose to do a video on my previous word request: “Sweetheart”.)
Your dear student, Seesix CM6
seesixcm6 thanks! Earthquake was scary!! Kobe was barking like crazy afterwords as well. But everything is fine. The local news is looking REAL hard for any damage anywhere… showing a couple bottles on their sides in some grocery stores!
It was a short but violent quake. I was listening back to a guitar track I recorded last night, and had headphones on when the quake hit. Took me by surprise for a second, as my concentration was focussed on listening. I’m native to Los Angeles, and it’s been a while since we had a quake like that. Talk about rocking out!
WELCOME to the West Coast Earthquake Center! Enjoy your stay!
I know what you mean by scary! The 2001 earthquake woke me up from a sound sleep as I watch my apartment sway back and forth in a 6.8 quake. Things fell off my shelves, nothing broken. Many places around the county received much damage. I was like less than 6 miles from the epicenter. I was a bit freaked out. I went into crowd control mode and forgot I was the only one in my 2 bedroom apartment at the time.
Quake in 1999 I was working at Sears in the Audio & Video department. I don’t remember what it was but it had to be 4 or 5 point quake. It was interesting quake to watch as parts of the building formed cracks before my eyes. I thought I was going it get crushed. I had to work some crowd control and calm everyone down.
I don’t remember the first one I was in but it was just a small quake.
Funny thing, I lived in Long Beach for 3 years and didn’t feel 5 small earthquakes when I was there. Apparently when your on a 58,000 ton battleship you don’t feel them.
I just check my local quake watch page and The Dalles, Oregon just had a 4.2 on July 14th.
Just follow the recommended safety suggestions and you and Kobe will be fine. In time you will get used to them and enjoy the ride. Oh and its a bit cheaper than Six Flags.
Thankfully nothing like the earthquake of 1974 eh, where bad hairstyles & overacting were in vogue. Good thing the guy in the “bar” near the end doesn’t spill his drink.
Marina, I once lived in Huntington Beach, CA, and it seemed there was a quake every month or two. Only one really scared me as it woke me up in the middle of the night and I could hear the structural joints of my apartment building flex.
Marina,
Good to know that it wasn’t too bad for you.
I’ve been in California since 1982 and I still can’t get used to them.
I was in L.A. when the Coalinga quake happened and in the S.F.Bay Area when the Loma Prieta quake hit.
Those are real nightmares since your first instinct is to run- but to where?
That quake in China was terrible.
Glad everything on your part is fine and blueberries mixed with elderberries—yummy and healthy
Hello Marina,
You mentioned that Lisa Nova said a Russian girl wears high heels to McDonald’s.
Check this out-
High Heel Race
Hahah
Very good warren
I live in Saint Petersburg Florida. Try a hurricane on for size!
st. petersburg, fl is where the dalí museum is, right? damn. always wanted to see that.
Dear Marina, I’m glad to hear everything is all right with you. I hope your computer and video equipment work well, too. I’ve only been a subscriber since July 3rd, or less than a month. I already enjoy your videos very much. I hope you have a safe trip and safe return from your appearance on the O’Reilly show, too. Your Dear Student, Seesix CM6
Hi seesixcm6. Russia may not faults, but in England we still get earthquakes sometimes, only very small ones of course. But earthquakes all the same.
oh, please …
what?
Good morning, James. The phrase, “Russia has no faults” was an old, Cold War joke to remind us of the Soviet obsession of describing their “perfect society” under their great leaders. And yes, I have heard of earthquakes in England. Reportedly, they have reached 4.0 on the Richter scale. Seesixcm6
Hi, I would like to know where the expression “3 sheets to the wind” came from.
She did this one already watch it HERE
HmK: 1st Merlot, 2nd favorite – blueberries
My homework:
My favorite berry is the hackberry. It is very similar
to my very favorite fruit the cherry, especially if they are bing.
Are cherries are considered berries?
See if you can find BoB, he will know. He’s on the page somewhere.
I think they’re more closely related to peaches and plums because they’re siimilarly shaped and have a stone-like pit. Technically then, they’d be fruit, not berries.
cool as berries
Hey hotforwords I have a request for you. The word gazoontite wheres does it come from??? I don’t i spelled it right either >_< They say it when you sneeze and when you give up during a game of hide and seek so that everyone knows you gave up so what does it word mean???
Gesundheit is; ” health ” in German.
hey! … umm, I was wondering… where does the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis come from?
[this is not a joke... I ACTUALLY want to know... thanks ^^]
It is so weird, that vid gave me the need to sing :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywg-PdeGVL0
But I don’t know why, at all.
That is weird, isn’t it ?
Never mind.
ohhh, what a cliché
Nice song to along with the video. Excellence choice.
Hi Marina,
I was talking to an “old bag” at the store (sweet as a lime) and she said, while scratching a bump on her chin with hairs growing out of it, ” monsieur, yew arrr sew stewpid! La straw-bair-ee iz frum Fraaaaance. La straw-bair-ee vuz actualleeeee uzed to take avay WARTS!!! The name wartz-bair-ee vuz vairy onpopewlaire with la merchants, thus la king of Fraaaaance (circa 420 A.D) by decree ordered a reversal of la name uv da bair-ee.
I shook my head at her at told her, “go smoke some grass you old witch!”
OR maybe?
The berry grows low to the ground, Not up in bushes. Therefor like grasses, (straw/hay) the berry would be found down on the ground in the grass. ( straws/hay).
I believe the people of the day did not name the berry for any other reason then to point out where to find it. Berry in the grass. ie straw/hay berry, Strawberry! (Grassberry)
RRR don’t eat any grassberries, they are brown and have an odor to them. Some are round and some are oblong
Yeah and road apple are suspect too.
I like grapes – which are like heaven in a single world. Hmm.. I’ve a question: why aren’t called ’something-berries?’ If strawberries are called so because of their appearance, then shouldn’t grapes be, like, rainberries?
Hello Miss Marina, Here in Mexico everybody calls Americans “gringos”. Gringo for man and gringa for woman. You, for example, in spite of your Russian origin would pass here for a “gringa”, no doubt. Anyway, as a clue, my father used to tell a story that the word gringo originated during the 1847-48 invasion of Mexico by the American Army when Mexicans heard American officers call soldiers “green coats” due to the outfit they wore. ¿Any clues?
Davidoff
Then why are they not called, chaqueta verde, camisa verde, Abriga verde
gringo=green coats is not true, but searching for the answer is a great way for u.s. americans to learn a little more about our neighbors and consistent u.s. involvement in central american politics. the definition of gringo changes a little from one central american county to another due in part to the variety of regional cultural conflicts and those involved.
“gringo” means “foreigner” or “unintelligible gibberish.”
Now it’s the G-word
i like cherry but is cherry a berry please investigate
Detention.. I agree, I love that line.
can u research for me the origin of the word CAMARADERIE???
thank you marina…
I am really enjoying the reoccurring themes of food, drink and things hot.
Ah,, “The spice of life!!!!”
Marina,
How about the music words of crescendo and decrescendo for study?
WORD REQUEST: Where did subscribe come from? You tell us to subscribe in every episode, but never featured that word.
Word Request:
superfluous :smile
I love superfluous words! But I do not love
many other extra, surplus, redundant, unnecessary,
unessential, excessive, unneeded, needless, gratuitous,
spare words.
First thing I can’t comment on a video i already commented on. I’m kinda new so tell me if that is often or because she has a new video up.
And since geronimo corrected me and told me what the word means I have to request another word. The word is cocaine. What is the origin of this word and why do they also call it coke?
Tip for you hymnofdoom, there is a lessons list at the top of the page. Check there for words that have or have not already been used. I think coke is in the list. The video goes along with cocaine. Sorry if it shoots you down again.
We all try to help new members to the site. 
Yes “we” do, except for aLx, that is.
Give credit where it’s due, Penn.
aLx is also helpful – he doesn’t opt out of everything.
Oh, you see I thought when it said coke in the lessons I thought it was a drink. Not the drug
I have to say I like strawberries the best. Although blueberries are good when they are fresh. Blueberry candy/gum never tasted like blueberries to me. Hey does anyone know for sure if a kiwi is really a cross between a strawberry and a watermelon? Silly question I know but weirder things have happened.
NO,
Actinidia deliciosa is native to southern China,
Originally known as the Chinese Gooseberry
Thank you for clearing that up. I always knew the person who told me that was full of crap. Scary thing is I’m in food service and should know better, but he sounded so convincing. I am an ass.
hey there sexy ladie
my word request is *MUSIC* OR *bye* either 1 you pick 
keep up the good work Thanks, Travis 24 xxx
I think she already did bye in her lesson on the word good bye
Word request :
Hey, love the “show”, and I’d also like to request the word sad. And does its origin have anything to do with the seasonal affective disorder (winter depression)?
My favorite would be the raspberry… but now it’s huckleberry season then blackberry then…. well you get the idea..
Cool beans….
can you do a video on why is new jersey called the diner capitol of the world
Well I’d have to choose “Smultron” which is a berry that as far as I know only excists here in Scandinavia… There is so faar as I know no English word for it, but after talking to an american we decided to call it Smultron berrry…
Also Smultron would actually fit as “Strawberry” becaus they are about the size of blue-berries, but shaped and looks like strawberries, and they are often threaded onto a pice of straw when picked and then eaten…
Smultron (for those intrested) looks like strawberries the size of blueberries, tastes a bit sweater then strawberries. They go very well with cream and milk and then some suggar.
Best Wishes, Ath, With no funny comment at the moment O.o
picture, picture!
Yupp that is the one. Altho they arn’t wild strawberries, to much of a difference really, it is to hard to explain really =P
Could it be that you are talking about wild strawberries?
Ofcourse I meant above comment for here, sorry for that =P
multronen?
Smultron =P
raspberrys rock my world.
This should confuse everyone; my favourite berry is the banana.
Huh!?
Yes, bananas are true berries, as are grapes, persimmon, red gooseberries, red currants and (wait for it) coconuts.
Strawberries are not berries at all (they’re accessory fruits) and most other fruits that we call berries are not berries, but drupes or aggregates of drupelets.
Stranger than fiction!
uuhh?!
Bob, this world is going to the dogs. What’s the story behind this expression anyway?
Sorry, I fed you some duff gen there; a coconut is a drupe and not a berry.
References:-
Berry
Strawberry
Drupe
Banana
You’re too smart.
Are cherries berries?
Moose And Squirrel pointed to you as an expert.
If you click on the “Drupe” link in my post above you will see that fruits with stones, like all members of the Prunus family (Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Apricots, Almonds etc.), are special kinds of Drupes.
The main difference between a Drupe and a Berry is that the Latter has a fleshy part which surrounds many seeds, whereas in a Drupe it surrounds a single hard shell with a seed inside (If my memory serves me correctly – it’s 45 years since I learned all this stuff).
Other examples of berries which may surprise you are Tomatoes, Chilli Peppers, and cucumbers.
Blueberries and Cranberries, both excellent sources of anti-oxidants, are known as false berries, because the fruit is formed from other parts of the flower and not just the ovary.
I love blueberries. That’s why I have a lot of blueberry bushes.
Oh Yeah! You were tryin’ to “bribe”
Marina into coming to see you to
get some of those berries!
Your Gravatar is missing a squirrel, eh
Oh, and check out roadrunmch’s
new Gravatar. I think he’s onto
something. Marina is a sucker
for a small furry animal…
Yep you are probably right. We all need to find little furry critters. Maybe some Kobe type dogs.
Here, Moose & Squirrel
For your Gavatar file
Marina
My favorites are blueberries as well but you have to mix them with cherry tomatoes and ranch dressing! Mmm. Yummy!
I have all three, but I have never mixed them together. HUUMMM. Might have to try it
It’s godda be Hidden Valley Ranch. I’m telling you it will change your life! They are perfect together.
Lucky #7 for me.
Its yellow top Tuesdays
!
refering to …..MARINA’S yellow top………..duh!
Strawberries
Blueberries rule!
I just love the strawberry.
(Where’s the Yum face?)
Juicy, Sweet, Tasty.
Off to the store
(Where’s the Muhhhhah!! face)
((((((((((((((((((earth quake)))))))))))))
So not a big deal.
News is blowing it all at of proportion.
I know huh.. way to keep your cool RRR. People are even vlogging tthis
Hola
buen dia,commrade. ¿usted está buscando una revolución?
Yum!!
how do you do it
He could tell you but then he would have to kill ya.
then kill me.