Big Words
Hey guys… with college back in swing…. I wanted to let you all know about this website BigWords.com that scours the net for the lowest prices on books.. whether from major retailers, small retailers, it finds promotions.. even used books. With the high cost of college books it saves on average $173 on two university books!
I can’t say why but there is something just plain hot about how you lay out those big words. Hotforprofits comes close but she doesn’t have your inherent Russian cuteness.
Hello Marina it’s el cubano, it’s spanish but I also speak english don’t worry I’m bilingual. I’ve seen your videos as you describe the origins of words and what they mean. I hope to learn alot from you. Take care. peace.
Hi Marina,
How are you ?
Congratulations on your 100 million views !
My word(s) definition is that of : ‘Goose Bumps’ !
How is that this expression became the description for that ‘feeling’ ; in any situation !
Thanks ,
‘Ukraininoak ‘ (aka Taras )
P.S. : Please use my ‘ekename’ when and if I am selected ? ! ?
She Likes Big Words
Phrase origin request:
“At loggerheads”
Word,
Sparkz
Marina !! It’s hard to tell from the camera angle, but it looked like your cute little dggie left a gift on the carpet in the doorway. SAY IT ISN”T SO !!.
However, thanks for the tip on books.
Oh now you tell us your secret website for saving money on books now that I almost have all I needed. Well at least I didn’t pay full price for the books I bought. It helps to be a former employee at a nautical book store. I use abebooks.com for books that are not in print anymore. I did a couple of quick searches with Bigwords and found it useful. Only draw back was not able to search for first editions. Other than that it was great. I was even able to find Boat Parts. heheheeh.
Jack have you been to test school yet?
No. I didn’t now there was one.
I’m curious why we say ’shhhh’ to ask someone to be quiet.
I’m guessing that shhhhh comes from ’shush’, but that’s a complete guess. Totally talking out of my ass there. (hmmm, another weird expression.
Anyway, regardless if it comes from shush or not, where did it start?
Well,Shane I have to admit your enunciation seemed a tad garbled there, butt now I understand why.
It occurs to me that the sound, “Shh” doesn’t require the vocal chords to be used at all. It’s all just breath and tongue control. Therefore, it can be made using only the exact amount of force needed to get the message across; if you are close to the ear of the person to whom you’re communicating, it can be done almost silently so nobody else hears it.
Coversely, this sound can carry quite a distance when done with a lot of force as anyone who’s ever been inconvenienced by people chatting loudly in a movie theatre knows. You can get people to shut up using this sound even if you’re clear at the opposite end of the room. And since it doesn’t use the vocal chords at all, no age or gender identity is inadvertently transmitted. So the thing I see as being the most utilitarian aspect of this vocalization is its adjustability from loud to soft.
Secondly, it can be made for as long or short a time interval as is required, as long as there is still some breath left in the lungs for exhalation. This may help add to the calming effect on, for example, a crying baby. The baby may get temporarily distracted from its discomfort (after all, that’s why babies cry–they feel discomfort) by hearing the soothing sound of its mother softly saying, “Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” while she prepares the bottle, get a fresh diaper ready, or what-have-you.
As for the origin, I have a sneaking suspicion it’s been around as long as there have been babies and mommies, or basically longer than any other sound we make, but I’m wildly speculating as usual there.
Marina should definitely investigate. Excellent word request, Shane but if I may make a suggestion, the next time you talk out your ass, try to do something about your ‘breath’ first. Seriously!
Wow great explanation!
sub-par lessons, thats ok if your playing golf
new video is up
Marina, I’m assuming from what you said that your brother is here with you? Is your family in America now? How do schools in America differ from schools in Russia? Are there some things here that you like better than back in Russia, or vice a versa? It would be interesting to know your thoughts on the differences in the educational styles of both countries. Thanks.
That’s a good request Sniperskaya. I would like to know what the differences are in Russian schools and American schools. Inquiring minds want to know
I would like to know your opinion of differences in the school systems also. a lotta laws?
impossible- would be nice to know where that word came from and its origins. As i have heard it alot in sports events.
Thank you
HAHAHAHA http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5067912. stm
lol
if the kitteh looked anything like [this one] then it’s no suprise the bear ran up a tree.
ROFL!
If you see any of you on my dock I’m going to hiss at you. So stay off my dock.
There is an expression which may be local to our area, but I would like to know where it came from. You will hear people say “there is more than 1 way to skin a cat”. This means that there is more than one way to solve a problem, but why skin a cat?
Hi Marina,
Phrase I heard last night, and have no idea of its origin, “Tits in the wringer”; be interested to know your thoughts on it.
lol gurgle splutter
because its like ostrich but they are so different in meaning/definition.
i like to ostracise myself. but not with an ostrich.
he he he he he….. wow misscupcake, 5 40 am and on the hfw site again
GO TO WORK!
Hello Marina-chan
I have a word request, please tell me from where the word “Boost” originated from? I ask this because it is something that got to do with our Turbo charged cars.
Thank you.
Huniken.
I guess I will be thrown off this forum now
I am sorry Marina
I got an E for English and an E for English literature
Teacher will not be happy.. I can tell I am about to be expelled from the sanctum of syntax.
That sucks alright but it’s not the end of the world…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVt1AldH3_k
“What matters is to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”
Both “English” and “English literature” start with an “E” .. so what’s the problem?
syntax doesn’t have anything to do with literature anyway.
Nice gravatar Alx. One way for payback HaHaHa
How about sin tax for all those nasty stories and tales?
As lividemerald will no doubt attest, sin tax is what an average sucker pays (i,e. gets fleeced for) when he/she spends the weekend gambling in Las Vegas.
No most of us are pissed here too.
You need to study more and lay off the keyboard some. 
You’ll have plenty of time to visit here, but and education comes first. I know you are young, but you really need to think about your future. What you want to do or be the rest of your life. I know it seems like it’s to early now to think about it, but make a difference now instead of waiting further down the road. Ask Buzzword and Alx what it means to further your education. Look how a higher education has benefited them and others. You can’t do it with bad grades. So for your, ours and your family’s sake please try harder at school. I know I am not your daddy and I not chewing your ass out, but you are one of the family here so please try and do better. 
Mike
Hi Marina, I’m new to your website and suffice it to say, your doing an excellent job. Besides your really hot to watch
But my REAL motive to write here is the word, “floccinaucinihilipilification”. I’ve watched your previous video on that too, and no one has seemed to notice the fact that you pronounced it like this: “flocci - nauci - nifili - pilification”, yes the “nihili” bit was pronounced with an “F” instead of an “H”. So it seems like you owe us all a correction to that video. Plus can I be your pet in the next video? My friends at work would all burn with envy. Thanks and keep up the good work.
I’m sorry, but since Hot For Words is now running for President, the spokesmodel Marina will have to use SMALL words!
http://www.thelopezfamilyonline.com/pres.php?first =HotForWords&last=&send=Send
And since I’m the Wizard of Oz, I get to be Marina’s VICE President!
Here’s my experience with VICE Presidents
http://www.laserradio.com/vpnote.pdf
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (in 2 volumns) does not look like light reading.
I can see how you stay in such good shape carrying around all those books.
You must have confused the boys at school.
Find the cutest girl and ask to carry her books home from school.
Ah, we might have some second thoughts here.
Dear Marina,
Having just read this article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1047598/H ousewife-wins-battle-publisher-remove-swear-word-b ook-best-selling-childrens-author.html), I was wondering if you would look into the meanings of the words “twat” and “twit”. The lady in the article thinks that the former is rude while the latter is fine, but I’m not so sure about their origins…
!! That’s the title of one of my favorite peoms …
[YouTube: John Cooper Clarke : Twat - a poem]
[if you don't undertand the Manchunian accent - here it is in text ...]
Hello Marina, Im going to school for Nursing, and books sometimes go over a $1000 a semester! I think the total will be alot less this semester with your tip. BIgwords looks like a great website, I have been looking for something like like for years. Thanks for caring enough about enough about your students to give them such good adivice and daily lessons. My University just tells us go to the bookstore which has outrageous prices. Thanks again Marina.
made up word of the day …
foolosopher
Marina I dont know if you have seen this commerical but there is a commerical for laundry detergent and the british lady says she is getting rid of the ‘dingies’ and she goes onto to say that dingy comes from the latin dingeta.
I dont buy that at all. What is the origin for the word dingy?
Hey Marina I love your site its soooo fun. I was wondering if you could figure out what “Kiddy Corner or Kitty Corner” means when people give directions to a place. Thanks and keep it up
-CHRiS
Don’t want to bother but surprisingly the price of my bigwords testbook was 20$ more expensive than I actually paid in the bookstore.
Maybe it is because this book is a german book and I’m living in Germany and bigwords only searches US websites or so.
Word requests:
Chip N Dales - referring to male dancers
Bootleg - referring to an illegal copy of things like CDs, Videos, etc
rum runners during the years of prohibition would hide alcohol in their boots, hence “bootleg”
clone and mutation Are they new words?
Hey Cufan71. Yes they are to this site. Good selection too. If you need further help on words that may or may not have been used check the Word / lessons link at the top of the page. Welcome to the site.
Mike
Hi Mike! Nice to meet you! Thanks for the tip!
clone’s in Germany, innit?
hahahahaha {laffs at own joke}
An ordorous joke (Eau de Cologne)
{explains his own joke}
Marina - DOLLAR
… one of the most desirable words in the world.
Can (could?) we have the who, what, why, and when of this particular word, please?
Did you say theWho
lol, yeh .. the ‘oo.
What a brilliant name they chose.
[This is my current favorite vid clip of the 'oo with Moony in fine fettle. (1968)]
I love the Who. I watched the video attached to your name when you came on. Excellent choice of bands.
I also like Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Check out my site by clicking on my name.
Yup, love Skynyrd and Who. Also saw the real sister video and unfortunately for that piece of lint on the camera, the vid got flagged.
yeh .. Lynyrd Skynyrd, i remember them. Aaaaages ago that was, wasn’t it. I thought they were like an evolved version of Credence Clearwater Revival.
plus .. you have millions of favorited vids!! .. i only have 9!!
I guess, for some reason, i dont look around in there much. Dunno why.
… having said that, i’ve started looking round for early UK punk stuff. I found a couple of gems …
[the damned: new rose: 1976]
[punk poet John Cooper Clarke: second half of Evidently Chicken Town]
- that’s a Manchunian (ie. from Manchester) accent, btw … [written version here if you can't fathom the accent]
oops .. messed up the link to the poem ..
… try again …
[punk poet John Cooper Clarke: second half of Evidently Chicken Town]
Request: “Pleonasm”
Like in the sense how many nice words complementing a beautiful girl is too much…
Is it possible to have multiple pleonasms?
word request: ostracism
When i was at Uni, we got our books cheap from the people finishing the year before. The campus book store also dealt in second hand course books. … and when finished we and sold them on to students of the year following.
Net result .. practically no cost.
… works fine unless the course books change.
I think students become too traumatized to ever get sentimentally attached to their books and save ‘em.
I bet they were pretty worn out after changing so many hands over the years.
good point actually …
.. you had to be quick because the supply of second hand books in readable state was in shorter supply than demand.
Still .. the difference was taken up by the indifferent not-tight-with-cash ones and those who worshiped the subject matter who preferred the smell of new books.
Plus they also probably had the best parts already highlighted or underlined for you.
LOL if it was a cupcake book, i would definately prefer the smell of a new unused copy as opposed to a second hand recipe book with food stains on the pages hehe.
but passing on second hand books is a good idea. that process occurred at my high school too. except the course books changed so often it didnt help out too many people unfortunately.
There’s something that seems very practical about a recipe book with food stains …
… rather like an electronic engineering book with old transistor stains.
i’ve kept all of my books. i still use them. well, okay, the text on radical femmenist latina performance art is not so handy. but i’ve kept all my text books, course work and syllabi. reread them periodically.
!!
Me too.
I still have all my notes, tests, papers I’ve written, and every book I ever needed for a course for the last 6 years. Who knows? I may well be referring to them in my future career; I don’t view my education as a use-once-and-discard as soon as I’m hired type of arrangement.
Since I had an industrial injury and I’m getting some help buying my textbooks from a work-comp vocational rehab program, I seldom select used books when new ones are available.
The point Mike made about knowing where the good parts are because someone already found them is probably fine if
1.) the assignments and test questions never change from semester to semester or from instructor to instructor. In my classes, there are very few that remain the same from one session to the next; even the instructors of a course may change from one semester to the next. Or,
2.) you don’t mind settling for the same grade as someone else got! And who knows whether the person who highlighted your used textbook was a B student of completely failed the course?
If I’m going to invest my time and energy in schooling, I prefer to excel. That means I do all my own work. I may have a completely different idea of what’s critical to highlight in a given text than someone else (some people highlight most of the text!). Many people really mess up a book by underlining sentence after sentence with ball-point-pen, etc. and when they fail to use a straight-edge to keep their underlines neat it tends to render the text nearly unreadable. This takes much longer to read and the risk of comprehension errors skyrockets.
With the amount of reading I’ve had to do I learned early on that I can’t be slowed or distracted trying to figure out why someone thought this or that part was important, sorting out words through a haze of wavy fluorescent pink or green tiger-stripes, or picking my way through a paragraph as if reading tiny print through a clogged barbecue grill. I get headaches from that, like reading in a room that’s too dark.
I usually jot a phrase or two in the margin so I know what the page contains or circle a page number and bracket a paragraph on that page in pencil instead of highlighting. Then if I find I didn’t need it, I can erase it afterward.
Did anybody else catch Kobe in training to be a search engine
The search engine must have backfired on the floor by the bedroom door.
I thought so too!
hello im new to this site and i was just wondering if you could find the true capital for thailand i know it is not bangcock, the true tital is realy long and describes where it actually is, if you could find this word it would be much appreciated thank you for youre time
Hi Thompson 48989 welcome to Marinaville or Marina’s site. It might take her some time, but give her a little while as she has a list she goes by and will add your request to it. If you will look at the top of the page under lessons it will show you the words she has already made a video for. Have fun and comment as much as you want. Be sure to go to Marina’s You Tube site and watch the video or videos from there and tick a red star to give here credit on the You Tube site as it adds to her over all ratings. If you will click on your avatar the little picture by your name it will take you to the Gravatar site where you can enter your own personal picture as a Gravatar
Mike
atta boy!
Krungthepphramahanakhonamornrattanakosinmahinthara yutthayamahadilokphopnoppharatratchathaniburiromud omratchaniwetmahasathanamonphimanawatansathitsakka thattiyawitsanukamprasit.
Krungthepmahanakhon bowornratanakosinmahintarayudyamahadilok popnoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajaniwes mahasatarnamornpimarnavatarnsatitsakatati yavisanukamprasit
meaning :
city of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent jewelled city of the gold Indra, seat of the King of Ayutthaya, city of gleaming temples, city of the King’s most excellent Palace and dominions, home of Vishnu and all the gods.
Nice work, Foxbow!
I am curious, where terms “Pulling your leg” or another ” blowing smoke in your face” comes from.
Both terms have been around since my grandparents, and they died in there 80’s and they have been dead for 40 some years.
Awesomewayne
RIGHT IM OFF TO GET MY GCSE RESULTS …AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Wish me luck
And in other news last night I dreamt marina sold flats.
And also Marina this is where I went on holiday
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/455922439_b3e73 61b48.jpg?v=0
Lots of luk there James
DAMN IT I mean lots of LUCK James
GCSE is england, right?
i learned that from vicky pollard.
I CAN HAS CUPCAKE AVATAR.
Hi Misscupcake glad your back with us. Get you a cupcake gravatar at gravatar.com. I watched your latest video on you doing your plain voice and hair. It was funny how you kept going to other accents without realizing it. I liked you your pictures. It’s nice to see someone grow up in photos.
Mikemx32 on your site.
i selected a cupcake avatar for myself, its just taking ages to update
it will be worth the wait though; its the nicest cupcake avatar EVER.
Did you clear you cache?. maybe it will help it to load quicker
im not sure of cache stuff. i like to consider myself a nerd or geek but i guess im not smart enough if i dont know what cache means hehe
cache sounds too much like cake to me… LOL
Your cupcakelessness is obviously driving you close to trauma …
[here's something to be going on with]
What OS are you running “ie,windows IE7 or a Mac
If you have AIm or AOL or another im service that will talk to AIm I will talk you through the procedure. Just put in Capman911 into you IM service and well go from there.
windows XP, firefox. NO IE!!! hehe.
Ok in fire fox go to tools then click on clear private data, when the next window pops up click on clear private data again. You may have to sign back in to your email program after that but your cache ie history and old cookies will be cleared.
oh man i can feel myself becoming addicted to posting here, like my old xbox forum days….. I WAS THE HIGHEST POSTER ON THE WHOLE FORUM!
and i wasnt even good at halo2 LOL
you should talk tp aLx,. He uses Xbox too.
i dont think he would want to talk to me to be honest
i dont play xbox anymore anyways. im now addicted to youtube and hotforwords.com
just don’t use the smileys. he was abused by a one.
Is buzzy Marina’s alt?
how did buzzy post in a reply then?
What a sneaky little minx
Now hang on misscupcake. I also post alot
you do? are sure? oh, yeah. a lot of nothing is still nothing. ha.
hehe , I just saw that 21 accent vid of yours, that was awsome
thanks, but i personally do not like it. i was rushed and nervous and my hair looked awful lol! thanks for watching though
i will make a better version some day. 
Guten Morgen hübsches Mädel….
I think I saw your twin sister around here. Between you and Marina’s twin, there is four times as much fun…
was meinen huebsches und maedel?
hahaha did you know that i have a character named britini…who has a twin sister also… LOL theres a twin epidemic.
marina, where did the word epidemic come from
and what about jackass. ive always used that word before the tv show was created because i saw it on a wwf show. but where did it come from?!?!
and what about cereal?
Karl didn’t you see Misscupcake’s video of her being Marina’s twin sister.
Marina’s Sister
It looked like some kind of shadow that made it look like the top of an areola. But you could tell when she moved the shadow moved to other parts of her body. Someone just being pissy with her flagged it as offensive.
highest in what sense, young missy?
LOL highest meaning, i had the highest number of posts
i spent way too much time there.
Yes, good ole Sunshine Britini and Ashley. I liked the video on “how does marina do it”; nicely done.
About cereal, did they ever catch that cereal eater?
lol what about the cereal killer?
he goes around destroying boxes of cheerios and corn flakes and other common cereals!!! hehehe
im silly
i don’t use xbox. i don’t have one.
what would you like to talk about?
OMG i saw a puppy walking around in the right corner hehehe!
why isn’t a puppy called a doglet or a dogling?
they are after their cooked.
So nobody ever has to say they were “ogling a dogling,” or, “don’t feed that choglet to my doglet!”
lol
I think it dropped something gross at the end…
what about ‘head in the sand’
ie. ‘misscupcake has her head in the sand’
That relates back to how an
ostrich buries it’s head in the
sand when danger apprroaches.
“I’m hiding! You can’t see me”
that actually isn’t true. ostriches don’t do that.
i’d like to request an explanation of the word “ought”.
Where does it come from? why do we use it?
oh .. that’s a good one …
.. and is it related to aught (as in anything) and naught (as in nothing)
p.s. I had a little check: my source says “aught” and “naught” are archaic forms.
… up in Yorkshire, N. England (and probably other bits of N.England) saying “aught” and “naught” is still in common use. Though they’re pronounced to rhyme with “out”.
e.g.
A: Have you had aught to eat?
B: I’ve had naught. I’m famished. Get dinner on’t table.
A: You’ll have naught till you’ve griddled up’t snicklefart.
B: Griddled up’t snicklefart? What the ‘ell are you gibbering about, lass? That makes no sense, you daft ‘a’p'orth. You just made that up.
A: Aye, that i did. Sorry.
… etc.
that would also be a nice way of explaining “naughty” then too…
oh .. nicely noted, detourne_me …
if “naught” means “nothing”, shouldn’t “naugthy” mean “nothingy”?
oh …
doesn’t the word “fool” originate from something or other meaning “empty headed” …
in which case:
foolish -> empty -> naught -> naughty
… something like that … needs Marina, methinks.
your camera quality is so noticeably better now marina.. i dunno if its because its on your website, (cos i usually watch you on yt) or maybe its the new cam or a combination of both.
i think i worked out how to make my username a link
On YouTube in your account you can tell it to make all the videos you watch high quality by default.. I post them high quality here as well.
Now.. all you need is a gravatar.. just click on your icon and sign up with the same email you used to sign up here and in an hour or so you will have your own icon
im working on re finding my old cupcake logo before my laptop died and destroyed over 2000 images of cupcakes, cookies, candy, etc
when i find it i will go to gravatar yay!
heres a marker for the books http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmCA6apZ3vY
Ohh, I think its just that the video is more expanded making the video seem like a lower quality. My podcast is stupid high quality.
Yep it worked. Took me to your YT sight
OOps I mean site
May I do the guided to for our red carpet guest?