Dog Days
The dog days of summer may be over… but they don’t feel like it for me!!
And what dog likes a hot day? Not Kobe, that’s for sure!
The dog days of summer may be over… but they don’t feel like it for me!!
And what dog likes a hot day? Not Kobe, that’s for sure!
That’s a pretty interesting explanation Marina. I’d love to catch you by the pool on one of those days. You or hotforprofits either would be fine with me.
I posted a video response: Fordson AC. I thought next time your AC breaks down you use this set up! However with gas prices so high it might not be such a good idea!!!
Stay COOOL!!!!
so did you get that AC fixed?
Privet Marina; I love your web site and I would love to see you sister on this site with you. Anyway, I would like to know the origin of the word “Neophyte”. Your wonderful explanation of word helps me in my profession as an Interpreter. Thank you. Eric xoxo
HI MARINA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE a word request for you. I would like to know the word root of caucasian. Does it come from the caucases mountains in the countries of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan?
Marina,
I would have to go with sagatarious being born on the tenth of December.
Greg
Hi Marina. I would like to request the word Courtesan.
Marina, where did the word “Hurricane” come from? I’ve seen that word in the news every day this summer.
{imagines some old guy with a cane in a terrible hurry}
Holy cow…you stopped huffing paint fumes long enough to use your keyboard. I’m impressed!! Does your probation officer know you’re using a computer? Hmmmmmmm??? I’ll bet he doesn’t. Anyhow, it’s good to see you back on the street. I was sure you’d never be able to beat those child molestation charges again. After three times, you must be one lucky chicken hawk.
You should change the last image, now you have 261 videos…
Hi. I find that the animal PEACOCK has a very sexy sounding name. Any idea where it came from?
Love what you’re doing with English. I’m also an English teacher and always try to make my classes very fun.
Regards
Roel
Hey, it’s Trixie. This is my first request, and my word is onomatopoeia. Btw, my youtube username is TrixieRules.
Hi. My word is “yesterday”. It sounds funny when you saw it a few times.
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXp-vpE9eU
oh yeh! .. it has a contradictary quality about it, doesn’t it ..
… it sounds like “yes, today!” .. but it isn’t to day at all! .. it’s yesterday!.
Whey they first invented that there must have been a lot of confusion.
hey.
the ” F word “.
i want to request a word that slot of people use it. even though it’s not a nice words, but also has a lot of diffrent meaning:
thank you so much for this week lesson!
* alot of people. not slot!
check this out
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g
Classmate Jame’s video
hey my love Marina.
i wanted to request a term:
” cold feet ”
i’ll be so’ so happy if you choose to teach us this term
waiting to see you again my love..
Virgo the virgin but wondering how that can be when i have two daughters mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm just kidding. Hopefully you get through all those questions sent to other email site and i will receive my answer I know i am one in many asking questions. Curiosity killed the cat you know.
… just thought i’d have a little peruse on the significance of “Virgo” …
In the Tarot deck, each of the astrological stars signs and planets is represented as a card in the Major Arcana. (i.e. 12 + 10 = 22 of the 78 cards.)
In Alaister Crowley’s Tarot deck:
The star sign “Virgo” is represented as “IX. Hermit”.
Quoting: Alaister Crowley’s “Book of Thoth”:
This card is attributed to the letter “Yod” … The letter “Yod” is the first letter of the name “Tetragrammaton”, and this symbolises the Father, who is Wisdom; he is the highest form of Mercury, and the Logos, the Creator of Worlds.
…
The highest symbolism of the card is, therefore, “Fertility” in its most exalted sense.
…
(there’s also a bit where the card is associated with the light of Mercury which “pervades all parts of the Universe equally” … and the Hermit is “not only creative, but the fluidic essence of Light, which is the life of the Universe”)
(… and a bit where the Hermit is associated with “the Guide of the Soul through the Lower Regions”.)
ps .. Tetragrammaton = YHVH = jehovah
word request-naif
Uh oh,
Game is on.
HotForWords @ 748 in #1
But a newcomer is challenging @ 571 & #2 (Was insignificant yesterday)
#3 (Yesterday’s #2) is @ 488 getting dribbles
Hello Marina. Just an FYI.
Do you sometimes encode your audio in mono and other times in stereo just to see if I’m paying attention?
The last seven videos were in stereo. This Dog Days video was in mono. The previous video that was mono was the Cash video
Normally, most people would not notice the difference whether you encode in stereo or mono as there is only one channel, your voice.
In my video player, I delay the left audio channel by 20 msec so that it sounds like you are sitting right here in the room with me, assuming your audio is encoded in stereo. I also have a VU meter to tell me when the audio is stereo or mono. In this video, the audio is in mono, so I miss the nice stereo acoustics. Am I not a pain?
Otherwise, your audio and video is great.
Better words that I might use instead of mono and stereo is; encoding the Center channel only (mono) or encoding the Left & Right channels (stereo).
My astrological symbol is a crab.
All is not lost - you’re in here because Marina loves seafood.
now i feel like a party-pooper =S and holy cow theres another interesting idiom…
hello hotforwords, or dear teacher, or marina, or whatever you prefer to be called,
. could you do a vid on the origin of that?
in your video about antidisestablishmentarianism, you said that there are only two words longer in the english language. I am pretty sure this is not true, as i have found two words with more than 28 letters (both phobias), the cooler of the two being “Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia”, meaning, quite ironically, the fear of long words
Hi iamme097.
The other longest word is Floccinaucinihilipilification with 29 letters.
Regarding “Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia”, Marina covered the word in two ways. She answered a commentator back on April 16th, 2008 on the Barbarian video page.
She said: (my edit)
“…it’s just an extension of the word sesquipedalian
meaning the fear of really long words.”
Here is the full context of the comment thread on the Barbarian page:
Question - Answer
The sesquipedalian video link is here:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/11/30/sesqui-wha/
The Floccinaucinihilipilification video link is here:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/07/02/floccinaucin ihilipilification-huh/
ok, so you are saying that floccin…(not gonna type it out) and hippotomon…(same as b4) are the two longer words? well then what about “Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia” (the fear of the number 666), which has 29 letters? i tihnk you misunderstood what i was saying. i meant that i had found two other words -besides- the one she had covered, meaning there are at least three words bigger than antidis…but thanks for trying =P
Hey Marina, I’ve been wondering, what made you give Kobe his name? Named after the beef? Or best basketball player on earth?
Hello my dear Teacher!
I would like to know why someone would say
‘Go Fly A Kite’ when they are upset with somebody?
I know you can find tne answer.
Word request:
“bonfire”
Are you saying that Kobe is a hot dog?
What world are you from? Dogs are warm blooded,and that would make Kobe a hot dog! Another mystery solved!! Yeaaa!!
I think he’d go good in some gaejang-guk!
That sounds gross Prospero. Dog stew I have heard of rumors where cats are used as food
hey, mike.
i don’t see how it is gross. we eat cows and pigs and chicken … doves … all kinds of animals.
i don’t know if i’d eat a cat, but i wouldn’t call someone that does gross or barbaric. there’s a lot of cultures and in my opinion it is pretty arrogant to condem a certain culture or group because they eat things we don’t eat.
just trying to be objective here is all.
Congratulations on “Sexiest Geek”….. I have a
WORD REQUEST!!
for a similar word. Could you please do a lesson on the word:
DWEEB.
Thanks!! My username here is the same as on YouTube: WebGuyTV
Isn’t that kinda the whole point of a word request? To make sexy Marina scramble? Did I overlook some ‘rules’ somewhere?
Scorpio here
HEY! i just joined this site because i had this one question i thought to ask you when it came to me.
ok so i suddenly got the urge to read last of the Mohicans after i found out that it was written in 1826 because i genuinely was interested to see how people would have talked and how a book would be presented in those days.
ok blah blah blah long story short.
in the first chapter it describes a veil which descended low from this girls “beaver”
does that mean what i think it means? where did the term beaver come from?
you know… the slang version.
thx a lot. you rock. and ur sisters cute.
Well Ms. Marina, even though we are beginning the dog-days of summer I am sure there are many people - especially in the south - who can’t wait until it’s a little cooler so perhaps they can begin enjoying warm hushpuppies…. speaking of which … as much as I love the homework you give out, I am wondering if you could do some for me - how did food hushpuppy come to be called hushpuppy… inquiring minds want to know….
Be Well
-j
2utoday does it again! Yeaaa!!!
Didn’t you see at the end of the video her hair blowing in the breeze or a fan running blowing her hair.
She kinda looked ill at the end because it was hot inside her apartment. Take care 
I think you are 100% right. I played the video again and it isn’t this video that her hair was blowing. It must of been another, but I could have sworn that it was this one. Oh well eyes playing tricks on me again.
I should start my own videos and have Marina as a guest!! Wow!!!!
It was the nincompoop video that I was thinking about. Look at the end of that one. If you did start your own videos I bet she would appear on it with you.
I would call it “From Me 2utoday”. Now isn’t that a great idea?
The air conditioner is broken (was.. they came yesterday to fix it I *hope*!) and I had to close the window because the cars driving by make so much noise.. so I only have a short period of time to record before I break out into a hard core sweat!
2am?
Evidence a plenty that that A/C is dead.
We’ll have to sing you a lullaby.
“Via…. Las Vegas”…..
lullaby.
O SEXY WOMAN i love that picture of ur feet near the water!
Mine is Cancer.
Why is totty referred to as “crumpet”?
Why is Crumpet referred to as Totty?
Does anyone know what Yumpet is?
Nope,sure don’t. I still haven’t figured
out what a tuffet is, either; as in:
Little Miss Muffet, sat on her “tuffet”
Yumpet = Young Crumpet = Jailbait.
I was just thinkin about the other side of the world and I got to wondering what the origins of war and peace are.
Corporate imperialism on the one hand, and utter destitution of the ravaged nation on the other.
lol that makes sense, but I meant the origins of the words “war” and “peace”. I appreciate your help though and what you said does makes sense for war now but back in the days there was alot of honor invovled as well
Moose and squirrel and myself just help push it to 653 votes.
Leo here
My Dearest Marina, Your beeyoubies do not move when you move so they must be unreal…(fake)…yes no or maybe???
Hey Suprstock, come on now that’s no way to ask a lady a question like that now is it
That is something that should be very personal to Marina. Please be nice with the questions, ok? Thanks for understanding. 
were you expecting something like this?
http://scherzman.blogspot.com/2008/08/titten-krper beherrschung-ist-alles.html
Hi Marina - These days there seems to be a lot of TOMFOOLERY going on. It’s a word I love and I’ll bet the origin is very interesting. While I await the 411 I’ll switch to the alternative ’skylarking.’
Your new pal,
Trixie
what’s the correct collective term for a bunch of gorillas?
is it a gaggle of gorillas? .. or is it a serenade of gorillas .. or what?
and who makes these things up anyway .. and who decides who has the last word?
…. hmmmmm ..?
GORILLI?
oh .. of course …
… a gorilli of gorillas
i bet it’s something like a kong of gorillas.
check it out.
so near, yet so far .. it doesn’t mention the collective noun!
however, … thanks to the magic of YouTube …
straight from the gorilla’s mouth …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I
{can’t be bothered with tarting up the link}
How did you get Buzz to pose for the picture on the right on that site? lol
I’ll go with a majesty of gorillas.
Try this Mijj.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/apes/gor illa/
s’ok .. i got the answer from here ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I
.. it’s a “whoop” of gorillas.
It’s on YouTube, like Marina, so it must be true.
troop of gorillas, may also be true of a troop of guerillas.
Gorillas come in bands, troops can contain kangaroos or monkeys.
Apes, baboons and bison are also troops, as do ostriches.
Wikipedia had gorillas in troops too. Hmmmm…..
It’s a band of gorillas.
the louisville zoo thinks it’s a troop.
so do gorilla hub and bbc news.
I prefer a “consortium” of gorillas .. or … a “squadron” of gorillas.
Apparently, it can be either a troop or a band, or a group.
you mean this band of gorillaz?
Another hour of voting left for Tuesday. Marina has 638 votes, and I see the others are attempting to make a run for first. Can’t give up now.
bestweekendevercontest.com
VOTE MARINA!
I have to wait another 27min till I can vote again
Hi Marina, on You Tube, the “All - Most Viewed - This Week” page 1 shows four of your videos. I noticed that the “Big Words” video did not have a red triangle in the left corner. Is that an error or your choice?
I love that video. Very well done. I love all of your videos as your writing, delivery and editing is superb.
That was a neat one! I was just arguing about whether or not we’d had the dog days this summer or not. But, how can you have a video without an appearance by Kobe? He’s no fluke! Ah-ha! “Fluke” Another word for you to investigate! How does the name for the fish also work out to be the meaning for something as happenstance or luck?
Could you tell me the origin of the phrase “Mind your P’s and Q’s”?
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts… So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.”
It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s”
haha my teacher just brought that up yesterday! i wonder if he watches this program
I need to be kept after school.
I can’t even log my web site..
http://www.RolandBuckles.com
Hi Marina,
As your student, I would like to know more about you my teacher.
Since the school year is just starting, please treat all your students to your personal Bio.
Roland Buckles
http:///www.RolandBuckles.com
Hi Roland, there is a Bio link at the very top which is kept updated.
Also, there is a wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Orlova
My guess is that when Marina releases her book next year with lots of pictures, your thoughts about Bios will fade.
hi Marina, I was talking to a friend of mine and he said I was looking at life thru rose-colored glasses, that’s where curiosity struck me; what on earth does that come from? Why ROSE-colored glasses? Thanks a lot!
How about the orign of:
It’s raining cats and dogs
Hey bassdozer. She did that video sometime back. Look in the Words / Lessons section at the top of the page and you’ll find it in there. Hope that helps
Mike
Here I went and pulled it for you
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/30/cats-and-dog s/
lol in the zodiac im some naked dude pouring water (Aquarius) XD
I the East I am a dragon, in the West I am a horny old goat.
A dog’s life, it’s a dog eat dog world, doggone it, throw the old dog a bone, doggy style, dog face soldier, dog tired, there are a lot of expressions relating to dogs. Who let the dogs out, Marina?
I would love to know where the term “stereotype” came from. Help me out?
STEREOS means SOLID in Greek. So a STEREOTYPE is a kind of unvariable model. A SOLID PATTERN in other words.
The Daily Show’s correspondents are describing the survivial kits they’re using for the Democratic Convention.
http://www.indecision2008.com/video/index.jhtml?vi deoId=183637
Jason Jones says he’s taking mostly condoms.
What’s the origin of the word “condom”? Is it related to the word “condominium”?
Oh that second puppy in the investigation cut away is one butt ugly vicious bow wow.
I can handle clowns but that dog’s gonna give me night mares.
I may need to borrow Kobe for a night.
Hi Marina!
I Love Trance Music! (hence why i mix)
Now in the year of 2004 a known group
called “The Thrillseekers” made what
many though was the best trance track
of the year!
It was named: Synaesthesia
Now i wonder if you would like
to give some more insight on
this Term?
The only thing i know is that it is
some kind of a Phenomenon..
Id be very happy to know if you
will look into this.
Take Care
- Out There…!!!
/Joseph
aka 3DFX (tredfxman)
wow…a word lesson that I already knew!
But I must confess, my girlfriend is really into astrology. So is that cheating?
At your current rate, M, when do you think you’ll run out of english words to investigate.
… and when that happens, will you switch to another language?
Hey Marina ! When you are out of words please investigate the “waiter” word !
I was just wondering where the expression “Bury the Hatchet” comes from. I’ve heard it in the song by Relient K called “Which to bury, us or the hatchet” and then i heard it again when i was watching TV.
What does bury the hatchet really mean?
there was a very similar popular phrase in the ’70s and ’80s in the UK .. “Bury the Thatcher”
those were the days my friend
stokesjrj1 on Your comment is awaiting moderation, who is moderating my comment and why is it being moderated.
When a person changes their name and then starts posting web addresses to other people’s comments the server marks them as a spammer, and kicks them into moderated status. I had a bunch of people close out their accounts due to what they called spamming as well.. not sure if it’s related to what you were doing… but the server doesn’t like it.
you meant like this?
and like this?
not to piss anyone off but, you server is literaly serving up the bonfire of the innoncents
ooo!
I had a post that said it was waiting moderation!!!
I was under suspicion of something!!
{feels paranoid and uneasy}
there’s an option in wp that lets you put comments on moderation which have a certain amount of links in it, like, e.g. more than three. this helps to prevent spam as spam comments often contain a lot of links. so, maybe she enabled that.
Now might be a good idea to read the “Terms of Use” link found at the bottom of the page.
http://www.hotforwords.com/hotforwords-terms-of-us e/
sock puppets suck
If you don’t create a new word for us, Marina, I’m sure a frindle do it.
oh, looky here…my astrological star info:
prolly ‘plains a lot to y’all now, doesn’t it?
annudder
Marina … you should invent a word and make a vid to back it up ..
.. and then send your minions out into the world to use it at every opportunity.
… and see if you can get it into the OED.
if she made a word the OED used, would that mean that the OED owed her?…
oh…or oh-oh…
annudder
was that annudder shudder?
why is everyone talking about star signs?
That was part of the homework was to look up what your star sign is and what doe it represent. Like mine is Libra which means The Golden Scales.
d’oh!
… thanks .. i don’t know how i missed that. Marina is too distracting.
I always thought dog days ment this is what it feels like to be a dog in the heat!!! pant pant
Sagittarius
My sign is Pisces , all i know is that it looks like 2 fishes swimming apart.
May you tell us the origin of the word, “Muse”