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Dear Marina,

I wanted to post to your “My Strong Point” lesson but I could not find it here.

Forgive me but while there may be words that you can find in the OED, like “nounize,” the support for the origin of such words often comes down to poetic license. See, e.g., the reference to Shakespeare’s Henry IV. I guess I am something of purist when it comes to regular discourse or prose, and I do not easily accept poetic fabrications in the these contexts, especially when there are other normal words that can do the job. Otherwise any clever person can just come up with a new fancy shmancy word and say it’s a word. Like so — I want to express a woman’s beautiful blue eyes and how they make me feel so I say they are “celestially” or that I dive into their “bleauty.”

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• Hello Marina. My mother used to serve me a “hotty-toddy” when I had a bad cough. It was lemon juice, honey, whiskey all heated up into a nice syrup. If it didn’t solve the cough, I least I felt better. Can you look into the origin of the word? I’ve had my suspicion that it relates to the Dutch and an obscure African tribe.

  My best regards,

  Louie

  P.S. Your Maltese is adorable.

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  Dear Marina,

  I guess this is a best a place as any to write this though I doubt you will have time to read it. My own preference is that you do not do a video on these sorts of words because I think half your viewers will have ungentlemanly thoughts about you during your lesson. If I were your father, I probably would wish you’d choose other words. You are a sexy woman no doubt and most of the guys and probably some of the girls watch you with an interest in the physical aspects of your video equal to the intellectual. Maybe I am too sensitive in that regard, but I would prefer that you not choose words that tip that balance in favor of the physical.

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