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I’m greek and I only knew until 1:08 lol very good work there.
Fantastic lesson, Dear Teach!
HW: I’m having one right now. Yep.
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No fantasies.
–Hs4Mm
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… but do have real goals.
–Hs4Mm
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I think it would be kind of neat to be able to walk again.
love your work Marina.
Kinbat
kinbat: May you have a FANTASTIC day….:-
“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.” – Jimmy Durante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4HpPa8F6Zk&NR=1
thanks for the tip…
My fantasy is to be immortal and watch the whole course of humanity play out. Fantasy is like incredible when used properly. Women like you and hotforprofits are incredibly fantastic!! In the good way though.
What about fantasmagorical and phantasmagoric ?
Fly like a superman?
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Oh good so you fantasize about becoming a man, oh that would be great, we could go out for beer together and I’d have no trouble asking you to come with
Also, I actually knew the meaning of fantastic. Is there anyone who is not surprised by this?
Myeah
I was lying in bed this morning, not having to get up early for any particular reason, and the sunlight was streaming in the window from a cool, breezy fall California sky. Then my fantasy came to me: the sunlight falls on Marina’s hair; the golden falling on the gold. (If you’re going to have a fantasy, it might as well be a good one.)
Marina with either the classic or modern interpretation, you are indeed fantastic.
My fantasy involves [redacted to keep comments G-rated]
I’m in the middle of the desert. And all of the sudden a snake wearing a vest is rolling a huge dounut…..Oh, wait…that’s not a fantasy. It’s just a strange dream I had……
I have that same fantasy.
hm you seem more geeky like clark kent.
If you flew you might create massive heart attacks in the male population. it could be overwhelming. please fly at night. or only over hostile lunatic countries bent on distruction. they could use a distraction.
Oo very good choice I totally didn’t know this word and i thought i did!
my fanatasy is to be 26 years old again and not age further.
I have a relatively new fantasy. I would love to go out on a date with you. Flying with you would be nice too.
wow
lol…well, supergirl might be more apt…
i have had some phantasmagoric dreams…flying, wealth beyond imagination, finding true love…
they are but phantasms, tho’…
Supergirl
Homework: My fantasy is time travel. I dream to go back in time just a moment. Then there would be two of me. and I could continue into the future with a true helper with identical dreams which the two of me could much more easily realise.
I have such a great teacher! She really knows how to get the message across so I can truly take it all in. I guess you can say she is fantastic!
I don’t have much of a fantasy… I try to think more realistic. Maybe that is a sign that I’ve been too hard on myself.
Hi Marina
Love you and your appearances on O’Reilly’s show. I have found myself interested in words now because of you. I would like to know the origin of the word mafflard and what it means. Thanks.
Just came up on YT
hey marina… u just getting better n hotter everyday… hehe… i just want to ask u if fantastic was used for some ‘fantasy’ or ‘imaginary’ related thing before, how bout the word fabulous? where is it really comes from? thanx marina… u r always been the best teacher… XOXO
I would like to request the word the word ‘kerfuffle’ please. (2)
With regard to ‘fantastic’ i see that the meaning has changed from an orginal meaning of being in a negative sense to one that is positive. Just like ‘wicked’ has changed over the last 20 years or so.
Ya.. Actually i have a bundle of words whose origins are unknown to me.
I like to ask on of them right now but ill be commenting some other day a big list. Lets c if u make a vidz covering all those words or a different vidz for each of them.
Ok plz can u find me the meaning of
‘prophylactic’ 
It means used to prevent disease but the only disease related root i know is ‘pathos’ and i dont seem t find it in this word.
Plastic Fantastic Lover Jeff Airplane Music while we wait
This song is about a TV
not a blow up doll
lol
that’s pretty good .. my favorite J.Airplane song is White Rabbit.
… oops .. new vid is up!
I was stationed at the USAF Academy when I got to meet Grace Slick backstage when J. Airplane (by then, “Starship”) played the USAFA in Col. Spgs. back in the late 80′s. I worked protocol there; and so, I got to meet aLOT of famous folks. She’s totally cool. (oops — showing my age — I mean ‘kewl’)
Tom (aka: drochalsey@yahoo.com)
I got to see JA at a small college
Jethro Tull was the opening act
it was more than ‘kewl’ it was far out
Only got to see J Tull once (1st yr in college.) Think they let Ian Anderson out of the asylum
long enough to play (and man could he still wail on the flute.) Now we’re both showing our age. What’s the going word now… …it’s not “rad” or “hot.” Well, I try to keep up. 
Thnx for the trip down memory lane lads.
Ciao,
Tom (aka: drochalsey@yahoo.com)
let’s go slightly insane while we wait …
[Bonzo Dog Band - Slush]
Fun House Laughter
New video coming in minutes
Tease
Cant seem to find the origin of ‘preponderance’.
Marina what does the word enlargement means ?
Actually, I have a doubt about the origin of Phantom, it si related to fantasy and sound similar.Ands as an example the translation to the Spanish “fantasma” (Phantom) and “fantasia” (Fantasy) so both come from the latin but something had happen to Phantom.. i think
my most outrageous fantasy is: i give Marina a butterfly kiss on the cheek. {… where i’d flutter my eyelashes against her cheek … my first love of my life showed me this.}
Everone is waiting so patiently, sweaty palms, anticipation is just rampid right now. The big question who is going to be first.
Is it me or you or who could it be. OOOOOO 
Marina is just laughing right now knowing we are waiting for the new vid. She does that to us so mysterious she is. Just like a woman to keep men waiting and yes the women too.
is the vid due now?
It’s past due, she uploads at number 24. she is about 21 or 22.
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&cr=US&p=2
Well, it’s not going to be me – I’ve got to go out and pick up the wife from work, so I predict it will be up in about 15 minutes.
I’ll put you in Bob. I’ll give you a number.
Ready …Set…Wait!
Hope it’s soon
I need a siesta
I needa see Marina.
Tall and slim, please like me
Number 1.
When I upload sometimes it takes forever for the video to compress.. that’s why the timing varies so much!
at the risk of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs … why don’t you upload well before you think it’s due (to give it plenty of time to compress) and keep it private .. then switch it to public when you’re ready?
i’d be interested if you thought it (above) was a good idea, a crap idea, or i should mind my own business.
Hey! That was good – I wrote, “I needa see Marina” and there she is right underneath me.
Who says fantasies can’t come true?
Wishes do come true.
(… time to catch up on the other vids! …)
Gorgeous long trail of definitions!
fantastique – existing only in imagination
phantasticus – imaginary
phantastikos – able to imagine
phantazein – make visible
phantazesthai – to imagine / have visions
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but does a fantasy really have to be out of bounds of reality?
Couldn’t something be a fantasy in a way that you might imagine something that may possibly be?
It’s existence in imagination may only be temporary.
I think so Mijj. Say you like a woman at work and she doesn’t know you exist because you two have never talked or met, you have just seen her from afar. But your fantasy is to meet and date her. One day in an elevator it’s you and her and one of you breaks the ice and speaks. You find out you have so much in common. You ask her out and she excepts. You start a relationship and your fantasy is fulfilled. I don’t think a fantasy has to be something that’s only going to be imaginary. It can turn out to be real.
why are you carrying ice in the elevator?
yeh.. i think fantasy is the first step in the process of magical creation.
Is there a difference between a fantasy and a dream? Not in the kinda of dream you have at night, but the kind where you day dream of something that you want. Isn’t that a fantasy also?
well… i would say a dream is a bit of frothy entertainment .. like “the american dream” .. but fantasy is letting your mind run free with possibilities.
where does “jack o lantern” comes from
Hi axxo798! Marina has already done that lesson. Here’s the link!:-)http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/10/24/jack-o-lantern/
i finally uploaded a music vid …
so if anyone wants to relax for a moment or two (that includes you, Miss Fantastic Marina) .. just click the link an’ lay back kkcc..c.ccc ….zzzzzz…
[Can - Future Days]
(fantastic in the modern sense, of course .. i’m pretty sure you exist)
… and here’s a bit of music aLx might appreciate …
[The Torture Never Stops]
yeah …:)
Hiya miss fantastic Marina!!
Hi ya Mijj, I found you some company to go with your new looks.
See, Hear, Speak</a.
Here you are sitting on a Sofa watching tv.
lol cap .. yeh .. thanks.
More fun!
lol .. bein’ a skeleton looks like a lot of bone clankin’ fun.
Oh fantastic your almost at number 24 your at 29
My friends and I would like to innocently request the word “Cocktail”
We have a bet on the answer and it is not perverted in any way.
Word Requests
Mystery & Mystic
“Another mysterysolved by our trusty HotforWords!!!”
Hi marina, i would like to know the orgirin of the word “Blasphemy”. IT would be very nice of you if you could answer it, thanks
my fantasy is you, cuz your sooo hot.
Marina,
I would like to know the origin of the word “Sexy”?
Thanks,
Dremoraman1
XO
Marina,
I would like to know the genesis of the saying The whole “kit and caboodle”?
Thanks,
Howard 56
xo
my fantasy is you, you are really really hot
Hey i would like you to take the word Society
You are to good to be true; you are fantastic!
In before more Adults Only fantasies get posted
I always wanted to be wrestler, like the ones in WWE. I would like to have been someone with a lot of stamina and with a range of cool aerial maneuvers and also good with some great technical skill.
Oh yeah, I also want to win a ‘Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence’.
Jya mata ne
You are my fantasy,because you are hot
Hi, Marina! My word-request is “”languish.”" It sounds an awfully lot like language but used in a completely different way. Thanks a lot, and keep up the great vids! Do svidaniya!
My fantasy is to see marina naked. That would be FANTASTIC (in the modern sense of the word).
….
Hi Marina,
I’d like to know the origin of the word g-string or G-string as a “piece” of clothing…
Curlew
where does the word tube come from
….love those workout outfits. Marina, you must be working out hard. You look fantastic.
My fanasty to be Teacher’s Pet some day!!!!
Finally an excellent correlation between two words – living out my fantasy with Marina would be fantastic! Would also kill me, of course, but what a way to go!
Very speedy response on the subscription graphic, Marina. Much better!
hi Marina,
I love your inspiring (in many ways hehe) videos and explanations.
Here’s my word request: preposterous
Nice photos Franco. You’ll see foxbow commenting around here who is also from the Netherlands.
yo,ik kom ook uit Nl ,met zuid nederland, bedoel je daar brabant mee of limburg?
Limburg
you?
noord-brabant, Den bosch
hoe lang kom je hier al
ik “lurk” al een tijdje, maar heb net een account gemaakt om maar eens wat bij te dragen
oh Marina, here’s another one:
Lurker or to lurk ..
Marina
Nice belly button ring……..mmmmmm, my weakness!
Further to my IGNORED request (sob!), the word CLEAVE is unique in that it has two meanings, and the meanings are the direct opposite of each other (to “join” and to “separate”). How did this come about and are there any other similar such words?
Ian
Hey Marina!
where did “CLEAN AS A WHISTLE” came from ?
thanks a lot in case you will answer, you’re the best <3
I Think a Supergirl Cape would suit you Teacher, Would you wear it in Class?
i agree. it WOULD suit her. WOULD you wear that in class, Teacher?
I’ll add my vote to that one too…
à tout à l’heur,
Tom
Also, another interesting set of words might be terrific and terrible or awesome and awful; as they may have the same stem, but (usually) have diametrically opposed meanings.
(Have always wandered about those two…)
Tom (aka: drochalsey@yahoo.com)
Marina,
Hi
How about “…shake a stick at…” as in, “Las Vegas has more casinos than you can shake a stick at.
Cordially Yours,
Tom (aka: drochalsey@yahoo.com)
Marina,
Hi
How about “…shake a stick at…” as in, “Las Vegas has more casinos than you can shake a stick at.
Cordially Yours,
Tom (aka: drochalsey@yahoo.com)
I have many fantasies, ranging from ones rated ‘G’ to some that are unrated.
Marina, You are fantastic! My fantasies are to be your teacher’s pet, and for you to do the word oops!
I have several fantasies but I can’t name them all. What’s the origin of the word “buzz”
I would like HotForWords to investigate the English phrase “Bob’s your uncle.” Thanks, HotForWords. -Rudy
Hey Rudt81, we sorta went over that phrase in another video, even though the video wasn’t done on Bob’s your uncle, but if you will find a member here further down the page named BOB and click on his name you’ll find out what you need to know. Bob attached it to his name after the discussion.
Hope this helps.
can u research tatterdemalion and schaudenfreude
Dear Miss Orlova,
Where does the word Real come from?
TOF
i will be honest here:
i am far too lazy to check to see if ‘jackass’ has been done yet.
i checked with trampoline, and it isnt on the list
so i request both i guess
I thought he was on your site Miss.
hint hint
Missy you sound like your depressed.
So I made you a little snack. 
To cheer you up. I hope you feel better. 
Cookies
was it the lack of smilie usage that made you think i dont sound too happy?
the cookies are terribly cute, thankyou
Happy HalloweenMiss CC.
jackass
oh my, it came from so many places.
what about trampoline?
Dear Marina Orlova,
I just awoke from a nightmare to find an angel. Bless your heart Sweetheart. Have a Fantastic Night
Your Student,
TOF
The word economy? So many words I thought I knew. I hand no
clue, until I met you! jimj122345 Jim. The two words can tell us of
the present. I thought Mary Shelly just made the word up.
I thought economy just meant money.
Mardi gras, Where does that come from, I think it is “fat Tuesday”? Help me out please. By the way, another wonderful video, You have come a long ways and I think I have seen them all. I hope you never stop making the word videos. Chief
The “Fat Tuesday” is the day marking the end of the fast in Christianity. Fasting you have to eat “meager”, without meat and fat taken from the flesh. The Arabs call this day FITR. The word CARNAVAL means “broken meat day”.
I knew that, ha.
Why did you ask ? ha ?
I really didn’t ask you anything, I was asking Hotforwords as she has interesting and entertaining answers that go deeper than than the common dictionaries. Since you want to know why I ask, you now have the reason. Ha, Respectfully.
Chief
What does the word Frankenstein mean? jimj122345
Frankenstein a work or agency that ruins its originator. (Webster)
Franken Stein = The Stone of the Free.
Frank = free in Germanic languages.
I guess mine would be to have awesome super powers like in anime.
Great job as usual.” Marina Rocks”
My fantasy is to be a nightowl- the kind who is out all night at parties and stuff dancing his heart aay, day by day,,,
about fantasy- is actually reminds me ancient greek phylosophy, were i belive it was plato , who said that we live in an imperfect wold, but there is a perfect world , i guess in ower head, were you don’t make mistakesand everything fits…. maybe fantastic is supposed to be perfect…. but maybe its too good to be true
Sexy vid M, FIVE STARS……with imagnative overload cluttering the fasination street, ones head is deep in nephology, cloud nine up up and away…….you can find many visuals up here, all dancing, tripping the light fantastic!….so its a desert island, a small team of experts on the decks and 100 beautiful women….LOL…….dancing the night away all making music
Some kinda love paradice in sweet harmoney…..// Neologistic words escape intuitive realities, must be something strange I kissed….a strawberry smile in perfected unilingual telethapy……no need to shave for days on end as the Night Jar aids to suck this one dry, vampirous intent in these Capricorn days, so we dance………….vamos!
narcissist
pedophile
sociopath
My fantasy is to watch you fly. You almost fly in every lesson. I think you really like what you do. You are very lucky (and skilled).
So, if you spinoff your library for a chunk of cash, syndicate your new lessons for a salary and ad revenue split, build viewership 10x, have more TV interviews and get your face on the Wheaties box would you be happier and fly or would it weigh you down?
Of course you can always pick up Kobe, click your Christian Louboutin red bottomed shoes together three times and say “There is no place like Melrose”. Whoooosh …. your flying!
Be careful of what you wish for and watch out for Harpies when you are flying around.
Aldo Nova – Fantasy</a?
Obama’s Fantasy
“We all know that you’re out there.”
A Change of Pace
That one did not work. Let me try again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC9w4KWEgJE
Hi Marina my fantasy is to have you with me after watching your video and i am taking. a ice cold shower BERRRR BERRR please help me pretty marina i am so cold
Your shows are all extraordinary,hum whats that mean
well my fantasy would be to watch the sunset at the beach with you marina and i would listen to all your words, that would be fantastic
my dear princess
Privet Marina,
Please investigate the origin of the phrase “real estate”
http://www.RolandBuckles.com
hi hot for words i am a big fan
i was wondering if you could investigate the word “carnivore” for me
thanks a million
meat eaters
i know that but where dose the word “carnivore” come from
If my Latin (exPriest here — by choice) serves me correctly:
Tom
Post Scriptum: I may not have the exact spelling correct above.
canivore, well in spanish the word carne means “meat” and the word devorar means to “devour”. =’s to devorarcarne in english its carnivour.
Was Nietzsche a “superman”
A nice song http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE CrashTestDummies–word request, nice
Here is a word Ghetto,or hash.How about bicycle,maybe machine or motor,engine well that should be enough for today.Thank you for your hard work.Wait what about these words ,lets see if I can spell these right,Limey or wop, crout these are inref. too english ,italion,or germans.Thank you so much I enjoy your website so much I tell everyone about it.Oh ya you are so cute I just wanted a reason to keep watching your website.Ta Ta for now.
Marina, are you paralyzed from the waist down? You haven’t moved from that position in the last few videos. Utterly fantastic! And fortunately I’ve been able to live out most of my fantasies, to a greater or lesser degree…
Marina could you investigate the word incredible or reality
I’d be curious to know where the phrase “put that in your pipe and smoke it” came from.
Funny, I always had dreams that I could fly, when I was a lot younger. The mechanism was always slightly different though, and I’d always wake up thinking ‘now I know how to fly! … No, no it was just another dream’
cheech and chong, “UP IN SMOKE”
Ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!!
HI Marina good video 5*
you’re fantasy i would like to fly like a superman. That was the same thing Evil Knievel said. maybe you could get a motorcycle and try it. No don’t try it you could brake your pretty bones.There is a palace called zero gravity corporation you can fly like superman their 
I’ve lived a few of my fantasies/dreams. But most of them, of course, are just fantasies… And some of them are not mentionable in public
Ooohhhh Mama! I got more fantasies that You can shake a stick at,not just sexual ones either.
Marina;Did You get Your fantasy of flight from Kobe after His balloon tour! I still think that was Him over the Driftless Area!
At least if He did land there to pee on a tree He got back up in the air and escaped the hungry coyotes! I’m quite sure of this cause I’ve seen glimpses of Him in recent vids. 
I remember an altered-state walk from many years ago,it started to rain and I started to run,felt just like in a dream when Ya run and Yer strides get longer and longer before Ya take off flying,I didn’t get to fly but I sure got across town pretty fast!
Dang teenagers in the 70s,I shoulda been home studying!
tryant
Ok I have 2 requests for sayings that I wonder where they came from:
The first is: shits and giggles
The second is: beat you like a red headed step-child
where did these phrases come from?! I hope you can investigate Hotforwords I LOVE YOUR SHOW!
shits and giggles always made me think why people said it too
While we’re at it…adjunct request
beat you like a rented mule
Not a bad request, dude
Hello Marina,
I’d like to request the word ‘Demon’ – I think it hasn’t always had such evil connotations as christianity gave it.
As for my fantasies: I dream of world peace and harmony between the human race and our ecological environment.
my fantasies….
You can fish all you want, but I’m not taking that bait!!!!
btw you look fantastic!
Boo! oops – too soon for that…
My Halloween Gravatar is a Ghost fish!
You have to use ghost worms for bait….
MARINAAAA
ORIGIN OF THE WORD
ETCETERA
YOU’RE THE BEST
THANK YOU
Hi Marina,
My Grandma used to have fantastic FARTS right at the dinner table. She was deaf. My brother and I would smile and give her a thumbs up. When she told my Mom she was coming over, we’d cook beans and let Mom know, “Grandma is fantastic!”
Word origin of FART? hmmm?
Marina,
I was wondering the origins of the word “ginormous” and if it’s even a word in the english dictionary. Thanks so much.
kissmyK4SS
This is a portemaneau word combining the
words “gigantic” and “enormous”. I doubt
this one’s in the Dictionary, per se.
Marina gave a lesson about portemaneau
words during the Machinima video.
At one point, Marina says “I think I’m hot”
(James needs to ferret out lines like these
for his next video – heh heh!)
Hmm…a fantasy…like a ridiculously hot school teacher?
How about the word pupil? Both a student and part of the eye? Odd link, but is it purely coincidental? Saw some startling blue eyes at the top of the screen and started wondering
I am not dilated, I’m just big boned!
Marina,
My fantasy involves long deep kisses and caressing embraces.
But enough of that.
Your fantasy isn’t so far fetched to be beyond the realm of possibility.
Here’s some ways to accomplish it.
Sky Diving. But that could be too risky for the fun.
Tandem Sky Diving. Still could be too risky for the fun.
Besides you’d have to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
Sky Diving Training Houses. (I saw one in Orlando) You wear a baggy sky diving jumpsuit and do a “Free Fall” dive for several minutes over a controlled jet of air. Great fun without the risk.
But you have the nick name of “Mermaid” so there’s another option you might enjoy more.
SCUBA Diving. Not overly risky. Your entirely weightless. You can swim (fly) up, you can swim (fly) down, or you can swim (fly) in any direction you want. And when you going along with the current (Drift Diving, floating stationary with the current) it’s just like flying like Superman. Even more so when it’s high current swift water.
Or you might want to consult Kobe. I hear he has some experience zooming.
I’ve heard only fools and bird crap fall
from the skies! Ever try tumbling on a
trampoline? If you do it unsafely, you can
simulate how it feels to be bird crap – LOL!
If you do it right, getting air, you can have
moments of weightless feeling without
having to jump out of a perfectly good
airplane.
EVERYTHING in life has risks. If you cross the street a car could hit you. If you drive in a car a truck could crush you. If you stay home a meteor could fall out of the sky and crush you. Paradoxically you must both live as if today is the last day AND as if you’ll live to be a hundred. If you live too safely you’ll have regrets of missed experiences; if you live too recklessly – well, you get the idea.
Enjoy life as best you can without raining on anyone else’s parade ( or else they may return the favor ).
Marina,lovely creation of God…i would like to ask you to investigate about the word “Macedonia or Μακεδονία”…i will be very GLAD if you work for my request…p.s. i send you my invitation to visit my country..you will be the most beautiful girl at the most beautiful country…
thank you baby,keep walking…
Dear Marina Orlova,
I request the word Perfect, as in HotForWords is Perfect.
Perfect per fact, as in Intelligence is Sexy
By the way Miss Orlova,
I thought you were going to say Fly like an Angel with Angel Wings. I even fantasized while you were saying this: Angel Wings and a Halo about You Beautiful.
-TOF
intelligence is FINALLY SEXY!
Could you please tell us where the word: Gorgeous comes from? Spasibo!
I think the word is connected to the French GORGE = THROAT.
But in older French GORGE had also the meaning of BREAST OF A WOMAN.
So gorgeous is “hot and nice like the bossom of a woman”.
Marina:) Thank You for 1 of the few totally enjoyable Websites I have stumbled upon! Yes, Your Hot! I have always been fascinted how the meaning and deffinitions of words change over time. I also find Myself to be extremely interested in peoples Surnames. I know it’s beyond the Scope of this site, But. Keep up the Great Work Marina xox. Forager
hi i want to know what means the word ”word”
WORD is certainly connected to the Indoeuropean root *UER-D meaning “turn and torsion”. When you utter a word, you twist your mouth. On the other hand a word is the torsion of the tongue too.
In Latin VERBUM is certainly the same root *UER-B where B is a variable suffixe like -D in UER-D.
I’d like to request the word Fall.
why was it changed from autumn to fall? or was it?
i hope you consider my request
I need to know the origin of Marijuana !
and maybe its origin of prohibition ?
My fantasy would be to live long enough to see grandchildren.
What is the origin of pnumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Marina’s Floccinaucinihilipilification covers the
origin of your word, and she didn’t ever want
to have to pronounce that one, can’t blame her.
Can you even use it in a sentence – LOL!
is that even pronouncable?
New Mono Ultra Microscopic Silly Co Volcano Cole E Osis
And yes, I can use it in a sentance;
Last week I contracted pnumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
So hello. My word that I want you to teach me about is the word salary. I believe this would be quite an interesting thing to talk about. I hope to hear from you soon, you ought to take this one up. Later then.
Sergio
I would like to see HotForWords explain the word Safari… and she should wear of one these while doing it: http://www.stafford-catalog.com/prodinfo.asp?number=1672…. Adding to the definition the name for this item of clothing and its history…
I hope HotForWords doesn’t mind, it’s actually educational…
what is the origin of augmentation?
AUGMENTATION is taken from the Latin AUG- “grow” and this root is the same like the Germanic root of EKE “to grow” in old English and AUCHEN in old German.
Dear совершенная Marina, How nice that you took a moment to read a definition from the O.E.D. You may do this as often as you like. For your homework, my fantasy using the original definition would be to sleep safe and warm in your close embrace through a long winter’s night.
Supergirl is also someone who flies like Superman. For some reason, she never grows up into Superwoman. Fantasy is also a genre of fiction that goes back to the Epic of Gilgamesh, the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, to modern ones like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or even Pirates of the Caribbean. They are nice movies. Oh, if you get frightened at movies like that, I’d like to sit next to you and hold you to make you feel better. Your dear student, seesixcm6
All of my fantasies involve my teacher!… but that’s pretty normal, right?
I have a couple of word requests too:
1) With the baseball playoffs, I’m wondering why the term ‘bullpen’ started to be use for where the pitchers warm up.
2) I’m curious about why we change the name of some dried fruits. For example, why is a dried grape called a raisin? Why is a dried plum called a prune? But a dried apple is just a dried apple, and a dried mango is just a dried mango. Where did raisin and prune come from, and why are they different?
3) Cat Bird Seat. I have heard many older people use this term to describe someone who is in first place, or in perfect position to negotiate or win something. Such as the pole position in a car race, or having all the leverage in a negotiation. Where does this term come from? What is a Cat Bird seat?
Thank you Marina!
no.
What lame school did you go to?
Everyone I know had a crush on one of their teachers in school, both guys and girls. I think you’re the exception, not me.
I have a crush on the memories of my grade 5 teacher… ahh, I was too young in 1967.
when i was a kid i had a crush on jane goodall.
LOL… crazy monkey man
It seem that people are always looking
for a new way to express ” A good thing ”
Hot
Tight
Neat
Cool
Banging
Bad
Off the hook
On and on into noisome
Fantanic now means the opposite of fanciful.
Hey people have any of you gone to Urban Dictionary and word searched hotforwords She needs people to add more articles. Nut up and write
something
I did. “Nut up”, thats a new one. Urban Dictionary and is dar a rural 1?
Hi Marina! I really liked and enjoyed your channel… I also like the philology and etimology… but in my native language (Spanish). Nevertheless I also like to learn some words in English that are some kind related to Latin forms or just curious
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Those are my words:
“Address”
“Explode”
“Crab”
Shalom,
Andres G.
In all honesty my fantasy is to take over the World and rule as Rex Mundi.
An even bigger fantasy of mine I’m going to keep secret like a birthday wish.
Because really I don’t want to be a self centered king of the world. I rather want to be a lover, like in that song by Fleetwood Mac.
True story
Word
PS Dear Marina, you are a badass.
I still have that dream – flying through the air
like swimming through the water. I remember
them becasue they’re usually quite vivid
Superman could carry off the women, though…
I always seem to be in a hurry to get somewhere.
Marina, you look more sultry and seductive with every video. My fantasy would be a single day after school with you
. a single day would be beyond anything I could ever hope for. Anyway I like to request the word SULTRY.
I always had a fantasy where if I won an exorbitant amount of cash,
I might take over a failing lion-rescue/tiger-rescue reserve.
It’s weird. Just as I was about to donate to the local place down here…
… they buckle and have to close or change owner (not sure).
Remember that dodgy football photo? Well here are LOADS !! http://www.facebook.com/s.php?init=q&q=porn&ref=ts&sid=46cd658579c60af037d285b4d31640a3#/group.php?gid=6151451581
you don’t have a ps3 do you…. some 16 y-old guy from the uk named james added me and is really pissing me off right now…
We have a ps3 but i have never added anyone
Hi Marina! I wanna know the origin of the word “clutz” its such a strange word and I can’t seem to find where it came from. Can you help me?
Maybe it’s a combination of the words “clumsy” and “yutz”….. I wonder where yutz came from.
My fantasy is someone coming to my house and delivering me $1,000,000. That would be epic.
Also, I still want to know where the “BRAND” in “BRAND NEW” came from.
If it’s brand “spanking” new, is it even better
Word Request: Diary
Marina… Girls write them and historians often depend on them, but where did the word come from?
Miss CC, here’s your cance to interrupt my request.
Now that everybody wants to know the origins of the crisis, the economic crisis, why don’t you explain the origin of the word CRISIS. I think it used to have a more profound/complete meaning than the one we usually give to it.
I’d like to suggest the word : BARGAIN.
I think it comes from TO BEAR GAINS but maybe Marina will take this interesting word ?
I got lost. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0
Marina, Phantasticus and Phantastikos got me thinking: my brother was in an accident last year, and lost his leg. He had, as the doctors said, a “phantom limb” after his amputation. Is the word “Phantom” related to Phantastikos?
Correct ! And Marina did not speak about many other words connected with this root because she doesn’t want to make too long videos. Example PHENOMENON belongs to the same Greek root.
Since you wanted to fly, have you ever had a flying dream? I’ve had two and you will never forget them. They were fantastic. Most of my fantasies have come true
so I need to work on some new ones now. 
Oh, by the way, for some reason, this video had a special charm about it. It seemed your delivery was slower and more deliberate. I like the change of pace and gives the video a charming character. Excellent and going over to YT to rate and subscribe. Oh, wait a minute, I’m already subscribed.
do you actualy remember every dream you’v had?…….iv had a few about flying that’s all I know ……I crashed ones
…… not that fanastic 
No, I don’t remember every dream foxbow, but I’ve had some very interesting ones and those I have remembered, especially the flying dreams. Those were so vivid and fantastic that there is no way to describe the feeling of flying and I can see why Marina would want that to be her fantasy to fly like Superman.
I frequently have dreams of flying – hardly surprising considering my career – but what is curious is that I am frequently flying without a flying machine of any kind, flying free like a bird, no checklists, no limitations and no fuel to run out of.
A unique feeling of freedom.
That’s a good way to describe it Bob, “A unique feeling of freedom.”
Indeed, that it was for me.
That was a great video as I had never thought that fantastic would come from fantasy. I see now by looking at the words there must be some kind of correlation between the two as they are spelled relatively the same and your etymology makes it clear they have the same back ground, but different meanings, sort of.
My fantasy would have been world peace. But by the way things are going between countries and in our own home land we can forget that.
Marina, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but, regarding your fantasy to fly like Superman … there’s no easy way to say this … you have failed the medical;
but we can offer you the opportunity to fly like Superwoman.
I hope you will not regard this as sexual discrimination.
Bob she has too much down flaps, she would never get off the ground and even if she did she would always be making loops.
Hmmmm I don’t know now, Wonderwoman flew so it must help in the up lift, we may have to ask Foxbow for the answer on whether air current flowing over and under the body would cause a drag or an upift.
@Foxbow come answer this question for us.
When Wonder Woman flu she was in a transparent plane.
That’s right I forgot about that. I knew she didn’t have a car. lol
you know i got kicked out right?…
it has something to do with the venturi effect and Bernoulli’s equation that’s all I remember
you’d have to do some more recearche on the Curves and how they affect the dynamic pressure 
Aerodynamically speaking, she’d probably need to fly on her back. Maybe Hawkgirl would be a better design?
how about aeon flux or selene, the “underworld” chick?
Those gals aren’t just aerodynamic, they define fantastic.
update: actually wonder woman has lost the invisible jet and she flies on around on her own, just like superman.
I thought she could fly too.
WonderWoman
OK, new fantasy… Marina dressed up as WW, lasso optional.
WonderWoman Today.
Lynda Carter… *drools*
Ah, the fantastic comes to life.
Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman
Here’s you another one Bob if you drink to much.
Donated Clothes
Try Again
that picture is really horrifing….it sucks all the happiness out my life
but really…..that’s so fucked up
Hey hot for words, I just wanted to know the origins of the navel. I understnd how I get the word belly button, but where does navel come from?
Word Request: And does it have anything to do with naval? Does your name (Marina) mean navy in Spanish?
Hey my most favourite teacher,
I’d like to request the word “autumn”, I think it has something to do with the latin “autumnus”, but I wan’t to know everything…
Hope you can tell me!
Be good
Crunchy
actually it should be “want”…Sorry
The word missionary has more than one meaning. One is for religious people who set out on missions and the other is the missionary position. Where did missionary position come from?
Kinda reminds me of the time where I wanted to become a “sexton”….. before I later found out that it’s NOT a person who has a “ton of sex!”
I’m just joking on wanting to become one.
Hi Marina,
I love words and you are quite lovely too.
How about the origin of the word LACHRYMOSE – meaning tearful..?
Keep up your great work!
Dylan
Hey Hey
Could you investigate the german word “zeitgeist” which is also an english word?
greetings
she did poltergeist. I think she may have mentioned zeitgeist in it
ZEIT means “Time” in Germand but ZEIT corresponds to TIDE “Time of the sea”.
GEIST means “Spirit” and is of course the same word like GHOST.
PLease can you tell me the origin of the word “Amaizing”?
You´re amaizing
Don’t you mean “amazing”, without the i in the middle?
yeah my english isn´t godd sorry
Fantastic!
Homework: As a historian, my fantasy is rather dull to many… but it would be fantastic to travel back through time to see history as it was, and not just described in a book, or someone’s fantasy.
historian, any particular area or era?
USA
Hey buzz, sorry for the delay… I was selfishly feeding my face.
My love is history and archaeology of the fertile crescent region (hence the bronze age WMD joke), but my degree work is on the other side of the planet… history and archaeology of Central and South America… Inca, Nazca, Maya, Aztec, Olmec, etc.
One of my professors, on a dig to a Mayan ruin called Rio Azul, found the first child proof cap! It was a ceramic cacao (chocolate) pot with a locking lid. It did such a good job that there were remains of a ceremonial cacao offering within.
One day I hope to return to school, get my Masters or Doctorate in Archaeology and become Indiana Dez… minus the grave robbing… but I love the whip and hat.
dude, thats cool. yeah, the fertile crescent region that would be a great, great area to work in, lots of discoveries waiting. i was working on my masters in anthropology and studied in nicaragua. visited a site with hieroglyphics that had recently been exposed as volcanic ash had washed away. by the way, where are you now?
Hanging with some friends in Texas… wow, Nicaragua… was it a Mayan site? Dammit that’s cool!
As for the fertile crescent, due to the present war the area is pretty much untouchable unless you’re in Jordan or Israel. I was in Iraq back in 2005 and was able to look at Babel’s ruins from across the river in Al Hillah. I’ve also flown over Ur… so close yet so far away. Some of the allies posted their camps near the ruins of several sites. The constant vibration from all of the movement of heavy machinery and tanks has damaged many sites. Of course Saddam did a number on his country’s sites as well… if I ever get back I may weep, but I’ll have plenty of work to do… if only cataloging remains and damage.
cool to hear
I, too, am a historian. I am currently going back for my Master’s. Wish me luck 
For Marina’s fantastic experience I offer the words of a by-gone poet:
The Eagle and the Hawk
I am the eagle, I live in high country
In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky
I am the hawk and there’s blood on my feathers
But time is still turning they soon will be dry
And all of those who see me, all who believe in me
Share in the freedom I feel when I fly
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops
Sail o’er the canyons and up to the stars
And reach for the heavens and hope for the future
And all that we can be and not what we are
John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfegYGfj6Is&feature=related
Marina,
What is the noise at 2:07 that sounds like a bell.
I don’t really like things that are not real (like hair extentions) But…. You look great with longer hair (not that you do without of course..)
Also.. My fantasy… Me meeting you in Blu Jam..
Come on you are just asking for trouble by asking that question!!
My cell phone getting a text is what you heard.
Sorry I meant not that you dont look great without or maybe i dint .. I cant think right now.. You know what I mean though… I love that sound… its all nice and……..chimey..
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of- wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never Lark, or even Eagle flew -
And while with silent lifting mind, I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
- John Gillespie Magee, Jr,
a WWII fighter pilot who lived from 1922-1944
Sorry Marina I didn’t you were filming or I would have waited on that text message.
Whence the word “Job” has come?
Thumbs up Marina – another great and informative lesson
Yo Marina whats up? When I watch your videos I notice your dog then I remember my friend has the same breed and then I started to wonder where the word—–” pooch “—–came from
its such a wierd word and I cant tell how it is related to dogs……PEACE OUT…. 
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0.35……that looked really planned lol,
phantasys yes,same as you , FLY
but not in a superman outfit… 
boom!
you win.. i hereby void FB
Thanks James
Boom Boom
I like that song BB, thanks
cool