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  1. dominic100 says: 204

    Hii , i have a huge foot fetish and a stocking and shoe fetish too.
    I like to be dominated too but i´m not sure if that is a real fetish.

  2. lols at f**kticious, no offense maria, is that ur name, cuz i dno

  3. llcoolj58 says: 202

    I love girls feet the soles the most would it be cool for you to talk about sole wrinkles saying you showing off your soles with sole wrinkles would love to learn more about sole wrinkles :)

  4. brandon236 says: 201

    i have a foot fetish and a fetish for watching women pee

  5. ask my girlfriend…. :lol:
    many :mrgreen:

  6. leonard says: 198

    Is it true, Miss Orlova is auditioning for THE HotForwards Orchestra….first song to learn “OCHLOCRACY”

  7. caratucus says: 197

    Fetish is a pretty broad term now compared to that definition. I guess it’s being misused in most cases though. Like I have a fetish for hotforprofits wouldn’t be appropriate.

  8. vladko says: 196

    I think many males wanna be your foot slaves like me or pet slave.

  9. vladko says: 195

    i usually wath your videos with hope to see your beautiful toes or feet, now my dreams came true

  10. Chemikal says: 194

    I just don’t get fetishes :)
    Nice Sox, hamna hamna =))

  11. Here’s a couple of mine: A pretty girl like HotForWords wearing either a belted Safari Bush Jacket, a Burberry Double Breasted Trench Coat or a 1974 ca(approx.) belted Ski Jacket…
    The sort of garments I’d like to see HotForWords wear…
    :smile:
    :twisted:

  12. well I admit I aways had an hand fetishes and an strong fetishes of woman wearing an wriest watch think it make woman look so smart specially metal band ones. just to let people know my weak fetishes.

  13. jnaples says: 191

    I have a fetish for anything attached to my teacher! :twisted:

  14. reekzilla says: 190

    OLE
    COMMODE
    PISSOIR
    FEDERAL
    BOOZE
    TRAIN from TRAINING-did the word exist before railroad trains?
    PEEPING TOM
    LEEWAY
    DRINK YOU UNDER THE TABLE
    JACK OF ALL TRADES
    FOUL-illegal in sports first, or name for birds
    ARCADE
    BREAKFAST
    DIBS
    FREESTYLE
    ROCK AND ROLL
    SUEY-pig call
    TAXICAB and TAXIDERMY-what does TAXI mean?
    SHAMPOO
    ALECK
    SCISSORS
    LETTER-doesn’t let things
    NUMBER-doesn’t numb things
    BULLY
    JERKY
    LOUSY-anything to do with lice
    COUNT-to count or be the count of something
    MUTT
    DRAG QUEEN
    WEIRDO
    BULLSEYE
    BINGO
    RIGHTS
    No=NUMBER=#
    MUMS THE WORD
    BOX from BOXING and BOXER
    a person being troubling is TROUBLESOME, but can a HANDSOME person be handing
    BATTERY SIZES(a aa c d-how do they classify those)
    BLOW A RASPBERRY
    STRAITJACKET not STRAIGHTJACKET
    PHONEY
    MAYDAY
    SPIC AND SPAN
    SISSY
    MARATHON
    why is JAMES plural
    BOGUS
    COOKIES
    TOMCAT
    MC or EMCEE

  15. Guess what my fetish is…lol…yup I have a sweater fetish. Which leads to my request: why are they called sweaters? and in other parts of the world they are called jumpers. Where did those terms come from?

  16. bot107 says: 188

    Car stuck girls,feet, toes

  17. Just in case that you don’t see my comment in YouTube, I will post it again:

    Hi Marina, I am from Brazil, as I hope, you know that we speak portuguese, and the word “fetiço” is spelled “feitiço”, in Brazilian portuguese and in portugal portuguese, but I really don’t know if in an ancient form of portuguese it was spelled fetiço.
    I will wait for an answer.

    Thank you.

  18. jimj122345 says: 186

    I had two friends that were very naughty today.
    They said they would like to suck your toes,and work their
    way up to your beautiful lips and eyes. I told them to shut
    up! Your good student.Jimj122345. Love, They need a good
    spanking. In your school dress would give them a real good
    LESSON!

  19. foxbow says: 184

    hehe, it’s back on :grin: how can there be a glitch in a video :S
    Is this also today’s uploud or will there be a new one?

  20. osmozosmoz says: 183

    Thank you Marina ! :grin:

    You realize my dream !!.

    Thanks for your video, your little toes are very cute,
    it’s like candy.

    Against it by missing your heels and soles
    but I am always delighted, and your course have been very instructive.

    Marina still sexy, beautiful, the charm, the humor, a ray of sunshine.

    Thank you big Kiss.

  21. Che Volay says: 181

    Gee, it’s almost time for my siesta :sad:

  22. Che Volay says: 180

    ….now it’s time for some appropriate music Tired of Waiting – Kinks

  23. Capman911 says: 178

    Marina maybe if you changed places with Feet – ish and Read a trashy Novel in the recent posts you might get some adds.

  24. animalntaz says: 177

    I gotta say, I was a bit surprised that you did this video. Ever since I saw that “titillate” video, months ago, where that guy asked if that word had anything to do with the word “tit”, it also reminded if “fetish” had anything to “feet”.
    But after later learning about that “ped-” prefex, I just gave up on that word request in a matter of weeks. :roll:

  25. animalntaz says: 176

    I have a few more gravatar ideas, but I think I’ll save my “costume-changing” for this upcoming Halloween. :mrgreen:

    Hey, when is the next video coming? It’s starting to feel a little cramped in here. :?:

  26. animalntaz says: 175

    Ahhhh… that feels much better. :smile:

  27. mijj says: 174

    just out of interest .. here’s the keyboard part for [9 nine]:

    http://www.mijj.info/misc/kbd.png

  28. I would like to request the word snog.
    please and thank you

  29. Capman911 says: 171

    Marina still nothing on when they are going to post you vid on the Partners page?

  30. Che Volay says: 170

    Have any ladies posted their Fetish here?
    I did go out with this for about a month and she would like to do it in public places, the car, the beach, a phone booth whatever, where ever, any time.
    …thought maybe she just didn’t want to dirty her sheets… :grin:

  31. leonard says: 167

    Your magical educating symptoms pushed me to find out about who Irvin S. Cobb was, thank you.

  32. Word Request:
    Two unusual words today:

    1. Samovar
    2. Hookah

    Have a good one, all!

    Eric M

  33. odidan says: 165

    Hey gorgeous, I would like to hear you explain the origin of the word “fornicate” or “F***” when did such a word adopt the meaning it so explicitly describes.

    Thanks for being so fine, Uvidimsia!

  34. stsgabe says: 164

    Hi, you give me “Goose Bumps”, well not quite, but where does that expression come from?

  35. Marina, I was watching this ted.com video presentation on the word glamour. I thought how perhaps once a week, on Mondays, you introduce a new format and expound upon a particular word a little more thoroughly. Three, four minutes isn’t enough sometimes right?

    Rearrange the furniture, ‘ya know? For something to do if nothing else.      :wink:

  36. mittheman says: 162

    I have a pierced belly button fetish.

  37. Che Volay says: 161

    @pedantickarl,

    Is there a word that describes words that have a visual component, similar to onomatopoeia? If not, should I invent one?

    ….not quite sure what you want but would this made up word fit your definition Opsisarticulate ….
    …….when a cartoon character’s eyes bulges out of his head….
    is this a good example? :mrgreen:

  38. Hey ;] I am addicted to you and have been watching forever now. Recently, I was in London, visting a friend and a comercial for diapers came on television, but ofcourse, they call them nappies. She joked on me, when I questioned why they were called nappies, and told me to come ask you lol. So Marina, I was wondering … Why are Diapers called Nappies in the UK? And why do we call them diapers?

  39. stokesjrj1 says: 159

    BUNCH because elderherathere

  40. Che Volay says: 158

    ….now for some morning music (Europe Edition) Stop – Super Session with Al Kooper………

  41. shermana says: 157

    So….what is this pile of money that drops down while you talk about your lovely feet, Marina? Is this a possibility of a “hint”? This could be another word origin you could teach about, “hint”. If it IS, how many rubles was that pile “hinting” at…?

  42. tok-715 says: 156

    Hi Marina. Another job well done. There’s no labour like a labour of love. :smile:

    Still waiting for th origin of the word “Hitman” and the phrase “stuffed to the gills”. Look forward to more videos from the ever lovely you.

  43. Hi Marina! Where does the word ’science’ come from?
    I love your videos, keep up the amazing work!

  44. timur says: 154

    Hi Mariana…
    where does the word “alcohol” come from?

  45. Hello Hotforwords!
    I’m french and i want to know the origin of the word “French Kiss”

    Thank you :razz:

  46. robertrun says: 152

    I don’t really have any fetishes in the superstitious sense, but I keep a jar of small objects from different periods in my life as reminders.. And I am quite fond and protective of it.

  47. kobe says: 151

    what is wrong with your google ads?
    fetishes, like two girls and a cup?

  48. Che Volay says: 150

    …..and now is the time of night to dance close to your lady Sexual Healing – Marvin Gaye

  49. gemini3 says: 148

    well you are my feetish, you are so beautyfull and clever :lol:

  50. life-savy says: 147

    Question, where does the word crazy come from?

  51. life-savy says: 146

    I guess you could say I have a boob fetish, but what guy doesn’t? :cool: Keep up the word lessons Marina, English vocab’s never been this fun.

  52. OMG MARINA thanks you for posting that video ive been waiting like weeks for that. haha you are the best marina. Love ya. Your feet are extremely sexy. Especially your toes. Thats why i wanted you to post this. As you can guess my fetish is sexy feet and also toes. Also i have a fetish for breasts and nipples =) Thanks again ive learned soo much keep the nice work going!! :mrgreen:

  53. tryant says: 144

    I’ll tell Ya,why the hell not? If it can even be called “fetish”,mine would be *reaction*,when I recieve good reactions from a lady to my actions I get hard enough to dent any material known in the modern world!! Lorena Bobbit couldn’t hurt it with a high-speed diamond cutting blade!

    The opposite happens if the good reactions are absent,a warm wet noodle is harder. :lol:

    tryant

  54. shane says: 143

    I noticed that you don’t do outtakes at the end of your videos anymore.

    Is that because you never make mistakes anymore? :-)

    Also, I have a word request…

    I hear people say ‘Nice Job’ a lot. Obviously this means someone did a good job. But when did we start saying Nice job, and why? What’s nice about it?

    Nice means being cordial or respectful, doesn’t it? So what does that have to do with rating how well a job is done?

  55. danielpool says: 142

    Glitch i did not see something wrong :?:

  56. n30_32173 says: 141

    I have Two optional words video request came from:

    1.- Hacker
    2.- Halloween

  57. hey i was wondering if you can tell me what “foot in your mouth”

    Thanks :mrgreen:

  58. joela says: 139

    Marina,I really want to know how does”Confucius” came from?

  59. shane says: 138

    I think it’s hysterical that you finally did a fetish video, with feet in it, and chose to leave your socks on. What a tease! :)

    I wonder how many of your foot fetish fans were all excited thinking this was the day you’d show your bare feet, then proceeded to put their fists through their monitors when they realized they were denied!

    This is just one reason we love you Marina… great sense of humor!

  60. Very cute socks, Marina. Umm, yeah, I’ve got a fetish. Bigger Amazon-type women :oops: Being 6′3″ and over 300lbs, I just enjoy seeing empowered, taller, bigger-built women, probably a holdover from my primate days. You know, ‘bigger girl, better mate’? ;)

    WORD REQUEST: Smack! Is it short for something else? A phrase, perhaps? Or is it just a bastardization of Western civilization tendencies of making up short verbs that almost have sound-in-word qualities?

  61. stokesjrj1 says: 135

    Feet – ish a fetish pyramids all around the word feed a sun we all know and love. Give it a rest i inheriteded from the best, here is their home, their on a long roam, no one wants to confess http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Voyager+spacecraft your being used buy a drug company to confuse for the selling of sweet babys breath

  62. r1wolf says: 134

    Not sure it’s a fetish, but I do love a great ass! :lol:
    Hmm, if people are asking to see your feet, should I ask to see… :twisted:

  63. dogdog22 says: 133

    Wow. Your feet are BEAUTIFUL. Aside from you face, they are your most beautiful part!
    Thank you for showing them off.
    I bet guys check them out all the time!

  64. Che Volay says: 132

    ….now we dance (South American Edition)Reggaton

  65. spinkr says: 131

    Hej Marina, Do you know the origin of the word “Gut” kram och puss

  66. I was wondering if you could provide us with the origin of the word thespian. My brother is an actor and I’d love to drop that nugget of wisdom at dinner.

  67. reeceprinn says: 128

    Hello, Marina, I was wondering if you could explain where the word “tax” or “tariff” comes from? If they are unrelated etymologically, just one or the other will do :smile: !

  68. Feet/toes, glasses, and noses. BTW, you have lovely feet and toes and a cute nose! :)

  69. lanced says: 126

    Hi Marina !! You’ve single-handedly shattered all stereotypes when it comes to intelligent women ! You’ve got the unbeatable combination of beauty, brains, and a hot voice ! Keep up the great work !

    While we are on the subject of ” feet-ish, ” my girlfriend says I am ” barefoot, ” I say she is ” barefooted. ” Which one of us is correct ? Thanks, Marina from LanceD

  70. mcallisr says: 125

    I have a request for a word “Hemorrhagic” which is commonly used the the medical profession and has been called one of the most eloquent words of the English language. origins are either Greek or Latin

  71. mijj says: 124

    ooo .. total comments on this HotForWords site is coming up to my record on GuardianUnlimited!

    • Hey mijj meister, what will your next number be?
      Not 10, right?

      Since you didn’t start your series with a base origin of “0″, in your mijjian world, the next number should be “11″, correct?
      Of course, you could create a “0″ video, really quickly. It should be a snap. It’ll take you, what, maybe 2 seconds to create. :grin: :lol:

      Of course, you realize, if you make a “0″ video, I’m going to have to play that Fixx video “Saved By Zero” again.
      Go ahead and humour me. :lol:

      • mijj says: 124.1.1

        ah but .. the “0″ video is there .. in a non-existenty kind of way. – erm .. it exists as a potential for video 0. .. which is way video 0 likes it. :) if it acually came into existence, it’d become a 1 video – and i’m sure you wouldn’t want two 1 videos fighting would you?

        and .. according to my guide .. the next number is 10, then there’s a mysterious 11 .. but after that i’m lost for another guide for the numbers.

  72. Che Volay says: 123

    …….ya changed the name of the vid, did ya, still no Google ads or did you do it for –animalntaz :mrgreen:

  73. mijj says: 122

    i have a fetish for that feeling you get on wednesday afternoons when you arrive at the tube station just after the train’s set off and there’s another 5 mins to wait for the next one.

    luvverlee!! :razz:

  74. howhigh says: 120

    HI Marina,

    I would like to request the word “minion” I have always thought of it to be a follower or someone who obeys?

  75. jmquadros says: 119

    Hello Marina!
    In portuguese we spell “feitiço”, don’t “fetiço”.
    I love your show!
    jmquadros

  76. kdhrocks says: 118

    Hi Marina, Retire is a strange word. How did it come about?

  77. I have a minor foot fetish, yours fit into my fetich Marina.
    My word request is AUSPICIOUS (hope I spelled it right)

  78. could you explain the origin of the saying speak of the devil and there he is. ? thanks :shock: :shock:

  79. James says: 115

    Marina. this is a private video just for you

    Please leave a comment so I know you have watched it

  80. Word Requests:
    1. College
    2. University
    3. Encyclopedia

    I have one fetish; my fiance’s earlobes. (Shhh! Don’t tell her.) :grin:

    Eric M

  81. sean_vgl says: 113

    Find the origin the word tobacco.

  82. Che Volay says: 112

    ….did you know recyclables can commingle….saw it posted on a dumpster:

    COMMINGLED RECYLABLES

    makes me all excited inside, like in a green way… :mrgreen:

  83. kli20 says: 111

    I would really like til hear the origin of the word ‘Burger’

  84. In school, I have always heard the word “deadline”. I know what it meant when it comes to schoolwork and art, but the history behind it congufes me. Can you investigate it?

  85. joshuag27 says: 109

    hello could you do a video on the word Raunchy i know what it means but i dont know were it comes from :mrgreen:

    thankyouuuuuuuuuuu xXx

  86. bilbo588 says: 108

    Marina,
    Could you tell me were the word ‘Gynoid’ comes from and it’s meaning? I’ve heard it banded around.

    Thanks

  87. gajake says: 107

    Can you tell me if the symbol “@” has a name and where it came from?

    • It’s called a commercial at. Example: 5 pounds of dead rats @ 10 cents = 50 cents. I don’t know for sure, but i would assume that it was just shorthand to save a character as it would be used a great deal. Very old typewriters have it, so it has been around awhile.

      One of the first guys working on the Internet will be forever famous for coming up with the use for it in E-mail addresses, e.g. alberteinstein@deadphysicists.org. (However, he is not so famous that I recall his name.)

  88. mijj says: 106

    OK, Marina .. what have you done to piss off your stalwart yeoman, Capman?

  89. James says: 105

    I have had a lovely time hacking the test page. First i gave EVERYTHING a lovely orange outline, then i gave myself a really nice green background, then a yellow one, and then a green one again. :mrgreen:

  90. mijj says: 104

    what happened to Capman? .. did he escape?

  91. jarkaruus says: 103

    Marina,

    I was studying my philosophy lessons today and came across the word “inimical” meaning something to the effect of adverse or hostile. Could you do a lesson on the origin of this word please?

    Thanks

  92. Hey teach, where did the word “logo” Originate from? Thanks. knoxville40E.

  93. shovet1111 says: 101

    How about the word O’clock… is it Irish or something?

  94. mijj says: 100

    has M changed the default font for this site, or is it my browser deciding to mess me around?

  95. mijj says: 99

    ok .. finally … [9 nine] is here!

    (.. i had to fix the background to be a steady solid colour to get it to be non-blotchy … [bangs head to learn lesson] ..)

  96. codmon says: 98

    I always wondered how the ancient word BATTLE ever got its origins in everyday language. Can you help me with that word Marina? Please!!!
    PS: I love you Marina, I think you are Super Sexy. Look me up next time you’re in Maine, I’ll cook you some lobster.
    love,
    codmon

  97. mijj says: 97

    oh yeh .. fetish .. ? … erm … gotta be eyes, i guess. :)

  98. mijj says: 96

    goddam! .. i finally finished 9 and uploaded it .. and YTube turned it all blotchy .. now i have to redo the background to see if it helps … (in case anyone’s interested, that is)

  99. daeco says: 95

    HI Marina,

    Recently I discovered that the word Apocalypse means Revelation, or to reveal the concealed in Greek.

    How did the word Apocalypse come to mean destruction and doom when the Greek origin of the word means something completely the opposite?

    Thanks in advance

  100. kraznick says: 94

    Hi HotForWords,

    I have a word request for you.

    Please research the word “Primadonna”

    Thanks,
    KrazNick

  101. One of my favorite YouTube videos:

    “Jaws” :wink:

    –animalntaz

  102. Marina,
    the other day you were talking about the mispronunciation of zoology. Which reminded me that I wanted to ask you about the origin of and misuse of the word “UNIQUE.” People say, “Oh Marina has the most unique web site.” But that’s an improper use of the word, correct? I also long to be the teacher’s pet one day. Thank you. R.W.

  103. cufan71 says: 91

    Homework :cool:
    Yes I have A fetish. It’s interesting that the last lesson was about my fetish: Ladies in jeans :!: In the 80″s I saw gals in TIGHT jeans all the time, on T.V. in magazines and at school Here’s a great T.V. ad showing my fetish! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ewV2l0fN8

  104. feet :cool: (shaking my head, trying to snap out of it) :shock:

  105. orion_ss1 says: 89

    My turn on is long hair.

    When you referred to ‘facticius’ at first I thought you had said ‘facetious’. Are they related?

  106. James says: 87

    Does anyone know how marina made the vampire voice? I would love to know that.

  107. iceman2099 says: 85

    Phrase Request: Strike While The Iron Is Hot

  108. YEAH! She finally did my word request! :grin:

    –animalntaz

  109. moonzappa1 says: 83

    I was like going to this party, sort of like “band camp”, and the comment there I heard was like “sick” alot, in sort of my appearance, and my ride. So I am thinking maybe this is good, and not actually sick %&@! So, maybe this “sick” has double values I am thinking

  110. janis a says: 82

    Hey Dear Marina! I love all of your lessons,you are great teacher :grin: ! I would like to know what word Otorhinolaryngology means! Would be great if you answer me :wink: ! Good Luck And Take Care! Janis A

  111. I would like to know the origin of the expression “Gung Ho” it sounds like a military term, but I will leave it in your capable hands to discover the truth…Thanks for bringing all these rays of sunshine to so many people!
    cheerio,
    Adriansalamandre

    • foxbow says: 81.1

      sounds more chinese to me…

    • I just heard about this on the tube this weekend. Some G.I. in China brought the term to the U.S. military in WWII (a very wordy war, by the way). It’s something like working in harmony (with a group) or pulling together or the like. It got to mean having a highly motivated work spirit, which is slightly different. In fact it could be viewed as almost being the opposite, because now it means standing out from the crowd (because most are not gung ho), which is the opposite of sublimating oneself to the group.

  112. James says: 80

    Marina, I have a big tracking cookie problem I am trying to sort out. I have seen bidsystem as one of your cookies but it didn’t show up on my virus scan, it just has a name that sounds like it could be a tracker though. Do you have/ know if you have any tracking cookies that may come through the ads?

    • Marina says: 80.1

      I use Google Adsense… so any tracking stuff would be going through them.. and it’s Google.. so I would assume it would be safe.

    • foxbow says: 80.2

      how can cookies be a problem…. :???:

    • alex says: 80.3

      why not? are you downloading a lot of kinky stuff?

    • foxbow says: 80.4

      run crap cleaner(ccleaner) if you don’t like them…

    • foxbow says: 80.5

      since you find privacy so important, have you removed and blocked the google PREF tracking cookie? you might get some problems with adult image searching, but you don’t search for those kind of things ….right…..?

    • Marina says: 80.6

      James, by preventing cookies you make the Internet experience pretty worthless as cookies are needed by websites for all kinds of things. Everything you do is already tracked.. credit card purchases, channels that you watch on cable, even your emails, I understand in the UK especially, are tracked as well.

      The amount of headache turning off cookies does for you is not worth the pain vs. how your Internet experience is degraded by turning them off. I say let them be and don’t think that the UK government is watching your every move. I can assure you they have other more important hings on their mind. Unless you se yourself as a modern day Guy Fawkes :-)

      Just my 2 cents.. or should I say 2 pence.

      • James says: 80.6.1

        The UK is track-land! I think it is the country with the most surveillance in the world. Mind you, it does a good job. I have just seen on the news that the police have found a car in London with about 6 gas cylinders, 2 mobile phones which had about 8 missed calls on them, and 1900 nails. So it cant be all that bad. A few months back, parts of the UK (mostly around the south, where I live) had the councils put trackers underneath the bins so they could get ready to charge you for how much rubbish you throw away! That said. Many people just threw them in the bin.The UK is very messed up, we have a stupid government, and a dumb leader. But someone’s always watching you, it seems like you can’t even go to sleep without someone knowing it.

        2 cents? I have heard from America say pennies and pence. Whats all that about? Are they referring to cents?

      • In order for cookies to track anything NOT dealing with the issuing Website, it would have to be an executable file of some sort. Cookies can’t load files and arrange for them to start up, can they? I think all they can do is record info sent from the server and make inquiries of the same cookie later. In other words, it’s just a scratch pad to note preferences or actions that they can reference next time you visit without having to store it on the server.

    • igor.kh says: 80.7

      How about listening to a voice of reason and not being overly paranoid about the internet?

  113. prospero811 says: 79

    Word request – “bail.’ When someone is arrested, they can pay bail, and then be out on bail. They are then said to be bailed to appear in court. Does this have something to do with a “bailment” or a “baileywick?” Or, the Old Bailey in London?