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GTW Game XII

Here is the 12th installment of the Guess the Word Game :-)

I hope it’s not too easy!

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  1. Hi Marina,
    I have a request for you. I know you prefer video requests but I am technically challenged.
    Is it true that FLEA MARKET was first a market in France where they first sold only flea-infested old beds and matresses?
    How disgusting! What do you think?
    Warmest regards from Moscow,
    Anna

  2. John says: 130

    A=quarto
    B=quar=quarry
    C=quarry=limestone
    D=Shakespeare=Romeo & Juliet(This ties back to A.)

    :smile: :smile:

  3. The answer is ‘Quartz’ I think.

  4. John says: 127

    I also could have fitted Rudder into this answer, the thing that guides the coarse of a vessel. :???: :???:

  5. picesdavid says: 126

    word /phrase request: “red herring”

  6. vesiana says: 125

    Word Request : hypochondriac

  7. John says: 124

    Marina

    After much searching i found only curfew and or suitor. A the ringing of a bell to put out the fires.

    A= Curfew= something the kids wouldn’t like because their not aware too the importance.

    B= fireman= his realisation of the importance of fire prevention.

    C=curf= a thin layer of limestone found in the Portland quarries of England.

    And then there is Suitor

    A.= suitior = a practice where by a man courts a woman (Lady) in the middle ages.

    B.=Kid= wouldn’t understand “Mother/Father why is that man always coming over too see ******.”

    C.=Fireman= a man whom always wears a suit when he goes to see his flame.

    D.=flame= the person the suitor has a crush on= “a type of limestone” limestone crush a road construction material.

  8. I believe it’s the word “curfew”

    -The practice in midieval Europe was that they would ring a bell at a fixed time to signal an order to bank the hearths and prepare for sleep.

    - Kids don’t like curfews because they have to be in the house/bed at a certain time.

    - Curfew comes from the Old French word “covrefeu” with “coverir” meaning ‘to cover’ and “feu” meaning ‘fire’. So to cover a fire, as in keeping it in their control, would be something a fireman would like.

    - Take away the “e” and “w” and you get a Curf, which is basically composed of sandy cherts and shelly limestones, so in a way it IS a type of limestone.

  9. MARINA! MARINA! MARINA!

    I have the perfect geek word for you to define and provide origins for:

    WIDGET

    I saw an article in the business section today on tech companies with a picture of something on a screen of some sort (iPhone?) which the caption referred to as a widget. Not being a technogeek, I am obviously befuddled.

    Please enlighten me, my dear teacher. Here, taste this ripe Gala apple. :smile:

  10. BillyB says: 119

    Boy, I skipped class… tried to sign into the site with my Twitter ID :oops: … couldn’t do it… Whats with that? Been lookin’ into getting one of these. Foxbow & Bob could teach me how to stay alive in the air, wweeeee… I’d never make my curfew, ’cause I’d be scared to land it(I always seem to crash in “flight simulator”).
    :shock: Miss Cupcake’s country is in trouble…“Curfew”- austrailan for Beer?

  11. has to be CURFEW ………but am not sure about the lime stone part

  12. ru14me2c says: 117

    The word ” CURFEW ” comes from the French phrase “couvre feu” which means “cover the fire” ……… not sure about the limestone 4 letter word

  13. Chemikal says: 115

    Word request: cannibal

    Vampires drink people’s blood, zombies eat their brains, and cannibals eat their flesh, right? But if you think about it, a cannibal does all that… so why aren’t they more notorious than the rest? :D

    • hs4mm says: 115.1

      .
      My take: There are two reasons:

      (1) vampires and zombies are unnatural things (and factually, they do not exist). Cannibals are “ordinary” human beings who have chosen a certain way of life. So cannibals can be understood, dealt with and potentially defeated with natural means; vampires and zombies can’t.

      (2) after a vampire or a zombie attacks a person, the person supposedly continues to exist in some unnatural manner — so the person supposedly has something to worry about after the attack. But after a cannibal gets a person, the person is dead — he doesn’t exist and so has “nothing to worry about” after the attack.

      DISCLAIMER: I am not a morbid person, and have never before thought about such things. But once one recognizes that the cannibal is natural but the other two are not, the rest follows.

      –Hs4Mm
      .

      • You could be right, but the funny thing is that we know where zombies and vampires come from, but cannibals are still an unsolved mystery. (as in, no lesson on them yet)
        If she keeps up the pattern, we could find out that Marina is not only a vampire zombie, but a cannibalistic vampire zombie. ( that would mean that she could eat other vampires or zombies ) EWW! :eek:

        OK, sorry, I even grossed myself out with this one… but she started it! :D

    • A cannibal just enjoys “a different dining experience.” The others are whack jobs.

  14. cidkauf says: 114

    Request investigation of the word “blitz” as a football blitz, tank warfare or blitzkreig, or one of the reindeer on Santa’s sled is Blitzen! Thank you :cool:

  15. Chemikal says: 113

    2400 points in favor of DeFranco.
    Guys that means if we up-vote Marina and down-vote him
    1200 times, she will have the lead.
    PK, what are your approximations? When would this overtake happen?
    I think if Marina were to mention one more time at the end of the next video, to vote for her, we’d be all set for the gold! :-)
    Just a few more clicks… how exciting. :D
    Then in 2009, Marina could opt for a hat trick!

  16. Dark Ether says: 112

    Curfew it is! “cover the fire”

  17. boardman says: 111

    request for word — Handsome.

  18. :idea: The word is “Tuffet” Can you believe it :?: :!:

  19. letsgohome says: 107

    WORD REQUEST:

    In poker the term “The Nuts” is used to express the best hand. Where did it come from?

  20. hs4mm says: 106

    Word request, actually idiom request – “cut it out”.

  21. animalntaz says: 105

    Well I guess the answer would have to be:

    TUFFET

    But it really makes no difference if I mention it now, since last time you picked the first person that got it, instead of picking at randomn like you said. :neutral:
    (Sure was dangerously cold to even go out yesterday.)

  22. Evan Owen says: 104

    Милая Марина,

    Technical website question:
    If I change my avatar at Gravatar.com, do all the little avatars by all my prior posts automatically update?

    Reason being, if the wrong person figures out who “Evan Owen” really is, s/he could blackmail me with my posts. :sad:

    Plus someone was razzing PK about his looks, and on reflection I can’t claim to be any prettier. :lol: Also, I’ve always rather fancied a jaunty little Welsh Red Dragon by my comments. :cool:

    • Hi Evan, yes, all your avatars update on all posts. Just keep in mind, in order for you to view the updated gravatar, make sure that you clear your cache 15 minutes after you make the change. It takes appx 5-15 min for the change to take effect.

      You also don’t need to log in nor do you need to create a comment to see the change. Once the change has taken place, you’ll see the gravatar change everywhere for that email address.

      By the way, they weren’t razzing me about my looks, they were missing my steadfast, long term, loyal knight. :lol:

    • Yes, they will change. It takes some time but it will eventually update all the older post. Gravatar is a bit slow.

      • I don’t think time is a factor in upgrading the image in the original scheme. Upgrading occurs only at avatar.com. Once it’s done there, then every time a HFW page loads, there is a HTML tag at the beginning of every comment to call the author’s avatar image, e.g. “<img alt=” src=’http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fb80a290e483579bae3b8b8586be1012?s=48&d=monsterid&r=X’ class=’avatar avatar-48 photo’ height=’48′ width=’48′ /> “. The gobbledegook following “avatar/” is the code for my avatar image, so if I have, say, 10 comments in a blog, then it will call the image 10 times and whatever image is resident at avatar.com for me at the time will be sent out. So the instant it is updated there, it’s updated at every site that relies on them. That’s the basic plan.

        However, there may be some tricks done to save time, i.e. HFW could cache my image and serve it up when called instead of taking the time to go to avatar.com for every comment. If so, there would be some rule about how often HFW checks for updates at avatar.com and that could lead to a delay when you update.

        Finally, the image held in the client’s browser temp. files folder may be used to save time for the user regardless of what the rest of the world is doing. Once you fetch an image, the browser provides it for later uses depending on the browser’s settings, which you may alter. Clearing the temp. files is a crude but effective way of forcing the browser to fetch new images without changing the settings. Everyone should probably review their settings to see if they are what they want. If you change them and things slow down noticeably, you can always put the back. For example, if you say always go and get new files every time, this may cause a delay for loading Web pages, but if it doesn’t, why not do it?

        • CK, Sorry but HFW site does not allow alt attributes. Would you like for me to repair your last comment?

          • WP deleted a space between two single quotes following the alt=, making it look like one double quote. If WP doesn’t like it, why is it used on the links to gravatar.com?

            In the end, it really doesn’t “alt”ter what I was trying to say. :mrgreen:

            PS: I said avatar.com above, but of course it is gravatar.com.

        • WP admins have control on what html is allowed to maintain control of the look and feel of the site. For a list if what is offered, click on the Reply link and just look above the smilely faces and you’ll see “Allowed:…etc…etc.” Next to that is a link to the “learn/practice here” page. You can visit that page to experiment with the code.

          Currently Marina has the site set up for Gravatar (which is now built into WP php code and that pluging is not longer needed) and some random avatar generator for those who have not set up Gravatar. The idea of Gravatar is you set u one avatar and it works with many sites that have them installed. Nice time saver.

        • .

          CJ & CK:

          Everything I know about computers I learned as a boy in Skykomish, Washington in the ’60s:

          hard drive: taking the pickup truck up the old logging road to the top of Tonga Ridge to get firewood
          RAM: the male mountain goat who lived at the top of Tonga Ridge
          Upload and download: pitching the firewood onto and off of the pickup truck
          log on: part of the phrase, “Throw another log on the fire, it’s getting chilly.”
          mouse: the critter that made its nest behind the stack of firewood
          :lol:

  23. cufan71 says: 103

    :cool: I guess CUFFET or TURFEW :!: :mrgreen: :lol:

  24. I just had the urge to check and it’s warmer here right now than in Vegas! Blue skies, calm and the sun is shining. I am in shirt sleeves in the roll-up door cleaning out the car. It’s a good thing, too; I discovered the trunk gasket has a crack in it and some water from the last rain got some towels sopping wet and my tools were sprinkled.

    My heart goes out to you poor sods up to your kneebows in snow and ice. I said my heart; my body is staying right here! :grin:

  25. Evan Owen says: 101

    .

    A Missive to Lady Orlova

    May it please Your Ladyship,

    ***WORD REQUEST: Algebra, Chemistry, Sugar, and/or Cotton***
    What do all these words have in common, and how did they get into English?

    As-salaam alaikum!

  26. aid.watt says: 100

    Can i please request the word orgin and meaning of cleavage? thanks x

  27. the4thdr says: 99

    Where did the word “Wolf Whistle” come from, and come to mean what it does?

  28. Why is it the “twelfth installment”? It’s the twelfth (or whatever number) game, is it not? They are not parts of one game, but separate games with separate words.

    It’s not the 43rd installment of the Superbowl this year, is it?

  29. leonard says: 96

    I hope it is OK to share this:Pelmeni
    A Tasty History
    By Josh Wilson
    reads tasty :!: no twitpic for Marina’a favorite pelmeni :?: :razz:

  30. TitanPA says: 95

    The Word would be Curfew.

    I have a word Request also

    Vis-a-vis

    Where does it come from?

  31. durak says: 94

    Here’s a new word request: “Ditching”
    The news program is talking about the pilot ditching the plane in the river; my wife (who is only two years younger but of a different generation) said it sounded like he was parachuting out and leaving the passengers.

  32. hs4mm says: 93

    Someone (not I) made a ~9 min video of Marina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD3PdLGSkTU&feature=rec-HM-r2 I have just seen about half of it; looks good so far.

  33. hi marina
    i woke up this morning with my alarm clock waking me up
    and i hit the snooze button to turn it off
    and after a few seconds the word snooze made me think
    so where does the word snooze come from?
    thank you
    much love
    aaron xx

  34. Chemikal says: 91

    There is something unclear to me.
    Someone asked me today… Why do we pronounce the letter “i” differently in the words “six” and “nine”?
    I didn’t know what to say. Do you know :?:

  35. Evan Owen says: 90

    ***BONUS QUESTION for HFW fans***

    By my authority as Her Ladyship’s Teacher’s Pet :cool: (well, one of several), I pose this question to see which students have been paying attention:

    What is the etymological link between “curfew” and “handkerchief”? (Hint: they are NOT both onomatopoeia for “sneeze.” :lol: )

    Please click “Reply” to submit your answer.

  36. Snookerman says: 89

    The answer is curfew. I’d like to request a word as well:

    hitherto

    Thanks!

  37. tobs says: 87

    don’t let sxephil be the sexiest geek, Vote for marina!!!

  38. john360 says: 86

    Oh yeah since I’m the newest shmuck here how about This word for an early Valentine’s Day Adjective

    Mellifluous

    yes i just gave the teach a verbal apple lmao :mrgreen:

  39. john360 says: 85

    wow i came up with nothing close to curfew i couldn’t figure out the whole kids don’t like it thing…. lol i came up with tuffet from the rest of her hints :sad: :cool:

  40. Hello! I’d like to request a word.How about the origin of the word “Hillbilly”.

  41. What do you think of the idea of E-mailing the answer to M instead of posting it? Then M could post the winner, the second, third and honorable mention entries.

    The comments would be reserved as a place where the rest of us (read losers) could commiserate and collectively shake our heads. There, we could pretend we had sent in our E-mails like the smarty-pants set and, having soooooo much time left over, we created our own little games to occupy our idling minds while the less fortunate short out their keyboards with tears of frustration. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

    Game: Name a hit song whose name is spelled out in the lyrics and is spelled incorrectly according to the dictionary. (Of course, a song title cannot technically be misspelled by the author, because he is entitled to spell it any way he wishes.) It was sung by a group of brothers, was at the top of the charts and had wide radio play.

  42. darkshadow says: 82

    The answer would have to be curfew. Keep the great work teacher.

  43. I’m going to have to say Curfew. As a kid I hated it when I had to be home before my friends.

  44. augie says: 78

    :lol: make one of the prize a date with you my sweet Marina than i will know all the correct answers and that prize will be my joy and pride love and kisses

  45. Up until a few years ago, several towns still sounded their curfew sirens at 9 PM. Anyone know of any towns that still do that? Of course the bells are more charming as the sirens had every dog howling for miles.

  46. chanceler34 says: 76

    Can you please do a video on the word “beautiful” or “beauty” I think would be very interesting for many people. Thank you Marina. :grin:

  47. mc0101010 says: 75

    Curfew:
    c.1320, from Anglo-Fr. coeverfu (1285), from O.Fr. covrefeu, lit. “cover fire,” from couvre, imper. of couvrir “to cover” + feu “fire.” The medieval practice of ringing a bell at fixed time in the evening as an order to bank the hearths and prepare for sleep (Why kids don’t like it). The original purpose was to prevent conflagrations from untended fires (Why firemen do like it). The modern extended sense of “periodic restriction of movement” had evolved by 1800s.

    Curf:
    “Sometimes called the “little roach”, curf is really a series of sandy chert beds and Shelly limestones. Curf from certain areas may weather rapidly (particularly when used externally in exposed locations) and it is not therefore, always suitable for use as masonry stone.” (http://www.m.godden.btinternet.co.uk/quarrying_info.htm)

  48. fleetwood says: 73

    my guess is turf or surf

  49. kaibanator says: 72

    I don’t know how accurate this is … but from the impression I get from this book (page 135), that a curf is a type of groove that is cut on stone.

    I could be wrong though ;)

  50. kaibanator says: 71

    I will guess curfew :D

    No kids like a curfew :lol:

  51. I think is CURFEW (in Argentina “toque de queda”)
    When I was in the military service, it was an order to be going to sleep. Is it correct? :?:
    Chau!

  52. aboocock says: 69

    :arrow: Tuffet

    To hang
    A stool
    a Lime
    and ash for fire fighting

    or so im told :wink:

  53. what I want to know is, how she picks the winner? Does she pick the person to get it first or just one random person with the right answer?

  54. ozzyboy says: 67

    Curfew…don’t be late !!! :wink:

  55. hmmm, thinking hard; could it be…CURFEW? :wink:

    If Karnak the Magnificent had divined that from the envelope (hermetically sealed and kept in a #2 mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnells porch since noon today), would the question have been: What is the situation of not having many dogs? :roll: (sorry about that :oops: )

  56. jeorney says: 65

    Marina, do you have Czech ancestry? I just discovered your Coat of Arms. Your heraldic shield looks preety impressive. Mine looks… well, I bet the designer wasn’t paid much:lol:

    Czech this website out for an image: http://www.ngw.nl/int/cze/o/orlova.htm . My one seems to have Viking connection. A cousin of William the Conqueror call Odard, but the surname is a contraction of the name of the settlement.

    Answer: Curfew – same reason as the others but have doubts because of the public hanging picture.

    • Bob says: 65.1

      What an appropriate coat of arms; The crowned eagle for her noble intentions, the tree of knowledge and the hammer and pick for her work ethic. :smile:

      • jeorney says: 65.1.1

        :cool: Great interpretation. Here’s a site to decode the meaning: http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm . There’s a link with Poland too, as well as Czech Republic. According to the wiki, Orlova is derived from Eagle.

        Eagle : Person of noble nature, strength, bravery, and alertness; or one who is high-spirited, ingenious, quick-witted, and judicious; “True magnanimity and strength of mind” acc. to Guillim. If wings “displayed,” it signifies protection. Eagle with two heads signifies conjoining of two forces. (Splayed, Gold, crowned half-eagle with 7 feathers: ?)
        Gold: Generosity and elevation of the mind.
        Blue (Azure) Truth and loyalty.

        Tree is difficult, red on white, 7 branches (7 again!). Tree (gen): Life and the mystical connection of the earth with heaven and the underworld. Palm Tree maybe: Righteousness and resurrection; victory. Nothing under crowned eagle but crown: Royal or seigniorial authority.
        Red (Gules): Warrior or martyr; Military strength and magnanimity.
        Silver or White (Argent) Peace and sincerity.

        Crossed hammer & Pick: Management of works where these tools are used. Like a quarry! Limestone quarry mayhaps?
        Black (Sable): Constancy or grief.

  57. MARINA ORIGIN OF THE WORD SOLES OR TOES FOR FEET. PLZ ORGIGIN EVERYONE REQUEST IT EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  58. sugar.king says: 63

    I guess the word is curfew

  59. I believe the word is Curfew…
    It comes from the french word, Couvre Feu…

  60. i believe the word is curfew, my cousin is always complaining about his curfew lol :lol:

  61. cufan71 says: 60

    NASCAR Word Request :cool:
    The Daytona 500 is just a month away, and this word is used alot there:
    Draft
    This word has several other meanings.
    Drafting-to draw
    Draft Beer
    Drafty-breezy

  62. sugar.king says: 58

    Dear hotforwords I really love you. Could you tell me where the word in·sid·i·ous originated from.

  63. chanceler34 says: 57

    i guess “curfew” because it came did come from the french word “couvre feu” which means cover the fire but in layman terms is just blow out the fire or candle. and later “couvre feu” became “curfeu” and then turned into “curfew” :grin: i do my homework

  64. hfwgiapanta says: 56

    Answer to Guess the Word Game XII: Curfew

    Word Request: “Masturbation”…I’m surprised this word is not covered yet.

  65. the word is tuffet (from Lil’ Ms. Muffet), basically a three-legged stool…the limestone is “tuff”…firefighters like stools to sit on outside ’cause they’re quicker to get back in the firehouse when the alarm rings…right, Mike?… :cool:

  66. Don’t know what it would have to do with firefighters though, even though I should considering I am one.

  67. don_of_i says: 51

    t’s CURFEW. I found a reference to “curf” as a feature in limestone. Look at this:
    http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/gif/wsucce.gif

    Thanks Marina,
    Don

  68. These GTW games never go “swimmingly” for me… :???:
    Just hold me under till the bubbles stop please…

  69. I am curious to know the origin of the word biddy or bitty. As in referring to a girl.

  70. slvrserfr says: 48

    I just wanted to comment on how intriguingly fascinated I’ve become with watching your videos. I find them to be very enlightening and educational. I also thought to make a suggestion to consider a segment for the word “premonition”? I’ve personally found the concept of the word’s meaning to be unique but couldn’t understand how to describe a monition or if that is even a word? Take care.

  71. rikgreen says: 47

    I’d like to know where the word Bacon came from. Because bacon is delicious.

  72. hs4mm says: 45

    .
    Hello Miss Orlova,

    Disclaimer: I have not read, and do not plan to read, anyone else’s comments on the GTW Game XII until the official answer is out.

    For all the reasons provided below, my answer is: tuffet.

    Background: This was tough — spent about 30 minutes at home, 2 hours at the library, 20 minutes commute, and 1 hr 30 minutes writing up my answer; and slightly burnt the pizza I was cooking for lunch. Before this research (in the unabridged OED) all I knew about tuffet was its use in the nursery rhyme “Little Miss Muffett” — I learnt everything else written below in the past few hours.

    REASONS:

    1) Preliminary conditions: Tuffet is indeed a noun with 6 letters, second letter is ‘u’, does not use ‘o’, ‘a’, ‘m’, or ‘n’.

    2) French Roots: Touffe and Touffel.

    3) Connection to Hanging Women: The word touse used to mean to yank or to pull a woman about roughly etc.

    4) Limestone: Removing the last two letters gives “tuff”. Tuff and tufa used to be synonyms, and tufa is a form of limestone. The current tendency is to restrict tufa to the form of limestone and to use tuff to mean volcanic ash.

    5) Children do not like it: The reference here is to the three legged stool on which children are made to sit in the corner for punishment.

    6) Firefighters like it: This is an obscure clue. Perhaps, “tuffet” is a form of ash (derived from tuff or otherwise) that firefighter pour over flames. Or perhaps the connection is with “pouffe” or “douse” elaborated upon in Item 8 below. Or perhaps the connection is with the visual appearance of flames as golden tufts.

    7) Ringing of a bell: Tuffing and tuftin refer to bell-ringing, or to the tufts of wool woven into a bell-rope that can be gripped easily.

    Item 8 – Blowing out a candle: Two possible connections. First, Pouffe is a form of stool (tuffet), and puff refers to blowing. Second, tuff sounds like doff, doff means to take off and is related to douse, with one meaning of douse being to put out, extinguish. (While typhoon, the violent wind blowing out the candle, might sound like tuff…, I don’t think their roots are related and so typhoon is an unlikely connection.)

    So there you have it — not a mere guess but work and a large amount of evidence to indicate that that the answer is tuffet.

    –Hs4Mm
    .

    • hs4mm says: 45.1

      .
      PS: One more connection with Firefighters: Could be that tuffet, perhaps via link with pouffe, is an inflatable landing area for people to jump onto from burning buildings.

      –Hs4Mm
      .

    • Hey man how bout letting the rest of us get a shot, you won already :wink: You obviously have a bit of an edge with your willingness to go through all that just for research. Your an animal, man.

    • jindai says: 45.4

      I love your logic, and I hope you’re right. As Curfew seemed too easy. Problem is, I still think Curfew is right. Curf is a type of Limestone, always was, still is, no change in meaning. Second, the breakdown of Curfew is this:
      c.1320, from Anglo-Fr. coeverfu (1285), from O.Fr. covrefeu, lit. “cover fire,” from couvre, imper. of couvrir “to cover” + feu “fire.” The medieval practice of ringing a bell at fixed time in the evening as an order to bank the hearths and prepare for sleep. The original purpose was to prevent conflagrations from untended fires. The modern extended sense of “periodic restriction of movement” had evolved by 1800s.

      She did have a ringing bell at the end of the clue, and this fits quite well. And kids would not know of a curfew, because they were all expected to be in bed by that time, as parents go to bed later than children, so they’d be the ones to bank for fire at the ringing of the bell.
      While I can still be wrong, and you can again be right. I’m satisfied with my answer, and can sleep tonight without it preying on my brain. Good work though.

      • jindai says: 45.4.1

        Oh, and finally. I think you stretched the word “Tuffet” far beyond meaning. A tuffet is simply a device; a footstool or hassock, like in “Little Miss Muffet” Saying that touse is for tossing about women is like saying that the word for Automobile is car, and that Bounce means something else. But what the heck does Automobile and bounce have to do with one another. (In other words, what does touffe and touse have to do with one another?) You have shown no causal relationship between the words.

      • hs4mm says: 45.4.2

        If one assumes that the picture of the women being hanged is just a depiction of an everyday scene around the time when the word curfew was introduced — and is not a depiction of “the practice that occurred in Medieval Europe” — so that one need not find any other connection between that picture and the answer — then curfew is a valid answer. And in such a case I would be hung not only in the circa 1641 meaning of the word but also in the basketball meaning of the word (someone who went for a slam-dunk and missed).

        • Hey hs4mm :smile: Being a previous winner is a plus for you albeit :roll:
          my two cents worth :mrgreen: I believe the hangman(woman) :cool:
          in loverly Marina’s video GWG X11 (& the previous one) takes after the
          game HANGMAN & is for help by way of CLUES :???: not as a clue itself :?:
          huhh :?: Hope I am making myself understood :?: B.B. :lol:

          • See the video at 0:53 seconds — 4 hanging women, 2 begging for mercy, and 1 despondant. What kind of life did people live for such things to happen and to have coined a word such as touse?

    • My choice is ‘Broccoli’. Here’s why.

      >In Eastern Canada, both gypsum and limestone have been used to increase yield and quality of certain crops such as Broccoli and Cauliflower.

      >Children don’t like to eat it.

      >In a NVFC Heart-Healthy Firefighter E-News.
      Broccoli was listed as being a good source of calcium, potassium, folate and fiber, broccoli contains phytonutrients — a group of compounds that may help prevent chronic diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Broccoli is also a good source of vitamins A and C — antioxidants that protect your body’s cells from damage.

      >Broccoli was used as a laxative in the 16th century in Italy, and its juice, mixed with honey, was used to treat coughs. In the 17th century, broccoli soup was a remedy for all respiratory ailments

      What? That doesn’t work you say? I can’t use a noun with 8 letters? The second letter is ‘u’? ‘o’ is not one of the letters? Oh then what the spinach! I’m just trying to be a responsible green person. :roll:

    • James says: 45.6

      uh uh uh no no no

      Its Lady Orlova now :wink:

  73. funbun66 says: 43

    Curfew<===== i hope its correct :razz:

  74. Spinachman says: 42

    I see that the right answer has been given so many times that I am opting out of this one. I want Chemikal to win. Me… I go make a spinach salad and “pump sum weights”.:smile:

  75. eros says: 40

    Curfew—-The word “curfew” comes from the French phrase “couvre feu” which means “cover the fire”. It was used to describe the time of blowing out all lamps and candles (the reason why children dont like it, means bedtime). It was later adopted by the Medieval English language as “curfeu”, which later became the modern “curfew”. :arrow: Thank You

  76. tjhbob says: 39

    obtw:

    MO you have a lot of real intellectual students of Philology out there!

  77. higgens says: 37

    The answer is curfew. Curfew was originally a safety measure requiring that domestic fires be extinguished at bedtime – a wise precaution in the days when houses were highly combustible and a single spark might lead to the devastation of a whole community which would be why fireman enjoy this practice. Curfew was also the name given to the ringing of a bell to remind people that the regulation was in force. The word comes from the French words couvrir (cover) and feu (fire).

  78. James says: 36

    Marina, What camera did you film this on? :smile:

  79. James says: 34

    That was random Marina

    *ding* gotta go

    *blows out a candle*

  80. fatbuffalo says: 32

    ouch , why so fast ?
    curfew

  81. okay4now says: 31

    I’ll be danged, curf is a type of limestone :???: , but how does M.O. know this? GTWg VII must be ‘curfew’, at least it seems to fit.

    Word Request: Does pleas have anything to do with please, or to plead? Also, teacher, since we’re on the subject is chalk really, also, a type of limestone? All these limestones in the world and I didn’t even know!

  82. WORD REQUEST I would like to know the meaning of or information on the word/phrase “up to snuff”

  83. seesixcm6 says: 29

    The French words, “couvre” et “feu” became “curfew.” Kids don’t like going to bed, but firemen like covering the fire (with a metal pan or cover) to put the fire out. There is a type of limestone called “curf.”
    Nice that you recorded this video in Las Vegas. The room is so large, I thought you might get an echo. There must be lots of nice carpeting and drapes to absorb sounds. :razz:

    • btw: After the Norman invasion of England in 1066, William the Conqueror required civilians to stay in after dark. Night patrols enforced this regulation by calling “Couvre feu!” “Cover the fire!” which became “curfew” in English. :smile:

  84. leonard says: 28

    curfew,R.Pryor Word Request…THIRD RAIL…President Bush used the description the other day in his press re-lease :lol:

    • jindai says: 28.1

      I don’t know what context it was used in for the press conference, but why are you trying to waste Marina’s and all of our time with something so simple?
      Answer: Some trains and subways run via electricity conducted through a third rail between the primary track rails. This rail is of a high enough voltage that it can kill rapidly, and so every child anywhere in which this type of train runs is told “Do not touch the third rail.” And jokes are made, such as “Don’t piss on the third rail.” Because such activities would result in traumatic injuries. This type of train is prevalent in NY and Chicago, while in the West coast, they have trolleys and such that have an overhead line that powers the vehicles. So, normally, anyone referring to a third rail is saying it in a form of “something to stay away from.” “We can’t do that, that’s a third rail situation.” Meaning, if it was attempted, it would lead to not only failure, but catastrophic failure.

      • With respect, jindai,
        If you take this much time to write a response, is it leonard wasting your time or is it… :lol:

        Actually, I like your answer, and it was worth my time reading it! :grin:

        • I don’t mind answering questions. Not even if it takes a little time, so it’s not a waste. However, someone asking a question of something that you can find out via wikipedia, or a simple google search is a waste of my time in that IF Marina chooses to answer, I will not enjoy seeing it, as I already know the answer, and anyone that can Google or use Wikipedia (Or live in NY or Chicago) would know already. Yes, we’d still get to hear and see Marina, but as I’ve stated before, I like her for her brains more than her looks, and if I’m not learning from her, learning something I didn’t know, then her looks are wasted on me. And frankly, if she keeps answering questions of the type that anyone would know, I’ll probably unsubscribe for the reasons I just outlined.

          So, as I DO want to stay subscribed, I choose to answer the simple questions myself, and let Marina choose those that might actually educate me. That makes it not a waste of time.

          • When it is assumed, or polite to answer something of “not-all-knowing” and my asking a regional associated comment; I hope it would not lead jindai to unscribe or unsubscribe. I enjoy everyones comments and to qoute jindai “but as I’ve stated before, I like her for her brains more than her looks, and if I’m not learning from her, learning something I didn’t know, then her looks are wasted on me…” :roll: :grin:

      • leonard says: 28.1.2

        I’m sorry :oops: “Don’t piss on the third rail.”

  85. I’d like to know how the childs game “Hopscotch” came about. I understand the “Hop” part but what about the “Scotch”? And I’d like to see you play it Marina… :mrgreen:

  86. niteowl says: 26

    Definitely curfew. Well done, Chemikal.

    I tend to look down there, too, Marina. :wink:

    My word request for today is “jargon”.

    As always, thank you for your consideration.

  87. What does curfew have to do with the picture of the gallows? There are several women praying, some soldiers standing guard, the executioner making sure one of the condemned is uh, comfortable (I guess) and a guy on the right dispensing something to another (money?). (Notice that the condemned have their hands tied in front, which was the practice at one time.) So what is the relevance to the word?

    Oh, wait. It’s hangman again, isn’t it? So now I guess we will be eternally treated to grisly hanging scenes of all types.

  88. leonard says: 24

    If I were a woman, it be curtsies to dear Marina. What geologic time period is curf formed from? An epoch glaciates into buidings of urbanity. :smile: My coxcomb cap was coverted to dunce. :roll: Now with the fire out of contol; I cowl aqua(royal water)…a 2 handel tub to drink fire water…better put limits on time to drink…fire alarm and bar time. :lol: adjunct and all faiths of love :lol:

  89. cufan71 says: 23

    I’m going with curfew! :mrgreen:

  90. I’ve seen the blue polkadot outfit before.

    • When editing the previous msg, I got this error msg, which I have never seen before: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/hfw/public_html/wp-content/plugins/awsom-news-announcement/awsomnews.php on line 159

      The edit failed by locking up on the error msg and I had to close out and start from the home page to re-edit.

      • I received the same error code. To fix it, I went to the galley and grabbed another cup of tea. Then returned back to my work station and hit the refresh button. No problem. :cool:

      • Marina says: 22.1.2

        I was fixing something with the news plugin and I broke it temporarily! Sorry about that! :shock:

        • augie says: 22.1.2.2

          awww sorry i distracted you sweetie hehe see what happens when i’m on your mind hehe

        • Who is this anyway? M is in Vegas and instead of her partying and seeing the sites, you want me to believe she is squirreled away in her hotel room remotely fidgeting with plugins during the dinner hour? Yeahhhhh….. I can just see it now…

          {Mr. Pitt’s personal assistant is on the phone.}

          PA: “Miss Orlova’s room please.”
          PA: “It’s Brad Pitt’s personal assistant calling for Mr. Pitt.”
          PA: “Oh, hi. I’m calling for Brad Pitt. Jolina is not in town and he would like you to accompany him to dinner this evening. He’s a big fan of yours, you know.”
          PA: “No, no. It would definitely not be dutch treat. And, yes, he did see that lesson.”
          PA: “Um-hmmm.”
          PA: “Um-hmmm.”
          PA: “You’re having electrical problems?”
          PA: “Oh, not that kind of plug in.”
          PA: “Um-hmmm.”
          PA: “So you won’t be able to make it then?”
          PA: “He will be so disappointed, I’m sure. Perhaps another time then.”
          PA: “Yes, yes, I understand completely. Yes, I’ll tell him. Thank you for your time and good luck with the plug thingy.”

          {The PA hangs up and then she picks it up and dials a new number.}

          PA: “Hi, Mr. B. She can’t make it, but I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it if I were you.”
          PA: “Why? She’s a raving lunatic. Hey, I hear Dolly is in town. Maybe she wants to grab a bite”
          PA: “OK, I’ll call you right back.”

          The End

          To M: Be sure to visit nearby Hoover dam. I still remember as a kid, standing on the top of the dam and looking over the sweep of the rear down to the river. It was so far down the curve of concrete that my eyes would not focus; it was mind blowing. (You see things from great heights, but rarely do you see something that extends from from your nose to the bottom.) There is a great tour and you get to stand on the giant pipe carrying the Colorado river right beneath your feet. The generator room, etc. inside is kept neat as pin (after all, if there’s no leak, what else have they got to do but clean and polish things?). All the door and window trim, hand railings, etc. were done in art deco aluminum and although it was built 73 years ago, it looks like new (a rare occurrance of the government doing a job right). I went there the last time I went to Vegas and I recommend the trip. Oh, and watch out for tornados, believe it or not.

  91. Jerry says: 21

    iiiiiiit’s…. :idea: Curfew :!: it has to be it…

  92. Marina, how come you named the video on You Tube Hate it in Vegas and on here it’s the Guess the word game? Didn’t you like going to Las Vegas? Or did you spend to much money :?: :lol: :lol:

  93. I am going to exclude myself from the game as I was a firefighter. So good luck every one :wink: .

  94. We may already have a winner! :mrgreen:
    Curf? This limestone, a type of calcarenite is finer grained and whiter than the oolites above and below. It is 0.43m thick and of fine-sand particle size.
    Damn, that was quick :shock:

  95. Che Volay says: 15

    Since feu in French translates to ‘fire’ in English
    and cura is translated to ‘cleaned out’ it means to
    clean out fire so the word would be curfew

  96. Che Volay says: 12

    I’ll get back to you on that.

  97. pugnmil says: 11

    This may sound Stupid, but this Australian (being me) would like to know the origions of ‘Dictionary’.

    Thanks.

  98. gdfire85 says: 9

    hey i would like to requested the word Innuendo

  99. bsomebody says: 7

    hmm… These are always tough. I dunno why, but I am better with number puzzles than with word puzzles, and math is definately not my thing. :roll:

    • Chemikal says: 4.1

      In the medieval period at a certain time a bell would ring, and everyone had to extinguish all the candles and lamps to prevent untended fires during the night.
      “Couvre feu” means cover the fire in French, and the only three limestones that have the second letter U, that I could find, were Buxy, Jura and Curf.
      Nice hints, you cooked up another very enjoyable game! :) Now, my curfew is getting near, and I need to get some rest. Tomorrow, exam 8:00 AM… the horror.

      • Good job Chemikal. You did your homework on that one. :wink:

      • Chemikal says: 4.1.2

        Thank you Cap, it’s in detriment of my school work, but I just like this better. :)
        Yesterday I had my micro-economy exam, and I got the Bull and Bear markets as subjects. My analysis was complete, even from an etymological point of view! :mrgreen:

      • Bob says: 4.1.3

        The obvious winner!
        It certainly had me stumped – I saw all the clues but couldn’t find the type of limestone which would have given me the breakthrough.
        Well done!

      • ..more and more and… :wink:

        Even during the Middle Ages, curfew also had the connotation of being a time to halt activities and retire to the safety of one´s home.

        Outdoor lighting was ordinarily limited to the lanterns or fires kept by citizens serving on the nightwatch or by guards employed by the city or its ruler.

        Thus, most (legitimate) activities halted at sunset because of difficulty of clearly seeing the work at hand and the consequent risk of producing inferior goods (though these regulations were also likely part of efforts to limit production to keep up prices and to prevent more industrious craftsmen from gaining too much of an advantage over the other guild members.)

        Public health regulations routinely forbade the sale of foodstuffs at markets after sunset because of risk of spoiled foods being passed of as fit to eat under the cover of the growing darkness.

        Good luck! :smile:

      • If I read the map right, Chemikal’s time is 10 hours ahead of the time stamp on his comments — just in case anyone was confused about his “curfew” time. :smile:

      • Chemikal says: 4.1.6

        Seeing the first picture in the video again, got me thinking about the hanging seen.
        I believe I found an answer for it. (the only thing that wasn’t so easy)
        But let me try to tell the whole story.
        The Curfew Law, its intention was to prevent the rise of conflagrations. But it has also been regarded as a repressive measure, adopted by the tyrant Norman Conqueror, to prevent seditious meetings of the turbulent Saxons. Poets and writers of the time, also Voltaire, in his “Universal History”, ridicules the notion of the curfew being a badge of degradation.
        It’s clear, the Curfew Law could be employed not only to protect the people’s wooden houses from the dreaded fires, but also as a method of control! (this form of manipulating the laws to the leader’s advantage is still present in modern Democracies)
        Norman Conqueror has set upon himself to govern the people that he has overcome, so he used the Curfew Law as a form of national observance. He feared that the people would stream through the city to create riots, so he erected gibbets to frighten the masses. A gibbet was a device used for public executions of criminals and the deterrence of future crime. Thus the morbid picture of hanging women that Marina insisted of having on her video.

        I could be wrong, since I’m not a genuine philologist, but in both cases, I know I had a lot of fun researching and writing the story.

    • pagedoll says: 4.2

      Well done Chem! :smile:
      If you don’t win I’m filing a protest! :twisted:

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