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Testicle, testify and testament are related??
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MAmma Mia!! So what about Testarossa?
And what’s the relationship between
Testicles, Testify, Testament and Avocados?
I suggest this video be expanded explaining the word [Avocado]
i think the link between them in letters and pronunciation they have the same in test.
Protest
protestant
attest
[Cumbersome]
I’ve looked it up read the definition, then looked up the words I didn’t understand. I still don’t get it maybe if you explained it I would have a beter understanding. Thanks in advance hope to hear from you soon.
Check out Marina’s Profile on Godaddy ..some nice pics.
That is some good pictures of M. GoMarina.
tnx PD she is awsome nice pics
woot! woot!
Hi Marina,
Bob put it like this: “Some children will do anything to get teacher’s attention!” and rijk with this, certainly puts things in perspective. I do appreciate you and you have done a lot with the vids for free! sometimes I just say or act on things without thinking. But I’m definately thinking on what I want to say here:
I want to wish you the best of luck on your book tour and more good fortune coming your way, You deserve it!
Take care Marina
Oh, I don’t know if anybody’s made this suggestion, but maybe you can have quizzes based on your book.
If you’re a hearty tar, you might go far all ’round
the world. But having fun, with someone, might
bring you more than you’d ask for. Son-of-a-gun.
I would like to request the history of the phrase [son-of-a-gun].
Thank you.
Douglas DeTurk
Who is the captain of Jupiter 42?
Is it Chode?
Yeah
I have the whole dvd collection. Funny as all get up. Lot’s of guy jokes. Not for women or sensitive people. Six reminds me of Marina. Smart and sexy. Well Six is a bit into the extreme in the body parts department. Funny thing about Six is that she has many human qualities that works to Chode’s disadvantage.
I liked the program too. Yea she did have very nice attributes.
I like how they casted Six as a science officer and not some dumb bimbo. It was smart and they knew that. Six is the one that holds the whole ship together. She is someone you can respect. Though it escapes me why she she still hangs around Chode. She could have left many times. I guess she likes the underdog that has command of his own ship. Maybe it’s just for the sex.
Oh yeahhh, here she is Tripping the Rift.
No not the big purple thing! The cute Blue haired chick! LOL..
I showed this video to the crew of the ship called Island Spirit and they were rolling on the ground dieing of laugher. Even some of the ladies found it funny in many parts.
I was bummed out when it was canceled. Some people told me that it was disgusting. I told them its not any more disgusting than Family Guy. The secret to Family Guy is they hide the disgusting parts. Loise wanting to have sex with Brian. WTH? Quagmire with Meg. Peter breast feeding Stewie. What’s left? I think Tripping the Rift was mellow in comparison.
I think it was mellow too compared to the newer cartoons for adults that they have today like South Park. Family Guy has a lot of innuendos that you have to pick up on. South Park doesn’t care they just say and do it as they want to. Oh well, toons for adults.
Toons were really made for adults in the beginning. Then the became popular with the kids. I didn’t understand all the references in the cartoons when I was a kid until later.
btw, check your email.
I love all of Marina’ hot videos. I would like to know the origin of the word [twit]. Do twits tweet too much? I’m sure you can find a sexy way to describe why someone is called a twit. Your hot student, GGHOT.
[no quarter]
Is this lesson
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061776311/Hot_for_Words/index.aspx
something not yet relased on youtube? It is an amazing lesson Marina, a far cry from jump lesson ( where you pretty much said ” jump is onomatopoetic… bye bye my dear students”). It has that whole origin that I love and is where you really shine as a philologist. The only thing I could find was it was pretty fast, and the noises distracted me so I got lost at one point. But it was a perfectly scripted origin I can remember.
Marina! you are hilarious!
I just came back from living Riga and had so many smart..clever and stylish Russian friends there. Finding your videos is the best thing to happen to me since I came back because you remind me of them. But you are more silly than any of my friends were! I miss them.
I had to sign up for your webpage so that my life would have some good, intelligent fun!
**[zaftig]**[cadence]ps
BURBANK
…summer [frogs], I’m toad
told 
[buildings]
the add man can plus the art for kicks
[RaiN] is heavens cry….***!**** full blooded I is *****!******
full-blooded what?
MC5 The American Ruse
…
[when you are in a relationship,and you date more than one person.
why is it called cheating?]
It is only called cheating after you get caught. Before that, if memory serves correctly; it is what is known as ‘having fun’
And at the end I was certain you were going to ask if we’d ever grabbed our testicles before.
I would have like to see the replies on that one.
Gotta TESTIFY!
(squeeze)
I sure wasn’t aware of those “nutty” word connections, Marina. Thanks.
cholo ??? wut does that mean… in puerto rico we have the word chola that means hair and in dominican republic chola means u noe that part on a womens body… but i heard this song called cholo skate what does it mean???
HFW:
[GOLD DIGGER]
marina dear.what is your favorate muscle car?can you find the origin of pontiacs muscle car the [G.T.O.]?
Hello my Dear Teacher, I would like to request some of the below-mentioned words [Charisma ]
[Aroma] 
, [Enigma] 
Заранее Благодарю!
Apropos of nothing, here’s a sort of Monty Python hot for words sketch
Lol! i seen testicles written with Marina big ol’ smile! But, back to the basis of homework. The testicle connect between all the example given maybe have they function as a body such as government, church, and attest. With protest has it’s diversion on political issues and the protest reformation separated the church which is to be symbolized as the body of Christ. In regards to testament or testimony in government we have law which enforce society and in religion there is canon laws.
[methylenedioxymethamphetamine] one of longest words?
BREAKING NEWS! Boobies have been rediscovered. Though considered to be extincted for centuries, a New Zealand & Australia team have discovered the “extinct” booby is in fact still among us.
Oh how I would love to touch and hold one, maybe two. I don’t think I would be able to contain myself.
Boobies sighted
More info about the boobies
Before you ask M if this word has been done or not see:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/09/booby/
(oh btw, there is a term salesmen have used for many years that still holds true more today than ever before. “There’s a sucker born every minute.”)
It’s a good thing that I don’t have a son by a Russian bride; he would be named Bobof.
Vich Russian bride were you t’inking of?
From Russia with ‘lova.
Oooh, kinky.
Staying with the theme of today’s lesson, sort of,
I’m going Balls to the wall
Good one PK. I miss the little animals she had in her first videos.
I think Gorby ate them all.
An all out – effort….my bulls are all out too!!!…The test was a trust of the monkeys with brass …an ac-count of the new age of “women bAlls”…
The mount to ride
was a slide to the left**!rollicking!**…ok…I’m worthy to be torture on the wheel
Yes— I willed my test to the bosses…$2.00 a bill of rights….please the pease
May the Marina 
play the HOTforWORDS 
oh yeah, that’s a real ball breaker
Another request… [eye lashes], the eye part is obvious, but lash is used in phrases like whip lash, and to lash out at someone. So how did the two words get put together? Thanks.
[jam]…tight jam, but it fits
…MC5 “Kick Out The Jams” as featured on the Detroit Tube Works TV show. Live at Wayne State University’s Tartar Field in Detroit…[nuts] off and casted [balled]
***WORD REQUEST***
[digital]
Can’t BELIEVE this hasn’t been done! Did I miss it?
This is a different kind of word request. I hope you like the idea.
I am looking for a word that means [the little dance two people do passing each other in a narrow space]. You know, the left-right-left-right shuffle, as you almost collide.
There MUST be a word for this common phenomenon – it happens to everyone, in many variations, at least as often as deja vu. Come on! Hey, maybe there is a french phrase that we can borrow. If not, let’s have a contest and name that dance!
¡Absolutely not, dLaliberte! ¡There ain’t absolutely no french name for that kind of stuff! Whatcha think, eh? It’s the dance of the make’em good girls go bad, and that’s about it! That’s all, that’s the end of it!
A french word for that. ¡HA! ¿What’s next, eh, dLaliberte? You want a hispanic word for that too, huh?
¡CARAMBA LA VERGA!
(sorry. It has nothing personal. It just came out that way.
)
Je ne sais pas si il y a des mots francaises pour cet idee.
Since it’s a dance by two people with no sense of what the other is thinking, how about “Danse macabre by Sans Sense”.
Actually, Danse MacArbre is the gentle Scottish art of Tossing the Caber
No wonder Scotsmen wear kilts. Trowsers couldn’t contain a caber that size!
Searching the web for anything on this. It is a hard topic to identify. Found this:
the-funny-little-dance-that-happens-when-two-people-try-to-pass-in-a-norrow-space
The Sidewalk Shuffle on List of Awkward Moments
The socially awkward tango well described as “the little dance that happens when you meet a stranger head-on walking the opposite direction and there is indecision about who passes on which side”, and several suggested alternatives:
passalsa zaxism ucangotango excusamajig paso doble moovalooving sidewaltz Ambushuffle Bypasshuffle passdance and more. I like “So we think we can dance”
It’s the exqueeze-me foxtrot, or maybe the sidestep 2-step.
The Passo Difficile.
Another phrase I just thought of [Worry Wart]
Me Again ,I don’t think this has been covered before,it is after the old westerns that they call [Spaghetti Westerns] can you please tell me why they call it that hot for words or anyone out there that may know the answer.Thank you
Spaghetti Western movies were shot in the 60s over in Italy. Here is some more from Wiki. Clint Eastwood shot some of his first and best western movies in Italy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western
“Better make that FOUR coffins.”
And some of the best director’s were Damiano Damiani (a BULLET for the GENERAL), Lucio Fulci (FOUR of the APOCALYPSE), and last but not least Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and the best “THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY”, Once Upon A Time in the West, and Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite).
I know this might not be relevant but What the Hell!
Spaghetti westerns and Italian film directors and their films are always relevant in my book
Who could forget Bava’s classic LISA AND THE DEVIL Bring a date and don’t be late because even the opening credits are awesome
The film that influenced Ozzy,Tony,Geezer and Bill to name their second band.
Movie poster for Bava’s Black Sabbath
Okay, back to spaghetti westerns then. These Italian pastas are known for their amazing soundtracks
Man with Harmonica – Once upon a time in the west
Thanks
For 47.2.2.1.1 Very
I think it’s very relevant. That was what I was looking for to explain it to him. Glad you came along with a better answer.
Thank you all for your replies ,and help
Thank you for your reply!
I hated the voice-overs, but the cinematography was absolutely unequaled.
Hey Marina id like to Request the word [Horror]
So could it be, when the soundman yelled out “Testing. Testing.”, Michael Jackson took it to heart?
Maybe he thought he was going to court again or he was practicing for when he finally went.
I just did some googling concerning this word: Is Test unrelated to Testis?-The Online Etymology Dictionary says Test comes from the latin ‘testum’ which means earthen pot. If the two words are unrelated, it is interesting in that the modern Test and the Latin Testis are of similar meaning.
-The Carano/Cyborg fight coming up this weekend has got me wondering what the etymologies of [Cruiserweight, Welterweight, and Bantamweight] are.
+Are you an MMA fan?
Marina,
Just found you this week. I was wondering if you could find the origin of [hamburger]. It’s not made of ham (at least not here), so why the name? You definitely make learning fun
Thanks
PS- Bring your book tour to Charlotte, NC and we can have a few Hefeweizens
Named after Hamburg, Germany
Neat Food is HARDY for your BaLLs
That and Jockies!!
There are several accounts of the invention of the hamburger. All take place in the United States near the start of the twentieth century.
Residents of Hamburg, New York, attribute the hamburger to Ohioans Frank and Charles Menches. According to legend, the Menches brothers were vendors at the 1885 Erie County Fair (then called the Buffalo Fair) when they ran out of sausage for sandwiches and used beef instead, naming the result after the location of the fair. [2][3] Frank Menches’s New York Times obituary states instead that these events took place at the 1892 Summit County Fair (in Akron, Ohio).[4]
What was I thinking?
I knew the burger was invented here. Saw it on the History Channel 
Thank you much!!!
Hi zacintosh
Marina likes hers Big and Juicy!
so I’ve seen. They are tasty!
I really Love, North Carolina…Traditionally, sausage-makers put to use meat and animal parts equally edible and nutritious, but not particularly appealing – such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat – in a form that allows for preservation: typically, salted and stuffed into a tubular casing made from the cleaned intestine of the animal, producing the characteristic cylindrical shape. Hence, sausages, puddings and salami are amongst the oldest of prepared foods, whether cooked and eaten immediately or dried to varying degrees.
Yes it is true…oyster sausage with acorn nuts of red oak-roasted
I got the book yesterday, and she did a couple of pages on hamburgers and frankfurters. Cool
Thanks for the props for NC!
Excuse my english but I meant having a wonderful day!
Hello Marina,hope your have a wonderful day!I was just wondering why they call romance shows [ Soap Operas] ,thank you for your time
Thank you so much for your help!
Sometimes being polite, matters more than just being articulate.
And it’s easier working on being articulate, than it is working on being polite.
[Oklahoma]
could u please make a video of the word [alfalfa] and its origin. thank you
Bob, what do you make of this word? Chinese dog, maybe (arf, arf)?
It’s a kind of grass that cows chow on.
Hi Marina. I have a [gambrel] roof on my home and was curious as to the background of this word. Does it have anything to do with a horse’s leg?
I wouldn’t gambol on it!
(Sorry — just horsing around. Pardon the cavalier comment!)
According to wikipedia [Gambrel] is also a term for the joint in the upper part of a horse’s hind leg, the hock. Just curious if Marina agrees because you can’t believe everything you read on Wikipedia.
Hi Marina, i would like to request the origin of the phrase [heavens to betsy]. Thanks ^^ mwah
Hey! I must have missed the memo. Our links no longer go to our sites, but to a list of recent comments. The comment thingy is pretty cool, but do we have some way of sharing our own site with everybody?
You get there now by clicking on your Gravatar.
Oh, That’s kewl!
The Lady does a fine job fixin’ up our sandbox. Thanx M.
Whatever any of you do, do NOT click on Chemikal’s gravatar!
I’m warnin’ ya.
Don’t do it kids!
I did. Now I have this song runnin thru my mind.
What was that he said about his mother…
I remember in one of my history classes, we were looking at the legend of the female Pope. The historical record does seem to strongly suggest that at least one woman served as Pope. We also found some evidence of older “testament chairs” upon which the potential Pontiff sat. Apparently the chair had a hole in the front of the seat and some lucky Cardinal would check to ensure that the Pope had the correct equipment. I do remember that we found some old drawings of such chairs, but I was unable to find one online. I thought it was pretty interesting …
So the test for qualification to be a Pope was for a Cardinal to testify that the applicant was in possession of the required testes by inserting his testa beneath the chair to gather the evidence for his testimony.
I would bet a testoon and a testril that the said Cardinal would, in the performance of this act, exhibit a testudinarious posture.
Ever notice how some people get all testy, moany over having to appear in court?
A testa in said location might be a chamber pot.
[têtê-à-têtê]
That’s a little disturbing. But nice to know though.
Hi I would like to request the word [HISPANIC]. I don’t know what the origin of the word is. Thank You
From the Latin Hispania. This became the Spanish España, which the English abbreviated to “Spain,” from a remark by an English sailor during the battle of the Armada in 1588:
“How do you feel about fighting the Armada?”
” ‘S pain!”
Wasn’t that Nelson?
A guy named Drake hid in a cove and waited for the Spanish to go on by. He then attacked from the rear with the wind at his back(and theirs), so they could not turn around. Excellant military tactics and arguably the last time* the Brits did anything right, militarily.
*Wellington’s rear slope defense at Waterloo IMHO
Oke, thanks.
Admiral Nelson lived two centuries later.
beevee14 is right, Sir Francis Drake fought in the battle of the Spanish Armada.
Since Armada means “assembled, armed”, surely every battle with Spain is a battle of the Spanish Armada.
The Brits did pretty well at Trafalgar too, 217 years later, and then the Spanish had the French to help them.
But then again, who am I to make comments about a country that hasn’t been invaded for almost 1,000 years(a possible world record) and was the only country* to invade the USA.
*Pancho Villa doesn’t count. He was a bandit and the US used his incursion to run roughshod over Mexico, further enhancing our prestige and likability with our southern neighbors. And people wonder why they don’t like us…
I don’t think we can take all the credit; what about the Spanish and the French? What about the Chinese and the Vikings?
North America as divided amongst the European Powers
What about ‘em
That is why I said “USA” and not “the north american continent”
You being a person of the British persuasion, I’m surprised you didn’t dutifully point out William Wallace and his “invasion”*.
*according to Mel Gibson
So California and Louisiana are not USA?
And when did the Brits invade the USA? Surely the SA weren’t the USA until after we were kicked out.
Japan, WWII, Attu and Kiska?
@Fred jr. and Bobby
ALL of the areas you two are speaking of were not part of the USA when there were foreign troops on the soil. Sorry
And Bobby:And when did the Brits invade the USA? Are you kidding? War of 1812
I don’t know what you guys call it. Maybe ‘Yanks Win, Pt. II’
I have those!
She wasn’t talking about little children’s beach balls.
Shut it!
Not until it’s full of little chocolate whoppers candy. Then I can swallow them whole.
Feeling a little “testy,” are we?
LMAO You guys make life fun!
I would like to know the background of the word [ballbusting]
Marina, masculinity and virility don’t mean beach muscles you know. (regarding the pic in the video)
I think it has more to do with one’s inner strength, and confidence.
When brute force fails,
Mind power prevails!
Hi Chemikal,
With all the men in her fan club, I’m sure Marina has a very good idea of all the facets of masculinity and virility.
[virile]
[were] (as in werewolf — oops, already done)
[gwyr] (Welsh cognate)
[fir] (Gaelic cognate)
For those of you experiencing issues with your PC and the loading of pages, may I recommend reading my post on the Forum under the heading of:
TECHNOLOGY HELP DESK (browsers, PC, Mac, HFW site, etc)
Testicles (Ouch!)
Guess if a woman wanted to grab my balls she could testify.
No, women grab men’s balls to make the MAN testify.
Che has a good idea there, but I like yours more.
Right you are Evan, I’ve experienced a few ball breakers in my time. lol
Baby I’m on jury duty tomorrow…
I’ll have to listen to them testify all day!
Homework:Maybe because it takes big cahones for some people to be or do
. Or mabey it is because only men were involved or headed up those activities.
.
[cahones]
[cojones] (Spanish spelling)
My testicle enjoys watching Marina.
You should really think about growing a second one!
Oh that was a good burn Chem!
Thanks CJ, nice to hear from you again
Hay nobody can say shit now! I never said anything this {vulgar} about Marina.
Subtle insults are the best. Good one.
In Dutch we have the word “Bikkel” for a guy with only one testicle. What’s the English word for that ?
I don’t know, how about a [cyclops]?
Aha, so there is no English word that covers this one. English is a living language and more words came from Dutch, so lets use the same word and introduce in English the word “Bikkel”
Then in 10 years you can ask, where did the word “Bikkel” come from.
There is no English word for that as we all have the full complement, so any word we had would be racist.
Here’s an un-complement-ary old song Colonel Bogey March
♪ Hitler has only got one ball
Goering has two but very small
Himmler has something similar
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all. ♫
i would like to request [bonafide].
i think actually bonafide is [bona fide], sorry. :/
You’ve made a [bona fide] effort to correct your error.
Very succinct.
My washing machine is a sock sink.
That’s what she said!
Well they can’t call him Boner can they
Ha ha ha, thats a good one Bob
Mike, check out my post here:
TECHNOLOGY HELP DESK (browsers, PC, Mac, HFW site, etc)
This is pretty good. This video is on Testicles and the last one was on Scary Nuts, which is how it was listed on YT. I wonder what’s on Marina’s mine. Hummm interesting minds would like to know.
And, don’t forget, and earlier video lesson was on pencil.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/24/pencil/
In line with Evan’s earlier comment on a previous page,
In order to select the perfect mate,
one needs to make sure the pencils are sharpened
and are full of lead.
The other night I checked out the coconut video and noticed that the comments were getting really nasty. I noticed three hateful comments on the opening page alone.
Anyone putting up a video of their five year old son hugging a puppy and someone on YT will go and make a vitriol comment. It’s getting to be really obnoxious.
Yes, some of those comments are real nasty, to be honest just for that i stopped reading the YT comments.
I hear ya. I sort of block the comments out if their content appears unjustifiably malicious.
So you want to cut off my tits because I decided to post the time my friend and I went on a horse drawn carriage ride through the city.
Let me see if I got this right then. Okay, if you are young enough to vote yet know nothing about politics you can get the popular vote in, but if you’re young enough to swear like a sailor and don’t, then you’re uncool and deserve to have your head pushed into a spinning blender. Hmmm, good old logic of the day.
Marina, you’ve got some balls, errr, I mean those beach balls. Very nice.
First, I want to emphasize, that I am not contradicting Marina, but wish to point out some interesting historical footnotes that you might find interesting. There is a ton of commentary on this topic of testament, testes and so on.
The story of the Roman myth of covering one’s testicles actually has its truth in the origin of the Old Testament in Genesis and several other places.
Refer to the Genesis and Deuteronomy reference below. Those are just a small sampling and there are many more with subtle wording.
I’m sorry that I can’t elaborate as it would take up many pages of references and historical footnotes. The pre Roman ancient beliefs revolved around virility as Marina mentioned, meaning that healthy offspring was paramount as the infant death rate was high.
The word covenant is closely related to the word testament in the sense that when one makes a promise, there usually is a form of a witnessing or testifying. A eunuch refers to castration where someone cannot offer the seed for impregnating women. How was it determined that a male was not capable of having the equipment to provide children of the marriage covenant? Check the testes.
In other circumstances, there are stories of people joining a certain men’s club where the prospective member’s testicles are checked to ascertain that the new member was indeed a male as historically, woman would dress up as males to infiltrate the club. If you don’t have the testes, you can’t join. And so, that begat the phrase, “Got you by the balls”
Another interesting related phrase with interesting ancient history is “Last Will and Testament”.
AC/DC – Got You By The Balls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh4jA-lLT8s
Now turn your head to the side and cough.
ballsBalls To The Wall [Unplugged] — Accept
how ya BE ???
…ouch
Hi leonard, I’m doing great.
Speaking of Balls to the Wall,
check this out.
Marina your friend should have waited till the dog was 2 years old before they {neutered} it. The dog skull will not fully develop now. This should be outlawed most veterinarians do it for the money. Most dogs unless extremely aggressive should not be neutered. This is like {circumcisen} it is unnecessary and most people just follow some unethical path of shit. I am so sorry for boomer this dog is never going to be the same.
They wanted him to be more lady like, so they womanized him.
Uhhh.
2 years, So doing it now is a definite no. And maybe a total no?
If you haven’t done it then I would really consider no no no no never!
The nerve to call him Boomer.
Well they can’t call him Boner can they.
Previous lesson: Coconut
Today’s lesson: Testicles
Marina must be having a thing for ‘nuts’ lately!
Speaking of nuts, why do they call it the nuts in the poker world of Texas Hold’em.
Marina has a thing for all body parts. Just seems like this week shes gone nuts.
Your quoting MacAuliffe.
If she keeps this up the next word must be nuts, and MacAuliffe will be in it.
Hum I think Marina needs to do the word [Nuts]
Looking at the Online ED. Shows some interesting connections:
nuts (adj.)
“crazy,” 1846, from earlier be nutts upon “be very fond of” (1785), which is possibly from nuts (n., pl.) “any source of pleasure” (1617), from nut (q.v.). Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to “head” (1846, e.g. to be off one’s nut “be insane,” 1860). Nut “crazy person, crank” is attested from 1903, (British form nutter first attested 1958). Connection with the slang “testicle” sense has tended to nudge it toward taboo. “On the N.B.C. network, it is forbidden to call any character a nut; you have to call him a screwball.” ["New Yorker," Dec. 23, 1950] “Please eliminate the expression ‘nuts to you’ from Egbert’s speech.” [Request from the Hays Office regarding the script of "The Bank Dick," 1940] This desire for avoidance accounts for the euphemism nerts (c.1925). Nutty “crazy” is first attested 1898.
Asked that word in “guess the word request” (cocconut comment). And beevee14 nailed that one.
So the odds have shifted towards this word.
.
You already did in-depth research.
I can already see here with a helmet on dressed in green, here sister reading the surrender demands and all she says .…
That’s what i thought.
First Cocco”nuts” and now this, what is she getting at.
Or is it she’s had so many requests of these kind of words she is just biting trough the “sour” apple.
TESTICULAR FORTITUDE!
Testis? It almost looks like “Tetris”. Can you imagine that popular video game using 4 sets of testicles instead of squares? Gross.
This is just nuts, Marina…you’ve certainly got a pair for considering this word in the first place. Then convincing yourself to broadcast it…it takes big balls to get in front of the camera and define the meaning to “testicles” without totally losing it (can imagine the bloopers we haven’t seen from this video).
I agree, I can’t wait to see if she puts out a blooper video to go with this one. LMAO just waiting.
Cool
tests are scored at knights of chicken wings 
[[[[compassion]]]]]evince…[cranky]GOOD JOB, hoTfoRwordS
Ok why do women put on makeup at a stop light?
One good reason not to shake hands. Shaking hands is a filthy requirement in society. Try refusing to shake hands and see what ugliness is unleashed. Carry hand cleaner.
Most are always late and trying to fix up there hung over face.
hmmm
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Hello Marina,good to hear from you.I testify that boomer willn’t be able to tell any difference from testicles ,to attest.Ouch!sorry to hear that for Boomer hope he is doing better now.Look out Gorby I hope your not next to attest.Thank you for your lesson teacher as always great full for your lessons,and your grasshopper is humble by your words.See you later,and hope you reach the best seller list on amazon I’am praying for you!
Dear Marina,
“Witness” is pronounced with a long “i” sound in the first syllable. It is not the “e” sound as in “wheat.”
The words you mentioned come from the same Latin root, “testis.”
One word that doesn’t follow this pattern is “test”, the exam used in schools. thst id derived from the Middele English words, “cupel testurn” for “earthen pot.” For a cook, I guess “the proof of a pudding is in the tasting.” So the taste test determined a winner!
Well, to help your book become a bestseller, I preordered three of them. That’s many times more than the average bookbuyer. I hope you appreciate me when you cash in those huge royalty checks!
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I’m sure whether you are nuts or just have a lot of balls, taking on a word like that Marina. There ya go Capman911.
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BIG BALLS by ACDC
Ok, I know by the time this video gets a day old someone will come up with a joke about testicles or mainly known as balls. So I will wait until a day or two to tell you one.
Great lesson Marina. It’s weird how some words are related to others like this.
For Homework: The dog ate my paper.
Hello Marina i got a word for you [Zebra], why was a Zebra named a Zebra? where does the word come from?
So Boomer goes from arf arf to woof woof then? Bah! Balls, bubbles, balloons, etc… Burstable stuff! None of them will endure its pressure forever!
“The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.” – Albert Bandura, father of the Bobo Doll Experiment (1925 – )
Man, lately I’ve been way over thinking on the comments and replys on here and that someone’s simple “typo” caused me “to pull a boner!”
ah but it’s alright, no big deal. 
But I gotta say I still would rather pull on it then be on the receiving end of one!
And poor Boomer
It hurts to even think about that! But he’ll be just fine. 
and now for the homework judging by what I see it looks like Evan has nailed it down! A really good post.
“Nailed it down,” eh?
Hey pennsyltucky, I’m not sure if I’m reading you right, but it looks like I won’t be playing shortstop, I just hit myself out into left field past the bleachers!
You take care p9
I’m gonna need some blue cheer now
TestamenT?
Yes, it is TestamenT! Horns in the air to you PageDoll
Right on gp, that’s the fucking spirit
Cheers. Old School metalers tend to like early Testament mostly but I like most everything they put out including their new stuff too.
Yeah I like the new stuff too
Sweet.
Pretty tight, nice riffs. 
Now I understand why Gorby was growling.
Re Protestant:
Irish slang for “Protestant” is “Prod.” Add that to the “testis” root and you get an interesting image.
Re women testifying: they have their own pair of orbs, so yeah, of course.
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(Did I really say that?
I can foresee the jails filling up with contempt charges.
Guys holding their nuts and women holding their boob as they testify.
***HOMEWORK***
OK, I’m cheating: this is from the Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=protest&searchmode=none
protest
1340 (implied in protestation) “solemn declaration,” from L. protestari “declare publicly, testify, protest,” from pro- “forth, before” + testari “testify,” from testis “witness” (see testament). Original sense preserved in to protest one’s innocence. Meaning “statement of disapproval” first recorded 1751; that of “expressing of dissent from, or rejection of, prevailing mores” is from 1953, in ref. to U.S. black civil rights movement. The verb is attested from 1440, “to declare or state formally or solemnly,” from O.Fr. protester. First record of protest march is from 1959. Protester “demonstrator, public opponent of the established order” is from 1960.
Protestant
1539, from Ger. or Fr. protestant, from L. protestantem (nom. protestans), prp. of protestari (see protest). Originally used of Ger. princes and free cities who declared their dissent from the decision of the Diet of Speyer (1529) denouncing the Reformation. The word was taken up by the Lutherans in Germany (Swiss and French preferred Reformed). It became the general word for “adherents of the Reformation in Germany,” then “member of any Western church outside the Roman communion;” a sense first attested in Eng. in 1553.
I don’t wish to get into a discussion on the pros and cons of on line sources of information, but to point out that pro- also means “for” as opposed to “con” against.
That being so, is protest the opposite of contest?
“I contest your accusation and protest my innocence.”
For that matter, it has been said that Congress is the opposite of Progress, and, as an aside, many women resort to prostitution in order to avoid destitution and end up in an (correctional) institution.
Some view prostitution as tonic for the constitution.
Only if she delivers value, otherwise one must seek restitution.
…Or substitution.
Poor Boomer. Will his bark be in a higher pitch now?
My poor old dog’s testicles or ball sack dried up to nothing. He looks like a she instead of a he from behind. Now if you stand towards his side, well now that’s a different picture.
dry humps…rabbits eat the high bark in the winter snowed******
Is it going to hurt to watch?
Bummer for Boomer.
Skippy still has his chicklets. What about Gorby?
Shh… if Gorby finds out…
aw
My rat’s nick name was numb nuts.
Ha! My friend had a pet rat. She made her pet rat a leather jacket with zippers and pockets and a spiked collar to fit and named it “Bubbles”
neuter nuts
I’ve seen outfits for rats before many years ago. Funny looking stuff. I wonder what people are doing now. There is a club in Seattle that does shows.
Because of some apartments have restriction about having a no pets policy. People went to keeping fish or small animals that can be kept in a cage or tank. Rats became really popular. Rats don’t bark. You don’t need to take them out for walks or bathroom breaks. You could leave them food for a week and never needed a pet sitter.
I was able to teach my rats commands like you would with a dog. Come, stay, beg, etc. With those basic commands I could encourage him to do a few trick. Like repel down a coaxial cable. Rats are freaking smart. One time years ago I had a small apartment. I had some food on my desk and my rat climb up on my bed. Then he got up onto the window ledge and walk the length of it until he got to my dresser. He then jumped down onto my ham radio gear which was next to my desk. He then of course got the food.
Here is a replacement for both animal and man. I might just buy an extra set just for the hell of it.
Not me, I just keep an extra pair of rolled-up socks stored in my underwear.
You know, just in case, uh, my um, my feet get wet. Yeah, that’s it.
Will I show up as the guy (or possibly one of the guys) who suggested this word and the false etymology (and maybe the true one too) associated with it?
Haven’t yet seen this lesson, but wanted to show you guys this snapshot … it is just after (or as close as I could get with primitive DVD tools on a PC) Batwoman has said: “You look so different.”
Oops! That should be Catwoman!
Have seen the lesson … how come I got no mention in it?
Maybe she doesn’t like you.
I must say that the presentation is very clear and, in a way, comprehensive; and the sort of comprehensiveness presented helps with the clarity.
arigato got left out too (May 25, 2009 at 10:54 am) http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/05/24/swine-flu/comment-page-3/#comment-132297
prettypistolx’s request was made after the video was shot: http://bit.ly/1zJZGG
My 2 cents: It cannot be that the Greeks were saying that the testicles give testis/witness to just being a male — for the penis would do that too! I suspect the Greeks had in mind a witness to being an adult male. I don’t remember my situation, but supposedly the testicles increase in size at puberty; if so, they would become more visible at adulthood.
Talking to yourself again?
Thanks for the company. Had you seen the Catwoman scenes before?
I don’t remember. Hum need to look that up somehow. Maybe some other students remember which lesson that was.