HotForWords » Lessons http://www.hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:39:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 PMS http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/03/18/pms/ http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/03/18/pms/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:10:59 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=9159

PMS… let’s look at this “syndrome” that is all just in women’s heads. Yeah, right!

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Accent.. where does the word come from?  Oh, and I take a dig at bad accents in movies!

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Those darn Houlihans!  I mean Hooligans!  Why are rowdy people called that?

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The origin of the term “Bitch Slap” plus, meet my friend Erin who stars in the movie Bitch Slap which is a lot of fun! Be sure to follow Erin on Twitter @ErinLCummings

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That poor little kitty!  What did he ever do wrong to be killed by curiosity!  Don’t you all know that curiosity is BAD!!

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Oh, and here is where to order my book :-)

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Let’s look at the word retarded.

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Where does the expression “in a nutshell” come from?

“Pliny tells us that Cicero asserts that the whole Iliad was written on a piece of parchment which might be put into a nutshell” - Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1898

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Let’s look at the Google Nexus One Phone naming controversy.  Did Google name the phone after the Nexus-6 replicants from Blade Runner?  Or does the word ‘nexus’ have an other significant meaning?

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Here is the Google video I did a while back as well.

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A little retro HotForWords lesson on St. Valentine’s Day :-)

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Throwing a little etymology at you on some great words to think of when trying to land that date!

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Oh, and you can still enter to win that date with me :-)

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