Cockpit

That’s easy. It can also be a place from which a small vessel is steered.

chhhh ma fi knew dat it meant a plane drivin thing but na no roosta fightin ting or nuttin like dat…

but sayin i would like to know d meanin of “easy-peasy” ma fi ask dis in d 1 bfore d coffee 1 but i just makin sure i can get this in bfore 2 many comments pour in

I love what you wear in cockpit&cup of joe vidioes Email me pictures Pkease

Great video Marina! :razz:

Word Request: Could you explain why we have the word Germany in English (and maybe some other languages, like Russian), but in Romance languages such as Spanish and French, they call it something like Alemania, and yet still, Germans call their country Deutschland – What’s going on here? Why are there so many different roots? Where do they all come from?

edit – I mean the same root, Russian has the same root word (Germ-) as English

very interesting…

“deutsch” (“german”) comes from lat. “theodiscus”. “theodiscus” is a word “invented” by scholars to distinguish latin from, and refer to, the language that the “ordinary” people spoke. it comes from germanic ” *theod-” (“folk”, “people”) + “-isk(a)”. “-isk” is a suffix that “makes” adjektives. so, “theodisk” actually means “folkish”. but, it referred only to the langauge. old high german (about 700 — 1100 ad) knows the word “diutisk” or “diutisc”. that changed over time to “deutsch”.
as for “germany”. I’m not sure. only thing I recall is that it comes from latin “germanus”. “germanus” should be older than “theodiscus”.
a germanic tribe, the franks, settled in an area around what today is toulouse. they replaced the wisigoths who then went further west and settled in a region which is now spain. so, “france” maybe comes from the franks.
right next to franks, to the east, settled another tribe. the allemanni. so, the franks and the alemanni were neighbours. maybe this is where “allemagne” comes from.

Hi, i was watching your videos and was wondering where the word Discombobulate Came from. I think i spelled it right lol

privetik, ‘paradoxical undressing’

Hello my sexy teacher, the investigation on cockpit was really good. Now could you investigate another word for me – why a “pussycat” is called “pussycat”? Does it have anything to do with “pussy”?

Does any one know the origin of the word Malibu like the city of malibu. I was wondering this while I was driving by there the other day.

:cool: I would say roosters fighting I think. The match between the roosters I call that a draw. Where’s Foghorn Leghorn when you need him?

Hey Marina, this is my first comment so please holla at me in one of your videos.
Ok i have an interesting word for you to teach the audience. It is the word “Masticate”. I was once asked if I knew what that word meant by an american who did not know what it was. I was funny because i started learning english a couple of months before he asked me that question and guess what, i answered it correctly.
I guess it was because of my hispanic descendant. Anyhow, i love your videos a lot and keep up the go0od work.
Yours Truly :wink:

South Paw

One word that I’ve come across before is “hubris”. I know what it means, but how did such a strange word come about?

Nikata

Origin of the name of France:

The name “France” comes from Latin Francia, which literally means “land of the Franks” or “Frankland”. There are various theories as to the origin of the name of the Franks. One is that it is derived from the Proto-Germanic word frankon which translates as javelin or lance as the throwing axe of the Franks was known as a francisca.

Another proposed etymology is that in an ancient Germanic language, Frank means free as opposed to slave. This word still exists in French as franc, it is also used as the translation of “Frank” and to name the local money, until the use of the Euro in the 2000s.

However, rather than the ethnic name of the Franks coming from the word frank, it is also possible that the word is derived from the ethnic name of the Franks,[citation needed] the connection being that only the Franks, as the conquering class, had the status of freemen. In German, France is still called Frankreich, which literally means “Realm of the Franks”. In order to distinguish from the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne, Modern France is called Frankreich, while the Frankish Realm is called Frankenreich.

From Wikipedia

can you do jackass

Word Request…

Where did the term “pussy cat” come from?

I want to request a simple word:

“butterfly”

(butter+fly?) What has butter to do with a fly?

Hi Marina,

Beautiful as always…

For my homework, a “cockpit” can also be “a place where a contest is fought or which has been the scene of many contests or battles,” or “a space below the water line in a warship, occupied by the quarters of the junior officers and used as a dressing station for those wounded in action.”

Good thing you clarified your love of cocks. It warms the cockles of my heart. And, PETA, among others, might get upset if you harmed any cocks during the course of making your video. I’m not trying to sound cocky, but cock fighting can cause permanent damage to cocks, and cause them to become cock-eyed. You’d have to give them succor if they were hurt, so don’t cock-a-snook at this whole affair.

You’ve gotten me all cock-a-hoop now, because you were teasing those cockamamie cocks. Marina, that’s not nice and can be quite frustrating! I realize that this is coming at you hard and fast, and may sound like a cock-and-bull story, but I’m trying to not let this turn into a cock-up (or perhaps a succession of cocks-up).

:lol:

We call you Германия

I know. :)

My hand is on the tiller while you’re pulling the sheetlines taut. And life is good whenever we’re in the cockpit of the sailboat.
Thank’s fo that little fantasy, Marina.

Hey Marina,

I’m one of your latest students and I’ve got an interesting word request. You might have heard about it already. There’s a small town in Wales which has an extremely long name, it had once been the longest word in the world. You write it this way:
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
At school we learned how to pronounce it, which was quite funny. But now I wonder… what does this word mean? If we would name this town in regular English, what would it be called?
And as a little extra, I would appreciate it if you tried to pronounce it as well, if you don’t already…

Love,
barreckvie

Marina,

I would like to suggest that you go through the etymology and origin of names of some of your students. Please start with mine: Eric.

Thanks,

Eric

I would like to request the word “spirit”. It means so many different things but what was the first meaning and from where?

yo.

Marina,
With April just around the corner, I’m curious why in America we refer to April 1st as April Fool’s Day, and why we play jokes on each other that day.
Thank you, Shane

Southpaw was originated in baseball, which is largely where the term is still used today.

Paw obviously is just a funny way of refering to a person’s hand, like an animal’s paw.

The South part is more interesting.

Most early baseball stadiums were built with home plate on the west side of the stadium, and center field to the east.

There are various theories as to why this was done, but most baseball historians agree that it was due to the sun setting in the west. Since all games back then were played in the afternoon, there would be less glare in the batter’s face if the sun was behind him, and the bleachers could even block the sun from the pitcher too. So it was adopted as the best configuration for ballparks.

Anyway, I digress. So when a pitcher stood on the mound facing home plate, his left arm faced south.

So a left handed pitcher took on the nickname of Southpaw. Eventually the term caught on and all left handed players were referred to this way.

The origin of France makes sence, but for centuries it was referred to as Gaul.

When and why was it changed?

Didn’t she refer to cockpits in ships in her video? I wonder if it’s something else.

Merriam-Webster says that cockpit also refers to the pit of a theater, but says that reference is no longer used today. (I guess it is now referred to as the orchestra pit)

Is that what you were referring to at the end of your video, or am I way off?

I think the other use of cockpit was referring to the pit of a theater, although that use seems to be obsolete now.

I always wondered where the word “bra” came from… :razz:
So I would love if you could investigate the word for me :smile:

-Kimer28

have a beer… Marina some of us r younger than 10 years of age, excluding me

but i understand that its a joke… or is it…

bra…

Marina can u investigate the word “grenade” and “fragment” please…

That’s right shane :smile:

gallows

Was it used for that little hole in male genitals? :oops:

Anyway, where does the term “Frostbite” come from? Does it have anything to do with teeth?

I have a word to ask. Why ‘funny bone?’ We all know that when you get your funny bone hit, it’s not amusing. Love your site!

Pretty cool website. Knowledge is power. lol
The word is:Infinity

One more word

parallel – in a different world you would be a doctor.

I’d like to request the word: Deus.

Slavonic….. :lol:

Gritsai :lol:

Rus :lol:

That little “hehe”, right after Marina said “What the hell is a cockpit” near the beginning, was hilarious.

I meant just after she said, “why the hell is it called a cockpit?”

I would like to know where does the word ”””””’tenacious”””” come from.

Hello Marina, if you are up for the challenge. Here is the 3rd longest word in the Oxford Dictionary:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Marina, where does the word “love” come from?

first off, i just want to say i love the show.
now, can you tell me where the word “infinity” comes from. thx.

Where does the term “gal Friday” come from? :shock:

Deus, if I’m not mistaken, is Latin in origin and means “God” or “deity.” Some languages use variations of this word. For example, the direct translation of “God” into Portugese is “Deus.”

Hey Marina! I would love to request a word. Im wondering if you could do the holiday St. Patricks Day. Its coming soon and i would love to hear where it originated from. Thanks for reading. :mrgreen:

Please explain Bravo!

Chicks get high off my d*ck,
I take ‘em to my home, they call it the cockpit.

“heh heh”
there you go, Beavis :grin:

Hi marina!!

I have been wondered for a long time.

When you hit something precisely at a target, people often say “BULLSEYE!!”

Why is this?
Please, Help me

Best Regards

Yes, me too would love if you could explain the origin of this word :wink:
If I was going to guess, I would say maybe in old days, they used to shoot at the eye of the bull, or bulls-eye!
Maybe that’s it, but you can find out much better than me

-Kimer28 :smile:

Yes, I want to know about that term too. Who coined the phrase and when? Did the meaning ever change over time? Was it ever meant as a sexual connotation? Please investigate pussycat, Marina.

Hi Marina!

“jamboree” and “jam” – do these words have the same origin?

Did the “jam-bo-ree” come from the swe-et “jam” or from that “jam” as it had happened with my fingers?

Thank You

How did the word Pwned come from… i heard it on a game i was playing like as in someone got pwned. i have wondered this for a while. oh and by the way u are my favourite teacher ever.. your a hottie

thanx

HELLO MARINA!HOW ARE YOU I’M RYOGERG,CAN YOU FIND THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD [DECAPITATION]?PLEASE?THANKS YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!! :eek:

this is leet speech. “pwned” (also: pwnd, pwnt, pwn3d …) means “owned” (also: ownd, ownt, own3ed, 0wn3d …). if you own3d someone you defeated him, often verbally.

here’s quote from bash.org:

#53769 +(308)- [X]

[Glare]: Hey guess what i did last night?
[Tank]: Im assuming something revolving around…..”My mother/Sister”???
[Glare]: damnit.
[Tank]: Owned.
[Glare]: Agreed.
Glare bows in acceptance of ownage.

k, d00d?

errr … “a quote” …

damnit! not “own3ed”, but “own3d”.

guess I just pwnd myself. :/

thanks dude i allways wanted to no what people where meaning when they said i got pwned
thnx m8

HI Marina,

I only recently found your wonderful informative website.
I have a word request for you.
Can you explain to me the origins of the word “Pugilist”

Many thanks,

Hugh G Rexshun :cool:

My guess: Robinson Crusoe

What is special about these two words: Uncopyrightable and Dermatoglyphics?

Hey Marina, what does it really mean to be photogenic?

Where does the word Orangutan come from?

pleeeeease dont think im pervert or anything but “cock” in slang also means a penis. pleeeeease people dont think im a pervert please

same thing for “boobs” in slang meaning a womans breast

Marina, can u find the origin of what pussycat came from

Marina,

I’m curious about the origin of the word “dude”. I’ve heard that in the cowboy days it was not a very flattering thing to say about someone, but I’m curious where it came from before that.

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

Adam

Marina, i would like to know where the word cemetery came from.

what can you tell me about the origin of the word “Fetish”, suitable as you seem to have a fetish for words

Marina, why do they call the pit of a theater a cockpit?

Teacher,

Thank you for cockpit.

Here’s a request: olive branch

(As in extending an “olive branch” to someone.)

Working on homework…

Word Request;

Why do sailors say ‘port’ and ‘starboard’, for ‘left’ and ‘right’?
I know that at sea, an emergency can happen at any time, and it is vital that everything aboard can be clearly identified and described. Where ‘left’ and ‘right’ could lead to confusion, ‘port’ and ‘starboard’ are perfectly clear and unambiguous to a seafarer.

But where do these words come from and why was ‘port’ and ‘starboard’ selected?

I need your help hot teacher!

TheShawnee

So I looked up Federation and Confederation and still can’t tell what is the difference. Please investigate this conundrum for me.

What is the origin of the word “boring”?

I have checked many dictionaries, no one seems to know. I’m a teacher, and kids use this word a LOT and I’m just wondering where it came from.

Maria,
I have a questgion for you… What is the longest word?

Smiles because there is a mile between the S’s.

Where did smile come from? The world needs more smiles and you always put a smile on my face. :smile:

Word Request: I was wondering where the word “Googolplex” comes from. It’s a number that has ten thousand zeros in it. Why did they name it that? It’s like they ran out of names for numbers. There is also another name called “Googol” which has one hundred zeros in it.

Oh and one other Word Request: “Bok globules” It’s a small dark cloud of gas and dust. These clouds are star formation regions for lower-mass stars.

I am wondering where the word “Bok globules” comes from, or atleast “Globules” because Bok was the last name of the american scientist who discovered this.

the name for Germeny you refer to stems from many variations of allemani wich means “all men” created to name the union of gemanic tribes when they decided to rid europe of the romans a llllong time ago.

books can be quite amazing, even with no cartoons in them give em a try!!!

it is actually galic fro the church of saint mary in the crook of a nut tree near the wirlpool and the church of saint tysilio near the red cave

correct

check out the bible! you dont have to adhere to a church to know where its from and the whole bible story is actually entertaining ……somewhat!

Here in the U.S. or as we like to call it, “us” we have simplified this confusing matter by referring to the rest of the world as, “them, they or you people”. This approach has saved us billions of dollars by significantly shortening the length of text books and time spent studying world affairs. In addition educational test scores are increasing tremendously. Us people are here to help you people!

A 2 for 1 suggestion: Violin and Fiddle
Different words, different or same instruments?
How did one become the other or did they?

Love your Show and your are correct:

Intelligence is Sexy :lol:

Hey Marina,
Thanks for all your interesting videos! I love learning something new everyday. I’ve never thought I’d ask for a word request.. but, it’s about something that I’ve thought was quite funny for some time! The word “Congress”.. isn’t that the opposite of “Progress”? It seems to be a fitting word, since Congress keeps passing laws that don’t really preserve human rights (like banning the words “mom and dad” in schools, or banning “hugs”!). I was just curious of the origin of the word “Congress”, how did such a name come to be? Thanks! :oops: it would be a dream come true if you made a video on my request! :oops: :oops: :oops:

Dear Marina,
I reciently heard an interesting definition for the word “Lobbyist”, but not sure if it is legend or true. With it being a politically dirty word, I was wondering if you could investigate it’s meaning for us.
Cheers,
Greg :lol:

Marina,

I’ve read that the word copacetic, meaning “okay” or “satisfactory” is a slang word. How did such a formal sounding word come from a slang origins?

Greetings Marina

Sorry to be a bother,but I would like to know if “Accune” was a word.If so,can you help me with the words meaning.This word appeared in a dream.

Child…

Because it refers to a small cramped area.

Small theatres would often have to cram a full auchestra into these small spaces to provide music for plays ect..

I read books. I don’t read books with cartoons. That has nothing to do with my question, or why I have it. :roll:

Hello My Teacher,

i suppose that another smiling meaning of cockpit is …. a vagina!!!

So life goes. We are all laughing at the sound of …silence. NO NO NO
at the sound of the word …. COCK a smiling four letters word

Come on & tel me if i’m right. Am i not???

Bye Bye So long :wink:

Just wait till the punster Prospero gets his teeth into this!
The principle control in an airplane cockpit is called a joystick. (co-incidence?)
Is there an interesting history to that or is it just pilots and mechanics being little boys?

Bra is Norwegian for Good and refers to the contents of the bra :lol:

how about the word decapitALISation? :lol:

Indonesian.
Orang = person or man
Utang = Forest or Jungle

Literally, the man from the forest

Just like the poopdeck.

Hi Marina,
What does the word “BLOG” mean and where does it come from?

what are those shoes you were waving around on the intro to the video they look just like my boa scarlet i hat animal skin for clothing what if some lunatic wanted to wear your skin when did people start wearing skin for fasion not nessecity

Great random lesson. THE SUNFLOWERS are as pretty as you is. Russians are famous for sunflowers, are not they? More chickens. cuckoo?

Gah another psychedelic garment. HFP really needs to emulate her on that front. Anyone else get shivers when she says cockpit … @_@ I really dont see the connection for this one though, kind of a leap.

it comes from web log, like when people kept a log of their activities on the web. this eventually just got shortened to blog. :grin:

apparently, there was a mathematician named Edward Kasner who came up with a number that is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. he asked his nine year old nephew to come up with a name for it, and his nephew chose Googol. I suppose googolplex, which is a 1 followed by googol zeros, was just a quick way to get another word.

Interesting fact: Google got its name because the creators wanted to imply that it could find googol results. A typographical error changed the name to Google, and that spelling stuck.
Another interesting fact: the number of atoms in all the universe does not even come close to equaling googol.

the site of many battles or conflicts: the south of the country is a cockpit of conflicting interests

:neutral: all gay male bar

Hows the TEXAN :lol: :razz: :smile: “A pair of snakes rapped around the beating sticks and wings to fly” :lol: I say you digest well***][***well digests you I say :lol:

“A pair of snakes rapped around the beating sticks and wings to fly”

sets of BaByS numBered by colored coded suckers bees have wings staffed above the garden cries :cry:

Turns out chickens were first bred for cock fighting! Their breeding for food (eggs and meat) came later: http://bit.ly/84qJB9 Other videos on chicken facts http://bit.ly/5Pczdq

I will be cooking eggs for the first time in my life tomorrow (menu: french toast and fried eggs) and have been researching eggs for some time — that’s how I came across the above videos.

Here’s are some other interesting links on chicken:

FAQ: http://bit.ly/6cBlaW

Egg laying facts (e.g., interesting anatomy: even though the egg and shit come out of the same opening, the process of laying an egg is such that the egg does not come in contact with any shit — while the egg is coming out, one opening becomes two! Not exactly the same, but somewhat like if you stick your tongue out of your mouth, your mouth will then have two openings!) http://bit.ly/4BfOse

More FAQ: http://bit.ly/6zj06r

Dolly Parton ‘Chick-Chick-Chicken Ranch’
:lol: :lol: Down at the Chick-Chick-Chicken Ranch
Where a lonely girl could have a chance
And a homely boy could find romance
At the Chick-Chick-Chicken Ranch
The sheriff and Miss Mona for years have been
Red hot lovers and real good friends
But trouble snowballed like an avalanche
At the Chick-Chick-Chicken Ranch

When Melvin Thorpe, a reporter of sorts
A self-righteous, crusading fanatic
Got on TV like you wouldn’t believe
And pointed a finger right at it

Exposin’ Miss Mona and accusin’ the sheriff
And it rose to a roar from a whimper
It got all outta hand; the fit hit the fan
When Thorpe stirred up everyone’s temper

The Chick-Chick-Chick-Chick-Chicken Ranch
Has been recouped into song and dance
And I know you wouldn’t want to miss the chance
To come to the Chicken Ranch

It’s foot-stompin’, rug-rompin‘ sexy good fun
Come on down and bring someone
There’s good times and trouble and fiery romance
At the best little Texas Chicken Ranch

Y’all come back now, ya hear?

The Best LittleWhorehouse in Texas …3 months before 9 months till this same day :lol:

It was the first time I turned on the stove to do anything much more complex than boiling water … result was a disaster. Pan was too hot for frying eggs (new Farberware spatula melted!), bread was too think (it is sold as “Texas toast” bread and is about 3/4 to 1 inch thick) and soggy and never got hot enough. Experiment used up 5 eggs, threw away all the result. Shopping for cooking stuff (pan, bowls, plate, thermometer, ingredients etc.) was fun; actual cooking experience was OK, but nothing edible resulted from it. Might try again sometime.

Success!

Did you get your second answer yet?

If not, is it becauseof this? In the days of old when airplanes had open cockpits and no altimeters, the pilots didn’t know how high they were flying and would suffer from hypoxia. They started to bring a rooster along as they were more sensitive to this condition. By watching the rooster, the pilots would know when they are flying to high.

REALLY,?
CGUV