1st Seed!

I found that this term was used in the journal of American Lawn Tennis in 1898. So I would say that it was first used in Tennis.

what is the etymology of the phrases:
“I’m just pulling your leg”
“Break a leg”
Thank you! :mrgreen:

There are many different possible origins of the phrase “break a leg.” Type it into wikipedia and read up on it. one possible origin is that”Break a Leg” came from the phrase “Break a Legend” which was used by actors building up there fellow Thespians before going out on stage. The where wishing them the grace of being remembered as a great dramatic.

There are many others on the wiki.

ok im a youtube fan of yours :wink: and my little brother told me to read to him it was a little annoying! :evil: anyways he told me to read Because of Win dixe i think im not sure. :eek: but thats not the point what i am trying to ask my real problem is where in the world does gynecological’s come from :?: it wasn’t on the book but he just sort of said it! :shock:
i hope you respond to what it means also i got the sims 2 game really cool but where does the word SIM come from :?:

sincerely youtube member.
561ddd

My guess is that the first seeding was done in tennis.

Good Afternoon Marina!!!
Seed was first used in Lawn Tennis in 1898 to scatter the players in the tournament. Again a most enjoyable lesson. Well time for a nap, maybe next time you can teach us about “love”.
luvs

Um Marina,
I was wondering if you could tell me where the word Jailbait came from
haha….i think that would be a good lessen!
~Babii B~

ummm.I don’t know the answer to the homework or th the extra credit.But I would like to know where the phase “Keep them on the egde of their seats”I mean it suppost to be good to make them excited while a musican performs but…wouldn’t it be like they’re tring to run away from the show,not enjoy it?
Help?

Liked the video, the pigtails make you look cute. I just have one question; Where can I find those pictures you keep playing at the end of your videos? Can you possibly set up a gallery on your website for your adoring fans?

I did it already… check my word list: http://www.hotforwords.com/words :-)

I would have guessed that this term could have originated in horse racing, or perhaps as a spin-off of racehorse BREEDING terminology, but then neither tennis nor horse racing are areas of interest or expertise for me. A great video, as ever, though. Keep up the good work.

The idea is that they’re so interested that they try to get physically closer to the action by moving toward the front of their seats, temporarily forgetting about their personal comfort in order to see or hear better.

Buon Giorno Marina !

With graduations coming up, perhaps you could shed some light on the word, “matriculate”…not often used in everyday speech, but saw it in an on-line article the other day.

Hmmm, maybe from Latin, matri- mother ?

Grazie !

Teacher . . cash,loot,booty,bucks many are slang I am sure maybe just $money$ ?
Love your show :smile:

Hey, I alwayz wondered what my name meant or where it came from!? I would alwayz ask my parents and they would tell me it was superman’s dad’s name?? :roll: so if you can please let me know what Zoriel means or where it came from, I would appreciate it tonz, if not itz ok, I know you are busy with lotz of request. Your shows are great take care! :smile:

i would love to find out the oragin of the word pastoral

Marina, I was raised using the term (it was/is, that was/is) “as hard as Kelsey’s nuts” could you enlighten your adoring students as to the origin of this saying? Adrian in Colorado aka CatsareTasty69

i got a question ………………. wait a minute…………… im tyring to think………… :idea: i reamber wat does radical means sorry to ask

Another 5 star lesson!
And now it makes sense… Your random desire to use the term “round robin” a few days ago, that is.
Anyway, I think you would be the #1 seed in any single elimination, double elimination or round robin tournament involving beauty, brains and YouTube videos. :smile:

Dear HotForWords (aka Marina): In an earlier lesson you attempted to give the origin of the word Google. In fact, I believe that word derived from a popular 1923 American song named “Barney Google” written by Billy Rose and Con Conrad (copyright Warner Music Co.). The first verse goes like this:

Barney Google with the Goo-goo-googly eyes,
Barney Google had a wife three times his size.
She sued Barney for divorce.
Now he’s living with his horse.
Barney Google with the Goo-goo-googly eyes.

There are two more verses – very funny, with a very catchy tune.

Also, Googly is a term used in the British game of Cricket

JJ

Hey, Teacher,

I work in the oil field and we use centrifugal pumps. Where on earth did the word “centrifugal” come from?

Thanks,

Matt “WhiskeyBoy” Blake
_-’www.whiskeyboy.us’-_

It’s short for “Simulated”!

hi marina,
new fan here,
would love to know the origins of the words eligible and ineligible. I always get them mixed up when trying to use them!

thanks.

Suggestions:

- rambunctious
- acrimonious
- embellish

Great show, Marina!

PS some Americans seem to have a problem to understand the difference between knowledge and intelligence. Maybe you can straighten them out on that one as well ;o)

PPS oh yeah – how’s that one:

- INTELLIGENCE -

Dear hotforwords,
I was wondering where the expression apples-to-apples came from. I know that it is a game but I had heard it once before and was wondering where it originated. I would highly appreciate it if you would do this for me, thanks alot
sincerely,
gahhreg (greg)

I think I may be another of these people who are not getting their notifications. I have to assume if I am able to post this I am a subscriber? It appears I have not received any notice for the last two new videos.

And aren’t you just cranking them out these days, by the way! Congrats.

Let me know if I needed to sign up some other place or something. :) Thanks.

How about “Sugar Daddy” or “Pothole?”

Hi! I /believe/ the sport is tennis, since that is where I commonly hear it. The NCCA Mens’ and Womens’ Tennis Tournaments use the word “seed,” so I assume that’s where it came from. Also, I believe Wimbledon uses it. ^^

I’d like to request the word, “trinket.” It’s a shorter, but not-so-common word and it seems like it’s under-used. “Thing” and such practically mean the same thing, but I’d like to hear where “trinket” comes from. Thanks! =]

Tennis? Oh and now the ter Farm Team makes sense now. Mwah

Marina,

If misogyny means a great dislike for women, is there a masculine corollary that would mean a great dislike for men? Would it be something like misophalus, misophaly?

Hello Marina… posting on your website is much nicer as, so far, I see no rude people have written. Why do people do this? Would they act like this in real life… I think not… there’s something about the internet… :sad:

Anyhoo, like others, I think “seed” must first have been used in a sports context in tennis. If I get it right will you do another dance…? (I save your “Flutter by” vid on YouTube… it is supercute with the butterflies and the things you say… and your little dance at the end! :grin: )

Could you please give us the meaning of freeze the balls off a brass monkey?

Thank you,
You are so beautiful!!!!!!!

Tony

Dearest Hot For Words,

I just joined the site and really like it! I was wondering if you could answer one or more of my questions at some point.

- Why do we say, “just kidding”?

- Do the words “lie” (as in to lie down) and “lie” (as in to tell a lie) have a common origin?

- What about “interest” (as in to be interesting) and “interest” (as in to earn interest)?

Thanks! I look forward to the next interesting video. I guess I’ll just lie here and wait. Just kidding! (OK, that was dumb, but whatever).

Yes, the word is “sense”… ti hee… :wink:

I think it has something to with the fact that a “brass monkey” was the thing on a battle ship in the days of cannons to hold the cannon balls… maybe when it got cold they fell off?

Or maybe Marina can answer better… I’m sure you’d rather she tell you, anyway :wink:

I think an interesting lesson would be on the origin of the mirror and it’s relationship to the word reflect, as well as the word “reflect’s” origin as well. They both have double meanings for a start. I wonder what else you could “dig up” for us students … waiting on baited breath for your next video … oh and … *muah!* … :wink: :mrgreen:

ps. …what did I tell you about being so damn cute?! … you got five minutes to stop that. or … or … Well, … I’ll think of sumthin’ eventually.

You see it all the time but where does the word “cum” really come from? I realize that this is kind of XXX for your show but it is a valid question.

Your faithful wordsmith servant

I’m not sure if you did this already, I couldn’t find it on the list so I’m not sure. But I was wondering where the pharse “to pop one’s cherry,” I know it means to lose your virginity but where did it come from?

Thank you

hey marina…..wats up…..i would want to know the origin of the word “period” as i the dot at the end of a sentence and why do they use the same word for when a women/girl has that time of the month…lol…plese and thank you…and i didnt mean to ask you this word with any bad intentions or affend any girls….i just want to know…lol

Marina — Here’s a strange one: pickle

i just noticed something from my response..my friends and tohers tend to say wassup as a way greeting each other…..but how did that come to be…does it actully mean “whats up”…can you see wats up with that?…..lol

Dear HotForWords Teacher,

Could it possibly be the Wisconsin Badger basketball team? Being that it is Hot B-Ball Season. Could you tell us about how they got their name?

:cool:

I forgot to mention that I like your hair. It looks real nice. :oops:

I know what this word is, but what is the origin of prestidigitation. It just seems like such an awkward word for what it means. It is almost a sleight of “tongue” to say it correctly as well.

homework response:

Either tennis or perhaps cricket

-suleiman

Dear Marina,

“Stoned”

As long as i can remember (the 60′s), the word “stoned” has referred to someone with a drug induced “high”. Since then, little schoolchildren have tried to mold it into meaning “alcohol intoxication” but when “stoned” was cool, alcohol wasn’t. I have tried to find the origin of how and when this term became a staple in the English language for this condition but have been totally unsuccessful.
Bod Dylan once used this word early in his pulitzer prize winning career in “Rainy Day Women….” but the term was around well before that and besides, I believe his song was basically a takeoff on stoned (condition) and stoned (as in physical). Any help or clarification with this?? Thanks in advance for your Etymological wisdom and hopefully, “another mystery solved”?

Hot4wordslvr

Sorry to bust your parents on a technicality, but Superman’s dad was Jor-El. Close, though.

Dear Marina (aka HFW)

I would like to request the word BOMBSHELL.

Thanks,
Kory

Sort of a side issue here, but is there a chance you explain the relationship between Russian, Austrian, and German, because I always thought German and Austrian were closely related, but your accent is very reminiscent of Arnold’s.

Don’t try to play it off like you dunno which Arnold! :grin:

I think it’s the Stanley Cup playoffs in hockey. It sucks that my most favorite the Chicago blackhawks and my 2nd favorite the Vancouver Canucks did not make it this year. I say Calgary Flames all the way! In the meantime I’m focused on baseball and hopefully the cubs end their near century hex. Go cubs go!

Hey Marina!
Today I was wondering about the term ‘Poppycock’ i looked it up and found nothing but what it means. i thought to ask you! Anyways thank you!
Faith

My answer for the HW question is Tennis. Just finished watching the NCAA basketball championship game. My word request is “Smoking gun”. I know that it means a important evidence to a case but where did this term originate from ? :mrgreen:

And while she’s at it, she can play Beethoven’s Ninth.

I like the connection. Seed > Poppy Seed > Poppycock. I’m going to postulate that the word “seed” suggested “poppycock” in your mind by way of the subconscious “poppy seed” link. You are probably thinking, “Oh, LividEmerald, that’s just poppycock!” :grin:

I’d have to go with tennis. Lot’s of cool terms there. I know I mentioned before using “Love” as a part of the score when that is the one who has not scored. Serving is important in tennis and good forehand and backhand strokes are a required part of the game. You will need tennis outfit but maybe netted stockings too since the net is important part of the game with getting the ball over and not into the net is the goal. There is a need to stay within the court ((courting someone) and there is nothing like a good overhead to slam for a winner. Yeah i know Im grasping here but just want to cya in a tennis outfit, lol. So let’s have a match made in heaven as it is a great game. :cool: :smile:

i have a word request. where does the word quantum com from? :?:

Hi presumined, thanks for your input. Very witty!

I’ve never seen you post to this blog before, so welcome to the forum.

Okay, listen up, because I’m only going to say this once.

For years I’ve been working on my anthropology degree. There is one major theme that has filtered through in all my studies of the human animal (first, let’s agree that humans are animals and have evolved for a long time through many difficult and purifying trials, just like any other animal alive today, and secondly, let’s agree that if they can be classified zoologically, they should be called primates, like the rest of the so-called ‘great apes’: chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans…are you okay with that?).

Humans are primates, and as such, are subject to the same conventions and overall behavior patterns that other primates have been developing for millions of years. We have learned some important things by studying primate behavior. Ready? Fasten your seat belt.

Males are not driven by the same stimuli as females are. They have far less investment in the reproductive process than females because they don’t have to sacrifice the very nutrients they take in so the offspring can survive from day to day, like the females do. This is HUGE!
A female primate must devote a major part of her life just to get one offspring “up and running,” whereas a male can mate with several females PER DAY without being any worse for wear, and never have to deal with them again if he should so choose!
Now you might interpret this as a “Males are superior” speech. Quite the contrary! Females are far stronger of will. There’s no comparison between the two.

Still with me?

Bottom line: decisions made by female primates are based primarily upon access to resources. They must have access to enough extra resources to feed and nurture their young throughout a long infant growth process (while still looking after the young!) in order to successfully pass on their genetic material. If the kid starves, mom wasn’t careful enough. Then her line gets kicked out of the gene pool. So she needs to plan very carefully.

Male primates, however, base their long-term choices and decisions primarily upon access to females! They can’t gestate the fetus, give birth to it, or breast feed it even if they wanted to. So the basis of their reproductive success revolves around how often and with how many females they can copulate. More is better. Sad but true, it’s who we are. Welcome to the human race.

Were it not for this difference, we probably wouldn’t be here reading each other’s messages right now. We’d be extinct.

So don’t hold it against males that they’re hard-wired to seek and attain a totally separate goal than the females. Hell, we’re just primates. It’s how we got where we are today (survivors in a world of extinct fossils), and has been perfecting itself as a system for millions of years. So just appreciate it as best you can. If you don’t like it, I guess you can always withdraw from the race. But then I wouldn’t get to read your responses.

Vive le difference!

Dear Hot teacher,

Great timing explaining the word seed during the basketball finals. I heard a phrase during a semi final game that I’d like to have explained. An announcer used swirling dervish to describe a player. I’ve always heard it used as whirling dervish. Which is correct and where did it come from.

Word request. :smile:

sabot n. a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn esp. by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.

Is it true that the word sabotage is derived from the word sabot? The story I heard is that when a worker wanted an unscheduled break; the worker would toss their sabots into the machinery to cause the machine and the work to stop.

So, a saboteur would be the person tossing their sabots into the machinery.

Nudiustertian? How about this word :idea:

P.S. You are getting better with every next video. Great job!

If you have a youtube account you can see when a new vid is up much sooner than the email. Just sub @ Marina’s “Hotforwords” Youtube Channel & your home page lets you know as soon as someone you subscribed to Posts. I’m much Happier now & I’m off my meds. :grin:

Psycho is a prefix meaning mind. Everyone has a mind. Having a mind is good. :cool:
Yet a PSYCHO is bad, bad, bad person :evil:
PSYCHOSIS occurs during active states of schizophrenia, with hallucinations and/or delusions :roll:
PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS is a bodily problem associated with emotions and/or the mind :shock:

Are there any words that includes “Psycho-” that have a positive spin…besides psychology, where people can study about PSYCHOs :?: :razz:

Thanks!

i must admit marina is very easy on the eyes. as a matter of fact i could sit back with a cup of joe and watch her for quite a spell. but the big question is why did i call a cup of coffe(bup of boffe for some in la) a cup of joe?

Don’t you get the cards in your email? I feel special knowing that the electronic postman delivers a card right to my inbox. I open it with great anticipation & there is a lovely picture to put up on my electronic mantel, with a note yet, from Marina, Oh be still my beating heart or my hearts still beating or something like that. Could I be treated any better, I think not. The Gallery thing , probably half the class would be distracted from learning & some would want to steal the pics’ & try to sell them or worse. I don’t know… (should we do a Poll) Bad sug.eh?

How did this video get to be rated +18 on youtube? Somebody didn’t like the “sowing the seeds”, part? Marina has what, some 42,000,000 views, and somebody influential stopped it before its’ 20,000? Whats zup?

Centri- relates to central, or from the middle, and -fugal is from the Latin fugit which means to run away from or try to escape from, like in fugitive. So if you whirl a string with a weight tied onto it around fast enough, the weight will try to move outward, or escape from the center.

Jailbait is a term for an underaged girl whom if one has sex with, even if consensual, you are guaranteed a charge of rape. If convicted, you go to jail, Since under the age of consent girls are sometimes pretty and tempting (and willing), they are like “bait” for a poor sucker of a fish or perhaps like bait in a trap for a predator. If you take the bait(the girl), you get captured in the trap (jail). Lolita was jailbait for Humbert Humbert. Capish? Pity. :cool:

Actually that would be: Vive la différence !
Différence is feminine. . . . Although I am a male primate, I do have access to resources like dictionaries, and can therefore verify the gender of French nouns. In fact, I am hard wired to seek out feminine words like this one. I just wanted to reproduce this word here for your reference. If you learn the correct gender thanks to my efforts, then this will have been a reproductive success. :smile:

I’ve heard the same explanation.
Question: Why do the Dutch wear clogs?
Answer (sort of); If you were Dutch, wooden shoe?
:roll:

Perhaps “andropathy”? :cool:

well, actually, yeah

…or maybe gibberish, balderdash, folderol, or gobbledygook.

In the beginning of the song “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” in the movie “Let’s Make Love” with Yves Montand et al., Marilyn Monroe says: “My name is . . . Lolita! And I’m not supposed to play . . . with boys!”

Back when I watched “Cliffhanger” in theatres, I was on the edge of my seat, and, boy, did it look like a long way down to the floor!!! :lol:

Defenestrate! I would love to see you do the etymology of the word defenestrate.

I shoulda seed that comin’ . . .

For a weight, I would suggest a bottle of whiskey. :smile:

Well, at least it’s not “freeze the balls off a brass primate.”

Well my homework went out with the trash on youtubes maintainence thingy so I ‘ll redo & surmise that in 1795, “Alexander Popinov” first used the seed term for sport at the “World Peaknuckle Championships”. When the caterers ran out of peaknuckle seeds, he had the royal wenches run out to the Organic farmers market to pick up a fresh bushel. If you want the rest of the story I’ll post it at wikipedia .com…soon. I site nothing but the most reliable sources, as per “Games without Balls”
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/research/Playground/docs/lip77.pdf
Later the term seed was brought into “ball sports” as Marina says but I’m not sure which one for all I know, & thats not much, could be Lacrosse where the ball was introduced later in its history as the game was used as an alternative to war, or even as war. Great game now though.
“I love Blue” Thanks.

Please somebody flag my post before I em bare ass myself.
What happened with the flaggin’?

I want to now what meens:’soccer’,football in Europe;)but the way..nice eyes

Tennis? Balderdash! That is a typical Elizabethanism coming out of Britain, in the late 19th Century. The term was carried back to Britain after the Crimean war, where it entered common lingo by the returning service men. The Black Sea was a long haul from Great Britain and numbers of camp followers were critically low. Morale was seen as deteriorating as fights turned into brawls in the long lines queued for the services of the too few camp followers.

Legend has it that Lord Somerset himself ordered that the men standing in the long lines be assigned a number, and then they wouldn’t have to stand out in the elements for what seemed like hours waiting. The first man in line would be the 1st seed, the second man would be the 2nd seed and so forth. The seeding was intended to be assigned randomly, but charges of favoritism and bribery was a common gripe in the camps leading to yet more deterioration of morale. The whole affair was an embarrassment to the Crown, and after the Crimean War, the age old custom of camp followers was prohibited.

Hi pennsyltucky9,

(First, I must say I am bad with computers so maybe this reply is in the wrong place! :oops: )

Thank you so much for your reply. Did you compose that specifically for me? As I read, at first I thought the first two pars where new and the rest was cut and pasted as you were seeking views on your degree work.

But it appears not! So thanks. But I must also tell you I too am a male primate (as in PresuminEd, but this system doesn’t like upper case letters! :???: ) and I am British and, as you may know, everything we say or do is ironic (by law… see, more irony :lol: )

I like to see myself as the as close as I can get to the antithesis of misogyny (one of the reasons I am so saddened at the many horrid YouTube comments about Marina) but I have friends (and they are, in general, good men) who seem to default to a kind of “misogyny lite” (one, for example, refers to having sex as “violating” women… ewwww!).

I was already aware (in basic terms!) of the explanation you give in your reply and I often wonder if this misogyny I see in my friends is simply as a result of being rejected on occasion by women (who, as you say, have to be much more choosy than men).

But I don’t think ALL men are misogynists. :razz: Far from it!

However, unlike the person who asked the original question I would term misogyny not simply as a “great dislike” of women. Not at all. That implies fault on the part of women, I think. I term it a “morbid hatred”, which, I believe, implies irrationality…

Thanks again… hope we stay in touch,

Chris.

Good morning Marina,
I am amazed that your lessons never seem to get a full 5 stars from your viewers. Everyone here should be a die hard fan of yours and be grateful for every lesson you do. I guess some people are never satistfied.

Marina, my dear, would you be so kind as to exercise …, that is, to fire, sparkle up the synaptical regions and your wonderfully intense, “bursting with wit and wisdom” cerebral cortex, and articulate to your fans the etymological foundations of the word Mergatroid? The word Mergatroid is about to undergo a complete metamorphosis, lexigraphically speaking, and perhaps it best if history was to record someone such as yourself employing the first instance of the most common sense of what the word Mergatroid will be understood to mean in the future.

Opportunities such as what I’m referring to don’t happen often. Jump on it, Marina. I’m as serious as cancer. :?:

hey Marina!

I was wondering about the word “extraordinary”. You would think something being extra ordinary would be extra common or very common, but put the 2 words together and it means the total opposite!

In 1492, India was known as Hindustan? Why are Native Americans/Indians called Indians? :smile:

Why are clogs named clogs? :???: Don’t know that answer. But, I may have an explanation for the top part of my comment? ;-)

Mergatroid is not a word, is it? I can’t find it any dictionary.

went straight on DOWN .. to comments .. guessing tennis as the sport before I read other replies and see what else I can nit pick. BTW HFW have you heard the C&W song “I Want To Check You For Ticks”? .. I DO!

The jury is still out on Mergatroid, prospero811. That’s why I’m asking, and in need of Marina’s help now. :cool:

It means the same thing as “colder than a witch’s tit in a brass bra, doing push-ups in a snow bank.”

It also means the same thing as “colder than a well-digger’s ass.”

I was wondering… why do we “hit on” those we like? Cause I don’t actually want to hit her… doesn’t make much sense to me :neutral:

Extra in this sense, I imagine, has something to do with “extract”, as in, to remove from. So extraordinary would be removed from the ordinary.

I said I was going to stop answering these, but it is just too fun! Besides, if I am wrong, it is only more fun if I am corrected by the teacher. :razz:

Because Christopher Columbus was really lost.

roachmeistercom

In 1492, India was known as Hindustan? Why are Native Americans/Indians called Indians?

Even if “Christopher Columbus was really lost.” Then Colombus should have named the natives Hindus not .
Indians ;-)

It’s a long shot but I’d genuinely like to know where the word ‘Blowjob’ came from. When you think about the activity involved the word itself doesn’t actually make any sense.

Probably be a difficult one to find out about.

For 1 thing, these ppl are asking the HotForWords Teacher for an answer and are not asking you. :roll:

For another thing, if you are passing on wrong information. How are these ppl to know? :?:

So,,,,, what you are actually doing is being the kid in the back of the classroom reaching out for attention by shouting out any answer that may be at the top of your head.

But in your defense, your typing is correct. Which is far better than most of those that insist upon answering the HotForWords Teacher’s comments for her. But this is really no defense to fall back on. :idea:

disclaimer: my syntax and use of words may not be correct.

This is another example of a culture adopting a popularly used word as their own like the word “gay”, “partner” or the “rainbow” or even a colour like “purple” is not safe from different cultures to lay claim to as a word of their own. “Straight” was also used by the “Drug Culture” was it not? As in “Are you straight? – “No man, I’m stoned.”. Oh that’s right, the word “straight” was adopted by another culture then quickly dropped. My knowledge of these words may be taken entirely from local usage. Or I just may be stoned again. Now where’d I leave my drink?

Teacher,

I have been looking for an explanation to the term “Murder of Crows” for as long as I can remember. I have tried every site I could find with no results. I know that a flock of crows is called a murder, but why is a flock of crows called a murder?

Please help!

BT

hey Marina can u find the origin of the word astrology for me please :mrgreen:

Marina, you always look gorgeous, but you looked especially beautiful today! I liked your long hair exposed, and the blue dress set off your lovely blue eyes very well.

Not sure how to “rate” your videos, but this one gets 100%

In the west, India was known as India.

A “leg” is a jargon/term for a type of curtain on a theatrical stage. “break” was used in the sense of “break down” or take apart. So when someone told a backstage crew member to “break a leg” it literally meant “take down the curtain”. How it translated into “good luck” is unbeknownst to me.

Didn’t some cartoon character or tv character say “Heavens to Mergatroid”?

She got me to pay attention, that’s for sure. I can’t wait for her book, I’m sure it will be fascinating.

Dear HotForWords Teacher,

Would you clear up the aluminum versus aluminium controversy for me? Please? In the USA we say aluminum and in the UK they say aluminium.
How strange is this?

If my teachers back in high school looked anything like you, I probably would still be attending. :wink:

You are looking bodacious as usual. :cool:

Okay, I’m fairly sure this hasn’t been requested (it isn’t in the list), so here’s a really interesting word: Contrafibularities. I’ve found some sources saying it’s fake, some that it’s legit. What’s the deal?

That would be Snagglepuss. His other tagline was “Exit, Stage Left!”.

Snagglepuss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIgXWeQVrM&feature=related

I have a question about something you said… On your thing about profanity, you mentioned that YouTube allows you to cuss but not to show a picture of yourself in a bikini. I take it that was a joke as you show pictures of yourself in a bikini all the time, and even did so in that video (with a NO symbol on it,but still), so curious what exactly does YouTube not allow for real? I mean I’ve looked to “flag” a video before and not been able to figure out where what I’d flag it for fit, because their flags reasons are like graphic sex and stuff… I mean as long as it wasn’t copyrighted, would YouTube not allow a hardcore porno, or would it just need to be appropriately flagged?

It’s a thing on YouTube. There is little stars up there you click on, though I am not sure if those correlate to YouTube’s site, but I’m sure Marina can let you know that. But, if it doesn’t you just go rate them at http://www.youtube.com and while you are at it subscribe so you will always have easy access to the latest videos TO rate them. :)

Deadline

Well, I think there is nothing wrong with us answering them too. If we are wrong, she can tell us the truth. Look at it this way…

Student: What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
Teacher: Ok students, any guesses?
Other student: 42!
Teacher: That is correct

OR

Other Student: We don’t know!

then

Teacher: Actually, Douglas Adams tells us that The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is… 42!

See, either way we still learned.

First, let me save this page …! Ok, done. :grin:

Marina, I would very much like to use you (your name) and your original words of definition to the word Mergatroid which I will then use as a quote on the jacket of my book I will have print-on-demand published sometime this year. PLEASE!

The intended target of my book is an audience of ten, fifteen year old geeks. A synopsis of my manuscript written for a literary agent. It’s detailed, so read it until you aren’t interested, or you are finished. PLEASE!

You will be defining the word Mergatroid from a hodge podge, mish-mash collection of meanings and usages as can be found employing your favorite search engine and reading the results. PLEASE!

In time my story, Dear Mergatroid, once it has been read by the masses will render the word Mergatroid to one single concept definition for all time, cementing and solidifying all future usage of the word. Perhaps parts of your words can be brought to define first sense inside future dictionaries inclusion of the work Mergatroid. We will have taken over the word and brought it to be “our own.” How beautiful is that? :grin:

PLEASE!, Marina, I want you to write something. My story will rock the foundations of the earth. It’s a revolution. I would very much like you to be a part of it, even in some small way. PLEASE! :!:

Yeah haha cause Columbus was dumb. He thought he was going to INDIA and thought he made it there. I still wonder why we celebrate a idiot who committed genocide on a people that “discovered” the land he’s celebrated as discovering 5000 years or more earlier. I mean why can’t I sail to New Zealand and claim i discovered it? That’s what Columbus did.

you can’t learn something you already know.

HI,
Have a question. I caught up with some freinds recently and one used the word/ phrase ‘That was Chortle’ instead of ‘That was funny’ – I have never really noticed the pre-fix CHO before and suprised words range from Chocolate to Chow-Mein. Could you investiagte for me please?

In conversation, we used the familliar saying ‘to think out side the box’ – could you also investiagte this phrase as we thought it may have something to do with joining the dots…..but outside of the box???

Thanks again Marina.You are looking absolutley amazing today, wow :)

so I guess you’re smart enough to cross the atlantic, leading and being responsible for three ships, with the equipment and knowledge the europeans had back then?

this is the kind of arrogance and ignorance that really pisses me off.

I thought Marina was just joking a few lessons ago about her videos getting flagged on youtube if they included her in a bikini. How puritan of youtube… I assume this is a policy for all bikini-inclusive videos. What makes it all the more ridiculous is that in Marina’s case, her videos are quite tame and she is quite non-revealing when it comes to her body in these videos. One can assume a philologist with a knack for modeling and self-production is going to be selective in the presentation of herself, be it in a bikini or otherwise. And it’s also safe to say that Marina is too intelligent to do anything unsexy in one of these videos. Pretty lame of youtube, and it’s downright laughable that this lesson’s video got flagged. Our trusty busty teacher never goes beyond showing some cleavage, with a few rare exceptions that are tasteful and tame. To be honest, it has yet to be established that our hot teacher has got much else to flaunt beyond the standard HFW face and cleavage shot, so it is utterly ridiculous that youtube would let one of their top contributors be flagged so.

WTF? :?: Was this lesson ‘too adult’ because Marina talked about seed in it and wore a pearl necklace? Personally, I’d give her a pearl necklace closer to the bustline, but that’s just me. :twisted:

The only thing worse than censorship is needless censorship. It causes unnecessary offense while blurring the line between valid content and invalid content. From now on, I’ll watch the HotForWord lessons here at this website rather than youtube. I don’t want my time wasted by having to confirm my birthdate over nothing. It’s a total buzzkill when that happens with a HotForWords video, and inappropriate of youtube to use such lazy censorship. A sexy woman in a bikini qualifies as rated PG, not rated R. If youtube would just adopt a common sense rating system akin to the movie industry’s, nonsense like flagging Marina’s videos would come to an end. A simple solution that you think they would have figured out by now.

On a side note, since I won’t be doing the homework (i’m not a sports fan), I thought I’d offer some extra credit. Now, I noticed this video was free of the twittering animal sound, but most recent videos do have the animal characters and their twitter sound. I’m sure I could email a few more animal sound effects as wav file or mp3s for Marina to add to her sound effect library. As an experienced recording engineer, I can take any sound off the web and make it into an audio file. Just tell me what sounds you’d like, my trusty teacher, and I’ll gladly send you a few. Or you can just stick to that telltale twitter! Either way is fine by me, but I thought I’d offer a way to use some of my skills/knowledge to contribute to HotForWords.

Thanks for another interesting lesson, Marina. Peace, Errin :smile:

Marina, I think you have hit on a format that will bring you lasting fame and fortune! And all the while doing what you love–how much better can that be! I have a word request: I’ve always wondered about the origins of the term “heebie jeebie”, as in: “That guy is so creepy that he gave me the heebie jeebies.” Keep up the excellent work!

Well, he thought he was going to India, because nobody knew that there was a continent in between. That doesn’t make anybody “stupid.” He thought he made it there because he hit land, and figured it was India.

As for Columbus “committing” genocide – well, there you are simply wrong. He’s credited with starting, by virtue of his discovery, what people have said was ultimately genocide of various western peoples. However, he himself did not “commit” genocide.

As for 5,000 or so years ago being when man first discovered north America, well, there you are also way off the mark. For some time now, the Clovis people have been credited with that honor – at about 11,000-12,000 years ago, but there are even those who are arguing for earlier populations.

Columbus is said to have “discovered” America from the perspective of the Europeans. Nobody said he was the first man there. And, he wasn’t even the first European there – as Leif Erikson is pretty well confirmed as having been there around the year 1,000. However, the knowledge remained localized, so the real “discoverer” from a European point of view is Columbus because that is what really opened the door to settlement.

It doesn’t appear, with all the knowledge given to us in our extensive education systems, and with all the public information freely available from libraries, bookstores, and at your fingertips on the internet, that you have much correct information at all.

I don’t see her videos flagged.

I know for a fact that the male equivalent of “misogyny” is “misandrony”.

A period is a length of time.

HAMBURGER There isnt any ham in it and where did the term burger come from?

Someone flagged my latest video last night. It should not have been allowed to be flagged.. but it may have slipped through the cracks while maintenance was being performed last night. They un-flagged it this morning.

Funny as I was just commenting on that in my previous video.. and then I go get flagged :-)

errinf, I’ve just been using that one sound for every animal as a kind of running joke.. that I’m sure quite a lot of people don’t even get :-)

Take the “H” away from “Hindu” and you get “indu”. There is an Indus River in India. That is where “indian” comes from.

errrmm……men stay as Cavemen, women have evolved! :shock:

WOMEN’S ENGLISH

1. Yes = No
2. No = Yes
3. Maybe = No
4. We need = I want
5. I am sorry = you’ll be sorry
6. We need to talk = you’re in trouble
7. Sure, go ahead = you better not
8. Do what you want = you will pay for this later
9. I am not upset = of course I am upset, you moron!
10. You’re very attentive tonight = is sex all you ever think about?

MEN’S ENGLISH

1. I am hungry = I am hungry
2. I am sleepy = I am sleepy
3. I am tired = I am tired
4. Nice dress = Nice cleavage!
5. I love you = let’s have sex now
6. I am bored = Do you want to have sex?
7. May I have this dance? = I’d like to have sex with you
8. Can I call you sometime? = I’d like to have sex with you
9. Do you want to go to a movie? = I’d like to have sex with you
10. Can I take you out to dinner? = I’d like to have sex with you
11. Those shoes don’t go with that outfit = I’m gay

I am a philogynist.

Hatred of all humanity is called misanthropy,

Fear of women is gynophobia.

And hatred of men is not “misandrony” but rather, “misandry.”

Fear of humans is hominophobia and fear of men is androphobia. Phallophobia is fear of penises.

Someone who is afraid of Marina might have venustraphobia (fear of beautiful women).

misandry

If women knew what men were thinking they’d never stop slapping them.

A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

There are two times when a man doesn’t understand a woman-before marriage and after marriage.

A woman marries a man expecting he will change but he doesn’t. A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change and she does.

Other women’s English translations:

“I’m okay”
Real Meaning – I’m not okay and I want you to stick around long enough to figure out what’s wrong.

“Do I look fat?”
Real Meaning #1 – I want reassurance as to how good I look in this outfit.
Real Meaning #2 – I’m insecure about how I look and need reassurance.

“I’m not upset”
Real Meaning – Of course I’m upset, why do you even have to ask?

“I’ll call you sometime”
Real Meaning – I’m just taking your number for the sake of being nice. I don’t plan on calling you.

“Nothing”
Real meaning – You figure it out.

Or in computing jargon it’s
single or serial inline memory module.
Thanks again to Maria and another +5
mmmmmwwwaa

Ms. Marina,

Great work!!!! I’ve learned so much from your sites AND find it all fascinating. Regarding a word that keeps coming up in my circle of influence…this may actually be too hot for words. The word is “Queening” – a verb. I know “Queen” by familiarity, not by origin per se, but as a verb….how did this come about. We’ve been using it in Dominant/submissive arrangements between two P/people.

I thank you in advance for your consideration of this word.

Obediently Yours,
slave erostatis

Marina thank you for giving all of us all of this wonderfull information!
I am curios about a phrase used in Racing ‘Drop the hammer’ ? I would like to find out where it came from thank you :grin:

OR “couture”. OH, there are so many more.

Hey there,
why harsh on Americans?
OK I’ll take the bait but you better be legal.
Where your from must be pretty great?
sensabilities? Some people run with
an agenda thats makes them harsh on others.
It may pass for knowledge, Majic.

Post Script- love ya!

Another good lesson – but now I have 2 more requests to add to your ever-growing list of requested-but-not-yet-answered-words:

The word distraught – how did it come to have it’s present meaning, and is “traught” also a word?
The colour green, how did it get associated with nature? There are so many other colours in nature, too, like brown – the colour of soil, bark and autumn leaves, amongst other things. So why green for nature?

Also, is there any place where I can see that list, so I know which words have been requested so far but not answered, and so I can add my curious support to some of those requests?

Penistuck,
why go off like that? I guess to draw out the several good responses.Obviously you are sure of yourself, but be sure of this, I found it very condescending in tone regardless of your fact or facts or opinions. Let’s all keep this place as beautiful as Marina. OK sorry about your name thingy but you enviscerated me. Is that a ….
Love ya!

I have a word request 2 actually I was wondering if you shed some light on where the terms bouycot and embargo originated

thanks

OK Marina my hottie for words i got a good one for you to research it’s origin !

where did they come up with the word Quack for the phony doctors !

what is it from a duck is sometying that Quacks but a doctor ?

Have FUN with this one !

MUWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !

Without researching it I’d also guess tennis, but by the year (1898) it could very well be baseball as well. But, HEY, ‘dear students’ some of the above is really getting a bit seedy. If smart is truly sexy some of the above (& you decide what) is neither.

prospero811 Columbus conquered America coming form Europe on “La Niña”,”La Pinta” and “Santa María” but he didn’t discover it.But that information is all around the world in books, Internet and that mistake became a common affirmation that everyone accepts.

I was wondering if you could explain how the phrase “Beeline” works. People will use this “sally made a beeline to the shoe deparment as soon as we got to the store.” But really don’t bee’s kinda fly all over the place very randomly and they never seem to make up their mind on which flower they want to be at.

Right.

Marina,

Looking into the assignment, I would have to say from the active sports played by teams: are Cricket, Baseball, Football, and Soccer.
I would tend to go for the sport that I like the most, since the rules are based on fair play and the principle of seeding a tournament has the principle of making them more balanced.

Also, I love your lessons! you have my admiration and highest vote in all your polls.

Regarding, words that I am always puzzled by: I would like to see if you have the time to explore any of the following:

Why is Football, and Soccer do not have the same logic as volleyball, basketball?

Constable & Sergeant have additional letters when pronounced?

Rock&Roll and the different forms ( Rock-On, etc. )

Jazz, and all-that-jazz

From a very attentive student, with hopes to get a bit of your time… :wink: :smile: :cool:

Oh, I almost forgot about another one that I had wanted to ask about.

If somebody is “on the straight and narrow”, as some people might write, what is really meant is that the person is on the *strait* and narrow, right? Do “straight” and “strait” have some kind of common origin, or is it a coincidence that they are homonyms? Also, I suppose you might as well also go into why “straight” is used to mean heterosexual and “gay” to mean homosexual. That’s a little weird.

Thanks!

Uhhh, I’m pretty sure she’s Russian.

She is. Not sure what that has to do with the price of peas in West Virginia, but you’re absolutely right.

Oh! You didn’t realize I was asking why her Russian accent sounded similar to Arnold’s Austrian one? Ok… Clearly I was unclear. :???:

I would like to know the origin of the legal term
estoppel. This seems to be a very strange word indeed.

Thanks!
Nohau

I guess you’re right about the gallery idea, too distractng. and yes i do get the cards. but those aren’t all the pictures.

I was wondering about the word filibuster and why it means both mercenary and is a political term. please no one answer this, I would like Marina to do it.

Hi Marina! Great lesson, as usual.
I was wondering about the origins of the word “portable.” Does it have anything to do with the word “port,” as in a trade/travel port? Thanks so much for doing what you do.
Your Loyal Student,
Hayley

Where does the ‘b’ in ‘subtle’ come from?

Annoying Phrase request,

rock chalk jayhawk

I don’t know about bikini, but Marina’s breasts do strange things being set so widely apart. It’s mesmerizing.

Is the answer to the homework basketball? Also you should throw us off one day by making a video where you decided not to investigate.

P.S. Keep the twitering sound it makes me laugh

I am new to Hotforwords, but I must say that I am very impressed with Marina contribution to the web. It is informative, smart, funny, sexy and most of all it has genuine sincerity.

I wish we had 100′s of Marina’s like her with her the world would be a much nicer place.

Please keep up the good work and as a man I am captivated by your beauty.

So as new student of Marina’s class I will accept any homework given…. :wink:

Cheers
Ferrumequus

Imagine a university staffed by hundreds of Marina’s! Even math would be interesting. :lol:

“Coulrophobia” exagerated fear of clowns. My sons’s exgirlfriend had it bad. …always wondered why she broke up with him, she seemed to be afraid of me…
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGUxKl82_s

re: brutishvulgarian – April 8th, 2008 7:45 pm – comment

Annoying Phrase request,

rock chalk jayhawk

If you look into the origin of rock chalk jayhawk would it be related to the phrase naked as a jaybird? :wink:

PS Or are jayhawks and jaybirds birds of a different feather? :wink:

Yes ……I agree. I can imagine Mariana teaching Calculus…. :grin:

I too, welcome newcomers to this page. Hope this helps… from a Canadian perspective. “History for idiots”
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=cyqLIs_k0LQ

Have you seen these?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JHWFaikkIPY
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lKlPou_7e5A
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnAORRRU8c&NR=1
The first vid’ got me hooked & the second set the hook & the third made me ROFL.

I like to know who came up with the expression of April Showers and when was it invented. In the meantime I’ll try to get my photo in my gravitar hopefully asap.

pm,

D’oh. I’m a dork. Somehow I didn’t see that you had asked about *Russian*, Austrian and German. I just saw the Austrian and German and probably skipped over Russian, my mind filling in its place something closer to Austrian and German, and thus I thought that you were implying that she was some sort of European.

P.S. I don’t hear any resemblance to Arnie, but I’ll listen for it in the next video.

P.P.S. What’s the price of peas these days?

Hi –

Love your show. I would like to know if there is an historical relationship between “-abad,” as a suffix used in place names (Ahmedabad, Wazirabad, etc.), and English “abode,” both related to the sense of “a dwelling place.” Thanks a lot and best wishes.

– jld

re: “Murder of Crows”

Found this website that list several of plural nouns that you wrote of above. It also offers an explanation of why these are used.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/young_naturalists/namegame/index.html

these are a few of my favorites -

exaltation of larks

gang of whales (orcas)*

* This last example wasn’t listed in the referenced website. But, I’ve seen it used before. :wink:

Hi,
Love your show-funny and intelligent.
What I would like to request is the oldest known word and it’s meaninf/origins.
Thanks and keep up the good work.

werkin with pa-honicks and think this word would be a good one….bear with me here.
ssss pa hinks
spu hinx
sssfff inks
sphinx…
that wasnt so bad after all…where did the word sphinx originate from and how/why is it only used to describe an egyptian marvel?

when was the word america first created nwhy!?.O.o
and as far as the Vote Should I use slang words in my lessons. i find your way interestin 2me) i love the teachchat also what greek word/symble describe/be Freedom sry4 the shorts gtg

I would like to know the History and Origin of the word “Fuck”. Where was it first used? Is it Greek or Latin origin? Is it something from the American Revolutionary war, because only Americans really seem to care to say it. Dude… I don’t care how I find out, I have always wanted to know. I found this site, but there are so many stories of the word that Idk which one to believe… http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-f-word.htm.. What say ye?

Hi Marina,
I was wondering where the term “Bobbing” came from, such as bobbing your hair (really a trend in the late 1920′s).
Thanks!

Hitman – he discovered it from the European perspective. They, that group of people, did not know it was there. So, he discovered it for them. It was like when Captain Cook discovered various islands in the south Pacific. There were people there, but he discovered them for Europeans.

He didn’t “conquer” America with three rickety ships. He landed in the Caribbean – Hispaniola, Cuba, Bahamas, etc. It seems a bit of an overstatement to say he “conquered” America. I’m pretty sure the Seminoles, Iroquois, Mohawks, Cherokee, Choctaw, Hurons, Aztecs, Incas, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. had no idea they had been “conquered” by Columbus. They were, of course, conquered later – by others – Spain doing most of the conquering, followed by England and France.

Must be all the dikes there. They seem to like to wear clogs. :lol:

“Poppyhead” – an ornament, like on the top, upright side of a bench or pew.

“Popple” – to move in a bouncing around manner, as in choppy water.

that she was some sort of European

she is. moscow is in europe.

Hi,

My Girlfriend was looking for a good word to describe me. She knows that I’m somewhat of a wordsmith and wanted to stump me. So, after a while, she came to me and told me that I’m perspicacious. She got me… I had to look it up!! It sounded like she was insulting me, but it was really a compliment. PERSPICACIOUS. She’s got me pegged… I love that woman!!!

Pat M

Hey Marina!

Great lesson, as always! :D
How about telling us the origin of the word “brainstorming” sometime soon?
Thanks a bunch!
Keep it up, you’re awesome!

Ok I just wanted to know where the slang words, sometimes considered to be foul language came from. A good example spooge…exactly how did that come to be or boobs, boobtube, boobies, tits, titty, titties, etc, etc. Not trying to be rude just want to know how the people came up with these words and why? Love your show by the way…very sexy and informative!

:razz: :eek: :lol: :!: :cool:

Hey Marina,

I would like to know the origin of the phrase, “How do you like them apples?”

Thanks for considering my request :)

I listened to a few of HotForWords Teacher”s videos to see if I could also hear anything that sounded like (Ca.R) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. I could not hear any resemblance other than the obvious regional accents.

What would she know from “the price of peas in West Virginia”? She is a word Doctor not an agriculturist

Reading your comments made me want to make another request:

Why is it called a “running joke”? Why not swimming, jogging, or walking?

Why is it called “running water” when people usually can’t run very well in a swimming pool?

bah, you know what i mean. =P western european.

uh. no. eastern european.

pwn3d.

Think the price of peas thing is just a figure of speech… refreshing lack of irony and understanding of rhetorical questions on here… :grin:

Hi dvdpage… I think maybe you reply in the wrong place? :shock: I keep doing it too… :oops:

So, taking her recent Marmalade answer video, the first word she says that sounds Arnold-esque to me is “Mary”, a la Mary, Queen of Scots. Something about the elongation of the lips in trying to speak a long “a” sound. “Therefore” reminded me of Arnold because they both seem to sort of drop their “r’s” prematurely. Arnold in particular I think would tend to say “theahfowau”… hers is not as pronounced there.

I could be making this all up. I don’t actually have an Arnold video running beside it. I do, however, own all the Conan videos.. :???:

The thing with the peas was indeed a bit of a joke, because I could not figure out for a moment why after I had mentioned Russian that Hotforhfw acted as if I had not referred to Russian, but we got that straightened out fairly quickly.

The actual saying is “What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?” Not sure what the origin of that one is, but I imagine I will have to look it up myself given the number of requests beginning to fill the queue here! :grin:

So, he did NOT make the natives bring him Gold or else he’d kill them, then kill them anyway? He did NOT purposely give them blankets infected with smallpox?

I bet you think St. Patrick was all about getting rid of long thin scaly creatures with fangs out of Ireland, huh? Just some pesky animals that most animal experts will tell you never really lived in Ireland in the first place?

This is getting to be a rather touchy subject I’m not sure we want to finish discussing here, however, remember this… History is written by the victors, not the losers.

Those were AWESOME! Thanks BillyB

What’s funniest about it is that women would NEVER have to do a lot of those things if many men were just willing to listen in the first place.
Covert acts are shaped up when overt acts are not tolerated.

I REALLY like what she said in the beginning [a paraphrase]:
“No means yes, but just to be on the safe side, do what she says.”
Makes sense to me. After all, if a guy does what she says and SHE’s the one who gets mad, who’s fault is it :?: Not the guy’s
If she’s all extra mad because he didn’t do it to her standards:
“We DO need to learn to communicate better, I didn’t get that at all.” :lol:

Zoinks, I misphrased that!!! :oops: Marina was saying “Some people think…no means yes” BUT that can get a person in a “lot of trouble, so to be safe, just always do what she says.”

I still agree with the rest I said, but accuracy counts! I’ll be sure to get it right on the first shot NEXT time I just want to be sure to be accurate :wink:

If history is written only by the victors and not the losers, then from where do you get your facts? I mean – it’s certainly true that the survivor of a battle gets to relate his side of the story much clearer than those that died – but we certainly do have plenty of accounts of atrocity that the victors did not squelch.

However, I never said that Columbus didn’t do anything wrong. I merely pointed out that he did not “commit genocide.” All genocides are wrong, but not all wrongs are genocide.

Columbus, like everyone else back then, was unaware of the germ theory of disease and had no idea how smallpox was spread. So, he did not deliberately give blankets infected with smallpox to the natives as a weapon. However, the tragedy remains, and most of the Indians on Hispaniola died from smallpox, typhoid and other diseases brought by the Spaniards.

The Spaniards were also incredibly brutal to the Indians, killing them for sport and mere savagery.

Do I think St. Patrick was about chasing snakes out of Ireland? Of course not. Why would I think that nonsense?

It may be getting to be a “touchy subject” to you, although I’m not sure why. What happened, happened – why would that be “touchy?” What the Spaniards did was absolutely unforgivable and barbaric.

Yes… good work Marina.
You is very good and sexy teacher.
I’m wait for another lesson
Bye bye for now

There’s lots of people that have no idea what the “snakes” that St. Patrick drove out of Ireland really were, and he didn’t just “drive them out”, he killed them. In their March newsletter, my townhouse complex told once again this year why we celebrate St. Patrick’s’ Day, for the great things St. Patrick did, “driving the snakes out of Ireland.” Did not even mention what “snakes” REALLY meant. So, either the writer of the newsletter doesn’t know the truth, or they were specifically ignoring it.

Yes, the Spaniards did bad things, but it STARTED with Columbus. He may have been Italian himself, but he arrived leading the Spaniards to “India”

As for why this is a touchy subject, it’s a controversial one, and controversial=touchy.

Finally, as for how we can still know the truth when history is written by the victors is that there are still some losers that survived, or such. Like the recent letters they’ve found from Custer’s men that told of the things he did and the things he ordered them to do.

To clarify why I say it’s “touchy” is I just don’t want Marina to get mad at us for discussing this type of thing here, I have no idea if she minds or not, and I’d hate for her to mind and get mad at us.

True… true… I respect Marina greatly and do not wish to bother her, or anyone else for that matter.

..just talkin’ is all…

:!:

I vote for Tennis.

Love the blue eyes/blue dress thing. Not the sort of guy to normally notice that. :oops:

as usual a very nice way to start the day with a lesson from Marina! We use the word seeded player in Sweden as well, so that one was real cool to get a grip on!
My guess is that the first seeded tournament was the wimbeldon tennis tournament …. and this time I didn´t even glance at my classmates for the answer so I might be waaay out of line with this one! :)

From your dear student / Swedehunter

I thought columbus discovered ohio. The capitol city is called columbus, there is a statue of him downtown and a full scale replica of the santa maria is docked in the scioto river in downtown columbus. I think that is proof enough. there is also the columbus opera, columbus museum of art, columbus zoo, columbus symphony and the popular columbus clippers baseball team. Columbus discovered ohio and probably the rest of the midwest as well.

Fnord

Eric,
Are you suggesting that Marina is a Venus Trap? (venustraphobia)
I must attend to my flies! :lol:

Woooo, nice pics :!:

Bob, get over here. Need your help. :lol:

You’re asked to check the words alreadt covered before making a word request. You didn’t bother.

You are so funny with all that agriology ….do not eat the balls being seated :eek:

[sunflower]…sow the matches….I think this one, seed of linen :razz: :x