Heroin Cough Syrup?

aspirin, glucophage, baygon, bayfresh, glucobay, adalat, adalat gitts, aleve, midol,
bactrim, one a day, berroca, baycox, baytril, ciprofloxacin, avelox, canesten, yasmin, YAZ, levitra, merina, ultravist, lopamiron, kogenate, betaferon, magnevist, nexavar, diane, ascensia, etc….

marina, how can I be a teachers pet do I need to **** **** **** 5214 ?

There’s seems to be some confusion between:

ya’ll

and

y’all

Most people cite y’all as the correct way to spell it, but in the South “ya” is also considered a word, and since it (likely) originated in the South you would think the contraction is ya + all and not you + all. I’ve always seen it as ya’ll and wasn’t until I actually looked around on the Internet for it that I saw it as y’all, which is apparently the officially recognized way to spell it.

Anyway, I was just wondering if you could help clear this whole mess up :)

I would like to know the origin of the word “blonde”.Thanks Teacher.

I know they came up with aspirin. But it would appear that markus74 has truly finished this assignment already, so why add to his exhaustive list? Nice job, markus4! There may be more, but it looks like they become more and more obscure as the list continues.

Marina:

Aspirin is the trademarked name that became so common in use that they lost the trademark on it. Other examples from other companies include Escalator, Mimeograph, Kerosene, Dry Ice, and Linoleum. This is part of Trademark law and happens when a name becomes too popular and is considered “In common use.” It then loses its trademark status and protection. Does this earn me the Teacher’s Pet this week?

Bill

but aspirin is the famously obsolesced trademark

boy, heroin cough syrup, tape worm diets, cocaine M&Ms… I wonder what’s around today that folks will look back on in the same way

great video, Marina. Thanks.

Xerox, TiVo, Google… Who’s next?

Nice video, Marina. And I have to say, that orange really suits you – it brings out the blue in your eyes, making them look more intense. :wink:

aspartame. Most energy drinks, cigarettes.

Whoa, some people asre just creepy, Nighteye!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7W3Ahx05vg

Hello beautiful Marina

Our friend markus74 did a good job.
I only want to add some notes on Heroin: In this time, when they invented the compound of Heroin (firstly by an English), there was no real good drug agains pains (Keyword: surgery). Morphium (morphine), the precursor of Heroin (diacetyl morphine) had the big disadvantage to make someone addicted in short time. By a chemical conversion the morphine became more effective. That means you need not so much from it, like from morphine to reduce pains. And at this less potion it seems not to make so addicted. When Bayer bought the reciepe to make diacetylmorphine, he thought to have a perfect high effective drug agains any pains. And by the way, all these opiates have the property to stop the tickle in one’s throat – a good drug against cought.
Finally the big business of the pharmaceutical industry let them ignore the side effects. Money rules the world.

I’m wondering about the term ‘Gung Ho’.

In english we use this term to say that someone is motivated or excited about something. ‘He’s all gung ho’.

I always thought this was a chinese word that had a similar meaning. But I recently asked a friend of mine from China and he said that he has never heard of gung ho, and that it means nothing in chinese.

So where did it come from?

I think the key one that Bayer lost trademark rights in after heroin was aspirin.

caffeine
alcohol
animal meat for food

Hi Marina,

Bayer lost the rights to Gobble-Dee-Goop!

:arrow: :lol: :!:

Albino,

Greetings.

I wonder if the origin of “ya” might stem from the archaic “ye” as used in ye olden days, or perhaps it derives from scriptural usage, as in “O ye of little faith…” and has merely undergone vowel shifting, like so many other words have over the course of time (i.e., the so-called Great Northern Cities Vowel Shift).

For me, though, the interesting concept is how the pluralization of the word “you” (plural collective, as a substitution for “you guys” or “you folks over there”) changes so much from place to place in the Eastern US.
Subtleties of apostrophal placement notwithstanding, consider the differences between the colloquial New York City form “you’se,” the Pittsburghese form “yinz” (or, spelled more formally, you-ones, or you-uns :roll: ), and the contraction of “you-all” used south of the Mason-Dixon line: “Y’all” (have to admit, I’ve never seen it represented as “Ya’ll” but technically, I ain’t from the deep south neither, just the hill country :smile:).

For example, the New York form and the Pittsburgh form are from a (roughly) similar latitude in comparison to the Old South form, but the presence of the Appalachian chain with its 200 or so mile-wide barrier of high ridges running all the way from Maine to Georgia has effectively separated the two metropoli such that their respective vernacular usage forms have taken off in divergent yet parallel evolutionary directions. Hmmmm.

The other thing I find worthy of remark in respect to this concept is that NONE of these area vernaculars seem to exhibit any parallel to their collective pluralizations of “you” in the way that they express the idea of “WE.” No need, I guess… Y’all are either with us or agin’ us, so to speak…

Boy, ya really got me on a roll there. C’mon back.

Have a fun day!

Where the name Salim comes from, in the Middle East, Bizantine people, ortodox?
sorry no answer for this one

Yes, as evidenced in the Opium Wars. Now there’s an interesting subject of cross-cultural analysis for the historians to puzzle over. And look where it got us (especially in the inner cities). It’s all about the money, however. Excellent observation.

Was wondering where the word EEJIT originated from

any ideas hotforwords?

It was from Chin gōng hé, the abbreviated name of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society, taken by a literal translation as “work together”. Originally introduced as a training slogan in 1942 by U.S. Marine officer Evans F. Carlson (1896-1947).

I thought that was a Korean Conflict-era phrase. Could be wrong, though.

Marina,

If the prefix Con is the opposite of Pro, does that mean that Congress is the opposite of Progress???

Aspirin!
good lesson teacher!
Will we get to see your sister sometime? :wink:

Pro is to con as progress is to congress.

It sounds like there should be an entire segment on all of these variations :)

If you Google “ya’ll” you’ll see that there’s 12 million matches, so clearly I’m not the only one who has always used that variation. One of my favorite combinations similar to what you were talking about is “all ya’ll” as in “all ya’ll are crazy about words ’round here” :)

Hello teacher… I think correct is third option….

Your english lessons are fantastic… see you soon.

What is the origin of the words “Boogy Woogy?” Does it have anything to do with the “Boogyman?”

Dear teacher
This one was the best video I’ve seen in this website! The mystery thickens about your sister… And what is the name of this animal student I’ve seen in the beginning of the lesson? Pied de grue?
Well, excuse me, I’m overstepping my bounds.
I did my homework as requested, respected teacher. I regret to have been so late to answer because other students gave the good answer. Yes, the aspirin is the drug the company lost the trademark. It happened after W.W.I, the peace (it was a tradition to make war in Europe at those times) signed at Versailles ordered the german to give up the trademarks for some products (including aspirin) and for some country like USA and ….France. But some country like Canada are forbidden to use the name aspirin (accordingly to my sources, it seems strange to me…).
I hope this work doesn’t look like a simple copy from other students’
work.
Amicalement,
Your devoted student
Don Felipe.

Dear fellow student,
I apologize, you certainly waited for our teacher to answer you, but as she cannot answer every body, I thought you probably wanted to know whoever the answer comes from.
“pro” is “for”, congress is “with agreement” cause “gress” means agree, and “con” comes from the latin “cum” which means “with”
Hope I did not annoy you.
Amicalement
Don Felipe

Dear fellow student
Thank you very much for this peace of american langage analysis. This is really huge! I’m not a native anglophone ,so this kind of comment reveals a lot about the regional variation in english pronunciation!
Amicalement,
A fellow student,
Don Felipe.

Hello Marina!
REQUEST A WORD
Hello Marina!

I’m a newbie, but I’ve been to Moscov twice, in ’88 and ’89. I like the ratio of M:W there!

Anyway, I thought you should do something on the word, “ort.” My English scrabble buddy played it and, despite the cunning linguist that I am (don’t say that too fast!), I challenged it and lost the turn. It means “a bit of food” or “crumb.”

(I posted this in Help because the posting window didn’t appear the first few times I came to this page.)

:twisted:

Dear teacher Marina.

I would like to know if it`s possible the origin of the word “Coke”.

I´ve heard it`s related to cocaine but im not sure.. so if you could help me… since its a common word used by so many people in all the world!

Dear teacher,
I forgot about the Maxim Radio Show :
It’s obvious, this is going to be easy for you, no need to wish you good luck. You are the best!
Amicalement
Your devoted student
Don Felipe

hello marina,

would like to discuss the word “espionage”… waiting for the enlightment….

by the way…. are you single?

xoxo :evil:

the Bayer company is well known for it’s acetylsalicylic acid,
tradename: aspirin. that wasn’t so hard

If heroin (trademark of the Bayer Co.) was for kids,
what did adults use for a cold? Yak Phhfft?

pimento cheez

Vuja De – I’ve never done this before.
oh wait – deja vu – I asked the same thing yesterday.
must be a common question, huh?

depending on where you’re from this could be
one of two actual words, Egypt or idiot.
i think you may be in alabama or arkansas

You got some good replies. another tidbit – kung fu is an error
in pronounciation muchas Donkey Kong is (should have been
Monkey Kong). Gung Fu, or kung fu, translates as “hard work”.
As per gung ho? i dunno how the ho part translates, sorry.

don’t forget benzedrine inhalers (circa WWII)
REALLY clears the sinuses, i bet! Woo Hoo!

In the movie “Fargo”, Ya was both a question and the answer
Ya? Ya!

OU812UDV8R

Hi Marina – yes – I love you!

I have a request regarding the origin of the phrase: “Freeze the balls off of a brass monkey”.

Being from Canada – and seeing that we had snow here in Halifax today – it reminded me of this saying. But where did it come from????

I am your servant!

Darrell XOX oXo

Dear Teacher,

Erotic and exotic are two words that come to mind.
(men tend to find themselves attracted to that in the women.)

Mostly what we find is more neurotic than erotic,
and psychotic instead of exotic… :sad:

Thank you for being the former and not the latter!

Hello Marina !
An idea of video :idea:
I’m french, you like french ?

Can you make a video on the French boys !!! :lol:

or a video on the Mustard of DIJON !

Thank you in advance and a little gift,
you are very beautiful girl !

Bye :wink:

Ya ya, mein friend.

I was looking for the origin of music genres like Pop, Rock, or Metal. Rap and Country are pretty easy to figure out but the other three don’t really make any sense. The only possible solution that I can come up with is that the feeling of the music is metaphorically similar to the noun or verb of the names. Thank you and keep up the good work!

-Melkor

Check her lesson ‘Balls to the the wall’ for starters.

YAY!!! My name’s up in lights!!!

Aspirin ranks right up there with heroin and penicillin,,, I think :?:

It has many different uses.

You named the bird Bob.It looks like a Bob..haa Thanks for the great lesson.Five stars

no, it doesn’t. it looks like a bird.

Bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is converted to morphine when metabolized in the liver, and as such, “heroin” was basically only a quicker acting form of morphine. The company was somewhat embarrassed by this new finding and it became a historical blunder for Bayer.
As with aspirin, Bayer lost some of its trademark rights to heroin following the German defeat in World War so the answer is “aspirin”

mm.. this one didnt lost its trademark but it was pretty close, its kleenex you know the tissue?

I hope Bob and Arnold aren’t trafficking Heroin…

Subliminal is a hrad word to say, like alumnium, or nucular

Bob Crane – Hogan’s Heros… I went with that as it was easier to pronounce than Frasier…

who the fuck …?

What about “cold as a witches … broomhandle”?

C’mon man, you never heard of Hogan’s Heros?

No one I rather learn from but you but can you tell me where touche (too-shay) came from.

could u do a video for Suicde for am8 of mine

What about Bob?

I would like to request a video on the word ‘fetish’ as in; I have a fetish for girls with Russian accents. :smile:

Schultz!

Bayer lost the trademark for the word Aspirin, as well.

Yes, the word is Aspirin

For a future lesson I would like to request the word “woo”

yeah, I googled it, so now I know what you’re talking about. over here it’s not called hogan’s heroes. never watched it anyway.

bob doesn’t look like a bird.

or do you, bob?

Smitten ( that’s a word you should ask her ) :mrgreen:

Dear Teacher:

I would like to know the origin of the word PERKELE, I know ITS NOT an english word but I think it wouñd be pretty interesting to know

gracias

new word PENISLOGY? :neutral:

Well my request is for three words but they all refer to the same thing.
Why do Americans call them chips while Brits call them crisps, and what we Brits call chips Americans call French Fries?
Confuses the hell out of me. :shock:

did someone pee on your rug?

Asprin… :smile:

I don’t get it :???:

Guess what I kinda do for a living; I am sorta a Hacker I would still like a video of that btw thanks marina for doin the word horny on your radio show.

wasn’t bob crane into some kinky shit and was later murdered by a lover? I thought my ideas were pretty good and obviously ignored! The crane belongs to the species balearica reulorum, so I thought possibly baily. The crane belongs to the subspecies gibbericeps, so I thought, and this was really appropriate, gibberish! bob crane, come on!?

Bob + http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zJfSI4cKWLY

woo pee’d on the dude’s rug.

Actually I’ve used this word, although I rarely use harsh language. I used it in passing another vehicle on the highway that was driving slowly in the fast lane. I exclaimed, “Eejit and die, asshole!”

yeah, I thought caine, as in kwai chang caine, was a pretty good one, too. there’s crane-style kung fu which connects caine and the crane. bob! dude … wtf.

I’ll call it like bender called it. flying jerk.

rent the movie, its a cult classic.

ok, I missed out on this part of american pop culture. so this is a comedy about allied p.o.w.’s in german captivity? and what does this have to do with the crane? Now every time I see this crane I’m going to think WWII, kinky gay sex and murder. Yum.

Hello Marina,

I have a phrase for you look into, “Cute as a bugs ear”,
If you would so please to do so.

P.S. I like your nose.

TEACH HOPE YOU TRADEMARKED HOTFORWORDS, TOO?

HOW BOUT MORE FULL BODY SHOTS??????? :grin:

Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark????

Huh…… you don’t find Marina to be erotic and exotic …. thats what you’ve implied…..Puzzling is it not.

Aspirin, and the name Bob :wink: is very funny.

I especially like the part with the beach blanket.

I have a really good word….BRASSIERE, interesting…you know :shock: anyway a love you site.

WRONG! If you don’t speak in Yoda, you can get it!
“the former” refers to the FIRST premise presented, not he second.
“the latter” refers to the LAST premise introduced.
Oh yeah – if you had read it correctly, you’d see I “implied” nuthin’!
What is puzzling is that you don’t understand – AND YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE! Sorry – dude, you were rude to say what you said.

Is Kool-Aid still an actual trademark, or has it become a “lost” word due to their popularity?

Oh shit! I see what you were saying – you parsed the second premise and applied former/latter. Hmmm….. guess I stepped in that one..
:roll:

groat

Is the other Bayer product asprin? u are hott!!!!

I mean aspirin. I’m not a good speller teacher

hmm i can see your point also sorry if i misunderstood.

can you do the word skold :idea:

thanks topher

can you find the oridion of the word zoo? :?: :smile:

sorry i meant origion not oridion :oops:

Our trusty locution deciphering heroine, at what point can we look forward to throwing you a graduation party?

:wink:

I’m pretty sure it’s still a trademark, owned by Kraft Foods Company.

Where did the phrase “Make-Up” come from?

Hi Marina,
I wrote to Bill O’Reilly and told him to bring you back on his show.
Maybe you could investigate the word “Microcephalic” and tell Bill that he is using “Pinhead” in a politically incorrect way. He doesn’t seem to listen to me. I’m sure you could straighten him out. :grin:

Hello Marina
This is my first time on your site. I find it very interesting to find out where some of the words and phrases in you lessons come from, If you dont mind i would like to know the origin of the word saint and its meaning? i would also like to know about the word foreman, since I am one myself.

Marina,

Can you please define the word “Defenestrate” for me. Thanks in advance =)

Let see if anyone knows the meaning of SUNTORY or what is is? :wink:

how about the word/name barbie as in the doll

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jqevDoJ0c
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=80JKbZcfPBc&NR=1
My Favorite german, as a kid http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UBn0zpORo5c&NR=1
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=styYbRWQYP8

what does the word REDNECK come from could you do that for me thx. Marina!

cigarette :neutral: that the word id like to know about :D

i have a few more word that come to mind.
1. hi
2. so
3. yes
thank you

Aspirin. Others include xerox, kleenex and vise-grip.

Hi first started watching you from phil’s site and its great to see a beautifull women…..ok I forgot what I was going to say :s

Anyway my favourite word is……..

Wolly

I use it for everything especially when people in the world do stupid things.

Thanks xx

Hello my dear teacher…
Another nice lesson to start the day with. Even though I feel I coud use some medicine, I think I will pass that one!

I have a question, that may be seven….

Is there an explanation for the word wednes???
My real question, where does the name of the weekdays actually come from.
Some say you have the tuesday and thursday from our old nordic Gods Tyr and Tor, but is that true and where does the other come from??

From your dear student / Swedehunter

I live in a part of Wisconsin where they use “youse”, as in youse guys are crazy. I have a new co-worker at the boatyard who is from Glasgow in Scotland and today as we were drinking beers he used “youse”. I asked him to repeat it to make sure I heard it correctly.
The use of “youse” has all my life been a sort of local amusement and a marker for someone who is from around here.
What a surpise to hear it from a Glaswegian.

I choose to remember Bob Crane in a possitive light as He was a family guy that got badly derailed & nobody helped… or interveaned… or managed to get him back on track. My family has been affected by the reality of drug related problems as have most by (choose an addiction) problems, they need to be dealt with. How are we doing??? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8NqKUparBLw&feature=related Comedy doesn’t always end up funny.
Strange how drugs & substances etc. that help, also harm. Richard Dawson was the bad ass character on Hogan’s Heroes & somehow his personal charm helped him continue in showbiz, and as a lovable game show host, why? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lKeoo_J1-Oc

What are the origins of the word

sadomasochism

:twisted:

Hi

The way I understood it, ‘wednes’ is a derivation of Wotan’s, Wodin’s or Odin’s day. I think you probably are familiar with that one too, eh, Swedehunter? Freytag I’ll leave to you.

The others are astronomical references, sun, moon (monday), and the planet saturn.

hello, Marina.
as I posted on youtube:
how did the word “lick” come to mean both:
“to stroke with the tongue”
~ANNNND~
“to strike (with fist or weapon)/to decisively defeat an opponent”?

that really seems peculiar.

kuramashot881 posted (imo) a good one: “stalemate”
I suspect it is Farsi, through chess, like “shah maht” became “checkmate”

If I’m not mistaken I think the name heroin is just a trademark name for a children’s cough syrup. That may be the reason y.

read Thomas Sowell’s [u]Black Rednecks and White Liberals[/u] for a decent explanation for that word’s history.
it apparently comes from the borderlands of England and Scotland, and from the Scottish Highlands.

an apparently recent construction from Latin: “to toss out of a window”
it might be from french or english writers. I don’t believe it is legitimately “classical” or classically derived through natural linguistic drift.
Marina’s take on this will be more thorough, I’d imagine.

What are the origins of the word ‘Vampire’?

The origin of the phrase: “Freeze the balls off of a brass monkey”
This is one of my favorite stories.

Can I have a Drum roll please Marina:!:

Ta da!

Its an Urban Legend. :cry: Sorry…

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm

I have a serious request…. i would like to know what the origins of the word onomatopoeia are…. thanks for all your help professor!!!!

Hey Marina,

Could you get me your sisters cellphone number and email addy for me? Why you ask? Well I think your identical twin sister is smarter and cuter than you. I think I should ask her out on a lunch date to get to know her a bit more.

:mrgreen:

This form of “youse” is quite common in many parts of Scotland and also in parts of Northern England. Other unusual (to my sassenach ears) forms which I hear are “uz” and “wir” used in place of “our”.
It all sounds very weird when youse first encounter them but youse soon get youse to it.

Eejit is a much used epithet in Scotland and is presumably a literal transliteration of local dialect.

I spent twenty five years of my working life flying (actually 11500 hours or a year and a half; the rest was sitting around airports waiting) but now the doctors have taken my wings away so maybe I look more like a plucked chicken. :sad:

Eejit….thought that originated from Ireland, maybe?

As Sir Winston Churchill said, “Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language.”

Hi Marina!
Can you plz tell me the origin of the word STIGMATA? I know that it’s an illness but i heard it to be used in some other contest.
Bye :!:

Actually, I believe that they are all astronomical references and that there are only seven days in a week because, when the words were first coined, there were only seven astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye – Sun, Moon and the five planets, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
If the telescope had been invented earlier we would all be working longer before we got a weekend.

Maybe came to Scotland from Ireland. Can’t find any similarities to suggest that it came from Gaelic, though, so I stand by my remark above.

Marina, great video. Much Chortle :lol:

Bob Crane? hhmmmm….Bob….

Had a visitor during the week, uninvited. Stole many items, but thankfully he didn’t get far when captured. So got me thinking about the word, burglary and where it originates from. Hope you can investigagte :smile:

My G-sibs have Presented me with a problem word. They are Presently asking how when I Present their Presents to them, I seem to have Presented a Present they did not wish for, which is a problem at the Present time as presently I am busy but can return the Presents to the Present shop tomorrow…….. can you help us out on this one teach?

ThanX HFW143always

Hi Marina, i would like the origin of the word “rugby”, you know, the beastly game played by gentlemen…

liebe grüße

michi

i would like to KNOW the word, sorry for the error… :oops:

Bob, I think Eejit is from Idiot. A reletive of mine lives in Ireland and she is always calling the rest of us family Eejits…..I guess it’s the way you ‘tell ‘em!! :roll:

Marina I think it was aspirin.

TheWorldsHomeliestMan

Over 3.5 M views? Wah? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1_6uz_sVU&feature=related EEJITS EH :!:

Congtras’ to you. :smile: :grin: :razz:
Oh, visualize your roll as Teachers pet, more as a fearless protector of Marina http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0jCnOS60JFo , not as this little perv’ (Disclaimer , mature… only) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfnsn3SMyW4
I think Marina is taking lessons though, in how to look after herself .
Or is this her sister, Sheena http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQrWVElku8&feature=related
Cheers

great show as usually i would like to now the mening of the word hardcore :grin:

Wednesday is Wotan’s Day, and Friday means Freya’s Day.

Carefull what you ask for Captain, she may just sink your ship. Sisters don’t have the same personalities, or outlooks. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=78RO3bjdTXc aye, aye & cheers

Can you tell me the orgin of the word “dike/dyke” and how a word to define a waterway came to mean a slang term for lesbian?

I want to know how you can be a “Jack” of all trades, be nick-named “Jack” (when your name is really John), play “jacks”, and be the 3rd or 4th ranking card (depending on what you’re doing with aces) in a deck (shouldn’t that be the prince)? You can “jack around” with someone you’re giving a hard time to. If someone doesn’t care they may or may not “give jack crap”. You raise a car with a “jack”. Someone who is out of line is “jacked up”.

What is Jack?

Yours, beezhan

oh… and “asprin” I would think.

Think about that for a minute…and remember how stretchy slang can be…LOL :mrgreen:

wampyre

Work in a field, get sunburn to your collar.
Red-Neck.

That’s the nickname for Barbara, the First name of the woman that Created Barbie (which is trademarked by Mattel)

Foreman.-
Man to the fore or front.
Front-man. Foremost man, leader.= Foreman as a leader in a job department or building site.

Testing.
Craning my neck.

Hello Marina. I wonder what is the origin of word “HotForWords” :)

I would like to know the origins of cynarin

heeey marina i wanna ask if you can do the word Honorificabilitudinitatibus? thx greez

Two nominations for your to consider.

Flirt

Eye Candy

Your wondering who Jack is? :mrgreen: Welcome to the club. I am a Jack, or thats what my parents call me. When I grew up I was always confused. My dad asked me to lift the end of the car so he could change the tire. My mommy used to label my cloths with my name on it so I would know it was mine. So I went to Jack-in-the-Box restaurant and tried to take out all the hamburgers to restock my fridge and the employees said I couldn’t do that. I said why not? :shock:
My name in on everything in the store! I have a radio station. It’s called 96.5 JackFM http://jackseattle.com/ . I tried to change the stations broadcasting channel and they threw me out the door. Im the Jack of all trades. I’m a RC pilot, skipper, Marketing manager, cook, teacher, rescue swimmer, forklift driver, security guard, cart racer, ham radio operator, helmsman, gunner, traveler, computer programmer, photographer, engineer, shall I continue? When I left for work at the end of the day my friends would always say “When do you get off Jack?” My real name is not John. Nobody wants to play Jacks with me. Marina doesn’t give Jack crap about me. Its maybe because I act like a jack ass. I better stop Jack Sprat before he jumps over the candle stick. No wait? What that Jack be nimble? heheheh…. :grin:
__/)__

Obviously you have become quite the internet sensation of late. I applaud you for your accomplishment, intelligence, and cleverness in bringing etymology to the masses.

Four years ago I created a website entitled http://www.freefrankgable.com.

It is the story of a petty criminal who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Oregon Corrections Chief Michael Francke 17 years ago. A conviction which was obtained primarily from the testimony of drug users and jailbirds who were looking to make a deal on their own charges or possibly collect reward money. Other reasons consist of inadequate representation, prosecutorial misconduct, withholding of evidence, suppression of exculpatory evidence, inability to use third party guilt defense, corruption, and a cover-up within the department of corrections and state government.

One such witness, Cappie “Shorty” Harden, the state’s only alleged eyewitness, was located by myself three years ago living just three miles from my home. I befriended Shorty and a month later he admitted to a local newspaper reporter that he lied at trial when he said he witnessed the killing. He is not the first witness to recant his testimony, although he’s the most significant.

There was never any physical evidence admitted at trial that could implicate Frank Gable in this crime, and interestingly, the victim’s family believes in Mr. Gable’s innocence as well.

I’d be honored if you have the time to peruse my website to familiarize yourself somewhat with the case and possibly profile it in some way in order to enlighten the masses to this travesty of justice.

I realize that request doesn’t quite fit within the boundaries of your videos, but….you never get anything unless you ask for it.

It is quite difficult to come up with one word which might enable you to bring attention to Mr. Gable’s wrongful conviction. I have offered some phrases within the context of this post that might be appropriate. The word “injustice” comes to mind initially, although you’re the philologist. Haha!

Again, congratulations on what you’ve accomplished with your website, your YouTube page, as well as academically.

Rob Taylor
Webmaster: http://www.freefrankgable.com

:idea: Hey I’ve got a few words, how ’bout:

exploitative, intrusion, ill-chosen & encroachment :?:

Now that’s just recockulous!!

I like “exculpatory.”

noncognitivism :mrgreen:

Very nice, how ’bout ‘schmaltzy’ :roll:

Thanx :mrgreen:
Working Hounds are always shown in their best light :idea: .
It seems to be the little guys that are always out to prove themselves to this world :lol: And I have nothing to prove to anyone :cool:

And a Great Big Thank You to our HotForWords Teacher Miss Marina!!! YAY!!! She’s a real Word Goddess and she looks Spectacular as well!!!

Just as the word “Gook” came out from a misinterpretation
of ‘Migook’ = Korean language for ‘American’ ,,, I learned this while serving in South Korea back in 1972-73. So “Kiddies” when you hear
the word Gook they’re talking about Occidental and not Oriental.

How about the word Obtuse :idea:

I have always wondered how the same word can be used as a technical term in geometry, AND be a euphemism for being dumb

I wonder iffn this a “Red Herring” case?? LOL

hey how are doing today i fine

can you do a thing on Vampire’?
ples :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

and i would to be a your pet ples :smile: :smile: :smile: :neutral: :neutral: :neutral: :neutral:

TEACH IS LIKE HEROIN, VERY ADDICTIVE :roll: AND MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD TO BE ON… :twisted: ..HER. AND FEEL LIKE CRAP WITH OUT …….HER? :razz:

What a stream……Introduce us to your sister. That would be interesting. Is she helping with production?

My word is ‘soccer’
Why does the rest of the world call the sport football and Americans use the word soccer? Where does it come from?
Love yaahh

can you find the origin of toffee? thanks

how come there’re no female animals in the videos?

Where does the word “tattoo” come from? And do you have any? :)

Where does the expression “Badge Bunny” or “Holster Sniffer” come from?

Privet, Prepodavatel (I hope I spelled that right). If I may, I would like to tweak something. It was said that heroin was from German Heroin (both were pronounced the same way and in German the H should be capitalized). When pronouncing “Heroin” in German the I should be pronounced as a long E. Like: hair-oh-een. The IN at the end of German words is always pronounced een. For example:

Nikotin
Terpentin
Nitroglyzerin
Kerosin
Vaselin
Benzin
Berlin
Kokain

Machs gut. Viel Spaß.

I work in water resource conservation and noticed a lot of streams in South Central Pennsylvania begin with the prefix cono- (ie: Conowingo, Conostoga, etc). I’m guessing it stems from a Native American language, any more info than that would be interesting. Thanks.

Yep. My old girlfriend went to Conestoga High School on the outskirts of Valley Forge. And we can add location names such as Conshohocken, Conneaut Lake, and Conequenessing Creek to that list. Maybe even Canadohta Lake up in northern PA as well. And let’s not forget Fort Ticonderoga. I’m guessing the natives of the Susquehannock language group figure prominently into the mix there. But aside from place names, not that much is known about them because they left so long ago. There were also other groups like the Erie, Oneida, Mingo, and Seneca who were known to travel and trade through central PA.
But as far as I know, the state of Pennsylvania has no formally recognized Native American tribal groups still existing. They all were either forced out or eradicated back in the late 18th century. Kind of a sad statement, eh? Maybe someone will prove me wrong. I kind of hope so.

I’d love it if you did the phrase “pyrrhic victory.” I find its origin story really interesting, and not many people know the word let alone the story behind it.

I was walking with my 4 year old grandaughter today and we looked at the beautiful flowers on the dogwood trees and she asked me why they call them, “Dogwood?” Please research the word Dogwood.

I was wondering where the phrase “making out” came from.
Kissing and making out don’t sound a lot a like haha :lol:

Because of the bark.

Can you tell me, A place where people drink at is A bar, pub, (night)club.

The research I’ve done indicates that although many people believe that is the origin of the word, there were earlier meaning from old english.

Can you tell us the origin of the word Slav? :wink:

Hmmmm. If people really believe that’s the origin of the name, then they must be using the kindergarten joke book as their reference.

It was just too easy of a pun to pass up.

Hi, I have a nice challenge for you and a word many of my friends use that I am solicitous to know the meaning of

The word: bob saget

Please try without the use of internet (thats a hint) to identify the origin of the word and its meaning as best you can,who made the word become popular, and anything else you can do to inform us about the word.

Hi Marina,
I’m new with all this but I wanted to know the origin of the phrase What’s Up?
Thank You!:)

Hi Marina,

I recently subscribed to your website and greatly enjoyed your last video.

Can you please tell me the origin of the word: PHILANTHROPY

With many thanks,
Gaia
(Australia)

Hi Marina,

I would like to know the origin and the meaning of the word “Fetish”

I’ve been arguing to my friend saying that a “Fetish” is not just something sexual, but I’m not sure about that myself.

Please help me out. haha

it looks like two words leupold :?:

Hi!

My word, or phrase is : stercore tuari

Larry Lemke
Fargo, ND

can you tell me the origin of the word “internet” for everyone knows what it is but not where it came from. thank you.

Hi Marina,
I just stumbled across your site & now I can’t get enough of you….uh…..I mean your “lessons!” What can you tell me about the word “Deguello?” Thanks!

Wasn’t he the guy who did The World’s Funniest Home Videos, or whatever that show was called? If his name has become a word, then I would suppose it has something to do with some funny antic.

Marina is my heroine.

Just slip out the back Jack. And set yourself free….

Then isn’t the expression Thank God It’s Friday a sort of theistic mishmash? Mixing Christianity with Norwegian mythology? On the other hand, Christianity is well known for dipping into paganism for one apeasement or another….

Do bugs have ears? I hadn’t heard that.

The French call them frites. That’s short for pommes frites, which is short for pommes de terre frites, since pommes frites would literally mean fried apples.

Is it a John Woo movie?

Do they play beach blanket bingo?

Especially slow rushin’ accents.

I sworda think it’s French.

Maybe she’ll ask us to rate her video with a French kiss….!!!

I wanted a Toyota, and somebody gave me a toy Yoda…

You could start with the word “coca.”

It’s too early for the nightmare before Christmas…

I see what you mean (again).

I can’t believe I missed the pun. I’ll share that origin with my grandaughter.

I don’t use youse, but it sounds youseful.

She’s my heroin.

You’d do better not to have loud, crappy music on that website. At least have a button to click it off. It’s hard to read with that going, and takes away from the seriousness of the issue.

o.k. – found the button to turn it off. It’s hard to see – you have to scroll down to find it, and it’s not highlighted or made obvious.

ASPERIN

Thanks for the critique. You’re the first in four years to mention not liking the music. I’ve actually received a few compliments from others over song choices. I have a tendency to speak through music sometimes. It is the universal language. Guess we don’t share the same musical taste.

Thanks for taking the time to peruse the website. Your point is well received, and I’ll be taking the music off.

bayer probably lost the copyright to the word “aspirin”. i can’t wait for your book.-tom from staten island,n.y.

:twisted: Guess what I kinda do for a living; I am sorta a Hacker I would still like a video of that btw thanks marina for doin the word horny on your radio show. :twisted:

what about the origin of the phrase,,
“smart Alec” alex alecs????

love the podcast,,, becomming a daily fix,,, thank you

Greetings Marina (the hottest teacher on planet earth),

I’ve recently seen a documentary on ‘Metal’ music and the different origins of the band’s that play metal. However, the documentary never mentioned the origin of the word ‘Metal’.
If you do this, this will complete my knowledge of a music genre I enjoy listening to.

My request:
Metal

thank you!

p.s. :wink:
if you have time, would also like the word origin of ‘genre’

ok, I would like to make a request. I am totally befuddled by this word: “OBLOQUY”. My sister keeps using it and not telling me what it means; I can’t even begin to conceive were it comes from or how to use it…
lots of love – jimbo

Hi Bob (mirriorman) I got lost after the golf lesson :arrow: replyin to your reply to me there… watched the clips on Amy… noted the country of origin of vid’ poster, editors..wtvr. I had breakfast with an English friend & asked him about english journalism, He said that it’s not, in England anyways, as important to get the facts, but more about getting the “juicy bits”.He said here in Canada the reporting tends towards boring,,, the to vid’ origins, Italy & Britan, gave me a totaly different vibe.
Another terrible disfunction http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=xwqtR8AlkHM&feature=related
I’m lovin this artist, as a man of little understanding http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQP9931NhU&feature=related

I know Bayer created Aspirin, but their patent expired. Is that the word :?: Aspirin :?:

My objections are that this doen’t belong on this site :sad: It is really too off topic & is placed here because of HFW’s popularity and is too exploitative. I won’t visit his site as I don’t trust him. He “befriends” a perjurer (exploitative) for friendship or to use him? I thought this was suppose to be about words. What about my causes? I have a car to sell why don’t I just post in on this site?

it is often pronounced as one word bobsaget, could also be written as bob-saget. Very often it is pronounced as a conjunction word and their is not usually a pause between words. You could pronounce it as one word. If thats the case could you try and define the word bob-saget.

Oh yea! I forgot about that one. Thanks lividemerald :mrgreen:

I also forgot to mention you have previously explained other “words” which are really two words or more:

Valentine’s Day
Raining Cats and Dogs
Rule of Thumb
Soap Opera
Spitting Image
To the Nines
Trick or Treat
White Elephants
Head Over Heels
Fifth Element
Eleven and Twelve
Duck Tape
Duct Tape
Balls to the Wall
Horse Opera
Hot Dog

According to dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word) and my large Merriam-Webster dictionary at home a word can be defined as: “a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions.” Thus, you have been misguiding your students on the very foundation of English morphology and philology by defining or explaining phrases to your students and trying to pass them off as words. When in fact they are not words but phrases.

Even on Wikipedia if you search hot dog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog) it blatantly refers to it as a phrase: “According to a popular myth, the use of the complete phrase “hot dog” in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius”

If you are wondering, the request for the word definition of “bob saget” was a ploy to prove a point about your videos hot for words containing errata.

I don’t know why I’m repeating myself but here it goes.

there’s more than on definition of what a word is. actually, it’s very hard to say what a word is, or a sentence. you may try to read up on morphology, phonology, and syntax.
syntactically, words are more or less phrases, too. as are sentences.

consider “can not” / “cannot”. one word? two words?
many, many linguists all over the world have tried to come up with a definition for “word”. so far, there’s about four definitions most linguists agree on. depending on the linguistic field.

there was no ploy, by the way. you asked for the word “bob saget”, not the phrase. other people on here request phrases. mostly idioms.

by the way, wikipedia is not really a great reference. “hot dog” seems to be a compound word if it refers to the food. it’s a phrase when you refer to an actual dog that’s hot. but you know that, right?

Ok, yeah I thought it still was, but it is very common now for any artificial fruit drink, as evidenced by the fact that “drinking the kool-aid” comes from an instance where it was actually Flavor-Aid BRAND that they drank. (See Marina’s lesson on that! :) )

:mrgreen: Congradulations Bad Doggie! :mrgreen:
Keep up the postings!

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Home answer to Heroin Cough Syrup? video

aspirin

Cocaine as in Coca-cola the drink, cocaine was also used in ear drops, cough medicine and some other products as well which were all banned by the government causing some of these manufacurers to lose their trademarks,patents, copyrights. At least I think so

Flies are bugs aren’t they?
You’ve heard the expressions “Fly on the wall” and “Walls have ears”, so, even if the bug didn’t have its own ears, if it sat on the wall it would by proxy. :smile:

okay4now – I don’t disagree.

:arrow: The trademarked Aspirin became aspirin.

Great investigation, I had no idea that heroin used to be Heroin. Between coca in Coke and Smack Cough Syrup for Children (I wonder if there used to be a horse on the label?) it must have been a blurry time in the ol’ 1800′s. :cool:

Thanx captainjack,
Aye that’s a nice ship you’ve got.

asprine its a thought but I am just guessing off the top of my head.

RED

I had deja vu and amnesia at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this again before. :lol:

Acetylsalicylic Acid, or otherwise known as ASPiRIN. I actually made some in an Organic Chemistry lab back in college, but I would not of eaten it!!!!! By the way…… I LOVE YOU !!! PLEASE MARRY ME!!!

Oh sorry…….. for your video :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Hay Snazzells

you kick start my heart every time i watch you do your thang..
my word is pistol bang bang

tom

you right……coca cola was given to keep you awake due to cocaine in it……they company coca cola many times went bankrupt…..

Aspirin is now no longer a proprietary name. Keep up the good work, Marina-love!

That’s right, it’s now lowercase. :idea:
Or, another way of putting it: Aspirin® became aspirin.

Yes, it was sold as medicine, or….sort of.

nice video, though it looks like she did it after cleaning the house, or just came home :lol: ………still a 5 star !!! :wink:

was it cocaine that also was used as medicine

HI

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

stokesjrj1 says:
April 25, 2008 at 8:48 pm

hmm i can see your point also sorry if i misunderstood.

:lol: Aspration?

Do you think it makes corn-nomics? pAIn

…willow barkedflavored replacement :roll: …good Day

Quote
“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” – Groucho Marx 1895-1977

hows your BOOK —lover of WORDS?

:smile: [boot-strap]

Hi James….The Velvet Underground – Heroin
….

[esoteric]

:idea: :lol: :razz:

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” – Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865

How could Honest Abe possibly have known about Obama? I wonder how many Sunday shows hes on this week? :mrgreen:

I think it was put in cough syrup because heroin and all derivatives of the poppy(morphine, codeine, etc.) are cough and mucus suppressants. Thats why a junkie needing a fix will have a nose running like a faucet. In fact, codeine was still in over-the-counter cough syrup until the late 80′s in the states. Its still in 90% of the Rx syrups for that reason and pain-killing effects.

Aspirin

Remember these eyes?

I think it was on a hunting trip through Africa…{Amen}..Do you get a chance to go {hunting}? Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals (usually wildlife) for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law. The species which are hunted are referred to as game and are usually mammals and migratory or non-migratory gamebirds.

:arrow: sourced of … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting heLLo and how U B :?: Marina is still Word Queen ;-)

 Those who do not take codeine to manage chronic pain may develop a
codeine addiction because of the feeling of euphoria given by codeine.
After an intake a person becomes very energetic and talkative; while
withdrawal brings headaches, dizziness and motor skill disorders.

Codeine Addiction

nice video. like the way you are telling the people to stay away from all these addiction. must be appreciated.Drugs of Abuse