HotForWords » Oscar http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 17 May 2012 01:20:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Oscars – who was Oscar? http://hotforwords.com/2011/02/27/the-oscars-who-was-oscar/ http://hotforwords.com/2011/02/27/the-oscars-who-was-oscar/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:10:18 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=11590

As it’s the Oscars tonight.. how about a refresher course on where the name “Oscars”came from and who exactly was Oscar?  Above is the original video I made for this!  Enjoy!  And I hope you have fun watching the Oscars tonight…. will Bansky show up?

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This is a remake of my older Oscar video.   I thought it would be fun to update it.

Origin of the name Oscar for the Academy Awards.
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Why are the Oscars named Oscars?

Who was this Oscar guy? You’ll be surprised :-)

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