Marina Orlova

  • Marina Orlova was born on December 10th, 1980. Marina is a Russian philologist (mostly an etymologist) who turned into an Internet celebrity who started the HotForWords channel on YouTube, and www.HotForWords.com website. Orlova's videos and site keep track of the origins of English words. Classic videos such as her video on "antidisestablishmentarianism" have gained notoriety. Words cover every day spoken words to exotic and hard to pronounce words such as floccinaucinihilipilification. She covers idioms such as "let the cat out of the bag," "dressed to the nines" and "three sheets to the wind" among many others. She has even explained the origin of "fight or flight" or what "to google" means. Marina is known for ending her videos with, "Another mystery solved from your trusty HotForWords."
  • Books

About this page

  • Page Views
    2,041
What is this?

Page Manager

easyeboy
M$5.61
What is this?
This page currently has no vertical manager.