Are You Hot for Words?
Posted by Amazingbrian in Amazing Stuff, Geek Stuff, Podcasts, tags: etymology, hotforwords, linguistics
Meet Marina, a 26 year old philologist (the study of linguistics and etymology) and the creator of the Hot for Words Podcast.
Hot for Words, is an incredibly interesting, fun, and educational video Podcast presented in Marina’s sexy, but tasteful style. Watch it once, and you’ll be hooked. After discovering this Podcast, I found it so interesting, I downloaded all the previous shows.
Armed with her Oxford English dictionary, Marina takes suggestions from her viewers and explains the history and true meaning of the word. Often the featured word pertains to the time, for instance, she just finished a series on Halloween.
The Podcast is more than just another case of, sex sells, it presents useful and interesting information that could or should be valuable to anyone. I wish I had a teacher like her when I was in school!
You can subscribe to Hot for Words via iTunes with this URL,
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=265783864
or you can watch her online here,
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