GURRLS » Featured Gurrls http://gurrls.com Smart Girls with URLs Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:52:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Hot For Words by Marina http://gurrls.com/hot-for-words-by-marina http://gurrls.com/hot-for-words-by-marina#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:30:42 +0000 David http://www.gurrls.com/?p=6 Marina Orlova is a philologist (one who studies linguistics and etymology). She really enjoys discussing the origins of words and their meaning.

Apparently she’s not the only one that enjoys the discussing the meaning and origin of words. Marina’s

videos on YouTube at YouTube-hotforwords are insanely popular and have been viewed 94,000,000 times and counting. Even Bill O’Reilly tried to jump on this GURRLS bandwagon by having Marina on his show to talk about words! More about that and other Hot For Words press here.

Like any respectable Gurrl, Marina is peeling off YouTube users to her own Website so she can better monetize her God-given talent and her talent as a philologist earned via hard work and study. She is after all an online celebrity turned phenomena. Check it out here: Hot For Words

In her latest video Marina discusses how the term “peanut gallery came to be used as we know it. It’s great. If , like me, you’ve been a frequent member of the peanut gallery at events during your life then you’ll appreciate the limelight that rarely shines on those in the “nosebleed” seats.

Click here to view the embedded video.

I’d love to hear what you think of Marina!

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