Hot4words: “I’m Flabbergasted!”

Marina Orlova of Hot4words.com makes it fun and sexy to study the origins of english words. Here she investigates the origin of the word “flabbergasted”. She’s been posting videos on YouTube for about a year now, and she’s experienced a significant rise in popularity. Of course, it helps to be a sexy femme with a Russian accent and a killer bod (oops, did I just say that?).

Who is HotForWords? Her name is Marina Orlova, she’s 27 and she’s a philologist! Now you might be asking what the heck is a philologist? Well, it’s someone who studies linguistics and etymology.. and in Marina’s case.. she has applied her Philology degree to specializing in word origins.

Marina burst in on the scene in mid 2007 launching her YouTube channel HotForWords, where she takes requests from YouTube viewers for words to discuss, and she releases about five videos each week discussing the origins of these words, in a fun and playful manner!