Arousing Word Origins:The Story of the World’s Sexiest Philologist

June 9, 2009

Most of us are familiar with the different types of learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. A distinctive sort of style, however, is the hallmark of internet phenomenon Marina Orlova — she uses sex appeal to teach etymology. Orlova, a 28-year-old Russian immigrant, is a philologist (a kind of linguist […]