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Hello my dear students.... Did you know that genies (or should I say genii?) are all geniuses.... and did you know that geniuses were actually gods that would whisper in your ear? In addition to that.... the spelling that we know for genies today, came about from a mistake?

That's weird.. I thought geniuses were people like Einstein.. and how can genies be a mistake?

It sounds all very confusing...

HotForWords investigates genies.




The word genie came to English from the French génie, as a mistaken translation of the Arabic 1001 Arabian Nights... where the Arabic word jinn (or jinni for singular) referred to the super natural beings.. such as the one that popped out of Aladdin's lamp.

This lead to the French confusion... the French word génie, which sounded the same as jinni. The French word genie came from the Latin word genius.. which was also a spirit..

The Romans believed that when you were born, you were assigned a god, called a genius, to watch over you and whisper in your ear to guide you and tell you what to do throughout your life.

Does this make my ass look fat?

"Tell her she does not look fat in those pants!"

"Hell no, tell her she's so fat the only time she sees 90210 is on the scale."

Because these were also spirits, that's how the French used the wrong word when translating Arabian Nights.

"But, how did the word genius come to mean super smart?"

Well... that came about because people that were super smart, almost seemed to have supernatural inspiration.. like a genius spirit whispering the answers in their ear.

There you go, another mystery solved by your trusty hotforwords...

For your homework, if you found a bottle with a genie in it and she granted you a wish, what would that wish be?

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[Selliauoip]

I'd wish to have my f**kin' driving license!!!!

[fedemicha1]

I want to come over your mouth

[SATREACKER]

i wish so junni like you >>> ))

[wismanandy]

i wish for an education from Hot for Words

[silverfoxidm]

Well, that was some incredible film editing! I am trying to decipher when you went from the white board 3/7/07 to the imagineer produced gems that is your trademark today?

I think my wish is definitely not just immortality; also, Erernal Life.

"Salvation w/o exaltation is damnation!"

[skeptic1890]

Infinite Wishes!!! lol no really I'd ask her to poof you into my life <3 :D

[DjStiv3]

i hate that top it makes her look flat chested and by the way shes NOT so WTF!!!!!!

[rocaho001]

@randomkeex LMAO

[rocaho001]

@sirhalyavshik I'd kill the bitch in a month.

[yourmother438]

gods?