"You're always so persistent about things. You're such a nudnik. Why do you ask me to eat shrimp? What the hell is so big about shrimp?" - Thomas J. Cottle, When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother, 2004 Kvetch Definition: : to complain often or constantly About the Word: ...
A mixed-language ditty (Ashkenazic Hebrew with repeated admixture of one special Yiddish word) serves as the playful handwritten ex-libris of this 1872 Book of Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets published by Romm in Vilna Yiddish and Hebrew dialectology, and internal cultural differences, in a ...
Incidentally, the German equivalent of asqueezebox(an informal name for accordions, concertinas and related instruments) is aQuetschkommode, or literally a “squeeze commode / dresser / chest of drawers” [source]. The English wordquash(to defeat decisively; to void or suppress) comes from the s...
I am an attorney who practices in the areas of finance, securities, business and now cryptocurrency and the accompanying potential regulatory implications associated therewith. Most of my firm’s clients have been with us for many years and were obtained by word of mouth. I have had the...