V2, Chap 15 (Sahha), I, p 461 - "Mene, mene tekel, upharsin"

[Mark Kohut]

She has learned, it seems, from olde Yiddish users--maybe in the Catskills?


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From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 2:18:11 AM
Subject: Re: V2, Chap 15 (Sahha), I, p 461 - "Mene, mene tekel, upharsin"

Mark and Michael - are we to infer something about Rachel's background
from her use of this spelling?  Does this jibe with the description of
her coming "from the Five Towns on the south shore of Long Island...?"

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Mark Kohut wrote:
>> Looking up 'tokus' , we can see it is an older usage, @1910-15 it sez.....
>> evidently largely overtaken by different spellings..........
>>
>
> hehe, at least one family friend who used to say that...
> 2 come to think of it...
> so instead of saying, "by the same token", we used to (and sometimes
> still do) say, "by the same tokus"
>
>
>
>
> --
> "the life of a person is worth more than the history of a country" -
> Carlos Fuentes (_The Old Gringo_)
>
>



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