Date:    Tue, 5 May 1998 15:43:54 -0500
<br>From:    Katherine Catmull <kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BGA.COM>
<br>Subject: Re: "pulkes"?
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<br>>    A  Wall Street Journal article, May 4, 1998, p.A23  ("A Winning
<br>>Strategy for Lewinsky, Starr and the Nation") contains "pulkes";  is this a
<br>>misunderstanding of the Yiddish word "toches" (rear-end)?.
<br>
<br>When Ginsburg was first quoted by Newsweek about kissing baby Monica's
<br>pulkes (I think Newsweek spelled it "polkas"), it was the occasion of
<br>much discussion on a conferencing system where I spend time. Apparently
<br>there is a Yiddish word "polkas" or "pulkes" which means "plump little
<br>thighs", and it is most often used in reference to the thighs of chickens
<br>or, jocularly, of babies. Or at least that was the consensus among the
<br>people I was talking with at the time.
<br>
<br>Kate Catmull
<br>kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bga.com
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