Date:    Tue, 5 May 1998 17:10:09 -0400
<br>From:    David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: "pulkes"?
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<br>On Tue, 5 May 1998, Dennis Baron wrote:
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<br>> yes, pulkes are thighs.  I was hoping someone with more yiddishkeit would respond.
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<br>This is Englished into "pokeys," at least in my wife's family, Litvaks
<br>from Dayton.  She never heard Yiddish at home but when her grandmother was
<br>dying and had lost her English, she was amazed to learn her father could
<br>sit in the nursing home and converse in Yiddish for hours.
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