Date:  Thu, 30 Dec 1993 14:21:03 EST

From:  Robert Kelly <kelly[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LEVY.BARD.EDU>

Subject: Re: Yiddish in NY? Heaven Forbid



Dear Jane.



growing up in Brooklyn (still part of NYC, tho who knows with Don Rodolfo)

the distinction I had to learn to make was indeed between garbage (wet) and

the dry equivalent. But in the 1940s it wasn't trash. It was rubbish.

We had a full-fledged rubbish/garbage contrast. But often both were put in

the same "garbage can" in the innocent days before waste management. And

that stood next to the ashcan (one word) in the alleyway.



RK