Word: lah
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Like martinis, Prada and the Tibetan freedom struggle, Pilates existed long before the celebrity-induced craze made it en vogue. Pilates (pronounced puh-LAH-teez) dates back to the first World War, when its founder, Joseph H. Pilates, was interned in England and forced to work as a nurse. Using springs and hospital beds, Pilates developed exercise equipment for injured and immobilized soldiers. He later brought the unique design to New York City, where he opened his first studio in 1926. The "Universal Reformer," "Cadillac," "Barrel" and "Wunda Chair," all resembling WWI-era torture devices, grew out of these original...
...have been paying it, but I think it's a little much. It's a huge expense," says Sahngmie M. Lah...
...expenses are "definitely a concern" for seniors, Lah says...
...from five-day-a-week workouts to none at all. Last November the Manhattan jewelry designer noticed a story about Pilates, a regimen based on stretching exercises. "I had no idea how to even pronounce it," says Bassett of her impulsive call to make an appointment. (It's Puh-lah-tees.) "I just knew...
...equally mistaken to regard God as "she." This makes God into a being. She notes, however, that much of the gender politics of God may come from the inflexibility of English. Other languages allow God to transcend sex. In Arabic, for example, the supreme name for God, al-Lah, is masculine, but his other names, "the Compassionate" (al- Rahmat) and "the Merciful" (al-Rahim), are feminine...