Word: nahr
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...used by fineh men-schen in a national magazine? You don't have to be Jewish to use the words, but you sure have to be Jewish to know what they mean in order to use them correctly and not get fahrblundjet. Don't be a nahr. Ask me next time you get the urge to zich austzeigen your knowledge of yiddishe chochmes...
Precocious U. S. tots, keen students of geography, might have nonplussed their parents last week by "bounding" Great Lebanon as follows: "North, the Nahr-el-Kebir; south, the frontier of Palestine; west, the Mediterranean coast; east, the heights of anti-Lebanon." Super-tots lisped that Beirut is the seat of government; that the population was 628,863 at last reports; that cedars have given the country universal fame...