[geeks] q: good source for leather book bag?

nate at portents.com nate at portents.com
Wed Jun 3 11:44:19 CDT 2009


>>"Yarmulke", I think, though you could never tell it from the American
>>"YAH-muh-kuh" pronounciation, at least in my native South.
>
> Ok, here we call them a "kippa" (key-pah), but I don't think anyone
> outside of Israel would know what it was.

I'm not Jewish, but I went to Brandeis University, and Kippah (a Hewbrew
word) was more common than yarmulke (a Yiddish word).  I'm not sure what
the statistical frequency of the words are in the Jewish communities in
the US are outside of Brandeis though.

- Nate



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