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A lot of chutzpah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Lillian Mermin Feinsilver
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Abstract

An examination of an old Hebrew/Yiddish word and its widespread use in English

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English Today , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 43 - 47
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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