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With its rich cache of slang, it seemed weird to writer Elissa Strauss that Yiddish shouldn't have more words for the female anatomy. A little digging, however, unearthed more than 20, including di mayse ("the story"), shmundie, and knish. [TabletMag]
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Jul 28, 2009 3:17 PM
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