shkeevy; bubbies; more!

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not on that show.

Trust me.

JL

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Around here, /'bUbiz/ are Jewish grandmothers.
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> m a m
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > She and one or two of the others also prefer [bUbiz] for the far more
> usual
> > [bubiz]. I've never heard that pronunciation before, but it is apparently
> a
> > survival of the very common 19th C. {bubbies}, which in my experience has
> > become obsolete in print (in favor of the vocalically ambiguous
> {boobies})
> > except in pseudo-Victorian um-literature.
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