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1) Subject:A handful of Lentils query
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Date: 110 Feb 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Maurice Pomerantz <<a href="mailto:mpomeran@gmail.com">mpomeran@gmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:A handful of Lentils query
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Dear friends, <br><br>I am trying to find as many variants of stories with a version of the well-known proverb: <br><br>"اللي بيدري بيدري واللي ما بيدري بيقول كف عدس"<br><br>"He who knows, knows, and he who doesn't know says a 'handful of lentils.'" <br><br>I am mainly interested in the variants of the story "behind the proverb" but information on <br>dialectical variants and usage would also be helpful. So let me "know what you know" about this proverb and its meaning. <br><br><br>With best regards and thanks!<br><br><br>Maurice A. Pomerantz <br><br>Asst. Prof. Faculty Fellow<br>New York University <br><a href="mailto:mp147@nyu.edu">mp147@nyu.edu</a><br></span>
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