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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=859391012-19022005></SPAN>T<SPAN
class=859391012-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>hanks for the
information, Kees,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=859391012-19022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>I assume you are Dutch. Where does
the expression "Dutch courage"</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=859391012-19022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>come from? :-)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><TT><BR>--- In lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com, Peter Kirk
<peterkirk@q...> <BR>wrote:<BR>> On 19/02/2005 01:43, Fritz Goerling
wrote:<BR>> <BR>> >Hebrew "chutzpah" is an interesting word, too.
.... but there is <BR>no bibical root het-tsade-pe.<BR><BR><A
href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=chutzpah">http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=chutzpah</A><BR>says
chutzpah (Dutch "gotspe") is from _Mishnaic_ Hebrew Het-Sade-pe.<BR>The word
is found Ben-Yehuda/Weinstein's Pocket English-Hebrew +
vv<BR>dictionary:<BR>hHSyp (hekhetsif) to be impertinent, bold,<BR>htHSp
(hitkhattsef) to be impudent,<BR>HSph or HwSph (khutspa) insolence,
impudence.<BR><BR>gr, Kees.<BR><BR><BR><BR></TT><BR>
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