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Hayim,<div><br></div><div>I think you may be right. It occurred to me it might be Hebrew or Yiddish.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chaz</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 23, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Hayim Sheynin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Chaz,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">When listening to Joe Schmoe, I envisioned the ethimology from Hebrew. Shmo in<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Hebrew means 'his name'. So this sounds as Joe, what is his name.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Hayim<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Chaz Mortensen <<a href="mailto:chaz_mortensen%40sil.org" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">chaz_mortensen@<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">sil.org</a>> wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Scott,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-heigh
t: 1.22em; ">> While it was a reference to Joe Wienerschnitzel or whatever his surname is,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> it quickly developed into another term for "the Average Joe." So in that you<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> are correct. I can also think of "Joe" used in "Joe Blow", "a good Joe",<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> "Joe Schmow (sp.?)", "I am Joe's [internal organ]" from Reader's Digest,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> etc.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> -Chaz</p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div>
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