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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">From: </font><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Mark and Ruth Dreyer</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span></span><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#cc0060"></span></span></p>
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">Subject: <span></span><span class="gI"></span><span class="gI"></span></font><span class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties" 2011.04.25 (05) [EN-NDS]</span></p>
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<div>Dear Ron & Co.</div>
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<div>Subject: LL-L Language Varieties.</div>
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<div>My Ruth has been going through the pre-&-post Passover
stuff, closing with the delightful davar Michael Keach found, Rafael
Finkel's 'On the Ritual Slaughter of the Latke'. Some folks, she reckons, have
had too much exposure to Talmudic Pilpul for their own good...</div>
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<div>But ducking back a letter: Ron, she wonders if there
aren't more persuasively <strong>more</strong> than three traditions bearing on
the pupik. There is one naming neither the belly-button nor the masculine
article, but what we here call the 'Pope's Nose'. That is; the chicken's tail, a
delicacy to some & abhorred by everybody else at the table. To confound it
all, the Litvaks down here seem to apply it to the chicken's gizzard! (another
part I wouldn't touch with a fourty-foot barge-pole). Now Ruth is of the Weiner
blood-line, from White Russia. & if I remember her mother aright, they are
descended from the Rebbe of Chernobyl (it used to be famous for other things
than radioactivity). It seems to Ruth that the pupik can refer to absolutely
anything - just slightly indecent...</div>
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<div>For my part, my grandfather, who studied at Leicester
University, & was of that generation that did 'walking tours' in his case
all over Northwest England, brought back the term 'parson's nose' for the same
(the chicken's tail). Now, does that part of the U.K. cherish any degree of
animus towards the parson?</div><div class="im">
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<div>Ron wrote:</div>
<div>Today a dear friend of mine told me that in her Midwestern American Jewish
family there were two camps that had been thrown together by marriage: the
“Lithuanians” and the “Ruthenians.” Much of the mutual disapproval centered on
the pronunciation of the words for “cake” ~ “baked dish” (קוגל<span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>, L. <i>kugl</i>, R. <i>kigl</i>) and
‘belly-button” (פּופּיק<span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>, L.
<i>pupik</i>, R. <i>pipik</i>) ... in other words on /u/ being preserved in L.
while having become [i] elsewhere. (One of the “Ruthenians” in the family even
claimed that a <i>pupik</i> was not the same as a <i>pipik</i> but meant
“something farther down”!) Of course, you feel the urge to shout, “Get over it
already!” But, of course, these differences stood/stand for a lot more,
especially for cultural features, including ... very importantly ... for cooking
and baking recipes.</div>
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</div><div>Yrs,</div>
<div>Mark</div></div>
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