shkeevy; bubbies; more!

[Jonathan Lighter]

Forgot to mention that one housewife angrily called another a "prostitution
whore."

Perh. because, as an insult, "whore" by itself is no longer as specific as
formerly.

JL

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Not on that show.
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> 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
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> > a
> > > survival of the very common 19th C. {bubbies}, which in my experience
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> > > become obsolete in print (in favor of the vocalically ambiguous
> > {boobies})
> > > except in pseudo-Victorian um-literature.
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