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[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:24:13PM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
> At 7:07 PM -0400 9/23/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> HDAS II has five exx. of _Isro_ beginning in 1975.
>>
>> Ye editor has never encountered _Jafro_ or _Jewfro_.
>>
>> In college, ye editor had an Italian friend with very curly hair.  He and
>> everyone else just went ahead and called it an "Afro."
>>
>>
>> JL
>
> Mine was an officially designated Jewfro, registered well before 1975.

I hear _Jewfro_ all the time, and when I've asked about _Isro_
I've always gotten blank stares.

Jesse Sheidlower
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