Babel's intriguing zmeiki

[Alina Israeli]

>  Those who remember
>the 40's will confirm that
>flies (pl. flys?) were only buttoned (or unbuttoned, as the case may
>be...) at that time.

And in Russia much later. We find in Galich of the 60's: "Dazhe brjuki u
menja i te na molnii" because no one else at the time had zippers.

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 Alina Israeli
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