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Aug 15, 2023

This week’s theme
Words borrowed from Yiddish

This week’s words
schemozzle
punim
mishpocha
ooftish
narrischkeit

Shayne Punim Underneath

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

punim

PRONUNCIATION:

(POO-nuhm)

MEANING:

noun: The face.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Yiddish ponem (face), from Hebrew panim (face). Earliest documented use: 1965.

USAGE:

“Barristers are updating their business cards from Queen’s Counsel to King’s ... A new pound is being minted, with a new royal punim.”
Jason Farago; A Dynasty Aided By Creative Allies; The New York Times; Oct 11, 2022.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone. -Thomas De Quincey, writer (15 Aug 1785-1859)

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