Theatrical Monday Yiddish
Someone in a Tree Jul 07 08
Happy Monday everyone. Hope those of you that observed it had a fun-filled Fourth of July weekend. For those of you outside the "greatest country ever ever ever" I hope you had a pleasant weekend as well.Today's Yiddish is the word shissel. It literally means "a bowl or basin" but often is used to denote a large amount of something. It is pronounced pretty much as you'd expect: [SHISS-al].Let's use it in a sentence:I've got a shissel of condoms in my dresser that need to get used up soon or they're going to expire.I bought a shissel of cheap socks and underwear at that street fair. Full story...
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