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Ar an t-ochtú lá is fiche de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Joachim Pense:
> […] What I've been told about the history of these typical Jewish names
> is that at times much later than the Christians, Jewish people got last
> names. These were taken more or less out of the air, so jewels, or
> flowers (Rosenblum 'Rose-Flour') were a good choice, often colours,
> sometimes deprecating or loughable names forced upon the people by
> antisemites.
‘Rose-flower.’
One of the interesting consequences of that is you can often guess what
socio-economic class the family of many Ashkenazi Jews belonged to a couple
of centuries ago without too much trouble; if it means something attractive
in German (‘Morgenthau,’ ‘Blumenthal,’ ‘Morgenstern’ and so on) they were
wealthy, if it means something unattractive they were poor.
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When I was in the scouts, the leader told me to pitch a tent. I couldn't
find any pitch, so I used creosote.
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