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		<title>Great Yiddish Word</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jehu.  I so wish that I had known this word when we went to Mexico in March! Jehu [jee- hoo] is a noun that means fast driver.  It also refers to someone who drives a cab.  (Isn&#8217;t a fast driver synonymous with cab driver??) This word comes to us from the Old Testament.  King Jehu [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=526250&amp;post=418&amp;subd=wordsmithie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, my sister e-mailed me about a word that she had come across that she thought she would share with me since she knows I like words.  The word was semiotics. Semiotics [see-mee-ot-iks] is a noun that means the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.  She had a link [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=526250&amp;post=407&amp;subd=wordsmithie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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