Thursday, May 7, 2015

PISTACHIOS, A critique on ":shmisis"... plus...

From: D

Schmisis?


Borrowing  from one's native tongue

is a know -no mostly  among

 those excessively  British,

but I am as tough

as Shake's MacDuff

who was not only "not of woman born"

but probably would Elizabethan English scorn

so please excuse my Yiddish.

hzl
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  1. No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 8

    nfs.sparknotes.com › No Fear Shakespeare › Macbeth
    Enter MACDUFF ... I lead a charmed life, which can't be ended by anyone born from awoman. 15 ... The evil spirit you serve can tell you that I was not born.
  2. Plus PS:
  3. i used to buy ice cream on Atlantic Avenue ion Brooklyn where there were several Syrian American stores. Their ice cream only came in two flavors--apricot and pistachio and both were delicious.  Their pistachio ice cream has many more nuts in it than we are used to. Ours mainly has the taste and a green color. I'll do a quick research on google:

    1. Pistachio ice cream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio_ice_cream
      Wikipedia
      Pistachio ice cream is an ice cream flavor made with pistachio nuts or flavoring. It is often distinctively green in color. Pistachio is also a flavor of sorbet and ...
    Some one should open another 'backdash' on Atlantic Avenue , but this  time in Del Ray.

    And as I suspected, the word comes from Persian:

    1. pistachio - Online Etymology Dictionary

      www.etymonline.com/index.php?...pistachi...
      Online Etymology Dictionary
      1590s, from Italian pistacchio, from Latin pistacium "pistachio nut," from Greek pistakion "pistachio nut," from pistake ... which also is from the Italian word.
    XO,

From: D
Schmisis?

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