On Friday, December 15, 2006 8:01 AM [GMT+1=CET], Terry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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One expression from US English which I believe has no peer for this
type of situation: Go figure!
Which I believe is a direct translation from (American, as opposed to
English ;-) ) Yiddish.
"Go figure" comes from Yiddish Gey vays "Go know". Leo Rosten,
in The Joys of Yinglish (Penguin, 1989, ISBN 0-452-26534-6).
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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