mishmosh is a Yddish word meaning a mixture. Interestingly enough, onelook returns "did you mean mishmash?" But unless I am mistaken the discussion of mishmosh in "The Joys of Yiddish states explicitly that a person who uses mishmash is a goy who is trying to appear Yiddish-eloquent when quite the opposite is true. Unfortunately, like the rest of my library, Rosten's book resided in an unmarked box either in the garage or in our storage unit. And since we have over 125 boxes of books, it will remain inaccessible until after we move. I hope to turn one of the four bedrooms into a library, but I don't believe even that will have room for the 5000 or so books we have. I suspect that the McDowell County Library is gonna get a very large donation. But NOT my Philip Jose Farmer collection!


TEd