Enjoy The Week in Pictures over at Powerline.
From Yiddish Vinkl, here's a word I've never heard before, but I loved the description of how to say it: "Khnyok - it's pronounced as one syllable, a feat best managed by pretending to clear your throat and blow your nose at the same time."
Speaking of Yiddish, I finally saw the correct spelling of a word I heard a lot as a kid: oysgedart, meaning skinny and emaciated, and in our family usually used to describe an unattractive woman.
We also heard the expression "You shouldn't know from it", and online I saw Zolst nit vissen fun kain shlechts, meaning "You shouldn't know from bad (evil)".
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