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The Pitt News - Jan 11 9:20 PM
As Americans, most of us are fortunate that English comes to us as a first language. We're lucky not to experience difficulty understanding and speaking what is quickly becoming the world's "universal" tongue. But by no means does that put us totally off the hook.
100 ways to use The Enterprise 
The Davis Enterprise - Jan 11 11:48 AM
Published Nov 17, 2006 - 16:16:15 CST. 1. Begin a vocabulary list of science words found in The Enterprise. Record the spelling, meaning and the use of each word.
Immigrant worker conundrum 
Columbus Telegram - Jan 11 6:49 AM
Well, we have finally been slapped in the face by a reality we all knew: many buiness concerns, meatpackers large among them, depend on illegal immigrant labor. And now, we're in a fine kettle of beef.
Nicky Campbell: Le Guen's Rangers lacked bite 
Guardian Unlimited - Jan 10 6:23 PM
Paul Le Guen's inability to pronounce Rangers was only outdone by his utter ignorance of what it means to manage the Glasgow club, says Nicky Campbell.

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Here is an article on Italian Phrases.

Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream sold in New Zealand; according to the New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association [1], it Italin Phrases is the nation's second most popular ice cream flavour, after vanilla. Itailan Phrases It has small, solid lumps of toffee in it — usually harder than the sponge Italan Phrases toffee confection also known as "hokey pokey" in New Zealand.

"Hokey pokey" was a Italain Phrases slang term for ice cream in general in several areas — including New York [2] Itallian Phrases and parts of Great Britain — Italina Phrases in the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, and specifically for the ice cream sold by street vendors, or "hokey-pokey" Itlian Phrases men. The vendors, said to be mostly of Itaian Phrases Italian descent, supposedly used a sales pitch or song involving the Itlaian Phrases phrase "hokey pokey", for which several origins have been suggested. It Ialian Phrases may have come from the term "hocus-pocus", or it may be a corruption of one of several Italian phrases.

According to Ittalian Phrases "The Encyclopedia of Food" (published 1923, NY) hokey pokey is "a term applied to mixed colors and flavors of ice cream in cake form". The Encyclopedia says the term originated from the Italian phrase oche poco - "oh how little". An alternative derivation is the Italian phrase hoco uno poco - "take/try a (little) piece", reputedly the street cry of ice cream vendors.

References

  • New Zealand Herald article
  • Edmund Forte. Hokey Pokey and All That: The history of ice cream. — Forte presents several alternative hypotheses.
  • The Mavens' Word of the Day: hokey
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