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Re: minyans/minions (OK, nitpicking)
- From: Marvin Margoshes <physchem...>
- Subject: Re: minyans/minions (OK, nitpicking)
- Date: Wed 21 Apr 1999 19.45 (GMT)
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From: Robert Cohen <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: minyans/minions (OK, nitpicking)
>Unimportantly: minions=servile dependents or subordinate officials
>(!); minyans=Jewish prayer groups (or quorums for prayer). Ouch!!!
I stand corrected. Phonetic spelling - not trying the spell checker - which
wouldn't have helped because it knows "minions" but not "minyans".
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