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Byline: Karin Laub Associated Press

JERUSALEM -- The English "spin" becomes "speen," plural "speenim."

The language of Moses has also absorbed "blind date," "under control" and "hacker" (pronounced hah-cker), along with some 10,000 other words and expressions that have been compiled in a dictionary of Israeli slang, a best seller since it came out this fall.

The hefty hardcover tome by Ruvik Rosenthal reflects the onslaught of foreign words in th...

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