ON LANGUAGE; A Hill of Bupkis From: Forward | Date: August 19, 2005| Author: Philologos | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Forward

08-19-2005

Bert Horwitz writes:

"In The Wall Street Journal of July 29, under the headline 'Inside the
World of Corporate Finance and Wall Street,' I was surprised to read a
story that ended by declaring that a search for information had 'turned up
bupkis.' 'Bupkis' is a word that I have been recently hearing, even more
than 'chutzpah,' spoken by ordinary Americans. Yet when I checked an
unabridged English dictionary for it, I found,...

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