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  1. still working on the Italian article - tonight I start page 164 (out of 177)
  2. It's hard to translate an Italian article about bran, when their language academy is called "Academy of the Bran" (della Crusca)
  3. Just saw this: http://www.wordorigins.org/... - frustrating. I don't know if I can update all my links...
  4. still correcting the OCR of an article in Italian about the word "semolina", so I can run it through Google Translate
  5. got the new Steinsaltz Menachot at Shavua HaSefer. Should be really helpful for the solet post!
  6. I'm excited to make my next (Blogger) post in Google Docs - it has all the functionality I've been look for (even footnotes)!
  7. working on ogen and aguna - and how they're likely NOT related...
  8. just found an article about the semantic shift of "semola"! who cares that it's 23 pages in Italian...
  9. solet & semolina should be next, but if i'm stuck - probably aluma
  10. wondering how semolina comes from an Italian word meaning bran, which comes from a Latin word meaning "fine flour"
  11. does anyone have access to a university library outside of israel? looking for a book and can't find it here...
  12. i thought I'd be writing about aluma next, but i have to first deal with solet: fine or coarse flour?
  13. orzo and orez is done: http://www.balashon.com/200...
  14. finally has all his sources, he just needs to read them and then can explain orez and orzo.
  15. finally finished omer! http://www.balashon.com/200...
  16. working hard on all the omer sources...
  17. maybe the start of an etymological hagaddah: http://www.balashon.com/200...
  18. i finsihed indexing a bunch of interesting pamphlets from the Hebrew Language Academy and "Hebrew in Jeans"
  19. finished mitzrayim (and misirlou): http://www.balashon.com/200...
  20. off to the National Library (again) this afternoon to look up "omer" sources.