Thursday, November 11, 2004

Today's OED antedating: "simcha"

Simchah, Jewish celebratory event, ex Hebrew (first use cited 1932): Short story titled "Lucky Numbers," collected in Lucky Numbers, by Montague Glass, 1927, p 28: "'Nu, Sammet,' he said, 'you look like a young feller to-night. What’s the simcha?'"