Re: Jewish East End of London WWI

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:47:49 +0000 (UTC), Henry Goodman <henry.goodman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: Presumably issued by the British mandatory authorities.

My mother's birth certificate is in English, Arabic, and Turkish. (The
latter probably to accomodate any Ottoman legacy.)

Totally off-topic, it's also printed on cardboard and olds in half,
much like a game board. And you can tie it closed with an attached red
ribbon. This red ribbon is the "red tape" of the idiom, in which things
get all tied up and take too long. It refers to the commonality of such
ties on the British beaurocratic documents of the period.

-mi

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