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There is support, in both the OED 2nd Supplement and the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, for Tony Thorne's definition, in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang [XVII, 3], of `callow youth' for gunsel . That appears to be the primary meaning of the word, whose suggested definition is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/ or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.
Confusion worse confounded, I fear, over the origin of the Russian word for `railway station' [“English Know-how, No Problem,” by Bill Bryson, XVII,4; EPISTOLA from Philip Weinberg, XVIII, 2].
I should like to correct three arithmetic errors in the article, “To Abbrev, or not to Abbreviate,” by Don Sharp [XVII,2].
In connection with Dr. Zellig Bach's article, “The Scandalous Yiddish Guide of the Census Bureau” [XVII,2], I thought your readers might like to know that in mid December of 1990 I received a call from an official of the Census Bureau asking me whether I concurred with Dr. Bach's negative comments on the Yiddish Guide . Having seen the Guide , I replied that I indeed agreed fully with Dr. Bach's assessment.
It is understandable that Michel Vercambre would find it disconcerting to run into blue jaundice in his English-Welsh dictionary [“Instant Welsh,” XVII, 3].