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Summertime, and the Living Is Grammatical
About Hebrew
Summertime, and the Living Is Grammatical
by
Joseph Lowin
The root kof-yod-tsadi, summer, leads to seasonal clothing, camps, vacations—and figs, which ripen in the hottest season.