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chicago-geniza · 4 months ago

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This Call the Midwife episode reminded me that nurse af yidish is kranken-shvester. I love how many languages do just call nurses "Sickness Sister" or "Medicine Sister"

#in Russian it is medsestra/medbrat #in Polish it was siostra a long time ago but now is pielęgniarka #which derives from the German pflegen #by the way medbrat gave rise to my favorite ad slogan #in 2020-21 there was a campaign to get people vaccinated for COVID #and the poster showed a male nurse getting the jab while flexing #with caption v chem sila medbrat

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