Tuesday, June 9, 2009

What does k'tonton mean in Hebrew?


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Why: I heard the Tom Tom Club song "Genius of Love" on the way home from work. The group of the youngest kids at JCC day camp was always called K'TonTon (or K'TanTan).

Answer: "Very little." It's a pretty common name for groups of little children.

Source: Amazon

The More You Know: There is a series of books about a Jewish [male] Thumbelina named K'Tonton. The first book was published in 1935, and the series includes titles like K'Tonton's Yom Kippur Kitten and K'tonton on an Island in the Sea: A Hitherto Unreported Episode in the Life of the Jewish Thumbling, K'tonton ben Baruch Reuben.