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Rosten defines "Yinglish" as "Yiddish words that are used in colloquial English" (such as kibitzer) [4] and Ameridish as words coined by Jews in the United States; [5] his use, however, is sometimes inconsistent. According to his definition on page x, alrightnik is an Ameridish word; however, on page 12 it is identified as Yinglish.
The classification "Jewish English" eliminates the need for concern with identifying the specific origin of the non-English components of any such variant. This offsets, for example, misperceptions that can result from failure to note the Hebrew origin of a word that may have become widely known in Anglophone contexts via Yiddish, and may be ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
The Joys of Yiddish is a book containing a lexicon of common words and phrases of Yinglish—i.e., words originating in the Yiddish language that had become known to speakers of American English due to the influence of American Ashkenazi Jews. It was originally published in 1968 and written by Leo Rosten. [1] [2]
The only definition of "Yinglish" in the OED is "a blend of English and Yiddish spoken in the United States; a form of English containing many Yiddishisms"; Merriam-Webster has something similar. According to this definition, a list of Yiddish words used by non-Yiddish-speaking Jews is certainly primary-sense Yinglish.
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Yeshivish (Yiddish: ישיבֿיש), also known as Yeshiva English, Yeshivisheh Shprach, or Yeshivisheh Reid, is a sociolect of English spoken by Yeshiva students and other Jews with a strong connection to the Orthodox Yeshiva world. [1] "Yeshivish" may also refer to non-Hasidic Haredi Jews. [2]
The suffix existed in English for a long time. An example is raskolnik, recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as known since 1723. [1] There have been two main waves of the introduction of this suffix into English language. The first was driven by Yinglish words contributed by Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe.