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An English sentence that uses either may be described by some as Yinglish, [1] though a secondary sense of the term describes the distinctive way certain Jews in English-speaking countries add many Yiddish words into their conversation, beyond general Yiddish words and phrases used by English speakers.
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).
But it's also a bit odd to say it comes from Yiddish ponem which comes from Hebrew ponem, because it's essentially the same word with the same meaning in all of English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Seeing as it's clear enough for all the entries in this list that they come from Yiddish, in cases like this especially where the meaning is identical and ...
Alghoul and Ali say the viral ad was the first one they filmed — in a single take. “A lot of people are saying, ‘I live two hours away. I’m driving this weekend,’” Alghoul tells TODAY.com.
CHEYENNE — The annual Yiddish Food Festival is back in Cheyenne for its 18th year of celebrating Jewish culture through music, food and experiences this Sunday. Each year, Mount Sinai Synagogue ...
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Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.