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Jewish English is a cover term for varieties of the English language spoken by Jews.They may include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken from Yiddish, and both classical and modern Hebrew.
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).
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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]
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.
The retention of German/Yiddish grammar rules while speaking English is half of what makes Yinglish more than just a variety of English filled with loan-words. Example 2 -- "By me he's okay" is Yinglish, even though all of the words are English. What makes it Yinglish is the (incorrect) translation of the Yiddish "Bei mir".
The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [22] over a year since the millionth Wikipedian registered an account in February 2006. [23] Over 1,100,000 volunteer editors have edited Wikipedia more than 10 times. [24]
Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of English and Hindi. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. [6]In the context of spoken ...