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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.
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).
Heblish or Hebrish, less frequently Hebglish or Engbrew, [3] all blends of the words "Hebrew" and "English", refer to any combination of the two languages, or to code-switching between the languages. The term Heblish was recorded earliest in 1979, with Hebrish (1989) and Hebglish (1993) appearing later.
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 Joys of Yiddish gives not the slightest hint of the secondary meaning of Yinglish. Please keep this in mind before starting a reversion war. Additional editing should standardize the second list of Yinglish words to be uncapitalized except for the proper nouns Litvak and Yekke. Anomalocaris 01:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
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