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Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.
Kraut, by the way, or so the Post informs, is "professor of social psychology and human-computer interaction" there.
And the paper was fortunately able to get a minute with Robert Kraut of Carnegie Mellon University to get his explanation that it's very natural for human beings to shorten words.