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It may be consoling but scarcely exonerating for Thorne to learn that he is not alone in failing to label such matter accurately: some American informants are evidently not to be trusted or have become too sophisticated from traveling abroad or by associating with speakers of other dialects of English.
Thorne, J.P.M.
1. Deputy Director Maxim Thorne says the plan would threaten innovative programs that have expanded the range of services offered, and won awards and broad community support.
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.
So when I see an entry in shtuk/shtook/stook/schtuk labeled “British” in Thorne's book, I at once get suspicious, especially when it is defined as `in trouble,' shtuk “in its various spellings” is described as Yiddish for `difficulties,' and there is a (good) entry for shtick , besides.