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Example sentences for: yiddish

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Since this English word has no association with guns, it is not possible that English gun triggered (as some have suggested) an irregular sound change, resulting in an English vowel which the Yiddish one would not otherwise have yielded.
There is no Yiddish word “genzel” or “gantzel,” which Smith has copied, uncritically, from others.
Creating “fact” merely by repeating error is particularly frequent when it comes to Yiddish and English: numerous times we read, without supporting proof, that English words like copacetic, derma (the food), kibosh (as in put the kibosh on ), Cockamamie, gazump, gnof or (older English) gnoffe, guy (the person, not the rope), and shyster are from Yiddish.
Or perhaps it was simply Russian in English transliteration rather than the Hebrew or Yiddish word borrowed from Russian.
But recent experiences in San Francisco, as well as casual earlier observations in the New York area and in Israel suggest to me that Russian is to the current Ashkenazic Diaspora what Yiddish was to earlier Jewish communities in Europe and America.