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Example sentences for: yiddish
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For example, adeSHEM , defined as “a Hebrew euphemism for the Tetragrammaton’; kakuh-MAYmee , about which the author says “not Yiddish but it sounds like it,’ misspelling the actual English word as cockamaimy .
I don't know where the -sh sound arose in nebbish , but in all eastern European dialects of Yiddish the word is nebbikh or nebbakh , with a velar fricative sound that is rendered as -sh by speakers who find that easier to pronounce.
Bill Bryce, I have read, writes that it comes from the Yiddish.
Five Postscripts to “The Scandalous Yiddish Guide of the Census Bureau”
And in Yiddish, balagan means mess, bedlam.