<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by tower:
Oy vey is Meer!
Just for the record, the correct spelling is Yiddish.
Yid·dish ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ydsh)
n.
The language historically of Ashkenazic Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, resulting from a fusion of elements derived principally from medieval German dialects and secondarily from Hebrew and Aramaic, various Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian.
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[Yiddish yidish, Jewish, Yiddish, from Middle High German jüdisch, Jewish, from jude, jüde, Jew, from Old High German judo, from Latin Idaeus. See Jew.]
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Yiddish adj.
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Yiddish
n : a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script [syn: Yiddish]
Zay Gizoont! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Huh
