| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| YIDDISH WORDS IN AMERICAN ENGLISH |
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| were once limited mainly to the Metropolitan New York City regional dialect, but vaudeville, the Yiddish theater, the movies, radio, television, and the borscht-circuit comedians who earned their spurs in the Catskill resorts have spread a good many colorful bits of the Yiddish vocabulary into Standard English or at least into its slang. Standard speakers will recognize most of these, all of which are slang except schmaltz, which is now Conversational and Informal: chutzpah, dreck, kibbitz, klutz, schlemiel, schlep, schlock, schmaltz, schmo, schmooze, schmuck, schnook, schnozzle, shtik. And there are many more. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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