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Wikipedia also lists schwag, under its entry for Promotional Item: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotional_item...as do a number of other sites, including The Urban Dictionary. But I, too, had never heard of it before you brought it up, Bingley.
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good fetch AsP - can the yiddish be verified or dated by anyone though?
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Yiddish
I think it is the word chochke that is being said to derive from Yiddish, and not schwag. (It's in neither Weinreich nor Harkavy.
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One wonders if swag became schwag in the about the same manner that sweet became schweet in the parlance of some.
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>can the yiddish be . . . dated by anyone though?
I used to date a Yiddish girl. Her name was Carmen Cohen. Her mom called her Carmen and her dad called her Cohen, so sometimes she didn't know if she was Carmen or Cohen.
Hey, I warned you!
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> didn't know if she was Carmen
well, you probably didn't date long, eh?
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The schwag referred to all seems to be T-shirts, sports shirts and other tops emblazoned with the name of the magazine. They aren't free.
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Just for the record, I had never seen the word "schwag". It might be a regional word, too.
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