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Posted By: wwh Yiddish dictionary - 05/04/02 04:08 PM
TEd stumped me until I found this:

http://chutzpah.homestead.com/files/dictionary.html

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Yiddish dictionary - 05/04/02 05:13 PM
...better than no information at all, definitely, but if you don't know how to pronounce/recgonize the words beforehand its usefulness is limited. Transliteration into English can be a very tricky proposition, fraught with ambiguity.

Posted By: wwh Re: Yiddish dictionary - 05/04/02 06:12 PM
Dear wofahulicodoc: so what does the moyel do with the prepuce? Don't tell me 'feed it to the cat'.

Posted By: TEd Remington Where the tips go - 05/05/02 12:08 AM
I had a friend who was a moyel who saved the tips, and his neighbor, a taxidermist, took 5000 of them and turned them into a wallet. The moyel was incensed at this until the taxidermist told him to rub the wallet. It turned into an overnight case.

Posted By: TEd Remington Re: Yiddish dictionary - 05/05/02 12:10 AM
I'm also reminded of a man who was walking down a street in the Jewish section of town and saw a shop with a bunch of watches in the window. He went in and said to the proprietor, "How much will it cost to fix my watch."

The man replied, "Oy, and how should I know? I'm a moyel."

The customer, mystified, asked what all the watches were doing in the window.

The guy behind the counter replied, "Oy, and vhat do you vhant I should put in my vindow?"

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