tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post3542545287994566420..comments2024-03-21T18:41:05.522-04:00Comments on Brigid Brockway is Technically a Writer: Brigid Daull Brockwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06808132338148865533noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post-90812381451773062732010-08-05T01:14:16.571-04:002010-08-05T01:14:16.571-04:00Sills indeed.
Reading this post gave me lots of ...Sills indeed. <br /><br />Reading this post gave me lots of bad memories of my German teacher. Though I did learn a new word (goy) so it wasn't all bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post-68479924732712802482010-08-04T23:11:43.633-04:002010-08-04T23:11:43.633-04:00A, putz and schmuck have both been slang terms for...A, putz and schmuck have both been slang terms for penis, although the Online Etymology dictionary does mention testicles too.Brigid Daull Brockwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06808132338148865533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post-83399203459136693622010-08-04T23:07:02.821-04:002010-08-04T23:07:02.821-04:00Adam (Sills, I presume?), you got me. Spiel is Yid...Adam (Sills, I presume?), you got me. Spiel is Yiddish, but, but the Online Etymology Dictionary says that it came to English through German, not Yiddish.<br />Not sure about the spelling thing - Yiddish doesn't use our alphabet, so technically it isn't spiel or spihl.Brigid Daull Brockwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06808132338148865533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post-3902014677733826422010-08-04T16:10:19.481-04:002010-08-04T16:10:19.481-04:00I thought penis was putz and schmuck was testicle....I thought penis was putz and schmuck was testicle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post-33453123008122199692010-08-04T09:31:17.281-04:002010-08-04T09:31:17.281-04:00Okay, aside from the fact that Yiddish is related ...Okay, aside from the fact that Yiddish is related to German, Where'd you get that spiel was Yiddish? I'd wager that it was directly German, considering Yiddish spells it differently. I'd also wager that considering the large number of German speakers in the early US:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_as_a_minority_language#German_in_the_United_States<br /><br />I guess an enterprising Yiddish listener could have simply taken the better of the two spellings for English - spiel looks better than spihl.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00631621907995221275noreply@blogger.com