http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/april_gleanings/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sat, 25 May 2013 23:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/april_gleanings/#comment-3514 John Cowan Tue, 08 May 2007 16:31:34 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/april_gleanings/#comment-3514 It seems that <i>boi</i> became the current word in Americanized Yiddish quite rapidly, displacing the earlier <i>ingl</i> (< <i>Jüngel</i>, presumably). See Mencken. It seems that boi became the current word in Americanized Yiddish quite rapidly, displacing the earlier ingl (< Jüngel, presumably). See Mencken.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/april_gleanings/#comment-3061 Editor’s Note: The Power of Words : OUPblog Wed, 02 May 2007 19:45:38 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/april_gleanings/#comment-3061 [...] week’s monthly gleanings from Anatoly mark a special moment for me and my [...] [...] week’s monthly gleanings from Anatoly mark a special moment for me and my [...]

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