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Top Ten Words That Sound as though they are Yiddish, but Aren’t:
Number 10 – Farfetched
Number 9 – Invocation
Number 8 – Flummoxed
Number 7 – Gobsmacked
Number 6 – Innersprung
Number 5 – Gerund
Number 4 – Forefinger
Number 3 – Henpecked
Number 2 – Scooped
AND the Number 1 Word That Sounds as though it is Yiddish, but Isn’t is… – Gazumped
What would you add??
al capone bemidbar biodiversity Bnei Beteira Burning of the Talmud Chesed death ecology emily dickinson emor Evolution fats waller Hillel King David Limmud Malchut mashiach messiah Noah's Ark parsha Parshat Chukat Parshat Noach Pirkei Avot Rabbi Eliezer Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi rosh hashana sacrifices science Science and Judaism unetane tokef yom kippur yosef and his borthers
2 responses to “Top Ten Words that sound as though they are Yiddish but Aren’t”
svelte
Defenestrate – to kill someone by throwing them out of a window. Much better than half of your words! 🙂