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"Hello again Word Lovers!" Today we look at words we use in English that come from Yiddish.

Yiddish is a curious language, it is not actually based on Hebrew although it has many Hebrew words, it is in fact Germanic. A clue is in the name of the language itself which is derived from the German for Jewish.

Full article to accompany this programme on our website :
https://www.bulldogz.org/post/interesting-etymologies-24-yiddish