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Thread #144202 Message #3333651
Posted By: MGM·Lion
04-Apr-12 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Wikipedia's pronunciation schtik
Subject: RE: BS: Wikipedia's pronunciation schtik
Out if interest, "Shtick" is derived from the Yiddish word shtik (שטיק) ['piece']. Yiddish is a mixture of Hebrew & German, using mainly Germanic words but with some Hebrew interpolations, all printed in the Hebrew alphabet, though with a vowel system whereby the vowels are represented by letters included within the word, unlike the system I described above in Hebrew, where the vowels, where used, appear under the consonants. In the word above, e.g., the 'i' vowel is represented by the letter י , which in Hebrew is pronounced as a consonontal 'y'.
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