How Certain Yiddish Words Became Incorporated Into Everyday English

Patrick FooteofName Explain looked at how certain words from the Yiddish language were incorporated into the modern English lexicon, These words included everyday language such as bagel, lox, schmuck, klutz, and spiel. He also explained how the language made its way across Europe and around the world from those fleeing religious persecution.

The language was born from the movement of Jews across Europe ...Yet despite the small size of the Yiddish speaking population today the language has found itself a home all across the globe This is all down to the migrations that speakers have undertaken across history in not just Europe but the whole world

Because these words are so descriptive, it didn't take long for them to be used regularly, particularly in larger cities with larger Jewish populations, like New York City.

Even to this day, New York City is a place deeply linked with Jewish culture and is believed to have one of the largest concentrations of Yiddish speakers on the planet This allowed Yiddish to intermix with English with a key result of this being Yiddish words finding themselves at home in the English language.

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