The national spelling bee was won by some kid from queens who got the spelling of Knaidel right, how on earth he even knew what a knaidel was is beyond me, maybe being from New York helped him. I’m pretty…
Tag: words
Words and statements that make you sound frummer than you are
I was at work a few weeks ago and I noticed one of my friends eating so I went to say hi, he had with him a possible employee for the community kollel here and I guess he was showing…
The Magic Words
The Magic Words By Offthedwannab I don’t know about you , but I remember being very confused by certain words as a kid. Certain words seemed to be magic words that could mean just about anything. Like Mitzvah. My mother…
Adding “dik” to certian Jewish words changes them
Orthodox Jews have their own language, some call it yinglish, but we really add English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic and random terms from the Torah into out lingo. Where else can you find a people that adds an improper word like…
How did Douche Bag become the way to say moron?
There are so many ways to say Douche Bag, you can say D-Bag, Douche, D-Baggy, D-Bagish, Douche-ish, Douchebaggery and all I’m wondering is how a vaginal cleaning device became the nationally recognized way to call someone a moron or an…
The most abused expressions by frummies: “By”, “Baruch HaShem” and “Be Well”
Y0u Jew Sure Do Talk Phunni! by Alan Busch I guess the current politically correct usage would call this a “rant”, but there are a few things some of us say in the observant community with such frequency that you…