Word: barbaroi
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...Yiddish. Griffith argues forcefully that it is rooted in Gaelic. He notes that the dialect appeared after a wave of Irish immigrants settled in Brooklyn in the late 19th century. Moreover, Griffith finds that the trademark Brooklyn diphthong oi also appears in many Gaelic words; taoiseach (leader) and barbaroi (barbarians), for example. He also points out that the th sound is absent in both Gaelic and Brooklynese, in which it becomes a hard / or d (as in da dame wid tin legs). Some classic Brooklyn expressions, he adds, come directly from the Gaelic: whudda card (joker) is a corruption...
...hold to the notion that education ends at Commencement--that from then on theoretical learning is to be replaced by practical learning. Those who enter the world with that attitude can offer little in refutation of Dr. Hung-Ming's criticism. They are indeed yet candidates for "The American Barbaroi...
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