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Word: finndish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...patois that passes for English, but they retain sentence structures from Yiddish (Pa Gross, protesting a torrent of talk: "Like a machine is gung the tunks. Like a sobvay is coming the woids-tukk, tukk, tukk!"). They put extra consonants in certain words-"udder" for or, "paintner" for painter, "finndish" for finish. They say "chonging" for charging, "serrisfied" for satisfied, "tenner" for tenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Weeds of Speech | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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