Magic word - Information from Answers.com
For the use of magic words on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Magic words. ... They
are often nonsense phrases used in fantasy fiction or by stage prestidigitators. ...
Open sesame - used by the character Ali Baba in the English version of a tale
from ...
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List of British words not widely used in the United States - Wikipedia ...
In Canada and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although ....
Related phrases include bollocksed, which means either tired ("I'm bollocksed!
...... or "to eat" as in the original Yiddish (i.e., "He's noshing on the shrimp cocktail.
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What is the origin of the slang term for money fin
It is derived from the Yiddish word for "five" ("finf"). A fin (short for "finnif") is slang
for a five-dollar ... Can you answer these Word and Phrase Origins questions?
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Who was the founder of American English
words, Yiddish words and phrases play a major part. ... an increasing number of
young people use some aspects of American English in everyday speech,.
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List of ethnic slurs - Information from Answers.com
For the purposes of this list, an ethnic slur is a term or word[s] used to insult ....
Boong, pronounced with ʊ (like the vowel in bull), is related to the Australian
English slang word bung, meaning dead; infected; ..... From kikel, Yiddish for "
circle".
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Names of the Holocaust - Information from Answers.com
With reference to the events of the war, writers in English from 1945 used the
term in .... Before the word "Holocaust" became normative this phrase was also
used by writers in English. ... The Yiddish term is khurbn eyrope (חורבן אײראָפּע).
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Hallelujah - Information from Answers.com
The word is used in Judaism as part of the Hallel prayers, and in Christian prayer.
... the English language and has a similar pronunciation in many other languages
. ... In the Hebrew Bible hallelujah is actually a two-word phrase, not one word.
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Faggot (slang) - Information from Answers.com
Use of the word as a general insult, not necessarily implying homosexuality, is
either a ... The Yiddish word faygele, lit. ... in the English-speaking world, but the
extent to which they are used in this ... The 2001 song "American Triangle" by
Elton John and Bernie Taupin uses the phrase God hates fags where we come
from.
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Comrade - Information from Answers.com
"Comrade" has often become a stock phrase and form of address. ... In English,
the first known use of the word with this meaning was in 1884 in the socialist ..... (
The same word exists also in Yiddish, from which is derived the colloquial ...
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List of English words containing q not followed by u - Wikipedia, the ...
Like 32 of the 71 other English words that use a q not followed by a u, souq is of
... in their own entry in a dictionary; words which occur only as part of a longer
phrase .... or sheqalim; more commonly written shekel, Hebrew שקל, Yiddish ניי-
שקל ...
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