Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
This week on Schott’s Vocab (a blog by Ben Schott for the NY Times), vocabularists were invited to pose questions to Michael Wex (Born to Kvetch, How to Be a Mentsh and Not a Shmuck, Just Say Nu). Questions included: Can you tell me anything about the word “broiges” or “broygas”?, Anyone have the etymology of the explicative “feh!” (expresses disgust and disdain)?, Is faklempt a real Yiddish word – or something that was invented on SNL’s Coffee Talk?
For the answers to these questions, and more, please visit part 1 and part 2 of the post: