More Desk Calendar-related Musings
Feb. 2nd, 2005 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
av8rmikeI also own, in addition to the paper airplanes one, the 2005 Yiddish Word-a-Day calendar, courtesy of my dad and stepmother. There's a lot of things I'd never remember, especially in casual conversation, but I was struck by the way certain familiar words are spelled:
The word for grandfather, familiar to many Jewish youngsters: zeyde, pronounced `zA-d&.
"Grandmother" is pronounced b&-`bE, but spelled "bobe".
"Mother" is pronounced `ma-me, and is spelled "mame".
My favorite, the word for "father" is pronounced `ta-te, and is spelled "tater".
What a mishpocha*. "I'd like you to meet my dad, Tater, and my gramma Bob." Come to think of it, I think I once met a guy named Tater. Anyway, I'm off to khap a nash** at my tater's home.
*: mish-`po-[h]&, "family"
**: kop a nosh, "grab a bite (a nosh)"
Pronounciation symbols from: here
The word for grandfather, familiar to many Jewish youngsters: zeyde, pronounced `zA-d&.
"Grandmother" is pronounced b&-`bE, but spelled "bobe".
"Mother" is pronounced `ma-me, and is spelled "mame".
My favorite, the word for "father" is pronounced `ta-te, and is spelled "tater".
What a mishpocha*. "I'd like you to meet my dad, Tater, and my gramma Bob." Come to think of it, I think I once met a guy named Tater. Anyway, I'm off to khap a nash** at my tater's home.
*: mish-`po-[h]&, "family"
**: kop a nosh, "grab a bite (a nosh)"
Pronounciation symbols from: here
