Born to Kvetch
Chapter 3: Something Else to Kvetch About
YIDDISH DIALECTS

Born to Kvetch extract:

Imagine a situation in which one half of the U.S.A. pronounced "poodle" to rhyme with "toodle,” the other half pronounced it "piddle,” and each resented the other for doing so. If you change the Americans to Jews and forget about English, you’ll have a fairly accurate portrait of conversational Yiddish—a language in which you can’t open your mouth without finding out that, no matter what you’re saying, you’re saying it wrong.

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