Sunday, 30 June 2013
Some Say Spelling of a Winning Word Wasn’t Kosher
Or so say mavens of Yiddish about the winning word, knaidel, in the widely televised Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. Knaidel is the matzo ball or dumpling that Jewish cooks put in chicken soup. But somebody may have farblondjet, or gone astray, the Yiddish experts say. The preferred spelling has historically been kneydl, according to transliterated Yiddish orthography decided upon by linguists at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the organization based in Manhattan
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