Cash, it's good to see you here. I'm hoping you are back to feeling somewhat better after your bout with flu.
That's not the point, which I suspect you already know. The point is that "jew" and "gyp" are exact parallels, synonyms for "cheat" which embody negative cultural stereotypes about Jews and Gypsies, respectively. Both are in current usage, though "gypped" seems to be more common.
I confess to having used the word "gypped" freely in my youth, as it was commonly heard. Not having seen it written out, I imagined it spelled as "jipped". When I did see it in print, realized it was less savory than I thought, I released it from my vocabulary.
chutzpah (a word I love, and learnt from The Girl)
Living in Brooklyn, it cracks me up that "chutzpah" would ever have to be explained.
You Brits, with your lifts and your lorries and your extra u's and your lack of Yiddish slang.
You Brits, with your lifts and your lorries and your extra u's and your lack of Yiddish slang.
And spanners! Only a Brit would throw a spanner in the works.
eta: And torches! Brits have electric torches, somewhat like our flashlights....
The Girl thinks he should play a dead patient. This would be something of a waste of his genius, though.
He does not have to start out dead. Have him do a death scene.
You Brits, with your lifts and your lorries and your extra u's
You'd think that as long as they've been using English they'd have it right by now.
I am giggling at the Brit-bashing.
Admittedly, this is because I'm half Irish.
ETA:
Only a Brit would throw a spanner in the works.
Do you actually throw a wrench in the works? That just sounds odd. (The Girl, being an American citizen, is always talking about AJs. The first time she asked me to pass one, I thought she was taking the piss.)
ETA again: She's just told me that AJ is not American. Never mind. Friends and I regularly laugh when she says things like "make a left" (what, dig up the road so as to make one? It's turn left) and similar.
I love it, but I'm sure that when I say it reminds people of Mikey Kellerman mispronouncing "Oy vey is mir...I'm so meshugennah, I could plotz."
Although I have a special soft spot for "kvelling" which is surprisingly hard for an unhappy Lutheran girl in the desert to work into conversation. I try, though.
ETA: I'm mostly not excited enough to give anything a full "kvell" but it's a great word, isn't it?
OMG, I'm really hoping I'm not having a Gosselin "The Judaica is teh awesome!!1" moment, there.
Because I think those things are awesome, and I'm eating pastrami on rye right now AIFG, but I hope you know I don't mean it in a douchey, appropriate-y way.
