In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/21/2005
at 09:06 AM, "Edward E. Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It is Yiddish: spelled and pronounced "Schlemozzle".
Yiddish is written using Hebrew[1] letters; anything that you see
using the Roman alphabet is simply a transliteration and is
intrinsically nonstandard. I believe that the word is a composit of a
German shlie meaning without and a Hebrew mazal meaning luck.
[1] Well, really Aramaic
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