In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/21/2005
at 08:46 PM, Ron and Jenny Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I think Shane made a typo - he may have meant "shemozzle."
Neither one is a word in any language with which I am familiar. He
might have been confusing shlemiel with shliemazal and then lost an
Ell somewhere along the line.
>I always thoughtthis was an Australian colloquialism, but it appears
>that it is actually Yiddish.
Well, shlemiel and shliemazal are Yiddish, but AFAIK "shemozzle" isn't
anything. Are you sure that what you heard in the land of Oz didn't
have an L in the first syllable?
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