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"Sheitel" is a word on the national spelling bee! Well, at least I can spell one of these words.

Date: 2008-05-31 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rustydog.livejournal.com
Ooh, I'd have to be careful even trying to pronounce that! :) How does it go?

Date: 2008-05-31 04:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taffimai.livejournal.com
Shay-tel. Easy-peasy!

It's a yiddish word, means a wig that a married orthodox women uses as a hair covering for modesty.

Date: 2008-05-31 06:13 am (UTC)
hllangel: Puppy with a stick. (Default)
From: [personal profile] hllangel
Now if only I could remember what that meant (all those years of playing Oy Vey bingo should have stuck, but apparently not...)

Date: 2008-05-31 06:14 am (UTC)
hllangel: Puppy with a stick. (Default)
From: [personal profile] hllangel
*notices above comment* I'd never have remembered that one.

Date: 2008-05-31 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taffimai.livejournal.com
Well, considering that my sister wears one, it would be odd for me not to remember. :)

Date: 2008-06-01 02:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
When "tichel" makes it, then we'll *know* Yiddish has made the mainstream. :-)

Date: 2008-06-01 06:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taffimai.livejournal.com
Hee, yes!

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