Re: [Cz-L] Question

Andrew,
  Drei Kaese Hoch is German for Tiddler.
   Good colloquial German.
    Nothing specific Czernowitzerisch.
     Cz. German Press was in Hochdeutsch.
Hardy
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From: "Andrew Halmay" <venivici_at_rogers.com>
To: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:44 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Question


> Some of the phrases cropping up in our correspondence are starting to
> sound familiar to this linguistic Goy. What about Drei Kaese Hoch? (A
> little person - three cheese lumps high) I was called that by a Cz
> newspaper in a review of my dancing debut at age five or six. Is that
> Yiddish or German?
> Andy

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