In German there is a the "ch" sound so peculiar to German speakers.
If you are no German you pronounse it "kh".
Listen to a german pronounce " Muenchen".
Read it out now . Does it sound the same ?
We had it by nature .
Because from birth we heard it right.
Imposed by caring parents.
This did not improve our grammar or spelling which was horrible.
We never learned German at school but spoke it with great gusto.
Kind of German anyhow.
What other choice did we have ? Rumanian was a foreign language ,
Yiddish ?
Well , our German wasn't far off ,anyway.
Whenever we were short of a term ,we reached out for the unlimited
linguistic resources at our disposal and came up with something :
Ruthenian, Rumanian, Russian or Yiddish -never at a loss.
The result was linguistic salad understandable only by local Jews.
Czernowitzerisch.
Hardy
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