[Cz-L] Shil and Shul

There is at least one Latin word in Judeo-Italian: "synagogue" is scola, as
opposed to "school," which is scuola. The use of words for "school" to mean
"synagogue" dates back to the Roman Empire. The Judeo-Italian distinction
between scola and scuola parallels the Standard Yiddish distinction
betweenshil 'synagogue' and shul 'school'(many, perhaps most, Yiddish
dialects do not make this distinction.) In the United States, a new
distinction has arisen in the English of East European Jews: shul and not
shil is 'synagogue', which is distinguished from school, simply the English
word.

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Hardy
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