Re: [Cz-L] Genisigt

Hi Mimi
You are right, we also said "en gros," which means "in bulk" in
French. I do not remember exactly whether one said "en detail (most
probably) or au detail, which is in correct French retail.
But we also used Hort for wholesale, which I think has a slavic source
and Lechudim, a Heberw source.
Paul Pessach Heger

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> As I remember it, we said "angro" for wholesale and some other French
> sounding word, which I do not remember, for single buyers.
> Since we spoke Austrian German, we used a lot of French words, such as:
> Plafond, trottoir, chaussee.
>
> Mimi
>
>
> On 10/22/10 5:20 PM, "Paul Heger" <pheger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> A similar story happened to me; In  Czernowitz we said
>> "Hort" for Wholesale and "lechudim" for retail. Since Lechudim sounds
>> slavic I thought that it has a slavic source. When I arrived in
>> Palestine in 1940 I saw on the store signs "Besitonut Weleyichidim"
>> and I grasped that Leyichidim" to sigle buyers was the source of the
>> Czernowitzer Lechudim.
>> Paul Pessach Heger

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