[Cz-L] The sound of Czernowitz.

First all the Jews spoke German as brought from the Rhine valley in middle
ages.
  On the way it absorbed all necessary addition.
  But the phraseology stayed the same.
   The unique German breaking of basic verbs putting half of it at
  the sentence start and the other the end is preserved in Yiddish.
   So, when the Habsburgs came, the Jews embraced the language and
German revived.
 But the grammar was simplified with only one past and conditional tense.
  Also pronuntiation.
    Take the German Pf.
    In German a horse is a Pferd in Cz it was a Ferd.
    Kopf is Kop,
    Pfeffer is Feffer.
      Pfirsich is Firsich.
      Pfund is Funt.
     Pfennig is Fennig,
     "Er geht feifen instead " of pfeifen for going to pieces.
     ( I apologize to all who pronounce properly but I
       have not very often encountered many who do.)
      Just listen to the Cz-er as he speaks.
       Czernowitzerisch.
  Hardy
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