Actually, I think 'schmuck' may be German too. Jewellery or summat.

I think it's derived from the same source as German, but I always get confused when trying to understand language sources.


I just found this diagram, which doesn't make it any clearer, but looks like it could be fun to examine at some point.

Yiddish, English, Dutch and German are all in the bottom left, all derived from West Germanic roots at various levels.


Of course, with Schedule coming from a Latin word, I guess none of those pronunciations are much help. :/

I'm with Milko on this one.

Someone resolve this please. I need to know. I have scheduling to do.

So I bothered to look it up (I see it around) and, Yiddish aside, in German 'schmuck' means jewellery.

You can follow Peter, or you can be right. the final choice is yours and yours only.

 

Given that you're with Milko and Milko's with you, and you don't know where you are, perhaps you should go sailing.

I'd like to sail in a Sloop. A proper wooden one.

I'm sitting on the fence until someone lands the knockout blow.

Dinosaurs are extinct. Knock yourself out!

You just blew your credibility :Y

I never really claimed any. But it should be a mere bagatelle for you to prove me wrong with a photograph taken from your bedroom (since it's not likely to be taken from outside ROFL)

Just because I called you Swiss :'S

The chocolate is shite :'(

Aye it is. But you're closer to Belgium (hugleft)

I think you all are crazy.

 

My "schedule" is pronounced like...

 

"chaos"

 

so.. ch-ow-ss

Hmmm. I suspect, newcomer, that you are an "American" and as such your testimony here seems to indicate that Peter Boughton of the United Kingdom was correct while Truffy Bastard of the Helvetic Confederation is wrong.

How do you feel about this?

And: Tea?

In addition to feeling slightly dizzy, I feel certain that you are correct.

 

and tea?

 

I feel that it is the bridge between cultures and it will one day help us become a united, peaceful world.

I was less asking for your opinion on tea, welcome and indeed correct as that is, and more offering you a cup of it.

Tea?

ah.

 

if that be the case...

 

then...

 

yes.

 

Tea.

 

pronounced

 

TEE

Yes, TEE. Not THOHE-WAY, as Americans tend to say it.

<pours a nice cup of Ceylon and brings a tray of cupcakes and spotted dicks>

this is a delicious encounter.