slang

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Josh Dresner
July 2007

What's that they're saying? Here, our London correspondent Josh decodes all that awesome British Jewish slang. Check it out.

There's Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, most of us know some Yiddish and some have spoken Ladino, but what are Jews speaking now?

British Jewish teenagers have invented their own unique slang for everyday life. It's a mixture of English, Yiddish and modern Hebrew. Here are the top five ‘Jewish words' that we use every day.

1) Frummer: A description of someone who is religious.

Example: If you are out with your mates, and someone shows up in black with a top hat, you might say, “I didn't know you turned frummer.”



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