Re: A sound change question...

Joe scripsit:

> > chutzpah?
>
> Not a word I'm familiar with, I'm afraid.
A borrowing from Yiddish of ultimately Hebrew origin:  ['xUtsp@].  It means
brass (not money, but the other kind), impudence, unbelievable gall.
What a man has who kills his father and his mother and then throws himself
on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he is an orphan.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"If he has seen farther than others,
        it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves."
                --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)