Re: Borrowing a word

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> Really? I've never heard that, and I've never lived in an
> area with a large concentration of Yiddish speakers.  I've
> always heard [hUtsp@] when not [xUtsp@].
I heard my mother the native German speaker (who of course had no
trouble with [x]) say it, and was scandalized.  She wasn't the person
to mispronounce a word read at sight, so her pronunciation had to have
a source.  (I corrected her at once, of course.)

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