I'm glad someone likes this and comes by that like honestly, because...I don't. If you come up to me after an hour of singing in poetic, high-toned Yiddish asking about the etymology of spatula, I will throw a hardbound copy of Weinreich at your head.
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Joshua Raclaw
I have now heard multiple people talk about how they first thought the word “spatula” came from Yiddish (by analogy with words like bubbaleh and mamaleh and tateleh) and it remains the most adorable folk etymology on the planet
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