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"Di soyne"

An early German Klezmer group (early 1980s) sang "Shtil di nakht iz
oysgeshternt" and when they came to the word "soyne", they clearly were
reading it in english and pronounced the initial "s" as a "z" as in German,
so "dem soynes karavan" [the enemie's caravan] became "dem zoyne's karavan"
[the prostitute's caravan]. - Itzik



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Department of Germanic Studies
University of Texas at Austin
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