-stein names: -stine, or -steen?

[Laurence Horn]

>On 1/14/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  At 12:10 PM -0500 1/12/06, Amy West wrote:
>>  >I know zippo Yiddish.
>>
>>  ...not to be confused with Zeppo Yiddish, in turn closely related to
>>  Groucho Yiddish, Chico Hispano-Yiddish, and Harpo YSL (that's Yiddish
>>  sign language, not Yves St.-Laurent).
>>
>>  --Larry, an old-time Marxist
>
>Hmm, could've sworn Chico was Italo-Yiddish

Yup; my bad(do).

>.
>
>IMDb's mini-bio says "Chico" was originally pronounced "Chick-o"
>because he liked to chase "chicks", but people assumed he was
>"Cheek-o" because of the Italian accent.
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
>a Marxist-Lennonist in the Firesignian tradition