NYT on Daniel Cassidy

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Joel Berson wrote:

>> ...  In a
>> fast-paced spiel (speal, cutting, sharp speech) [snip]
>
> "spiel" from the Irish?!!  I presume one could
> argue more cogently from the Yiddish.

oh, it just gets better.

possibly from German, as the OED has it.  but surely Germanic.

i know, Cassidy would say that the OED is just prejudiced against Irish.

arnold

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