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So, today, after Mitt Romney found a new fondness in using the word “tumult” during tonight’s debate I learnt that the origin of the word, in fact, is a true English word entering the lexicon in Middle English (circa 15th Century), and not a Yiddish crossover word as many other Yiddish words that have entered the standard American-English lexicon, as I always assumed.
I think the only word he said more times than ‘tumult’ was ‘Israel’
LOL, my son asked me why Romney was using Yiddish expressions.
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