[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements--looking for a dialect informant

[Victor Bers]

MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature

Personal Notices and Announcements

Feb. 20, 2009

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*From:* manasterramer at yahoo.com 

*Subject:* how to pronounce some words and expressions 

*Received:* Mon Dec 22 17:48:55 2008 [sic!—untershames]

    

I am looking for someone who says deirekh and eirets (so probably someone

of polish or ukrainian rather than lithuanian origins) and want to ask them to pronounce a few words for me.

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