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Yekke means (sometimes mildly derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Yekke..
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/ˈjɛkə/ · noun
(sometimes mildly derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Yekke..
“No harm has been done,” he says, his supple Yiddish fitted with a stiffening wire of the German accent to which he and his fellow yekkes, even after sixty years, stubbornly cling.
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Yekke means (sometimes mildly derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Yekke..
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“No harm has been done,” he says, his supple Yiddish fitted with a stiffening wire of the German accent to which he and his fellow yekkes, even after sixty years, stubbornly cling.
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