On Feb 27, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Glen Zorn <glenzorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/27/2013 03:46 PM, Stefan Winter wrote: >> Hi, > > > >> [...] ferkakte [...] > > > > As a German, I'm now torn apart between being flattered that we've > > successfully exported a German word to the U.S. and being > > speechlessly shocked by the way spelling was b0rked in the process. > > I believe that it's actually Yiddish. yup: http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/dictionary/display.php?action=search&type=rom&word=farkakt still my bet would be that this Yiddish word has Germanic origins…. Klaas