September 7, 2014 Sunday "ish"

Reading the Merriam Webster Dictionary Backwards

September 7, 2014  Sunday

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I would love to hear your comments and experiences with any of these words...

This is the start of the "Y's."  It will be more challenging than the "X's" because there are five pages instead of four.

This is one of my favorites, similar to the "zig" and "zag" that initially hooked me:

-y: suffix: defined as "ish"


   I heard a Jewish doctor in New York tell a patient to come back in two weeks.  She said, "In two weeks?  Exactly?"
   He looked at her, held his hand up and rotated it back and forth, and simply said, "ish."
   No other explanation was needed.  I miss that humor.



yahoo: an uncouth person.  If capitalized as "Yahoo," this is from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: a  member of a race of brutes who have the form and vices of man.