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  • It strikes me, concerning bi-lingual abilities of the canonical five, as the ladies all resided in or near Whitechapel, with it's Jewish population (mostly from eastern and middle Europe) they probably picked up some Yiddish terms (like "schmuck" or "schlemiel" or "goniff"). If any used the term "kaibosh" (as in "to put the kaibosh on that plan of yours!" meaning to stop the plan), that's a "Yiddishism". In fact, Charles Dickens used it in one of his novels.

    I doubt if they would have picked up Hebrew, unless some had a regular customer who was a religious type or rabbinical student.

    Jeff

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