21 June 2010

The Final Week - schlepping around.. Soccer World Cup, Bye-bye Carisbrook..


I think "schlepping" is Yiddish - a linguistic cross between Hebrew & German.
At a guess, i'd say the name is a 'corruption' of 'Judisch' or something similar (I know a few words of German, just..).
Anyway, i think it's a wonderfully expressive word - i like it, so i use it; means (AFAIK) what we might call 'traipsing around', poking into this & that (i Hope that's what it means!)..

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