/use/," "Ich kann es nicht /ständen/" and "mein /stallion/ hat über die /fenz gescheumpt/ und dem nachbar sein /whiet/ abscheulich /gedämätscht/."[52] The use of /gleiche/ for /to like/, by false analogy from /gleich/ (=/like/, /similar/) is characteristic. In the same way the Scandinavians in the Northwest corrupt their native Swedish and Dano-Norwegian. Thus, American-Norwegian is heavy with such forms as /strit-kar/, /reit-evé/, /nekk-töi/ and /staits-pruessen/, for /street-car/, /right away/, /necktie/ and /states-prison/, and admits such phrases as "det /meka/ ingen /difrens/."[53] The changes that Yiddish has undergone in America, though rather foreign to the present inquiry, are interesting enough to be noticed. First of all, it has admitted into its vocabulary a large number of everyday substantives, among them /boy/, /chair/, /window/, /carpet/, /floor/, /dress/, /hat/, /watch/, /ceiling/, /consumption/, /property/, /trouble/, /bother/, /match/, /change/, /party/, /birthday/, /picture/, /paper/ (only in the sense of /newspaper/), /gambler/, /show/, /hall/, /kitchen/, /store/, /bedroom/, /key/, /mantelpiece/, /closet/, /lounge/, /broom/, /tablecloth/, /paint/, /landlord/, /fellow/, /tenant/, /shop/, /wages/, /foreman/, /sleeve/, /collar/, /cuff/, /button/, /cotton/, /thimble/, /needle/, /pocket/, /bargain/, /sale/, /remnant/, /sample/, /haircut/, /razor/, /waist/, /basket/, /school/, /scholar/, /teacher/, /baby/, /mustache/, /butcher/, /grocery/, /dinner/, /street/ and /walk/. And with them many characteristic Americanisms, [Pg156] for example, /bluffer/, /faker/, /boodler/, /grafter/, /gangster/, /crook/, /guy/, /kike/, /piker/, /squealer/, /bum/, /cadet/, /boom/, /bunch/, /pants/, /vest/, /loafer/, /jumper/, /stoop/, /saleslady/, /ice-box/ and /raise/, with their attendant verbs and adjectives. These words are used constantly; many of them have quite crowded out the corresponding Yiddish words. For example, /ingel/, meaning /boy/ (it is a Slavic loan-word in Yiddish), has been obliterated by the English word. A Jewish immigrant almost invariably refers to his son as his /boy/, though strangely enough he calls his daughter his /meidel/. "Die /boys/ mit die /meidlach/ haben a good time" is excellent American Yiddish. In the same way /fenster/ has been completely displaced by /window/, though /tür/ (=/door/) has been left intact. /Tisch/ (=/table/) also remains, but /chair/ is always used, probably because few of the Jews had chairs in the old country. There the /beinkel/, a bench without a back, was in use; chairs were only for the well-to-do. /Floor/ has apparently prevailed because no invariable corresponding word was employed at home: in various parts of Russia and Poland a floor is a /dill/, a /podlogé/, or a /bricke/. So with /ceiling/. There were six different words for it.