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And you can say it in German!

When Mark was telling about what a Lumpenball is last week, he also brought up the German heritage behind another good Yorkism – saying something is “all.”

He writes: “Yorkers say that something’s all as in finished or out; comes directly from German – das gibts es alles – it means “there is nothing more.”

Es alles! Neat! A Yorkism that makes perfect sense.

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