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-This is the ITP sandbox for Corpora!
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 # Corpora
 
 This project is a collection of static corpora (plural of "corpus") that are potentially useful in the creation of weird internet stuff. I've found that, as a creator, sometimes I am making something that needs access to a lot of adjectives, but not necessarily every adjective in the English language. So for the last year I've been copy/pasting an `adjs.json` file from project to project. This is kind of awful, so I'm hoping that this project will at least help me keep everything in one place.
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+{
+  "description": "a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.",
+  "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin",
+  "nouns": [
+    "Bagel",
+    "Blintz",
+    "Bris",
+    "Boychik",
+    "Bupkis",
+    "Chutzpah",
+    "Daven",
+    "Dreck",
+    "Dybbuk",
+    "Fleishig",
+    "Ganef",
+    "Gelt",
+    "Glitch",
+    "Golem",
+    "Goy",
+    "Haimish",
+    "handel",
+    "Huck",
+    "Kasha",
+    "Khazeray",
+    "Kibitz",
+    "Klutz",
+    "Knish",
+    "Kosher",
+    "Kvell",
+    "kvetch",
+    "Latke",
+    "Litvak",
+    "Lox",
+    "Mamzer",
+    "Maven",
+    "Mazel tov",
+    "Megillah",
+    "Mensch",
+    "Meshuga",
+    "Meshugaas",
+    "Milchig",
+    "Minyan",
+    "Mishpocha",
+    "Naches",
+    "Narrischkeit",
+    "Nebbish",
+    "Noodge",
+    "Nosh",
+    "Nu",
+    "Nudnik",
+    "Oy vey",
+    "Pareve",
+    "Pisher",
+    "Potch",
+    "Plotz",
+    "Putz",
+    "Schav",
+    "Schlemiel",
+    "Schlep",
+    "Schlimazel",
+    "schlock",
+    "Schlong",
+    "Schlub",
+    "Schmaltz",
+    "Schmatta",
+    "Schmeer",
+    "Schmo",
+    "Schmooze",
+    "Schmuck",
+    "Schmutter",
+    "Schmutz",
+    "Schnook",
+    "Schnorrer",
+    "Schnoz",
+    "Schvartze",
+    "Schvitz",
+    "Shabbos",
+    "Shammes",
+    "Shamus",
+    "Shegetz",
+    "Shemozzle",
+    "Shikker",
+    "Shiksa",
+    "Shmendrik",
+    "Shtetl",
+    "Shtiebel",
+    "Shtick",
+    "Shtup",
+    "Shul",
+    "Spiel",
+    "Spritz",
+    "Tchotchke",
+    "Tref",
+    "Tsuris",
+    "Tuchus",
+    "Tummler",
+    "Tush",
+    "Tzimmes",
+    "Vigorish",
+    "Verklempt",
+    "Yarmulke",
+    "Yekke",
+    "Yenta",
+    "Yiddish",
+    "Yontef",
+    "Yutz",
+    "Zaftig"
+  ]
+}