The Kvetch From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: August 24, 2007| Author: Wex, Michael | Copyright The Jewish Week Aug 24, 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Elul Speak

Michael Wex

We're into the month of EIuI now, when we're supposed to begin examining our deeds and telling the truth to God and ourselves. Contempt for the kind of b.s. that we use to justify our dodgier actions has given rise to one of the most remarkable, not to mention useful, of Yiddish phrases: veys ikh voos (literally, "I know what"; more literally, "know I whaf).

Uriel Weinreich, in his "Modern EnglishYiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary" translates it as ...

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