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Yiddeshe Taam? I don’t think that the old names are any more Yiddish than the new ones. Let’s look at some old names:

Feivel – definitely yiddise taam

Prince Charming – all bnei yisroel are like princes so you can call it yiddish

anonymisss – sound English to me

xoxo – Chinese?

WolfishMusings – shouldn’t he have called himself Velvel?

shkoyach – Yiddishe taam

whatshaiches – yiddeshe taam

Doc – What’s up?

bugnot – speaking of bugs…

bugyes – again

mamashtakah – yiddeshe taam

rabbiofberlin – ah, the Rabbi of the yidden in Berlin where they speak Yiddish

illini07 – American

charlie brown – Good Grief! Not Yiddish

Curious – Englsih

beacon – English

Just Smile – English

Brooklyn19 – I guess Yiddish is spoken in Brooklyn

cokenotpepsi – English

ames – agent emes?

jphone – sounds Jewish

Mayan_Dvash – Hebrew

Bowzer – isn’t he the guy from Mario Bros? The guy with the nickname Bowzer is Jewish too according to Mr. Sandler’s Hannuka song but his nickname doesn’t sound too Yiddish

chofetzchaim – sounds Jewish

lgbg – could stand for something in Yiddish but who knows

NeveAliza – I guess that has Yiddishe taam

Shadow – English

Just Me – English

Feif Un – Yiddish

Areivimzehlazeh – Yiddishe taam

Jax – nickname for Yankev?

mepal – sounds like it could be a Hebrew word but who knows

kapusta – cabbage has a yiddishe taam

Goldieloxx – Yiddish version of an English story

JayMatt19 – Enlish version of a Jewish name?

mdlevine – A doctor and a Levy, definitly Jewish

Joseph – the yiddishe taam way to say this name is Yosef, Yossi, Yussele… Though he claims that ROB gave him this spelling and that the “J” is pronounced “Y”

Will Hill – Go Gators!

Hill of Beans – we call that cholent in Yiddish

THE BIG ONE – Jews are supposed to be anovim and not call themselves by such a name

Mezonos Maven – a yiddishe taam!

squeak – this reminds us that we are all small like mice, the opposite of the big one

noitallmr – anovim?