Here is a story written in Yiddish, phonetically and translated
Enjoy!!!
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a nomen gebn dos kind
Naming the child
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siz geven a mol a shuster vos iz nit a’durkh’gekimen mit zayn froy
There was once a cobbler that was haggleing with his wife
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voser nomen tzu gebn zeyer kind vos vet geborn vern, oyb es vet
what name to give their child, that will be born, should he be a boy.
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zayn a ying. er hut davka gevolt az dos kind zol heysn nokh zayn foter
He insisted the child be named after his father
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un zi hut zikh ge’akshent davka nokh ir foter. Zey hubn zikh
and she stubbornly demanded to name the child after her father.
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arum’getaynet a lengre tsayt biz zey hubn makhlit geven tzu geyn tzum
They squabbled over it for a long time, until they decided to go to the
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Rov, un vos er vet paskenen azoi vet zayn.
Rabbi and whatever ruling he will give, they will adhere to it.
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beyde gekumen tzum Rov, fregt er dem man
Both came to the rabbi, he asked the husband:
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Vayter.
again.
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dos kind Yakov, dos heyst Yankl un dernokh vet men shoyn zen,
the time being let the child be named Yacov, I mean Yankel, and
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oyb er vet oysvaksn a shuster vet er heysn nokhn zeydn fun
then we wait and see, If he will grow up to be a cobbler
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dem foters tsad un oyb a shnayder, nokhn zeydn fun di muters
he will be named after the grandfather from the father’s side and if
he’ll be a tailor he’ll be named after the grandfather from the mother’s side……