Reply To: Enough with the yiddish already

I see, would tante be more appropriate for every day usage though? Someone in shul told me he thought they were using some sort of hungarian word which when he pronounced it sounded like “meemeh” (long e at the beginning and short e at the end) instead of a yiddish word. I know less hungarian than yiddish, so I don’t know if he was pulling my leg or being serious.