ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 21

March 2004
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest :enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities
Numbers predictions | Non numbers
Enigma control list update | Single letter beacons
Propagation and noise | CVNI schedules
Ana Belen Montes : Fidel's pal in Pentagon | Non-standard German numerals
Spam experiences | Euston tower
News Items | Web sites | Stop press | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home


ENIGMA 2000 article - An interesting thought on the “non-standard German” numerals

An additional piece from Down Under:

By John from Aus.

Returning to “non-standard German” mentioned numerous times in past bulletins, here is a table of the spoken names for numerals in both German and Yiddish, provided for me by a friend whose family moved to Australia from Germany just after Kristallnacht.

Numeral German Yiddish
0 null nul
1 eins ein
2 zwei tsvei
3 drei drei
4 vier fier
5 funf finef
6 sechs seks
7 sieben sibben
8 acht acht
9 neun nein

 

Could it be that the numerous “German” numbers stations we hear are, in fact, speaking Yiddish? Oy Gevalt!

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Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities
Numbers predictions | Non numbers
Enigma control list update | Single letter beacons
Propagation and noise | CVNI schedules
Ana Belen Montes : Fidel's pal in Pentagon | Non-standard German numerals
Spam experiences | Euston tower
News Items | Web sites | Stop press | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home

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