Editing Yeshivish (section)

==Patterns of usage==
Yeshivish is primarily a male-spoken dialect.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Talmid Chachams and Tsedeykeses: Language, Learnedness, and Masculinity Among Orthodox Jews |author=Sarah Bunin Benor |journal=Jewish Social Studies |date=Fall 2004 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=147–170 |doi=10.1353/jss.2005.0001|s2cid=162387113 }}</ref> Fathers and sons, particularly of teenage years and above, might speak Yeshivish, while mothers and daughters generally speak a milder variety of it, which generally features Yeshivish phonology but excludes many Talmudic words. This can be explained as much of the Yeshivish lexicon is learned in [[Yeshiva]] where the studying takes place using a specialist nomenclature. Familiarity with these terms develops and they are then re-applied to other situations. There is a higher incidence of Yeshivish being spoken amongst Orthodox Jews that are regularly involved in Torah study, or belong to a community that promotes its study.

Commonly used platitudes among Orthodox Jews are frequently expressed with their Yeshivish equivalent. Examples include using ''shkoyakh'' or ''shkoyekh'' for "thank you",<ref>{{cite web |last1=Aaron |first1=Moss |title=What Does 'Shkoyach' Mean? |url=https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2798155/jewish/What-Does-Shkoyach-Mean.htm |publisher=Chabad.org |access-date=7 May 2020}}</ref> a contraction from the Hebrew {{Script/Hebrew|יִישַׁר כּוֹחַ}} "Yishar Koach", which literally translates as "May your strength be firm" and is used to indicate to someone that they have done a good job, and ''Barukh HaShem'' (sometimes written as B"H, using the quotation mark used for abbreviations in Hebrew), meaning "Blessed is [[HaShem]] [The Name (of God)]". Yeshivish dialogue may include many expressions that refer to HaShem.

Some observers{{who|date=December 2024}} predict that the English variant of Yeshivish may develop further to the point that it could become one of the historical Judeo-hybrid languages like Yiddish, [[Judeo-Spanish]] or the [[Judeo-Arabic languages]]. Judeo-hybrid languages were spoken dialects which mixed elements of the local vernacular, Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish religious idioms. What Yiddish was to [[Middle High German]], Yeshivish may be to Standard American English. However, the integration of modern-day Jews with non-Jews may keep their speech from diverging as far from the standard language as it did in the past.{{cn|date=December 2024}}