insuperable

Pronounced: in-SOO-pruh-bull (alt: in-SOO-puh-ruh-bull), adj

Notes: A borderline word

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Yesterday’s word

The word shadchan is “a matchmaker or a marriage-broker”

First usage

Our word came into English in the late 1800s

Background / Comments

I laughed… and then I wondered. If you looked at the pronunciation yesterday, our word sounds very much like “shotgun” … the thought of a “shadchan wedding” made me laugh. But then I wondered if the phrase “shotgun wedding” might not have come from hearing our word mispronounced. Our word came from the Yiddish word shadkhan, which came from Hebrew.