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To: nickcarraway

Aren’t the roots of “Shyster” in “Shylock” from Shakespeare’s Othello? Is that really that hard to figure out?


8 posted on 05/06/2013 12:57:01 PM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: vmivol00

More likely from the German, as in “shoveling scheiss”.


9 posted on 05/06/2013 1:01:49 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: vmivol00; Calvin Locke

Why would Shyster come from Shylock? The character was not a lawyer, and I would characterize him as being a shyster? If anything, he was stickler on exact terms.


11 posted on 05/06/2013 1:35:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: vmivol00
Shylock is a character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (London: Hayes, 1600)
14 posted on 05/06/2013 1:52:11 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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