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.)
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!")
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.
To: vmivol00
Shylock is a character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (London: Hayes, 1600)
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