Brandon Berg <bberg@cesmail.net> wrote:
>
>"Daihard" <daihardM3@yahoo_NOSPAM_.com> wrote in message
>news:Ux1Ia.16491$Nf.39555@sea-read.news.verio.net...
>> It's "back shan."  The word "shan" came from the German "schoen" ('oe' is
>> really an 'o' with umlaut), which means "beautiful." It's actually a
>fairly
>> old term.  I'm not sure they use it anymore.
>
>Isn't that pronounced "shayn" and not "shahn?" Or should I stop taking
>German lessons from Wayne Newton?

Wayne Newton sang it in Yiddish, not German.

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