What is the origin of the practice of a dispraging a word by saying the word than dropping the first letter and replacing it with "schm?" For example, if you don't like baseball, you would say "baseball schmaseball."
The Straight Dope replies: It comes from Yiddish, of course. You have to ask?
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
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