Chutzpah interpretation of Hamlet set against the backdrop of Kashmir in the midst of political conflict, the protagonist uses the word chutzpah which they pronounce as /'tʃʊtspə/ instead of /ˈhʊtspə/ or /ˈxʊtspə/ to describe India's way of treating the people of Kashmir since the beginning of the conflict. This pronunciation sounds more like Indian slang. The Polish word "hucpa" (pronounced [ˈxut͜spa]) is also derived from this term, although its meaning is closer to "insolence" or "arrogance", and so it is typically used in a more negative sense instead of denoting a positive description of someone's audacity. Similarly, the German form of
Yiddish phonology Yiddish. Yiddish deaffricates the Middle High German voiceless labiodental affricate to initially (as in "funt"; though this pronunciation is also quasi-standard throughout northern and central Germany); /pf/ surfaces as an unshifted medially or finally (as in and ). Additionally, final voiced stops appear in Standard Yiddish but not Northern Standard German. Yiddish phonology There is significant phonological variation among the various Yiddish dialects. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th century and is frequently encountered in pedagogical contexts. As in the Slavic languages with which Yiddish was long in contact