>In a book that I'm reading in order to improve my English, there are some info about how the idiom has been created and also about its evolution, aggregating words from other languages, like French, German, Italian and Portuguese.
You forgot Yiddish! (and Hebrew, Spanish, and probably many more). It is a country of immigrants so it's only natural.
"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." -- Dave Barry
