Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

> True. Yiddish orthography doesn't map well to German, and never was
> supposed to. Of course, it's only relatively recently that
> Yiddish has a consistent orthography. I've seen old Yiddish
> documents that have all kinds of bizarre spellings, before
> things got regularized.

However, the parallelism between German "W" and Yiddish <double vav> is
remarkable and, probably, not casual. But, of course, this doesn't mean that
the *whole* Yiddish spelling is derived from German.

_ Marco