keinehora, Yiddish - pronounced Cana hara
Living in NYC for years --- if you said, for example...
''I know she'll get that job,'' (innocent, right?)
Quickly a Jewish friend would say, ''No! That's a Kanahara!!''...like jinxing her.
Funny superstition.
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