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Re: goy
- From: Rick Turkel <rturkel...>
- Subject: Re: goy
- Date: Thu 10 Aug 1995 21.30 (GMT)
In article <3vrb0d$b6q (at) zip(dot)eecs(dot)umich(dot)edu>,
Matthew H. Fields <fields (at) zip(dot)eecs(dot)umich(dot)edu> wrote:
>
>And "goys" is derived from "goy", too. Does anybody actually say "goyim"
>in Yiddish? I'd heard "Di goy"...
Most definitely! "Goys" is not a legitimate word, not in Hebrew (the
original source of the word), not in Yiddish (which almost always uses
Hebrew plurals for Hebrew-derived words, and whence it was borrowed into
English), and not in English either. The only time I've ever heard
"goys" was from a monolingual English speaker who didn't know any
better. Even Webster cites "goyim" as the only plural.
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