Re: goy

[Rick Turkel <rturkel...>]

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:
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>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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