Saturday, November 08, 2008

The G Word

Is there any reason (other than sheer coincidence) why so many words for "outsider" begin with the letter "G"? See, e.g.:
Source:Nationmaster.com. All those except "gentile" and "goy" (i.e., all those in Italics) are deemed not fully assimilated into English.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No idea but I believe you forget Gringo.