"Nigga" untrademarkable?

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Wilson Gray wrote:

> About thirty years ago, a friend of mine told me that she didn't care to be
> referred to as a "Jew" or to hear other people referred to that way. She
> preferred "Jewish."

"In fact, I'm not really a _Jew_.  Just Jew-_ish_.  Not the whole hog, you
know."
        Jonathan Miller, _Beyond the Fringe_ (1960)

Fred Shapiro

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