significant "Gooks"

[sclements at NEO.RR.COM]

gook, as in "goose."

Full movie available on youtube(for now) at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocmbA4crf88

At 127:23 of the movie.  Also, a possible use at 58:48 where a fight in a cantina causes a local woman to be called same(to my ear.)

You guys owe me for that two+ hours I just spent watching this.

samclem

---- Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> [...]
> > Significant because it's clearly spoken in an early talkie seen by millions
> > - very possibly the general public's introduction to the term.
> >
> > 1929 Ralph Graves & Frank Capra _Flight_ (film): The last time I saw them,
> > they were chasing some gooks down a canyon.
> >
> > With a biplane. In Nicaragua.
>
> Inquiring minds want to know... was it pronounced /guk/ or /gUk/?
>
> See our 2005 discussion:
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0503C&L=ADS-L&P=R8930&I=-3
>
> --bgz
>
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> Ben Zimmer
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