significant "Gooks"

[Jonathan Lighter]

58:48 too, but I doubt anyone unfamiliar with the word would have caught it.

JL


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:41 PM, <sclements at neo.rr.com> wrote:

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> gook, as in "goose."
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> Full movie available on youtube(for now) at
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocmbA4crf88
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> 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.)
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> You guys owe me for that two+ hours I just spent watching this.
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> samclem
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> ---- 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
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> > --bgz
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