Yid

Date: 2017-06-11 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I think that Leo Rosten – The Joys of Yiddish is reasonably authoritative.

Yid. Pronounced YEED, to rhyme with "deed." (If you pronounce it YID, to rhyme with "did," you will be guilty of a faux pas: "YID" is offensive – and the way anti-Semites pronounce it.) From the German: Jude: "Jew" … A Jew (male or female).

Yid is a neutral term (if pronounced YEED, not YID)

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