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By Anatoly Liberman Probably no other ethnic group has been vilified with so much linguistic ingenuity as the Jews. For the moment I will leave out of account Kike and Smouch and say what little I can about Sheeny , a word first recorded in English in 1824 (so the OED ). (An aside. There was a time when lexicographers did not dare to mention the F -word and the “low” names of the genitals and bodily functions, or some law prohibited them from doing so. The sexual revolution emancipa |