Are you English? Or Scottish? Probably not.
Nope, plain 'Murican. That doesn't answer my question, though. Why is the guy "Jewish" and not just a Jew?
You completely missed my point... it is because of the English language and how it goes together, that's why.
From Dictionary.com Ish - a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to” (British; Danish; English; Spanish); “after the manner of,” “ ...
True, an Englishman is "English" but a person from Denmark is a "Dane" while someone from Spain is a Spaniard. A person from Germany is just a plain "German" so why isn't a Jew just a Jew?
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