Editing Yid (section)

==History==
The earliest printed mention of the word ''Yid'' in English was in ''[[The Slang Dictionary]]'' published by [[John Camden Hotten]] in 1874. Hotten noted that "The Jews use these terms very frequently."<ref name=kpearson/>

It is uncertain when the word began to be used in a pejorative sense by non-Jews, but some believe it started in the 20th century, likely in the 1930s when there was a large population of Jews and Yiddish speakers in [[East London]] where [[Oswald Mosley]] also had a strong following.<ref name=bbc>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/24240085 |title=The Y-word: Should Tottenham fans be allowed to use it? |date=27 September 2013 |work=BBC|access-date=14 June 2019}}</ref> Mosley's supporters were said to have chanted while marching through Jewish areas: "The Yids, the Yids, we gotta get rid of the Yids".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/britains-near-brush-with-fascism-the-politician-who-rooted-for-hitler/ |title=Britain's near-brush with Fascism: The politician who rooted for Hitler |first=Robert|last= Philpot |date=24 October 2017|work=The Times of Israel}}</ref> 

After [[World War II]], most examples of the word ''Yid'' are found in the writing of Jewish authors. These occurrences are usually either attempts to accurately portray antisemitic speech, or as [[self-deprecation|self-deprecating]] [[Jewish humor]]. In his 1968 bestseller ''[[The Joys of Yiddish]]'', Leo Rosten offers a number of anecdotes from the "[[Borscht Belt]]" to illustrate such usage.<ref name=kpearson/>

The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' indicates that the first attested use of the related term "yiddo" for a Jew appeared in 1972.<ref name=yiddo>{{cite web |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/74901654 |title=yiddo, n. |work=Oxford English Dicationary }}</ref> 

The words "yid" and "yiddo" have become commonly associated in Britain with [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C. supporters|fans of Tottenham Hotspur]] since the 1960s. In January 2020, the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' extended the definition of "yid" to "a supporter of or player for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (traditionally associated with the Jewish community in north and east London).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-january-2020/ |title=New words list January 2020 |work=Oxford English Dictionary }}</ref>

As of 2022, ''[[Merriam-Webster]]'', and the ''[[Cambridge Dictionary]]'' all categorize the word as "offensive".<ref>{{cite web |title="Yid" |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/yid |website=Cambridge Dictionary |access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Yid" |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Yid |website=Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary |access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref> ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', however, noted its change of meaning in British English: "Originally and frequently derogatory and offensive, though later also often as a self-designation."<ref>{{cite web |title="Yid" |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/231844 |website=OED Online |access-date=4 February 2022 |date=December 2021}}</ref>