Once when I was a kid, in Sunday school I was called on to read a verse from the Bible. I was a very shy, easily flustered kid. The verse I had to read contained the word gentiles. The way I mispronounced it made the Sunday school teacher turn bright red 😅
I’m Jewish, and there is no actual comfortable way of saying gentile out loud unless I am in a roomful of Jews. Now, I did use it once to tell a bunch of Mormons at my door to fuck off. English was their second language, and when I told them “I don’t talk biblical interpretation with gentiles”, 1/
The one guy in the back said “no, you are a gentile, that’s our word”, and I said “oh no, you don’t understand, you stole that word from my people without permission, I know you folks are real Christians, and you keep trying to steal our identity and culture. Now go away and don’t come back.”
And they had the fucking gall to pull this shit hours before it was time to fast. I try to tell doorknockers politely to not come back, but they were repeat offenders.