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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:17:55 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Copacetic
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun,
- 03 Jan 93 14:01:16 +0000. <9301031408.AA19570@sics.se>
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- >(Last time we discussed this half the folks said it should be spelt
- >with an 's'.)
- >Look in the archives for the derivation. I've forgotten. Black slang
- >I think.
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- Wentworth & Flexner give the spellings copacetic, copesetic, kopasetic,
- kopesetic, kopasetee, kopesetee. They also say that it is from the Yiddish.
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