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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: Copacetic
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 00:32:20 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) says:
-
- >I don't know if the term was ever in wide use, but I've certainly used
- >it up here in the frozen Yankee North. And all of my grand-relatives
- >came from foriegn countries before settling in Boston, so our line
- >isn't tainted by Southern blood.
- >
- Tainted? Whatever. My ancestors all settled up north, greats and great-greats
- mostly. But anyway...I've used copacetic myself; it's kind of come back
- into vogue in some circles. I have the distinct hunch that the thing was
- originally jazz slang, and without that 1926 origin date [?] I would have
- thought it was Bop slang.
-
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