On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:50:32PM -0500, Alice Faber wrote: > > At one point in my life, friends of mine referred to this as "Jewish time". DARE has "Jewish time" from 1952. And HDAS has "C.P.T." from Carl van Vechten's _Nigger Heaven_ from 1926. I hear new variants of this constantly--"[some ethnic, racial, religious etc. group] time" = 'late'. Jesse Sheidlower OED