"Jazz" quoting OED

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"JAZZ" QUOTING OED

     This is from the NEW YORK PRESS (www.nypress.com), May 3-9, 2000, pg.
19, col. 1:

     Jazz, the Oxford dictionary tells us, comes from the African-American
slang meaning "to make jazz," or "to fuck."

     I sent a letter to the editor telling them that I'm a consultant to the
OED, and that our earliest known "jazz" citations (1913, from San Francisco)
do not necessarily support this theory.
     It probably won't get published.

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    On Saturday, May 6th, I will leave for two weeks in the Czech and Slovak
Republics.  I'll be back May 19th.
    For those keeping score at home of my past two-and-a-half years:

1997:  Netherlands, Belgium, Morocco, Tunisia.
1998:  Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Syria, Peru, Bolivia, Cyprus, Argentina,
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1999:  India, Nepal, Singapore, Turkey, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana,
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Hong Kong
2000:  Portugal, Spain, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic

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