Jism, was: "Jazz" did not have a sexual origin

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:02 PM -0800 3/5/01, James Smith wrote:
>I was undoubtedly influenced by the "jism/jasm"
>discussion going on when I came across "ji" in the
>Dickens book.  "Ji" does fit with simply being "joy"
>in the dialect of the old seaman.
>
Not so fast--I'm afraid the old seaman brings us right back to those
earlier speculations on "jism"...

;-)