CP Time

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 4, 2004, at 6:02 PM, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:

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> Poster:       FRITZ JUENGLING <juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US>
> Subject:      Re: CP Time
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> add 'Mormon Standard Time'
> Fritz
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>>>> jester at PANIX.COM 11/04/04 01:59PM >>>
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:50:32PM -0500, Alice Faber wrote:
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>> At one point in my life, friends of mine referred to this as "Jewish
>> time".
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> DARE has "Jewish time" from 1952. And HDAS has "C.P.T." from
> Carl van Vechten's _Nigger Heaven_ from 1926.

C.P.T., like Bird and Frodo, lives.

-Wilson Gray

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> I hear new variants of this constantly--"[some ethnic, racial,
> religious etc. group] time" = 'late'.
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> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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