The Sanas Jazz, Jazz and Teas

[Mullins, Bill]

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> From: American Dialect Society
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> From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
> >
> > BTW, Daniel Cassidy does not stay on this list even long enough to
> > read the responses (though of course he could be using the
> archives).
> > He joins, immediately posts, and then immediately resigns.
> This has at
> > least been his recent pattern.
> >
> Ah, that Hopalong Cassidy!
>

You probably weren't aware, but "hopalong" derives from the Irish.