Nice job, John! ... No "jazz" yet in the San Francisco Call, 1900-1905. The NEH-funded database looks crappy: ... _http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cndpsearch.pl_ (http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cndpsearch.pl) ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org