Jazz from Teas

Baker, John JMB at STRADLEY.COM
Sun Sep 16 20:57:54 UTC 2007


Could someone provide a summary of the reasons why Daniel Cassidy's proposed derivation of jazz from the Irish word teas should not be credited?  People keep adding this to the Wikipedia article, and I would like to be able to articulate succinctly why linguists do not take his theory seriously.
 
 
John Baker
 

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