Jazz from Teas

[Grant Barrett]

I have a copy of the book. This mess is similar to what's in the
book, only put differently:

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html

On Sep 16, 2007, at 16:57, Baker, John wrote:

> 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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