"saditty" (snobbish) from "Saturday"?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't imagine the least connection between Saturday and
> snobbishness.

Let's not forget that Bonnie Taylor-Blake found a citation for
"seditty" from 1948 relating the word to "sedate":

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0806c&L=ads-l&P=617

Whether this is any more plausible than the "Saturday" derivation, I cannot say.


--Ben Zimmer

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