some stuff on "jazz"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>
> In any event -- this study doesn't undermine the notion that the word "jazz"
> wasn't used in NO  until after the jazz fad began in Chicago and NY in 1917.

Well, we now know "jazz" (or rather "jas") was used in NO in Nov. 1916. Still
pretty late in the game.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1876/


--Ben Zimmer

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