Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I forgot that All Things Are One!

I'm slipping.

JL

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think
> > there's any likelihood, based on available evidence, that Scots _jass_ is
> > related to -jazz_.
>
> Well, if you feel that was, go 'head on. However, I'm surprised that
> you have chosen not to speak to the batting-about of children in
> 14th-century Switzerland and its connection to the subsequent game in
> which the batting-about of a ball in the  United States 20th-century
> et seq. holds such a prominent part.
>
> Or something like that. ;-)
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