Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 21 01:38:48 UTC 2012
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And your moment of retromythoacronymery:
>
> "I was taught in school [n.b. - ed.] that it originated as 'Jazz and Musicians."
>
> [http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8598&messages=6]
Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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