_Mezzrow_(?), "marijuana cigarette"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> _Mezzroll_ is a folk-ety form of _mezzrow_ from Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow,
> distinguished jazz clarinetist, Â hepcat, and "viper," whose career is
> detailed in his autobio (with Bernard Wolfe) _Really the Blues_ (1946).

I'm hip. But I still don't get what's up with HDAS. Is the problem the
fact that the earliest form _documented in print_ - as opposed to
being heard on a phonograph record - is the hypercorrected one?

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-Wilson
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