a century of "jazz"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> My latest column for the Boston Globe is about how the word "jazz"
> worked its way from baseball to music a century ago. It's a familiar
> story to most folks here, but it's worth retelling for the hundredth
> anniversary of the first known appearance of the word.
>
> http://b.globe.com/jazzball

For MLB opening day (in Tokyo!), here's my follow-up on Word Routes:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3196/

--bgz

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Ben Zimmer
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