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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!!TOAL
  3. Message-ID: <9301031515.AA19303@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:15:35 GMT
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Graham Toal
  8.               <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
  9. Subject:      Re: Copacetic
  10. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  13.           >PS early sixties.
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  15.           Do you mean that you're from the early sixties? The first "copacetic"
  16.         reference in W&F dates from 1926.
  17.  
  18. I meant that it was old slang (I thought black, but maybe not) which
  19. regained a vogue in the sixties as hipster jargon.
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