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  9. Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:26:17 -0800
  10. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  11. From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
  12. Subject:      Re: Copacetic
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  16. From: torkel@SICS.SE
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  18. >   Do you mean that you're from the early sixties? The first "copacetic"
  19. > reference in W&F dates from 1926.
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  21. It was an 'in' word in some jazz circles in the fifties.
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  23. Pm
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