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From: mgh@mtunh.UUCP (Marcus Hand)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: Derivation of O.K. (actually U.S.)
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 23:20:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 23:20:26 1985
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Actually the term U.S. (or more properly U/S) to denote something
that is not working is an abbreviation of UnServiceable from old
(WWII ?) army parlance.


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			Marcus Hand	(mtunh!mgh)