Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 5/3/83; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!scifi From: scifi@ukc.UUCP (I.P.Gordon) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Derivation of O.K. Message-ID: <5262@ukc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 07:56:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ukc.5262 Posted: Thu Jun 20 07:56:34 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 01:16:10 EDT References: <280@mhuxj.UUCP> <180@brueer.brueer.UUCP> Reply-To: scifi@ukc.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK Lines: 7 I heard that 'U.S.' derives from the word UnServiceable, meaning unfit for service. Ian Gordon (G6ENU) So Long And Thanks For All The Wallabies