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From: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan R. Gibson)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Derivation of O.K.
Message-ID: <567@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 17:30:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 17:30:23 1985
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Reply-To: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan R. Gibson)
Organization: Software Engineering Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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Keywords: O.K.
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>Of similar vintage (and still current here) is "U.S." meaning terminally
>non-functioning (as in "this terminal is U.S., I need a new one). This
>is said to derive from the label of origin.

I always thought U/S derived from UnServicable!