> The word “jazz” probably derives from > It should be clear by now that all of the popular stories about the origin of the word are wrong Well that went from

> The word “jazz” probably derives from > It should be clear by now that all of the popular stories about the origin of the word are wrong Well that went from "probably" to clarity pretty quickly. (the rest of the article doesn't mention the probable claim again; the only possible reference is an OED quote about "jasm", not about "jazz"). While I'm sure the OED does make a compelling connection between "jazz" and "jasm", it seems a bit disorganised for the article not to reference this directly (presuming that's the author's source). The tone is also so odd: it's as if it was written purely as a rebuttal to some pub debate that the author had been particularly worked up about, zealous exclamation-marks throughout.