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Mencken, among others, claims that it is from French aufait meaning `mastery' presumably introduced via New Orleans.
I could be wrong about all this, and I don't want to fall into my old buddy H. L. Mencken's simple solutions trap, but that's a heap of money, and I think this one deserves some prompt consideration by the folks at postal HQ!
Mencken ( The American Language , Supplement Two, p.
Finally, concerning the etymology of savvy , Mr. Lawrence should not believe everything he reads in sources such as Mencken's American Language . In fact, I checked in another dozen English dictionaries, and they all state that savvy comes from Spanish sabe . These dictionaries are simply wrong on this point (as they are, I might add, on many other etymologies).
The South was indeed the Bible Belt, as H.L. Mencken labeled it.