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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, among others, claims that it is from French aufait meaning `mastery' presumably introduced via New Orleans.
H. L. Mencken, in one of his more crotchety moods, said this: The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
Royko wasn't quite a Twain, or a Mencken, but his writing was distinctive and memorable and in its time the closest thing to lasting literature in a daily paper.