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Mencken, among others, claims that it is from French aufait meaning `mastery' presumably introduced via New Orleans.
Mencken ( The American Language , Supplement Two, p.
Mencken line I've used before: "For ever problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, plausible and wrong!"
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.