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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).
It would be difficult to compile such a work without ready access to Mencken, Wilde, Shaw, and others of their sort.
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!"
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!