Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:41:24 -0400

From: Evan Morris words1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WORD-DETECTIVE.COM

Subject: Agita



For a newspaper column, I am trying to trace the word "agita" in English.

It is absent from most dictionaries, both standard and slang, and Anne

Soukhanov, in her "Word Watch," notes 1982 as an "early" citation, which

seems awfully late to me. Does anyone have anything earlier, or a sense of

how the Italian "agitato" became "agita"?



Thanks,

Evan

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Evan Morris

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