[Dixielandjazz] Axe in the vernacular

[Jerry Gordon]

That's what some call "folk etymology" and not the right story,
apparently. See http://www.word-detective.com/2007/04/09/axe/ and
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a&p=26. 

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On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:48:37 -0700 "Ken Gates" <kwg28 at sbcglobal.net>
writes:
> Looking thru some old Mississippi Rags, I ran across the Dec 2000
> edition to find this---
> "On the Streckfus riverboat line, when an errant musician was about
> to be terminated, he would discover a shipboard fireaxe on his band
> stand chair.  Upon seeing it, he immediately knew that he was 
> "axed"
> from the job."
> 
> Thus began the terminology of "axe" in musicians vernacular.
> 
> Anybody have a different version?
> 
> Ken Gates 
> 
> 
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