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- From: amlogan@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Adam M. Logan)
- Subject: Re: "Jury-rigged"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.162931.27011@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:29:31 GMT
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- In his _Devil's Dictionary_ Ambrose Bierce uses "jury-gods" to mean
- makeshift gods and religion, which (I believe he says that this is as a
- sailor would say) is clearly a derivative of "jury-rig". Bierce disappeared
- around 1914, so he couldn't have known about WWI usage. So this can't
- come from"jerry".
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- Adam
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