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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged The Pook #181618 01/10/09 01:36 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Originally Posted By: The Pook Where does the term Jerry-built come from? Is it from the English Tom & Jerry shop (a second hand shop), or is it pejorative of Germans in World War One? It's mentioned in my link above for jury rigged. Dave Wilton says it's unknown. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted jury-rigged jerry-rigged Farmer 01/09/09 12:13 AM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Faldage 01/09/09 02:04 AM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged PastorVon 01/09/09 05:44 PM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged LukeJavan8 01/09/09 06:12 PM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Faldage 01/10/09 01:38 AM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged The Pook 01/10/09 03:20 AM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Faldage 01/10/09 01:36 PM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged The Pook 01/12/09 12:25 PM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Berkeley 01/12/09 01:19 PM Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged The Pook 01/13/09 07:38 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts229,996 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 700 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 14 LukeJavan8 6 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,958 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,956 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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