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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread jury-rigged jerry-rigged #181583 01/09/2009 12:13 AM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 Farmer stranger Farmer stranger Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 Anyone know how to spell this word? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Farmer #181585 01/09/2009 2:04 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Jury-rigged Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Farmer #181594 01/09/2009 5:44 PM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 107 USA, North Carolina PastorVon member PastorVon member Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 107 USA, North Carolina Originally Posted By: Farmer Anyone know how to spell this word? Faldage is correct. The correct word (or phrase) is jury-rigged. However, jerry-built is a proper term. The two terms have different connotations. When something is named as jerry-built, the connotation is negative, suggesting something that is carelessly or cheaply done. Jury-rigged, however, having naval origins refers to something done positively in order to correct a deficiency caused by an emergency or damage: as for example stepping a spar to replace a part of a broken mast. Now, however, there was another term that is no longer politically correct. It combined the "n-word" with rigged to indicate something that might have been sloppily done but could at the same time have been well-intended. The phrase might blend the implications of jury rigged and jerry-built. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged PastorVon #181596 01/09/2009 6:12 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water Hence the need for bailing wire and duct tape! ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged LukeJavan8 #181607 01/10/2009 1:38 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 The two terms, jury-rigged and jerry-built, do have some overlap in connotations, but the main thrust of jerry-built is that it is slapped together with little concern for reliability and the main thrust of jury-rigged is that it is put together with whatever is avaiable. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Faldage #181610 01/10/2009 3:20 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged The Pook #181618 01/10/2009 1:36 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 Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Faldage #181659 01/12/2009 12:25 PM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania Originally Posted By: Faldage 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. Thanks, didn't look at that earlier. That at least definitively answers one half of my question - it obviously has nothing to do with anti-German sentiment since it dates to at least 1869. I suspect the Tom and Jerry shop connection. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged LukeJavan8 #181660 01/12/2009 1:19 PM Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 Berkeley stranger Berkeley stranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 That would be "baling wire" as in wire for baling hay. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: jury-rigged jerry-rigged Berkeley #181683 01/13/2009 7:38 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania Originally Posted By: Luke Hence the need for bailing wire and duct tape! Originally Posted By: Berkeley That would be "baling wire" as in wire for baling hay. Yes it's related to baited breath. Luke has an extra 'i' lurking somewhere on his keyboard! ...except these days hay is baled by means of green plastic. Last edited by The Pook; 01/13/2009 7:39 AM. 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