Re: "Jury-rigged"

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From: Adam M. Logan
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:29

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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".

Adam

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