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From: Dennis Baron
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:09

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According to the OED, the first instance of jury = makeshift, temp-
orary, is early 17c., in the phrase jury-mast.  The etymology is not
clear, though it seems unconnected with jury (legal sense) or
injury. Random House Webster's suggests possible derivation from
Middle English (ultimately OFrench).  Association of the variant
jerry with WW2 Germans is purely folk etymology.
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Dennis Baron                                         debaron@uiuc.edu 
University of Illinois at Urbana                     217-333-2392

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