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> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:40:22 -0400, Kurt Ullman wrote
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> In article ,
>  Methuselah Jones  wrote:
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>> I've always assumed it stemmed from the WWII term for Germans.
> 
>   You would be correct. <<

Not according to Oxford:

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/jerrybuilt?view=uk

Amy
                                                       
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