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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:24:06 -0400, Josh Hill 
>wrote:

>>Funny, I was wondering just the other day if "jerry-rigged" was
>>related to "jury rigging." It turns out it is:
>>
>>jer=B7ry-rig  (jr-rg)
>>tr.v. jer=B7ry-rigged, jer=B7ry-rig=B7ging, jer=B7ry-rigs=20
>>To jury-rig.
>
>would "jury rig" imply something created by a dozen random people with
>a random (and assumed ill-fitting-to-the-task) skill set?

I always thought it had something to do with juries, but according to
Joe DeMartino's post, it's actually an old nautical term, possibly a
contraction of "injury" -- as in a temporary replacement for damaged
rigging, I assume.

Them sailors were big on contractions . . .

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Josh

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