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Re: Dutchman & Jury-rigged
From:
Mary Krugman <[log in to unmask]>
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Royal Order of Lacunae Pluggers <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:00:57 EST
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In a message dated 2/5/2001 8:47:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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>      Actually I think the term is "jury-rigged" and has something to do
>       with sailing vessels.

I was just told about this site on the origins of words -- it's great for
these kinds of questions.

Here's the link for "jury-rigged" --
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jur1.htm

and for "Dutchman" -- http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dut1.htm

Julep

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