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Re: world wide words
From:
Leland Torrence <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Royal Order of Lacunae Pluggers <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:27:55 -0500
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Julep,
The snow, having the kids in the office, Ken's short story and now this
site....  I'm not going to get anything done!  Do you subscribe to Verbatim,
The Dictionary Society of North America's publication?
Best,
Leland

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Krugman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: Dutchman & Jury-rigged


> In a message dated 2/5/2001 8:47:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> >      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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