Zundfolge I actually just ran across a knowledgeable elder in this very comments section that pointed out something I had forgotten. 😌It stems from the poor work German pows would do on wartime projects here in the states. 🤗I'd forgotten during WWII the German pow camps where in the USA as well. I mean, are they gonna swim back to Europe. 🏊
It was admiration of the resourcefulness of the German soldiers in World War One, well before they voted the NSDAP into power in 1933. Today I Found Out did not do their homework IMHO.
Jerry rigged also was used the same-exept it referred to getmans in and after WWII. During WWII German gas (petrol) cans were referred to as "jerry cans".
michael martin I thought Jerry rigged might have been a British term coined in WWI, say a Booby trap created by the Germans, but it looks like the term Jerry, coined just before WWI, was created separately. I see you're correct though that the term was used more in WW II, according to Dictionary.com.
I can't help but think that "jury - rigged" and "designed by comittee" have a lot in common. A jury is a group of people who think about something and make a decision. A comittee is a group of people who think about something and make a decision. "Designed by comittee" is not something you want to have to use.
JERRY rigged was popularized after WWII as british soldiers called the germans 'jerry' (much like in the us and the name Joe, GI Joe) This is where we get the name for gasoline cans as JERRY CANS
Fascinating. I had always heard it, and read it, as "jerry-rigged". When I started seeing "jury-rigged", I was certain that was incorrect, and assumed people were conflating it with the concept of a "rigged jury".
I've never heard something called "Jerry rigged", I've always heard "jury rigged". I prefer the more accurate term "half ass", which begs the question; does half ass mean half bad, or half good? Would "whole ass" be perfect, or total crap?
itsnotaboutme nah, gerrymandering had to do with one of the districts in a state looking like a salamander and the other part (the Gerry) referred to a man instrumental to the process.
They used to put a "support" goat in a race horses pen to keep it calm before the race. Kids would steal the goats causing the horses to freak during a race.
Thoroughly Wet woah- that is an interesting story. I’ve always loved the odd things that made it into the English language and language as a whole- the only way you can learn what they mean is simply by hearing them through other people
I always find myself telling people, it's jury-rigged not jerry-rigged. The difference being that jury-rigged is a product that is poorly built out of necessary, whereas jerry-rigged is a product poorly built on purpose. That's cool to know. Great video, keep up the good work. God bless!!
batmanfanforever08 so aka, when people use the term, Jerry rigged, they are likely actually using it right, as when you set out to Jerry rigged something.....you end up Jerry rigging it.
I'm so glad that you made a video on this topic as I've wondered about this for years. There's one thread to this topic that you did not include and that being that the Brits in World War 1 & 2 refer to the Germans as Jerry's and that the soldiers that encountered Rommels desert forces would find captured German equipment "jerry-rigged".
I was under the impression that the term was Jerry rigged or Jerry built, meaning that it was of poor quality workmanship. The term originated from WW I where German prisoners of war would be put to work making household items. Obviously, being forced to work, their motivation to do a good job was rather lacking so they put little effort into their tasks making their products very low quality. So, using a derogatory name for Germans, people described the items as Jerry built or Jerry rigged.
I remember watching a documentary about guns used during WWI. It was said that "jerry rigged" ended up referring to German soldiers having to piece different guns together because of the poor quality of what they were given to use. Allies started using the term derogatorily towards the Germans, which continued during WWII.
I literally asked myself this question yesterday and thought I might see if you already had a video covering the topic, but then promptly forgot about it when I was actually in front of a computer. But here you are, answering my questions like magic.
I'd heard the phrase used both ways; jury or Jerry. Not that it's scientific or anything, but I've noticed that if you happen to have a Jerry in your family, you might be more inclined to use Jerry vs jury. Again, just an observation.
One thing i always heard was Jerry-rigged came from WWII and allied soldiers referring to anything german built, with "jerry" being slang at the time for the germans.
That's the one my dad always used. Also instead of saying a person was one he would say cotton picker (he was born in 1920) Perhaps was looking for alternatives before it was Politically Incorrect?
I sometimes hear people these days saying we need to get that solution "flushed out" - which sounds absurd to me because I've always known that to be "fleshed out"
I've always pronounced it "jury rigged" I never thought it was "jerry rigged". But then again I'm an old fart..Lol. My family always called me "MacGyver", I've done things like wrapping a piece of bailing wire with plastic to make an electrical wire for the car to get us home. You wouldn't believe some of the things I've come up with. But they work.
Jackson Percy ....How about making a temporary Buss Fuse by taking a strand from a stripped wire or cutting a piece of aluminum foil to size? Or having you gas tank fall out (1963 Chevy Biscayne wagon) so you put it in the spare tire compartment (just to get you the last couple hundred miles home)? Oh, had to drive with the windows open just in case lol.
Ken Mabie - FIND ME ON BITCHUTE ....Yeah, true but young, broke and stupid go together. You do realise that in those old wagons the spare tire compartment was separate from the interior of the car right? in fact, it was better protected than being slung UNDER the car, you still needed to make sure your tank wasn't venting.You should have seen the gas station attendant's face when I said "filler up" and he opened the gas door and saw no tank, just open space. Had to drop the tailgate and open the compartment door. Why am I talking to a guy that majored in "TROLL"? Now THAT's stupid.
Ken Mabie - FIND ME ON BITCHUTE ...Is there a reason You're still here trolling when I have you blocked? Moving it up the chain. Hey, if I give you a quarter would you go back under you're bridge?
I seem to recall my Dad saying "jury-rigged" and "jerry-built" and he acquired his slang vocabulary before WW 2 and I think jerry for Germans was mainly a Brit term. The former meant improvisation and the latter shoddily built.
I've always heard "Mickey Mouse" to mean something silly and cartoonish that could never work in the real world. It could refer to a poorly made object or to an unfeasible design or plan of action.
I always held the term "jerrycan" as in linguistic proximity, though not exactly the same, to jerry-rigged and jerry-built. Jerry can seems to have a reliable etymology, and is a reverse-engineered German made 5-gallon-ish military gas/water can. The object being a clever German portable, temporary source of gas or water, stored for emergency use in the field or other disasters. Thanks for enlightening me ("I'ze Emanatin'!") - now I know that jury-rigged, jerry-built, and jerrycan have coincidentally broadly similar contextual usages which probably developed independently of each other.
I’ve also heard the Jerry-rigged gained a concrete meaning with American soldiers during World War One and two referring to German machinery that would break down. Unlike American machinery that was built so that all parts were interchangeable between different machines (for example the track on one Sherman tank would fit all Sherman tanks), the German machinery was not always interchangeable in that way. Thus when a German, or “Jerry”, machine was hastily repaired with a part the didn’t fit but was modified to work, it was rigged by a Jerry or “Jerry” rigged.
I think that jerry rigged should mean rigged by one person and jury rigged is rigged by 2+ people and rigged meaning had no other options, while built would mean intentionally crappy.
I'm very slightly confused. "Jury rigged" isn't the "original", by which I mean, jury is still the word that is used? Who tf says "jerry"? Everyone I have ever heard say it says "jury rigged". This is a "sort of" pre video comment, but my guess is people saying "Jerry" are simply incorrect? XD
The original question in this video was "who was Jerry in the term jerry-rigged". This term was used by Allied troops during WW2. Today we use the term IED, pre-WW2 we used booby-trapped. I learned this from a survivor of an Japanese concentration camp. Jerry refers to the Germans.
I find it worthy to note that according to the "historical account" in the Bible, the walls of Jericho couldn't withstand the sonic vibrations of horns. Sounds like "Jerry built" to me in a most extreme connotation of the definition.
Whenever in etymological doubt: if a word sounds like something else in English, and that seems like it could make sense, OR, there's some word in French that is distantly related, it's probably from the French.
“Jerry” in “Jerry built” is hypothesized to come from “Jericho”? I guess the implication is that the walls of Jericho fell down due to poor construction.
Thought it meant "built by a committee" as by lot of people who did not know anything about what they were building nor being able to do anything "properly", and thus will not last long.
I love how so many people from different places seem to have their own version of the phrase, it makes it so much more personal. (Also there some serious Mandela effect going on here).
Another great video. I then watched an old one about why we say Ker-nel for 'Colonel' and it got me wondering... Why do Brits say 'Left-tenant' for Lieutenant?
I was long under the assumption that "Jury Rigged" literally meant to rig a Jury in your favor, referring specifically to legal proceedings. While contrasting, I believed that "Jerry Rigged" meant something similar to "McGuyvering" and was born out of the First World War, with the Germans being the "Jerry" in this case. Also, I have been quite upset with the makers of Fallout New Vegas for using Jury Rigging to describe a perk which allows you to put different pieces of equipment together in order to repair them. It turns out I am wrong.
I thought Jerry-rigged came from the improvised rigging of dripping Jerrycans full of water to trigger mounted rifles (drip rifle) in the firing line to maintain the ilusión of a manned parapet cover the Anzac retreat from Gallipoli.
probably, in the way of independent contractors everywhere, Jerry was a local guy that did odd jobs around town to earn money in the origin town, but didn't really know what he was doing, didn't have any training, and was just "winging it", and much like in that episode of The Simpsons where Homer makes a big mistake publicly, and really screwing up really bad becomes known as "Doing a 'Homer' ", Jerry did a lot of repairs that didn't last, and other more skilled contractors would rib each other if they did something half-assed: "Come on Frank, stop Jerry rigging things or well all be out of a job!"
As any sailor will tell you, we still use jury rigs today and the term is in common use. If you lose your mast in a storm, for example, you will fashion a tempory but functional one usually from what is left of the old rig to get you home. The term Jerry Rig is undoubtedly an Americanisation of Jury Rig although sailors from the US will use the correct Jury Rig term when making the nautical reference. The only people I have ever heard say "jerry rig" are Americans!
johnmburt1960 are you fucking serious. Saying nigger on its own isn’t racist. It’s only racist if used in the context of an insult. Stop being so over-sensitive and get a grip on reality
That's actually an extremely interesting origin to me for some reason (despite there not being much in the way of specific origins). It's cool that two terms that were separately formed kind of came together to make the term 'jerry-rigged'.
If you ask my mother about this term she will say that it is definitely "Jerry-rigged," and that her high school graduating class invented the term. They had a shop teacher who was forever temporarily repairing things in unusual ways, and his first name was Jerry. Thankfully, I've always taken my narcissistic mother's stories with a grain of salt, never really believing any of them.
I've been told that Jerry-built was a disparaging term for imported goods from Germany into England. This was way before German goods were known for quality. Maybe this relationship came up from the war.
why is he showing a half timbered house at 3:33 while talking about poorly constructed houses? Half timbered house belong to the oldest and sturdiest houses in Europe. While it is true, that the image shows a very dirty one, I am reasonably sure, it is also a very old one... therefore it is very unlikely, that it is poorly constructed!
I always thought this had to do with Jerry-Mandering, where district lines where drawn by the incumbent party in a nonsensical way to manipulate voting for representatives.
Perhaps "Jerry-Rigged", came from that one case where a state's districts were "Gerrymandered". "Gerry" does sound like "Jerry" after all and "Gerry" did "rig" the state districts to favor one side.
The theory I've heard is that Jerry-rigged was used by WW2 soldiers to mock Germans soldiers for doing the very kind of thing we use the term for today
My father told me that Jerry Rigged came about during WWII to describe something built by Germans; and may have been spelled Gerry Built. But, then; my father told many a tale under the influence of Irish cough syrup (whiskey)... so, don't sue me if this isn't true...
0:30 Says the guy who call the last letter of the alphabet "zed" then justifies saying "alumininum" by saying "it follows the "ium" of other elements. Anyone else see a double standard here?
I thought it was called Gerry rigged because that's what American soldiers called improvised weapons/material built by the Germans (called Gerrys) in WWII
I've had this question for a long time and can't get a lot of answers by looking around the internet that make sense or have an explanation so I was hoping this channel could help me out? How did women deal with periods before the invention of pads? And how did women deal with children before the invention of modern diapers or cloth diapers?
Thanks for this post. I always assumed the "jerry" was a dig at Germans who were also called Jerry's. Hence the "Jerry Can" for storing water and gasoline they invented. But it never made sense since the general consensus is you may dislike Nazis, but they are world class engineers. So far from shoddy work..
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JerryRigEverything how has this not been liked or commented on😂 love the vids especially the not a wheelchair ones
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I've always assumed it was a dig at wartime Germans.
Quinn Knobbe yeah, that's what I always thought too - because of all the mechanical and other contraptions cooked up by the Germans during the war.
Right, Donald, but I assumed it was one of those sort of ironic phrases, like calling a large guy "Tiny".
Zundfolge I actually just ran across a knowledgeable elder in this very comments section that pointed out something I had forgotten. 😌It stems from the poor work German pows would do on wartime projects here in the states. 🤗I'd forgotten during WWII the German pow camps where in the USA as well. I mean, are they gonna swim back to Europe. 🏊
Like Jerrycans.
It was admiration of the resourcefulness of the German soldiers in World War One, well before they voted the NSDAP into power in 1933. Today I Found Out did not do their homework IMHO.
Jerry-rigged? My uncle always called it... well something different...
Yeah, my mom still says n*#@%&-Rigged... I keep telling her to stop that but she always forgets.
Mr.FluffyFace My parents always went with the abridged, and much smoother, "n#g rigged"
Lol same.
I made the see comment, then saw yours
Jerry rigged also was used the same-exept it referred to getmans in and after WWII. During WWII German gas (petrol) cans were referred to as "jerry cans".
michael martin I thought Jerry rigged might have been a British term coined in WWI, say a Booby trap created by the Germans, but it looks like the term Jerry, coined just before WWI, was created separately. I see you're correct though that the term was used more in WW II, according to Dictionary.com.
It’s ”iury mast” in John Smith’s writing not “lury mast”. The i was capitalized. Back then “I” and “J” weren’t differentiated.
Mr Shambleface isn’t it the same with the Italian alphabet?
Came to post this. He is writing "Jury Mast" in the manner of the day.
Thanks, I was confused when I was say Lury when it looked like iury.
Jehovah starts with an "I" in Latin
Sorry to be “that guy”...
I can't help but think that "jury - rigged" and "designed by comittee" have a lot in common.
A jury is a group of people who think about something and make a decision.
A comittee is a group of people who think about something and make a decision.
"Designed by comittee" is not something you want to have to use.
I've always thought it was jury as in injury -- because the temporary repairs sailors were making would likely cause injury.
We, the jury, find this structure sufficiently rigged
Gerald Riggs was a running back in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons from 1982 to 1988 and the Washington Redskins from 1989 to 1991
Yeah, the cheerleaders back in his day used the term Gerry Rigg to describe a small mast that didn't last long.
It's miss trial then
JERRY rigged was popularized after WWII as british soldiers called the germans 'jerry' (much like in the us and the name Joe, GI Joe) This is where we get the name for gasoline cans as JERRY CANS
Lury mast?
I say, if you play the Simon's Creative Pronunciations Drinking Game, that's worth a whole pint.
I want a compilation of those words he gives up tying to say.
My dad used "jerry-rigged"all the time, when he talked about a friend who "never used two nails when one would do."
He should tell that friend, "One is none. Two is one."
I'm sure he would have if he'd heard the phrase, but alas, both of them are dead.
I never heard of "Jerry rigged" and have only ever used "jury rigged".
Fascinating. I had always heard it, and read it, as "jerry-rigged". When I started seeing "jury-rigged", I was certain that was incorrect, and assumed people were conflating it with the concept of a "rigged jury".
I've never heard something called "Jerry rigged", I've always heard "jury rigged". I prefer the more accurate term "half ass", which begs the question; does half ass mean half bad, or half good? Would "whole ass" be perfect, or total crap?
I've actually heard the term "Jimmy rigged" as well, so it does seem plausible the interchangeable word was caused by speculation.
White Asylum our mechanic is named Jimmy so I had always assumed that it was from that
I was about to say "I thought it was jury-rigged, as in a rigged jury?" Thank you Simon!
The Original Gamer That's what my family had always thought the phrase came from.
Right, The Original Gamer.
And what about gerrymandering?
itsnotaboutme nah, gerrymandering had to do with one of the districts in a state looking like a salamander and the other part (the Gerry) referred to a man instrumental to the process.
Ive never heard it spoken as Jerry-rigged, only ever Jury-rigged till now
Limped Poodle I've never heard it as Jury-rigged till now. We're both a little more whole now.
I’ve always been curious about another expression- to get your goat. It sounds like there’s definitely a story behind that one
They used to put a "support" goat in a race horses pen to keep it calm before the race. Kids would steal the goats causing the horses to freak during a race.
Thoroughly Wet welp, you beat me to it. Well done.
Thoroughly Wet Well explained! Also, the mob would sometimes send men to steal the goat if they wanted to rig the race.
Thoroughly Wet woah- that is an interesting story. I’ve always loved the odd things that made it into the English language and language as a whole- the only way you can learn what they mean is simply by hearing them through other people
I always find myself telling people, it's jury-rigged not jerry-rigged. The difference being that jury-rigged is a product that is poorly built out of necessary, whereas jerry-rigged is a product poorly built on purpose. That's cool to know.
Great video, keep up the good work. God bless!!
So its probably just safer to say "pig-rigged".
When someone is mistaken, the party is irrepairably ruined.
Jerry-built, jury-rigged. You may have missed that?
batmanfanforever08 so aka, when people use the term, Jerry rigged, they are likely actually using it right, as when you set out to Jerry rigged something.....you end up Jerry rigging it.
Ken Mabie - FIND ME ON BITCHUTE - you can't say that anymore, you have to say "Afro-engineered."
It was passed down to me from fellow Veterans in the Navy; that 'Gerry-Rigged' was taking about German repairs to their equipment during WWII.
i was going to say, prior to him saying so..."jury rigged" was what i'd always heard.
I've literally never heard it called 'Jerry-rigged' before. It's always been 'jury-rigged' that I've heard.
I'm so glad that you made a video on this topic as I've wondered about this for years. There's one thread to this topic that you did not include and that being that the Brits in World War 1 & 2 refer to the Germans as Jerry's and that the soldiers that encountered Rommels desert forces would find captured German equipment "jerry-rigged".
I was under the impression that the term was Jerry rigged or Jerry built, meaning that it was of poor quality workmanship. The term originated from WW I where German prisoners of war would be put to work making household items. Obviously, being forced to work, their motivation to do a good job was rather lacking so they put little effort into their tasks making their products very low quality. So, using a derogatory name for Germans, people described the items as Jerry built or Jerry rigged.
It's still called a jury rigged.
I've never heard it said as "Jerry-rigged". It's always been "Jury-rigged" for me
I remember watching a documentary about guns used during WWI. It was said that "jerry rigged" ended up referring to German soldiers having to piece different guns together because of the poor quality of what they were given to use. Allies started using the term derogatorily towards the Germans, which continued during WWII.
I've always heard it as jury rigged. This video is the first time I've ever heard/seen it as jerry rigged.
I literally asked myself this question yesterday and thought I might see if you already had a video covering the topic, but then promptly forgot about it when I was actually in front of a computer. But here you are, answering my questions like magic.
Hey, turns out that thanks for Fallout New Vegas, I learned the term correctly from the start! :D "Jerry-rigging" just sounds odd...
I'd heard the phrase used both ways; jury or Jerry. Not that it's scientific or anything, but I've noticed that if you happen to have a Jerry in your family, you might be more inclined to use Jerry vs jury. Again, just an observation.
First time I've ever heard the term Jerry rigged. But have heard jury rigged many time before.
We need to preserve 80's tv shows so we don't lose the origin "to MacGyver" something.
I've always heard it as jury-rigged.
One thing i always heard was Jerry-rigged came from WWII and allied soldiers referring to anything german built, with "jerry" being slang at the time for the germans.
There is another expression that isn't very pc. I'll just refer to it as Afro-engineered.
That's the one my dad always used. Also instead of saying a person was one he would say cotton picker (he was born in 1920) Perhaps was looking for alternatives before it was Politically Incorrect?
I sometimes hear people these days saying we need to get that solution "flushed out" - which sounds absurd to me because I've always known that to be "fleshed out"
I've always pronounced it "jury rigged" I never thought it was "jerry rigged". But then again I'm an old fart..Lol. My family always called me "MacGyver", I've done things like wrapping a piece of bailing wire with plastic to make an electrical wire for the car to get us home. You wouldn't believe some of the things I've come up with. But they work.
A real life MacGyver, eh? Care to share any other interesting things you've jury rigged?
Jackson Percy
....How about making a temporary Buss Fuse by taking a strand from a stripped wire or cutting a piece of aluminum foil to size? Or having you gas tank fall out (1963 Chevy Biscayne wagon) so you put it in the spare tire compartment (just to get you the last couple hundred miles home)? Oh, had to drive with the windows open just in case lol.
Ken Mabie - FIND ME ON BITCHUTE
....Because I'm old, not stupid.
Ken Mabie - FIND ME ON BITCHUTE
....Yeah, true but young, broke and stupid go together. You do realise that in those old wagons the spare tire compartment was separate from the interior of the car right? in fact, it was better protected than being slung UNDER the car, you still needed to make sure your tank wasn't venting.You should have seen the gas station attendant's face when I said "filler up" and he opened the gas door and saw no tank, just open space. Had to drop the tailgate and open the compartment door. Why am I talking to a guy that majored in "TROLL"? Now THAT's stupid.
Ken Mabie - FIND ME ON BITCHUTE
...Is there a reason You're still here trolling when I have you blocked? Moving it up the chain. Hey, if I give you a quarter would you go back under you're bridge?
I seem to recall my Dad saying "jury-rigged" and "jerry-built" and he acquired his slang vocabulary before WW 2 and I think jerry for Germans was mainly a Brit term. The former meant improvisation and the latter shoddily built.
Have you heard of term 'Mickey Mouse' for describing quality of craftsmanship and engineering?
I've always heard "Mickey Mouse" to mean something silly and cartoonish that could never work in the real world. It could refer to a poorly made object or to an unfeasible design or plan of action.
Yes, to describe something less than adequate for the task at hand, like Andy's rock hammer.
I've heard it in similar context to jury-rigged, like "a Mickey Mouse job"
I always held the term "jerrycan" as in linguistic proximity, though not exactly the same, to jerry-rigged and jerry-built. Jerry can seems to have a reliable etymology, and is a reverse-engineered German made 5-gallon-ish military gas/water can. The object being a clever German portable, temporary source of gas or water, stored for emergency use in the field or other disasters. Thanks for enlightening me ("I'ze Emanatin'!") - now I know that jury-rigged, jerry-built, and jerrycan have coincidentally broadly similar contextual usages which probably developed independently of each other.
I’ve also heard the Jerry-rigged gained a concrete meaning with American soldiers during World War One and two referring to German machinery that would break down. Unlike American machinery that was built so that all parts were interchangeable between different machines (for example the track on one Sherman tank would fit all Sherman tanks), the German machinery was not always interchangeable in that way. Thus when a German, or “Jerry”, machine was hastily repaired with a part the didn’t fit but was modified to work, it was rigged by a Jerry or “Jerry” rigged.
I think that jerry rigged should mean rigged by one person and jury rigged is rigged by 2+ people and rigged meaning had no other options, while built would mean intentionally crappy.
I'm very slightly confused. "Jury rigged" isn't the "original", by which I mean, jury is still the word that is used? Who tf says "jerry"? Everyone I have ever heard say it says "jury rigged". This is a "sort of" pre video comment, but my guess is people saying "Jerry" are simply incorrect? XD
The original question in this video was "who was Jerry in the term jerry-rigged". This term was used by Allied troops during WW2. Today we use the term IED, pre-WW2 we used booby-trapped. I learned this from a survivor of an Japanese concentration camp. Jerry refers to the Germans.
I'm Jerry and I can assure you, I have completed my fair share of "Jerry-rigged" repairs.
I find it worthy to note that according to the "historical account" in the Bible, the walls of Jericho couldn't withstand the sonic vibrations of horns. Sounds like "Jerry built" to me in a most extreme connotation of the definition.
Whenever in etymological doubt: if a word sounds like something else in English, and that seems like it could make sense, OR, there's some word in French that is distantly related, it's probably from the French.
“Jerry” in “Jerry built” is hypothesized to come from “Jericho”? I guess the implication is that the walls of Jericho fell down due to poor construction.
Rick went back in time and began the phrase “Jerry rigged”. He’s referring to his dingus son in law.
Thought it meant "built by a committee" as by lot of people who did not know anything about what they were building nor being able to do anything "properly", and thus will not last long.
6:18 to say "we don't really know"
Yes, but speculation can be fun...
I love how so many people from different places seem to have their own version of the phrase, it makes it so much more personal. (Also there some serious Mandela effect going on here).
You mean the Mendetta Effect?
Mandella Effect is nonsense.
Another great video. I then watched an old one about why we say Ker-nel for 'Colonel' and it got me wondering... Why do Brits say 'Left-tenant' for Lieutenant?
I was long under the assumption that "Jury Rigged" literally meant to rig a Jury in your favor, referring specifically to legal proceedings. While contrasting, I believed that "Jerry Rigged" meant something similar to "McGuyvering" and was born out of the First World War, with the Germans being the "Jerry" in this case. Also, I have been quite upset with the makers of Fallout New Vegas for using Jury Rigging to describe a perk which allows you to put different pieces of equipment together in order to repair them. It turns out I am wrong.
I’ve always wondered how do you guys come up with new and unique topics every day?
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I thought Jerry-rigged came from the improvised rigging of dripping Jerrycans full of water to trigger mounted rifles (drip rifle) in the firing line to maintain the ilusión of a manned parapet cover the Anzac retreat from Gallipoli.
i have always called it jury rigged or some times something you cant say on here
My grandma uses jerry rigged interchangeably with "mickey moused" Why? I have no idea. Lol
Quite a few people say Mickey moused here in Ohio.
never heard of jerry rigged before but i have heard jury
I had a boss who played gold who insisted the expression is 'Taylor Made'.
probably, in the way of independent contractors everywhere, Jerry was a local guy that did odd jobs around town to earn money in the origin town, but didn't really know what he was doing, didn't have any training, and was just "winging it", and much like in that episode of The Simpsons where Homer makes a big mistake publicly, and really screwing up really bad becomes known as "Doing a 'Homer' ", Jerry did a lot of repairs that didn't last, and other more skilled contractors would rib each other if they did something half-assed: "Come on Frank, stop Jerry rigging things or well all be out of a job!"
As any sailor will tell you, we still use jury rigs today and the term is in common use. If you lose your mast in a storm, for example, you will fashion a tempory but functional one usually from what is left of the old rig to get you home. The term Jerry Rig is undoubtedly an Americanisation of Jury Rig although sailors from the US will use the correct Jury Rig term when making the nautical reference. The only people I have ever heard say "jerry rig" are Americans!
Maybe it should be Constanza-rigged???
There is a very racist version of the phrase here in America that gets more than a few bosses in trouble.
LouisvilleUAV. I only say it because I picked it up from old timers I've worked with. Its from a time before *pc*
It's not an insult if it's not used as one.
johnmburt1960 are you fucking serious. Saying nigger on its own isn’t racist. It’s only racist if used in the context of an insult. Stop being so over-sensitive and get a grip on reality
Ettore Salvatore
It's still racist, since it comes from the idea that if a black person builds something, it's poorly built.
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"Come boys, we must confound Jerry ay every turn!"
I come from a "rural" area where most people speak how their grandfather's speak and a lot of people use N *derogatory term* rigged
'Speculative hypotheses.' Yes. Thank you.
That's actually an extremely interesting origin to me for some reason (despite there not being much in the way of specific origins). It's cool that two terms that were separately formed kind of came together to make the term 'jerry-rigged'.
Weird that the only time I've herd "jury" over "jerry" when ships are involved,
Today Simon tackles African-Engineering.
My understanding was the expression was “Gerry rigged”, as a derogatory for German occurring during WWII.
I had heard Jerry-Rigged referred to Germans in wartime having an undeniable knack for repairing equipment with scrap and odd parts.
When a restaurant runs out of something, Why do they say to "86" the item?
If you ask my mother about this term she will say that it is definitely "Jerry-rigged," and that her high school graduating class invented the term. They had a shop teacher who was forever temporarily repairing things in unusual ways, and his first name was Jerry. Thankfully, I've always taken my narcissistic mother's stories with a grain of salt, never really believing any of them.
I have always used jury-rigged and people have often tried telling me it is actually jerry-rigged...
I've been told that Jerry-built was a disparaging term for imported goods from Germany into England. This was way before German goods were known for quality. Maybe this relationship came up from the war.
why is he showing a half timbered house at 3:33 while talking about poorly constructed houses? Half timbered house belong to the oldest and sturdiest houses in Europe. While it is true, that the image shows a very dirty one, I am reasonably sure, it is also a very old one... therefore it is very unlikely, that it is poorly constructed!
I can't see how "jury" as in a courtroom jury has any relationship to the etymology.
So the older version of “jury” meant “trial” as in temporary. Twilight music.
I haven't heard that phrase in a long time
In New England we use “ the house that Jack built” to mean the same as Jerry-rigged, could this be a morph of Jerry?
I always thought this had to do with Jerry-Mandering, where district lines where drawn by the incumbent party in a nonsensical way to manipulate voting for representatives.
Haven't I heard Brits call fuel cans "Jerry Cans" in WWII documentaries and movies? Is that where the term Jerry Can came from as well?
Then along came Ben & Jerry
Perhaps "Jerry-Rigged", came from that one case where a state's districts were "Gerrymandered". "Gerry" does sound like "Jerry" after all and "Gerry" did "rig" the state districts to favor one side.
I thought the term came from WW11 used to describe the hard pressed German soldiers use of their kit for many situations yet unforseen .
In the south it's called something ... else ... something ... really racist.
Today I found out that Simon wants a flame head tattoo.
The theory I've heard is that Jerry-rigged was used by WW2 soldiers to mock Germans soldiers for doing the very kind of thing we use the term for today
iv never heard anyone say jerry-rigged iv only ever heard it/said it as jury-rigged
Jerry Rigs everything
TIFO: Where does the phrase come from - "It sticks in my craw" meaning "It annoys me"? A craw is the crop of a bird, but is that connected?
My father told me that Jerry Rigged came about during WWII to describe something built by Germans; and may have been spelled Gerry Built.
But, then; my father told many a tale under the influence of Irish cough syrup (whiskey)...
so, don't sue me if this isn't true...
I always thought it was a WW2 saying and that Jerry-Rigged meant German.
0:30 Says the guy who call the last letter of the alphabet "zed" then justifies saying "alumininum" by saying "it follows the "ium" of other elements.
Anyone else see a double standard here?
i had always wondered about this but was too lazy to google it. Thank you for reinforcing my sloth.
I thought it was called Gerry rigged because that's what American soldiers called improvised weapons/material built by the Germans (called Gerrys) in WWII
I've had this question for a long time and can't get a lot of answers by looking around the internet that make sense or have an explanation so I was hoping this channel could help me out? How did women deal with periods before the invention of pads? And how did women deal with children before the invention of modern diapers or cloth diapers?
A friend of mines dad is named Jerry, trust me, it’s Jerry-rigged and I can assure you that he is the source of the term.
Thanks for this post. I always assumed the "jerry" was a dig at Germans who were also called Jerry's. Hence the "Jerry Can" for storing water and gasoline they invented. But it never made sense since the general consensus is you may dislike Nazis, but they are world class engineers. So far from shoddy work..