JEEP again

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/15/2010 11:36 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I spent several months (OK, on and off) researching the etymology of "jeep"
>for the _Atlantic Monthly_ in the 1990s, and I never encountered this
>retroacronym.  Surely Rick wasn't suggesting that it 's the real etymon.

I wasn't saying that I remembered an allegation about the etymology
-- only that I think I heard about the ease of mantling.

Joel

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