JEEP again

[Jonathan Lighter]

Jerry, I'll get to it today.

JL

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Gerald Cohen <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:

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>   Would Jonathan please let us know the bibliographic information for his
> "jeep" article.  I expect to assign it as a reading in my Etymology class.
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> Gerald Cohen
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> Message from Jonathan Lighter, Wed., Sept. 15, 2010:
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> 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.
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> Cute.
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> JL
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 9/15/2010 10:44 AM, David A. Daniel wrote:
> > >Hey. CNN (Rick Sanchez) just claimed that Jeep is a "military acronym"
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> > >stands for "just enough essential parts". Never heard that one before.
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> > >was during a report of four army mechanics who completely dismantled and
> > >remantled (heh) a jeep in 4 minutes. They said it was possible because
> of
> > >the jeep's simplicity of design, and then the acronym was mentioned.
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> > This mention brings to my consciousness that I probably heard the
> > same about the ease of mantling (although probably not the 5 minutes)
> > in my younger days.
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>  > Joel
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