JEEP again

[Jonathan Lighter]

Inadvertently sent the real message plus a draft.

Version One was definitive.

JL

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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