Antedating of "Jeep"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Good find. These jeeps should be the larger Dodge command and
reconnaissance cars I mentioned last time the subject came up.

JL

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Antedating of "Jeep"
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The following citation appears to be an antedating of "jeep" (OED 1941).
>  H=
> owever, this usage differs somewhat from later usage, since the OED entry
> r=
> efers to the "jeep" as being small, whereas the citation below seems to be
> =
> describing a large motorized Army vehicle.
>
> 1940 _L.A. Times_ 13 Aug. 4 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)   Warriors
> Fee=
> d by Jeep Gang   Southern Californians Bring in Supplies on Mechanical
> Mons=
> ters ... Among their [the California National Guard's] rolling stock [word
> =
> or words cut off] new reconnaissance cars facetiously dubbed Jeeps, have
> at=
> tracted most attention.  With each [word or words cut off] its high wheels
> =
> supplied with separate drive when needed, [word or words cut off]
> monstrous=
>  cars will cover extremely rough territory.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org