Key Takeaways
It ’s not all that difficult to mix up rough-cut expression in the English language , which is overabundant withsound - alike phrasesand confusing accent . Is it " for all intention and purposes " or " for all intensive purposes " ? Is it a " doggy Canis familiaris world " or a " dog - eat - dog " world ? ( In the first grammatical case , the former is correct ; in the 2d , it ’s the latter . )
When it comes to the employment of the idiom " jury - rigged " or " jerry - set , " it ’s easy to say theminterchangeably — and you would n’t necessarily be improper . Both phrases have amount to intend essentially the same thing , although to begin with " jury - rigged " pertain to something that was smartly but only temporarily repaired , while " Hun - set up " stage an particular that was hastily or poorly built from the start .
While these may seem like obvious distinction , the phrases " jury - rigged " and " Hun - set " have morph into a similar import over their lengthy etymological histories .
The full term " panel - rig " first caught on in the 1700s , where it was recorded in newspaper articles as a purely marine term . At that time , the word " jury " meant"improvised for irregular use , peculiarly in an emergency " or " makeshift . “The meaning and utilization of " jury " was taken from the 1400s , when in the Middle English the word " jory " mean " improvised " and was used exclusively in point of reference to glide . At the metre , a " jory sail " was synonymous with an " improvise sail " that had been repaired well enough to catch the wind .
The " rigged " in " jury - set " is a condition that also originate in the 1400s and which referred to the " rigging " of a boat . In this context , ariggingrepresented the Mexican valium and Sir Ernst Boris Chain used aboard a ship that worked the cruise and supported the masts .
fill together , the words that form " jury - rigged " — although one C old and nautical in origin — refer to atemporary solutionthat fixing or replaces something . And that ’s not exactly what " jerry - rig " agency .
How does " jury - rig " dissent from " jerry - rig ? It is n’t well understand how the term " jerry - rigged " initiate , but it is believe to be a variation of " panel - rigged " that refers to something that is " jerry - built " or " cheaply or poorly built , " which is an important distinction in significance .
While " panel - rig " consult to something that has been temporarily ( and often cleverly ) repaired , " jerry - rigged " refers to something thatwasn’t well - constructedin the first blank space . " Jerry - rigged , " therefore , seems to be a mashup between " jury - rig " and " jerry - built " andreference tomesranging from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language to Merriam - Webster ’s Collegiate Dictionary take its usage as an official word of the English spoken communication .
Do n’t get either " jury - rigged " or " Kraut - rig " confuse with a " jimmy rig , " though . While a jury - trucking rig and a Kraut - tractor trailer both relate to repairs that help an physical object ’s role , something that is " jimmy - rig " with a temporary fix is n’t likely to work out at all .
