re: Sayings/Phrases you still use but probably shouldnt

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saying "looks like two monkeys fricking a football" is not ok, even if both parties are white.

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Used to be n***er rigged. Then, it got converted to jerry rigged over the years. But it's almost as if jerry rigged isn't enough, and it's a dead giveaway from what you really want to say.

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“Colored” people

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“Colored” people

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Used to be n***er rigged. Then, it got converted to jerry rigged over the years. But it's almost as if jerry rigged isn't enough, and it's a dead giveaway from what you really want to say.

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Jury-rigged does indeed have historical precedence, with citations in the Oxford English Dictionary all the way back to 1788. In that year, William Thomson published an account of a trip to Scotland in which he suggested that Scottish fishermen train in the "practical art of seamanship" on ships that are "jury rigged: that is, to have smaller masts, yards, and rigging, than would be required for actual service." That use of jury originates in the term jury mast, attested since the early seventeenth century, meaning "a temporary mast to replace one that has broken off." No one's quite sure where the jury of jury mast comes from, though some speculate it's derived from Old French ajurie, meaning "help." (The OED also notes a theory that jury mast is short for injury mast, but there's no good evidence for that.) Jury-rigged then got extended beyond the nautical world to be a synonym for "makeshift" or "improvised." Jerry-built first shows up in 1869 in a glossary from the Lonsdale region of Lancashire, England, and the expression is said to have originated in nearby Liverpool. There are all sorts of explanations for where the jerry part came from, with some even taking it back to the Bible (either from Jericho, whose walls famously came tumbling down, or from the prophet Jeremiah, who made predictions about things falling apart). Others say there were two brothers named Jerry who ran a building firm in Liverpool and whose work was notoriously shoddy. Still others imagine a relation to French jour meaning "day" (since day workers are considered to be sloppy craftsmen). But for all we know, the jerry in jerry-built could have started off as a corruption of the jury in jury-rigged. (We do know that there's no connection to the use of Jerry as a pejorative nickname for Germans, since that didn't arise until World War I.)

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Jury-rigged does indeed have historical precedence, with citations in the Oxford English Dictionary all the way back to 1788. In that year, William Thomson published an account of a trip to Scotland in which he suggested that Scottish fishermen train in the "practical art of seamanship" on ships that are "jury rigged: that is, to have smaller masts, yards, and rigging, than would be required for actual service." That use of jury originates in the term jury mast, attested since the early seventeenth century, meaning "a temporary mast to replace one that has broken off." No one's quite sure where the jury of jury mast comes from, though some speculate it's derived from Old French ajurie, meaning "help." (The OED also notes a theory that jury mast is short for injury mast, but there's no good evidence for that.) Jury-rigged then got extended beyond the nautical world to be a synonym for "makeshift" or "improvised." Jerry-built first shows up in 1869 in a glossary from the Lonsdale region of Lancashire, England, and the expression is said to have originated in nearby Liverpool. There are all sorts of explanations for where the jerry part came from, with some even taking it back to the Bible (either from Jericho, whose walls famously came tumbling down, or from the prophet Jeremiah, who made predictions about things falling apart). Others say there were two brothers named Jerry who ran a building firm in Liverpool and whose work was notoriously shoddy. Still others imagine a relation to French jour meaning "day" (since day workers are considered to be sloppy craftsmen). But for all we know, the jerry in jerry-built could have started off as a corruption of the jury in jury-rigged. (We do know that there's no connection to the use of Jerry as a pejorative nickname for Germans, since that didn't arise until World War I.)

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Your welcome.

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