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According to this article, "a 1936 book called Typewriting Behavior" made "comparisons of the new keyboard to a jeep and the old one to an ox". Jeeps were inve
by IAmBroom 1y ago
According to this article, "a 1936 book called Typewriting Behavior" made "comparisons of the new keyboard to a jeep and the old one to an ox".
Jeeps were invented in 1941. Some origin theories of the name date back as far as WW I (but for recruits, not vehicles). If the author truly used this comparison in 1936 it would be a tremendous citation for the word's origin.
Or perhaps the comparison was made in a later edition of the book. Don't know.
- tylerflick 1y agoThis is not the first historical inaccuracy I’ve noticed from this site.
- goosedragons 1y agoPopeye introduced a character named "Eugene the Jeep" in 1936. Could have also been the origin of Jeep for the vehicle.
- IAmBroom 1y agoYes, that's one of the popular theories. I personally prefer reuse of the existing word "jeep" meaning "new recruit" to mean "new vehicle". But that's just an opinion.
- mechanicum 1y agoI think they mixed up their sources. The jeep/ox comparison appears to be from the 1944 US Navy report: https://archive.org/details/APracticalExperimentInSimplifiedKeyboardRetraining/page/n24/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/APracticalExperimentInSimplified... (Typewriting Behavior, for the curious: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74878/page/n11/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74878/page/n11...)