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I would like to add/post this photo on the Jeepney article... Do you agree? and please feel free to edit/add it...thnx -- ミゲル / miguel | Talk 19:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Jeep+knee sounds contrived. Jeep + jitney is the most common etymology I've heard and was taught as such in a transportation engineering course I took years ago. Since the jeepney has its roots in the surplus jeeps after WWII, contact with remaining US servicemen would have introduced the term jitney - especially from those GIs from the south, where the term was more common. Michael Daly 17:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I see it has returned yet again. I don't understand why there is even any question about this. Judging from the words and the era the phrase was coined, it is abundantly clear that the phrase is derived from the common American term "jitney", but changed to reflect that it's a jeep being used as the vehicle. Calling a vehicle a "jeep knee" because people sit close to each other on board doesn't even make any sense, and it ignores the infinitely more plausible origin of the other term. AnnaGoFast ( talk) 03:08, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to add this section for non-Tagalog speakers.
-- Jondel ( talk) 08:47, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
I went to the Philippines in 1978 and Jeepneys were everywhere in Manilla. The small manufacturers were just finishing off the last of the surplus WW2 jeeps then. One thing I noticed about the Jeepneys was they never actually stopped, they'd just slow down and *almost* stop to let passengers on or off. Never saw anyone fall getting on or off. Bizzybody ( talk) 23:18, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
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I would like to add/post this photo on the Jeepney article... Do you agree? and please feel free to edit/add it...thnx -- ミゲル / miguel | Talk 19:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Jeep+knee sounds contrived. Jeep + jitney is the most common etymology I've heard and was taught as such in a transportation engineering course I took years ago. Since the jeepney has its roots in the surplus jeeps after WWII, contact with remaining US servicemen would have introduced the term jitney - especially from those GIs from the south, where the term was more common. Michael Daly 17:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I see it has returned yet again. I don't understand why there is even any question about this. Judging from the words and the era the phrase was coined, it is abundantly clear that the phrase is derived from the common American term "jitney", but changed to reflect that it's a jeep being used as the vehicle. Calling a vehicle a "jeep knee" because people sit close to each other on board doesn't even make any sense, and it ignores the infinitely more plausible origin of the other term. AnnaGoFast ( talk) 03:08, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to add this section for non-Tagalog speakers.
-- Jondel ( talk) 08:47, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
I went to the Philippines in 1978 and Jeepneys were everywhere in Manilla. The small manufacturers were just finishing off the last of the surplus WW2 jeeps then. One thing I noticed about the Jeepneys was they never actually stopped, they'd just slow down and *almost* stop to let passengers on or off. Never saw anyone fall getting on or off. Bizzybody ( talk) 23:18, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
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