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    What does a sweater have to do with jumping?

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        Yes and I am demanding explanations.

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          Only if Americans can explain why they cannot pronounce a simple four-letter word correctly.

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            Okay pronunciation complaints coming from your half of the water are hilarious. Keep them coming.

            Edit: Like give me some examples here!

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        Well you sweat when jumping for one thing.

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            The lack of logical explanations for why it’s called a jumper are deafening.

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              It looks like one of those “vague, unsure” ones, it’s perhaps too old a word, and with too many vague, possible sources.

              Some bits of dictionaries suggest various etymologies - it likely drifted from words in Gaelic, Scots, Arabic and French, like “jupe”, “jump”, “juppe” “jubbe” and so on, which tended to mean things like “smock”, “jacket” or whatever. It’s been around in English for various clothing types for a few hundred years, and referred specifically to the woollen pullover thing from the picture above for 100-150 years.

              It has no relation at all to jump as in “leap”.