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> Bavarian Driving Machines It's actually "Bavarian Motor Works" which, coincidentally also comes out as BMW in English.
by majewsky 7y ago
> Bavarian Driving Machines
It's actually "Bavarian Motor Works" which, coincidentally also comes out as BMW in English.
- Jedd 7y agoOh, thank you - I'd seen this listed as driving machine translation several decades ago and hadn't pursued it more, just assumed that was legit. Reviewing on Wikipedia I see that: "Bayerische Motoren Werke [...] This name is grammatically incorrect (in German, compound words must not contain spaces) ..." which is reassuring, given my own general bewilderment with German grammar.