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I think you misread, the OP claimed it derives from carriage, not carnage.
by lorenzhs 7y ago
I think you misread, the OP claimed it derives from carriage, not carnage.
- gjm11 7y agoHuh, so I did. Many apologies. (The OED's etymology for "car", quoted above, seems to disprove that too, but much less drastically: the two are closely related.)