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Interestingly enough: on Page 27 the title is 'Chevy and GMC', on all following pages (and the index page) it's 'Chevrolet and GMC'. Looks like someone acciden
by LeonM 4y ago
Interestingly enough: on Page 27 the title is 'Chevy and GMC', on all following pages (and the index page) it's 'Chevrolet and GMC'.
Looks like someone accidentally used some slang, and nobody caught it. I guess 'chevy' is so common in the US that nobody noticed.
- adrianmonk 4y agoNot sure if it's related, but this being 1973, the song "American Pie" ("drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry") had just hit #1 on the charts not long before. "the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 starting January 15" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_%28song%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_%28song%29)
- tuyiown 4y agoEnglish is not my first language and I never lived in the us. Chevy is very pervasive and also rarely used mixed with Chevrolet. It's also mostly used for more common cars, whereas corvette is very known, at least internationally as chevrolet corvette, and never chevy corvette. So it seems that not only using Chevy is very common, but it's so ingrained that people seemed to never mention Chevrolet is the same context for me. At some point, I remember thinking that that weird I've never heard of must be a surname to an existing brand, like Chevrolet, and having done a quick check, but I didn't realized it must not have been that conclusive at that time, and I never clarified the situation in my head before reading your comment.
- jccooper 4y agoI don't think it ever appears on the nameplate or badges, but it's in common use as a synonym, even by the company.