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just hyphenate at the right place, and the meaning spills out.
by signa11 3y ago
just hyphenate at the right place, and the meaning spills out.
- OJFord 3y agoWell, along those lines, 'car' just means 'carriage', so if there's a problem with calling it a car it's that it was a cart, not a seated-people-carrying device (not typically or in a way that would be called a carriage anyway) - not that it doesn't resemble modern carriages. (IMO.)