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How did the word "car" become associated with an automobile?

Asked by john65pennington (29258points) October 16th, 2011

There are many words that can associate one item as being the same thing. Example: the word dollars. When buying gasoline, we say “five bucks on pump no. 3”. Question: how did the word “car” become associated with the word automobile??

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