Kia Motors America

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:47 PM -0700 4/30/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Fiat.
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>   OK, so it's Latin.
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>   JL

And, if I'm not mistaken, the only make that uses the subjunctive.

LH

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>sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:
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>on 4/30/08 9:41 AM, Charles Doyle at cdoyle at UGA.EDU wrote:
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>>  Dodge. Ford.
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>>>  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:49:46 -0400
>>>  From: Benjamin Zimmer
>>>  Subject: Re: Kia Motors America
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>>>  On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, LanDi Liu wrote:
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>>>>  Are there other cars with verbs as names?
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>>>  For starters, there's Volvo (Lat. 'I roll') and Audi (Lat. 'Listen!').
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>>>  http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/classiccars.htm
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>>>  --Ben Zimmer
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>Escort. Sport.
>AM
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