Kia Motors America

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fiat.

  OK, so it's Latin.

  JL

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:

> Dodge. Ford.
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> 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!').
>>
>> 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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