Kia Motors America

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Well, as the "Classic Cars" link below points out, Fiat is actually an
acronym derived from "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino". Others
might say it stands for "Fix It Again, Tony".)

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  Fiat.
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>   OK, so it's Latin.
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>   JL
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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
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> >> 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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