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Re: Wordsworth Mysterious Island edition

From: Ralf Tauchmann <ralf.tauchmann~at~t-online.de>
Date: 25 Feb 2010 07:28 GMT
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"Harry Hayfield" <mailto:harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com> schrieb:
> "What still remains to be thrown out?"
> "Nothing"
> "Yes - the car"
> "Let us catch hold of the net, and into the sea with the car!"
>
> A CAR??? A CAR??? A method for travelling by the means of the internal
> combustion engine that usually has four wheels??? In a balloon??? I know
> that Verne was ahead of his time, but that's worthy of an investigation by
> the Torchwood Institute!

Dear Harry,

But "car" is the word actually used... for instance by Herbert George Wells
in THE WAR OF THE AIR :

"The car of the balloon was small and neat, some bags of ballast the
untidiest of its contents, and he had found a light folding-table and put
it at his elbow, and on that was a glass with champagne."
-- http://wells.thefreelibrary.com/The-War-in-the-Air/3-1

Definition in Websters Collegiate Dictionary :

CAR of Celt origin; akin to OIr & MW carr vehicle; akin to L currere to run
(14c)
    1 : a vehicle moving on wheels: as
            a archaic : carriage, chariot
            b : a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad)
            c : automobile
    2 : the passenger compartment of an elevator
    3 : the part of an airship or balloon that carries the passengers
and cargo
Times change meanings...
Kind regards,

Ralf

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