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automobile. “[Automobile] being half Greek and half Latin, is so near indecent that we print it with hesitation,” a New York Times editor wrote in 1899. But automobile and car are the only survivors of the many names Americans gave to early horseless carriages, which included diamot, motor buggy, and even stink chariot (probably the work of an early environmentalist). A French construction of the 1880s, it was broken down to auto here by 1899. See car. |