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by DavidWoof
964 days ago
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> Car crash -> automobile accident --- a softening It's not. Accident is actually the older term. Cars have had accidents since their inception. Using the "crash" sound to refer to the accident itself didn't catch on until the 1940s (might be a war thing, I'm not sure). |
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