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Carriage Noun
Independent on Sunday, The, Jul 15, 2007 by Nicholas Bagnall
A REPORTER at the trial of one of the 21/7 bombers told readers about someone who "confronted Mohammed in the train carriage". Why the train carriage? Americans call such carriages cars, while among us a car is an automobile; when you pay to eat in a carriage and it's a restaurant, it also becomes a car.
Confusing for foreigners, particularly when you remember that a carriage may be pulled by a horse. But its history is simple. It began by meaning the act of carrying, then only later the thing in which goods or people were carried; the first meaning persists today when we talk about someone's carriage (or bearing).
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