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Dear Nathan B:
About four days ago someone called DC asked a question in this section as " What is one word that is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.?" and I answered it as PIZZA, because it is the only word.
But some guys answered it as taxi, and as it clear you think in the same way.
But observe the point that a word can be the same in the entire world when it is spelled AND pronounced in the same way in all the languages, while the word taxi is just pronounced in the same way and spelled as
táxi
in Portuguese!
If you don't believe in me, so search it simply for yourself in the net. If you still think that awy, that the only one word is taxi; then I am wrong. So give some proof on your word or idea to prove it and teach me sth new, I have proof for my idea!
Yeah I know! We should share a word like "toilet" or something more useful.
Hahahaha... IT'S TRUE! From America to Japan to Turkey, it's always a taxi or a takusi or a taksi...
U r correct.We all share it.I dunno why.Arabs,Americans,French,Ita... whole world uses it.Good question!!
from the online etymological dictionary:
taxi
1907, shortening of taximeter cab (introduced in London in March 1907), from taximeter "automatic meter to record the distance and fare" (1898), from Fr. taximètre, from Ger. Taxameter (1890), coined from M.L. taxa "tax, charge." An earlier Eng. form was taxameter (1894), used in horse-drawn cabs.
This suggests that the word comes from the meter used to measure cost per mile. If this was originally a german invention, than the word would have diffused from the original meter which would be uniform because presumably all of the meters came from the same company in Germany
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