Carwash

Started by Figleaf, October 22, 2023, 05:51:05 PM

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Figleaf

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Penguin squirting water from private parts. :)  That must be another one of those Italian Pinguino Verde car wash tokens. Wait! This penguin has no legs. It's a dolphin. Well, Italy is still famous for its car wash installations and coffee making machines and Savona is a place in Italy. Wrong again. Italians wouldn't write car wash as one word. It's typical for those pesky word-stringing Dutch.

And so it is. Who'd have thunk they make car wash installations in windmills-and-cows country? Third time wrong. The cows highly appreciate the carwash.

Peter


An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

FosseWay

"Carwash" (one word) is both acceptable and common in British English; I'm less sure about North America. It's not that English never combines words in the way that Dutch, German and Scandinavian do; it's more that it does so haphazardly. So if the Dutch company responsible for this token wanted to sell its products in the UK, it could do so directly.

I'd say the biggest reason for doubting it's Italian is the use of English at all. I'd expect autolavaggio (also one word ;) ) or similar. Using English on car wash tokens is commoner in northern Europe (see for example all the Kärcher Clean Park tokens).