6. Garage = Americans put a “zsa” on the end like Zsa Zsa Gabor, pronounced ga-RAHJ. In the U.K., it's pronounced "GARE-idge." Like, “Can I park my bike in your GARE-idge?”
A petrol Station. Occasionally it is colloquially referred to as a 'Garage', since early ones were both petrol stations and mechanics but they are more correctly called petrol stations.
A multistorey car park (Commonwealth English) or parking garage (American English), also called a multistorey, parking building, parking structure, parkade (mainly Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck, or indoor parking, is a building designed for car, motorcycle, and bicycle parking in which parking takes place on ...
The word “garage” comes from the French word “garer” which means “to shelter.” In fact, the first garages were called carriage or coach houses and were built to protect the horse-drawn carriage and its gear.
Coined from Medieval Latin, the word petroleum (L. petra, rock + oleum, oil) initially denoted types of mineral oil derived from rocks and stones. In Britain, Petrol was a refined mineral oil product marketed as a solvent from the 1870s by the British wholesaler Carless Refining and Marketing Ltd.
Let's look at the spelling patterns and the pronunciation patterns for words ending in “age” pronounced /ɑːʒ/. These example words are like the posh pronunciation of the word garage /ˈgær.
A "garage" in America is where you park your car at night. Now this one is really confusing! in the U.K. the word 'pants' is only used for "underpants" hence, when an American says he is going to put on a fresh pair of pants before going out, it cracks us up.
In the Republic of Ireland, motorways are prefixed with an “M” (for example, the M50 ring road around Dublin city). National roads are prefixed with an “N” (for example N18). Secondary roads may also be dual-carriageways or have two way traffic.
A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway, is a path along the side of a road.
Why do people in the United Kingdom (UK) call a gas station a petrol station? Petrol is a trade name. The correct name for what you refer to as 'gas' or gasoline is 'a white spirit of petroleum'. This was shortened and used as a trade name, thus 'Petrol'.
Garage music is named for the legendary Paradise Garage nightclub, a seminal nightclub that was operational between 1978 and 1987, and featured DJs such as Larry Levan playing disco, post-disco and early house music amongst other styles.
car repair shop: the regionalism is in the pronunciation - South-west Aussies say gar arj; Melbournians say garage as in carriage. Contributor's comments: Victorians say "gar arj"!
Australians say “garage” for the place where you get your car serviced, and for what you park your car in at your home. But places where you pay to park your car are called carparks, not parking garages.
So, instead, the British usually have what is known as a 'car boot sale', where they load all their possibly-sellable junk into a vehicle, and drive it to a field or other open area such as a school playing field hired for the purpose, along with several hundred other like-minded folk, and the public come along and ...
