Re: Taxi

Jitze filted:

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:35:45 +0000, LFS
<laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But the OED has for taximeter:

a. An automatic contrivance fitted on a cab or other vehicle to indicate
to the passenger at any point the distance traversed and the fare due.
Also ellipt. for taximeter cab (rare).
The earliest forms of this indicator were simply distance-recorders,
but it was soon made to comprise an automatic fare-reckoner and index.

Which accounts also for the strange name of "taxi dancer" for those
ladies who would dance with you for a per dance fee - I suppose.
When did taxi dancers disappear ? Was this a pre-WWII thingy?

They just switched to a new taxonomy....r


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