taxameter

Should it be Wilhelm Bruhn, the German inventor of the taxameter, a device that measured (the -meter part of the compound) distance or time, and calculated thereon a charge (taxa-)?

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They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Should it be Wilhelm Bruhn, the German inventor of the taxameter, a device that measured (the -meter part of the compound) distance or time, and calculated thereon a charge (taxa-)?

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

At one time there was much discussion in England as to the desirability of legalizing on cabs the use of a mechanical fare-recorder such as, under the name of taximeter or taxameter, is in general use on the continent of

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

xviWhen the taxameter era had dawned in France, Professor Théodore Reinach, a specialist in Ancient Greek, argued that the word should táxis , meaning “order” or “arrangement,” as in the English words syntax and taxidermy.

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xviWhen the taxameter era had dawned in France, Professor Théodore Reinach, a specialist in Ancient Greek, argued that the word should táxis , meaning “order” or “arrangement,” as in the English words syntax and taxidermy.

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