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Originally Posted by davepl
Back in the days when we used the newspaper, you'd see some pretty wild phonetic spellings for car parts, because it was just some non-car person taking the classified ad insertion order over phone.
If the car has a pozzy, it's probably the rear end, for example. Some became really commonplace, because the same person probably was taking the order. Maybe it was just my home town :-)
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This is a good post...I remember this well and miss the old print ads in the newspapers, a lot of times you could find deals because of the bad phonetic spelling.