I’m practicing for my driving licence and I’m going to driving school, just out of curiosity though I’ve looking on YouTube how to start and run a car and I’ve seen at least 3 different methods, I dunno which one is the correct. Things like the order when you release a pedal or when you need to press the clutch keep switching…

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    12 days ago

    While the word for a thing used for slowing and stopping a vehicle probably came from the word meaning “to destroy or cause to not work”, they are spelled differently, and may even have been pronounced differently at one point (assuming there aren’t any places which maintain a difference even now). The thing in a car is a brake.

    See also: “then” and “than” which have a similar kind of relationship, and “steak” and “stake” which don’t.