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What Gasoline is called around the World (i.redd.it)

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

I have never filled my car's tank with "a gas," I fill it with gas, which is short for gasoline. That abbreviation being a homonym for gas, a chemical phase, is merely an unfortunate coincidence.