The car inspired affection in its owners. The T rapidly acquired nicknames: Tin Lizzie, flivver – a word of indeterminate origins – or jalopy, which might be derived from Jalapa, a Mexican town where many old cars were sent to be turned into scrap.
Friday, September 16, 2022
In case you wondered …
… Why the Model T was Henry Ford's epic poem - Big Think. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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It seems to me that E.B. White's essay was included in an anthology I read in high school; though on the other hand a quotation in it from John Steinbeck seems a little risque--maybe the whole quotation was not included.
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