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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Car coffin?

But gare-ij actually sound more like mispelled Indian English.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it, I'm surprised that the British term for garage isn't "motor home."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

A motor home is like a camper van, what you'd call an RV

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gare idge is what OP was going for phonetically.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

British accents are non-rhotic, so really it should be "ga-ridge", not "gare-ridge".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

British accents are non-rhotic

Except the ones that aren't

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

True, albeit a very small minority.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sure, but -ji is a commonly used honorific in Hindi and related languages.