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Are names of chemicals not proper nouns? - English Language Usage . . . Product names which are derived after an inventor's name will often remain capitalized, though not always (e g the petroleum distillate used to power trucks and locomotives is called "diesel" rather than "Diesel" even though it's named after the inventor of the four-stroke compression-ignition engine for which that fuel was formulated)
Throttle is to slow down, but full throttle is max speed? Originally, throttle meant throat So "full-throttle" for a motorized vehicle is like a lion's full-throated roar - the throttle throat is opened as wide as possible (for maximum throughput of fuel or air) It's just that the verb to throttle came to have the meaning choke (fatally cut off someone's air by squeezing their throat), which led to "throttling back" meaning "reduce the fuel supply
Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat. There are many versions of this proverb, which suggests there are always several ways to do something The earliest printed citation of this proverbial saying that I can find is in a short story by the American humorist Seba Smith - The Money Diggers, 1840: "There are more ways than one to skin a cat," so are there more ways than one of digging for money Charles Kingsley used one old British
word choice - What types of sounds do cars make? - English Language . . . Modern cars aren't supposed to make much noise at all There's the comfort of travellers and the general public near the highway to consider, not to mention the fact that fuel economy implies aerodynamic body shape At most, what we're looking for is something like "muted hum"
Why is the BrE “petrol” called gas in AmE? By the end of the century the gas was derived directly from crude oil and gas oil was renamed Diesel oil (up to 21 carbon atoms per molecule) because its main use was in injection engines petrol vs gasolene gasoline
Origin of the phrase Now were cooking with The original is "Now You're Cooking With Gas", supposedly part of an ad campaign from the era when gas stoves first started replacing wood stoves for cooking in the home The Wikitionary entry cooking with gas offers some insight, but I couldn't locate a specific ad campaign, or any other corroborating materials This article suggests that this would have been early in the 1900s