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nltoday at 12:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

I've never thought of it as a fun term before.

We use "park" as "I will park the car" not park as in "amusement park"


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BobbyTables2today at 4:04 AM

Why isn’t the “pantry” called the “food store”?

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jjtheblunttoday at 1:30 AM

yeah but syntactically "car park" gets used like a noun phrase, not verb phrase, which was (to your point really) what had me think "huh?" momentarily.