Interesting excerpt from wikipedia re: the term gasoline "Gasoline" is an English word that denotes fuel for automobiles. The Oxford English Dictionary dates its first recorded use to 1863, when it was spelled "gasolene". The term "gasoline" was first used in North America in 1864. The word is a derivation from the word "gas" and the chemical suffixes "-ol" and "-ine" or "-ene" However, the term may also have been influenced by the trademark "Cazeline" or "Gazeline". On 27 November 1862, the British publisher, coffee merchant and social campaigner John Cassell placed an advertisement in The Times of London: The Patent Cazeline Oil, safe, economical, and brilliant … possesses all the requisites which have so long been desired as a means of powerful artificial light. This is the earliest occurrence of the word to have been found. Cassell discovered that a shopkeeper in Dublin named Samuel Boyd was selling counterfeit cazeline and wrote to him to ask him to stop. Boyd did not reply and changed every ‘C’ into a ‘G’, thus coining the word "gazeline". The use of the word gasoline instead of petrol is uncommon outside North America, particularly given the usual shortening of gasoline to gas, because various forms of gaseous products are also used as automotive fuel, such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). In many languages, the name of the product is derived from benzene, such as Benzin in German, benzina in Italian, or bensin in Indonesian; but in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, the colloquial name nafta is derived from that of the chemical naphtha. Well I thought it was interesting at least!!
@plantpot Yes, I'll just go back to my nice padded cell and relax... What's your address and what planet are you living on?
