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What does c/p mean, for a Toyota?
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micky
Apr 17, 2021, 12:48:07 PM4/17/21
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I'm making a lot of progress fixing my car, so I have time for trivial
questions. In the wiring diagram for Toyotas it often distinguishes
between convertibles and c/p.
What does c/p mean?
I'm thinking c stands for coupe, but where does that leave p?
OT, do any of you remember the 50's when one design was called a coupe,
which was pronounced coo-pay. It turns out with an accent over the e,
that's the past participle of a verb meaning to hit, but with no accent,
in French, the final e is silent, and the word is pronounced coop. But
in the 50's either people didn't know that or coop didn't sound French
enough. -- Similar to foyer, pronounced foi-yay. In French it would
be fwah-yay, and in English foy-er, but in the 50's they used a combo
English-French pronunciation, foi-yay.
For some reason, now in the USA, both words are usually pronounced in
straight English.
questions. In the wiring diagram for Toyotas it often distinguishes
between convertibles and c/p.
What does c/p mean?
I'm thinking c stands for coupe, but where does that leave p?
OT, do any of you remember the 50's when one design was called a coupe,
which was pronounced coo-pay. It turns out with an accent over the e,
that's the past participle of a verb meaning to hit, but with no accent,
in French, the final e is silent, and the word is pronounced coop. But
in the 50's either people didn't know that or coop didn't sound French
enough. -- Similar to foyer, pronounced foi-yay. In French it would
be fwah-yay, and in English foy-er, but in the 50's they used a combo
English-French pronunciation, foi-yay.
For some reason, now in the USA, both words are usually pronounced in
straight English.
rbowman
Apr 17, 2021, 8:11:18 PM4/17/21
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No coupays there... In northern New England French Canadiens were low
of the social scale so even if it should have been French it was
purposefully mangled: go looking for Isle au Haut in Maine and you'd
better say aisles ah hot and no something to do with ho's.
Peeler
Apr 18, 2021, 3:57:05 AM4/18/21
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:11:21 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2MXxoQTLY
>
> No coupays there... In northern New England French Canadiens were low
> of the social scale so even if it should have been French it was
> purposefully mangled: go looking for Isle au Haut in Maine and you'd
> better say aisles ah hot and no something to do with ho's.
Driveling senile idiots!
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2MXxoQTLY
>
> No coupays there... In northern New England French Canadiens were low
> of the social scale so even if it should have been French it was
> purposefully mangled: go looking for Isle au Haut in Maine and you'd
> better say aisles ah hot and no something to do with ho's.
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