Automobile Words of the Year - 29 Dec. 2008
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🗓️ 29 December 2008
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| 0:00.0 | This is Samsung S23 FE's greatest hits with hits such as super fast processing speed |
| 0:06.4 | and spectacular camera. |
| 0:09.8 | The new phone with all the greatest hits from 599 pounds. |
| 0:17.0 | Buy the Galaxy S23 FE to claim 294 pounds worth of rewards, including 100 pounds cashback |
| 0:23.4 | purchase from a participating retailer by the 25th of Jan 24 |
| 0:26.2 | claim cash back within 30 days of purchase |
| 0:27.8 | tease and seize apply Samsung dot com pricing shown |
| 0:30.5 | welcome to another away with words mini-cast. I'm Grant Barrett. We're continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008. Last week we talked |
| 0:54.3 | about words that came from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Gas prices have been all |
| 0:59.8 | over the place but worse still than high gas prices are accidents caused by DWT, which is |
| 1:06.3 | short for driving while texting. |
| 1:08.9 | Legislation and rules were considered in municipalities across the country to stop people from sending text messages |
| 1:15.0 | on their phones while driving, though few bills seemed to have passed. |
| 1:20.4 | Thanks to high fuel prices, the word gas sipper made a comeback in 2008. |
| 1:24.4 | It's the opposite of a gas guzzler. |
| 1:27.0 | If a car sips gas, it consumes less. |
| 1:29.4 | Another approach to conserving fuel would be hyper-miling. |
| 1:33.0 | This word created in 2004 was Oxford University Press's word of the year for 2008. |
| 1:38.0 | It means to take extraordinary measures to conserve fuel, |
| 1:42.0 | things like turning off the engine when going |
| 1:44.3 | down hills, avoiding the brakes, and drafting behind larger vehicles. |
| 1:49.4 | Drafting means riding up close where wind resistance is less. This approach to fuel economy is stock and |
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