**calling out to ALL Americans:
I often hear Americans refer to petrol (fuel for cars) as “GAS”.**
how can a liquid (eg petrol) be a gas? I say you go back to school and learn ur “3 states of matter” 
**unless anyone here has a logical explanation 
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It's actually Gasoline but we call it gas.
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Short for Gasoline.
However, I prefer "fuel"
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the correct word is “Petrol” 
because thats the British word…and English language comes from England
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English people settled in US and populated US for the most part, so they are the one who screwed it. If anyone, British are the ones to get the blame for this :k:
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English is a messed up language to begin with. You can’t screw with it any more than it is
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oh man you TOLD her…haha take that impulse 
O W N E D 
Secondly, only about like 30% of British people speak correct English, too ( just as only a small amount of Americans speak absolutely correct English). The rest just “slang it” 
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Well then, you’s no longer gots permission to be speaking no English from here on out, aight?
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if thats the case…and British should get the blame then why is it that here in britain no1 says “gas” ?
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Because they call popsicles “tip tops”
heh shall i go on?
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well americans have their own ways...when they fart and actually give off GAS (as in the matter not gasoline)..they call it "passing some air"...
now cmon it cant be air..air is like a mixture of nitrogen/oxgyen..but ur fart is a chemical compound and thus shud be called GAS...nomesayn
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Gas is a mixture of Hydrogen and Carbon and both are non-metal.
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too many south asians(paki,indian,bngladeshi.....) seem to get caught up in this dilemma - whether to stay true to their colonial english textbooks or to "get down" to american english.
but u know wat ya'll...i say end all of it, cos the fact is - In america we speak "AMERICAN"...yep i dont call it english...its "AMERICAN"... a differnt language in itself.
no screwin around now.....go to www.english2american.com
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Niggaaaa
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that is one of the most narrow minded point of view i’ve heard. every language has a dialect and who the hell has the write to say that british english is the best or worst
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My dad always used to say...
Fill her up with Ethel... lol
I think short for ethanol...don't know if they still make that or not.
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They actually just bark it
or at least do a VERY close imitation of it 
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...and been very successful at it too....j/k
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LOL hahaha..
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Impulse like ‘Gas’ is used for Gasoline, Petrol is used for ‘Petroleum’. So when u say the word is petrol its still wrong BTW Both Gasoline and Petroleum are generalized words for flammable liquid, a crude oil u can say. While Octane, Diesel etc starts getting more specialized words for specific formula’s.
