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Lex

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Tue Dec-28-04 11:43 PM
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Is saying "crank" your car just a southern thing?

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Or do people in other places say it too?

(I'm assuming it is a hold-over term from when you had to actually get out and crank your car engine in the front.)

My housemate insists that only southerners use the term.

:shrug:

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