Timeline for Why do we qualify "dish washer" or "car wash" but not "clothes washer"?
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| Sep 30, 2021 at 18:34 | comment | added | Greybeard | But a machine that washes clothes is just a "washing machine". This is a false premise. There have been several words for washing machine - "a washer" springs to mind. The commonest use of a noun usually becomes the default and loses its attributive adjective first: in terms of riding, saddle = horse saddle. If you want an elephant saddle or an ostrich saddle, you have to specify from the default. | |
| Sep 30, 2021 at 12:32 | comment | added | Hot Licks | When I was a kid, "clothes washer" was a fairly common term. | |
| Sep 30, 2021 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1443455585811316740 | ||
| Jul 1, 2015 at 11:50 | vote | accept | KutuluMike | ||
| Sep 26, 2014 at 15:49 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 15:15 | history | asked | KutuluMike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |