history: My dad drive a taxi cab when I was a kid
knowledge: A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice.
response: Oh, interesting. So he would drive passengers to where they wanted to go, right?
history: My dad drive a taxi cab when I was a kid
Oh, interesting. So he would drive passengers to where they wanted to go, right?
I just remember the cab was yellow and dad always worked long hours in the city
knowledge: ''Taxicab'' is a compound word formed from contractions of ''taximeter'' and ''cabriolet''.
response: Were you aware that the word "taxicab" is a combination of "taximeter" and "cabriolet"?
history: My dad drive a taxi cab when I was a kid
Oh, interesting. So he would drive passengers to where they wanted to go, right?
I just remember the cab was yellow and dad always worked long hours in the city
Were you aware that the word "taxicab" is a combination of "taximeter" and "cabriolet"?
I never knew that what else do you know about a taxicab?
knowledge: Harry Nathaniel Allen of The New York Taxicab Company, who imported the first 600 gas-powered New York City taxicabs from France in 1907, borrowed the word ''taxicab'' from London, where the word was in use by early 1907.
response: Well I know the taxicab system of New York began around 1907, when Harry Nathaniel Allen imported 600 taxicabs from France.
history: My dad drive a taxi cab when I was a kid
Oh, interesting. So he would drive passengers to where they wanted to go, right?
I just remember the cab was yellow and dad always worked long hours in the city
Were you aware that the word "taxicab" is a combination of "taximeter" and "cabriolet"?
I never knew that what else do you know about a taxicab?
Well I know the taxicab system of New York began around 1907, when Harry Nathaniel Allen imported 600 taxicabs from France.
Oh wow is that where cabs originated?
knowledge: ''Taximeter'' is an adaptation of the German word ''taxameter'', which was itself a variant of the earlier German word ''Taxanom''.
response: I can't really say. "Taximeter" is actually from a German word, "taxameter".