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Originally Posted by HarryT
To me, and probably every other British person, a "sedan" is something you sit in, has poles sticking out of it, and is carried around by four men. I would never think of the word "sedan" as being associated with a car.
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I added the caveat that I couldn't speak for the rest of the English-speaking world for that reason. I was replying to a fellow American. I used that metaphor to convey that just because you can refer to
War and Peace as a novel, that doesn't mean that most people won't still think of it as a book.