I believes it actually refers to Iggy Pop achieving fame after a several year lull.

So when we are talking about a hybrid car, the means of propulsion is by……

imo, it's just marketing.

The car mags have correct descriptions, I forget what they are. Off the top of my head, some possible examples:
- Battery powered electric motor assisted, gasoline engine driven and charging, parallel hybrid. (early Honda system)
- Gasoline engine generator and plug-in battery electric motor, series hybrid. (early Toyota system, but with additional plug-in charging)

I just ran this through a few dictionary checks and they all state meanings to this effect:-

Motor (noun): A device that changes electricity or fuel into movement.

I couldn’t find a single dictionary source which limits “motor” exclusively to electricity. The term “electric motor” exists as a category of motor.

“Engine” on the other hand only applies to liquid fuel or steam, which is why you never hear the term “electric engine”.

So I would say your pet peeve is misguided.

i think the reasoning for automotive to have such descriptions is to b/c they have to follow certain standards/regs that dictate nomenclature use.

Sometimes the scientific or engineering definition is not the only one. Plus language evolves and mis-usage becomes common usage and therefore accepted, understood, proper. I have a lot of words I don't agree with (I was born in the early 50s), but what the hey, they're real words now. Ginormous changes in the language all the time.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motorcar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorboat

https://www.quakerstate.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Trend

https://www.mcatvcmembership.com/

Etc, etc, etc.

Before posting, I looked on wiki for motor, and it only said electric.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/motor

What’s the “M” in “BMW” stand for again?

Easy explanation. There are bicyclists and heterocyclists.

Personally I call them, cyclists. So why don’t the Brits pronounce the letter “g” on words ending in “ing”? instead its, “in”.

Sometimes we do and sometimes we don’t. Also varies widely across regional accents. Sometimes we actually emphasise the “g” for effect.

The way some use the letter "Z"
USA = Zee
others = zed

wtf

Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.

I first learnt this from watching Sesame Street in the 70s.

I must've missed that episode, I didn't learn zed 'til the '80s

I looked on wikipedia, not wiktionary.

Wikipedia has a single page for engine/motor. If you search wiki for motor, it redirects to this page:-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.p...&diffonly=true

If you still think “motor” only refers to “electric motors” then you are being stubbornly ignorant at this point. Do you have a dictionary? If so look up the word “motor” and you will see why we have words like motorcar and motorcycle etc.

If “motor” was exclusively electric then the term “electric motor” would be redundant.

I, OTOH, looked it up in the dictionary - you remember dictionaries? - and definition 2b for "Motor" is "Internal combustion engine". So, there's that.

Like most (all?) of the Beatles.

I say we go back to the language of 1904. What say you, wheelmen and scorchers?

I get slightly annoyed at hearing Brits' and Aussie's version of a knobby tire, the "knobbly".

They do the same thing for the carburetor. Our shorthand word is "carb", there's is "carby".

They both sound like something a child would say.

Aussie’s might well say “carby” but I’ve never heard a Brit say that. Although it’s been a long time since I heard anyone talk about carbs!