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Adam Jacobs <ajk@socrates.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>I thought "coach" came from the Hungarian town, "Kocs" (accent grave
>>over the "o"), where coachmaking was a major occupation.
>It very likely does come from the Hungarian toponym Kocs (with *no* accent
>grave over the "o" -- Hungarian doesn't even employ the accent grave).

Well, it certainly has an accent mark, just not a grave. It's K�cs if
your computer can handle it.

>The wagons made there were called kocsi szekerek 'wagons from Kocs';
>later the word kocsi alone came to refer to the town's most famous product.

And due to the weirdness of the hungarian language, the word kocsi
indeed lacks the above mentioned accent mark.

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