Improperly plural names for single motor vehicles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today at a red light on the way home from the supermarket I got behind a Kia Spectra (as shown above). But spectra is the plural of spectrum, so that single vehicle really should be called a Spectrum. (Chevrolet and Geo earlier had a Spectrum).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nissan has a couple of plural names for SUVs. There is the Armada – but the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an armada as “a fleet of warships.” There also is the Kicks, which should be a Kick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chevrolet has a subcompact crossover SUV called the Trax, which is a misspelling for Tracks. Elsewhere it sometimes is known as a Tracker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Kia runs out of names, they might make a Recta (plural for rectum).  

 

Back on June 9, 2013 I blogged about Playing with words like kids and suggested that Toyota might call a mud-slinging SUV a Tergent - the opposite of a detergent.  

 

Images for the Spectra, Armada, Kicks, and Trax came from Wikimedia Commons. The Recta was adapted from a cartoon at OpenClipArt.