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[tigriswolf]

I've been wondering this for awhile: to all those who aren't American, what do you call the front passenger seat of a vehicle?  We call it shotgun because of stagecoaches during the Wild West days, but what about other places?

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[trishabooms.livejournal.com]

The passenger side.

Unimaginative set of buggers aren't we?

[ciaranbochna.livejournal.com]

We call it shotgun here in Canada too, at least most people I know do. Mind you, half of my family is from the US so perhaps I am not the best judge..lol

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

Passenger seat. Possibly because knights didn't have space for a shotgun when we were galloping around on the left hand side of the road (for the purposes of pulling one's sword from its scabbard to fight off those dastardly bandits).

[loveandthetruth.livejournal.com]

Passenger side. Although we've been Americanized sufficiently to say I call shotgun now and then. :)

[vichan.livejournal.com]

It's because we Americans have violent connotations behind everything we say.

Wow, I just sounded way more cynical than I normally do. O_o

[theshi.livejournal.com]

In Germany we call it Beifahrer, which is basically co-driver. Yeah... Exciting :\

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Front pasenger seat lol. We don't call it anything specific really.

[tigriswolf]

*hee* That takes so long to say.

[tigriswolf]

Sorry, dude, but it doesn't count if half your family is American.

[tigriswolf]

*hee*

[tigriswolf]

That's interesting. Did y'all get that from TV or what?

[tigriswolf]

True that, yo.

[tigriswolf]

Hmm. That sounds like side-seat driving to me.

[tigriswolf]

That's also long to say. So, if you want to call the front passenger seat, do you have anything that's shorter to yell?

[loveandthetruth.livejournal.com]

I honestly can't remember. The earliest memory I have of any such concept is You can't call handlebars inside! on Two Guys and A Girl. I'm pretty sure I didn't understand at the time. It must have been a gradual thing. :$

Fun though :)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Front seat!

[ciaranbochna.livejournal.com]

I will rely on the Swedish side then;)

[(Anonymous)]

kõrvalistuja
in estonian.

it means "the one who sits next to"

When I started reading spn fanfiction, this shotgun-word confused me for a long time. I mean they had shotguns in the show, alright, but why was Sam in the stories riding it all the time? He was like... sitting on the gun? Really?! Why on earth? Isn't it dangerous?

My dictionary could not help me either, for it was for english english, not american english.
Took a long time, before I finally understood =)

[tigriswolf]

I can see where that'd be confusing. American English is so much fun.