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    mini sb. (1959)småbil

    ○  Morris'en hedder i sit hjemland Mini Minor, men det navn har man ikke ønsket at anvende i Danmark InfInformation, dagblad 26.8.1959

    ○  Peugeot 104 - nyest og nettest blandt minier BerlTBerlingske Tidende 20.5.1973

    ◊  Fra engelsk mini. Jf.jævnfør:

    ○  Mini-is a new prefix easily recognizable as implying miniature proportions, and seems virtually to have been brought into the language by the British Motor Corporation's Mini Minor, the car produced in 1960. It was this vehicle, more exactly, that popularized mini on a large scale Brian Foster: The Changing English Language, 1968

    Forfatter: Pia Jarvad: Nye Ord 1955-98. Gyldendal 1999