I've never thought of it as a fun term before.
replyWe use "park" as "I will park the car" not park as in "amusement park"
Why isn’t the “pantry” called the “food store”?
replyDoes your pantry have a cashier and let you buy stuff there?
replyBecause a food store sounds like it does.
yeah but syntactically "car park" gets used like a noun phrase, not verb phrase, which was (to your point really) what had me think "huh?" momentarily.
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