The word `get' is so cruelly overused in English that
Ambrose Bierce, commenting on the phrase "to get married",
asks the reader why not to say "to get dead", too. I
therefore try to limit its office in my vocabulary to the
immediate meaning of taking something. One phrase, however,
makes me cudgel my brains -- "to get into a car". What
literate synonyms can you propose for it without `get'? How
about "to board"? But I fear it does not work for both
passenger and driver. I got stuck...

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