From M. Quinion's World Wide Words, today:
on 'taxi' -- originally
German "Taxe", a charge or levy.
"After the device became common in Paris, ...
the French created the term "taximètre" for it,
from "taxe", a tariff (why the
"e" should change to an "i" is unrecorded)."
----- About to create that record:
"Letter from Mme desGrieux to Mademoiselle LePratt,"
--- 'Are you coming by 'taxi'?
--- 'TaxE'!
--- 'taxi'!
--- Your French manners annoy me!
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