and what the USn's call a Motor Home, we call a "Caravanette."

It's odd that we in the USA now use the term, "motor home" for those bloated rolling road blocks, since the person who introduced us to such atrocities, Wally Byam, used "caravan" for his trailers. Thus, one would have expected "motor caravan" for the self-propelled versions.

As for the "ette" suffix, we have the car named "Corvette" that General Motors markets with a macho image. Go figure. Since the word originally refers to a reduced-scale warship, and ships are normally referred to in the feminine, the "ette" suffix makes sense in its original connotation. GM used to market a small car under the name, "Chevette," but dropped it, perhaps because it sounded too much like, "Shove it!"