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Just for fun, what are some popular misnomers that you notice or ones that maybe irrationally upset you? Maybe something regional that is odd from your AO?



"Rakers" on chainsaw chains, they're called "depth gauges" as they do not perform a raking function.

"Bubbler" or pronounced "Bub-lah" for drinking fountain...that one is an oddity to me.

"Buggy" for a shopping cart? For a guy from rural PA, a buggy is a thing the Amish drive about.

Post some up here for discussion.

side-bet...how long before the thread goes astray and people are calling each other names? <20 post, I'd wager.

Seems to me your post is based on the misconception that the way words are used is somehow prescribed, perhaps by some official determination, rather than evolving and changing over time and varying from location to location and group to group.

In English at least dictionaries are there to record usage, and the way it has evolved, not to prescribe it. Some, like our Macquarie Dictionary, even produce word maps to show regional variations, Your shopping cart is a shopping trolley here, for example, and may well be a buggy somewhere else. Ask for a drinking fountain here and you'll get blank looks, because we know them as bubblers. There are numerous other examples.

AFAIK prescribing the proper use of words is something the French do - and even there the Academie Francaise is pushing it uphill.

Do those chainsaw rakers gauge any depths?


<20 post, my ass.....Dumbass......

Thongs - everybody wears them down here

P issed - inebriation down here

President Elect.

Pickup vs a truck. Huge difference.

Cartridge vs caliber is always a good one too.

Giving a shït vs couldn't give a shït

Taking a shït vs leaving a shït. I ain't taking that shït with me.



Explain that........shït.

"Could care less" versus "Couldn't care less"

Caliber versus cartridge is the one that set me off on this earlier, and your post reminded me of that. Sadly, it was on an RCBS ad that the nomenclature was improperly applied.

Depth gauges on the chainsaw set the depth of the cutter height as it slopes back...but I understand the comment.

I was correct though, I said less than (<) 20 posts, and you proved that correct well.

T,

I'm with you, I'm leaving one, not taking one.

Personally I prefer malapropisms to misnomers.

And a "Coke" is a Coke (tm) not a generic term for a soda..................and there is no "pop" attached to the soda word.............it's just a soda.

Bubbler was a brand of drinking fountain from years ago. Folks in some parts of the country still use the brand as a generic label.

Some saws have rakers. A common type two-man saw is the M peg and raker.

Bubbler

(ir)regardless

Who said I'm not useful???

Finally something I can be proud of...

As far as depth gauges on the chainsaw setting the depth of the cutter height.....BS. They "rake" the the wood slivers out of the way. Everyone knows that. Seesh.

Mauser "thumb slot"..

When in fact the feature was officially designated
by Paul Mauser as a patented gas port.

****

".275 Rigby" , like it was an official cartridge.

To my knowledge no period ammunition was
ever produced for Rigby rifles with any such headstamp.

Rigby simply overlabeled 7mm Mauser ammunition
and designated it as '.275 bore'.

Had an English lass comment "I want to get screwed tonight"

Funny look on my face I guess - she followed it up with "That's drunk to you Yanks".

Damn - another one that got away!

"Sno-go", for snowmachine. Any brand snowmachine can be a "Skidoo". Snowmachines are also called "sleds", but in the Arctic, at least, the "sled" is what is towed behind a Sno-Go/Skidoo/snowmachine to haul one's gear and meat.

Same generic use for :
Coke
Kleenex
Clorox
pop

Some Eskimos call caribou "deer", which of course they are.

Arctic Char are "trout", which they are not.

Burbot are "mud sharks"

At Interior villages in the Yukon River drainages, it is anyone's guess what a "silver", "coho", or "red" salmon may be, unless one can see the fish. It changes from village to village. There are no red/sockeye salmon runs there. "Reds" was used to designate cohos or king/chinook in spawning color, "silver" designated the late run of chum salmon, which maintain their sea bright colors far upstream, unlike the early run of chum "dog" salmon which start coloring up almost immediately. I think traditionally the less fat "dog" salmon weredried for the dogs, the fatter late run of "silvers" was caught for people food overwinter. Speculation on my part.

I did a village subsistence use survey for F&G one fall, from Kaltag to Eagle, and up all the side drainages.

I was a little bit confused for the first few villages.........

This one has always bugged me a great deal. It is now, however, added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. This addition lends great credance to the first reply of my OP.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

Pickup cap! Weirdos.

Calling the floor the ground.

Calling anything with three or more wheels a motorcycle.

Semi-truck. It's a full truck, possibly pulling a semi-trailer. Semi-trailer truck is more accurater!

Mid-west. Yes, Wyoming is approximately mid-west, that other chit is back east.

Knew a professor that was insistent that birds, no matter what type, don't have beaks, they have bills and only squid have beaks. I went along with it, but, like calling pronghorn, antelope, it's just easier to let it go.

Calling a Camper shell a can a pee

Hence why, although not a misnomer.