Terms No Longer Used (but the things still exist)

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  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    My dad would never say you're going to spill something, it was always you're going to upset something. He was from Boston, Mass. He never said battery...(bat-tery) he said it (bat-tree).

    That's how my parents talk too (they were old school Jersey greasers :laugh: )!! A bottle is a BOT-le, rattle is RAT-le...like there's only one T in the word. He also pronounces "oil" like "earl" and "toilet" is "terlet" and "film" is two syllables, "fill-um". :laugh:

    And the word he uses for his jeans? Dungarees! :laugh: He's awesome.
  • Momma2four
    Momma2four Posts: 1,534
    Okay, when we were teenagers in the 80's flip-flops were thongs, my daughter shutters when I call them thongs because she says people will think I am talking about underwear. Well, I now understand why some people were horrified when I was telling them about all the wonderful colored thongs I got this summer and how cheap I got them.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Momma2four
    Momma2four Posts: 1,534
    I don't know about this one but does anyone say "Worsh" instead of Wash. Like, my dad says worshcloth (of course he would spell it wash), and I know several people that say it that way!
    We say WARSH not WORSH but spell it wash. My ex brother in law always made fun of me for saying it that way, he would say "Oh my garsh, gotta warsh!"

    My dad would never say you're going to spill something, it was always you're going to upset something. He was from Boston, Mass. He never said battery...(bat-tery) he said it (bat-tree).

    My flip flops used to be called thongs until they started making Thong undies!! Now I can't say I'm going to wear my thongs because people wonder why a 200+ lb woman would ever wear a thong!!!! LOL


    I knew I should have checked to see if anyone else put thongs yet:laugh: :laugh:
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    I don't know about this one but does anyone say "Worsh" instead of Wash. Like, my dad says worshcloth (of course he would spell it wash), and I know several people that say it that way!
    We say WARSH not WORSH but spell it wash. My ex brother in law always made fun of me for saying it that way, he would say "Oh my garsh, gotta warsh!"

    My dad would never say you're going to spill something, it was always you're going to upset something. He was from Boston, Mass. He never said battery...(bat-tery) he said it (bat-tree).

    My flip flops used to be called thongs until they started making Thong undies!! Now I can't say I'm going to wear my thongs because people wonder why a 200+ lb woman would ever wear a thong!!!! LOL

    I knew I should have checked to see if anyone else put thongs yet:laugh: :laugh:

    It's funny, I'd never heard flip flops called "thongs" until just a few years ago.
  • Momma2four
    Momma2four Posts: 1,534
    we use to always call them thongs, maybe it was a California thing. My cousin and I are the same age and we both have daughters in highschool, when my 16 yr. old was horrified I called her and she laughed because she says her 17 yr old also is extremely horrified when she refers to them as thongs too.
  • ilike2moveit
    ilike2moveit Posts: 776 Member
    And how about pocketbook. :huh: Sounds like a book you put in your pocket instead of being a purse.
    My sister calls hers a pocketbook and people make fun of her all the time. I haven't read all the posts so I don't know if these have been mentioned already: Davenport and nylons.
  • ilike2moveit
    ilike2moveit Posts: 776 Member
    Does anyone still say "Tennis shoes?" instead of sneakers?
    quilty:happy:
  • ilike2moveit
    ilike2moveit Posts: 776 Member
    The tennis shoe, sneaker thing reminded me of a routine I saw Jerry Seinfeld do once. He reached the conclusion that East coasters said, "sneakers" and "soda" and West coasters said "tennis shoes" and "pop." There were other comparisons that I don't recall.

    I do know that after my cousin from Seattle met a New Yorker and married him and move east, years later we were at a family reunion in Washingon state and I heard her, in the space of five minutes tell one of her kids he could NOT have a "soda" and to put his "sneakers" back on!!!:laugh: :laugh:

    So apparently, Jerry was on to something.
    So, hilarious! I'm a west coaster and we do say pop and tennis shoes. When I was a child we were on the east coast and we called all pop a COKE.
  • czewwhat
    czewwhat Posts: 8,715
    Records (as in vinyl records but you can still buy a turn table)

    Radio (as in transistor radio, now we carry Ipods)
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    I'm from texas and I say
    Sneakers
    pocketbook
    I also call flip flops, chanclas(spanish for flip flops)
    I call all soda coke?:ohwell:

    From NC
    I call them my tennis shoes, even though I don't play tennis :wink:
    I call it a pocket book or purse
    I call 'em flick flocks for fun :tongue:
    I call it soda
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    And the word he uses for his jeans? Dungarees! :laugh: He's awesome.

    Toots, THAT is a good one! I haven't heard dungarees in a long time!
  • chrissyh
    chrissyh Posts: 8,235 Member
    Growing up I called it "tonic" (in NH area) as a teenager everything was a coke - now it's soda

    dungareess-brings me back!
  • JoyousMaximus
    JoyousMaximus Posts: 9,285 Member
    The tennis shoe, sneaker thing reminded me of a routine I saw Jerry Seinfeld do once. He reached the conclusion that East coasters said, "sneakers" and "soda" and West coasters said "tennis shoes" and "pop." There were other comparisons that I don't recall.

    I do know that after my cousin from Seattle met a New Yorker and married him and move east, years later we were at a family reunion in Washingon state and I heard her, in the space of five minutes tell one of her kids he could NOT have a "soda" and to put his "sneakers" back on!!!:laugh: :laugh:

    So apparently, Jerry was on to something.
    Actually...that is VERY true. I was born and raised in Oregon....and said pop and tennis shoes...but have lived out in CT since 1998 and say Soda and Sneakers now!! :laugh:

    I grew up in Cali. I say soda and either sneakers or tennis shoes depending on my mood. :tongue: So I guess that Seinfeld was only right about part of the west coast because no one I know from California says "pop.":wink:
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Not 'things' but I like to use dated phrases like "Ain't that just the bee's knees" or "He thinks he's just the cat's pajamas!".
  • Nelski
    Nelski Posts: 1,607 Member
    I feel antiquated. I still say department store.
    So do I. Maybe it depends on the area you live in as to if it's still said, cuz I also still hear handbag.
  • Nelski
    Nelski Posts: 1,607 Member
    Does anyone still say "Tennis shoes?" instead of sneakers?
    Sometimes but I mostly say gym shoes.
  • JoyousMaximus
    JoyousMaximus Posts: 9,285 Member
    Not 'things' but I like to use dated phrases like "Ain't that just the bee's knees" or "He thinks he's just the cat's pajamas!".

    So do I! I get the weirdest looks from people my age when I say "How's tricks?":laugh:
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Remember when there was only, "Saturday Morning Cartoons"? :tongue:

    or "Evening News"?
  • Momma2four
    Momma2four Posts: 1,534
    I have kids they have no concept of Saturday morning cartoons. I personally miss them
  • paddlemom
    paddlemom Posts: 682 Member
    cottage/cabin/camp

    We go to our 'cottage', my daughter's bf insists that it is a 'camp' but in truth I think it's actually a 'cabin', cause it's only 1 room.
  • NykkieC
    NykkieC Posts: 622 Member
    Wash Room (bathroom/rest room)
  • TheMaidOfAstolat
    TheMaidOfAstolat Posts: 3,222 Member
    Wash Room (bathroom/rest room)

    or powder room
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Ever heard anyone say "Git your rubbers on", indicating you should put on rain boots? :laugh:

    In the south at least, we have strollers. I only know one person who calls it a "pram".
  • SHBoss1673
    SHBoss1673 Posts: 7,161 Member
    Did anyone say Gams? As in legs? I heard that a couple of weeks ago in an old movie and was like "HuH, haven't heard that in a long time". Although I have heard it on Mad Men a few times.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I say tennis shoes, bathroom (although when I was growing up we had an outdoor bathroom or "outhouse"), flipflops, pop. And we eat breakfast, dinner and supper.
  • ilike2moveit
    ilike2moveit Posts: 776 Member
    Remember when there was only, "Saturday Morning Cartoons"? :tongue:

    or "Evening News"?
    Yes! Remember when there was only a few stations to choose from and no remote controls.:happy:
  • ilike2moveit
    ilike2moveit Posts: 776 Member
    commode and lavatory
  • chrissyh
    chrissyh Posts: 8,235 Member
    Remember when there was only, "Saturday Morning Cartoons"? :tongue:

    or "Evening News"?
    Yes! Remember when there was only a few stations to choose from and no remote controls.:happy:

    but still enough to fight with your brother for control of the TV!:laugh:
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Remember when there was only, "Saturday Morning Cartoons"? :tongue:

    or "Evening News"?
    Yes! Remember when there was only a few stations to choose from and no remote controls.:happy:

    When I was growing up, we only had one channel. Man do I feel old. I can remember when color tv came out some of the tv shows were in color and some still in black and white. When a show would come on and would be advertised as being in color, I couldn't understand why our tv didn't show it in color. :huh: :laugh:
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    commode and lavatory

    good ones

    I bet I could confuse some wait staff if I asked where the lavatory was in a restaurant!
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