What do you guys call the metal thing with wheels that you push around and add stuff to when you shop?
I call it a buggy.
And twice this week people have made fun of me. I guess they didn't really make fun of me, but two different groups of people I've been around have laughed and asked me why I call it a buggy instead of a cart.
I guess it's a southern thing because when I read Chickadee's post just a few minutes ago, I laughed out loud! She's from Arkansas and she calls it a buggy too!
What do you call it????
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I call it a cart. Mainly because growing up we had a light blue VW bug that we called The Buggy.
i do call all shopping carts a buggy. southern thing?
Shopping cart :)
We say buggy, when the love bugs are out on our way through West Texas to East Texas. "It's buggy out here."
Isn't it funny that different regions say different things. :) I call it a shopping cart. :)
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plain ol' cart in california!
I'm as Southern as they come, so of course, it's a buggy! :)
It's a buggy!
Raised in Colorado and it's always been a cart to me.
when you are raised in Arkansas, it's a buggy :)
kind of like caddy corner - I thought it was so odd when we moved to the PNW and people said "kitty corner" - I had NEVER heard that - always Caddy - never kitty :)
I'm from Missouri--and it's a cart. I live in Mississippi now and everyone calls it a buggy here.
Cart. :)
Hey, do you use Google Reader? I don't think my post from this morning showed up - can you see it? Weird!
It's a buggy!
It's a shopping cart. And buggy is totally southern. I had to endure much ridicule about my "sopping cart" when I lived in Georgia.
ha. I probably call it a "buggy" more often than a "cart" as well.
I think these responses are skewed because you have so many readers from AR! =) I've never heard it called this--that cracks me up. Definitely a cart in my book.
I call it a cart -- short for shopping cart. The only people I've heard call it a buggy are from the UK. Hmm..
I love questions like this where there are different responses based upon where you live. For me...it's a cart. :) I'm a midwest girl.
In Wisconsin it is a cart. We also say kitty corner and soda (not pop). I have a friend from Minnesota, she grew up playing Duck, Duck, Gray Duck -- we always called it Duck, Duck, Goose. Regional sayings are so funny.
it's a buggy! i live in the south now, but i'm originally from Oklahoma. i've always called it a buggy.
Who said it's not called a buggy????
Yea, it's southern!
My college friends from AR called it a buggy too, but I call it a shopping cart - but then I am a TEXAS transplant and not an ARKANSAN!!! As far as I can tell, you are right in line with all the people who grew up where you did - though!
I am sorry people made fun of you though!
Sweet blessings!
Renee
A cart silly girl!
Shopping cart (I grew up in 'the city' in N.C.) But I know what a buggy is.
c.a.r.t.
But...buggy is so darn cute, I may have to start calling it that.
Arkansans put goceries into a buggy and get water from the faucet, not a spiggot
We cant spell groceries, either
Cart... =)
I'll have to go with shopping cart. When my husband is getting on my nerves, I tell him that he's being really buggy. So that word has a very different meaning for me!
Otherwise, I think of the vehicle of choice for the amish.
I call it a cart, but buggy works, too! :)
I think that is an ARKANSAS thing because when I moved here and people were calling it that, I was like "WHAT?!?!?" It's a shopping cart!
I also feel the same way about the term "Bunkin' party" for when you have friends spend the night. Arkansas invented that- the rest of us normal folks call it a "sleepover" or a "slumber party!"
I use buggy and cart interchangeably, but I call it a buggy more times than not.
Lifelong Northeast Arkansan here, from right in your former neighborhood, of course. :o)
I claim Louisiana and Arkansas as home and I call it a buggy. But after living in South Africa for over 6 years I started calling it a trolley! I don't even know the Portuguese word for it.
In S.A. they use many different words - the trunk of the car is the boot, the baby stroller is a pram. It's really quite funny. And when you are really happy and satisfied about something you say you are "chuffed".
from canada...we call it a cart
buggy is, for me, a really bad night outside when the bugs will eat you alive. not fun
tas
Trolley! :)
I call it a shopping cart but people here in New England call them carriages.
"Would you like a carriage, ma'am?"
"No, but I would like a cart, thank you."
I may in Arkansas and grew up in New England but call them neither buggies or carriages. Grocery cart for me.
I think bc we are AR girls, we call it a buggy. So, a buggy it is.
I say cart or buggy. I am from the South. :) I wondered where we got buggy from?
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Praying I can come and visit Holly and your beautiful state soon!
Have a great week.
Patty
I called it a buggy until people in RI made fun of me. Must be an AR thing. I still occasionally call it a buggy but mostly it's a cart now.
BUGGY...ALL THE WAY ;)!
I call it a grocery cart - but I think growing up my mom called it a buggy.
Fun question with lots of great responses!
Did a small survey and found that younger Arkansas-reared speakers call it a buggy and older Arkansans (me) call it a cart.
Buggies are baby carriages or prams, as in the tongue twister "rubber baby buggy bumpers."
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
buggy
1.a light one-horse carriage made with two wheels in England and with four wheels in the U.S.
2.small cart or truck for short transportations of heavy materials.
3. BABY CARRIAGE
I had this discussion with people at work a few years ago (they were NOT from the south) and they all thought it was weird that I said buggy. I think it's definetely a southern thing. And yes - I say buggy!
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