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????
I call it a cart. Mainly because growing up we had a light blue VW bug that we called The Buggy.
ReplyDeletei do call all shopping carts a buggy. southern thing?
ReplyDeleteShopping cart :)
ReplyDeleteWe 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. :)
ReplyDeleteBTW, I saw a magazine at the doctor's office that made me think of you! It's called Peaks (I think) it was an area mag about the ski regions in CO. I could have stayed in the waiting room and read that mag from cover to cover! So beautiful!!! How blessed you are to live in such a grand place that God created!
plain ol' cart in california!
ReplyDeleteI'm as Southern as they come, so of course, it's a buggy! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a buggy!
ReplyDeleteRaised in Colorado and it's always been a cart to me.
ReplyDeletewhen you are raised in Arkansas, it's a buggy :)
ReplyDeletekind 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.
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ReplyDeleteHey, 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!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shopping cart. And buggy is totally southern. I had to endure much ridicule about my "sopping cart" when I lived in Georgia.
ReplyDeleteha. I probably call it a "buggy" more often than a "cart" as well.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI call it a cart -- short for shopping cart. The only people I've heard call it a buggy are from the UK. Hmm..
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
ReplyDeleteit's a buggy! i live in the south now, but i'm originally from Oklahoma. i've always called it a buggy.
ReplyDeleteWho said it's not called a buggy????
ReplyDeleteYea, 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!
ReplyDeleteI am sorry people made fun of you though!
Sweet blessings!
Renee
A cart silly girl!
ReplyDeleteShopping cart (I grew up in 'the city' in N.C.) But I know what a buggy is.
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ReplyDeleteBut...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
ReplyDeleteWe cant spell groceries, either
ReplyDeleteCart... =)
ReplyDeleteI'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!
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, I think of the vehicle of choice for the amish.
I call it a cart, but buggy works, too! :)
ReplyDeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteLifelong 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.
ReplyDeleteIn 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
ReplyDeletebuggy is, for me, a really bad night outside when the bugs will eat you alive. not fun
tas
Trolley! :)
ReplyDeleteI call it a shopping cart but people here in New England call them carriages.
ReplyDelete"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.
ReplyDeleteI think bc we are AR girls, we call it a buggy. So, a buggy it is.
ReplyDeleteI say cart or buggy. I am from the South. :) I wondered where we got buggy from?
ReplyDeleteI am a friend of Holly's and this is my first comment here!!
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.
ReplyDeleteBUGGY...ALL THE WAY ;)!
ReplyDeleteI call it a grocery cart - but I think growing up my mom called it a buggy.
ReplyDeleteFun 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.
ReplyDeleteBuggies 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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