Archinerd wrote:
Also I'm just guessing on the spelling of their names because I'm lazy.
I remember Grundbegriff this way:
Grund Be Griff
Isg is just Isg.
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Isgrimnur wrote:
And I actually learned something from the thread. From a military brat background, I'm used to all initialized terms being referred to as acronyms.
The wiki page for DUKW refers to "Duck" as a colloquialism.
[pedant]But that can't be the answer to the OP question. Colloquialisms are common, but they are only sometimes derived from acronyms.[/pedant]
I just read through the wikipedia article on it, and did some additional google, doesn't look like there is a particular word for that, pronouncing an acronym as a word, even when the word is not exactly the same as the acronym. But there are precedents for the acronym replacing the original words, in effect becoming a new word.
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In multiple threads, I've talked about totes. These were never a part of my life until I moved to Indiana, where they're common (or it may just be that they didn't become popular until I moved here.) But it occurs to me that 'tote' may be an Indiana term, and I make an active effort to keep Indianaisms out of my vocabulary. So, rest of world, what is this called?
That's a tote to me also. It could be a storage bin too but really if it has the lid I'd say tote. Note that the bags are always tote bags to me or simply bags. I think you are safe from Indiana speak.
FWIW, DUKW was an accident. GM uses "D" for 1942, U for amphib, K for all-wheel drive, and W for "dual rear axles". The fact that DUKW was kinda close to "duck" was the accident. Troops don't like initialisms, so they resorted to calling these "ducks".
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There were totes before the tote bag. I have seen tote used a lot in reference to chemical containers. There are common 300 gallon plastic containers with a metal wire reinforcement. These are way easier to manage then drums.
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:22 am
I'm more likely to call it a storage bin, but I could see tote. (BTW, addding the "storage" before "bin" means it has a lid to me.)
Putting Storage before Bin means that is has handles and is small enough not to be to toted around on pallet jack, forklift, or Larry (how's that for an obscure regional slang no one ever uses. Of course, I think was eighteen before I learned a "comealong" is actually called a winch.)
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:22 am
I'm more likely to call it a storage bin, but I could see tote. (BTW, addding the "storage" before "bin" means it has a lid to me.)
Exactly this, except I don’t know that I would ever call it a tote.
Commonly a tote in Ontario as well, but just as often a storage bin. Or to go down the path of metonyms, a rubbermaid or roughneck. Or in the Nym household, "where we dump stuff when we don't have a good place for it but are afraid to throw it out".
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Holman wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 10:37 am
To me a tote is a bag, and "to tote" is to carry something. A plastic bin is a holder, not a carrier.
You can carry it! It has handles!
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 10:47 am
I call it a plastic storage box.
Geez, do you call a toaster a metal bread burning box, too?
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dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 10:47 am
I call it a plastic storage box.
yup storage box.
This is a tote or tote bag. Even Google says so.
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Tote is widespread enough that I won't cringe if I keep using it. It had just occurred that the only time I'd really heard the word 'tote' used for anything was from my grandmother.
"I need you to tote them boxes into the front room!"
I loved my grandmother. But I don't want to talk like her.
Holman wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 10:37 am
To me a tote is a bag, and "to tote" is to carry something. A plastic bin is a holder, not a carrier.
Oddly enough I think of these things as carriers. If I wanted to just hold things I'd a box but these things exist (for me at least) because they are easy to grab and carry from place to place.
The one thing that, in my experience, makes them inferior to boxes: They don't stack as well unless you have the really high quality ones. The main reason is the sloped sides that put the weight on the lid and push the sides of the lower ones out instead of having the weight supported with straight sides like boxes. I've had a lot more totes collapse when stacked than boxes.
The lids need to interlock to make them support their weight, or use a separate lid altogether. The sloped sides make them stack when empty. I have a couple for the space under my bed.
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ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:22 am
I'm more likely to call it a storage bin, but I could see tote. (BTW, addding the "storage" before "bin" means it has a lid to me.)
Exactly this, except I don’t know that I would ever call it a tote.
Agreed. I've never heard that called a tote. I've only heard that word applied to canvas bags.
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 11:09 pm
They don't stack as well unless you have the really high quality ones.
Yeah, Rubbermaid for life. They're more expensive, but they're so much better than most of the generic ones. Still, they have their limits.
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ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:22 am
I'm more likely to call it a storage bin, but I could see tote. (BTW, addding the "storage" before "bin" means it has a lid to me.)
Exactly this, except I don’t know that I would ever call it a tote.
Agreed. I've never heard that called a tote. I've only heard that word applied to canvas bags.
So far:
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If it's just the three of you, I'm pretty sure you're the interlopers. What year did Nelson Mandela die?
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A tote bag is a tote bag because you use to carry stuff around (e.g. groceries and crazy pills).
A storage bin can't be a tote because you tote it so rarely. It stores things in the garage or the basement until you forget you own them. Bins are way too unwieldy for regular toting.
The only bin used for regular toting fills up with garbage all week, and even then its tote range is just to the curb.