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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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LawBeefaroni wrote:

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.

Classic.

LawBeefaroni wrote:

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.

He is grim, `nur

Off in Wichita Falls with the parents for the weekend.

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.

Isgrimnur wrote: Off in Wichita Falls with the parents for the weekend.

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.

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Thanks for playing.

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism" target="_blank

Acronyms Prounced As Words. Apawinym.

Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilition Into Society -Rimmer RED DWARF

http://can-fap.net/" target="_blank

Frequently Asked Questions about the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP) and its founder, Glen Callender.

Hey Glen, do you realize that ‘FAP’ is slang for ‘masturbate’?

It is? Wow, what a happy coincidence! I had no idea. (/sarcasm)

Nixon's campaign fundraising organization was the "Committee for the Re-Election of the President." They wanted it known as CRP, but CREEP is what stuck.

Thread necrojacking!

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?

Bin or tote to me.

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.

Madmarcus wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:12 am 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.

That's interesting because I was originally going to say "bin with a lid or tote". I wonder where I got the idea that a bin doesn't have a lid.

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".

A tote. And that's what it would be called off the shelf of any place that sold them so I assume it's not regional.

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.)

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".

Definitely a bin, never a tote. I've never heard a box of any kind called a tote before this thread.

To me a tote is a bag, and "to tote" is to carry something. A plastic bin is a holder, not a carrier.

I call it a plastic storage box.

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?

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.

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.

I refer to them as buckets. I have moved homes using them three times. Infinitely superior to cardboard.

They're totally totes here, too.

You may be thinking of toke.

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.

For what it's worth to me a bin implies no lid.

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.

You mean plastic storage 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.

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:41 am

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.

gbasden wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 2:44 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:41 am

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:
you , me and Holman live in the correct reality

If it's just the three of you, I'm pretty sure you're the interlopers. What year did Nelson Mandela die?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

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.