Persnickety. 
And yes, you are right about the Monkee/ey
And then there’s Curious George.
Apes are monkeys, AFAIAC, but not all primates are monkeys, hence I could not, in good conscience, vote for any of the choices given.
Man, I don’t care! If someone illustrates a “monkey see, monkey do” meme with a picture of a chimp, I’ll take a look at it and do the same thing.
I voted “yes” but I was concentrating on the “think of” part. When I hear the word “monkey” the first, instantaneous image that comes to mind is of a chimpanzee. Possibly dressed up. As an adult, I’ve known for years that chimps are apes but as a kid I thought “monkey” and “chimpanzee” were two different words for the same thing.Childhood ideas are hard to get rid of. So, technically, I do, momentarily. The same way the word “ape” instantly brings a picture of a gorllla to mind. Even though I know they’re only one type of ape, they’re what I always think of.
In my world, there are monkeys and gorillas. All are hairy. Monkeys are little, gorillas are big. It may not be accurate, but it works for me. 
Yeah, she’s hot.
The funny thing for me is that Afrikaans just uses “aap” for all simians.
Same here.
I think of “apes” as including “monkeys” not the other way around. Monkeys are the small ones that you’d encounter in trees. The apes that are as big or bigger than humans and tend to spend most of their time on the ground are GREAT apes and they ain’t monkeys.
What about the Librarian, and are you going to call him a… whispers monkey?
I casually refer to most primates as monkeys.
Gorillas and orangutans are the only exception.
I know there’s a difference between monkeys and apes. But, I’m not in high school biology class anymore. I don’t have to be precise.
I think I saw a movie about his dotage, The Madness of Curious George III.
I deliberately try to picture a gibbon any time someone says “ape,” just because I fell sorry for it. It’s the only lesser ape. Every other ape gets to be a great ape, but the “lesser ape” category was invented just to put down the gibbon for not making nests.
But sometimes I picture Kim Hunter in full makeup.
When someone says “monkey,” I picture Oliver North, after someone pointed out to me how much he looks like the flying monkeys in the movie The Wizard of Oz.
I would answer yes to the question as posed in the title. Hell, I’d include humans. But I voted for the loris.
When communicating to others I would expect monkeys to be understood less all-inclusive, and use great ape for the non human great apes.
Similarly, French does not distinguish between monkeys and apes; they’re both singes. So I don’t really know what the difference is supposed to be between apes and monkeys. I’m aware of the great apes, who are definitely distinctive species (also called grands singes in French), but I know there are also lesser apes but couldn’t tell you how they are supposed to be different from monkeys.
On preview, according to RivkahChaya lesser apes are gibbons, and Wikipedia agrees. So I guess now I know: apes are grands singes with the addition of gibbons.
I was actually thinking about this today since I’ve seen, probably on this board, discussions that Pierre Boulle’s novel La Planète des singes should be called Monkey Planet rather than Planet of the Apes. Both are perfectly accurate translations of the French title, but with definitely different connotations in English. As I understand it (not having read it), Boulle’s novel is somewhat satirical, so maybe the less pompous-sounding English title is in fact better.
Me too. There is pedantic precision, and then there is common language.
Having been corrected a few times by my zookeeper brother, I know to be sure to make the distinction.
In his presence, anyway.
“Get yer stinkin’ paws off me, you damn dirty monkey” wouldn’t have had the same impact as the original line.
In addition to the nested hierarchy above, it’s important to note that apes arose within old world monkeys after old world monkeys split from new world monkeys. That is to say baboons are more closely related to humans than they are to howler monkeys, so it makes no sense to partition them together for superficial reasons. Either all primates are monkeys or none of them are.
It’s why all vertebrates are fish or none of them are. (Coelacanths and lungfish are more closely related to us than they are to your tuna fish sandwich, fyi)
No. Monkeys have tails and apes do not. They are quite distinct from one another.