# New names for things **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 21, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952 "2018-03-21T07:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sbunny8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@sbunny8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sbunny8)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/21 "2018-04-04T14:00:37Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > 1.) Only if it has a hood. A sweatshirt with no hood is still a sweatshirt. > > 2.) Shoes. Huh? (You mean flip flops?) > > 3.) Nope, different legal meaning that varies by state. Driving under the influence vs. driving while intoxicated. One is alcohol, the other is drugs - I can never keep straight which is which - and some states only use 1 and don’t legally recognize the “other” charge. > > 4.) ISP. Internet Service Provider. (I never differentiate satellite or whatever, for T.V. services, now that I ponder it. I just say the company name, and I think that’s what I hear others say as well. No need to specify if it’s cable or not, just say, "I saw this show on Netflix and … ") I can remember lots of people referring to flip flops as “thongs”. Nowadays when you say “thong” people assume you’re talking about underwear. I guess what the have in common is that strap in the middle. The shoes have a strap that goes between your toes and the underwear has a strap that goes between your buns. DWI stands for Driving While Impaired (not intoxicated). Impairment can be caused by any number of drugs. I have heard some argue that impairment can also cover lack of sleep or emotional disturbance. I’m pretty sure DUI was the older term because it specifically referred to alcohol and then we needed a more general term which included not just alcohol but also other drugs so we switched it to DWI. ---
**Author:** ![sbunny8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@sbunny8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sbunny8)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/22 "2018-04-04T14:07:00Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Ew!” I first heard on _ **Big Bang Theory** _, when Ramona Nowitzki was introduced to Howard Wolowitz. > > **Howard:** Howard Wolowitz, Department of Engineering, co-designer of the International Space Station’s Liquid Waste Disposal System. > **Ramona:** Ew. > > **Howard:** You know, the Pishkin–Wolowitz liquid waste disposal system is turning a few heads as well. > **Ramona:** Again, ew. I’m sure it goes back further than that. I remember Jim Varney saying ew in the 1987 comedy _Earnest Goes to Camp_. [OED says first recorded use is 1967](https://public.oed.com/appeals/ew/) but admits that ew has gained popularity in the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/23 "2018-04-04T15:02:33Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > DWI became DUI I was trying to figure out when that happened, as I grew up with it being DUI as long as I remember being aware of the term (I was born in '75). Judging by the Chicago Tribune archive, it looks like around 1983, at least in this area. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/24 "2018-04-04T17:08:36Z")
> [@sbunny8](#): > > DWI stands for Driving While Impaired (not intoxicated). Impairment can be caused by any number of drugs. I have heard some argue that impairment can also cover lack of sleep or emotional disturbance. I’m pretty sure DUI was the older term because it specifically referred to alcohol and then we needed a more general term which included not just alcohol but also other drugs so we switched it to DWI. New York has DWI (Driving while intoxicated) and DWAI (Driving with Ability Impaired). The latter is if you’ve been drinking, but your BAC is just below the legal definition of DWI. The statute specifically says the terms only apply to alcohol or drug impairment. There was an attempt to create a separate category for Driving while Drowsy, but it was never passed into law. Some other states do have laws, but none group it into DUI, since they usually have different penalties. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/25 "2018-04-04T20:20:11Z")
When I was young, oh so many years ago, the rolling metal round things with tires on them were invariably called wheels, unless someone used a brand name such as Keystones or Cragars. Now they’re called rims by far too many people. I don’t like it. Get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/26 "2018-04-04T21:32:40Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Ewww is fairly new, starting about 1985 according to [ngrams](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ewww&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cewww%3B%2Cc0). Ewwww is even [newer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ewwww&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cewwww%3B%2Cc0). I’ve got a one-man crusade to add EW to the allowed Scrabble two-letter words. If OW is on there, EW should be! So far the crusade hasn’t gotten farther than the dining room. Maybe sometimes a YOLO! is followed by a BOLO so it has replaced APB? ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/27 "2018-04-04T23:14:26Z")
If you like to put symbolic stickers on your pogo stick, and one day you hear of a great bargain on buying multiples of them illegally, and you know it’s illegal but you go for it anyway, you might end up with YOLO BOGO pogo logo BOLO. Ewwwwww. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/28 "2018-04-04T23:35:10Z")
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo YOLO BOGO pogo logo BOLO buffalo buffalo. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/29 "2018-04-04T23:39:28Z")
No, the Buffalo buffalo have to wear string ties. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/30 "2018-04-05T00:24:31Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > When I was young, oh so many years ago, the rolling metal round things with tires on them were invariably called wheels, unless someone used a brand name such as Keystones or Cragars. > > Now they’re called rims by far too many people. > > I don’t like it. Get off my lawn! Rims are what replaced hubcaps, not wheels. They may sometimes be used for the whole assembly, through synecdoche, but most users differentiate between them. And my spell check doesn’t recognize synecdoche. I’m outraged! ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/31 "2018-04-05T01:25:46Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Rims are what replaced hubcaps, not wheels. They may sometimes be used for the whole assembly, through synecdoche, but most users differentiate between them. > > And my spell check doesn’t recognize synecdoche. I’m outraged! It wants you to come up with another word that can stand for “synecdoche”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/32 "2018-04-05T01:46:54Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Rims are what replaced hubcaps, not wheels. See, to me a hubcap is yet another thing. It’s a wheel cover (although there is also some nitpicky difference between hubcaps and wheel covers if you get technical). If you look down on [this page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/143218885@N06/), all those decorative discs you see are what I would call “hubcaps.” I would not call those “rims,” though. You can pop them off and back in the day you used to find them on the side of the road from cars who lost them while hitting a pothole. Rims are the outer part of the wheel or the wheel itself. ---
**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/33 "2018-04-05T11:09:28Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Somewhere along the way, computer programmers stopped “writing programs” and started “creating applications”. The programmers writing computer programs turned into coders writing code. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/34 "2018-04-05T14:50:29Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > In my mind, BOLO became more popular with the TV show NCIS. The acronym LEO also became more common, IMO. “One-Adam-12, One-Adam-12, be on the lookout for …” Been around a long while. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/35 "2018-04-05T14:58:34Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’ve got a one-man crusade to add EW to the allowed Scrabble two-letter words. If OW is on there, EW should be! So far the crusade hasn’t gotten farther than the dining room. EW is allowed in Words with Friends, but then so are a lot of other non-Scrabble legal words. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/36 "2018-04-07T04:50:08Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Rims are what replaced hubcaps, not wheels. They may sometimes be used for the whole assembly, through synecdoche, but most users differentiate between them. > > And my spell check doesn’t recognize synecdoche. I’m outraged! Uh, not from my experience. All of these giant 22"+ diameter wheels called rims don’t even have wheel covers or hubcaps. Yes, they are calling the whole wheel a rim as you have stated. My experience is from hearing it from about a decade’s worth of high school kids always using the term rim in referring to car wheels. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/37 "2018-04-12T03:33:29Z")
Lots and lots of slang is local, YMMV. A quick search finds sellers offerings rims and wheels, but maybe street slang varies. I did find an early example of eww, though. On the first episode of The Jetsons, Jane goes shopping for a robot maid. The snooty salesman blanches when he hears that the family has a mere three bedroom apartment, no matter that was gigantic by 1962 standards. “Eww, a slum clearance project. So you’ll want to see our basic economy model.” He definitely says eww. It’s not supposed to be future talk, either; from context it’s just the way salesmen talk as they did contemporaneously. ---
**Author:** ![VictoryLap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9d8465/32.png) [@VictoryLap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VictoryLap)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952/38 "2018-04-12T10:12:29Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > EW is allowed in Words with Friends, but then so are a lot of other non-Scrabble legal words. Depends on the dictionary used to govern what is acceptable, Eew was only fairly recently accepted in SOWPODS, I don’t play TWL and who freakin knows what words with friends deems acceptable… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-names-for-things/810952.md?page=1)