Hmm. If I were to make a distinction, I would call the probably heavily choreographed with the outcome often predetermined but nevertheless quite dangerous and challenging stuff on t.v. and the school sport ‘wrestling’ while calling what my cousins did while thinking they were Hulk Hogan ‘rasslin’.
I don’t know about tinker, but that sounds reasonable.
And you’re thinking about particle board, which is a decent enough material when it’s used properly. Hey, it beats just turning those splinters into toilet paper!
Tin roof made out of corrugated iron? I thought they were steel.
They are. Corrugated iron is made of steel.
Oh what a tangled web we weave!
How about a classic 80? rock song remake?
Barneys got a gun…dun dunt dunt da duh
Don’t know what they done… dun dunt dunt da duh…
So the Tin Man was really … Iron Man?!??!!!
I’ve always said aluminium foil, but on the other hand, I say tin can.
In French we said “papier d’alu” (aliuminium paper).
This must come as a rude shock to the tinfoil hat wearers among us. (No wonder they weren’t working right!)
Why’d they change it?
I refer to that thin stuff on a roll as “foil,” unless a crazy person puts it on their head to keep aliens from reading their mind. Then it’s “Tin foil” as in “those tin foil hat people.”
Now 'splain to me why these phrases exist:
Ink pen – don’t all pens use ink?
Tuna fish – is there any other kind of tuna?
Honda car – my guess is to distinguish it from Honda bikes. My brother had a “Honda car.” It was always called the Honda car. Never just a Honda or a car.
My guess is that “ink pen” was originally a retronym that was developed when ballpoint pens (biros, dot pens, etc.) came out. The new pens already had ink (or really some kind of gel) in them, whereas prior pens required you to have a bottle of ink with you – thus, ink pens.
These are merely specifying what kind of fish and car is being talked about. It’s not much different from cheddar cheese, pickup truck, 10-speed bike, T-bone steak, etc. Sometimes the specifications are kept and sometimes they’re dropped away. It’s arbitrary. For example, we no longer say hamburger sandwiches and french-fried potatoes!
The Dutch lost a war.
I call it “tinfoil”, but on my shopping list it appears as “alum. foil”. As I’m writing it, and reading it in the store, my brain is saying “tinfoil”, but that isn’t what is on the list. Go figure.
There’s a 80s? rock song by Guns and Roses? with the line "Jamies got a gun…"which is about one very upset young lady with a gun.
Putting Barney Fiff in there instead would be quite funny I think.
Sorry, Lumpy. Wrong answer.
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way!
Am I being whooshed? New Amsterdam was seized by England and renamed New York, precipitating the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Netherlands briefly retook it but finally signed a peace treaty letting it revert to English control.
No, you’re not being whooshed. You’re just culturally uninformed. 
My grandma in Georegia would’ve told y’all that that metal stuff that comes off the roll is called “fawl”.
Yes, but then he was turned to steel.
That was in the great magnetic field.
When he traveled time for the future of mankind.
Best wishes,
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my family called it “tinfoil” growing up outside of Akron, Ohio. Although we all knew it was no longer made of tin.