# What do you call this object? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084 "2011-04-20T15:31:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/21 "2011-04-20T22:06:24Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I’m part of the 99.33% of Dopers so far. It’s actually 100%. I voted for the “dome” because as I was looking at the poll at work someone came up behind me and it seemed right and I clicked quickly so as not to arouse coworker’s suspicion! It’s **globe**! Snow globe!! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/22 "2011-04-20T22:33:55Z")
It’s a snow dome, of course. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/23 "2011-04-21T00:53:00Z")
It’s not even close to looking like a Rhombicosidodecahedron. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/24 "2011-04-21T01:00:41Z")
I voted “snow dome” in general, because the ones I remember from my childhood were dome-shaped. The one in the pic might be more accurately described as a snow globe, of course. Haven’t seen one in years. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/25 "2011-04-21T01:01:19Z")
I wish I could remember what i heard it being called for England or Australia just a couple months ago. It sure wasn’t snow globe like the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/26 "2011-04-21T01:05:03Z")
This isn’t the one I was trying to think of, but I’ve heard it called glitter dome too. I’ve heard a lot of those names you listed, but rarely anything but snow globe. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/27 "2011-04-21T01:21:07Z")
Much like everyone here, I’ve never ever heard it called anything other then “Snow Globe”. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/28 "2011-04-21T03:57:21Z")
We always called them globos de nieve. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/29 "2011-04-21T08:54:59Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I wish I could remember what i heard it being called for England or Australia just a couple months ago. It sure wasn’t snow globe like the USA. Could it be ‘Snowstorm’? That’s what I used to know them as, but the term has largely been supplanted by ‘snowglobe’ now. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/30 "2011-04-21T10:51:21Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > I voted “snow dome,” but cancel that. I don’t know what I was thinking. It’s snow GLOBE. Me too! I quickly grabbed the first thing that popped into my head, then regretted it. Damn. Change my vote to snow globe too, please. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/31 "2011-04-21T12:43:42Z")
Snow globe. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/32 "2011-04-21T12:47:42Z")
Even though the ones I had weren’t always globular, they were still called snowglobes. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/33 "2011-04-22T23:28:36Z")
“Snow Globe”. I’ve also heard “snow globe” applied to the ones that contain glitter. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/34 "2011-04-23T06:24:58Z")
I was just about to start this thread in Comments on Cecil’s Columns, because I simply could not fathom calling it anything other than a snow globe. I’ve never heard it called any differently (or seen it labelled any differently, in tourist shops) anywhere in the English speaking world. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/35 "2011-04-23T07:38:02Z")
I call them ‘kitschy’. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/36 "2011-04-23T07:41:06Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I wish I could remember what i heard it being called for England or Australia just a couple months ago. It sure wasn’t snow globe like the USA. I’m in England and I’ve always heard it called a snow globe. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084/37 "2011-04-24T02:05:25Z")
I wish you would have allowed two choices, because I use snowglobe and waterglobe interchangeably. We sell lots of these where I work…they are a huge section of our store, and they are referred to as waterglobes (most likely because they have the glittery stuff, not the snowy stuff, inside. But I’ve used both terms my whole life, and occasionally snowdome for the small plastic ones sold at tourist traps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-object/579084.md?page=1)