Exactly my answer. You beat me by 14 minutes! 
If there is no context and someone is doing some unknown thing that might not even be cooking, I’d probably give them a metal spatula. I have one in a normal shape and one that’s longer and narrower. I also have several made of a no-scratch synthetic material for use on non-stick pans. And a couple of those rubber frosting things. All of them are spatulas, and I use them all for different purposes.
It’s all different in British English, fwiw. I can’t remember what we call the primary thing for turning burgers/pancakes - I think it’s a fish slice? But certainly not a spatula.
Growing up, I don’t think I ever came across the word spatula until I did a chemistry lab at school.
As a non-Brit, the only time I’ve ever come across the term “fish slice” was in PG Wodehouse stories, where it’s usually a humourous reference to a low-cost wedding gift. I had always assumed it was some kind of knife. From the source cited below, the name apparently comes from its utility in support of the British penchant for frying fish.
Wikipedia insists that the British “fish slice” is a spatula, at least in American terms. This article, which appears to be British, insists otherwise, and that what we call a spatula is a “fish slice” to the Brits, and that to them a spatula is one of those rubber frosting smoothers.
I trust that everyone is now thoroughly confused. You’re welcome! 
Yes, and I just confirmed that by checking UK Amazon. I was wondering if some other term had slipped my mind (I’ve been in the US for a long while), but we still call it a fish slice. Based on Amazon, perhaps alternatively now referred to in the UK as a “slotted turner”, but that’s new to me.
I can’t make much sense of that article you linked.
I call at least three different items in my drawer a spatula:
If you said a spatula with no context, i would assume the silicon one, probably because i use it the most.
I have never heard of a fish slice before, and would also have assumed it was a specialized knife.
I have also purchased something labeled a “spoonula” that is a very shallow spoon with a flat bottom, and designed for stirring and perhaps scraping. (One is soft and scrapes the side of the pot, the other is stiff plastic and is better for spooning stuff out of the pot.)
I can only assume that if we call a pancake turner a pancake turner, and a rubber scraper a rubber scraper, then everyone will know what we are talking about, and side-step arguments on whether a fish-slice or anything broad and flat qualifies as a spatula. Certainly there is support in historical and contemporary usage, like this thread, that it does.
You may be thinking of a filleting knife
A spatula to me is a flat metal/plastic thing used to lift hot things and flip pancakes/burgers. I don’t think I’ve ever even used the soft rubbery stirring type.
In the home where I grew up, the flipper was always called an egg turner.
We also called our refrigerator an icebox.
(I was born in 1955.)
No, I’m not thinking of a filleting knife. That’s a word i know. I’m telling you what i would have guessed a “fish slice” was if i came upon it in a context where i understood it was some kind of utensil. If i came upon it without that context, i would assume it’s a slice of fish.
I mean, i just learned that word from this thread. But if i hadn’t, that would have been my assumption. I’m still trying to guess why a fish-frying spatula is called a “slice”. I may look up the etymology.
So before the days of auto defrost, did you use an egg turner to scrape ice from the icebox?
I don’t recall ever doing that, so I assume our fridge had auto defrost.
I used two of the rubber ones today, and also one of the long metal ones. I baked a cake, and used one spatula to scrape cake batter from the mixer and fold the ingredients together. (One of the ingredients was whipped egg white.) I used another one to constantly stir the cooking ingredients that became fudge frosting, and to remove them from the pot. And i used the long metal one to remove the cake from the tins and then to frost it.
I haven’t used a burger-flipping type spatula in months.
We (Brits) also call the triangular implement shaped like a slice of pizza with a handle attached a “cake slice”. I’m trying to figure out what Americans call it - maybe a “pie server”?
Maybe i should mention that my husband’s birthday is tomorrow. 
I guess i bake more than i make burgers. I suspect the last time i used a burger type spatula was to remove cookies from a baking sheet. I cook steaks, chops, and chicken more than burgers. But hmm, maybe I’ll make fish tomorrow. I’d use a spatula for that.
Yeah, pie server.
Sorry, I did not mean to suggest you were confused. Let’s say that is what pops into my mind when I think of knives used on fish.
I am going to make a wild guess that what makes the various utensils count as spatulas is not the ‘slice’ or whatever might be on the end, but rather the flat elongated handle.
No, it’s definitely the flat blade that makes it a spatula. They have a variety of handles, many of which look exactly like the handles on kitchen spoons, cooking forks, etc. In fact, i have a set of cooking utensils that includes a solid spoon, a slotted spoon, a fork, a burger-flippy spatula, and a frosting-spreader spatula, and they all have identical handles.
(And my point was you had my thoughts backwards. I wasn’t think about knives used on fish, i was thinking “what might be called a ‘slice’ that’s a utensil?”)
A Small Argument I have in my own head, in Portuguese.
Now I find myself wondering whether a palette knife can be a spatula.
You should. They are incredibly useful any time something even slightly sticky needs to be scraped. The last mayo/pb/jam from the jar, gravy out of the pan, mashed potatoes out of the bowl, etc. A rubber spatula is better than any solid utensil for all these, as you will not have to work as hard and you will leave less food behind in the dish.
We have 10 of them, and usually there will be some clean ones in the dishwasher before we use the last one, that’s how much use they get in my house.