# What you called it at home vs. what everyone else calls it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840 "2013-10-21T17:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/81 "2013-10-25T14:06:22Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Huh? What obvious reasons? Sorry if I’m missing something here. Whoopy is the noise it makes, Scooper is what it does. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/82 "2013-10-25T14:40:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I like the way you talk. Thanks ! Not everyone does – I’ve been accused of being unable to put anything briefly-and-simply. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/83 "2013-10-25T14:51:31Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > I’d completely forgotten this but we called the outhouse the kybo in scouts. > Turns out, wikipedia says it is a [scouting term](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhouse). AAAH! My brother and his friend had a song they sang in Boy Scouts about here comes Dan, the kybo man! Nobody has ever heard of this. Thanks for verifying that I’m not insane. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/84 "2013-10-25T15:35:36Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > Thanks ! Not everyone does – I’ve been accused of being unable to put anything briefly-and-simply. Oooo, now I really like you. People tell me the same thing. But they’re wrong and I’m right. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/85 "2013-10-25T16:29:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oooo, now I really like you. People tell me the same thing. But they’re wrong and I’m right. Perhaps our mutual hero should be Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century British lexicographer. Dr. J. was very big on long and elaborate words, preferably with foreign derivations, being “the way to go”. There’s a tale of his dismissing a literary or dramatic offering by someone, saying initially about it, “It has not wit enough to keep it sweet”. He then, seemingly, thought, “hold on, that’s too terse and matter-of-fact”; and rephrased his comment as, “It has not sufficient vitality to preserve it from putrefaction”. Johnson was, in various ways, major-league weird – but I reckon him an extremely cool guy. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/86 "2013-10-25T18:08:18Z")
If ever there was a thread for “[creamed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10280231) [cheese](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11509077)”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/87 "2013-10-25T20:56:04Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > Coca Cola, 7 UP, what most people call sodas is called ‘pop’ or ‘sodey pop’. It’s not what “most people” call it. It’s what some people call it. Others call it pop (like you, and me, and a whole heck of a lot of people), or coke (even if it’s not cocacola), or fizzy drinks, or probably several other things as well. You only think soda is so prevalent because that’s what hollywood writer monkeys call it, so that’s what you wind up hearing in movies and TV. My dad has a funny term for garage door openers and TV remotes - “the pushy”. He also calls the garden hose a “hose pipe”. A few years ago I heard my grandma use “toasted cheese”. I’d never heard that before but I liked it and now use the term myself. Growing up, my mom wouldn’t let us say certain words, such as fart. Farts were thus known as “putt putts”. Made miniature golf (also known as putt putt golf) a much funnier experience. Before putt putts became the term, when we were really little, we called them “bottom burps”. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/88 "2013-10-25T23:40:15Z")
Many people around my hometown call bell peppers mangoes. My family never did, however. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/89 "2013-10-25T23:58:13Z")
Seriously? I’ve never heard of calling a bell pepper a mango, but a [Google search](http://www.waywordradio.org/when-is-a-bell-pepper-a-mango-minicast/) indicates that this is common in Indiana and Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/90 "2013-10-25T23:58:57Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > British citizen and resident here – this told of, to hopefully head off possible trans-Atlantic confusions and misunderstandings. The simple breakfast-time or other-times thing of slices of bread soaked in beaten egg, and then fried. My parents – likely following on from their parents – called this, “dipped egg”. I’m probably a born pedant and words-nerd – from the very first, this expression annoyed me. I saw it as self-evidently nonsensical – it’s not the \*\*\*\*ing egg that’s dipped ! The \*\*\*\*ing bread is what’s dipped in the \*\*\*\*ing egg, for heaven’s sake ! I don’t recall ever taking my parents to task for their use of the idiotic expression; but I’ve eschewed use of said expression, lifelong. The more usual, and more sense-making, UK name for this thing, is “eggy bread” – which is what I say on the rare occasions when I need to refer to it. I call this “French toast” and I would imagine most USAians do too. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/91 "2013-10-26T00:25:02Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > It’s not what “most people” call it. It’s what some people call it. Others call it pop (like you, and me, and a whole heck of a lot of people), or coke (even if it’s not cocacola), or fizzy drinks, or probably several other things as well. You only think soda is so prevalent because that’s what hollywood writer monkeys call it, so that’s what you wind up hearing in movies and TV. > > My dad has a funny term for garage door openers and TV remotes - “the pushy”. He also calls the garden hose a “hose pipe”. > > A few years ago I heard my grandma use “toasted cheese”. I’d never heard that before but I liked it and now use the term myself. > > Growing up, my mom wouldn’t let us say certain words, such as fart. Farts were thus known as “putt putts”. Made miniature golf (also known as putt putt golf) a much funnier experience. Before putt putts became the term, when we were really little, we called them “bottom burps”. my nanna called them “fluffs” ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/92 "2013-10-26T01:09:54Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Seriously? I’ve never heard of calling a bell pepper a mango, but a [Google search](http://www.waywordradio.org/when-is-a-bell-pepper-a-mango-minicast/) indicates that this is common in Indiana and Kentucky. Your Google search would be correct. I grew up in Indiana and called them mangoes. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/93 "2013-10-26T01:16:17Z")
We didn’t do homework, we did “lessons”. We didn’t brush our teeth, we “scrubbed” our teeth. My parents were from Utah. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/94 "2013-10-26T01:17:59Z")
The junk drawer in the kitchen is called "the little drawer’. In my last four kitchens, the junk drawer was the same size as the others, but in the house I grew up in, the junk drawer was the smallest drawer in the kitchen, so the junk drawer is and ever shall be, “the little drawer”. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/95 "2013-10-26T05:56:49Z")
> [@](#): > > The small piece of terry that you wash your face with is a washrag Yep. Maybe it’s the Pittsburgh in me, but bologna was “jumbo.” Rubber bands were gum bands, the basement was the cellar. Any basement. Thorny bushes were stickers, icy streets were “slippy.” ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/96 "2013-10-26T11:50:17Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > I call this “French toast” and I would imagine most USAians do too. I had a sort of feeling that US French toast, was kind-of-like bread dipped in egg and fried; but had a sweet element to it (British “eggy bread” is strictly savoury). Maybe I’m mistaken about US practice here. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/97 "2013-10-26T12:18:17Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > I had a sort of feeling that US French toast, was kind-of-like bread dipped in egg and fried; but had a sweet element to it (British “eggy bread” is strictly savoury). Maybe I’m mistaken about US practice here. True, “French toast” typically has milk & sugar but some people just dip in scrambled egg. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/98 "2013-10-26T12:31:40Z")
You folks sure have a lot of weird names for a cheese toastie! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/99 "2013-10-26T14:54:32Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Many people around my hometown call bell peppers mangoes. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Seriously? I’ve never heard of calling a bell pepper a mango, but a [Google search](http://www.waywordradio.org/when-is-a-bell-pepper-a-mango-minicast/) indicates that this is common in Indiana and Kentucky. > [@missred](#): > > Your Google search would be correct. I grew up in Indiana and called them mangoes. So… and you this was coming… what do they call mangos, then? If I went to the local Jamba Juice and asked for a Mega Mango smoothie, would I get a nasty surprise? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840/100 "2013-10-26T16:14:58Z")
[Q\*\*\*\*UOTE=Johnny L.A.;16792329]So… and you this was coming… what do they call mangos, then? If I went to the local Jamba Juice and asked for a Mega Mango smoothie, would I get a nasty surprise? [/QUOTE] Back when I was growing up (60s and 70s), real mangoes weren’t part of the equation. They hadn’t been marketed enough as a flavoring and heaven knows, weren’t shipped in any significant quantity to the rural midwest to even be on our radar. The only reasons our household knew of their existence were school reports and _Gilligan’s Island_.😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-called-it-at-home-vs-what-everyone-else-calls-it/671840.md?page=6)