Words Rarely Heard Anymore

[DisLiss]

That's what they are called here. Most of the U.S. actually calls them tennis shoes.

I haven’t called them tennis shoes in decades - now I say sneakers....

This is very regional. In my area, no one says "tennis shoes". It's "sneakers" 100%. But I do hear some of my Canadian friends call them tennis shoes.

 

[DisLiss]

Im embarrassed to say I still use many of the previously mentioned words.

I say a lot of older words/phrases. My DH will often say to our kids things such as "There goes your mom---who was apparently born in the 1800s.", or "And your mom is suddenly 110 years old again."

 

[TCRAIG]

Probably 99% of the words spoken in Carousel of Progress - Rumpus Room anyone!!

 

[Planogirl]

Giving someone a knuckle sandwich

 

[Belle_Ann]

Hoover for vacuuming. ‘I’m going to Hoover the carpet’. My grandmother used that one.

 

[Tink-osophy]

My grandma called her Capri pants “pedal pushers”.

I had pedal pushers as a kid, but they were shorter than capris - round about knee length,

This is very regional. In my area, no one says "tennis shoes". It's "sneakers" 100%. But I do hear some of my Canadian friends call them tennis shoes.

In the UK... trainers!

Probably 99% of the words spoken in Carousel of Progress - Rumpus Room anyone!!

I want a rumpus room - love the name!

 

[GoingSince1990]

A cold sarsaparilla with the boys.

 

[Lehuaann]

Rubbish. My father still uses this for garbage.

 

[Tink-osophy]

Rubbish. My father still uses this for garbage.

Is he (or are his parents) from the UK? Garbage is rubbish here!

What's the difference between trash and garbage -- are they used in different contexts? Regions? Eras?

 

[Lehuaann]

My father passed in November, he still used "ice box" instead of refrigerator.

 

[Tink-osophy]

My MIL is like 80, and she says "Egads"... honestly I never even knew that word was actually used by people.

I might start saying that!

Some of those older exclamations are more colorful and less aggressive than current ones.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Is he (or are his parents) from the UK? Garbage is rubbish here!

What's the difference between trash and garbage -- are they used in different contexts? Regions? Eras?

Here in my neck of the woods we put trash in the trash can, which is in the house. It can be anything that gets thrown away that's not recycling. Kitchen scraps, etc. Once it goes outside into *those* cans, it's garbage in garbage cans (which you call bins)-which gets picked up by garbage men. Did that help? Probably made it worse.

 

[Lehuaann]

Is he (or are his parents) from the UK? Garbage is rubbish here!

What's the difference between trash and garbage -- are they used in different contexts? Regions? Eras?

He was born and raised in Hawaii. Most, especially the older generation, use it there. In the US mainland, its garbage.

 

[JimMIA]

Still thongs here. A lot of folks used to call them flip flops when I was a kid 50 years ago.

Plenty of thongs in Miami Beach...but they're not shoes!

 

[JimMIA]

"You're welcome," as a response to me saying "Thank you."

All I get is "No problem!"

Except at Chick-fil-A, where I get "My pleasure!"

 

[dez1978]

That's what they are called here. Most of the U.S. actually calls them tennis shoes.

Thats what everyone I know calls them too. I actually don't think Ive ever heard anyone call them sneakers. Just see it online

 

[tzolkin]

What's the difference between trash and garbage -- are they used in different contexts? Regions? Eras?

I think most people use the terms interchangeably, but there is a subtle difference in the two terms that is understood. "Garbage" tends to be more "gross" (rotting food, diapers, etc) and "trash" is more generalized waste (packaging, broken items, etc). For example, someone who most often uses the term "trash" may say "I'm glad tomorrow is trash day. This kitchen garbage stinks, it needs to go to the bin outside". We also use the term "garbage truck" not "trash truck" because it tends to smell and there's all sorts of gross stuff mixed together in there.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

This is very regional. In my area, no one says "tennis shoes". It's "sneakers" 100%. But I do hear some of my Canadian friends call them tennis shoes.

Yup, which is why I said most of the U.S. calls it tennis shoes. But this thread was about words rarely heard anymore. You're going to hear tennis shoes quite commonly. I def. understand that to the person they rarely hear tennis shoes and only hear sneakers (which is primarily a NE area thing) but it's not that tennis shoes is an obscure terms of olden days certainly isn't something that has lost favor over several decades. I think that's where I was coming from.

 

[tzolkin]

Thats what everyone I know calls them too. I actually don't think Ive ever heard anyone call them sneakers. Just see it online

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I have a friend in the UK who calls sneakers/tennis shoes "plimsoles."