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joepinapples OP t1_j32ktx1 wrote

Reply to comment by contheartist in Swedish sledges; bought 40 years ago. Still in use. by joepinapples

Surely these arent toboggans? Arent they on metal runners?

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linotype t1_j35volg wrote

Canadian here. Definitely toboggan. A sledge is a heavy hammer. A sled is a snowmobile. A sleigh is the thing on metal runners that horses pull.

But where I’m from, nobody used those flimsy plastic toboggans. Getting a GT Snowracer for Christmas was a rite of passage. When we hit the hills, we called it “GTing” (jeeteeing). Those toboggans were for little kids.

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joepinapples OP t1_j36lrld wrote

You guys all talk wrong. The Queens English definition is Sledge. You are correct with Sleigh. Toboggan is your own word so you may do with it what you will. 😁

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linotype t1_j37fqbb wrote

> Queen’s English

Ummmm I guess you haven’t heart the news…

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joepinapples OP t1_j37gf4p wrote

I definitely dont heart this comment

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linotype t1_j37j05n wrote

Damn autocorrect.

Actually I was sitting here picking icicles out of my nose hairs when a thought occurred to me; you don’t really get snow over in the UK, so I don’t think you get to claim ownership over any terminology related to snow vehicles.

Come to think of it, my parents are both from the UK, I don’t remember them ever using any specific words related to toboggans. They didn’t them toboggans, and they certainly didn’t call them sledges or sleds. Hmm.

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joepinapples OP t1_j37mw70 wrote

Unless yer parents were called Liz and Philip and lots of lovely big houses paid for by taxpayers it doesn’t really count.

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