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linotype t1_j37fqbb wrote
Reply to comment by joepinapples in Swedish sledges; bought 40 years ago. Still in use. by joepinapples
> Queen’s English
Ummmm I guess you haven’t heart the news…
linotype t1_j35volg wrote
Reply to comment by joepinapples in Swedish sledges; bought 40 years ago. Still in use. by joepinapples
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.
linotype t1_j11b26a wrote
Reply to comment by SoItWasYouAllAlong in My mom’s 50 year old magnifier from the CCCP era. The star is a state quality mark of the USSR which works as a certification of quality. by daanikp
How did you make the leap from manufacturing prowess to Nobel prizes?
linotype t1_iyz63ad wrote
15 years ago I bought one. Loved it.
But then after a few years the display got dimmer and dimmer and dimmer and dimmer until after a while I could only see it it a pitch dark room.
linotype t1_j37j05n wrote
Reply to comment by joepinapples in Swedish sledges; bought 40 years ago. Still in use. by joepinapples
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.