I use a few words that sometimes earn me funny looks from folks. Words that I was familiar with as a kid but have been replaced by other words or maybe just not used elsewhere. Do you have any words like this?
Here are some examples which I hope explain:
Sweet milk; growing up, there was buttermilk and sweet milk and occasionally chocolate milk. I don't hear sweet milk used anymore; just plain or white milk (along with the various percentages of fat)
Locusts; when used to reference cicadas. I know what cicadas are and the racket they make but I still call them locusts.
Bream; this may be a little bit of a stretch but we pretty much used bream whenever talking about bluegills even though it is used often for various sunfish. For example, if we caught bluegill, pumpkins seeds, shellcracker, etc., we would call the bluegill "bream" and everything else by their other names.
To get even more localized, folks on the river in Florida where my father grew up called bass "trout" and chain pickerel were called "cypress trout".
I don't like calling dolphin "Mahi-Mahi" (think I'll add this to the post about words that are like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Oleo; my wife and I were stopped by a younger person who was shopping using a recipe that called for oleo. We were familiar because my mother's recipes call for oleo which I think was one of the first margarines and was used generically.
Here are some examples which I hope explain:
Sweet milk; growing up, there was buttermilk and sweet milk and occasionally chocolate milk. I don't hear sweet milk used anymore; just plain or white milk (along with the various percentages of fat)
Locusts; when used to reference cicadas. I know what cicadas are and the racket they make but I still call them locusts.
Bream; this may be a little bit of a stretch but we pretty much used bream whenever talking about bluegills even though it is used often for various sunfish. For example, if we caught bluegill, pumpkins seeds, shellcracker, etc., we would call the bluegill "bream" and everything else by their other names.
To get even more localized, folks on the river in Florida where my father grew up called bass "trout" and chain pickerel were called "cypress trout".
I don't like calling dolphin "Mahi-Mahi" (think I'll add this to the post about words that are like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Oleo; my wife and I were stopped by a younger person who was shopping using a recipe that called for oleo. We were familiar because my mother's recipes call for oleo which I think was one of the first margarines and was used generically.
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