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There are a lot of over used words and misused generic words.
Over used word, Yard Sale" why don't they say rummage sale?
Generic word, Bush-Hog" a lot of people think every rotoray cutter is a bush-hog. Another one is Bendex people call a starter drive a bendix. There was a man that ran a shop rebuilding starters, generators, when people would call the starter drive a bendix, he would go balastic. What do you all think?
 
I think a yard sale is a yard sale,a rummage sale is something that a charity has with donated items.
Bush Hog is a brand,but brush hog has been adopted as a generic term.
You're on your own with the bendix,but that's what I call it.

All just what those terms mean around here. Things vary by location.
 
I call it a groj sale.

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Another one I remembered is there was a time when most every one thought all refrigerators were Frigidairs.
 
I wanted to buy a new "haybine" (New Holland's mower conditioner) but I needed a new "bobcat" (skid loader) instead!

In our area, a lot of people call steel grain bins "Butler Bins". Growing up commodity bids were "Pax Bins".
 
GROJ-----I like that!

I agree that the terms often get hijacked. Something that interests me is the difference in locality and names of things. I have a friend who grew up in Canada. He has a "soda" while I have a coke (really any soft drink). The sackers in the grocery stores are called box boys, sack boys, bag boys, and, not to be wrong about this, now there are girls doing this job as well.

I work in a store that sells electronic parts. The old timers will come in and want filters (capacitors), or sometimes they call them condensers.

The best thing I have heard is when one of my kids asked me one time "Just what DID those people do back in the "gay nineties"?????
 
Vincent Bendix held the patent for the triple thread screw that was used to engage inertia type starter drives. As with a lot of successful inventions over time the name can become generic.

Actually the patented design was first used for parts in a bicycle brake system in 1914.
 
I was in Sioux Falls SD Sat to the Gun show. I told one vender that the most abused word at a gun show is "rare". I think it gets abused in the vintage tractor trade as well.
 
When I was young it was "tonic" not coke or soda!
I hate when people say "garden tractor" when it"s a lawn mower!

Now I see "topper" for truck cap?

Joe
 
The fact that your Canadian friend calls it soda really surprises me. I was aware that there were many different names for it. Coke, soda, pop, soda pop, but normally it"s pop in Canada.
 
I can understand how a brand becomes a name- "Crescent" wrench, etc.
What drives me nuts is when the language is made more complicated unnecessarily. I just read a posting on here within the last day or so where someone "changed out" several things on their tractor. Where does that come from? Do they change out their clothes? An oil change has long been a standard maintenance procedure. Do people now drive up and ask for an oil change out?
 
In NJ when I was a kid in the 60's it was a soda and when we moved to MN in 71 it was a pop.

They names don't bother me like bendix. What bothers me is a guy who knows how to change one calling it a starter gear. But most people I know call em a starter drive. haven't herd one called a bendix in some time.

Rick
 

I was using my Channelllocks to change the blade on my Skilsaw. It slipped and cut my finger. I put some Vaseline on it and then put a Band Aid on it. Then got out the Vice Grips and cut the Yellow Wood boards to length. Then went out and sprayed the ditch with Roundup
 
"Ski-Doo" referring to any snowmobile.
Exceedingly rare to hear of pop being called soda in Canada.
"Local Tractor", rebuilt, restored, field ready, like new, just needs a little work, it was running when parked, low hours.............
Rye referring to whisky that has no rye in it.
Going back to the "bush" to cut firewood, go hunting or collect maple sap. Here "bush" means a grown mature woodlot.
 
To my late mother, any camera was a "Kodak", and any evergreen tree was a "cedar tree". Drove me nuts.

I once got into a heated argument with an uncle of mine, now also deceased. He claimed any crawler tractor was a "Caterpiller", and I countered by saying "Caterpiller" was a brand name for a particular crawler tractor.

On another thread, we went through engines being mistakenly referred to as "motors". But I guess to resolve that, we would have the Ford Engine Company, General Engines Corporation, etc.
 
My favorite is a Craig's list ad that is still running around here - I think it was for a Farmall A or Cub. It had all the words; restored, field-ready, original owner, all-original, etc. My favorite part was that it said it "Started the best!" The next sentence was "But sometimes it won't start."

Of course he was "selling it for a friend" so don't ask him any questions.
 
(quoted from post at 17:47:40 02/10/13) I can understand how a brand becomes a name- "Crescent" wrench, etc.
What drives me nuts is when the language is made more complicated unnecessarily. I just read a posting on here within the last day or so where someone "changed out" several things on their tractor. Where does that come from? Do they change out their clothes? An oil change has long been a standard maintenance procedure. Do people now drive up and ask for an oil change out?
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The Word decade bothers me. It always used to be just years. Now instead of one syllable it has to be a two syllable fancy work to say the same thing.
 
Calling a pickup a truck, like it's a big rig. I know, the registration calls it a truck. To me a truck is either a pickup, ten wheeler or semi. What got me going on this was one time when I was hauling a combine in Oklahoma and the young man in the lead pickup radioed back to me there was a truck approaching the bridge I couldn't see yet because it was around the corner. I smoked the brakes getting slowed down (in Oklahoma a bridge is ALWAYS at the bottom of a long hill) and here came a Chevy S-10. There would have been PLENTY of room in the bridge. Jim
 
Well. I once went to a "garage sale" and yes, not only were there tables of rumage, but the garage itself was for sale. Sold too.
 
Norwegians (I am half norwegian) put gas on the car. Wife (german)says to neighbor, maybe you should put the gas in the tank. Of course gas would be gasoline.
 
I don"t give a hoot what someone calls something,if I don"t know what he is talking about I ask for clarifacation.
Life is too short for me to skip a beat about petty stuff.
 
The thing that will make me go balistic is the word digger. People say I'm gonna run the digger over to the other farm and such just drives me up the wall. If you cant call it buy what it is ( i.e. Field cultivator) ect. then you have no business farming. Or my fianc'e's parents always say they are gonna go pick corn when refering to combining it drives me insane. I always ask them when did you go and buy a New Idea picker lol.
I should also add that when people refer to hay bales as rolls is something else that just irritates me
 
LOL...i guess i was there ?when he was given ya hale or someone , LOL ,,over misnaming the starter drive..////since he closed , i went to rpc ,,til ownership changed ... NOW , i take my stuuf to R and R under the water tank in Palmyra .......btw ,, will you drop me your addy ...
 
In Pennsylvania, we shelled corn, and mowed with a haybine or diskbine, and a swather was a self-propelled mower. A loader on a tractor was a hi-lift, a loader was a skid-steer. A bulldozer was a dozer, and a tractor with a blade was a blade.

Out here in Nebraska we pick corn, and mow with a swather, which is a diskbine, haybine, or a self-propelled, and use a (tractor with a) loader or a Bobcat. A dozer is a tractor with a blade, and a cat or a crawler is a bulldozer.

Channellock's are water pump pliers.
Vice grips are... OK, bad example.
A ripper is a chisel plow.
Ground hay is silage.
A pan is a scraper.
A post-hole digger is an auger.

In North Dakota cold storage is a building that's not heated. We tended to call them pole-barns.

2 years and I still find a Pennsylvania term for something that has people looking at me funny now and then.
 
All,
Rare in relationship to how many tractors were built. Rare is how We order a T-bone steak!
In Texas we go the the 7-11 store to get a Coke! Don't care that you get a Big Red, Dr. Pepper, Orange Crush etc.
Soda.... is white powder that comes in a small orange/yellow box an your Mom or wife uses it in some baking processes, or puts a box in the Refrigerator to keep it smelling nice.
Pop.... is a less respectful way to say Dad.
Also in Texas, A SkiDoo is a Water craft, has nothing to do with Snow.
Any skid steer is a Bobcat.
Mowing is what one does to their front or back lawn! We Shred the pasture or field or stalks and Swath a hay patch.
Trucks are Medium Duty on up in size and 1/2,3/4, 1ton Pickups, not trucks
All tissue is Kleenex.
Ocean going containers are called Conexs.
Later,
John A.
 
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