Weird names for things

Rachel_Scope
Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,077 Online Community Team
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The other day I realised that 'walkie talkie' is a hilarious name but is a great description for what they are.

Other names, not so much. Guinea pig - not a pig, not from Guinea.

Some are downright lazy. Fireplace - a place where the fire goes.

Can you think of any other things that are named strangely?

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,229 Online Community Team

    I call camembert cheese cannon bear for some wild reason. I also pronounce the R in iron just for fun 😂

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing

    Tittle … the dot on the top of i j … so why not … dot … 😯

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,800 Connected

    For some unknown reason, some people still call a bum bag a "Fanny Pack", you what?

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129510#Comment_1129510

    Because in the US … F**** is slang for the the buttocks 😉

    I'll knock you on your …

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,006 Championing
    edited June 3

    Lunch box - what REAL men have between their legs 💪 💪 💪

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129528#Comment_1129528

    Explains my feminine side. I always kept mine in a canvas satchel 🤔

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,077 Online Community Team

    I've gone on a bit of a tangent with weird names for groups of animals. Where do they come up with these?

    An embarrassment of pandas. Poor pandas!

    A conspiracy of lemurs. What are they plotting??

    A shiver of sharks.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,800 Connected

    There used to be a Frozen food shop in Hillsborough called Cordon Bleu, I used to call it "Gordon Blue" lol.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 5,072 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    A romp of otters!!

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 5,072 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists
    edited June 3

    I called Ferrero Rochers, Freddie Roshers when I was a child and it has stuck in my family ever since!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing

    @Rachel_Scope … a Murder of Crows is pretty apt though. Laying in bed this morning it summed up very well why it's named that. Then you've got the Blackbirds singing sweetly trying to be heard … got to love the countryside. You get no sleep … but …

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,077 Online Community Team

    @Mary_Scope Freddy roshers is so cute!

    Yeah I agree that a murder of crows is very apt @WelshBlue! We have hens and a cockerel in the garden behind our house and they can be quite loud.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,229 Online Community Team
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129510#Comment_1129510

    I do this 😂

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,229 Online Community Team

    Someone has just mentioned piccadilly on another post and I call that something else but I can't repeat it because it's childish 🙈

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,077 Online Community Team

    well now my brains running wild thinking what it could be @Holly_Scope 😂

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,800 Connected

    Remember when they used to sell Marvel back in the 80s which was powdered Milk? The ad Jingle went "It's Marvelous! Less fat too!", I used to think it said "Nik Nak Choo", well I was only little back then.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,077 Online Community Team

    This is what I'm looking forward to with my daughter @SheffieldMan1976. Her mispronouncing things! I'm sure we'll end up with lots of new names for things 😂

    Has anyone ever really thought about why we call movies 'movies'?

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,800 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129577#Comment_1129577

    To quote the Discworld books by the late SIr Terry Pratchett, it's short for "moving pictures"

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,077 Online Community Team

    Ah I didn't know that reference @SheffieldMan1976!

    Going back to mispronouncing things when we're little, I found a list of alternative names for things from children!

    Rhino - Battle unicorn

    Pockets - Snack holes. I think this is a better name

    Memory - Remembery

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