Ellie Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 You know, when you go shopping and you take the thingie with the wheels and put your week's worth of groceries (or maybe a child or two) in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Shopping cart. However, most people here call it a wagon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Oh no, not another shopping cart thread!:willy_nilly::smilielol5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TX Bluebonnet Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 It's a cart but sometimes I call it a basket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 It's a shopping cart to me, because most of my adult life was spent in California. I did not even know until I began playing on the Internet that my fellow Southerners called it a buggy. A friend who's from Mass calls it a wagon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 It is most definitely a buggy where I'm at (north Florida). Well, at least that's how my family has always said it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 Oh no, not another shopping cart thread!:willy_nilly::smilielol5: Oh, man...I must've missed the last one!:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Funny, when I opened the thread I thought I was going to be choosing between bag and sack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 We say cart or grocery cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLittleWonders Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 We say cart or shopping cart as well. A funny shopping cart story: a good friend of mine lives currently in Australia. He just released his first CD, named The Shopping Cart EP, and was joking that he might need to rename the CD The Shopping Trolley EP for his Aussie friends, so they would know of what he was speaking. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 When I moved to NC I had NO IDEA what the person was talking about the first time someone asked me if she could have my buggy at the grocery store. Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I say cart now, though I grew up saying buggy. Then I lived in Boston, where they call them carriages. I couldn't bring myself to do that, so I went with the universally understood cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCoppock Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 It's a shopping cart... I've never heard anyone call it a wagon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2absh Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Cart, although sometimes the dds whine and beg for a "car cart", which I dislike because it's hard to steer! J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Grocery cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuirkyKapers Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 grocery cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Shopping cart. However, most people here call it a wagon. It's a shopping cart... I've never heard anyone call it a wagon. I live in Hawaii, everyone from here calls it a wagon. I'm originally from Oklahoma. I knew people who called it a cart and people who called it a buggy. When I lived in California it was cart. In Europe, if a sign was in English, it was usually trolley (probably because that's what they call it in the UK). In Virginia and NC it was a buggy for most people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosy Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I've always called it a cart, here in TX they call it a buggy. Huh? And when they put your stuff in a plastic bag they call it a sack. "Can I put that in a sack for ya?" I thought they meant they'd give me a burlap bag.:lol: I drive a buggy, VW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmom3tn Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 When I was a kid, I only heard them spoken of as "baskets". I still use that term. I hear more and more people calling them "carts" now, but still mostly "baskets". Maybe it's another one of those southern things. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Cart. Though everyone else here says buggy. It is just one of those southern sayings that I can't adapt to, lol. I can't get used to it either. We have a local grocery called Market Basket. I've heard a cart being referred to as a basket, but the nickname for the store is Market Bucket, which is not what I call a cart. :confused: I don't use a buggy either, I use a cart, even if I'm at "The Bucket". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Trolley. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SapphireStitch Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 When I moved to NC I had NO IDEA what the person was talking about the first time someone asked me if she could have my buggy at the grocery store. Dawn Me, too! :) I thought buggies were those old-fashioned things you wheeled babies around in. After 17 years here I find myself telling the kids to go "grab me a buggy" when we're walking into the store... Or should I say as we're "fixin' to" walk into the store? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 (edited) We say cart or shopping cart as well. A funny shopping cart story: a good friend of mine lives currently in Australia. He just released his first CD, named The Shopping Cart EP, and was joking that he might need to rename the CD The Shopping Trolley EP for his Aussie friends, so they would know of what he was speaking. ;) Ha. We're not too bad at translating from your dialect ;) but yeah, it's called a trolley here. :) Rosie Edited May 11, 2010 by Rosie_0801 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Shopping cart but here in Malaysia they call it a trolley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I have lived in the South all my life, and have to say it is a buggy! I've never heard it called anything else down here. If someone asked me for my "shopping cart" I would think they were trying to be uppity. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Shopping cart. My sister lives in GA and calls it a buggy. I find that SO odd as a buggy to me is what you put babies in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 When I moved to NC I had NO IDEA what the person was talking about the first time someone asked me if she could have my buggy at the grocery store. Dawn I had that same experience when we moved to Louisiana. They lady just kept repeating herself, and finally pointed. It didn't help that it took me a good 6 months before I could fully catch their accents. I call it a cart or sometimes basket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Funny, when I opened the thread I thought I was going to be choosing between bag and sack. Ohdear! When I moved here I had never heard someone call a bag a "sack". It makes me blanch every single time I hear it. I think "ballsack" every time. ewww. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Ohdear! When I moved here I had never heard someone call a bag a "sack". It makes me blanch every single time I hear it. I think "ballsack" every time. ewww. What? WTH is a ballsack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepymommy Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I say shopping cart and grocery cart. Never heard it called a wagon before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Ohdear! When I moved here I had never heard someone call a bag a "sack". It makes me blanch every single time I hear it. I think "ballsack" every time. ewww. :confused: I guess I've heard the word sack in many, many other contexts. This would not occur to me. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akmommy Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 A basket or cart. Used to call it a basket all the time because that is what my grandma and mom called it, but somewhere along the way it became a cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 What? WTH is a ballsack? I believe that the 'polite' term for it is "scrotum". :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blessedfamily Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Here people just say shopping cart or grocery cart. I've never heard any of the other names before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 This is a shopping cart. (This is Texas.) When we moved to Alabama, I learned some "foreign" words. The first time that I went to a grocery store, I picked up my sack of groceries to leave, and the cashier asked me whether I wanted to take my "buggy". I reasoned that she could not be referring to garden pests ("buggy"), so my only other choice was, with startled perplexity, to inform her that I did not have any children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaMa2005 Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 We call it a buggy. But then again, we called DS's stroller a buggy, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I've always called it a shopping cart, but some people I know call it a buggy. The first time I heard that I was clueless about what they were referring to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Ha. We're not to bad at translating from your dialect ;) but yeah, it's called a trolley here. :) Rosie :lol: I will call it shopping trolley from now on. I like it better than shopping cart. Let the rest of the Californians wonder what I am talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Here people just say shopping cart or grocery cart. I've never heard any of the other names before. Only on this board can we go from something as benign as a shopping cart to "scrotum" in a hurry. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cindie2dds Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 A "basket." Not very correct or original, but that's what my mom called it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 When I was a kid, I only heard them spoken of as "baskets". I still use that term. I hear more and more people calling them "carts" now, but still mostly "baskets". Maybe it's another one of those southern things. :D Hmmm...I think I might have heard it referred to as a basket (SE Virginia, NE NC--Outer Banks). But--true story--I only remember going to the grocery store 2 or 3 times in my pre-adult life, so I couldn't really tell you what my grandparents called those things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMom Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Ohdear! When I moved here I had never heard someone call a bag a "sack". It makes me blanch every single time I hear it. I think "ballsack" every time. ewww. Oh my gosh, Cyndi.:lol: I voted "cart" but I call it a basket equally. I usually "grab a basket" on the way in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoVanGogh Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 A lady with a lovely British accent bumped into me the other day at the grocery store. She said, "Oh, pardon me. I'm not used to the large trolleys you have here in America." So I have been calling them trolleys ever since. (I do hope she was calling her shopping cart a trolley and not referring to the size of my backside. :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in AUS Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 We call it a trolley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InHisGrip Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 (I do hope she was calling her shopping cart a trolley and not referring to the size of my backside. :D) :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 It's interesting that in the last few "what do you call..." threads, the Aussies and the Brits use the same word. In NZ as in Australia, it's a trolley. BUT the NZ trolleys are a far superior beast to the Aussie ones, which you need very strong stomach muscles to steer due to them having a mind of their own. Take Note Aussies: A proper shopping trolley has fixed wheels at the back, and swivelling wheels at the front, they can be steered easily and don't carreen into shelves of their own accord. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitilin Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 I call it a basket. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 I call it a basket. ;) Those of you who call it a basket: Are you talking about the big rolling things? - or the small plastic things with handles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cindie2dds Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Those of you who call it a basket: Are you talking about the big rolling things? - or the small plastic things with handles? The big rolling things. :blushing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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