meghan anderson

<<<<Another really interesting Florida word is
"Buggies" ...as in Shopping cart.
They have been carts my entire life, and here I am in
a place where it's suddenly Buggies? Weird.>>>>

I still say '(shopping) trolley' (the word for
shopping cart in England). A buggy is a stroller in
England. Tamzin is always 'correcting' my English
words...sigh.

Meghan :-)

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on 12/19/01 10:03 PM, meghan anderson at moonmeghan@... wrote:

> I still say '(shopping) trolley' (the word for
> shopping cart in England). A buggy is a stroller in
> England.

What's a push chair? I envision a stroller, as opposed to a pram.

Nancy, who reads too much.

(and says shopping cart, comics, soda, and Wallyworld.)

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In a message dated 12/19/01 11:04:33 PM, moonmeghan@... writes:

<< I still say '(shopping) trolley' (the word for
shopping cart in England). A buggy is a stroller in
England. Tamzin is always 'correcting' my English
words...sigh. >>

Grocery buggy, my mom used to say. Buggy.

Here's it's nothing but a shopping cart.

Baby buggies are foreign in New Mexico. We have strollers, but no pram/buggy
such conveyances. They're for nanny-movies or Yankees. (Holly has a toy
one, disassembled in the living room for her dad to fix; that doesn't count.)

A trolly is a bus on a wire. We have a trolly-looking bus, without a wire,
that the city calls its trolley (used for tourist trips) but they're abusing
English. <g>

Carol & Mac

In New Zealand we used to have 'push chairs'. They were a hard bottomed
and backed (often padded, I mean hard as in rigid) seat in a frame, as
opposed to the buggy or stroller (we use both terms) which has a more
flexible arrangement. Of course there is every variation in between, but
'push chair' has become relatively uncommon term now.

Carol

Nancy Wooton wrote:

> on 12/19/01 10:03 PM, meghan anderson at moonmeghan@... wrote:
>
> > I still say '(shopping) trolley' (the word for
> > shopping cart in England). A buggy is a stroller in
> > England.
>
> What's a push chair? I envision a stroller, as opposed to a pram.

meghan anderson

<<<<What's a push chair? I envision a stroller, as
opposed to a pram.

Nancy, who reads too much.

(and says shopping cart, comics, soda, and
Wallyworld.)>>>>

Push chair and buggy are used interchangably. Buggy is
just more popular.

Meghan :-)

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<<<<We have strollers, but no pram/buggy
such conveyances. They're for nanny-movies or
Yankees.

Sandra>>>>

In England there's a definite difference between a
buggy and a pram. A buggy or push chair is any
stroller that folds up. A pram is a baby house on
wheels! <g>

Meghan :-)

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