Huh, interesting. I never really had distinction because it's all just a cabinet. Except where my clothes are, that is a closet. Maybe cause I like things simple or it could be my dad's English wasn't always the best so it was easier to just call anything with doors that didn't have clothes in it a cabinet. LOL
See, to me that is a hutch or you put china before it to make it a china cabinet or china hutch.
I think it depends on region and what you grew up with. If your parents/family called it X, then it would be X. I don't think there is really any right or wrong, is there? I mean, just what works for you?
I don't think there is really any right or wrong, is there? I mean, just what works for you?
True - although if I've learnt one thing from the incy wincy spider debate, it's that people are willing to defend "what I grew up with" to the death...
I'd only ever expect "hutch" to be something you put rabbits in. :)
Hmm, that is very interesting (as I'm sure this discussion will be as well) that it looks again, to be what you grew up with, what is familiar to you.
I saw above that you had commented to angearia that it seems to be split with Americans and I would tend to agree. My mom is East Coast, she called it cabinets and hutch. My West Coast friends call it cupboard.
I bet if you googled kitchen cupboard and kitchen cabinet, the same results would come up. Seems to be a regional thing. Like pop and soda and Coke (as in people calling ALL carbonated beverages Coke despite brand).
I bet if you googled kitchen cupboard and kitchen cabinet, the same results would come up. Seems to be a regional thing. Like pop and soda and Coke (as in people calling ALL carbonated beverages Coke despite brand).
Very possibly a regional thing.
(You guys should just start calling them "soft drinks", like sensible people do...)
I periodically have a discussion about it in my journal, just because I'm madly obsessed with the pop/soda/coke debate. Maybe it's time for another one?
I have never ever actually ever irl ever met someone who says only coke! That's crazy. How do you know if you're asking for Coke the brand, or any soda - Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Fanta, etc.?
See, and I hadn't met anyone who called it soda till college. I knew a few people who said pop--I have some cousins in Indiana--but never, ever soda. That's what people say on TV, like supermarket for grocery store, that no one in real life ever says. *shrug
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Huh, interesting. I suppose that works the same as with soda - you say soda and then clarify what brand - but it's weird because with Coke, that's one of the possible brands you could want, especially since up here no one everrrr says Coca-cola. That's what makes it different from Xerox/Band-aid/Kleenex - you don't have to ask someone for a Kleenex and then specify that no, I wanted the Puffs instead. I dunno.
And I've never heard of saying co-cola, that's so interesting! Language is funny.
I guess it's more like saying "chips." Now that can mean straight-up potato chips (which can be shortened to just chips) or Doritos or Cheetos or something.
The co-cola thing is dying out, I think. It was definitely a Deep South thing up until the last decade or so. I think it's being slowly overtaken by coke. Which is kind of sad.
Down here, we all say band-aid, but anyone asking for "Kleenex" would be un-utterably weird. And if you asked for a "Xerox", no-one would know what you meant. They're tissues and photocopies.
But that's interesting that you do say band-aid but don't say Kleenex. I loooove etymology.
It's always fascinating to me when words fall into public domain--like Kleenex or Band-Aid or escalator. At this point, I feel like the only word that is still trademarked by a company but that's also used as a sort of generic name is Dobro, and the legal battles surrounding that have been interesting to say the least. Do you even know what that is?
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To me, "cabinet" means a specific thing with glass doors for displaying interesting things like pretty teacups.
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I think it depends on region and what you grew up with. If your parents/family called it X, then it would be X. I don't think there is really any right or wrong, is there? I mean, just what works for you?
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True - although if I've learnt one thing from the incy wincy spider debate, it's that people are willing to defend "what I grew up with" to the death...
I'd only ever expect "hutch" to be something you put rabbits in. :)
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I saw above that you had commented to angearia that it seems to be split with Americans and I would tend to agree. My mom is East Coast, she called it cabinets and hutch. My West Coast friends call it cupboard.
I bet if you googled kitchen cupboard and kitchen cabinet, the same results would come up. Seems to be a regional thing. Like pop and soda and Coke (as in people calling ALL carbonated beverages Coke despite brand).
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Very possibly a regional thing.
(You guys should just start calling them "soft drinks", like sensible people do...)
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Pop vs Soda by region
Another interesting look at regional differences to say the least.
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I periodically have a discussion about it in my journal, just because I'm madly obsessed with the pop/soda/coke debate. Maybe it's time for another one?
For what it's worth, it's coke. Always coke.
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I have never ever actually ever irl ever met someone who says only coke! That's crazy. How do you know if you're asking for Coke the brand, or any soda - Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Fanta, etc.?
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And I've never heard of saying co-cola, that's so interesting! Language is funny.
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The co-cola thing is dying out, I think. It was definitely a Deep South thing up until the last decade or so. I think it's being slowly overtaken by coke. Which is kind of sad.
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Erm, see my reply to Lauren. :)
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...but I don't. :)
Down here, we all say band-aid, but anyone asking for "Kleenex" would be un-utterably weird. And if you asked for a "Xerox", no-one would know what you meant. They're tissues and photocopies.
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But that's interesting that you do say band-aid but don't say Kleenex. I loooove etymology.
It's always fascinating to me when words fall into public domain--like Kleenex or Band-Aid or escalator. At this point, I feel like the only word that is still trademarked by a company but that's also used as a sort of generic name is Dobro, and the legal battles surrounding that have been interesting to say the least. Do you even know what that is?
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