When did felt tip become "Sharpie"?

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Just that really.

Printed by a thread in which the British OP said she'd write her phone number on her kids' arms "in sharpie" when they went to busy places.

Exactly. Same here

Me too.

Before Sharpies became readily available here, permanent markers were typically the big clunky things with thick nibs, like your typical white board markers. Sharpies are finer, so easier to use to label uniform etc and last forever. Love a Sharpie.

Like others I haven't heard Sharpie used to mean felt tip pen.

Sharpies are a brand of permanent market and I have heard it used to refer to permanent markers in general a bit, though to be fair the markers we have are Sharpe brand anyway.

Sharpies are sharpies. Felt tips are their pathetic cousin. If you want to guarantee the phone number stays on, use a sharpie not a felt tip.

"When did soft / cuddly toys become "plushies"? I only found out last year, when my daughter started talking about them."

They haven't. A plushie is a soft toy with a specific material. Like that used in a squishmallow.

I grew up in South Africa where a felt tip is called a koki. Never heard of either a felt tip or Sharpie till I moved to the UK.

I'm mid fifties and grew up using the term Hoover.

It's been around well before Henry arrived 😀

The one that annoys me is Hoover - has replaced vacuum cleaner so now all brands are Hoovers!

iPhone for me. I hate the assumption that everyone has an iPhone. We are an Android household and always have been.

When they got "Sharpie" written on the side of them.

Yes, Sharpie and felt tip are two different things.

When I say Sharpie I literally have one in my hand. Otherwise I’d say permanent marker. Felt tips are water based ink that will wash off/wear off quickly.

Hoover isn't new 🤣

Yep sharpie is a permanent marker.

I've just 'sharpied' DD jumper for a school trip today. I wouldn't have used a felt tip!

It's easier to say sharpie than permanent marker!

Sharpies aren’t felt tips. They are permanent markers.

Felt tip and sharpie are not at all the same thing OP. I’m guessing you don’t use Sharpies?

A sharpie is an indelible water proof very thick but pointy tipped pen. You couldn’t call it permanent marker due to the pointed instead of blunt chisel tip. You couldn’t call it a felt tip as it’s totally different and has a different purpose.

I don’t think there’s actually a word in English for this type of pen, hence people calling them Sharpies. People use the word Sharpie when they are referring to their indelible or wide pointed top properties.

The kids pass me a Sharpie (not a felt tip) for writing on plant labels, writing names on the spines of school folders, putting names in Wellies etc.

Sharpies are different! They're permanent markers. Are people calling g felt tips Sharpies?!

Has the confusion between sharpie and felt tips come from the fact that they permanent markers of yesteryear were generally sold in ones, were always black and often with a thick nib; meanwhile sharpies are marketed like this...

I can understand why people would think they were a brand of felt tips if they didn't know they were permanent.

I thought the Americanism was actually magic markers.

SinnerBoy · Today 01:53
When did soft / cuddly toys become "plushies"? I only found out last year, when my daughter started talking about them.

I havent heard them called that yet, though that, or simply 'plush toys' wouldnt surprise me.
The children I know (mainly my dgc) refer to all their soft toys as "teddies', which I find very odd, because to me, teddies is short for teddy bears - so as far as I'm concerned, if it isn't a bear, it can't be a teddy!

Yep I would assume when that poster wrote Sharpie, they were using an actual Sharpie.

Marshmallow becoming Marshmellow is one that grips my shit 😬

Ive heard of teddies/soft toys being known as Stuffies?

How is it an Americanism?

Sharpie is just the brand name, like Coca Cola or Cadbury's.

I was just going to say what everyone else has about Sharpies! OP are you clear on that now?
Agree re stuffies though. I guess with tiktok and Instagram and other social networks Americanisms will cross even more

When did soft / cuddly toys become "plushies"? I only found out last year, when my daughter started talking about them.

Maybe the same time they all became 'Teddies'
A Teddy was always a bear until someone got lazy and called them all Teddies and plushies.