What do you call this and where are you located?

[Wooloryarn]

The material you use to knit/crochet with 🧶

Wool, NW England.

Wool - Lancashire

Still wool - now NZ

Yarn. If its 100% wool then its woollen yarn. If its man made then its most likely acrylic yarn.
I used to call it wool but then..........I realised the obvious - unless its from a sheep, its not wool!

Wool. New Zealand.

And, for the pp, I wouldn't be knitting with anything other than pure wool, so "wool" it is 😅

Wool. I’m from London.

Wool, NE England.

It's all yarn. I either call it yarn or what it's actually made of eg wool, cotton, cord etc. South.

Wool. Home counties.

Caveat - haven't knitted anything for about 40 years.

I think non-knitters/crocheters call it wool. Those who are keen on either hobby call it yarn. That's my experience anyway, here in the south-east.

Yarn. I was born on the East Coast of America. My ancestors arrived before the Revolutionary War.

That makes me think “yarn” is the older term.

Often Americans and Northerners use closer language. It’s cosmopolitan London that evolves quickly and spreads out to the South of England.

I also call the stuff you sew with “thread.” Not “cotton.”

Wool, north Scotland

Wool - South and West Mids

They are two overlapping things.

It’s all yarn. Some yarn is wool (ie made from animal fibres like sheep, goat or alpaca) and some yarn is cotton, bamboo, other plant fibres or manmade fibres.

I used to call it all wool until I learnt the difference.

Wool, Lincolnshire/London.

Whatever you want to call it, it's all yarn. Wool/cotton/silk/any natural or synthetic fibre is the material used to create the yarn. Yarn is the end product of spinning the fibres together. Even needle thread is called a yarn.

I'd have called it wool growing up in East Lothian. But then I learn to knit and call it yarn. I have moved to England in that time but the catalyst for change was the knitting rather than geography

Wool, London.

Wool, Devon.

Then I took up knitting and now call it yarn. Because not all yarn is wool!

Wool SE

I would call it wool, and I'd call thread the stuff you use to mend things with.
I am west coast of Scotland.

I always used to call it wool, because when I first learned to knit as a child it always was wool.

These days I'd only call it wool if it was wool. Otherwise, I'd call it yarn.

South east (but originally from the south west).

Growing up I called it wool.

Then I became a knitter and started seeing the word ‘yarn’ everywhere. I still tend to say wool as I knit with 100% wool.

Not sure geography has much to do with the name people use.

Wool, North of Scotland.

Same terms but SE England