Yes I know IABU but what happened to the word "pushchair"?

[Anotherusefulname]

I know there are more important things to get annoyed by but DD has just stopped using the pushchair. It really does irritate me when people ask me where my buggy is.

It is a pushchair, I'm pretty sure buggy was a brand name or model name of a particular pushchair. A similar situation to not all vacuum cleaners being hoovers.

So I don't have a buggy but my pushchair has been put in the loft for next time. AIBU to say "we have put the pushchair in the loft " in response to " what have you done with your buggy?" and similar questions.

A buggy is a little umbrella fold job. Anything else is a pushchair, unless it's a pram.

I was just wondering the same thing. I think I am the only person I know that says pushchair (apart from my mum!).
And in my head, a pram is a lie-flat type contraption, and a buggy is a newfangled word for pushchair.

Ah my mum had one of those. I remember sitting in it too Vivi.

Mum still has it and inflicts it on my DDs when we visit. Its a bugger to steer, the fixed wheels always get me!

I call ours a buggy. Mum calls hers a pushchair.

I'm aware of the term stroller - but more in the buying description.

We have a living room - but use sofa and settee interchangeably.

Its a bugger to steer, the fixed wheels always get me!

Hmm, perhaps my romantic notions are a little on the impractical side then. Plus I can't see DP being presented with a wheeled-object-procurement project and being satisfied with anything other than carbon fibre and hydraulics....

For the record, my pushchair is not umbrella fold, and I called big one with a carrycot a pram. When I was little my mum had the mothercare version of that deckchair one, can't remember what she called it, I think it must have been pushchair though.

We also have a front room and a settee.

Another on is what do you call the TV remote control I call it a controller but DH calls it the box. Now I admit controller might not be a well used term for it but surely the TV itself is the box not the remote.

A sofa in the Front Room

I hate "stroller". MIL who is Aussie calls it "The Pusher"

My Silvercross is referred to as the pram or pushchair, which is exactly what it is as it was a carrycot style and now a reclining pushchair. The Maclaren is referred to as the buggy, it is an umbrella fold Techno.

A sofa in the front room or living room.

I'm from the Colonies, though.

"A buggy is a little umbrella fold job. Anything else is a pushchair, unless it's a pram."

I agree with that.

always a pushchair here - we've had a travel system monstrosity, a rear facing one, a double (P+T) and a maclaren, and they are all pushchairs. I'm from Scotland, but have english parents who always called it a pushchair too.

It's buggy, Hoover, sofa and living room here, oh and remote.

I always use the word pushchair. I just can't say buggy, my mouth won't let me

I used to work in a stationery shop so it was drummed into me to say 'sticky tape', 'correction fluid' and 'glue stick' etc. It still winds me up when someone refers to a generic by a brand name although I try not to let it show.

I interchange buggy/ pram/ puchchair and even stroller (I'm from the US).

I call it a pushchair. I've never heard anyone use the term buggy.

I bought my first 'buggy' in 1984. My mum called it a buggy as well, this was because my first pram was an old fashioned Silvercross, which was a 'carriage pram', or 'coach built perambulator'.

Then the slighting smaller 'buggy' (still horse drawn reference) came along.

Maclaren used it as a brand name, so that way it stuck in everyone's mind and linked to traditional naming.

I bought a buggy made by Silvercross, similar to the Maclaren, this style i had didn't come into being until 1984 (it is on the Mac history page).

The type in the previous link was an unberella style buggy (UK), or umberella stroller (US), Maclaren also bought out unberella style folding chairs etc.

My nan (born 1910, the youngest of her siblings), would always say 'carriage' and not 'pram'.

Strickly speaking a stroller is open without a fixed hood or cover.

Pushchair is just a preference to buggy, as said,sofa is to settee.

I have never used the term pushchair and I have honestly never heard anyone I know use the term either, in fact I have only ever seen it on here.

I am in Scotland. A buggy is a more flimsy fold up type, anything else is a pram.

Good question. I usually say pushchair but am aware I sound a bit prim and old-fashioned when doing so. I am though, so that's ok.

The brand name thing answers a question. I thought buggy was American but Americans say stroller and my brother had a Maclaren, referred to as a buggy, in the early 80s.

I do get confused by people using pram as a generic term. To me that's a big, flat thing. Travel systems have blurred the lines with interchangeable pushchair / prams but I'd call them pushchairs (sometimes with carrycot).

The remote control is the remote, or in our house, 'control' meant more as the verb, 'yes I have control!' but used to describe having possession of the object.

With the sitting room and sofa business you're rehearsing an old class chestnut. I don't think pushchair nomenclature has particular class connotations, so it's a different sort of discussion.

pushchair sounds so POSH to me... it's a buggy, or a pram - depending on whether the child sits up or lies down
[Scotland]

also, we use the word 'buggy' for a sort of pull-along go-cart type thingy so it works for our jogging buggy which converts to a bike trailer... and of course amish horse-drawn carts are buggys (buggies?) too.

Babies lie in prams and sit up in buggies.

I call sticky tape 'Sellotape' and vacum cleaners are 'Hoovers'.

I do not call plasters 'Band Aids', tissues 'Kleenex' or photocopiers 'Xeroxes'

I dislike the word buggy and rarely use it. I also dont like pushchairs with two handles rather than a continuous one.. I always took buggy to be a lightweight fold up with two handles

I bought our pushchair from someone who called it a trolley