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

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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.

They are called Trolleys by all of DH's family, who are from Manchester. Even before we bought the umbrella fold, the super-duper all singing one was referred to as a Trolley. I nearly divorced the lot of them over it and still cringe when they say it.

Huzzah!!! Finally something you can't blame on the Americans.

Halbanoo!!

I wrote a book about baby gear (totally outs self and dashes off to name change) and all this terminology caused me some angst.
F.w.i.w. after consulting with 'people in the nursery products industry' this is what we found and decided to use ourselves:

Pushchair is a generic term for any wheeled baby 'vehicle' (so prams and buggies are sub-sets of pushchair).
Pram is indeed a lie-flat carrycot style affair (although the lines have now been blurred a little by pramettes)
Buggy is used by some for a lightweight, more open pushchair.

Stroller is a U.S. term. so therefore as a Brit I'm totally ignoring it .

Pramette?!?!

::head explodes::

I'm in Scotland and everyone calls them prams no matter what type, it really annoys me.

I never use buggy, would always say puchchair. DH says trolley and now has the kids saying that too, strange man that he is.

Have used pram (a bigger contraption), buggy and stroller. No to pushchair.

Hate pramette Tee. I know what it is describing but there must be a better word surely.

Ahh 4pink that explains it. She was from Manchester, it was a Babystyle Oyster and she kept calling it a trolley Made me picture her taking her daughter out in a supermarket trolley

Pramette always sounds very twee.

Don't get me started on all the '2-in1', '3-in-1' etc. stuff either.

No wonder prospective parents get confused.

I use them interchangably, although generally speaking I'd imagine a buggy to be a lightweight sort of pushchair.

I am very sensitive to the way words sound and how they're structured, and both those words are hateful to me; on balance, 'buggy' a little less. I'd really prefer say pram but pram means something different. In general, I just try and avoid referring to that particular article at all... and don't have to now that our house no longer has any :)

I say pram or maybe pushchair for a folding type.

Buggy is a horrible word. Like bugger.

Mine's a perambulator.

It's a pushchair or pram, any variant of either surely must just exist to wind people up?

And I sit on my settee in my lounge, which I clean with a hoover.

Squoosh you're damn right! I sell wine and recoil in horror when people refer to any sparkling wine as Champagne. Especially when they mean prosecco. The pedant in me would find it very difficult to work in your shop.

The pushchair is in the sitting room, near the sofa.
It is a folding baby jogger but the Mclaren was a pushchair as well.
Pram is one of those things like what the pheasants were smuggled in, in Danny The Champion Of The World

We had a bugaboo.
Used to call it the boo.
When it got a puncture I called it the bugger..

its a buggy to me and like someone already said, pushchair sounds quite posh!

It's a chair on wheels that a child sits in and you push it ergo it is a pushchair.

Hey, nowt wrong with calling it a trolley! I was brought up in the frozen north Cumbria and everyone local to us called them trolleys or prams. When we moved down south DH threatened to leave me if I didn't stop using the work trolley. Only Supermarkets have trollies.

OP YANBU.

Glad to see other people who recoil at the use of the word 'trolley' for a pushchair or buggy. I too have in-laws from the NW of England who usually use this term and I hate it. Fortunately both of my DC are now too old for pushchairs so I don't have to put up with it.

FWIW I tend to use pushchair for bulky types and buggy for umbrella fold types. Pram is definitely for lie-flat varieties. :) I used to have an original Maclaren Baby Buggy (Red & White stripes) as a doll's pushchair, but I also used to use it to push around neighbouring toddlers.

My Liverpudlian nana always called it a "go-chair". Anyone else heard them called that?

Pushchair here, I had a pram when ds was a baby though.
The remote control is called 'the thingy' in our house, 'the remote' in parents' house and 'the flicker' in IL's house.
We have a sitting room with a sofa in it.

Get. A. Life.

I agree. I had a pushchair, and when DS got older, swapped to a stroller, which IMO, is a lightweight pushch