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.

? Pushchchair, not pusch!

My annoying MIL always calls it a "carriage" or a "trolley" no matter how many times I say "you mean the pushchair?". Grrr.

Pram is big and on lovely huge wheels and the baby lies flat. . . I don't know anyone who uses it.

Pushchair is a genre-term for all other ones (though some pushchairs have carrycot or carseat attachments, so look a bit like prams - just for confusion!

I live in the USA now and "stroller" is the equivalent of "pushchair" - it means anything you use to move your baby or toddler around that isn't a car or wagon.

Oh, and 'buggy', when I was growing up in the north east, was 'common' (thanks mum ) - we had to say 'pushchair.'

So I use pushchair when talking to English friends and stroller when talking to American friends.

I do, however, call it the hoover. Not the vaccum cleaner. And in America they don't call it a hoover, so that causes confusion!

My gran was a go-chair caller, but Bristolian.

I had a kids version of that Original Maclaren buggy, my parents dragged it out of the loft for my DC, who promptly took the skin off the back of my legs with the metal foot plate

Go-chair! I love it!

In my mind a buggy is one that folds up (I'm thinking like a McLaren), and a pushchair is pretty much the same more sturdy, and not designed with folding primarily in mind.

This is just my mind :)

Ophelia If it's a pushchair (or whatever you want to call it) then you can correct her, because it isn't a carriage, it would be a buggy (taken from horse drawn transport).

I've lived in different countries where they all use different terms, it's very bloody confusing. I have no idea what the difference is meant to be between all of them, except in the very obvious case where an old-fashioned Silver Cross is a pram and nothing else.

I irritatingly use all terms interchangeably to mean the same thing ie baby/toddler transportation device with wheels that you have to push.

My device is a Maclaren XLR for what it's worth.

A woman cycled past me on one of these the other day.

I gawked and nearly cried for the babies I will not be having, that will not be riding in a bike/buggy. I longed to actually own one. Amazing! DD2 is still in a buggy but not for long.

Oh, and 'buggy', when I was growing up in the north east, was 'common'

Pushchair was considered 'common' by my family, because buggy had a horse theme and the 'toffs' in my nans day used horse drawn 'cabs', to get around in, so therfor, anything horse drawn was for those with disposable income, which the working class (common people) didn't have, they walked around the city.

"My Liverpudlian nana always called it a "go-chair". "

I'm in Liverpool, i've heard 'go chair', as well, more so than pushchair.

My dad calls them wheelchairs

R u taking ds2 in his wheelchair
No he's going in his pram ...

YANBU! Or, at least, if you are, so am I! I resolutely never say buggy (except in 'buggy board'), and always say pram and pushchair.

And, for me, a pram is only a carrycot on wheels used for the first few months of a baby's life. The type of contraption that you can have lying flat or a little upright or totally upright is what I would term a pushchair. Also agree with stroller for a lightweight pushchair, of the type used for older toddlers.

I can't imagine giving a shit. I probably say 'buggy' more than 'pushchair' (if I ever even say it at all). But honestly, I have no idea what could possibly make me care what people call it.

My nan always called mine a 'go chair' which i think is a fab term! (we are also in the Liverpool vicinity!)

Is "pushchair" posh? I had no idea?!

I thought pushchairs were the same as buggies, and prams were old fashioned things for babies to lie flat in, although I have heard myself calling the pushchair the pram, and no idea where that came from!

Love go-chair :)

I think mine's a pram when it's got the carrycot attachment on, and a pushchair otherwise.

It is definitely not a "travel system"

Stroller here but I live in the tropics and it's too hot to move any quicker than a stroll.

Definitely pushchair - pram is a big Silver Cross monster or similar. Have never said the word 'buggy', makes me wince for some reason. Stroller is too American for me to use but it doesn't bother me like buggy does.

We sit on a sofa in the sitting room and use a vacuum cleaner and Sellotape (generally not together).

I am so glad not even native speakers seem to agree on these words ...

I call mine a pram even thought it has never been a proper perambulator. It's the quickest word I guess! I am fine with buggy too- it's a bugaboo, so that's a natural abbreviation. I am struggling to see how this is a discussion of the day tbh!

Ps heaps of people near me up north call them trollies. Especially older folk.

I am in the US too so call it a stroller now otherwise no one knows what I am talking about. I don't like the name buggy - I think pram or pushchair are far nicer words.

blackcurrents I had blank stares when I went to sears for a hoover. It took DH to explain what it was I was looking for. I felt like a huge idiot.

want2 I can call it 'vaccum' when I concentrate - it's poor old DS I feel for, we're basically raising him bilingual, with his talk of nappies and trousers - but he seems able to switch between the words with relative ease!

(sorry, tangent)