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.

Pushchair. Never called it anything else apart from occasionally "that bastard pushchair".

I call my Sebo a Hoover. And all sticky tape Sellotape. And all sticky tack Blu Tack. Even if its white.

I hate the words 'buggy' and 'stroller'. Mine is a pushchair. When it had the carrycot on it was a pram.

It's a pushchair.

That is the only word I use for it. Regardless of type.

I use a vacuum cleaner in my sitting room. Even though I cann it a vacuum cleaner I still use the verb 'hoover' though .

Hoover behind the sofa with the vacuum cleaner.

I heard buggy was used after too many people refused to fold their pushchair on the bus as they whined 'it's not a pushchair, it's a pram'...

I use Buggy but I have a Maclaren umbrella fold so am correct

Anything that has a big square chassis and a flat carrycot on top is a Pram in my opinion. Anything that looks like a seat on wheels is a Pushchair

The nylon seat in the MacLaren buggy always used to make my little brothers hair stand on end. I call our pushchair a pram because its easier for ds to say. He stands by the front door and yells, "PAM PAM PAM".

I still use it. I stubbornly refuse to use 'buggy'. I am just not quite rude enough to pretend I don't know what one is and then go OOOHHH, you mean a pushchair

Totally irrational, I know. But it's also still jif, opal fruits, ulay and marathons to me and will be till the day someone kills me because I won't shut up about it I die.

I call it all of them. but buggy to me does mean the umbrella type more (and yes, my brother and I were pushed around in 2 of the original deckchair ones, joined together with little metal clamps!)..

Oddly, I would say that pushchair sounds more like something the people in town would say (ie. the council estate) when I was growing up, whereas all the village kids would say buggy. I don't know what that means.

I insulted some people in Canada when I referred to their baby having a dummy, and had blank looks when asking for a cot in Sears (I thought Canadians shared more words with us, but it seems not those)

I am also Irish and never heard the word pushchair before coming to the UK. Prams for me are bassinet type/lie down thingies and buggies are, well, what you lot call pushchairs. I tend to call it ga pushchair now most of the time just because that's what I hear, I wouldn't call a peramubulatory vehicle designed for a child to sit up in a pram though, no matter how perambulatory it was!

Dorothy - my Scottish stepdad calls it a gochair too

ga? Not sure where that came from!

Oh I had totally forgotten about it being called a gocar, I remember my sister's silvercoss buggy/pushchair being a gocar..

It's a stroller! A buggy is for horses to pull and a trolley is a tram/streetcar. The wheeled contraption you use at the grocery store supermarket to hold your groceries shopping is called a cart .

i call mine either the buggy it pushchair depending on how i feel.

I hate the word buggy

I love the word buggy!!

blackcurrant I was advised by my speech therapist aunt to try to reduce the number of english slang words as DD's speech is a little delayed (but still normal). I am fine with diapers and strollers but they will always be trousers and I will always hoover!

ChunkyPickle I can only imagine the look on their faces when you called it a dummy. It's paci or pacifier here and DD's is a rather odd looking thing compared to what I saw in the UK.

I would say buggy (chair type) or pram (lie flat, parent facing). Never pushchair.

And of course, I have a Dyson dont'cha know?

I call it a pram (even though it is a buggy/pushchair), DS2 calls it his "cram"

I've never used pushchair IRL, always been buggy to me

i don't know what you call them. In four and a half years and two children i've never used one!

I've never had an umbrella folding one, but I call mine a buggy, pushchair or pram. The signs on our Arriva buses say 'buggy'.

I call my bugaboo a pram.

My vacuum cleaner is a Hoover, even though it's not.

But if people stop saying "pushchair", how will they ever learn to pronounce the consonant щ when they learn Russian/Ukrainian?
Won't someone please think of the children?