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.

Gah. It displayed properly in the preview. I mean this. "Pushchair" is invariably the example word given to English learners.

Anyone heard of it being called a "go car"? (Ireland)

Mine was 'the Maclaren', occasionally 'the buggy'. We didn't use a pram really, dc were always in slings for their first year or so.

A German of my acquaintance, who had lived in Wales for several years, called my buggy a trolley. Was quite taken aback to hear such a regional word from a non-native speaker.

We always ad a buggy. Except when I used the backpack!

Just after we garages the buggy when dd2 was too big for it, she got diagnosed with a hip problem and we were issued with a Maclaren major buggy she was in till she was7!

I miss the buggy! I have to carry the shipping myself these days!!

I can remember propper push chairs, they were a seat on wheels, I think to me buggy refers to something that folds up and old fashioned push chairs didn't.

To me this is a push chair

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-1970-s-SILVERCROSS-MINSTER-PRAM-PUSHCHAIR-/190720556195?pt=UK_Baby_BabyTravel_Pushchairs_GL&hash=item2c67d4bca3

Pushchair, buggy, stroller.. just words. I don't see why it matters what it's called.

I found the word buggy a godsend when DS unfortunately began chanting bugger, bugger after hearing my language when stubbing my toe. I was able to correct it to "buggy" every time, and within 24 hours he was obscenity free.

For this reason, YABU.

And in all honesty as long as all the words convey the meaning, which they do, I can't see it matters much, anyway.

I say stroller as I live in the US. But I see pram as being something babies lie in (as squoosh said); pushchair and buggy are interchangeable in my head.

I tend to use pushchair or pushie (picked up from my dh's abbrevaition) but if I'm with someone who says buggy I wouldn't correct them which I tend to feel is how it's taken if you say it back to them with the version you use. To me pram is a totally different thing, lies flat and is specifically for a baby.

I always say vacuum cleaner and am actually slightly irritated by the use of hoover (can't really explain why).

I had never heard the loft expression by OP, but I know many people with a BUGGY in the hallway
Pram, to me, implies that it can lie flat and probably has a carrycot on it of some sort.
Stroller and pushchair sound more like chairs with wheels, for older babies/children.
Buggy - god knows! Good point...where did that word come from?!

pmTea, AIBU would be a good safe trial area.

WRONG THREAD. Sorry.

Floggingmolly - go-car! Yes!

My parents still insist on calling it this...kids haven't a clue what they are talking about. I always think of a go-car as a homemade car made of pram wheels and a few planks.
My sil who is scandinavian calls the pushchair a 'trolley'. Not sure if there is something lost in the translation there as I was confused for ages as to why they kept wanting to bring a trolley with them when they came to visit.
I call anything that is not lie-down a pushchair and anything lightweight is a buggy.

My mother says push chair, I don't like it, it sounds old fashioned and like a chair on wheels, but I do say it sometimes... I don't like stroller either though as it sounds (and is) American, and implies meandering about the place with nothing better to do :) Pram is definitely a big lie-flat for very small babies, so that leaves buggy, sorry OP :)

Mind you I usually say Kinderwagen as I rarely have reason to talk about buggies in English.

My mother says push chair, I don't like it, it sounds old fashioned and like a chair on wheels, but I do say it sometimes...

But that is more or less what it is! A chair on wheels!!

YANBU

I was so confused by the whole do I need a pram/pushchair/buggy/stroller and what exactly is the difference thing I bought a sling

iburntthecakes. yes, i have no buggy/pushchair/stroller but i have heaps of wraps/slings/meitais/carriers

Totally random question, but what happened to the pram/buggy/stroller/pushchair collecting MNers? A few years ago there were loads, now I never see any.

I'm from the north and my mother has always used the word tansad for a pram/buggy. I have never head this word from anyone else.

I call it the 'bug-bugs-mobile'

To me pram is something with a carrycot or or 2 in 1 pramette type thing.

Pushchair is any pushchair that can sit up.

I use the term buggy to mean small, lightweight, small folding things like an umbrella style or zapp, zia or quicksmart type thing.

i've always used buggy for pushchair. all my life since i was able to talk.
i only heard it called a pushchair when i was an adult.

prams are for lying down in.

looking at that link for McLaren - that'll be why - we had one of those.

it's like sellotape, hoover, etc.

Despite it being one of the very first three wheel Mountain Buggies sold in Britain, I always called it a pushchair.

Everyone else referred to it as the baby wheelbarrow.

So I guess it's an age thing, 14 years ago they were prams and pushchairs and only the very cheap umbrella folding things for babies that could sit up were ever called buggies.