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Pamela
09-07-2001, 22:16
Sorry, very random question, but I figured you guys are from all over the country and could tell me whether you call them shopping carts or carriages, or anything else. I work at a Supermarket and a customer became upset with me when I asked for his carriage, he said he didn't know what I was talking about, I needed to call it a cart to have him acknowledge me, now I'm curious what other people call them!
mike o'leary
09-07-2001, 22:18
in boston we call them cahts...

...but personally i call them those crazy-cages-on-wheels-they-have-at-the-grocery-store
A. Leese
10-07-2001, 00:26
In south Florida they're carts..at least with us <i>true</i> Floridians..everyone else is from somewhere else, it seems, but most people call them carts.

~Angela who's never heard the term carriage for a shopping cart
Brandon Martus
10-07-2001, 01:14
carts in michigan... ive heard basket also..
Matt Leese
10-07-2001, 08:11
Carts in both NY and MD. I've never heard them called carriages however. Sounds like there should be a horse pulling it...

Matt
Steve A.
10-07-2001, 11:14
I call them carriages, but people around CT can call them carts or carriages... :confused:
Carolyn Duncan
10-07-2001, 11:25
I've heard carts, carriages, and buggys.
C~ya,
Carolyn
Amadkow
10-07-2001, 11:48
Here we call them carts. I have neer heard them called carriages before.
EddieMcD
10-07-2001, 11:58
both

-Ed "Paper or plastic, cart or carriage" McDonnell
Tom Fairchild
10-07-2001, 15:22
Never heard of carriages before. We call 'em carts.
Andrew Rudolph
10-07-2001, 20:39
baskets or carts for us "true floridians"
Lora Knepper
10-07-2001, 20:45
yep.. "cahts" in Boston .... and I have heard "buggy" a lot in the Carolinas - particulary North Carolina.

~ lora
Joe Ross
10-07-2001, 21:41
do you have horses to pull your carriages?

never heard it in anyother context ;)
Anne Lam
10-07-2001, 22:00
it's shopping carts for the Hawaiians...
Matt Leese
11-07-2001, 08:09
It's a horse with a buggy behind....

Matt who'll stop telling really bad jokes now....
Carolyn Duncan
11-07-2001, 10:14
Matt, sometimes "bad" jokes are good to hear. If no one kept them going, there wouldn't be anymore.
C~ya,
Carolyn who has contests with her friends to find the worst jokes possible. :) :p
ColleenShaver
11-07-2001, 14:46
pam- i work in a grocery store too... i definitely call them carriages..

some people call 'em wagons.. i have no clue what they are talking about when they say that. :)
Christina
11-07-2001, 17:57
I call 'em shopping carts. Though, I think I have heard people refer to them as a wagon. And as far as the whole buggy things goes, I have a friend with the last name Buggy, so I have to be very careful not to make any jokes about that. :-) Oh, and that's on Long Island, NY.

~Christina šoš
Pamela
11-07-2001, 22:27
I was hoping some of these replys would back me up on my whole carriage thing, it must be a NH term :). stupid horse and buggy jokes, exactly what my crazed customer said :rolleyes: !
Libby Ritchie
12-07-2001, 00:31
Hoosiers (in Indiana) call them carts.
Jgreenwd1
12-07-2001, 12:26
at butsons we call them cart and bugeys.
David Kelly
13-07-2001, 00:35
Originally posted by Libby Ritchie
Hoosiers (in Indiana) call them carts.

Libby as i said, you must like IU cause you're a hoosier, not a Boiler fan (Purdue).:p
Tom Fairchild
13-07-2001, 00:38
Hmmmm..... bad joke contest. Sounds like a good idea for a new thread. Any takers?

~Tom~
cryptorchid
01-06-2015, 22:28
I live in Connecticut and many people here call them carriages. Although I also hear them called carts. But I prefer the term carriage, it sounds fancier lol.
z_beeblebrox
01-06-2015, 22:34
Cart in AZ.
M1KRONAUT
01-06-2015, 23:19
I've always heard carts in both Minnesota and Washington.

Hey, what if we make a map showing what carts/carriages are called and where?
Billfred
01-06-2015, 23:27
Cart.

Also: Holy freakin' thread revival!
timytamy
02-06-2015, 08:22
Shopping Trolley :P
GeeTwo
03-06-2015, 01:24
Holy freakin' thread revival!
Nearly 14 years - possibly a CD record, but the best I know of is the 27th amendment to the U.S. constitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitutio n), proposed as part of the Bill of Rights in 1789 and revived two centuries later to pass in 1992. Over the span 1793 to 1977, only one state(Ohio) ratified it.

Back on track: here on the Gulf Coast, it's a shopping cart or occasionally just a cart. I've heard "shopping basket" used quite a bit, but if you ask someone for one, don't be surprised if they bring you something you carry rather than something with wheels. I've heard "buggy" in a Pittsburgh accent and "trolley" in a British accent. (Both my mother and one of my co-workers are from Pittsburgh, and I'm a cradle Episcopalian, so I have ample experience with both accents.)
"Carriage" to me connotes either a vehicle with an enclosed passenger compartment, or a component of a larger machine which carries a specific object. Meaning 1 is commonly drawn by a horse or other animal, but I have definitely heard "motor carriage" used as a synonym for automobile. I probably referred to the ball-carrying basket on some of our aerial assist prototypes as "carriages".