Shopping Cart or Carriage?

[Carolyn Duncan]

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.

[ColleenShaver]

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]

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 ºoº

[Pamela]

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 !

[Libby Ritchie]

Hoosiers (in Indiana) call them carts.

[Jgreenwd1]

at butsons we call them cart and bugeys.

[David Kelly]

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).

[Tom Fairchild]

Hmmmm..... bad joke contest. Sounds like a good idea for a new thread. Any takers?

~Tom~

[cryptorchid]

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]

Cart in AZ.

[M1KRONAUT]

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]

Cart.

Also: Holy freakin' thread revival!

[timytamy]

Shopping Trolley

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Billfred

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, 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".