Tales from the LBS.... When the day starts like this you KNOW your in trouble..

[Possegal]

Is dummy a word most Americans know for a pacifier? This came up when watching the Tour one day, when Phil used the term. My family uses it, but Mum was Canadian and that is where it came from for us. My sister commented that she didn't think it was a word most Americans would know as a pacifier. But I wasn't sure. Just curious.

[Cataboo]

Is dummy a word most Americans know for a pacifier? This came up when watching the Tour one day, when Phil used the term. My family uses it, but Mum was Canadian and that is where it came from for us. My sister commented that she didn't think it was a word most Americans would know as a pacifier. But I wasn't sure. Just curious.

I think it's more a british english term. I haven't really heard it in the US. My british relatives use it though.

[Possegal]

Yeah, that's what we figured. And Canadians use a lot of Brit words, so that's why my mother used it. Most of the time I notice the things I say that the kids I grew up with didn't. I guess I hadn't noticed that one before.

[Cataboo]

Yeah, that's what we figured. And Canadians use a lot of Brit words, so that's why my mother used it. Most of the time I notice the things I say that the kids I grew up with didn't. I guess I hadn't noticed that one before.

It adds character. Canada with respect to gardening, fish & chip shops, etc., seems to be much more "British" than the US.

[witeowl]

Ask mr. google and she sends you to...

Oh, my goodness! I genuinely thought that there were multiple words missing from that sentence, and the idea that it was an idiom worthy of googling never even entered my mind! Thanks for the help.

Is dummy a word most Americans know for a pacifier?

I don't know that any Americans (besides you, I presume) would know it for a pacifier. A dumb person, a crash-test dummy, a mannequin... All those, sure. A pacifier? I just can't see it. Well, what do you expect from people who make the storage area of a car share a name with a type of shoe?

[channlluv]

I interpreted "spitting the dummy" to mean saying something stupid, a la Red Foxx on Sanford and Son yelling at Lamont and calling him a dummy.

I like the "tales from the lbs" stories, too. And most of the time the stuff you ladies talk about is way over my head. I just read on and try to soak it in and learn.

When I first found TE and was welcomed here, I was asked what kind of bike I had. "Well, it's lavender with white trim," I think was my response. Yes, really. I still feel like a clueless noob much of the time, although I now know I ride a mtb and I can change a tube and adjust my own brakes and clean her up all by myself. I can even identify some parts - cool sounding stuff like "top tube" and "rear derailleur" (is there a front derailleur?), although I'd still call the seat thingy a seat post.

So much to learn, so much to learn.

The only things I buy online are books (usually from Amazon) and bike stuff from TE.

Roxy

[Biciclista]

language doesn't really have to make sense to the uninitiated!

boy is this thread drifting or what?!