What Do You Call This Plastic String?
Is "gimp" vs "lanyard" a regional thing? Help us find out.
You know that colorful plastic string stuff you made keychains and bracelets with during summer camp?
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It has come to my attention that people have different words for this plastic string stuff, and I suspect the difference is regional.
I was talking about this with some coworkers, and I called it a "gimp." They looked at me, horrified. That's because "gimp" is an ableist slur when used to describe a person with a physical disability. But in the context I know it, it's just describing plastic string — with no association with the slur.
They only knew the string as a "lanyard."
Was this because I'm older than them? Or was it regional? I grew up in Massachusetts, and they were from California.
I think the words for this are regional. Please help me figure this out by answering this poll.
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What do you call this plastic string stuff?
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vote votesGimp
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vote votesLanyard
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vote votesBoondoggle
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vote votesScooby/Scoobie/Scoobidou
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vote votesI have no special word for this.
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If you call it "gimp," are you from:
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vote votesNew England
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vote votesSomewhere other than New England, but I went to summer camp there
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vote votesSomewhere other than New England
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If you call it "Scoobie," "Scooby," or "Scoubidou," are you from:
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vote votesThe US or Canada
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vote votesSomewhere else in the world
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If you call it "lanyard" are you from:
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vote votesNew England
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vote votesSomewhere in the US that's NOT New England
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vote votesSomewhere outside the US
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If you call it "boondoggle," are you from:
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vote votesThe US Midwest or west
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vote votesUpstate New York
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vote votesSomewhere else
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If you use the term "boondoggle," does it mean:
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vote votesThe string itself is boondoggle
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vote votesYou MAKE a boondoggle from gimp/lanyard
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If you use the term "lanyard," how do you use it?
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vote votesThe string AND the thing you make are both called lanyards
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vote votesThe string is called "lanyard string," and the final product is a lanyard