Language question: Why has "vinyls" become a word?

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  1. TMegginson

    TMegginson Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    I switched to joysticks in 1981.
     
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  3. nodeerforamonth

    nodeerforamonth Consistently misunderstood

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    lol... funny you mention that. I had a boss write to me that he was "not a where of any changes to the schedule". He also wrote to wish me a "Happy Thanks Given". This was before the days of spell checking. I'm still laughing over it decades later.
     
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  4. TMegginson

    TMegginson Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Maybe I should have claimed I was using the Canadian spelling.
     
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  5. dsdu

    dsdu less serious minor pest

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    And the medias never report any informations on it.
     
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  6. andrewskyDE

    andrewskyDE Island Owner

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    At the time I joined this forum(s) I used that word quite often, thought it was a short form for vinyl records. Now I hate it and regret ever saying/writing it.
     
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  7. Chris Schoen

    Chris Schoen Rock 'n Roll !!!

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    Nah, just yank out a few letters, make it "tik"... :agree::sigh:
     
  8. TMegginson

    TMegginson Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    I used to say "fora," but realized nobody understood what I meant.
     
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  9. Groovy

    Groovy Forum Resident

    Yeah, those bastard.
     
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  10. andrewskyDE

    andrewskyDE Island Owner

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    That's two words, right?
     
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  11. Kiss my aura . . . Dora . . .
    M-M-M . . . it's real angora
    Would y'all like some more-a?
    Right here on the flora?
    An' how 'bout you, Fauna?
    Y'wanna?
     
  12. TMegginson

    TMegginson Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    It could be, fora price.
     
  13. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    The 2 Cs look like a round butt.
     
  14. Brian Lux

    Brian Lux One in the Crowd

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    Not knowing the proper terminology for them might be the first indicator that LP's are, for some, simply is a fad. The next indicator is the high volume in sales of poor quality turntables (i.e. Crosley, etc.).
     
  15. Shaddam IV

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    "Vinyls" is grammatically correct.

    The research would take y'all 5 minutes. The "fad" is that it's somehow caught on that it isn't. Congratulations, dupes of the "vinyls isn't a word" fad.
     
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  16. Farmer Mike

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    It shouldn't, but it bugs the crap out of me, especially when it was some old enough to have been buying records the first time around.
    I suppose since I 've used the word rubbers in both of the common usages, I have no reason to bitch.
     
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  17. Spencer R

    Spencer R Forum Resident

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    Yet you do not write “langwij haz never bin monolithik or statik.”
     
  18. Spencer R

    Spencer R Forum Resident

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    One of my pet peeves is the misuse of “vertebrae” as a singular noun. One vertebra, two vertebrae.
     
  19. Farmer Mike

    Farmer Mike Forum Resident

    Based on what?, it's not in Webster's.
     
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  20. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member

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    For some reason it's common to add an 's' at the end of words. Don't know why.

    Early (1970s-1980s) IBM programmers learned Job Control Language (JCL). Business types often called it JCLs - "Joe the programmer knows JCLs."

    How many bartenders have heard "Gimme a Heinekens please."

    The really interesting part of the phenomenon is that they stubbornly continue to do it after they've been corrected. It's a mental thing. :)
     
  21. Brian Lux

    Brian Lux One in the Crowd

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    Yes. I'd like to see where that "research" comes from.
     
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  22. Spencer R

    Spencer R Forum Resident

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    Over and over, baseball announcers will say “Jones has 95 RBIs.” So Jones has 95 Runs Batted Ins?
     
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  23. Farmer Mike

    Farmer Mike Forum Resident

    I work at a credit union and the term checkings is almost as irritating.
     
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  24. Shaddam IV

    Shaddam IV Forum Resident

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  25. Elliottmarx

    Elliottmarx Always in the mood for Burt Bacharach

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    I can use "vinyl" I suppose, still my instinct is to say record.
    At this point though, I can not use the word "bop" to describe a song I like.
    And I still can't use the term "banger" to refer to a danceable song.
    Maybe someday, but not yet.
     
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