When you go grocery shopping...

[ChrisFL]

What do you call it? I've heard all of these terms used before...I always use cart, it seems like the most "normal" to me and I think it's more of an official term than the others.

 

[Mkrop]

Shopping cart

 

[meloneyb21]

Cart...never heard of the other 2.

 

[::Snow_White::]

We call it a basket, but sometimes we call it a cart.

 

[meliss8599]

I minored in teaching ESL/Linguistics and there are actual studies on topics such as this. Depending on what region of the U.S. you live in, you call things by different names. For example, in many places in the South, any soda (regardless of brand) is called Coke.

 

[Kimickey]

I call it a cart, but a couple of friends of mine who grew up in the south call it a buggy. I've never heard of trolley before...I think thats cute.

 

[lovemygoofy]

Im the first vote for buggy

 

[Michelle67]

Cart or basket. My Okie friends say buggy.

 

[ChrisFL]

I minored in teaching ESL/Linguistics and there are actual studies on topics such as this. Depending on what region of the U.S. you live in, you call things by different names. For example, in many places in the South, any soda (regardless of brand) is called Coke.

oh yes, there's been many discussions about that here.

 

[Miss Park Avenue]

Wow, I voted buggy thinking that surely that would be the one with the most votes. I almost always say buggy. I'm only the third one.

 

[C.Ann]

Shopping cart..

 

[Turtle]

Cart. My dad says buggy. I always give him a weird look.

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

If you are from the South like me then it is a BUGGY and as a PP mentioned any type of soda is a "coke".

 

[Rootskate]

Am I the only one that calls it a carriage?????

 

[Brit17]

Am I the only one that calls it a carriage?????

You're not alone ... I call it a carriage too ...

 

[mom2boys77]

I've never heard anyone in NJ say anything except cart or carriage but my aunt who lives in FL calls it a buggy.

 

[DLBDS]

I voted 'cart' but when I was growing up we called it a 'buggy'. (I'm sure it probably still slips out at times.)

 

[Amlee]

It's a buggy here also.

 

[wardfamily1]

Buggy. But I'm a first generation northerner in a family full of rednecks. I also used to say warsh for wash until I was 10.

 

[DarthKTrava]

I've used 'cart' and 'buggy' but not 'trolley'. Only time I've heard any type of cart being called a trolley was in the Harry Potter movies. But then those are set in England.