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minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·10 months agoAnd most adhesive bandages aren’t part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
minus-squareSocsa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13·10 months agoMFW Americans call sterile stretchy scab stickers “Bandaids”
minus-squareKiosade@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoBut seriously why do British people come up with such… whimsical words for everything?
minus-squaredankm@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoAnd now I need to design a keyboard and name it the hoighty toighty tippy typer.
minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoI just call them bandages.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·10 months agoThen stop, you weirdo.
And most adhesive bandages aren’t part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
MFW Americans call sterile stretchy scab stickers “Bandaids”
But seriously why do British people come up with such… whimsical words for everything?
And now I need to design a keyboard and name it the hoighty toighty tippy typer.
I just call them bandages.
Then stop, you weirdo.