Shopping Cart or Shopping Buggy?

[Trethowan]

Ok, so you go to a grocery store and you have the option of getting the basket or the buggy/cart. I grew up calling it a buggy. My husband swears that in the South it should be a cart and that buggy is a Yankee term. I swear the opposite but then got to thinking, my mother was an army brat so she might have picked up all manner of non-Southern terminology growing up all over creation.

So... what do you guys call it? A cart or a buggy?

[Lamia of the Dark]

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........ I honestly thought only British people said "buggy".

[Sarah]

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........ I honestly thought only British people said "buggy".

^--- This:P I've only ever heard it referred to as a cart in the US.

[Vetinari]

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........ I honestly thought only British people said "buggy".

In the UK it's called a shopping trolley (if I've understood correctly)
I don't think I've ever heard buggy used in that context - only "golf buggy" which I thought was an American invention.

Edit: Courtesy of wikipedia:

"The names of a shopping cart vary by region. The following names are regional-specific names for shopping carts:

Shopping cart – the United States and Canada.
Trolley/shopping trolley – the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and some regions of Canada.
Barrae - Some places in Scotland
Carriage/shopping carriage – New England region of the United States.
Buggy – Some regions of Canada, Detroit, Michigan, parts of the Southern United States and Pittsburgh; the latter case often being considered a word related to Pittsburghese.
Bascart/basket – various regions.
Wagon – New York, Hawaii"

[Yanagi-sen]

In Western NY, it's a shopping cart. I've never heard it called a buggy and I've lived in this area more or less my whole life.

[Iwa_Hoshi]

In general over here in Singapore its refer to as a trolley (British English system of yore).
And a golf cart is a cart although outside of a golf course my brain refers to it as a buggy. I suspect that in my case its the side effect of British English style education melding with US English TV watching and internet + forum interaction

[Kirahfaye]

Having lived in S. FL, N and S CA and N. GA, I've only ever heard it called a cart, too.

[arrowchild]

Well call it a cart here...and use the word 'buggy' in reference to what Amish people drive

[Evelien]

This is a buggy in Dutch!



Words get so weird when you say them a lot... buggy... buggy... buggybuggybuggybuggy

[E-Beth]

Born and raised in Southeastern Michigan, with a Canadian dad and a Michigan Mom. Always called them carts. Moved out here to California, still carts.
The only time buggy came up was when Mom related how her grandpa would get motion sick from riding in a horse drawn buggy or my dad's favorite tongue twister "rubber baby buggy bumpers".
The baby buggy we kids used for our dolls (used for me when I was a baby) was always called a pram.
Confusioningly enough, the small rowboat we had was also called a pram.
too much coffee this morning, can you tell?