Reddit is not an online platform everyone is familiar with, but it’s an anonymous community alive with ideas and questions – and this one on misnomers is pretty awesome.
Users were asked to come up with ideas for things which are badly named, and suggest better names for them. If you’re not sure what we mean, don’t worry, we think you’ll get the gist pretty quick. Sit back and enjoy…
1. “Jet skis should be called boatercycles” – SmashRedhats
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You really can’t argue with that logic.
2. “Vacuum cleaner. Better adapt our German word: Dustsucker” – Kanbaru-Fan
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If you’re wondering “staubsauger” is the German word.
3. “A finished building shouldn’t be called a building. It should be called built.” – Gallowbloob
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Such as the Empire State Built or Parliament Built.
4. “The Australian dollar should be called the dollarydoo.” – realy_bald_engineer
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We told you Reddit was filled with brilliant minds.
5. “They sell little potatoes at the supermarket called “petite potatoes”… why not call them -petitoes-” – litusername
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We’re sure a little light appeared above this users name when they thought of this – so we’re so proud of this gif.
6. “Butterflies have nothing to do with butter, and though they DO fly, they themselves AREN’T flies. Therefore I propose we start calling them flutterbugs.” – superkim111
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7. “Doughnuts. Let’s be honest, they’re more like washers than nuts.” – SJVellenga
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One for those of you into your DIY perhaps…
8. “Definitely those hands-free segways everybody keeps calling hoverboards” – Inceivf
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Marty McFly would not have appreciated if he went back to the future to find these to be fair.
9. “Plexiglass should have been called glasstic.” – justdcdoe
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They have definitely a missed a trick there.
10. “Pineapple. It is neither pine nor apple” – Squishypipe
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It is spiny though.
11. “The glove compartment isn’t accurately named.” – KaboomBoxer
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May we suggest instead the “old, scratched compilation CDs compartment” or possibly the “driver’s manual you never read hatch”?
12. “A pair of trousers. I have never seen a single trouser ever outside of a pair. So calling them a pair is kind of redundant.” – Washuchan
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Roger Moore here appears to have a pair of pair of trousers. Stop making our head hurt James Bond.
13. “A near miss should really be called a near hit.” – drunk-on-wine
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Perhaps ironically, they’ve hit the nail on the head there.
14. “I have always thought that asteroids should be called hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids should be call assteroids.” – The Aushole
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And of course there’s this to finish off. Reddit users bringing it home with some class.
