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Post by scraphollie27 on Mar 27, 2021 20:32:09 GMT
My DD just informed me that Canadians are the only ones who call pencil crayons, pencil crayons. The rest of the world calls them coloured pencils. Surely there are other people out there who call them pencil crayons?!? Normally I’m aware of these differences but this one took me by surprise.
Where are you and what do you call pencil crayons?
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Post by gar on Mar 27, 2021 20:36:36 GMT
Pencils and crayons are different things 🤔 We (UK) say colouring/coloured pencils. Crayons are waxy and usually used by kids 😊
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Post by mnmloveli on Mar 27, 2021 21:03:28 GMT
Colored Pencils here in NY.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 27, 2021 21:05:37 GMT
Depends on the content.
Pencils and crayons are very different things.
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Post by anaterra on Mar 27, 2021 21:06:42 GMT
I call them map colors... lol
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Post by buddysmom on Mar 27, 2021 21:19:29 GMT
I called them pencil crayons when I was a kid.
Completely forgot about that until now.
I called them colored pencils when I used to scrapbook.
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 27, 2021 21:34:15 GMT
It's one of those things that will give us away as Canadian every time. Felt pen instead of marker is another.
And "Grade One" instead of "First Grade", etc.
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Post by katlady on Mar 27, 2021 21:35:11 GMT
Interesting. US here, colored pencils.
Just curious, does the packaging in Canada also say pencil crayons? If you bought a box of Prismacolor does it say pencil crayons on it?
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Post by gar on Mar 27, 2021 21:36:42 GMT
It's one of those things that will give us away as Canadian every time. Felt pen instead of marker is another. And "Grade One" instead of "First Grade", etc. We say felt pen too, or at least we do in my part of the world 😊 |
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Post by katlady on Mar 27, 2021 21:37:28 GMT
Felt pen is common in the U.S. Growing up, I think felt pen referred to the markers that were more like pens, with a finer tip, and used for writing. Markers were usually a broader tip used for coloring. Marker is probably more widely used now. |
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Post by chendra on Mar 27, 2021 21:45:39 GMT
I've never heard of pencil crayons, so my answer is colored pencils.
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Post by *sprout* on Mar 27, 2021 21:48:38 GMT
They're colored pencils in the US/Michigan.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 27, 2021 22:00:21 GMT
Felt pen is common in the U.S. Growing up, I think felt pen referred to the markers that were more like pens, with a finer tip, and used for writing. Markers were usually a broader tip used for coloring. Marker is probably more widely used now. That is funny, I think felt tip pens as being more like the thick crayola pens. I just call them coloring pens or pens though, the kids at school always correcting me because they all call them markers. I will never get used to calling them that, I fear. Crayons are definitely wax in the US although in French “crayons” means “pencil” correct? Originally I was thinking the term was due to the French Canadians, but then they would be saying pencil pencil, so that can’t be it. Pencil crayons is definitely new to me, they are just colored pencils to me. |
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Post by milocat on Mar 27, 2021 22:08:24 GMT
Pencils and crayons are different things 🤔 We (UK) say colouring/coloured pencils. Crayons are waxy and usually used by kids 😊 We have pencils and pencil crayons (wooden with coloured lead) and wax crayons. |
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Post by Lexica on Mar 27, 2021 22:37:18 GMT
I've never heard of pencil crayons, so my answer is colored pencils. Me neither. My parents were both born in Canada and brought many of their Canadian terms with them to the US before having us. I also received the majority of my books from my English Canadian grandmother with the typical spelling differences. I got things marked wrong in school because I was so used to reading British-spelled words in the books she sent me so I naturally wrote that way. I never heard either parent refer to pencil crayon, or I would have automatically picked it up like I did so many other words from them. |
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Post by myshelly on Mar 27, 2021 22:42:02 GMT
Map colors or colored pencils.
Texas.
Never heard “pencil crayons”.
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Post by luckyjune on Mar 27, 2021 22:43:15 GMT
Colored pencils here in WA. If I asked my students to get their felt markers out, they'd know. I guess I say felt tip markers? Pencil crayons remind me of the crayons my kids had when they were little: plastic tube with a twisty end to let out more "crayon" at the other end. They were awesome because they didn't break like regular crayons did.
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 27, 2021 22:45:27 GMT
This is what I call Crayon Pencils
or something like this
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 27, 2021 22:53:02 GMT
When I was a kid we only had crayons. I don’t think I ever owned a set of colored pencils until I was in college as an art student. I call them colored pencils.
My kid on the other hand has had colored pencils AND crayons on her school supply lists since she was probably in third grade. Before that they had crayons and Twistables (twist up colored pencils) on their supply list. She would call them colored pencils too.
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Post by peano on Mar 27, 2021 22:55:12 GMT
There’s a Canadian traveler’s notebook guy I follow on YouTube. That’s where I first heard pencil crayons.
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Post by gar on Mar 27, 2021 22:56:05 GMT
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 27, 2021 23:05:38 GMT
I call those colored pencils. |
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Post by gar on Mar 27, 2021 23:10:20 GMT
I call those colored pencils. Yes, same...well coloured or colouring. |
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Post by Linda on Mar 27, 2021 23:10:46 GMT
coloured pencils and felt tips here
interestingly enough DD14 informed me recently that crayons is a one-syllable word pronounced crowns not the two-syllable word pronounced CRAY-ons that I've always heard and said.
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 27, 2021 23:13:05 GMT
interestingly enough DD14 informed me recently that crayons is a one-syllable word pronounced crowns not the two-syllable word pronounced CRAY-ons that I've always heard and said. I really think it's a regional thing. I say cray-ons. My husband says crayns. I don't even know how to type it out the way it sounds! |
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Post by Linda on Mar 27, 2021 23:15:08 GMT
interestingly enough DD14 informed me recently that crayons is a one-syllable word pronounced crowns not the two-syllable word pronounced CRAY-ons that I've always heard and said. I really think it's a regional thing. I say cray-ons. My husband says crayns. I don't even know how to type it out the way it sounds! interesting. My kids were raised in Florida (where we live) but the older two both say cray-ons. DH was raised in New England and I was raised overseas and then in New England - we're both cray-ons |
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Post by kandie on Mar 27, 2021 23:16:01 GMT
Pencil crayons! But I am a Canadian living in the US
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Post by flanz on Mar 27, 2021 23:17:28 GMT
Raised in Canada, always said pencil crayons.
Lived in USA for 30+ years now... colored pencils.
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Post by greendragonlady on Mar 28, 2021 0:29:23 GMT
NH - colored pencils
Also crayon has two syllables here, but it's pronounced more like cray-in if you're talking fast like we do in New England.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 28, 2021 0:58:01 GMT
I pronounce it almost like it rhymes with brans. Definitely one syllable.
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