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Post by malibou on Oct 10, 2019 0:06:14 GMT
Backpack for sure. In my mind a rucksack is like a canvas laundry bag with a drawstring and a travel pack is a fanny pack. Don’t call it a fanny pack in the UK  I think what you call a fanny pack we call a bum bag! When ds was 5 we were on vacation in England. We were on these tiny little roads in the middle of nowhere when we saw a cemetery. Ds insisted we stop because he needed to find something. That child went around looking at gravestones for a good 20 minutes when he called us over to one because he had found what he was looking for. He wanted us to read the gravestone to him. The person's name was Abraham J Tudball. After we read it to him, he turned and walked back to the car. And from that moment forward that kid used the name Abraham J Tudball for all kinds of things to include creating a granny for him. Her name was Abraham J Tudball's Granny McFanny. It has been a long running theme of calling each other Granny McFanny. And it even made an appearance on a flag I made for ds's class trip in fifth grade. Fast forward to last November, and we we're going to England. Ds was 18 and we thought it best he knew that fannyy meant something different in the UK. He was horrified! And when dh used it in our hotel room I thought Ds was going to have a heart attack. He hasn't ever used it again. Dhand I still do though. Lol. i |
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Post by Karene on Oct 10, 2019 0:10:17 GMT
I saw Jennifer Weiner at an author talk when she was touring to promote this book last year.
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Post by muggins on Oct 10, 2019 1:13:50 GMT
Brit here.
Backpack is what kids take to school, or taken on a day hike.
A rucksack is much larger, sometimes with a metal frame, a drawstring closure and flap. Can attach bedroll, etc. Used for longer periods of travel.
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 10, 2019 2:25:30 GMT
Rucksack. I'm trying to imagine a story where this is mentioned so often that it becomes annoying! Hahaha, there was lots of meandering in this story that made you think something was significant when it wasn't. The rucksack was one of those things. |
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 10, 2019 2:31:52 GMT
I saw Jennifer Weiner at an author talk when she was touring to promote this book last year. I really do usually love her books, but boy, would I like to talk about a couple things in this one. Have you read it? How did no one pick up on the reference (about halfway through) to her dad always having the newest model Chevrolet when he worked for Ford (and always had the newest model Ford)? |
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Post by joelise on Oct 10, 2019 8:19:19 GMT
Don’t call it a fanny pack in the UK I think what you call a fanny pack we call a bum bag! When ds was 5 we were on vacation in England. We were on these tiny little roads in the middle of nowhere when we saw a cemetery. Ds insisted we stop because he needed to find something. That child went around looking at gravestones for a good 20 minutes when he called us over to one because he had found what he was looking for. He wanted us to read the gravestone to him. The person's name was Abraham J Tudball. After we read it to him, he turned and walked back to the car. And from that moment forward that kid used the name Abraham J Tudball for all kinds of things to include creating a granny for him. Her name was Abraham J Tudball's Granny McFanny. It has been a long running theme of calling each other Granny McFanny. And it even made an appearance on a flag I made for ds's class trip in fifth grade. Fast forward to last November, and we we're going to England. Ds was 18 and we thought it best he knew that fannyy meant something different in the UK. He was horrified! And when dh used it in our hotel room I thought Ds was going to have a heart attack. He hasn't ever used it again. Dhand I still do though. Lol. i |
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Post by hop2 on Oct 10, 2019 9:08:55 GMT
Backpack ( most common here at this present time )
Knapsack ( older people when I was growing up )
Rucksack ( military personnel )
Never heard it called something other than those three.
According to my father & uncle a ‘rucksack’ was bigger than a school backpack more like a camping frame back pack or a duffle with 2 shoulder straps. A rucksack holds more gear inside & has more ways to attach other gear to it.
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Post by bumble on Oct 10, 2019 10:17:29 GMT
I live in Central Ontario and it’s called a pack sack by most here. When I lived in Northern Ontario, it was also called a pack sack. It does annoy me. I grew up in Southern Ontario and had only ever heard it called a back pack.
My community is bilingual so I sometimes hear it called a “sac a dos” (French) even when people are speaking English.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Oct 10, 2019 10:27:05 GMT
I'm English. The neat little bag I carry on my back as a handbag (purse) I call a backpack. A big, travel-sized, hiking bag I would call a rucksack.
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Post by paigepea on Oct 10, 2019 10:47:16 GMT
I’m in Vancouver. Growing up we only ever called it a nap sack. My kids know what a nap sack is but the common word backpack has taken over for them. They can use the 2 words interchangeably though. When I was a kid teachers only referred to our napsacks. No one used the word backpack.
It’s funny how words change. My dad always says he’s going to sit on the chesterfield after supper and my mom yells at him ‘don’t use those words in front of the grandkids because they don’t understand supper or chesterfield’ but they do. And they learn (Quebec) French in school which is much more in line.
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Post by Linda on Oct 10, 2019 12:19:37 GMT
rucksack to me also but DH/Kids would say backpack
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Oct 10, 2019 16:43:55 GMT
If we are discussing the cheesy little packs like a child would wear to school or I would carry gym clothes in, I wouldn't normally call "it" a rucksack in conversation, but it wouldn't bother me.
However, I hike and camp a fair amount and the type that has multiple pockets and rings for attaching things, can be cinched or expanded, can accommodate a frame etc, yes, I'd call that a rucksack.
Being prior military, the term isn't t all unusual for me. I certainly don't see why it would be an annoyance. My coworker speaks English as a second language and says things like "parcel" rather than package or whatever. I find it endearing.
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Post by JoP on Oct 10, 2019 18:32:32 GMT
I’m British and it’s a rucksack 🎒 to me
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Post by LisaDV on Oct 10, 2019 20:18:18 GMT
I called it a backpack until I lived in Europe a while. Then I would interchange rucksack and backpack. Now I'm 99% backpack and 1% rucksack.
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I think what you call a fanny pack we call a bum bag! 
