Re: Naming the @{[]} operator

Smylers wrote:
> It only does that if you've heard the term before.  I hadn't heard of it
> before this thread, and I'm a native English speaker.  My initial guess
> was that it's some kind of small cart, but I now gather it's an
> alternative term for a pushchair, or perhaps for a pram.
> 
> Either way Google suggests "babycart" isn't that commonly used -- number
> of hits listed for each of these phrases:
> 
>   babycart        18_100
>   "baby cart"     75_500
>   pushchair      739_000
>   pram         4_440_000
> 
> And picking a less-commonly used term doesn't seem a great idea.

I haven't heard "baby cart" much either... I would probably say "baby 
carriage" (I'm from the USA).  A Google search for "baby carriage" (in 
quotes) gets 918_000 results.  There's a popular children's rhyme that 
kids used to tease each other when I was young:

John and Susie sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love, then comes marriage,
Then comes a baby in a baby carriage!

Replace "John" and "Susie" with the names of the people you're teasing, 
of course. :-)  I don't know if there's a British equivalent of the 
rhyme.  Anyway, Wikipedia claims that a baby carriage and a pram are 
equivalent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_carriage

>> With half the number of syllabes, babycart is much faster to say
> 
> "babycart" is 3 syllables; "shopping trolley" is only 4 -- and again
> Google agress with me that in English "shopping trolley" is a more usual
> phrase than "supermarket trolley":
> 
>   "supermarket trolley"     72_800
>   "shopping trolley"     1_330_000

In the USA (at least where I'm from), it's called a "shopping cart", 
which is also 3 syllables, and gets 766_000_000 results.  Maybe that's 
our winner?  Then again, I don't know if "shopping cart" sounds strange 
to non-American speakers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart

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