45worlds Forum - View Single Post - The plural to "vinyl" is... VINYL!!

16th May 2023, 4:42 AM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 252 Points	I saw a video 2 months ago of a record store and, on the front of the counter was a sign that said, "If you have vinyls, you will be kicked out of the store!". The thing is, the kids that grew up in the CD age never call those "albums", which IS what they are! An album is a collection of things (pictures, poems, news clippings, butterflies, stamps, scabs, boogers, and records) housed in a single book. These kids only refer to these shiny silver discs as CD's. I've even heard some call vinyl albums, CD's. They just don't know! And nobody's bothered to teach them. Eventually, someone explains to them that records were made off vinyl so, they assume the correct term for a record is, vinyl, just as the term for what they play is, CD. Therein lies the problem. I remember how, for some reason, about 20 years ago, my mother started referring to plastic as "plastics". I forget exactly what she was referring to, either a plastic tub (from an empty butter or whipped cream dish) or Saran Wrap type stuff but, she would tell me to put this or that "in some plastics" or, "get some plastics" and I'd always respond, 'What plastics?". She would get annoyed and pin point what she was talking about. I think it was these huge plastic sheets we had to cover things like bikes, tables, chairs, etc. if they were out in the rain.