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winnie
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 Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: do you call a scarf a muffler? |
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I've always associated mufflers with cars.
I was shown in the dictionary that it can mean scarf....however, I've never used the term in reference to a scarf. I think my coteacher thinks I am lying. But I said I have never called a scarf a muffler.
Do you? And if so, what country are you from? |
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Mashimaro
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Muffs are those fluffy things one puts on ones ears - I got some nice muffs in Itaewon on Saturday.... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: Re: do you call a scarf a muffler? |
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| Muffler can mean scarf, but I also don't know anyone who uses it like that. It's like saying "automobile." |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| It is correct. It is strange to my ears, but some apparently still say it. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmm, then what's that thing that goes around the hands? You see it in old-timey movies, usually made of fur and worn by women. I thought that was a muffler. |
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bourquetheman
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: Heard it and used it... |
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| I've both heard and used it over the years. I'm from Canada so it could be that it's used more in Canada but not sure. But hey, I also say Chesterfield sometimes instead of sofa (got it from my parents) so who knows..... |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Heard it and used it... |
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| bourquetheman wrote: |
| I've both heard and used it over the years. I'm from Canada so it could be that it's used more in Canada but not sure. But hey, I also say Chesterfield sometimes instead of sofa (got it from my parents) so who knows..... |
My Mother says Chesterfield all the time. And lots of other British words I forget now. I never really picked it up though. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| tiger fancini wrote: |
| Muffs are those fluffy things one puts on ones ears - I got some nice muffs in Itaewon on Saturday.... |
We called those "earmuffs" in Canada, and I've always understood "muffs" (in the un-naughty sense) to refer to this kind of thing.
But now I've seen the word "muff" so many times that it no longer looks like a word. |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:21 am Post subject: |
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Here are said muffs...
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munji
Joined: 08 Sep 2006
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: Re: do you call a scarf a muffler? |
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| winnie wrote: |
| I've always associated mufflers with cars. |
If you're from USA/Canada, that'd be pretty likely...
| winnie wrote: |
I was shown in the dictionary that it can mean scarf....however, I've never used the term in reference to a scarf. I think my coteacher thinks I am lying. But I said I have never called a scarf a muffler.
Do you? And if so, what country are you from? |
My grandpa used to call it a muffler. British-influence. I still call it muffler, if I am around one.
More info at dict.org , where a muffler is a kind of scarf, but just about anything used for muffling is a muffler  |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:47 am Post subject: Re: Heard it and used it... |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| bourquetheman wrote: |
| I've both heard and used it over the years. I'm from Canada so it could be that it's used more in Canada but not sure. But hey, I also say Chesterfield sometimes instead of sofa (got it from my parents) so who knows..... |
My Mother says Chesterfield all the time. And lots of other British words I forget now. I never really picked it up though. |
A Chesterfield is a particular kind of sofa - the upholstered leather kind I think.
Here you go:
[edit]Before anyone jumps in and tells me it's an armchair, I know it is but it was the first image with a jpeg link. Just imagine the matching sofa, ok?[/edit]
Everyone says scarf in Britain too. Scarf, scarf, scarf. Not muffler. |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:57 am Post subject: |
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I'd never used nor heard anyone say muffler for scarf until I got to Korea.
Then again, I learned a lot of English as a teacher there.
"Please remember me to your family."
I swore up and down this was wrong. 'Til I looked it up.
Ooops. My bad.
Anyone call a couch a Divan? |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:18 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone call a couch a Divan? |
No, but where I come from a couch is a less fancy sofa and a divan is a wooden-based [usually single] bed with drawers in the base.
We also call a scarf a scarf. Japanese people say "muffler" too. |
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Seon-bee
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:50 am Post subject: |
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Etymology anyone?
"Muffler as a kind of scarf is from 1535."
"As a cold-weather covering for the neck, first recorded 1844. Plural form scarfs began to yield to scarves early 18c., on model of half/halves, etc."
According to my Cambridge dictionary, muffler is an old-fashioned term. |
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