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[cherry]

A shocking fact has come to my attention through the miracle of crosslinking in my friendslist:

There are people who do not call pencil crayons 'pencil crayons.' They refer to them as 'colored pencils.'

To satisfy my curiousity:

[Poll #537270]

Comments

[fullycompletely.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT? THIS IS BLOWING EVERYONE'S MIND.

So weird that we're, you know, right the frick beside each other and so many OTHER things cross over, and yet this is apparently very decisive.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

There are so many weird little things. Like the candies that are called the same name but are different products, or their lack of varied chip flavours, or the iced tea/lemonade divide, or the constant forgetting to put 'u's in words.

*shakes head*

And, apparently, I have too many Yanks on my flist, because 'colored pencils' is totally kicking 'pencil crayons.'

Well...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Today is the first day I've _ever_ heard the phrase pencil crayons.

That's just ... bizarre.

Pencil crayons? Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot, over?

Redhawk

Re: Well...

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Today is the first day I've _ever_ heard the phrase pencil crayons.

And, see, before yesterday, I'd never heard them refered to as anything but.