billybobtombo Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Coming from the UK, I've known them as nappies, not diapers. However, since getting involved with the AB / DL community on the web, where nearly everyone refers to the them as diapers, I tend now to think "diapers" too. Am curious - do other UK based DLs find the same? Link to comment
Guest Sissy Lil Lucy Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Yeah i get that alot too.... I tend to use a nice confussing mix of them both..... though i'm always gona love nappy best!! giggles Lucy Link to comment
likewet Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I read somewhere that Nappies is short for baby napkin and us north Americans call them diapers because that was the name of the fabric that they were made of have a new name for them,,,,or just an acronym AWCPTPYPOP (a warm comfortable place to put your pee or poo)............I don't think it will catch on though...I could be wrong....any new name for diaper or nappie? Link to comment
babybub Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Here in New Zealand they are known as nappies Link to comment
Cute Baby Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I always say nappies & if in touch with one of our many friends in the good old USA, then I add in brackets diapers. Link to comment
redneck diaper boy Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 The word "nappies" has a more classy and romanitc sound to it. Here in America, few pwoplw know what nappies are. I say both. If I am chatting with someone in the UK, I will use the word "nappies". Coming from the UK, I've known them as nappies, not diapers. However, since getting involved with the AB / DL community on the web, where nearly everyone refers to the them as diapers, I tend now to think "diapers" too. Am curious - do other UK based DLs find the same? Link to comment
Repaid1 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I found the word Nappies a little odd when I first heard it but now I am used to hearing it and it just helps me to know roughly where everyone is based. My old mommy/babysitter was from the Phillipines and she called my Diapers/Nappies a "Pamper" as a generic term which was kind of cute. Guess it's just what you grow up with and are around. Link to comment
just_here Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Around my Latin household they were always called "Los Pampers" (this said with a Spanish accent of course) lol. Gotta love them Spanish-speaking folks. I tend to call em Diapeys. I think its a nice compromise between Diaper and Nappies... Link to comment
rusty pins Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I read somewhere that Nappies is short for baby napkin and us north Americans call them diapers because that was the name of the fabric that they were made of have a new name for them,,,,or just an acronym AWCPTPYPOP (a warm comfortable place to put your pee or poo)............I don't think it will catch on though...I could be wrong....any new name for diaper or nappie? I've also heard years ago that "Napkin" is english for diaper. Here in the USA I don't think I would want to wipe my mouth at dinner time with that kind of "napkin"! Link to comment
CDLover Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I like saying and hearing the word diapers. Being from the US, although I know what nappies means, it doesn't have the weird internal DL connection that the word diapers does for me. CDL Link to comment
phogendpf Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I like saying and hearing the word diapers. Being from the US, although I know what nappies means, it doesn't have the weird internal DL connection that the word diapers does for me. CDL Agreed same for me. I get that weird feeling anytime the word "diaper" or "diapers" is said. I never once heard the term nappies until I went on the forums and say everyone in the uk refer to them as such. It will always be known as a diaper to me although I like the different variations of diapers like diapees and diapy etc. Link to comment
nappyboymids Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Being English, I also prefer the word 'nappies' although I also use 'diaper' sometimes. There's something about 'nappy' which says 'wet and messy' to me, which I like - although I guess it's just association going back years. As for etymology, nappy is derived from napkin, and diaper is a type of cloth - in the C19th a 'diaper cloth' was sometimes placed on ballroom floors to stop people slipping and falling over! Link to comment
nappyloon Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 They will always be "Nappies" to me purely because that is what I was brought up with, never heard the term "Diaper" until I came on here ! Nappies rule and Diapers are just as cool !! Link to comment
tauschung Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 I call them diapers. My pet likes to call them 'protection'. Link to comment
enfant Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I call them diapers. One of the things I like about the word is that I was taught to pronounce it with three syllables, "DI-a-per"... and when I drop the "a" and pronounce it as if it rhymed with "wiper", it makes me feel a little babyish and regressed. Link to comment
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