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01-23-2011, 08:34 AM

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catrancher

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I don't want to be a "material girl," so i use fabric.

01-23-2011, 09:24 AM

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Jean OK

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YEY!!!!! correct! It has always been an issue with me. It used to drive me crazy, and I only an English major. 'Dry Goods' also fit into this subject. However, ladies remember the Dictonary continues to grow daily.

01-23-2011, 09:25 AM

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judy_68

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LOL The things we can talk about on here. lol I love it.

01-23-2011, 11:07 AM

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supergma

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It is an age thing. I never heard it called fabric before I was an adult. Probably regional too.

01-23-2011, 11:58 AM

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klgreene

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I wonder if it started the same way, on one coast you may call it pop, on the other coast soda, and in a lot of places they just call it pepsi, or what ever it is you want.
Potatoe - Potato
Tomatoe - Tomato
Roof - Ruf
Aunt - Ant
All the same to me.

01-23-2011, 12:04 PM

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Stitchnripper

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Funny - I remember going to the material store back in the day. Now, fabric store.

01-23-2011, 12:07 PM

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ann clare

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Fabric because it is FAB.

01-23-2011, 12:42 PM

#48

quiltmom04

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I USED to call it material - now call it fabric. I don't know why!

01-23-2011, 02:20 PM

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polly13

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It's our age, I guess. It all was material when I was a young whippersnapper. Fabric does sound more elegant. The 30s fabric does look like material.

01-23-2011, 02:24 PM

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FroggyinTexas

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Same reason the words buy and bought are becoming obsolete in favor of purchase and purchased and why my friends from north of the Mason Dixon line insist that a grocery sack is most certainly not a sack, but a bag.

Note that I did not give a reason...just said it was the same reason, whatever it is.

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