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I don't get "vinyls"

jefec

jefec

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I've been listening and buying records for almost 40 years and wonder how "vinyls" has emerged as the word for records? Not that it's a bad thing, although my first visualization of vinyls includes zippers and hoods! Was the term used in a movie/song/etc? Thanks.
 
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I imagine someone started saying it, and it caught on with others that didn't have a correct reference to the terminology used with regards to vinyl records.

*shrug*

Won't catch me saying "Vinyls" Ooops! I just did, first and last time :D
 
Without knowing, I could imagine it just comes from "vinyl records". The problem for me is the pluralis form on already a pluralis form. Peculiar.
/gusten
 
Good evening all, well I still call 'em 'records'. Even Sheryl Crow thinks (or at least sings), they are 'records'.

Quoting from her song, 'All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun': 'They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too'

Enough said! Regards, Felix aka catman.
 
Let it go, it's not that important. Young verbiage. It would be a cool name for a record store though.
 
Mark Walters said:
Let it go, it's not that important. Young verbiage. It would be a cool name for a record store though.
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Who's that Footballs player in your avatar?

Heh! It's just plain wrong Isn't it?
:naughty:

Yeah, would work as a store name pretty well, as you say:thmbsp:
 
first time i think I've heard it used in the plural. I've only used the word 'vinyl' to refer to records in general, and I wouldn't call a single record a vinyl. If I heard someone else calling records 'vinyls' I would immediately correct them and then smile smugly.
 
"Vinyls" is an expression pretty much exclusively used by newcomers to the medium, ie: folks too young to remember the pre-digital era.

A lot of us older folks make fun of those who use it because it is a sure sign of newbieness.

Here in Massachusetts, we call them 'rekkids."
 
Same place where someone started using the word "verbiage" (or "verbage") when they mean "copy", "text", "words", or "language".
 
If you think about it, it's more correct than ''LP's'', but I still disapprove of it's use, as it just doesn't sit right on my ears.
 
23 Skidoo

Cool, daddyo

Bitchin'

Far out

Fer shizzle

Times change. As long as the respect for the medium remains, I don't give two ****s what they're called.

(I'm 63, get off my lawn!)
 
When I was a kid we had "records" that played at 78 RPM, 45 RPM and 33 1/3 RPM. We called them 45's, 78's and LPS in my part of town in the 50s.
 
Any language is a constantly changing fluid thing. There are curmudgeonly ancient teachers in school that have taught language rules, but in spite of all their efforts and threats the word "ain't" IS in the dictionary. Words and definitions come and go. Slang becomes preferred. In the end the most widely used practices prevail. And into this stream of oxymoronic constant change comes "vinyls"...:nono::thumbsdn::scratch2::thmbsp:
 
Personally, I think "vinyls" sounds idiotic.

Vinyl is the material records are made of.

When we talk about our car, do we say the body is made of "steels?"

When I look at the deck outside my house, do I think it's made of "redwoods?"

Well, no, of course not.
 
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