why boolits vs bullets

[cfullgraf]

We have nicknames for many things that are socially acceptable.

A few that I can think of quickly.

Tin Can = Destroyer
Flat Top = Aircraft Carrier
Kite = Airplane, generally the old wood and fabric variety.
Ride, Wheels, or Rod = Automobile
Pad = Place of residence
Dinger = Home Run

So, why not boolits or pills for bullets?

I did not say I like the terms, but I think tweets on Twitter should have been called "Twits".

I agree with the educators that we are dumbing down our populace with the multitudes of misspellings in public. I will not eat at Chick-fil-a because of their misspellings on their billboards.

Now using the incorrect term, like clip for magazine or caliber for cartridge, that is a different story.

 

[Sam1911]

Best not to fret about it.

The same folks call their shotguns "shotties" and all pistols "gats" or just "nines" or Glocks.

No rules against it, so ...

 

[KansasSasquatch]

Best not to fret about it.

The same folks call their shotguns "shotties" and all pistols "gats" or just "nines" or Glocks.

No rules against it, so ...

I agree.

I don't think the people that do that are generally intelligent enough to cast their own bullets or boolits. Generally, there's always exceptions.

 

[jdh]

Come on ya'll, everyone nows its spelt BOOLITZ.

 

[KansasSasquatch]

I did not say I like the terms, but I think tweets on Twitter should have been called "Twits".

Off topic but, I agree. But think about what is used as the past-tense of "tweet." It's tweeted. Now think about what it would probably be if the present-tense had been "twits." Think about spit and spat, apply that to twit. What you get is not exactly an endearing term. Although some people might argue it'd be fitting for most of the tweets (and/or the users) on Twitter.

 

[JRH6856]

The answer, if anyone ever asks you, is that terminal vowels tend to disappear over time. Nobody knows why

Terminal vowels are not pronounced, and because they are not pronounced, they are often lost when people use phonics to aid in spelling.

 

[savanahsdad]

+1

The bullets I hand cast from carefully blended alloy, and lovingly size & lube are Bullets.

NOT Boolets!

And don't call shotguns Shottys either!

rc

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I think I'm +5 on this ^^^^^^^


and if the guys on the other site want to use it , fine , but this isn't that site

 

[Duckdog]

This is really taking the mighty "high road". I spend a lot of time over there at that site because I cast for over 20 calibers, but apparently, if we use a different term for a bullet, such as boolit, we're not welcome here? So be it.

Every time I look at the general gun discussion threads there are more and more getting locked because they are not taking "the high road". Kind of a joke when one looks at threads like this one, ripping on others because of a term that is being used.

Real nice.

 

[mannyCA]

It's More funner to say boolits...
uh-oh, I think I'm going to get ticketed by both the grammer and spelling police.

 

[splattergun]

For those who want to understand this issue I recommend a course in linguistics, paying particular attention to how languages change. Which they do....and there's nothing anyone can do about it.*
I taught high school for 32 years. Kids who had "correct spelling" hammered into their heads from first grade on were taken aback when reading a few pages of the journals of Lewis & Clark. Lewis was the more educated man; Clark could spell the same word four different ways on the same page. Spelling was pretty creative among the unlettered -or, in this case partially lettered folk. It was not until Noah Webster and his Spelling Book came along about twenty years later that things began to change.
I dislike "boolits" on æsthetic grounds; I don't like the way it looks. Is there anything "wrong" with it? Not intrinsically, although I believe on what is fundamentally a technical forum, one should strive to be very specific, with the goal of maximum comprehension in the reader.

*Example of language change: whatever happened to all those terminal 'e's in English? Well, nowadays they're resurrected on the signs of subdivisions: Ye Olde Pheasant Pointe. If you want to start an argument, ask someone who lives there why "pheasant" doesn't have an 'e.' The answer, if anyone ever asks you, is that terminal vowels tend to disappear over time. Nobody knows why.

"How smart can ya be when ya only know one way to spell a word?"
Bud McIntire

 

[Salmoneye]

I spell defence with a 'C'...See my sig...

I hope it gives the 'American English' purists conniptions...

 

[Curator]

"How smart can ya be when ya only know one way to spell a word?"

Growing up in Canada on the US border I got used to words spelled differently: I particularly favour boolit moulds of the right calibre.

What's the difference between using an acronym like YMMV or boolits to designate the difference between store-bought and home cast?

 

[fatcpa]

If you want to see comments written in emphatically capitalized letters, mention the term boolits to Mr. John Taffin and some of the other old six gun guys.

 

[higgite]

What's with the big brouhaha over bullets vs boolits? Of far more pressing concern on a global scale is why phonics isn't spelled "fonix"!

Spellers of the world, UNTIE!

 

[groundsclown]

Every post after #9, where the OP thanked those that answered, is utterly useless...including this one.
This thread has gone so far left & off course I swear, I'm dumbfounded why it hasn't been closed yet.

All over a stupid word and grammatical errors and speeling errorz and badly strucshured sentences and...for eff's sake.
And quite frenkly I dont think Mr Taffin gives two eff's how we speelz

B-O-O-L-I-T-S

on this here interweb.

 

[Sam1911]

This is really taking the mighty "high road". I spend a lot of time over there at that site because I cast for over 20 calibers, but apparently, if we use a different term for a bullet, such as boolit, we're not welcome here? So be it.

Nope, not welcomed. Go away. We hate you.




Seriously?

Naaaw, folks just like to rant about stuff, and I'm sure you'd admit reading something full of misspellings, deliberate or not, is pretty annoying. But if your local "culture" (such as within a web site/group, or among a certain ethnic or sociological segment) uses such jarring "alternative" spellings as a function of tribal identity then what's the harm?

"Boolits" is just gun nut ebonics. Same idea, same purpose, same results.

Doesn't mean folks won't ridicule it.

I'm dumbfounded why it hasn't been closed yet.

I know, right? Like where are those slacker Moderators to come save us from ourselves?!? Guess folks would rather rant and argue than hit the "report post" button.

 

[Walkalong]

What's with the big brouhaha over bullets vs boolits?

That's what I am wondering. Good googly moogly.

 

[Art Eatman]

I don't worry about it, any, but it seems sorta cutesy-poo to me.