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Post by fram773 on Oct 24, 2014 20:12:40 GMT -6
It is obvious everyone uses the word soap "puck" because many shaving soaps come shaped like a hockey puck. Shaving Made Easy, a vintage book about shaving, used the word "cake" of shaving soap. This seemed curious to me because, again, everyone uses the word "puck" today on the forums. Now, none of the meanings of the word "puck" is consistent with how we use the word dictionary.reference.com/browse/puckSearching for the definition of "cake" yields the following results: dictionary.reference.com/browse/cakeThus, I will switch over to the correct terminology. You are all welcome to keep using the colloquial "puck" but I will not.
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Post by RocketMan on Oct 25, 2014 22:51:54 GMT -6
I tend to agree with you. It is a good point. It seems almost every relevant advert I found used the words 'shaving mug soap' and I was beginning to wonder if cake only referred to bar soap. But good old Williams came to the rescue. I would prefer the term shaving cake as well. Thnx for pointing it out. And us Canadians are serious about our hockey. But, cakes it is!
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Post by mjclark on Oct 26, 2014 2:48:27 GMT -6
I love discussions like this (and had a similar one about the phrase "steep learning curve").
Language is a growing living thing, and the meanings of words change with useage. For sure, the word puck originally has no connection with soap, but when I idiomatically use "puck" to describe a cake of soap everybody knows exactly what I mean. Therefore it is an accurate and effective communication, which is what language is all about.
In 20 years time the dictionary may very well include the useage of "puck" to describe a cake of soap, since it is such common useage.
A similar example is the use of the word "mouse" in connection with personal computers.
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Post by norfolkdick on Oct 26, 2014 3:34:58 GMT -6
Greetings
I strongly suspect that the word 'puck' to describe a cake of soap is just confined to us folk in the traditional shaving community; I suspect that the remainder of society (you know that other 99.5% of weirdos non believers) would not know what the word meant.
Bath soap, certainly in my part of the world has always been referred to as a bar rarely a tablet and even more rarely a cake, cake does seem to be a better name than bar for a round hard soap though.
Regards Dick.
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Post by ShadowsDad on Oct 26, 2014 10:22:30 GMT -6
Mom always referred to bar soap as a cake. That doesn't mean everyone did or does though. So I refer to it as a cake once in awhile as well.
I actually think referring to hard shave soap as a cake makes sense, but that's not the way it's generally referred to in the shave community. If someone refers to it as a cake or puck, I'm comfortable either way, and I'll know what they refer to.
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Post by birdlives on Oct 26, 2014 22:37:48 GMT -6
Hey....if Williams digs 'cake' then who em I to differ? I consider Williams the numero uno "mug soap" for MY mug.....so I consider that advert the definitive arguement.... "Let them lather cake...."
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Post by wchnu on Oct 27, 2014 13:42:18 GMT -6
Hey....if Williams digs 'cake' then who em I to differ? I consider Williams the numero uno "mug soap" for MY mug.....so I consider that advert the definitive arguement.... "Let them lather cake...." That Sir deserves a quote. CAKE it is!! Should I issue a proclamation? Oh and Rocket dood that advert is wonderful?
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Post by RobinK on Oct 28, 2014 23:41:24 GMT -6
I'll stick with Stück, if you don't mind the bi-lingual pun...
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Post by RocketMan on Nov 7, 2014 19:59:02 GMT -6
I'll stick with Stück, if you don't mind the bi-lingual pun... Isn't a stuck suggesting 'a piece of soap'?? Sounds rather unglamorous.
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Post by RocketMan on Nov 7, 2014 20:00:40 GMT -6
Hey....if Williams digs 'cake' then who em I to differ? I consider Williams the numero uno "mug soap" for MY mug.....so I consider that advert the definitive arguement.... "Let them lather cake...." That Sir deserves a quote. CAKE it is!! Should I issue a proclamation? Oh and Rocket dood that advert is wonderful? I think a Proclamation seems reasonable. At least for the English side of the pond!! Let them lather cake indeed!!
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Post by birdlives on Aug 29, 2017 14:02:29 GMT -6
I saw the word "puck" being bantered about recently...
Thought it was time to bump this......I mean folks far wiser than I think a Proclamation seems reasonable!!!
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Post by wchnu on Aug 29, 2017 17:08:40 GMT -6
I saw the word "puck" being bantered about recently... Thought it was time to bump this......I mean folks far wiser than I think a Proclamation seems reasonable!!! I willsometimes slip and use puck. Cake to me is more proper. Stick if in that form. Let them lather cake!!! Indeed.
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Post by GarnerPW on Aug 29, 2017 18:58:57 GMT -6
I saw the word "puck" being bantered about recently... Thought it was time to bump this......I mean folks far wiser than I think a Proclamation seems reasonable!!! Thanks Bird for the bump. I have now been educated. For this day foreword it will be cake or stick.
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Post by wchnu on Aug 29, 2017 19:14:07 GMT -6
I saw the word "puck" being bantered about recently... Thought it was time to bump this......I mean folks far wiser than I think a Proclamation seems reasonable!!! Thanks Bird for the bump. I have now been educated. For this day foreword it will be cake or stick. Good man!!!
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Post by GarnerPW on Aug 30, 2017 7:12:13 GMT -6
Thanks Bird for the bump. I have now been educated. For this day foreword it will be cake or stick. Good man!!! View AttachmentMy FIRST cup of toads. WOOT! WOOT!
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