Yes, that's a real thing, and the guys I know say "wallet"
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Jul 26, 2006 3:13:38 pm PDT #5596 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Fay - Jul 26, 2006 3:14:40 pm PDT #5597 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
FanTAStic.
You are an enabler of fic! Go you!
Pix - Jul 26, 2006 3:16:04 pm PDT #5598 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Fay, you are not making up "I'm two for two." "I'm # for #" is used pretty commonly.
Also, the only people I know who say "billfold" instead of "wallet" are over 50. "Billfold" is a bit archaic now, I think.
DCJensen - Jul 26, 2006 3:44:42 pm PDT #5599 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I think the terms wallet and billfold are both bandied about around here by people of all ages.
It might be regional, maybe?
ChiKat - Jul 26, 2006 4:10:47 pm PDT #5600 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I was thinking regional. But, then I started to realize that most of my Southern relatives are over 50, so I don't know if it's regional or age!
Gris - Jul 26, 2006 4:15:16 pm PDT #5601 of 10001
Hey. New board.
In Mississippi, my grandparents say "billfold" and my friends say "wallet." So I'd venture to say in my part of the South, at least, it's age.
ChiKat - Jul 26, 2006 4:24:53 pm PDT #5602 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
My parents/aunts/uncles all say "billfold." My sibs say "wallet," but I don't know if that's because of age or because we lived in the North for most of our childhoods.
I knew moving around a lot as a kid would eventually bite me in the butt, I just didn't realize it would be a linguistic butt-biting.
Fred Pete - Jul 26, 2006 4:56:42 pm PDT #5603 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I used "billfold" when growing up in the Upper Midwest. Somewhere while living in not-really-the-South Southern places, it switched to "wallet."
One possibility -- since my '60s and '70s childhood, it's become the norm to use them for carrying a lot more than bills and maybe a driver's license.
erikaj - Jul 26, 2006 5:02:21 pm PDT #5604 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
There is a very annoying retro part of my brain that thinks I'm a failure cause my homely cousin who's nine years younger than me is getting married and I got a hickey from Too Much Candy, and that's about it. Must scrub brain of faux-stalgia. I've been living among the neocons too damn long.
P.M. Marc - Jul 26, 2006 5:41:13 pm PDT #5605 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think I've seen the word billfold in the wild once.
Other times, it's just been a thing mentioned in books that confuses me, like money clips.