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Just had a discusion bout what to call taking knitting back a few rows , see you call it to frog here , why ?
I call it ripping out !!

I call it unpicking but it is the Americans who started it because it sounds like a frog when you say it....rippet rippet. And the wool is supposed to make that sound as well.

I get the impression that our cousins across the pond think they have dicovered a NEW HOBBY....it is called KNITTING!!!!

gill1946 - 28 August 2008 11:10 PM

I call it unpicking but it is the Americans who started it because it sounds like a frog when you say it....rippet rippet. And the wool is supposed to make that sound as well.

I get the impression that our cousins across the pond think they have dicovered a NEW HOBBY....it is called KNITTING!!!!

I was born across the Atlantic but I have been living in east London for over 20 years. I can pass for a native if I keep my mouth shut.

I have no idea why they have to give things silly names in my native land.  I get confused enough trying to work out worsted and sport weight

For the record I just call it ripping back.

I call it unpicking.

Robigo - 28 August 2008 11:44 PM

gill1946 - 28 August 2008 11:10 PM

I call it unpicking but it is the Americans who started it because it sounds like a frog when you say it....rippet rippet. And the wool is supposed to make that sound as well.

I get the impression that our cousins across the pond think they have dicovered a NEW HOBBY....it is called KNITTING!!!!

I was born across the Atlantic but I have been living in east London for over 20 years. I can pass for a native if I keep my mouth shut.

I have no idea why they have to give things silly names in my native land.  I get confused enough trying to work out worsted and sport weight

For the record I just call it ripping back.

From the tone of your posts I don’t think you have been offended but I suspect that after 20 years you know what we are like over here anyway   I reckon it is the new younger generation of knitters who have coined the “rippets” It is a question that comes up often in magazines and on forums but it does not come to me readily. Too old to change probably
Glad you decided to stay here anyway!!!!

I call it pulling out.

I’m an unpicker too

I call it pulling out.

I call it a d*!@!d nuisance!

Sash

Sash2 - 29 August 2008 08:30 AM

I call it pulling out.

I call it a d*!@!d nuisance!

Sash

That too

Ditto!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i generally swear, and depending what it is throw it in the cupboard and start something else - think the “official” word in my family is rattling it down

I seem to be getting better at ‘undoing’ stuff, at one time, would ignore it unless really drastic, but now it annoys me so I undo it !

Talking of our oversea cousins, my Mum was very offended when she went over to stay with my brother and his wife who emigrated to Canada, the word ‘fanny’ was not taken well, and also, using the word ‘p**s for going to the loo, and I also remember a friend of mine going to America and working in an office shouted, “Does anyone have a rubber “ which met with howls of laughter x Janet

I call it pulling out.

I call it a d*!@!d nuisance!

Sash

indeed!!

I like the time frogging, it makes me laugh when I could be annoyed instead!

But our frogs say “knee deep”.

janick123 - 29 August 2008 11:33 AM

I seem to be getting better at ‘undoing’ stuff, at one time, would ignore it unless really drastic, but now it annoys me so I undo it !

Talking of our oversea cousins, my Mum was very offended when she went over to stay with my brother and his wife who emigrated to Canada, the word ‘fanny’ was not taken well, and also, using the word ‘p**s for going to the loo, and I also remember a friend of mine going to America and working in an office shouted, “Does anyone have a rubber “ which met with howls of laughter x Janet

i worked with an irish girl before and they used the word ‘fanny’ in a gentle jibing manner, but def not meaning anything offenceive.  the whole place went quiet one day when a customer calling to report her 3rd lost bank card in a month and feeling really bad about being careless was told ‘not to worry about it, we can all be a fanny at times’ - luckily the customer saw the funny side after the supervisor explained, and a BIG sign was put up reminding us all how to talk to customers