Why...

[al]

do people call films movies?

Gets right on my tits.

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[unkleGsif]

Just another Americanizm that's crept its way into the English vernacular

G

 

[al]

Just another Americanizm that's crept its way into the English vernacular

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Stop it!

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[highlandsflyer]

If the term is good enough for Led Zeppelin, it will do for me.

 

[al]

If the term is good enough for Led Zeppelin, it will do for me.

Don't even know where to start with that statement?

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[al]

I am going to the pictures (not movies) tonight to see the Artist.


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[Neil]

I am going to the pictures (not movies) tonight to see the Artist.


al.

I kinda figure the term "pictures" is something of a quant artifact that will, sadly, die out.

Shame, that.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice runs down my leg.

The Artist.

Cracking by all accounts; will be checking that out next time I am in the smoke.

Catch the wind, see us spin, sail away, leave today, way up high in the sky!

 

[The Ken]

The term Movies comes from "Moving Pictures" if you are going to the pictures you might just be going to an art gallery.

 

[Neil]

The term Movies comes from "Moving Pictures"

Just like terms like "the flicks" or "the magic lantern"...

Although, truth be told, "movies" just seem a very american term - 20 or 30 or years ago, I suspect it didn't have quite the same prominence over here.

if you are going to the pictures you might just be going to an art gallery.

I've never heard it used like that.

"going to the pictures" was a phrase I nostalgically remember from my childhood.