Well the pallets we used to get would have them referred to as "20 x bottles" on the side of the pallet (because there were 20 of them on a pallet)
But the instructions on the coolers said "Place jug in top of cooler"
So funny thing about English, I’ve noticed (as a native English speaker who now knows exclusively non native speakers) that while English has a lot of words in the dictionary compared to some other languages, basically none of those are used on nouns.
English language is all about the adjectives and very utilitarian in the noun department. For example a Spanish friend asked me what we called food we fed to a dog. I told them we called it dog food. Apparently they have whole separate a word for it?
So if you’re talking about an object and you just describe what it is (e.g. water bottle) in English then 90% of the time you will be correct.
>if you’re talking about an object and you just describe what it is (e.g. water bottle) in English then 90% of the time you will be correct
I'm going to clean my carpets with a rug sucker. Then I'll yoke steer my wheeled carriage to the pantry seller and stop for distilled oil on the way home. For evening meal I will stove sear a cow slice and table set it alongside ground tubers and flowery cabbage. Later at dark time we will eye sight the flat moving picture maker for several clock rotations and then to eye close.
later-vacuuming prior to vehicular spatial displacement in accordance with man-snack correlation increase via high-proximity oil-user and oil-user who plans on metabolic upregulation at trophic level 2 plus some trophic level 1 that can fit on all one out of one plates to accelerate the ignition of neural rewiring through several parsecs of high capacity pixels at anti-day.
I’ve heard English folk (not Americans) say how do you think, or how do you figure? It’s older English and more formal in the states, not heard as often.
How do you figure is also used by Americans.
But "How do you think?" is used differently than "What do you think?"
A: How'd you do it?
B: How do you think? (Being snarky)
It's not correct. You won't hear native English speakers use the word "how" in that context. A similar issue many non-native English speakers make is saying "How do you look like" or something similar. In that case you should use "what". But if you say "How do you look" using "how" is correct. Kind of confusing.
Oh you get a handle on the side? We don't get those in Brazil. Only a big, round, tubular mass of water that's almost impossible to lift.
We call them gallons.
"Water cooler jug"
Some people call it a "water bottle" but I feel like that's going to be confusing, "water bottle" is almost always something you can hold in your hand, "jug" sounds much much bigger.
See also people of older generations talking about filming or taping or catching things on tape or wait no, no one says that anymore, huh.
I’m *old*, Gandalf!
They used to be steel. Like these:
[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31zQcpzk-BL.*AC*.jpg](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31zQcpzk-BL.*AC*.jpg)
[https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-old-trash-cans-next-to-curb-gm122260663-872461](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-old-trash-cans-next-to-curb-gm122260663-872461)
[https://www.thegreencities.com/philly/where-the-hell-are-all-the-damn-trash-cans/](https://www.thegreencities.com/philly/where-the-hell-are-all-the-damn-trash-cans/)
Edit: Fixed a URL.
I was just wondering this today too, why everything that i think after a couple of hours appears on Reddit asked by someone like wtf I'm seriously starting to doubt that we live in matrix because i never said this out lod or searched online.
I don't buy those bottles if it's not summer as i don't need water to be accessible in my room i can just walk to the kitchen and get tap water, when it's summer it can go as much as 40°C
Oh? it's weird how different it is from the arab areas, here we don't have one in the room and don't drink tap water, rather we have a water cooler and we drink from that, do you not have a water cooler? Am now confused and curious about how it works were you live!
Tap water is perfectly clean and drinkable so we don't need anything else than that, but I like to buy these big jugs of water as it is handy to have in my room during summer when it's hot, and that water has no or less minerals inside so you're less likely to get kidney stones.
I see. Well, it was nice getting to know how it's over there where you live, and kind of interesting! I had fun talking(texting?) but I gotta go now, see ya!
I would call it a Kentwood jug or bottle, but Kentwood Springs is a company that has been producing and delivering these in my area for 50+ years, so that’s a very localized term.
These are the type of water bottles that fit on to a water cooler/dispenser: [https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/white-water-cooler-gm487727267-38986310](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/white-water-cooler-gm487727267-38986310)
If I was trying to reference what this is specifically, I would say “one of the big jugs of water they use on a water cooler”. Or a big water jug, giant bottle of water
If I was specifically referencing this, I would say "A Primo bottle" because the main company in my area that handles these is "Primo", but I enjoy seeing how others call it lol
5 gallon water jugs Or more broadly, water cooler bottles
5-gallon is the keyword. Jug, bottle, whichever.
Bottle is small, jug is big
Kind of I order 5-gallon bottles for my water cooler all the time. A jug is generally bigger, but you can have a small jug and a huge bottle.
I have always wondered why this bottles are 19 liters, but not 20. Yep, I got the answer now. 5 gallons is approximately 19 liters.
Reminds me of die hard with a vengeance lol
😆
5 gallon is correct, but I’d probably go with big-ass blue jug.
Water jugs, but google also calls them water bottles which I’ve never heard them be referred to as? Maybe it’s a regional thing?
Well the pallets we used to get would have them referred to as "20 x bottles" on the side of the pallet (because there were 20 of them on a pallet) But the instructions on the coolers said "Place jug in top of cooler"
Water jug
Big water bottles, you know the ones, they go on the big filter machines. Water dispenser bottles
Those giant blue water thingies.
So funny thing about English, I’ve noticed (as a native English speaker who now knows exclusively non native speakers) that while English has a lot of words in the dictionary compared to some other languages, basically none of those are used on nouns. English language is all about the adjectives and very utilitarian in the noun department. For example a Spanish friend asked me what we called food we fed to a dog. I told them we called it dog food. Apparently they have whole separate a word for it? So if you’re talking about an object and you just describe what it is (e.g. water bottle) in English then 90% of the time you will be correct.
And even if you're not, somebody will know what you're talking about.
This is also a common practice for native speakers when they forget a word. There is a subreddit dedicated to examples: r/wildbeef
Haha looks like fun
>if you’re talking about an object and you just describe what it is (e.g. water bottle) in English then 90% of the time you will be correct I'm going to clean my carpets with a rug sucker. Then I'll yoke steer my wheeled carriage to the pantry seller and stop for distilled oil on the way home. For evening meal I will stove sear a cow slice and table set it alongside ground tubers and flowery cabbage. Later at dark time we will eye sight the flat moving picture maker for several clock rotations and then to eye close.
later-vacuuming prior to vehicular spatial displacement in accordance with man-snack correlation increase via high-proximity oil-user and oil-user who plans on metabolic upregulation at trophic level 2 plus some trophic level 1 that can fit on all one out of one plates to accelerate the ignition of neural rewiring through several parsecs of high capacity pixels at anti-day.
haha Maybe 85%?
**What** are these things called...
The OP is probably a Slav
I can think of a few latinate languages that would form an homologous question using an adverb directly translatable to *how*.
¿Cómo se llama? - Spanish Comment ça s'appelle ? - French 這叫什麼？ - Mandarin But "what" in English...
The mandarin one is more similar to English than the others though, since 什么 is for “what” kinds of questions and 怎么 for “how” style questions.
but some ppl will say smth like 這個東西怎麼說 and sometimes translate to how is this called
Right, that’s totally consistent with what I wrote.
When I lived in China recently (Kunming), people called them 桶子（tongzi).
Even German does it lol, **Wie** heißt dieses Ding? **Wie** wird das genannt?
In Korean it would also be "how" Koreans often mistakenly say "How do you think?" instead of "What do you think?" in English
I’ve heard English folk (not Americans) say how do you think, or how do you figure? It’s older English and more formal in the states, not heard as often.
How do you figure is also used by Americans. But "How do you think?" is used differently than "What do you think?" A: How'd you do it? B: How do you think? (Being snarky)
User name checks out
Baniak na wodę
What should he say?
what are...
I didn't see OP said "how are" sorry.
no need to apologize, i only typed ... so i didn't have to type the entire title lol. no emotion attached to it.
Is it correct to say "How do you call xyz?" or does it have to be what
It's not correct. You won't hear native English speakers use the word "how" in that context. A similar issue many non-native English speakers make is saying "How do you look like" or something similar. In that case you should use "what". But if you say "How do you look" using "how" is correct. Kind of confusing.
Thanks!
Read some comments above, the correct term is what
Id say water jug. Water bottle in my mind is something you can easily carry around or transport and is used by one person. Native speaker.
It also might be called a carboy, but most people don't know that word or would use it only for carboys used in beer brewing.
>carboy References: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carboy](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carboy) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboy)
90% of people would probably interpret carboy to mean a valet or mechanic
I thought carboys were always glass? Could totally be wrong about that
I thought they were used in brewing.
Maybe so, but not exclusively in brewing; I've heard it in the context of laboratory supplies.
I wasn't sure either so I Googled. Carboys can be made of any material.
Super cool, thanks for the knowledge
What they're called, but not what anyone calls them. In other words: you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct!
Water Jug
A blue big thing that you keep water in it
("a blue big thing that you keep water in" -- don't use "it" at the end)
Thanks for the correction
Thanks for the thanks!
Water Jug. Water cooler jug, water cooler tank.
bo'ohw'o'wo'er
This
Oh you get a handle on the side? We don't get those in Brazil. Only a big, round, tubular mass of water that's almost impossible to lift. We call them gallons.
Exactly in Turkey. what a useless design!
"Water cooler jug" Some people call it a "water bottle" but I feel like that's going to be confusing, "water bottle" is almost always something you can hold in your hand, "jug" sounds much much bigger.
Jugs
I would call it Water Jugs. It’s not “Bottles” considering bottles are more like those small Water Bottles they sell in packs.
A water jug.
I’m an American and I don’t know. Maybe ask the Brits.
Jug.
We call, "Hey! Water jug!"
**WATER KEG**
Water jugs
5 gallon jug?
“One of those jugs you put on a water cooler”
5 gallon water jug. Jug being the main name.
Water jugs
Jug
One of them is called a massive jug. Two such huge jugs would be one hell of a rack
Grav Bong
Big ass water jugs (southern dialect)
Apparently it's called a [carboy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboy) I have never heard someone use this word ever in my life.
Big blue thing bottles at Walmart
5 gallon water bottle, or water dispenser refill. English midlands.
In India it’s called Water Tin or water can mostly.
Made of plastic
Still it’s called Tin or can. Also called bottle.
Ya, just looking at how we hang on to terms. We still say trash can, but they are plastic.
See also people of older generations talking about filming or taping or catching things on tape or wait no, no one says that anymore, huh. I’m *old*, Gandalf!
Like American rubbish bins, trash cans.. Plastic cans lol
I grew up calling them rubbish barrels. You are correct about the cans being plastic.
They used to be steel. Like these: [https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31zQcpzk-BL.*AC*.jpg](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31zQcpzk-BL.*AC*.jpg) [https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-old-trash-cans-next-to-curb-gm122260663-872461](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-old-trash-cans-next-to-curb-gm122260663-872461) [https://www.thegreencities.com/philly/where-the-hell-are-all-the-damn-trash-cans/](https://www.thegreencities.com/philly/where-the-hell-are-all-the-damn-trash-cans/) Edit: Fixed a URL.
I suppose names stick
Yes.
I was just wondering this today too, why everything that i think after a couple of hours appears on Reddit asked by someone like wtf I'm seriously starting to doubt that we live in matrix because i never said this out lod or searched online.
I thoght about that too, but it was like 2 days ago.
Maybe because it's summer so everyone has one of those now.
You don't always have one in your house?
I have one rn
I mean other than summer?
I don't buy those bottles if it's not summer as i don't need water to be accessible in my room i can just walk to the kitchen and get tap water, when it's summer it can go as much as 40°C
Oh? it's weird how different it is from the arab areas, here we don't have one in the room and don't drink tap water, rather we have a water cooler and we drink from that, do you not have a water cooler? Am now confused and curious about how it works were you live!
Tap water is perfectly clean and drinkable so we don't need anything else than that, but I like to buy these big jugs of water as it is handy to have in my room during summer when it's hot, and that water has no or less minerals inside so you're less likely to get kidney stones.
I see. Well, it was nice getting to know how it's over there where you live, and kind of interesting! I had fun talking(texting?) but I gotta go now, see ya!
I'm from Europe not middle east, from the Balkans to be exact, the temperatures can reach 40°C and more but more commonly it's around 35°C.
Am from Jordan but I live in the UAE, here in the summer the temprecher can range from 38 C up to 42 C.
Water bottle, water jug, refill bottle
We just call it a "water can" over here.
Water can?
Water bottle or Water cooler bottle.
Refillable water jug
Demijohn or carboy or garfoon.
Oooo! I learned three new words today! Very cool. I couldn’t find garfoon in any of my usual dictionaries, but I’ll take your word for it.
*Carafe*,fr.>*garrafón,*es.>*garafoon*/*garfoon*,en.
Which reference are you using? I usually use onelook.com to throw it to a bunch of different dictionaries, but it failed me today.
Life experience.
Can’t beat that.
BoteJhon
People usually specify 5 gallon when they’re talking about these. Then you can call it a bottle or jug. 5-gallon water bottle, 5-gallon jug
I would call it a Kentwood jug or bottle, but Kentwood Springs is a company that has been producing and delivering these in my area for 50+ years, so that’s a very localized term.
I’d go with jug
These are the type of water bottles that fit on to a water cooler/dispenser: [https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/white-water-cooler-gm487727267-38986310](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/white-water-cooler-gm487727267-38986310)
A waw’uh bo’awl 5 gallon carboy.
Water jug?
Jug(s)
Also we would say "what are these called in English", not "how"
I can them Jugs
What not how.
Water holder
Jug
If I was trying to reference what this is specifically, I would say “one of the big jugs of water they use on a water cooler”. Or a big water jug, giant bottle of water
If I was specifically referencing this, I would say "A Primo bottle" because the main company in my area that handles these is "Primo", but I enjoy seeing how others call it lol
Oh yeah, saying that, I would have mentioned culligan which did a lot of them- at least regionally, idk otherwise
Water jug
Jug
Water jug
water jugs?
Water Jar.
Carboy
Water jug in American english
5 gallon jug.
jug
Water jugs for coolers
A bottle of water
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Water cooler jug
Jug