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minus-squarePat_RiotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·9 months agoI’ll take the low hanging fruit. Kleenex.
minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down5·edit-29 months agoI don’t know anyone who calls tissues “Kleenex”. Wonder if it’s regional or generational.
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoCould be. I’m 42 and from NJ and I’d call them kleenex or tissues interchangeably.
minus-squaretransmatrix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months ago43 from CA/AZ and am in the same boat.
minus-squareWalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months ago30 in Texas and the two are used interchangeably here too.
I’ll take the low hanging fruit. Kleenex.
I don’t know anyone who calls tissues “Kleenex”.
Wonder if it’s regional or generational.
Could be. I’m 42 and from NJ and I’d call them kleenex or tissues interchangeably.
43 from CA/AZ and am in the same boat.
30 in Texas and the two are used interchangeably here too.