From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 24/11/2025 10:13 am, Dumas Walker wrote:   
   >> On 23/11/2025 1:51 am, StanWeiss wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Definitions from Oxford Languages bink.y /.biNGk./ nountrademark   
   >>> in US noun: binky; plural noun: binkies; noun: binkie   
   >   
   >>> a pacifier.   
   >   
   >> Sorry! Is that "a pacifier" as in a "baby's dummy"??   
   >   
   > I think it is, i.e. something for a baby to suck on besides their   
   > thumbs, a bottle, or a teet.   
      
   I was gunna post "WHAT?? Don't baby's suck on Boobs any more??" but then   
   I realised that was probably what you meant by "teet"!! Although   
   WikiDiff wants it spelt 'teat'.   
   >   
   >> So am I calling Binky a "baby's dummy"?? Seems appropriate!   
   >   
   > I am actually surprised that binky is trademarked in the US   
      
   Or is it just the Binky claims "Binky" is trademarked??   
      
   > unless it is a brand name.  The only people I have ever heard call a   
   > pacifier a "binky" are usually not of US origin.   
      
   Binky is a Pom by birth!   
      
   > Here in the USA I have only ever heard them called "pacifier" and   
   > "passee" by natives.   
   >   
   > * SLMR 2.1a * Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot   
   > again!   
   >   
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